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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

There has been a good deal said in
the agricultural press lately to the ef-
feet that a light frost would be a bene-
fit to the belated corn crops In hasten
ing its maturity. We do not believe
that corn is ever under any circum-
stances benefited by freezing. Any In
reference with the natural processes
of ripening is damaging to the crop.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

General Ottolenghi, the military In
structor of the present king of Italy,
was a great favorite of King Humbert
and Queen Margharita. He is an or
thodox Hebrew, and while he was mil
itary commander in Turin he never
neglected to visit the synagogue. His
example induced several officers of his
race who had given up their faith to
return to It.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

Four or five seasons of drouth evil
IDENTIFY stored up a lot of fertility in the
soil and failed to make available tt
fertilizers which. during that time
we're applied to the fields. This sea-
sons abundant rains have made all
this harvest Of stored plant food avail
able and partly explains the prodigious
growth of vegetation.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

What may be termed the leavings
and pickings of a farm can be more
readily utilized by the sheep than any
other animal. Aside from the scatter
cd grain thus saved and used, a fence
corner crop Of weeds and grass is also
turned into money.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

DR.. Florestan Aguilar, one Of the
physicians to the king of Spain, is In
this country. visiting the leading medi-
cal institutions. He denies the sensa-
tional stories about the young king
which have been cabled from Europe.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

Every civil township should W a
gravel bed if there is one to be had in
side it's borders. In all the black prai-
RE country there is NJ way in which
to improve the highways so easily and
cheaply as to use gravel.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17
The Old Man Got Left.

The story is a pretty good n and
runs like this: A farmer had three
boys who were faithful little workers
on the farm. Two years before he had
given each of them a runty steer calf,
telling them that If they would care for
the animals they should have them for
their very own. The boys made three
nice steers out of their pets. One
morning at breakfast the farmer said
that Jones, the local butcher, had Of
fered him $50 each for the steers and
he guessed he would go down town in
the evening and tell him he could have
them. When he went into the pasture
at night, he found the steers gone, and
when his wife told him that the boys
had sold them and each boy had $50 in
his pocket that mans feelings were too
deep for utterance, and he went out to
the calf stable and said something.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

An agricultural paper published in an
Eastern city contains a picture of a
man harvesting his wheat crop, using
a moving machine to 90 so. This sort
of thing makes Western men grin.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

The utter inability to secure good
country school teachers at the old
wages has compelled school directors
to advance the wages of the teachers,
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

Cooperative housekeeping is being
tried in several communities with con-
siderable success-that is, the eating
and dishwashing part Of domestic liv-
ing. About So per week per head for
the family seems to furnish a central
dining hall meals well cooked and serv-
ed and good enough for any one. This
figures $12 per week for a family of six
persons. and II from this is deducted the
wages of the hired girl kept under the
old system, which is seldom less than
S. per week, including her board, 1t
makes the living expense of such a
family very reasonable indeed and lifts
a very heavy burden from the shout
ders of the wife and mother.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

The crop of apples on an Illinois or
chard of 1875 acres was recently sold for
81, 500, while the property cost the
present owners only $11 900 last spring.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

AS a general thing one GOV to the
acre Of blue grass pasture is enough,
while there can be as well or better pas
tured on one acre of alfalfa.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

About IS per cent of what we buy and
pay for as butter is not butter at all,
but just water, salt and casein.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

Every plant has it's parasite, some
times two of them. If it should hap
pen that there was a single exception a
parasite would be created for the work.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

Farms upon which f1ocks Of sheep
are kept are always clean farms and
fertile ones. This fact deserves more
attention than it receives.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17
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CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

More farmers are gulled On the steel
range swindle than OF any other fake
since the palmy days of the Bohemian
oats fake.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

The selling price of sirloin steak has
much to do with the price Of eggs. A
dozen eggs are worth more for food
than a pound Of steak, and the people
know it.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

A Chinaman would get rich if he
could have the privilege of using for
crop production the waste corners and
spots on most of our Northwestern
farms. How many acres of waste land
have yOu?
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

A thing like this rarely occurs that
it is worth nothing: A grain-buying
firm in a Western state used to weigh
their purchase from the farmers on a
set of scales which were out Of whack
and which beat the buyers out Of about
$50 pounds on every load bought. The
firm could not locate the evident leak
in their business until they got an ex-
pert from the factory. Not a farmer
who sold them grain peeped. If the
boot had been on the other leg, Rome
would have howled.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

The salvias as a flower for garden
decoration have given us much salts
faction this season. A bed of them
will give the most uniform and brilli-
ant lot of cardinal red bloom from July
until frost comes of any flower we
have.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

When farmers get to regard agricul-
ture as a profession rather than as a
vocation, a new type of agriculture will
develop. Viewed as a profession, the
benefits and necessity of agricultural
education will be rightly appreciated.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

Who ever heard before of making a
roa6bed out Of straw? Out in Wash
ington in order to get rid of the dust
in summer and the mud in the winter
over 500 miles of highway have recently
been covered with about a foot of
straw, the straw being contributed by
the farmers along the highway.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

There is a whole lot of foolish stuff
printed about coru growing so tall, just
as though the height of the stalk in
any manner indicated the prospective
yield of the crop. Our W experience
proves that it is not the tallest stalks
which produce the biggest ears. We
have been through fields Of corn in Ar
kansas where the stalks would aver
age IL feet in height all over the field
and where a good crop was Is bushels
per acre. The diameter of the stalk
rather than its height better deter
n:ines the size of The ear and thus OF
the crop.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

The cooperative farmers concerns
organized to handle their produce and
give them staple commodities at cost
price are now facing a new phase OF
the cooperative plan set in operation
to exterminate them. The middlemen
who are by the farmers organizations
displaced and deprived of their profits
have organized, and In one case out OF
20 commission houses which have for
merly handled the ~consigpments from
the farmers concerns all save one now
refuse to handle their business.
So we'll satisfied are we. that stuffing
the young pigs with new corn and
nothing else is a most provoking cause
of swine plague and cholera that we
would not feed q ration wholly COM
posed of it even if it were furnished
free. One or two ears of new corn a
day, with a slop of ground rye, barley
and oats and plenty of green food
rape or blue grass or clover-wil push
the pigs fast enough to be finished for
market during the early winter on the
new corn we'll matured.
A dairyman friend of ours Is just
now filling a 500-ton silo with the prod
uCJ VI ~ dCIeo u lclu lhC
is so large a crop hat he will hardly
| get it all in his silo. This silage will
furnish him a most excellent dairy ra-
| ton for 1873 COWS for six months, al
lowing 40 POUNDS a day per COW. In NO
| other name is 1t possible to so easily
and cheaply provide a desirable ration
for a dairy herd. He will supplement
this silage ration with we'll cured clover
hay and gluten meal.
We are inclined to think that in the
effort to do business on the largest
scale possible the modern thrashing
outfit has grown altogether too large
for profitable work either for the own
ed of the machine or his patrons. Ir
communities where these huge ma
chimes are at work every available
hand from a dozen or more farms has
to be drafted to operate it, and when
the thrashing is interfered with, as il
was this season by continuous rains
an immense loss results. Either the
grain should be stacked as in the ole
way, which is always a good way, or {
smaller thrashing outfit should be own,
ed jointly by two or three farmers tt
do the work when needed at the prope,
time.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

There is one great advantage abou,
the silo often overlooked, and that is
that wet and catchy weather never pre-
vents the putting up of the silage, nor
does the rain in any way impair it's
quality. 1t is safe to say that one
half of the hay put up in the United
States this season has been injured by
rains to a greater or less extent.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

To get rid of two mice which had
been seen in the house, one of which
was killed with a broom, we have kept
one uncouth old tomcat, his black coh-
cubine, raised, two patches of kittens,
had the young wrens and robins all
killed and been wowwowed O. nights to
beat the band. Give us the mice.
We don't know very much.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

1t is worth mentioning that the cattle
which brought the highest price paid
for beef animals for 20 years on the
Chicago market up to the middle of Sep
TENDER were IS grade Hereford steers
grown in South Dakota and fed for a
year on soaked corn and oats, averaging
1878 pounds and bringing $685. per
hundredweight, or $134.34 per head.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-10-17

The hardest job which the society
journals have is to instruct the dear
people how to eat sweet corn from the
cob when in company with a becoming
grace and gentility. The best way in
which to serve it for company is to
cut the corn from the cob before it is
brought to the table, for no fine lady
can shipper just right when she has
three big shelled ears lying by the side
of her plate and her teeth fast in a
fourth one.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
How He Spanked Up.

"Josiah," exclaimed Mrs. Henpeck,
who had endeavored without success
to convince the conductor that their
Charley, who has been shaving regu-
larly twice a week since last April,
was only six years old. Josiah" she
exclaimed, care you going to set there
and let this man talk back to me this
way? Why don't you spunk up?"
Suddenly arousing himself as if from
a trance, Mr.. Henpeck said "Stop adj
dressing your insulting remarks to my
wife, sir. I want you to understand,
sir, that if any member of this fam
lily is to be talked down it is me, sir.
do you understand? Me! There, Maria,
how do you like that for spunl1in' up,
eh?"-Chicago RecordHe1 aid.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

An Iowa husband threw cold water
on his wife because she wouldn't get up
and prepare his breakfast She threw
a handful of shot into his anatomy with
an old fashioned shot gun and is now
a widow with plenty of time to sleep
while the cook in the county jail gets
her breakfast for her. And over in St.
Paul an aggrieved wife has sued for
divorce because her husband didn't
like the breakfast she got up early to
prepare for him and threw the fried
potatoes at her face instead of into his
own. It is this constant disproportion
in matters matrimonial that keeps the
murder courts and the divorce courts
busy and discourages the young man
about to set up home of his own; yet
these are only the exceptions, for the
thousand happy breakfast tables never
get into the courts or the newspapers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
Sky-scrapers Doomed.

While the exigencies of our prac-
tica1 American life will still demand
the erection of large Office buildings,
the rate of production is likely to de-
crease rather than increase; the mania
for mere bigness is subsiding, and is
bound to give place to a better concep-
ton of corporate eminence; and the
production of the sky-scraper itself
inevitably necessitates the develop
ment of a large amount of urban prop
erty along more modest lines. That is
to say, the mere architect, in dis
tinction from the construction en-
gineer, will yet find in our great cities
an opportunity to exercise his trade.
B. j. Hendrick, in Atlantic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
One Way to Get Money.

State Historian Hugh Hastings says
that few months ago a young profess
sor in Union college entered clothing
store in Schenectady and ordered a
suit of clothes. He was astonished
when the dealer said to him: ''Shall
I send the bill to your father? TIL make
it $50 and give you the balance now"
Investigation disclosed the fact that
a number of college students in this
way raised the wind" They caused
exorbitant bills to be sent to their IA
theirs and pocketed the difference
N. Y Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
A STRONG TICKET.

So far as the Republican county
campaign has progressed the develop
ments have all been Of a favorable
character. The ticket nominated at
the county convention is one that it
would be difficult to improve upon, as
it is made up of men who are we'll
known, in whom the voters have u1i-
limited confidence and who are clean
personally as we'll as fully competent
to discharge the duties of the offices
for which they are candidates. AS both
factions OF the party were recognized
in making up the county ticket there
is no occasion for either to feel that
Justice has not been done, which1fa
should induce Republicans to unite III
a common effort to elect the whole
ticket with the usual hearty majority
accorded it in Grant county.
The administration of public affairs
of the candidates now holding office
has been of such character that the
new ticket with but three new men
thereon comes before the people with
a substantial guaranty of efficiency
and integrity The officers, each and
every one Of them, have been courteous
to those who have had business rela-
tions with them and they also have
been accurate in the execution of their
several duties, making reports on time
and promptly accounting for public
funds that have passed through their
hands. Unless all signs fail the people
will approve of this capable admins
tration on election day.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
The Bench Was Barred.

A kings counsel was appearing in a
case Of SANDER, which was being heard
before a certain judge, with whom,
outside court, he was on the best of
terms.
The chief witness was woman, who
appeared to testify to the alleged slam
der.
"Now, madam" began the K. c..
"please repeat the slanderous state
ments made by the defendant on this
occasion just as you heard them"
sob, they were unfit for any respect
able person to heart" was the emphatic
response, as she looked Indignantly at
the barrister.
"Then," said the K. c., coaxing1y,
suppose you just whisper them to the
judge."-London Answers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

Abundance Takes Iron from Blood.
1t is a curious fact, in the history OF
nations, that only those which have
had to struggle the hardest for an ex-
istence have been highly successful.
AS a rule, the same thing is true of
men. One would think that it would be
a great relief to have the bread-and-
butter problem solved by ones ances-
tors so that he might devote all his en-
ergies and time to the development of
the mental and spiritual faculties.
But this is contrary to the verdict of
history and the daily experience of the
world. The strugglers, those born to
a heritage of poverty and toll. and not
those reared in the lap of fortune,
have, with a few exceptions, been the
leaders of civilization, the giants of
the race.-Success.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

Inspectors of election precincts
are allowed bnt so cents for bring
ing election returns to the county
clerk. This must be collected from
the voting precinct. Returns may
be sent by registered package, paid
for in the same way.
Don't forget Halloween evening
at the Congregational church. The
ladies of the Missionary society will
have a Chrysanthemum sale Friday,
Oct. 81, afternoon and evening. A
15c tea will also be served from 5
o'clock until all are served. Come.
Married, at Boscobel, Tuesday,
by Rev. Shepherd, Osmar Vogel and
Miss Ida Parrish. They are in this
city today, enroute to Charles City,
Iowa, for visit with relatives. Mr.
Vogel is the assistant superintendent
of the Boscobel electric light plant.
The Rathbone Sisters had a
children's day for the little ones at
K. of P. hall Thursday evening.
There was a pleasant program OF
speaking, singing and other forms
of entertainment. A collection was
taken for the purpose of contribut-
ing to the fund for the creation of a
home for Pythian children. A sum
of about SO was raised.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

Have you paused to consider a few
of the essential things accomplished or
under way by the Republican party in
the past few years. Isthmian Canal,
rural free delivery. gold standard be-
yond dispute, protective tariff which
made prosperity, foreign commerce ex-
tended, Philippines civilized, Cuba
made nation, $4,000 children attend
ing school in Porto Rico. Is not that
a record to be proud of?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
A College Yell.

Mr.. Brown-There goes that colleges
yell again. I do wish those boys
would make their noise a little
farther. away from this house.
Mrs. Brown-Why, John, what are
you talking about? That isn't a col
lege yell. It is Neighbor Jones dog.
The family have gone away and left
him alone in the house.
''Ah, indeed? But it certainly
sounds just like college yell" -Bos-
ton Transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

County Clerk Griffis, County Treas
urer Scheinpfug and Dist. Atty. Brown
will likely run ahead of their tickets IN
the race Tuesday. The people are
pleased with them and will manifest
their approval at the polls.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
Many DOGS Are.

'That's nice-looking dog" re-
marked the kindly old gentleman who
takes an interest in everything.
Eyes, sir; he looks ali right, replied
the seedy individual who was leading
him with piece of rope.
''He looks like a pointer
Yes, sir; that's what he looks like.
But that amt what he is. He's dis
appointer" Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
when the Price. Went Up

$50 Quigley's cow was killed by the
cars What was it's value?'
The cautious man took the ques-
tion under advisement for minute
or two.
''Do you want it's value before or
after it was killed?" he asked before
attempting to give figure Chicago
Post
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
The Correct Way.

Simple suppose the correct way
to go into politics is to go in with
a barrel of money?
Wyse-It is not so much how one
goes in, but how one comes out.
Come out with barrel of money and
you may be sure you are succ essful
politician.-Boston Transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

County Supt. Nye's valuable expert
ence and the excellent services he has
rendered should not be forgotten by
the ladies who vote on school matters
Tuesday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

J.W. Watson is no hip-hip-hurrah
campaigner, but he is making gentle
manly canvas and will win out by a
big majority for sheriff next Tuesday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
Thought 1t Personal.

He-The prettiest girls marry the
biggest fools, you know.
She--Am I to consider that in the
nature of proposa1?-Chicago Daily
News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

Vote the Republican ticket straight
next Tuesday from Gov. LaFollette
down to the bottom.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

If Republicans will vote their ticket
next Tuesday as straight as the Demo
Gratis will, there is nothing to fear.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

Billiards as game is decreasing in
popularity in France, where the num-
Der of tables in use fell from 10000 in
1899 to $4,000 last year.-N. Y. Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30

Eleven Very Old English Persons.
Eight hundred and twenty-five years
was the aggregate age of IL persons
who died recently at Yarmouth, Eng
land.-Albany Argus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-30
II. j. JOHNSON, Publisher.

THURSDAY, OoT. 80, 1902.
The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-10-14
VALDEZ
Items Cleaned From the
 News.

Eight claims were recently loclted on Canyon creek a tributary Of the NlzIna on ground paying as high as 80 cents to tbe pan, Many copper nuggets arc found In the iIrt.
 Lumber enough for building demands cannot be obllmed at Walden.
 John GoodeIl resigned as president of the chamber of eommstes and Fred m. Brown was unanimously elected ln his place.
 A heavy fall Of snow at Salt Creek has caused the shutting down ot au the mines in that localItv.
 Marshal Richards who came down from Dutch Harbor vi h a prisoner says this Is the only case to come before the district court from Dutch Hlrbor and vicinity and In hIs opinion Judge Wloksrsham will not hold a term of court there when Informed of the conditions. Thsre has been con- siderable crime at cannedss along the coast but llttle of lt Is reported to the authorities here. The commissioner of San Frandsco has jurisdiction oyer men who leave that port on round trip tickets, and the superin- tsndents of the cannerIss walt until they arrive home Co Gle complaints.