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Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
THE FARMERS WORkDAY.

There is being a great deal said
these days about eight hours being
long enough for any days work, and
while the claim made may properly
apply to mining and manufacturing
the system cannot be made a success
on either the railroad or the farm.
The growing season of all the cereal
producing sections of the United
States is at best very short, nature
working twenty-four hours day, and
this comDeis more than eight hours
work in twenty-four of any man en-
gagged in agriculture. The well-defined
hours of labor possible in all manu-.
featuring enterprises are simply i'm.
possible on the farm. for it not infre-
quently happens that man must do
two days work in one or else be
simply buried up by his work. In an
ordinary way, when things are not
crowding on the farm, a days work
of ten hours will do, but nothing less.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
POULTRY NOTES.

Crude carbolic acid spread on the in
mites.
Taking everything into considera-
ton the Plymouth Rock is the best
fowl for all-round use.
Mix equal parts of lard and coal
oil and rub on the heads of little
chickens to kill lice on them.
Charcoal is highly recommended for
fowls. Put it where they can get it,
and they will do the rest.
Cholera can be prevented by putting
ten drops of sulphuric acid into gal
lon of water twice a week.
An abnormally dark comb indicates
that the food is disagreeing with the
fowl, and that there is indigestion.
If corn, oats, bucllwheat, or any
other grain is fed, there should be a
mixture of wheat, bran, as the grain
alone is too heavy.
A writer says that fowls kept in
yards of moderate size suffer less
from disease, and lay more eggs than
those on free range.
Anything that brings in cash re-
turns before AMI after the regular
crop is a wonderful help to the farm
er. This is just what the hen does.
No place can be found more con-
genial to poultry than the plum or
chard. They enrich the soil, and the
plums feed them and give them
| shade.
Whenever dozen eggs, says the
| Farm Journal, sells for the price of a
| pound of butter, the man with the
hens is ahead OF the man with the
COW.
Unless fowls have plenty of ventila.
| ton when they roost, especially in
the summer time, the houses will soon
| smell terrific and the fowls become
| diseased.
There is a constantly increasing de
mand for good poultry in the cities
There would be little trouble for q
farmer to sell chickens by the hun
dred instead Of by the dozen.
During this month and next watch
| the white mustard. 1t is one of the
most pernicious weeds we have, al
| lowing the definition that "a weed is
a plant out of it's place" We have
noticed lately crops of grain almost
choked out by mustard and at some
| points in this country it has about
taken the road. 1t certainly reflects
anything but credit on the owners oi
farms adjoining such roads.
We know CT no secret method tC
apply toward the destruction of thi:
weed, but it is an annual and car
be easily destroyed and kept in checl
by moving the roads just before the
plant seeds. To those who have haC
but little experience with the mustard
plant would advise to watch and keeI
every plant out of their place anC
along roads, as they are not in posi-
ton to fully realize the seriousness.
Of the mustard pest when it once i:
established.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
MiNERS CARRY GREAT WEIGHTS
Strength of ChIeans Sustained Will
out Meat Diet.


Perhaps the greatest weights borne
for any distance are the loads of ore.
brought up from the mines of the An
des by the miners of Chile.
Darwin visited a copper mi--o in a
ravine leading from the main range o.
the Cordilleras, where the work was
carried on by such primitive means
that, though the mines had been
worked in the mountains for at least
two centuries, the water was removed
in some by carrying it up shafts in
leather bags on mems backs.
Sir Francis Head, when visiting a
similar mine, found that all the ore
was carried up to the surface, ve'.
tical climb of 450 feet, by the miners,
and that the average weight carried
was $50 pounds. This load was not
carried up winding stair, but up,
notched trunks of trees, set almost
upright, one touching another.
The food of the Chilean miner, ac
cording to Darwin, consisted of ratious
of sixteen figs and two small loaves OF
bread for breakfast; for dinner boiled
beans; for supper wheat crushed and
roasted. They scarcely ever tasteI
meat.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
FARMING BY GUESS, OR ON
PAPER.

The man who has worked out farm
ing to a fine point-on paper-says
there is no such thing as farming by
guess with the man who is not trav-
cling in a rut. They say the up-to-
date farmer knows just what to do
and when to do 1t. In other words, he
is a perfect master of any and all
things pertaining to farming.
We will admit that the more man
knows about things in general the
more he knows about things in partic-
ular, but there are some things about
farming-actual farming-that man
may know very well how to do, but
studying until he is gray-headed will
not tell him when to do it. This is
what we mean by farming by guess.
We all have to do it. For instance,
we know that freshly plowed ground
holds the moisture longer If narrowed
as soon as possible after it is turned
over, and if we knew it was not go
ing to rain for half dozen moons we
would get to work and harrow, but
this we do not know. II we did har'
row and there should come big rain
three DAYS after, we would have all
the work to do over again, and that
would be doing the first narrowing
for nothing.
There are many other things about
our work that we know well enough
how to do, but We don't know when
to do them. This is what we cal
farming by guess, and we have got tc
do it, the Office farmer or the sure
shot" weather prophet to the con
trary Notwithstanding.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
MOT QUITE THE SAME THING
[ title Grace Meant We'll, But Her Sub
sttute Was Not Welcome.

Grace is 4 years old, and has just
begun her religious education in the
infant class of the Sunday school. 1t
is custom of the teacher of this par
ticular infant class to give each OF her
pupils card containing q short text
which the child is expected to memo
rize during the week. In passing
them out she charged each of the
children to be sure to keep them care
fully and return them the next Sun.
day, that they might be passed on to
the other.
Grace is not a very careful little
girl, and though fully impressed with
the duty of returning the card, she
neglected to put it in place Of safety.
and even before she had reached home
she discovered that she had lost it.
The thought worried her considerably
at first, until a bright idea came into
her head, and, strange to relate, IL
stayed there all the week.
She said nothing to her mother
about the lost card, and the next Sun.
day went off to Sunday school happy
as usual. The infant class assembled
and the teacher called on the children
to return their cards. When it came
Grace's turn, she arose and said, tim
idly: II am sorry, but | lost my card
before l got home. Papa gave me one
to play with, and I've brought you
that It's lots prettier than the one
! lost" And she placed it with the
rest.
The young woman who was teach
ing the infant class stared in mute as
tonishment, while several unregener.
ate adults in different parts Of the
classroom bit their lips to keep from
| laughing.
The card which Grace had rendered
was a somewhat dilapidated queen OF
| hearts.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
Watermelon Syrup.

In York county, Virginia, they are
making watermelon syrup, which is
said to be rich and soft in taste, and
as good as it sounds. The south sends
the earliest watermelons away She
can by no means eat all the later and
best. Inevitably, there is great waste
of watermelons. Watermelon syruhS
watermelon sugar; there is new in.
dustry in the bud. II the flavor of
watermelon syrup is as happy as it is
painted maple syrup will have to look
to it's laurels. Besides, it is getting
harder every year. in the cities at
least, to get genuine maple syrup
With the Procession, Everybody's
Magazine.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
Time to Quit.

At the unveiling ceremony of tho
famous Bartholdi statue the clergy
man who offered the opening prayer
was inclined to spin out his petition.
Gen. Sherman was sitting beside him.
and at length, quietly putting out a
hand, he pulled the reverend gentle
man by the coattails gently back into
his seat. When asked about the incl
dent the general coolly replied: Il
thought he'd told God about all he
wanted to know for one time, and
others were waiting their turn at the
public. august Lippincott's.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
OLD STRONGHOLD OF ROME.
Sleepy British Town Once an impor-
tant Cutpoet of Empire.

tant Outpost of Empire.
Caerleon of Roman times and OF
the days of King Arthur still exists.
The famous city that was once the
garrison OF the second Augustan
legion. the capital of South Wales
and the seat of an archbishopric, Is
cow sleepy little town lying between
the industrial centers of Pontypooi
and Newport, but is far enough away
from both to have maintained the dig
nifty and pathos Of it's isolation. Here
are to be seen the ruins OF a Roman
amphitheater, great oval bank oil
earth called Arthur's Round Table
and an enormous mound once fortl-
fed by the Romans. The officers and
men of the crack Roman regiment
and their wives and families left
many remains of their occupation
tombstones, fragments of household
utensils, needles and fibulae, remains
of villas and baths, lamps, glass and
enamel ornaments, carvings, rings
seals and the like, to be gazed upon in
the cases of the local museum. The
whole place, with it's combination CT
hill and winding river, with low-lying
houses nesting in abundant trees,
forms picture which many Srpainter
has sought to portray on canvas.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

In handling fruit and vegetables one
of the common tricks is in facing the
packages, but the deception is soon
discovered, and the buyer, nine times
out of ten, is pretty sure to find out
the trick, and the sellers reputation,
if he has any, is badly damaged. IT,
on the other hand, care is taken to
grade and uniformity is adhered to,
an enviable reputation can be built
up which is lasting. Buyers, whether
in the local or distant market, soon
learn the brand of the honest shipper
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
SkLTlNG OF ANIMALS.

A great many neglect to feed their
stock salt. Others feed it once in a
while. whenever it happens to be con.
venient for them to think of it; still
others make it a rule to salt their
stock on Sundays. AS matter of
fact, all these practices are bad and
The first, to not feed salt at all, is an
exceedingly poor practice. Stock
should have daily access to salt; their
system requires 1t. and when they
aave free access to salt at all times
there is no danger of their eating so
much at any one time as to physic
them, which is often the case when
salt has been withheld for some time.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08
HOW TO SORT AND PACK APPLES

Now, just a few words about pick
ing and handling the apples. The
summer and fall apples may be picked,
as they ripen and as they are wanted
for use. Especial care must be taken
to prevent the winter aples from get
ting bruised. They should be picked
into half-bushel, bail baskets, hand
ling each as carefully as though it
were an egg. Make a sorting table
by stretching two thicknesses of bur.
lap, or a piece of heavy duck, over
frame, about three feet wide and six
or eight feet long and supported on
four legs. On this table carefully
pour the fruit as it comes from the
Tree in little baskets. Sort the fruit
into three or more grades and the best
grade to contain only the sound fair.
sized fruit, the second grade, of fruit
for immediate use and for cooking.
and third grade to go to the cider.
mill. The first grade is the only
one that should be kept for winter
use. Apples keep best when kept from
the air, and in a cool, even tempera-
ture. The most satisfactory way for
the farmer is to pack them in clean
cracker or shoe boxes, lined with pa
per, mailing the boxes UP tight. Then
as the apples are wanted, a box can
be opened and they will be used up
before they can deteriorste much. Do
not pile the apples on the ground in
the orchard and let them remain a few
days, but get them from the tree into
the cool-permanent keeping place as
soon as possible.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

If you are not receiving regularI,
the bulletins from our Agricultural
College or the Department at Wash.
ington it is your own fault. Each of
these institutions would be only too
glad to send them to you if they had
your name, and at the present time
these bulletins contain the best
thoughts and the most practical sug.
gestions pertaining to the different de.
partments of farm work.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Farming like any other business,
has it's ups and downs, its sunshine
and shadow, but taken as a whole
there is no other business that car
ries with it more of the element OF
certainty. 1t is true the farmer has
his seasons of flood and wind, OF
drought and grasshoppers to contend
with, but these are the exceptions and
not the rule. Most seasons he may
expect a fair return for the money
invested and the energy expended;
for, in spite Of the cry of the calam-
ity howler, and the wall of the un-
scrupulous politician, who is scheming
for his vote and patronage, it yet re-
mains true that the conditions which
surround the tiller of the soil are
steadily and surely growing better
every year. If one has made a fail
ure of farm work, it would be well
for him to inquire first how much
of that failure can be traced directly
to his own actions, or want of action,
before he joins the ranks of those
who take special delight in telling
what hard time the farmers of the
land are having.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

An Indiana farmer in his despera.
tion in trying to get hand sent this
advertisement to his local paper:
Farm help wanted. Wages, Sc per
day. Breakfast served in. bed. Work
ing hours from 10 in the morning to
2 in the afternoon. All heavy work
will be done by the boss. Cigars fur.
nished free. Any hand working the
entire season can have the farm. Ap
ply at once"
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Did you take observations of the
moon and other planets this year be-
fore you sowed your garden stuff ?
Do you suppose that is the reason the
weeds are so much higher than the
vegetables? When you think of it,
what nonsense the moon theory is!
Get out your hoe and put in your best
clips this morning. Leave the moon
to do its own business. You do yours.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Whose findeth a wife," says Solo,
mon, "findeth good thing" And Sol
omon was one of the most experienced
husbands that ever lived. The records
of modern divorce courts would indi-
cate that either wives or husbands
must have changed more or less since
his day.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Ernesto Biondi, the Italian sculptor,
who is suing the Metropolitan art mu-
scum in New York for 100000 dam
ages because of it's refusal to exhibit
his "Saturnalia," takes himself seri-
ously, doesn't he?
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

The engagement of his daughter to
Capt. Spender Clay is said to be a
great relief to William Waldorf AS
tor. The cause is obvious. 1t might
so easily have been Capt. Spender
Mum.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Somebody ought to ask the man
who announces that he has carried
one pocket knife for more than forty
five years how many umbrellas he has
had meanwhile.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

The yacht America, that won the
famous cup fifty-three years ago, Is
still afloat In those days yacht was
not a mere skimming dish and was
good for something more than junk
after the race was over.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

A foreign cable dispatch announces
the extraordinary fact that German
professor rode horseback from Berlin
to Baireuth. Whether this fact is ex-
traordinary because German profess
sor was able to ride horse, or be-
cause he rode to Baireuth is left in
obscurity.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

A Philadelphia man at the risk of
his life stopped runaway horse,
whereupon the driver gave his res
cuer scent piece. Ordinarily cents
is q low price for human life, but all
things considered it wal probably a
high estimate in this case.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

In friendly salute Utica man broke
the ribs of an acquaintance, who must
now be glad that he did not run across
the saluter when the latter was feel
ing mOrose.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

A Connecticut minister who missed
his horse found him finally in the
study of the church, the exploring ami
NAL having made his way down the
church aisle and into the study, with
out doing any damage. Horse on the
minister!
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Maybe there is something in this no
hat fad, after all. Hats are still con-
sidered indispensable by most per-
sons, but so were nightcaps at one
stage in human development.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Hetty Green vigorously objects to
paying $50 taxes on the old house in
Massachusetts where she was born.
That isn't the reason she gives for
protesting, but it is good one.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

2 A woman who is careless enough to
spend SO for silk hose is sure to be
trifle careful about picking out the
muddy crossings.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

The smaller the butter globules can
be made in bringing the butter the
freer they will be of buttcrmilk.
When the grains Of butter come as
large as bullets, no washing or work.
ing can free them from buttermilk
like the method of fine granuatlon.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

When man will refuse to water
or skim his milk keep the little gnar-
ly apples out of the middle of the bar.
rel, put cord of wood for a cord on
his wagon and talk to the assessor as
he would to the parson, it is small
matter whether an evangelist gets
into his neighborhood or not.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

The new disease of the AUTOMOBILE
lists is technically known as motor
pathia cerebralis. 1t is caused by the
vibrationibus of the automobiliepsissi-
mus.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Those employees who jumped in at
Paterson, N. j., and rebuilt burned
mill and then had a big dinner with
the owner are living proofs that the
country is still full of good native
Americans.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Lives there a man with soul so dead
who never to his friend hath said
seeing him hSmeward wend his way:
Hi, Sam, what was the score to-day?'
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

That precious Russian baby weighs
1912 pounds now, which doesn't seem
much, considering the weight of the
honors and. responsibilities that have
been put upon him.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Inquirer" asks why the word goo
is not in the latest dictionary. 1t will
be found in the next one. at all
events. 1t has appeared in print.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

"Are Americans disappearing" asks
a correspondent of the New York
Herald. Very few of 'em left in New
York, we've noticed.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

1t is not likely that wedding jour
neys on freight trains will become
a popular fad. There is no romance
about a freight train.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Perhaps the Russians who decided
that American -four was contraband of
war had eaten a deadly Boston dough
nut.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Incidentally. the racing automobile
is not doing thing to the Malthusian
theory.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

The taotai of Shanghai appears to
cut about as much figure in his own
bailiwick as a blind man at schut-
Zenfest
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

1t is to be hoped Miner Munroe had
asked to have his place in the mines
kept open for him to go back to.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

And now a Brooklyn man rises to
remark that he has carried the same
pocket knife for forty-seven years.
How irritating such complacent vir-
tue is!
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

Thank goodness, the oysters never
go on a strike for shorter hours or
higher wages.
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

[Mr. wragg invites contributions OF
any new ideas that readers of this de,
partment may wish to present. ana
ents desiring Information on subjects
discussed. Address NJ. ]. Wragg. Wau-
kee. 1owa.1
Charlevoix county herald., 1904-10-08

G. A. LIsK, Publisher
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-06
GINNING STATEMENT ISSUED.
Gnneries Operating Slightly Less
Than Last Year.

Washington. January 5.-The census
bureau issued a report today showing
that there had been ginned up to-, and
including Saturday, December L, S,s4S,
747 commercial bales. compared with g.
3l1.s35 up and including December 49,
last year. The census found that 29s1l
ginneries had been operated this season,
against 3O,194. up to December 10, last
year
The report. by states, follows:
Alabama-946,6 36 commercial bales.
against 1896, 994 last season.
Arkansas-544,6S $50 bales, against 76S,s6i
last season.
Florida-5o0S4 bales against Sab
Georgia.. 1o2s15, against 1,376S5o.
Indian Territory-23S, 1872, against S12,'
042
Kansas-No crop reported. ~
KentuclSy-42s, against 1,027
Louisiana-6S6,6 600 against 67O'4So.
Mississippi-1.2 11, 74f, against 1,135,557.
Missouri-2S. 9l1. against 391S9.
North Carolina-5O2, 591, against 51I06S.
Oxlahoma-155,2 PAP, against 1880.
South Carolina-747S2S, against S6S,9S9.
Tennessee-2106 6S, against 272,135.
Texas-2, $40, 725, against 2,167472.
Virginia-.11, 143, against 1887.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-06
CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT.
Plat Assures Roosevelt That the New
York Delegation Will Be Solid.

Washington, January 5.-Subsequent to
the cabinet meeting today, Senator Platt
OF New York had conference with the
President New York citys political sit
uation and the general political situation
in the state were under discussion.
Senator Platt during the holiday re-
cess, had conferences with republican
leaders of the state. He informed the
President that there was not note Of
dscord in the republican ranks of the
state regarding the presidency. He as
sured the President that New York would
send to the Chicago convention dele
CATION enthusiastic for him. The polit-
ical situation in New York state was
pretty thoroughly discussed, but no de-
tails of the conference beyond those
stated were disclosed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-06
FAILURES NUMBERED e756.
5radstreet's Shows Decrease Of Per
Cent From 1902.

New York. January 5.-There We're 1856
reported to Bradstreets in the
calendar year, 1908, with liabilities of
$154. 277 ,09S. and assets of ss4. 476. This
marked a decrease in number of Just two
per cent from 1902. and of three per cent
from 1901.
With the exception of 1898. when the
increase was over IA per cent, the year
1903 shows the smallest number of fail
ure casualties reported since 1887. LA
bilities, however, owing to the increase in
suspensions of financial institutions. and
also because of the considerable number
of heavy mana ging concerns, were larger
by 40 per cent than those of 1902. and the
heaviest In fact, since 1895 There were
$3.50 failures. involving $S.32S.36 of liabili-
ties and $685., 1877 of assets in the Domin-
ion OF Canada in 1908, a decrease of - per
cent in number on practically identical
total of liabilities.