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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-01
Learning From the Fly.

A Russian investigator sends to max
ers of flying machines information
which he gained by observing the drdi.
nary house 6y. This insect he IN,
beats its wings 30 times per second end
travels 40 miles an hour.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-01
ARGUS BUSINESS DIRECTORY


BOOKS, WALL PAPER, ETC.
Crsnpeoo. Z. IT'S secood svenue.
RESTAURANT.
Allan. L, le0 Second svcnue.
FURNITURE AND CARPrrs.
Cordes, Il r, is0s Second avenue
GLOVES AND FURs.
Bennett, Geo. 1eos secos d.svsnue.
MERCHANT TAILOR.
Emig, ", i50 Second svense.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO a
Beselin. J b l5os Second avenue.
BAKERS.
Munro. De Rue 4 Anderson. - Market square.
DRUGGISTS.
Thomas. r q. 1850 Second avenue.
speidel, c.l1eO7 Second avenue.
PLUMBERS AND GAS FIrrERs.
Blake . Murphy, 1910 Third avenue.
WALL PAPER, ETC.
Adams Wall Paper Co. si0sM Tweniieth street
GROCERs.
Buncher, Chss A, 23l Twentieth street.
Hees Bros. 1870 Second svenue.
Brooks q Thiermsn. 0ol Fifth avenue.
Kuschmann. Robt. 10. Fourth avenue.
Long. J. second avenue and Nineieenfh street.
Brownef q Co. eg3l Fifth svenue.
UNDERTAKEN.
Knox. B r, 409 Twentieth street.
HARDWARE, STOVES AND MANrELs
Noftsker, J T. 500 Twentieth street.
LAUNDRY.
Pafkef's Laundry, 1874 Third sveuue.
COD, 9el and 23s eighteenth street.
BREwERIEs.
Rock Island Brewing company.
NEAT MARKET.
Schroeder Hans. 81 Twentieth street.
Tn-cify Packing and Provision Co. 9Th and 18th.
JEwELER AND OPTICIAN.
Ramser,J Son, 1871 Second svenue.
MILLINERY.
Blackburn D CoSl7o9 Second avenue.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Boston Shoe Store. l62s Second svenus.
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE.
Harris. Geo " d. ..sas Seventeenth
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

DRY DISTRICT IN IowA.-There seems
to be q strip of country about thirty
miles wide and eighty miles long, of
which Webster City is the center, in
which the drouth is most severe.
While this is truly discouraging to
Hamilton county farmers, and to the
people generally, it is fortunate that
outside of this territory, especially to
the north and west, crops of all kinds
are fully up to the average. In
Kossuth county the hay crop
especially is reported most
abundant, while throughout the up
per northwest portion of the state,
corn, hay and fall crops generally are
said to be excellent This is the kind
of misery that does not love company,
and il we are to be cut short in Hamil-
ton county this year, we are certainly
glad to know that our more distant
Hawkeye neighbors will escape the
discouraging effects of the drouth that
seems to have settled down, for once,
upon this favored region. Webster
City Freeman.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Use of Insecticides.

Farmers bulletin No. 10, issued by
the department Of agriculture. gives
some directions concerning the prep
aration and use of few of the insec-
ticide agents having the widest range
and attended with the greatest useful
ness, economy and ease of application.
There are constant calls for informa-
ton Of the character contained in the
bulletin, and the effort has been made
to give in concise yet complete man
ner the best method of preparing and
applying the remedies suggested, by
which the best results can be OBJ
tanned. The overwhelming expert
ence of the past dozen years, the bull
letin says, makes it almost necessary
to urge. on the ground of pecuniary
returns, the adoption Of measures rec
commended against insects. To en-
phasize the value of such practice it
is only necessary to call attention to
the fact that the loss to orchard, gar
den and farm crops frequently
amounts to from Is to rs per cent Of
the entire product, and innumer-
able instances could be pointed out
where such loss has been sustained
year after year, until now, by the
adoption of remedial measures, large
yields are regularly secured with an
Insignificant expenditure for treat
ment 1t has been established that in
the case Of the apple crop, spraying
will protect from so to rs per cent Of
the fruit, which would otherwise be
wormy, and that in actual marketing
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

market, owing to the pressure of farm
work our record keeping was aband-
oned in April, however the hens kept
on laying, and we have raised better
than 500 chicks since March /, and are
now marketing them, which weigh
thirty-three to thrity-seven pounds
per dozen, and at 81 cents per pound.
While this is not Boosting record we
think it just about as good as those
we read, of smaller focks in prorpor-
ton to size. The feed for the three
months, at the market price then, cost
us exactly Oh cents per day for grain,
the potatoes not being marketable,
and the meat we obtained by buying
yearling for So, and saving SIS worth
of meat from it for the house, leaving
nice margin of profit during the
three coolest months of the year.
Those farmers that say there is no
profit to the farmer in poultry has
no argument to base such talk on. Our
stock is far from the best, being Par
fridge Coachin, inbred for four years
I'VE bought them with the farm, our
belief is that cross on a well-bred
Plymouth Rock hen or Partridge
Coachin hen and q thoroughbred b.
Leghorn cock are among the best.
Rsytown, Mo. c. A. s.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Chickens Via the Brooder.

1t is fact, not to be disputed, that
we can successfully hatch chickens by
artificial means. But to raise these
little Jumps of down, so Matched, is by
far different and also q somewhat
difficult problem that not every one
who uses an incubator can boast of
solving, says q writer in Western
Ploughman. Here Is q little of my
experience and method with chicks
and breeders: In the first place
leave my chicks in the incubator until
perfectly dry, then transfer them to
the brooder. like the hot water
brooder overhead heat much the best,
which / keep at such q temperature
the first two or three days or longer,
according to the extremity of the
weather, as will cause the little fei-
lows to lie around in drowsy sort of
Q way. Give no food whatever for
thirty-six hours / believe this is abb
solutely the best rule to 60 by. would
rather say forty hours than any
thing under thirty-six, from the
simple fact that the very last thing
the chick does before breaking the
shell is to absorb the yelk, and this
should be given sufficient time to d.
gest before any food is given then
give each about two drops Of cream
and nothing more for eight or ten
hours and thia is then about their bed
time, when X repeat the dose and
leave them for the night. On the fol-
lowing morning give them cracked
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
OIeO and Butter,

THE Practical Farmer prints the fol-
lowing: Lately we have had the
spectacle of a United States senator
rushing into print to point out that
in his opinion-oleo was cleaner and
purer than dairy butter, and to this
end, we give few of the substances
and ingredients that are used in its
manufacture, for nearly all the con-
Germs make oleo under letters patent,
and while they all work in unison to
palm off the stuff as COW butter, they
each work under some form of manu-
facture and variety of composition of
oleo. And as the letter press of a
patent is open to public inspection, it
is worthy of notice by those who ''pre-
err oleo to butter" that according to
nese patents the followingO are
few of the ingredients used in the
manufacture Of cleo which are taken
from the records of the patent Office
and are embodied in their several pat
ents: Nitric acid, sugar of lead, sui
plate of lime, benzoic acid, sulphuric
acid, chlorate Of potash, caustic pot
ash, bicarbonate of potash, salicylic
acid. carbolic acid and many other in
gradients equally deleterious. II
these are not enough, It is being found
in some of the later Investigations
that are being made, that paraffine
wax is being used with the oleo COM
pound to make the butter firm AS
this substance 10 OF character that
acids have no effect upon and is not
acted upon by any digestive fir id, its
effect upon the system when con-
sumed as substance superior to COW
butter" can be readily seen.
/. QUEEN CAKE.-One pound each Of
-four and sugar, one teaspoonful
Prices cream baking powder, three
fourths of q pound Of butter, five eggs,
one gill each of wine, brandy and
cream, one pound of currants; citron,
mace and nutmeg TO taste.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Homestead--Hints
~ to the Care of Live Stock and
Poultry.
Experience with Poultry.

To THE FARMERS REVIEW: In your
Issue of Aug. read an article from
the Poultry Journal where q writer
gives it as his opinion that 100 hens
can not be profitably kept together in
one flock. OF all subjects pertaining
to agriculture, stock and poultry, be-
lieve those Of poultry are of the most
variance. have read with much in
terest the report of poultry raisers
and egg producers in the REVIEW this
past season and find we can learn
something in nearly every article;
among other things that am not
alone in the world by not agreeing
with all my neighbors' ideas We keep
about one hundred hens on an aver
age On Nov. 1, 1893, we had twenty
seven hens, to years old, and sew
enty-seven pullets, Matched the pre-
ceding April, May and June, and four
cockerelR We gathered from ten to
twenty eggs per day from Nov. / to
Jan. /, but kept no record. In December
we finished our hen house, 12x40 feet,
with space Of sx26 feet devoted to
the fowls, and on Jan. l began with
. record. Their feed mainly was wheat;
our method in feeding is, in the morn
ing, mess Of boiled culled potatoes with
bran, three or four times a week, and
wheat every morning with corn and
some oats in the evening, and meat
generally before them; abundance of
fresh water always. During Janu-
uary, February and March we
gathered 1877 1-6 dozen eggs. That
averaged 10 cents per dozen on the
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
General Passenger Agent.
Three Home seekers Excursions

To all parts Of the west and north
west via the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St Paul railway at practically half
rates Round trip tickets, good for
return passage within twenty days
from date of sale, will be sold on Sept.
II ard 25 and Oct O. 1874
For further information apply to
the nearest coupon ticket agent or adj
dress G. II. Heafford, General Passen-
ger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, Ill.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

PoULTRy IN THE GARDEN If circum-
stances oblige the shutting up of the
hens when the garden is planted, by
all means give them run q couple OF
hours before night and all day when
it is raining lightly. They do little or
no damage when the ground is wet,
while they find an abundance of food.
For that matter, ws do not believe the
injury to garden by reason of giving
the poultry free run is anything like
as damaging as many suppose. OF
course 1t is provoking to find hill of
corn upset or tomato pecked into,
but this is more than Offset by the
good done in other ways. However,
the whole trouble is reduced to q
minimum by giving the birds run in
the early morning and again just ut
nightfall, and in these short runs
they'll find plenty to occupy their at.
tention without minding the garden
-Ex,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

as animals at rest, are often so poor
in the spring, when fed on salt-marsh
and meadow hay? 1t is because,
though classed with animals at rest,
they have no opportunity to rest; an
animal can not rest unless it is COM
Portable. On one of the coolest morn
ings of last winter went to q neigh
boring town for hay. At the barn
where l loaded saw cattle eating the
same kind of hay that was after;
they were very poor, and looked as
though they were growing poorer.
Why? The barn was very open and
cold-nearly as outdoors-the hips
and sides of the cattle were covered
with frozen manure; they were curled
up and shivering with the cold. 1t
made my teeth chatter to look at
them. And, when / asked for some
water for my horses, they told me that
their stock drank out of hole back
Of the barn; but horses not used to it
would not drink it; they would bring
me some from the house. 1t is not
strange the stock was poor, but il is
strange that they were alive Now
look at the conditions under which
fed the same kind of hay. The same
morning, with the thermometer below
zero out of doors, the one hanging be-
hind our cows stood 40 degrees above
zero; the cows were clean, and they
had clean and dry beds to lie on; they
had an opportunity three times day
to drink as much good well-water as
they wanted Temperature of the
water about forty-six degrees); and
they had the privilege of drinking in
the barn, where it was warm. The
cows were comfortable; they were at
rest; and under thesS-conditions the
ten-dollar hay kept them in fair con-
dition, at cost of Ii cents per day.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Cnme Tn thu Xynters

1t is satisfaction to know that
America" u country so blessed in
the matter of natures gifts, is not an
toto behind other nations in the mat
ter of Mineral Springs.
Situated in Orange county. Ind, on
the line of the great Monon Route, we
have The Carlsbad of America, y
French Lick and West Baden Springs
No springs in the world exceed them
in curative powers With ample hotel
accommodations and facilities for n
variety of indoor and outdoor amuse.
ments, 1t at once presents itself us The
place to spend ones vacation. Round
trip tickets via. the NIonon are sold at
reduced rates. For further informa-
tion in regard to the famous resort,
address SIDNEY B. JoYEs,
c p, A., s32 Clark St. Chicago.
Or FRANK j. REED,
General Passenger Agent.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

corn about the size of No. 8 shot, and
here let me say that II you are run
ming the incubator constantly, be-
lieve 1t to be good plan to leave one
or two a-weeks-old chicks in each
pen Of the newly Matched ones, as by
SO doing the older ones soon teach
the younger to pick and where to
drink. Generally one or two days is
all that is necessary, and you can
then turn the teachers" out with
the older brood. Feed regularly three
times day.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing consultation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup Of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute If offered.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Cost OF Butter and Cheese.

COtL OF tutttf anu OnStsos
At q Wisconsin dairy convention q
speaker made the following estimates:
Food required for 100 pounds OF
milk when feeding cornstalks:
1913 pounds of cornstalks.
rs pounds of corn meal.
35 pounds of wheat bran.
Food required for 100 pounds Of but
ter when feeding cornstalks:
1850 pounds of cornstalks.
514 pounds of corn meal.
TIC pounds wheat bran.
Food required for 100 pounds OF
milk when feeding mixed hay:
II pounds of mixed hay.
26 pounds of corn meal.
SO pounds of wheat bran.
Food required for 100 pounds Of but.
ter when feeding mixed hay:
1,34s pounds of mixed hay.
500 pounds of corn meal
700 pounds of wheat bran.
Food required for 100 pounds Of milk
when feeding clover hay:
60 pounds of clover hay.
20 pounds of corn meal
81 pounds of wheat bran.
Food required for 100 pounds OF
butter when feeding clover hay:
1,179 pounds of clover hay.
513 pounds of corn meal.
us pounds of wheat bran.
From the data here given one can
easily calculate the cost of food neces-
sary to produce 100 pounds
of milk or butter. Surprising hay is
worth SO per ton, then the corn
stalks would be worth So.66, or one
third the value of the hay, as shown
by these experiments Suppose fur
Their, that bran can be had for sic,
and corn meal for SIS per ton As
Stunning these prices we will find that
the food necessary to produce
100 pounds of milk costs, as the
average of the before detailed expert
ments, about 66 cents, and the food
to produce 100 pounds of butter costs
about Sl2. 81.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

experience the price has been enhanced
from 81 to $3.50 per barrel, and this
at cost of only about 10 cents per
tree for labor and material. The cot
ton crop, which formerly in years Of
bad infestation by the leaf worm, was
estimated to be injured to the extent
Of $50, 900, 900, is now comparatively
free from such injury, owing to the
general use of arsenicals. Facts Of
like import could be adduced in re-
gard to many other leading staples,
but the foregoing, the bulletin says,
are sufficient to emphasize the money
value Of intelligent acton against in
sect enemies, which, with the present
competition and diminishing prices.
may represent the difference between
a profit or a loss in agricultural opera
tiOns
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

CIDER SAUCE.-To one teacupful of
sugar and half the quantity of but.
ter, creamed together, add two tea
cupfuls of boiling water and table
spoonful of corn-starch dissolved in
cold water; boil, and while boiling
add half q teacupful of boiled cider
with favoring to taste.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Home Seekers. Excursion.

The Chicago Great Western railway will
run three home seekers excursions, name
ly. on Sept. 18th. Sept. 25th and Oct. 9th
1894 Tickets will be sold from all stations
to points in the north, south and west mt
one first-class limited fare, plus 81 for the
round trip.
Apply to Chicago Great Western railway
ticket agents, who will take pleasure in
securing sleeping car accommodations and
furnish all necessary information, or ad-
dress, +. H. Lord, q. Z. a. 4. A., Chicago,
III -
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
A Secret Tor Girls.

If all the girls knew the simple se-
cret that bad compilations are due to
a disordered liver, there would be
fewer sallow faces and blotchy skins,
and American girls would have no
reason to envy the milk and roses
of their English sisters The secret of
beauty is, use Dr. j. A. McLean's
Liver and Kidney Balm. 1t beats all
the identifying creams and lotions.
and all the 'enamels" in existence
Try it
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Nellie-Why do you send out your
wedding invitations so far in advance?
Millie-Many of our friends keep
their money in savings banks and have
to give notice,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

nesSeS anu derange'
ments of the female
system.
The " Prescription y
cures liberation and
Falling Of the Womb,
Leucorrhea and Utter
inc debility.
Miss MAGGIE Crow
LEY, of Jamestown, ~.
y, says: II feel as II
i had o new lease of
life since taking the
Prescription / trust
that others will find the
same benefit from your
wonderful medicine ~
l have"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Charles MI of Sweden was un-
governably rash. He often regretted
his impetuosity, but never re-
formed IL
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Sterne was kept in constant vexa-
ton by the reviewers. who could not
look with favor on anything he wrote.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Take no Substitute for
Royal Baking Powder.
1t. is Absolutely Pure.
All others contain alum or ammonia.

The apple grows wild in the Sand
which Islands There are forests OF
them, most of them neglected.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Had It Down Fine.

Teacher-Define ''unsophisticated."
Bright Boy = "Unsophisticated"
means a boy wot thinks the circus
season raises the price of lemons.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
Some stock Notes.

Some stock Notes
A mess of partially eaten food left
in his trough is distasteful even to a
hog, and makes him eat less in guam
THY and with less relish than he other
wise would.
One of the principal advantages ia
keeping variety of stock on the
farm, is that a large number can he
kept in proportion to the pasturage
and the amount of food.
A steady, every day growth will, in
nearly all cases, cost less per pound
than examining or high feeding; but
this should ncycr be made an excuse
for stinting the ration.
The small farmer needs the benefits
to be derived from the keeping OF
good stock fully as much as the larger
farmer, and at present prices there is
no reason why he should not secure
them.
Lack 81 care has more to do with
the wearing out of farm horses tha-
has hard work The race horse is
good at twenty years, often, because
he has the best care intelligence and
self interest can give.
In breeding it is not sufficient that
the individual possesses good qualities,
but his ancestors must have them, and
the greater number of generations
back, the greater the power to trans
NIT TO its offspring.
For healthy pigs in summer, grass
and clover, as much as they can eat,
with plenty of sweet milk can be
given with profit II the milk can be
thickened with middlings, or with bran
and oil meal, all the better.
The younger animals arc the ones
from which you expect your future in
come and profit The foundation for
their future growth and development
is in the present care. If you leave
them to shift for themselves they will
bring only disappointment.
In setting, roots should be well
spread, and earth firm about them.
TIMOTHY, though one of the best
grasses for hay, is not well adapted for
permanent pasturage. The best is blue
grass in every situation adapted to its
growth. II the latter does not succeed
well, mixture makes thicker seed
than any one kind alone.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Heg~man's Cn mphor Ice with Glycerins.
The original and only genuine Cures Chapped ands
And Face. Cold Sores &c. e. q. Clark Co. .Haven,ct
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Tho Lord my pasture shall pre-
pare" was by Joseph Addison, and
was first printed in the Spectator in
t-1o
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Karl's Clover Root Tea,
The great Blood gives freshness aud
10 the Complexion and cures CO.. tpatOn. Sc SOC 81.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

Inattention to Cows Expensive.
A. w. Putnam says: "Why is it
that dry cows and young stock, classcd
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

"Hanson's Magic Corn salvs.~
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ash yOW
druggist Tor IL. Price Is cent?
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15
nIERGE auaran- (tTIRE

Tho woman who is tired, and has heavy,
dragging down sensations, pain in the back,
and headache, should take warning in time.
DR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Is the best
tonic and nervine at this time It's a posi-
tive remedy for all Irregularities, weak
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-09-15

II the Baby Is Cutting Teeth.
he and that old and weli.tried remedy MRS
SOOTHING sYRrr for Children Teething-