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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
How to Handle seed Corn

AS save from 800 to 500 bushels OF
seed corn per year., l will tell you the
way that l have found most satisfac-
tory in selecting and keeping. l have
a house with cement floor and trimmed
on all sides two feet high, with bins
raised two feet from the floor and legs
timed. This makes it rat and mice
proof. It is made with plenty of
doors and windows on all sides so that
the wind can blow through in fair
weather and closed and g fire in bad
weather until cor is thoroughly dried.
1 select my seed when husking; can
get the grains and ears more uniform,
and a better quality than at any other
time. Have eve failed in getting a
good stand of corn when selected and
cured in this way.-W. VI. Green, in
Farmers Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
WINTER CARE FOR EGGS.
The Hens Have a Good Warm Roost-
ing Place and Quite a Little
Exercise,

Wintering fowls without succumb.
ing to some dreaded and incurable
disease has been a ~perplexing ques-
ton with many a farmer and fancier.
To winter successfully one must not
have too much light, a good warm
roosting place free from drafts, a
sunny room to be used as a scratch
ing shed. to be filled four TO six
inches deep with bright straw, cut
hay, cut fodder or leaves. Last win
ter. straw being scarce, I had to re-
sort to the use of cut fodder, and
find it makes an excellent litter to
scratch in.
To winter successfully, one must
keep the fowls busy, either scratch
ing or by tying up heads of cabbage
so they will have to jump up after
it. Clean out the house often. spread
air-slaked lime e the dirt or floor,
and put Goa oil on perches each
week with an old paint brush.
For roosts> get three boards about
six inches wide and of length to suit.
bore a hole in each end, then saw
notches one inch deep and two
iAANL(o "'NC Oh SdhiC CtSC as Tx
holes are bored. Then take a No. 9
fence wire, place ecure in the hole
with one end, then fasten the other
end to a rafter or ioist above, so all
three boards will be of equal height
from the floor, about 90 inches.
Then place roofing lath Ike inches
crosswise OF the three six-inch
boards. This makes of course a
swinging roost. to which some OBJ
Iect. but after the fowls get used tt
it they will learn to balance them
selves at any disturbance. In clean
ing out the droppings. take out the
Ike lath and you have nothing in the
way. With what objections it may
have, it beats the old way which is
advocated by some by making stair
step roosts. Most fowls will try to
get on the top perch, sometimes fall.
ing to the floor again. Where roosts
are placed on a level there is no dan.
ger of overcrowding. for they are
willing to roost anywhere.-D. E
hathaway, in Farm and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
THE NEW FARM BARN.
SEINE Ideas on Building, VentiIatIeAs
Light and Proper Constructions
of the Stalls.

If you have a new barn in mind, this
winter is the time to read up the SUBJ
ject and get ideas. Here are a few
hints:
Have plenty of light and air. In the
past barns have not had enough of
either. The large amount of ammonia
in a horse stable makes it get foul
quicker han a cow stable. Two cubic
feet of air space per pound of horse,
one cubic foot per pound of COW is
plenty.
The ideal place for a horse is the
box stall, but where there are many
horses this would take too much room.
Box stalls should have a our OF six
inch board projecting all around the
sides and on the door, about three feet
from the floor, to keep the horses from
scratching their tails. A very small
box stall is not as safe as the ordinary
stall. 1t should be at least IL by IL
feet and IA by 16 is better.
A box stall is always desirable for
o valuable driving horse, a sick horse
or a mare in foal. For most horses the
ordinary stall must be used. They
should face away from the windows to
avoid the direct rays of light in the
horses eyes, and to keep the drafts of
air from striking their heads.
The stalls should be eight feet long
where the horse stands, and at least
our feet ought to be left for a pas
sage behind the stalls. The latter
should be four or six feet wide. If
five the horse is apt to get cast. In
a four-foot stall a big horse may hit
his hips, and a six-foot stall is more
comfortable because the inmate can
lie down and rest at ease. are mis-
taken if you think that just because
horses cannot talk they don't like to
be comfortable.
For heavy farm horses it is best
to have the floor pitch towards the
front, so as to rest their back muscles
by throwing the weight more in front,
but this cannot always be arranged.
AS near a level as possible is the most
practicable. 1t is better to absorb the
urine than to run it off.
Never bore holes in the floor for this
purpose, for the cold air would come
up right under the horse. Stone makes
a poor floor for a horse stall-it is
so hard and cold unless a great deal
of straw is used. Asphalt is not as bad
as stone, and can be used, but there
is nothing better than wood. The soft
er woods are better than hard, which
become slippery for a horse when get
ting up White elm is soft, wears we'll,
and is not slippery, and is hence very
good for the purpose. 1t is better
than hemlock.
Abundant fresh air is as necessary
for the health of horses as of men
But beware of drafts in winter, espe-
cially from overhead hay shutes. High
hay racks are poor things anyway. as
they necessitate an unnatural position
and may cause weak knees.-Farm
Journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Cool weather is an ideal time to
gather stones from the meadows and
tillable pastures. Their room has
much value, and it will not pay to let
them cumber the ground. To avoid
hackache and sore fingers, a potato
hook may be used to gather the
stones on a boat, and, if any are
partly imbedded in the earth, the
tines will more readily pass under
them than ones fingers. The large
stones will have to be handled in the
cid way. Tt is useless to expect an
ideal meadow with many stones on
AZ surface, even if they are quite
small
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

KETTLE PROPERLY SUSPENDED.
comes very near to explaining itself.
The device consists of three moder-
ately heavy pieces of wood for legs,
which are attached together at the
top by a heavy bolt. Some six or
eight inches below the union of the
three legs a heavy clevfs is secured
to the middle leg. From this clevis
two chains extend downward to prop
err distance and double backward to
fasten onto the ears of the kettle,
which then hangs suspended. The
length of the legs will depend on
convenience and the size of the ket-
tie they are to support. Those
shown in the cut are IL feet in
length and were made from medium
sized well seasoned fence rails.
When the derrick is not in use it can
be lowered, folded together and laid
away.-C. P. Reynolds, in Orange
Judd Farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The hq ed at Spanish bull
ng1ss ard animals valued at only
i've dollars apiece.
Of the three largest cities il
France, Paris has ~2,714,000 inhabi-
tants, Marseilles. 494.769. and Lyons,
453.245.
According to the Auto-Velo, there
IS to be a race for submarines be-
tween Trouville and Havre some time
in 1902.
The Beliners do not play golf.
There is a golf links near the city
with a clubhouse, but it is not pa
by the natives. and is left
for the exclusive use of foreigners.
American consuls in Spain receive
frequent complaints from their coun-
trymen that they have been swindled
by the old buried treasure trick. The
victims are induced to advance money
for the purpose of recovering sup
posed large sums buried by political
prisoners.
During the year 1899, the latest for
which statistics are obtainable, there
were in the German empire 1886
strikes, involving 7,121 employers and
154,017 workingmen. Of these 99,33s
persons struck work voluntarily and
1922 were forced or induced to stop
work by strikers.
Representatives of Hawaiian plant
ers are in the Philippines to ascer-
tain whether it is feasible to import
farm laborers from the archipelago
to Hawaii. The scheme is generally
regarded as impracticable for the
reason that the percentage of skilled
agriculturists among the Philippines
is very small.
During the year 1900, while the la
Dor differences in England numbered
64S, and in France 900, there were as
many as 1,46S strikes in Germany.
1t is true, the average number of par
Elephants in each strike is not as
large in Germany as in England or
France, it being in Germany roundly
stated 100, in France $50 and in Eng.
land 300.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Flint Corr for the silo.

Very few siloists in the west use
flint corn for silage. Yet it has it's
place. 81. b. Gurler says that he uses
it to advantage in certain cases. If
he has a field planted to some crop
and that crop fails, he can then plant
flint corr and have it mature sufficient
" for use in the silo, while dent corn
or the silage orr would not ripen sufh-
GENTLY TO be used at the time it is de-
sirab,e to fill the silo. The flint corn
natures in less time than the other
varieties. Mr.. GurIer says that it
should be planted quite thick 70 give
the best results.-Farmers Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
PIG TROUGH FOR WINTER.
1t VIII save Many Pound of Meat and
E~hectuaIly Prevent the Freez-
ing of Feed.

A good pig trough, adapted for use
in winter, is of inestimable value.
Why? Because there is then no ice or
the like ever to chop out of it, thus
endangering the trough, not to men
ton the wasting of food which the pigs
should have turned into flesh. 1t is
true that this state of affairs would
not occur very often if the hogs were
fed only what they would eat up clean;
but, alas! the majority of swine keep
ers are not observant enough about
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
TOLD IN VERY FEW WORDS.
London has $500 fires a year.

London has $500 fires a year.
Dundee exports over 1900 tons of
marmalade a year.
consume, on an average,
- pounds of meat a head yearly.
India holds the worlds record as a
cattle owner with 4S, 500, 900 beasts.
England alone comprises AZ per cent.
of the total area of the British isles.
A $4,000, 900 silk cargo has just
reached San Francisco from the orient.
There are in the United Kingdom
only 603 farms of over 1000 acres
apiece.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
SUPPORT FOR KETTLE.
1t Costs But a Few Cents to Make One
That Is Sure Not to Prove a
disappointment.

There are many farmers in need OF
something convenient to hang a large
kettle on. Many support the kettle
on three stones, which is unsatisfac-
tory, especially if the heat cracks
one stone and the kettle tips over.
The accompanying cut is drawn
from a photograph 1 took recently
on a neighboring farm. The cut
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Not in His Line.

myself want to get spliced. Will you oblige
US by tying the knot?
Parson-Um-let me seel If | remember
correctly, l married you and this same lady
two years ago.
Right you are, parson. But you see we
were divorced six months ago and now we
want to couple up again.
"Well, you'll have to go elsewhere. I'm
not running a repair department in connec-
ton with my business. Chicago Daily
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
The Hello Habit.

A nervous-looking girl consulted a doc
sor, who asked her what she was suffering
from. Her answer was as follows:
Il am a telephone girl, doctor, and the
work is a terrible strain on my nerves. The
monotony of having a receiver constantly
at my ears, and saying 'Hello!' tells upon my
nerves. When off duty | am always havz
ing Hello ringing in my ears, and / am
constantly saying it. When | 60 to bed !
wake from my sleep saying Hello and
stinctively say Hello!' before l commence
them. Sporting Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Re.t for the RnreIa.

No matter what ails you, headache to q
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature.
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy, natural movements, cost you Just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. G. G..
stamped on it. Beware of limitations.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Every package of cocoa or chocolate put
out by Walter Baker & Co. bears the well
known trademark of the chocolate girl, and
the place of manufacture, Dorchester.
Mass"
Housekeepers are advised to examine
their purchases, and make sure that other
goods have not been substituted.
They received three gold medals from the
Pan-American exposition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
STREET CAR CONDUCTORS.
Diplomacy That Is Required i'm the
Collection of Fares from
Passengers.

"Tbat man will not last long as a
street car conductor said the OBJ
server, according to the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. "Strange," said his
neighbor, .:for 1 had just been think
ing what a remarkably good-looking
fellow he was, quite above the aver
age in intelligence. What do you see
wrong in him?' ''Simply hat he
lacks the fundamental qualification
for the position. He is not a har-
monizer, and / am afraid he is lazy.
for he yielded to a petty temptation.
See those two gentlemen seated on
opposite sides of the aisle in the
front seats? / happen to know those
men are violent personal enemies and
have not spoken to each other for
years. When the conductor went to
collect their fares one vas holding a
nickel in his hand, the other a dime.
The carman gathered in the coins,
crossed his right arm over and gave
the nickel as change to the man with
the dime. The coin was still hot
from the hand of his enemy, and /
saw the blood rise to the mans
cheek, and I believe he would have
broken loose if he had been sure
whether to throw the money in the
face of the railroad man or the hated
passenger. He fingered the nickel as
j. it were infected and finally dropped
it into his outside coat pocket to cool
off. Now, of course, the conductor
was not supposed to know the en-
mites of all the passengers he col
1oa+1l fr0-, hu& an avnoriornnl n
with a rue conductor instinct would
never have taken the chance, and
would have dumped the coin into his
big pocket, even if he brought it
straight out again.
The case was an extreme one, but
every day the carman is called on to
use discretion in handing out money.
To collect a fve-cent piece from a
filthy track hand and at once trans
fer it to a superfine woman of the
upper crust is about the limit of in
discretion, but I have seen even that
done more than once. There is some
thing especially offensive in the oily
warmth of a coin hat has been held
for several minutes in the hand, and
it is a cardinal principle in street
fallrOaQleS tndG edcH piece SnaI De
passed through the purifying money
pouch on it's way from passenger t.
passenger. I saw a curious violation
of the rule the other day. when a
pretty girl gave a nickel to a new
conductor, who passed it across to a
dude opposite. The man al once
piped out that the coin was no good
and entered into violent alteration,
which ended in the young woman
ringing the bell and leaving the car,
although only half way home"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Brown-It's curious about peoples beliefs.
They will give entire credence to the most
absurd things, and put no faith whatever in
the most obvious truths.
Black-Yes, I've noticed it. There's
Green, now. He hasn't the least confidence
in hash. but he'll eat all the croquettes and
mince pie you can set before him.-Boston
Transcript.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Mistnsing the Action.

Patience-Then you say they arenot
engaged, after all?
Patrice-No, it was all a mistake.
You see, he proposed while they were
ont horseback riding.
"Yes, l heard that"
'Well, he thought she was jumping
at his proposal, but she never can
help jumping when she's on a horse"
-Yonkers Statesman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

why did you leave your last place."
seeking a location. why num-" replied
the applicant, 9Th hired CURL who wurrik'd
Their before me broke all tn chiny wurth
breakin'. mumi"-Ohio State journal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Diamond Cutting.

New York city. it is said, leads the
world in the cutting and polishing of
diamonds, there being 200 skilled work
men employed in the industry. Am
sterdam formerly had almost a mo-
nopoly of the business, with a little
competition in London and some small
continental towns. But all this has
been changed. There are about 90 dia-
mond cutting establishments in
Gotham, in which some 100000 carats
of rough stones are polished each year.
The best cutters earn from $40 to 500
a week. The price of diamonds has
not f1uctuated much in the last year,
Maiden Lane experts say, although
last winter there was a slight rise, and
some people believed, or pretended to
believe, that stones would go SO high
as to be out of reach of many persons
who wear them now.-Detroit Free
Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Maud-When are they to be mar.
ried?
E~thel-Never.
"Never2 And why not?"
"She viii not marry him until he has
paid his debts, and he cannot pay his
debts until she marries him."-Tit.
EifS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
unnftainable.

Edgar-fn Chicago. Eustacia, the
housewives keep their cooks by treat
ng the9 as equals.
EusfANa-0h, it's too late, Edgar,
90 late; cook wouldn't recognize me
as her equaFif I gaze her a tea
every afternoon in the week-De-
troit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
AnOther CYnic.

Solomon says: In all labor there
Is profit"
Il wonder if Solomon eve tore up
the sidewalk to get a nickel he has
dropped through a crack?'-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
the Handsome.t Calendar

of the season Tin ten colors) six beautiful
heads Ton six sheets, l0xl2 inches), repro
auctions of paintings by Moran, issued by
General Passenger Department, Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway, will be sent
on receipt of twenty-five cents. Address F.
A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chi
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

After a railway collision we generally
read that "tha line was blocked for some
hours" If the line had been blocked
before, the collision would not have 90
curred.-Ally Sloper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Advancing.

Tourist-Are the Indians around here
making any progress?
Westerner-Sure! Their medicine man
is a patent-medicine man.-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Beauty and good sense seldom go to-
gether. We usually let our good sense go
first, in order that we may keep our beauty
n little lonper.-N. Y. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Don't laugh at the children for writing
letters to Santa Claus. Some grown people
write letters in answer to green goods ad
Observation-Disclosures Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

What is the use in employing some one
to do your dyeing for you. If you use
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES you can do
il Just as well as q professional.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Dt.covered There Were others.

He (sadly)-I can remember when you
used to say | was all the world to you.
She-Perhaps; but I've studied astron.
omy since!-Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o
Ave, N, Minneapolis, Mimi, Jan. Q, 1900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter
with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

To err is human, But to rub it in that we
did is inhuman--Puck.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Greatness magnifies a mans mistakes
Chicago Daily News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Stops h Cough and Works ON
the Cold.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

Few Of us live to learn; and fewer learn to
live.-Wrinkle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Ouion and Hornerndish.

The purgative properties of ths
onion recommend its frequent use to
cleanse the generalsystem. 1t especially
promotes discharge from the mucous
membrane of the lungs and trachea.
H-orseradish is a good local stimu1ans
and a mental and physical tonic. Its
frequent use will relieve a tendency to
dropsy, and it contains properties that
are beneficial to chronic rheumatism
xatferers.-Leduer Ma1th.v
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
Nufss RerolvInr Cnrhfne.

A revolying earbine used in the Swiss
army Hres IS shots in g secontr and
will Kill at 1000 yards.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26
VIII Die unmnrried.

Kid gloves will not mold if packed
away carefully in a dry place.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-12-26

The h9 "a Z spanish bun
ng1ss ard Enimals valued at onIy
five dollars apiece
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-09
WESTMINSTER THEATRE.

Scrlbners Morning Glories company.
which was seen at the Westminster the
atre early in the season, has returned
for "a weeks stay and bids fair 10 do a
larger business than during tws first en-
gagement
The performance commences with mu-
sicsi conception entitled, Blue Birds OF
broadway ON the Beach," in which Edgar
Bixby, the well known eccentric come
dian Is the principal figure In this there
Is an abundance OF new songs we'll rend-
cred By the chorus and In TACT the cho-
rus IN one of the features OF the bill.
olga orion, a. sweet voiced singer,
opens the olio with the Holy city" and
other selections OF a like character, as
sisted by well varied chorus the scenic
enectt m this being pleasing feature.
The kOmaH Brotners, expert acrobats,
are at the head OF their calling. their act
being done In a most graceful and easy
make Is new. James Morrison and Alice
Berwick, Irish comedy sketch artists. are
a pleasing team, their dancing being bet
ter than the average.
Edgar Bixby ana Florence Hughes, as
the tramp and the tough tfrl, are just as
entertaining as OF yore.
Joe Fields, German comedian, has "A
peculiar and successful way OF pleasing
and last ia the olio are Grant and Grant,
the up-to-date coon singers.
A Gay Reception OF Nut Kayes Visit
with the popular Irish comedian, Harry
Dryedn, as Nut Kaye, assisted by the
enure company is given for the closing
number, ana this is in keeping with the
remainder OF the excellent bin. IN this
a number OF pretty marches ar executed
by the young ladies OF the company.
The bill can be enjoyed every afternoon
and evening during the week.