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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
7
A grandfatherly figure tells two boys a moral of Cain and Abel. He links the story to their day by day life and Sabbath observance, urging reflection on willfulness and obedience, and ends with a blessing to the children.
Corn roots extend deeper and absorb more soil volume than Kaffir corn or sorghum. Do not deepen cultivation to break large lateral roots at about four inches. Level planted corn has surface roots near the hill and tolerates less close cultivation. In hot dry climates deeper last cultivations and a thick mulch conserve moisture, notes A M Ten Eyck from Kansas Experiment Station.
This piece emphasizes crop rotation to prevent pests and disease, improve soil fertility, and boost profits. It contrasts sound field practices with negligent ones and urges fair opportunities for youth while noting the value of sturdy silos and clover to support alfalfa and corn crops.
Farmers need abundant pure water for swine health and growth. Windmills drawing water from depth help, but many farms still feed hogs from sloughs or dry brooks in summer. Water dissolves feed and supports growth. contaminated supplies are common.
A Prairie Farmer reader questions whether air in a milking stable is pure and free from dust during milking. The inquiry asks if a milker would eat soup while milking a cow and explains that milk is a human food, noting the milk pail beneath the cow could be filled with food for his table.
Instructions for building a duck coop from an old shed or a dry goods box priced around 50 cents to 1.50. Describes layout, roof pitch, door, cleaning access, nesting, bedding, egg collection tips, and 18 inch yard fencing to prevent escapes while noting ducks’ digging under barriers.
A reflection from the American Tribune on farm families and kitchen gardens. Visitors from a distant farm enjoyed garden foods at a meal while the home produce was sold for market, highlighting how few vegetables are grown for home use and urging better home gardening efforts.
A Canadian agriculture bulletin suggests moving broody hens to a swinging coop to break their hatchery urge. The wooden 2 by 2 foot frame, netted sides, raised 18 inches, uses cords to swing in the poultry house. Feeding follows laying hens with a liberal diet to promote early laying.
Farmers' Review advises grouping calves when raising beeves to ensure uniform size weight and finish for car loads to market. If cattle are few, two groups in spring and fall are best. grouping by similar size eases care and management.
Farmers facing shifting baled hay can insert sharpened 18 inch stakes at layer joins. Tie one stake to a rope so that the other tip rests upward to anchor the next hay layer. This simple method stabilizes loads on rough roads.
Des Moines reports Iowa lawmakers enabled land along the Illinois Central tracks in Pottawattamie county to be purchased by the railroad at appraised price. The law targets river bottom tracts near Big Lake with water surfaces valued at up to 25 per acre and a 100 foot floodplain edge. Two residents of Council Bluffs have already paid, but injunctions seek to block titles as railroads may claim former stream beds statewide.
The state census shows Waterloo at 18 052 people versus Fort Dodge 14 369. Waterloo’s population climbed from 12 580 five years ago by 6 472 or 46 percent, the largest gain among cities. Des Moines may reach 20 percent. Cedar Falls 9. Carroll 881. Counties Carroll 198 Webster 1 700 Black Hawk 1 867. Polk not yet reported.
Professor C. W. Davis of North Georgia Agricultural College visited Iowa State College last summer to study agronomy. He returned on six months leave to pursue a master's degree and teach, praising Iowa as the best school after comparing with Cornell and Wisconsin. He will stay until December to complete his course and plans to expand soils and agronomy work at his home college.
An Iowa Federation of Labor circular compares Iowa to 17th century England over child labor. It notes no age limit for work, no hours or rest restrictions, and advocates concern over parental necessity and employer humanity despite societal waste found in Germany and France.
J. W. Preston of Baxter sent a fine lot of 25 prehistoric implements to the state historical department. The pieces are pestles used in a stone mortar by aborigines to pound grain into meal or flour. The series shows the range from rough, unworked stone to finely shaped pieces.
Farmers from Iowa testified before the executive council on equitable assessments for railways and farm lands. James J. Ryan of Fort Dodge led protests that farm values lag behind railway valuations, while Gov. Gruemming questioned rail line figures cited by officials. The session drew large crowds and sharp exchanges between railroad lawyers and farmer representatives.
Iowa county attorneys at a convention urged a law enabling courts to send poor persons to county farms without their consent to cut maintenance costs. Other resolutions, including penalties for desertion and for inciting crimes short of murder, were defeated or tabled. A proposal to let county attorneys keep forfeited fines as fees passed. Mayor Mattern welcomed attendees. W. I. Evans replied.
Director J R Sage of the Iowa climate and crop service bureau reports a week with daily temperatures four to six degrees below normal and rainfall above needs. Field work improved in late week with progress in corn cultivation haymaking and cutting winter grains. Clover and other forage suffered some damage but overall hay yields should be average if fair weather returns. Southern districts show ongoing harvest of early oats fall rye and wheat with little rust damage to wheat and oats. Corn stands cleanliness and height are better than last year though apple crops in the south are very poor for late keeping varieties.
Judge Caswell in Belle Plaine grants an injunction to restrain Benton county sheriff from enforcing a writ of abatement against two druggists H A Swallum and J G Meter who refused the $1000 bond as liquor law surety. The ruling applies county wide and challenges bonds posted by other druggists in earlier liquor law actions.
In a farmhouse six miles east of Waverly John Weldemann aged 25 and his brother Henry aged 35 fought after days of drinking. John was knifed four times and unconscious while Henry hanged himself from a hayrope in the barn thinking he had killed John. John survived.
In Des Moines the supreme court will hear fall term cases on the state anti trust law. Judge A H McVey ruled habeas corpus for four insurance men accused of forming a legal combination deemed unconstitutional. County Attorney Jasse A Miller appeals the ruling. If the high court upholds the decision a push will begin to block new laws shielding the public from combinations in restraint of trade.
Mrs Jane Martin richest woman in town dies at home near Marshalltown though her fortune ranged from three hundred thousand to six hundred thousand she lived in a hovel depriving herself of basic needs Her adopted daughter was cruelly treated and taken by the state humane society a year ago The deceased was about sixty five years old and possessed few feminine graces
George Garhardt, a prominent German farmer eight miles north of Atlantic and Chera, died of heart failure during a severe storm. He acted dazed at the door as a lightning flash struck, then collapsed, described as a fright-induced death.
Samuel B. Howard a young farmer near Shambaugh Page county saved his wife and two month old baby from a blaze that leveled their home then returned for belongings and was burned to death.
Lake City women’s clubs back a public library with books promised by local sellers and boosted by donations and future purchases as funds allow. The townwide effort aims to establish a lasting community resource.
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