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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1901
Page
6
A compact rural briefing covers crop values and marketing ideas. It notes substitutions for potatoes amid a short fruit and vegetable crop, dairy improvements from bred sires, and practical farming tips including hog feed and forage crops. It discusses alfalfa as a premier forage, berry transport, box elder bug control, and a florist remark on funeral flower demand.
A bulletin from the agricultural department lists 1899 farm hand wages by region with board included. Eastern states 18.21, Middle and Western states higher, Pacific states 2497 for monthly figures. Notes suggest 1900–1901 Western wages rising and board costs about 7 monthly for Western and 3.90 for Southern hands. mentions sugar in coffee and pie twice daily as context.
A neighbor’s turkeys roam in a friend’s timber each season. The birds, 40 to 50 in number, are often claimed as missing but found and sold in fall. The friend plans to shoot the birds once they are good eating, with weekly turkey dinners promised until Thanksgiving.
The article warns that root-killing afflicts apple trees across Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin and the Dakotas. It argues hardy apple types are necessary but many plantings graft on tender eastern-rooted stock, risking poor emergence and loss for growers.
Grafted apple trees often fail to root well when grown on unsuitable stock. The article urges Northwest apple growers to use hardy crabapple varieties as root systems to endure harsh climates, noting many trees on their own roots malform and fail.
Avsteer, a cross between a buffalo bull and a Polled Angus cow, shown at fall Western fairs, is polled like its dam. It measures 16 feet nose to tail, 11 feet 9 inches around the loin, stands 6 feet 2 inches at the withers, and weighs 3,700 pounds in half fat condition at years old. It is black with buffalo brown at the hair roots and suggests valuable potential from this cross.
The essay condemns one year tenancy as ruinous for old settled farms valuing $60 to $75 an acre. It argues leases should be at least three to five years, or ten if possible, with strict stock, crop rotation, and farm management clauses. It promotes share rent as best, and paints a vivid portrait of the one year renter’s neglected land and social contrasts.
The passage argues that returns depend on intelligent choices across work and life. It contrasts poor, scrabbed effort with wise farming and family investment, noting some reap monetary gain and others gain respect, love, and a lasting legacy. The main point is that returns vary with the nature of the investment and effort.
A young man, raised on a farm and later working as a wholesale grocery clerk, explains farm work can be harder and more confining than urban clerking. He plans to return to the farm after settling expenses, arguing modern farming offers equal or greater appeal for the ambitious.
A column reflects on wild grape vines along barbed wire fences in a cornfield offering abundant fruit if cultivated. It cites Moore's grapevines as an alternative and shares a farmer's winter fodder record of 115 head of stock supported by 18 acres of corn yielding 75 bushels per acre, urging efficient use of corn stalks.
Uncle Bill recounts a misadventure in Texas seeking oil and wealth. He reveals a wild chase for an oil gusher, disguising his trip to avoid notice, and ends up with a dry hole and wary humor about fevered Texas hype. The tale mixes humor with cautionary notes on speculation and street carnivals.
A tale recalls drilling for oil with brace and bit turning to a ground truth when the rope of a bit reveals the oil pocket. a hiss of gas erupts as a snake head shoots up, prompting jokes about Eve’s persuasion and a claim to fever relief as the speaker recounts a comic near-miss with oil fleas and a snake.
Alexander Hume Ford describes American farming methods spreading across the Russian empire. Russia plans to spend eight to ten million dollars on American machinery with experts studying U.S. methods. Floating barges serve as mobile agricultural stations with professors aboard, teaching diversified farming as rivers carry these experiments to villages, supported by beehives and seed distributions.
The article surveys women who adopted male roles in history and war, noting Caroline Hell and several others who fought or worked as men. It cites Deborah Sampson, Mary Anne Taylor, Count Sandor Vay, and Jack the bushranger, among examples, and mentions Julia Forrest who wore her husband’s clothes to mine hard labor.
An observed incident at the White House portrays President Roosevelt showing compassion to a homeless dog on a rainy day. He orders the animal to be fed and cared for, illustrating empathy beyond his famed hunting zeal and linking his San Juan Hill leadership to humane acts.
John Charles, a Wyoming cowboy, vacations in San Francisco in full Saratoga dress with two six shooters. He is summoned to the hall of justice after meeting a policeman. Judge Fritz admonishes him to wrap his guns and return to his hotel until departure.
Philadelphia Ledger details how soft shell crabs are cultivated in Chesapeake bay ranches between Princes Anne and Crisfield Maryland. Workers tend sections day and night, sorting hard and soft crabs and feeding them with seaweed, fish, and shellfish to yield canned meat for winter.
Anton Dvorak receives a rare honor from the Austrian emperor becoming the first musical composer to join the Austrian house of lords. Born in a Prague suburb in 1841, he showed early musical talent and trained in government schools. His Stabat Mater secured his European reputation.
A Harrisburg civic group plans a memorial for founder John Harris. Notes on school districts show 101 of 1,537 towns in New England manage schools this way, mostly in Connecticut. Italy privatized railways in 1885 and leased them for 20 years. New York Women’s Health Prospective Association funds a late Colonel Waring memorial. a donor gives $500. The Khedive seeks Swiss cattle for Egypt, with some moved to Cairo after a Europe trip. Prussian travelers can have delayed baggage delivered free to their homes. Swiss wood carvings decline due to repetitive subjects. Mrs. Martin Callahan’s will gives $10,000 to Des Moines Home for the Aged and $20,000 to Tuskegee Institute. Komura is installed as Japan’s foreign minister, Harvard Law graduate. The German crown prince begins a Bonn term with 21 lectures weekly. London rumors: Linin is actually Dr Dilton, a major European contact. Baron Rothschild’s goldsmiths’ works in Louvre gain a dedicated gallery. $60,090 funded. Maine canned corn needs 8,000 tins of 6.6 million pounds tinplate. Over 50 years, Swedish emigration to America exceeds 50,000. only 5 percent return. In Victoria, sick voters can vote by post with officer present. secrecy guarded. Cable railway construction progress noted.
Reports recall travels from Crawcow to Black Lake in the Carpathians with tourism soon. Signor Marconi receives the Italian Pesce society gold medal from Marquis Solari, amid a naval officer’s dinner. Roosevelt clubs, Geographical and Anthropological societies, Alpine membership noted. Australian cattle king Samuel McCaughey described with vast land, cattle, and leases. U.S. vice presidents’ tenure lengths listed. Paris sports urging fewer catastrophes in autos. Lynn Massachusetts eyes year round summer hours. Bedouin Arabs in Vienna take seven brides to Trieste for Arabian weddings. poverty blocks many. London official Torrance recalls life on $90 yearly in Glasgow, praising punctuality and humor. Gandhi dies in India. his 1895 U.S. visit and later law studies in London noted.
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