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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22

Catarrh OF the Kidneys a Common
Disease - Kidney Trouble Often
Fails to Be Regarded as Catarrh
by Physicians.
Catarrh of the kidneys is very com-
mon indeed. 1t is a pity this fact is
not better known to the physicians as
we'll as the people.
People have kidney disease. They
take some diuretic, hoping to get bet
ter. They never once think of catarrh.
Kidney disease and catarrh are seldom
associated in the minds of the people,
and, alas, it is net very often associ-
ated in the minds Of the physicians.
Too Jew physicians recognize catarrh of
the kidneys. They doctor for some :
thing else. They try this remedy and
that remedy. The trouble may be ca
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22
CATARRH IS THE CAUSE
OF MOST KIDNEY DISEASES
u CURES CATARRH.

Captain James L. Dempsey, Captain End
Precinct Troy Police Force, writes from 1913
Ferry St., Troy, N. Y, as follows:
"From my personal experience with Pc
runa ! am satisfied It Is a very fine remedy
for catarrhal affections, whether of the
head, lungs, stomach or pelvic organs. 1t
cures colds quickly, and a few doses taken
after undue exposure prevents illness.
"Some OF the patrol men under me have
also found great relief from Peruna. IL
has cured chronic cases of kidney and blad-
der troubles, restored men suffering from
indigestion and rheumetism, and ! am fully
persuaded that it is an honest, reliable med
icine, hence ! fully endorse and recommend
It." JAMES L. DEMPSEY.
Officer A. c.. Swanson writes from COZ Harrison
St., Council Bluffs, Ia, as follows:
A my duties compelled me to be out in all
kinds of weather l contracted a severe cold from
time to time which settled in the kidneys, caus-
ing severe pains and trouble in the pelvic organs:
81 am now like a new man, am in splendid
health and give all praise to Peruna."-A. G.
Swanson.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22

"The Magma Charta Of Japan" a
happily timely topic, will be discussed
in the July Century by Baron Kentaro
Kaneko, one OF the four authors of the
japanese constitution. Baron Kaneko
is a Harvard A. B. and Doctor of Laws.
He is a member of Japan's House of
Peers and was formerly Minister of
State for Agriculture and Commerce.
He is in America now as the envoy of
the Japanese Emperor.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22

tairh all the time. A few bottles OF
Peruna would cure them.
Pe-ru-na Removes the Cause of the
Kidney Trouble.
Peruna strikes at the very center OF
the difficulty, by eradicating the ca
tarrh from the kidneys. Catarrh is
the GAUGE of kidney difficulty. Re-
move the cause and you remove the
effect. With unerring accuracy Peru
ma goes right to the spot. The kidneys
are soon doing their work with perfect
regularity.
Thousands of Testimonials.
Thousands of testimonials from peo-
pie who have had kidney disease which
had gone beyond the control of the
physician are received by DR.. Hart
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22
The Philosopher.

"Do you see any humOr in this
life?"
"Well, comparatively-yes. That is,
there is more humor in it than there
is in getting out Of it, so l conclude it
must be a joke. Though sometimes, l
must confess, l laugh when l really
do not see the t."-Detroit Free
Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22

The finer the nature. the more flaws
shall show the clearness Of it; and it is
q law of this universe that the best
things shall be seldomest seen in their
best form.-Ruskin.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22

Samuel R. sprecher, Junior Beadle Court An
gelina, 1922 1. o. o. F., 2O5 New High ST., Los
Angeles, CAL, writes:
al came here a few years ago suffering with
thought the climate would cure me, but found I
was mistaken. But what the climate could not
do Peruna could and did do. Seven weeks trial
convinced me that | had the right medicine,
and ! was then a we'll man, | know of at least
twenty friends and members of the lodge to
which | belong who have been cured Of catarrh,
bladder and kidney trouble through tho use Of
Peruna, and 1t has a host Of friends In this CITY,"
SAMUEL r. SPRECHER.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22
More

"He who runs may read" remarked
the party with the quotation habit.
But" objected the contrary person,
at is safer to occupy a seat during the
perusal Of a newspaper"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22
Same Thing.

Hes employed by the railroad COM
pany now, | understand"
Yes; he has charge of the puzzle de.
partment."
The what?"
"He makes out the time tables."-Phil
adelphia Press.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22
Thousands of Testimonials.

The Prussian State railway system,
having 21,104 miles Of track, earned
$40, 100000 net last year. This is said
to be 10 to II per cent Of the invest
ment.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-07-22

The Kaiser has ordered that all de-
serving school children shall each be Civ
en- a copy of his photograph as a reward
Of merit.
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05
Money in Cow Peas for Seed.
Sampson Co., N. @.

The statement made by the Charlotte Observer
that cowpeas are COMMANDING prices from n $15o
legume as profitable farm crop. The pea has
been largely rotation and fertilizing
crop to follow small grain, which purpose it
serves admirably. It keeps the land comparatively
and off in the fall in time for seeding an
other grain crop. Under the campaigns waged
in it's favor by the State Agricultural Depart
ment, by the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
leoe, by the farmers Institutes and farm Journals
by the farmers themselves, and account of its
habit of vindcating itself whereve rit is allowed
opportunity, the cowpea is likely to find a con-
stantly growing demand for years to come. Those
who prudently gather their harvest from the fields
where the pea has been a soil-helper, and
those who grow the crop specially for market
have inviting promise of good profits. .-Gastonia
Gazette.
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05

tilizers.
Editors Progressive Farmer:
Indian corn is the greatest of our cereal crops
used for the feeding of cattle and hogs and the
food or mankind combined and it's Importance to
the farmers in all parts of the country can hard
ly be over-estimated. And yet there is crop
that varies much in production per
Though soil expert will make us believe that
all soils have the same average amount of soluble
plant food, there is doubt that the wide
stretching roots of the corn plant find more
food in some soils than in others, no matter how
carefully they cultivated nor how we'll watered,
and the farmer who neglects to accumulate more
plant food in his SOIL usually finds that his corn
crop shows the effects of his bad treatment soon
er than any other.
BREEDING CORN.
Much has been said and written of late in re-
gard to the improvement of corn by selection of
seed, and there is no doubt that by proper breed
ing the corn crop can be greatly increased indie
pendently of the improvement of the soil. But
both should go hand in hand. Most of the social
ed corn breeders give great deal of attention to
the character of the ear and grain, and these are
important points But the breeding of any plant
that looks simply to the improvement of a single
feature of the plant, never be successful as
one that takes the whole plant into consideration.
In breeding corn, one must know what his par
ticular setcion needs. If he is in the region of
short season and early frosts, he must take earli
ness of the plant into serious consideration, as
well as it's productiveness. If he is in the South
where he has time enough to mature any variety
of corn, he need give attention only to the char
acter of the plant and its productiveness.
USE SEEDS ONLY FROM Two-EARED STALKS.
In the South the farmers have for generations
been breeding simply for the biggest They
have gotten the big ear, and only on a stalk,
and that on strong land up out of mans reach,
and such tall growth that it seems necessary to
plant the crop wide apart. The result is that
single stalks six feet apart, with a single at
best them, and some with none at all, make it
impossible to get large crop. The breeding then
that is needed in the South is breeding for more
dwarf and sturdy plant and one that uniformly
carries two ears or more. The editor of one of
our farm papers recently told an inquirer who
wanted to know how to overcome the tendency of
in the South to grow so tall, that it a
climate effect which no breeding could overcome
But right here, in the South it has been overcome
and we have corn that bears uniformly two or
more ears the ground and of stature that
admits of its being planted nearly closely as in
eighty-eght bushels of per acre, while the
ordinary all around it on similar land made
about ten to fifteen bushels
OUT OUT TAssELs OF BARREN STALKS.
Tn braod;no corn MO ,o,C+ form in mind on
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05

in the field and if allowed to ripen pollen will
make more and more barren stalks the next sea-
Cut out the tassels from such as soon as
they show, then select the stalks that bear two
ears and to get the plants down to a more dwarf
and sturdy character. Use for a time only the
lower ear for seed; it will not be the best ear,
but 1T will have tendency to get the
ground and to bear above it. When you
have the ideal plant, then will be time enough
to select the best ears. But always select in the
field and from stalks that bear at least two ears
Corn is always best when bred in the section
where it is to be planted and seed brought from
far north or south of any locality must always be
acclimated before it will adapt itself to the new
conditions and do it's best.
THE oNE-HoRsE PLow MEANS POOR CROPS.
Having the ideal corn plant the next important
thing in the production of big crops is the prepa-
ration of the land the feeding of the crop The
one-horse plow has been the cause of more poor
crops in the South than any one other thing. The
gullies in our hills have been largely due to the
scratch blowing of the past. The shallow p1owed
soil fills with water and runs off on the hard soil
below and gully is started and is annually en-
larged by the frosts of winter. We need deeper
breaking of the soil to enable it to hold more
water for the crop and to withstand droughts and
to prevent washing.
CULTIVATE SHALLOW.
But after we have this soil deeply plowed and
well prepared, we do not want plow in the corn
field afterwards. Laying by" corn with turning
plow and big furrow is responsible for much
of the short crop and also for the washing of the
land, for the water collects in the deep burrows
till head forms and breaks over and down the hill
the loose soil is washed into a gully. This would
not happen if the crop cultivated shallowly
and fiat to form no burrows for the water
to accumulate in. Then the deep plowing cuts
the roots and damages the crop, and also
dries out the land by turning up to the sun, and
the crop suffers from drought.
But matter how we'll the land is plowed, nor
how carefully it is cultivated, if the plant food
is not there in available form, the crop will not
be large it should be. What is most need
ed in the South is farming, distinguished from
the old time planting. Corn after corn, cotton af
ter cotton, crop continually will never restore
the fertility of lands no matter how much fer
tilizer what brand you use We need to adopt
a rotation of crops that will frequently bring in
the recuperative legume crops. This is more
especially needed by corn than almost any other
crop.
A COMPLETE FERTILIZER NEVER PAYS.
We have experimental many years with fertili-
for various crops, but never yet have we been
able to find a profit in the use of complete COM
mercial fertilizer the crop. By COM
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05

| the nitrogen will cost half as much as the one
hundred and sixty pounds of phosphoric acid and
four times much the forty pounds of potash.
In fact, about the half the cost of the fer
tlizer is in the nitrogen, and in a fertilizer with
high percentage of nitrogen, the difference will
be greater.
GROW LEGUMEs BEFORE CORN.
Corn needs mainly nitrogen and potash as food.
Nitrogen bought in fertilizer mixture costs too
much to make it pay the crop. Now as
nitrogen issmost needed for the corn crop, we
must get it cheaply than in complete fer
tilizer to make it pay. Through the aid of the
legume crops and the liberal use of the mineral
fertilizers the legumes get all the nitro
gen the crop needs and not only do this, but
| can make profit out of the getting it. That is,
can, by using the phosphoric acid and potash
literally in increasing the growth of the legume
crop, get a large amount of forage for feeding
| stock and making the manure the corn crops
especially prefers and can at the same time leave
in the ground nitrogen enough for the following
corn crop. It is this feeding of the crop that
feeds the stock and the land at the time that
lies at the very foundation of all Improvement,
not only in the corn crop, but in the productive
ness of soil for all crops. If every hoed crop
of corn or cotton has legume crop preceding it,
and that legume crop is heavily fertilized with
phosphoric aicd and potash, it will do the rest.
Not only this, but the legume crops increase the
humus in the soil by of their roots and
the manure made from feeding the tops, and the
soil is rendered retentive of moisture, and
better able to stand drought.
Thus by a proper breeding of the seed, proper
preparation of the soil and proper fertilizng of
the plant, we can increase the corn crop of the
South threefold or more.
w F. MASSEY.
North Carolina Experiment Station, Raleigh.
Sure and Simple Remedy for Potato Bugs.
Editors Progressive Farmer:
I saw in The Progressive Farmer short while
ago a statement by of your correspondents
that if you would put green pine tops between
your potato rows the bugs would leave and give
you no further trouble tried it this year and
find it true. For the first time in eight years the
bugs have given trouble. The remedy is
so simple and inexpensive that commend it in
stead of paris green to every farmer who plants
Irish potatoes for the table for market Old
field pines grow every farm, and your little
boy will delight to cut down the small bushes and
drag them to the potato patch, playing horse and
wagon. It is fine to him, but the bugs disappear
as this fun goes on, leaving the vines to grow
and bear without their let or hindranee.
N.B.C.
Sampson Co., N. @.
Money in Cow Peas for Seed.
The statement made by the Charlotte Observer
that cowpeas commanding prices from $1.5O
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05

the nitrogen will cost half as much as the one
hundred and sixty pounds of phosphoric acid and
four times much as the forty pounds of potash.
In fact, about the half the cost of the fer
tizer is in the nitrogen, and in fertilizer with
a high percentage of nitrogen the difference will
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05
THE CORN CROP AND ITS NEEDS.

Prof. W. +. Massey Writes on Breeding for Better
Corn, cultivating the Crop, and Proper Use of Fer
tilizers.
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05

We have experimental many years with fertili-
for various crops, but never yet have we been
able to find profit in the use of complete COM
mercial fertilizer the corn crop. By COM
plete fertilizer [ mean containing due per-
centage of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash.
By the use of such fertilizer we can materially
increase the yield of corn and the casual observer
might suppose that it paid. But leave one piece
without any fertilizer and the rest with COM
plete fertilizer and you will find, as have found.
that the increased crop will not pay for the fer
tilizer used. How then, in the absence of suf-
icient amount of stable and lot manure are we to
increase the corn crop? Just I have said, by
the use of short rotation and plenty of peas or
other legume crops to furnish you the nitrogen.
In complete fertilizer the nitrogen pound for
pound, is worth twice much as the phosphoric
acid and four times as much as the potash That
is, in low grade fertilizer containing forty
pounds of nitrogen, one hundred and sixty pounds
of phosphorc acid and forty pounds of potash,
The progressive farmer., 1904-07-05

In breeding corn must form in mind an
ideal of the plant we want to produce and breed
toward it year after year, for the result not
be had in a single season. Then we want to
move disturbing influences. In hundreds of fields
see nearly one-third of the stalks without any
ear. These barren stalks are the strongest males
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27
MAKING THE ARMY USEFUL
Agricultural Paper Suggests EN-
ploymsut Of Idle Soldiers in Con-
struction Of Highways.

Gen. Miles has been developing a
scheme whereby the army when not in
service, which is most of the time, may
be relieved Of the monotony of a life with
nothing to do but eat and sleep, and at
the same time be Of some practical use
to the country. He proposes that they
be supplied with modern road machinery
and set to improving the roads Of the
country. There Is much good hard sense
in this proposition. There has recently
been considerable effort made to restore
to the soldier the privileges of the can
teen on the ground that in his enforced
idleness there were other and worse
evils, which were liable to take possess
sion Of his time when the canteen was
refused him. We believe the PROPOSE
tion to give him something to do will re-
lieve the monotony of his position in
a way that will be far better for him and
for the country in general, and certainly
more to the credit Of the nation. So
long as these regiments must be main
tanned at public expense, why not have
them employ their time in a way that
would be for their good and of practical
value to the general public. While our
army is vastly smaller than that main
tanned by most other countries of SINH
lar proportions and the expense of main
tanning 1t is consequently less burden
some, yet If it can be employed at some
useful occupation this burden will be
still farther reduced. Every little helps
in cutting down the expenses, and with
the large and increasing demands for
public improvements along various lines
all over the country, it is certainly ad-
visable to adopt economic changes
wherever practicaI.-Prairie Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27
Advance In Land Values.

The advance in land values has been
very. marked during the past six years.
Good agricultural lands are steadily in
creasing in price, and there is no pros
pect Of a reduction or decline. Our
population increases steadily, while
there can never be any more acres of
land on the earth's surface than at
present. 1t annually requires more of
farm products to feed the increasing
population, and prices must therefore
rule higher and higher and farming
become more and more intensified and
remunerative.-Midland Farmer,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27

rOO1 boards.
the bolts which support the roof. They
are set four feet in the ground and 18
feet apart as thai is convenient size
to make a barrack. The plates are
four by six inches, made of white pine
or some other light wood, as is all the
material of the roof. Lightness is i'm.
portant and the roof boards are made
on one-half inch material. Fhe brace
across the corner is made Of 2 inch
plank spiked strongly to the plates.
1t is Of such a height that the rafter
which rests on it if projected through
the corner post, would meet the frame
at intersection of the plates. The roof
boards are cut around the corners,
leaving a hole a few inches larger
than the corner posts. A little rain
that gets in at the corners or through
the roof does practically no harm as
the open condition of the barrack ia
vors quick drying. Barracks are much
to be preferred to stacking; are con-
venient and cheaply built.-G. Davis,
in Ohio Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27
USEFUL FARM STRUCTURE
Barracks Are to Be Preferred to Stack
ing, Because Convenient and
Cheaply Built

recently saw, in a book for ths
information of farmers, plans and de
scription of a barrack. Having bull
them, and living in a section wher,
every farm has them, was greatly i'm
pressed with what the writer did no
know about these useful farm struc
lures.
The diagram. herewith. shows tht
true way to frame around the corner
post and the manner of arranging the
sweep for raising and lowering. FouI
straight chestnut poles % feet long
are selected from the woods and boree
with holes one foot apart to receive
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27
REDUCED EXCURSION RATES.
From S p and & Points to Seaside an
Mountain Resorts for the Summer.

On and after June 1, 1904, the South
ern Pacific in connection with the Corval-
lis & Eastern railroad, will have on sale
round trip tickets from points along their
line to Newport, Yaquina and Detroit at
greatly reduced rates, good for return un-
til October 10, 1904.
Three-day tickets to Newport and va
quina, good going Saturday and return
ing Mondays are also on sale from all
East Side points, Portland to Eugene in
elusive, and from all West Side points,
enabling people to visit their families and
spend Sunday at the Seaside.
Season tickets from all East Side points,
Portland to Eugene inclusive, and from
all West Side points, are also on sale to
Detroit at very low rates. with stop-over
privileges at Mill City or any point East,
enabling tourists to visit the Santiam
and Breltenbush hot springs in the Cas-
cade mountains which can be reached in
one day.
Season tickets will be good for return
rom all points until October 10. Three
day tickets will be good going on satur
days and returning Mondays only. Tickets
from Portland and vicinity will be good
for return via the East or West Side at
option of passenger. Tickets from Eu-
gene and vicinity will be good going via
the Lebanon-Springfeld branch if desir-
led. Baggage on Newport tickets checked
through to Newport; on Yaquina tickets
to Yaquina only.
Southern Pacific trains connect with
the G. & E. at Albany and Corvallis for
Yaquina and Newport. Trains on the G.
& E. for Detroit will leave Albany at Z
a. m, enabling tourists to the hot springs
to reach there the same day.
Full information as to rates with beau
tifully illustrated booklet of Yaquina bay
and vicinity, timetables, ETC., can be OBJ.
tanned on application to Edwin Stone,
manager O. & E. railroad, Albany; W.
E. Conan, G. P. A, Southern Pacific
company, Portland, or any S. P. or G. &
E. agent.
Rate from Corvallis to Newport 1915.
Rate from Corvallis to Yaquina 1926.
Rate from Corvallis to Detroit 1926.
Three.day rate from Corvallis to New
port $3.50.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27
Save Your Horse HideS.

It has occurred to us that farmers and
horse dealers are not generally aware
of the fact that horse hides, whether
taken OF from slaughtered horses or
those which have died by disease or per-
ished from other causes, have market
value. Farmers should not allow the
hides OF their fallen stock to go to waste.
Fair-sized horse hides. free of cut holes
and other blemishes, are now bringing
from $3 to $3.25 in Milwaukee.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-27
Boarding House Humor.

"Will some one please chase the
COW down this way?' said the funny
boarder, who wanted some milk for
his oatmeal.
Here, Jane," said the landlady, in
tone that was meant to be crushing.
take the COW down where the cali
is 1ing.''-Tit-Bits