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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24
MARKETING BUTTER.
A Minnesota Man Considers This tn
Most Important Problem
of the Dairy.

After five years. experience 1 find
that this is a most important prob
lem. If the yield from the creamery is
poor, especially in quality, the man
ager should investigate and if the fault
lies with the butter maker, he should
secure another one, as good men can
be secured if reasona BILE salaries are
paid. If the fault is with the patrons,
it will be more difficult to remedy. but
fir,nness at the weigh can will usually
bring about the desired change. Pack
ages should be neat and clean and put
up in accordance with the demands of
the market. The safest package for
our Minnesota creameries is the S.
pound ash tub. The bulk of the goods
goes to New York. By combining and
shipping in, carloads saving of ten
cents per cwt. can be effected. If you
have a good commission house do not
leave it. Investigate new firms care
fully, even before shipping trial lot.
I do not like the idea of having one ma n
to handle the butter on a salary. I
would divide shipments several times
and make careful comparisons of re-
turns, considering not only the price,
but the weight. 1t would be we'll for
creameries to send their secretary or
manager to study the market to which
they ship. Beware of tempting offers
from outside houses or wholesale gro
GERS and never ship to them without
investigating references carefully
Orange Judd Farmer.
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HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN.

Do not depend on beauty of form in
the selection of the good dairy COW
alone. One among the best butter cows
we ever possessed was of undeniable
'scrub" origin and exceedingly angular
While great many people find fault
with the Devon on account of their long
horns, yet they have proven themselves
good beef cattle; besides, they have
excellent milking qualities.
In the Elgin district there are prob
ably produced 100000 pounds of but
ter per day, which would require $780,
900 pounds of milk and loss of ten
cents per hundred would mean a loss OF
$4,000 per day, or nearly $1.0O0,UOO a
year.
One really good COW will furnish as
much milk as two ordinary ones, while
the one will cost but half as much as
the two for keeping. In the latter case
the profit all goes in keeping the extra
COW. If we would prosper we must
keep our wits awake.
Skip one feeding period after the calf
is removed so it will have good appe-
tite, then give from three to four pints
of whole milk fresh from the COW: it
will then drink without the finger,
Feed only twice day and the first wee
feed it's mothers milk tresh.-Western
PlOWman.
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DAIRY MANAGEMENT.
Condition of Health and In
sure Pecuniary Success. 49,.

Twice each day, IA times each week,
our cows are driven from the field to
the stable during pasture season and
MIXED, each COW tied in her own stall
and fed a supplementary ration of
grain, but not a balanced one except
that it aids digestion and assimilation
with pasture consumed during the day.
This grain ration is made up largely of
bran, with Is per cent. of chop added.
We do not feed grain for the purpose Of
quieting our COWS, but for the specific
purpose of obtaining revenue, and al
ways feel that it pays to do it in such
degree as good Judgment permits.
Our COWS are driven quietly to and
from field, which is not far, nor should
it be distant. We saw man go one
mile to rented pasture to milk. This
was on the right side of economy as
against driving COWS the distance to
and from pasture. We fear some of our
dairymen are not sufficiently careful
during the summer in caring for
stables, keeping them clearly and re-
moving daily some of the products that
soon produce noisome odors. Every
thing should be kept absolutely clean
and every stain busted with gypsum or
what is almost as good, common road
dust. -.
Almost daily our stalls are swept and
the walk behind treated likewise, so
that they present tempting place for
the COWS to go to eat and rest while
they are speedily pailed. We advocate
rapid milking when done in mastery
way. In fly time burlap cover closed
up at the rear is thrown over a COW
while milking her, and she stands per-
fectly quiet and cannot use her tail to
the annoyance of the mixer. Udders
and teats are busted before milking
thus avoiding foreign substances get
ting into the milk, which we consider
very important. At once after COWS are
MIXED they are turned out to avoid
soiling the trench. We are poor au-
thority on kicking COWS. The best way
to break them is not to have them.
Kicking cows are, we think, the result
of poor handling and training.-George
E. Scott, in National Stockman:
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top to bottom, So that as. hay is fed
ont there will be openings further
down. The hay runs down to within
about 2 feet of the bottom in the
chute, where it rests upon a floor
which is the bottom of the Manager,
C C c C, running out about feet be-
yond the, outside of the chute; B B,
T. C and are each ID feet wide.
In B B are marked separate stalls
which are absent in C C, but can be
arranged according to circumstances,
with or without. There is, however,
room left behind so that a. team and
wagon can be driven through for
cleaning barn. 4 and D may be used
for younger stock for extra care. F
is box stall about 10 by IL feet. e
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24
Don't Worry the Cow.

A rough, quick-tempered man should
never be tolerated around the COW
stable. The COW loves quietiude. Any
disturbance which excites her lessons
if it does not stop the secretion and flow
of milk. It is very easy for an employee,
by kicking and beating a COW just be-
fore or while he is milking. to lessen
her milk flow by one-half. This is
called holding up"tthe milk. It is
really a prevention of milk secretion,
and the milk thus lost does not come
down at any subsequent milking
Rural World.
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HAULING CORN FODDER.
Description Of a Sled That Is Easier
and Far More Convenient
Than Any Wagon.

A handy sled for hauling corn fodder
from the field to the rick or barn is
more convenient than wagon. drive
within a foot of the shock, push the
shock over with a pitchfork and the
man on the sled takes hold of the top
and pulls while the man with the fork
pushes. I begin loading at the front
end, and fill one side, then fill the other.
Then drive to where it is wanted and
set the shocks. off--whQle. This mehod
is better than stacking, as it does rot
break up or waste it. I want to haul
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LABOR-SAVING BARN.
1t Il Conveniently Arranged for a
Place Where Farming IL Com
Quoted on q Large Scale.

The barn portrayed herewith is built
upon a large scale, holding 100 tons of
hay. The extreme measurements are
sketched GO by 90 feet. The center or
main part A A is about "a feet wide
and rs feet long by "a high, and is
filled with hay from the ground up;
u a a are self-feeding chutes, 4 feet
wide, extending the whole length and
height of the main part, opened about
3 feet on the outside at bottom; the
side of the chute next to the hay is
left open at different distances from
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DANGEROUS PROBING.
when It Came to Prying Into Family
Secrets She Didn't Want to
. &a he Insured

She had concluded to take out life in.
surance policy and appeared before the ex-
GINNING physician.
What's your name?' he asked in his
crisp business way, and she looked indig.
uant as she answered.
"Age?"
II didn't come here to answer imperti.
nent questions, sir. came to be insured. -
fix the rate" -
"What rate" = ,.. 49,
1T, The E amount amour you must pay annually for
"Ihirty-three, them" she snapped
"You must be accurate or it will invali.
date the policy"
Forty; but must say that I never
heard such impudence."
"Weight?" =
II don't know. Neither does anyone else.
just as. though that would make and diff
ference"
Married or single?"
"Single, thank heaven! Not but what
I've had plenty of chan"
"Of course. Any insanity in your fami
ly?"
him with look.
II guess that you don't want to be in.
".And you guessed it right the first time
| I don't propose to be family encyclopedia
| for you or any other gossip monger," and she
tounced out with a vigor that made the doc.
tor think that she was pretty good subject
| after all.-Detroit Free Press.
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SLED FOR HAULING CoRNFoDDER.

every shock of my corn up and set it
off around the lots so I won't have to
20 out blizzardy days and get it from
the field. use four horses abreast on
it, for the field is billy and good ways
to haul. Dimensions are: Hickory
runner poles 1914 feet long and six
inches at butt, four feet four inches
apart. Cross pieces are ten feet long,
hickory poles hewn down about square
and bolted to runners. The runners
want to be braced strongly in front SO
they won't pull together. The boards
are 16 feet, outside pieces four by four
inches to add strength. Runners have
two-inch holes bored in them for
stakes, which are of hickory. The
front ones fit tight, but the back ones
are loose, so they may be removed
when putting the last shock on. T.
Hubbard. in Farm and Home
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LOOKING FOR A BROTHER.
The Search Was Ended at Bald Hill
and the Brother Found In the
Cemetery.

Among the passengers who reached
Bald Hill by the stage one evening was
man about so years old, who soor
let it be known that he was in
search of brother who had last beer
heard of at that place. The landlord
said he would make inquiries, and an
hour later the town marshal entered tc
get further particulars.
Was your brother a humble critte1
or rip-snorter?" he asked of the man
who had come in search.
MY brother Ben was rather inclined
to talk in loud voice." was the reply
Jest so, sir. If he entered saloon
for instance, he called for whisky in q
loud voice, take it?''
y think he did,
'And if the bar-keeper didn't wait On
him at once he increased the loudness
OF his voice and at the same time
pounded on the bar with the butt of 2
gum"
THAT would probably be his course. ;
replied the brother.
"Allus hev two guns with him, and
his hat on his carp
II think he would. Yes, that would
be Ben.'
And about his drinkin'," continued
the marshal, twas he one o. these hogs
who pour out two big drinks and only
pay for one? You must excuse the
question, but all these things. hev q
bearin' in lookin' fur lost man."
'He always poured out generous
drink, I believe" was the reply.
"And when he got through drinkin
was 1T his habit to turn around and
lean his elbow on the bar, and tell
about his bein' driv' out O. this or tina:
town cause he was devastatin' the
populashun? In other words, WIS your
brother Ben given to bragg" III. -
II cannot be sure, but l think he
would do just as you describe. know
he thought himself a heap of man. q
r. "And he'd probably pick out the hum.
blest-lookin' kuss in the place and sass
him, wouldn't hep" r. $500
Very likely" -: -.
q "And scowl and muttcr and finger his
guns as if he had hard work to hole
himself?v
:z."'Yes, / think So 49,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24
Testimony from the South,

The stone roads that have been built
around Charlotte, N. c., mainly by con-
Wet labor, have done much for the
progress of the place. Fifty miles of
hard roads are down and they are to
be extended to the county border line.
1t is said that it used to be a feat worth
Dragging about for a farmer to get to
town with four bales of cotton on a
wagon drawn by four horses, but now he
thinks nothing OF bringing six bales on
i wagon drawn by two.
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WANTED TO BE POSTED,
DO That He Could Take Abraham
Tomplkins Down a Peg
or Two, ~

4 He was man of 60, with long white
beard and venerable look, and as he
sat down in a street car he took book
from his pocket and began to lead
aloud:
when the American cololies came
at length to realize that it was the OBJ
ject of the mother country to crush out
the budding spirit of independence at
any cost, they girded up"
'You annoy me, sir, by reading
aloud" interrupted the man on his
right, who had a newspaper before him.
''Do 1? Well. I'm sorry about that.
I'm trying to post myself up on the war
business, you see. Just borrowed this
book, and have TO read out loud to git
the sense Of il"
Cant you wait till you git home?'
''No, can't do it. I'm goin' to begin
with the war of 1776 and come right
Gown to this date, and I've got to git
il all in my head before eight o'clock
tonight"
THAT Will be rushing things OBJ
served the man, as he turned his paper
over.
eyes it will, but I've got to do it.
Abraham Tompkins is comm over to-
night to play checkers with me, and
I've got to be all ready for him. Abe
can talk like preacher and he thinks
he knows it all. Say, the colonies threw
eff the yoke in 1776. didn't they?"
Eyes"
"And gained their independence"
EYES,"
Call right. Abe will try to spring that
en- me, and when he finds l know all
about it he'll be taken down a peg.
George Washington and Paul Jones
fought in that var, didn't they?"
Eyes, they did,"
"Then w: had another war in 1912, l
see?"
eve did"
"Abe will try and ring that in on me,
and he'll be as mad as a wet hen when
he finds know all about it, Gen. lack
son was in that war, wasn't hep"
He was. He gained great victory
ut New Orleans.
And we had war with Mexico? ?"
continued the old man. That's where
Scott and Taylor licked 'em?"
THAT'S it,
"Abe will bring up that Mexican war
as new thing, and he'll boiler at the
top of his voice when he finds I've
caught on. And then there was a war
with the south?''
Eyes, that was the civil war"
'And Grant and Sheridan and Lee
were in it?''
EYES,"
"Abe will throw that at me, and I'll
make him sick. And this war, it is all
about Cuba, isn't it?''
Eyes, it began about Cuba.''
"And we are goin' to lick emp"
"Not doubt of it,
"Then that's all,'' said the old man.
as he shut up the book and restored it
to his pocket. ABE will take off his
coat and sit down and git all ready to
crush me, and jest as he opens his
mouth I'll look him straight in the
eyes and say:
"Abraham Tompkins, we licked you
In 1776, in 1912, in the Mexican war and
the civil war, and we are goin' to do it
IN thls-and you can't play checkers for
ahucks!"
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Send for list of testimonials.
Address T. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Don't Travel I'm One Track

The last report of the Massachusetts
highway commission states that an
important outlay" in maintaining
stone roads is caused by the tendency
If drivers to travel in one track, there
by causing "a single line of road to
he worn for width of 11a to feet, -
and making necessary repairs that
would not be called for if travel spread
cut a little over the surface. Signs
reading, Don't drive in the middle of
the road" have been placed on roads
where this tendency has been most
marked and has been respected in
many cases. The roads would be still
further preserved if wide tires and
axles of unequal length were used on
heavy vehicles.
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An lnainuation.

Hattie-You are looking rather pale
of late. Why don't you do as i do.
take a two-mile walk every morning for
your complexion? s-
Ella-And. do you really do thar? 1
had no idea it was that far to drug
store. Chicago Daily News.
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The aAmerican Roxn Bet1leeAin,

The american Rox.s Be43lseA1n.
Every patriotic American hopes the sehod
boys Of the United States will succeed =
their efforts to raise s., COZ, 0O0, which will b
used in building batt1eship to- the
money a%sr' to build warsh GGs' but u 3,
your health with Hostetter's Stdlh Bit
tiers at small expense. This remedy In ap
petizer, tonic, blood purifier and stH ulant
It i for stomach, liver and bowel dis6rderA
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How 1t Should Re.

He had been thinking deeply for
several minutes.
Il cannot agree with the poet he
said, finally, when he bewa:ls the fact
that we cannot see ourselves as others
see us. l think he has it all wrony."
"How would you change it?'' she
asked.
"Why, I think we should rather ask
for the power to make others see US as
we see ourselves Chicago Post
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10 California Without Change via ..The
Milwaukee,


On every Saturday during the winter an
elegant Pullman Tourist Sleeper will leave
minneapolis (S:25 a. n.y., St. Paul Is: 35 q.
N: }, and arrive Los Angeles, California, at
o:23 a. m. following Wednesday.
Via The Milwaukee's" famous s'Hedrick
noute" to Kansas City, thence via the A.
most delightful winter route to the
coast.
Quicker time is made via this route be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis and Cali
tornia than via any other>line
hate per double berth, s6.0 through from
st: Paul and Minneapolis.
Leave st. Paul and Minneapolis every
Saturday morning, arriving Los Angeles
every Wednesday morning.
For berths, complete information, and
lowest rates, apply to The Milwaukee,
agents, st. Paul or Minneapolis, or address
J: T. Conley, Asst Genl Pass. Agt, St.
Paul. Mimi
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Devious Definitions.

Forgettery-Bettert than memory at times.
Kaleidoscope-Another name for wom-
ems mind.
Charlottesville one occupied by thea
ter party.
success-The one road on the map that
leads to popularity.
Hogan animal that gets right down to
the root of things
.Divorce-The only difference between mat
rimony and alimony.
Quinine--A bitter enemy of the ague and
one that's hard to shake.
Debt-A trap that man bats, sets and
then deliberately walks into.
Society-A Punch and Judy show in which
the figures are dollars instead of sense
Chicago Evening News.
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stocking. for queen Victoria

A Balbriggan man named Mangan.
who for sixty years has made stockings
for Queen Victoria and her family, has
received a photograph of the queen
with her signature in recognition of
:,
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All Arranged.

Mr.. Wigsby-See here, my love, there is
some mistake. The baggage delivery man
has left seven trunks on our front porch.
the mountains -imbecile! Don't you un.
derstand? He's coming back after dark for
the extra fve.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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III didn't see the widow at the funeral"
"No; her gown fitted so badly that she
couldn't restrain her grief enough to be
present. ANSWERS.
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No Chance for a Conflict.

"A conflict Of arms" he said, lis terri.
BILE thing
;. "Of course" she replied, blushing prettily;
"and so ineXcusable, too l hold that the
disposition man makes of his arms is none
of girls business"
After that, of course, there was no chance
for conhict.-Chicago Post.
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To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c
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than better. In consulting Mrs. Pink
ham no hesitation need be felt, the
story is told to a woman and is wholly
confidential. Mrs. Pinkham's address
is Lynn, Mass, she offers sick women
her advice without charge.
Her intimate knowledge of women,s
troubles makes her letter of advice q
wellspring of hope, and her wide expert
ence and skill point the way to health.
1 suffered with ovarian trouble for
seven years, and no doctor knew what
was the matter with me. Ihad SPELLS
which would last for two DAYS or more.
l thought I would try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. I have
taken seven bottles of it, and am en-
tirely cured. Mrs. JOHN FOREMAN, 20
N. Woodbury. Ave., Baltimore, Md.
The above letter from Mrs. Foreman
is only one of thousands.
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Only % letters can be taken seriously:
the others are all in fun.-Golden Days.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24

Winter set in with Rheumatism. Set out
with St. Jacobs Oil and cure.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24

Sorrow makes men sincere and anguish
makes them earnest.-Beecher.
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Most cities have such slow means of travel
H. requires an hour to reach Sixty-second
street.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24

The use of his tongue is not what makes
canine lap dog.-Golden Days.
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Piso's Cure is the medicine to break up
children's Coughs and Colds.-Mrs. M. G.
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= Cost Of an Electric Cab. IN
It costs about $1,000 to build an cleo.
trio cab OF the kind now in use: in
Paris. IL ss;zE.sm: .sszt S. ~. ,ss. :. /. L.
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Billiards and frost-bites. St. Jacobs Oil
and cure in night.
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Christmas coming. Use St. Jacobs for
pain. Have a happy one.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-11-24

When a man has troubles he increase!
them by being cross.-Atchison Globe
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Deep down to the pain spot. st. Jacobs
Oil roots out Sciatica.
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Our enemies point out our faults, else we
might never improve sufficiently to retain
our friends.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
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Forget it? Toothache won't let you.
Don't forget St. Jacobs Oil will cure.
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This condi-
ton of : the
mind destroys
the effect of
advice; and
s he grows
! u,0VscA ~~%l~-
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Less than one-half the things one hears
are true.-Washington (Ia.) Democrat.
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Co Q rs 4. "A WOMAN
Mrs. Pinkharn's Advice rnsn,rae
Confidence and Hone =.
examination BY male physician 4
q nara Trial to q delicately organized

a physicians Office
where she has un-
dergone q critical
examination N with
animpression,more
or less, Of discour-