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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26

Flax is grown for the seed from
Ohio to the Dakotas, although as yet
little attention Is paid to the fiber. At
the Minnesota station Fargo fax has
proved an especially good yielder Of
seed, an of fiDer as well, and the va
riety Is being used as a basis for Sc
lection and crossing. White blossomed
Dutch fax does not do well In the
rather dry American climate. 1t has
been thought necessary to use fax
seed imported from Russia for grow
ing fiber, or at least that which has
been grown only one or two years in
Western Europe, where 1t is the GUS
tom to get part Of the seed every year
from Riga and vicinity. The expert
ments of Prof. Hays indicate, how
ever, that the states west of the great
lakes are quite as good a source OF
flaxseed for America, and possibly for
the growers of fax fiber in Western
Europe, as Is Russia. 1t is notewor-
thy that this fax is grown on wheat
land, and would replace that staple to
some extent.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Meta, wheel. FIR Your Wagons.

The season for cutting corn fodder
being close at hand. it may be well for
farmers to get a set Of these low metal
wheels with wide tires. They a be
had any size wanted from 20 to Sc
inches in diameter, with tires from l
to s inches wide. BY having low wheels
enables you to bring the wagon box
down low, saving n man in loading
fodder, etc. 1t is also very convenient
for loading and unloading manure,
grain, hogs. ETC., and will save in Ia
Dor alone their cost in a very short
time. These wheels are made of best
material throughout, and have every
possible advantage over the high wood
en- wheels with narrow tires. and will
outlast a dozen Of them. There will
also be no resetting Of tires necessary,
and consequently no blacksmiths' bills
to pay. Wide tires save your horses
and prevent cutting up your fields.
For further information write The
Empire Manufacturing Co., Quincy,
Ill. who will mail catalogue free upon
application.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Barn Ventilation.

The discussion or the supJec, or tu-
berculosis In cattle necessarily in
wolves the subject of the causes Of the
same which are often found In lily
ventilated barns. The tendency Of the
farmer In winter is to get a large
amount of warmth for his cattle so as
to save the cost of feed. To secure
heat he has supplied little room for
his cows and has shut out the cold air
as much as possible. An authority
upon the health of the COW says that
the stable, TO be healthy, should be
well ventilated and free from draughts
and to accomplish this air should be
admitted at the door line and sufficient
space should be provided at the apex
Of the roof to allow the heated air to
escape. Six hundred cubic feet of air
Is necessary for Shorthorns and their
grades, and less Of curse for the
smaller breeds.
But many g farmer viii &c confront
ed by the impossibjlity Of building a
larger barn for the purpose OF securing
the necessary extra amount of air
space. The system Of ventilating
named above Is a poor one, as 1t Is not
0conoi lical Of fresh, warm air and 1t
subjects cattle to direct draughts Of
cold air. 1t Is the system that has
been long condemned by architects.
To ply men or animals with pure
air the lowest cost, the impure air
shou not escape at the highest point,
but al the lowest point near the floor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
A YOnng Explorer.

Joseph Thomson, the famous ex-
plorer Of Africa, who died the other
day In London, was only thirty-seven
years old. He was the son Of William
homson, OF Gatela wbridge Quarrries,
Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, and was
born at Pentpont on Feb. IA, 1853.
He obtained his early education, as so
many eminent Scotchmen have done,
in the parish school of his native
place, from which he went to the Uni
versity OF Edinburgh. There a pre-
objection for natural history which he
had early displayed lod him to enter
the science classes, in several Of which
he gained honors, carrying off the gold
medal in geology and zoology. He
went to Africa for the first time in
1878. Among his best known books
are Through Nasal Land and Life
in the Atlas Mountains."-Chicago
Chronicle.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Feeding sheep with Cottonseed
Meal

Sheep 500 learn to like cottonseed
meal. Some will refuse it at first, as
will also some cattle. In the Cornell
experiment station Bulletin No. AZ Is
a record of feeding lambs weighing on
an average a trifie less than 60 pounds
each, from Dec. 8 to April 81 inclusive.
The ration, for lot l, for five lambs
for a period of 40 days was: Wheat
bran 3S2 pounds, ~cottonseed meal 191,
linseed meal SO, hay COG, corn ensilage
1,166 pounds. The gain was 26.5
pounds per head. AS most readers are
better acquainted with the gain in cat
tie than in sheep, the weights, etc,
might be applied to steers. Fifteen of
these lambs would equal a 9OOApound
steer. Since each lamb gained 2G.5
pounds, fifteen would have gained 397
pounds. If a steer of 900 pounds be
substituted for the fifteen lambs
weighing 900 pounds and the total
gain be divided by 40, the number of
days the lambs were fed, is shows a
phenomenal gain of IS pounds per day
for the steer.
In another experiment with nine
lambs weighing 90 pounds each, fed
103 days on a highly heterogeneous grain
ration-a mixture Of one pound Of lin
seed meal, one of cottonseed meal and
Ia pounds of bran, with hay and roots
the gain was 24.5 pounds per lamb
for the entire period. Computing as
before, the gain would be equal to 3.S
pounds per day for the steer. While
the gain made by the lambs is not in
all respects comparable with a single
steer Of equal weight, yet the COM
parisOn helps to show the large gain
and the results of foods containing a
liberal amount of cottonseed meal.
Roots, cottonseed meal, bran and clo-
yer hay fed in connection with enough
corr to slightly widen the ration, may
be considered ideal for sheep feeding.
Al the same station cows were fed a
grain ration, one-half Of which was
cottonseed meal without any deleter-
ious effects.-Prof. Roberts in Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
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 tn.
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 a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and feyerw
and permanently curing constipation.
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 b 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 viii not
accept any substitute if offered.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
A Queer Fish.

DR.. D'Arsonval, in recent expert
ments on the electric ray, or torpedo
fish, connected a 10 candle-power In
%candescent lamp with the electric or
gan of the fish, and on irritating the
skin the lamp was lighted. He finds
that in a fish Of medium size, II to
- inches in diameter, the current
amounts to two to seven amperes,
with an eleCtro-motive force of eight
to seventeen volts. The electric organ
acts like a muscle, giving out electric
instead of mechanical energy. The
discharge is alternating, consisting Of
a series of partial, diminishing dis
charges that follow one another at in
tervals of one-hundredth of a second.
The back of the torpedo acts as the
positive pole and the belly the mega
tive pole of the electric generator. The
ergan emits a sound during the dis
charge, and when the circuit Is closed
becomes heated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Electric Meter Competition.

The Royal Scottish Society Of Arts,
OF Edinburgh has offered for competi-
ton n Keith prize, Of $3.50 for i'm
provements in electric energy meters
for domestic supply. Competitors
must SEM a description with working
drawings, and a meter adjusted for a
mean pressure of 10 volts, and for a
maximum of 1000 watts. Preference
will be given to meters suitable for
alternate as well as continuous u
rents. Special importance will be at
tached to the minimum load at which
the meter can register correctly, and
to the energy absorbed by the meter
when the onsume is using a light
load or is taking no energy at all. The
error should not exceed = per cent,
at any load; error due to changes OF
temperature between o degree and 30
degrees Cent. should be specified.
The competitors must send In their pa
ners etc, not later than May l, 1896.
Their claims must be limited to re-
cent improvements.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
CAN CURE ASTHMA,
4 Leading Physician at Las. Discover.
the Remedy.

The majority Of sufferers from
Asthma and kindred complaints, after
trying Doctors and Rumberless Rene
dies advertised as positive cures, with
out avail, have come to the conclusion
tnat there Is no cure for this most dis
pressing disease, and these same per-
sons will be the more In doubt n skep-
tical when they learn through the COL
umns or the press that DIR. Rudolph
ScnlfImann, the recognized authority,
VINO q treated more cases OF these dis
eases than any living Doctor, has
achieved success by perfecting a rem
edy which not only gives relief in the
worst cases, but has positively cured
thousands OF sufferers who were con-
sidered incurable. These were Just as
ekeptical as some Of our readers now
are. DIR. Schiffmann's remedy no DOUBT
possesses the merit which Is claimed for
II or he would not authorize this paper
10 that he is not only willing
TO give free to each person suffering
from Asthma. Hay Fever, Phthisic, or
bronchitis one free liberal trial package
OK ms cure, but urgently requests all
sufferers TO send him their name and
ADDRESS and receive a package, abso-
iutely free OF charge, knowing that in
making the claim he does for his cure
a strong doubt may arise In the minds
OF many and that a personal test, as he
offers to all. will be more convincing
and prove Its merits than the publish.
Ing of thousands of testimonials from
others who have been permanently
cured by the use of his Asthma cure.
DIR. Schiffmann's Asthma Cure" as II
Is called, has been sold by all drug
gists ever since 1t was first introduced.
although many persons may never have
heard OF II, and II Is with a view TO
ceaching these that he makes this offer,
This Is certainly a most generous and
.air offer,a nd all who are suffering from
any of the above complaints should
write TO him at once and avail them
.elves of the same. as positively M free
samples can be obtained after Oct. 10. Ad-
ire.s DIR. X. Schiffman, 325 Rosabel street,
ST. Panl, Mimi.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
A Tough

A Journey Of nearly 700 miles
through the bush was necessary for
the new bishop Of Mashonaland, South
Africa, to reach the center OF his do
cese, and he says: 1t was a very
rough journey, with scarcely any
sleep and little food. On Sunday after
noon, after many hours travel in
choking dust and heat, we rested for
an hour ut a wayside shanty Of poles
and mud. Prospectors were lounging
around, and n man had put on IA
clean shirt. but all were hearty and
glad to see the bishop. l expect that
| was the only bishop in the world on
that particular Sunday, sitting astride
a plank cutting slices of 'biltung' with
my pocket knife and washing them
down with digger tea out OF a billy, a
sort OF tin pot which p~rospectors
carry about"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
DANGER IN THE USE OF SLANG.
Experience In Brooklyn Shows Peril
I'm the word Rats"

Experience In Brooklyn shows Peril
I'm the word 'Rnts."
A new Illustration of the dangerous
confusion that often is created by the
prevalence of slang is furnished by the
following incident:
4 professional rat-catcher Went to
a fashionable club on Tuesday evening
and at midnight he had bagged fifty
rats. With the living fifty rats in u
baylor this professional scorns 10
kill any rats on the premiSes-he left
the fashionable club and started home.
Then appeared an unknown policeman,
who said:
Where are yoa golng!'
None of your business" answered
the rat-catcher.
$50 that's your swag," said the po-
iiceman, sarcastically tapping the bag
with bis club.
Mary swag,' said the rat-catcher.
What have you in the bag, them
Here we come to the first crisis or
the story, for the reply was Rats.
The policeman h G punched the pro-
fessional for what he, perhaps reason
ably regarded as his impertinence.
Moreover, he grabbed the bag Ii
thrust in his inquiring official hand.
Here comes the second crisis of the
story, for at least seven rats grabbed
that hand. The policeman yelled and
shook off the rats and the other forty
three leaping from the bag the street
was soon full of rats. The poor police
man, with rats to the right of him
and rats 70 the left of him and rat in
an indefinite vista before and behind
him, fed into the night.
This Is not the first time that slang
mas indirectly created confusion in the
world. The rat-catcher had 40 susplc-
lon that the policeman would take his
explanation amiss. This is the trouble
The slang that creates disaster is gen
orally used unwittingly. May the pres
ent picturesque warning be needed
Brooklyn Times.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Railroad Speed I'm England.

Railroad trains in Great Britain are
now increasing their speed. Engineer
ing of Aug. %, says: Yesterday
morning the east coast train won the
race from London to Aberdeen, cover
ing the distance of 523 miles In 500
minutes. The west coast train ran its
longer distance Of 5iG miles In 90
minutes, arriving fifteen minutes after
its opponent. The east coast train ar
rived at York, 1873 miles, in Isl min
ntes, and ut Edinburgh, 392h miles. In
$40 minutes, OF at the rate of 62.14
miles an hour. 1t made the entire
journey at the rate Of 50.3f miles an
hour. The west coast train reached
Carlisle, a333.H niles, In 255 minutes,
and made the entire journey at the
rate of 60.56 miles al hour. IL Is re-
ported that both trains reached Kin
naber Junction simultaneously.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Poultry Notes.

Do not let up the fight on lice and
u~ncleanness.
Get rid of the surplus cockrels as
soon as possible.
A dry floor, a dry roof, but plenty OF
fresh water daily is the way to keep
dampness out of the hen house.
1t is a pleasure to see a thrifty flock
Of fowls enjoy themselves scratching
for something to eat from a lot of
straw or other litter.
There are fiocks of fowls that reed
this month as in December. Is yours
one Of them?
A daily allowance Of fresh cut bone
and a bit Of Oil meal will help the
fowls through the moulting season in
good shape.
IL you expect to build q new hen
house this fall 1t Is time to get at 1t
now. November will be here before
long, and there are cold days then
with some Of Dur readers.
Fresh air Is good for young chicks,
but getting drenched in a leaky house,
In a tree-top, or upon a fence Is not
this years chicks.
Clean out the nest boxes once In a
while, even though they have not been
used for i%ncubating. When clean give
a dressing Of kerosene oil, then q fresh
lot of hay or straw.
1t Is not toe early to get the pullcts
into the houses or yards In which they
are to make their home this winter.
The sooner they are Eat home" the
sooner they will begin their winter
laying.
Fresh earth is an excellent deodor-
izer when spread under the roosts.
We know some hen houses that would
be better for their inmates IL some
earth was used In them. Perhaps you
own one such.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
An Expressive Words Origin.

1t is curious that the word "black-
guard came into the language just
about the time when coal came into
domestic use. In the sixteenth cen
tury Golfers were far from popular,
and in great houses the ~uIiircricd
meniais employed to carry Goals TO
the fires were called "black guards"
Putting two and two together, as it
were, the word "~blackguard" soon be-
came a term of ~reproach. The reason
why Golfers were disliked was that
Goals were for a long time popularity
supposed by the ignorant masses to
be unwholesome. Thus a man who
would carry Goals was easily judged
capable of almost any ~indignity. The
"knavery of the Golfers" Of Newcastle
is referred TO by Decke III leo7, mi
contemporary and earlier writer's have
aise sneering Oh depreciatory refer
ences.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26

The proper time to apply fertilizers
for clover is with the wheat In the fall.
A liberal supply of potash with the
wheat manure, will not only realize
the highest efficiency of the other fer
tilizing elements present but also ma
terially ASSIST in obtaining a good
stand of clover. That potash and lime
are the two most important fertilizers
for clover, is now pretty generally uu-
derstood. 1t has been freely claimed
that the cause of the frequent failure
70 this crop Of recent years IS due to
the inadequate applications Of potash
In the fertilizers used when seeding
down wheat. The wheat crop draws
heavily upon potash Notwithstanding
the popular opinion to the contrary.
Nearly three quarters Of the potash in
the wheat crop is removed in the
grain and straw. Even If there has
been a deficiency of ammonia, the
straw has taken a very large proper
ton of the potash, though the yield Of
grain has been Insignificant.
Glover and other leguminous plants
must haNS Dotuoh III lIliity Al thNy
will forage deeply in them; but, failing
to tird n supply, a failure Is ineyita-
BILE. In those cases in which the soil
is unusually rich in potash and lime
bearing minerals, the availability of
same is materially promoted by a
thorough and continuous cultivation.
1t must be remembered that the clo-
yer crop cannot be worked in this way,
''tillage is manure" but the crop can
not be titled in this Ems
The Importance of ample supplies of
potash for a good clover stand is well
recognized, and it is best applied with
the wheat fertilizer in the winter
wheat rotation. There are no definite
quantities which may be safely as
signed, as the needs of lands vary with
the nature of the Soil, length Of time
under cultivation, etc. A safe PROPOSE
ton is to lime to the extent of about
thirty bushels per acre every four
years, and have the potash in the
wheat fertilizer, not less than the
available phosphoric acid, preferably
more. That is, If the phosphoric acid
available is s per e the potash
should be not less than 8 per cent.
and a surer clover stand would follow
q percentage of ten.
There has been much talk Of using
crimson clover or COW peas as a sue
cessor to red clover. The value Of the
plants lies in their ability to store up
nitrogen in the atmosphere; this pro-
cess requires practically the same con-
ditions In n that it requires in an
other. For the same amount of value
In vegetable substance, the COW peas
and crimson clover will require as
much potash as red clover. The rea-
o that the practice does not seem
to indicate this as a fact Of expert
ence, is due to the method of planting
Red clover Is planted with wheat,
which is a very ~exacting potash con-
sumner. 1t will take it's potash for
straw, Though little grain is produced
and when wheat is insufficiently fer
tilted, which Is almost always the
case, the potash in the removed straw
seriously restricts the conditions IA
vorable to the growth of clover. Grim
son clover and cow peas as is well
known are planted under other condi-
finno - - frin
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Fresh air should be admitted near

Fresh air should be admitted near
the floor by a shaft reaching to the
outside Of the barn. Another shaft a
foot or more square should run the
whole height of the barn and pierce
the roof outside. This shaft should
extend TO within a foot of the bottom
Of the stable. As the air taken in
from u of doors becomes heated 1T
rises and as it becomes impure it win
seek an outlet at the only point 1t can
get ii, up the shaft. Thus the air In
the stable, instead of being cold all
the time, will always be warm, and,
being continrS lily changed will be
fresh.-Orange County Farmer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
: New Smuggling Receptacle.

For a long time the customs author
ties of Belgium have known that
large quantities Of jewelry were sys-
tematically passed over the French
border free of duty, but they were at
4 loss TO discover how the smuggling
was done. In the luggage van of the
express which rum between Paris and
Brussels in a case which holds the
accumulators when the train is cleo
trically lighted. A key Of the cas Is
held by the conductor Of the express,
a foreman porter and an excise official
OF the border station, but none of
these eve appear to use il. The other
day, as the train ran In Quevy, the
border town, a customs inspector took
Ii into his head, more from ofiicious-
ness than suspicion, to open the chest.
To his amaZement the case was filled
TO the lid with watches, chains, rings,
bracelets and all kinds Of dutiable jew
elry, to the value of over 81, 500.
There was an exciting scene The
train vas delayed, and a council Of
customs officers was held, In spite OF
the protests of the passengers at the
delay. 1t was decided, pending fur
ther inquiries, TO detain the conduc-
tor and the foreman porter at Quevy
and 1t was ultimately found that the
latter had for a long period been car
rying on II c0ntrahand traffic for a
we'll known Paris jeweler, who. il Is
said, has had to disgorge heavily both
in jewelry and hard cash in
quence of the disclosure of his frauds.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
The Quick Suicide,

plato, thou reasoneth welr he mut-
tered.
There was but an instant 10 whit.
In that instant life spread before him,
It's joys here, it's sorrows there.
Nevertheless" he exclaimed, with
new courage, 81 will not die. Ons
striker
Before he undertook TO umpire tho
game, he had ascertained that this
sympathies of the bleachers We're With
the pitcher.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26
Small Fry Swindlers.

Some OF the meanest of these are they
who seek to trade upon and make capital
out Of the reputation of the greatest of
American %tonics, Hostetter's Stomach Bit.
ters, by initiating its outward guise. Rep
utable druggists, however, will never foist
upon you as genuine spurious limitations of
or substitute for this sovereign remedy for
malaria, rheumatism, dyspepsia, constipa-
ton, liver complaint and nervousness. De-
mand, and IL the dealer be honest, you will
get the genuine article.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-09-26

The cook should examine carefully
the label of the baking powder and
see that she is not imposed upon. If
the grocer sends anything but the
Royal, send it back, as one cock did
five times until she go: the Royal. The
only safe way is Cor the cook TO have
the finest things to work with, and the
Royal is not only the finest but the
most economical to use because it
goes so much further.