Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-06-06
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Henningsen and Jensen went to
Avoca Monday on business.
Ole Olesen sold two carloads of fat
cattle 10 George Blade Monday.
Peter Bramsen and family OF Pop
lar spent Sunday at George Faaborg'r.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Wood spent Sun.
day in Kimballten with old friends.
Several OF the people around here
attended convention at the Bluffs
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lun of near Jackson
vile spent Sunday at the Chris Ras-
mussen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Dent of
near Fiscus visited Thursday with
NJ. G. Mitten's.
Miss Pearl Wheatley closed her
school last Friday and returned to
her home in Marine.
Poplar celebrated the fifth of June.
The Kimballton band furnished them
with plenty of music.
Rasmus Larsen went to Harlan
last Thursday to see his brother who
has been very sick. He found him
better.
Adolf Petersen and Martin Esbeck
went to Harlan Thursday where Mr..
Petersen purchased a gasoline engine
of Tom Nielsen.
Edward Esbeck called on Dr..
Heilesen one day last week as he has
been laid up with enlargement of the
glands OF his neck, causing him to
have it lanced.
Chris Brothersen and family of
Bowman's Grove visited Hans John
sons last Friday. Mr.. Brothersen
and father started for Denmark the
first Of the week.
j. Jorgensen, our druggist gave an
ice cream party Sunday eve so as to
get acquainted with his customers as
he is new man in these parts. The
party was held at Rudolf Andersen's
the place where he has a room rented
for his place of business.
There is likelihood that the Illinois
university will establish a great vet.
Urinary college at the Chicago Union
stockyards to be run as one of the
departments Of the agricultural col
lege.
1t must be remembered in seed
testing that the same terminating
power which is indicated under the
favorable conditions of heat and
moisture obtained in the test may not
be secured when sown in the open
field.
Director W. A. Henry of the Wis.
consin experiment station has hand
ed in his resignation to take effect
next July, and while he will thus
sever his connection with the ex-
pertinent station he will continue
with the college Of agriculture as pro-
lessor emeritus.
The government has distributed to
about 1000 fruit growers in the gulf
states and in Oregon and Washington
specimens of the new citrus fruit
known as citrange. This fruit is es-
pecially valuable for cooking and in
the making Of acid drinks and can be
grown in regions slightly too cold for
the ordinary orange.
The Michigan experiment station
mentions green or black root lice,
which attack strawberry plants. In
early spring they appear on the
leaf stems and foliage, and are car
ried down to the roots by ants. "Clean
plants on clean land" seems to be the
only safe advice. Soil on which corn
and melons have been grown is most
likely to be filled with lice. The
plants may be cleaned by dipping in
tobacco water before they are set.
No practical remedy for cabbage
rot has yet been discovered The re-
at one time advocated, has proven to
be useless. Rotation Of crops will
help matters some. However, it fire.
quently happens that an excellent
crop may be grown where rot was de-
structive the previous year. Much
depends on the weather conditions.
Sometimes the disease is transmit
ted through infected seed Trouble
from this source may be avoided by
soaking the seed Is minutes in a weak
solution of corrosive sublimate, one
part corrosive sublimate to 1000 parts
of water. Corrosive sublimate tablets
for making disinfecting solutions are
sold by druggists.
A Holstein COW on the farm of w.
j. Gillett of Rosendale, Wis, has in
a test conducted under the direction
of the Wisconsin experiment station
made the following remarkable show.
ing: The test began December "a,
1906, and closed February a. 1907,
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