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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
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WHAT'S THE LTMITP

Dr. Dempwolf, of Berlin. reports that II
four and one-haf pounds of fruit ne founS
IS 10000 germs of different sorts.
o, doctor. spare US these details.
Ere long we shall be overcome,
For feeble calculation fails
To even guess the monstrous sum
Of microbes and bacteria
That hide behind jawbreaking terms.
End our suspense. Say, doctor, say,
What's our capacity for germs?
Give us the total. Set 1t down,
That we may carefully keep count,
with mathematic scowl and froWn,
Until each has his full amount.
Give US the figures, even though
The news our darkest dread confirms.
o doctor, this we want to know:
What's our capacity for germs?
What is the limit? One may try
To count the germs that he has had
Since first he turned a hungry eye
Upon the world-and he'll go MAD.
Deciliions are not in it, doc
We've simply lived on culture sperms.
OF course it will be quite shock,
But what's the Danger line Of germs!
You warn US that it's bad for us
To eat, or drink. or even breathe.
When do We strike the overplus?
We feel as though we fairly seethe
With bad bacii and the like
At contemplating II one sQuirms.
When will the Last contingent strike?
What's our capacity for germs?
w. D. N, in Chicago Daily Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
FOR SHIPPERS OF CALVES.
Financial Returns Depend Largely
Upon the Way in Which the
Animals Are Dressed.

Calves from three to six weeks old
and weighing about one hundred
pounds, or say, from 80 to 120 pounds,
are the most desirable weights for ship
ment. The head should be cut out, so as
to leave the hide of the head on the skin.
The legs should be cut off at the knee
joint. The entrails should all be re-
moved, excepting the Kidneys; the liver,
lights and heart should be taken out.
Cut the carcass open from the neck
through the entire length-from head
to bumgut. If this is done they are not
so apt to sour and spoil during hot
weather Many a fine carcass has been
spoiled in hot weather because of it moi
being cut open. Don't wash the carcass
out with water, but wipe out with dry
cloth. Don't ship until the animal heat
is entirely out of the body, and never
tie the carcass up in a bag, as this
keeps the air from circulating and
makes the meat more liable to become
tainted.
Mark for shipment by fastening a
shipping tag to the hind leg. Calves un-
der so pounds should not be shipped
and are liable to be condemned by the
health officers as being unfit for food
Merchants, too, are liable to be fined il
found selling these slunks, for violation
Of the law Heavy calves, such as have
been fed on buttermilk, never sell well
in our market, as they are neither veal
nor beef.-Chicago Trade Bulletin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
POULTRY YARD CHATTER

Cheap food is always at the expense
of quality.
No food is cheap that does not bring
paying results.
Provide plenty of nests where there
are many hens or pullets.
Damaged food invites indigestion
and various bowel troubles.
It's trouble" to look after flock OF
poultry in the way it should be done
but it pays.
Grit, either oyster shells or crushed
granite, should be kept under cover
accessible to the poultry.
Air the poultry house once a day, no
matter how cold it is. Don't neglect
to clean out the House every morning
because sit is so cold"
Keep the cockerels and pullets sepa-
rate until couple of weeks before you
commence saving eggs for Matching.
Both v i'll be the better for the plan.
The best condition remedy" for
poultry is good care, cleanliness in the
houses, variety of sound food, grit,
pure water, ETC., and making the stock
exercise in scratching shed.
Keep the poultry busy scratching.
Plenty of short, dry straw litter or
leaves under a shed or in the house is
the way and place. Scatter a little
cracked corn or wheat several times
during the day. Late in the evening
give enough warm food to provide for
the required amount.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
CAUSES OF PLANT DISEASE.
Rotation of Crops Will Do More to Re-
move Them for Good Than
Anything Else.

In paper read before the Normal
Institute of New York Prof. Il. Q.
Stewart of the Geneva ExperimerS
station said: "A false impression pre-
walls that plant disease is only an in
fictitious trouble; a more comprehen-
sive definition would be any cause
which makes for immature growth. 1t
may be rust, blight, insects, drought,
lack of fertility, improperly balanced
plant food or too much rain
1T is often hard to define the dit
ference between very low forms of in
sect life and some forms OF fungous
growth. To illustrate, the pimpies on
potatoes were supposed to be fungouS
growth, but investigation has SHOWN
them to be the work of larvae OF
the flea beetle. The losses arising from
plant disease are almost beyond COM
putation; the loss from oat smut alone
in the United States was estimated at
$4,000, 900 in 1900 And a conservative
estimate of the loss from potato blgnt
in New York state for the season just
closed will be $1O,000,000. figuring on
100000 acres and a per acre loss OF %
bushels, valued at so cents bushel.
A simple remedy for the smut con-
sists in soaking the seed for two hours
in a solution of formalin, one pound 10
forty bushels; and the bordeaux mix
ture offers the same remedy for potato
blight, if applied in season. This was
abundantly proved last season. III
spraying a field just after a week OF
most favorable weather for developing
and spreading the spores, the work was
most effectually cone, but the spores
were there ahead Of us, and SO we
simply covered them over and they
soon got in their deadly work. Had
the vines been covered two weeks
earlier the germ would nave found no
congenial place for growth, and hence
clean, healthy foliage w, uld have re-
suited.
A broad, general principle can be laid
down, that rotation of crops will tend
to freedom from plant disease, because
as a rule the same disease does not al
feet variety of plants. When 1t does.
then these crops should not follow
each other
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
1an1-1ao4.

Nekoma, H., April lsth.-Away back in
1901 Mr.. Albert Il. Larson of this place
was suffering with Kidney disease and
bac5ache. The pain he was called upon to
endure was very great and rendered his
life almost burden sto him. He heard OF
Dodd's Kidney Pills and began to use
them and almost at once he began to get
better He had been unable to work, but
Dodd's Kidney Pills soon made him able
to go to work again. He used the remedy
till he was completely cured. He says he
has grown stronger year by year since he
got rid of his old trouble.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills certainly gave me
a complete and permanent cure, for L
have felt stronger since 1 used them in
1901 than ever before. I can do harder
work now in 1904 than could last year. |
cannot praise Dodd's Kidney Pills enough.
l would not be without them in the
house."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

be before I can come back. will leave
some magazines on the bed, and pencil
and some paper. But don't use your
arms too much, dear Now" holding the
spoon to his grimly closed lips, please,
Harold. I've only got about ten minutes
more"
But he shook his head. his deep, sunk
IN eyes staring steadfastly-desp airing-
IL, it seemed to her-at the ceiling.
Harold" she whispered, frightened
sob in her voice." arn't you glad at
what the doctor said, that you will get
well?'"
Her eyes grew pitiful as she looked
at the long, cadaverous face, grown
rough and hairy through months of uG-
familiarity with a razor. Shortly the
Sunken, burning gaze came down from
The ceiling to her face.
Glad" harshly, when my one
thought, my one hope through all these
months has been that this would be the
end, that you could go back to your peo-
pie in the east and live part of your life
as it should be lived"
But we will go together" eagerly
That is the only way 1 would care to
live. We will commence again, and be
SO happy"
your people ould not accept me, you
know that; and I would not in their
place. When man aims so high as ]
have, and falls 50 low, the only way is
to have his light put out or to put it out
himself. There is no middle course
But l tried to save you from part of it
Molly" ring of peeling sofening the
grimaess of his despair. You know
that When went to Alaska TO retrieve
myself and failed, and then came here
with some wild companions, thought
was buried for all time sent you whai
money had, with no trace Of the sender
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
ANCHORlNC OF SAND DUNES
They Were Covered with Vegetation
to Prevent Them from Engulf-
ing Arabic Land.

So much attention has been directed
to the work that is being done in re-
claiming the arid and semi-arid lands of
the west that the reclamation work along
the Atlantic coast is almost entirely
overlooked The familiar sand dunes,
characteristic of the coast from Cape Cod
to Cape Fear, while perhaps artistic, con-
stitute a menace to adjacent cultivated
lands and are useless in themselves, Mas
sachusetts, at considerable expense, has
been endeavoring to reclaim the sand
dunes that form so large part of the
Province Lands" on Cape Cod.
1t has been found that sand is readily
bound together by grass roots, and that
if sturdy varieties of grass, suitable for
sandy soils, are planted and cared for
while obtaining foothold and maturing g,
they will gradually cover large areas,
transforming them from shifting worth
less lands into veritable fertile cultivable
fields. Many years of forestry work in
Europehave shown that after the grasses
have made a start, trees can be success
fully raised on these erstwhile sand piles,
which may thus be made to yield reve-
nue.. Some of the most extensive and
mobile sand dunes in the United States,
however, are found in the west, and it is
the ambition of the bureau of forestry to
cover these with permanent forest
growths. Along the Columbia river in
Washington the sand is very light owing
to the large proportion of mica it con-
| tains, and consequently is easily blown
about by the winds.
In part of the lower Columbia river
| valley great orchards have been actually
engulfed with the shifting sands, and the
railroads have experienced great diff
| ficulty in maintaining their tracks in this
district in passable condition. In order
| to make a practical test as to the best
method of treating these duns, a strip q
land on the Columbia river, between
Willow creek and the John Day river
has been set aside by the government for
extensive experiments based on the work
done in Massachusetts referred to above
In the east, tree planting plans for own
ers of sandy tracts are being prepared
this extending the scope of the practical
cooperation begun by the bureau OF
| forestry. Philadelphia Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Absent-Minded Farmer.

Not long ago an absent minded farm
er living near Roanoke put some but
ter on his wagon and drota to town.
When he arrived he was astcnished to
find all the stores closed. This puzzled
him for minute, and then it dawned
upon him that the day was Sunday.
AS he was pious man, he drove wild
II home and made the children quit
work and get ready for church.-Kan-
sas City Journal.
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His Part in
the HOId-UD
BY FRANK II. SWEET
1ooooooooooooooOoooooN


THERE was a discordant, prolonged
1 shrek, almost at the window of the
bedroom, and Molly Tetralls eyes
opened and stared blankly for a moment
at the low pine ceiling, then she sprang
up and dressed hurriedly. 1t was the
first whistle Of the button factory, and in
80 minutes more the second would come.
From time to time, as she thrust in the
Itndlings and started them, and placed
the coffee pot upon the stove, and fol-
lowed that with the bits of meat and
vegetables she had chopped and made
ready the night before, she glanced up at
the clock. At the end of Is minutes she
had ready an imprOvised waiter OF a
pie tin, on which were bowl OF soup and
4 cup of hot coffee. The tin was con-
cealed by a neatly arranged napkin.
With this in her hand she went softly
into the bedroom.
Harold" she said, in low voice, "are
you awake dear?"
An impatient grunt was the only re-
Sponse; but it was enough to take her
quickly to the bedside, a glad look Iii
her eyes, the refrain of an old school
girl song she had once loved rising un-
consciously to her lips. The man threw
ont his arm irritably.
stop, Molly, for heavens sake he
snapped. Don't let me hear that thing
again 1t makes me wild"
Very well, dear" the JOY still dane
ing in her eyes, Il will try to remember
But | am so glad! Oh, Harold, you
can never know how glad l am. Il
was afraid it might lie different. think
went to sleep last night with that sing
ing in my heart. | forgot that | was
tired, that it was two o'clock and l would
have but four hours to sleep before the
whistle blew. l could only think Of
what the doctor said as he went out, and
[ was just glad, glad. and so happy.
did not know God could be so good"
She raised his head little, placing an
other pillow under it, then seated herself
upon the edge of the bed and took a
spoonful of the soup from the bowl.
NOW, Harold" she urged, happily,
you must eat nice big breakfast, for
you know what long, dreary day it will
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
MODEL COOP FOR CHICKENS
AS a Labor Saver the Continuance
Here Described in Detail Has
But Few Equals.

Sketch and description of coop and
run for setting hen and chicks. They
can roost in it till the hen leaves them.
Ends 1 inch thick or more; make ends
first feet, 21z inches long, back edges
feet inches, front edge l foot IL
inches. Front and back should be one
half-inch thick Nail box together and
nail two pieces on inside of back and
front of coop 3x1, on which put a loose
floor. Now take two pieces 212x1-inch
Z feet long. Nail one on each side of
coop at top edge of front, keep back one
same distance from bottom. Let them
Overhang 6 inches at each end, to form
handles. Put two on bottom 6 feet long;
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Small Rroods Are Safest.

Chicks in small broods will do bet
ter, and while there are people who
succeed excelIently with 100 chicks in a
brooder, the average person will do
better if only so are placed in a flock.
and still better if the number be reduced
to %. In large f1ocks chicks will crowd,
and if they once get into jam and are
overheated they are of very little value
afterwards. Once overheated they are
tender and will crowd whenever a num-
Der are together, no matter what the
temperature of the brooder may be-
Commercial Poultry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
CUTICURA PILLS
For Cooling and Cleansing the blood
in TortuEing, Disfguring HumorB
80 Chocolate Pills Csc.

Cuticura Resolvent Pills chocolate
coated) are the, product of enty-ive
years practical laboratory experience in
the preparation of remedies for the treat
ment of humors of the skin, scalp and
blood, with loss of hair, and are confident
" believed to be superior to all other
blood purifiers, however expensive. Com
every humor may now be had for 81 90.
consisting of Cuticura Soap to cleanse the
skin, Cuticura Ointment to heal the skin,
and Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the blood. A single set is often
sufficient to cure
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
FLOWING AROUND A DITCH.

center throwing dirt from the
bitches After a few years you will
have gradual slope to bitches, and
the banks can be kept clean, instead Of
ten to twenty feet of briars and weeds,
also avoiding the wash on either side.
The same rule will work in old gar
dens and small fields, where all around
the fence is a bank of dirt and the
center of garden SO low no water can
get out.
Flat, lowlands can be made self
draining by systematic blowing. Com
mence in lands 40 to so feet or more
wide, and always throw dirt to center.
I have seen it done successfully in low
river bottom lands. The accompanying
cut will illustrate my plan more clear
ly.-Farm and Home.
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Diversified Farming Safest.

The one-crop farmer is at the mercy
of both excessive drought and rain,
poor crops and low prices There are
too many things against him to sue
coed well. In diversified farming if one
thing fails another succeeds. Then
if there is q universally good crop he
is better of than if he had only one
crop. It is all right to do one thing
particularly well, but keep every dish
you have right side up.-Midland
Farmer,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Quite an Idea.

Mrs. Subbubs-I see by the papers
that that big fire was started by "spon-
taneous combustion
Mr.. Subbubs-Well?
II was just thinking how nice it
would be if we could only buy some
of it for use in the furnace in the
cellar. philadelphia Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Digestion of the Horse.

A good horseman says ii he can
feed and water his horse he will never
have sick horse from overeating, in
digestion or stomach trouble. The
careful horseman learns to know his
horses and just wha- amount of feed
they require and the kind of feed,
while the careless hand feeds the same
to an idle horse as to the worker, and
misses meal occasionally, and the
hungry horse is given a double feed
which he gulps down and has the collie
or some trouble. The digestion of the
horse is sensitive and requires caro-
full, skillfu1 treatment.-Detroit Free
Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
impossible.

"Sir!" exclaimed the injured party,
'you stuck your umbrella into my eye"
80, no." replied the cheerful offender,
''you are mistaken"
"Mistaken?" demanded the irate man
"You idiot, l know when my eye is hurt,
I guess"
"Doubtless," replied the cheerful fell
low, but you don't know my umbrella.
I borrowed this one from a friend to-
daY."-Stray Stories.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Something Like a Waiter.

Stranger Ito hotel proprietor)-H
you vacancy among your walters?
Hotel Proprietor-Wen, l don't know.
l suppose | might make place for a man
Of Of fine address like like you: Have you ever
"Well, l should say so. l waited Is
years to marry girl, and last week she
married another fellow. "-Stray Stories.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
WHERE TO START FLOWN G.
A system That Works Around bitches
and Also in Low or River
Bottom Lands.

In the billy countries where ditch
drains from both sides, the dirt is
thrown with wing plows toward the
ditch, and after years of this method
the ditch banks are SO high that the
water does not get into the ditch, but
forms a gully on either side. So there
are soon three bitches instead of one.
To avoid this, start at equal distances
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Unnatural.

Cant say that l enjoyed that last
number very much. Her voice didn't
sound natural"
How could it? The song is written in
six sharps Times-Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21
Ladies Can Wear Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease A certain cure for swollen, sweating,
cept no substitute. Trial package FREE.
Address A. S. Olmsted LIE Roy, N. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

As man travels on in the journey of
life his objects of wonder daily diminish,
and he is continually finding out some very
simple cause for some great matter of mar
vel.-Washington Irving.
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Wise PROPRIETOR lin cheap res
taurant) Here, waiter! This food is
vile, and l don't propose to pay for it.
Where's the proprietor?" Waiter-"He's
gone home to lunch, sir."-Philadelphia
Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

4 man must leave many things behind
to win the things to come.-Ram's Horn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton has an equal for coughs and colds.-J.
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is, 1900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

Why don't you have an old barrel, or
box, in a convenient place, in which to
keep your forks, spades and shoyels.
and then keep them there?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

Give the reins to appetite and you give
wings to happiness.--Ram's Horn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-21

'O5-''Yes. indeed, I'd rather be right
than president" '04-''Well, I'd rather be
president and take chances. Cornell
Widow.
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A Young Chicago Girl save'

"DEAR thank for the help and ber
received through the of Lydia E. Pnhams Vege
and Liver Pills When was about seYentee
Middletown transcript., 1904-02-27
MUsKRArs DRIVEN TO cANNIBAL1sx

THoRoUGHFARE NECK, Feb. 23d.-This
has been an unusually severe winter
with muskrats, rabbits, quail, and other
game, but the muskrat has suffered most,
and has indeed, experienced trials and
tribulations the past ten months. Har-
ing price on his fur that caused his hu-
man enemies to be more jealous than u.s.
ual in his capture and driven By frost and
flood from his only refuge. the house,
the mercy Of dogs, foxes, hawks, etc.,
but worst of all his food supplies, which
consists Of the roots Of various aquatic
plants, has been almost entirely cut off
the greater part of the winter by the un-
usally cold weather. The rats have been
driven by hunger even to deyouring their
fellow creatures that are caught in traps
which is something very unusual as the
animal is supposed to be entirely herbi-
vorous. This strange fact has been re-
ported by several trappers, and came un.
der our own observation after the recent
snow when carcass OF muskrat which
had been caught in trap in furror in
bank near the marsh was found par
tally devoured while path of muskrat's
tracks was leading from this to and from
the marsh. Around the carcass newly
fallen snow was trodden for several feet
where the rodents had fought over their
grewsome repast. The numbers Of musk
rats will in all probability be greatly de-
creased this winter and the effect it will