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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

It never pays to overload young
teams.
1t costs more to keep poor horse
than good one.
After cream becomes sour, the more
ripening the more it depreciates.
Feed oats to form bone and muscle
and corn and oil-cake to make fat.
Increasing the product and cheaper
ing the cost will increase the profits.
Teach the colts to walk we'll and you
will lay good foundation for other
gaits.
The teams will derive more benefit
from their noon rest if the harness il.
removed.
Always keep the pillow sharp. Ii
makes better and easier work for the
men and teams.
When the lambs come running to
their feed it is good indication that
they arc feeling well.
There is only one way of receiving a
good reputation for producing good
article from the farm, and that is to
produce it.
The object in fertilizing is not only
to add to the elements in the soil, but
to aid those already there and make
them available. Farmers Review.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A woman school teacher Of Ames.
bury, Mass, retired last week after ga
years of continuous service.
Every game will be square" is the.
assuring but somewhat astonishing an.
nouncement in, the advertisement Of 4
church fair in Maine town. +
The election of Prof. PIERCE to the
presidency of Kenyon college has been
received with great. satisfaction, nos
only in Gambia, but by all friends of
Kenyon. 4,
Canon Mason, of London, has ac-
cepted an invitation of the Episco-
palian club of Boston to deliver three
lectures on 'Archbishop Cranmer."
They will be given in St. Paul's church.
Boston. &
d.. Sesare Lombroso, late professor
Of legal medicine in the University of
Turin, has been transferred, says Science,
to the chair Of psychiatry. He has ais,
been given the dictatorship of the uni
versity clinic for mental diseases.
1t is proposed to utilize part of Miss
Culver's gift to the University of Chi.
cago in erecting four separate build
ings, one each for zoology, botany, an
atomy and physiology. Ground has al
ready been broken for the first of these.
The bishop of Bedford AYERS that
the east London district contains q
population Of 100000, nearly all poor.
From this statement some idea will
be had of the vastness of the work the
clergy are called upon to perform. The
difficulty of raising funds for so great
q work is very great. ~ - s1s t''
There. were 1906 students in al
tendance at Russian universities at the
beginning of the year, divided as fol-
lows: Moscow, 1888; St. Petersburg,
1928; Kiev, 2,244; Helsingfors, in
Finland, 1875; Dorpat in Livonia,
1854; Warsaw, 1885; Kharkov, 1000;
Kazan, 1925; Odessa, 555, and Tomsk, in
Siberia, 405
According to the Pontifical Annual,
which has just been issued, there still
remain six cardinals in the sacred co..
lege created by Pope Plus TX. They are
Cardinals Mertel, Parrochi, Oreglia,
Ledochowski, De Canossa and Hohen-
lobe. Cardinal Mertel, the senior, is
now 80 years old and Cardinal de Can
ossa, the next oldest. is 81. The young
est cardinal, according to the book, IL
Cardinal Svampa, who is only As.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

wide. The two outside tiers project
over the middle tier inch, in order to
make groove for chain to run in. The
post A in diagram is inches square,
hard wood, rounded off at each end to
run in bearings on floor and in overlap.
The big wheel is fastened on post high
enough for horses to walk underneath.
The chain B is size heavier than com.
mon pillow chain. The jack in illustra-
ton is made from the gearing of an old
Buckeye mower. 1t is shown fastened
to post in barn. C is wooden pulley
Is inches in diameter, with groove for
chain and bolted to rachel wheel, orig
inally on the main shaft of the old now
er. D is the bevel gearing and F is a
wooden pulley bolted to cog wheel for
belt or rope to connect with cutting
box. x is the tightening pulley,
hinged at (a) with weight & attached
to keep chain taut.-Cor. Ohio Farmer
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
ORIGIN OF BLUE GRASS.

Not Originally Kentucky Product, for
1t Came from Indiana.
II notice by the papers that some
body in the south part of the state wants
to know where blue grass first started"
said Prof. John Collett, ex-state geolo.
gist.
"a great many people contend thai
it was first found in kentucky, but this
is not SO. Blue grass is a native of the
Wabash valley in Indiana. It was found
by William Henry Harrison's troops
during the solemn march to Tippe.
canoe in 1911. Harrison gathered
small army at Ohio Falls, and started
Forth. At Vincennes the gallant
heroes realized that they could not GO
200 miles up the Wabash without feed
for their horses. Gen. Harrison had
two cribs of corn at Terre Haute and
persuaded the men to go on. AS they
came on with hungry horses and scant
feed they found the ground covered
with blue grass. Six miles west OF
Newport on the Collett farm was found
a bountiful supply of blue grass. Some
places in the bottom it was growing
three feet high and such feed had never
been heard of by the Kentucky soldiers
At State Line City more blue grass was
found and from there to Tippecanoe the
whole line of march was covered with
blue grass. The seed was carried back
to Kentucky and sown there, but they
could not make it thrive alone in the
warm soil and it had to be sown with
oats and rye. Mr.. Sandusky, the father
of the present family of that name, told
me in an early day that no blue grass.
grew in Kentucky until after it was
imported from Indiana. Tom Down.
ing, of Terre Haute, was an ardent ad.
mirer of Henry Clay, and once went to
visit him at his home near Ashland.
Ky. After seeing the fine farm, well
set in blue grass, Downing suggested
that Mr.. Clay let him have some of the
seed to take back to Indiana.
"'Tom, don't make fool of your.
SELF said Clay, the grandsire of Ken.
lucky blue grass is growing around
your house in the fence corners OF
your fields. We got the seed from
Terre Haute and the middle Wabash.
and after hard struggle got it to grow
here in it's present luxuriousness.' >
indianapolis Journal.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
FARM HORSE POWER.

Erected on q Barn" Floor and Used with
Excellent Success. .Et.-
I send herewith a rough sketch of a
power erected on barn floor, which
gives good satisfaction for cutting
straw or cornfodder. The large wheel
in diagram is IL or II feet in diameter,
made of wood. The hub of the big
wheel is feet in diameter, made Of
inch boards nailed together, with
square hole in center to fit post. The
spokes, in number, are 2x4 inch
hemlocl scantling, bolted to hub with
two A-inch bolts in each. The rim is
made of three tiers of inch boards, cut
the proper circle and about inches
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
ALFALFA AND GLOVER.
Conclusions Drawn from an Indiana Ex
pertinent Station Report.

Conclusions Drawn from an Indiana Ex-
pertinent Station Report
Alfalfa has been grown several years
at the Indian experiment station, and
VIC. Latta, agriculturistof the station,
speaking from experience, says that
although alfalfa can, when well started,
endure drought better than clover, it
cannot produce three or more crops the
same season without irrigation. This
information is necessary to counterfeit
statements made by some enthusiasts,
who may, unintentionally, mislead
some into displacing clover with alfalfa.
on account of the alleged immense
yields of the latter.
At the station it was found that al
falfa is more feeble than clover at the
start, and is very liable to be choked by
weeds the first season; that it increases
in vigor until the third year at least,
and thus maintains itself better and
longer in the soil than common red,
mammoth or alsike clover; that in very
dry seasons-like 1s95-it may yield
more hay than clover; that in normal
seasons it sometimes yields less than
clover; that but two cuttings of alfalfa
may be expected the same season with
out irrigation.
In any fertile soil, having sufficiently
porous sub-soil to permit it to strike
deep root into the lower, permanently
moist earth, the alfalfa will probably do
we'll. It is said to do best in light, cal
careous loans, underlaid with porous
subsoil. The land should be thorough
ly and deeply drained, and may be
plowed to advantage. Subsoil in the
fall, but sow the seed in the spring.
Close pasturing by any class of stock
is injurious to alfalfa, and sheep should
not be allowed upon it, but if not grazed
too close it will endure pasturing fairly
well. It's, however, best for hay.
In any soil where red clover thrives
it is not wise to discard it for alfalfa
without first experimenting with the
latter. If experience proves it superior
to clover as a seed, soil renovator and
a yielder, then change can be safely
made.-Journal of Agriculture.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

potato, these branches will be cut off,
and the strength of the eye diminished
more or less. The proper way to cut
the tubers for seed is to cut them
crosswise, of the tuber, as indicated by
the dotted lines, beginning with the
one near the stem-end, and going
around with the spiral produced by the
eyes. This will leave the eye and it's con-.
nection whole from the surface to GEN.
ter of the tuber, and it will be in the
best condition to terminate and grow.
It is not settled yet whether it is best
to plant the tip or the seed end, or not.
In practice do not do it, as there are
so many eyes together there that they
interfere with each other, and, except
with new and very highly priced,
seed, clip the seed end squarely off
and throw it away.
The usual method of planting pota-
toes is to cover three or four inches deep
with soil, and plant in drills. This is
probably the best way where the land
is infested with weeds, but I am con-
WINGED that larger crops can be grown
by mulching the surface with straw,
where there will not be too many weeds
to contend with. One man in Illinois
made great success by using straw
only as covering, putting on enough
to keep it from drying out at any time
during the season.
have tried this plan, with varying
success, but better way with me has
been to prepare the ground in the best
rocc;blo 1oonnor op1 ,,1opt tho po%,4ooe
as usual. In few days light harrow
is run over the land, and this is re-
peated about the time the potatoes are
ready to come through the ground.
After this the mulch of straw is put on,
and the only after-work is to pull out
the weeds that come through; a small
task if the land has had proper cul-
tivation during previous years. One
of the best and largest crops ever grew
was grown by this method.
In whatever manner potatoes are
planted, they must have thorough cul-,
tivation, deep for the early part of the
season, and shallow after the roots be-
gin to run across the rows, for there
is not = crop that is injured more by
having the roots torn off by cultivation
than crop of potatoes. Unless the
roots have plenty of room and plenty
of food the crop cannot be good one.
This is one point where most people
sin. They do not stop to think that
the potato-plant has naturally long
roots, and needs to be cultivated ac-
cordingly. II this were attended to,
the crop of the country would be enor-
mously increased, with not cent more
of cost attached to it.-Farm and Fire
side.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
Vegetables Raised by ELECTRICITY.

For the first time in history vege-
tables raised by electricity are to
be placed in the New York market this
year. The agricultural colleges have
long been experimenting with raising
fruits and vegetables by means of cleo
trio lights and currents. Now electric
farms have been established in New Jer-
sey. The electricity is generated on
the farms, and not only lights the build
ings, but supplies the motive power for
farming and teanling, besides wonder
fully stimulating vegetable growth by
means of underground wires and arc
lights suspended over plants. Upon
one of the New Jersey farms $25, 900 has
been expended for electrical appliances,
the farm yielding from 40 to 60 per cent.
better returns than do the best farms
worked under the old system.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
RICULTURAL HINTS.
CUTTING POTATO SEED.
The Proper Way to Do 1t Is to Slice the
Tubers CrOsswise.

The Proper Way to Do 1t Is to Slice the
Tubers CrOsswise.
There is a right and wrong way tn
cut potato-seed, and most people cut
the wrong way. If you will take po-
tato and examine it carefully, youwill
see the eyes, instead of being placed
promiscuously about the potato, are
placed in a more or less regular spiral
from stem to seed end. If a potato is
split in half lengthwise after the eyes
have started in the spring, you
can see the continuation of the eyes
from where they appear on the surface
to the center of the tuber indicated by
watery streak, something after the
manner shown in the cut.
3 Now, if in cutting potatoes for seed
the pieces are cut straight through the
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

ToMM1E-"What is a tailor's goose, pop?''
Pop-'1 suppose it is what he makes duck
trousers on."-Yonkers Statesman.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

BEAUTY marred by a bad complexion may
be restored by Glenn g Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whislxer Dye, so cents.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

P1so's CURE is wonderful Cough medi.
G1ne.-MRs. ". P1CKERT, Van Siclen and
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

WHEN q man has no longer any concep-
ton of excellence above his own, hisvoyage
Is done, he is dead.-Beecher.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

SOME people have moral sentiment who
and difference.-N Y. Mail and Express.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

~ IF a colony winters badly it influences
the working qualities of the queen. The
colony pulls up slowly.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

Swarming is not essential to the ex-
istence Of a colony, but some bees arc
more given to it than others.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
Gluttonous Eskimos.

The eating powers Of the Esquimaux,
if the tales told in the books of north.
ern exploration are to be believed, are
most extraordinary. Sir w. E. Perry
tells of a young man, scarcely full
grown, who ate four pounds and four
pounds and four ounces of seahorse
flesh broiled, one pound and twelve
ounces of bread, and one and one-quar-
ter pounds of rich gravy, in twelve
hours. Besides. eating the above, he
also drank one pint Of grog, three
glasses of raw spirits and nine pints
of water. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

Frs stopped free and permanently cured.
No fits after first days use of DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. Free 50 trial bottle
& treatise DR.. KLINE, 933 Arch st. Phila. Pa.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04

Mrs. PRosY-. Reading is quite a passion
with my husbands Mrs. Dresser--"So It
Is with mine when he reads my milliner's
bills !n-London Fun.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
AZ . Photographer's.

LADY, want to have my photograph
taken and I want to have this little boy
taken with me.
photographer ~ We make an extra
charge, madam, when two photographs
are taken at once.
'.Oh, but Til keep the boy in my lap. J"
F;iegende Blaetter. II
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-04
Responsive Both to Harsh and sweet

sss s5: Sounds,
The nerves are often painfully acute. When
this is the case, the best thing to be done is
to seek the tonic and tranq utilizing assis-
lance Of Hoste ,ter's Stomach Bitters, SUI
perb% nerYine. N 10 less beneficial is it for
dyspeptic, bilious, malarial, rheumatic,
bowel and kidney complaints. Use with
persistent regularity. A wineglassful be-
fore retiring confers sleep.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

! THE Indiana bicycle works at In
dianapolis, Ind, the largest of the kind
in the world, employing 800 men when
running full handed, has shut down
until after the election. Charles +.
Smith, president of the company, said,
in giving reasons for closing: The
uncertainty of the future is one suf-
ficient cause. We have $500. 900 out
now, and we want to know what we
are to realize on hat before we put
more money at the present value into
stock.
AT a church meeting on the Little
Sandy, in Elliott county. Ky, on the
10th, four men were killed and two
wounded. \ man named Spices was
selling whisky, and n large number of
horse traders got into a fight, in which
two Harrison brothers and two Witt
brothers were instantly killed, and
two others, names unknown, were
wounded, n seriously and the other
slightly.
FRANK JACOBS, of Cincinnati, was
killed at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 10th, by
falling from his balloon, which burst at
an altitude of $50 feet, his parachute
failing to work. On the same day at
Dallas, Tex, Prof. G. Borsen, a bal
l%oonist, met the same fate. lie dropped
from his balloon and alighting in the
forks of a tree, his neck was broken.
THE weekly statement of the New
York city associated banks for the week
ended the on 18th showed the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, Stills
400; loans, decrease, So, rs, 400; specie,
increase, S317,2OO; legal tenders, de-
crease, ST. 75, 800; deposits, decrease,
| 50, 40, 500; circulation, increase, $780,
600.
DURING Il heavy thunder storm, on
the 10th. three little girls were cross
ing the river in a row boat on their
way to Sunday-school at Napanee,
Ont, when lightning struck and killed
two OF them and rendered the other
unconscious. They were all under IL
years of age.
Mrs DELLA S. PARNELL sailed from
| Philadelphia for Liverpool on the
steamship Pennland on the 18th. She
will remain in England on an indef-
mite visit with her daughter and grand
children.
AT Bowmanville, Ont, on the 10th,
A. Petite and Miss Darsch were blown
out into the lake in n small skiff dur
ing a heavy storm. A rescuing party
could find no trace of them, and it
is believed they were drowned.
On the 18th the associated banks OF
New York city held SO. 400, IFS in ex:
cess of the requirements of the 25-per-
cent. rule.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22
A Brilliant Young Man Gone.

Or. William Shrader. dean of the
electrical department of the Missouri
state university, died at Columbia of
nervous prostration, brought on by
heat and overwOrk in experimenting
with Roentgen rays.
DR.. Shrader, who was 30 years of age,
was Il native Of Indiana. He first grad
uated at the Tcrre Haute Ind.) high
school and then at the Rose polytech-
ME institute of that city, after which
he went to Germany, where he re-
manned five years engaged in the study
of electricity. At the end of that time
he received the degree at Strassburg
and returned to America. Contrary to
advice of his physician, he accepted
THO position of dean of the electrical
department of the Missouri university.
Since then he was honored in many
ways by the leading electricians of the
country, and served as a Judge in the
electrical department of the Worlds
Fair. The deceased was a son of Col.
a. f. Shrader, of Tcrre Haute, who was
for many years a prominent railroad
official.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22
MISSOURI a NEWS
Texas Fever Experiments.

Interesting experiments with germs
Of Texas fever are being conducted in
the chemical laboratory of the Mis-
souri, university.
The experiments are in charge OF Prof. II. J.
Waters. dean OF the state agricultural college.
1t has been almost demonstrated that this
fever is disseminated through the medium Of
Texas ticks.
The Missouri experiment station and state
board OF agriculture and Texas experiment
station collaborating in a series Of experi-
ments to determine the cause OF Texas fever,
and try 10 lind some cheap and etf-
cient means of preventing its spread. The
result of the experiment here confirms this
theory. Three ShOrthOrn cows artifciaIly in
fected with ticks expressed from Texas have
died. A careful pOst-nortem examination was
made, and geulne Texas fever found in each
case. \ carload OF Texas cattle, which he
fore shipping were dipped IN 4 solution 10 de-
stroy all ticks C@On them, arrived the other
day and were taken TO Il lot for experiment ut
the COLLEGE farm. A number OF Mis-
Souri, cattle will be confined with the
Texas cattle, 10 determine whether animals
which have been CleauSed OF the ticks are
capable Of transmitting the disease to Mis-
souri, stock. II found not to communicate it.
this will open the Missouri pastures and feed
pens to Texas cattle at all seasons of the year.
and Will very materially reduce the expenses
of enforcing the quarantine regulations. 1t
Will also save i loss OF many thousand dollars
annually, caused By death of native cattle
from this disease. The United States govern
ment is watching these experiments with the
greatest interest. 1t has detailed . scientific
expert from Washington to watch progress
and report results.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22
THRILLING

Felt In the Movements of a Vessel Ps-
toms District
SAVANNAH. Ca, Aug IA special
to the Morning News from Brunswick
Ga, says:
Either q Spanish gunboat or Ameri-
can man-of-war is patroling the coast
of the Brunswick customs district.
Smoke from a large steamer was seen
about noon by visitors to St Simon
island, and later the shape of a large
vessel, generally supposed to be the
Spanish cruiser Alfonso, was dis
cerned. Since that hour throngs OF
excited people have walked st. Simons
beach, climbing into the hotel
cupola, tree tops and every con-
ceivable place available to get
4 better view of the vessel,
which in the meantime, has steadily
patroled just outside the sea buoy at
the entrance of Brunswick harbor up
to the north of st. Simons island and
back to Daboy sound. In view of the
fact that the present whereabouts OF
the flibustering steamer is unknown,
and she is supposed to be in hiding
near these waters, and the further fact.
that tits not positively known whether
the Brunswick tug Dauntless made
her escape to sea with the expedition
which left Satilla river bridge Thurs
day morning last, the interest created
by the appearance of this var ship is
thrilling and causes much excitement.