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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
RULES FOR RUNNING DAIRY.
If You Follow Them You Will A void
Many Annoyances That Now
Beset You.

The rules of the Vermont Dairy as
ISOLATION contains the following: The
mixer should be clean, and his clothes
likewise. Brush the udder just before
milking and wipe with clean cloth or
sponge. Milk quietly, quickly and thor
ughly. Throw away into the gutter
the first few streams from each teat.
This milk is very watery, of very little
value and is quite apt to injure the re-
mainder of the milk. Remove the milk
promptly from the stable to clean. dry
room, where the air is pure and sweet.
Drain fhe milk through clean flannel
cloth, or through two or three thick
nesses of cheesecloth. Aerate and cool
the milk as soon as it is strained. The
cooler it is the more souring is retard-
ed. If covers are left off the cans, covs-
with cloths or mosquito netting. Nevar
mix fresh milk with that which hrs
been cooled, nor close can containing
warm milk, nor allow it to freeze. Un-
der no circumstances should anything
be added to milk to prevent it SQUIRTING.
Such doings violate the laws of beth
God ara man. The chemicals which
are use-i for this purpose are slow rols.
ons. Cleanliness and cold are the CRY
preservatives needed. In hot weNi5er
jacket she cans with clean, wet s;%n-
ket or canvas when moved in WAGON.
Musty, sour food, dusty litter or fccder
should De out of the way at milking Tine
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
WIRE FOR TOMATO PLANTS.
Superior in Every Respect to Old Bar
rel Hoops, Wooden Frames
or Flimsy Stakes.

| am done with old barrel hoops and
wooden frames and stakes and every
thing of that sort as a support for
tomato vines, for I have found some
thing. so much better in the wire net
ting that can now be bought so cheap
ly. [ tried it last year with such graf
flying results that I shall never use
anything else. | set five stakes in the
ground about seven feet apart in the
row of tomato plants. To these stakes,
about foot from the ground, I nail
ed wire netting four and a half feet
high. AS the plants grew and sent
out branches l tied them to the wire
with strips of old cotton cloth, which
is better than cord, for it does not
cut into the vines. About once a week
| tied the vines up in this way and
by the end of July they had completely
covered the trellis and were hanging
full or tomatoes, every one of which
got a touch of sunshine some time
in the day and none of which were on
the ground. 1t is as easy to pick to-
matoes trained in this way as it is to
pick grapes, and you have no idea how
pretty they look, particularly after a
rain. In the fall it is quite easy to
cover the vines with old quilts and
shawls by throwing them over the
trellis ON frosty nights When the
vines were all dead l cut them away,
dug up the posts, rolled up the wire
without loosening it from the posts,
and put 1t all away in an outbuilding
for use next year. It will last for years
to come, and has already paid for It.
self. I trained sweet peas in the same
way to netting about three feet wide
and was greatly pleased with the re-
suit. I tell this as a hint to flower
growers living in cities who cannot
get brush for this purpose and who
have found it very difficult to train
sweet peas to cords of any kind .Wo-
mans Farm Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT.
There Were Obstacles to the Fres
Movement of Doors That
Opened Outward.

There was man who had read that it
was safer to make the doors of all houses
open outward instead of inward, says the
Chicago Tribune.
He remembered it, and when he built
house of his own he had all the outer
doors hung in accordance with that idea.
One bright morning in March he moved
into his new home.
Late in the evening of the same day 1T
began to snow, and it kept on showing un-
til the ground was covered foot deep
Then the wind blew and piled the snow
in drifts.
After which it began to rain.
The rain later turned to sleet and tbs
mercury sank 20 degrees.
And the next morning the neighbors
were astonished beyond measure at the
sight of frenzied man with his head thrust
out of second story front window of that
house, gesticulating wildly to boy on the
sidewalk and begging him for heavens
sake to go and call the fire department
and have the ice and snow blasted away
from his doors so he could open them and
get out of the house!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
WAR AND SILK INDUSTRY.
The Supply of Raw Material, Which
Comes from China and Japan,
Is Uncertain.

peculiar situation exists in the To-
cal silk industry at present. Just as the
new crop of silk began to appear in large
quantities, and operatives were antici-
pating busy season, the outbreak of the
war between Russia and Japan makes
the question of silk supply very uncer-
tain says the Springfield (Mass.) Union.
Roughly speaking, one-third of the raw
silk used here comes from Japan, and
two-thirds from China AS long as hos
tilities prevail in that quarter the silk
traffic will be involved in uncertainty.
There are several reasons for this. In
the first place, the production of silk by
the Japanese will soon be checked by
the war diverting men from the indus
try. Then, again, silk shipments are
liable to be cut off by blockades, and
this applies to China as much as to
Japan.
Almost the entire supply of silk comes
from these two countries. The amount
of Italian silk used has grown less year
by year. There was time when the
mills went to Italy for a good deal of
their silk, and thought they could not
get the best grades anywhere else. The
quality of silk produced in the east has
steadily improved, especially in China,
and much of the Chinese product is now
regarded as not a whit inferior to, that
which comes out of the Mediterranean,
while the low wages paid in the orient
give the eastern culturists an advantage.
Silk is no longer produced in this coun-
try, save for exhibition purposes.
Much of the Chinese silk is of strong
er fiber than that from Japan, and hence
is preferred in the manufacture of spool
silk In the weaving of silk fabrics,
Chinese silk is commonly used for the
warp for the same reason, and japanese
for the filling. For knit goods good
deal of Japanese silk is used
Just why Chinese silk should be
stronger than Japanese is not plain, even
to those who handle silk The explana-
ton may be in the climate or the food
conditions of the silk-worms, or it may
be in superior patience or ingenuity of
the Chinese in this particular
The eastern silk is shipped overland
from the Pacific. and the first big in
voice of the new crop was received re-
Gently. Other large consignments are
now on their way across the continent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
Keep the Milk Vessels Clean.

Tie value of clean milk pals and
pans is recognized by all dairymen,
but not every farmer knows what is
meant by clean milk vessels. The
washing they receive on an ordinary
farm, in which one small lot of boiling
water serves for washing several milk
pals, does not clean them, but always
leaves large numbers of bacteria
especially in the cracks, ready to mix
with the next lot of milk drawn into
the pail. If possible they should be
steamed daily. When this is not pos
sible, they should be scrubbed with
boiling water and sal soda, rinsed in
boiling water and turned upside down
to dry. They should not be rinsed in
cold water and should never be wiped
with a rag after scalding. In hot
weather it may be necessary to take
them occasionally to a creamery for
steaming.-Prof w. H. Conn, in Farm
ers Review.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
NATIONAL AID TO STATES.
Policy Now Applied to Education Is
Also Applicable to the Improve
ment of Roads.

The advocates of government aid in
building and improving the toads are
actively engaged in hunting up pre-
cedents. The latest thing ia this line is
government aid to education. They call
attention to the fact that, in our earlier
history, large gifts of public lands were
made to the states to be used in support
of the public schools. In 1862 the Morrill,
act was passed by congress making large
grants of public lands to all the states,
the income from which was to be used
in the maintenance of agricultural COLI
/ leges. In 1890 the second Morrill, law was
enacted making national appropriation
Of 900 to each state to be used in sup
porting these agricultural colleges. This
annual appropriation has been increased
from year to year until it is now $25,0OO
for each state. This direct approprta-
ton, added to the income which all the
states derive from the land grants of
1862, makes an aggregate of nearly ST.
100000 a year, which the states now re-
ceive as national aid to agricultural edu-
cation
One interesting feature of this gov
cooperation between the nation and the
states somewhat similar to that now pro-
posed in the -Latimer ROAD
bill. The government appropriations
and the land grant funds must be used
only in maintaining the colleges, not III
establishing them. The states must pro-
vide the buildings and equipment. Most
of the states also put up part of the funds
used in paying the current expenses.
In addition to all this, congress in 1887
passed the Hatch act making a gift of
$4,000 annually to each state to aid in
supporting state experiment station,
and in this we have another example of
the same kind of cooperation. The states
now receive from the government for the
support of these stations nearly $685.
annually. This added to the government
aid which the colleges enjoy makes a
grand total of more than $2,700000 an
nually
The good roads people are asking why
their plan for national aid to road i'm
provement should be branded as uncon-
stitutional and paternalistic, while gov
eminent aid to education is well estab-
lished feature of our national policy.
They point out that, while the constitu-
ton expressly empowers congress to "es-
tablish post roads," it is silent on the
matter of education. They also claim
that agricultural education is something
which the states could handle far more
easily than the improvement of the roads.
On the whole, it looks as though the
good roads advocates have the best OF
the argument, and federal aid to educa-
tion will serve as strong precedent for
federal aid to road Improvement.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
TREAD POWER AND cHuRN.

wheel beneath There are no belts, no
cogs. The weight of the animal bears
the part of the large inclined wheel
upon the smaller wheel beneath and
causes it to reyolve.
A discarded wagon wheel might be
used as the framework of the largo
wheel, mailing boards on the upper
surface for the animal to walk on, or a
frame is easily made, and if somewhat
larger than wagon wheel-say six
feet or seven feet in o1ameter-the cir
Gle will be larger and the animal will
find the walking more direct The
under wheel may be six or eight inches
In diameter. The power is increased
by giving the large wheel more pitch.
and diminished by setting it more
nearly level.-Orange Judd Farmer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
In Austria and Hungary.

In the Austrian Tyrol Easter pranks,
like our April fool day jokes, are perpe-
trated Hospitality is universal at this
time and nobody asking for shelter is
refused. A Hungarian Easter custom
in the Kalaka. 1t consists in the farm.
ers gathering together the corn or hay
and doing day or two of labor gratis
for their poorer neighbors who cannot
employ hands. The wife of the peasant
for whom the work has been done awaits
them with an excellent supper. This is
generally followed by a Dance and the
festivities are kept up until morning
Albany Argus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31

Should suffer in the face of evidence
like this:
Mrs. Almira A. Jackson, of East Front
St., Traverse City, Mich, says: For
twenty years / never knew what it was
to have good health. Every physician
consulted said / had liver trouble but
their medicines did me no good. just
before / began using Doan's Kidney
Pills was almost paralyzed. could
hardly stand on my feet because of the
numbness and lack of circulation. Had
q knife been thrust into my kidneys the
pain could not have been more intense.
My sleep was disturbed by visions OF
distorted figures. The kidney secre-
tons were annoyingly irregular and /
was tortured with thirst and always
bloated. used seven boxes OF Doans
Kidney Pills. The bloating subsidized
until I weighed one hundred pounds
less, could sleep like child and was
relieved of the pain and the IRREGULAR
tv of the kidney action. My circulation
is good and I feel better in every way"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Jackson will
be mailed on application to any part
of the United States. Address Foster
Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale
by all druggists, price so cents per box.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
AN EASTER
MESSAGE

Agnes Norwood sat alone in her room
where, indeed, she sat always, now
her face buried in her hands. She was
not weeping. 1t had been long-oh, so
long-since she had shed tears. She
only strove to shut out from her mind
the vision of happy world that Knocked
her grief. What was Easter to her,
Easter with its joys, its glad songs and
beautiful flowers? If those who called
themselves her friends could understand
how they probed the unhealed wound
of her aching heart. would they be so
thoughtIess as to urge her to sing. How
could she sing. she whose song had been
so sudden and ruthlessly hushed months
ago? Can the woodland songster fiutter
ing among the dead leaves, it's breast
pierced by an arrow, tune it's little throat
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
PROTECTING NIAGARA FALLS
Large Power Companies Diverting the
Waters Are Destroying Scenic
Grandeur.

Visitors to Niagara falls in recent
years have noticed the diminution in the
flow of water over the precipice, and
have felt apprehensions that an in
crease in the diversion of the river to
furnish power for manufacturing uses
would greatly reduce the scenic at
Effectiveness of the cataract. There are
now five large power companies divert
ing water from the river above the falls,
two companies being on the American
side and three ON the Canadian .side.
This draft, says the Troy Times, cannot
fail to have it's effect on the volume OF
the cataract itself.
A movement has been begun to add to
the diversion by carrying the water of
the river to LOckport, and, after using
it there, emptying it into Lake Ontario.
The friends of the falls as an American
attraction are becoming anxious at the
steady increase in the attacks made
upon the scenic grandeur of Niagara.
The state government has spent large
sums of money in establishing main
tanning and improving the public reser-
walton at the falls, and Canada has done
likewise
The late Andrew Fl. Greene was con-
slant and vigilant defender of Niagara,
and did much to make it accessible to
the public. 1t is to be hoped that his
death will not weaken the defense, but
that those who believe that the natural
inheritance Of the people in the way of
phenomenal scenery should be pre-
served, and that the material develop
ment of resources should not be the only
object sought, will unite in action to
prevent further attacks upon the dig
nifty of one of the proudest possessions
of the state
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31

to melody? No more could she sing with
a heart that throbbed only to pain.
A ray of spring sunshine crept in
between the folds of the window cur
tain She arose and drew the shade.
Agnes Norwood had once been a
part of that world of brightness and
beauty to which she seemed to belong;
but her Gethsemane had come at the
supreme hour of her life-at a time
when she was radiantly happy-and
it's darkashadows had wrapped them
she had not since been able to pene-
trate their gloom. 1t was in May that
she had promised to be Arthur Came
rons wife. Before the June roses were
gone death had claimed him. There
had been a short illness, sudden
alarm, and then the end. The brilliant
young life had gone out.
When Agnes strove to recall what
had taken place in those awful days
of darkness and hopelessness she had
a confused sense of the solemn hush,
the sorrowful faces, and a kind voice
that tried to point her to the "stars
shining through the cypress trees"
The only reality was the great wave
of desolation that had settled down into
her heart when that which represented
all that life had for her was carried out
of her sight.
Since then the days had come and
gone alike, as one long painful dream.
In vain had the anxious parents and SYM
pathetic friends tried every expedient
to waken within her the old passion
for music. In those other days Agnes
sweet voice had thrilled large audiences.
The congregation of the First church had
not forgotten the Easter solo of last
year. They were eager to secure the
same singer for the coming Easter. But
Agnes refused to see any one. and in an
swer to all entreating letters on the sub
Iect wrote a firm refusal-it was impos-
sibIe for her to sing.
When the church bells rang on Easter
morning there was no music in the
chimes to the heavy-hearted girl. Their
notes Jared upon her sorrow. The per-
fume of the Easter lilies in the sunny
bay window of the breakfast room OPP
pressed her. When a robin, one of the.
earliest of the season, alighted in tree
by the open easement and poured forth
his little soul in burst of melody, Ag
mes involuntarily put her hands to her
ears. At last she impulsively donned
her wraps and fed from the house.
The home of the Norwoods was we'll
out on the outskirts of the city. Only
a mile away was beautiful Woodvale
cemetery. Spring had come early. The
snow was nearly gone, and in places the
GROUND was already quite dry. This
Easter morning south wind blew softly
and the warm sun fingered lovingly on
the low mounds in the sacred city of the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
Work for Early Spring DAYS.

The fences will need looking after, and
that is a job not to be put off. Drive a
few nails here and there where they will
do the most good Very likely there is a
post loosened by the frost, or gate that
says. or a hinge cut of order. Coal tar
and mortar, mixed, is a good thing to
stop the rat holes. 1t is something they
will not be apt to gnaw. The drains
and the sewers ought to be watched and
kept clean. A little plaster, bone meal,
orsuperphosphatem akesa good top dres-
sing for pasture lands, and for all grass
lands; and there is no better time to put
it on than this, when the coating of
snow has left them soft.-Frank H.
Sweet, in Epitomist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
How to Start Apple Seeds.

Apple seeds need a rich, well pre-
pared seed bed. 1t is generally granted
that they should be frozen. They
should be guarded from mice. 1t would
be safe to SOW them in the fall, in
box with a wide surface, where it can
be watched or in some sheltered, quiet
place, surrounded by boards, might do,
and then transplant in the spring, in
nice rows, with plenty of room. Give
them thorough cultivation, and either
bud in the fall or graft the next spring,
but make only one tree from one seed.
Allow no rot grating. Give care, and
you will have an orchard your great
grandchildren will brag about.-Ella
M. Hess. in Epitomist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
LOG ROAD DRAG.

wagon tire will do. The log should
be 10 or IL inches thick and about 10
feet. long. Fasten a chain or heavy
wire II or Is inches from each end
by which to haul it. Hitch the team
so the drag will move the dirt toward
the center of the road The hitch is
next in Importance to the time at
which the dragging is done. The right
time is just as the road dries after
rain or when 1t is thawed on top dur
ing the winter and spring, and it
should be dragged every time.-Farm
and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
Russian Public Schools.

According to the latest statistics,
there are S4.544 public schools in the
empire of Russia, out of which number
40,131 are under the jurisdiction of the
ministry of public instruction. 42,5S8
under the jurisdiction of the holy synod,
and the remainder under other depart
ments Of the pupils, 1857 were
adults, 1921. 694 boys and 1,2O3,9O2 girls.
The teachers number $4,000. The
maintenance of all these schools costs
more than $25,0O0,0 900. The average
school tax for city schools is $3.50 and
for village schools five dollars pupil.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
ITCHING ECZEMA
EruptiOns Cured by Cuticura-
Complete Treatment $1.O0.

The agonizing itching and burning of the
skin, as in eczema; the frightful scaling,
ing the scalp, as in SCALED head the facial
Disagreement, as in pimples and ring,
worm; the awful suffering of infants and
the anxiety of worn-out parents, as in
milk crust, teter and salt rheum-all de-
mand a remedy of almost superhuman vir-
tues to successfully cope with them. That
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills are
statement is made regarding them that is
not justified by The strongest evidence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
FURIOUS LITTLE FIGHTERS.
The Japanese Believe That to Die in
BattletMeans a Passport to
Heaven.

The japanese soldiers fight like lit
tie furies. They really love to fight, and
they care absolutely nothing for death,
says the Detroit Free Press. Life or
death is immaterial, for if the latter
comes in battle the victim goes straight
to Heaven. Even in 1893 they were the
best drilled and best equipped troops in
the world. I saw regiment after regi-
ment file past, in absolutely unbroken
order, fully equipped to an extra pair
of shoes on their backs.
They are wiry, absolutely tireless, and
little as they are, have an unsupported
strength. They are Indifferent to heat
and to cold, and can live on a handful
of rice day. 1t is my opinion that they
will give the Russians hot run. They
have an advantage in being near to their
base of supplies, and in being familiar
with the country. During the last dec
ade, although the Russians have made
themselves felt in the peninsula, the
japanese have been more or less upon
the scene all the time. If reports are
true. and the Russian Asiatic fleet has
been destroyed, | imagine that that
power must be in rather hard case.
The Japanese have fine docking facili-
ties, easily accessible, and they can get
their boats in first-class shape before
the Black sea fleet reaches the east
granting that they are allowed to pass
Constantinople.
"The Russians are bigger men than
the Japanese, who are, indeed, much
smaller than either the Chinese or the
Koreans, but their diminutive size is
rather an advantage, as they can get
along with less food"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-03-31
Hunting Easter Eggs in Germany

Easter is very important day in Ger
many. 1t is looked forward to by the
children with almost as much pleasure
as Christmas. After breakfast the hunt
ing for eggs begins and it generally takes
a long time to find them, for hares are
shy little creatures, and the nests are
always hidden away in the queerest
places.
The children usually find the eggs In
pretty baskets or boxes, and sometimes
they will come upon a beautiful white
sugar hare, sitting on a messy nest filed
with colored eggs.-Union Signal