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HAMLIN

Bonnie Crees was an Exira visitor Tuefday. gpgi ', Frank Sunberg baa "'purchased a

Dew auto. John McGuire was a business caller in Hamlin Thursday. llev. Harried was a Ciller in Hamlin between trains Friday.

Mre. Robert Garnett was a passenger to Audubon Monday morning. Misses Mary and Kate Beck visited ever Sunday with friends in Bray ton.

M. E. Mortensen has purchased a new Kralcher buggy from Nels Mortensen.

Magrala Mickel.-en visited her sister Mis. Nels Murugaard in Audubon Monday.

Mollie Miller of Exira visited a few days the past week at ibe Peter R. Nissen home.

The carpenters started on the finishing work of llans Johnson's new residence this week.

Nora Oleen departed for Exira Monday for a short stay at the Jacobten home east ot Exira.

Jess Beck is having a furnace put in his new home this week, the Audubon Hdw Co doing t'ie work.

Continental of New York Queen of New York Fidelity-Phexix of N. Y.

Capital, M. & B., Iowa Royal of Liverpool Iowa State of Keokuk Security of Davenport Hanover of New York Des Moines of DesMoines

Estherville Hail Connecticut, Conn. Farmers, Cedar Rapids

National, Conn.

Over 25 years experience.

Theo. Patty

Pbons No. 67

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Greeley Mutual Fire Insurance Company

Why not insure in this Company? They are the most reliable and cheapest Company in existance. Also Wind and Tornado Insurance written.

H. N. Huss, Secy.

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

A Treat For Your Palate

SWIFTS

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of cattle Saturday for the Chicago market. Mrs. Erick Ol^en is on the sick list this week, Augusta Haahr is helping with the work.

Mrs. Jacob Sandbeck and daughter Mariana of south of Exira visited at Mrs. Marie Haatn's Tueedat

The dance at John Crees's Saturday evening was a nice social affair and everybody enjoyed themeelves.

Mrs. Andrew Johanseu of Luck, Wis. visited at the home of Hans Johnson Monday and Tuesday.

Mr. Carlson returned from Blair, Nebr., where he has been attending the Danish Lutheran Convention.

The Gun Club held a target practice Sunday but in view ot the wind being so strong no high score ^as reached.

A Ne'son of Greeley twp. is coming out in sly le these days. He has hired F. Jorgeusen and wife for a year and has bot a lot of new furniture.

Hamlin has been on the market the past week with eleven carloads of hogs and three carloads of cattle and two carloods of grain. Who said we were not on the ma]

The natives were awakerei from their pleasant dreams Monday moming by two young men from near Brayton. They had an accident with their car, having run oil the side of the bridge near the Creamery, and a stump of a tree was all that saved the car from going down into the Creek below same fifteen feet or so. The car was pulled out and the only damage done was the mud guards were bent. It was lucky no one was hurt.

80 Acres

A good farm, six miles from town, fine orchard acid grove, every foot plow land, good five room nouee, and lota of oat buildings, an Ideal place to live. Terms easy. Enquire at Journal Office. tf

Tough Luck.

"If some of these 'harbingers of spring,' The Jaybird said In an Injured tone, "Don't get to work pretty soon, by Jlng,

I'll have to build a nest of my own."

Paternal Duty.

"I am trying to keep my boy from oaing slang." "Do you find It hard?" "By George, yes! No matter how often I lecture him, he doesn't seem to get wise to the fact that I am in earnest."

The Skeptic.

"Does Bliggins know much about gold mines?" "Not thing in the world." "W^iat makes you so sure of that?" "He keeps investing in them."

And Then He Got Well.

"Doctor, my husband doesn't seem to Improve. Is there nothing more'that we can do?" "You might get a male nurse Instead •f the pretty girl you have."

A Charming Woman

is one who is lovely in face, form, mind and temper. But it's hard for a woman to be charming without health. A weak sickly woman will be nervous and irritable. Constipation and kidney poisons show in pimplee, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. But Electiic Bitters always prove a god send to women who want health, beauty and friends. They regulate stomach liver and liidneps, purify the blood give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complexion and perfect health. Try them. 50c at Winfrey & Chantry's.

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$1,000 PROFIT FROM 66 ACRES IN A YEAR

Successful Intensive Farming in Wright County Three-Year Rotation Practiced With Corn, Oats and Clover as Crops—Only Best Saved for Reproduction.

Brood Mares Helped to Swell the Profit From the 66 Acres.

France Warner of Wright county, Iowa, clears $1,000 a year from his 66acre farm. This would not be hard if it were a truck or dairy farm near some big city, where the produce could be sold for special prices but his is simply a general farm farmed on the intensive order.

The farm consists of 45 acres of roling farm land, with the remaining 21 acres a flat river bottom with enough of a rise at one place for the farmstead. The 45 acres are used for crops on which a three-year rotation is practiced, the crops being corn, oats, and clover in the order mentioned. Every fall the stubble ground and new clover is covered with a coating of manure. This helps to protect the clover during the winter and at the same time gets the use of the manure on the clover ground and the corn. By doing this there is but very little extra fertility 6aved over for the oat crop, and therefore it does not lodge under ordinary climatic conditions.

Of course, with as small a place as that everything receives the very best of care, both in the Held and in the stable. Only the very best is saved for reproduction. The crops that his three 15-acre fields produce on the average are:

Fifteen acres corn at 70 bushels equals 1,050 bushes. Fifteen acres oats at 60 bushels equals 900 bushels.

Fifteen acres clover equals 40 to 45 tons, according to stand and weather. This is utilized right on the farm every year and again returned to the field and soil in the form of manure.

It is from his stock that he receives his income. Four mares are kept on the place, three heavy draft mares and a lighter one for driving purposes. The light one is heavy enough so that she can work part of the time when four are needed for putting in the crops in the spring, or for the plowing in the fall. All four of these mares are bred every spring. From them he figures on raising three colts. These colts he generally keeps until they are two years old, at which time he can sell them readily for $150 apiece, ot $450 for the three. He keeps ten cows of the milking strain of shorthorns. By selection, weeding and feeding he has brought them to the point

CULTURE OF ROOT CROPS

May Be Grown Successfully on Either Light or Heavy Soil—Best on Loam Soils.

The growing of root crops deserves more attention by farmers who do not have silos in which to store succulent feed for their stock.

Roots of various kinds have always been held in high esteem by farmers and stockmen. In England and other European countries, they are generally raised for feeding to all classes of live stock, where, owing to the cool summers, corn does not do well. Roots are depended upon to supply succulent feed for the winter months. To quite an extent the same is true of Canada.

One pound of dry matter in mangels has been found to be equivalent in feeding value to on' pound of dry matter in mill feeds, and a little more than one pound of dry matter in corn silage. Tests have shown that mangels may profitably replace onehalf of the grain ration under conditions where the roots can be produced for $4 per ton. In those experiments the roots were fed to dairy animals. In many sections, the silo has not yet come into general use. On such farms root crops are of double value, for they may be used to supply succulence as well as feeding value. In fact where winter dairying is practiced they become almost indispensable for best results.

Aside from the value for feeding purposes, there are other good reasons for raising root crops. With good care and preparation of the soil a large amount of feeding material can be grown upon an acre. Twenty tons per acre is not an uncommonly large yield, under good conditions of soil and weather yields of over twice that amount have been reported. For such enormous yields It is necessary to have a rich

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Another advantage is that grain crops of all kinds do well after roots, for the latter not only necessitate clean cultivation, but open up the soil by means of their long roots. Cultivated crops should come regularly in

where they are producers above the ordinary, and he figures on them making him, on the average, $40 apiece.

From his cows, then, he receives $400. His ten Duroc Jerseys are kept in good shape on his large amount ot skim milk, and they have on an average six pigs apiece. These 60 pigs he keeps until they will bring him $10 on the average, or $600 In all. This year he has been making a little better than that all around, but the above figures are those by him as his standard from year to year.

The above figures total as follows: Four brood mares, three colts, equal $ 450 Ten cows and their calves equal 400 Ten sows, 60 pigs, equal 600

Total $1,450 Besides the above he sells chicken produce, garden truck and seed corn •enough to meet the running expenses of the family, which consist of a mother, a wife and himself.

The $450 that he makes above the thousand he figures for incidentals, repairs and a little extra feed for his stock in the form of concentrates. His labor problem for extra help during harvesting and haying is usually solved by exchanging work with us, so that he is not out any cash, but simply a little labor.

His pasture also deserves special mention. As I stated at the beginning, it is a bottom flat and starts very early in the spring. Early in the spring it is disked where it appears soddy and is seeded on the barren spots. The entire lot is covered with a light coating of manure and the way it responds is amazing. However, there are years when during the latter part of July it gets a little dry and barren. At this time he feeds a little extra by cutting some rape from his hog lot which is, as a rule, quite heavy at this time, and quite frequently gets too coarse and heavy for the pigs to handle. This is done only for a short time until he gets his grain stacked and the new clover comes on. This year he is going to solve the problem by putting up a silo. By this method he will have a supply for the summer and at the same time have better winter feed for his stock, in the form of succulence.

the rotation, and roots should be Included in the list of such crops on all stock farms.

Root crops are valuable for stock feeding, both for their content of digestible nutriments and in supplying succulent feed for the winter months. This is true In all parts of the country, but more especially in the states where winters are long and severe.

Under good conditions a large amount of feed per acre can be grown from roots, and for this reason they are useful on small farms where the amount of land under cultivation is small.

Roots do best on loam soils, but may be &rown successfully on either light or heavy soil, providing the ground is properly fertilized and prepared. Tljorough preparation of the soil and an abundant supply of available plant food are necessary for good returns.

Mangels give the heaviest yield per acre, with rutabagas and turnips a close second, and carrots third. Turnips and rutabagas do not keep so well as some other roots. They should be fed in the fall and early winter in the order named. Mangels and carrots keep well over winter when properly stored.

Roots may be planted In :ows 18 to 24 inches apart when cultivated with hand machines, but at no less than 30 inches when a horse cultivator is to be used. Seed should be used liberally In order to insure a good stand. Thinning should be attended to promptly, leaving single plants from 8 to 12 Inches apart, depending on distance between rows and kind of roots grown.

Thorough, yet shallow cultivation should be practiced throughout the growing season. Ridging at planting time is helpful on wet or heavy soils. Root crops will stand light frosts, but they should be harvested before heavy freezes. This applies especially to mangels.

Roots may be stored in a pit, cellar, or root house. Roots can probably be grown for less than $2 per ton under good conditions. The cost of production per acre is approximately $35 per acre.

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"Myrtle," said her father, "I want you to send that young Smitherton about his business. I won't have him coming around here any more. I don't like him." "Why, father, I can't see what you can have against him. He is awfully nice, comes from a very fine family, doesn't use tobacco and he never touches a drop of any kind of liquor." "That's all right. I don't like him. He hasn't any sense of humor, and I don't believe a man who lacks the sense of humor can ever amount to much." "But he haB a sense of humor. After you had gone upstairs last night he said you were the funniest thing he had ever seen."

An Unpleasant Revelation. "My son," said the doting parent, "it is your duty to tell the girl you hope to marry all about yourself—all your faults and weaknesses. That's the true test of love." "I did," replied the hopeful. "It wasn't much." "What did you tell her?" "Why, you see, dad, she didn't really know who you were. So I told her." "Eh! And what did she say?" "She's an awfully nice girl, dad, and she said she'd tried hard to Reconcile herself to the unpleasant truth."

Truly Regrettable.

"A celebrated dancer, you say?" "One of the best known In Europe." "She has youth and beauty, I presume?" "Both." "And yet seems to think her career a failure?" "Yes. You see, for some reason or other, she has never been able to hypnotize a male member of a royal family."

A Literal View.

Sweet Young Thing—Do you know, these incubating arrangements are humble life tragedies to me in their mechanical substitution to the Uttle chickies for a real mother. They strike me as melancholy.

Practical Farmer—Perhaps they are. They're brooders themselves, you know.

HARD, HARD, HARD.

Clarence—They say that you should not put a $5 hat on a 5-cent head. Percy—Well, it's easier to mark down the hat than to mark up the head.

Store Phone No. 187 Residence Phone 114

Day Phone 10

Night Phone 4

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WM. F. HOPLEY

Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer

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Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.

Single Comb Rhode Island Red Eggs for hatching from well bred stock. 15 eggs $0.50 100 eggs 2.50 Agent for Queen Incubators and Brooders. Start in the

Poultry Business at once. C. A. PETERSEN, Evergreen Poultry Farm, Exira, Iowa. Phone 80 Red.

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