Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-15

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We note with interest that some
bright man has invented at last ma
chine for loading the manure spreader
which, if practical in its operation, is
destined to fill long felt want, for no
machine will be more gladly welcomed.
A novel and very successful silo Is
to be found out in western Nebraska.
1t is simply an earth silo, hole twelve
feet in diameter, twenty feet in depth
dug on side hill. The owner fills 1t
with silage each fall, and it keeps in
perfect condition.
1t is said that better grades Of the
coffee grown in Porto Rico are shipped
to England, while the inferior grade
comes to the United States "a fact
which is not at all doubted by those
who have had much experience with
the lunch counter product offered about
the country.
1t is becoming quite common thing
with good people who live on the
farms to devote the Sunday egg prod
uct Of their poultry yards to religious
purposes. Who knows but in time, If
this thing is persisted in, a breed
Of hens will be developed with such q
theological tendency that they will re-
fuse to lay eggs on any other day.
A leading agricultural journal refers
to timothy as legume and valuable
soil fertilizer. This is queer mistake
for paper to make, as it Is neither a
legume nor in any sense soil fer
tilizer, but on the contrary soil rob-
Der. Seeding land to timothy will re-
suit in cleaning the land from weeds,
but it never under any circumstances
enriches the soil
1t will pay any man who contem-
plates planting an orchard Of apple
trees next spring to thoroughly study
out this winter the varieties which will
do best in his locality and post himself
caring for the trees. 1t is best to be
governed largely in making selection
Of varieties by those which have done
the best in the locality where the or.
chard is to be planted.
| lives in the country to name few OF
| the best books, some of the old ones,
| she having got tired of reading SO much
of the modern literary trash. Among
such books we would name Lorna
Doone," "Bleak House." "yanity Fair
LES Miserables," "a Tale of Two
| Cities" books which, If carefully read
will surely make the reader anxious tc
get hold of more Of the same sort.
We know lady who makes a clean
$500 every year out of her poultry
She uses incubators and adopts the
yard system in caring for her chickens
There is no business today in sight fol
unemployed women which offers SC
much of pleasure and profit as does the
poultry business. Many an overworket
schoolteacher could take up this bust
ness with benefit to her health and hel
pocketboOk. OF course success Will
poultry requires care and work. bu
the reward for we'll directed effort IL
this line is certain and dividends large
II He was a farmer possessed Of ;
good piece Of land containing some 20'
; acres. The political bee got in hi
J bonnet, and he secured petty count.
Office, sold his farm for $50 an acr
and moved to the county seat. Tha
was some ten years ago. Today he i
, out of his office, which he held jus
!, long enough to make him unfit for any
thing else, and the farm which he soil
for $50 an acre cannot be bought nov
for twice the amount. Given these fig
| ures it doesn't take very smart ma
to figure out that farmer with goo
farm can i'll afford to take count
/, office, yet the case above cited Is b.
2 no means rare.
The year 1906 sees the practical fms
of the white pine lumber interest of tn
! north. The great mills which for lift
years have been eating away at III
splendid pine forests of Minnesota, WIZ
; consin and Michigan are being dismal
tied, their tall smokestacks remalnln
:, rs monuments of vanished an
= mighty industry. The energies of tt
: northern lumbermen are being tram
ferred to the long leaf pine districts
the south and the mighty coniferS {