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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-30
Tribute Of Respect.

At regular communication Of
Cypress Lodge, No. 50, F. and A. NJ,
held March 25, 1899, the following
preamble and resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, Our most worthy Wor.
shipful Master. j. A. w. Lowry, has
been removed from his labors with
Us here to place in the E6dee
above, where he will be crowned
with a happy mortality, therefore,
Be it Resolved, That 10 his death
this Lodge loses one of its brightest
and most active members. He was
the light and life Of the Lodge. We
loved him for his virtues; We esteem.
ed him for his intelligence, and We
honored him for his faithfulneSs to
our order. We lose his services here.
but the memory of bis virtues will
abide with us.
Resolved, That we sincerely con-
dole with his bereaved family, and
tender them our warmest sy mpathy.
Resolved, That as q token of
our grief for our deceased brother
aud Worsbipful Master We wear the
usual badge of moruning for the
space of thirty days, aud that this
Lodge be draped in mourning.
Resolved, That these resolutions
be spread upon the minutes 6f this
Lodge; that the Secretary be re-
'qoested to send copy to the Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodge; that
a copy be furnished the widow of
the deceased, and that q COPY be
furnished the Bossier Banner for
publication.
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Good water should be free from color,
unpleasant odor and taste, and should
quickly afford q lnther with a small
portion of soap.
For washing windows put few drops
of ammonia on piece of paper. and it
will readily take of every spot or finger
mark on the glass.
4 New England gentleman claims
that shingles laid in whitewasb wi,
last twice as long as il they had not
been treated with the lime.
To render large pieces of wood pia-
bic, bury them in sawdust, and pour
boiling water upon the same. \ long,
narrow box is best for this purpose
When the face of hammer becomes
uneven. so that il is difficult TO drive n
nail true with it, put the face to grind
stone awhile and the defect will he over.
come
10 remedy Il wet cellar already built,
sink channel nearly foot deep en-
tlrely around. close to fhe wall, and lay
a course of drain tiles in the bottom,
which will cut Off all water veins, and
thus render the cellar quite dry.
Sometimes it is necessary to paper
over sheets of tin. In that event add
old sugar or molasses in large proper
ton to the paste. 1t will be found gem
orally ifectual.-Western Plowman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
AIDS In BUTCHERING.
now This Much-Dreaded winter TRs.s
Can he Robbed OF Some of Its
Worst 'TPrrOrs.

Butchering hogs has many disagree
able features, but some of these. par
icularly the lifting of the hogs before
and after dressing. can be robbed of
many of their objections by having Il
convenient arrangement for scaIding
scraping, cleaning and hanging. One
arrangement for tightening labor in
this way is shown in the accompanying
illustration The farm sled can be used
as the scraping platform (b). The
scalding vat tal may be any large bar
rel which will hold water. Securely
block and brace il so that it will not
be displaced in putting the hog in and
taking il out In the iron kettle (c) the
water is heated. The hog is killed and
drawn along the side OF the scraping
platform opposite the iron kettle In
stead of lifting the carcass onto the
p,utform by hand. make use of the
pivotal lever attached to the post (d).
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
EZEE..'E!ZZzZEzA
FIG. 1-sEED PAN.

All the apparatus necessary fol ordina-
ny testing of the terminating powers of
seeds is n tin pan. like a cake pan or
bread pan, u little cotton cloth or sheet
ing and dozen or so sticks. long
enough to reach across the short way of
the pan, as shown in the accompanying
cuts. A couple of little headless brads
can be driven into each stick, which
latter should have square edges so as to
rest steadily on the pan, and on these
pins pieces of the cloth can be hooked
at the four corners. These cloths or
bags should have a strip sewed at the
bottom which will reach to the bottom
Of the pan, while the bag itself, in the
bottom of which are placed the seeds, is
midway the depth of the pan. Water
should he placed in the pan. but not
enough to reach the seeds; they will be
moistened by water drawn up by the
lower strip or wick. See Figs. and ..
The pan should be kept in a tempera-
turc as even as possible, ranging from
81 to 81 degrees. Only one kind of seed
should be placed in each bag. and a GER
tain number OF these seeds should be
counted out when so placed and rec
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27

ord kept on an accompanying slip.
After the seeds have been given suffi-
cient time TO sprout; they should be
counted aud the percentage Of the
good seed reckoned. The work takes
comparatively little time. and will be
found very interesting. For instance,
take n test OF clover seed; in
extracting a sample. the seed should be
thoroughly mixed and stirred and then
pinch taken at random and. say, so or
100 seeds counted out and placed in the
bag. where they may remain for ten
days. Many OF them. however, will
sprout before the expiration OF that
period and these should he removed and
a record kept OF them. Some seeds of
course start more easily than other
kinds. The following periods may be
stated as the limits required for the
termination of good seed of the kinds
named; For cereals. peas, beans.
Netches. sunfower. buckwheat. clover,
corn and cow peas, ten days; for serra-
della, beet balls. rye grasses, timothy.
tobacco. Lespedeza and other field and
vegetable seeds not named. II days;
grass seeds are slow to start. and for all
grasses except rye grass and timothy,
from 20 to 2s days may be required.
Kentucky bluegrass and Bermuda grass
are very slow to start. The periods
recommended are those adopted by the
United States department Of agricul-
ture i'm its seed tests. If the seeds are
good and fresh. most of them will
sprout in less than half the time al
lowed for the test. 1t is essential, of
course, to see that there is never a
lack of moisture for the seeds, and that
the cloths are never allowed to become
dry. IT is also advisable to soak the
seeds during the first ten hours by put
ing enough water in the pan TO touch
the bottoms of the bags; this will has
ten the terminating process, but too
much wettng will tend to spoil the
seeds.-Guy e. Mitchell, in Ohio
Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
COTTON SEED MEALS.
Practical Feeders DiGer Greatly In
the Estimate of Their value
as n stock Fsod.

Much has been said and written reln-
tive to the use of cotton seed meal as
cattle food Nearly all Investigators
agree in giving It high value and urge
dairymen TO use this material not only
because 1t is cheap source of protein
but because il also has a high manurial
value. Practical farmers differ greatly
in their estimates of cotton seed meal.
Some seem to use il very satisfactorily
for awhile and later conclude that the
feed is not well adapted for their pur-
poses. Occasionally n feeder observes
that the health of the animals is af-
fected by the feeding of cotton seed too
freely. and il sometimes happens that
even after animals have been fed for
months with apparent success that they
are injured by its continued use. IL
has also happened that cows fed upon
cotton seed meal do well for time and
that later the milk flow is diminished
without apparent cause. There are at
present no other concentrated feeding
stutfs which vary so much in compost
ton as cotton seed meals from different
sources and different mills. Within
lITee weeks lue SIaIlOn mas examined
samples varying from 22 per cent. TO
over SO per cent. of protein
This greater variation in different
lots of cotton seed meal may explain
the different estimates of Hlfferent
practical feeders and of the SAME feed
ers at different times. If a COW Is fed
cotton seed meal containing 90 per
cent. protein and is then fed an equal
weight of meal containing SO per cent
it is evident that the amount Of pro-
tein which she receives will have beer
doubled by the change. If she has been
fed up to her full capacity in ne first
instance such an increase must result
disastrously. On the other hand. chang
ing from cotton seed of high protein
content would diminish the milk fow
unless the amount of meal feed is cor
respondingly Observation-Disclosures OF
the Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
WHEN TO APPLY MANURE.
Year Ago ut the ohio Expert
mcnt station.

a gear ago the Ohio experiment sta
ton began comparative test between
COW manure, taken directly from the
stable to the field in the spring, aud ma
nure of the same sort which had been
allowed to lie in the open yard during
the winter. The plan of the experiment
is to apply both kinds of manure to
land intended for corn, pillow under at
Il shallow depth, and follow the corn
with wheat and clover, without any
further manuring. Four duplicate
plcts are treated with each kind of ma
nure, applied at the rate of eight tons
per acre, the treatment for each pair OF
plots being exactly alike in all other
respects. The result thus far is that tho
corn of 1897 gave an increase of 13 bush
els per acre from the yard manure
against 16 bushels from the stall ma
nure, and the wheat crop following has
given an increase of ten bushels per
acre for the yard manure against IL
bushels from the stall manure. Nalu-
ing the corn at 80 cents and the wheat
at so cents per bushel and the straw
and stover at three dollars per ton, the
increase from the yard manure in the
two crops has amounted TO $15 per acre
and that from the stall manure to SIT,
an average of two dollars per ton for
the manure, with further effect proba-
BILE on succeeding crops.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27

ing silos and cellars, and will save
time ana money on any farm if prop
erly handled.
The stacker consists of one long post
or pole set solidly in the ground and
extending 80 TO 40 feet in the air, a
short arm OF ten or twelve feet, and
the necessary ropes and pulleys. The
arm is fastened at the height desired
by boiling onto an iron band, some
times made from an old wagon-tire
inserted in groove or collar cut
around the post. \ strong wire, rope
or chain is then fastened TO the outer
end of the arm, or derrick, and on a
band made TO circle round near the top
of the pole. Three pulleys are sufii-
cient 10 hoist the load, and n small
rope in the hands of the man on the
stack or ground enables him to pull
the hoisted load wherever desired.
As no one has disturbed the farm
ers using the derrick it is supposed
the stacker is not patented. hence no
royalties with be demanded of anyone
who wishes to make one.-Joel Sho-
maker. in Farm and Fireside.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
Tast-waIlsing Farm Horses.

There Is a large difference IN the
amount of work done in year by a
fast walking horse and one that is slow.
If team travels 20 miles a day and an
other team goes 25 miles in the same
time, il makes difference of 800 miles
for 300 working days in year. When
blowing or cultivating large field a
team win travel from IS to 90 miles a
day. and the difference Of mile or two
is an important item during the busy
season. There is room for fast-wnlk-
ing breed OF horses.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
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THE DERRICK STACKER.
A Western Device which Gives Gem
ernl Satisfaction i'm Hosting
Hay and Grain.

The derrick stacker is in use in many
sections of the west, and gives general
satisfaction in hosting hay, straw and
grain. 1t is made stationary, and can
be used in making a round stack, with
the pole in the middle, or for lifting hay
or grain TO a platform, from which it
may be put in the barn. This simple
device is also handy for stacking on
sheds. saving all the heavy pitching
from the wagon. Some farmers have
the derricks set against the barn, and
use them for hosting machinery to
the top floor in winter and letting it
down in the spring. The derrick will
be found handy for filling and empty
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
ALL AROUND THE FARM.

Plants, like animals, need food, and.
Ike animals, do best on balanced ra-
ton.
Alcohol in large quantities is used
N making smokeless powder. 1t is used
TO Kill, as it nearly always is.
We have raised Sc bushels of kafir
corn to the acre, when alongside of it
in the same field we only raised 30
bushels of corn.
1t may be accepted as true that
where corn is grown for the gram
each plant should have an opportunity
for its fullest development.
Experimental work thus far con.
Quoted Indicates that ii makes but little
difference, so far as yield Is concerned.
whether corn is grown in drills or in
hills
A man is worth something to him
self, and the world, because he is great
err than the brWes-greater IN aspira-
tions-and satisfaction with him means
more.
Beet pulp il the refuse OF the sugar
beet after the sugar has been extracted.
1t is a valuable food for cattle, sheep
and hogs. mixed with chopped hay,
corn chop or some other dry food.
The 100000, 900 people inhabting the
United States, Canada, Europe md Aus
tralia annually consume the product Of
252,O00,000 acres of rye and wheat, be-
ing at the rate of ,O6 of an acre per
capita.
We hear of soils wearing out. This
often means that the finest soil grains
have been dissolved in the process Of
feeding the plants leaving the soil mass
with a coarser mechanical arrange
ment, which reduces its power to re-
tain moisture. Western Plowman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
HOMEMADE SAW POWER.

and pulley (c) fastened to it and tho
horse power wheel, A driving pulley
(d) connects the balance wheel with
the saw shaft. The saw frame ~
should be made strong and durable.
The wood to be sawed is laid on the iron
hooks (g), which are stapled so W to
swing in and out by the saw. They
hang from heavy durable frame. A
connecting bar (h) holds the hooks (g)
in uniform position. Rollers may be
put on hooks (g) so the sticks 10 be cut
will roll to the upright frame, the dis
lance to be cut One-fourth OF wheel
(b) is hinged in to take the horse in and
out.-W. \. Sharp. in Farm and Home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
PRACTICAL SEED TEST.


Testing seeds on the farm IS such a
highly satisfactory practice that, hav-
ing triedit once by a good method, it is
likely TO become an established feature
Nothing can be more veXatious than to
carefully manure and prepare piece of
ground for some particular crop, plant
the seed just at the right time and in
the right manner, and then, after wait
ing reasonable time finally discover
that poor seed has been procured in the
beginning and that only part of il has
come up. Experience like this can be
avoided by seed testing, which is in re-
ality very simple thing, and requires
absolutely no outlay of money.
In the first place, seed should be pro-
cured early in the season, to allow plen-
~ of time to return it and procure
other seed, in case it is found to be poor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
SELECTING SEED CORN.
Every single Ear should lie Chosen
solely on Account of Its Being
Near standard.

My father practiced selecting his seed
corn at husking time. His first rule
was to choose the upper ear on stalk
having two or more good plump ears.
A few of the inner husks were left on
the ear to mark ii for saving, when put
ting the corn in-the crib. When all the
seed was collected, the ears were braid
ed into large bundles and hung up to
dry, out of the reach of mice or rats.
The second rule of selection was more
useful than the first. He chose only
the ears set close to the stalks. having
short footstalk and small or medium
sized shank at the end of the cob. Such
ears husk easily, as the cob breaks close
TO the corn and the husks cling to the
footstalk and not to the ear when husl<-
ing.
Following these directions we always
saved a large supply Of seed corn. and
the type of ears and corn and ear-set-
ting became noted and uniform. Many
hills of corn having two stalks would
yield three ears each, and where there
were three or four stalks in a hill often
all but one of them had two ears each.
Prolific bearing was the rule. And this
was clearly produced by constant. per-
sistent selection following one line.
At the same time the ears were set close
to the stalks so that the weight Of grain
was balanced Thus storms would not
so readily tangle and twist the crop.
or carry II down to the ground
know of farmers to-day who have
been saving their seed on another line
for many years. They choose the long
est ears to be found. without any regard
TO the stalks or footstalks The result
has been TO establish type OF corn
with one long ear growing on a long
footstalk. attached 10 the main stall;
low down, often close to the ground,
so that when cutting the corn the foot
stalk is cut and the ear is thus sepa-
rated from the stalk. and has to be
picked up and put in the stout And
when the ears are not thus cut of they
hang down and drop TO the ground and
become watersoaked or rot 10y the time
Of husking. These long dropping ear,
often bear down so heavily that the
stalks are carried to the ground early
in the season and cannot fully mature
the crop.-Country Gentleman
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27

Steel has almost superseded iron in
the manufacture Of pipe aud tubing UNI
til il is estimated that almost rs per
cent. of the entire product OF the coun-
try is now made OF steel, Up TO a few
years ago wrought iron was used al
most exclusively. The lap-weld joint
proved a serious objection. and the
change to steel has been rapid and COM
plete Steel pipe Is stronger. has long
er life and is less liable to corrosion,
Steel tubing has enabled the bicycle
industry TO become revolutionized, and
pipe forms leading article in tonnage
Of the steel industry in this country
and foreign markets.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
CLEANING UP THINGS.
No Time of the Year Is Better suiteA
for This Kind of work Than
the Present.

During the next two months Is one
of the best seasons for cleaning up the
farm, and in the majority of farms
there is plenty of opportunity or need
for this kind of work. After the plow-
ing for wheat is done the manure can
all be cleaned out of the stables, sheds
and feed lots and hauled out and scat
tered broadcast on the land intended
for wheat. The work of properly pre-
pairing the land for the reception Of
the seed will Incorporate sufficiently
with the soil. Weeds may be cut down
in the meadows and pastures and
along the fence rows TO a good adyan-
tage. Many of them, il cut down be-
fore they mature seeds, will be effect
ually killed out.
This is one of the best reasons for
killing out sprouts and briars. With
the exception of sassafras and per-
simmon almost all kinds may be eff
fectually killed out by cutting down
reasonably close to the ground almost
any time IN August. With these two
in nearly all cases the only safe plan
is to grub out, cutting them off at
least six inches below the surface,
While this plan requires considerable
work, in the end it will prove much the
more economical. This is so much the
case that generally it will be better
to thoroughly clean an acre In this
way than to spend the same amount
of time and labor cutting off and burn
ing larger acreage, but doing less eff
fective work.
Cutting close TO the ground and let
ting lay until. dry and then burning
will kill out many weeds, moss and
sprouts, but with persimmon and sas-
safras the tops will rarely be killed
down so deep but that the roots will
send up shoots next year, and in n
short time they will be as much In the
way as ever.
by keeping the farm clear the valve
is materially increased to say moth
ing of the better satisfaction in work
ing tn. j. Shepherd, in Farmers
Voice.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27

Place a chain about the hind legs of
the hog, hook the short end of the lever
into this chain and the hog is lifted
easily The post I'D is equally distant
from the platform (b) and posts e, b
and f..
After the hogs have been scalded and
all the hair removed put them in the
gambrels and with the lever lift them
from the scraping platform and swing
them around so they can be hung upon
the cross bars in posts (g, b and y. A
lot of heavy lifting is thus avoided. The
cross bars can be made so that they will
turn around on pivot in the direc-
ton of the arrows. This is acrom-
plished by boring a 1R-inch hole IN the
TOP of the post. Use for cross bars four
by four oak properly narrowed at the
outer ends. Cross these on top of the
posts. bore 1t5-inch hole in the middle
of the intersection and secure them in
place by means of an iron pin which
fits into the lh-inch hole in the GLOSS
pieces and the post Fasten the cross
arms together and a first-class. cheap
pivotal arrangement for hanging hogs
is the result. With this device and the
lever there is absolutely no necessity
for heavy lifting. II one does not care
10 90 TO the trouble of arranging the
cross arms so that they will turn they
can be securely fastened 10 the top OF
the post. or better sin. mortises made
near the top and the cross pieces fitted
into tbem.-Orsnge Judd Farmer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
stone banking for Dnrns

In banking up against the walls of
basement barns, and especially in build
ing up "a passageway to the entrance,
there is always strong temptation TO
use stones piled in loosely MS basis,
where stones are over plentiful on the
farm. Yet this usually proves n mis-
take. Rats will invariably effect a
lodgementamong such stones, and they
will in time work through into the barn
basement. Besides, rains will was h dirt
among the stones, and it will require
constant attention every year to keep
the passage way so that loaded wagons
can be driven over it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27

We all like to put aside a surplus OF
profit at the end of a term of labor.
That means we are gaining. But II we
make fair living and meet our ex-
pcnses, with nothing at the end of the
year for surplus, we can hardly say that
times are hard, We have had our sup
plies-all that we needed-and only
when we fail in them and really suffer,
can we say with reason that times are
hard. But we hope, nevertheless, that
every one of our folks will be secure in
a nice surplus at the end of the year
Farm Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-01-27
nnen nItchen nreed Weed..

Open bitches are usually weed nur-
series, because not one farmer III ten
ever finds time to go along them and
keep the weeds down to prevent them
from seeding, An open ditch also oc-
cupies much more ground than the
width Of the cut. There must be a
turn row on both sides or else the
crop to the width Of such row is
tramped down and ruined. For these
reasons IL pays to put in tile drains in
stead of open bitches. A tile drain
lasts forever; an open ditch needs
cleaning out every year.