Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-04-03

/ POI uuuuIeu pOuuQS. LaSL year
the 1000 pound books were sold at
the rate Is cents per hundred
pounds. The price here, however,
is still lower than is being paid for
ice in most of the cities in this part
of Iowa.-Bulletin.
4 q. G Klonus, the druggist, from
Ryan has been overhauling the II.
@. Undehaun hardware store on the
east side and will put in stock of
druggists sundries. New fixtures
have been added, floor covered with
linoleum, and now presents much
different look than formerly. Wheth.
er our town can support three drug
stores is not for us to say. Mr..
Klonus is a druggist of experience
and knows his field and is putting
the goods on the shelves. This of :
flee will wish for him success, as we
do any enterprise for Winthrop
Winthrop News.
II is said that the man who mar
kets his produce in the form of but
ter removes very little fertility from
his soil. For example, 500 pounds
Of butter Gt would take three Iowa
cows one year to produce 500
pounds of butter) removes Is cents
worth of fertility from the soil. The
remaining $99.S2 received for the
500 pounds Of butter is made by
plant life from air, water and sun
shine. AS a result dairy farms in
Europe have maintained their vir-
gin fertility for 1000 years. while
some of our grain farms are exhaus-
ted in so years. The comparison
between dairy and grain farms is
worthy Of careful study.--Marion
Register.
A gentleman residing in Scotch
Grove township, says that the Sand
Spring region has no monopoly on
the tuberculosis that is prevailing
among the dairy herds, for in his
township he says the disease is pre-
vailing to an alarming extent. He
has recently had occasion to visit a
good many herds of COWS in the
township, and he finds very few that
are free from the disease. In one
herd he found as many as dozen
poor COWS that showed unmistakable
signs Of tuberculosis, which were
being MIXED every day, and the
cream sold to the creamery. He
says that the farmers themselves are
beginning to favor some drastic
measures, and have been hoping
that the Legislature would pass laws
that would enable the state veterin-
arian to eradicate the disease. Quot
ing him further he says that they
made an attempt at eradication when
they provided that milk taken to a
creamery should be boiled before
returning to the farm, but that as a
Expressive measure, it is of little
value, as most of the milk is separ-
ated on the farm itself, and nothing
, has been done to stop the spread of
the disease through cream and but
, ter. Referring to the boiled milk
!, he says that it is of little value as
feed for calves, and has to be used
with great care and sparingly, as it
is injurious.-Monticello Express.
Monticello Express: Jones coun-
: ty is one Of the counties of the state
where the positive law of the COM
monwealth is ignored which declares
that the township trustees shall
J make detailed report Of their re-
ceipts and expenditures including
the names Of the person to whom
the money was paid and the a
mount thereof, and that the same
shall be published as part of the
proceedings of the January session
of the Board of Supervisors. Why
are these reports held back? They
are given to the people in Delaware
county. Why not in Jones?
The supervisors Of Jones county
, as is the case with few other
counties Of the state, have risen
! superior to the law in regard to the
publication of the town reports
D That the enactment.of the Legislature
. requiring the publication has beer
!. a wise one has been demonstrated tc
!. the satisfaction Of the Leader. Every
q year the reports are read with inter-
! est by the taxpayers and the ex
9 penditures of the townships are com
], pared. 1t serves as governor 10,
}, the township boards. Publication
! is great restriction upon public
I officers. Those counties which art
not in the habit of having com
J, plete public record of their officer
i are the counties which have frequen
= sensational exposures. and at al
= times they are subject to malignan
!, criticisms. Boards of supervisor
who evade the law in one respec
may not complain if they ar
J. enormously charged with othe
: MISUNDERSTANDING to malfeasance
g The strange part OF this neglect t.
t punish county matters is that tn
>, objection to publicity does not com
f from the taxpayers, who pay the ex
d pense, but from the supervisors ant
o county officers, whose duty is plain
d ly directed by the statute, The pub
y lie, who are the taxpayers. hav
& nothing to suppress. --Hopkintol
Leader.