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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
Farm Notes.

Farm Notes.
If sheep are to be sold they should
be fattened.
A small nostril in sheep is said to
show lack of vigor.
1t pays to keep the good ewes even
if butchers do offer tempting prices.
Nothing is more important on the
farm than to stack the hay properly.
Timothy nay is more nutritious
and palatable if cut before getting
quite ripe.
Aluminium horse shoes are gradu-
ally coming into use. They are
light and durable.
The roots of corn will. occupy the
whole ground between the rows il
they are not plowed off.
An experienced orchardist says
that no orchard. whether young or
old. should be allowed to grow heavy
crops of grass every year to- be taken
of. Growing clover and feeding it
off with pigs is a much better plan.
There are two sides to the matter
of Western farmers burning corn for
fuel. If coal and wood are scarce
and high, and corn the cheaper fuel,
why not burn it? There is no com.
plant that it is not good fuel, says
writer.
Some one has said that the observ-
ant fruit grower never has any heavy
pruning to do. The growth of each
tree is carefully noted. and any ex-
cessive freaks that the trees indicate
as being started are literally nipped
in the bud.
An exchange says that the best
and easiest way to oil harness is to
use crude petroleum. Put little
lamp-black in it and apply it without
washing the leather. The oil will
take the dirt off, and go into the
leather keeping it soft.
To make butter separate from the
cream, a dairyman says he adds a
quart of water in which a teaspoon
full of salt has been dissolved, to each
four quarts OF cream at ga degrees,
when the churning is ready to begin.
He says it reduced the time of churn-
ing from three hours to twenty min
utes.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22

quite unavoidable. 1 have just
learned this afternoon that my-my
wife is dead, and that Katherine, as
| hoped and prayed, is my daughter.
That is all. -
He turned, and, taking the little
girl into his arms once more, he
bowed to the others, and picking his
way through dust-covered piles of
rope and furnished fnery, past worm.
out drops and broken furniture, and
into the little alley where he had
first met the little one who was cling
ing about his neck now and smiling
through her tears again. AS they
passed under the dim light which
fared and danced in its wire cage
above the door, he stopped and
pressed his lips again and again to
those of his baby; and, though she
knew he was happy. there was some
thing like tears in his eyes and his
voice trembled a trifle when, a
moment later. he called a cab to
take them to the hotel
You have seen Markham and his
daughter play .Eauntleroy" Then
you have seen the best little lord
and the most natural earl on the
stage, for the love they show fer
each other, toward the end of the
little play. does not have to be acted
at all. -Argonaut.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
Women In Church Cho,r..

The bishop of New Jersey has for
hidden the women of his church
chOips to wear vestments The vest
ments are worn by several women
choirs in New York city, notably St.
Bartholomew and St. Georges. The
long black cossacks and white cot
tiers are rather impressive. while the
wearing of the little cap is. of course.
in accordance with the ancient tradi-
ton that women must not appear
with uncovered heads in the
churches. The strictly correct COW
ering, however. is the band about the
forehead, to which is fastened q long
black veil to be thrown back over the
head.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
It's q 0Phobia."

Biting the fngernails is being
classed among the "phobies" by a
member of the French academy. He
calls the practice ''onychophagia,
which is Greek for ''nail eating"
and has been making careful stuGy
of it. Perhaps he goes too far in
pronouncing the habit to be sign of
degeneracy, though it is probably
rightly placed among the ''incon-
tinences, and treated as an indica-
ton of nervous weakness. The child
or man who is constantly biting his
finger nails down to the quick will
often be found to be of an impnlsive
character and liable to err on the side
opposed to self-control. 1t is an old
English saying that nail biting and
bad temper go together. But the
force of example has also to be
reckoned with. The child that as
sociates with nail-biting child will
almost certainly become a nailbiter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
Home Hints.

Rendered beef fat makes an excel
lent pie crust, used with butter.
Pour diluted carbolic acid at once
upon every part of poisonous
wound; afterward give internal slim
ulants.
Chickens, ducks, turkeys. geese
and pigeons should have the heads
taken of close to the bodies. The
skin of the necks should be left long
enough to turn down upon the backs
for an inch or two. When the bird is
trussed its pinions will keep the skin
secure, or it may be fastened by
needle and thread.
The secret of scrambled eggs is
not to beat them before cooking. to
have hot skillet, and to take them
off while they are yet very soft; they
cook q half minute after they are
taken off, which many cooks do not
allow for. A dash of lemon juice
just as they are going to the table
in a hot dish is an addition.
TO keep gooseberries for tarts
When the weather Is dry pick the
gooseberries that are full grown but
not ripe. remove tho tops and tails.
and put them into open-mouthed bot
ties; gently cork them with quite
new corks, and set them into a warm
oven; let them stand until shrunken
quarter part; then take them out
of the oven and Immediately beat the
corks in tight: cut off the tops and
rosin them tightly down. Set in q
dry place.
A solution Of oxalic acid has been
used for removing ink from cotton,
linen or the fingers, but it is attended
with the danger of lnjuring textiles
and the skin. A much safer and bet
ter treatment of ink or rust stains
consists Of two parts Of powdered
cream of tartar and one part of finely
powdered oxalic acid. Shake up the
ingredients we'll together and apply
the powder with dry rag to the
dampencd stain. When the spot has
disappeared the part should be very
we'll washed. )
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
GIVING BESSIE A sENDoFF.
Students Take Up Farewell Salutattor
and Embarras; a Bride.


and Embarras; a Bride.
Passengers on the steamer Puritan
en- route for New York were the
audience at Newport lately of bit of
college burlesquing which may per-
haps be characterized as somewhat
rude, but which was certainly very
funny, says the Mail and Ex-
press. There ! was a goodly
crowd of university men upon
the deck and another crowd was
waiting on the dock. When the two
crowds recognized one another there
was much chatting, cheering and
giving of the college yells. Things
were getting on very nicely, how
ever, when, just as the big steamer
was about to swim off, the dock was
invaded by bridal party. The boys
watched with much curiosity the
alighting from the carriages, the
congratulations, the huggings the
kissings, the heartrending fare
wells. They behaved pretty we'll
until Just as the embarrassed and
blushing bride was going up the
gangway on the arm of the beaming
groom an enthusiastic female friend
rushed up after them and casting a
handful of rice in their wake cried in
a fresh, joyous voice, "Good-by.
Bessie!"
This was too much. ssGood-by,
Bessie" yelled half hundred boy
ish voices. "Good-by, Bessie!" and
amid a pandemonium of good wishes
the young couple disappeared be-
tween decks. But the interest in the
affair did not end there.
whats the matter with Bessie?"
yelled one young rascal upon the
boat to the crowd on the dock. -
''Nothing's the matter with Bes-
sic. She's all rightr' came the
prompt answer, given with an evil
dent relish from those below.
whats the name of the groom?"
came the question.
1--WE don't know" was the answer,
and then, after slight pause, was
added with the same old gusto and
evident conviction, "But he's all
right"
And so on for half an hour ques-
tions concerning Bessie we're asked
and answered by her new-made
friends, and, though very little in
formation was elected. the universal
opinion was that she and every thing
about her from the groom down was
satisfactory and entirely call right. "
The young couple were left in
peace, but in the morning the gilded
cage was empty, the birds had flown,
and Bessie is now probably carrying
her own hand bag and pretending to
be a very old married woman.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
An Error Rectihed.

Fortune Teller, examining Tea
caddy's bandits no use pretending
you will live to be an old man. Your
line of life shows you will die before
you are 40 You will be very sue
cessful, etc. PIRATES glibly for five
minutes.) And now as to wedding.
You will get married in your 35th
year, and have fifteen children.
Teacaddy-How the deuce can that
happen? You said just now l should
not live to be 40
Fortune Teller. seeing that he hal
put his foot in it-Ah, yes, so did,
and-ahem-its very true. You
see-ahem--the fact is-ahem--that
you will--um, UNI, ahem--marry a
widow with thirteen. -Plck-M
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
THE Lily AND rHE Lotus.

There grew q flower In Babylon
" nose perfumes make young lovers weepl
'On II Assyrian moonlight shone,
-. Eupnrates murmured it to sleep
IL brings back old, forgotten dreams.
us petals breathe o dead loves kiss:
AStarte bathed ID in her beams
In the gardens Of Semiramis.
But Egypt has sweeter bloom
The lotus of forgetful breath.
SWatned and embalmed in spiced gloom
?. me SAD Nile sobbed its dreams to death.
1t Soothes remembered loves to rest
AS quiet as deaths waxen lid;
They laid it on Nitocrs breast
Beneath her slender pyramid:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
Shots Represented.

="Been to Chicago?"
"You bet!'
See anything O. Georgia there?"
s.You betr'
''Old states represented, IS she?''
"You bet! Bill Jones is a-runnin'
of cook shop thar, an the biggest
wooden boss in the ten-cent flynn
jimmy is got Georgia painted al;
over him"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
THE FARM AND HOME.
RULES FOR MEASURING HAY
IN STACKS OR MOWS.
Selling by Measurement-Porta Swine
Pens Water Cress Commercial
Product-Wind Power-Farm Notes
and Home Hints.
How to Measure Hay.

In answer to number of inquiries
the Grange, Judd Farmer again pub
fishes few simple rules for deter
mining the amount of hay in stack
or NOW. when it is not convenient to
weigh it. Selling by measurement is
not always the most satisfactory
method, but it sometimes is most
convenient.
Sellers are disposed to insist that
cube of seven feet is q ton. This
Is entirely too small and will not
weigh out How many cubic feet
will make ton depends on so many
conditions that no certain rule can
be given.
1t depends on the kind of hay.
whether timothy, alfalfa or prairie.
on the character of the hay, whether
fine or coarse, on the condition in
which it was put in the stack. and
particularly on the size, especially
the depth of the stack or NOW.
In very large NOW, we'll settled.
400 cubic feet Of alfalfa or timothy
may average ton, but on top of the
NOW or in small stack, it REQUIRES
500 to SIP cubic feet; sometimes even
more.
1t is not safe for the buyer to
figure on less than 500 cubic feet: but
in we'll filled NOW. in selling we
would rather weigh than sell at that
measurement.
To find the number of tons in a
barn NOW or hay shed multiply the
length, depth and breadth together
and divide by the number of cubic
feet you think, considering the quail
ity OF hay and the condition in which
it was put up, will make ton.
10 measure cone-shaped stack,
find the area of the base by multiply
ing the square of the circumference
in feet by the decimal .O7958 and
multiply the product thus obtained
by one-third of the height in feet, and
then divide as before, cutting off five
right hand figures
The correctness of this will depend
somewhat on the approximation of
the stack to a regular cone, and if
the stack bulges out it makes the
product too small The better way
is to estimate the area of stack up to
point of tapering in and apply above
rule to cone shaped top.
The best way is to weigh. The ex-
perience of weighing few stacks will
enable any one to Judge quite &C.
curately. Another approximate rule
for measuring round stack is this:
Select place which is near as pos
sible to what the average size would
be if the stack were of uniform diam
| eter frem the ground to the top
point. Measure around this to get
the circumference. Add four ciphers
(0O0Ol to the circumference at the
right and divide the whole by 1859
to get the diameter. Now multiply
half of the diameter by half of the
circumference and you have the feet
of the circular area. Multiply by the
number of feet the stack is high, and
you will have the solid or cubic feet
in the whole. Then divide bv 800 to
SIP, according to it's size and com
pactness and this will give the num-
Der of tons in the stack.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22

Then allow just enough spring
water to run over it to keep it cool
and wet. It does not require rum
ming water, simply near a spring
branch. Cress plants large enough
to transplant can be grown as soon
as you can grow cabbage plants.
To correct what the books say,
will notice that the plants should be
set at the edge of running spring
water. not in water eight inches deep
Clay is better than gravel. I have
one gravel spot in my patch and it
causes me lots of trouble; it leaks;
can't hold the water when / want it.
l have two kinds of cress. ..brown
leafed" or black cress, as / call it,
and the green leaf. No sale for. black
cress. The green leaf variety IS the
best. and / am working hard to get
rid of black cress.
To write full statement of plant
ing. Care and management of cress
pond would make lengthy article.
| sell about $500 worth a year from
my one-fourth acre. I find it big
job to take care of it in winter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
Portable swine Pens.

George Wylie, well-known swine
breeder, uses portable swine pens.
He correctly says that when the
ground around the pen becomes foul
by continued occupation, these pens
are easily moved to fresh location,
and tine ground previously occupied
by them plowed up ana a crop or two
raised from it, thereby purifying the
SOIL After two or three years it can
be again seeded to grass and the
pens returned to their original loca-
ton. A rotation of hog pens once in
two or three years goes farther in
the direction of mafhtaining fertility
than anything Mr.. Wylie says he has
ever tried. With this kind Of pen,
or as many pens Of this kind as may
be necessary for the number of hogs
kept, the original outlay for pens is
reduced to mere nothing in COM
parison with the large hog house.
They will pay for themselves every
year they are used. With this
system, less than half the labor
will keep the pens clean; they are
warmer, the air is purer, the young
pigs are healthier, and large num-
bers at any season are prevented
from piling up together.& At farrow-
ing time each brood SOW is isolated
from the others. thereby being re-
moved from, anything liable to make
them irritable and restless. The es-
sentials to be secured are health,
comfort, warmth and cleanliness and
any outlay of money that goes be-
yond this must be regarded in a5ou.
the same light as prominent
breeder regarded his expensive 3Jx
60 hog house. Said he: .sIt's not
much account for swine, but its
awful nice to show to visitors.
-Colman's Rural World.
Nater-Cress as Commercial Product.
Wild water-cress shipped from the
western part OF the state to Chicago
has found such ready sale at fair
rates that it is likely to ba grown
for market whenever conditions are
favorable. An Illinois man tells the
Ohio Farmer how he started:
l have had eight years. experience
with one-fourth acre cress pond
and NJ. write what ! know about
planting rAe seed. The seedbed
should be level patch of mud near
a spring branch, where surface
water will run over it. Scatter the
seed by gently pressing into the mud
with the back ct a spade. The seed
must stick to the mud or the first
little rain will send it all down the
creek. -
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-09-22
Using Wind Power.

Many light and some not very light
jobs about the house and barn may
be performed by wind power. In our
boyhood neighboring farmers boys
rugged up a good sized windmill and
used the power from it to turn the
crank of grindstone and to turn
other cranks that worked the straight
up and down dash churns. In this
way their ingenuity saved them labor
that other boys as we'll as ourselves
had to perform when we had other
and to us pleasanter uses for our
time. In Holland wind power is
largely used. We think it is coming
to be here, and especially when cheap
means are devised for storing the
wind power as electricity where it
may be more available. More wind
mills are finding market now than
ever before. -American Cultivator.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-12-21

CHAPTER l.
In northeastern region Of Georgia
there is community where, it is said,
a mans honor is worth more than his
gold. Of course this is not true unless
-as possibly might have been the case
"a man must have had small amount
of gold and an enormous degree Of
honor. But it is fact that in this
community man placed very high
estimate upon his own word. And it
may naturally be inferred that the
code flourished as fever that followed
the chilly observance of trivial though
rigid rules of social conduct. The
code did flourish, and it fourished so
luxuriantly that every man in the COM
munity became so expert a shot that a
duel meant almost certain death for
both parties.
In this community there lived two
young men who had grown up in
rivalry, not in the nature Of love
affair. but had early learned to de-
spise each others good points. Bill
lings acknowledged one day that he
really did not know why he hated
Podsley. "But do You really hate him?''
some one asked. >
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-12-21
CTVIC SOCIETIES.

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M r. q A. M Irregular meetings on the t1s M
ind Sd wednesday In each mo9sn: M y, ~
O'Clock P. n. Andrew Birum. "'m' a. n 1A.'
derson Secy.
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ssch month. o. L. Dornberg. NJ: n.
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m0ter REQ
crAarrv CRATER, No. s.. o: e. 4. Regular
meetings ID and 4sh wednes%day GyoIspsB = BeiI III
eeoe e. mSGss. %isa. Marion ss ION Everett. Sec.
.r-ssn na,F-RrpwooD n, LoDaE, No. g. meets
every Saturday night, at 5:sU - ,9.eS Tcipno To
Rrnthers from distance cordialy NV anv.cSt "
effend 81. e. Moon, N g. H. +. fsuechne1' 49,
y RNreRPRrsr ErcAxPnsNr. No. IS. Regular
meetinxs Ist and Sd Tuesday eveninee OF eacn
month st 7:so o,eioGs at !; = r =: noon max ( s,
CRYSTAL LODGE, NO. Is. D. of R.-Regular
meetincs ID and ith Wednesday evenings OF
each month, at 7:3O p. m. Mrs. Julia Aicnt'
Warck. n. G.. Mrs. Luella Moon, KS.
A O.U. U.W.-REDwoOD FALLS LODGE. NO:
"A. S. meets every Monday evening. at tnelr
hall. Visiting brethren ma1e welcome' a."
Bager, NJ. W. 5. o. Mason, Rec"r~er.
D OF P.-REDwooD FALLS LODGE, No. = =
H. meets every Tuesday evening, d;aIs, IN MJ1v !,
mann's Hail. Visiting brothers are cOrolaly
invited. c. c. Peck. C. c. H. N. Aune n. n. .
R-John s. Marsh Post, No. s5-Reg'
0.ular meetings every first and tnra rri
davs of each month, at its hall. Al one cioch ~
2, n e. b. Hale. Conn., George buAton' Ao''
woxRS's RELIEF CoRrs-Meets second and
eo"rth Tnesiavs of each month Mrs May ID
a4alc, President; Mrs. Bessie Newton' Sec
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-12-21

mystery TO me nearly all my life. But /
remember that about the first lucid
thought / ever had was the idea that
he had been born merely to annoy mo.
His annoyance. though, was always Of
passive kind. I have never been able
to call him TO account for anything
that he has said or done. And this
makes me hate him still more. Well,
boys. take care OF yourselves"
He rode away, turned to the right
md falyoped down the county road
He lad not gone far when he saw, )
short distance ahead, . man sitting On
. hs,Ss llking to = a>Riri who had
broughta gourd Of water from house
near by. Podsley knew the man and
he rode past him without turning his
head, but the girl must have seen that
he cast hard look, for she drew back
from the fence and said something in
an undertone. Podsley rode on. Bill
lings' horse soon came cantering after
him. The road abruptly dipped down
and crossed a small stream. Podsley
halted to let the horse drink. Billings
rode into the stream and halted.
bright weather we're having" said
Billings.
"Yes, rather. But don't think that
q little rain would do any HARM"
mo, except to some weakling who
might chance to get wet"
That's a fact Podslev reioined:
'and, by the way, there are weaklings
in this neighborhoQd."
s'Yes, know of one"
"And know of one"
''Then there must be two"
II know of but one"
They rode out of the stream, rode
side By side. Billings" said Podsley,
Il hate every hair on your head"
"Podsley," retorted Billings, 81
loathe every bone in your body"
'Ah, hah, but bones are stronger
''Yes, but Samson's strength was in
his hair
''That so? How different from you.
Your strength seems to be in your
tongue"
They halted, faced about and looked
at each other. Billings" said Pods
ley, sit does seem to me that we have
lived in hatred of each other long
enough to come to some sort of sensi-
BILE agreement know what you feel
by contemplating what feel myself.
So long as we both live there is no real
happiness for either of us. Why this
is neither of us can tell, but it is fact.
And now can't we come to some sort
of settlement?''
Billings was slowly stroking his
horses name II should think so" he
answered II am more than willing to
risk my life to kill you, but don't de-
sire that you should kill me. We
might fight a duel with guns or pis-
tols-real gentlemen don't fight with