Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-07-04

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Three young men Danes, not long
from the Fatherland, got eff the
train Monday morning and headed
west looking for friends and work.
Their names are unknown here.
War Against Consumption
All nations are endeavoring to check
the ravages of consumption, the
white plague that claims so many
victims each year. Fo]ey's Honey
and Tar cures coughs and colds per-
fectly and you are in no danger Of
consumption. Do not risk your
health by taking some unknown
preparation when Foley's Honey and
Tar is safe and certain in results.
The genuine is in a yellow package.
Sold by Nick Doffng.
1t takes more skill to market a crop
profitably than it does to grow it, at
least often times it does.
Broadcast rape in the corn after the
last cultivation and it will afford good
pasturage in the fall after the corn is
cut
You may not be able to afford a
new sanitary stable but you can af.
ford white wash which will make
the present stable more sanitary.
The sore places on your horse
should be kept clean by washing every
day with carbolated water and then
dressed with a little good tar ONT.
ment.
Be sure that the new trees you sci
this spring have no label wires left
about the trunks, as they will cut
off the circulation of the tree and per
haps kill it,
Turpentine soaked rags fastened to
the horse manger will do much toward
curing the animal of cough or dis
temper, as he will have to inhale the
fumes of the turpentine while he
feeds.
The lazy hen, it has been said
bears the same relation to the hen
merry that the lazy man does in the
community. The only difference is
that the former does make good pot
pie, while the lazy man is good fol
nothing.
Oats cut in the milk and cured as
hay makes the finest kind of hay. One
farmer says that last season his hay
crop being short he cut three acres
of oats for hay and found that the
stock ate it more greedily than any
other hay, and that it proved excep
tionally good for his mich COWS.
A successful asparagus grower says
he keeps rust out of his asparagus
and saves cultivation, by sowing two
bushels of cow-peas to the acre al
the first cultivation after the cutting
season is over. The peas keep dow1
the weeds and shade the ground, bu
do not interfere with the growth O.
the asparagus. The pea and aspara
| gus stalks are left on the ground I'm
| til the following spring and ther
| burned off.
! There is no doubt that there are
many portions of the country which a
| the present time are practically unde
| veloped agriculturally which have !;
| great future before them, but do no
let the alluring advertisements O
1 such localities turn your head Re
| member that the man who has writ
| ten them has something he wants tt
sell, and that he may be just stretch
! ing it a little. Go slow in considerin,
change of location. Don't sell tn,
old farm and rush off to the new loca
ton. Investigate first. Inspect tn,
| land personally, and then don't max,
| the move until after the sober secon,
| thought.
Nearly all sheep have worms in tn,
liver, but they do no harm unless
they are in such numbers as to caus'
sickness and death. The treatmen
for sheep thus afflicted is a tonic
made up as follows: Linseed mea
or coarse wheat flour, 40 pounds
| powdered anise or gentian, and sui
plate or oxide of iron, four pound
! each; half pint daily to each sheer