Audubon County journal., December 28, 1911, Image 7

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ELK HORN
Thorwald Gregersen lost one of bis
very best horses a few days ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knndsen and
baby visited at the Peter Hoegh
home Wednesday.
Oicar Nelsen is preparing to build
anew dwelling house on his lot od
Washington street.
Emeil Wiges, who was very low
With pneumonia a few days ago is re
ported to be improving.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Lu
theran Church here held a bazaar at
the College chapel recently and touk
in some ninety dollars.
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Jim Buck accompanied by Pete Pe
terson returned *o Exira last week.
Buck will make his home the rest of
the winter with his brother, Nick.
Murlan Larsen, the second oldest
•on of Chris Larsen and wife, who is
quite sick with pneumonia, is under
the care of a trained nurse from Om
aha.
George Hoegh has recently pur
chased a four-hole Sandwich corn
•heller, and an eight horse gasoline
engine and will be ready to shell corn
for the farmers in a day or two.
Some of the members of the Svend
Larsen and Lars Larsen families
north of towu were in Audubon the
fare p.»rt of last week and acted as
witnesses in court in the Mrs. Carl
Andersen case.
Cured in His Own Home Town
Council Bluffs, Iowa. Patrick Dana
han, 411 N. 8th St. tells the way for his
fellow townsmen to be cured of kidney
and bladder ailments as he himself was
cured. "'For about a year I suffered
from kidney trouble and at last rheuma
tism set in. I heard of Foley Kidney
Pills and began taking them and after
a short time the pains all left my back,
my rheumatism got better, and I feel I
am entirely cured nf my kidney trouble
and that I shall have no more rheuma
tism For sale by all druggists.
Four Hundred
Candle Power.
No Smoke.
No Odor.
No Chimneys
to Clean.
A Grand
Convenience
for the
Office Dest.
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KIMBALLTON
Sigurd Lykke and wife went to
Nysted, Nebr. Friday.
Olav Petersen from V. C. spent
Xmas day at tbe Mads H. Madeen
home
Gudrun Overeraard from Audubon
is visiting wnn ner sister, Mrs. Tb.
G. Muller.
Olav Jorgensen is home from Ring
sted, Ion a to spend the holidays with
his parents.
Martin Fredriksen and wife are the
proud parents of a baby boy born to
them Friday.
Lucia Petersen is home from Chi
cago spending her Xmas vacation
with her parents.
Helue Jacobsen and Anton Faaborg
from Nysted, Nebr. are spending the
holidays at the John Faaborg home.
Carlo Jorgensen, Johanneaiui An
ders Bjorn and Carrie Jorgensen are
home from G. V. C. tor Xmas vaca
tion.
In spite of the snow a large crowd
attended the Christmas tree held in
the Gymnasium hall at Kimballton,
Tuesday.
A meeting will be held in the
basement oi the Emanuel church,
Kimballton, Friday at 2 o'clock p.
m. Every member of the congrega
tion is requested to be present as new
church officers will be elected.
Geese are not scarce in the city oi
Kimballton—a dead one was found
on the street Xmaa morning, nicely
cleaned and ready to stick in the
roaster. If not called for before New
Years Eve, it—the goose— will be
consumed by the lucky finder.
Make This Christmas
last all winter by buying an American
Portable Desk and Reading Lamp. The
Kone ideal gift for all the family.
Sugar Cured Hams and Bacon
Lard in any Quantity.
A specialty of Cold Cooked
Meats for a Quick Meal.
Oysters and Celery in Season.
We Sell Ice. We Buy Hides.
City Meat Market
H. T. KROEGER, Proprietor, Exira, la.
Th. G. Muller
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
A S O I A
Costs less than
one-half cent
an hour.
Better in Every
Way than Gas
or Electricity.
Cheaper to
Operator Than
Kerocene.
Indispensib
for the
Family
The nearest approach to Real Delight
ever attained in Artificial Lighting.
For sale by
P. K. JENSEN
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Circle.
The Farm Shop
as a Money
Saver
Br «/. B, Crabb, Iowa Agricultural CtlUgt,
The blacksmith and carpenter shop
should find a place on every up-to
date American farm. The outlay for
shop tools need not be large. For
$75 one can get tools to equip both a
blacksmith and a workshop, and have
every kind of tool needed. For a
much less amount he can get tools
that he can get along with to do most
work, but he will be somewhat handi
capped when he comes to work on
some of the finer jobs. The amount
:of investment may look large to some,
but it will fade into insignificance
when you fan your fire into action.
'If you will do all of your work, keep
a good account of all work done, al
lowing prices the same as you would
pay the smith, you will soon discover
|the profit In it.
Any one with a small amount of
mechanical ability can soon become
'proficient enough to do any ordinary
work, and he may with practice soon
be able to do any kind of work, as
iwell as or even better than most
smiths do it. He thus not only saves
tho price of the work, but also his
time. Many small breaks in busy
times could be repaired while one
would be hitching up to go to the
professional's shop. Also large breaks
would require no more time to fix
than it would require the regular
smith to do the work after one got
ithere with it. So it can be seen that
lf one possesses only moderate abil
ity, he can save time that it would
itake to go and coma, and that alone
in many cases is no small item. Much
idle time may also be utilized in fix
ing things laid away for such occa
sions.
A little personal experience might
serve to show the advantage and
money saving of the shop on the farm.
(During all of our farming we have
always maintained some sort of a
:shop
on the farm. On icy mornings
at 8 o'clock Neighbor Brown led forth
his team to the shop two miles away
to have them rough shod. Across the
way, as stated, we had a shop of our
own. At the same time our own team
was led into our own shop to rough
them. Now I am not a blacksmith
by trade nor do I pretend to be an
expert, but have kept at it until I
have surprised myself at the amount
of ability one may acquire with a
little practice. One can soon learn
to weld and set a tire, sharpen the
plows, make chains and hooks and
gate fasteners and all such work, and
also fit and nail a horseshoe. At 10
[o'clock I had the team rough shod,
'but Brown had not yet returned.
Twelve o'clock came and he was still
away. In the afternoon, on an er
rand, I passed through the town and
there was Brown, just in the shop
with his team. On a morning like
this, several had gotten in ahead of
him and he had to spend his time
there waiting and also pay the smith
for doing the work, when he got it.
Now consider the cost to each of us
to get our teams shod. Brown spent
six hours of his time, that he should
have spent in looking after other busi
ness. His time as manager was eas
ily worth 30 ctents an hour. This
makes his own time worth $1.80 be
sides he had to pay the smith $2.50
Practical Suggestions on
Caring for Show Corn
From the Iowa Agriculturist,
Iowa State College
The corn intended for show should
be stored in a place where there is
fresh air and no sun. The sun in the
day time will bleach the corn, and the
change of atmosphere at night may
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color the germ. Avoid hanging in the
eaves of a barn, or an attic, or any
place where the temperature Is very
intense at any time, as the life of the
corn will be lost. Do not hang in a
to shoe the team. This makes a total
cost of $4.30. Now I had to first pur
chase the shoes, which were 80 cents
also nails and coal, 10 cents. Figur
ing my time the same as Brown's, we
have 60 cents. This makes a total
cost of $1.50. The same kind of a
job lost Brown $4.30, so we see thai
I saved $2.80 in two hours, or $1.40
per hour. If one would save only
$1.40 each month he would be realiz
ing over 22 per cent, on an investment
of $75. In another instance, while
cutting wheat we ran into a blind
stump and bent the draft rod. It was
4 o'clock in the evening and the rod
was bent in such a manner that it
could not be straightened without
heating it. We removed it, took it
to the farm shop to straighten it, and
in one-half hour the binder was in
motion again. We lost only one-hali
hour, but if we had been compelled to
go to the town shop, the remainder
of the evening would have been lost.
With two men following the binder
at $2 per day each, the loss for them
and his own time would have been
$1.40, besides the very slight charge
with the town smith would have re
quired. As it was we lost but one-half
hour in the field, which in actual cash
value amounted to 35 cents. The farm
shop at this time saved us $1.05 In
one-half hour besides the annoyance
of having the machine stand idle at a
time when it is so necessary that it
should be In motion.
Perhaps some will say that these
are overdrawn examples and that
things of this kind will happen only
once in a while. We all know they
do happen, and with some they hap
pen several times in a year. In order
to prove our point to those who wish
to be extremely conservative, we will
consider the matter from another
point, without taking into considera
tion the valuable time lost. We will
allow the farmer 30 cents per hour
for the time he will put in. In shoe
ing a horse the time will be 30 cents,
the shoes will cost him 40 cents and
fuel and nails less than 10 cents, a
total cost of not to exceed 80 cents,
or a saving of 20 cents over the far
away blacksmith's price. In resetting
a pair of shoes the farmer's time of
one-half hour is worth 16 cents and
jthe nails 5 cents ,a total cost of 10
I cents, while the regular smith's price
[is 60 cents. Thus we have a saving
here of 40 cents. For fitting new
shoes and resetting old ones this
makes a saving of 30 per cent. In
the work such as sharpening culti
vator shovels, sharpening harrow
teeth and all kinds of small repairs
ithe saving is considerably more than
30 per cent. But In order to be en
tirely conservative, we will assume
that the saving on all smith work Is
but 30 per cent. If we will take $25
as an average amount spent by the
farmer each year for blacksmith work
we will have a saving of $7.50 for
each farmer, or 10 per cent, return on
the total investment of $75. This
Is without taking into conisderation
the return from the carpenter tools
which are, as stated,«!ncluded in the
cost of $75. If we consider the car
penter tools as one-third of the In
vestment and allow the same per
cent, of saving, we will have 15 per
cent, return on the total investment
of $75. This may not look large to
some, but it points to a few silver
dollars rolling down hill, away from
the farmer. If he considers these
dollars as good to him as to the other
fellow, he had better make the grab,
for they are easily rescued when one
once gets the habit.
double corn crib, as too much dirt ac
cumulates around the butt of the ear.
In the large seed houses that are be
ing built, there are rooms especially
fitted for the hanging of show corn.
Show corn should never be hung
by strings, or laid across wires, or
laid in boxes of any sort. The cheap
est way, but probably a slower way,
is to use the five or six husks, tie
them together, and hang over a
wire, each ear separately, letting the
tip hang downward. The wires should
be one foot apart, and the ears about
eight or ten inches apart. At present
more practical methods have been de
vised for hanging seed corn. There
are on the market various forms of
hooks which can be inserted into the
butt of the ear, and the corn then
very conveniently suspended from
wires. This method is very popular
with corn breeders.
In this way the corn is protected,
and there are no string marks, or
wire marks, or any indications of
how the corn was cared for from the
field to the judge. Any evidence of
loose kernels or flat kernels might
tend to indicate immaturity, which
in show corn must be avoided.
In order to maintain the color a
newspaper wrapped around each ear
separately, and extending over the
tip about two inches, is the most
satisfactory way that this can be
done. This not only holds the color
of the corn, but also the vitality, and
the germ Is kept brighter, as the
change of weather is not as direct
as if it were not wrapped.
The taking out of storage should
be done very carefully, as consider
able corn is lost for show purposes
by hard treatment. The corn when
taken from the wires should not have
the huslt byoicen out if the variety
has a very round full butt, but thev
should be trimmed out with a knife.
Never take the corn off the wires un
til you are ready to ship to the place
of show.
Making Sure.
He (earnestly)—Are you sure, ab
solutely sure, that you will love me
till death us do part?
She (solemnly)—I am sure, abso
lutely sure, that I shall love you till
death do us part. By the way, is your
life Insured?—New York Weekly.
Economical Feed for Work Horses
•With a winter of-high priced feeds
ahead, the owner of work horses will
find it profitable to give a little more
thought than usual to grain rations for
his animals. He may substitute some
of the concentrated feeds for oats to
good advantage, both as to keeping his
horses in prime condition and as to
economy in feeding.
Extensive experiments conducted by
the Iowa agricultural experiment sta
tion indicate that much. For a consid
erable period the station work horses
were fed on a variety of rations, one
consisting solely of corn and oats, an
other of corn, oats and oil meal, a
third of corn, oats and cottonseed
meal, and a fourth in which gluten
was substituted for the meals. The
feeds were proportioned approximately
as follows by weight: Corn, 14 oats,
2.5 meal, 1.
The results of the experiment were
explained in bulletin No. 109 of the
experiment station as follows:
1. The health, spirit and endurance
of work horses were the same when
fed corn with a moderate amount of
oil meal, or gluten feed, or cottonseed
meal, as when fed a corn and oats ra
tion supplying a similar nutritive ra
tion.
2. The ration of corn and oil meal
A Fine Trick in
Chicken Dressing
There isn't choicer meat in the
chicken than in the drumstick, but
that portion of the fowl is objection
able to many because of its tendons,
which persist in getting into the teeth.
There is a way to remove them easily
in dressing a chicken described in bul
letin No. 125 of the Iowa agricultural
experiment station by W. A. Lippin
cott, poultryman, and this is it:
Insert a knife close to the shank
bone below the hock joint of the leg
and pass it all the way up and down
between that joint and the foot. Into
the cut thus made, slip a hook as
shown in the figure above. A bent nail
will do. The beginner will find it
easier to remove them one at a time
instead of all together as shown. They
are easily distinguished and separated.
When the hook or nail is slipped back
of the tendons, give a steady pull and
they will come out readily as shown in
the picture below. This leaves the
drumstick much more tender and palat
able and fully as desirable as the
other parts.
Dangerous Story
A Yale undergraduate has been hav
ing a fairly lively time of it during his
summer vacation, and when the allow
ance has not been keeping schedule
time.
He was invited out to dinner with
his mother, and he was seen to get a
bit nervous when she began one of
her favorite stories. This concerned
the burning of their home, on which
occasion the son's watch, left gn a
bureau, was I'CTUid ticking in the ruins
after the house had been destoryed.
At the conclusion of the story the
college boy jumped up abruptly and
left the room with his handkerchief
over his face as if suddenly seized
with nose bleed. He did not return for
several minutes, by which time the
conversation had drifted.
After dinner the "undergrad's"
chum asked the significance of the
move.
"I'll tell you, but nobody else," said
he. "When mother told that story 1
was afraid she was going to ask me
to show the watch."—Chicago Evening
Post.
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maintained the weight, flesh and ap
pearance of the horses fully as well
and with less expense than the one of
similar nutritive value composed of
corn and oats.
3. With corn at 50 cents a bushel,
oats at 40 cents, and oil meal at $32
per ton, the average saving In the
daily expense of feed for each work
day amounted to 1.6 cents by the use
of oil meal in the place of oats.
4. A brief trial of 91 days with
gluten feed indicated that while It
was capable of giving good results the
ration containing it was not as pal
atable as the oil meal ration, and cost
a trifle more per pound when gluten
feed was worth $28 a ton.
5. Cottonseed meal gave somewhat
better results on the whole than oil
meal. The ration containing it was
fully as palatable and as efficient in
maintaining the health and weight ol
the horses, it was less laxative, and a
little cheaper with cottonseed meal at
$30 a ton.
6. With corn at 50 cents a bushel'
and oats at 40 cents, oil meal had a
value of fully $60 a ton for feeding to
work horses, with cottonseed meal
worth a trifle more still. At the usual
prices of these feeds their use resulted
in a substantial lowering of the cost
of maintaining the horses.
HOG WISDOM
select ions, deep-bouieu brood sows,
Keep away from the small, chuffy,
pretty type.
Don't feed too much corn. This
doesn't mean to starve the sows, but
it does mean to give them some bone
and muscle making feed along with
their corn.
One of the best and cheapest sup
plemental feeds for corn is clover or
alfalfa hay chopped fine and soaked.
Sows eat such feed with great relish.
The essential points in a farrowing
house are dryness, light, and plenty
of ventilation without draughts.
Give the pigs a side table where
they can eat by themselves as soon
as they get old enough.
The cheapest pork is made on green
feed. At the Iowa Experiment sta
tion an acre of clover pasture made
400 pounds of pork during the sum
mer.
A patch of weeds waist high may
make a good gymnasium for the pigs,
but it isn't a hog pasture.
The pigs cannot make the fastest
gains when they are lousy. Dipping
or spraying with coal tar dip will kill
the lice.
THE BUMBLE BEE
HOLDS HIS JOB
The bumble bee is still the best
pollinator of red clover regardless of
efforts made to substitute a machine
in its place. Extensive experiments
carried on at the Iowa Experiment
station the past summer failed to
prove that any kind of mechanical
pollination will equal the work of the
bee. Eight sets of brushes, each set
having a different fiber, were used at
different times in the day and with
varying amounts of pressure. Hand
manipulation, such as squeezing or
thumping the clover heads was used.
A large horse machine with a brush
six feet wide was also used. The re
sults of the hor«e machine have not
been tabulated but all indications
point to the bee is a winner against it
and against the o*'^er devices. In no
experiment has an isolated or me
chanically stimulated head yielded as
much seed as one left to tho action of
the bees.
Climatic Variation.
There is plenty of evidence going to
show that the "climate of North Amer
ica was much warmer than it Is now."
The remains of the now extinct mam
moth, for instance, which are found all
over the continent, and especially in
the northern part thereof, prove that
a tropical jslimate .p-fsvailefi here at
reCEfrt date, geologically speak
ing. There are, of course, other evi
dences, but the conclusion to be drawn
from the mammoth is enough to con
vince us that where the temperate,
(or colder) climate now is there once
prevailed a hot climate, such as the
now extinct monsters luxuriated in for
centuries.
Raising Foodstuffs.
"I
know a city man who is making
a fortune raising cucumbers on a.
town lot."
"How does he do it?"
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"He buys them from the producers
for 10 cents a dozen and raises them
to 6 cents apiece."