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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
A Winning Touch.
"Darling!''


The strong, manly voice was low and
intense as the handsome face bent
over the fair, bowed head by the fire.
Darling" he went on eagerly, "there
are others here observing us. must
see you a moment alone.'
For an instant the listener was quiet,
and not a curl stirred on the lofty
brow. Then the blue eyes were raised
to the beseeching dark ones.
eyes, what is it?" was the low reply.
'T-welT'-
A slight red flush mantled the neck
and cheeks Of the speaker, in striking
contrast to the cool, calm dignity dis
played in every movement of the half
reclining figure in the big plush chair.
'The fact u.s." he went on, mastering
up courage, the first embarrassment
giving place to a little more self con-
fidence, 81 have come to ask you some
thing I never expected would pass my
lips, especially after the last sum 1
borrowed from you. Darling, will you
lend me $1O?"
Jack Darling laid aside his paper.
"Of course, old man." he cried hearth
ly. Lets first get drink" And the
two passed out of the clubroom togeth-
er.-San Francisco News Letter.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
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|E'0=1B[|',.u,|. 81! d1NQ,5,:; 81

The dairy barn on the Watson ranch
five miles west of Kearney, Neb., has a
number of conveniences, says Prairie
Farmer. This ranch comprises 5000
acres, some 5000 acres of valley land
and about 5000 acres of rolling foot
hills and table lands. Something more
than 1000 acres are at this time in al
falfa. This yields such an amount Of
valuable forage that the ranch seems
we'll suited to dairying. Mr.. H. D.
Watson, the proprietor, availed himself
of the natural advantages of hillside
sloping to the valley, to erect at
comparatively moderate expense very
large bank barn, SO constructed as to
enable the work of handling forage and
live stock to be done by more conven-
lent methods than usually seen in
plants of this character. The barn is
90 feet in width, 256 feet in length,
which in this case we might call depth,
as it reaches back into the side hill,
and the main portion of the barn is Sc
feet in height. Back of this in hill is
a silo 80 feet deep, GO feet long, with an
average width of 80 feet, constructed to
contain 1850 tons of silage. Above
and to the south Of this is a supply
tank 67 feet long, 20 feet wide, 13 feet
deep. This tank is supplied by three
tubular wells 1876 feet deep from which
water is pumped by three strong wind
mills.
This tank, being located on the high
est point, supplies water for watering
the stock and for flushing cutters be-
hind the lines of cows and flushing the
sewers. Liquid manure is conducted
by a sewer down to the level of the val
ley, where it is received in an immense
tank and can be by gravity conducted
over contiguous lands or by water carts
to the crops needing it.
The stable is constructed with view
to accommodating $50 head of COWS,
each COW having her own box stall in
which she can stand or lie at ease with
out being tied. The stall room is Il
feet in height, giving the COWS better
than usual ventilation. Windows 4S0
feet long are on the east, south and
west sides of these COW stalls. All
these windows are hung on hinges ar
ranged to be opened by turning levers
from two inches to their full capacity,
thus securing circulation of cross cur
rents of air. The windows will be
screened, keeping out flies. There are
, calf rooms and available box stalls for
other purposes, all contrived in such a
manner as to enable the smallest posi-
| Bile amount of labor to give the most
| efficient care.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
The Bride Mt Last Said "Obey."


In telling about "Some People I Have
Married" in Ladies' Home Journal the
Rev. d. III. Steele says: Being an
Episcopauan, / always use the formal
printed service of the prayer book. In
this the greatest stickler is obey One
day couple came to me, bringing as
witnesses the parents of both bride and
groom. Everything proceeded smooth
ly to the point love, honor and obey
when the bride refused to say the last.
l repeated it and waited. Again she
refused, and l shut up my book.
'"Then there was q scene. They talk
ed it over, and the more seriously they
argued and discussed the more stub
bornly she refused The parents be-
came angry, the groom excited and the
bride hysterical. To humor her, he
Joined in the request to have me leave
it out. But l liked the fellow and de-
cided that little sternness from me
in the future. So told them had no
authority to change it and would not
do so. l tried to show the foolishness
of her objection, but it was no USE
FINALLY 1 said to him: We'll, this
household must have a head some
where. I will leave it out for her if
you will say it, Then it was his time
to refuse, which he did. He gathered
up his hat and started for the door,
when, presto change she sprang after
him, led him back by the hand, looked
meekly up at him and said it,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28

down when empty. I know Of at least
six unmatched round silOs that have
blown down in the last two years.
Cypress lumber is undoubtedly the
best lumber that grows for silo uses.
1t shrinks very little and warps scarce
ly at all.
The patent silo, if it be first class
one, is both cheaper and better than
any homemade one, no matter how we'll
built
Not only are they cheaper, but If
bought from a first class firm a patent
round stave silo is the best in the
world. Ensilage being such heavy
product, the easy, economical handling
of it should be considered. With door
silo the plan usually followed is to have
about one-half of the front open, the
rest closed. This plan, Of course, r@s
quires much lifting as the ensilage is
being taken out. The most desirable
way is to have the silo of the continu-
Gus open front construction, whereby
the entire front can be opened up one
board at a time as the feeding from
the silo is being done. This makes the
door on a level with the feeding sur
face all the time, and to me this meth
Cd seems to possess the greatest merit.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Immediately Suspicious.

"Why did you terminate your inter-
view with that professional politician
so abruptlyy asked the confidential
man.
"He made me suspicious at the out
Set" said Senator Sorghum. II don't
care how much prevarication my as
sistants use toward other people, but
want them to be frank and honest with
me. The first thing that man did was
to tell me a falsehood. He said he was
working from disinterested motives
and didn't want money."-Washington
Star
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Difficult to Treat.

"Well, what is the matter with your
husband?" the physician asked as he
laid down his repair kit and removed
his gloves.
Imaginary insomnia" replied Mrs.
Fosdick.
Imaginary insomnia" repeated the
physician inquiringly.
THAT'S what it is. He thinks he
doesn't sleep at night, but he gets lots
more sleep than I do."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
HOw,S This.

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re.
ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot
be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Profs., Toledo, 0.
We the undersigned, have known F. j
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
leno Ohio.
Walding, Kindan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, 0.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Price 75c
per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Tes-
timonials free. Halls Family Pills are
the best.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
The Guernsey Cattle Club,

The Guernsey Cattle club has it's reg
lister for pedigree and now proposes to
open another, the register for perform
ance, or, rather, for all proved work
standard.
The matter has been under considera-
ton by the Guernsey Cattle club for
some time, owners of Guernsey cattle
having felt it an injustice to the breed
that there were only their own tales Of
their animals, and, as the better the
performance was the greater the doubts
might be, therefore the less they were
inclined to give figures.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
(@lhIN TEIR|
= |13B1lAIHY i

In the development of the heifer to
be a profitable dairy cow a great deal
depends on the sort of man that han
dies her from calfhood to her second
milking year. She must start with good
dairy ancestry. That is the founda-
ton, but not the superstructure. We
have reason to believe that a large pro-
portion of poor COWS could have been
made good ones if they had fallen into
the hands of men who knew how to
develop them rightly. Here are the
ways: CD Prevent the growth of fat
and the development of beefy tend
encies; (2) use constant gentleness and
frequently handle the udder; g. breed
at Is months so as to start the develop
ment of the maternal functions while
the body is easily nodded; (D feed lib
orally of milk producing food SO as to
develop the growth of the udder all
that is Observation-Disclosures by w. D.
Hoard.
Feeding Grain With Selling Crops.
In considering the subject of feeding
green forage crops to cows, J. B. Lind
say of the Massachusetts experiment
station says that some dry feed should
be given in addition. From five to ten
pounds hay per day and two to five
quarts grain, in connection with so to
60 pounds green forage, will give the
best results in milk production. If
more clover than this is fed it will
have a tendency to cause blOating,
while excessive feeding of millet acts
injuriously on the kidneys. Suitable
grain ratiOns are made up as follows:
No. /, three to four quarts gluten feed
daily; No. 2, 100 pounds gluten meal,
200 pounds fine middlings, 125 pounds
wheat bran; No. 3, $50 pounds gluten
feed, 175 pounds wheat bran; No. 4, 100
pounds fine middlings, $50 pounds dried
brewers grains or malt sprouts Of
these, use four to five quarts daily, ex-
cept with clover, when one-third less
will answer
SkimmfIIx Calves.
At the Nebraska experiment station
May Is, June and July s, 1899, and
brought them up on skimmilk or sepa-
rator milk, making butter from the
cream. In % weeks they made nearly
1921 pounds of butter. Three other
calves, dropped May %, May 26 and
June 16, were allowed to run with the
dams. On July IA, 1900, the three hay
ing the whole milk weighed an aver
age of 79S pounds and the three on
skimmilk 1872 pounds. All were fed alike
after weaving, but with whole milk
valued at 81 per hundredweight and
skimmilk at Is cents per hundred
weight it had cost $50.27 more to raise
those on the whole milk than it did
those ON skimmilk, OR $16.76 each, not
reckoning anything for the extra cost
of labor in the hand feeding and butter
making. The cost of growing a calf
to months old on skimmilk was es-
timated at about So for food, but by
their weight as yearlings it will be
seen that they were literally fed.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
THE ROUND SILO.
Advantages of the Continuous Open
Front Construction.


Front Construction.
The most satisfactory silo is the one
made of one thickness Of two inch
slaves, planed on both sides and heav-
lily tongued and grooved, says f. 81.
Ryder in National Stockman. The bev-
ell on the edges of the slaves conforms
to the circle, and the slaves should also
be matched according to the bevel. I
have in mind a certain make Of silo I
have seen in which the slaves are bev-
eled, but the groove is not put in at
right angles to the bevel, so that when
the tongue or fin is inserted it is al
most certain to split, leaving the lum-
Der practically unmatched. The OBJ
ject of having the slaves matched is
twofold-to secure tighter joint and
to prevent the building from blowing
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28

Wife-There's burglar down cellar,
Henry.
Husband-Well, my dear, we ought
to be thankful that we are up stairs.
Wife-But he'll come up here.
Husband-Then We'll go down cellar,
my dear. Surely a ten room house
ought to be big enough to hold three
people without crowding.-Detroit Free
Press
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Rusty Spots In Cheddar.

The Geneva station says there are
colonies of minute plants growing on
the walls of the air spaces in the
cheese. The remedy suggested is plen-
ty of hot water and live steam used
upon the cheesemaking utensils anG
about the watts.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Split TeaG.

Scarify the edges of the opening;
then put a pin through the edges and
tie a thread in the form of the figure
8 around the ends of the pin, thus
bringing the edges of the opening to-
gether. Let the pin remain in until it
sloughs off. By that time the edges of
the opening will have united. Use a
milk tube to draw off the milk.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28

The fig is the favorite fruit among
animals, and horses, cows, hogs, sheep
and goats will eat this fruit as readily
as man. The elephant considers it a
dainty, while all the fowls greedily de-
your figs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
MISPLACED Ability.

The young collegian snapped his
watch lid down with a sigh of relief.
preached AZ minutes" he announced
to his neighbor. 1--WE ought to get a
man with wind like that on our track
team.o-Exchange
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
A Serious ComnIafnt.

dat gemman?" asked Miss Miami
Brown. Didn't he pay you right?"
YES" answered Mr.. Erastus Pink
ley. HE paid fus' rate, but his clothes
was SO out of style dat was almost
fohced to keep out of society"-Wash-
ington Star.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28

Athletes are short lived, and giants
seldom live out the allotted time of
threescore years and ten. They ex-
pend too much vitality.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Bone
FerfixiZeF"2

Don't all speak at once.
Use 400 lbs. per acre and
use it every year till you
have raised the grade to No.
LESS acres and more ferti-
lizer will do the business-I
intend to keep it on hand, but
your order should be placed
early to be sure Of a supply,
as the demand will be large
ly increased this year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Get What You Ask For!

When you ask for Cascarets Candy
Cathartic be sure you get them.
Genuine tablets stamped c. c. c..
Never sold in bulk. A substitution is
always cheat and fraud. Beware!
All druggists, Ioc.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
How Many
Tobacco
Growers

In Wisconsin were able to
deliver 2O13 lbs. of tobacco
per acre from eleven acres,
commanding 919c per pound
straight, that did not use
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
Waited For the Approximation.

WHIteU 4 OF the ApprOpr1at1On.
Eyes. he has cut loose the dogs Of
war
What was holding them back?"
'The sinews." -Cleveland Plain Deal
er.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28
F0Iey's Kidney Cure
makes kidneys and bladder right.
k(od oil
Dyspepsia Cure
DiueStS what you eat.

artifcially digests the food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon-
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gans. 1t is the latest discovered digest
ant and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in efficiency, 1t in
stantly relieves and permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick Headache, Gastralgia, Cramps and
all other results Of imperfect digestion.
Price SOC. and 81. Large size contains 2?@ times
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Prepared by E. c. DEWITT 6 CO.. CbicnGo-
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-06-28

DO your clothes look yellow? Mable
City Soap washes them snow while. 2
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-25

II don't understand it at ALL" she
sid.
And in truth she did not, for, strange
as it may seem, it is none the less true,
that those themselves most rigid and
guileless Of the least peecadillo are
often quite unable to interpret a cir
cumstance in one way, the best and
cleanest; while they can with no diff
Guilty understand it perfectly, granted
that the motive from which it sprang
was vile.
at was an OATH" he said, speaking
for the first time to any living soul of
the wretched compact he had made,
IAN oath taken without witnesses, but
none the less solemn and binding on
that account. 1t has CALLED me for
years; it will go we'll nigh to break
my heart if, as l think, as | begin to
fear" He broke off, unable to con-
tinue.
Maria Osborne had many faults, but
want of regard for plighted word was
not one of them.
"Humph," she CALCULATED, regarding
her brother grimly. IF you had taken
my advice you would never have had
anything to do with that creature.
However it's no use crying over split
milk and since you've made your bed
in that way l suppose you'll have to lie
n it. But it ought to make you more
amenable to reason in other ways.
Why don't you leave all this nonsense
alone? Nobody admires you, nobody
thanks you, nobody wants anything
except leave just to muddle along in
their own sweet way. You think the
poor In the cities want to be clean and
wholesome. They don't. They'd throw
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-25

| filth of many casual wards was true. I
told him that he must bear the pun
lshment he had brought on himself like
a man. and that when he came out he
should return to me to see IL there
wasn't some better alternative for an
able fellow But 1t was not for that
alone that my brothers on the bench.
notably orr friend Porcher, had me ov-
er the Goals. It seems that have CIV
en- mortal offence to Mr.. Lechlade and
am accounted as little less than a
heather for having done So"
How was that, Frank7' Eva de-
manded. I thought you always tried
to keep the peace and to avoid Of
fence"
God knows DO" be answered;
but sometimes I can't help being BIT
ter and / own hit him hard. They
drought one Of Porcher's cotters up be-
fore US, for overcrowding the bed
rooms OF his domScile to the danger OF
tho public health. 1t seems the poor
devil has nine children and wife TO
keep. and but two sleeping rooms to
keep them in. or course he was told
to move into a larger tenement, OF send
some of the youngsters out His ex-
cue was ne couldn't do the latter till
tho School Board let them go; and that
the children were so small (no wonder)
that they were not crowded much
small. Eva-punny and starved, call
L. What do you think his salary was2
Eleven shiIlngs a week IL ne looked
after cattle on Sunday. Less II he took
. pest; and he had been seventeen years
with one master, clergyman. Eleven
humaaNouls, and one shilling per head
to keep them on per week. Well, of
course, the laws the law; and the In
spector proved that the man had been
warned and had taken no notice-so
porcher was for dealing with him. BY
dint of making myself obnoxious, l got
the man a months respite, and he was
told that at the end of that time II the
nuisance had not abated ne would be
dealt with. The mans frightened
face made me boil, and l added the
magisterial rider, that l was sorry
couldn't have his clerical master up be-
fore me to deal with him with his coat
off for five minutes. It seems that
Lechlade was his employer, and I've
raised a he net S nest about my ears"
But the man, Frank, the cotter?'
Need you ask? He is all right now;
but the sum and substance of it is that
I am not considered an ornament to
the bench, and that there is distinct
feeling that l ought to retire.
you will not do so, hope she said.
You will stand t. your guns, Frank,
for the sake of those whom VOC could
not reach In any other way"
Il suppose l must" he answered.
But it is heart breaking work, Eva,
when there is so little reward, 50 little
comfort anywhere. Even such happi-
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ness as I may have in my domestic life
tending that don't know what rs 60
ing on; and l must find the courage to
say to You What you are too tender of
me to propose yourself. Had you not
better leave my homer
"When you are tired of my presence
here. Frank" she assented, when
you are dissatisfied with our relation
and position towards each other. yes,
then will 60"
He uttered a bitter groan that seemed
TO come from the depth OF his heart.
Il am dissatisfied" he answered.
and tired-tired to WEAKNESS of my
position, of my inability to" Then
he checked himself and added, more
steadily. if with no more genuine calm
ness: 81 am very much hemmed in,
Eva. ! cannot say what | would.
Briefly. the position is this: Your pres
ence near me has been my comfort.
your steadfast loyalty and affection has
made the sunshine of my life. But
have been illradvised (things being as
they are with me) to accept the sacri-
fee. l should not have let you, to
whom other spheres and other voca-
tions are open. spend your life side by
side with mine in comradeship which
is misunderstood, comradeship which,
dear as it is, is futile and-and hope
, less in many ways"
He broke off and covered his face
with his hands. What was it that he
seemed always about to tell her, yet
never uttered? Was IL confession of
love, or that most difficult of all adj
missions for man to make'to q wo-
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disb-elout at any woman who tried
to teach them. You want to get bus
conductors, and boiler-makers, and
match hands, and tailoresses and what
not time for their souls to live What's
the use? For the men 1t would only
mean football and beer, and for tina
the women cheap feathers and questions
able f1irtations. Keep them working and
keep them out of mischief, say, II YOU
want to be the peoples friend e
"Half a moment, Maria" osborna
interposed. Keep them out of mis-
chief. is a phrase that needs interpreta,
tion l can't myself help feeling that
it means to keep them out of our way
Granted that the poor misuse their
pleasures, is 1t not because We have
so shameful4y misused them in theic
work? Where's the sin in footballf
las for the lower forms of pleasure.
what are they? It's the comradesa!p
and not the drink at first that allures.
The very craving for drink In moss
eases is the misunderstood cry OF the
tagged body and jaded nerves for more
vitality. Yet we, the capitalists, WIZ
fully and willingly let human bodies
languish from overwork, under feeds
ing, and unhealthy conditions, them
when the inevitable result of our own
greed becomes apparent, turn with VIZ
tuous scorn from our victim, the drinks
degraded man or woman, and cfyS
What hog? Who can do anything
to raise this creature?'
/, ooh, very WE'LL Francis; very WE'LL
sneered his sister. 81 am used to yuas.
tactics. As soon as I venture 10 speas
of your personal atfaire-of which.