Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-02-11
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CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
A fact not generally known is that
the state of Florida has but one water
power in all it's length and breadth.
If the assessor loses faith in human
nature do not blame him, for he meets
all his friends and neighhors on lines
where human nature is weak.
The cotton plant grows so large in
Venezuela that stepladders are needed
to gather the crop. on rich soils the
plant attaining a height of eighteen
feet.
Trees are very like mcn-thcy must
have congenial soil and environment
many mistakes made by getting both
trees and men in wrong places.
Corn was grown by the mound build
ers in the west ages ago-how long ago
no one knows. Corn of the flint type
has been repeatedly found in the an
Gent burial mounds of these people.
1t is not much trouble to break in the
young team of horses if you have let
the boys break them in as colts. This
Is one thing which every farm boy
should be encouraged to learn how to
do. They all like to do 1t.
1t is pretty true saying that in this
world you will get about what you pay
for, and yet with this truth so well es-
tablished men are ever striving to get
something for nothing. This desire
makes them easy victims of all sorts of
humbugs and swindles.
He took out policy in farmers
mutual insurance company. Afterward
he installed a feed cooker in his barn.
Cooker set fire to the barn. Company
refused to pay loss. Farmer sued to
recover on policy and beat the COM
pany. Was this right or wrong? Wrong,
we say.
The acre Of cotton which this year
produced bale of 500 pounds brings
the grower as much money as the own
err of ninety sheep in Montana received
for their crop of wool last year. 1t
looks as though it might not be long
before the dealer in ready made cloth
ing would have to offer as an excuse for
long price that the clothes had some
cotton mixed with the wool.
We had rather plant any kind of seed
or any sort of tree when it is raised
in the country north of us than when
raised in latitude south of us. If any
one doubts the wisdom of this conclu-
sion let him just try the plan on his
seed oats or seed potatoes next spring.
Northern grown seeds and trees possess
an element of hardness and vigor pc
culiar to the climatic conditions want
ing in the products of more southern
ATTITUDES
We have an inquiry as to the best
substitute for meat as a poultry ra-
ton. The meat is specially valuable
for the protein which it contains. In
the line of vegetable food nothing so
we'll takes the, place as alfalfa-in fact,
any person keeping poultry would
hardly do better than to get bale or
two of early cut and we'll cured alfalfa
hay, cut it into chaff and give the hens
steamed ration of it once day dur
ing the winter. Those who have never
tried it will be surprised how eagerly
it will be eaten.
The Rock Island railway follows the
general course of the Illinois river for
distance of nearly hundred miles
between Davenport and Chicago. Pass
ing over the road recently we could but
note the vast acreage Of seemingly
waste land all along the course Of this
stream, thousands and thousands Of
acres Of marshy, brush covered land
evidently subject to periodical over
flow, this land seemingly not used Ell
Their as pasture or hay land. 1t would
seem as though, with a soil as fertile as
this river bottom land must be and with
land as high priced as it is in that state,
some better use should be made Of the
lands referred to. In Iowa such lands
are heavily pastured and kept in blue
grass even if they are overfowed a
dozen times every year.
A grove to secure simply protection
from the fury of western winds in the
prairie country may be most quickly
obtained from the willow, next from
the cottonwood, followed by the soft
maple and box elder. A willow grove
made Of cuttings stuck in well prepar-
ed rich soil eight feet apart each way
will make perfect protection from the
wind in five years, and so planted as
to inclose the homestead toulouse,
barns, sheds and garden-on the south.
west and north, WILL for the land occu-
pied by it. return the best income of