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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
Foul Seeds.

II WOulu DE lmpOSSlnle 10 compute
the loss by the use of poor and foul
seeds each year We can test seed and
find out what percentage of 1t does not
germinate, and thus estimate a possible
increase in the amount necessary to use
for n field, or the decrease of crop If
we fail to make that allowance. But as
the cost of caring for and harvesting
Nhe product of an acre is nearly the
same whether the crop is large or small,
the cost of growing bushel or ton
Increases ms the yield diminishes. But
even this could be more easily borne
than the cost of caring for the crop,
as 1t is increased and Its value dimin-
fshed by an admiXture of foul weeds in
the seed we have bought. We could
easily afford to pay much higher prices
for seeds If we could have n guarantee
of their putty. The Agricultural De-
parhnent has done some good work in
examining both homegrown and i'm
ported seeds, and while they have
found most of the varieties of seeds
which we export to be reasonably free
from foul seed, and thus have helped
to find greater sale for them abroad,
they have also found that some varie-
ties which we import are badly mixed
with the seed of undesirable weeds,
particularly from certain sections,
where they must be either dishonest or
criminally careless. Whichever 1t may
be, these inspections may help to re-
duce the evil, but it will be only when
there shall be capable inspectors au-
thorized to thoroughly examine and
brand packages of seed, and provide
for the adequate punishment of those
who sell seed for what it is not, that
farmers will have the protection which
they have right to demand.-Ameri-
can Cultivator.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
what Would Commodore Vanderbilt

WHAT would Commodore Vanderbilt
have thought of all this chatter about
his great-grandson going to work? The
old man put his son "Bill'' to work at
an early age; not in an office at $1,000
year, either, but hauling manure on
the Staten Island farm ION shares" and
thought he was treating him handsome
ly at that. The access of snobbery
since those days is by no means con-
fined to the Vanderbilt family; it ex-
tends throughout the large and growing
class of Americans who sneeze every
time young millionaire takes snuff.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
Root Houses and Fruit.

Root and fruit houses may be made
at very little cost as useful and quite
as effective and satisfactory in every
way MS the most costly ones. Those
here shown may be made at no greater
expense than the cost of the hinges,
and the boards, few pounds of spikes,
and some tenpenny nails. The house
is dug out of the bank, which of course
should be dry, and the door of the
house should face the south. The walls
may be built up of logs or stone as may
be convenient. The roof is made of
poles doubled and covered with leaves
or straw, and then with doubled
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Chicago police records show that the
broom handle is womafl's favorite wea-
pom. In table compiled by the Trib-
une of that city the broom handle comes
first with record of 1856 ARRAYS,
against 1902 for table knives, 70 for
stove lid filters and 76 for the tradi-
tional rolling pin. The hatpir has a
score Of 55, yet it is more dangerous
weapon than table knife or u rolling
pin. The explanation is that women
do most of their fighting at home and
seize the weapon nearest at hand,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
HosoEs AND RAILROADS.
The Former an Expense and Nuisance
to the Latter.

liz Eoihi All pCiioS auN
to the Latter.
A single line of railway-one of the
most important companies-spends up
ward of $4,000 every year in fighting
tramps, and it is probable that most
of the through lines pay out not less
than $4,000 apiece in attempts to keep
their lines clear of these unwelcome
travellers. Tie i'll success which at
tends their efforts in spite of this out
lay is sufficient proof of the number
and pertinacity of tile tramps There
is hardly a line in the country that is
not at this season Of the year infested
with tramps beating their way back
from the scene of their summer wall
behring's to the various cities in which
they choose to hibernate.
If these men are driven off one train
they catch ON to the next that comes
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

"Come back to me-" said the Kansas
City man who found his runaway wife
in Chicago. "and you shall have the
privilege of going on an extensive shop
ping tour" There's man who knows
something of feminine nature and has
the wit to put his knowledge to prac-
teal use. He deals, not in abstract
theories, but in concrete facts. OF
course she went.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
The warm-Hearted Russian Pcasa /

The Manufactured Russian Pcasa
AS illustrative of one phase of the
character of the Russian peasant sur
prising story is told. During the last
Russo-Turkish war, 4 Russian regi-
ment marching from Philippopolis to
Adrianople overlook the Turkish ref
ugees; whereupon the terrified Turkish
women threw down their infants in
their flight. The Russian soldiers, while
pressing on as rapidly as possible,
stopped and picked up the babies, until
nearly every man in the regiment was
carrying a child, and the general was
absolutely obliged to stop the march
and find carts and men to transfer the
children TO place Of safety.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

The Sultan says that it costs him
trifie over 100000 "A year to satisfy
the dress appetite of his harcm. This
Is perhaps thrown out as sort of ex-
PLANTATION of why he does not pay us
that little bill. He thinks perhaps that
this country is not so cruel as to press
a man who can hardly clothe his fam
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

A horse that is not fitted for sale will
generally bring more money in the
country than he will in the sale ring.
When the public buys, it judges very
largely by appearances, and a good
horse in bad condition is likely to sell
for very much less money than an in
ferior horse that is fixed up. 1t does
not pay to sell horses anywhere with
out fitting them for sale; but IL the
horse is to 80 without special prepara-
ton sell him in the pasture. He will
look better and fetch more there than
anywhere else, nine times out of ten.-
National Stockman.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Many men who have no regard for
the sacredness of property will doubt
less be greatly interested in report
read before the national prison con-
gress on how to keep out of prison. The
plan is very simple-don't do anything
wrop0
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

In reading the current notices of the
birthday celebrations of our centena-
rians one is struck by the fact that
these healthy livers are almost inyarl-
ably people in modest circumstances.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

About the neatest thing King Oscar
of Sweden ever said was that greeting
to Americans the other day: II well
come you as Americans and therefore
as fellow monarchs."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

We are obliged now to chronicle the
nearby city by divorced men who call
themselves 1.-The Concentrated Order
of Has-Beens." This organization. it
is said, will build club house and en-
deavor to attract attention in various
ways, probably having baseball
matches between fat and lean mines Sc
lected from its membership and getting
up benefits at theaters and other places
for itself. 1t is difficult to be patient
with such people. Possibly some of the
divorced husbands in the town were
wronged. They may have been justi
fed in seeking freedom. But there can
be no justification for Il desire upon
man to parade himself as such. Cad
cooks! What If the divorced husbands
Of every city were to form clubs!
Where could building sites for business
houses be found? And il the divorced
men are going to form clubs the di-
vorced women will be wanting to do
something of the kind next. That
/ WOulu ne 100 lliucll! HIS CluU DuSl-
ness is being carried too far anyway. 1t
has come to pass that a person who
doesn't belong to one or more clubs Is
almost curiosity, and as for society,
1t is nothing but a conglomeration OF
clubs. There are mems clubs, there are
women's clubs. there are country clubs,
there are driving clubs, wheel clubs
auto clubs, golf clubs, tennis clubs and
card clubs of many kinds. In fact, it
seems to have become customary when
lever or Wherever two or three are gath
cred together, by chance or otherwise,
to form club of some kind. All this
must, in the natural order of things,
come to a stop sooner or later. The line
must be drawn somewhere, and we
guess the proper place to draw it is at
the divorced peoples club. The men,
bers of the divorced mems club should
be ashamed of themselves.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

That barber who has gone into the
pulpit will naturally have more or less
to say to his people about the next
world
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Ragtime music is already under the
ban. 1t is national characteristic to
run popular things into the ground and
then break them short off.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Alfred Vanderbilt knows that no man
need be out of work. He had no trou-
BILE in securing his pick of jobs in the
offices of the New York Central Rail-
road.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

The best preventive of gapes il to
plow or spade the ground intended for
young chicks as soon as the frost Ia
gone, and then scatter air-slacked lime
literally over the surface, is the opin-
ion of a poultry writer in the Farm,
Field and Fireside. Gapes general
ly come from the soil. and as lime de-
stroys any eggs or other sources of
gapeworms, the chicks will escape. Salt
may also be added in small quantities.
Lime is cheap, and it is better to use 1t
on the ground than to work trying to
save the chicks and lose large num-
Der. The ground should be lined as
early as possible. Lime is also pre-
ventive of roup. To get rid of filth
is to avoid disease In the fiocks, for
when disease appears the germs are re-
tanned in the ground. For that reason
every location occupied by poultry
should be occasionally spaded or
plowed. When performing such work
first scatter air-slaked lime over the
surface, and turn under the top SOIL
following by another application of
lime on the surface. The lime causes
chemical action in the soil which
quickly destroys the filth by changing
its composition.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

BY being communicated from 1T
Tolstoi has succeeded in letting the
world know that there is such thing
as a Greek church.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

The anxiety of European powers to
be "chummy" with this, country gener-
ally seems strongest when they have a
fight on hand.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Is there no way that the football
players can be equipped with tenders
for the preservation of the American
youth?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

The empty after-dinner speech is an
other thing which cannot be suppress
ed by the voters.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
Leice.ter Ram Royal Maidstone.

Two-Star, bred by, and the property
of, George Harrison. Gainford Darling
ton. England. First and breed cham
pion at the Royal Agricultural society's
Sow this year. aud d,st NJ several LEAD
ing English shows last year.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Evcl- the very poor are permitted to
live out their hundred years, while
such Il thing rs n wealthy centenarian
is almost unknown. This relation be-
tween longevity and moderate condi-
tions of life is illustrated by the care
fully kept statistics of the incumbents
of church livings in England. The 1903
clergymen who have occupied the same
living for fifty years and upward have
done so on an average income of ESQ,
or S1,250 In sixteen cases the income
after fifty years of continuous service
was between $3.50 and $40 a year.
The moral of this would seem to be
that the best assurance of reaching
cool old age would be found in the pos
session of an income that makes plain
living compulsory, but we doubt wheth-
or this reflection will have any influ-
ence in checking the desire for wealth.
1t is even possible that great many
people would prefer shorter life and
larger income to the prospect Of lon
gevity and limited means.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
weedy Milk.


There are weedy pastures in the land,
and there are pastures free from weeds,
says the Creamery Journal. 1t is plain
that the more milk from clean pastures
and the less from weedy pastures We
have in the creamery tho better the
chance TO get good flavor. The
creamery manager, in order to man
age, must know the farm conditions
of each and every patron, and the
weedy milk must be separated so as to
run as little milk, rs possible into the
cream. AS 1t is not practicable to keep
all the milk from clean pastures sepa-
rate from TINT coming from weedy pas
lures at the weigh can-at least it may
not be practlcable-the proper caper is
to separate all the cream, thick and
rich, running the minimum of milk into
the cream, then take same cans of
milk from patrons with pastures free
from weeds, patrons who are neat and
tidy, who keep the milk pure and un-
contaminated, and dump this milk
straight into the cream vat in sufficient
quantity to insure the right percentage
of fat in the cream and cause it to
ripen in time.-Creamery Journal.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

The farmer is the backbone of the
poultry industry, If we except the Gus.
toner. We mean that the farm remains
the chief source of supply of marke.
poultry. We say remains advisedly,
because the greater opportunities
which the farmer has at his door arr
gradually being stolen from under his.
nose by the large poultry farms which,
are springing up and have for yearH
been springiug up all over the country
poultry farms wrich are established to
supply market poultry and eggs of
superior class. How long the farm will
remain the source of supply depends to
great extent upon the farmer, and he
has not yet settled in his mind that
poultry breeding pays. There are few
farmers here and there who know 1t.
but they keep the knowledge to them.
selves as a rule.-Poultry Keeper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

The Belgian hare is the paramount
issue with some persons.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
Among the Poultry,

Generally, the quicker a sick hen is
killed the better.
Select out the best of the fowls each
year for future breeding.
Exercise is better than drugs as n
stimulant for egg production.
The hardy, wide rangers, those clean
of limb and having small combs, are
the kinds of fowls wanted by farmers.
For brollers you should have some
breed that natures rapidly, and that
will not have to be fed all summer to
make them weigh pound or two.
On the farm, especially, one good
breed Of poultry, well fed and cared
for, is Of more value than dozen va.
rieties neglected and Farm,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
Light and Heavy Woods.

Cork and poplar are the lightest
woods In the world, and pomegrauats
one Of the heaviest; 1t IL more than
one-third heavier than wstss.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

A writer In Ohio Farmer advocates
the clipping of clover the first year
after the wheat IS off, and even twice II
necessary TO prevent II from blossom
Ing, as that weakcns the next years
growth. This year lie clipped on Aug.
and expects TO clip ngaip in Septem.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
To Tell Oleomarsarine.


and butterine, colored contrary to law,
is sold for the genuine article is we'll
known fact. One of the surest tests
is to subject the sample to intense heat.
If the melted sample bubbles and sput-
-ters. it is butter; If it lies perfectly in
animate, 1t is oleomargarine.
The art of coloring and favoring cot
ton-seetl oil and lard in imitation of fine
creamery butter has become so perfect
that unless subjected to some such test
the difference is not apparent. There.
are a number of methods used by chem
lists, and in cases where even the
above men,ioned test is found made
quate the chemist can tell by using an
apparatus. A st. Louis wholesale dealer
in butter says: Not every one can tell
the difference between butter and the
imitation, even after trying the heat
test. My advice to those who want
real butter is to stick to the grocers
who handle only butter. Many tricks
are used in order to sell the colored
cleo. An INSCRIPTIONS grocer will tell
you he has some extra fine "Elgin'' or
dairy" but lie will not say butter. II
is Elgin oleomargarine or dairy cleo
margarine. The law gives the con-
sumner some protection, for in the Uni
ted States courts it goes hard with the
man who fails to stamp each package
of cleo with the word"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Der. He has done so for several years
until year before last, and he said he
would never omit 1t again. The hay
last year where 1t was not clipped was
Very dirty, full of stubble and trash,
while where too large growth was
made before winter, 1t lodged and
smothered out the crop. He cuts high,
removing the swatl board, and likes
to cut just after a rain, leaving all the
growth on the 81 ound rs a mulch,
which protects the roots in winter and
keeps the ground more moist in sum-
mer. 1t might be pastured off and get
some growth for cattle or sheep, but
they will not feed Oil the ranker grow
ing places, and feed the other too close
ly, thus making them liable to be win
ter killed. He does not think this pays,
and would prefer to grow green crops
to help out the pasturaSe than to use
the newly seeded fields. He wants to
leave clover about six inches high when
winter comes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

.
We use once a week n little Kerosene
and lard mixed. and rubbed on the
breast and under the wings of the
mother hen, and n good sprinkling of
the kerosene over the litter in the night
quarters. This Is all done after the
chickens go to roost. The fumes of
the kerosene will finish all the lice on
the bodies of the chicks, and the lard,
which they will rub from the mother
on to their heads, will do for those on
the heads. There is no danger of suffo-
eating the chicks, as in the summer
time they will Invariably roost with
their heads out from under the hens
wings. Adopting this method we are
never troubled with lice on our chicks.
and though have raised poultry for
twenty-five years have never seen n
mite. My neighbors have all been
troubled with them, and the only rea-
son that have not is because the quar-
tiers for the hens are kept very clean,
by the use of plenty of kerosene; and
never overcrOwd my chickens. The
late Matched chicken is surely worthy
Of your careful consideration. You will
find that there is nice little sum of
money to be made in this way.-Geneva
March in Epitomist.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

boards, which are covered with the
earth thrown out of the excavation.
This earth is best sodded. The door
way is then made in the front of the
building and if desired n loading door
may be made OH one side Of the top to
take in the fruit or roots. A double
frame is made in the doorway and two
tight doors are set in, with space Of
two or three feet between them. If
desirable this space may be filed in
when the house is closed for the WIN
ter with sheaves Of straw or hay or
bundles of cornstalks.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

William Lloyd Garrison, Ex-Governor
George S. Boutwell, and Colonel Thorn
as Wentworth Higginson, all of Bos-
ton, and we'll known to the negroes of
the United States, have issued an adj
dress to the colored people, advising
them to renounce the Republican party
as its national policy of Imperialism is
dangerous to the future of the colored
race. The address has been given out
by the National Democratic Commit
tee.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

Broadcloth originally got Its name
from Its width.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

But the Democratic party stands for
ttoedom at home as yell as for freedom
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31
PRINCIPLES OF THE PARTY.

WILLIS j. ABBOT.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-20

suits: About a m August % last $3.50. fire was
discovered in subway manhole at broadway ana
number of telegraph cables Upon removing the
covers an ugly blaze developed, which two OF
tcal test of the tubes was very satisfactory TO US
There IS one phase of the fire lighting problem
utility of the dry powder Kifyre is apparent. and
that is in guarding the telephone and telegraph
exchanges and their enormously costly apparatus
OF swltchboards Every tyro in electrical matters
knows that to turn stream of water upon a
switchboard is to utterly ruin it then and there
Every employe in the electrical exchanges and
telephone rooms knows how prone the fire hend Is
10 start his pranks amid these costly surround
ingS. A few tubes of this dry powder extinguiSher
iEsures the safety of switchboard. operatives and
wires.
j. +. Farnsworth general manager Southwestern
of January ,, 1900. from Dallas. Tex:
1T was only a few days ago that the wires in
our switchboard room here at Dallas caught fire,
and Kilfyre used with great success"
Frank Wood superintendent of two great tele-
ter Penn, says: 1T affords me great pleasure to
recommend the use of Kilfyre dry powder extin-
companies for use around their offices where there
is liability of crosses from electric light. trolley
other sources.
1t would be useless for me to tell a practical
electrician the effect liquid chemical would have
upon their boards kilfyre is the only safeguard
that know OF that can do the work in the right
place and not damage other portions of cross
connecting or switch board switchboard
saturated by liquid might we'll be destroyed by
hre, so far as its future use is concerned, for il
would be no better than junk A plenty Of
kifyre extinguisher and no liquid is my motto for
the protection of all electrical Devices
Cotton mills are rightly classed extra hazard
From of testimony this use of the
Kilfyre the following is fair example 1t is dated
June 49, 1899. and is from Henry l.. Witham, super
intendent Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills. Atlanta
We had fire In one of our breakers the other
day. and for the second time tested the efficacy OF
THE fire had originated in the basement. and
was drawn through the trunk up to the breaker