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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
LONGITUDE A HUNDRED.

We are in receipt of several inquiries
as to the wisdom of investing in cheap
lands which lie bordering the line of
longitude 100 degrees west and latitude
from u to 4G north Ii we correctly
understand the topography. rainfall
and climatic conditions of the territory
referred to-and we think that we do.
for we have examined the land and the
conditions pcrsunally-we are firmly
of the opinion that agriculture - the
growing Of the common cereal crops of
the country ana its grasses and roots
as practiccd i'm all the older settled por-
tons of the country is not, taking a Sc
rieS of years. a safe business PROPOSE
ton. The country has its uses. but
they are not in the line Indicated
There are just two conditions which
are constantly liable to defeat mans
best work in the effort TO raise a crop
an uncertain ana deficient rainfall and
the hot winds from the southwest. to
which may be added incidentally a
greater liability TO loss by hail than in
any other section of the country. The
soil is exceedingly fertile and respon-
Sivc, but the drawbacks referred TO are
a normal attribute of that section and
such as Will never be modified or re-
moved by settlement and the cultiva-
ton of the soil. This country is one Of
the best sheep sections in the United
States. 1t Is also good cattle country,
and fine horses can be raised there,
and its uses lie on these lines. The val
he of these lands must therefore be
based upon what they may be worth
for these purposes, bearing in mind
the fact that if one acre will pasture a
COW in the luXuriant blue grass mead
owS of Iowa ii will take a good deal
more than one acre to keep the same
COW in the territory mentioned. We
cannot undertake to say what such
lands are worth for these stock grow
ing purposes further than to say that
an acre of blue grass in Iowa or Hi
noiS is worth not less than so as pas
turc land. 1t should be said that there
will come seasons, like the present one,
when the rainfall will be ample and
when splendid crops of all the cereals
may be raised, as will he done this
year. and it is possible that improved
methods of cultivating the soil will lie
discovered and adopted whereby the
moisture and rainfall will be better
conserved, but the ample rainfall is
the exception, and it is pretty hard to
conserve moisture when there is none
to conserve. Summing up, we would
say if such lands are bought it should
be on their value as stock ranges and
not rs grain producing lands
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

District No II, Woodsboro-L NJ
Miller, Woodsboro; Eugene T. Albaugb
Woodsboro.
District No. Il, Petersville, Precip,,
Clinton w Shaft, Knoxville; WI.
liam S Flock, Petersville.
District No. II, Petersville, Preeino.
John F. Bradley Brunswick, Ben
min y. Chambers, Brunswick.
District No. IS, Mt Pleasant-Cepb,s
NJ. Thomas, Walkersville;; William \
Todd, Mt. Pleasant.
District No. IA, Jeferson-Ioseph n
Champion, Jefferson; Thomas {. Keller
Jefferson.
District No. IS, Mechanicstown- Wn-
liam P. Kunkel, Catoctin; Charles n
Root, Thurmont.
District No. 10, Jackson-Martin "
yesterday, Ellerton; Samuel H. Peujp.
gall, Myersyille
District No. II, Johnsville-Reubeo
Devilbiss, McKinstry's Mill; George l.
Peters, townsville.
District 80. is, Woodville-David r
Roop, Linganore Archley r. NIoes.
worth, Woodville.
District No. I9, Linganore-Chas. +
Geiselman, Unionville; Charles I. Car
Isle, Sam 5 Creek.
District No. 20, Lewistown-F. Stan.
ley Stull, Lewistown; Jacob Z. Palmer
lIansonville.
District No. Il, Tuscarora-A. I. Sum
mers, Frederick City; William 7. Nor
SELL Frederick City.
District No. -, Burkittsyille-Charle,
{. Maught, Broad Run; Peter NJ. HORNE
Burkittsyille.
District SO. g, Ballenger-Willan
\. Zimmerman, Feagaville; John +
Phlceger, Feagavillc.
District No. H. Braddock-Lewis 2
Summers, Braddock; Willard f. Kefan.
yer, Braddock.
BY order,
JACOB ROSENSTOCK,
JOHN w. HUMAI,
ARTHUR d. WILLARD.
The Board Of Supervisors of Elections
for Frederick County, Md.
II. DORSEY ErcmlsoN, Clerk.
july lost,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
SELECTING 4 HOME.

In the matter of deciding where to
select a farm and make a home there
are a few things which should have
careful consideration. Among these
ARE climate. rainfall. length Of growing
season. quality Of soil, present and
prospective markets. general character
of the settlers as 10 nationality. reli-
sion and politics Many men 20 it blind
Is to all these things in choosing q To-
cation. only later on TO realize that they
have made bad mistake. Tempted
by the low price Of the land and the
spccious representations of railway
literature and land agents. scores of
mon are this season buying farms in
the smiarid belt. only to realize later
on that Willie thoy have the most fer
tile soil ON earth the deficient rainfall
and the hot winds viii persiStcntly and
uniformly paralyze their best efforts.
Others similarly tempted Will locate in
the south country. where the rainfall is
ample. but the soil so sterile that Il
crop is only possible when the value
of it Is expended in artificial fertilizers
10 produce it, Now, here are a few
rules which it will pay To heed In
selecting farm. Where clover. corn
a.i grass VIII grow and DO wen year
after year. there the questions of fer
Utility. rainfall and climate may be said
to bo all right for the pursuit Of a di-
vor~.dpi agriculture. far where these
will grow there viii stock of all kinds
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

We are asked how long present pay
inS prices for farm products will he
likely to continue. Prices for what the
farmer raises ana has to sell are based
wholly upon the demand for such
produce; this demand comes partially
from other lands and mostly from the
nonprodueCrS of our own country.
Good prices imply ability of the CON
sumner to buy, and lie is able to buy
only as he is sure of steady and prof
liable employment Just so long as
mine, factory and railway are running
on fun time and paying good wages
to employees Just so long will the
farmer receive good prices for what he
has TO sell. If the country is wise
enough to avoid rushing into a period
Of crazy speculation and inflated val
ucs- just keeps up the present steady
and prosperous gait-there is no pros
poet of any marked decline from pres
ent prices of farm produce.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
ADDITIONAL JUDGES OF ELEC-
TlON FOR THE YEAR 1901.

The first named in each district or pre-
cinct is to represent the Democratic
party; the second, the Republican party.
District No. I, Buckeystown-J. d.
Day, Licksyille; Augustus w. Nicode-
mus, Buckcystown.
District No. :, Frederick, Precinct i
Joseph Burck, Frederick City; Irving 5.
Biser Frederick City
District No :, Frederick, Precinct o.
William H. Griffin, Frederick City; vii
liam f. Staup, Frederick City.
District No. ,, Frederick, Precinct g.
NJ. +. Getzendanner, Frederick CITY.
Isaiah ~ 10y Frederick City.
District no, 2, Frederick, Precinct A.
Christopher ?. Smith, Frederick CITY;
Edward James, Frederick City.
District No. 5, Middletown-Ch Charles
". Andcrs, Middctown; Charles A.
Weaver, Middlctown.
District No. 4, Creagerstown-George
Stevens Creagcrstown, William H.
Staup, Creaserstown.
District no s. Emmitsburg, Precinct
clarence Rider, diminishing; Single
ton Dorsey Emmitsburg
District No. s, Emmitsburg, Precinct
John W. Reggie, Emmltsburg; Chas.
Z. Chilean, lmmitsburg.
District No + Catoctin Daniel ~
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

While the marked rise in value of all
farm lands during the past two years
has made the holding of such land very
profitable regardless of how the farm
may have been worked, this condition
VIII not continue, and in the future
what money is made from the farm
Will have to be made from the cult
Walton OF the land ana not from the
advance in value of the land.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

There is always some raw granger
going TO Chicago with stock from Iowa
Kansas or Nebraska. who persists in
either blowing out the gas at his hotel
or else goes out after dark to see the
city, in which case he might just about
rs well have staid ut his hotel and
blown out the gas. This sort should
sell tlleir stock and get out of town be.
fore the sun goes down.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Things will never 90 just smooth in
this country until we get a class of
young men willing TO remain hired men
and nice girls equally willing to remain
hired girls, and this time is not COM
ing right away, for the flag and the
school. the pulpit and newspaper and
the air we breathe are each and all at
work to make disconnected hired men
and hired girls, and the glory of Amer
lea is that this is so.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The man with muscle to sell finds a
reader market for his wares than does
the man with brains-that is. just COM
mon brains. The man with a tanned
skin. horny hands and knotted muscu-
lar arms was never before SO nearly the
cock of the walk as he is today.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

A friend writes inquring how to get
rid of sorrel from field which became
infected rs the result of sowing i'm
pure clover seed. If such field were
summer fallowcd, giving it, say, three
or four plowngs or diskings between
the middle of June and the middle of
September, or, if plowed in June and
soWed to rape or sorghum, it would
finish up the sorrel.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The high cost of the modern thrash
ing machine has proved good thing
for many a young man, and older one,
too, for that matter. in that it proves
a barrier To their going into the thrash
ing machine business. As between a
thrashcr and ten drinks of whisky a
day, the average man will keep his
farm longer with the whisky than he
viii with the machine.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

When the Lord wanted to plague and
punish the Egyptians, he sent small
thngs in vast numbers to do 1.-THE
plaques of lice, Of flies, of frogs-and
Just SO today the farmers worst enc
mes are the periodical raids of small
thlngs IN countless multitudes-chinch
bugs grasshoppers, the Hessian fly,
potato bugs and all the numbcrlcss
species OF crawling, biting, sucking and
Singing things which in a few short
hours fall upon him just as they did
upon the Egyptians of old, and blast
and wither his crop.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

II costs i man 81 to order 4 porter
house steak on a railway dining ear,
and after he has disposed Of it he is
forever after 4 kicker ut the quality,
cooking and service Of the average
beelsteak. y butcher whom we know,
who had cut tons of steak in his time,
told us recently that until he had eaten
a dining car steak he never realized the
possibilities connected with his bust
ness.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

II told a pitiful little story. the little
patch Of ground by the side Of the poor
home, fenced in with pieces of brush
and sticks to make a flower bed. and
in 1t a few four o'clocks. pansics and
nasturiums. 1t spoke of a pale ana
oyerworked wife and mother, striving
under the most adverse conditions Of a
shiftIcss husband, poverty hogs and
poultry running at large, trying in her
helpless and feeble way to do a little
something to crafty her love for the
beautiful. The man who will ala his
wife and daughters in gratifying their
love Of flowers is not only doing his
simple duty to his colaborers, but is in.
finltely refined and benefited himself.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
JUDGES OF ELECTION.

Published in compliance with the 10th
Section Of Art So Of the Code OF Public
General Laws of Maryland, title Flee
tionS," as enacted by Chapter 464 of the
Acts Of the General Assembly OF Maryland,
1900.
1T shall be the duty OF the said board to
examine promptly into any complaint
which may he preferred to them in writing
against the fitness or qualifications of any
person so appointed Judge or Clerk and to
remove every such Judge or Clerk. whom
upon inquiry, they shall find to be unfit or
incapable
Judges Of Election who are to act as Off
GERS OF Registration in the several Districts
and Precincts Of Frederick County for the
year 1901. The first named in each Dis
trict or Precinct to represent the Demo-
cratic party, and the second the Republi-
can party.
District No. /, Buckeystown- Joseph
\, Chi.well, Buckeystown, John {.
Padgett Adamstown.
District No. :, Frederick, Precinct l.
Allen l.. Kline, Frederick City; Win
field Scott Van Fossen, Frederick City.
District No. :, Frederick, Precinct =
George |. Wilson, Frederick City;
Frank 6. Wagaman, Frederick City.
District No. :, Frederick, Precinct s.
Francis T. Rhodes, Frederick City;
Milton \. Woodward, Frederick City.
District No. :, Frederick, Precinct i
]. Edward Rice, Frederick City; Roger
I. Young, Frederick City.
District No. 5, Mddletown-Ste Stephen
3. Coblentz Middletown; Eugene \.
Alexander, Middletown.
District No. i, Creagerstown-G George
+. Stottlemyer, Creagerstown; John ".
10y, Logs.
District No. 5, .mmitsburs, Precinct
charles X. Hoke Emmitsburg;
Charles J. Shut, Emmitsburs.
District 40. ), Emmtsbwg, Precinct
Jesse II. Nussear, Emmitsburg.
Henry r. Maxwell, -Four Points.
District No. 8, Catoctn-Iohn f..
Palmer, Aliddlepoint; Luther NJ. Wise.
Garfield.
District no. : Urbana ELDERLY T..
Dixon, Ihurston; Charles +. bud
derar, Crbana.
District 80. s, Llberty-Maurice +.
Starr, Liberty, Marcellus BcaIl. Liberty
District 40. Q. New Market. L.
Magruder, Fountain Mills; Charles II.
Lease, Pearl.
Bussard anti. Ida H. thurman Fo1.
vile.
plstrlct No. IL, NoodsDoro John
X ILIl lIanl',nr., 'N'''o' = '0'' -
District IA =, p.,or.,.;,,o p...;,,..
John ". Page, petersyilIe; Daniel
NJ. Miller, Knoxville.
District 10. - peter.,.iIle prec,,rt
2-Frederick T. Snapp, Brunswick:
William l.. Richards, Brunswick.
District 80. r. Mt Pleasant lain
II. Jamison, Walkersville, {. \. Nico-
demus, Walkersville.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

You may think that you have got on
to the secret of controlling sex in the
breeding of your domestic animals, but
you have not. and no man ever will.
TO give to man this power would be as
disastrous as it would be to give him
the power to regulate the weather and
the rainfall
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Additional testimony comes from sew
eral sources that it is only the female
or seed bearing box elder tree which is
infested with the box elder bug. This
fact seems so well proved that the re-
moyal of the seed bearing trees alone
win probably remedy this nuisance.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The two horse load of barnyard ma
nure placed on $50 land which produces
an average of 81 bushels of corn to the
acre is worth 81 at least.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

\ man who does not know enough
to cut the tails off his lambs when they
are 10 days old has no business keep
mg sheep.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Education OF the farmer Is sure to
make him dissatisfied with crooked
fences and rows of corn.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

\ man should be very careful not
only Of himself but of his horse, when
the mercury touches the 100 degrees
notch. Under such temperature if
the horse ceases to sweat he needs look
ing after. 1t is well to remember that
the horse cannot stand heat any better
than Il man.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
3 GRAIN DRILLS,
9 SHEAR PLoWS s.

ten and eight-spout Biciford Il Hunman's
and | Crown;
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Tho unusual coincidence of cent
hogs and an entire absence of hog
cholera are piling up lot of wealth
all through the corn belt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Manufactured ice can he produced at
q profit of s. per ton.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

We note one curious fact this season
the birds will not touch the fruit of
the Bc>>arabian cherry. While they
have taken every cherry they could
reach on other varieties in our orchard.
tlsey have let the BeSsarabans entirely
alone. ana this is not because it is a
cherry Of poor quality, being fully
equal to the Richmond or Morello in
this rNSnCrt.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

=
to import than the man who raised
him.
\ man who does not know enough
to cut the tails off his lambs when they
are 10 days old has no business keep
inc sheep
The two horse load of barnyard ma
nure placed on so land which produces
j an average of 81 bushels of corn to the
( acre is worth 81 at least.
The unusual coincidence of 6 cent
hogs ana an entire absence of hog
cholera are piling up lot of wealth
all through the corn belt
The long range weather prophet is
just long range fake weather gucsser,
the legitimate partner of the wrinklcd
old hag who seeks to tell your fortune
for quarter.
The law of natural selection never
produces such mouStrositics as are not
cd when man in his ignorance seeks 10
make violent crosses ana improve on
natures work.
\ Missouri farmer Is keeping, and
Keeping well, four cows and 10 hogs on
a four acre patch of alfalfa at a time
when all other grasses are burned up
with the drought
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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
PUBLIC SALE
-OF-
Valuable Personal Property /.

The undersigned, intending to decline taru-
Ing. viii olt'r at public sale, On the premises.
Three spring farm, whore he now resides, t.o
miles from Adamstown and ~ miles from
Tuscarora, Md, on
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The long range weather prophet is
just lon" range fake weather guesser,
the legitimate partner of the wrinklcd
old bag who seeks TO tell your fortune
for Il nMnrtnr
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

! sets breechbands, sets lead gears, Is sets
pillow gears, brides, collars, halte,s, fifth chains
and spreaders, Z sets fly nets, good as new;
WAGON AND RIDING SADDLES,
one Texas and one a Waterford SETS Of
housenS, two-horsc spring wagon, l one
horse spring wagon,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The strawberry and the June roses
have been having their innings the past
two weeks, and have held chief places
in both fruit and floral display. They
come together and pass away at the
same time, abiding too short a stay.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

We noted on recent trip along the
right of way of western railway not
less than p varieties of our native flora
which are wholly extinct save as they
may be found along such rights of way
Of the roads. These narrow strips,
fenced In and never pasturcd, are pre-
serving not only the native flowers
which were so plentiful when the coun-
try vas first settled, but also several
varieties of native grasses
The southeastern fourth of the state
Of Iowa has largely substituted bar
ley for oats as a rotation crop in con-
nection with clover and corn. 1t is
found that barley IS less liable to
blight. ripens earlier. is far better
crop to seed down with and where Il
crop of 30 or 40 bushels can be grown
is every way more satisfactory crop
than oats.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The Arabian horse is a better thing
to import than the man who raised
him.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

No manufacturer could today COM
pete for business I'm his line If his ma
cAluery and appliances were as anti
qualcd ana unproductiye as is the COM
mon l-J pound COW so much IN evil
dnce in nearly all our dairy herds.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Not one person in a thousand knew
of the existence of such hidcous in
sect as the now well known electric
light beetle until electric lights came
into general use Now so plentiful and
common have these bugs become that
recently it was necessary to remove
them by the bushel from beneath the
are lights on one of the bridges in a
western city.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

Forty years ago his father worked
II hours n day in the Alabama cotton
fields and got for his labor Il ration of
bacon, corn pone ana, like enough.
good thrashing. We asked this mans
son last week as he was tending a
mason how much he earned and was
told that he got $1.775 per day for eight
hours work. This son of Ham has no
kick coming.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
% HEAD OF HORSES AND COLTS.
- HEAD OF CATTLE,
1870 GRADED EWES. l25 LAMBS.
90 HEAD OF HOGS.

Lambs have all been handled aud are in fine
condition;
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

The weed is rank. coarse, aggressive
laWlesS, ana the delicate flower which
has to contest with it for sunshine and
fertility has but a poor show, and so
We root up the weed and give the bet
ter thing chance. 1t is just this way
in life. The coarse, the unrcfined, the
vicious, riot in yirility and a sort of
brute strength. ana unless checked and
eradicated easily smother out the beau
tiful ANA the good in tho world. Pull
the weeds in the garden, and pull those
other and worse weeds also.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
THUR SDAY, AUG. I,l90l,

at 10 o'clock, a. m, the following valuable
personal property, to wit:
% HEAD OF HORSES AND COLTS.
il heavy diau2ht brood mares, horses, il
colts ranging from months to y, years old
! family mare, safe for lady; l good saddle
mare.
- HEAD OF CATTLE,
among which Is my entire heard Of
% HIGH GRADE MlLcH cows.
balance young cattle, ranging from l to e.
years Old; graded short horn bulls,
$50 GRADED EWES, l25 LAMBS
Lambs nave all been handled aud are in fine
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

At 10 cents per quart, which has been
the market price, it would have taken
over $50 to have supplied the writer's
family with the strawberries we have
picked and used from our own bed this
Dcason. Then, there was the satisfac-
tion of raising them, which was worth
something.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26
10 TEN-GALLoN MILK CANS.


HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE,
and many other articles not necessary
10 mention.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-07-26

\ good deaf depends upon just how
a business is started, for here is the
state Of Minnesota with its hundreds
of crcamcrics rs general rule not OPP
Grating them upon the sabbath, while
Iowa creamerics are run continuously
just because the business was so start
ed years ago. This Sunday work is
not an easy problem to solve where
large numbers of cows are kept. About
as much work on the farm is involved
in caring for the milk over Sunday as
though it were taken to the creamery.