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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1904-07-21
CHAPTER XII.

MAX SETS OUT.
At the conclusion Of the trial, Max
returned with the family to Knowles
worth hall
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But you said you'd learned how to
smim."
yep; took swilnmin' lessons IN =
correspondence SCHOOL,"
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Mrs. Ninsiow's SOOTHING; sYRur -or Children
teetiE: goieu. tia gums, reduces inharmatlon AZ
iuJs pain cures Wind coiic. p cent bottle
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All the writing and copying inks use1
by the Russian governmer- are OF for-
eign origin.
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Rich.

He-I don't see why she should love
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FOR SALE-Chautauqua hand corn plant.
ers: all metal: the best there are: guar.
Hnteed. Every corn grower needs one or
more. Special price of Is cents. AddresA
The Tribune Co.. Sioux City. la.
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liMn cnpIp safe aics economical method acquiring
LAM oGnlf Government Land Hnso Seaberg, Ration. MI
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AGENTS Either SEX; light work; quick
seller. good money: 2-cent stamp for
particulars: write now. Odo-Mann Co..
346 West 5Stll St New York.
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BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH
SYRUP cures coughs and colds.
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AS mine does" Max admitted
AS yours does" said the count sad
aly
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LAND SCRIP safe. Quck. economical
H %ssn ss.e. aSs1 Rsssn EySs.nsnF lana
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"Ah. my boy. you c:ranot know. and l
cannot tell you. where such a vice may
lead n man. who seeing his weakness
does not renounee II firmly without
compromise or dalliance: for once
caught in its force. 1t is a cataract that
sweeps him 10 destruction
CONTINUED Next Week)
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Nitroxenous Food. for Fouls.

The poultry editor has high opin-
ion of cow-peas and soybeans as tood
for laying hens. Even the leaves and
small stocks Of these legumes are first
rate for fowls. In an exchange We
find the following report:
Cow peas for food for poultry were
harvested after maturity, stored IN dry
lofts and thrown to the fowls In
scratching pens, where they scratched
over and searched during the day.
After few days the egg supply ylsl-
bly, increased, and within few weeks
almost doubled that from an equal
number of hens kept in separate quar-
tiers and fed on no other grains. The
hens seemed to like the small branch
es and leaves, and would eat every
particle except the hard, stiff stems.
The general health of the flock was
excellent, and not single hen showed
the least symptom Of ailment during
winter season."
Our own experience in feeding cow
peas and soy-beans, and their vines, IS
entirely in line with this. Linseed meal
also gives good results. All these are
to be fed in Observation-Disclosures
Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19

THE season of catching cold is upon
i us. The cough and the sneeze and
nasal twang are to be heard on
every hand. The origin of chronic
catarrh, the most common and dreadful
of diseases, is q cold.
This is the way the chronic catarrh
generally begins. A person catches cold,
which hangs on longer than usual. The
cold generally starts in the head and
throat. Thenfollowss Of the
air passages which incline one to catch
cold very easily. At last the person has
a cold all the while seemingly, more or
less discharge from the nose. hawking,
splitting, frequent clearing OF the throat,
nostrils stopped up, full feeling in the
head and sore, infamed throat.
The best time to treat catarrh is at
the very beginning. A bottle of Peruna
properly used never fails to cure a COM
mon cold, thus preventing chronic
catarrh.
While many people have been cured
of chronic catarrh by a single bottle OF
Peruna, yet, as rule, when the catarrh
becomes thoroughly fixed, more than
one bottle is necessary to complete
cure. Peruna has cured cases innumer-
able of catarrh of twenty years stand
ing. It is the best, If not the only
internal remedy for chronic catarrh in
existence.
But prevention is far better than cure.
Every person subject to catching cold
should take Peruna at once at the
slightest symptom of cold or sore
throat at this season of the year and
thus prevent what is almost certain to
end in chronic catarrh.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19
KEEP AN EXACT RECORD.
The Practical Farmer Should Keep
an Account of All Gains
and Losses.

All farmers should be practical.
They should keep an accurate account
of all losses and gains, in fact an &C
curate account of everything done on
the farm, an account of every cent
paid out and ever cent taken in. Fail
ure to do this has placed the mort
cages on three-fourths or more of the
mortgaged farms, and failure to do this
will cause great per cent. of those
farms to remain mortgaged.
The best way is never to go into
debt; but there are some instances
where it seems to be unavoidable. In
such q case don't leave the account to
be kept by others alone; keep an ac-
count of everything yourself. Re-
self you may be the loser. Besides,
you will always find people who are
member all are liable to make mis-
takes, and Il you keep no account your
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HERE AND THERE.

Purchase beef cattle when they
are cheap as at present and lay the
foundation for raising blooded stock.
The nations of the world must be fed
and in time they will pay well for
beef.
Dairy cows should not be obliged
to travel a long distance for water.
II they do, they will go without until
they get very thirsty and feverfsh,
and will then drink until they are I'M
comfortable.
Broad tires on wagon wheels do
not destroy roadbeds as do narrow
tires. On the other hand, broad tires
pack the earth in dry weather so that
the highway will turn water when the
rainy season sets in.
-Horsehides have value and when
for any reason horse is killed or
dies, the skin should be taken OF and
preserved for the market. Fair-sized
horse-hides are worth So to 1925;
surely an amount worth saving.
Clean up the "eye-sores" and
while you are about it clean up all the
old pieces OF machinery, broken down
implements and farm machinery and
sell the old iron if you can; If not, take
it "outside the camp" and dump it into
some hole or hollow, out of sight.
We have feed when we give the
farm animals proper shelter. 1t is
sign Of bad farming, Of farming sure
to result improbable, to see, as one
sometimes does, beasts shivering in
fence-corner during the bitter blasts
of winter without bite to eat.
Did you ever notice that the read
ing farmer is the prosperous farmer
Tho man who already knows It all.
and has no time for new tangled no
lions is generally the one whose farm
is ornamented with mortgage,-and
"A a rule the more set he is in this
way, the larger the mortgage.
There is a growing sentiment
among the best element of the farm
ing class, that with the advent OF inn
proved methods OF transportation,
lighting and communication, those who
are engaged in agricultural pursuits
are gradually attaining higher pow
er to enjoy the beautiful things OF
life.
There are but two profitable kinds
of hens as winter layers. One Is the
well-grown, strong, vigorous. early
hatched pullet Of the year; the other
one-y ear-eld hens Of strong, vigorous
constitution that have been splerdid
egg-producers the winter before AZ pul-
leta.
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self you may be the loser. Besides
you will always find people who are
ready to impose on others II they
know them to be persons who never
keen an account of anything.
Expenditures mount up much faster
than one thinks, unless an account Is
kept, and are apt to run beyond the IN
come; whereas, If an account were
kept, one could lower the expenses, OF
il that could not possibly be done, one
could at least see the condition OF
things and prepare some way to meet
them. Some farmers put out the same
crop from year to year, and fail TO
make it a success financially, and then
wonder why it is so, not knowing that
the expense of raising that crop Is
greater than the income. IT such an
one had kept an account, he would
have known the first year that he could
not make that crop pay, and then
would have been ready to raise some
other crop that would bring him q
profit.
One can get books already prepared,
divided into sections, one for each de-
partment of the farm, but such books
that have come under my observation
are a little expensive. One that l have
used, and found very convenient, IS
only a common note book, with sep
arate division for each department.
Don't put off noting down your ac-
counts until Saturday evening, or
some more convenient time, but be
puntual, note them down at the close
of every day; it will take only few
minutes, and nothing will be forgot
ten. Always be sure and date every
thing. l have found times when the
date was as important as the account.
Keeping the account may, If conven-
lent, be assigned to some particular
member of the family. If there is q
girl or boy old enough to attend to 1t,
you would be surprised at the interest
they will take in it. 1t will also be a
good lesson in bookkeeping, and help
them to know the business forms OF
life; also to be progressive and prac-
tical farmers.-E. p. in Midland
Farmer.
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Feeding Young rigs.

Sow's milk is the natural food for
young pigs and when they are weaned
they should be given food as nearly
as possible like that which they have
been having from their mother. A
very good ration at this time is mid
dlings one part, corn meal one part
and skim-milk eight parts. If skim
milk is not to be had, the ration
might be filled out by adding little
more middlings and little tankage.
Tankage is a packing house product
which is very rich in protein, and
only a little is required to balance a
ration. AS the pigs grow in age and
size, the proportion of food rich in
protein should be reduced and the
proportion of food rich in carbohy-
drates should be increased-Midland
Farmer. @ -.
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FARMER AND PLANTER.
SOUTHWEST AND ITS CROPS.
They Make m Immense Aggregate
and Bring In q Comfortable
Money Return.

Gotten, corn, wheat, oats, barley,
hay, tobacco, ETC., are the leading
crops of the United States and the
state which produces the maximum
value in any one of these classes is
entitled to distinction. Cotton heads
the list. with Texas as the chief pro-
Queer, according to government crop
reports of 1901, when the average price
was 9.49 cents per pound. For 1903 the
valuation exceeds that of 1901, but for
the sake of a conservative comparison,
the figures for the latter year are CIV
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miss Nellie Holmes, treasurer
OF the Young Woman's Temper.
ance Association of Buffalo. N.Y..
strongly advises all suffering
women to rely, as she did. no.
on Lydia E. Pinkham's Veqe.
table Compound.
"DEAR Mis-. P1NKHAM Yorr mad.
icine is indeed an ideal woman,s med;.
cine, and by far the best / know tn
restore lost health and strength. I
suffered misery for several wears. being
troubled with menorrhagia. Nv back
ached, had bearing down pains and
frequent headaches. would often
wake from restful sleep, and in such
pain that suffered for hours before I
could go to sleep again. 1 dreaded the
long nights as much as the weary DAYS.
I consulted two different physicians.
hoping to get relief but finding that
their medicine did not sem to cure me.
l tried your Vegetable Compound
on the recommendation Of a friend
from the East who was visiting me.
I am glad that I followed her ad.
vice, for every ache and pain is gone,
and not only this, but my general
health is much improved. have a
fine appetite and have gained in flesh.
My earnest advice to suffering women
is to put aside all other medicines and
to take Lydia f.. Pinkham's Vege-
table COmpOund."- Miss NELLIE
HOLMES, $40 No. Division St., Buffalo,
5000 forfeit original Of abous letter mo-
0n0 genufneness cannot b produced.
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VERY EASY FOR HER.
NOT 10 Good Mt Figures, But. the Prabs
lem Was Just One Of
Her Kind.

"A "woman's reason with all its tradi-
tional lack Of logic, came out in an anus.
ing fashion at a recent dinner party in
Brooklyn, relates the New York Times.
In the course of the evening the CONVEX
sation drifted around to those odd little
mathematical bits Of the How-old-is-Ann
variety, when one of the company, with
explanations that the next problem would
not be very difficult one, questioned al
follows:
If bottle and cork together cost
81 10, and the bottle cost a dollar more
than the cork, how much did the cork
COST"
Almost instantly one of the ladies was
ready with the answer:
Why; the cork cost five cents and the
bottle 81 05. That's too easy
The lady's husband, familiar through
years of experience with her woeful lack
of skill in figures, looked up in astonisn-
ment.
''Heavens!" he exclaimed, "How did
you come to get that SO soon?"
why, my DEAR" was the reply. "corks
always cost five cents, don't they!
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had good appetite but my food did
not nourish my system. l had come
down from 40 to about IS pounds in
weight. I now feel that am we'll OF
all my troubles. Mrs. A. Snedeker.
Send for free book on catarrh, entitled
.Winter Catarrh." by DR.. Hartman.
s'Health and Beauty" sent free to
women only.
II youdo not derive prompt and salts
factory results from the use OF Peruna,
write at once to DIR. Hartman, giving
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
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vaYue or q Dog.

"A dog is . chattel and, next to man,
II the most important factor in.the past
and present history of the country"
Such is the decision as handed down
in the United States court of appeals in
the application of P. c. Burkal, serving
a sentence for larceny in Alaska, for a
writ of habeas corpus, in which a dog
constituted the property in question.
The writ was asked for on the ground
that stealing dog in Alaska was not
larceny, as this animal is not specifically
mentioned in the statute&
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19

30 Bu. Macaroni wheat Fer Asre,
introduced by the U. s. Dept: Of Agr.
a &c = land l 50 bu. per acre, and on dry,
arid lands, such as are found in MONTE I
Idaho, the Dakotas, Colo, ETC.. It will
Weld from 40 to 60 bu. . This Whent and
Speltz and Hanna Barley and Bromus
Inermis and Billion Dollar Grass. makes
it possible to grow and fatten hogs ana
cattle wherever soil is found.
JUST SEND Zoe AND THIS NOTICE
70 the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse,
Wis, and they will send you free sample
of this Wheat and other farm SEEDS, to-
Rether with their great catalog,. alone
worth $4,000 to any wide-awake farmer.
TX. IL
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10000 Plant, for Ice.

This is remarkable offer the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis, makes:
They will send you their big plant and
seed catalog, together with enough seed to
grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbages,
1000 delicious Carrots,
1000 blanching, nutty Celery,
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1000 splendid Onions,
1000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in
duce you to try their warranted seeds.
for when you once plant them you will
grow no others, and
ALI. FOB BUT Ice POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them zoe in postage, they
will add to the above a package of the IA
nous Beriner Caulifower. IL. IL
Playing the fool is said to be q uni
versal accomplishments Chicago Daily
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his but through
America he began his career four
founder the Meeso Bank Ohio He
the
party in his section OF the State
Of this
ca with its ndou approach and grasp was ms
and he dictated the
Hartman the result:
feel greatly benefited
believe
the disease Of
Congress-
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19

Nheumatism's Killing Pain
left in quick order after taking 10 doses OF
Dr. Skirvin's Rheumatic Cure in tablet
form. Is doses for Csc, postpaid. WIS.
DRUG CO.. La Crosse, Wis. TX. IL
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that l thought l
would try it and
see what it would
do for me. My
case is IN old one
and l have none
of the q c u t e
symptoms n o w,
because I have
had the disease
SO long that l had
none of the aches
and pains, but a
general rundown
condition of the
whole body--sore
nose and throat
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19

land to its highest state OF uSe1ulnesS.
Cotton is money crop.
The value of Texas-raised cotton Is
almost equal to the combined values OF
the corn crop of Iowa, the wheat crop
OF Kansas and the oat crop of Illionis
truly a wonderful showing. Other
striking comparisons could be drawn,
and were the southwest referred to
with it's cotton crop of 1923 ,023, GAS lin
Guiding seed) the figures would be even
more favorable Cotton is not the only
crop of this section.
Statistics based upon the federal cen
sus of 1900 show that out of 5,737 ,657
farmers mot including farm hands, in
the United States, 777,164 are in the
southwest.
Other comparisons follow:
Farm owners-southwest, 540,440;
United States, 5,737,372 .Mg
Land decided to aboveowners-south-
west, 181 1922, $50 acres; United States,
83s,591,774.
Land and improvements, with build
ings-southwest, $1,159, 1882; United
States, 1854, 647, 491.
Implements and machinery-south-
west, $79,076, 500; United States, $749,-
775,970.
Live stock-southwest, $454, 865, 1896;
United States, $3,075,477,703.
That the Southwest Is the garden
spot of the world and is destined to
increase in commercial Importance
and become the most densely populat-
ed portion of the earth is apparent
when the following figures tell what
was raised in this section in 1903.
Cotton, 4,50O,0OO bales, value, $780,
100000. ...=.
Cotton seed, s,944,457, 900 pounds,
value, $71,494,845.
Corn, 2OO,0OO,0OO bushels, value,
$12o, 100000.
Oats, 1oo,ooO,ooo bushels, value,
So, O00,O 900.
Wheat, 55,750,O00 bushels, value,
$41,S12,5oo.
Dairy products from 1,265,ooo cows,
value, $33, 644,430 s......... s.
Hay and forage, 4,519,416 tons,
value, $21,O1O,8O9.
Sugar, 279,409,230 pounds, value,
$1s,627,282.
Vegetables, 55,433 car lots. value,
$16,629, 1863.
Poultry, 48,060,321 fowls, value,
$15,04O,280.
Rice, 3oo,ooo,ooo pounds, value, $15,.
100000.
Fruit, 100000 bushels, value, $15,.
100000.
Eggs, 4e,434,425 dozen, value, 49,.
846,885.
Potatoes, 100000 bushels, value,
$7,500,O0O.
Wool, 21,s3S,65S pounds, value, 3d.
94S,95S.
Bees, 1926, 1873 swarms, value, $2,478,
414.
Honey and wax. 1o,250,o00 pounds
value, $1,225,S29.
Kafir corn, 1926, 063 bushels, value
| $667, $50.
Nuts, 1893, 7s0 pounds, value, $3.50,
254.
Broom corn, S,555,270 pounds, value
$532,152.
Thus total of $737, 619,0s7 for Tex
as, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklaho
ma, New Mexico and Indian territory
is reached by conservative estimates
which do not include important mis-
cellaneous crops. It is apparent that
the southwest abounds in milk and
honey; bread and meat; fruits and
vegetables sufficient to enable mil
lions of citizens to live at home and
also assist in supplying the markets
of the world. The value of products
is increasing each year as the result
Of improved methods of farming anl
in a few years the crops specified
above will reach a total valuation o.
more than one billion dollars in the
southwest. These facts taken from
the highest authority Of the genera
government, show where production
is greatest in this country.-Phil G
Travis, in Farm and Ranch.
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Coast Surveys.


Superintendent Tittman, of the coast
survey, in a recent description Of his
work, stated that he had since its in
ception made about 10000 square miles
of topographic surveys, sounded
infinitely nearly 100000 square miles
of water and made deep sea sound
ings over little less than a million
square miles. It has completed first
survey Of the Atlantic gulf and Pacific
coasts of the United States and its
triangulations cover between 100000
and 100000 square miles. 1t has, pub
lished over 500 charts besides the
Coast Pilot volumes Of the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, ane carefully stud
led the laws of the eartn's magnetism
(these latter being now investigated
through magnetic observatories in CO.
operation with foreign governments),
and it's geodetic work is also being car,
ried on with international cooperation.
-Scribner's Magazine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19

It's poor statistician who cannot make
figures lie.-Chicago Daily News.
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COWBOYS OF DUDE RANCH.
plat ia, the Reformatf OF Rapid
Young Men of the East in
North Dakota.

Many a son of a weA-to-do family ii
the east will read with interest the an
nouncement that the Eaton ranch at
Medora, N. D., once we'll known as the
dude RANCH" has been sold. The pur-
chaser of this property is New York
er, reports the Sun.
The ranch is situated at the crossing
Of the Little Missouri river, along what
is known as the Custer trail. The first
owners, the Eatons, came from Pitts
burg.
For a number of years they engaged
in the buying of wild animals, such as
bear, elk and deer, for eastern parks
and menageries. It was profitable oc-
cupation, buffalo being carried for
time as side line.
While one of the Eatons was paying
a visit to his home in the east an old
friend asked him, as q personal favor,
to take charge of his younger son,
hayward youth, in the hope that in the
west, away from metropolitan tempta-
lions. he might make man of himself.
Eaton readily agreed.
This gave him an idea as to the pos
sibilities of the dude traffic. Many east
ern families of wealth had sons who
were giving them more or less anxiety
and worry at home. and summer In
the west appealed to them as a good
thing. Thereafter, the Eatons looked
out for such visitors.
The young men looked upon it as
great lark, and came west in droves.
The cations boarded them, furnished
them with horses, guns and all neces-
sary accoutrements and organized per-
sonally conducted excursions in the way
of hunting, range riding, round-ups and
the like.
Upon the ranch they erected great,
long building, divided by partitions into
small rooms, in each OF which were
bunk and whatever furniture was neces-
sary. This became known to the cow
boys as the dude pen," and here the
visitors slept.
Sometimes one summer was enough
for them, but some Of them remained.
secured capital from home and to-day
are among the substantial men of the
state. They were constant source OF
amusement to the cowboys Of the range,
largely from their iondness for immense
hats, big revolvers. rattlesnake belts
and leather chaps" Vs.
Hundreds Of young men got their only
taste Of the life of the range on the
Eaton ranch, but in time the supply of
young men ran short and in recent years
the place has been devoted to the more
or less prosaic life Of the region. The
place brought $4,000.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-03-19

Mrs. A. Snedeker, Gainesville, Ga,
writes:
81 saw that your catarrh remedy,
Peruna, was doing others SO much good,