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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

handsome and well-built homes. The
care and attention given to this place
may in itself have brought good
neighbors.
A good lawn was made, shade and
fruit trees We're Immediately set out
and sedulously cared for, the man has
become an expert gardener. the chick
en- business has become an important
adjunct, furnishing not only an ample
meat supply, but a considerable ad-
ditional income from eggs, broilers
and capons. The fruit trees are be-
ginning to bear and the berry lushes
have long since yielded fresh fruit for
the table and jellies and jams for
winter. The place is constantly i'm
proving end being improved.
The interior of the house was well
finished to commence with. Room
after room has since been furnished
and beautifled as means admitted.
For making this move. for adopting
this change in their modes of life. this
couple are better people; they are bet
ter citizens. they are broader, they
know more, they are happier and they
are richer in two senses They make
more money and they save more.
They buy less Of canned vegetables
and meats and they have more to
spend In improving their place and
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Balanced RatiOnS for Man and
Beast.

Two Farmers Bulletins Of the De-
partment of agriculture, widely dis
similar in contents, yet treating of sub
jects which have. a closely-connected
relationship are the Feeding Of Farm
Animals and the Principles of Bread
Making, and both of them have proven
SO popular that their reprinting has
been required several times.
The feeding of the animals on the
farm is a matter which every farmer
is studying more or less closely, tLe
more successful ones the most closely,
since 1t is a matter of constant expert
ment and inquiry to determine just
what is the best ration for work, meat
and dairy animals. While each mans
experience must be to great extent
his guide, there are certain laws. the
results of wide experiments, which af-
ford much aid to the intelligent feeder
and these are summarized in the bulle-
tin entioned-Farmers' Bulletin %.
What is known as q balanced ration
is always the thing to be attained.
Food is divided into two general
classes; fat and heat producing,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

"Ah," said the man. "if we had only
had the advantages when we were
young which our children have here
there would have been q lot more In
life for u.s."
And so it is everywhere. 1t matters
little, II you live in brown stone
front with the brick pavement direct.
ly under your window, whether you
have a plain or carved window sill,
but it does matter whether your front
or back yard is well kept and well
fenced and is prettily decorated with
plants and vines, and whether, IL you
have more ground, 1t is a poor, un-
attractive plot or instead is thing
Of beauty and joy, not only to you
but to all who see il.
How many men you run across
who have been lawfully busy" but
are going TO "fix up" their places.
They seldom get fixed. Before they
get fixed up with the little things a
home should have, they need fixing in
earnest-they are old places.
If as a people we could become ed
ucated to the idea of greater perma-
nency in our mode of living, of build
ing and improving for our future
years, or doing something with the
idea in mind that we would not have
to redo it in ten or fifteen years
hence, the average American home
would have far more substantial,
comfortable and attractive appear
ancc.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

or frame dwelling, usually Of cheap,
second growth timber. In twenty years
the English home IS covered with ivy
and has the appearance of suhtantl-
Ulity and sOlidity, as though it had al
ways been there and intended remain
Ing If you mention twenty years
hence" to the American, he will shrug
his shoulders and smile and tell you
he expects to be somewhere else in
twenty years, if he has not bettered
his condition and gotten out of 1t in
half that time. But twenty years
pass more quickly than is expected,
and what does the place look like
then: 1t has had perhaps three coats
of paint. The second set of shingles
Is curling up and needs replacing and
the house itself is worth one half Of
Its value when new.
Yet ii must be agreed that every
man should build a house with the
idea of making 1t his permanent
home, adding TO it rs his needs grow,
hut continually improving it and
Identifying it. If for no other cause
than increasing its selling value, lie
should build well and improve. And
this applies to the surrounding
grounds, the outbuildings, etc, fully
as much as the home proper.
What is home without a mother.
AMI a good wife and children? What
Is home, would add, even with these
blessings, unless it is real home, a
comfortable and beautiful one?
All there is q difference. and such IL
wide difference, between an abode or
n mere dwelling place and home.
Trying 10 treat this matter from a
practical standpoint. the Department
of Agriculture recently issued an il.
lustratcd bulletin Oh identifying back
yards. This applied to city and ST.
brrhHn homes, hut the idea is the
sailc everywhere.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

The Englishman lives in a house,
which III all probability his father and
his forefathers have lived in for q
dozen generations. Even where the
house is not owned by the resident,
the preferential right deScends from
father TO son TO rent and occupy 1t.
II is a true home.
Americans are strongly lmbued
with the idea of owning homes,
houses with accompanying plots OF
land, but as a rule Americans are all
too careless. at the same time, about
creating a lit Of scenery or making
the home such an attractive abode as
will cause the traveller to pause n
moment and exclam: "What a pretty
little place"
In the first instance where his Eng
fish cousin. OF the English landlord
ere,;~ stone house, al AN advanced
cost doubtless, hut more than evened
up in n few years by rrpamtinS and
repairing. th"-AwH can throws togeth-
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

And this calls to mind practical IL
lustration of what good thing 1t Is,
what splendid thing to start In
growing something in your back yard,
II you have nothing bigger. For l
have in mind two people, young
man and his wife, who started their
married life in a rented city house
with back yard Is feet wide and
containing about one-fortieth of an
acre. They had lived In the city all
their lives and knew nothing Of the
wonders OF plant and animal produc-
ton. But they commenced at once
to use their ground. They planted
radishes and lettuce and some flow
iers and trained tomatoes against the
fence, and they set hen. Their fall
ures and interesting experiences dur
ing the two years they lived thus
would fill volume. But the great re-
suit was that before the end Of the
first year, they who had never lived
outside their four walls, felt terribly
confined. They longed to get out and
have enough land to grow more
things, to make q genuine garden and
to nurture and rear and reap the
things which they ate. And 20 they
moved into the country, hardly the
real country yet; but they bought
half an acre just beyond the city out
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

known as carbohydrates. and muscle
and bone producing, known as nitro
genous, and these two foods should be
supplied the animal in the proper pro-
portion. If there is a preponderance
of either, the ration is unbalanced.
Both Of these bulletins can be OBJ
tanned free through members of con-
gress or senators, or by writing to
the Secretary Of Agriculture at Wash
ington.
Corn, for instance. is a food rich in
carbohydrates and should be "bal-
anced" by a portion of some nitroge-
nous food such MS barley, bran, cow
peas or others Of the legumes. A pc
rusal of this bulletin will give the
reader a very clear understanding of
the value of food for animals
Food Value of Bread.
The second bulletin on Bread Max
ing, Farmers Bulletin 112, also goes
into the question of what is . balanced
ration, but for human food. As corn
and corn fodder is a fat-producing
food for animals, so corn bread 10 q
one-sided diet for man and while II
produces fat and energy or fuel for
the body does not tend to give him
the same capacity for endurance that
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14
Items of Interest.

Oscar Hunt of the Carlisle football
team is a millionaire Indian,
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

PLANTS BELOW THE SILL.
average five and u half times as much
as cubic foot of water.
1t costs as much to fire l6-inch
cannon as it does to pay a private
soldier his wages for five years.
The ruins of prehistoric fortified
British village have Deen unearthed
near Carshalton, England.
The fly is seven times stronger than
a horse, weight for weight. 1t can lift
twenty times its own weight.
The canning of blue berries is an
important industry in Vermont. One
factory last season canned 100000
gallons Of the berry.
Though there are many women col
onels the only woman admiral is the
Queen Of Greece. She is an honorary
admiral in the Russian navy.
A CUBIC mile or earth weighs 20
$4,000 tons and the volume of the
earth is 2J9SSO, 100000 cubic miles
Question in mental arithmetic: How
much does the earth weigh?
Professor William T. Hornaday, the
zoologist, is seeking to have the gen.
eral government establish great buff
falo park in the west that the animal
may not become extinct.
There are only three million Cos
sacks in Russia. The number Of
peasants is about one hundred million.
there are 100000 "lower city dwell
lcrs' and 100000 nomads and semi
barbarians.
Dietary experts of the Department
Of Agriculture estimate that man
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14
BEAUTIFYING RURAL HOMES.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

skirts and they built a barn and NOV.
ed into it and lived there the first
year, while they were building their
house.
They at once planted a garden
which seemed to them like real
farm after their tiny back yard, and
the first year they raised all the veg
etables they could eat, besides over
fifty chickens.
And since then they have gone on
identifying and embelliShing this
place, until 1t is now lovely country
residence, twenty per cent. higher in
value than it would have been if, five
years ago they had made it a mere
habitation.
In the first place they employed an
architect and built good house. one
which, with ordinary repairs, will
stand in good shape fifty years hence.
They painted II well. Many long
winter evenings of the lrst year,
while they lived in the barn, Were
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

Old. battered, secondhand silk hats
are in good demand among comedians
also among the colored fraternity.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

A cubic foot of earth weighs on an
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

wheat or rye bread does, The wheat
berry in itself comes. yel near being
a balanced ration. g . robbed Of
its gluten, which Les to the skin,
it is no longer a conHf9ete food. POta-
toes are extremely SRe-sided and
should be eaten in connection with
some heterogeneous food, such as lean
meat or beans, which, however, :, If
eaten alone would afford the system
too much nitrogen. This bulletin,
which is written by woman. also DIS
eusses the practical side Of bread max
ing and can probably be read with
benefit by any housewife. -
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

, spent in going over architects plans
and adjusting pretty and artistic eff
ects to their limited price. And if a
man is going to build II house, why
not have it pretty at the same time?
This house and its valuable ground
cost about $4,000, like hundreds OF
thousands of other homes throughout
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

the country. Yet it is strikingly
handsome place. The proof of this is
that while it was the first dwelling to
be erected in that particular section,
other houses which have gone up
since have largely copied its style,
and it is now surrounded by q dozen
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

adding to its beauty and desirability.
They have lately put up a substantial
light iron fence, which, kept well
painted, txili last unto the third and
fourth geaeration.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-14

doing hard muscular work should
have daily food with fuel value Of
1880 calories while man taking lit
tie exercise needs only 2,450.
Switzerland is the oldest as we'll as
one of the smallest republics in the
world. The cantons of Uri, Schwyz
and Untsrwalden formed a defensive
league In 1921, and this was the be-
ginning of the Swiss Confederacy.
The American harvest of broom
corn this year will furnish material
for 100000 brooms worth, approx
imately, $15,00O,OOO. With 1000
brooms to q car, 10000 freight cars
will be required to transport the
broom output
The star nearest to the earth Is AL.
pha CAntaura estimated to be 25,OOO,.
0O0.0O0,0O0 miles away or 275,OO0
times farther distant from the earth
than the sun. Needless to say these
figures are in what are known as
round numbers"
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

A BERRY q CO., PosToFTTcE BLOCK.
BERKELEY
S31OO-(sw o-room house on Fulton st. neAr
Asby ave-: i've minutes walk 70 station
s2sOo-New 5-room cottage; ADDISON SKI ooiis
for home: owners leaving town
s45Oo-New Groom house on Telegraph aVe-s
near Derby: hardwood doors
saoso-New S-roorn house; telegraph ava.
near Ashby; $500 down. balance a. rant
s1ooo-Four acres. adjoining @ c. grounds On
the east fine Investment
We have some good houses Tor rent rur-
ns.hsd or unfurnished- Some az the n1r-
nisned houses are for rent during rns Vaca-
ton only at q nominal rent
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28
VERY FINE COUNTRY PLACE NEAR
HAYWARDS
BURLINGAME REAL ESTATE.

WHY NOT BUY THE BEST?
Our BurIingame Tract. with its beautiful
attrsctt,,a bonas connends tts.r - -Loss
who are seeking delightful spot for a home
at moderate price. This property lies within
a few minutes walk OF the station; the roads
are all severed and water mains laid; no
saloons Objectionable buildings OK any char
acter allowed; prices range from $500 FOR &
lot 50x15O and upwards; s100 cash, balance
monthly; liz lots have been sold In a short
time. LYON HOAG. 11e Montgomery ct.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

1900 acres tule land KniRhtsen, San
JOAQUIN Co.; 2S0 acres in asparagus. $50 acres
bearing and nets $50 per day. balance will bear
next year; this years crop sold az 41sc per
pound: most of remainder OF this tract Is in
rye grass. Alfalfa and red clover; the place
nets $50 Per day the sale OF milk alone and
could easily be developed 20 1000 COWS.
This tract is we'll improved; has strong. safe
levees ana is thoroughly ditched and drained
cheap freight rates. il has both river and
railway transportation.
There is no better income farm in the State:
the owner refused $50 rental per for the
land bearing aspara gus ard IS TO SIS per acre
can be readily obtained for tule land similar to
this Price Sl12 so per acre; reasonable terms.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28
HAYwARDs REAL EsrArE.

s26 PER acre-173 acres fine stock ranch;
plenty fne spring water; house 6 rooms
barn and other outbuildings; plenty wood; 8
Sis per acre-10 or 20 acres: fine place
for chicken ranches; good location; near
school: 2 miles from Hayward
STOOLS acres; modern house of rooms
barn tank farmhouse; all in fruit apricots
and pears: fine view; miles from Hayward.
baTn Og chicken s houses: USES mil 0aS and taSI
In choice fruits; acres hay and veg
etable ground; IL miles from Hayward.
chicken-houses ali in fruit; $50 chickens
farming implements included; i y miles from
Hayward.
chicken-house: 8 acres in fruit trees and
vines, balance hay and vegetable ground; !;
good location 2 miles from Hayward
$22O0-6 acres; house large and
basement; barn; y acres in grapes, bal
ance good vegetable ground; IL miles from
Hayward.
Si2oo-ls acre; house rooms: barn: plen-
ty water; 11a miles from Haywards
s135 per acre-12 acres rolling land. good
RAMAGE & STANTON.
Castro St, nearA. Hayward
1920 ACRES. with broom house. barn.
chicken house and barn: good WELL pump; 2
acres in vines bearing; : acres fruit creek;
acres fine rich soil; balance for hay and
10 acres Of level. rich soil in fruit. with
Groom new house: barn. chicken houses,
fruit boxes. farming tools, incubator,
brooders, chicken coops. ETC.; wells. abund-
ancs Of water. $500
10 acres on corner OF two roads. near eiec-
trio and new boulevard: 5-roona house,
high basement: barn. well, mill and tank;
chicken houses; several acres fruit $500.
The finest country home IN Alameda Co. !
modern house; barn. chicken houses; plenty
Of water: grand view OF valley and bay; .
positive snap.
Large list OF best varieties Of property.
Bee me before purchasing
Castro st., near b. Haywards, ca.
sx ACRES OF very productive fruit land; eli
In full bearing; besutifui location: no buiit-
5 ACRES rich level Land; partly In fruit;
rich vegetable land. house, barn, chicken
house: 100 chickens cow and calf horse and
wagon, buggy tools, etc, 5000.
rs ACRES In cultivation; 10 acres In fruit,
Is acres in vegetables and hay; fair build
fngs; bargain; $4,000.
\ 2 ACRES and buildings, $1,000
Apply to s. D. WARREN d SON
Real Estate, Haywards, Cal
VERY FINE COUNTRY PLACE NEAR
HAYWARDS.
Modern two-story house. 10 rooms, bath and
basement; hot and cold water over house, sani-
tary plumbing stable laundry, extensive poul-
try buildir gs Q acres orchard. beautiful large
shade trees shrubs, hedges and lovely flowers,
macadamized drives about place. hne water
piped all place. telephone. etc: an ideal
country home. n. ]. MADISON. owner, Hay
wards. Cal.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY HOME.

OOONIfSI
IN FAIR OAKS.
Comprising about seven CD acres Of beauti-
ful grounds full OF flowers and fruit and Ma
testic oak trees. large two-story cottage Of
bedrocmA baths. dining hall, breakfast room
reception room, billiard room. large living room
and large reception hall; also stables tank
house and lodge for servants; In fact every
thing for very complete and comfortable
country house beautifully furnished and decor
ated. complete and ready for Immediate oo-
cupancy. For further particulars apply JOS
FREDERICKs q CO.. 81 Ellis St. San Fran
cisco.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28
A FEW PROPERTIES WORTH ATTENTION.

A FEW PROPERTIES WORTH ATTENTION.
e125o-Rustic country cottags. rooms. bath.
patent toilet. etc; for 1890 near foot
bills (2o29)
s1Soo-Cottage. 4 rooms. bath. etc. high base
ment with 2 rooms; lot 4Ox1c6; near
shattuck; cash $500 c2047)
s2ooo-cottage rooms. bath etc. high base-
s22oo-Nsw 2-stOry shinslsd house. 6 GOD
rooms. bath, toilets, electric light.
fuel gas; lot 3OxS0; street work done
and cement walks done; above railroad:
cash $11OO. balance fat loan (2643)
s250o-Modern cottage 8 rooms. bath. etc. cleo
tric light improved street: lot 36x1l2f
above railroad: close TO this station
cash $500. (2O42)
s270o to sscOcESlodsrn colonial. ElizaSstha.n
and Queen Anne residences IN desirable
locations
II ID. IRWIN, Lorin Station.
South Berkeley-Open Sundays.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

552 acres near Bay Point, Contra Costa Co. /:
345 acres Of upland in high state OF cultivation
and excellent improvements; balance good graz
ing marsa land; estimated value OF this year
crop, 5000, not idcluded; railway station u
mile distant; price $4,000; terms
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28
n l. coRYML co.

FOR rent, IN Berkelsy's choicest residence
section a high-class six-room house for sS5
per month: also number OF furnished houses
FOR rent during the summer months
II YOU have money which Is not drawing
you more than savings bank rate or interest.
let Us show you some choice business property
in Berkeleys most favored localities. whlcn
Is sure to advances in value AZ a rem2rkaois
rate.
We now have control OF 200 feet on colisgs
avenue At the junction OF Claremonr. and are
still able to offer II al q very low nE1rs
n vou want to buy home OF a building loe
you cannot fail 70 Be interested In our LIST on
this kind OF property.
E L CORYELL CO.,
Rooms 3o1-3o3 First National Sank Eidg-s
Phone North 81 p o. bon -
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

Ie0-3eo acres tule land, to suit purchaser, at
SO Per acre; good leyees; ditched, drained and
in high state OF cultivation.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

800 acres east OF Lathrop, San Joaquin Co.
good improvements and highly cultivated: wa
ter right sufficient TO irrigate the place goes
with Il: $50 acres in alfalfa; price $40 per
acre; one half cash, balance termA
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

$50 70 500 per acre: 1o-scrs tracts At Land
ssy; easy monthly payments: the earliest
orange and grape section il California: 1000
acres planted this year. They pay $500 10
500 per acre now.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28
MARIN COUNTY REAL ESTA
CHAPMAN PARK-Corte Mader.-

Don't buy till you see this splendid tract
Slightly villa lots. half acre and upwards.
Superb view of Mountain and Bay. Shell
tered from high winds. Pure spring water,
sewers electric lights, etc. Ten minutes
walk to cars. Very low prices; terms easy.
See this tract to-day. Take Sausalito ferry
and electric cars to Corte MADEIRA Only As
minutes from San Francisco We will build
bungalow or cottage to suit you. Plats and
price list application
cHAs F. o'BRIEN & CO.. 80 Montgomery st
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-28

32o acres fine wheat ranch, Il miles from
Stockton; Improved and highly cultivated. II
good condition; plenty of water; sandy loam
level; price 1880: terms.