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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
The Cost and the Profit.

Profit depends upon circumstances.
The hen that lays the largest number
of eggs does not always give the great
est profit. One dozen eggs in winter,
at 30 cents a dozen, permits of a
greater profit than two dozen when
eggs are Is cents a dozen. The sum
derived is the same, but it costs less
to produce one dozen eggs than it does
to produce two dozen, and although
the same amount, of money is received
in both cases, yet the profit is not
what is derived in the gross sum, but
that which is produced above the cost;
hence, hen is profitable according to
the season during which she lays the
greatest number, and the prices OBJ
tanned therefor. In summer, how
ever, the eggs may cost nothing if the
hens are on range.-Farm and Fire
side
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GOOD ROADS IN JERSEY.
State and Counties Building Them at
the Rate of One Hundred and
Fifty Miles Year.

Good-road building is probably
making greater progress in New Jer-
sey than in any other state in the
union. Ten years ago the legislature
passed state aid bill permitting
each county to spend on road inn
provement an amount equal to one
fourth of one per cent. of its rata
bic property.
In the following year four counties
out of the 20 in the state built to-
gether nearly rs miles of road. Last
year II counties built their quota of
roads, completing during the year
nearly 156 miles of sound, level high
ways.
Since the passage of the act more
than $1,250,000 of the states money
has been spent on goodroad build
ing and more than 700 miles of road
ways have been constructed under
the most approved modern methods.
The work is so popular that there is
a demand to double the amount per-
mitted to be expended on the roads
under the law. The last legislature
increased the states contribution
from $150,0O0 to $250,000 and the
counties met this with their own ap-
preparations.
At present petitions to build $50
more miles of roads, at an estimated
cost of 2,4O4S51. are on file and, pro-
vided the state appropriation is lib
eral enough to meet the amount ex-
pended by the counties, in a few
years ali the leading roads can be
covered with gravel and stone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09

Jones, just back from the frozer
north, was unpacl1ing his trunk ant
his imagination in the preserce Of
his family.
'The last week that I was there,
he said, carelessly holding ZIP a Their
mometer as he spoke, ''this stood al
40 degrees below zero"
Jones' brother, wag, and some
thing of a doctor, took slender
glass tube out of his waistcoat
pocket.
"And this" he said, coolly, 'ha'
been successfully used to determine
the temperature of lady bachelor
of arts"
"There is something in degrees
after all" their father remarked, will
gracious glance that included ,
freshman and an undergraduate
daughter.-Youth's Companion.
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Detroit Tribune.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Kitty-"I had a proposal of mar
riage last night" Nell-"What date
have you fixed on for the wedding?"
-Somerville Journal.
Knew the Cook-Gunner-''I hear
that you recommended your cook to
Waterman. Did you do it as
favor?" mo as a grudge. "-Chicago
Daily News.
Railroad took off his leg" eyes,
and so Providential!" "Providen-
tial?" That's what 1t was the leg
with the rheumatism in it!"-Atlanta
Constitution.
Her RepIy.-"What kind of cake do
you prefer. Miss Kittish?" asked Mr..
Fosdick, as he handed the tray, which
held quite a variety. wedding cake, .
she replied. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Free
Press.
What Did He Observation-Disclosures
"Ah, I saw you in one of the boxes
last night. How did you like my as
sumption of Hamlet?" Criticus-
''Let me congratulate you, old man.
1t was the greatest piece of assump-
ton I ever saw."-Chicago Daily
News.
Aunt Grace-'I suppose. Jimmy,
you've quite made up your mind what
you are going to be when you are
MANI" Jimmy-"Yes, Auntie Grace
When I'm a man. I'll be either
with great determinations lion
tanner or train conductor
Punch.
Musician-''I don't suppose you
heard what I was playing last even
ing-you and the others kept up such
chatter" One of the Chatterers-
''No; but then / don't suppose you
heard what we were talking about;
so I guess you lost more than we
did Boston Transcript.
He'd Go Farther.-"If ] were TO
leave YOU a dollar" said the charlta-
BILE visitor. "what assurance have l
that you won't spend it in the near
est saloon?" because, ma'am," re-
piled the father of the deserving fam
ily, eff / took dollar in there 1
wouldn't get any change. There's too
much on the slate agin me."-Ph1la-
delphia Press.
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Bellfiower, Mo-, July 6th.-Mr. G. v.
Bohrer, of this place, has written az
open letter to the old men and women
of the country, advising them to use
Dodd's Kidney Pills as remedy for
those forms Of Kidney trouble so COM
mon among the aged. Mr.. Bohrer says:
Il suffered myself for years with my
Kidneys and urinary organs | was
obliged to get up as many as seven or
eight times during the night.
Il tried many things with no success,
till / saw one of Dodd's Almanacs, and
read of what Dodd's Kidney Pills were
doing for old people.
Il bought two boxes from one drug
gist, and began to use them at once In
very short time l was we'll This is
over a year ago, and my trouble has not
returned, so that | know my cure was
good. genuine, permanent one.
Il believe Dodd's Kidney Pills are a
splendid, medicine for old people or any
one suffering with Kidney and urinary
troubles, for although L am S4 years of
age, they have made me WE'LL
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-07-09
THE FARMER DAIRYMAN.
III He Raises His own Feed He Ca
Make His Cows Pay "a Hand
some Profit.

Perhaps nine-tenths of the dairy
products. of this country are pro
duced from farms where dairying is
but one of several branches of agri-
culture carried on, and it is best that
this should be so, for mixed farming
is the most profitable system, and
dairying in connection with the
growing of field crops and other
stock is best for the land as well as
and Creamery.
There are farms in this country
which have actually been impover-
ished and very much reduced in value
because for long series of years
cows have been kept on them and
the milk from them sold to cities OF
condensing factories or taken off the
farm for some other purpose.
There is a vast difference between
selling the butter fat to a creamery
and returning the skim-milll to the
farm and selling the whole milk.
But very little fertility is taken of;
the farm when butter alone is sold.
The butter is produced from sun and
air, the elements being taken up by
growing plants and transformed into
feed for the cows and then returned
in the way of butter fat.
The mineral elements in the milk
and the nitrogen in it in the shaps
of protein are the things we want to
keep on the farm, and but trifiing
Of nv
when butter fat alone is sold.
The farmer who keeps a few cows
and raises his own feed is the one
who gets the best price for his feed
and the most money from \his cows,
providing he sells only the butter fat.
This being true, it follows that
every such dairy farm should plan
to produce on his own farm as large
a quantity of the best feed he can,
and the capacity of the farm will in
crease in the course of years in ex-
actly the same ratio that the farmer
takes advantage of the means at his
command to make his farm more fer
| tile and his crops greater.
! We have not yet reached that
looked for period when we can keep
cow on every acre of land but it
is entirely within the limits of posi-
bility to do this.
The land should be drained. The
| farmer who has a well-drained farm
is, to large extent, independent
of abnormal weather conditions
whether it be too wet or to dry
Well-drained land produces a better
crop in any kind of year than does
land not drained
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

England has Only 25 paint and col
or factories.
The world now uses just over 1000
tons of cork yearly.
There are 497 tobacco manufacto-
ries in Great Britain.
Fighty-seven per cent. of the tim
Der England imports consists of pine
and fir.
Leather waste is now being used III
a compressed form for cogwheels in
place of cast iron.
Timber and lumber costing $4,000
900 has been used in the preparatory
work in the New York rapid transit
tunnel.
A Paris engineer has invented an
electric sprinkler that will water ten
miles of streets an hour. 1t will cost
So 900.
Reindeer have been found around
the Telezkojt lake in Siberia. This
lake is in the same latitude as Paris
and reindeer have never before been
seen so far south.
A French writer explains that when
the Japenese grow dwarf trees they
simply do what nature herself does
in bleak shores, high mountains and
other barren spots.
Colorado to-day cultivates about
100000 acres of land, and has nearly
$4,000 miles of irrigating canals and
bitches. It's agricultural products ex-
coed by far the mineral.
1t is usually imagined that the in
candescent electric light gives out
very little heat. AS matter of fact,
only six per cent. of its energy goes
to make light, while ga goes into heat
A writer in Power tells us that in
the best steam engines only six to 10
per cent of the coal burned actually
produces power that can be used;
the rest is a dead loss. Where does
1t go? To begin with, % per cent
flies up the chimney in smoke; five
per cent. is wasted by radiant heat
from the boiler; one per cent. drops
through the CRATE; ten per cent. is
consumed in pumping water into the
boiler, while 81 per cent. goes OFF IN
steam after passing through the en-
CINE. The rest is accounted for by
leaks and waste heat.
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Harvesting the Hay Crop.

It is a very desirable thing to be
able to haul all the hay into the barn
the same day it is cut. The worri-
ment and anxiety consequent upon
the liability of storm before morn
ing are thus avoided. and experience
has taught that hay having no more
than three or four hours sun will
come out in the spring perfectly
sweet and in fine condition for the
cattle. In adopting this plan it is
well to keep the hay constantly
stirred with a tedder. There has long
been a fear of putting hay into the
barn that contains noticeable
amount of water, but if it is proper
ly packed by being evenly distributed
over the NOW, each fOrkful trodden
upon and the barn kept closed as
much as possible the result will prob
ably be very gratifying.
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AUTO DOING DUTY AS PUMP.

Waters, of Hartford, Conn, turned
his auto into a pump.
Mr.. Waters stationary engine at
tached to the water supply was
broken mysteriously just at time
of day when large quantity of wa
ter was required to satisfy the thirst
of his cattle. To repair the engine
would take several days, and Mr.. Wa
tiers needed a substitute at once.
In his emergency he backed his au-
tomoble up to the well-house, ele-
waited the rear wheels clear of the
ground, affixed a belt, and applied the
juice.
Answer: Plenty of water, satisfied
cattle, and contented farmer.
And yet some people think an auto
has no good use.-Chicago Journal
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Milk Exposed to Odors.

Besides bad lamentations, there is
another cause of poorly favored but
ter, says Oscar Err. This comes from
cream or milk having been exposed to
foul doors, which are absorbed and
given to the butter. The theory that
milk does not absorb odors when
warm and cooling has long been
abandoned. Experiments show that
milk in that condition is even more
susceptible to odor than in any other
state. In the ripening process this
odor can be partly eliminated by
aeration or by pasteurization of the
cream, but in case of bad fermenta-
ton some antagonistic germ must be
added in order to check the progress
of the undesirable one. This antag-
onistic fermentation is commonly
known as a starter. and if properly
prepared contains the right kind of
flavor producing bacteria.
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Failure in Credit Habit.

Generally speaking, the credit sys-
tenn is a system of business that a
farmer should view with as much
dread as he does a case of bubonic
plague. In fact, it is a worse dis
ease, for the plague kills him out
right, while the disease contracted
by buying on credit kills him by de-
grees and keeps him in torture all
his life. ''But," says some farmer, Il
haven't got any money, and I have
to-" And in reply say that if you
have to, and do buy on credit this
year you viii be placed in condi-
ton that viii necessitate your buy
ing on credit rext year and proba-
bly, the next 40 years if you don't
fret yourself to death about your
debts before that timer. III. Scott,
in Farm and Home.
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ug STORY !. !. TEIasg
vAGABoNO BOB.
IAN incident Of the Kansas city hood)

Gan incident Of the Kansas City fiood)
Bob was vagabond If you had seen
The limp of his legs and the lay of his fur,
His gaunt, yellow body, disgracefully lean.
You had vowed he was only vagabond
cur.
The torrent swept down on world I'M
aware;
And women and children and men were
his prey;
And Death was his brother, VINO "a4keU
everywhere,
And the faces of mortals were white with
dismay.
A babe in a cradle was rocked to and fro,
Tossed hither and thither mid fotsam
and wreck,
with only grim Death and the angels to
A mariner wee on pitiful deck.
with only grim Death and the angels?
Not So
On a mound over yonder vagabond cur
Heard the wall of the babe, like the sum-
mons of woe.
And the spirit Of heroes in him was astir.
Now, vagabond Bob, now. outcast-what
now?
The chasm is wide by the mad current
torn,
And rescue's bark with Death at the
Still over the waters that waiting is borne.
/ think that he shlvered one moment in
dread;
think that he doubted ere outward he
sprung
See now in the current the vagabond head,
The debris, the fotsam, the wreckage
among.
He reached her! He saved her! No mortal
had known
How long was the struggle. how cruelty
hard;
But the rescuers found them. the two waits
alone,
And the babe was asleep, and Bob was on
guard
Alfred J Waterhouse in N. Y. Times.
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New wheat Fields in Southwest.

What would YOU think if told that the
unirrigated sections of Western Kansas,
Eastern Colorado and Panhandle of Texas
can be counted on to produce 50,000,000
bushels of wheat annually? Yet that il
what government official predicts with
reference to new variety of that cereal
imported from Russia, known as maca-
roni wheat. Recent experiments, as re-
ported to the industrial department of
the Santa Fe, show that this plant flour
lshes best where the rainfall is less than
Is inches a year. The yield per acre is
equal to that of ordinary wheat, and the
price received is about the same
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Drain All swampy Places.

That swamp ought to be drained
In its present state it breeds both
malaria and the mosquitoes to carry
the malaria and vaccinate you and
YOUR family. Drained, it would prob
ably become valuable. either as a
source of muck, valuable TO use on
your fields, or az rich expanse OF
tiIIable land. Drain at once. Trans
form it from an eyesore and a pest
hole to a valuable and attractive
area-Midland Farmer.
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What He C0uId Do.

A son of the Emerald isle, just over
was being examined orally by a po-
lice captain to whom he had applied
for a position on the force. Without
a smile the captain, himself an Irish
man, said: "What is the first thing
YOU would do if citizen should ask
you, as a policeman, on ST. Patrick 5
day, if you were an Orangeman?
'The first thing? Well, the second
would be to bundle the remains into
an ambulance Chicago Chronicle.
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AmerIcn,s summer Re.ort..

When it begins to get hot and dry ones
thoughts naturally turn toward the lakes
and rivers and the seashore of New York
and New England, and we begin to wonder
how much it would require Of time and
money to make the trip. A lot Of these
questions are answered and o lot of infor-
nation given free in "Four-TraclS Series
No 8, "Americas Summer Resorts" Sent
on receipt of a two-cept stamp, by George
H. Daniels, General Passenger Agent, New
York Central az Hudson River Railroad,
Grand Central Station, New Xork.
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money politics. and the third TO De goo OS
when boy goodness he needs sharp watching but when
bow really good thing the world OF these three
bows the first became richest America The second
great politician The third perhaps the greatest OF
preachers When the rich man and the politician deo no
but when the preacher Bishop
Phillips money from all the land Tor the cree
of a memorial
be honest. little lad VINO tell out
of he'd one NIGHT explained that the
people keep close the edge aud tall out
The child expects of his elders consistency One day
happened from bag of on grocer
giving little girl When had lett the store the
child asked
Did the groceryman give you the corn?"
mo" said.
did you buy it?
NO. admitted.
did you eA it?"
way my pdcament but to go back 70 the
shop bag and back the had taken
One thing would the boy in the church: BE EN-
THUSIASTIC. WHILE YOU. WORK, WORK HEARTILY.
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Summer Tours.

IF you have not decided where to go, or
how to go, don't fail to get copy. II 8
certainly worth sending for, and reading
carefully after you get it. 1t tells all about
the pleasant places on the, Michigan Cen
land resorts. Send two red stamps. Adj
dress 0. W. Ruggles, G. P. & L. A, Dept.
Adv'g, Chicago.
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Would Come In Handy.

Dooley-Arrah! thot ould miser,
Kerrigan, wor always layin' up his dol
lars fer rainy day, an now he's dead
Mrs. Dooley-Yis. Oil bet he's
wishin' now he'd laid up few rainy
days inshtid av tn dollars.-Judge.
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UNIQUE YANKEE NOTION.
Thrifty Connecticut Farmer Makes
Automobile Do Service
Farm Pump.

That the typical ''down east" yam
kee is a hard man to down has long
been generally understood, but was
perhaps never better demonstrated
than by the manner in which Andrew
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Precious Girls.

Beryl-Yes, l know the count is very
sincere in his attentions to me. How
can you say he is triher?
Sibyl-l know that he loves you, dear
and that is why | say he pays undue at
tention to trifes.-Baltimor Herald.
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"Shall l administer gas before extract
ing your tooth" asked the dentist
''Well, answered the fair patient from
back township, eff it doesn't cost any
more, I'd rather you'd give me electric
light. "-Chicdgo Daily News.
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The ChnnEe.

"He used TO kiss me every time we
passed through a tunnel before our mar
rage, said the little woman, with sad
reflections.
"And does he do so now" asked the
bosom friend.
mo, he takes drink" = Chicago Daily
News
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Tie Bow W/ho Goes 10 ChMrch
By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY
the Freedom Of the Blades Are Out and Loves

The boy who goes to church must first learn
reverence. When I was naval cadet, one day while
the vessel on which l served was cruising off Hall
fax, Nova Scotia man fell overheard Much to
my surprise, the captains first order was not, as
expected, to stop the ship, but:
''Silence fore and aft!'
In worship the first requirement is to keep
silence before the Lord.
The boy who goes to church should begin
early. There is story of three lads who decided
early what they wished to do. One wanted to get
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get the reputa ion for being such bore?
Mrs. Barkey-She tried the experiment Of
making it point never to say anything but
good of anyone behind their back.-Brook-
iyn Eagle
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POST LIFTING MADE EASY.

FOoT LII MAIZE L.
vice for lifting and removing posts.
Hook the chain around the post and
the other end over the end of the
bar, taking a short purchase, and then
pull down as indicated by the arrow
Farm and Home.
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Butter Making a Science.

Within recent years many changes
have. taken place in butter making. 1t
was formerly supposed that most any
one who was neat and tidy could make
good butter. Since Investigations have
been pursued along scientific lines we
find that it requires skilled labor, says
Stockman and Farmer. The men who
are pursuing dairying at our schools
now are possibly % per cent: in adj
vance both in education and skill of
the students who took dairy work
seven or eight years ago. As we look
the country over we find the people
who have become famous in the dairy
world are men of unusual intelligence,
who would undoubtedly have made Il
success in most any other line of bust
ness.
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The more conspicuously the jewel of CON
sstency is worn the more likely it is to be
paste.-Indianapofts News.
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One pugilst seldom strikes another favor
aby.-Phlladelp Record.
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Whenever good grammarian finds good
error in its construction. -Atchison Globe
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Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
Ave, NJ, Minneapolis. MINI, Jan. 8, 1900.
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HOW TO LIFT POSTS.
AM Easy Thing to Do, Provided One
Knows just How to Tackle
the Work.

A cxowbar, chain and two-foot piece
OK joist as shown in the illustration
make an excellent and convenient de-
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Lime ms an Insecticide.

Lime is in general use as fertilizer,
and to a limited extent, also, as an in
secticide. Testimony as to it's value is
conflicting, and this is due to its con-
dition when applied. Lime as an in
secticide ought to be in the form of a
dry hydrate. To shell lime or lime
stone just enough water is to be added
to Stake; then sift through mod
erately fine sieve and dust on the in
sects when they are wet. Only soft
bodied insects can be reached by this
substance, and the application must
be made so that the caustic properties
of the lime may have chance. The
larvae of the potato beetle and as
paragus beetle are good subjects, and
the testimony of its effectiveness on
the cabbage worm is not wanting.
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