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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1905
Page
8
The Rocky Ford melon growers earned more than five hundred thousand dollars for their crop this year. The crop was produced on land that was once deemed almost worthless.
A writer notes the low prune consumption in the country at about one and a quarter pounds per season while observing rural life. He recalls a rural writer misnaming the quail as bobwhite and the error as a sign of writing about what one does not know.
The editor argues there was never a real meat market for Belgian hare farming and says the fad is entirely dead, urging an end to similar ventures. No specific individuals or places are named.
A woman guides a team hitched to a mower to cut weeds in a large pasture lot. The scene contrasts simple labor with reading novels or tea party pursuits as more leisurely aims. The text also advises cultivating catalpa trees for post timber, spacing eight feet apart and thinning to one tree per post. It cautions against planting north of latitude 40.
The southwest regions tributary to canning factories anticipate a highly profitable sweet corn harvest this year. Growers expect strong yields and steady demand as processing facilities handle the crop across multiple sections.
Five dollars per ton realized for shocked corn and stalks valued at about $1.50 per acre are left as waste. The good crop yields about four tons per acre. A flaw is the failure to save sweet corn stalks from which corn is picked. These stalks are a valuable forage, especially for milk cows in winter.
In Fort Collins Colorado farmers once deemed sheep manure harmful but now regard it as a valuable fertilizer, especially for sugar beets. The concentrated manure boosts soil richness and crop productivity though it risks overuse if not managed carefully.
The text recommends peat as a future fuel with cheap pressing methods and possible stove changes. It notes northwest peat supplies could last centuries and advises converting overflow prone bottom land to permanent pasture, with blue grass yielding about $8 per acre annually for meat or dairy, avoiding crop cultivation during wet seasons.
A range stock owner attempted to ship over 500 horses to the east. Poor watering during a hot August left them locked in cars for 107 hours. After release 350 animals died within the hour, exposing the railway company to damages for failing to unload and water stock every twenty eight hours.
A locomotive on the eastern railway has been efficiently run with peat briquettes cheaper than coal and yielding strong power without smoke or dirt. Wisconsin Minnesota and the northern half of Iowa have peat deposits of varying quality and availability.
Will A. McConnell died at Roosevelt Hospital New York on October 3 following an appendicitis operation. He had a long theater career in Detroit Chicago and New York with McCullough Booth Frohman and Dillingham, and led McConnell's News. Funeral services were held with Lambs Club involvement.
Woodlawn Cemetery funeral party traveled by train for a brief service at the grave. A testimonial in memory of Mr McConnell is being arranged by several managers and will be held soon in a larger theatre.
Es we and eS KR we Be ie ei Company D of Manchester plans a grand military ball to dedicate its new armory on November 10.
Miss Aletha Dare of Osceola, a highly regarded southern Iowa artist, has just returned from studying at the Los Angeles School of Fine Arts.
S. R. Muffum of Lake Park picked a dish of ripe strawberries from his nursery. If frost had held off a few days longer he would have had several crates.
During an electrical storm the central high school of Montezuma was struck by lightning. The charge was drawn off by the telephone conductors in the building and no damage occurred.
A three year old child of Bert Wilson near Estherville was crushed when a wagon loaded with oats rolled onto its head. The injury caused instant death at the scene.
Twenty five thousand young brook trout were shipped from the government fish hatchery at Spring Branch near Manchester last week to Soldier's Grove Wisconsin for distribution in local streams.
The large gas tank near completion will finalize Osceola's gas system a city of its size will have abundant gas for cooking lighting and heating at very low rates mains are laid and gas service soon ready
The Mason City and Clear Lake Interurban company awarded the contract to build a 500 horsepower Corliss engine and a dynamo delivering 15 000 volts. The new machinery will allow cars to run ten miles from the plant as easily as near it.
Woodbury county supervisors authorize a drainage ditch project with a $110000 estimate underscoring expected overruns. The Boyer Valley Poultry Association fixes a December poultry show for 26 to 29 at Dunlap with E R Cadwell as secretary and George J Gleason as show superintendent.
Father W J Convery and two Paulist brothers assisted John Simmons a Brem er county farmer who found a large animal tooth embedded in a soft maple tree while splitting stove wood. The tooth measured about 1% inches long and 1% across and the tree was around seventy years old.
The Great Northern railroad will compensate the Omaha and Winnebago tribes in Nebraska $28,387 for right of way across their reservations for the Ashland extension. The Interior Secretary approved the valuation set by a special agent. Reimbursement to the tribes will total about $1,500 per mile.
Alderman Stason introduces an ordinance to curb A B Beall and loosen his control of the Sioux City billboard business. Beall, longtime manager of the New Grand theatre and proprietor of multiple venues, faces easier entry for rivals as the measure proceeds.
Elmer Lingle, a young farmer south of Osceola, has returned home after eloping with Miss Winnie Montgomery. Minnie Montgomery remains away, believed staying with Lingle’s uncle. In Dubuque, John Abrams and Hattie Adams wed in an alley despite parental objections. two carriages brought the couple and an Episcopal ceremony was held.
The Independence kite shaped track once famed for world records on horse speed fades into memory as the arena is rebuilt into a cattle barn. Elsewhere in Winterset Iowa 16 year old Horace Carter used a ghost ruse to extort money from his grandmother and was sentenced to Eldora Reform School until age 21 after assault.
Notice in Jefferson County Iowa that Frank S Shriner a registered pharmacist applies to buy keep and sell intoxicating liquor at Fairfield for a permit. Hearing set at Fairfield November term 1905 on the 27th day.
State of Towa issues final notice to heirs of Kenagranda Hook deceased in Jefferson County. On November 16, 1905, a report of Frank Tator as administrator of the estate will be on file in County records.
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