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"Wiilio Rattenborg is selling hie corn thia tveek. Hans J. .Tolxnsou and family spent Sunday at Elk Horn.

Mrb. George Robertson w&s an AuduboD shopper Monday. Ohl Beautiful rains. Everthir comes to these mho wait?

Fred D. Sbillet returned home Monday from Tilton, Iowa. John Crees was a passenger to Atlantic Sunday, returning Tuesday.

Mrs. Marie llaahr and her daughter, Metha are on the sick list this week.

Mrs. Marie I-Ianhr and daughter Mabel were Audubon shoppers Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ilans Aagaard and daughter spent Sunday at the home of Fred Nissen.

Miss Miry Mortensen is assisting Mrs llaus Aagaard with her housecleaning this week.

Mrs. Olef Olesen has been sick the past week but is reported a little better at this writing.

Ralph Stanley and Peter Lang were on the market Friday with a carload oi hogs each.

Bert Dryden made butter in the Creamery Saturday. Bert says he has not forgotten how yet.

Mes. Soren Sanbeck departed Saturday for Brayton to spend a couple of days with her folks.

Carl Petersen is doing the housecleaning act this week. If you don't believe it just ask him.

Mrs. John Molgaard departed Tuesday for a few day's visit with her brother at Brayton.

Mies Augusta Haahr is assisting Mrs. Fred Sbillet with her housework on account of the latter having "poor health.

The Misses Maude aDd Rachael Sbillet arrived Thursday having been called here on account of the serious illness of their father.

Bus to and from all trains. Phone 52 at P. M. Christensen's Jewelry Store

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Fred Bonneson has been hauling posts out to his farm this week. Fred is going to do the fencing act but with a post hole digger.

The Sunday mail service has been cut out along this branch. We are receiving blessings one by one. Why not cutout the Sunday train?

A few from here attendei the big dauce Saturday evening giveD at Peter Paulsen's new bouse «outhwest. of town. All had a good time.

There is not enough train service on this branch yet Hans Johnson took the train to Audub Monday morning and walked back Hins says tbe Rock Island Lines ae 1.00 slow.

Mrs. Ella Rex*vinkel Casey, I! linois and Mrs A Lastine of Marne, Iowa arrived Samr av for a few ys visit with Mr. and virs H. Lastine and family M- A Li-tine arrived Sunday and 'hey or parted for Marne Monday morning -irs Rexwlnkelis acou-in Mr. Las She isjust returning fnun Denver, Colorado having gone there business for the Royal Neighbor Lorlge, she being oce of ihe Directors of tba' Order.

Gone To Rest

Carson L. Shiflet passad away ai the home of his son, Fred Sbiilef at Hamlin, Iow a Friday,- May 19, lltll at 3:15 a. m. He was born and raised to manhood in ihe good old state of Virginia. He was married there to Miss Eary MorriR. To this union eleven children were born four of them having gone before to wait for the others. He leaves & wife and seven children to mourn their loss. They ara Eliza Zimmerman of Canning, S. D., Charley of Harper, la., Ludy Gott of Brooklyn, Iowa, Carrie Emery of Kansas City, Mo., Fred of Hamlin, Iowa, Maude and Rachael of Osceola, Iowa. He came to Wilton Junction, Iowa in 1876 and has been a resident of Iowa ever since. The past few years he had made his home at Osceola. He has been an invalid for the past three years and had been visiting at the home of his son, Fred for the past three months. He was 72 years, 2 months and 7 days old at the time of hie death. He was a member of the M. E. Church. He was laid to rest in the family lot at Tilton, Iowa Sunday, May 2l.

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Quack grass, like the poor, is something we seem always to have with us. At least it has seemed that way to us farmers of northern Iowa. Here and there you may see fields and even farms so overrun with quack grass that they are left idle. Usually these are rented farms and not very well drained. One reads much of easy ways of killing it out, such as covering it with tar paper or burying it deep in manure, but when it Is spread in generous spots over a quarter section these methods do not appeal to me as being exactly applicable.

I started farming on a quarter section that was badly infested with quack grass. Several acres had not been plowed for years because of it. Inside of two years we had every bit of ihe farm iir crops.

The first thing we did was to tile the fields. There is no use trying to fight quack grass in soil so wet a plow will not scour. If you will notice, that is where it usually starts. On level fields you can oftentimes trace the sticky places by the stretches of quack grass.

The tiling took so much of our time the first summer that all we could do to the quack grass was to mow and burn it and later plow it up. The next spring war began in earnest. We chose an 18 acre field badly spotted with the grass, on which to begin. It was like working sheep skins with the wool on but we fitted the field for corn as best we could. At first a disk would not touch it so we plowed it again, crossing the old furrows. This cut the sod into 16-inch squares, making them an easier size to roft around than whole furrows. Then we disked it so many times that the horses used to sigh whenever they even looked that way. Between disklngs we harrowed it and shoveled it over twice ..with corn plows. As a result of our labors we raked up and burned several loads of the underground stems we usually call roots. They were so thick we had to do it because they bothered the planter so much.

After all this work, when we planted the piece to corn, May 25, the sods were still so plentiful and so twugh that the worst plaoes the planter shoes would not go into the ground or cover the corn at all. We followed the planter with the corn plow in three or four days and blind plowed the piece. Just as the corn began peeping through we harrowed it.

HOW TO GET RID OF THE QUACK GRASS

From this time on we plowed the corn just as in the other fields, taking care to rip out the grass even if it cost a hill now and then. At first it seemed as though all this work only encouraged the grass to do better, like scratching a pig's back. But as we plowed the corn we noticed the vitality waning. Each time it started more slowly and after we laid the corn by, July 5, the quack grass had hardly started at all.

One Farmer Tells How He Succeeded in Getting Rid of the Weed—Cultivation Is Most Practical Way —Must Finish the Job.

False Quack Gras

As a resul of our work, all the quack grass you could find in the field last fall was an occasional bunch in a corn hill. This spring we are plowing this field for another corn crop, expecting to about complete the eradication of the weed this season. It took a whole lot of work but the crop repaid us for that and the quack is so nearly killed that it will not Interfere with this year's crop at all.

Had we plowed the ground early the first fall, say AuguBt, and then worked it to keep it from growing, our work last spring would have been lessened a whole lot and probably the quack grass would have bad less vitality stored up with which to fight. We are trying several acres In another field In that manner that will put In corn this year. This piece we plowed right after the barley was taken oft last summer.

Our whole method of getting rid of the pest has been to cultivate It out. I know some of our authorities will hold up their hands In holy horror at that statement and tell you you must smother it out, for cultivation will only spread it. That may

True Quack Grass.

be true If you only go part way. Fighting quack grass is one place where "well begun" is worse than nothing at all if you don't finish the job. But if followed up there is no doubt but that cultivation is the most practical way of handling quack grass. Several pieces have been killed out in this way in our neighborhood. The whole secret of success is wrapped up in everlasting keeping at it with the old spirit of "never say fail," always in mind.

Because it will yield to cultivation if given enough, its reign of terror will soon end in th corn belt, for it is in the wet, uncultivated fields it gains foothold. Once the field la drained and under thorough cultivation with a crop rotation of two consecutive crops of corn, quack grass cannot get a start in the field.—Iowa Agriculturist.

FARM CONDITIONS NOT IDEAL

Disadvantage of Forestry Reserve Farms in West Told by Man Who Has Been There.

By R. L. BARRETT. Iowa Agricultural College. Since the United States senate passed the act of June 11, 1906, which gave people an opportunity to take homesteads in the national forests, there has been a large influx of people from all parts of the country to the western forests. Reports from districts adjacent to the forests have been exaggerated to such an extent that the true condition prevailing in many districts is hidden. People acquainted with conditions in the east are unable to realize that two districts or valleys separated by a natural barrier may differ in rainfall, length of growing season and adaptation to crops. Not only are these features of great Importance to the prospective settler, but the productive capacity of the soil, cost of clearing, and the distance from dependable markets must all be carefully considered.

The growth is the best indicator of soil. Pine lands are always sandy or gravelly and dry and are unfit for the production of agricultural crops. Land which affords a good growth of fir and larch is of a better character and may be depended upon to be fertile for several years. The best indicator of rl.ch soil Is the alder. It grows only upon rich, moist, loamy soli. Seldom are these soils sour, as Is the case with the rich bottom lands on which cedar and spruce thrive best. Ail though spruce and cedar land can be sweetened, the time and labor when reduced to dollars and cents would be prohibitive.

We are all familiar with the circulars sent out by the so-called chambers of commerce In the little western towns. They call attention in a flattering way to the great bargains to be had In cut over land. Often It is offered at four or six dollars an acre and one would be led to believe that clearing the land of stumps Is an Incidental feature In the building of a home. This is far from being the case. In the Kootenai national forest It is estimated that the cost of clearing land of stumps amounts to from $50 to $75 per acre. When the stumps are from ten to fifteen years old this figure Is somewhat less but It Is safe to say that under the most favorable conditions the cost will exceed $80 per acre. The larger the stumps the greater the cost.

Sometimes stumps are not the only thing to consider. Much of the land Is covered with dense growths of alder, birch and service berry. These are all shallow rooters which make a dense growth both above and below the ground. To clear the land without damaging the soil is a problem. Often it Is necessary to burn these trees where they have fallen In order to kill out the roots and root sprouts. Such a practice deprives the land of most of Its organic matter, leaving it light in color, hard to work, and with a tendency to dry out and bake badly. One season is required for this operation and no returnB whatever are derived from the land.

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Any Boy or Girl Can Almost Perfectly Duplicate the Beautiful Hoar Seen on Trees.

Everyone has seen and greatly admired the hoar frosts that deck the trees and telegraph wires In the spring and fall of each year, but it will be news to many to learn that this exquisite picture made by nature can be almost perfectly Imitated, Any boy or girl can do the trick. Take a sprig of some plant and set it on, a small wooden stand in the center of •which is a small, stout dish containing benzoic acid. If a spirit lamp containing alcohol is placed under the dish and a glass jar over It and the twig the acid will turn to vapor. When it cools a beautiful deposit of white crystals will be seen on the twig. If there is difficulty in getting a jar a wide bottle of large stee will do, the lower part of the bottle being removed by the burning of a strand of wool •which has previously been dipped in turpentine. When the experiment is performed the cork must be left in- the bottle to prevent the vapor fromet%japlng.

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"Cheer up, my lad! Tou do look glum. You should always look on the bright side of things." "Perhaps you could tell me which Is the bright side of a gumboil T"

Exchanged Umbrellas.

A school girl, who had accidentally exchanged umbrellas with another, sent her this note: "Miss A presents her compliments to Miss B, and begs to say that she has an umbrella which isn't mine so if you have one that isn't hers, no doubt they are the ones

Do Ghosts Haunt Swamps?

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