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The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20
Do You Want to
Buy a Farm?
go Acres

Located one mile from a good town of
about /, 200 inhabitants. Large eight-room
house. lathed and plastered; good cave;
well and cistern at the house. Two good
barns, one 56x70. built about IL years ago,
painted and in good repair; the other barn
is 60X6i, for hay and cattle, built two
years ago, also painted and in good re-
pair. Good granery, implement shed and
carriage house. The farm Is fenced and
cross-fenCed. feed yards fenced with WOW
EN- wire and gates are on hinges. Good
steel tanks in all feed yards. water sup
piled from good wells by windmill. The
land lays well. just rolling enough TO drain
without washing bitches. The land is in
a high state of cultivation. having been
used for grazing purposes for the last 10
years, the owner having been engaged in
raising thoroughbred cattle and hogs. A
large part of the place Is fenced hog-tight
and ii is all in tame grass at present eX-
cept about 40 acres which was in corn last
summer. There are about 200 tons OF hay
on the place now The farm has carried,
this year, 100 head of cattle. No timber or
waste land on the farm. Plenty of fruit.
This is considered one of the best farms in
Cass county and Csss county is one of the
best counties in Missouri. Remember this
farm is only about so miles from Kansas
City, a good railroad town of about 200
inhabitants and a school house located
less than one mile from the dwelling. II
this farm was located in Iowa or Illinois
1t would sell for over 500 per acre. 1t can
be bought. II taken soon. at SOS per acre.
Purchaser can secure a loan of 81 900. II
desired. for five years at 6 per cent annual
interest with option to pay 500 or any
multiple thereof any interest pay day.
1000 cash and balance March LIST. 1903.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Old pastures can be greatly improved
by an early spring disking and the
sowing of a little medium clover on
them. Blue grass on certain soils Of
ten gets hidebound, and nothing is so
good for it as to rip it all to pieces. 1t
can't be killed by such treatment, but
is always benefited.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20
Philosophical,

"Chills and fever must be a dis.
agreeable disease"
Il dunno, stranger. You see, in the
summer we has chills part OF the
time, and that keeps us cool, and in
this weather we has fever part of the
time, and that keeps us warm
Washington Times.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

A section of the West famous for
many years for it's great crops of on
ions, a crop of 400 or 500 bushels per
acrde being a common thing forty
years ago, now counts a crop of 1850
bushels per acre a good one, this fact
being in line with the well established
truth that no one crop can be produced
in large excess in any place and escape
the law of deterioration both in quanti-
ty and quality of crop.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Four hundred and fifty bright young
men farmers sons and their kind, at
tended the two weeks special course at
Ames, Iowa, Agricultural college this
winter, stock feeding and judging and
corn culture being taught by expert
enced men. This is the second year
this plan has been tried, and it is a
great success.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

A friend in Missouri writes us that
squirrels do not hoard up a supply of
nuts for the winter in any one place,
but bury them in the earth here and
there, where they are dug out as need
ed in winter. This is one of natures
cute ways of securing a distribution of
seed, the nuts thus scattered being CIV
en- just the right treatment to insure
their termination in the spring, the
squirrel not using them all for food.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Rye is not estimated at its true value
as a fall and early spring forage crop
up in the north country where the snow
falls. Sown on the cut cornfield in
September, then pastured till snow
comes again as soon as it disappears in
the spring it pays well even if the rem
ant is plowed under in May for other
crops. Grass seed sown On such a field
in March is almost invariably a sure
catch. This fall and spring rye pasture
is just the thing for the dairy COWS.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20
An Illinois reader wants to get a piece

Ar Illinois reader wants to get a piece
of corn land into pasture as quickly
as possible in the spring, and asks
how he had better do it. We would put
the land in the best possible shape
with either disk or pillow as soon as the
ground was fit to work, SOW two bush
els of oats, six quarts of timothy and
three of clover 10 the acre, and turn the
COWS in as soon as the oats were four
or five inches high. Along the last OF
June or as soon as the oats not fed off
got headed out | would run a mower
over the field, when the timothy and
clover would show up and make a good
pasture from then on.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20
Acres

Located within two miles OF a railroad
town, and five miles from Buuer, the
county seat of Bates county. Missouri.
One mile to school and church. The land
lays nice and level; good soil, fenced and
cross-fenced; good wells and springs, fine
orchard and all kinds of fruit; $50 acres in
cultivation and balance good tame grass.
Good house of five rooms, large barn and
a number of outbuildini 9. all in good re-
pair. This is a very desirable farm. Price
$40 per acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Everything in the cellar will keep
better if the temperature can be kept
just above the freezing point. Most
cellars are kept too warm and are too
poorly ventilated. When potatoes be-
gin to sprout, you may know that your
cellar is too warm.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Two cars of lemons en- route for the
East were caught in a blizzard. One car
was got out and run into a ~roundhouse,
where the lemons all froze: the other,
left on the track, was buried up in a
huge snovdrift, and never a lemon
froze.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

The best timothy hay is quoted at
$14 per ton in the larger cities this
winter. which price and the very large
yield of timothy in 1902 make the
growing of this crop a POTABLE bust
ness.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

The good milk cow is more than like
ly to be homely, as is the good brood
mare or brood SOW. Maternity and
beauty of form and appearance do not
go together in these cases.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Georgia is fast becoming the great
peach state of the union. Peaches pay
better than cotton, and as the growing
of fruit requires a higher order of in
te~lligence than the growing of fiber the
civilization of the state is benefited as
well as it's pocketbook.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Women are retaining some of the
abandoned farms of the Eastern states
by converting them into poultry and
fruit farms.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Poultry farming bids fair to pay
better hereafter than ever before, and
a pleasant and most profitable business
is within easy reach of any enterprising
man Or woman.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use
for their children during the teethine
period.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Six hundred Of the better class of
German citizens sat down recently to a
banquet. the meat dishes of the menu
being wholly horseflesh. 1t was got up
by the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, this society wish
ing to prove that the old horse was
better fattened for food than worked to
death.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

1t is much easier to train a we'll bred
horse, dog or boy than a scrub. Good
breeding implies superior intelligence.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

The care of the calf for the first year
largely determines its value al a beef
animal. 1t should never be anything
else than a miniature beef critter-al-
ways full, always fat.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

We find that it does not pay to try to
fruit the raspberry more than three or
four years. 1t is more profitable to dig
the old bushes up and set out new ones.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

The present secretary of agriculture
is a pronounced optimist and for that
he commands our sincere respect, for
optimists do something. see something
and stir up the better side of human
ity. He sees government irrigation,
once a dream now a reality, and the
growing of III own sugar to be sold to
the consumer at the low price of 2
cents a pound a practical possibility in
the near future.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

L. G. Emery, formerly employed in
the New Orleans mint, has gone to
China to assist in the introduction of
modern methods of stamping coins.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

One inducement for the old farmer
to retain his home on his farm Is the
great difference in the rate of taxation
which prevails between the country
districts and our modern municipali-
ties. The cost of municipal government
constantly increases. The tax on an av-
erage 20, 900 farm is say, $685., while the
city tax on the same amount of mon
eys and credits would not be far from
$500.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Forty-eight smart Indiana girls have
started for North Dakota in response
to the call of the 500 bachelors who are
holding down claims in that state and
want wives. This is more sensible than
organizing a woman's club.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Near Garrett, the county seat of Ander-
son county, Kansas, All bottom land ex-
cept about 30 acres where buildings are
located. Creek and timber on land. The
bottom Is all cleared and no better land
anywhere. Thirty acres timothy and SLOW
er meadow, Is acres alfalfa. Twenty acres
of clover plowed up last fall and put In
wheat; also 30 acres adjoining in wheat,
making 60 acres now in wheat, which 4, in
fine condition. The improvements are
good. House 2Ox32 with 20 #. studdlrg,
wing 16x36 with IA IT. studding: two large
porches, good cellar, good cistern and
pump on porch. House well painted and
insured for s., 500, Big horse barn, tool
house, chicken house, hog pens, % with
shingle roofs. Large hay barn with sheds
on each side. equipped with carriers and
room for machinery. Spring runs into a
trough breas.-high for stock, located be-
tween house n barns; water also runs
through cement trough for cooling milk.
etc. There is a tenant house of six rooms,
barn and sheds. The alfalfa will pasture
two heed of cattle eight months each year.
Price $50 per acre. For further informal
ton address C. o. HALL, Agent.
Creston. Iowa.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

A Northern man who moved to Ar
kansas five years ago with very limited
means writes us extolling the advan-
tages of that country as a home for the
poor man. He says that land of good,
fair quality can be obtained as low as
S. per acre, that 10 colored people are
to be found in the county, that fruit
of all kinds does exceedingly we'll, that
the health of the people is unusually
good and that the great need of the
South is the incoming of energetic, live
Northern farmers to develop its splen-
did possibilities.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

The congressman are sending out
their allotment of seeds to their gran
ger constituents. Just the same old
farce as ever.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Canada's spruce forests will furnish
the printing paper for America for
years and years to come.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Men make money where 1t takes ten
acres to feed m steer, but it is not a
pleasant country to do business in.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

That durbar flummididdle business
cost the people Of India over SIS, 900, 900,
and when the next short crop comes,
which is about every fifth year, they
will be passing the hat-iust like some
white men who can find money to go to
the circus even if they are living on
public charity.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20
SO Acres
$50 Acres

Near railroad town and about ten miles
from county seat of Clarke county, Iowa.
Two hundred acres nice level land, bal
ance gently rolling. Farm well improved.
improvements worth over IS 900. The farm
Is fenced into several fields and pastures.
Abundance of water, which is pumped by
windmills into tanks in every field on tho
farm. School hous within one-half mile,
church three miles. Price A5 per acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

We hate to see a fine farm homestead
disfigured by advertising-some fake
medicine or clothing ad. displayed on
the roof of the barn or corncrib. Such
ads. are a sure sign to fakirs and ped
dler sharks that a sucker lives there.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Consolidation in the alleged interest
of economy of operation can be carried
too far, the failure of the Elgin Cream
cry company, with 5000 farmer patrons
settling at 40 cents on the dollar its
300, 900 obligations being an instance.
Stick to your home organizations.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

$50 Acres
Near Clarence, Shelby county. Missouri.
Well improved. good house and barns,
fenced and cross-fenced. Good grain and
stock farm. Price s5 per acre.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20

Does it pay to put a lightning rod
on the barn." we are asked. Frankly,
we do not know. Figures for 1902 show
that in a Western state fifty odd barns
were struck by lightning and that none
of these were rOdded. Then there were
thousands of barns not rodded which
were not struck either. Theoretically If
the rod is of the right sort and is prop
erly put up it should form a protection,
but when the points glisten on the roof
and the earth connection is defective
or destroyed 1t is a standing invitation
to Jove to drop a bolt and smite the
property of a fool. We have more faith
in a good insurance policy than in a
lightning rod.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-02-20
We want to say a word about the

We want to say a word about the
morality and patriotism connected
with the payment of small obligations.
We have found in our experience that
it is easier to collect $50 from some
people than it is the paltry sum of half
a dollar. A mans credit in the COM
munity in which he lives is largely de-
termined by the fidelity and prompt
ness with which he meets his small
obligations. This applies with special
force in the case of men with limited
means to whom a creditable financial
rating to the extent of their ability is
often of the very greatest value.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09
Butter.
Eggs.

EErs. fresh. csse cnt. per duz ~
Eggs. fresh loss on per duz "a
April storage. per doa...... 900 81
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09
EDISON MAKES
PREDICTIONS

New York. Jan. a.-Thumas A. Edi.
son. the great Inventor and Wizard Of
MEMO Park In a s,a,emcn; made Ncw
Years Day. said the coming year would
practically annIhiIa,o space and time
so far as communication between the
people os the earth vas concerned.
The horse as a beas; of ;raf1c would
disappear. the steam locomotive would
be a back number. while wireless tel
ezraphy would be sucress. In aidi-
,ion TO all this. medicine would give
way TO surgery and diet. u no, during
the year. at iess; In a comparatively
short time. His new year prediction
was full Of promise for the scientists
and the people.
Il look for wonderful year" said
the wizard. as he surveyed his sur
rpundiues. There il more activity in
science than there has ever been before
more men are working on bic pro-
iects. and great discoveries would only
be natural.
Il exyect 10 sec electricity suppian,
steam as motive power. In fifteen
years electricity viii bn N" railway no
tive puvur-ig03 will advance IL In
that direction.
For myself. my storage battery. on
which have worked for four years.
will ba nut on the market In January.
I, solves the traction problem. and lie
introduction means that the horse will
have TO go.
The wireless telegraph ! assuredly
expect 10 sec perfected for commercial
purposes-if not fully so in 1903. a,
least far advanced toward that end.
Il expect 20 give up practical inven-
tion for two years. ] am going to ex-
periment-goine 10 delve In some prob
lems that I have put by for an idle
time-and for once ] am going TO work
without having the production ct
commercial commodity in view. I am
going into the by-vays Of science"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09
Cooperation By ,se steel Trust.

Snw York. Jan. lin double cir
c,ilar. one TO the stockholders and to
the officers and employees. the United
states Steel Corporation announces It's
intention to inauEurs,e system
whereby the humbiest workman Of its
rolls may. II he desires. become a per-
manent stockholder and share in the
profits Of the corporation.
The plan inviting officers and en-
ployes to participate Is divided into
Two parts. Part one pTescribes that
from the earnings OF the corporation
during the year 1909 there will have
been set aside at leas, f2.Ooo.0V0 and as
much more as is needed for the pur-
chase Of at least 5000 shares Of pre-
ferred stock. which will be offered to
the lss.eJ1 employees of the corporation
and constituent companies. who are di-
vided into six classes. each Of which
may devote a percentage of salary TO
purchase of stock below to-day's quota
tions and providing earnings give a
certain profit will have a certain
amour, of stock assigned TO him. TO be
paid for out of fund set aside from
the profits. the free stock TO be deiiv-
cred to him OF his heirs u he continues
In the service Of the corporation at the
end OF FIVE years.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09
THOUSANDS WILL.
SEE COLORADO

Denver. Jan. 5-Thoueh July 9th IL
the date sn' for the opening of tho Ma
tional Christian Endsasor ConvuntIon
In DcnSrr there vas great enthusiasm
a, the nrs, preliminary meeting. which
was held Thursday night a, the Cent
trail Christian Church. Tho church vas
decorated with red and white bunting
and placaTtis of the coming convention
uerc hung about. Though there vas a
short musical program. the object os
the meeting vas to arouse the interest
Of the Denver branch Of the society in
the preparations which are nov we'll
under way for the coming convention.
e. y. Eberman. field secretary Of tho
National Society. was the principal
speaker of the evening lie said that
the coming year should BE- one of pros
pcriiy In Denver because the eyes OF
the Christian world would be centcred
upon u, lie expected great spiritual
uphravai In this city In speaking Of
the growth Of the society Mr. Eberman
said; 4 wish could take with me some
uf the pessimists whU think that the
Christian EBdtavor has seen its best
days"
y. y Clark. president Of the United
Societies Uf Christian Endeavur. has
predicted that the convention will 10
attended by at least 2s.oC9 delegates.
The finance COMMITTEES expects TO
raise $4,000 for an entertainment fund.
a committee on arrangements is now
looking about for a site for pitching
the tents in which the meetings are to
be held.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09
Murder Mystery in Denver.

Denver. Jan. 3.-Eithsr a shockins
hoax has been perpetrated or the body
uf baby was burned to ashes in
the boilerroom Of the Brown Palace
hotel on the night of last December
10th. W. c. Hughes Of No. 2121 Stout
street. helper to one Of the firemen
at the hotel. who was arrested yester.
day afternoon. told the police that at
1880 O'Clock on the night of Decem-
ber 18th two men placed a package
in one Of the furnaces in the boiler
room. while he was there alone. Fif-
teen minutes later. he said. he opened
the door Of the furnace and saw lying
on its back on the Goals. near the
mouth Of the furnace. the body Of a
baby. The men had laushinEly told
him that the package contained lit
tie girls body. but he had supposed
then they were joking.
lie told the occurrence TO the two
iremen who came on duty at II
O'Clock. They say that they saw the
body only partly burned. lying just
inside the furnace door.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09

Denver. Jan. ga News special
from Silverton last night says:
-. II. Robin Is missing and the bank
10 closed" A. II. Mundee. cashier OF
the Bank OF Silyerton. pasted this no.
tice on the door OF the bank this MORN
Ing. The Bank OF Siiverton. OF which
J. II. Robin IL president and A. ii.
lMundee. cashier. closed It's doors this
morning under circumstances peculiar
and distressing. Liabilities are report
ed at 100000. assets unknown. The
town was thrown into intense excite
ment and soon crowd surrounded the
bank and requested that Cashier Nun
dee refund their money. threatening
vengeance In many ways. Cashier
Mundee made the following statement:
Since last evening about Z o'clock
Mr. Robin has not been seen and as his
apartments have not been occupied
and no trace can be found OF him his
action caused me to think he has be-
come deranged or has probably COM
mitted suicide. hope neither In fact.
but owln. to his strange actions the
past week and my position In the
bank ! closed tho doors. awaiting de-
yciopmcnts"
Mr.. Mundec Is cxoncrntcd from any
knowied.. Of any possible dishonesty
by tho creditors. Al his request n
meeting Of III. creditors present In be-
In. held for III. purpose of nppoln,in.
cof,mitisc Of three to examine the
books and count the money In the
vault. which Mr.. Mund-- states was
not disturbed To his knowledge when
he opened III. hank this morning.
Mfa. Neiii. Tuiiy Cunningham.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-01-09
MISSISSIPPI POSTOFFICE IS
CLOSED BY RACE PREJUDICE

Washington. Jan. i.-Th- feature Of
IN. Cabinet meeting yesterday was the
decision to eioap permanently the pnzi-
once at indlanala. Mississippi. from
which the postmaster. Minnie ". Coz.
icoioTrsil. resigned under compilation a
Ic~ days ago. since which time the Of
iier has b-rn eiosri The hondslnnn
have brought the matter io the a'tra-
lion Of tho authorities hrg- with the
sluw to brinE relieved a. tho Trsponzi-
bslity of tho accumulated nail.
Secretary cuu.iyoa. for the pFvai.
dent. made public tho following:
The postmaster al lnhlauola. Mis-
sissIppI. IL Mis- Minnie ". Cox. n
coiorrd uuHsa. Ghr served three years
as postmaster under I'rusid-nt IiAF-
Fisoa. When President McNInirY came
in sho vas again appointed In 1857.
nearly sis years aEo, li-r character
and standing in the community aE- -n-
dorsssi by IN. bcs, and ssos, reputable
people In the town.
''Amons ,hnsr on her bond ia the
prcsrat Democratic state senator frusn
tho district. toershcr with the leading
tanker of indianals and an cy-siair
senator from the district. ais" Dem
orraf. The postmaster and her hus.
hand own frutn tio.ssc To tis. s.oss worth
Of property In Hunnoscr county. The
reports Of pusio'fics Inspectors Who
have Investigated the Once frutn time
To time shop ,ha, sh- has given the
utmost satisfaction tn all patrons uf
the once. She al all times was court
cots. faithful. cpmpriens and honest IN
the discharge af her duty. Her moral
standing in the community is Of the
highest. her rsps;a,Inn Is of th" best.
few oficrs of this grade in any state
arc conducted better.