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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08

to be; mine was four feet, letting the
bottom droop slightly SO the hay
would always work to the front so
she could get it all easily, and 1x4
piece B same length as A fastened at
each end back two feet from c, and
to this. and the bottom A nailed 1x2-
inch Stat to make the bottom OF
rack; six to eight inches apart makes
. good distance, as they can't pull
out and waste feed so easily. At D,
nailed box in right hand corner
near the floor to feed grain in, and
at E bored hole to fasten chain in,
making it so she could reach her feed
Dor easily and also step back to reach
up to eat out of rack. Then as she
stood when tied, 1 took a 4x4-inch
piece long enough to 60 across the
stall and fastened securely just in
front of her hind feet. Thus all ex-
crement fell behind this 4x4-inch
piece, and when she went to lie down
she put her head under the rack and
laid in front of the piece in the dry.
bedded her thoroughly in front OF
this piece with chaff, and it kept dry
all winter; didn't need to change it
at all, and she was not out of her
stall from November 1st until April,
for / had no place to turn her out,
living in a town.-Ed. S. Mexican, in
Epitomist.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
cuTICuRA
OINTMENT
Purest Of EInolIlants and
Greatest Of Skin Cures.
The Most Wonderful Curative
Of All Time
For Torturing, DisflguIlng
Skin Humours
And Purest and Sweetest Of
Toilet Emouients.

N.Aa-~ Nsr1,,,nvt n 1,nwny,d nneaff0M
Cu''cu1" O1n'1'.' :. .s-.-.-
the most successiui curative aol .oa 'u1.
Ing, dishguring humours Of the skin ana
ec.ln including loss Of hair, ever
-s.s a. ..oor - ~hich a
co"pounueu' :" o -
single amounting preceded ~ nos JAIN
with Cuticura Soap, and followed IN
Hhk severer cases. bv q dose OF Cutte
suo eeveAeA S"eeos -
rnra Resolvent. II often sufficient 70
SeAo As~Ass
afFnrd immedtafA relief In the MOST
sAoAN l-s.-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
EVILS OF A HOT KITCHEN.
Something Which I'm the Summer
Time Amounts Almost to Crime
Against the Family.

A hot kitchen during the warm sea.
son is an atrocity for which there ID
no longer any excuse. In the time OF
the old-fashioned kitchen stove with
wood as fuel, or perhaps soft coal, the
housewife had no choice in the matter,
saws Medical Talk for the Home.
To cook dinner necessitated hot
kitchen. The fumes of cooking would
ELL the whole house. Great waves OF
heat were waited from room to room.
The perspiring school children home
for lunch, the sweaty man, weary with
toll. arrive for dinner not to lind .
cool house where everything is invit-
ing and refreshing, but swelterlng
oven of heated air, thick with fumes
Of cooking dinner. The housewife, red
and out of patience, hurries the steam
ing dinner on the table, and perhaps
flies add to the general discomfort.
Such surroundings dOnot constitute
life in the best sense of the word.
While camping out a person might en-
dnre this. but such regulations are
hardly worthy to be called q home.
Gasoline and gas stoves have made
all this unnecessary. Only those who
live in the region OF natural gas can
avail themselves of the gas stove. But
the gasoline stoveis of worldwide
distribution. Anybody can have one.
The dinner can be cooked and at the
same time the house is kept cool. BY
= little care and ingenuity on the part
of the cook neither heat nor disagree
able odors need to disturb the peace
of the household.
Keep the kitchen cool and clean. In
the middle of the day serve a cool din
ner. Invent something that can be
eaten cold. Hot dinners are very un-
wholesome during hot weather. A
lunch of cold sliced meat, plen-
ty of fruit, berries in their sea-
SON, iced tea, and the like,
make a midday meal more ac-
ceptable and healthy than steaming
hot food. A hot kitchen on hot day
is almost crime against the family.
Do not allow any such thing to occur
for your own sake It makes the chill
dren fretful and the husband frets and
converts the most even-tempered
housewife or kitchen girl into ter
magant.
Get a gasoline stove at once and
learn how to use it, You are absolute
Nv safe. The few accidents that have
occurred in times past were due eth
er to defective stoves or gross care
lessness and need never occur again.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08

late employer, Edward Woolsey, mil
lionaire.
Mrs. Jansen is not sure about the
money, for she says that her husband
never confided in her, and all that she
knows about his affairs at the present
time is that he is working. All she
sees of his earnings is the Is cents
he hands her each morning when he
goes to work.
Anne Jansen takes in washing
when the weather permits her to bring
water from a neighbours well, block
or two away.
She has not the appearance of be-
ing starved or ill-fed. She is comely
and buxom Norwegian of %, with q
complexion and plumpness that be-
speak beer diet. The children, Ida,
aged five, and Henry Bernard, aged
one and one-half, are sprightly little
creatures, healthy and rosy under
heath the dirt that usually covers
their faces, and with appetites by no
means ravenous.
II tried all sorts of cheap food to
see which would be the most filling
and the most lasting" said the wom-
an. "There's nothing quite SO good as
beans, I've found, but we do get dread
full tired of Them" she remarked, with
plaintive air.
81 buy soup beans. they can be
cooked in. so many different ways,
though sometimes take notion to
have plain white beans. The children
are fond Of onions, and they like them
fried. Cooked that way they are good
to take the place of meat.
"Soup beans cost six cents a quart,
and one day / buy quart of these.
loaf of bread for four ceats, and
five cents worth of beer for my din
ner; then the next day buy onions
instead of beans, which cost just the
same a quart. This leaves me moth
ing for salt and pepper, SO the only
way I can get these necessaries is to
substitute oatmeal for the beans or
onions once in awhile. Oatmeal IL
cheaper than either, and goes long
way. though we get tired of it quicker.
1--WE drink water for breakfast and
supper, and when I have my mug of
beer for dinner / give the children a
sip, but they don't seem to care much
for it. I wish the little ones might
have milk to drink, instead; that al
ways makes people healthy, at least
people think 1t does. My Ida and
Henry Bernard don't look thin and
hungry, though, do they? Henry Ber-
nard is teething; that's what makes
him SO pale, but he isn't cross, like
most babies at his age"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
NUT TREES FOR TIMBER
An Industry which Premise. Large
Returns In Cash Profits ~ Well
a. In Pleasure.

Much is now being accomplished in
educating the public to the Importance
of timber preservation and the re-
facilitating of our forests, but some
thing more seems necessary, as the
preservation of what remains of our
native forests only postpones the day
OF reckoning.
The especial value Of hickory, chest
nut and walnut lumber is our occasion
for urging the consideration of tho
planting of nut trees for their timber
value, which will incidentally produce
= valuable by-product in the nuts
grown, thus making such a plantation
valuable property years before its
maturity for lumber. This harvesting
of annual crops also obviates, to a
great extent the chief impeachment in
the way of planting for lumber only
by the long time investment. By this
plan the man who plants and cares for
his nut grove is rewarded during his
own day by the annual crops and his
children have veritable heritage in
the lumber.
The present is none too soon to be-
gin planting for such purposes. The
consumption of lumber of all kinds is
increasing much more rapidly than in
proportion to the increase of popula-
ton. In so years the United States
may have double its present popula-
ton, and who can predict what the de-
mand for black walnut, chestnut or
hickory lumber may be by that time?
One thing is certain; if consumption
continues as at present there will be no
lumber of these kinds on the market
unless the trees are planted by this
generation.
Besides this, there are great tracts
of land in many sections which are not
well adapted to ordinary agricultural
operations which are peculiarly suit
ed for growing timber. Our noun
tain ranges are the natural home of
the chestnut. Bottom lands which
overflow too frequently for farming
are often we'll adapted for the rapid
growth of hickory and walnut. so that
the waste places seem to he intended
for such benefcent uses as growing
timber and food. F. Wilton, in Nut
Grower,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
KILLING POTATO BUGS.
on0us Substances Thoroughly,
Cheaply and Rapidly.

Poisoning potato bugs by hand on
large plants is generally considered
hard work. For the easiest way-and
the best if one does not wish to use
Bordeaux at the same time. for blight
is this: Take an old-fashioned -four
sieve holding six or eight quarts and
attach it to crooked stick with two
branches, as shown in cut. A short
search in almost any tree will find
one of the right shape. It is fastened
to the sieve by three small bits Of wire
through gimlet holes in sieve. A stout
piece of Irvine reaches from the two
ends of the stick around the operators
neck to support the weight. Instead
of sieve light box with wirecloth bot
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY.
Once More In Vogue and Much
Sought After.

Out from the treasure chest and
jewel cases where they were hidden
for some seasons past come the brace
let's that were formerly the joy and
pride of their possessors. For the
bracelet is again fashionable. Not
the slender circlet of gold, with its
jeweled clasp, nor the silver bangle
holder, more or less in evidence from
year to year, but the broad, heavy band
or chain of gold that graced the arm
of the society maid and matron .
generation or SO ago. Jewellers are
taking advantage of this revived fancy
for the bracelet, and are constantly
bringing forth exceedingly beautiful
ornaments for the arm in which the
combined art of the goldsmith and
jeweler is displayed. The jeweled
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
Against the Double Hive.

The double hive, or what is called
In England the Wells system-a hive
with two compartments side by side,
with perforated separating wall, al
lowing the workers, but not the
queen, to pass from one side to the
other-has now been on trial for sew
eral years, and while some speak well
Of it, the testimony in general has not
been such as to warrant its general
adoption. One objection is that when
the colony on one side swarms the
colony on the other side is excited to
swarming, whatever it's condition may
be. Another objection is that when
one side becomes queenless it is likely
"a remain SO, the presence of queen
on the other side preventing the bees
from feeling their queenlessness suff-
GENTLY to rear a new queen.-Pacific
Homestead.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
ABSURD DAIRY LAWS.
Butter Nor VIII They Make
Clean Farmers. \

In commenting on the clamor OF
many creamery butter makers for
more rigid laws relative to the de-
livery Of good milk to the creamery,
Mr.. A. W. Trow, of Minnesota, in the
st. Paul Farmer, well says:
'It may seem an advantage to some
butter makers to shirk the response
bility OF refusing bad milk or cream,
and have this responsibility carried
by the state, but laws have not the
required elasticity nor exceptions.
They cannot discriminate on quail
ity. Laws can never step in to take
the place of the tact and judgment
Of butter maker. If good milk,
good cream and many other good
things could be obtained by making
laws we would now be subsisting on
the angelic diet of the millennium,
instead of milking cows to make
butter. It is as difficult to legislate
cleanliness as godlipess into us farm
ers. Better results will be obtained
by politely, kindly but firmly, refus-
ing all unwholesome milk or cream,
be it one day or a week old. The
greatest requisite to creamery sue
cess is cooperation among patrons,
directors and butter makers; and the
enforcement Of drastic laws without
great discretion is the quickest way
Of destroying cooperation. Three
wears ago we heard the head man of
new creamery say that the easiest
way to get along with crowd Of
farmers was to lay down set of
iron clad rules with severe penalties
attached, draw a distinct line and
whenever one of them failed to toe
the scratch in complying with the
rules to unceremoniously annihilate
him. With the aid of this policy it
took this man but two years to COM
pletely annihilate the creamery. The
farmer will stand coaxing and rea-
soning but no bluff"
It is almost universally true that
those creameries are the most sue
cessful that possess butter makers
that have kindly, patient tact and
the disposition to get out among
their patrons and convince them of
the great value of better methods.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
Cause of Dairy Property.

The remarkable increase in the
production of milk and butter in the
United States in the last decade was
due far more to increased yield per
cow than to increase in the number
of cows. There is plenty of oppor-
tunity for an equally great increase
in the production per cow during the
present decade. As farmers become
more careful and accurate in deter
mining the relative production Of
their cows, the culling Of their herds
becomes more rigorous. This imme-
diately raises the average standard
Of production and tends, by aid Of
the laws of heredity, to increase the
producing capacity of the descend
ants of cows retained for dairy pur-
poses Midland Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
REWARDED AT LAST.
Peoples Affairs Got What He
Was Looking For.

Bivens is one Of those men who are
always trying to make the world bet
ter. Not reformer, exactly, because
he has never gone into politics, but
ready at any call tocome to the front
to alleviate the woes Of somebody.
OdicioLsness, some call it, but it is
scarcely that, either. In any event.
everybody who knows Bivens has been
saying for years that some day he was
going to butt into something that was
no special business OF his, and he would
get what he deserved. Everybody II
oftener wrong than right, but this
time, though, it was long coming.
Everybody was right. Bivens got it,
-elates the New York Herald.
He was on street car with about
four dozen other passengers when it
happened. The seats were all taken
when Bivens came aboard, but in the
varying changes that take place in q
crowded car Bivens found his chance
and dropped into seat by the side
of good looking woman. In front of
her, holding to strap, stood man
who to Bivens' trained eye seemed to
be trying to attract; the lady's atten-
ton. He had probably ridden dozen
blocks before he noticed this little by
play, and the soul of him revolted
against the Vaccinations of the mash
er. Bivens was no coward. Most peo-
pie OF his stripe are not, more's the
pity, and after watching until he was
sure the lady did not wish the mans
attention. he sailed in.
II beg your pardon, madame" said
Bivens, good and strong, 'is that man
annoying you?"
Yes, he is" she responded, though
not in the grateful tones of women
usual under such circumstances. But
Bivens wasn't thinlSing about tones
just at that moment: he was thinking
about Washers, and he braced the Of
fender.
You are annoying the lady," said
Bivens, menacingly.
Il know it," was the reply, so un-
abashed and brazen that Bivens was
shocked.
you'll have to stop it," said Bivens.
getting hot.
"Guess not" said the man. GIVE got
a right to; she's my wife; she's huffy
and won't talk to ME. See?"
Bivens looked at the lady; she
couldn't help smiling; her husband
laughed; SO did everybody else in the
car, except Bivens; he got off and
walked home to soothe his perturbed
spirit.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
ORIGIN OF .STATEROOM."
Uxiyersal ExpressiOn First Used BY
the Captain Of Mississippi
River Steamer.

ibid you ever hear of the origin of
the name 'stateroom?' asked Repre-
sentative Aldrich, of Alabama, Of
Washington Post writer. "There
probably is not one person in 10000
who ever heard how the name SO
common was first sprung. This il
the way it happened: Down in Louis
lana is the thriving city Of Shreve-
port. The man after whom the city
was named was old Capt. Shreve, who
used to run some of the finest craft
thta ever carried the travelling pub
lie up and down the Mississippi
river.
"Capt. shreve was q progressive
sort of fellow, and he believed in
giving the passengers the best pos
sible appointments, and his boats
were the most luxurious that were
ever piloted on the famous water
thoroughfare. There used to be or
binary hunks on the line, the crudest
kind of berths. Shreve made up his
mnid that something better was de-
manded, and that the more luxurious
night travel was made the more
traffic there would be on his lines.
So he had number OF rooms built
ON his boats for night travellers.
sThen the idea suggested itself TO
him that instead Of numbering the
rooms he would give each of them a
name. This was done forthwith. He
was patriotic soul, and he named
the rooms after the great common
wealths through which the Father OF
Waters Travelled. There, for instance,
was the Mississippi room, the Ar
kansas room, the Louisiana room, the
Missouri room, and so on down the
list of states. In booking these
namcs for passengers he called them
'staterooms,' hence the now univer-
cal expression"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08

y Mrc Amdarenn. q Df0mine0t
WI = fnueA SS Ir.I..a.,,;llo.
society woman OF JdckSOnVlue,
~ I~,.~s.<nS, ~ pAcn@fIeS at
!, H. 49,, w. .c,,e.
!. $. rha,a 40 Init few wives and
.,o+h hnelc ,v, 80 have not at times en-
% 5,,naI sra mhU ana such pain as only
. uurea ag 9,unw q wish such women
x Mo1ed the nnv value " Of Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Com2o!@1 on.+ !; =
Is a remarkab medicine, dinerent -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
MORE BEAUTY DON'Ts
Not weather rrut.n. which Should
he Remembered by All Who Love
q Clear Complexion.

Don't be afraid Of sunshine. Cura-
tive powers are in the chemical rays
of the sun, and they rejuvenate.
Don't think Of the complexion only
and fear tan and freckles; they can be
removed. The sun is one of the most
efficient of all surgical methods in the
treatment of morbid growths, a.
warts, moles and all parasitical skin
diseases.
Don't use borax and rose water to
remove tan and freckles without put
ting on little cold cream afterward,
for borax makes the skin dry.
Don't use soap on the face oftener
than once a day. Night is the best
time for thorough cleansing.
Don't use cold water when giving
the face a cosmetic scrub. Warm wa
ter, followed by dash of cold water, is
better.
Don't try to put cold cream on cold
skin, or the absorption will not be
thorough.
Don't despise the humble lemon,
With the juice of lemon and the
beaten white of an egg, milady, brush
in hand, may touch up her freckles in
the seclusion of her boudoir, and no
one be the wiser.
Don't forget that vinegar will Grad
icate yellow stains from the face
Battle the bruise at once with vinegar
and discoloration will be prevented.
Don't have a shiny nose and fore
head, because it is warm weather. Use
little cologne or spirits of camphor
In the water when bathing the face.
Don't wash your face in cold water
the moment you reach a washstand if
you have been travelling. Remove
traces of dust and smoke with cold
cream, and wipe off with soft towel.
Don't be afraid Of the flesh brush OF
glove. Friction rouses the circg.ation
and restores tone and color to the skin.
Don't expect to cure an eruption on
the face by external applications only.
A hot foot bath, containing washing
soda, will often cure this trouble.
Don't be afraid of using little rice
powder on the face, neck and arms il
troubled with prickly heat.
Don't use alcohol on the face unles.
the skin is oily.
Don't use tincture Of benzoin on the
face unless the skin is dry. It j,
detrimental to an oily one. This is an
instance of preparation excellent il
itself, but not suited to every com.
Observation-Disclosures Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
Tobacco for Plant Lice.

Coarsely-ground tobacco is good for
nothing as an insecticide, under ordi-
nary circumstances. When finely
ground, it can be used dry with good
effect against plant lice and soft-bodied
insects generally.
In the form of decoction, it may
be prepared by using one pound OF
coarsely ground tobacco or chopped
stems or refuse and pouring through
it one gallon of boiling water. This
decoction will be effective against
plant lice Of almost all kinds and is
the cleanest material that can be used
on house plants. B. Smith. in Farm
and Home.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
Suffered; Noodles.

The fine noodles.a are nice served as .
vegetable with meat or fish. Have q
heated, covered vegetable dish beside
the fire and pot of boiling saited wa
ter ready. Throw in handful of the
noodles. stirring them carefully with
= fork to separate: them. When thor
ouphly heated through skim them out
and place in the heated dish, season
with little warmed butter and cook
another handful, and proceed in the
same manner until you have cooked
the desired quantity. Sprinkle the
top with Drowned buttered crumbs,
or grated cheese 1aay be used instead
and the dish placed in the oven to
brown the cheeses-Washington Star.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
NEW THINGS IN JEwELRY.

bracelet of the day is veritable thing
of beauty. the old-fashioned type be-
ing modified to suit modern require
ments. without, however, detracting
from its olden charm and embellished
with gems in accordance with the de.
mand for elaborate ornamentation
characteristic of the age. The brace
let here pictured is fine example of
modern art in jewelry, the combina-
ton of gold links and turquoise and
diamond setting being very effective.
Rings are ever new, and yet as an
cient as the Scriptures. It il only by
variation in the manner of arranging
the gems for which the golden circlet
serves as background that any touch
of novelty can be introduced. Jewel.
ers are ingenious, however, and they
make the most of the opportunity for
variation with the most artistic and
successful results. OF the two rings
here illustrated, one shows three dia-
monds in new and attractive setting,
while . single pearl is displayed to
unusual advantage in the second ring.
Both represent the latest ideas with
regard to rings.-Brooklyn Eagle.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08
FIFTEEN CENTS A DAY.
Out Of This Munifcert Income Mrs.
Jansen Feeds Herself and Her
Two Children.

Contrasting sharply with the high
living which seems to have become a
necessity nowadays in this country is
the story Of a woman who keeps her
self and two children on fare that costs
barely Is cents day.
The Jansens, for this il the name
of the family, have two ill-furnished
rooms in one of the fats belonging
to what is known as the Woolsey es-
tate, in Long Island City. They pay
NO rent for their howell of home,
Mrs. Jansen says, because her hus-
band worked for several years as a
coachman for the Woolseys, and there
is coming to him over $1,000 in back
wages or in savings invested by his
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-08

tom may be used. The sieve is filed
with dry mixture of paris green and
land plaster or -four, one pound to 100
thoroughly mixed. The handle is car.
ried in one hand, the weight being on
the neck and not noticed, while the
other hand carries very light stick,
with which the sieve is lightly tapped
when over each potato hill. The poi
son is very thoroughly, economically
and rapidly applied, and above all the
work is very light. The sieve is held
over pan while filling, to avoid
waste.-E. N. Barrett, in Epitomist.