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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-10-12
HAIR GOODS.

Mrs G. s. Meaker, 70 Jefferson ST., my agent,
will be glad 70 furnish Hair Goods, wigs. Front
notice from my Manchester store. Thanking
the public for their liberal patronage IN the
past, and soliciting continuance Of the same
yours withlall respect ISM. YORK.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-10-12
Australian wines

AuNNFHIluH v AMtsf
Over a hundred kinds of wine are
made IN Australia
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-10-12

Collector Of the City Of Barre,
Vermont.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15
Office of Farm Management.

Editor The Ranch: In reply to your
request for information regarding the
newly established Office of Farm Man
agement in the bureau of plant indus
try of the United States department of
agriculture, | would say that such an
Office has recently been established
under the auspices of committee of
which | have the honor to be chair
man. The other members of the COM
mittee are Dr. A. F. Woods, Mr.. A. j.
Peters, Prof. w. A. Taylor, Mr.. M. A.
Carlton, and Prof l.. G. Corbett, all of
the bureau of plant industry. From
the names constituting this committee
it will be seen that this office differs
from the other Offices in the bureau,
in that it is not separate and distinct
affair, but is to be conducted rather
under the auspices of all the offices of
the bureau.
The principal ideas underlying the
work of the office of farm management
are: First, to aid the farmer in ap-
plying in his everyday work the teach
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15
School of Experience

This department is by and for the sub
scrbers of The Ranch. Contributions of not
over 800 wards are asked of all who have
anything valuable and of practical utility to
relate. No definite subject is named, but it
is desired that what is written for this de-
partment be pertinent to farming conditions
in the Northwest. All are at liberty to
write and no restriction is placed on the
number of articles you send in. For each
accepted article credit will be given on our
books for 80 cents, to be taken out in either
subscription or advertising Write on one
side of the paper only, and always give your
full name and address, though not neces-
sarily for publication II not desired by the
correspondent.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15

plain to the assembled farmers the
methods we are following upon the
farm and the results obtained, and
furnish them with printed statement
of the details of our methods, so that
they can employ these methods on
their own farms. In fact, one reason
for the selection Of the committee of
dozen or more local farmers is to
be sure that the community shall be-
come intensely interested in the work
of the Investigation farm. At Union
town, Alabama, in the black soils of
that region, after we had formulated
the working plan of the farm, two
large cotton planters asked for copies
of it in order that they might follow
it On their own farms. By means OF
these farms, we hope to have an i'm
mediate influence upon the agriculture
of the cotton producing states.
The work of the Office of farm man
agement is, as yet, in it's incipiency,
and most of it has been done in the
cotton states because the need for it
seems to have been felt there more
than elsewhere, particularly in view of
the invasion of the most destructive
cottOn-bOll weevil. Our work, how
ever, will not be confined to the cot
ton states, but in the near future, we
hope to be in position to have an i'm
portant influence upon the systems of
farming followed in all parts of the
country We have found one farmer
in Pennsylvania who on thirteen acres
of land is producing hay, sOiling crops,
and silage sufficient for thirty head of
stock. He gets yields two or three
times as large as the yield obtained
by those we ordinarily consider good
farmers. We have made ourselves in
timately acquainted with his methods
and are going to attempt to extend
them to other parts of the country to
which they may be applicable. | may
say that the most fruitful work we
have done is that of studying in detail
the methods pursued by prominently
successful farmers in all parts OF the
country. Personally, l have received
more benefit from study of this char
acter than from any other one source.
In our work of farm management, l
feel that if we can pass on to the aver
age farmer the methods used by the
re-eminently successful farmer and
induce this average farmer to take
them up and follow them out intelli-
gently we shall have done enough to
justly our existence as an office.
w. j. SPILLMAN,
Agostrologist.
Department of Agriculture
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15

A question for the dairyman to set
tie pretty soon, if he has not already
done so, is what he is going to feed
his COWS in the latter part of the sum-
mer and the early fall to keep them
from shrinking heavily in yield just
at the time when the price of butter
is advancing?
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15

have a small dent that is about as
early as Cory's Early, that always rip
ems. Have used Cory's Early in silo
with good results. Of course we get
small stalks, but we get plenty of ma
ture ears and the stock eat everything
clean, while with Pride-of-the-North
corn the COWS would only eat the leaves
and tops, there being no ears, and
we had the long, coarse stalks to dis
pose of. We intend to plant consider
able corn for the silo this spring.
Think we would prefer corn to peas
and oats, all things considered, if we
had cutting machinery. 1t is more
trouble to feed uncut corn silage than
peas and oats There is one thing
about the odor from the silO that trou-
bles us. When we filled our old silo
last fall and it got we'll warmed up
there was a very disagreeable odor,
apparently from the boards, as it was
noticed only around the sides and not
at the top, and it is not noticeable in
the silage. The lumber seems to have
absorbed the liquid from the rotten
silage around the edge, and when it
gets warmed up,-well, it does not
smell like peaches. We are thinking
some of plastering the silos inside
W. J. Langdon, Pierce Co.
[Mr. Langdon will find much valu-
able information in Mr.. Blanchard's
article in last issue on plastering the
silo.-Editor
Treating Aborting Cows.-In the
summer of 1900 | traded for COW
soon to be fresh and so proved to be
and was all right, but the next time
of breeding l had lots of trouble to get
her in calf, but managed to do so.
The next time l failed three times. In
about four and one-half months she
would abort. l thought she was too
good for the butcher, so l cast about
for some remedy. In reading the ad-
vertisements in Hoard'S Dairyman |
found the advertisement of Moore
Bros. of Albany, N. Y, offering cure
for said trouble. I invested in two
treatments, costing me $500. l used
one of them on a rented COW and one
on my own COW, following directions
explicitly. The treatment on the
rented COW has brought her through
all right and my own is giving prom
Use of being fresh in few days now.
1t has cost me considerable to carry
this COW for three years, with only an
increase of two calves, not only in the
loss of the increase but the loss on
the milk | do not recommend this
remedy as a cure for every case, as l
do not know if it would always work,
but both treatments have done just
what Moore Bros. claimed, and if
had another to abort l should send as
soon as possible and get another treat
ment. The cost, $110 per treatme nt.
is only a drop in the bucket compared
to the loss in other ways. II any one
tries this treatment and it fails to do
the work | would like to hear from
them through The Ranch-Sandy.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15

Look at the label on your wrapper. II you
are behind, pay up and save money.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-04-15
Increasing Size of Hens-Last spring

Increasing Size of Hens-Last spring
we had eleven Barred Rock hens that
weighed from Az to pounds. We
bought a thoroughbred Barred Rock
cockerel that weighed 9 pounds for
two dollars, to mate with them This
spring fifteen pullets taken at random
from a flock of fifty weighed from 612
to 81a pounds, an average gain OF TWO
pounds apiece. We sold the rooster
in the fall for one dollar. The extra
weight on these fifty pullets amounts
to 100 pounds. Then the young roos-
tiers we sold last summer and fall were
larger than they would have been had
we used a scrub rooster.-F. l.. John
son, Yakima Co.
How We Save the Manure.-Our
COWS face the windows We have
seven-foot space between the rows OF
cows The floor and cutters are &C.
ment and the cutters have fall to-
ward one end of the barn of an inch
in IA feet The liquid drains into a
cement tank that is situated far
enough from the barn to allow us to
unload hay from the outside, between
it and the barn. The solids are
wheeled out at present and dumped
into the tank We have grating
across one corner of the tank. The
LIQUID drains to that corner and is
pumped or dipped out into tank that
we keep on a low truck for hauling to
the garden or root patch. To spread
the LIQUID manure we have hole
through the bottom of the tank close
to the back end with plug long
enough to extend through the top OF
the tank. The tank extends far
enough over the truck to allow the
liquid to run out onto a board fas-
tened to the truck. The board spreads
the LIQUID in good shape. The cement
tank is made by digging rectangular
hole with s,oping sides and plastering
onto the ground a good coat of &C.
ment. 1t is cheap, durable and, we
think, a good investment.-W. j.
Langdon, Pierce Co.
Success with Corn SIage.-We have
felt very fortunate in having plenty OF
good silage. All our stock, even the
calves and pigs seem to enjoy it and
do we'll on it. Have been feeding pea
and oat silage to COWS, with some
roots, timothy and oat hay, without
grain or mill feed of any kind. Tried
bran for a while but got no result from
it. We seemed to get the least from
our work and land out of our oat hay,
and will not try to raise any more OF
it. We sowed the oats for a nurse crop
for clover and they killed large patch
es of the clover where they lodged.
While the COWS seemed to like the oat
hay better than timothy they would
eat only the heads and did not care
much for the timothy, and did poorly
while the oat hay lasted. The COWS
seemed to do as we'll on timothy (sec-
ond crop silage as on pea and oat
silage. | would say to Jules Fred
lund, of Skagit Co., that our expert
ence has been that second crop tim
othy and clover silage has a sweeter
smell than pea and oat silage. In fact,
our timothy silage smells very much
like our corn silage, as it has pleas
ant, sweetish smell. We have no trou-
BILE in raising corn for the silo. We
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
ONLY A HANDCAR.
"A Shivery Meeting with a
Flying Terror. .-.
(prizo

(PrlZe.
I T may seem foolish to
others but I have reason
to fear darkness and this is
how it happened. I lived at
the time within two blocks
of a railroad. One night,
having nothing to do, I
wandered to the railroad to
watch the trains which
passed at intervals of two or
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

sOned, there was plenty of
room to run and nearly
always some one to call.
Still shadows and bushes
and white posts and clothes
lines were pretty ghostly at
times and not at all COM
Portable.
Juniors cannot very well
be criticised or laughed at
for being afraid of darkness.
Elders were very often to
blame, telling the little folk
terrible tales about ghosts,
COLLINS, bears and bogiemen,
to keep them quiet or make
them obedient. False faces,
a fur boa with CLASSY eyes
and sharp teeth, Halloween
masks and Jack o. lanterns,
an imagination allowed to
run wild and playful cousins
who said .'Boo!" were also
responsible for much fear.
With lightning, it was diff
ferent: that was feared for
. the damage. it can do. Dark
Z ness in itself can do no hurt,
said Juniors, tho often it is
a cloak for harm; but light
ming is wild, free force
that nothing can check and
no one knows where it will
strike next. The fear of
lightning also had good rea-
sons for being, as many
Juniors witnessed it's de-
structive powers. Besides,
there was something start
ling in the sudden zigzag
flash and glare followed by
gloom. ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
The LDeek's Roll Of Honor
MINNEAPOLIS PRIZE WINNER,

MINNEAPOLIS PRIZE WINNERS.
Arthur Wright, Eighth Grade Sheridan School, 1610
Quincy street Me-
Eta Mortimer Sixth Grade Lowell School, 2e42 Grard
N. /. +
HONORABLE MENTION.
Olive Bergstrom. Eighth Grade, Adams School, 1928 Fiji
teenth s.
Bateman School,
Lake of the Isles boulevard.
Harriet Hewitt Sixth Grade Bryant School, 3S4O Twelfth
Esther Berglund. Grade, Holland School, 1926
Eighteenth NE.
NORTHWESTERN PRIZE WINNERS.
RaadQufs Seventh Grade, Warren, Mimi
Plant Washington School, Anoka,
5l.Esn HONORABLE MENTION
Carrie Mariner Eighth Grade Prairie du Chen, Wis.,
Agnes Peterson Eighth Grade, Dassel, MINI.
Dolly Amundson, Sixth Grade, Biwabik MINI.
Jennie Todd Fifth Grade, Granite Falls, MINI.
HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT.
Eta Aenart Tenth Grade, Side High School, 1908
as Washington avenue n
3 Eleventh
1888 Twelfth avenue s.
Margaret Warwick, Eleventh Falls.
George Cutting Ninth Grade, Byron MINI.
Kathrine Gedney Eleventh Grade, Onalsska, Wis.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

WAeIe elSlH0S SWltCneO 70
and fro, and of elevated
roads in large cities. He
reigned at the door Of the
biggest show on EARTH" at
museums, and at baseball
parks; he kept watch at the
toll-gates on bridges and pri-
vate and public roads; he
was gatekeeper for the first
aerial line to Mars and once
the gatekeeper was a stone
lion in front of a manor
house.
OF course he was a man of
stories. Many were the tales
he could tell of people and
things he had seen; bits OF
life stories revealed in the
faces of the passing crowd;
pathetic little incidents con-
corning waits and old folk;
humorous sketches of queer
people in Outlandish garb
who asked a thousand and.
one questions and persisted
in telling all they knew; de-
lightful little tales of chill
dren and animals VIII. are
nearly always interesting as
natural things are = tho
sometimes the children were
oh, ever so naughty! and
made the good old gate
keeper a great deal of UNI
necessary trouble.
Papers from Aneta, N. D..
were on the Minneapolis
topic.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

grew worse and my aunt said I must stay all night.
We were all sitting around the fire talking Suddenly
the electric lights went out and the lightning filled the
Then terrible crash and then sound
boom! like a large The next house had been
struck by lightning, and how awful illumna-
ton which gave the sky coor People ran
hither and thither shrekng and crying At last all
quiet, and then the heavens opened and down
torrent Of water. The lights were turned and
we began to collect scattered wits - -..-"E-
A Sixth Grade, Eta Mortimer
Lowell School. 2642 Girard Avenue N.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
A TYRANNICAL PLAYMATE.
(High School Credit.l

(Eigh School CreditO
+ HAVE always loved thunder storm with it's
tanned ierceness and have smiled others fled;
but must, alas confess weakness not fully
conquered, cowardly fear of the darkness.
That should be afraid is not surprising for
little child left much alone and cultivated
imagination to almost inconcevabe degree. It be-
my dearest playmate. AS court magician it
transformed the house into fairy castle which might
become pioneer stockade, batteship,
cent stronghold; while the few fruit trees in the yard
became mighty forest :primeval from which Indians
Continued Sixth Page)
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
AT THE GATES
The Keeper Talks Entertainingly to
Northwestern Juniors About People
and Things He Has Seen. =
Topic-THE GATEKEEPER TALKS

IL gatekeeper stood at his post and kept an
alert eye on the crowd surging about him
and streaming thru the gate, endlessly or
by fits and starts as his majesty permitted.
For royal person was the gatekeeper,
lord of the gate and information bureau
combined, with becoming dignity equal
to his power. But while he kept one eye
on the throng before the gate, the other
was on his work. Conscientious to a de-.
gree was the gatekeeper, so 1t was only
rarely that his vigilance relaxed long
enough to still his clamorous admirers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

three minutes in the shadow of empty box
for about ten minutes and then did very fool
ish thing. I jumped upon slowly moving freight
train. Thinking that could get ride back l rode
miles into the country. At length jumped
started back along the track toward home. "A
train along going in my direction, but was not
to catch it, and left behind. And 1t was
the whole weary four miles.
When I had walked what thought must be ten
miles thru gloomy darkness, coming down the
track before small dark object. To say that
would half the chills that went
thru Quicker than thought lay down between the
The object toward with lightning
pidity and passed When it had passed 1 re-
allied foolishness for it nothing but hand
Nevertheless do not venture the track
after dark Arthur Wright
Eighth Grade 2610 Quincy Street Me-
Sheridan School,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
OF TWIN FEARS.
Both Lightning and Darkness Have
< Good Excuses for Frightening Mimi
TOPIC-DO YOU FEAR LIGHTNING OR DARK
NESS? WHY?
eaPolis Juniors.

[E darkness indoors-Ah. how ghostly it:
was! There were treacherous shadows.
behind doors and in corners; there were
cracks and keyholes for the wind to
whistle and groan thru; clothes and cur
tans became tall, sheeted ghosts; COM
mon everyday furniture changed to
frightful shapes Or walked; and furry
pussies were never terrible as when
they brushed against frightened Juniors
and looked with all their great, green
eyes, Altogether darkness indoors was
horrible; but Juniors found that ever so
much teasing on the part of the family
themselves foolish did not make them
n. The fear had to be ;battled with and
AS for outdoors some of the Juniors rea-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

constantly switching to and fro. just going to
look at my watch again when something drew my at
tention that made me utter scream. I saw small
boy who had in wayI do not know how-suc-
ceeded in entering the yard. him crossing the
rails just locomotive rushed forth high speed
Before he could he caught by the locomotive
and hurled fully forty feet from the place thought
he killed at least seriously injured but hur
ried to get him off another track which he had fallen
I just in time to snatch him away when another
train from the opposite direction rushed past. For
moment stood wondering what to do, then suddenly
he opened his eyes and to his feet.
he had escaped with few scratches his face. 1t
wonderful escape. Simon Raadquist
Seventh Grade Warren MINI.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
GUARD OF THE GATEPOsT


The Stone Lion Came Life just Long Enough Tell
Its Wonderful History.
(Ffth and Sixth Grade Prize)
&c you want to know what have seen do you?"
- growled the voice of the lion the gatepost Ny
cousin and I were sitting the backs of the lions
which guarded the gate talking Of them
tho it were alive but when it spoke very
much surprised.
Il will proceed if you will get off back and be
seated the opposite post, for like to audi
ence.' AS did it began with, When
brought here by greatgrandfather the house
Srander and the ivy grew all over the wallis AS year,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
A TALE OF TWO
The Great Iron Monster and
a Little Child.
(Prize.)

y ENG a gatekeeper in
- railway yard in one OF
our western cities, I have had
many an opportunity to wit.
ness strange incidents. II
was getting dark, and as the
weather was rainy I looked
at my watch frequently to
see if I should not soon be
relieved. Now I had only
five minutes more to remain
at my post. I kept the gate
shut because trains Wers
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19

Not without good grounds was the gatekeeper's
vanity. He stood the gates great depots seeing
that people took the right trains railway yards
W ngin .suuitch ia
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-19
AN AWFUL ILLUMINATION
Red Glare Lighted the browning Heavens After
Sudden, Terrible Crash.

(Fifth and Sixth Grade Prize.)
I FEAR lightning very much; the spring
showers bringing with them this terror
my life feel like moving northward where there
Is constant winter and lightning.
One evening was visiting my aunt It had been
storming all day. Along toward evening the storm
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-09
AN oBJECT LESSON
In a Restaurant.

A physician puts this query: Have you never noticed in any large restau- ant at lunch or dinner time the large number of hearty, vigorous old men at the '. taples; men whose ages run from sixty to eigthy years; many of them naid and all perhaps gray, but none of them feeble or senile?
 Perhaps the spectacle is so common as to have escaped your observation or comment, but nevertheless it is an ob- 1eet lesson which means something.
 bf you will notice what these hearty old fellows are eating, you will observe that they are not munchine, bran crackers nor gingerly picking their way through a menu card of new fan gled health foods; on the contrary they seem to prefer a Juicy roast of beef. 9 properly turned loin of mutton, and even the deadly broiIed lobster is not altogether ignored.
 The point of all this is that a, yigor- ous old age depends upon good diges- ton and plenty of wholesome food and not upon dieting and endeavor to live upon bran crackers.
 There is certain class of food cranks, who seem to believe that meat coffee and many other good things are rank poisons, but these cadaverous. sickly looking individuals are a walk ing condemnation of their own theories.
 The matter in nutshell is that if the stomach secretes the natural di- gestive juices in sufficient quantity, any wholesome food will be promptly digested; if the stomach does not do so, and certain foods cause distress, one or two of Stuart's dyspepsia tab lets after each meal will remove all difficulty, because they supply just what every weak stomach lacks, pepsin, hy- drochloric acid, diastase and nux.
 Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do not act upon the bowels and in fact are not strictly q medicine, as they act al most entirely upon the food eaten, di- gesting it thoroughly and thus giving the stomach 8 much needed rest and an appetite for the next meal.
 Of people who travel, nine out of ten use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, know ing them to be perfectly safe to use at any time, and also having found out by experience that they are a safe guard against indigestion in any form, and eating as they have to, at all hours and all kinds of food, the travelling public for years have pinned their faith to Stuart's Tablets.
 All druggists sell them for 50 cents for full-sized packages, and any drug gist from Maine to California, if his opinion were asked, will say that Stu arts Dyspepsia Tablets is the most popular and successful remedy for any stomach trouble.