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HAMLIN

Cbris Lastine was enjoying the Stghls at Poplar Friday. Hans P. Mortensen and daughter, Tlatwa were Audubon visitois Tuesday.

John Molgaard and wife departed Saturday for Jacksonville to visit her folks. (Jeorge Egan of Greeley township delivered a nice buuch of hogs here Monday. (Jhas. Neleojj is helping his father this week with the grain and stock business.

Bridge men are repairing the bridge over the Blue Grass creek near the creamc (his week.

Hans Aagaird and family spent SuDdav at. the home of his brother, George south west ot town.

The Cement Company ha« a new phone installed at the factory. Now you can get cement blocks by wire.

Charles Iliggins has been helping Nels Mortensen Jr.this week putting up Harvesters. Business is rushing these days,

Fred Shifiet departed Saturday for Council Bluffs on a combination trip of business and pleasure, returning Monday.

The Creamery is doing a big busiB686 these days. They shipped over 100 tubs of butler last week and prospects are good for over oue hundred this week.

Peter Mortensen and wife, Chris Wiges and wife, C. L. Christeaeen, Willie Ilattenborg and Rasmus Johnson spent Sunday out in the woods enjoying the shade

One of the workmen at the Hans J. Johnson new residence had his band badly cut while at work Thursday. He was hurried to Audubon in an auto for medical aid.

Thos. Kilcoin received a large shipment of machinery from the Acme Harvester Co. of Omaha Monday. It consisted of 1 harvester, 1 mower, 1 aide delivery hay rake and 1 stacker.

John McGuire shipped three carloads ot cattle Saturday to Chicago. Clint ltucker and Jacob Andersen accompanied the shipment to the Windy City and to talce in some of the sights.

(too late for last week) H. O. Rice returned from Chicago Sato rd ay.

Meta Haahr has been home on the sick list thiB last week. The painters are doing the work for Jess Beck this week.

Mrs. Geo. RoberUon returned from Illinois after a couple of weeks stay. Thorval Rasmussen's daughter had her hands burned Sunday, around an oil stove.

Thos. Bruhn of Melville twp. has been helping Hans Johnson fix his place this week.

Mrs. W. D. Stanley was au Exira visitor Tuesday having taken her two grandsons back home.

The road giaders are very busy around Hamlin these days. They are getting the roads in fine shape.

August Conrad shipped a carlo id of cattle to Chicago Saturday and is taking in the sights of the windy city this week.

Nels Mortensen departed last Tuesday for Rochester, Minn, to take treatment and returned Friday morning.

The Laihas of the Danish Lutheran Church met Wednesday at the home of Mrs. M. E. Mortensen west of town

Mrs. Frank Ramsey and her sister Mies Doll P6tty departed for Clarinda Iowa, to visit theii\mjther Monday morning.

Ilaos Fredericksen shipped 2 carloads of steers Saturday averaging 1500. Geo. Spirup accompanied the cattle to Chicago.

Vern Adams acted as Station Agent Sunday in the obsence of Geo. Rober'sen, he having gone to bring back his wife and daughter.

Dogs in Hamlin are

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HAD HE BEEN A CRIMINAL?

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Tom—Bella didn' know much about the man she married. Stella—No, and she has been terri bly worried since the marriage

Tom—How Is that? Stella—When the minister came to the death do part portion of the ceremony, she heard the groom whisper "Is that the minimum sentence, Judge?"

Nonsense.

"A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men," Unless they learn before It's done That they are paying for the fan.

A Keener Pleasure.

Griggs—Whenever we quarrel my wife declares she'll never speak to me again.

Briggs—Mine doesn't. She couldn't forego the satisfaction of telling me what she thought of me.

The Way of It.

Surgeon—I was very much cut up over the charges you made against me about that operation.

Patient—You weren't half as much I cut up as I was, doctor.

Getting Up.

"They're getting up In the world."

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"Yes, Indeed. They've got to the {point now where they consider It nec essary to hire a caterer every tim Ithey give a party."

A Jawing Match.

"Saw two famous bad men come to gether during my trip west." "Both killed Is' "Nobody killed. You can't talk a •man to death."

Wisdom of the Wise.

"What." queried the youth, "is th« ibest way to praise a woman?" "By speaking ill of her rival," an •wered the home grown philosopher.

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H. T. KROEGER, Proprietor, Exira, Ia.

We have for several years past run a very successful dairy business on only three-fourths of an acre of ground The location is inside of the city limits within easy reach of all those to whom milk is delivered. We have found it decidedly advantageous to pay higher prices and obtain the best cows to work with. In our experience, a good cow has always been more responsive to careful treatment and abundant feed than a poorer cow. For several years our cows have averaged a net profit to us of $164.51 apiece. We think this high profit is largely due to three things. First, we keep cows of a good dairy type only second, we give them plenty of feed as nearly as possible in a balanced ration, and lastly, we strictly obey the rules of regularity in milking and caring for them.

The equipment we use is simple and cheap. A small barn 10 by 12 feet, and having a hay mow of two tons capacity, provides sufficient shelter for three cows. Since the grain feed is bought each month as needed a few tin lined boxes furnish the only necessary grain bins. During the summer period when hay is at its lowest figure two tons of hay are stowed away in the loft and three tons are stacked close to the barn. In order to preserve the stack, a foundation of logs covered with brush is used and the stack is topped with a canvas cover to protect it from the wind and to give a more water proof covering than the loose hay alone. A woven wire fence incloses the greater part of the threefourths of an acre which is divided into three lots. A well, supplying an abundance of water, completes the list of equipment that we use in the general care of the cows.

We secured two pure bred Jersey cows of rather promising conformation and dairy type. They were young, having had but one calf each. The first year no account was kept, but owing to the amount of milk produced we decided to keep careful account the following year. The cows were served by a registered Jersey sire and the dates recorded. In the middle of March one of the cows freshened and during the fore part of April the second cow dropped a heifer calf. The first cow's calf was a bull. The calves

PROFITABLE DAIRYING_ON SMALL TOWN LOT

How One Iowa Family Cut Down the Board Bill—Told by the Man Who Did It—Equipment Is Simple and Cheap —Poor Cows Always to Be Avoided.

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BIG RETURNS FROM CLOVER PASTURE FOR HOGS.

Interesting Test Made by the Iowa Experiment Station—Result Can Be Obtained on Any

Iowa Farm.

Seven hundred and forty-eight pounds of pork from an acre of clover pasture looks big. We do not need to value the pork at $10 per hundredweight to realize a profit. This figure is not the wild fancy of an Imaginative mind. It is a statement of a cold fact which can be realized on any Iowa farm.

A Promising Jersey Heifer.

The Iowa experiment station recently carried on some. He was comparing work with different kinds of forage crops for hogs. On June 4 the pigs were sorted and weighed. They were divided as evenly as possible considering type, sex, size, and even color. They weighed the same in each pen when we were through. The average weight was 30 pounds.

One group of ten pigs was placed in a dry yard. These pigs had a good shed where the flies would not be bad. They had an abundance of fresh, clean water and were fed corn and meat meal. They were handled In the way that thousands of our hogs are raised.

The second group of ten pigs similar In every respect was placed on a first-class bluegrass pasture. The third pen across the fence from the second were turned on a good clover pasture. This clover was seeded the fall before and had made a good growth during the spring.

These three pens represented three farm practices. Farmers are largely disagreed as to whether pasture pays and again whether clover is better than bluegrass or timothy. Here all three were placed on Cie!r merits. Where a farmer has clover one year and bluegrass the next he is not sure which is the best. One j:ear he may

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were never allowed to suck. When the calves were one week old they were given to the owner of the sire as pay for service.

We started to sell milk on the 15th of April. The cows were kept clean and were given an abundance of feed. They responded to the good, care with a large flow of milk. Milking hours were six in the morning and seven in the evening. We always took gieat care to be regular in milking and feeding. The cows were fed in addition to grass during the pasture period and hay during winter, a mixture of ground corn and cob meal, bran, and oil meal. Salt was always placed near the watering troiigh and the cows were In every way encouraged to drink as much water as possible.

At the end of the year 16,560 pounds of milk had been weighed on the milk scales. According to the tables the cows averaged 40 pounds of milk each per day for the first 90 days 28 pounds each per day for the following 90 days 20 pounds each per day for the next 60 days 16 pounds each per day for the next 30 days or the ninth month 10 pounds each per day for the tenth month six pounds each per day for the eleventh month, the last month that they gave milk. We always dried the cows up six weeks before the next calving. Of the 16,560 pounds of milk produced 15,260 were sold at the rate of 25 cents per gallon, giving a total receipt of $476.86.

The expenses were $147.84 for the two cows during the 12 months. Each cow consumed per month 90 pounds of ground corn and cob meal costing $1.25, 50 pounds of bran costing 72% cents, 50 pounds of oil' meal costing $1.10, and about 8Vs cents' worth -of salt. The cost of the grain for each cow per month was $3.16, making a total of $37.92 for the year. The pasture for each cow was two dollars a month or $11 for the five and one-half months of pasture period. The clover and timothy hay amounted to about two and one-half tons for each cow through the year, costing $10 per ton or $25.

Deducting the $147.84 expenses from $476.86 gross receipts, a profit of $329.02 was realized from the two cows or $164.51 for each cow.

have better bred hogs, more rain, less hot weather and what not. During the summer all three pens were fed all the corn they would eat. Aside from this they were all treated alike. All the feed was Telghed up and a careful record of it kept.

In the fall the pigs that had spent the summer on the dry lot were just pigs. They had made good gains and were fat and sleek. The clover was largely gone but by fall the pigs that fed upon it were large, strong boned, heavy framed hogs. They carried a large amount of fat and weighed on an average 214.8 pounds. The pigs on the bluegrass side looked pinched. They did not have the bone nor frame. They only weighed 157 pounds each. Truly a good demonstration in favor of clover pasture for the Iowa farmer.

In figuring up the results the amount of feed given the pigs on the dry lot was divided by the pounds gain. This gave the amount of feed required to produce one pound of pork. On this basis it was calculated how much pork the corn fed on pasture would produce. This was subtracted from the total gain and the difference credited to the pastures. On this basis one re of bluegrass produced 867 poun' of pork and one acre of clover pasture 748 pounds. Figuring this pork at the conservative price of seve dollars per hundredweight the bluegrass pasture was worth $25.69 per r.cre and the clover pasture $52.36. This difference of $26.67 per acre shows in an unmls takeable way the value of clover for hog pasture.

l^fiosophy.

Cheerful surroundings on the farm do much toward keeping down the city's population.

Open air treatment is flue for tuber culosis, but it is mighty hard on farm implements.

A love for dumb animals suddenly vanishes when your neighbor's chick ens get too blamed sociable.

An eight hour day for the saloons would mean that many a farm ani mal would have an early supper.

A soft answer may turn away wrath but it will never "feaze" a country canvasser. T. J. MANEY.

IDEAL FARM

Only $42.50 Per Acre. SiK iles From County Scat, Large New •. House 18x32, 2 Stories ff|

We have one of the best snaps in a 480 acre improved farm that it has been our lot to ofter. This farm lays within six miles of the county seat in which it is located. Every acre is as perfect as land can be made and gilt edged in every respect. It has 440 acres under cultivation, a new bouse about 18x'i2, 2 stories, new stable and machine shed. The farm Is considered one of the very best in the County. It lays in a good neighborhood, is free from stone, sand, gravel or any objectionable features whatever and we can guarantee it in every respect. We will take $42.50 per ^cre for it, part cash, balance to suit the purchaser. This is one of the great bargains. A handsome home and an ideal farm that will increase in value rapidly. Cali up the Journal.

Exchange

We have one of the best quarteraections of laud in Sally county, South Dakota to exchange for an 80 or 120 here. Every acre of this land ie perfect, fenced and cross fenced, about one-half under cultivation, light improvements, email grove, some fruit trees, 'iV3 miles to town, 8 miles to County Seat. This ie as fine a quarter as there is in the state and will make an ideal home. Will take Iowa land at its value and are willing to take what this land ia actually worth namely $47.50 per acre. This land will stand the very closest inspection. If this suits you, act quickly. Audubon County Journal

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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.

Store Phone No. 187 Residence Phone 114

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A. C. HARMON

Licensed Embalmer No. 891. Coroner of Audubon County.

WM. F. HOPLEY

Funeral Director and Licensed Embalmer

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Exira, Iowa

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