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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1905
Page
3
Mr Wrage invites readers to submit new ideas for the department and offers to answer inquiries on discussed subjects. Correspondence should be addressed to M J Wrage at 300 Good Block, Des Moines Iowa.
Advice for farm owners on prompt work, careful milking, and calf rearing. Emphasizes punctuality, choosing a good milker, keeping nails short, testing cows before purchase, feeding around calving, and using calves to aid milking. Recommends warm, quiet conditions and a simple planning notebook for hired help.
The article advises using the orchard ground for fruit trees by leaving soil fertility with practices like growing common red clover under fruiting trees, cutting at bloom, and returning heavy cuttings to the soil. It recommends poultry in orchards to control insects and provide manure, and notes feeding fallen wormy apples to livestock, with caution about overgrazing and tree damage.
An Iowa land improvement note urges farmers to plant evergreen groves in April. It argues evergreens increase farm value and beauty, provide wind and weather protection, and improve sanitary conditions. Scotch pine and Norway spruce cited for rapid effect. White pine and White spruce as top options. Two 80-acre farms compared. the planted grove added about 400 dollars in value.
Advice on cleaning and preparing a henhouse to combat lice. Steps include removing furniture and nest material, kerosene-soaked crevices, hot whitewash with crude carbolic acid, dusting floors, providing a dust box, oiling furniture, and using lice powders or powders. Also advises weekly kerosene treatment of perches and nest material and keeping fowls dusted and armed with insect defenses. Maintaining cleanliness and ready dust baths is stressed to prevent loss and ensure productive flocks.
The article urges modern farm practice for home gardens using horse and cultivator. It advises placing the garden near the house with radishes peas cabbage beans and corn in wide rows for horse passage. It promotes the one horse Planet Junior cultivator as efficient with minimal hand weeding and notes suburban gardens require different methods.
Do not allow smoking in the barn and emphasize kindness to animals as a path to thrift. Whipping horses is harmful. good horsemanship and common sense matter on the stock farm. Feed cows green and sweet fodder for quality milk. Salt and ashes in an old pan weekly helps horses with colic and worms. Calf lawsuits in town illustrate costly litigation. Soaked corn yields better pig feed. pigs prefer it to dry corn. A pig grinds corn slowly and mastication differs from cattle.
To obtain a strong pleplant, dig a trench two feet wide and two and a half feet deep, fill with well rotted manure, set out roots in spring and tend through summer. For winter mulch, cover eight to ten inches deep, not smothering plants. In spring, the stalk shows above the mulch. pull the stem to yield a stalk eight inches to a foot long.
Rural farm hands and schoolteachers are scarce as young farmers marry schoolmaids and leave teaching to start farms. The speaker calls this a happy solution, addressing both labor shortages in education and in agriculture.
The writer argues disc plows avoid soil packing typical of drag plows. Disc sulky plows keep furrow bottoms open to maintain capillary action, easing digging and reducing driver fatigue. A reversible yankee disc plow is praised for efficient turning pulverizing soil and covering manure weeds and trash.
The narrator notes that American farmers and merchants benefit from advertising. Some successful farmers in his acquaintance advertise well, illustrating that prudent promotion is a wise plan for selling.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson urges country schools to cultivate gardens on school grounds. He argues flowers educate taste and beauty, while plants teach how soil, air, and moisture sustain growth. He notes grasses build humus and nitrogen fixing legumes like peas and clover enrich soil for students to study during recess.
West Palm Beach April 24 Joseph Jefferson died at 6 15 Sunday night after days of sinking health. At his bedside were his wife two sons Charles B and Frank Jefferson nurse Miss Mabel Bingham Dr K B Potter and servant Carl Kettler. Daughter Josephine and two sons Thomas and Joseph were in New York. Body will leave Palm Beach on a special train for Buzzards Bay Mass. Funeral plans not set. Jefferson had visited Grover Cleveland at Hobe Sound four weeks earlier and caught cold with indigestion leading to his decline.
A dense stock report lists prices and items across markets including Chicago Produce, New York Produce, and Wisconsin to Michigan potatoes. It covers cheeses, butter, grain quotations, and live stock categories with bid ranges for cattle, hogs, sheep, and lambs, plus regional price differentials.
Evansville Ind April 24 The Republicans of the First Congressional district nominated Judge John H Foster of this city to fill the vacancy in congress caused by James A Hemenway being elected to the United States senate.
Four million square feet of mahogany quartered oak and birch lumber valued at 500000 dollars was destroyed in a fire that gutted the drying kilns of the Sikes company furniture manufacturers in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia April 24 burglars looted the Germantown residence of Mrs Christian K Ross, known for the famed kidnapping case decades ago. No further details on suspects or losses were provided.
In Coshocton Ohio on April 24 George Ashcroft a wealthy farmer collapsed and died. Within three hours his wife perished from the shock. Both were born on the same day in the past.
Washington reports a sensational counterfeit story circulated in Austria and Germany claiming criminals aided by American millionaires burglarized the United States treasury of 268 million dollars in gold and silver. The tale describes a Potomac tunnel, electric cars, submarines, and ships covertly ferrying wealth to international ports.
The article notes a record migrant wave to Western Canada as many Americans plan to settle on 160 acre allotments offered by the Canadian government. Rail expansions open new territory with fertile wheat lands costing seven to ten dollars an acre, promising profits from twenty to thirty bushels per acre. Agents report growing acreage planted this season, amid optimism for settlers including many from Iowa Minnesota and beyond.
Herbert L. Potter of Superior shot at his wife at a resort in Ashland on April 24 after a quarrel and then fatally shot himself. Mrs. Potter escaped unharmed. The couple had been estranged for some time and a divorce action had been filed recently. Potter had previously lived in Shell Rock, Iowa, and his wife in Lorain, Ohio before marriage.
Edward Kennedy a 70 year old Great Northern fireman collapsed dead in Havre Montana while boasting he had never been sick a day. He organized the first fire company in Minneapolis and was renowned for his service in the early city fire department.
The French steamer Racine collided with an unknown schooner in the Bristol Channel near London on April 24. The schooner sank immediately and any identification of the vessel was not reported.
Pittsburg April 24 four men were killed by gas and three others are in a dangerous condition after a gas main ruptured at the Edgar Thomson steel works.
A mother recalls her infant suffering a mass of sores that worsened with doctors. After using Cuticura, the child's skin cleared quickly. She would pay five dollars if needed, though the cost was seventy five cents. Mrs. G. J. Steese, Akron Ohio. Some people cast their bread upon the water with an anchor attached to it.
A vintage advertising note touts Defiance Starch as unmatched in quality and quantity with 16 prices at 10 cents each. It invites readers to buy and try the product, claiming value and affordability.
A concise proverb-like line advising immediate reconciliation over delaying resolution of a dispute.
Under the Elkins law railroads paying rebates or shippers accepting them face fines from 1000 to 20000 dollars upon conviction. It also bars shipping freight below published tariffs. The Interstate Commerce Commission can detect and prosecute violators. President Knapp says rebate paying has become as rare as forgery since the law passed. If all men were wise the gold brick industry would cease to flourish.
Housekeepers are warned that Defiance Cold Water Starch offers a full pound per package at 10 cents while competitors use a fraction of a pound for the same price. The notice claims Defiance never sticks to irons and warns grocers against selling 12 ounce stock to clear shelf space.
A fragmentary note mentions a specific item described as a skirt tied to a saying about small feet and rainy days. The text implies a whimsical or proverbial reference rather than a clear news item or event. No identifiable persons, organizations, or places are present.
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