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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

IF YOU WANT TO BUY, SELL, TRADE
l. or rent anything, engage help or secure q
situation. the Mall is the one paper In Moline
that can do IL for you. Mail wants are popu-
lar and Mall wants bring results One-h al cent
per word Is the price TO all alike cash In ad-
vance. 2-cent stamps viii DO. Evening and
Sunday Mall. Moline, Ill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

VAGATIoN-CoURsEs IN GERMAN.
Fren.'h, Latin. etc. bv Prof. A. Muller,
graduate In Germany. recommended by p OF
w. D. Wells and Prof. J. X. Bsldw i0, Daven-
port. Address 304 East Eleventh street DaV,
export, Ia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

"ANTED-LOCAL SOLICITING AGENT
w for accident insurance; one who can de-
Fote sumcient time to the business to make it
profitable. Address "E ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

pAGS, RUBBERS, ETC.-SEND POSTAL
~ card or leave word at 22l1 Fourth ave-
nue. IL you have any rags rubber. etc >, 10 sell.
VIII come to your uouse and pay you from
30 to 10 per hundred for rags All calls will re-
ceive prompt attention. d. F. Klugger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

nENTAL SURGEON-DR J. CLELAND
~ dental surgeon and physician, 3I2 scott
street, Davenport, Iowa ONCE open SRtur-
day and Sunday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05
THE ARGUS.

Publiahed Daily and Weekly ~ 1g4 Second
Avenue, Rock Island. III. Entered NJ the
Pogtonce ~ Second-class matter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

N xn1 NAME OF J. ". r0rrnn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MONEY WANTED - IF YOU HAVE
ANI money to loan on good real estate Sc
curity, address box 1886, RocK Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

W ANTED-To LOAN MONEY ON OLA.
w monds, watches, jewelry, hardware,
musical Instruments, bicycles, clothing, dry
goods, furniture, etc. Highest cash prices
paid for second hand goods of all kinds also.
The above goods for sale at half the usual
Store prices. AL business transac lions strictly
30nhdentiAl His new number and location,
1913 Second avenue. Don't forget IL. J. W
Zones. Two rings on 1347
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

w ANTED-A POSITION BY A YOUNG
'" lady graduate of high school once
work prefe red Has had some experience
ana can give The best of reference. Address
n. j. c." ARGUS office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-05

WANTED - HUSTLING AGENTS TO
w sell our incandeScent gasoline lamps
Sacn burner produces loo-candle power light;
all stores want them; good inducements to re-
liable statesmen The Ohio Illuminating com
pany, Mansfield, Ohio.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-06-29
COMMENCEMENT NOTES

Everyone is enthusiastic over IN,
music of the commencement exercises
wednesday afternoon the Alumnn NJ
the kindergarten department held re-.
ceptlon in the kindergarten room.
The Academy graduating class ban.
quoted at the Wright House "Wednesday
evening Thursday evening a number
OF students held a farwell banquet in
the same place.
OF the class Of 1900 Messrs. Foote and
Kandells and Miss Plum will teach
while Messrs, Hill and Magaw intend RI
prepare themselves for the ministry
AT the Alpha Theta midnight snread
MONDAY evening more than the nsnaI
number OF old members were nresent
ABOUT the usual numter of Zeta Sjpmas
received their portion on the lawn
beneath. lawn
Prof. j. 7. Ewing and wife enter.
tanned the Alumni and the Seniors
wednesday afternoon. Refreshments
were served and everyone present Ie.
ports fine time. The rendition n,
'ome Princeton songs was an ENJOYABLE
feature. 'O' "'ie
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-06-29

Report of Fire Department Committee a
TO the Hon Common Council Of tho VILLAGE
Of Alma. Mich VI 80" "'"s'
Gentlemen.
1our Committee 10 whom was referred
NE peutl4u ior Fire Hydrant to be placed or
North end of Statc.st, beg To report a. follows
W.. te.otulh'hd that the hydraut bc placed n
per P'GuOh, providing the water main runs ia
that point. "A' W
Respectfully ~ - .F =; "iLsoS'
adopted "OO'p'cu ana
Trustee Dean appears,
On hoIlon or Trustee Dean supported nv
trustee llson. the action taken by the Conn.
80 al Ihelr meeting held pu the evening of June
- A - I"UO relative L. the closing of yarious
stlc'ts III thc Vicinity OF the sugar Plant was re-
Motion made by Trustee Dean summarized bv
trustee Wilson that thc petition Of thu Alma
sugar CO. relating 20 the Vacating and closing
~ various streets and alleys on premise, Dc.
SCIIucu II! shiu petition recorded in minutes of
npIii ~, a H. 1900 be granted and adopted as
Yea and Nay vote as follows:
1ea-, lrustees Dean, Wilson, Hannah Deluyau
and Thompson. "
Nays, MontgeL
Motion declared carried
ON motion OF Trustee Delavap tho strec, CON,
missioner was instructed To proceed a. soor a.
possible TO put In proper shape that part OF the
eastern eXtentiOD OF Mpchaufc.st living ad is.,,,,
10 Iot Twelve ~ OF block No forty ono an AMI
10 the alley rear thereof O VIZ N'i'
Oh motion Council adjourned
ELY BREwBAKER w w Ktxcu
Iiesiucht' Clerk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-06-29

p.r,,,Ior 49," ilI u. June ~, 100.
. h'guiar meeting OF the Common Council or
the Village OF Alma in Council Cbsmher on ~
above date. O""'iOei vi
fr,,eht-PreSidcnt Brcwbaker Trustees WI.
Absent-Dean ''''
uIuutrs or last regular meeting read aud on
Va motion the following claims were allowed
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-06-29

DO you read what people say about
HOODS Sarsaparillal 1t is curing ali
forms OF disease caused or promoted bv
impure blood. -
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
wHITEwAsH AS A PREsERvAT1vE.

In removing hemlock planks from
a barn this summer to have them
put on closer, I noticed they looked
IS sound as when put on thirty-fv
years ago. except being rotted a little
around the nail heads. This remark
able state of preservation is due to
whitewash, the barn being white
washed every three or four years.
This barn is 40x6O feet and n man
in a day and a half, with forty cents
worth of lime, can whitewash it. at
an entire expense of about $3.50. In
tearing away an old post and rail
fence by the orchard last spring that
had been there twenty-eight years,
the oak rails were about all rotten
the same fence at the end of the ward
built the same time with the same
material, the rails seemed as sound
as when put up the yard fence be-
ing whitewashed every two years.
So it will be seen it pays to white,
wash outbuildings and fences aside
from the neatness and h~ealthfuIness
1t afords.-ThOmas Molloy, German.
town, KY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion Of the ear. There is only ono
way to cure Deafness, and that is By constitu-
tiOnal remedies. Deafness is caused By an in.
famed condition of the mucous lining Of the
Eustachia1 TUBE. When this tube gets.inhamed
ing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing viii be destroyed forever;
nine cases OFT Of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing bet an inhamed condition OF
The mucous s-rfaces.
We viii give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that ccC-
not be cured BY Eall's Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
a. S016 nv Dr7 rgists, T5c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

The best feed 1 ever gave young
chickens was cheese curd made from
sour milk mixed with a little corn
meal. The best feed for growing
chicks is sour milk and wheat, and
the best feedfor laying hens is wheat
and sour milk. More than one-half
of the chickens Matched N the farm
are stunted before they are four
weeks old for want of good, whole
some drink, and a stunted chicken is
a half-dead chicken, and an easy
prey to lice and disease.-W. N.
Moves.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
The Dairy.
DO NOT EXCITE MICH COWS.

Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
When we talk about preserving
the quality of milk in hot weather,
we must remember that some milk
keeps better than others. I mean
by this that there are different grades
of resistance to the action of degen-
erative bacteria, and that some milk
will keep sweet and pure longer than
other kinds under the same con-
ditions. How is this to be accounted
for? n would naturally ask.
First, the healthfulness and vigor
of the COW, in a great measure, war
rants the healthfulness and purity
of her milk, as does also the cbarac-
ter of the food she eats. Pure
healthy milk will not sour or faint
prematurely, unless under the most
adverse atmospheric conditions.
One frequent cause of a rapid de
g~enerative change in milk in hot
weather, a cause that is too often
overlooked, is the o~verheating of
COWS prior to milking. To rush COWS
into the stable from the pasture,
night or morning, is to. excite them
sufficiently physically to heat their
milk to a feverish point, quickly un-
dermining its quality.
SO, in order to preserve milk in
hot weather, aeration, ice. and cold
water are a mockery, unless the
COWS r kept cool and free from
irritation. For this reason 1 have
no use for ever the most intelligent
dogs to assist in driving COWS to and
from the pasture. The presence OF
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
Live Stock.
HOW TO MAKE THE SHEEP PAY.

HOW TO MAKE THE SHEEP PAY.
Correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Sheep have an advantage over most
farm animals by virtue of the mar
ketable qualities of the carcass and
wool. When wool is in fair demand
at reasonable prices it should pay for
the keep of the sheep, with interest
en- the investment, and sometimes a
little profit additional. If the wool
will do this why should a farmer ask
for more? Sometimes the CRY is
heard that wool does not pay.
What is meant by this generally is
that a certain good profit from the
wool alone cannot be made each year
over and above expenses. Even if
wool does not pay in this way the
sheep can be made to pay. If the
wool will bring in enough to pay for
the keep of the sheep and the inter
est, look at the profits that should
be made in many other ways. The
lambs should then represent clear
profit, and after the eve has seen it's
best days of usefulness there is al
WAYS a market for it. Here is an
other profit that is not commonly
counted in, for the cost of the eve is
figured up at so much a year, and
the price received for it hardly seems
to pay for the keeping.
One must, in order to be fair with
the sheep, figure out the different
profits from the wool, the lambs and
the mutton. It is a poor year, indeed,
when the wool cannot be made to pay
for the keep of the sheep, and with
prices as they are now it can be
made to bring in a good deal more.
One man, of course, makes more in
this way than another because he is
able to study the economy of feeding
better, and sometimes the conditions
for raising food cheaply are in his
favor. But no one who attempts to
raise sheep for a living a afford to
neglect intimate and constant study
of this side of the question. The
feeding that will keep the sheep in
good condition and cost the least
possible sum-, is what we are all
aiming at. The lambs should be
made a regular part of the crop, al
most as regular as the wool, and the
lambs must be raised at the right
season to bring the greatest profit.
A good eve that will drop a lamb
regularly and rear it without trouble
is a desirable animal. But there is al
ways a tendency to keep good ewes
that produce valuable wool and good
lambs too long. Remember that the
carcass of the eve itself is Il part OF
the business, and do not keep the
animal 50 long that it will die on
your hands or have no marketable
value. It is better to raise a few
crops of wool and lambs from her,
and then send her to market, raising
meanwhile a good lamb to take her
place. In this way we keep up IA
constant change in the personnel OF
the flock, and never have any old
creatures that have Outlived their
usefulness. E. P. SMITH.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
HOW MUCH IS DAT SMUT LOSING YOU

The Illinois Experiment Station is
sending out a circular to the farmers
of the State inquiring as to oat smut
and asking each grower to make
tests t. discover the actual amount
Of loss Occasioned by this great
enemy to oats. The circular makes
the surprising statement that the
percentage of smutted heads re
ported last year would indicate a
loss of not less than 50, $50, 000."
The plan for conducting the test is
as follows, as set forth in the circu-
lar: In order to determine the per
cent. of smutted heads, take an ordi-
nary barrel hoop or light frame of
any kind of convenient size and
throw over a spot in the field,
selected at random, Count all the
stalks inside the hoop and note the
number on the blank given on the
last page of this paper. Now count
the stalks affected by smut and set
down in the proper column of the
same blank. Repeat this operation
in three or more places in every field
in order to get an average of smutted
stalks for the field"
The value of data thus gathered
over the entire State may not be
OvereStimated.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

One of the best suggestions I can
give your readers is to keep copies
of all orders, or business letters sent,
and thus prevent misunderstanding
and finally DISPUTES. I use a dupli
eating tablet costing twenty-five
cents, containing n hundred and
fifty leaves. A piece of carbon paper
(sold with the book is placed under
the sheet you write on and an exact
reproduction of your writing is i'm
pressed on the sheet underneath,
which remains in the book. Pen or
pencil may be used. Tablets are
printed with space for number of
order, date, to whom sent, to whom
ship, where, how, when and terms.
If the farmer aims to be successful
in his occupation he must adopt
business methods.-W. r. Knox, In
tercourse, Pa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
FORCING THE EGG SUPPLY.

correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
tits not such a difficult matter to
make the hens lay in summer as IN
winter. but nevertheless a little care
full forcing will make every hen lay
Just a few more eggs a week, and
they represent the extra profits paid
for knowledge of the business. If
YOU think that it is merely a matter
of forcing the hens to eat more,
figuring upon so many eggs to so
many pounds of food, you will find
sooner or later that the hens + not
that, kind of machines. They will
refuse to make the returns expected,
and before you know it the machine
will be clogged up and no eggs will
be forthcoming. In forcing the egg
supply we are doing a work that re-
quires the utmost skill and intelli-
gence. It is much easier to force the
fattening process of a hen than to
force her to lay more than the regu-
lar normal amount of eggs. Indeed,
most of the food you feed to chicken
goes to make fat, and very little of
it forms eggs. In order to get the
latter we must feed egg-forming
foods, net patent nOstrums, but com
mon food that contains the essential
constituents of al eggs.
Forcing the hens to lay eggs is
simply assisting nature to perform
it's work in the highest degree. We
supply them with the needed ele-
ments to make eggs. All the So
called tonics and stimulants do little
or no good unless food of the right
kind is supplied. The tonics may
increase the appetite, and the stimu-
lants may force the system to more
active work, but the gain is only
temporary, and in the end a reac-
ton is more than likely to follow. If
the right foods are given the. tonics
and stimulants may, on occasions, do
good, but as a rule a healthy hen
needs neither. 1t is only when she
is run down and not in good condi-
ton that she requires either a tonic
or stimulant.
All this being taken for granted,
the work of forcing the egg yield re
solves itself into careful methods in
feeding the hens. They must be given
food that will not all go to fat, and
if in spite of the selection Of the food,
the birds show a tendency to fatten
up too rapidly they must be forced
to take more exercise. Keep the
laying hens busy in scratching a
good part of the day, and they will
eat more and lay more. Feed them
plenty of ground green bone, pull
verified shells, grit and green things.
All of these, including scraps of
meat, contain the elements needed
by the laying hens. Be more careful
in feeding corn, which is sure to pro-
duce mOr fat than eggs, and the
bread, meal and similar fattening
articles. After one has fed the birds
literally, forced them to take plenty
of exercise, and attended to their
general health, there is little more
that can be done. That is about all
the forcing that will pay. There
are other artificial methods, but
their utilityis rather doubtful.
ANNE G.. WEBSTER.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

such an animal is sure to excite
some sensitive COW, and
such are usually the best mixers,
and her tactical yield if alone affected
will leaven the product of the whole
herd.
Cows should always be. handled
and driven deliberately, and SO none
but experienced people who can al
ways control their temper should be
about them. Get up early enough
in the morning so that you will not
have to hurry the COWS in from the
pasture, and quit field work early
enough at night for the same reason.
When a farmer ceases to consider
dairying simply as ''dOing chores, )"
but to regard it as one of the most
important interests he has on his
place, then, and then only, is he pre-
pared to make his COWS pay. Never
make dairying subservient to other
work unless you have no need of a
dairy income. GEO. E. NEWELL.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

There + some things that eve a
hog will learn by experience. A
brood SOW, for instance, is generally
a better mother after the first litter,
and still better with each successive
litter until she becomes superanu-
ated. This may not be the sole rea-
son, nor even the chief reason why
after filters do better than the first,
but we are confident it has much to
do with the fact. E. H. S.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

Men can be cured privately and pos
itively at home of all weakness and
disease. Write for new free book.
DR.. j. N. Hathaway, 22% AC South
Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24
THE NATIONAL FARMERS, At,
ANCE AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-J.C .Wilborn, Old Poir.
S. G. 'p
Vice-President-P. H. Rabinn
Lake City, MINI.
Secretary-Treasurer-A B. WpId
Victor, N. Y. y
LECTURERS. .
j. P. Sossamon, Charlotte, N
J. c.. Hanley, St. Paul, MINI.
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS STATE =,
LANCE.
President-W. A. Graham. Mach
pe1ah, N. c..
Vice-President-J. S. Mitcbar
Winton, N. c..
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and Stat
Business Agent-T. B. Parker. HiS
boro, N. G.
Lecturer-Dr. " N. SeaweII, Faism
N. G..
Chaplain-W. S. Mercer, MoyoE
N. c..
Doorkeeper-Geo T. Lane, Greens
bOrO, N. c..
Sergeant-at-Arms-D. W. Watson
haywood, N. c..
Trustee Business Agency Fund
w. A. Graham, Machpelah, N c.
Steward. c.. Balm, Wade, NC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NoRB
CAROLINA FARMERS STATE
ALLIANCE.
J. W. Denmark, Chairman, Raj
eigh, N. G.
W. A. Graham (Ex-offcio), Mach
pelah, N. c..
w. B. Fleming, Ridgeway, N. c..
John Graham, WarrentOn, NC.
DR.. J. E. Person, Pikeville, N. C.
Thomas J. Oldham, Teer, N. C.
STATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
j. T. B. Hoover, Hillsboro, N. C..
@. G. Mcclellan, Goodwin, N. G.
H. T. Jones, GoldsborO, n. c.
q #7 SI7!E II.. p9IGEs D 81: &
~z.zzHMzZ G 9nS SeG9!P' scale D' c.,
Catalog Free, Write now, EINCHAMT0Na N. v
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

The male pigs you do not intend to
keep for breeding purposes should
be castrated at five weeks old. At
that age it will not check their
growth.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-07-24

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