Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-11-25

sausage were sold. Nine ons were
made of horse meat and seventeen
tons of mule or donkey meat.
The National Biscuit Company of
New Jersey has paid to the State De-
partment $55, 900 for a permit to do
business in Texas for the next two
years.
The Russian peasants use sunflower
seeds as food and sunflower seed oil is
used for cooking The seed is also
used for feeding animals. Thousands
of tons are raised annually.
Five hundred and sixteen carloads
of apples were shipped from the Bur-
Ii ngton depot at Glenwood this fall,
and it is estimated that 1000 carloads
were shipped from Mills county.
Germany and France are making
yarn out of paper and Sweden is bull
ding a spinning mill for the same pur-
pose. The paper yarn is used in the
manufacture of carpets and rugs.
Ira Brock, q young farmer IF Colfax
Iowa recently husked and cribbed 147
bushels of orr in a day of ten hours
and the following day husked and
cribbcd 135 bushels in the same num-
Der of hours.
The old county farm near Waterloo
was sold recently for $3.50 an acre.
The farm consists of IS acres. The
board disposed of it and purchased 200
acres six miles from Waterloo for
which they gave $110 an acre.
Germany pays comparatively little
attention to poultry raising and is de-
pendent for the greater part OF its sup
ply upon Italy, France and Belgium.
In 1907 almost 80 million dollars worth
of eggs and more than twelve and a
half million dollars worth of poultry
were imported for consumption.
According to a special to the Chica-
60 Daily Tribune, a hitherto unheard
of event occurred a few miles south of
Chillicothe, Nc. During a heavy
storm lightning killed a flock of ducks
which was flying over the home of
Jacob Bruner, a farmer. After the
storm had passed forty-six ducks were
picked up in the yard.
Miss Amy T. Ching, a Chinese girl
has entered a WELLESLEY college. She
was graduated last year from Oahn
college after taking a course in the
Normal School at Honolulu. She sup
ported herself and paid her way thro'
the schools by teaching She is en-
deavoring to equip herself for teach
ing in her native land.
A species of eucalyptus tree which
grows in Queensland yields a supply
of water to the thirsty. The lateral
roots which are found near the surface
of the grouno are uncovered and cut
into Gig hteen inch lengths which are
stood up on end in a receptacle to con-
tain the water, which is beautifully
clear, cool and free from any unplea-
SAN smell.
The dam which the government has
had built across the canyon of the
Shoshone river at Cody, Wyoming is
the highest in the world. 1t is 80
feet high, 110feet thick at it's base
and 10 feet thick at the topo The wa
ter which this dam controls is used
for irrigating purposes and thousands
of acres of otherwise good farming land
will by this means be made to produce
abundantly.
p. f. Wickhem, who lives neal Al
exandria, South Dakota, last spring
sowed IL bushels of oats on ten acres
of ground. He has threshed Gal bu-
shells, machine measure, which weigh
ed out FOL bushels Of oats from the
ten acres, a trifle more than 20
bushels per acre. The land on
which the crop wvs raised had been
cropped to clover and timothy a num-
Der of years. was sown to alfalfa last
year, and as the crop killed out it was
reseeded to the same crop with oats
GulS year.
Protective legislation in Vermont,
Massachusetts and Connecticut has
enabled the deer, which were fast be-
coming extinct, to multiply until the
last two seasons they have done much
damage to gardens and orchards. 1t
has been estimated that there are
10000 deer in central New England.
Two thousand We're killed in a single
week in each year of the last two op-
81 seasons. 1t is not an unusual oc.
currence to see a deer in the streets of
the larger towns and even the cities
frequently report their presence.
Among the %peasantry of Palestine,
knives and forks for the table are en-
tirely unknown. The cooked food is
eaten out of a large wooden bowl,
aroun d which the family or guests ga
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