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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
RURAL MISCELLANY.
Plan to grow more grass and Glove

Plan to grow more grass and clover.
Study the requirements of the soil
as we'll as of the market
Select the crops with respect to their
adaptability to the farm.
1t is not only an item to increase
quantity but to improve the quality of
the crops.
Colts should be trained to walk fast
before attempting to improve them in
any other gait.
On the farm, as in any other line of
business, it is an item to save labor
and economic time.
Manure adds 10 the productiveness of
land as soon as If is applied, but all of
the substances will not be used up in
one season.
The farm products should be put in
the form in which they will bring the
most money and yet leave the farm
In the most productive condition.
While the farm may not always show
large returns in the way of cash, yet
with good management the farmer may
be reasonably sure of a good living.
Continuous cropping without making
an adequate return to the soil impover-
ishes the land and in the end will leave
an unproductive farm on which to make
Hving.-Farmers' Union.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
TILLAGE OF CROPS.

Deep Working Is Said to Serve No
Good Purpose Whatever.
All tillage of crops should be shall
low. The time to go deep is when the
ground is plowed in the fall. Deep
tillage of a growing crop serves no good
purpose whatever, while it is very in
furious to the plants. 1t is folly to move
the soil in which the roots of a plant
are growing unless it is desired to check
the growth of the plant. What is needed
is intelligent shallow tillage. After
every rain the crust that forms on the
surface must be broken up, and any inn
plement that runs one or two inches
deep will accomplish that purpose.
During drought the surface of the soil
gradually packs and forms a crust, and
hence surface or shallow cultivation is
as necessary as after shower. Shallow
cultivation will destroy weeds quite as
effectively as deep, while it can be done
with less than fourth of the labor.
The time to destroy weeds is just when
they appear above the surface. Thor
ough tillage includes the destruction
of all weeds as soon as they appear.
Neither weeds nor grass of any sort
should be allowed to rob the soil of one
atom of its fertility. This involves
watchfulness and labor, but not hard
mbor if the right kind of tools are used
and used in time.
Thorough is simply intelligent tillage.
A man must know his soil and then till
1t in the manner that experience aud
common sense show is best.-Troy On,
W Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
sILvERwARE AND ART GOODS

Chocolate spoons, with decorated
Dresden handles, have silver gilt bowls.
Openwork bonbon baskets in silver
and mounted on tiny feet are popular.
China bric-a-brac follows the present
fashion of reproducing old-time de-
signs.
There are French enameled vases that
are choice reproductions of a very early
period.
Table silverware in quaint colonial
patterns, with beaded edge. continues
to please.
Numbered with new things in silver
are a cracker spoon, a honey knife and
individual asparagus tongs.
There are complete toilet sets mount
ed in gold and enameled in blue or set
with turquoise for babies.
When one is luxuriously inclined, the
passing of the days may be noted from
illuminated calendars in gold frames
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08

to do is to tag, and the ewes should be
tagged before Landing time, at least
two weeks. The wool should be cut
clean, so that the droppings will not
touch it. This is hard to do with the
sheep lying on the floor or bench. We
have constructed a bench (see cut), SO
that the holder can set the sheep with
rump on the bench at 2, the holder sit
ting back on the bench at 3, with his
feet on the rung 1, holding the sheep
by the hind legs, so that it is in about
the same position as if it was standing
up. In this position we can tag them
perfectly. We have a basket setting I'M
der the end of the bench at 2, to catch
the wool. The other end of the bench
can be fixed the same, so it will accom-
mOdate two taggers.
When turning out on grass we give
our sheep a full feed of hay in the
morning until they getused to the grass.
Turn them on the grass for few hours
the first day, and so on for few days,
not giving them any salt to speak of,
and they will soon go wholly on the
grass and not scour much. The prin-
cipal care for the rest of the season is
watching them, to keep them clean.
BY so doing we outgeneral the flies and
maggOtS.-OniO Farmer
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
HIS AND That.

An attempt to acchmatiZe ostriches
In South Russia has proved successful.
The ostricheS born in Russia are much
less sensitive to cold than the imported
ones and their plumes are equally good.
Two gentlemen in Calais, Me-, one fat
and the other thin, lately met and COM
pared notes. The fat man had been adj
vised to drink glass of water before
each meal to make him thin; and the
thin man had been directed by another
physician to use the same treatment to
make him fat.
The sum of $1,000 at ten per cent.
compound interest for so years will
amount to S117,39o. At six per cent.
the same sum will amount @1,s42. Young
man, why didn't some angel advise your
father to invest that sum for your bene-
fit half century ago?
When Calhoun was vice president,
and therefore presiding officer in the
senate, he would not permit one sena-
tor to refer to n colleague as "my friend
from Virginia" or 1.-The gentleman
from Massachusetts," He insisted that
the correct phrase was 'the senator
from Virginia" or "the senator from
Massachusetts,"
John Jacob Astor's new hotel. adj
joining the Waldorf, in New York city,
is to be called the Astoria, and will have
1000 rooms. The ballroom will be IS
by 90 feet and 40 feet in height. with two
tiers of galleries. It's cost will be about
$5,000,00o. Both hotels will, when in
operation, require the attendance of
1000 persons.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
THE FARMING WORLD.
A SPLENDID EXAMPLE.
French Law Which should Be Intrs

French Law Which Should Be Intro
duced in This Country.
In an article on the necessity of sound
fires for horse breeding, contempt
rary SAYS: Every stallion in France
standing for public service must have
government veterinary certificate"
Here is an excellent suggestion for rem
dering such service to horse breeders
just now, when they are awakening to
the fact that sound, well-bred animals
will fetch higher prices in the near fu-
ture than they have in the past; al
though those who ought to know, con-
tend that at no time, even during the
depression through which we have
passed or are now passing, have horses
possessing real merit been drug on the
market, or fetched any but fair prices.
These dealers, whose opinions are Ell
TITLED TO full credit, are unanimous III
stating that there is dearth of good
horses in the country; and should the
demand at all equal their expectations
there will be a general desire on the
part of those who have dams suitable
for the purpose, to breed to suit the an
ticipated demand. With no particular
leaning for parental govern ment, it
seems that just here is where little pa
ternalism would come in TO public adj
vantage. 1t is entirely possible. in every
state where horse-raising can be con-
Quoted profitably, and where board Of
agriculture is established with veter-
mary department affiliated with it, for
such a board to issue u certificate of
soundness to every stallion owner seek
ing public patronage for his horses
service. This certificate would be an
immense safeguard for the breeder
for not one in twenty hOrsemen are
competent to pass confidently upon
horses constitution. The possession Of
the certificate would enable the owner
to offer the services of the horse at n
reasonable fee, inasmuch as he would
be in greater demand for his certified
soundness; at the same time the want of
warranty would drive unsound animals
out of the market and out of comPeti.
ton But even if farmers were asked to
pay higher fees than they have been &C
customed to pay, the guarantee that the
sire was sound would be worth the
money. The idea offers a suggestion
to some individual or association to
take up what is undoubtedly an i'm
portant ubject.-Journal of AgricuI'
ture
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A COMPLETE WRECK.
Eirs Follows in the Wake of the lorna
and Makes Bad Work.

Wire Follows in the Wake of the Tornado
and Makes Bad Work.
GUTHRIE, Okla, March S1.-The Tor
NADIA reported in these dispatches last
night struck the town of Chandler at
six o'clock and swept it off the face OF
the earth. The storm came from the
southwest and swept across the town,
leaving scarcely building of any inn
portance standing. Everything in the
town was a mass of ruins in a few
groans and cries of the wounded and
shrieks for help from every side.
The wrecks of many of the store
buildings took fire and in short time
an awful holocaust was in progress,
many of those injured and buried in
the ruins being burned to death. A
large number of the injured are badly
burned. Between the fire, the wind
and the rain, the provisions, medicine,
clothing, etc, in the stores were all de-
stroyed or so badly injured as to be
worthless and unless new supplies ar
rive at once there will be much suffer
ing.
The storm broke upon the city sud-
denly, the sky being clear, an hour be-
fore. The cloud soon developed into a
funnel shape. 1t touched the ground
aud tore up trees like twigs- The roar
was deafening. A cloud-burst pre-
ceded it
About twenty dead bodies have been
recovered and IS or more of the in
jured have been cared for. But one
physician in Chandler was uniniured,
and physicians were sent from this
city at midnight. and also from Still
water, arriving there soon after 'ay-
light and assisting in the care of the
injured. There was not half collins
enough there to bury the dead.
About half million dollars'worth of
property is destroyed. Ten thousand
people are now on the ground from the
surrounding towns and country.
From this city four wagon loads OF
clothing, bedding and provisions have
been sent and the Guthrie club has
raised 81, 500 in cash to send tomorrow.
Not until noon to-day was there any
regulation of any note toward allevia-
ting the suffering. The people are slow
To recover from their terror.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
A LEGACY OF DISEASE.
Veterans OF the War Repaid in
Sickness.
Abasha Risk Only Lives Because He
Persevered-SuRere Since the
War with kidney Disease.
From the News, St. John. Kansas.

From the News, st. John, Kansas.
livery citizen or st. Jonn, Kansas, Is &C
quainted with Abasha Risk, one of the ''Old
Veterans of the late war and resident of
this city. A few months ago he was a COM
plete physical wreck, from kidney trouble
and diarrhoea, almost unable to get around
at all. Your correspondent, who had learned
he had found relief, meeting him on the
street recently, asked if he wouldn't give
him all the facts, as he was interested, as
were also all his friends. MIR. Risk said
he was only too glad to let the people in
general and his old comrades IN particular,
lwho he knew were suffering from COM
plants similar to his), know what had bene-
fitted him.
He then made the following statement:
Il had been suffering for years from a
complication of diseases, among them kid
ney and liver trouble and chronic diarrhoea.
The greatest trouble of all, however, was
the complete wreck of my nervous system,
resulting from my service in the army. /
was, In fact, In a most terrible and deplor-
able condition. / tried every remedy /
could hear of without the least beneficial
results, until / saw testimonial of an "old
veteran" who was in the same regiment
with me during the war with whom was
well acquainted), stating that he had been
cured of similar complaint by the use of
DIR. Williams Pink Pills. / had almost
given up hope, but concluded at last to give
Pink Pills trial, as they might possibly
l.
commenced to feel slightly better; my inn
provement was very slow, however, but still
it was noticeable, and this was encouraging.
In the course of about three weeks my con-
dition was vastly improved. To the present
time I have taken Is boxes of Pink Pills,
and can truthfully say / believe l am en-
tire1y cured of my liver and kidney trouble,
and nearly so of my diarrhoea. My nervous
trouble, too, is SO much better that / am
sure a cure will be entirely perfected in a
short time.
MY wife also used the Pink Pills with
great benefit. Her blood was in an ex-
tremely bad condition. Since using the pills,
however, this condition has entirely disap-
Feared. consider DIR. Williams Pink Pills
the most marvellous discovery of the age.
cannot say too much in their praise"
ABASHA RISK.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are not patent medicine in the sense that
name implies. They were first compounded
as prescription and used as such in general
practice by an eminent physician. So great
was their efficacy that it was deemed wise to
place them within the reach of all. They
are now manufactured by the DIR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N Y, and
are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the
dozen or hundred, and the public are eau
toned against numerous limitations sold in
this shapel at so cents a box, or six boxes for
$3.50, and may be had of all druggists or
direct by mail from DR.. Williams Med. Co.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
STYLES IN THE STORES.

Cloth collets or tiny capes trimmed
with small, fancy buttons down the
front.
Moire brocade in black to make skirts
of to wear with low evening chiffon
waists.
Plain and braided black and light
cloth jackets, the colors running to the
two extremes.
Imported costumes trimmed with a
silk collar edged with silk braid headed
with small braId-covered buttons.
Black gowns, silk or wool, made VI
with a small cape TO match, which is
lined with the bright color usually seen
in the vest.
Panels, girdles, separate ornaments,
boleros and vests of black aud white
silk braid bordered with picots of fine
gilt soutache.
Black satin waists made with u box
plat fastened with gold buttons, cuffs
on bishop sleeves held together by sim
liar buttons. belt OF satin fastened with
buttons and red satin stock and tiny
linen collar-Dry Goods Economist.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
Erolutlon b the Kitohen.

The following amusing story is told
with reference to the theory of evolu-
ton, which has recently been so much
to the fore. Two on three mornings
after the arrival of a new butler the
mistress of the house took the opportu-
nifty OF asking the cook how she liked
her new fellow-servant. The report
was an excellent one. In fact, ma'am,
said the cook, the servants hall is
quite a different place now" Not un-
naturally, the mistress pressed for fur
Their particulars. well, he talks so
cleverly," said the cook. Last night,
for instance, he explained things to us
for an hour and half Explained
things-what things?" said the mis-
tress, now really interested. ''Wel,"
was the reply, ''he was telling US how
we are all descended from Mr.. Darwinr'
N " Churchman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
How to Ship Lambs.

The lamb makes more money for the
raiser when shipped alive than in any
other way. When the tender youngsters
are fit for the market and to be forward
ed by themselves the car should be
boarded up tight. Have plenty of feed
and water in the car. Would advise
cornmeal as a feed, placed where the
animal could nibble the same at will.
If shipped with their Dams they should
not be separated. In case only few
are sent on at time they should be
placed in a rOomy box or crate and
shipped by express, so that they will
not lose their best qualities by being on
the road too long.-Dakota Field and
Farm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08

As soon as the time for occasional
warm days comes the bees will begin
flying, and to prevent them from flying
too far it is best 10 provide food and
pollen for them near at hand. The best
food is sugar strip, and this should be
carefully prepared, for it must not be
burned in making. We cannot furnish
pollen for the bees, but a good suhsti-
tute is rye -four, wheat shorts or oat-
meal. IL they do not take kindly 10 this
food little extracted honey mixed with
II will reconcile them and get them to
taking it.-Farmers Voice.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08

cade. The Norfolk style of costume will
still be in high favor all summer for
yachting, cycling. travelling and tennis
wear. The graceful crossed corsages
with their demure nuns folds and also
many fichu and bertha effects appear
upon not a few of the dainty and poetic
creations from Paris. These styles are
largely copied by American modistes
in the making of orgaIdie, India muslin.
batiste and similar summer textiles
Some Of the newest corsages for slender
matrons and young women are hooked
up the back, the front portion showing
q full vest, a short bolero and a high
girdle.
All sorts of fetching little capes, fichus
and pelerines will be worn en- suite
with thin summer toilettes as we'll as
those in wool and silk and wool for the
present season. KATE DUNAAM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08

jacket bodice of plain cloth matching
one of the shades in the check, with
braiding or rows of gimp forming the
contrasting color.
On the making of new sleeves, the
close coat-shape is almost universally
used, but the manner of arranging the
sleeve tops is simply endless; frills in
rows, few or many; deep fiOunces, but
terfly draperies, puffs, points, caps,
slashed effects, etc., all prevailing
among fashionable models. The linen,
duck, holland and white and colored
pique suits are very stylish this year.
hut they still share honors with the
grass linen toilettes, many of which are
deliberately trimmed and so elegantly
lined that they cost quite as much when
completed as an expensive silk or bro
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
standard of the world.

For nearly two score of years the Win
chester has been the standard rife of the
world. 1t is found in all lands and it is al
ways very highly thought of on account
of its accuracy, strength and durability,
There are over two million Winchester guns
in use to-day, but the makers have yet 10
learn of any dissatisfaction with them.
Such a recommendation as this should con-
vince everybody of the exceptionally high
quality of Winchester guns. Winchester
ammunition is of as exactly as high. a
standard and always gives, entire satisfae
results obtained cannot be equalled. Send
to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,
New Haven, Ct, for large illustrated
catalogue free.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
hest Way to Feed Roots.

When potatoes, turnips or beets are
cooked it is not necessary to mash them
for fowls or chicks Simply give the
roots whole where the fowls can get
them, and the birds will soon pick them
to pieces. The heads of the sunflowers
can also be left to the fowls in order 10
save the labor of separating the seeds.
Cabbages may be fastened to small
stakes, and even clover hay may be cut
line and fed dry, though scalding is
preferred. The saving of unnecessary
labor is an addition to the profk-Farra
and Fireside.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
The AwruI Small Boy.

As young Smithers moved out the
card-table he asked, casually: Where
is the bright red tablecloth you used to
have? always liked that"
You wouldn't like it now" inter
posed little Tommy.
Tommy" said his sister, run away
and play, there's dear"
II won'tP' answered Tommy, ISIS
ter"
''Sh, Tommy, hush!"
''Won'tP' answered Tommy again,
and as he was hustled from the room
he yelled:
Sisters made petticoat out of the
table-cloth. Dublin World.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
TURKEYS FOR MARKET.
Birds of Medium Size Always Sell at
a satisfactory Price.

Birds of Medium Size Always Sell Mt
Satisfactory Price.
We can offer a pointer on marketing
turkeys that we discovered while buy
ing Christmas turkeys in the city mar
ket, and that is the superiority of the
medium-sized turkeys over 20 to "a
Founders, as sellers. People, as rule,
do not want enough turkey at one time
to lay a banquet spread, and conse-
quently they pick for something small,
or not exceeding medium in size.
The hen turkeys always sell first,
simply because they are more suited in
size to the wants of the ordinary family.
Then the smaller gobblers go, and lastly
the pride of the flock-the biggest tom
in the lot-and he usually goes at dis
count of two or three cents pound less
than the lesser weights.
A turkey that weighs from ten to fff-
teen pounds dressed is plenty large
enough. The people don't want a tur-
key as big as hog, but they do want
fat turkey.
It seems to us that there is a good
deal of room for improvement in breed
ing turkeys for the market. That a
bird shorter in legs and neck and very
full in the breast would be more desira-
BILE. One that would be meaty and
plump, and capable of taking on great
deal of fat.
The heavy weight. tall, rawboned
toms that weigh 25 to 40 pounds may be
suited to a barbecue feast, but they are
not the kind that the man with an or
dinary-sized market basket looks for
when he goes to the city market.
There would be more demand and
better sale for turkeys all the year
through if they were grown more with
view to compact body. meat and fat,
than for large size and coarse structure.
H. B. Geer, in Midland Poultry jour
nal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
MURDERED AND ROBBED.

Prompt Request for the Recovery of Money
and Arrest OF the Guilty.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The depart
nent of state is advised from Constan-
tinople that Yessuf Yunan. who was
charged with the distribution of relief
funds ut Saird, Asiatie Turkey, was
murdered and robbed of $500. On the
assumption that the victim was en-
gagged i'm distributing American relief
funds. Mr.. Terrell, American minister,
has made prompt request for the recoV-
erv of the stolen money, and the arrest
and punishment of the guilty.
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BARREL. WHEELBARRoW.

be made serviceable by constructing
a barrel wheelbarrow and a reel for
fence wire. Fig. L, the barrel wheel
barrow, is simply a barrel on wheels,
balanced so that it will tip easily. The
hooks in front are for a shovel and hoe
to hang on. For many purposes this is
better for farm work than are ordinary
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-04-08
FENCE WIRE wHEEL-REEL.

wheelbarrows. A heavier load can be
carried. Fig. ?, the wheel reel for fence
wire, is made by taking two wheels of
light wagon attached to their axle.
Place four pieces of board through the
wheels at regular intervals and wire to
the felloes. 1t makes a large and con-
venient wire or cordage reel. These
conveniences can be made during early
spring SO as to be ready for the first
outdoor work-Farm and Home.