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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1905
Page
12
Readable fragment notes a train item tied to Lv Flrick Avenue in Muscatine. Limited context leaves details about event date or participants unclear.
A collection of farming tips on potash use for peaty soils, electricity as a fluid moving uphill, seed soil and culture importance for crops, saving, and prudent farming. Advice contrasts efficient practices with common failings, notes Montana wool prices, apricot tree scams, and the value of clover as a subsoil tool.
The article notes farmers seek better roads and practical field tips. It cites seed, harvest, gopher damage, flower choices for color, and the trend of early crop use and car ownership among neighbors. It stresses clever farming and efficient land use as crucial.
Article laments Sunday excursion trains as moral dangers run by road officials. It warns unsophisticated riders encounter drunk and profane behavior, with officials unable to control trouble. It calls for a bum car to remove intoxicated patrons.
A historical advocacy paragraph argues that teaching children to swim reduces long term drowning risk. It emphasizes that beginners face no greater danger now than later if they avoid learning. The piece frames swimming instruction as essential safety.
An agricultural writer recommends calm handling of nervous heifers during milking. He suggests gently scratching the fore legs rather than the hind legs, deeming it safer and more appropriate for easing the milking process.
The Kansas agricultural department reports previous importation of Russian seed wheat yielded beneficial results and outlines new arrangements to secure another shipment from the same source.
A noted electrical expert asserts lightning will not strike a steel windmill tower or a metal roofed building or a streetcar on track. The remark is met with doubt and skepticism.
Aims to prevent water pooling and mud holes by maintaining a consistently smooth road surface. The plan centers on eliminating ruts and depressions to improve drainage during rain.
Farmers will take pride in better dirt roads after the new method, then maintain weeded road shoulders. A woman with a new spring dress often chooses a matching parasol to complete the look.
The claim states the United States will secure all India rubber and gutta percha from the Philippine Islands within ten years. It notes 400,000,000 acres of timber lands and hints the country may obtain additional, unwanted resources from the same source.
A correspondent argues that willow trees along country roads hinder travel year round. They claim snowdrifts in winter and mud in summer make the roads impassable and urge removal of willows from highways.
The article notes high rents in the north central states and urges tenants paying four to five dollars per acre to investigate a much more productive farm in newer regions of the country, where a first quarter payment would demonstrate the value.
The dairy and poultry sectors are described as the most uniform and profitable farm products, making them safe, steady focuses for any farmer to pursue. The speaker emphasizes these two branches as central to farm work and enduring value.
A farmer remarks that integrity shows in straight fences and well kept farm features. He asserts crooked fences imply poor methods and vows to tear down and rebuild to ensure square alignment.
A prominent farmer argues that autos on country roads push farm trade toward catalogue houses. He says ordering by mail is safer than sending his wife or son with a horse and buggy to the local store. The remark suggests a shift in shopping habits.
The author argues a man facing a wet farm with a two in five crop failure odds should sell half the land and tile drain the rest. Well drained eighty acres outperform undrained one hundred sixty, with lower costs and greater comfort, making drainage a prudent investment.
High wages for farm help and rising land values push farmers toward more machinery. As machinery use grows, average farm size increases, reducing rural population and leading to the closing of country schools.
The article notes that a distant major war between Japan and Russia would influence cereal prices worldwide. It states Russians rely on rye bread and produce it locally while Japanese meals center on rice and fish, implying wheat and corn values remain largely unchanged in the scenario described.
Coyotes rise steadily across the range with the prairie wolf, kin to the coyote, now more numerous in settled Iowa and Minnesota. Plentiful food sources, especially poultry and lambs, fuel the boom. Some town counties report bounties on as many as fifty wolves this spring.
The writer argues against cultivating river bottom lands prone to overflow and recommends keeping them as blue grass pasture. Such lands, used for cattle or steers, yield about 6 percent net on a value over 100 dollars per acre, whereas cropping them fails to deliver that return.
The article argues that drainage schemes require cooperation among farmers to avoid blocking benefits. It cites a case where over 70,000 acres of prime corn land in the western region remain unreclaimed due to a single landowner's ongoing legal action, hindering communal progress.
The article advises timing clover hay cutting to avoid wet weather and spontaneous combustion. It recommends cutting after dew, forming small morning cocks, turning them at dawn, and stacking by afternoon. It warns against mowing wilted hay due to heat and mold risks and cautions against field curing to prevent spoilage.
A suggestion to young men: move to western North Dakota, acquire cheap land, and specialize in macaroni wheat. The crop tolerates the region’s cereals, matures quickly, and can fetch near the price of other wheats. Miners learn milling and housewives bake bread well with its flour, signaling a promising, profitable agricultural path as land remains inexpensive.
Promoters tout a seedless apple as a marvel while leading horticulturists expose it as a fraud. The fruit is small in size poor in color and quality and not worm proof as claimed. Soon agents may offer trees at 2 or 3 dollars each, but beware this dubious price and product.
A farmer with an irrigated setup endures hardships from alkali poisoning of soil and failed mountain snows drying irrigation streams and reservoirs, leaving crops to perish. Neighbors sometimes take more than their share, further shortening his water supply.
Sigourney miscellany notes include Floyd Bott and family visiting Lancaster township while he finishes medical training, J H Bott in town on business, Judge Blanchard and H H Sheriff working on the Shepherd estate case, Col C H Mackey chosen July 4 chairman, Warren McLean visiting from Oklahoma City, and many residents moving, teaching, or traveling to cities like Oskaloosa Des Moines and Muscatine.
Mr and Mrs Paul of Madison Wisconsin visit the Wm Paull home for the summer, spending time in town and joining local residents for the season.
Sandy Grove events include Jerry Wagner shopping in Columbus Junction and Leona Adams visiting. Senator F M Molesberry inspected phones on line 55. Mrs H J Bedwell hosts strawberries and dinner for F M Molesberry and Ed Rawhouser. cattle shipping by Henry Wagner and river Cedar falling. Ina and Flava Wagner attend Muscatine show.
Grandview Louisiana June 16 Misses Anna and Lela Anthony left for Colorado Springs Wednesday where they have positions awaiting them. Wm. Walker and A. H. Young were Muscatine business callers Monday. Miss Callie Walker left for Burlington Monday where she has employment in the hospital. Co. M. Bridges returned home from Des Moines after finishing his college course. W. F. Barnett and wife of Letts attended the Children's day program.
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