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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
2
A urged shift from city work to farming. Owning ten acres with smart cultivation can outperform high salaried jobs, as in France where small plots yield prosperity. The piece argues land ownership builds independence amid economic downturns and factory closures.
The 1904 farm work should be well planned this winter. The piece notes that labor unions have disrupted commerce, stopping activity like a wound clock spring. It suggests that debtors may find comfort as financial instability rises yet stresses prudent planning for the farm season.
The department of agriculture lists the 1903 corn crop at 900 million dollars the wheat crop at 422 million the oat crop at 303 million the hay crop at 542 million and the cotton crop at 500 million.
A ten year span saw rice output rise from 14 million pounds to 300 million pounds, establishing the United States as an exporter of rice alongside other cereals. The shift marks a significant growth in agricultural capacity and trade position.
A dairy expert notes that butter grading around eighty may stem from workers washing milk off their hands during milking. He explains this as a straightforward cause and effect issue in the creamery workflow.
A farmer observed his hogs eating dry cornstalks and learned that placing corn into a silo provides a versatile winter feed. Both brood sows and shoats show strong fondness for silage, making it a valuable supplement.
A writer argues a butter maker must act as a magician to produce fine butter from patrons milk and cream. It is harsh to call patrons dirty, yet if the maker cares about reputation, he should not do so infrequently.
The passage notes how a clerk’s promotion to a $600 government post earns AP report status and widespread newspaper publication, contrasted with bricklayers, stone cutters, or carpenters who achieve similar yearly gains but receive no attention or coverage.
The piece argues that education improves outcomes in any career from farming to law and medicine. It contends that college training enhances success across trades and professions while the ignorant fall behind in society.
The passage notes a vast autumn hunting season across western lakes marshes and northern woods with thousands pursuing wild fowl and deer. It laments the large amount of game wounded and left to perish, describing it as a pitiful slaughter.
The piece extols cows and hens as the most useful reliable and profitable domestic assets. A well cared for dairy and poultry operation is praised as keeping a family fed and finances honest, a simple sermon in paragraph form.
A farmer argues against scavenger use on the dairy, urging humane feeding and shelter. He compares the milk cow to a refined boarder who pays for quality, while hogs and sheep should scavenge. Colts, steers, and dairy cows deserve balanced rations and comfortable barns to maximize yield.
As winter arrives in high latitudes the bird life shrinks to a hardy few. Bluejays and crows, the English sparrow, chickadee, cedar birds, snow bunting, and occasional sap sucker populate the season. Mild spells may bring meadow lark and blackbird briefly nearby.
A Kansas farmer muses that if Kansas were dropped in central Europe it would be a garden of Eden. He notes silage feeding in winter yields about 80 percent of summer pasture milk. He recalls a top calf that never met its mother and cried at the farm separator hum.
The passage notes that the lowest grade hogs in markets were called go vern ments and likens their use to army and navy rations in 1863. It adds freight charges have fallen about 25 percent since 1882 from a cent plus per ton per mile to a fraction over three quarters of a cent.
The author ponders if public funds should finance bringing water to arid lands while noting that drainage schemes have typically been run by private enterprises. The piece contrasts the ethics and practicality of government versus private roles in large scale water management.
A western newspaper notes a patron raised 100 bushels of popcorn on two thirds of an acre this year. The item advises that affidavits should be attached to this class of agricultural yarns.
The state of New York approved a bond issue of 101 million dollars for enlarging the Erie canal. The measure benefits western producers more than the state’s farmers, signaling a shift in regional economic impact from the project.
A historical note states the Calumet and Hecla copper mine has paid stockholders 83,350,000 dollars in dividends since opening, from an initial invested capital of 2,500,000 dollars. The remark contrasts wealth from mining with abstract gold imagery.
The article notes rats are wary but claim pumpkin seeds lure them to traps. It advises trying this bait as a simple method to attract rats, suggesting the seeds will tempt even wary rodents.
The Maine experiment station analysis shows that ten cents worth of bread and milk provides more than twice the nutriment of ten cents worth of leading cereal preparations, with better taste noted.
The piece argues that side hunts are a common but barbaric practice in western sport where jack rabbits are pests, while in many areas wildlife is already scarce. It condemns the activity as unnecessary cruelty and unsuitable for mainstream hunting culture.
Every farmer should attend the county institute and ask a farm question to a competent expert. By asking, the farmer benefits both himself and neighbors, gaining practical guidance for farm work.
Continued experiments in cold curing of cheese show surprisingly satisfactory results with superior quality cheese. A paraffin covering markedly saves shrinkage during curing, suggesting more cheese could be produced and used if better cheese were made.
The deer killed last fall in northern Minnesota could have brought about 900000 in open markets. Rigid enforcement of game laws is making deer very plentiful across northern Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Long Island and northern Maine and Vermont.
Government awards contracts for the Tonto basin Salt River project the first under the new law. The plan cites a 160 foot high dam creating a lake about eighteen miles long and over half a mile wide with 100 feet depth and the reclamation of 200000 acres of desert land.
The northern robin, legally protected, is hunted by southern poachers during winter and sold in southern markets at 5 to 10 cents a dozen. The text suggests reduced northward harvest would affect berry gathering.
The writer recalls a past hog killing bee with twenty hogs and a long wait for a better price than 2.25 dollars per hundredweight. They note that since packing houses organized, a ready market exists for dressed hogs and for the animals on the hoof.
The piece praises cooperative creameries for small to mid sized farmers, noting low financial risk and strong local ties. It warns against centralized large concerns that could destroy home creameries and potentially fix prices, urging farmers to remain loyal to local processors.
The article notes Texas shifts from cotton to a mix of crops and livestock. Farmers adopt alfalfa, corn, wheat, fruit, poultry, and livestock like cows and hogs, echoing Northwest wheat progress and improving soil fertility and finances.
The article questions indefinite wheat farming in the northwest and argues crop rotation is needed. It notes corn is unreliable, clovers and grasses struggle, and summer fallow persists. Without rotation fertility may decline and profits fall as yields drop.
A southern rumor reports a colored mill worker who contracted pulmonary consumption and used cottonseed oil to relieve symptoms. Dust exposure at the mill prompted him to drink the oil, after which he reportedly improved and recovered within a year.
A speaker urges parents to send their son to a winter course at the agricultural college. He argues the cost of 50 to 75 dollars is worthwhile to gain practical knowledge that can turn into cash and broaden the boy’s ideas beyond rural routines.
Sunday wreck on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line spurs labor commissioner Brighams push for a bill to prohibit anyone under twenty one from telegraph operation affecting train movements and to require prompt accident reports to the state executive council. Hobbs expected to become Rock Island's southwestern division general manager with Topeka as headquarters, amid reshuffles in the Vandalia and Rock Island systems.
An advertisement claims a scalp parasite causes itching dandruff and hair loss and that only Newbro's Herpicide can kill it. It cites Victor Idaho witness C H Reed and his wife as cured after other products failed, praises glossy hair, and notes samples with 1c stamps and sales by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store in Detroit and as a special agent.
Muscatine Hive No. 13 Ladies of the Maccabees met at their hall on Iown Avenue and elected officers for the coming term. Past Lady Commander Minnie Barnard leads as officer. LeVina Giesler is Lady Commander. Gertrude Hine Lieutenant Commander. Cora Hudler Record Keeper. Nellie McCaw Finance Keeper. Lizzie Hurlburt Chaplain. Wayne Hurlburt Mistress at Arms. Nellie Lucas Sergeant. Emil Fack Sentinel. Minnie McElravy Picket.
Muscatine Lodge No. 304 B P O Elks will hold a Sunday afternoon reception at its Iowa avenue home. Members will enjoy social converse and a short programme of musical numbers by talented order members, with a large turnout expected.
An advertisement promising a one day cure for a cold using Larative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It notes a refund if not effective and includes FE W Groves as the box signature. Price listed as 25 cents.
Leaving Chicago at 6 00 p m The Pennsylvania Limited offers twenty three hours of luxury to New York. The train features drawing room sleeping cars dining cars library smoking cars with writing facilities market bulletins barber and bath private compartments and wide windows. View includes the Cone maugh Alleghenies Horse Shoe Curve and the Juniata and Susquehanna rivers. Full details available from C L Kimball A G Agt No 2 Sherman street Chicago.
The text reflects on how friction fuels bright ideas and how thinking of others helps ease pain, suggesting that compassion differentiates people in addressing difficulties.
The Muscatine city council resolves that lot 5 in block 23 in Abraham Smalley’s addition to South Muscatine Iowa and owner Elijah Baker be assessed ten dollars for fumigation expenditures at dwelling No 1103 Nebraska Street. Adopted December 17 1903. R S McNutt mayor. Attest H C Schoemaker city recorder.
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