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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06
Editorial Comment
ON THE
Pioneer Limited

Nothing richer has ever been produced
by any railroads. Paul Pioneer Press.
ats a world beater."-St. Paul Globs.
1.-THE best thing the railroad world can
produce" -St. Paul Dispatch.
"Prominent and discriminating people
marvel at the creation OF elegance and
comfort wrought by modern car builders"
Minneapolis Tribune.
1.-THE PIONEER LIMITED stands today per-
feet in construction. gorgeous in finish and
the acme OF luxury and comfort - Mime
apolis Journal.
THE closest inspection bewilders and
takes the breath away, for the masnificencs
and beauty OF it all is simply tremendous"
Minneapolis Times.
The PIONEER LIMITED leaves Minneapolis
at 1870 and st. Paul at $40 every evening
in the year for Milw aukee and Chicago, via
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway.
NO extra charge on this train.)
For tickets, berths or information, ap.
ply to any ticket Office, or address
j. 7. CONLEY,
Asst Genl Pass. Agt.,
st. Paul. Mimi.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06
Fergus County ar9us.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
JOHN N. YR0OMAN, Editor aud Proprietor.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06
Carpets.

We carry a nice selection of Brussels, Moquette
and Ingram Carpets, cut, matched, sewed aud laid
at prices beyond competition. Also an endless va
riety of Rugs and Art Squares. Linoleums from B
to II feet wide.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06

1t is said the editor OF the Anacon-
da Standard battles his cheek ! n n
copper solution before he writes an
antitrust editorial. He is the paid
servant OF one OF the largest trusts
ia the United States. He must have
a conscience like a Chinese Boxer"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06
IHow's This!

we OHer One IiunuTeu DOlldTs fte-
ward for any case Of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & Co, Props.
Toledo. D.
We the undersigned, have known
f. j. Cheney for the last II years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and
financially able to carry out any OBJ
legations made by their firm.
WEST & TRuAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
WALDING, KIHNAN Il MARvIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, D.
Halls Catarrh Cure IL taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system,
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by al
druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06

About the best cartoon seen In
Puck OF late was one in which Bryan
was attempting to carry free silver
in the shape OF Sappho M three
flights OF stairs. Beads OF sweat are
rolling from Windy WHY'S brow.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06

whats the matter with Oregon.
She's all right :"
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06

A New York surgeon is reported to
have recently seen a human heart
beat. Human dead beats are fire.
uuently seen.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06
EXPLODING DEMOCRATIC THEORIES.

Customs receipts are always larger
under a protective tariff than under
free trade. Note the following zig.
ures:
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1900-06-06

"How TO shelve Bryan without
losing the Organizes is a question
that is agitating eastern Democrats.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
Growing Pop Corn.

The demand for pop corn increases
to the market, says Joel Shoemaker in
Indiana Farmer. Farmers do not con-
slider the profits of this special crop
or there would be more grown for sup
plying home demands. Pop corn re-
quires about the same soil as that de-
manded by the sweet and field vari-
cites. A sod or vegetable mould, con-
tanning more sand than clay and ha7-
ing previous clean culture is best
adapted to corn growing. II plowed in
the fall or winter and left to freeze
until the spring weeds begin to grow
before planting. the land will be in fine
condition. This crop wants plant food
like all others, but can get along with
little nitrogen. An average fertilizer
might contain about per cent each
of phosphoric acid and potash and per-
haps 11a per cent to per cent nitro
gen; from 400 to COO pounds per acre
would be considered fair application.
Another popular fertilizer for corn Is
a mixture of about $50 pounds of fine
ground bone and 100 pounds muriate
Of potash per acre broadcasted and we'll
mixed with the soil before planting
time.
Pop corn may be planted closer than
any other varieties. His plan of plant
ing is to make the burrows three feet
apart and have the corn stand one
stalk in hill. IA inches apart in the
rows. II the corn is planted very early
or late it will not suffer so much from
the worms as the medium planted
crops. Where irrigated, care must be
taken in keeping the water from the
stalks and not give the plants more
than two periods of irrigating during
the growing season. The poor ears can
be fed to poultry with profit and the
fodder is relished by the cows. sheep
and horses.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
Give the Hog Comfort.

1t pays to make the hog as comfort
able as possible. Do not think be-
cause he has a thick hide-because he
belongs to the order pachydermata-
that therefore he will endure all kinds
Of weather and all kinds of treatment
as to his comfort and still return a
profit for his keeping. Some OF us
have come to regard the hog as a col
lector Of all refuse and as endurer OF
all hardships. No matter how much
lye there is in the dishwater, it is good
enough for the hog. One would think
that the hog had found use for soap.
the way it is sometimes fed to him.
The dirty sty under the stable Is not
the place for a respectable hog. There
is no reason to be surprised II hogs
treated as some treat them take dis
ease and die. Give the hog good feed
and a clean abiding place. He will
repay the cost with good interest
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

CONDENSED from Farmers Review Steno-
graphic Report of Wisconsin Roundup
Institute)
George J. Kellogg read paper on
top grating, in which he said in part:
] have probably so varieties now
growing top-worked on differen.
stock. Twenty OF these varieties a-a
on Duchess stock. / find Tetofsky
worthless as stock. Transcendent is
a good stock, but | find that winter
apples on this stock tend to early ma
turity of fruit Many kinds are sue
cess on traIscendent crab, and have
great hopes of seedlings grown from
this crab to give US roots that will
letter stand our dry winters. For sue
cessful top-grafting We must have
vigorous stocks, and for this reason
l have great faith in the Virginia and
ether strong growing crabs; for they
get hold Of the soil and get all there
is in it. Virginia crab has particular
ly strong limbs, and is much the best
OF any have seen. Shields crab is the
best one | have tried in the nursery,
as one scion will form a top; but q
Virginia crab, with leader and foir
arms grated is worth many times its
cost for an orchard tree.
Tbare is no limit to this Operating
enterprise. l am told that in tho
Licnard of Mr.. Burbank in California
Inere Is one tree that has been grafteu
WITH SIS different varieties. What d
sight that tree will be when it comes
into bearing!
My success with pears and plums
has not been as good as with apples.
| have increased the productiveness OF
Miner by grating one-third of the top
with DeSoto. | find no plum stocks
equal to Americana; the Mariana is a
failure.
There are a few pointers that lead
to success in top-grafting. After the
stock is established the sooner it is
worked the better. II stout enough
to hold the scion firmly, scions no
larger than your finger are best. Avoid
grating limbs needing the saw. When
top-working the Virginia crab the
scions should be inserted not more
than six to twelve inches from the
body. The earlier in spring the graft
ing can be done the more successful
is 1t likely to be, for II you wait till
June the scions are likely to be a
little of. But even in June. II the
scions are in perfect condition, have
had IS per cent of the CRAFTS live,
when they were on apples and pears.
Plums and cherries, for best results,
must be grated before the frost Is out.
Liquid wax, applied warm, l consider
best; and to protect from sun and
keep off the birds, piece OF newspa-
per wound about the wax is benefit.
Some prefer waxed cloth, but in what
ever way the wax is applied, 1t is Of
more importance than the setting of
the scions. Scions may be cut in
October or any time after that except
when the wood is frozen. They may
be cut in the spring when the buds
are swollen, If Immediately inserted.
Great care is necessary to have the
scions in perfect condition. Old trees
are not profitable to top work. not
even Duchess Of Gutenberg, while
Duchess may do fairly we'll when
Young to use as a stock.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Reports from England indicate that
the British government has taken up
the fight against preservatives in milk,
Boracic acid. as well as the more in
furious preseryatives, is to be brought
under the ban of the law. This will
be encouraging to the Americans for
the English example has been con-
stantly urged as one reason why We
should not have more stringent laws
regarding preservatives. In some in
yestigations made by the government
one scientist said that he believed
this promiscuous dosing of the public
by ignorant persons to be very dan
gerous. That is the most potent
reason why preservatiyes be not al
lowed in milk We have no certainty
as to how much acid is used, and II
is to the interests of the manufacturers
Of the preseryatives to have as large
doses as possible used. This is par
ticularly dangerous in the case of chill
dren living on an exclusive milk diet
We will never know how many lives
have been cut short by this "promis-
cuous dosing Of the public by ignorant
persons"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Good grades are much more reliable
breeders than are crosses and are to
be preferred. The native stock has the
vigor of constitution, which is always
necessary, and has no inherited pre-
potency to develop in any certain
direction. When mated with a pure
blood, the result is usually an animal
with the vigor of the native ancestor
and the characteristics of the pure
blood parent shown in its better form
and fattening qualities. Succeeding
crosses in the same direction strength
en- this tendency toward improvement.
Inc great objection to grading up"
IN this way is the fact that, no matter
how fine specimens the animals may
De, they can never be sold as pure
bloods, and an animal which is a grade
VIII never sell for breeding at as high
price as will one which is of pure
blood and entitled to registration. The
man who intends to follow hog raising
as business, even IL he does not keep
more than dozen animals, will find
1t both profitable and economical to
buy pair of pure-bloods, and then
make his entire drove pure-bloods as
soon as he can raise enough desirable
animals. By buying a young boar and
SOW already in pig by boar not re-
lated to the one purchased, the boar
can be used on the offspring Of the
pure-blood sow as well as upon the
grades or natives in the herd, and in
this way the pure-bloods can be in
creased SO rapidly that there will soon
be no need to keep the grades. The
hog raiser should certainly use pure
blood boar, and 1t will usually pay to
buy a new one each year, SO that in
breeding may be avoided. Pure-blood
hogs are not necessarily expensive.
They pay best in the end. and so are
more profitable than either crosses or
grades. Good animals, though not the
best, OF any Of the standard breeds can
be purchased for from S. to $40 each
when weaned, while young sows in
pig can be bought for from $40 to $40.
OF course older animals which show
specially fine qualities will cost more,
and their better qualities will often
make them the more profitable in the
end. Breeders who have established
regulations as producers of exception
ally fine animals usually receive much
higher prices than those named above,
but often man who raises hogs for
production Of pork only, and who does
not care for reputation as breeder,
will sell good breeding animals for lit
tie more than their pork Values. NJ.
Tracy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
American ProcrlS.

The scientific name is Harrisima
Americana. The caterpillar is quite
destructive to the foliage of the
grapevine. The eggs are deposited
in clusters of 20 or more. The cater
pillars of the Procris do not scatter
after leaving the eggs, but feed side by
side on the under side of the leaf,
their heads all directed towards the
margin of the same. These little black
and yellow insects eat at first only
the soft tissues of the foliage, leaving
the fine network OF veins untouched;
but as they grow older and stronger
all but the large veins are eaten. The
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

caterpillars reach their full size in
August, and measure at that time
about six-teLths OF an inch.
The little moth is blush or green
ish-black color. 1t has very narrow
wings, which expand nearly an inch
across, and flies during the warmest
hours of the day, when it frequents
Covers. Its flight is rather peculiar.
and is quite slow and unsteady. Wher-
ever this insect occurs in large num-
bers it becomes quite injurious, but as
it leads a social life in its caterpillar
state it can readily be destroyed by the
use of arsenical poisons.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10


All over the country there are womeu
who have been invalids for many years,
suffering with female arrangements
which the family doctor cannot cure.
What boon TO such women Is DIR.
Hsrman's free advfcei So famous
has ais skill made him that hardly a
hamlet c- town In the country bur
knows his name. He cures fens OF
thousands, and he offers to every
woman who viii write 10 him her
symptoms and a history of her trouble
free advice and treatment.
The medicines he prescribes can be
obtained at any drug store, and the cost
is within the reach of any woman He
describes infinitely and carefully just
what she shall do and get to make a
healthy, robust woman of herself.
The Doctor has written book
especially for this class of women, en-
titled Health and Beauty" This book
contains many facts of interest to
women, and will be sent free to any adj
dress by Or. Hartman, Columbus. O.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

There are still thousands Of acres of
government lands in the states of
Washington and Oregon. also prairie
and timber lands near railroad or wat
er communication. that can be bought
for S. per acre and upwards. Finest
climate in the United States. No fall
ure of crops. If you wish to raise
grain or the finest stock on earth, you
will find locations in these two states
where you can do this to perfection.
Take your choice. have no lands for
sale.bu ii you want information where
1t is best to locate, call on me when in
st. Paul or write me at corner Third
and Rosabel streets, St. Paul. MINI.
r. Z. workman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
Look to the Varieties.

Too little attention is paid by most
Of our cultivators to the varieties Of
grain or other things they grow. They
get hold of one or two varieties that
seem to satisfy them and look no fur
5ther. Yet in the varieties there are
great differences Of yields per acre.
The farmer should give more attention
to this matter. We might take as an
illustration the experience of the Kan
sas Agricultural College with Kafir
corn. For seven years they had grown
the red Kafir corn and liked It. 1t gave
good crop each year. On the eighth,
ninth and tenth years they, however,
grew by the side of the red the black
hulled white. In 1896 the yield of red
was Al bushels to the acre. and of the
black-hulled white As bushels. and in
1897 the yields were the same. In
1898 red yielded 2S bushels and the
black-hulled white SO bushels. AS a
result of these figures the college set
tied down to growing the black-hulled
white. 1t was the wise thing to do.
But would they ever have done 1t IL
they had not grown both varieties side
by side and discovered the advantage
of the one over the other? What is
true in this case is true OF all farm
crops. We should grow only the most
productive varieties, and that can be
ascertained only by growing plats of
several varieties of kind Thus, II
a man is growing wheat, let him select
number of varieties that have done
the best at our experiment stations
and grow them in plats for years. In
the meantime he can be growing the
one that he believes to be most pro-
ductive. The same applies to all other
crops.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
horticultural Observations.

1t would be perhaps a good thing If
our horticultural and other similar So
cieties would give more attention TO
ornamental gardening. 1t is one Of
the needs of our Western farm life.
To surround family with beauty fire.
Quently means to make them contented.
Trees and flowers affect the character
OF those that live among them. II a
care Of such things is necessary in the
East, where trees and plants naturally
abound. it is the more necessary in the
West, where homes have been estab-
lished on plains that were once treeless
and swept even now by drouth-breed-
ing winds.
In planting trees in regions that
nave before been treeless many adverse
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
package of GRAIN-O, the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee.
The children may drink it without in
jury as well as the adult. All who try
it, like it, GRAIN-0 has that rich seal
brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made
from pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress.
One-fourth the price of coffee. l5c.
and 25c. per package. Sold by all
grocers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
Sheep In England.

The supply of sheep In England,
which had sunk to a very low figure
In 1898, is again on the increase. and
increasing too at a rapid rate. The
last figures published by the English
authorities give the number of sheep
in England at 16,620,327; Wales, g.
i16.357; Scotland. 7.560,9S0; total OF
27,237.664. This is the largest number
since 1898, and Is in fact about 1.000.-
900 sheep in excess of that year. The
best feature is that the ewes have
been increasing as follows: 1895. $685.
900; 1896, 9,926,00O: 1897, 1O.O007 900;
1898, 1918 900; 1899. l0,461 900 Thus
during five years there has been a
steady increase making a total of $780,
900 ewes. This means that the annual
lamb crop is increased by more thar
that number.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Canadian Cheese Exports.-The Ca
uadians for a long series of years in
creased annually their exports of
cheese over that of the United States.
But the last year there was a slight
falling of of Canadian exports of this
kind of food. The figures OF Canadian
cheese exported into Great Britain dur
Ing the last four years are as follows:
1896, 1,234.000 cwt.; 1897, 1,526,000;
1898. 1,432, 900 cwt.; 1899. 1887 900 cwt.
This shows falling off Of nearly l0o.-
900 cvt.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

conditions have to be overcome. In
the first place the soil is covered with
a sod, and this is not a promising
condition for tree growth. The soil is
not naturally in the condition where
1t will hold water, for it lacks humus.
The best way to overcome these OBJ
stacles is to plant the trees close to-
gether, SO that it will be impossible for
grass to thrive in their shade. This
of course does not include such trees
as the cottonwood. In planting thick
cts 1t is advisable to get rid OF the
grass at the beginning and give the
trees fair chance.
In the effort to change bleakness
into beauty the greatest ally is the
tree. The tree is the easiest to estab-
fish because it can send down its roots
long distances into the moist subsoil,
and will exist when smaller plants per-
ish with the drouth. The trees once
established protect smaller plants that
are afterward set out and become the
sturdy barriers against destructive
winds and whitening heat. Trees,
however. must be themselves protected
and fostered till they have obtained a
firm hold of the soil and have estab-
lished the ability of appropriating the
soil water.
1t may not be generally known that
heavy SHOWS sometimes do great dam
age to planted groves of forest trees.
At Fargo, the location of the North
Dakota experiment station, the trees
of the grove are protected by a row Of
willows ten rods to the north and run
ming parallel with the grove. The
snow drifts in the lee Of the willow
trees instead of in the grove.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

The farmer should be careful in pur-
chasing nursery stock. One Nebraska
farmer several years ago planted a
large orchard of supposedly summer,
fall and winter varieties Of apples.
When they came into bearing all the
trees bore Hyslop crabs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

The woman that puts paint on her
face fools about rs many men as the
one that pads out her hips.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted. Leroy, N. Y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Biography shows man as he really
is and autobiography shows him as he
thinks he is.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

A Boox OF Choice Recipes
Sent tree by Waiter Baker Il Co. Ltd, Dorchester,
Mass Mention this paper.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
FREE GOVERNMENT LANDS.

The man who has nothing to be
proud of is apt to be proud of that.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Character is determined by what we
saw no to.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
Try Grain-o. Try Grain-o.

The average man makes n different
kind of a fool of himself each day.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

with thick. conspicuously velned leaves
and snowy clusters of tubular white
flowers. 1t is frequent in low. damp
soils near the coast, from Connecticut
to Florida.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

The famous gardens of Versailles
have cost eS, $50. O00
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

This poisonous shrub is called also
kill-lamb. 1t is a weak-limbed. de-
ciduous shrub, two to four feet high,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
DR. EARTMAa'S ADVICE
Is 6 ught by Female Suffer-
erS from Ocean to
Ocean.

Mrs. L. W.
Goulder, 1906
4th ave-, Rock
Island, Ill,
writes:
| II was af-
| hicted for five
or six years
with catarrh-
al difficulties
a n d w a s
g r o W j n e
worse all the
time. | began
taking your
Peruna with
"a marked i'm
prov m G u I
from the first.
Independe n I
of C u + | n z
that, the Pc
r u n a h a $
greatly j m
prove d my
z e n e + a |
health. :"
Every bot
tie of Peruna
is worth its
W e i G h t in
| gold; espec-
tally to me,
for l ow Q
m y present
good health
a. Du~,,~, -
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10

Hairs Catarrh Care
Is constitutional cure. Price, 75c.