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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Grinding Corn for Swine.

We believe in feeding swine so that
they will have something to keep them
busy as we'll as for the best results to
be obtained from the grain, so we feed
the corn whole and usually on the cob
until it gets hard and fiinty, when it is
either shelled and soaked a little to
soften it or soaked on the cob. All
other grains are ground because it has
been demonstrated that the smaller
grains go through the animals and do
them but little good. Carrying out the
plan of keeping the swine busy, we al
ways have something for them to
chew On-cOrnstalks, squares of sod,
apples, potatoes and other vegetables,
and we do not see that they take on
fat any slower because of this plan of
feeding. Pure water is given them in
clean troughs twice duy during the
winter and we know they thrive bet
ter for having it.-Exchange.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Fall Mulching of Trees.

If it is thought necessary to apply
mulch around the base of trees or
shrubs as a winter protection care
must be used not to do the work too
soon, particularly if anything in the
nature of a fertilizer is used, such as
coarse stable manure, for there is al
ways danger of melting renewed
growth in the tree, just as it is begin
ming TO go to sleep for the winter, and
this growth. being extremely tender,
will be killed by the first cold weather,
probably with much injury to the tree.
\ better plan is not to apply the mulch
until the ground freezes, applying
more, if necessary, later on.
BY far the best plan of all is to use
earth with which to protect the roots
of the tree or shrub during the first
cold days: put it on several inches
thick for three feet around the tree.
Later. if it gets too cold, little coarse
manure may be put on over the soil.
BY this plan the tree or shrub will
have full protection without danger Of
melting a late growth.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Lnadiuc Corn Fodder.

Loading corn fodder may not be
very hard work to the small farmer,
but when one has the product Of many
acres to load it becomes a formidable
operation The work can be much
more easily done if the following de
vice is used: Make a loader by using
a two-inch plank ten feet long with
cleats Of inch stuff nailed on one side
at short intervals. At one end nail a
cleat on the under side, which will be
three inches wider than the board on
each side. Tie small ropes to this cleat
and with them fasten the rack to the
back part of the wagon rack. the lower
end of the plank-rack resting on the
ground.
This makes a stepladder up which it
is easy to walk and if strongly made a
man can readily carry up it all he can
get his arm around. With this plan
one man can do the work Of loading a
wagon easily without spending the
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

Chicago and other ports after he
reached his twentieth year, served In
the Twelfth Illinois Infantry during
the Civil War and moved to Kansas
in 1878, opening a farm six miles from
Medicine Lodge. in Barbour County.
Advance i'll politics was rapid-from
Republicanism to Greenbackism and
then to POpulism. AS a Populst he
was elected to Congress in 1890 and
served four years. A second election
came to him in 1897, when he served
two years.
Of late years he had given MS ener-
gies to promoting land and irrigation
schemes for New Mexico. the dry eli
mate of the territory benefting his
health and the undeveloped resources
inviting the capital of himself and
friends. He was 4 strong advocate
OF statehood for New Mexico.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
COttonSced as Fertilizer.

CottOnseed meal is used quite extern
sively in some sections of the country
as a fertilizer. A good grade meal will
carry about 6.S per cent nitrogen, %
per cent phosphOric acid and Is per
cent potash. Based upon the valua-
tons that will be used by New Eng
land experiment stations in 1905 for
computing the value of commercial
fertilizers, meal analyZing as above
will be worth about $40 Il ton rs
fertilizer. Notwithstanding it's high
value when used directly in this way
it will usually be found more econOm-
zeal to use it as a food for stock and
to apply the resulting manure to the
land. When used thus, from eighty to
ninety-fve per cent of the nitrogen and
phosphoric acid and practically all the
potash viii be contained in the MAJ
nure.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

SENATOR FULION. having been con-
victed of criminal acts in connection with
the government lands in the Northwest.
The three whose seats will be vacant
are Senator John H. Mitchell, Repre-
sentative Binger Herman and Repre-
sentative Charles n. Williamson.
Senator Fulton was born in Lima. O.,
Aug. a. 1858, and moved to Iowa,
where the family lived is years. There
he was educated. Next the family NOV
ed to Nebraska. where the future Sen
ator studied law at Pawnee City. He
also taught school. In 1875 he landed
in Oregon. taught school for a while
and then began the practice of law.
Within three years after entering the
State he was Senator in the Legisla-
ture. Later he was city attorney Of
Astoria and then returned to the State
Senate for several terms, being presi-
dent part of the time. He succeeded
Joseph Simon in the United States Sem
ate in 1908.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
SOUNDS A RATE LAW CALL.
President r ooseve1t in Speech Urges
More Power Over Railroads.

IN his tour of the South President
Roosevelt has spoken many times. At
Raleigh, y. c., the President in be-
ginning his address reviewed North
Cardinals part in the making of the
history of the republic, and alluded to
its present condition of prosperity. He
spoke of the duties Of the individual
citizen to the nation and to the State,
and then launched into the main pur-
pose Of his address, the government
supervision of railways. On this sub
ject he said:
[ do not believe in government owner
ship Of anything which can with pro-
priety be left in private hands, and in
particular l should most strenuously OBJ
ject to government ownership of rail
roads. But l believe with equal firm
ness that it is out of the question for
the government not to exercise Il super
visOry and regulatory right over the
railroads; for it is vital to the well be-
ing of the public that they should be
managed in a spirit of fairness and JUS
tice toward all the public.
Actual experience has shown that it
is not possible to leave the railroads
uncontrolled. Such a system, or rather
such a lack of system, is fertile in
abuses of every kind, and puts a pre-
MUM upon unscrupulous and ruthless
cunning in railroad management: for
there are some big shippers and some
railroad managers who are always will
ing to take unfair advantage Of their
weaker competitors, and they thereby
force other big shippers and big railroad
men who would like to do decently into
similar acts of wrong and injustice. I'M
der penalty of being left behind in the
race for success. Government supervis-
ion is needed quite as much in the in
terest of the big shipper and of the rail
road man who want to do right as in the
interest of the small shipper and the
consumer.
Experience has shown that the pres
ent laws are defective and need amend
ment. The effort to prohibit all re-
straint of competition, whether reason
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Water Basin for Chicks.

Take a basin that will hold about
two quarts of water and fill it with
pebbles little smaller than eggs.
When level full of the pebbles, pour
in the water until the spaces between
them are full. Sink the basin in the
ground until the rim is an inch above
the surface The chicks can run all
over this, stepping on the pebbles and
can drink the water without getting
wet. We have used such a fountain
for years with perfect success. 1t is
easy to clean, keeps the water cool for
several hours and protects the chicks
from getting wet all over, as they can
not crowd each other into the water
no matter how much they try to do So
Cor American Stock Keeper.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Sparks from the Wires.

In Norfolk, Va, John D. Dawley
aged %, shot and killed William n
Davis, aged 80, then hid in and set fire
to his fathers barn, being seriously
burned.
The Supreme Court of California re-
fused to appoint special administrator
for the estate Of Alexander Dunsmuir
ct the request of Edna Wallace Hopper,
his stepdaughter.
Roman Catholic priests are about to
close negotiations for the purchase OF
$4,000 acres of land in Live Oak and
Patricio counties, Texas, on which to
colonize Irish immigrants.
DR.. w. II. Dieffench, in paper read
before the Homeopathic Medical Society
of New York, described the cure of can
Ger by radium coatings on celluloid rods
inserted in the diseased parts.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

took place at Wichita under the aus
pices of the Masonic order. This last
illness attacked the noted Kansan in
New Mexico
Mr.. Simpson was born in New
Brunswick in 1912 and raised as a boy
in Oneida County, New York. His
early days were marked by so bitter
a poverty that he said one day, after
means and fame had come to him: I'm
those days God seemed to have select
ed my branch of the Simpson family
for every kind of a hard knock. The
knocks came to us in lunches"
He was a lake captain Of note in
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Picket Fence Device.

A simple effective plan for building
picket and wire fence without ma
chine is suggested by G. C. Schneider,
of Ava, Mo. He says:
A device which will answer the pur-
pose Of a fence machine is made as
follows: Take pieces of 2X4 n foot or
so long, bore two small holes near the
end of each, put the wires through
these holes and fasten to post where
you wish to begin. Then stretch your
wire and staple to post some distance
ahead, leaving the staples loose
enough so the wire will slip when it is
drawn tight. Let eight Or ten feet of
wire extend beyond the post and to
those fasten heavy weights to keep the
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

able or unreasonable, is unwise. What
we need is to have some administrative
body with ample power to forbid COM
binaton that is hurtful to the public,
and to prevent favoritism to one indi-
vidual at the expense of another.
In other words, we want an admin
istrative body with the power to secure
fair and just treatment as among all
shippers who use the railroads-and all
shippers have a right to use them. We
must not leave the enforcement of such
a law merely to the department of JUS
tice; it is out Of the question for the
law department of the government to do
what should be purely administrative
work.
The abuses of which we have a genu-
inc right to complain take many shapes.
Rebates are not now often given openly.
But they can be given just as effective
ly in covert form, and private cars, ter
minal tracks, and the like must be
brought under the control of the commits
sion or administrative body, which is
to exercise supervision by the govern
ment.
But, in my judgment. the most impor-
tant thing to do is to give to this admin
istrative body power to make its find
ings effective, and this can be done only
by giving it power, when complaint IS
made of a given rate as being unjust
or unreasonable, if it finds the complaint
proper, then itself to fix a maximum
rate which it regards as just and rea-
sonable, this rate to go into effect prac-
tically at once-that is, within rea-
sonable time-and to stay in effect I'M
less reversed by the courts.
1t must be understood, as a matter
of course. that if this power is granted
it is to be exercised with wisdom and
caution and self-restraint. The inter
state commerce commissioner or other
government official who failed to protect
a railroad that was in the right against
any clamor, no matter how violent, on
the part of the public, would be guilty
of as gross a wrong as if he corruptly
rendered an improper service to the rail-
road at the expense of the public
Lashes the Grafters.
In a brief speech at Atlanta Presi-
dent Roosevelt numerically dashed the
grafters in politics and called on de-
cent men to denounce dishonest Off
Gals and whip them into obscurity.
"Drive every dishonest and corrupt
man out of Office" shouted the President.
"You are false to your trust as Ameri-
can citizens if you allow such man
to remain in office single day. No
matter how high the mans standing.
drive him out if he is corrupt"
1.-THE surest way Of bunting the pub
lie conscience in dealing with corrup-
ton is to confuse the public mind as
to who is corrupt and who is not.
'In our legislative bodies, in our ma
tional Congress. if you know that any
man is corrupt you are not to be excus-
ed if you do not hunt him out of public
life.
''Instead of asking that you be len
lent in your judgment of any public
man, l hold that You are recreant to
your duty if you are lenient. If you
have good reason to believe he is cor
rupt. then refuse under any pleas of
party expediency. under any considera-
ton. from refraining from shifting him
with the sword Of the Lord and of
Gideon"
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Flowing the Garden,

If the garden is thoroughly under
drained, as it always should be, it
should be fall plowed in ridges and the
surface left rough, so as to expose the
soil as much as possible to freezing.
This is the more necessary because the
garden is always a sheltered spot,
where snow lies much of the winter,
so that there are few times when the
soil freezes very deeply. The garden
is always the richest spot on the farm.
1t often is heavy with manure and
needs the winters freezing to tighten
the soil and make its fertility more
available.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Brief News Items.

The Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad has purchased 100 acres of wat
er front in Tacoma, Wash, for $150OO0.
Through police headquarters 6 coun-
try-wide alarm has been sent ont for
Abraham Schiller a banker of Alamosa,
Colo, who is missing.
Judge A. G. Brandner of Kansas City
committed suicide because of grief over
the death. year ago, of his wife. On
Oct 8. 4 and , he made unsuccessful
attempts to kill himself at his wife's
grave in Onaga.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
JERRY SIMPSON is DEAD.
Noted Kansas Ex-Congressman Passez
Away at Wichita.

EX-Congressman Jerry Simpson died
in Wichita, Kan, early Monday morn
ing. The patients condition became
hopeless ten days before, and since
then he had kept alive chiefly through
his own will power. He was afflicted
with a valvular ailment of the heart.
Mr. Simpson had been in ill-health for
nearly a year. Six months ago ne con-
suited a specialist at Chicago, who
pronounced his case hopeless. Burial
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Crops Without Irrigation,

The most widespread movement in
the history Of the country for the de-
velopment of unirrigated lands in the
West is in progress this spring. Hun
dreds of thousands of acres are being
brought under cultivation as the result
of government and other irrigation
projects, but aside from this plan far.
greaterin its scope has been started for
the successful use Of farm lands with
out water.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

He is one honest
man out of four
sent by his State to
Congress and will
be the only one to
meet with the ma
tional lawmakers
when they assemble
at Washington in
December. T h e
other tree are eth
err in State prison
or on their way to
t b a t institution,
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

of "Wednesday in
conferences in the
hope Of finding
some way out Of
the cris is into
which the revolu-
tionists and the So
cialists have cast
Russia.
T Ii G ge n er a !
strike on the rail-
reads is complete
except in a few
border provinces,
o.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

wire tight. Put picket between the
wires and turn the blocks over as often
as you wish to twist the wire between
each picket; then put in another picket
and twist the other way, etc. To pre-
serve posts, mix pulverized charcoal in
boiled linseed Oil to the consistency of
paint and apply with a brush.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Run Farms by Electricity.

The Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley
Traction Line, operating eighty miles
of inteEprban road in Indiana, has sent
to farmers living along the line an
offer to furnish power to run the ma
chinery on their farms Gasoline and
steam engines are used extensively,
but corn Smelling, feed cutting and otp-
er work Is also done by hand, and IT,
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

company proposes to furnish dynamOs
and build line for a distance of one
mile on each side of the track at cost
if farmers will agree to pay reason
able sum for current. The farmers gen
orally seem to favor the project.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
STRIKE IN RUSSIA.
CZhR'S GOVERNMENT FACES
GRAVE CRISIS.

Labor Disturbances Spread to Many
Factories and Rioting Follows in
Muscovite CapitaI-AgitatorsB Believe
They Have Authorities at Their Mercy
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
A Good GrindStone.

A grindstOne to turn with bicycle
gear can be made after this cut, writes
w. D. Watkins, of Athens, Ohio. Take
sprocket wheels and chain off an old
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
Cost of Siinre.


We have from time to time laid be-
fore our readers the cost of putting
corn in the silO, says Farmers Trib-
une. Some men are able to grow the
corn at Il cost of about 30 cents per
ton of green matter. They are able to
put it in the silo for another 30 cents,
making the total cost of the silage in
the silo approximately 81 per ton
Sometimes the cost goes as high as
$1.50 sometimes even higher.
Sam Schilling. who is manager OF
Joel Pheatwole's heard at Mortified,
Mimi, kept an accurate record of the
cost of putting sixteen acres of corn
in his Silo last year and these figures
were given before the Minnesota But
ter Makers Association this spring by
Mr.. Schilling. They are as follows:
16 acres corn at IS. SIPS 90
Cost of cutting. 81 per acre..... 16 OO
Two men loading five days. 10 90
Two men in Silo. ..... ID OO
-Four teams hauling five days. go 90
Engine five days and MAN,. % 90
Fuel for engine. ............ is OO
One man to feed machine. 10 0O
Cost OF 200 tons silage. $3.50 90
Cost per ton of silage. ....... l 421.
The average yield per acre in this
instance was 1913 tons of green corn.
The cost of the ensilagc. including the
raising. which was estimated at IS per
acre, was Il little high. Consulting the
table. however, it will be seen that it
required four teams hauling for five
days top draw the corn to the silo per
day. This means that the silage had
to be drawn from some distance or
more could have been hauled, but even
at $1.5O per ton silage is very cheap
food.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

Confronted by q situation most cru
rial, the Cars ministers, under the
leadership Of Count White, spent all
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02
A UNIQUE DISTINCTION.
Senator Fulton, Oregon's One Honest
Member of Congress.

The unique distinction, set in a frame
work of disgrace. is that which falls to
Hon Charles William Fulton of Oregon.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

binder or dropper. Gear SO that stone
will turn two revolutions to one Of
crank. You can grind anything on it
with great speed.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-02

time necessary to bind the bundles.
The illustration shows how easily the
ladder can be made.-Indianapol
News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-12
Good Will Assembly.

IL is now officially announced that the
Good Will Assembly which was not held
last year on account of the illness of
Rev. G. w. Hinckley. who has always
had charge of this affair." will be held
this year, continuing for ten days. This
was decided by meeting of the direc-
tors at Stamford, Conn., 1t will open
Thursday evening. July q and will
close Sunday evening, Aug. g. 1t is not
yet known who all of the speakers will
be, but there are two, who will speak
this year who have never spoken there
before, and these are J. Willis Baer of
New York city, and Rev. ..ohn Robert
son, formerly of Glasgow, Scotland.
This place is one that Is admired by
young and old, especially by the young
as here the facilities for boating, ten
mis-. and other sports are unsurpassed.
Many of the boys who go to Good
Will for the assembly. make this their
vacation time, and go there year after
year They camp in the Pines and along
the kennebec 1t is always the inten-
ton to have noted speakers and sing
ers at this gathering, and many gather
there to thoroughly enjoy themselves
throughout the session. Aside from the
large gatherings week days, there are
thousands who go to pass the Sundays.
Long live Good Will Assembly and the
able man who has made these homes
pOSSihle
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-12

The ladies of the Relief Corps will
hold Il special meeting at the home Of
Mrs. f.. ]. Mason, on Monday evening
next. April 18th for the purpose of
making arrangements for Il supper
for the opening of the new G. 4. r.
hall in the w. 7. Haine block on Com
mon street The auxiliaries of the G..
\. r. have been making avtive prep
aratiors ever since the removal Of the
equipments of the Waterville Free
Library to establish themselves to
their own satisfaction in these IDEAL
quarters. The public will, no doubt,
be agrceably surprised when the re-
suits OF these efforts shall be revealed.
As carpenters and workmen are rather
difficult of procuring at this timH OF
wear, the work has not been able to
advance Very quickly. but some work
has, nevertheless. been constantly go
ing on through the persistent atten-
ton of som. of the members Of the Re
lief Corps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-12

There is no aspect of April which is
mere pleasing to the taste of the aN-
prage person than the frightened and
clean condition of the objects which
one sees as he goes up and down Main
and Silver streets. Even the pave
mcnts have the appearance of having
been washed. The store windows never
presented their bright surfaces with a
more charming effect than they do AT
present Little do people think. who
gaze idly on the carefully prepared
goods that the work involved in the
displays is the result of the general eff
fort at Improvement and freShenlng
which comes each year with the fresh
atmosphere Of spring. This is natural
law which brings forth natural results
and that people in general feel It's Ell
feet is nothing more than natural.
There is one public building, however,
which throws open its doors to all
classes, and which lets in and out n
steady flow Of humanity ut certain
hours through seven days in the week,
that seems exempt from this law. Why
it is that the windows of this building
have not shown the effect of one drop
of water on the inner surfaces since the
SHOWS of last fall began their earthly
rilgrinages, is question which Is
NOR. easily asked than answered.