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April first. Look out for the joker! Here's hoping April will be as fine as March. Who ever knew a March as fine as the month past and gone. April showers will be very ac ceptable as the fall grain and pastures need moist ure. Stock already out to graze and fruit trees ready to bloom, Charles Matson of Matson’s Cor ners, shipped a carload of steers last week that brought him $7.70 a hundred in the city. The Galloway bull weighed 1850 pounds and brought $6.50 a hundred. The hogs brought $11.70. This was an aston ishing price and brought a big pile of money. Marion Matson’s winter wheat looks fine as does most of the win ter wheat but it all needs more rain. John Hildebrand, who lives on the north line of town, says he kept an account one year with 240 hens and eighh cows and found that the eggs from the hens brought $28 more than the milk and butter from the cows. The cows cost four times as much, ten times more to feed them and caused ten times more work. It’s true the calves were worth over $100 but the young chickens numbering 1,100 far ex ceeded that amount. Mr. Hildebrand says most farmers feed their hens too much and they soon become too fat and often drop off the roost dead from fat clogging their hearts. “Wayside”’sojourned with an old and valued subscriber of the Tribune one night last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Thompson, of West Arispie. These excellent people are very comfortably and pleasantly fixed four miles south of Tiskilwa. They follow mixed hus bandry, paying considerable atten tion to fruit culture. In order to in sure a crop of fruit, especially ap ples, Mr. Thompson practises spray ing a short time before they bud for apple scab, a sort of a fungoid growth and when apples are form ing for the coddling moth. Last fall he discovered that dread scourge, the San Jose scale, and was obliged to use powerful sulphides to arrest the spread. He uses the Bordeaux mixture, consisting of equal parts of blue vitriol and stone lime dissolv ed in water. Anyone can get full information by writing to the State university at Champaign. Mr. Thompson says his strawberry patch consisting of three acres, promises a good crop but thinks the outlook for peaches is very poor. They have 280 acres of their fine home farm and what is remarkable three gener ations have lived at this same home. After all, the farmer with his fruit, poultry, cows, swine and vegetables is independent as far as a living is concerned in these days of high prices. The Lone Tree—an old landmark in Bureau county—stood originally in Wheatland, on a farm owned by William Cox of Tiskilwa, and occu pied by Thomas Bailey. Frank Jennet, who lives in this locality, says when he was a boy more than fifty years ago, this tree, a burr oak, was standing and was then a very large oak that blew over in a high wind and was literally torn out by the roots and left a hole big enough for a cellar. Albert Knox of this city, says be fore the city builds any more sewers or septic tanks, it had better over haul the one they have now as the one near him is in a frightful con dition. ‘Jersey’ Moore says the actual cost of these interurban railroads is about $6,000 a mile exclusive of the rolling stock and power houses. After they have secured a big bonus from the people they bond the road for $20,000 a mile and then sell pre ferred and common stock without end. Thomas Fortune Ryan, the great New York capitalist, says nine ty-five per cent of all railroad stock is water, on which the people are obliged to pay dividends. The poor track laborers get $1.35 a day and when they ask $1.50 a day are turn ed down with a vengeance. In the meantime we keep on sending rail road attorneys to congress. John Johnson, living three miles west of Ohio, is the owner of some high class trotting horses, among others Ray Wells, a horse of great merit, well and fashionably bred, tracing back fifty-six times to Sm arted Messenger, a foundation horse of great renown. Dan Patch only traces back forty-three times. This great horse has a mark of 2:17, but is expected to lower this to 2:10 this season. He has some fine fillies among them Grand Alice, as grace ful as a gazelle and as beautiful as a chrome. This animal has every indication of being a winner and will be tracked this season and has taken blue ribbons wherever exhibited, Editor Tucker of the Ohio Her ald, says he is well acquainted with Congressman Davidson of the Osh kosh, Wis., district, and says when he first entered congress his salary of $5,000 would not pay the neces sary expense of himself and wife at the national canal, and that his father-in-law had to pay from $2,500 to $3,000 additional to help them out. Poor things! How does it happen that these same congress men, or some of them, soon retire with a fortune, Senator La Follette said at Apollo theatre last fall that one member who came their poor soon banked $20,000. When asked where he got it replied “he did not know.” J. Ogden Armour, the great Chi cago packer, says the American peo ple are too extravagant and that they ought to eat “cuck steak.”’ Some of them would be glad to get that. In the meantime What of Ar mour eating? The best the land af fords—you may safely bet on that. And his wife has a bushel of pearls and $400,000 worth of diamonds, besides a winter and glumme- palace and other wealth and money with out end. Still becomes his majesty P. Ogden Armour to talk about ex travagance. The country is full of potatoes, William Riley of Kasbeer, has 1,000 bushels in the cellar and John Hay ter near Tiskilwa, 1,300 bushels. ‘Spuds” are plentiful and very cheap which is something to the poor man’s advantage. They are retailing in Chicago for 35 to 40 cents a bushel. Our merchants have lost money on the potato business. Oren D. Pomeroy of Ohio, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pomeroy, living one mile east of Ohio, is agent for the Waterloo, Bay and McVicker gasoline engines and Selders power attachment for washers, wringers, etc., and is doing a good business, and his articles are very generally giving satisfaction The day of gas oline engines and power attach ments is coming to stay and the price asked for those Waterloo Bay engines is surprisingly cheap, only about one-half asked for other wash ers. We laugh at those old knights of old bound by acts of Chivalry to res cue women in distress at the peril of their lives. Now we employ women in our cities at wages they can’t pos sibly live on, until they are often forced to take to the streets or starve. Armour, the great pork packer—four-fifths hog himself— employs girls in damp, wet rooms to paste labels on meat, and other work more laborious at wages less than one-third given to men. Oh, for one day of those brave knights of old to sweep these business buccaneers from earth. The passing of our old friend, William Latta, at Manlius, fills us with profound regret as he was an excellent, kind hearted man, a good, valuable citizen who had rendered his services to the government in its hour of need, being a meber of the 148th Penn. Vol. Inst., and par ticipated in many of the greatest battles with the Army of the Poto mac. He was also a man of a good deal of natural ability and could ex press himself in a clear, forcible manner in both public and private. Kind friend and valued associate farewell until we meet beyond this “bank and shoal of time.” One of the most prominent farm ers and one of the very best men in the county is Abraham Lincoln Piper of Ohiotown, whom we found plant ing potatoes last week on Good Fri day. The election of Eugene Foss last week, to congress on the Dmocratic ticket in a strong Republican dis trict, was a complete surprise to everybody. It is a knockout blow to the Republican hopes of electing the next congress, D. H. Dean of this city, says Hors ford’s acid phosphate, sold at all rug stores, is an excellent medicine for elderly men as it prevents— in a measure—hardening of the ar teries and enlarging of the prostrate gland. Everybody is prophesying a dry summer and the Oklahoma and Tex as Panhandle farmers are looking forward to a breath. However, we don’t know. March, the mouth of the lion and the lamb, was certainly lamb-like throughout. It was a record break er. One farmer says probably the ap proaching comet had something to do with it. Frogs began to “holler” on St. Patrick’s day, and according to the old saying they will have to be froz en up three times before spring be gins in earnest. We will see what we see.
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Princeton Bureau County Tribune
Princeton, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 01, 1910
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