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HERE AND THERE,

"A little salt sprinkled on the hay
in bulk will make it more palatable
to the stock, and palatability is next
in Importance to digestibility.
Good stock look better, do better,
and pay better than scrubs, and it is
the farmer that puts his money into
this class of stock that receives the
best returns.
Our farmers have had an idea, err
roneous, however, that alfalfa was
only desirable in semi-arid regions,
but the fact is that everywhere where
the soil conditions favor it it is king
of hay plants.
If the hens seem out of condition,
don't begin dosing with fowl tonics;
the case is usually bad enough with
out medication. The proper thing to
do is to improve the sanitary condi-
tions and sanitary treatment.
Until the silo came into use suil-
ing was the most economical method
of feeding succulent food to stock.
But the silo is better, because the si-
lage is maintained indefinitely in the
best most profitable and digestible
form.
An Illinois nurseryman has been
selling Seeding peach trees to Arkan-
sas formers, and now the suckers are
calling on some one to kick the fool
ishness out of them. In buying nur-
sery stock it is necessary to watch
as well as pay.
The fruit grower in the southwest
can begin eating and marketing fruit
in March, and if he has planted judi
ciously he can continue to eat and
sell fresh fruit for seven long months.
Here is where he has advantage Of
fruit growers in regions further
north.
The oat crop Is a good one to
keep on the farm-too good to sell.
The farmer and the farm are both
benefited by feeding all the oats the
farm produces. Sometimes and under
| some conditions the manure from
oat-fed stock is worth as much as the
market price at harvest time.
The Importance if an even distri-
button of fertilizer is not sufficiently
appreciated. When it is badly dis.
tributed, some spots will have too
much, more than the plants can util-
ize, while others will have too little
or none Scatter It evenly as posi-
BILE and then work tho harrow for all
it is worth.
The magnitude Of the value Of
the corn crop Of the United States
is not generally recognized. The val
ne Of the cor crop for 1901 is put by
the department. Of agriculture at
1922 ,000, 600. The demand for corn
and cor products throughout the
world is steadily increasing, and the
capacity for production of this coun-
try is equal to any present OF pros
pectiye demand.
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Watering the Cows.

According to experiments report
ed. the temperature of the water
given to cows has a great influence
on the quality of the milk. The trials
were made in Germany, and the fol-
lowing results were noted:
With warm water the daily quantity
of milk given is increased at least one
pound per COW as compared with
cows drinking cold water.
The cows drank on an average of
70 pounds of warm water, as against
63 pounds of cold.
The COWS drinking warn water ate
three-quarters of a pound more food
daily.
The cows drinking warm water con-
sumed LA pounds of dry food for
each pound of milk. Those drinking
cold water consumed 1.54.
The increase of the quantity of wa
ter was accompanied by IN increase
of the aqueous part OF the milk with
out increasing the solid part.-Dairy
Age.
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DAIRY AND LIVESTOCK.

The cow doesn't make milk to-
morrow from the feed of to-day. She
makes it from stored vitality; there
fore keep her vitality up to the work
ing point all the time.
Do not hamper horses in stalls that
are not very wide when the hot nights
come. Turn them in the pasture
where they can straighten out. The
breezy air of the night is grateful to
them.
A good dairy cow is made by intelli-
gent breeding and feeding. She does
not come by chance. 1t takes seven
years of steady watchful attention
after birth to bring g cow to her best
in the production of milk.
Do not think that because the wealth
er is hot the cattle do not want salt. If
they have it where they can lick lit
tie of it every day they will not get so
hungry for it, and your milk test will
be the more uniform for this fact
Farm Journal.
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When To Sell Ho~..

The increase of demand and the
comparatively high price of feed has,
during the past year, tended toward
placing upon the market animals Of
the hog class at a younger age and
at a less weight than ever before. In
many, perhaps the majority of cases,
has the time between the period of
narrowing of the SOY and that of the
marketing of the young pigs been re-
duced. This has shortened the feed
ing and growing period, md by so do
ing has proved a benefit to our farm
ers who + in the habit Of raising
pigs for market purposes. 1t not only
furnishes an earlier and in most cases
a better market, but admits of a less
ening in the cost of production.
1t is a well-known fact among
feeders that the first fifty or one
hundred pounds Of flesh is much
easier to place upon the back of any
animal than the last fifty or one hun
dred pounds. This we have found to
be the case of the feeding of any and
all classes of live stock. The reason
for this may be clearly seen and I'M
derstood when we consider that it is
one of natures laws that the young
animal converts nearly every ounce
OF food directly into live weight. In
the mature animal this is not the
case. The animal has secured it's
growth and nature, in that particu-
lar, has practically ceased to so aid
the feeder in producing the additional
weight. The older animal can, through
use of a good forcing method, be
made to lay on fat quite rapidly, but
in any case it will require a greater
amount of both expense and time,
and will not be accomplished so east
ly. With the growing herd of pigs we
are unable to make from 176 to 200
pounds of prime pork hat may be
placed in the market at the end Of
five or six months. This with a little
more effort than the mere placing in
good condition for more extended
feeding. From the above conditions,
we as farmers, and hog feeders in par
t%icular, can not help but welcome the
seemingly changed situation in re-
gard to Il hog markets. We would
favor the growing and feeding of
young animals, in most cases, and the
marketing of the same when not old
er than six Or seven months.-Okla-
hOma Farm Journal
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
THE MULE ON THE FARM.
Motive Power On the Farm Costs
Money, and the Farmer Should
Raise His own.

One great expense on the farm is
the motive power. Good work can
not be done unless we have sufficient
power. Light horses or mules can
only do light work. To do good plow-
ing requires strong, heavy stock to
pull the plows. For this reason we
r always glad to see good, strong
teams. But these cost good round
sums OF money. When bought for
cash, good mules ire high, but when
bought on time they are much high
er. In almost every community there
are men who make large money every
year simply by the difference between
the cash and the time prices on mules.
They buy them and sell them to farm
ers IN time, and then take the farm
ers' notes on the banks and place
them as collateral and get the money
and pay for the mules, and have a
handsome profit left.
All this m directly out of the
farmers pocket, and often makes a
big hole in his yearly profits This
is simply bad financiering. The farm
er's notes get the money. Why did
they not get it for themselves and
save heavy time per cent? This per
cent. is hardly ever less than twenty
five and is often nearer fifty.
How can this be avoided? Very
easily. Our farmers should raise their
w mules. 1t will be some trouble
and some expense, but it will pay to
have a little trouble and expense
when we can save so much by it. A
mule colt a be raised for about
twenty-five dollars at two years old.
This mule would cost on the market,
at time prices, from one hundred to
one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
From two to three years old he will
pay his expenses. At three he will
be worth one hundred and fifty dol
lars. 1t is a perfectly safe estimate
to say that they will then be worth
over one hundred dollars. Here is a
business that will pay one hundred
per cent.
This is worth going into as a sep
arate business. Mule farms would
pay. The mule finds his most con-
genial surroundings in the south. The
climate and the food suit him. Here
he would reach his highest Develop
ment. By getting good jocks aud .ien-
nets, and good-blooded mares to breed
from, we can raise as fine mules in
the cotton-growing states as any
where in the world. There is no line
of business that offers larger and
surer profits.
The largest mule markets in the
world are in the south. St. Louis,
Mo-, is the largest, and Atlanta, Ga,
the second largest mule market in the
world. Over fifty thousand mules are
annually sold in Atlanta. About five
million dollars a year for mules that
we could just as easily grow for our
selves. This immense leak will not
be stopped by conventions and resolu-
tions. Each farmer must do his part
by beginning to raise his home supply
of mules.-Southern C%ultivator.
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CULTIvATING COTTON FLAT,
1t Is the Better Plan for Conserving
Moisture and, on Rolling Land,


In 1901 the shortage of the cotton
crop, as well as of the corn crop, was
due to drought. This occurred early
corn needed the moisture most to fill
out the ears, and when the cotton
was making its first bolls. 1t contin-
ued long enough to ruin the corn and
shorten the cotton crop at least 30
per cent. This year again in many
parts of the country both these crops
have suffered severely. 1t is evident
that drought is one Of the main fac
tors in shortening our corn and cot
ton crops if not the principal one.
1t is therefore an important question
to solve whether there is any way to
avert the great losses likely to be
caused every year by drought.
The experience of farmers in rails
ing other crops in all parts of the
country shows very ~conclusively that
to a large extent the evil effect of
drought may be averted. 1t is prin-
cipally a matter of cultivation and
frequency of it. All through the
corn belt where the bulk of our ma
tional corn crop is raised, the ridge
row system of raising corn has been
abandoned years ago. They never put
a turn pillow into the ground after
the land has first been broken up.
The cultivation is always level; it. is
done with a two-horse c%ultivator, which
works both sides of a row, on every
trip through the field, and the soil is
not only made fine, but is kept level.
In case of drought, it is the custom
of the up-to-date farmers to run
through the corn again, after the
final working with a cultivator, that
pulverizes the surfaces, but runs very
shallow. If the drought continues,
they go through again, and as often
as it seems to be necessary. Doing
this keeps a mulch Of dust on the sur
face which keeps the moisture from
escaping and insures a fair crop,
even in case of long-continued
drought.
If the land were ridged up in nar-
row ridges, it would dry out much
oooACA IAdh IL hCPC ACFCl, anu IL WOulu
be impossible to keep such a COM
plete dust mulch. That this plan
accomplishes its purpose has been
shown in thousands of cases. In
many instances, where fields adjoin-
ing were in corn, that cultivated by
the new system was a fairly good
crop, when one next to it, cultivated
on the old plan, made only a few nub-
bins. We have not the slightest
doubt that the same rule will apply
to cotton. Then why not adopt the
fat system and frequent shallow Gull
tivation for cotton too?
The claims made for the ridge sys-
tenn r that it stands wet seasons
better; that It kills the grass and
weeds in the row by wrapping them
up with dirt, and that holds up the
stalks and prevents them from be-
ing blown down to some extent. We
do not deny the truth Of these claims
but we do not believe that they be-
gin to compare in Importance with
conserving the moisture during sea-
sons of drought. And when to this is
added that the fat system prevents,
on rolling land, much Of the washing
that is so ruinous, the testimony in
its favor is immensely stronger than
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EXCELLENT SHEEP RUN,
Suggestion for a Shed That Will Az.
ford Protection to a Small
Sized Flock.

Sheep are naturally rather timid,
tender, inoffensive animals, and for
the safety and thrift of a small
flock a covered yard is valuable. 1t
is not necessary for it to be costly,
but it should be we'll protected from
the weather and have a dry floor.
If it can be conveniently built as an
addition to the barn, and have a door
opening into it directly from the
barn floor, so much the better; in
which case it should be made high
enough so that grain and the like
can be stored in the loft above, as
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that for ridge rows. This matter, the
preventing of damage by drought, is
one OF infinite Importance. Every pos
sible means of abating it ought to be
thoroughly tested. The old system
has been tried till it has ruined thou
sands of plantations and thousands
OF planters. 1t is surely time to get
on to a new systematic State Farm-
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When the Day Went to Sleep.

Once upon a time, from behind the cur
tain of darkness, came smiling day, and.
wrapped in the gray dawn, took its bath
in the sparkling dew. Then it's morning
garment was changed to a cloth of gold, new
made by the sun.
The day wore on. Through the hours it
went wearing a smile of satisfaction, until
the donning of the more somber evening
dress, after which it was wrapped in the
mantle of the night.
Moral-Even the day has its close.-N. Y.
Herald
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Why 1t Was All ~Right.-"You needn't be
at all afraid to- speak to papa, George. l
you think SOP" He asked me last night
what your business is, and when l said You
were a retired coal-dealer he smiled and
said he guessed that settled it."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer
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willing to Accommodate.

Are You a wet %nurse?" asked the lady
who had advertised in the newspapers.
No, ma'am," replied the applicant, 'but
III let you turn the hose on me if you give
me the job."-Boston Post.
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From a Connecticut woman's dairy, dated
l!90: 1--WE had roast pork for dinner, and
Or: S, who carved, held up a rib on nus
fork and said: Here, ladies. is what
Patty, and it's much the same kind of crit
ter Living Church.
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The Cost of TT wonder if advertising
like this" said the unsophisticated youth,
after looking over the department store an
nouncement, sis really expensive?" 'VVait
till You get a wife who reads those ads. and
you'll find out" replied Phamliman.-Phi-
adelDhia Press
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Word Painting in Missouri.

An editor of a southern Missouri paper
speaks thus f~eelingly in a recent obituary
notice: Jus about daylight the Pale
Horse came to him with the saddle and
bride of righteousness, and he straddled
IT ard rode Home. "-Indianapolis journal.
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Alloy of Vanity,

Men have died for love and worms have
eaten them" but the love that drives a re-
jected sutton to self-slaughter has a large
admixture of the base alloy of vanity.-N. Y.
World
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When a bachelor does End his ideal wom.
an it is only to discover that she is looking
elsewhere for her ideal man.-Chicago Daily
News.
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Most Arguments" said Uncle Eben,
doesn't decide nothin' 'cept de question
of which one is gwine to keep still an let
de yuthuh do de talkin'." - Washington
Star.
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The Invahd.-"So Sokeleigh's health 10
gone, Ell? What became ofit!" "He drank
it."-Puck.
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Sel6shness is the most contemplate char.
acteristic Of human nature, yet it is the
most common.-N. Y. Herald.
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Love at first sight often dies at second
Town Topics.
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A FREE TRIAL

-"How Horace has changed since he was
q baby!" The Mother-"What an idea! Of
course he has changed" Father-"What I
mean is that when he was a baby he used
to keep me awake."-Boston Transcript.
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TO YOUNG LADIES.
From the Treasurer of the
Young People S Christian Tenn.
perance Association, Elizabeth
Game, Fond du Lac, Wis.

DEAR MRS. PNKHAM:-I want to
tell you and all the young ladies of the
country, how grateful / am to you for
all the benefits l have received from
using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. l suffered for
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AN IOWA MAN

Discovers the Right Thing at the
Right Time.
Mr.. E. Sayre, official government and
meteorological reporter, residing ut Ogden,
kidneys. Mr.. Sayre was Frustrated in
the summer of 1898, and almost despaired.
as all endeavors to check the trouble
proved of no avail; just at the danger
point Of kidney trouble he found a remedy
that cured him. It was in a little wooden
box and
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-09-12

It is reported from Washington that
General Crozier, chief Of the ordnance
department of the navy, has perfected
a time fuse which is to revolutionize the
fighting industry. Equip a shell with
this device, thick walls and high eX-
plosive, and 1t may be made to pene-
trate fourteen inches of Krupp armor
before the detonation. AS the heaviest
armOr used on ships CT war Is only
twelve inches thick the shell could
reach the interior of any of them with
out exploding, and then deal destruc-
ton in every direction. Exclusive pos
session of such power would make
combatant irresistible under the pres
ent conditions of defense. Moreover
it is pointed out that there is limit
to the weight Of armOr which q ship
can carry If 1t is too heavily loaded
sacrifice of speed and carrying ca
pacity would be necessary. Such in
ventions should be hailed with greater
joy by the answering friends of peace
than by the enthusiastic opponents Of
war. The certainty that they will in
crease the carnage of war is bound to
act as a deterrent on military powers,
and it may be said with confidence that
| they have had that effect already.
| There has not been a war between ma
lions of the first class since the strug.
gle between France and Germany,
though international jealousy and ha-
tired have been very pronounced upon
occasion, and in Europe at the present
time the disposition seems to be to
wait for accessions of strength, both
from alliances and from these new in
ventions Meanwhile the progress of
invention is so nearly even that nc
government maintains an advantage
for any great length of time, and al
governments count the probable cost OF
modern battles The whole situation
is summed up In the phrase, zone is
afraid and the other daresn't." 1t is
only when provocation comes from
weak and half-civilized people thai
martial ardOr is encouraged to the
fighting point by responsible states
men, Undoubtedly another cause of re
straint among civilized communities /!
a growing aversion for war, but thu
inventors have had their influence
They are unwittingly among the great
est benefactors of mankind.
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make the attempt at midnight In or
der to guard against a betrayal of his
movement every dog in the vicinity
was put to death. negro fruit seller
was found who knew the fort we'll and
he agreed to pilot the Americans to the
spot.
At midnight on July Is, 1779, the
storming party, in two divisions, ap-
preached the fort. No member of the
expedition was permitted to load his
musket lest an accidental discharge
should ruin the movement. The bay
Onet alone was to be depended upon.
The negro, accompanied by two SOL
diers, disguised as farmers. reached
the first sentinel, to whom the counter
sign was given. Instantly the sentinel
was bound and gagged. A second SEN
tinel underwent the same treatment
A third sentinel, however, gave the
alarm and the garrison sprang to arms
and opened fire on the Americans. 1t
was too late, however. The latter.
advancing in two bodies on two sides
of the fort, broke into a run. scaled
the parapet and met in the center of
the fort. In the fight that followed
the Americans lost 10 killed and SO
wounded; but they captured the fort.
The British lost 60 killed and 546 pris-
oners.
At the same time another American
force attempted the capture of Yer
plancks Point, but were unsuccessful.
The Americans did not remain long
in possession of Stony Point. A strong
British force was soon on it's way up
the Hudson and on its approach the
Americans evacuated the place, after
having dismantled the fertilization.
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whose education is of necessity brief
and plain. and whose Juvenile nose
is early set to the hard grindstone
of life. The self-made man has the
advantage of the start. He is already
well away in front, trained and practiced.
and perhaps with the foundations of his
fortune laid when the college man limps
vaguely into 1.-THE arena" sore with foot
ball bruises, repository of dead Ian
guages, incumbered with a load of knowl-
edge that he is bewildered what to do
with, academic bric-a-brac, but business
junk.
Another thing said to be in the self
made mans favor in the battle of life is
that he starts poor that he is stimulated
in his struggles by the sharp spur of ne
cessity. The self-made man, as we know
that typical American product, is usually
the offspring of poor parents, brought up
almost from the time he began to speak
with the instructive notion that he would
have to do something for himself, and
do it quickly, sent out into the world
with his business appetite on edge, with
an anxious eye and an inquiring mind to
seek and seize upon every opportunity to
/ hQNduNt HIS pOSlllOi. ne COuSClOuSuSSS
of possessing wealth, the absence of i'm
mediate need of work or worry, has nat
urally a tendency to sap energy, to de-
stroy ambition to accumulate Never
theess, a business training needs money
in order to use and develop it. Brains
without capital count for little.
Again, the alleged business or CONNER
cial course which is given in college is
of course, as different to the real article
as theory is to practice. The college
teaching may be helpful in many re-
spects, but the genuine business training
is only obtainable in the store or the of.
fee. The amount of it a young man will
receive and utilize will depend upon his
powers of application or intuition or alb
sorption.
The fairest answer to the question Of
self-made versus college-bred is, it de
ponds almost entirely on the man. A
college education will not hamper any
body in the battle of life; on the con
trary. it will greatly assist him if he ha.
the grit and talent to turn it to usefu
account. How he can utilize it in bust
ness l cannot say; at the best, unde
present conditions, it is a rather dubi
GUS commodity in the market. In thu
business hustle a knowledge of Greek
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Henry Clinton, the British commander
at New York, sent an expedition up
the Hudson to capture the forts. The
expedition was successful. Stony
Point, all the Notifications of which
were not quite completed, was aban-
doned by the Americans, and Yer
planck's Point was taken. Embolden-
ed by his success, Clinton sent out
other expeditions. One of these. COM
manded by General TryOn, and con-
sisting of $500 men, was sent to plum
der the coast of Long Island Sound.
Tryon plundered New Haven, burned
Fairfield and Norwalk and committed
other outrages at Sag Harbor, on
Long Island. In the course of few
days the unsparing wretch burned 300
dwelling houses. five churches and 12o
barns and stores. Many of the inhabi-
tants were cruelty murdered and a
number of women were subjected to
unspeakable indignties.
The outrages greatly infiamed the
Americans and stirred them to greater