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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Glover for Brood Sows.

One of the best hog raisers Of our
acquaintance is clover crank in a
very unusual and very profitable di-
rection,. says an exchange. If he
has piece of lodged clover, he runs
his mower over it in the same direction
in which it is lodged and clips off the
blossoms and few inches of the stalk
When he has enough for his purnose
he runs the mower the other way and
cuts off as much Of the stalk as possi-
BILE and puts this in with the rest of
his hay. The first he uses for his
hogs exclusively, the second for his
cattle. When he has not enough az
lodged clover to secure the blossoms
for his hogs, he runs his cattle hay
through a chatter and in either case
mixes the clover with meal and steeps
it in hot water, and thus makes mess
which makes young pigs grow like
a western corn field in June and fits
the sows for the production of large
vigorous filters. We believe his plan
is good one where the farmer grows
but few hogs and can do the work
Fortunate is the man who has enough
OF clover, blossoms and all, but we
once more urge our readers, and es-
pecially those whose brood soWs are
following cattle, to give their hogs all
the clover that they can possibly get
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Kansas Agl. College.
Planting Peach Stones.

Farmers Review: For a number OF
who will be in need of young peach
trees, two years hence, will do we'll to
procure pits at once from some nursery
supply company. Fall is the proper
time for stratifying the pits in the
sand, but if done now there may still
be enough freezing weather to loosen
the shells so that they will terminate
readily enough in the spring. Plant
the seeds in straight narrow burrows
three feet apart, covering them about
two inches deep. Keep the seedlings
we'll cultivated during summer, and by
August they will be half an inch in
diameter and ready to be budded. If
unacquainted with this operation you
may be able to make arrangements
with the Horticultural Department of
the Kansas Agricultural College to
furnish you with an experienced bud
der. BY this means large number of
trees may be obtained at slight cost.
The Horticultural Department has pre-
pared printed price list of the vines,
fruit trees, shade trees and ornament
al shrubs that can be disposed of in
the spring. 1t will be mailed to any
one in the state upon request.
c. P. HARTLEY,
Kansas Agricultural College.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Don't Tire Your Eyes

1t is unwise to tire the eyes, for if it
is frequently done they are likely to
lose tone. Of course if thoroughly rest
ed at night they will bear verv fire.
quent repetition of fatigue, but other
wise the sight will grow dim. Chill
dren's eyes, like their brains, REQUIRE
more care than the eyes of adults. A
great deal Of harm is done the ewes in
school by too little, too much or badly
directed light, which should come from
behind or from one side; never, if Dos
sible to avoid it, should it come di-
rectly in front of the eye. The eve is
most dependent upon the general
health. It is impossible to indicate
just how much and how intensely the
eyes may be employed, but it is safe to
say that a very large number of per-
sons in, civilized life are constantly
verging upon the danger Of exhaustion
of their vision by overstraining the
eyes. Such an exhaustion is quite
common among young people who are
kept several hours occupied with print
ed books. When the eyes become sem
sitive to light or. tired, it is folly to
force them. No exigency is an ade-
quate excuse for such an abuse. FL Il
. ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
SHE INSISTED ON FRESH AIR
And the Cold-Blooded Man Had to Stand
the Draught.

And the Cold-Blooded Man Had to Stand
the Draught.
Travelling brings out the idiosyncra-
sizes of people as no other experience
can effect. Certainly the man and
woman who occupied opposite COM
partments in a car that recently rolled
westward from New York could not be
said to be as conveniently adjusted as
Jack Sprat and his wife. 1t was a.
very cold morning outside the frame
work of the Pullman, but within the
heat surged the mercury upward until
it reached the fever register. "Por-
ter snapped the man, viciously. ssI
want those ventilators closed. You'll
give US all pneumonia in couple of
seconds" and the porter meekly closed
the transoms. Porter" Immediately
called the woman, II want the ventil-
ators on my side of the car open as
wide as you can open them The Off
cial hesitated only an instant, for the
woman's quick do it at once, por-
ter brooked no delay. He pulled
them down with grin at the opnosite
passenger. But the man didn't smile
himself. He uttered audible maledic-
tions on author of his discomfort, and
ostentatiously shrouded his shiyering
form in an overcoat, pulling the collar
well up over his throat and ears. And
the woman, in linen shirtwaist, read
her book serenely, whimsically I'M
mindful of the glares of her neighbor,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
FARM AND GARDEN l|l
MATTERS OF YNTEREsT 70
III Il. oRICULTURISTs.
" soneUp-to-Dste Hints About Gull
tivation Of the Soil ana Yields
T Thereof horticulture, vitieulturs and
Horticulture. IT,, 81. SKI $, IA @}s.
Notifies In Butter.

An old problem not yet solved,
writes H. K. Gronbeck in N. Y. Pro-
duce Review. Years OF crusade against
them by dairy papers and butter sell
ers, and still notifies are as plentiful
as ever. The cause? do not claim
to know it. Different theories have
been advanced by different authori-
ties In the dairy world. Perhaps some
OF them are correct, but more than
possible they are all more or less mis-
leading. Uneven distribution Of salt
one says, and this perhaps is most fire.
Quently supposed to be the cause. And
probably uneven distribution OF salt
does cause notifies sometimes, but
know it does not cause notifies all the
time. We are also told that notifies
make their appearance when the but
ter is not sailed at all, so we must
look for other causes of notifies. IN
even distribution of the color, or OF
the mud in the color perhaps. But also
here we are told that notifies appear
where no color is used. Other theories
have been advanced: feed. frozen milk,
AAAesoo OE oCQdAdIOAs 1ACAACoo VI ~ Se~AAA'
temperatures of cream, butter or room,
all OF which are more or less rid1cu-
1ous. Uneven distribution Of notifies
l shall not try to argue, but will guar
antee that if the notifies are worked
evenly into the butter, they will dis
appear. And the thought may be
nearer the truth than it appears to be
at first sight, at least in the absence
OF a. known cause it does we'll, and
Prof. Storch of the experiment labora-
tory in Copenhagen ventured the opin-
ion that notifies might be Of bacteria
logical origin. So much for the
cause. How to prevent is hard to say
until the cause is better known, but
If notifies do make their appearance in
your butter, I know of only one way
to make them disappear; distribute
them evenly, work your butter more
work it until the notifies disappear.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Fungus Attacks on Cedar Trees.

+ unSus Attacks on Cedar Trees.
From Farmers Review: Anyone
years the cedar trees of the Agricul-
tural College grounds have been at
lacked by the well known brown fun
gus the so-called cedar apple (Gyn-
mosporanginus macropus). Some four
years ago the department Of horticul-
lure began hand picking the fungous
CROWN on certain groups of trees to
osterm1ne whether or not by this
means the attacks could be reduced
ana injury prevented. From that time
I'LL the present these trees have been
carefully gone over several times each
year and the fungus removed from
tnem' 1t has not, with very few ex-
ceptlons, been allowed to reach the
spore bearing stage. There has, how
ever been no diminution of the at
tack. The disease appears as vigor-
Gus at the present times as at any
Time in the past. The trees are more
thrifty than they would have been had
the Fungus been allowed to grow undis-
trleuted, but they are no freer from
the disease than others that have had
no attention. Cedars can not be freed
from this disease by hand picking, at
least If there are other trees of the
same species in the neighborhood that
are untreated.
Kansas oil ro11noo
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
PRINTS

thoughts received jerk; there were
two great letters written in the sand.
and half-consciously he stopped to
read them. Then suddenly he STEP
ped back, and gazed again.
That's odd" he muttered at LENGTH
and his face flushed and his eyes were
interested. TITS nothing of course
But S. F.! It's queer coincidence. I"
Then he noted the small footprints
and the trail of the sunshade. and m
hesitatingly he followed them.
AT the end OF the trail he found the
pink lady-the daintiest little person
ne had ever seen-and he stood abash-
ed before her as she looked up with
wide, innocent eyes, as if half-startled
at the intrusion. But. he did not turn
away. -
II beg your pardon" he stammer-
ed, "but feel almost as if I-couldn,t
help speaking to you"
She smiled tolerantly. so manv
say that she sighed.
His face fell. oh! You are ono
of-of that Sort" t..
NO." she replied calmly. "but they
say I am
He paused. II am no gallant" he
declared, simply, 'but plain. unpol-
ished--'
All! am not that she admitted.
But hope you don't think it dis
respectful or extraordinary of me TO
speak to you like this-without intro
duction % .v.- - -
II have been led to believe it is
very natural she said demurely.
=, His grave eyes twinkled. He felt
eager as boy. # %':. ,,
II must tell you that I had been
ordered home for rest from India
not i'll, you know, but tagged; that I
did not want to come much, and did
not know where to go; that while
travelling along today I saw the sea
here, and left the train and came to
It. Thought would be led by Fate
for awhile. wondered if Fate were
playing cup and ball with me- @ +.
Fate is no respecter Of persons, :
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
WHAT IS. F. MEANT.
fBy" Lillian ouiller Couch,

rS.vE (By Lillian Quiller Couch.)
On a summer, evening not so very
long ago the brightest, prettiest, dain-
tiest (some said "wickedest,' but that
was a libeD, most bewitching, CO.
quettish, mischievous, good-hearted
girl in Hovemouth stood before the
mirror in her bedroom at the hotel,
gathering the billowy folds OF her pink
muslin frock about her waist by means
OF a satin sash, and looking back at
her reflection as she did so. On her
head was a pink triumph-in other
words, a shady hath her eyes lay
a twinkle Of mischief, and her chiffon
sunshade lay ION the bed.
A few minutes later, fully equipped,
Miss Mary Girlington passed through
the vestibule. There was a travel
worn trunk in one corner with two
initials on it on which her eyes flick
cred with a CLEAN of satisfaction, then
she stepped into the garden, and on
down the cliff path leading to the
beach. When this was reached she
slackeneds pace, sauntering, as II to
breathe ozone were her only object in
life,
The tide was out; the beach was de-
serted save for a shrimper far out by
the rock pools; the sand was smooth
and yellow, as tempting to the ferrule
OF sunshade as a. sheet of fair paper
to a scribbler. At any rate, the temp
tation seemed too great for the fer
rule of Miss Girlington's sunshade;
with nonchalant air she prodded and
scooped little tunnels in it; then, with
elaborate carelessness she trailed the
pretty sunshade up and down in some
thing trife more shapely. When this
was done she gave surreptitious
glance of her merry eyes toward the
Cliff path, then sauntered on across
the beach, trailing her sunshade as
she went.
Soon after the dainty pink figure
had disappeared round d. group of
rocks second figure came down the
cliff path to the beach. A man this
time, OF moderate height, honest fea-
lures, and tanned complexion. He
strolled along aimlessly, smoking a
cigar and looking alternately out to
sea-: and at the surrounding scenery.
The solitary shrimper seemed no in
truder on the deserted beach, and the
newcomer spread his arms slowly, and
gave huge stretch of contentment.
Its good to be in England for a
time" he thought, "and free-and idle
in little place where no one knows
or cares, whether you're a power in
the land or trupper from town. But
wonder what fate led me here, of
all places in the world?''
Then, like the pink lady, he saun-
tered on, but now his eyes were on
the ground, and he prodded with his
STICK as he went. When, however, he
reached the spot where the smooth
uess had been already ruff1ed. his
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
she said, depreeat ingly, but With

49, By 81, UUSss -
brilliant smile. 3=isS
This evening = no continued, 81
took my first stroll on the beach, and
there. on q spot I have never set
eyes on before, / saw my own initials
written on the sand Miss Girlington
looked up with innocent interest from
under her shady brim. Stretching
tar away from those letters was a
faint trail across the sand, and at the
end Of that trail-you." 49, i
"Well!" said Miss Girlington, in
wonderment. How very strange!
Were there really letters?" e. r
Really letters-S. F. My name is
Stephen Fortescue,'' he volunteered.
Stephen Fortescue! The the
Eyes, he said, hurriedly. II suppose
they say so.'' = ,y: !
well, I never!'t she exclaimed, in
soft excitement. %s##%a. - r
That Is my excuse and my apology
for addressing you. 1t seemed as if
fate" -.
Had taken to sand copy books?"
she queried.
"Or sat at the end of the final -four
1sh," he suggested, boldly.
Oh" said Miss Girlington. She did
not dislike the boldness, but it was
unexpected. IS. F." she said, mus
ingly.
You wrote my initials, and came"
he said, gently.
I think-I think l only meant Set
Fair, she objected. II noticed the
barometer as I came through the YES
thule.
WELL" he said, thoughtfully. "'Pon
my word, I don't, think 1T matters
Stephen Fortescue or Set Fair. The
point is that you wrote it, and came.
May l sit down, please?"
The tide was still out. The shrimper
was very far away. The beach was
deserted, but the man was so honest
and winning, and after all it was
fate's doing, so she crumpled her pink
pillows and gave permission as gra-
ciously as if the rock. had been her
private opera box.
my Dear Nancy: Fancy my never
having written to you since that day
when I saw you off, and we both saw
certain great mans baggage at the
station. Well, my dear, he did come
to the hotel, and I did put on that
pink frock, and did-well-all that I
vowed I would do to prove that not all
the pretty girls go to India. And-oh,
we'll, of course, we got on all right,
and I fully meant to tell him-when
we'd become great friends that
had known about his coming and
really tried to captivate him just for
joke. But, somehow, I don't think
l will, after all. There wasn't much
fun in it, really; these things sound
very stale when. they're described.
When are you coming to spend an
other day? Ever yours, MOLLY.
''P. s.-I've done such ridiculous
thing. I'm almost ashamed to tell
you. I've fallen really in love with
him! And we're to be married in Oc-
tober! The pretty girls do seem to 20
to India, don't they? It's too annoy
ing.-M. G.''-Lloyd's News.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Poultry Suggestions.

~ l.. Poultry Suggestions. @8
B. H. Westlake publishes the follow
ing suggestions: S
Feed green bone to young turkeys it
you want large boned and strong tur-
keys. i
Use insect powder on your young
turks to kill lice. It is harmless. Use
powder gun to put it on with.
AS safeguard against lice, all young
turkeys should be well busted, at least
once week, with fresh insect powder,
and especially in the down and under
their wings.
If your fowls are dropping, examine
them for lice.
When the hens have the range OF
field, with plenty of grass and insects,
pulverized charcoal will often prove
beneficial in preventing bowel disease.
For debilitated fowls. or for chicks
that have leg weakness, add tea
spoonful of chloride of iron to each
gallon of drinking water. 1t is harm
less, and will prove beneficial in many
cases, though it is not "cure all"
DO not fail to raise a small patch or
Mammoth Sunfower Seed for your
fowls. It will keep them in health and
put good results in the egg basket.
Do not fall into bad habits in your
care Of poultry. The chains of habit
are generally too small to be felt until
they are too strong to be broken.
Statistics show that more money is
spent in the United States for eggs
than for -four. Farmers should look
after their poultry and improve it by
getting the best stock.
Don't buy cheap breeding stock.
Breed only from your best fowls, and
get a good cock to improve your stock.
Keep your poultry houses and coops
whitewashed, and keep them clean and
dry to prevent disease, and do not al
low your fowls to roost near a draft.
If this is followed with good, sound,
healthy food, you will not have much
trouble with disease.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Crops That Save Fertility.


No crop in this section of the coun-
try takes the precedence of corn, writes
Nebraska contributor to Wallaces
Farmer. It is so abundant and so
abundantly useful. I do not know of
any other crop that can be used for
so many purposes. 1t makes good hui
man food and admits of being pre-
pared in so many ways. I don't know
of any other crop that will supply the
wants of our domestic animals so COM
pletely as the corn CROP The entire
plant fed to cattle or sheep makes an
admirable fattening ration, supplying
both grain and rough feed of the
highest Quality>. Do not fail to have
a good corn crop. Then concentrate
it as much as possible into the most
marketable product, butter or meat,
before it leaves the farm. Next to
corn, if not equal to it, is sorghum,
drilled in with the ordinary grain drill
at the rate of three pecks to one bushel
of seed to the acre. No one will be-
lieve the amount of good feed for any
kind of stock this will produce until
they try it for themselves. Then comes
peas and oats sown together. I differ
from many in the amount of seed to
be sown in this combination. I think
mostly too many oats are sown for
the peas. I prefer one and one-half
to two bushels of peas to not more
than three pecks of oats per acre. Do
not let the peas become too ripe be-
fore cutting. My crop of peas and oats
seeded in the above proportions yielded
last season over four tons per acre.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
The New Hen House.

Most beginners in poultry keeping
have very exaggerated ideas as to the
profits they are to make from the new
business. Consequently, as the build
ing of a hen-house is one of the first
things to be done, they are likely to
make it much more expensive than is
necessary. They are also likely to
make the hen-house too large. More
hen-houses of smaller size would be
better. But they should be made warm,
with double windows where there are
any windows and sheathing in
side of prepared tarred paper, which
should be put on over cleats, so that
a space of dead air will be enclosed.
A house can be put up for SIS to $40
that will be as warm and as service
able for the fowls as one that costs two
or three times that sum. The tarred
,naper will by it's odor do much to ex-
clnde lice. If the hen house is made
small enough it can be moved On roll
lers during the summer, which is often
an advantage, as the ground around
the hen house often becomes foul, in
yiting disease.-Ex.
Buying Nursery Stock.-1n making
out orders for fruit trees and vines
don't forget to order from nurseries
having as nearly as possible the same
soil and climate as the trees will have
when planted, and buy from nursery
man known to be practical, progressive
and reliable. Get healthy, vigorous
stock, with strong vitality, well rooted,
good cane or stalk, with branches in
proportion to the roots. Apple trees
are considered best for planting at two
or three years, not more than the latter
age; standard pears should be two or
three years. old, dwarf pears, plums,
peaches, currants, gooseberries and
grapes, one to two years old.-Ex.
d Shredded Silage.- Experiments made
in .shredding silage seem to show that
silage SO made is at least equal to that
made in the usual way Some claim
they can get one-fourth more silage
into the silo by Shedding It. as the
material packs better.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20

prime essential, and moisture 10 must
provide. Or he viii certainly fail Of a.
crop, 4 the clouds withhold their ac-
8 eus g y q. supply. Every intelligent
farmer understands the Importance Of
deep and thorough breaking Of the
SOIL early in the spring, or even ear
her l'sr Not SO many appreciate the i'm
por'tance Of flning the soil, by harrow
Ing until the clods disappear into fine
SOIL. It is also desirable to keep the
soil SOL IN this fine, friable condition, es-
pec1ally the superficial layer. But a
more valuable and only permanently
effective means is to fill the soil. as
rapidly as possible, with vegetable
matter, or humus. This may be done
IN two ways: ~ By actually trans
porting from elsewhere the necessary
vegetable matter, in the form of stable
manure, composts, leaves, muck. etc.
Under the present system of farming
IN the south this method is imprac-
t1cable except on a small scale: and
often 1t cannot be proftably followed.
even on a small scale. because of the
cost OF the labor involved in handling
and hauling of leaves, muck. and
other coarse and crude materials. (2)
Inc other, and most practicable
method, and one that is adapted to any
scale Of operations, is regular rota-
ton Of crops, including small grain,
red clover, cowpeas, or other renovat-
ing crop. A judicious, well-managed
rotation may be made profitable every
stage and every crop, as well as
profitable in the long run.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-05-20
Corn Culture.


A bulletin of the Georgia station
says:
Corn delights in deep, mellow, rich
and moist loan. Any of the ordinary
soils of the country that are either
naturally of the above characters, or
can be brought into the required con-
dition by proper rotation, deep and
thorough preparation and liberal ma
nuring, and can be maintained in this
condition by frequent and thorough
surface culture, will produce satisfac-
tory yields of corn, with a moderate,
well-distributed rainfall. Perhaps the
most essential requirement for an
abundant yield Of corn, is plenty of
moisture in the soil. Without this
plenty of moisture, such a yield is alb
solutely impracticable. 1t is not in
dispensable that the moisture shall be
supplied directly by abundant rains
during the period of the growth OF the
crop, but the requirement must be met
- some way. The supply of moisture
fl rom rainfalls may be supplemented,
or entirely substituted, by irrigation,
as is done in arid and semi-arid, re-
gions; or the farmer may trust to the
clouds for generous supply; but the
demand for moisture must be met,
or the crop will be more or less a
failure.
Without resorting to exl ensive irri-l
cation methods, and not willing to rely
on the rainfall from the heavens. the
farmer may select the low-lying, nat
urally moist and deep soils, along the
water-courses-t bottom lands
These soils are moister than the up-
lands, not solely because of their be-
Ing lower, and near a water-course,
but-and very chiefly because Of their
great depth and their loamy charac-
ter, or large content Of humus. or de-
cayed vegetable matter. These soils
become thoroughly saturated with
moisture during the winter and snring.
rains, and on account Of their danth
and quantity of humus, thew rat5;n
the moisture during a much longor.
period. S4 .i= Il 80 - 2 :,
In the absence Of such soils ;,is+ha8
farmer wishes to produce regularly s,
profitable crops Of corn, he must HIN )
his uplands. as nearly as practice i,1e
into the condition Of the ioamv ~, !
tom lands. Moisture. moisture. 3 IL the
fR NJ . III