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

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Fifteen cents invested in harness re-
pairs will often prevent five dollar
runaway or perhaps a broken neck.
Bulldogs and six shooters are on
about par when it comes to finding
place for them in the home. Both are
nasty, ugly propositions and as gen
eral thing prove to be loaded"
Now that the cabbage worm craze
has subsidized the vegetarian can read
the reports of packing house investi-
gators with keen sense of enjoyment
and realization that the joke is on
the other fellow.
In the building of the silo it is we'll
to see to it that the structure is we'll
braced with view to wind resistance,
as one located near the home of the
writer was blown down lately during
the progress of a heavy thunder and
wind storm.
The prize of $1,000 is still hanging up
for the orchardist of the northwest who
can develop an apple that will keep
through the winter and possess a quail
ity equal to the Wealthy. While many
are at work there is no assurance that
the end sought will be attained.
A supply of machine oil will some
times save wear and tear on human
nerves as we'll as the gearing of
windmill. One of these we know pro-
duces weird sound that in the dead
of still night is calculated to people
the hearers Imagination with wraiths,
ternity.
On many Of the large wheat farms
of the northwest steam and gasoline
traction engines have almost entirely
replaced the horse in plowing harvest
ing and thrashing operations. Engines
Of the latter type because they make
possible dispensing with water and
fuel wagons, are particularly adapted
to conditions prevailing in the territory
referred to-
One of the most serious drought con-
ditions to be reported for several years
has prevailed in northeast Kansas and
southeast Nebraska for more than
month past. Reports coming from the
affected district state that the straw
berry crop has been ruined and oats
are practical failure. Corn sprouted
poorly and is in critical condition,
while vegetable gardens are fast dry
ing up. There is a possibility that
there will be reversing of weather
conditions to the droughty period of
six and eight years ago.
We know Of a number of men who
have been utterly Indifferent to the
practical advantages of thing as a
means Of reclaiming wet pieces of
land who have had their eyes opened
and the lesson brought home by the
rapid drying up Of soils adjacant to
thing laid with view to draining
water from the family cellar. This
much of an object lesson is usually
sufficient. One of the men belonging
to the class mentioned is this year rails
ing bumper crop of corn on just such
piece of low land, as these low tracts
almost always possess a superabun-
dant fertility and require but the drain
ing off of surplus water to yield boun-
tifully
The seventeen year locust, whose pc
riodical appearances are closely watch
ed by the specialists of the agricultural
department, will appear this year, ac-
cording to bulletin recently issued
by the government, in northern 1lli-
nofs, portions of Maryland and sew
eral other adjacent southern states. In
formation regarding the appearance of
the insects in any portion of the coun-
try is desired by the bureau at Wash
ington, with view to keeping the clos
est possible track of them. While there
has been comparatively slight damage
from this pest in recent years, the gov
eminent wishes to keep as we'll posted
touching the time and place of their
periodic appearance as possible, with a
view to being prepared for them should
the damage from them give promise of
being considerable
1t does not serve to lessen the regret
whit that the little one in the home
is bitten by the pet family dog rather
than by the tramp cur that happens to
stroll past the place Recently there
have come to our notice two cases of
this kind. In the one little two-year-
old was killed outright by a pet bull
dog that had been angered by boys
in the neighborhood, it's jaws having
to be pried open before the grip of the
animals teeth could be freed from
the little ones throat In the second
instance large Dane attacked a little
child of about the same age, son of