Morris tribune., 1888-07-18

| OEtaW6, xkk1uOlhs was Ala WV" N
Thursday and Friday Of last week
and called and looked US over.
A good yoke of work oxen and q
new self binding harvester for sale
cheap for cash or on time, or will
trade them for horses. Come and see
me.
w. B. HANCOCK.
"I was never buried alive" said an
old clerk, recounting his experience,
"but once worked q week in q store
that did not advertise. When I came
out my head was almost as white as
you see it-solitary confinement did
| it.-Ex.
| Hogs planted in hills two feet apart
and well cultivated, at this season,
are very profitsble. Cattle are ripe
in November, but in getting them off
the trees care should be taken not to
bruise the limbs. AS an agriculturist
we are bound to keep our readers
posted.-Ex.
The Springfield. Mass, Coed House
keeping offers twenty-five dollars for
the best buffalo bug extingulsher,
twenty-five dollars for the best bed
bug finisher, twenty-five dollars for
the best moth eradication, land twenty
five dollars for the best fly and flea
exterminator.
One benefit which the farmer who
surrounds his premises with artificial
groves will realize, and which should
by no means be lost sight of is that
such groves invite the insect destroy
ing birds, which are the farmers best
friends in protecting fruits or other
crops from the ravages of destructive
| insects.
The people living along the upper
Ohio river and its tributaries have
been seriously afflicted with floods
lately and have suffered heavy losses.
Why are not the farmers there sensi-
BILE enough to sell out and come to
stevens county to live where crops
are certainty and where damages
from floods are unknown.
There was an interesting and close
ly contested cameo base ball last
Saturday afternoon between upper
and lower town. Reese and Dobkins
were the battery for the latter and
Haight and See for the former. At
the end of the fifth inning the score
stood 8 to 8. At the close Of the game,
IL to 8 in favor Of lower town.
There is little real genuine satisfac-
tiop in helping those who are better
off than ourselves: Such assistance
generally comes from Q spirit af sell
fishness. and selfishness always reaps
its reward in bitterness and disap.
pointmsnt, When we help those
who are worse off than ourselves, we
will always experience genuine re-
ward.-Northfield News.
A test case, involving the Freedom
of traffic or Hixson bill, Is being tried
before Judge G. L. Brown. The first
, point saisedfwas by the railway com
pany to the effect that the bill wa.
not regularly passed and hence Of NJ
force and effect. Upon this point
Judge Brown has decided against thu
railway company-that the bill wal
regHlsrly passed, Other points viii
be argued soon,
A physician thinks that Law
should be made to prohibit the use 0
galvanized iron lemonade squeezers
He says that every time lemon !
. squeeged ln one ofthese machines tn
acid of the lemon, coming In pontaaP
: with the zine, dissolves the same AM
forms poisonous salt. Zinc Is |
metal which is easily attacked by til
I weakest acids, and no article Of foot
or drink should ever be allowed I
I. come in contact with it.
Il A farmer informs us that he ha
4 learned of o new and snecessfpl wa
: to raise winter wheat, Tt is slmpl
to SOW buckwheat with 1t. The buck
wheat stools out well and protect
: tho wheat from winter killing. Th
: buckwheat itself dies, and therefor
J. is not miEed With the wheat whe
: harvested, sow at the rate Of
! bushel and half of wheat to q ta
bushel OF buckwheat per acre. Th
experiment Is certainly worth trying
st. Charles Union.
= The farmer who has not supply ,
timber already shenld not fall to p,
I'll out q Lot OF willow cuttings thl
!. spring. They make better wood an
more of 1t in the same time tina
4 cottonwood trees. The farmers
: this country should not rely upc
distant coal fields for their supply
fuel. The timber that they ms
= raise will not only supply them wit
y fuel, but protect themselves and the
Y stock from the bowling blasts !
winter, and the scprching heat
: summer. -Waseca Herald.
OF want $500 lbs Of butter at on'
Or and all the eggs ! can get.
2stf T.J.MooRH.