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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
GIVE THE BOYS POULTRY
One Way of Inducing Children to
Work Contentedly and Hap
PLY on the Old Farm.

AS usual, there is loud complaint from
farmers that the children brought up on
the farm are getting uneasy and want to
try their wings elsewhere This is not to
be wondered at when these young people
hear and read of what is going on in the
world. The monotony of country life
seems unbearable to them, especially
when from the farm they obtain only
plenty of hard work, the food they eat
and the clothes the wear. True, one
may say that is about all anyone gets
out of life, but if we can plan some way
by which the young people can make a
start for themselves they will be much
more contented.
The indianapolis News thinks that
poultry offers way of trying out the
feeling of the young folks at small ex-
pense. Give them a chance to raise
poultry and have the proceeds for their
own use, and in a year or two they will
have become reconciled to country life
and be willing to make it their future or
they will have shown their utter lack of
adaptability for it, in which case the
best thing for them and for the parent
is to let them leave the farm and take
up the work for which they are better
fitted, but don't lose your grasp on the
young people without first giving them
chance to do for themselves on the
farm and show what is in them.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
WASTE MUST BE STOPPED,
Many Farmers Fail Because Thew Do
Not Practice Any Rational Sys-
tenn Of Fertilizing.

On the average the American farmer
wastes each year more than enough to
keep his family. Enormous wastes are
going on in many ways, but the greatest
one is the waste Of farm-fertility.
Preserve what fertility is already in
the soil, and put more in it, 1t may be
that some farmers do not know the value
of manure, as some are giving it away
in order to get it out of the way. Others
using the straw for bedding, which would
increase the value of the manure know
this from observation. Farmers waste
much of the value of manure by puttiAg
it in piles in the barnyard, and letting it
take the weather for months If the
yard happens to be near creek or pond,
a great part of the fertility finds it's way
into it, and probably one-half of it's value
is lost.
I think that if some of our farmers
could visit among the rural population
of Germany, and note their methods for
saving manure, most of them would take
| a lesson home with them. Most of the
German farmers are successful, and
their success seems to be due to the care
full saving and applying of fertility.
Why cannot we stop this waste by
saving and applying all the manure, by
! keeping more live stock. by cultivating
our soil properly and retaining the ele-
! ments of fertility. and by studying the
subject and applying the thoughts
we want our land to be kept in a high
state of fertility.-E. J. Waterstripe, in
Farm and Fireside.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
BIG MONEY IN ASPARAGUS.
Demand for This Vegetable II In
creasing Steadily and the Mar
ket Holds Good.

Most farmers would think $45 an acre
for manure would be an extravagant
outlay of money. But down in New Jer-
sey they spend that much for stable
manure at $3.50 ton, and consider it
good investment. Naturally they 90 not
raise corn or wheat or oats on that sort
OF SOIL. They raise asparagus, and set
from $500 to 500 per acre returns from
it.
Experiments from four different kinds
OF fertilizer show that stable manure
brings the largest returns The differ
ent fertilizers used were as follows:'
Manure, $45 per acre; complete fertil-
lzer, $l2.93; complete fertilizer, bone
and potash. $1829: complete fertilizers,
Done and potash and nitrate of soda,
$2191.
There is constantly increasing de-
mand for asparagus. the market holds
good, and is likely to for years, vet hun
dreds of farmers who own good land near
large cities go on year after year rails
Ing corn. oats and other crops which
yield them bare living. Asparagus is
sure crop, sure sale and always
profitable.
Inc soil should be plowed in the fall
and sub-soiled. then turn double fur
rows five feet apart, and place the roots
nVe inches below the surface. Strew
ABOUT one-half the fertilizer in the bot
tom OF the furrow. mix it with the soil
ana place the remainder on top alter
the roots are planted Manure can be
applied after the plants have started to
gro" with good advantage. Place the
roots about 80 inches apart in the rows.
before the growth starts in the sprin2.
work the ground thoroughly with disc
ana narrow. and then cover the rows
slightly with the single cultiyator
shovel set to throw dirt outward Gull
tl'ate every ten days thereafter, and
keep the soil in fine condition.
IL bleached asparagus is desired throw
ridge of soil over the row as soon as
growth is started. and cut as soon as the
snoots show through this ridge a.
length OF six or seven inches. If ereen
asparagus is wanted cover with on]v
ABOUT three inches of soil. and cut tha
shoots four or five inches From q tn
81 cuttings per year can be taken from a;
sood asparagus bed. The soil requires
plenty CT manure every season.-CIin-
'oh M. Shultz, in Farmers Voice.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14

CT foundation. Exactly under edge Of
building at bottom Of wide trench drive
stakes and put down a rough board (w),
as shown in cut. Fill in behind board
with loose stones (s). putting on other
boards and adding more stones until
they stand level with the surface of the
ground. The trench outside the barn is
now filled in with earth, packing down
solidly. Leave old boards where they
are. Flat stones f) can now be put in
above the ground anc cemented. Some
times it is found more convenient 20
place these stones before filling in out
side trench.-A. D. Brewer, in Farm and
Home.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
AGRICULTURAL BRIEFS.

Teach the young pigs to eat as soon as
possible.
New ground reasonably rich is best
for turnips.
Slow milking frets the cow Hasten
the performance as much as possible
In horses bad dispositions are gen.
orally the result of bad management and
handling.
Keep plenty of help, so that the har-
vesting and storing away of the crops
may be done properly.
Clear salt and water on old sores, har-
ness and saddle gals often cure them
where nothing else will.
In nearly all cases it will be found
best to continue the cultivation of the
corn until it can be considered made.
:, Feed the sows after narrowing upon
foods calculated to produce large flow
of rich milk. Increase as their neces-
stiles require. 2c.-
All profit that comes from dairy COW
or one being fattened is derived from the
food over and above that which is neces-
sary to sustain life. I
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
THE QUESTION OF BREAD.
knowledge of the Art of Making Not
All That Is Necessary
to Success.

Cook books will not teach one every
thing there is to learn about bread: I
have become convinced of that, says Els
peth Macdonald, in Good Housekeeping.
Back OF the cook book one must study
from experience, and experience teaches
more about bread than any food which
is prepared in household The au-
tnorlty who wrote the cook book knows
her Hours as we'll as the miller does:
she has watched yeast do it's wonderful
leaVenlng labor through microscope,
she has studied certain conditions at
certain temperatures with thermome-
ter at her elbow registering every rise
and fall She has given us to the best of
her ability all heC deductions and dis
coveries. But the little by-ways by
which she acquired her knowledge she
could not impart to US in a thousand
page volumne-and besides, the thou
sand-page volume would not be read, It
is 20 years ago since made my first loaf
OF bread. During that time have done
family bakings week after week. and
yet only last week l learned something
quite new, from a new maid. She had
made bread after the recipe that has held
its place against all others for wears in
our household. The bread was set over
night and left on table by an open VIM
dow. Through the night the tempera-
ture fell, so did the bread. A more I'M
promising mass of cold, dead dough 7
never saw. 1t was coaxed in a warm
corner, set in pan of warm water and
covered by warm cloths, but at noon.
when turned it over, it was still as
solid as cheese.
There is no hope for it, | said:
throw it away and telephone to the
bakers for bread"
Let me try another yeast cake in it :"
pleaded Anna i've seen nv mother
use that in dead-looking dough. 1t will
De only two cents more wasted if the
bread does not rise"
Try 1t it you wish" answered, "but
In afraid there is no hope"
Al nVe o'clock the lid of the bread pan
threatened to be lifted off by fine, white.
Dubbling dough, and at six O'Clock the
Ioaves went in the oven never tasted
nner, winter, sweeter, all-round better
bread, and it stayed good and moist till
the last crust disappeared, four or five
days later
one has to take into consideration in
following the experiment We did, that
the dough had not soured 1t was set
with water, which will not allow dough
to sour quickly as if milk were used in
the mixing; then, too, in all probability
the yeast had been killed almost in
stantly; whether by cold draft or by
the yeast cake being dissolved in too hot
water, do not know In the morning
the bread pan contained nothing more
nor less than mass of -four and water
waiting for leavening. If it had beer
sour it would not have been worth the
labor, fire and two-cent yeast cake
which saved it.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
LURE COUNTRY BACHELORS
Novel and Insidious Device Emploved
to Capture Men for Mat
rimony.

The young women of Ecaussines, q
little town in Flanders, live in great
dread of dying old maids, says the Brus-
sells correspondent of the London Ex-
press.
And owing to the retiring character
OF the SWANS of the countryside they
employ once year novel and insidious
device which never fails to bring about
a marriage proposal.
Whit Monday is the day chosen, and
elaborate preparations are made for the
occasion. All bachelors are invited to a
feast, then dance follows, and finally
comes the inevitable proposal.
Glorious weather favored the gather
ing on that day. The young women,
wearing the most bewitching costumes
gathered on Ecaussines place to well
come their timid guests. AS they ar
rived, one of the prettiest hostesses
present stepped forward and gave them
welcome that was charming.
Long tables spread with appetizine
viands-all prepared by the fair hos
tesses-were ready for the feasters
But the time for eating had not vet
come. The young men had to listen to
lecture by Miss Dassys on "Women's
Emancipation
Miss Dassys apparently not only con-
vinced the bachelors of the propriety OF
the entire proceedings, but also convert
ed them to other views of matrimony
for they Enthusiastically applauded he1
words.
The dinner followed, the hostesses
taking their places first. Their guests
were expected to make their selection
by sitting beside them, feat they per.
formed with surprising alacrity.
The scene was most animated and
a great crowd of amused and interested
relatives and friends looked on. Ate
the dinner came the dance, when it is
said that many captives were again
made.
AS result of the gathering IL months
ago 81 couples were married on the same
day In the month of August, and they
are all said to be very happy. This time
the young maids of Ecaussines hope tc
establish record.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
HOUSEHOLD SUGGESTIONS,
Budget of Information from Which
the Housewife May Learn
Something Of Value.

very good tea punch without liquor
is made by boiling for five minutes a
pSnt OF water, pound of sugar and
the chopped rind of large lemon. Add
to this quart of freshly made tea, a
rather strong infusion, the juice of
four lemons and half teaspoonful of
almond extract. Cool and pour over
a block of ice in the punch bowl Add
to the last stoned cherries and what
ever other fruit is desired, says the
Boston Budget.
One reads of various devices en-
ployed to keep the hat fresh during
Journey. What is the use of bothering
to carry large paper bag, or provid-
ing bags of linen or light silk, when
the Pullman porter will for the asking
bring one clean pillow case?
For the sickroom a pleasant disin-
fectant is made by putting in a saucer
some freshly ground coffee and lighting
piece of camphor gum on top of it.
AS the gum burns it emits the odor of
roasting coffee, an aroma that is agree
able to most people. This perfume
mas the advantage of being healthful,
and is to be preferred to the pastiles
and incense powders, which to some
are very sickening. The odor of the
coffee will counterfeit any bad aroma
IN the room, and the fumes of the
camphor will kill ordinary disease
germs that may be- floating around
Lamb is best left alone until it has
nearly finished roasting, simply being
placed in the oven, with light dredg-
ing of salt and pepper. At almost the
last stage, sprinkle it with paprika, add
little lemon juice, and minced thyme.
Use grated breadcrumbs to thicken the
gravy, instead of flour.
Lettuce should be prepared for the
table several hours before serving.
Pick 1t over carefully, discarding i'm
perfect leaves, but leaving the hearts
or center untouched. Wash leaf by
leaf, daintily and tenderly, so as not
to bruise, and leave in a pan of clear
cold water for some little time. About
an hour before serving, lay the lettuce
gently in wire salad basket and shake
dry as possible, then put the basket in
the refrigerator near the ice, but not
on it. Cucumbers should be sliced thin
several hours before using them. laid
In a pan of ice wafer with several
pieces Of ice laid on top until time to
serve In slicing the cucumbers re-
1ect the end pieces, beginning the cut
ting where the seeds first appear.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
lieutenant in uniform should help to
carry water At fret tho econorv did

AouICu0AI III uul1OIm SQOulQ Qolp 10
carry water. At first the scenery did
not appear to be very interesting, and
Dickory wandered slowly from here to
there, then sat down under q tree.
Presently he rose and went to another
tree, a little farther away from the
boat and the men at the spring. Here
he quietly took off his shoes and his
stockings, and, having nothing else to
do, made little bundle Of them, list
lessly tying them to his belt: then he
rose and walked away somewhat brisk
er, but not in the direction of the boat.
He did not hurry, but even stopped
sometimes to look at things, but he
still walked a little briskly, and always
away from the boat. He had been 50
used, this child of outdoor life, to
going about the world barefooted, that
it was no wonder that he walked brisk
ly, being relieved of his encumbering
shoes and stockings.
After time he heard a shout behind
him, and turning saw three men of the
boats crew upon a little eminence
calling to him. Then he moved more
quickly, always away from the boat,
and with his head turned he saw the
men running towards him, and their
shouts became louder and wilder. Then
he set off on good run, and presently
heard pistol shot. This he knew was
to brighten him and make him STOP
but he ran faster and soon turned the
corner of a bit of woods. Then he was
away at the top of his speed, making
for a jungle of foliage not quarter OF
a mile before him. Shouts he heard,
and more shots, but he caught sight Of
no pursuers. Urged on even as they
were by the fear Of returning to the
ship without Dickory, they could not
expect to match, in their heavy boots,
the stag-like speed of this barefooted
bounder.
After time Diclory stopped run
ming, for his path, always straight
away, so far as he could judge, from
the landing-place, became very diff
cult. In the forest there were streams,
sometimes narrow and sometimes wide,
and how deep he knew not, so that
now he jumped, now he walked on
fallen trees. Sometimes he crossed
water and marsh by swinging himself
from the limbs of one tree to those of
another. This was hard work for a.
young gentleman in a naval uniform
and cooked hat, but it had to be done;
and when the hat was knocked of it
was picked up again, with it's feathers
dripping.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
STRAWBERRIE IN BARREL.

as shown. plants are set in these holes
and the barrels filled with soil to the
top. The average yield of berries is
over one-half bushel per barrel. The
greatest advantages claimed for this
method are that no mulch or cultiva-
ton is necessary, that the berries are
always clean and free from sand, and
are far more readily picked than when
grown in the usual way. A tile is placed
in the center of the barrel as it is filed
with soil. This permits an even dis
tribution of water from top to bottom,
an abundance of which should be SUD-
piled at all times.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
Plants Which Go to Sleen

Some plants go to sleep every night,
The we'll known sensitive plant, or
mimosa, in daylight opens it's fragile
leaves which are hard at work eating.
absorbing the carbonic acid of the air
into plant food. At night the mimosa
sleeps and digests what it has eaten.
and the leaves fold up double against
each other; the stem droops and the
leaf is limp and apparently dead. Sim
liar to this is another plant, found as
weed all over the country east of the
Rocky mountains, known as the
partridge-pea or large-fowered sensi-
tive-pea. The leaves are not so sensi-
tive to the touch, but close quickly if
the stem is cut. This is not, a trouble
some weed.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
Where Pigeons Went.

It is reported that the American
wild pigeon has reappeared in consid-
cradle numbers in the Catskill noun
tains, after a disappearance of almost
half century from the United States,
Within the memory of many now liy-
ing, the wild pigeons were annual fall
visitants to most parts of the country.
They disappeared with suddenness
that was explainable only on the
ground that they were alarmed BY the
war Of determination waged against
them. and had sought safety IN more
secure quarters. Where they went Is
not definitely known; but ornitholo-
ygists have inclined to the belief that
they went to the region Of the Andes.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
CURIOUS END OF A LAKE,
Large Body Of Water in Africa Shut
Off by Small Rats Of the
Natives.

A great lake has vanished in South
Africa. Ngami is it's name and a. map
drawn in 1903 shows that it was then
one of the conspicuous features of the
country, says London paper. When
Livingstone, however, visited it on Ju-
ly %, 1849, he found that it's water was
slowly disappearing and that it's banks
we're. being covered with rank vegeta-
ton. To-day there is no water in the
lake, its place being occupied by a spa-
clous morass, which quickly swallows
any one who is so venturesaome as to
set foot on it. Beneath this morass is
still some water, but in order to bring
it to the surface the ground must be
bored to a considerable depth. River
Tauche formerly flowed into this lake.
but now the tributaries that led to the
lake are dry, and the river itself is
also choked up about 80 kilometers
north of Ngami. During the last ten or
II years the water has disappeared
very rapidly, and the reason apparently
is because the mouth of the river was
gradually filled with the thousands of
small floats or RATS on which the ma
tives were wont to take their yearly
tribute of corn to Denokans. These
RATS were left year after year and
travellers maintain that the river found
itself powerless against an obstacle like
this, the result being that the river and
lake have become dry and that what
was once a fertile agricultural region
is now bleak and barren. Formerly
there were several villages near the
lake, but, now; these, too, have van
ished, and only a few cattle kraals are
to be seen. "And it will be impossible
to restore the lake." says a traveller
who visited the place recently, "stnce
in it's present condition it would re-
quire more water than the river could
give it. Lake Ngami is gone forever u
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-09-14
THREE CENTURIES OLD.
Communities in the Maritime Prov
inces Of Canada Celebrate Their
Settlement.

Unless one is pretty familiar with
the story Of European settlements on
the Atlantic coast, one reads with a
sensation OF surprise, says Youths
| Companion, of communities in the
Canadian maritime provinces celebrat-
| ing the three hundredth anniversary
of their settlement or discovery
Annapolis, Nova Scotia-the old Port
Royal-and st. John, New Brunswick,
have just had such celebration. To
the head of the noble basin on which
stands the one, and into the beautiful
river on which sits the other, three
intrepid Frenchmen, Samuel de Cham
plain, the Sieur DeMonts and Monsieur
Poutrincourt, penetrated in 1904, and
in both places established a foothold,
three years before the English colo
nists landed at Jamestown, Virginia,
and 16 years before the Pilgrims set
foot on Plymouth Rock.
In the history of both places are ro-
mances which would have tempted a
Dumas and adventures that would not
| discredit Scott. Annapolis, in particu-
lar, is rich in incidents which appeal to
the imagination and linger in the men,
DRY. First settled by the French, next
captured by the English, then granted
to Scotchman, and later taken again
by France, it played for nearly 200
years the part of a shuttlecock among
the nations which were contending for
supremacy in the new world.
French influence still shows itself in
charming traits of character among the
people and in many old family names.
English rule is, of course, manifest in
the excellent character of the whole
modern city. OF the Scotch regime. al
| though 1t was so brief the name of the
province is permanent reminder, and
on the dilapidated old French pier''
some clumps of Scottish heather still
| survive.
For centuries France and England
regarded each other as natural ene-
mics, and fought for supremacy At
the recent celebrations both were rep-
resented, and so, too, were their chill
dren and heirs, the Dominion of Cana
da and this great republic. Indeed. the
most notable characteristic of all the
festivities was the constant manifesto
| ton of international friendliness and
| respect. 1t was this which most charm
the visitors, and which they will re-
| member longest.