The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-04-18
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Window Citizen: An Omaha Wom-
an who was convicted OF picking
pockets and sentenced to Jail, says
she was started on her career by
picking her husbands pockets at
night. 1t might be good plan
therefore for husbands to spend all
their money before going home at
night and thus remove temptation
from their wives.
Granite Falls Tribune: That fell
low from the country who probably
thought it would be fun to give
liquor to Indians here last week has
no doubt changed his mind about
the matter, as he was arrested and
paid fine of S25, and drew a re-
formatory sentence of six months,
but the latter was suspended if he
behaves himself. He was taught a
lesson he will not forget for some
time.
Morgan Messenger: The salaries
paid to the first officials of our ma
ton are trifle higher than your ed
itor receives. The president of our
United States has a salary of $205
per day with $25, 900 per anum for
travelling expenses, the vice-presi-
dent and cabinet officials salaries
are $3.50 a week. Of course. we
have never heard that those men
ever went on strike, and are not
obliged to smoke corn-cob pipe.
Bob Ingersoll: | tell you that
women, as a rule, are more faithful
than men-ten times more faithful.
never saw a man pursue his wife
into the very ditch of dust and
degration, and take her in his arms.
| never saw man stand at the
shore where she was wrecked, wait
ing for the waves to bring her
corpse back to his arms, but | have
seen woman with her white arms
lift man from the mire of degrade
ton and hold him to her bosom as
if he were an angel.
Christian Herald: We notice that
some Of our people are busy raking
their lawns and getting ready for
the spring. About the time that the
grass is greenest the dandelions will
appear, but they can readily be des-
troyed. Here is the way, as out
lined by the agricultural college.
Dissolve two pounds of sulphate of
iron in a gallon of water and sprinkle
it over the lawn. Don't cut the
grass for two days before using the
mixture nor for couple Of days af-
forwards. Use the mixture when
there is no danger of a rain storm.
The sulphate of iron will blacken the
grass for few days, but will not
injure the roots but it will kill any
dandelion.
Winnebago Enterprise: On one
acre of meadow-land, newly pIowed,
a Massachusetts, man produced 1913
bushels of dry shelled corn. To do
this. he spread upon the acre Is tons
of stable manure and $50 lbs. of
commercial fertilizer. 1t has not
been shown that the soil and climate
of Massachusetts are one bit better
adapted to corn than those of Min
nesota. From "rock-ribbed" New
Hampshire comes the story of a
farmer named Cram, who has har-
vested 80 bushels of shelled corn per
acre, at cost per bushel of % cents.
Against this is placed the statement
OF an extensive Iowa corn-grower"
that his 40 bushels an acre crop cost
him little more than 40 cents per
bushel. Evidently these Yankees
are setting pace in corn-growing,
now that they have awakened to the
value of scientific farming-which
the Kings Of Corn Belt can obtain
only by adopting similar methods.