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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
8
This farmers column surveys diverse rural topics from seed wheat imports and gopher damage to efficient road work and clever crop use. It notes gains from motor cars, prefers improved highways, highlights dairy and poultry as stable income, and jokes about fashion and parroting weather. It ends urging focus on productive farming bets.
A long rural column discusses soil treatment with potash on peaty soils, productivity factors in farming, the value of clover and deep-rooted subsoiling, and the impact of crops, fences, and farm machinery. It notes rising coyote and prairie wolf numbers, grain price influences, and prudent land use for flood-prone river bottoms.
A speaker argues that a farmer who works fifty years should have enough saved to live comfortably in old age. He critiques movement, speculation, poor timing in transactions, office ambitions, and helping others that drain savings. He laments a modern rush to riches and disdain for saving little each year.
A historic editorial critiques Sunday excursion trains as moral hazards and urges stricter policing of social excesses on trips. It warns officials to curb drunken behavior and proposes a bum car solution. The second piece stresses cooperative drainage among farmers, arguing that shared effort cures blocked progress. It cites a case where one neighbor’s legal actions blocked 70 000 acres of rich corn land for years, harming the community.
The article discusses curing clover hay by timing cuts after dew, bunching in small cocks, turning them the next morning, and stacking in the afternoon to avoid spoilage. It warns against field curing in damp weather due to heat, mold, and spontaneous combustion risks.
The piece urges young men to seek cheap land in western North Dakota and start macaroni wheat farming. It notes the wheat thrives where others fail, with yields rising in a year or two and prices soon rivaling other wheats. It mentions millers learning to mill it and housewives making bread from its flour, suggesting broad profitability as land remains affordable.
Leading horticulturists denounce the seedless apple as a fraud, small in size and poor in color with no worm resistance, warning buyers to beware of $2 to $3 trees. Irrigation troubles plague farmers as snow and streams fail, water rights disputes cut crops, and allotment gaps threaten yields.
The fortieth annual Iowa State Sabbath School Association convention met in Ottumwa June 14 to 16 with large attendance and lively sessions. Officers elected included President A F N Hambleton, and Prof. Elias Handy added as field teacher training secretary. A $3500 forward movement was pledged. Council Bluffs won the next convention site. Monona, Linn, Wright, Crawford, Cerro Gordo, Jefferson and Harlan won banner counties.
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