Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-07-05

seiaW pelIleS anu Jersey cream the MS
toric record makes no mention of it.
The wood lot whether of artificial
or natural planting, is best handled by
a careful and judicious thinning, which
thus gives the remaining trees more
room for growth as we'll as an in
creased supply of light and moisture.
According to report made by Con-
sui Mannheim of Germany, that coun-
try slaughtered during the last quar-
ter of 1905, $4,000 horses and 2,4OO
dogs for food purposes, and this is an
increase over the figures shown in pre-
ceding reports.
There is scarce n body anywhere so
destitute and depraved but the spark of
goodness in him will flicker into blaze
if it be but appealed to in tie right
way. And there is no way that equals
the placing of confidence in such q
person. however useless this may at
that time seem to be-
The man who tested his corn thor
oughly before planting will not only
get larger crop at cribbng time but
will derive satisfaction every day he
cultivateS the crop from the fact that
he himself and the land he works are
realizing fair return on the degree
of fertility and effort that are respec-
lively invested.
A greater measure of satisfaction is
got out of life by endeavoring to be
content with moderate accumulation
of earthly goods than in the possession
Of much larger wealth coupled with
hankering after that which is impossi-
BILE or unattainable. Wealth is more
truly measured not by what we pos
sess but by what we enjoy.
The sow that will fetch a litter of
seventeen pigs is usually found on
farms which have dairy, silo, clover
meadows and raise eighty bushels of
corn to the acre, being the product of
somewhat prosperous and leisurely
type Of agriculture which does not
make it necessary for the SOW to raise
Grand island, in Lake Superior, has
this year received an importation of
Swedish willow grouse from the Scan
dinavian peninsula. Other species
brought over last year seem to have
stood the winter we'll. The gamekeep-
ers on the island have to wage contin-
ual warfare against hawks, owls and
foxes in protecting the game bird life
We sowed two strips in our orchard
to alfalfa late last summer, about Aug.
90. While a good stand resulted, the
crickets and grasshoppers pounced on
it when it got into the third leaf and
literally devoured every vestige of it.
We shall make another trial of it this
year, sowing the seed somewhat earli-
er, when other green food for insects is
somewhat more plentiful.
For the third and fourth sprayings
for the orchard this season we shall
use homemade arsenate Of lead, made
by dissolving lead acetate in water
and mixing with sodium arsenate, %
ounces Of the former being combined
with 8 ounces of the latter. This
amount of the chemicals is sufficient
for 100 gallons of water or an equal
volume of bordeaux mixture, which
| we shall use in the work mentioned
| A homemade arsenate of this descrip-
| ton is just as etficacious as well as
considerably cheaper than paris green.
| Where it is possible to do so there is
no way Of keeping the growth of grass
down along the tree rows in the Or
chard that eXcels a heavy mulching
| with coarse manure or straight oat
| straw. This mulch will not only serve
| to check and practically prevent the
| growth of the grass, but will keep the
ground in moist condition favorable
| to the growth of the trees. While mice
and rabbits might find harbor in the
straw during the winter months, dam
age from them can be guarded against
| by wrapping the trees with wire screen
or wooden shields.
| Perhaps there is no aspect of modern
educational methods that is just now
| being given more emphasis and from
| which more definite and practical re-
suits promise to flow than that covered
| by the term manual training And the
| interest that is being manifested speaks
well for the good sense Of educators and
school patrons. This is practical age
| in which the call is very strong for
young men and women who can do
definite things rather than for those
who have head knowledge merely. AS
consequence many Of the schools in
| the larger cities have added depart
ments in which the boys are taught
mechanical drawing, carpentry, mason
ry and other practical and useful
| trades, while the girls are given the
benefit of equally practical courses in
sewing, cooking, including studies in
the value of food products, sanitation
and household economics in general
| Country schools are not SO greatly in
/