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Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
An Indian Feast,

What did the Indians eat? Gabriel
Thomas, writing in 1906, tells us that
"they live chiefly on maize or Indian
corn roasted in the Ashes, sometimes
beaten boyPd with Water, called HON
inie. They have cakes, not unpleasant
also Beans and Pease, which noruish
much, but the Woods and Rivers afford
them their provision; they eat morning
and evening, their Seats and Tables on
the ground" Mr.. C. G. Abbott tells in
Travels In Treetop' of other yegeta-
BILE foods known to the Indians-the
roots of the golden club, arrowleaf and
groundnut, besides various berries and
nuts.
1t is well known that extensive
orchards were planted by these people.
1t may be added that in all probability
the tubers of that noble plant, the To-
tus, were used as food.
meat eaters 1t needs but little digging
on any village site to prove this, and
from a single fireplace deep down in the
soil have been taken bones of the elk,
deer, bear, beaver, raccoon, muskrat
and gray squirrel
The remains of deer were largely In
excess, and as this statement holds good
Of every village site OF the Indians,
doubtless they depended more largely
upon the deer than upon all the others.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Hard Work.

Mrs. Aim surprised that your
husband earns 80 little If he works as
hard as you say. What does he do?
Mrs. B.-Thc last thing he did was
to calculate how many times a clock
licked In the course OF 1000 years.
TIme~'rnhIeN ns Biographies.
81 never realized the value of time
tables until | got hold of class of
boys old enough to take an interest IN
geography" said New York public
school teacher. so far as the study of
maps goes, can get better results
from the Use Of time tables than from
all the Biographies in the market. Maps
that have been prepared for the pur-
ps5e Of culliyating the youthful mind
IN the matter of locality are Stunned
as bugbears by all except the studious
few. But Iast set q dozen boys around
a pile Of time tables ana tell them to 10
cate certain cities, lakes and rivers,
and they win work like beavers and
come out letter perfect every time. For
most children time tables and accompa-
HyiaG maps are Il source of unfailing
Interest both IN and out OF school
uoura. u IS true that this unorthodox
meth Il Gay give the boys exagger-
ntCl ideas ms TO the Importance ofser-
tl.4 RAILROADS, but they seem to get
cnou il good out of the investigation
10 coumteract such Impressions"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Raising Draft Horace

The draft horse is the horse for the
farmer to raise. Only the heaviest and
best stations are suitable. Even then
the demand for extreme weights neces.
states the use of large mares that are
good mixers. In no other way can
colts be produced with sufficient b4ne
and feeding quality to attain the size
and finish demanded by the markets.
The young animals must be supplied
with the best of feed in large amounts
from the very first. All this, as Pro-
fessor Davenport points out in an ILL
nois experiment station bulletin, is
much like growing beef, and the draft
horses are the ones to produce on the
farms. They can be grown nowhere
else to advantage, and when 1t is re-
membered that the draft horse Is real
ly the highest priced standard horse on
the market it is easy enough to see
what horse the farmer should raise.
Other things being equal, the price of
a draft horse depends largely upon his
weight and ranges from $125 to $500,
with an increase of about 10 per cent
when matched in teams. Dealers in
sist that prices were never SO low that
a span of draft horses would not bring
5000 if they were good enough.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

row on time and kept the crop clear
grow with potatoes until all were three
or four inches high perhaps and ther
cultivated them up and hoed and hoed
without getting them as clean as ours
Notice the time spent. could harrow
some two acres an hour. Now what
did they get for these potatoes by the
load! Just % cents, when we were
getting 40 cents year after year. They
were at the mercy of the buyers.
PeddIe the Few Things.
''The only chance to come out whole
for these farmers raising only a few
was to peddle them around the city
| preferred to raise on a large scale
and make more with less trouble. One
or the other you must do if you want tC
succeed. Miss Robbins is n New Eng
land lady. She tells of having peaches
to sell last fall. A dealer offered q
cents peck, she furnishing baskets
and delivering them two miles. Instead
of this they sold them to neighbors anC
at the village at retail for from so L
GO cents a peck, making an enormous
difference in the profit in a small way
Thousands ought to become peddlers OF
choice products of their own growing
delivering them fresh and in perfect or
der to the consumer, thus getting good
customers and keeping them and Sc
curing % to 100 per cent more for theil
products. Those not situated for doins
this, who sell at wholesale, should raise
their products accordingly. II you rails.
potatoes or apples largely, have only
one or two kinds-those that will dt
best for you, considering soil, climate
and markets practical Farmer.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Ie,d Pencil Experimentv.

An English statistician was asked
how many words could be written with
an English lead pencil, and, being de-
termined to answer 1t, he bought lead
pencil and Scott's "Ivanhoe" and pro-
ceeded to copy the latter word by word.
He wrote 95,60S words and then was
obliged to stop, for the pencil had be-
come so short that he could not use 1t.
German statistician who heard OF
this experiment was dissatisfied with
1t because all the lead in the pencil was
not used on the work, and therefore he
bought q pencil and started to copy a
long German novel. When the pencil
was so short that he could nN handle
it with his fingers, he attached holder
to 1t. and it is said that he wrote with
this one pencil 100000 words. POSI-
bly,, however, his pencil was longer or
the lead in it was Of a more durable
quality.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

pounds; orchard grass. 3la pounds;
meadow fescue. 3la pounds; redtop. 3l2
pounds: timothy, 8 pounds. The heavy
seeds. as the clovers, should be sown
separately from the light seeds. for If
all are sown together the distribution
will be uneven.
Unless the land was fitted last fall it
will need to be prepared for the seed
next spring. Too often the mistake Is
made of sowing grass seeds ON land
which has received no preparation, and
often failure results.
If the land were plowed last fall and
fitted, the seed may be sown in the
very early spring. 1t may even be
sown before the snow has all disap-
peared II the land was not fitted last
fall, it should be given some prepara-
ton in the spring.
The best preparation would be to
plow ard harrow it, making fine
seed bed If plowing seems not adYisa-
bic, then a disk or a spading harrow
may be used. At least before the grass
seed is sown there should be some
preparation Of seed bed.
can never understand why so many
seem to think that grass seeding can
be done on soils which have received
no special preparation.
The mixture of seeds recommended
above will almost certainly give good
results If sown on properly prepared
soils.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Handling the Reins.

There is one way of handling q spir=
tied horse that upon certain occasions
I have found particularly serviceable,
remarks a correspondent In an ex-
change Not few farm horses that
are restive and afraid when around
railroad trains and nearing crossings
are made so by the seeming timidity
of the drivers. If the driver Is the least
bit nervous and begins to pull up lit
tie on the reins, the horse discovers 1t
instantly and is upon his mettle, while
If the driver is cool and handles the
reins precisely as elsewhere there are
few horses that discover anything to be
afraid of even when the train appears
I'm sight The action of the driver in
many cases determines the action of
the horse.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
THIS is BUSINESS.


Raise Wholesale, Sell HetnH ana
Get Your Share of the Profits.
"Ralse Wholesale sell retail The
story of T. B. Terry of Summit county
O., illustrates the point. Mr.. Terry is
farmer of national reputation, clear
headed, thorough and successful. Mr..
Terry writes;
"Some twenty years ago | was haul
Ing our potatoes TO Akron, twelve miles
distant almost daily In the fall with
two teams. They were raised OH quite
q large scale, job lot, about ms cheap
" as 1t could be done. We had all tho
tools and every convenience for cheap
handling. The potatoes were sold by
the load only to grocers, but the quail
ty enabled us to get at least 40 cents
a bushel In ordinary seasons. Now,
there were scores and perhaps hun
dreds of farmers In the country who
each grew some more potatoes than
they wanted, load OF two, or three
loads perhaps. They could not afford
the planter, digger, first class tlllage
implements, boxes, spring wagons, etc,
that we had. No, they were growing
their potatoes ut retail. Every bushel
probably cost them the full retail price
perhaps more. While we made bush
ness OF 1t and used the smoothing har.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

suddenly felt himself lifted bodily, and
the next instant he was being pressed
over the wall Feeling himself going,
he set his fingers into the biceps of the
burglars left arm and pinioned his
right hand. In that awful moment he
felt the cords of his Az and fingers
contract until they burned like hot
wires. With a cry of agony the robber
jerked him back to the roof, then whirl
ed and ran across the roof, drawing
the knife as he fled. Prindle saw the
moonlight CLINT of the knife blade, and,
though infuriate with the passion of
battle, he recoiled. The burglar turned
in the angle of the wall, striving to re-
gain breath before the next onset.
A power wire stretched across the
roof some eight or nine feet above the
floor Prindle drew pair of rubber
faced gloves from his pocket, drew
them on and suddenly leaped up and
caught the wire AS he descended the
wire snapped and fell to the roof. In
stantly he caught up the two ends of
it and sprang at the robber, who met
him with uplifted knife.
The cracksman seemed to divine the
terrible nature of the tiny weapons in
the lineman's hands, for his face
blanched white. In the moonlight Prin-
die looked equally pale. If he could
touch the robbers flesh with the bare
ends of the wires, he would win; if
not, he would probably die by the 9th
er's knife.
1t was a strange duel. They feinted
several times, then struck together.
The clothing was sheared away from
Prindle's arm, but the burglar fell in a
knotted, quivering heap. The point of
one of the live wires had gone up his
sleeve; the other had punctured his
neck.
When the burglar recovered his
senses, Prindle had him securely tied
with detached pieces of the wire and
was at the front parapet of the roof
looking up and down the street for an
officer.
The bank people gave Prindle hand
some reward. When metallic circuits
had been run by the telephone compa-
ny on his suggestion and they found
the troublesome induction overcome,
Manager Towne declared the plucky
lineman worthy to be any mans SON.
in-law, and he was.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

Pat Sheedy, the gambler, occasional
ly found his reputation of being a
square man his only available asset. 1t
is not unusual for gamblers with such
q reputation to play faro on credit. So
Ear as is known, however, Sheedy is the
Inly gambler who ever borrowed
money from bank when he was with
out funds with no other security than
his word and the probability that his
luck would change. The story is
vouched for by Sheedy's friends. A long
run of i'll luck had cleaned him out in q
summer resort, and he went to the
cashier of the leading bank and asked
for n loan. The size of the loan asked
varies from 1000 to $4,000. according
to who tells it.
"What security have you?" asked the
cashier.
Nothing but my word.'
"But / don't know YOU"
"Well, you've heard of me. I'm Pat
Sheedy, the gambler, and my word is
as good as a government bond"
The cashier knew all about him then,
and although 1t was an irregular trans-
action, Sheedy got the money. His luck
changed, and he paid back the loan
promptly.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Three Things Wanted

Now then, ye scientific men, here
are three things that fruit growers and
gardeners want:
First.-A better and more reliable
fungicide than the common bordeaux
mixture.
Second.-A mixture that will kill po'
tato beetles and not inJure the vines.
Third.-A remedy for the melon
blight that will enable us to grow good
melons.
OF course we understand that you
may say bordeaux mixture and paris
green are good enough. There are
thousands of practical men who do not
agree with you. Excuse us If we say
that it's up to you to come down to
them.-Rural New YorkeH
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
SPRING WORK.
Just Reviinder of Some of the
Many Items of Farm Routine.

Just u Reviinder of Some of the
Many Items of Farm Routine.
TO put In the spring crops right one
must begin to plan some time ahead
80 as not to leave any of the little
things undone that may tend to injure
the crops, as little neglect may make
a great difference in the amount grown
from year to year. This can be noticed
In sowing grass seed as much as any
thing else, as failure to get a stand Is
often caused by waiting few days.
Timothy and orchard grass should he
sown In February and clover in March
In this state Qndiana). as 1t will then
get good start and will not be SO apt
to burn out in the summer.
The breaking plow should be started
Just as soon as the ground Is dry
enough and should be kept going every
day the weather will permit. Do not
neglect the plowing for some other
work or later you Will have to plow
when 1t Is wet and thus ruin the land.
Through the winter get In your sum-
mef n SUPPLY Oh WOOu. Otl sOiue Va
meal to have on hand to feed any
stock that may not be doing well. OIL
meal is almost as good as condition
powders.
Do not forget to plant some pump
kins this year for the hogs next fall,
as they are a good thing to mix with
the corn when feeding. Give the cows
and horses some also.
Do not forget to manure the truck
patch, Put on plenty, as here Is where
1t will do the most good.
This Is the time of year TO look over
the orchard. Perhaps you need some
trees this spring or those already set
out may need trimming.
Every farmer should have large or
chard SO the family may have plenty
of fruit. Trees may be planted close to
the house on the ground that the fowls
run on, and they will furnish shade as
well as fruit.
/ have $50 peach trees on the north.
west side of my tenant house. They
make good windbreak. - Prairie
Farmer
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

The Parsee, untrammeled by his sur
roundings, is seen in Bombay in all his
wealth of height and dress. The men
are. without exception, tall, finely
formed and stately and possess a ro-
business and beauty quite at contrast
with their Hindoo neighbors.
Their street costume Is u peculiar
long white cotton gown, wide trousers
of the same material and color and n
tall miter shaped hat. They have a
general reputation for sobriety, frugali-
ty and sagacity, and they seem to
thoroughly understand the accumula-
tion of fortunes, in this respect resem-
bling the Hebrews. The wealthlest
residents OF Bombay are Parsees.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Good Practice with Poultry.

If fowls are kept on the colony plan,
the field used at the time of an out
break of fowl typhoid or any other dis
ease could well be thrown into cultiva-
tion and succession of crops grown
In rotation. Indeed the plan OF using
"A rotation OF crops and moving the
houses in accordance Herewith will be
found to be good practice and diminish
to large extent the diseases to which
fowls are liable when kept too long on
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

Here il an eptaph which may be
read In an English churchyard at
tached TO bennington church:
"IIere lies the body OF Lady
O'Looney. grent-niece. of Burke, COM
monty called the sublime. She was
Bland. Passionate and Deeply Reli-
gious; also she painted in water colours
and sent several pictures to the exhibit
ton. She was the intimate friend of
Lady Jones. And OF such is the king
dom OF Heaven"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
He Knew.

A truthful man who has just re
turned from abroad says he overheard
the following dialogue between two
fellow passengers. Said one:
al wonder who that awfully homely
woman is?"
"Oh. that's my wife" replied the 9th
er.
How do you knowr You're MOI
looking ut herT'
81 don't have to"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Cut md Shredded.

The easiest dollars we can make are
the ones we are after.
The farmer Is the most important
factor ON tho farm.
Fruit and children are magnet and
iron. Start an orchard for the boy.
There Is ut present tendency to-
ward the farm on the part of those
who live In the city.
''The farmer who thinks Is the farm,
er that is making money by his crops
today" says Secretary Wilson.
Keep accounts and you will meet
with many surprises and learn things
worth knowing.
Genius is per cent inspiration and
D8 per cent perspiration," according to
Thomas A. Edison.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
DisIiLxed EEOtfNm. 4.

whats the matter with your asked
his wife.
I'm feeling lonely" was the reply.
Don't you like this town"
81 don't like this EARTH"
whats the objection to it?'
People are too egotistical. II there's
anything / hate It's egotism. And when
see kings going about confidently and
doing things wrong. and diplomats try
ing all sorts of insincere tricks with
complete effrontery, and lawyers seek
ing applause for arguing on the wrong
side Of a ease, and everybody display
ing utter selfishness without blush, !
am forced to the conviction that / am
the only consistently high toned and
moral gentleman on this globe. And II
makes me feel lonely"
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
The Time to Prune.

What is the best time to prune fruit
trees? This is a question always be
ing asked. The old answer that the
best time is when the saw is sharp has
a good deal of truth in it, though to be
more precise and somewhat more prac,
tical 1t may be said that early spring
Just before the sap starts, is the most
favorable season. In some places that
means now. Trees that need pruning
should be pruned at once,
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

A FARMERS HOTBED.

Frame. sash and Mnnure-HoW TO
Make Very Handy shutters.
Preparations for the hotbed should
be made according to the earliness OF
the season. Timely practical details by
an Ohio Farmer writer for making and
managing a hotbed are here appended:
The ordinary stock size of hotbed
sash carried in stock by dealers is by
feet, but any old sash will answer
the purpose The hotbed should be
laid out to extend east and west, and
the north side of the frame Should be
about six inches higher than the south
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
His Hens Lay.
Mary had a little hen.

Mary had little hen,
Twas feminine and queer;
1t laid like smoke when eggs were cheap
And quit when eggs were dear.
Not so the fowls of one of New Jer-
sey's successful poultrymen, who al
lows no trifiing on the part of hens
when it is a question of egg production
at the time that prices of eggs are
highest. According to report, his meth
cd of making hens lay, as described in
an address before the Somerset coun-
ty board of agriculture, Is based upon
taking time by the forelock.' In or
der to turn those hens into the way in
which they should 60 he locks them up
about the middle of August where they
can get nothing to eat and feeds them
either sun1ower seeds or cottonseed
meal. This makes them shed their
feathers so rapidly that in about a
months time their annual rest Is over,
and they begin to lay eggs and con-
tinue to do so all winter.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19

The Hindoos on account OF their SUI
perstition are very loath to destroy n
cobra. 1t appears prominently in their
mythology, and 1t is venerated both as
Il symbol of malicious and destruc-
tive power and also n benehcent one.
According to Mr.. A. X. Forbes cobras
tre looked upon as guardian angels,
and there is Bengalese tradition that
a male infant auspiclously shaded by II
cobra will come TO the throne.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
GRASS ON SANDY SOIL.

A Good Mixture of seed-Eariy Sow
ing on Well Fitted Land.
AS seeding for sandy meadow
where the object is to secure perma-
nent stand the following mixture OF
seeds is recommended by DR.. Roberts
In Country Gentleman for one acre:
Red clover, O pounds; alsike clover, d
pounds; Kentucky blue grass. aa
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
Stable Room For 65 Horses.
PEARSON B. MACE,
Telephone No. 2i9.
a Safe Investment-Fine Farm
For Sale

$1,000; farm Of 80 acres, 4 miles from
Mars Station, one mile from Brush Creek
and Perrysville road house of nine
rooms, gas, center hall, porches, two
cellars; the farm is all fenced with wire,
locust posts good bank barn 40xG0,
20x3O, piped with gas; the farm is well
watered and watered in two forms; il
has large apple orchard A oil wells
royalty $40 per month; 10 acres which
are not leased for oil can be leased al
any time with a guarantee Of drilling q
well; the land is all cleared, good soil
reasons for selling closing up an estate
See NJ. J. EHRENFELD,
1922 Forbes st.. Pittsburg, Pa.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
A HANDY cooP.

For bottom and ends use three-quarter
inch dressed pine and for sides and top
one-half inch pine. Place the Stats SO
close that the bird cannot stick its
head out. For winter use make one
side solid
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
New. and Notes.


OF the $685., 100000 worth Of FARM
produce shipped from the United States
during the fiscal year 1901 more than
half was disposed of in the British
market. Our agricultural exports to
that destination in the year mentioned
had the exceptionally high value of
$496, 100000 Cotton was decidedly the
largest factor in the trade.
A pinch in cucumber seed is reported
by American Agriculturist.
The Statistical Sugar Trade Journal
estimates the production Of sugar beets
and sugar. In the United States at Ill.,
$50 tons OF beets and 1885, 800 tons of
sugar. Cane sugar is estimated at 767,-
600 stons.
A Maine hen man reported profit of
$2.67 per bird in American Agricultur-
lists money in poultry" contest
1t is said that Canada expects an in
fiux of Americans this year to the num-
Der of at least 100000.
Much Importance Is cow attached to
botany as study in agricultural col
leges.
American cattle have the reputation
of being the healthiest In the world.
Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1903-02-19
A Good Shipping Coop

II you have bird to ship by express,
here Is handy coop and one easily