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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08
non,t Let Colt. Follow.

The habit of allowing colts to follow
the mares while at work or on the road
should be discouraged. This practice has
been the cause of more trouble and an
noyance than could herein be chronicled
Many a fine colt has been ruined from
being caught in the drag, lisk harrow OF
plow. On the other hand, not a few rum
Always and smashups have been caused
by the mare fretting on account of the
colt attempting to follow some strange
team. Whenever taking mare to the
field or 10 town leave the colt in some
secure place where it can get exercise
and shade, and the comfort attending
such practice will always be appreciated
when once tried.-Twentieth Century
Farmer
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FEEDING NEW CORN.
Too Free Use of the Crop In nm Inna-
ture Condition Is Sure to
Breed Disease.

The late condition of the corn crop last
year resulting in so much of it being soft
and not in condition to keep doubtless
will cause many to be very short of old
corn this year. Such condition fosters
the heavy feeding of very new corn. We
wish to caution against a too free use OF
the new crop in an immature condition,
or for that matter after 1t gets fairly well
ripened up. AS all during this time it is
very palatable and contains sufficient
moisture to make it very easily con-
sumed, the tendency is for an animal to
overeat. This is especially true of the
hog, whose ration usually consists more
largely of concentrates than is the case
with other animals. The present price
of corn will doubtless have very bene-
fetal effect in this direction. 1t will be
much easier to allowance the hog than
it would be if corn were low in price.
This relatively high price of corn will
also simplify the problem by lessening
the objection to the purchase of substi-
tute feeds to use as part of the ration.
Feed the new corn quite sparingly at
first. If necessary to begin while it is in
the milk, or even in the dough stage, 1t is
q good plan to feed the whole plant and
let them eat what they will of the fodder.
Then increase the feed gradually and be
careful to never overfeed, and we believe
you will have gone long way toward
preventing an outbreak of disease in the
herd.-Prairie Farmer
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PASSING OF THE GOLDFISH.
Growing Scarcer In the Markets of
the East Where 1t Has Been
So Plentiful.

| Considerable excitement has been
| that the catch of Goldfish on the New
| foundland banks is steadily falling off,
Some timid souls are anticipating the
rapid decline of Gloucester Others are
wondering what they will do without
the fishball, upon the stimulating prop
critics of which Senator Hoar recently
| dilated with so much eloquence. The
New York Tribune, referring to the pos
sibility, says: New England would
shrivel mentally without fishballs, and
small red schoohouses from the Provi-
dence plantations of Little Rhody' to
the Green mountains of Vermont, from
southwestern Connecticut to northern
Maine, would shut their DOORS"
The situation is hardly as desperate as
all this, says the Chicago Tribune,
though it is not remarkable that those
unacQuainted with it should regard the
disappearance of the cod as a serious
business calamity and the disappearance
of the fishball as an equally serious intel
lectual calamity to New England. OF all
sea food the cod has been held to con-
tain greater intellectual potentiality
than any other, whether served in hash,
or in fishballs, or in the plain boiled din
ner garnished with beets and drenched
with the fat of salt pork, the pork itself
cut into cubes.
Tt is no secret in New England that
the cod is disappearing and is already
scarce in Gloucester market, and yet
that market supplies just as much salt
Goldfish as it ever did, and Goldfish balls
are just as plentiful as ever. How the
demand can be met while the supply is
steadily diminishing is explained by the
fact that another fish is masquerading as
cod. This fish is the pollach, or pollock
a distant relative of the cod, and some
times called the green cod 1t is found
everywhere along the coast, not only in
deep water but even in the tidal rivers,
and in apparently ineXhaustible num-
bers 1t is handsome, gamy fish and
free bitter. It's average weight is greater
than that of the cod, and its flesh whittier
and sweeter From the fact that they do
not keep well when out of the water they
have not been considered a desirable
fresh food fish, but within the last few
years the Gloucester dealers have found
that they are an excellent substitute for
cod, and that few can tell the difference
when they are put on the market as bone
less cod Over two-thirds of the so-Called
homeless cod sold in Boston and
Gloucester is homeless pollock. But as
homeless pollock is better than homeless
cod, who should complain? 1t is likely
also that the pollock fishball is just as
Intellectually stimulating as the Goldfish
ball
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BONES OF MAGI FOUND.
Cardinal Ferrari Claims Discovery
of stolen Relics of the Three
Wise Men.

Cardinal Ferrari has brought from
Cologne to Milan a remarkable present
for the Milan church of ST. Eusrorgius.
1t is an ancient wooden urn containing
relics of the three magi kings who came
from the east to Bethlehem to attend the
nativity. The cardinal declares the urn
contains a portion of the thigh bone of
Melchior. a piece of Balthasar's shin
bone and one Of Gaspar's teeth The
cardinal has placed the relics on exhibi-
ton in the archepiscopal chapel of Milan,
and when an appropriate casket is fin
ished the relics will be transferred to
the church of st. Eustorgius, where there
is an empty sepulcher bearing the Latin
inscription 'Sepulchrum trium Mayor
um,' from which 1t is supposed the
bodies of the three wise men were stolen
seven centuries ago. 1t is alleged the
bodies were translated from Constanti-
nople to Milan by Bishop Eustorgius. Il
is not explained how the bodies got to
Constantinople. Catholic historians
long ago abandoned authenticity of the
relics. Nevertheless, Milan is delighted
that the sepulcher is to be again filed.
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SLATED FATTENING COOP.

Each part is two feet long, 16 inches wide
and 20 inches high, which experiments
have shown to be the best size.
The coops are placed out of doors in
the shade, either under trees or in an
open shed, but in severe weather should
be placed in closed building. A small
V-shaped trough is used to hold the
feed, and water is supplied in cup,
which may be fastened to the Stats.
Young chickens from four to six
months of age are commonly used for
fattening. About four are placed in a
coop, where they are fed three times
daily, as much as they will eat of ground
grain, chiefly oats At or near the end
of the period of fattening, which lasts
from four to six weeks, a little tallow is
added to the feed, which at all times is
mixed with skim milk.
In trial with 100 chickens, Prof.
James w. Robinson, of Canada, found
that they almost doubled in weight in
SO days of feeding. For every pound
of increase in live weight they consumed
5.44 pounds of ground oats and SAB
pounds skim milk. At one dollar per
100 pounds for ground oats and 20 cents
per 100 pounds skim milk, the cost was
nearly 6A cents per pound gain for feed
only.
While the increase in weight was
nearly 100 per cent, this gain was mostly
Of flesh. Three chickens dressed before
fattening weighed, with feathers off,
eight pounds and eight ounces, their
bones weighed one pound two ounces,
and the edible meat two pounds six
ounces. After this period of fattening,
three chickens, of the same quality at
the start, weighed with feathers off 16
pounds four ounces, and the edible meat
seven pounds six ounces. Not only was
there gain of about 200 per cent. in edi
BILE meat, but it was of much better quail
ity. If all fowls when fatted for the
market are confined for a month in
coops of this kind and fed in similar
manner, they will return a much higher
price and greater profit. -Orange Judd
Farmer
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BroiIers and Roasters.

Some poultry farmers claim that
they can make more money in rails
ing roasting fowls for market than
they can with broilers. On the other
hand, there are poultrymen who say
the profits are decidedly in favor OF
broilers. Much depends upon the mar
kets. In some sections of the country
broilers would have very little sale
while in other sections there is q
great call for them. Where the mar
ket is favorable to roasting fowls, say
four to six pounds in weight, 1t il
more profitable to raise the latter, as
the extra pounds in weight over the
first two cost considerably less, on &c
count of the gain being quickly made
Where it is possible both broilers and
roasters should be raised, SO as to fiji
all classes of trade.-Cincinnati Trib'
une
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08

1t may be very seriously doubted
whether there is really any such thing
as luck in the poultry business. al
though there is probably no occupa-
ton in which bad luck is more COM
planned of. The so-called bad luck
is directly due to one CIR more OF the
following causes: Ignorance, forget
fitness, laziness, or negligence. Lice,
mites, hawks, cats, filth and all the
other troubles chickens are heir to, III
GLIDING thieves, can be successfully
disposed of by careful, observing
owner. Why blame everything except
the one really to blame?-Prairls
Farmer.
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FATTENING CHICKENS.
SIX Points Clearly Established by
Tests Conducted by Canadian
Government Experts.

The results of experiments in fatten-
ing chickens for market in Canada are
given as follows, by the chief of that
division. He says:
1. That pure-bred or high-grade
chickens can be reared more cheaply in
the fattening crates, and present bet
ter market appearance than do COM
mon chickens or "scrub" chickens.
2. That there is more profit in placing
well-fatted chickens on the market than
in marketing lean chickens
8. That four months old is the most
profitable age at which to market
chickens.
4. That heavy chickens are not gen.
orally as salable as medium weight ones.
5. That the type of chicken desired in
Canada or Great Britain is a young,
plump bird, with a broad, full breast,
white colored fish, white or yellow col
ored legs, without feathers or spurs, and
with a small head.
s. That crate fattening Of chickens is
the farmers business; that it does not
require a large outlay to fatten 100 or
200 chickens; that the chickens are fed
from troughs, and that machine feeding
is not necessary.
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engagement, l should like you to call
noon"
Mrs. Gaylord only looked inquiring-
ly at her husband, for he had never
made such a request before.
He explained by saying: There is
set of emeralds at Clifford's which
| think would please you. | am al
leisure at that hour, and if you can
come we will examine them together y
''At three?' said Mrs. Gaylord, with
animation
eyes, and please be prompt, for
have other engagements later"
Il shall be there" said the lady, and
she decided mentally that her husband
was, after all, handsome man.
Come direct to my private room, 81
said Mr. Gaylord, as he left the house.
She nodded pleasantly and thought
of the emeralds.
1t was exacliy three o'clock when
Mrs. Gaylord entered her husbands
Office. He was waiting for her evil
IDENTIFY, for he had assumed his hat and
cane.
There was another person in the
room, a person clad in long apron,
paper cap and cotton gloves, holding
in his hand a long-handled carpet
sweeper She failed for an instant to
recognize in this garb her friend, AL
bert Winturn, and ne in confusion
, pulled off his paper cap and waited for
her to speak.
She nodded coldly as to servant
and took her husbands proffered arm.
You can go for the day when you
get through with that work, Win
turn" said Mr.. Gaylord, carelessly, as
they passed from the room, and Albert
with a strange feeling of depression
closed the door behind them.
Mrs. Gaylord was pleased with the
emeralds and praised her husbands
taste. She carried the jewels home
with her.
He escorted her to the opera that
evening and after their return she
said II hope, dear, you can find time
for a short trip to Europe. | think
should enjoy sea voyage
Cdu MAKE llUuSs lie ICpllGUs
promptly. When shall we start?''
"As soon as I can get ready And,
dear. with your consent I shall on our
return revise our social list. There
are several people who have grown
tiresome to me-"
who, for instance?" he asked
Albert Winturn for one, and soms
others I think of"
81 shall leave it all to you,' he said.
with no change of voice or feature
Mr.. Winturn's services in the bank
proved unsatisfactory and were dis
pensed with, and he sought other
fields of employment
A year later Mrs. Gaylord said to
herself: 81 believe / am really and
truly in love with my husband.
Mamma is certainly a wise woman"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08
A Good Thing.

Every issue of The Four-Track News makes
it easier for ticket agents and ticket sellers
to secure passengers for distant parts of the
country, for the reason that every article and
every illustration in The Four-Track News
is an inducement for readers to travel and
see what marvellous variety of scenery and
climate our own country possesses. The
more these facts are impressed upon the aver
age person, the more certain he or she is to
have desire to travel. Therefore, The Four
Track News is not only in the interest of all
the transportation lines and hotels, it also
bears out the legend of its title page Of Gan
Illustrated Magazine of Travel and Educa-
ton. "-From the Buffalo Commercial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08

bantam Hen Raises Snakes,

Several weeks ago one of the resi-
dents of Smoky Hollow found 13 adj
der's eggs under a decayed stump,
and, placing them under bantam hen,
awaited results. In due time the
clucking mother Matched out IL
striped addcrs. The brood was differ
ent from the downy darlings which
she had previously reared, but the
faithful bantam accepted her trust and
did the best she could under the cir
cumstances. Several of the strange
brood fell prey to the family cat,
and others receded from civilization
and took to the woods, but six of them
are still following the puzzled bantam
about the premises in the daytime and
at night sleeping in the straw nest
in which they were Matched. The
wriggling brood have become suff1-
GENTLY domesticated to respond to the
clucking of their foster mother.-N. Y.
Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08

Pierpont, O., Oct. Remarkable in
deed is the experience of Mr.. A. S. Turner. a
man now over seventy-one years of age, aIsss
whose home is here.
For many years this old gentleman had
suffered with very unpleasant form of Kid
ney Trouble, a kind that very often both
ers aged people. He would have to get up
four or five times every night, and this very
tlresome disease was fast wearing him
out.
AT last after having almost made up his
mind that he would never be able to get re-
lief, he stumbled over medicine which re-
heved him almost Immediately, and hascured
HIM permanently. 1t is so very easy to get
and SO simple that Mr. Turner thinks every
one should know it. Every dealer in the
country has it, and all you have to do is to
ask for Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr.. Turner
says
Il can heartily and honestly recommend
Dodd's Kidney Pills, for they cured me. Sew.
eral Others IN the family have used them, too.
anu always with the best results. think
they have no equal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08
He Could Tell.

Yes said the small but observing
boy, 81 can always tell how sis and her
beau are getting on"
ooh, you cant" calculated his sister
warmly and somewhat sarcastically.
"Of course | can," he insisted. Its
easy"
How do you tell?" asked his father,
maliciously, as he glanced at the girl.
when the sofa pillows are piled up
in the middle after he's gone" ex-
planned the boy, Il know that they've
ouarreled and been sitting on each end,
but when the sofa pillows are piled up
at the ends anybody ought to be able to
tell that they've made up and"
But at this point the beautiful girl
stamped on his foot so hard that he
stopped his dissertation to yell.-Chi-
cago Post.
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Oranges in CaIifornin.

Interest in orange culture, always an
absorbing topic, has much increased
since the recent announcement of the
United States department of agricul-
ture that after much experimentation
an orange has finally been developed
that can stand many degrees more cold
than the varieties that have heretofore
been known. Californians are eagerly
inquiring about the new variety, for ii
means the enlargement of the citrus
section of the Golden state. Even be-
fore the discovery of the new orange the
citrus industry of California had grown
until it has now exceeded the widest
dreams Of the early orchardist.-Jane
L. Sheaff. in Four-Track News.
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Corncob i'm Horses Jaw.

A horse belonging to a Missouri man
got a lump on its jaw three years ago.
Its owner had veterinary surgeon OPP
crate on tue animal the other day, and he
took oct q hard, smooth substance about
four inches long and an inch wide, re-
sembling white stone. Those who have
examined it say it is a petrified coTncob
The commonly accepted theory is that
the horse. while eating, got cob in its
mouth, which slowly worked it's way
into his jaw until it lodged just beneath
the skin. The animal never seemed to
suffer from its presence
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08
FEED BOX FOR STABLE.

slide board OBJ, with peg and holes fol
elevating or lowering to regulate run Of
grain from grain partition (g) to feed
partition (f). Board (b) slants q de-
grees from perpendicular. The horse
faces box (a), feeds from space (D, which
serves also. for feeding ear corn, roots
ETC., when space contains grain. BY re-
moving slide (b) an ordinary feed box is
had.-M L. Birch, in Farm and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08

You will also be called upon occasion
ally to escort Mrs. Gaylord to the
opera and elsewhere when I am absent
or otherwise engaged"
II shall not shirk my duties" said
the secretary-elect.
There is another duty which will
no doubt prove disagreeable," said the
banker, "but it is unavoidable. You
are aware, perhaps, that no person
connected with this institution ex-
cept myself and secretary is permitted
to enter this room"
Winturn nodded.
"This is a cast iron rule and must
not be broken, and it makes it neces-
sary for you and me to perform the
janitor work within these four walls.
1t may seem irksome at first, but you
will soon get used to it. / used to do
the work myself and I really enjoyed
handling the broom and buster after
awhile. Do you think you can learn
to sweep"
Albert was not pleased with this
prospect of doing even light janitor
work, but he dared not refuse and ex-
pressed himself as satisfied.
II shall show you about the janitor
work Immediately" said the banker
and brought from closet long ging-
ham apron, paper cap, pair of cot
ton gloves and the necessary imple-
ments used in removing dust.
Albert went to work at once, con-
soled by the remark of his employer,
who said: "Of course no one must
know that you do this sort of work.
That is better kept secret"
Gertrude" said Mr.. Gaylord at the
breakfast table, ''if you have no other
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-10-08
DUTCH ALONG THE HUDSON.
Old Ways and Expressions Still OBJ
tain In the Home Life of
the Villages.

/ Dutch language and customs still pre-
vail to surprising extent in the old
villages up the Hudson, and the modern
housekeeper from the city who takes a
picturesque dwelling, built about 1890,
for summer home is confronted by
some bewildering conditions, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. First among these are
words of one pronunciation in Dutch and
English, but Of totally different mean
ing. For instance, her help OBJ
tanned from the village will probably
glance about the kitchen after finishing
her mornings work, and chant in sing
song that might be pointed off thus:
II amt done no work-what I meant
to do-this mawnin -yet.-An'-Ill JUS
file up tn kitchen floor"
To the mistress surprise the ttfile"
proves to be mop, ''file" being old
Dutch for any bit of cloth rag) used for
cleaning, from wash cloth to a floor
cloth.
Another evidence of descent is the use
made of water. The old houses were in
variably located where advantage might
be taken of running stream, no matter
how small. At point near the kitchen
door this was damned, waterwheel in
serted and power obtained for the churn
or turnspit. To-day this power equals a
motor for running an ice cream freezer,
a sewing machine, an eggbeater or cof-
fee mill.
But while water and the scrubbing
brush were and are much in evidence,
| 4 IL 4
meet modern requirements. In fact, I'M
! less the house has been materially altered
there are no bedrooms-distinctly SUCH
But from each of the five rooms on the
one floor, kitchen, included, open re-
cesses or alcoves, just large enough to
contain a double bed. These used to be
filled with "four-posters," having trundle
beds beneath, so that family of 20 per-
sons was easily accommodated, and, il
necessary, more people could be placed
in the open garnet, generally reserved
| for storage purposes. Reverence for the
past and it's traditions may induce the
| house mistress to put her bed in such an
a1cove at first, but one nights expert
ence of its STIFFNESS usually suffices, es-
pecially as it is impossible to make the
| bed unless it is rolled out daily, for no
space was allowed for going about it.
However, the recesses meet the modern
requirements for closet room, and, re-
modelled with hooks and curtains, they
| fill what would otherwise be decided
need, since the only places prepared on
which to hang clothes are three hand
turned and extremely fat wooden pegs
placed between door and window in each
room, reminding one of Matthew Vas
sar's three pegs at the college, for bon
net, shawl and Sunday dress"
| So the modern housekeeper finds that
the unchanged, primitive home of the
early settler can be little more than
summer camp for people of to-day. She
returns to her city home with no feeling
of envy for those of noble birth whose
fate dooms them to live in ancestral
halls, centuries old, but with firm be-
| lief III the advance of the human race.
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Chili's open Harbor.

Eight thousand vessels, with ton
mage of 10000, 600, entered Valparaiso
harbor, Chill, during the last year. The
harbor is an open roadstead, giving alb
solutely no protection to ships, and its
water is too deep to permit the building
of breakwater Once in about seven
years storm from the north does great
damage by Bleaching vessels and destroys
4 hundred or more lives.