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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1903
Page
7
A column reflects on breeding stock quality, palm oil labeling law, and flood damage across western lands. It notes crude farming boasts lowering prices, praises individual effort, and critiques lightning rods while recounting a church lightning loss and a hatting sparrow dispute. Water in cellars signals need for pumps and drainage.
A reflective piece extols the power of example, noting that well kept homes spur neighbors to improve. It highlights a twenty horse power traction engine for macadam work, praising practical roadmaking and minimal car load usage. It ends with quips about milking and dairy wisdom and mentions religious trial in daily life.
A survey of 1903 concerns notes drought in the east and floods in the west, predicting tough conditions remain despite limited control. It laments missed opportunities, hints at agricultural practices, and remarks on the ineffectiveness of cementing cellar walls to keep out water.
Farmers note hay in the field at four dollars per tong and potatoes at thirty-five cents, comparing to prices six dollars and fifty cents or fifty cents in the next season. They say harvesting storage shrinkage and interest erase the potential gains.
The text weighs two options for lawn clippings removal. If water is abundant and the lawn is thin on resources, remove clippings. otherwise leave them. It also advises raising mower knives after mid June and avoiding close mowing during hot dry periods.
As farmers’ finances improve they become more cautious in purchases. Under the old credit system large yearly charges are avoided when cash is paid. People tend to value cash more than credit and manage expenditures accordingly.
A reader compares busy wrens nesting above a kitchen door to an entire nation in motion. The pair raise eight to twelve young, and hustle for grub from hatchling to self-sufficiency, illustrating relentless family labor.
A man attempts to prepare a two acre corn patch on a steep Virginia hillside along the Potomac. He and his team cannot haul a plow more than fifteen feet without hitting a large stump or rock. Observers suggest he may not know better and advise action before leaving the area.
The article notes that hog hide, previously sold to pay for meat, will be used like steer hide as it can substitute rubber for bicycle tires. It laments the loss of appetite for pork cracklings and beans, compares utilitarian modernism to destroying Niagara Falls, and praises a western city where residents improve homes and streets through planting trees, painting, and curb appeal led by women.
A midsummer flooding review notes that rapid drainage and ditching, plus narrowed waterways, amplify flood peaks. The piece cites a western city that reduced its river channel by 150 feet and filled gulches, while farmers face returning boggy lowlands until proper drainage or seedbed restoration. It also states no permanent climate shift is evident, with cycles of extremes continuing as before.
The author argues that farming success rests on using 160 acres well and staying out of debt. He urges farmers to seek intelligent soil use, better methods, improved stock, and new crops rather than expanding land. Knowledge and skill, not land, will double yields and enrich family and community life.
A vivid account shows farmers in irregular two acre plots on hillside regions of Virginia and Pennsylvania struggling to plant corn by hand and using minimal horse and machine aid. Families of seven tend small fields, doubting whether last year’s stalks could yield over fifteen bushels per acre.
Farmers contrast blackberries in Pennsylvania and Virginia with those in the western regions. After six years of careful care including pruning, winter covers, mulching, and irrigation, a field was plowed due to failure to yield. Now remaining roots bloom with promise of a big crop despite prior losses.
In Elizabeth New Jersey Gus Neuberg performs remarkable trick jumps with great balance and accuracy, leaping over tables and barrels with a child on his back and even snuffing candles. The piece also introduces the Angel fish a rake of sharkray variety known as Monk bishop and Kingston with seven to eight foot giants roaming sandy bottoms preying on flat fish.
The British struggle to supply troops in Somaliland resorts to foraging. Native scouts round up sheep for the army while officers pay for animals, though Somali owners lament their losses as debt disputes perplex locals.
The Rev A S Wilson notes in Knowledge that several fungi mimic familiar objects. The jewsear fungus on elder stumps resembles a human ear while yeasters resemble starfish a serbe looks like a sea anemone and crucibulum cyathus nidularia imitate a bird nest. Small specimens may hide their true form with remarkable accuracy.
A cave network on the right bank of the Amu Darya near Bokhara’s Karki hosts an ancient underground city. Inscriptions and coins indicate a two century BCE origin, with multi story buildings, streets and squares, utensils and ornaments, suggesting a refuge for inhabitants from nomadic invasions.
A sketch features the largest tusks ever imported at Zanzibar, weighing 225 and 240 pounds. The image compares their length to a man of average height, based on a photograph taken in Zanzibar. The tusks have been exported to America.
Joe Butche a 30 year old burglary and larceny suspect in Cleveland’s county jail sleeps only while standing. Guards find him awake whenever he lies down, and they avoid seating him or letting him rest, fearing he will doze off. The deputy sheriffs call him a born policeman.
Food eaten without appetite triggers gastric disturbances because unless the stomach secretory glands are stimulated by a desire for food no digestive juices are produced.
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