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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20
Shirt Factories May Close.

Troy. N. Y, May 20.-A general
shutdown of the extensive shirt, collar
and cuff factories here is feared owing
to the trouble which has existed for a
employers Nine of the large factories
having laundry plants are now affect
ed and no work is being laundered in
those shops.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20
True Economy.

'-|--.a q true IcOhOnAys -.
$50 you have bought your wife an
other expensive ring. Isn't that waste
OF money!.
ION the contrary, It Is true economy.
for she won't require half SO many
pairs OF gloves as formerly
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20

Three Asphyxiated by Gas.

Newark, N. j., May 20.--Mrs. Mar
garet G.. Orr and her two grandchil-
dren, Margaret Smith, aged eleven,
and Annie Smith, aged nine. We're as
phyxiated by Illuminating gas in their
home during the night.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20
ne Had.

Woman Of the House handing him q
plate Of cold scrapsl You look like q
man who has seen better days. Fon-
dry Gretts Yes'm, thankee, have.
There was q time. Ina,am. wien. would
have blushed 70 hand surh ii layopt a.
this to 4 dog. Chicago Tribune.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20

Toronto. Kan. May 2o.The women
of the Baptist church here have writ
ten TO John .. Rockefeller asking for
financial assistance to rebuild their
church. which was destroyed BY tor
1nado.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20

l There cannot be greater rudeness
than to interrupt another In the current
Of his discourse. Locke.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20
MoNoPoLIzEs PATENT RIGHTS.
One Concern Controls All Raisin Seed.
ing Machines.

Fresno, CAL, May 2O.--A bomb has
been thrown into the camps of the
leading raisin packing firms as well
as the California Raisin Growers com.
pany by the announcement that a COM
pany had secretly bought up all the
patent rights on raisin seeding ma
chimes and would hereafter monopolize
the seeded raisin business of the Unit
ed States. 1t is feared that this con
solidation of patents will prove a Sc.
we're blow to the Raisin Growers com.
panY.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20
WOOD CHANGES His PLEA.
Slayer Of New Jersey Grocer Guilty of
Murder in Second Degree.

Slayer Of New Jersey Grocer Guilty of
Murder in Second Degree.
Somerville, N. j., May 90 George
Fl. Wood of New York has pleaded
guilty Of murder in the second degree
in shooting George Williams, grocer
of Watching, en- Feb. 2. Wood was
sentenced to thirty years in prison. At
the opening of the trial he had plead
ed not guilty of murder in the first
degree and his counsel had declined
an offer by the prosecution to accept a
plea of guilty of murder in a lesser de-
gree. That plea was withdrawn soon
after court opened and the plea of
guilty substituted.
Woods plea of guilty was made
after a conference between the prose-
cutcr, the judge and the prisoners
counsel. in which that disposition Of
the case was agreed upon. The SEN
tence was the full limit of the law.
The case was remarkable chiefly for
the novel defense set up in behalf of
Wood. Wood went from New York to
Watching and engaged Williams to
| drive him in sleigh to neighboring
town. Subsequently the body of WILL
Jams was found with bullet hole in
it in the sleigh beside the road. Wood
was traced back to New York and ar
rested.
In his defense an attempt was made
to show that Wood was a victim of
apnasia or epilepsy; that he had a
dual personality, and that his move
ments while in one state were con-
trolled by the evil influence of "a
small black man." who existed only
in Woods diseased fancies. Medical
experts, howe :, declared that Wood
knew the difference between right and
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-05-20
QUARREL OVER A CHILD.
Two Persons Killed and a Third Fa-
3 tally Wounded.

Natchez, Miss, May 20.-Peter
Matheson, a book agent, shot and
killed A. z. Bidwall and Stephen Jones,
fishermen; fatally wounded Mrs. Sue
Pruette, his mother-in-law, and fired
one shot at Ida Rossin, fourteen-year-
old girl, without effect. The trouble
occurred about Matheson's child, whom
he claimed had been abducted from his
home by it's grandparents. Matheson
In in TAIL.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06
A FARM AS AN INVESTMENT.

A friend having few thousands
which is only returning him per cent
interest wants to know whether he can
put it into farm on the basis Of 500
per acre and by hiring the work done
or by letting the farm out on shares
secure a better return for his money
1t is not easy to answer this question,
for so much would depend upon the
farm itself, upon his general knowledge
Of how to run a farm if he chose to
carry it on under his own supervision
or on the sort of tenant he secured If
he let it out on share rent. If his
farm of, say, 100 acres cost him &c.,
600 he would have to secure net re-
turn of $640 to equal his present in
come from his money, and, do the best
he might he would be quite as likely
to get less as he would to exceed this
amount; not that it is not easily posi-
BILE to make better showing than 4
per cent, but usually farming at long
range or by proxy Is seldom large in
terest producer The profits as well
as the losses in farm operations are
connected with the little things to a
great extent, and little leaks will soon
empty big barrel. If our friend could
live on the farm himself and credit to
the farm what it is fairly worth as a
home it would alter the case, for the
single item of house rent alone would
represent about one-half of $780, and,
again. his living expenses would be
greatly reduced as compared with liv-
ing in city, where everything must
be bought at high prices. He had
probably better be satisfied with his A
per cent rather than undertake to make
it more by handling a farm located
where he can only see 1t few times
during the year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06
FARM WASTES.

The farmer can well afford to pat
tern after the manufacturer in the
matter of being vigilant and inventive
in the way of trying to utilize the
land which produce nothing but weeds,
waste of the fertilizers in the barn
yards, waste weeds in the fields, waste
along the line fences, waste for want
of little thing, waste in granaries
and cribs from leaks and vermin,
waste in keeping and milking cows
which only just barely pay for the food
which they eat, waste in buying on
credit and running up store bills, waste
in poorly stacked hay, wasted fodder
in the cornfields, sacks, or, rather,
piles, of good straw spoiled for want
of proper stacking, waste in burning
green wood and Juggling water where
the wind should force it where it is
needed, in trying to make first quality
beef and pork out of poorly bred and
often poorly fed steers and hogs, and
the waste which is inevitably asso-
ciated with a man being little be-
hind with his work. There is a great
field for work along all these lines, for
it is the dollar saved as well as the
dollar earned which has much to do
with farm profits. The manufacturer
keeps the sharpest sort of an outlook
20 ha or Of hic hrIcinaSa on1 is
ever alert to adopt methods for the
utilization of waste products. The tail
ings Of the gold and silver mines, the
possibilities and economic value of city
garbage, the Stag piles of the blast fur
mace, the sawdust from the sawmills,
the offal Of slaughter houses, the grease
in the wool Of the sheep, have made
enormous fortunes for the men who
were wise enough to take hold of these
heretofore waste products, while cot
ton seed, once used as fertilizer alone
coal tar and the byproducts of corn
used in the glucose factories represent
millions of money invested and other
millions in annual dividends. A man
is always well and periodically en-
gagged when he devises method to
prevent or utilize waste, and no.
where in the whole country is there a
larger field for effort along this line
than on the farms of the country. The
wastes on many western farm would
constitute good years income for the
small farmer in Vermont.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

We do not think that the territory OF
the eastern states and Of the central
west has any use for alfalfa save as q
hog pasture. The crop will not work in
any course Of rotation, and the heavy
rains of June and July often make il
almost impossible to cure and save the
first two cuttings of the crop, but II
has use and most important one in
connection with the hog, and no farm
should be without five acres of alfalfa
for its sole value as hog pasture.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

Reports of hog cholera are beginning
to come in from different sections, and
so we may begin to look out for all
sorts of fake cures for this disease. II
Is just as well to remember that in
spite Of all the claims made that this
plague can be cured there is no discov-
cred cure for it. The prompt disposal
Of all well animals, the isolation and
starvation Of the sick ones and com.
plete change Of location seem to be the
only course to pursue when an out.
break occurs. The overlooking with
new corn seems to always invite the
disease, and it is probably true that II
all, hogs were fed better balanced "a.
ton the disease would largely disap-
pear.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

sheep are being shipped in from Mon
tana and Wyoming and being turned
into the corn fields to harvest the crop
and incidentally fatten themselves for
market. The plan works very satisfac-
torily unless there is too much rain;
then there is some waste. The sheer
is dainty feeder and rarely wastes
its food, as does the hog. This plan
has many advantages-it saves the cost
Of harvesting the crop, it fertilizes the
field and 1t gets all the weeds cleaned
up if the sheep are turned in early
enough.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

A man never makes any money out
of machine unless it is working.
Now, the cow is machine pure and
simple, and if she is not kept at work
there is no profit in keeping her, and
to get something out of her there must
be something put into her, and the man
who thinks he can make money by
scrimping the feed of his cows is very
shortsighted. The COW should be fed
up to the limit Of her ability to assim-
ilate food If she is to be made profit
able.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.

Wherever dirt roads have to be work
ed and cared fOr-and that is through
out most of the rural districts of the
country at large-there may be noted a
very marked improvement of methods
as compared with the old way. A more
intelligent and permanent plan of op-
GRAFTON Is being followed. The road
boss this year is no longer undoing and
tearing to pieces what his predecessor
did last year, the absolute need Of a
thorough drainage of the highway Is
being generally recognized, and the
value Of drain tile for this purpose Is
being more and more appreciated; there
is apparent much more economical
and effective expenditure of the road
funds, and it is really becoming the
custom now to expect and demand a
full days work for days pay-in q
word, the people are taking a much
greater interest In the highways than
ever before and are at last waking up
to the important relation which good
roads bear to the economy Of farm
life; the rural mail delivery system is
doing not little to spur the farmers
up, for the government puts the mat
ter to them fat-"no roads, no mail"
Under the new method Of caring for
earth roads 1t Is becoming quite a
common thing to nnd farmers dragging
and keeping the highways along their
respective farms in fine shape and do
Ing 1t all without public pay just for
the pleasure and pride which they take
In having good roads associated with
their farms. This is one of the most
encouraging signs Of agricultural prog.
ress to be observed In the country to-
day.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

We can all have oranges to eat this
winter Florida will have 1,5OO,OOO
boxes and California will have about
10000 carloads, and the chances are
that the men who eat them will make
more money out of them than the man
who produced them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

Roses, grapes, berry bushes and all
tender stuff should be laid down and
well covered with earth. Straw, ma
nure and rubbish laid over them will
quite often result in making nice WIN
ter home for the field mice, who will
have everything nicely girdled by
spring
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

The crop season of 1905 is over, and
there are for nearly every farmer lot
of experiences which it will pay him
well to consider. Some lessons have
been learned which are well worth re-
membering. One which suggests itself
as of more than ordinary Importance
is that the year has shown that good
crop of corn cannot be expected from
a go per cent stand of corn and that
corn with wet feet in June and July
will not produce more than half crop.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

We would not burn the leaves In the
fall. They make most valuable
mulch and protection for all tender
things and, if allowed to decay. fur
nish the humus which so many soils
are hungry for. Where leaves are al
lowed to lie on the lawn all winter
the grass is always brighter and green
er in the spring than where it is left
bare.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

A friend Of ours tells us that he this
season secured over five tons Of clover
and timothy hay to the acre on a piece
of good prairie soil. There were two
cuttings, orr in July and the other in
Septembe <and the third crop was the
best of feed In late October. August
rains and a rich soil did 1t.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

Taking it for granted that the seed
corn has been gathered, there are just
two things now to guard against-mice
and frost. We believe that mice will
show more ingenuity in getting at seed
corn than almost any other thing that
they like
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

1t is probable that IL no horses were
used in our cities the English sparrow
would almost, wholly disappear, and
the plague Of house flies would be
greatly diminished, the sparrow find
ing his chief food supply in the drop
ping of the horse, while the flies breed
almost entirely in the manure piles
around the horse barns, yet not these
two nuisances combined with the auto
mobile will ever compel men to get
along without the horse.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

We always like to note the impress
which the Scandinavian people give to
a community. 1t is always along right
lines The church and the school are
always made prominent, the type Of
farming is of the best and an air Of
thrift and prosperity is always appar-
ent. These people stand for the best
things in government, In education and
religion and modern civilization. In
a word, they represent the very best
and highest type of foreign immigra-
ton which this country has ever had.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

A region as fair and productive and
as large as the United States lies wait
ing settlement and occupation in east
ern Siberia by the miserable half starv-
ed Russian peasantry Of western Rus
STA. The man wise enough to bring
this about will accomplish the greatest
work of the new century.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

One can make more money per head
off twenty-five hens than he can off
fifty, and more from fifty than from
100. 1t is with poultry as with humans
lit is very easy to get too many Of
hem on given area of territory.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

One serious objection to cutting up
and shocking the corn is the ravages
of the field mice. In many places
these pests do vast amount of dam
age to corn thus saved.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

The corn root worm is each year be-
coming more of menace to the corn
crop of the west. Persistent cropping
year after year with corn is the cause
Rotation of crops is the only remedy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

The best all round remedy for rats
is cats. A half dozen cats, preferably
old Tables with a kitten or two. If
given a ration of new milk twice q
day will put in most Of their time in
laying for the rats. This beats traps,
ferrets, poison and all other remedies
ever tried.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

In the Philippines the natives call
the American schools "clerk shops"
this because they claim that as soon
as a Filipino gets educated he knows
too much to work. We have something
Of this kind in this country.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

If one will interview the claim
agents Of the railway companies he
will find that there Is far more blood
ed stock in the country than he dream
ed Of. 1t is rare that any critter with
a pedigree less than yard long ever
gets mixed up with freight locomO-
tive. Assessors might get valuable
points from railway claim agents.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

Modern business life is of that siren"
uous type that twenty years of it will
about finish up man, while the farm
er can keep a-going till he is seventy.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

1t is pleasing to note that the maca-
roni wheat which was introduced in
this country only few years ago and
which the millers have Disseminated
against to the extent of ID or 20 cents
bushel is this year coming to its own
and is now worth in the wheat mar
: Fife or other varieties of softer wheat
masmuch as this wheat can be most
successfully produced over vast ex-
tent Of territory in what are called the
semiarid sections of the west and
northwest, the fact that it sells at last
up with the wheat produced in other
sections becomes of the utmost signi6-
canoe and Importance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

Here are two things worth remem-
bering ON the farm: Barnyard manure
is worth dollar load put out on the
cornfield, and fertilizer from the poul-
try yard and henhOuses when COM
posted with twO-thirds its bulk Of
earth is worth So load, and still there
is lots Of this valuable material going
to waste around many a homestead.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

A coating of well rotted stable ma
nure put OH the lawn just at the begin
ming of winter will make the grass
both thicker and greener next sum-
tfler
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

There are two things which the peo-
pie demand must be fresh and in good
order-oysters and eggs. Nobody likes
musty eggs or tainted oysters.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

We are asked about the necessity
and value of windbreaks for the or
chard where the orchard is planted In
an open country. We regard the wind
break for this purpose as almost indis-
pensable, but it should be put in the
right place, which is on the south and
west side Of the orchard and not be
less than six rods from the nearest or
chard trees. The apple tree can never
hold its own in competition with for
est trees in the matter Of light air,
moisture and sunshine. The windbreak
does much to protect the orchard from
the fierce summer winds which often
almost strip the trees of their fruit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

The apple crop all over the country
is very short this year, and men who.
are fortunate enough to have even
third of full crop Of fruit are in luck
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

A farmer who sold nice fat heifer
to butcher agreed to take in part pay
a quarter of the beef. When he got
the bill for the beef he did some
scratching of the head and some think
ing and wondered what sort of an all
round fool he was anyhow to give that
butcher about one-half of that nice beef
critter just for the killing. He went
home and told his neighbors about the
deal, and the upshot is that co-opera-
tive beef furnishing society has been
organized. A beef is killed each week
and equitably divided up, each member
furnishing the beef in turn, and the
butchers wagon is seen no more in
that community. The middleman some
times cuts his own throat
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

About the only butchering there is
now done OH the farms is the behead-
ing and dressing of the ROSTERS when
the presiding elder comes or there is a
quarterly meeting in town or chicken
pie social or deck to raise the parsons
salary. All meat. products now leave
the farm alive even to the poultry. and,
while this new method has relieved the
home folks Of a good deal of work.
there is in a way distinct loss, for the
truth is 1t Is simply impossible to Sc
cure the fine smoked and sailed meats
which in the old days used to be cured
ON the farm. The biggest fool trick to
be seen on the farm today is the selling
of meat on the hoof and the buying
back of hams. bacon and porterhOuse
steak.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

One can secure a windbreak more
quickly from willows than from any
other tree. Four years growth from
the cuttings will make quite protec-
ton around the prairie homestead. The
soft maple is the next best quick grow
ing tree for this purpose and possesses
the real merit of enduring thick plant
ing better than any other tree which
we know of. Ten acres planted in these
two varieties Is good investment on
any prairie farm. Such grove not
only tempers the force Of the fierce
winter winds, but saves fodder, affords
shade in summer and an ample supply
Of pretty good fuel, besides poles and
wood for a score of farm uses. II we
were going to open up another piece of
raw prairie, the first thing we would
do would be to plant out such ten
acre grove, preferably locating 1t on
the north and west Of the homestead.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-12-06

With pretty large crop Of good
corn In farmers hands all through the
corn belt good many are wondering
whether they had better hold the crop,
now worth about 35 cents, feed It and
make meat out of 1t or sell 1t. The
crop this year Is q safer proposition
to hold than for several years past, for
1t ripened naturally, unhurt by either
frost or drought, ana viii keep well.
The government estimate Of the crop,
1900, 600 900 bushels, II correct, would
seem to forecast lower prices in any
but these prosperous years, but the
fact remains that there Is no probable
ity Of cheap corn, there seeming to be
a good demand for every bushel. The
truth is that so many new and impor-
tant uses have been discovered for
corn that 1t will never be cheap again.
If we could buy good feeders around
3 cents we would feed part of the
crop at least. II we were paying in
terest on obligations we would sell
enough to square up. IL we could not
get the steers and owed no man we
would hold the crop till next summer.