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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
EXPERIMENT IN FEEDING.
How One Farmer Managed, and the
Results Which He Obtained
from His Methods.

/ sOwed rape in Is acres of corn at
last cultivation, last year, writes j. E.
Quaintance, an Ohio correspondent of
the Ohio Farmer. 1t was drilled corn,
one stalk to every 11a to feet. Ears
were large and solid. The rape grew
about inches high. l purchased 200
western range wetners, of 108 pounds
average weight when turned into the
corn. / also turned in AZ lambs averag-
ing 60 pounds, and % pigs averaging 60
pounds. l marketed the hogs in Deem
Der and they averaged 200 pounds. Mar
keted the wethers December 10, averag-
ing 40 pounds, except one died and one
was drowned in tank, but were replaced
with two others. / lost five lambs. Lost
no hogs. The latter sold for $3.50 per
hundredweight, wethers and lambs for
So. The account stands as follows:
$50 blu. corn at c.........................$3 75
Bought 300 shocks corn at 5Oc............ $50
Total cost of feed $3.50
Sold sheep, lambs and hogs for 1,642.
Deducting cost of feed, $3.50, leaves a
balance of 81, 112. Besides this, have
grown, on the corn that sheep wasted,
80 pigs, from weaving till they weighed
Is pounds average. At cents pound
this would return good wages for feed
ing. l would SOW rye with the rape.
next time, as it would make better sod
and the sheep would clean up more of
the sbelled corn They shell much corn
without tearing down the ear as hogs
do. These tall western wethers can
reach an ear of corn 81 feet from the
ground and shell it nicely, catching the
grains as they fall, and they clean off
all the fodder blades. l am we'll salts
fed with the experiment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
HOMEMADE HAMS.
How the Pork May Be Cured and
Smoked on the Farm-A Good
Sausage Recipe.

Use hams from nicely fatted spring
pigs that dress about 100 pounds, or fall
shotes weighing say 225 pounds. After
cutting let them lie till next day and
then use a strictly clean cask to put
them in. Pour water enough on to cover
well, then draw off the water and add
good molasses till it is pleasant to
drink. Dissolve in a little hot water 1
ounce salpeter for every 20 pounds meat
and add to it. Then carefully add fine
salt and stir it till dissolved, and when
a potato about as large as an egg will
nicely float in it pour it on the meat.
Keep in cool place for to II weeks.
Remove from the pickle and lay the
rind side down for four days to : says
Farm and Home. Hang in an open
smokehouse and make smoke of hick-
Dry or maple once or twice day for a
week, and after that once o day for 10
days March is the best month to cure
hams with smoke. If the smokehouse
has some open cracks and the wind can
draw through and dry them out your
hams will keep in a cool, dark, dry place
for one year or longer if desired. Ihave
made them 80 years in this way with the
best results.
In making sausage use nicely fatted
pork, one-third fat and two-thirds lean
meat. Cut in small bits, lay on a table
and weigh when all cut. For every 10
pounds meat add one-quarter pound
fine salt and 1 ounce of black pepper
(strictly pure; better buy and grind it
YOURSELF Then sprinkle on your meat
and thoroughly mix it, then grind and
mix again. Pack in tin pans and put
one-quarter in lard over the meat. II
preferred it may be put in cases or mar
row muslin bags and smoked a little,
when it will keep long time. have
kept it packed in pans and stored in a
box in our kitchen till April 1 in fine
condition. Hard freezing does no harm
and the longer kept so the better
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
BEFORE THE OLD MAINE LAW
Anecdote Is Told of Struggle for
Prohibition in the Pine
Tree State.

N F. Woodbury., the Maine repre-
committee, was talking about the
political fights for total abstinence
that have from time to time stirred
up his state. I'm the past" said Mr..
Woodbury., before Maine had been
won over to prohibition, there used to
be village-a bleak, gray village on
the coast-where the contests over the
liquor question were always hot. In
this village, as election day drew near,
each party would try to do Guido the
other. If one side paraded 100 strong
the other side paraded 200 strong. II
one side held a mass meeting and en-
plOyed a band the other side would
hold mass meeting with a band and
lunch as well. There was one liquor
saloon in the village. and week be-
fore a certain election a placard as big
as the entire front Of the house was
raised before it. This enormous plac-
ard said in huge rel letters: If the
prohibition law passes this house will
be closed The saloon, you see, was
coy and inviting to such as liked a
glass of beer, and the purpose of the
placard was to put sorrow and fear
into the breasts of drinking men, to
stir them up to win votes, lest their
pleasant meeting place be taken from
them. That was the idea of the plac-
ard, and it was a good idea. But in the
dead of the night certain odd noises
were heard, and the next morning the
enormous placard covered the front OF
the village poorhouse."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08

of brooding. The gasoline burners can
be secured from a gasoline stove man.
ufacturer Wehave some made in Cleve-
land, o. In our illustration a gallon
oil can, A, is soldered to a pipe, B,
for a tank and Az feet of pipe gives
good pressure for the burner, which
sets under the heater drum, F, where
the lamp ordinarily sets. The box
where the burner is, E, must be fire.
proof, as the heat is very great from
stove burner. AS matter of fact
we never use the stove burner, as the
small igniter gives all the heat we
need. 1t is well to use plenty of
asbestos between all wood and the box
where the burner is. There is no
smoking, and we rarely have burner
go out; only one went out last year.
and one must be sure no gasoline has
leaked out before relighting the burn
er, or there will be trouble, as 1t is
explosive Ten gallons of gasoline
have warmed six houses one week.
filing the tanks twice in that time
and no trimming or bother rainy
nights, as it used to be with lamps
We have two different sized houses,
six by eight and eight by eight. For
the earlier matches, those coming in
March or early in April, we like the
smaller house BEST as being smaller
it is more easily kept warm. We
keep from $50 to 200 chicks in each
house, and sometimes take the burn
ers from houses which do not need
heat any longer, and use the same on
other houses with newly Matched
chicks. After the first of June we
take all burners out and store them
ready for next year. The illustration
shows house, cut at center showing
lamp box heater, E, drum. F, with
burner underneath it; G, hover; D,
curtain.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08

darkness was settling down on the
road, the chauffeur blew his horn,
there was a scream that would raise
hair on Horace Greeley's head, the au-
tomobile stopped, and there was a
bundle of dusty old clothes, with an
old woman done up in them, and we
jumped out and lifted her up, and there
we were, the woman in a faint, the
peasants gathering around us with
scythes and rakes and clubs, demand
ing our lives. The bloody-faced wom-
an was taken into home, the crowd
held us, until finally doctor came,
and after examining the woman said
she might live, but it would be tight
squeeze. We wanted to go on, but we
didn't want to be cut open with a
scytbe, so finally man, who said he
was the husband of the woman, came
out with gun. dad got down on his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
Plenty of Palaces. i.

The car of Russia and the emperor
of Germany might, if they please, dis
pute with each other as to which of
the two owns the greater number of
palaces. Each might sleep in a differ
ent house every night for month and
not exhaust the number of his various
dwelling places. The car is said to
own many country seats-which are
kept up in every detail, furnished and
furnished, and crowded with servants
into which he has never set foot
King Edward, of England, while occu-
plying regularly but four, has dozen
or more homes, which are ready for
him at all times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08

knees and tried to say prayer, the
Dakota man held up both hands like it
was stage being held up, and | cried.
Finally the chauffeur said, in broken
English, that the husband would set
tie for $500, because he could pay
the funeral expenses, get another wife
for half the money and have some
thing left to lay up for Christmas.
AS the mans gun was pointed at dad,
he quit praying and gave UP the
money and agreed to send $50
month for IL years, until the Oldest
child was of age.
Well, we got away, alive, got into
Nice, and the chauffeur started back
and we cabled home for money to be
sent to Geneva, Switzerland. But,
say; you have not heard the sequel.
A story that has a sequel is always
the best, and l hope to die If the po-
lice of Nice didn't tell us that we were
buncoed by that old woman and that
the chauffeur was in the scheme and
got part of dads money. The way
they do it is to wait till dark, and then
roll the woman in the dust and put
some red ink on her face, and she pre-
tends to be run over, and the doctor
is hired by the month, and they average
$500 night, playing that game on au-
tomobile tourists from America. After
the woman is run over every night,
and the money is collected, and the
victims have been allowed to go on
their way, the whole community gath
ers at the house of the injured wom-
an and they have celebration and a
dance, and probably our chauffeur got
back to the house that night in time
to enjoy the celebration. l suppose
thousands Of Americans are paying
money for killing people that never
got scratch.
Say, we think in America that we
have plenty of ways to rob the tender
foot, but they give us cards and spades
and little casino and beat us every
time. Dad wanted to hire hack and
go back and finish that old woman
with an ak, because he said he had a
corpse coming to him, but the police
told him he could be arrested for
thinking murder, and that he was a
dangerous man, and that they would
give him IL hours to get out of France,
and so we bought tickets for Switzer-
land, though what we came here for
don't know, only dad said it was a
republic like America and he wanted
to breathe the free air of mountains
in the home of the Switzerkase.
Well, anybody can have Switzerland
if they want it. | will sell my inter-
est cheap. The first three days we
were here everybody wanted us to go
out on the lake, said to be the most
beautiful lake in the world, and we
sailed on it, and rowed on it, and
looked down into the clear water
where it is said you can see a corpse
on the bottom of the lake 100 feet
down. We hadn't lost any corpse, ex-
cept the corpse of that old woman we
run over at Nice, but we wanted to get
the worth of our money, so we kept
looking for days, but the search for
corpse becomes tame after awhile, and
we gave it up. All we saw in the bot
tom of the lake was cow, but no man
can weep properly over the remains
of cow, and dad said they could go
to the deuce with their corpses, and
we just camped at the hotel till our
money came. Say, that lake they talk
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
THE POULTRY YARD.

Forcing egg production is dangerous
Women become the most successful
poultry keepers, from the fact thai
they are careful and have love fol-
the work.
Peter Tumbledown is convinced that
his hens are not of the egg type. He
always keeps lot of corn before then
and yet they do not supply him with
eggs.
Good time to have pot-pie now
Draw on the supply of ROSTERS and
keep drawing till they are all weeded
out. The chickens coming on now
should furnish your stock for the COM
ing season.
When the chicks weigh couple OF
pounds, send them to the market
You will get more for them then, in
proportion to the cost of growing,
than at any other time. The next
pound will draw more heavily on your
pocketbook, and the price will be more
likely to tumble. Farm Journal.
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so much about is no better than lakes
all over Wisconsin. and there are no
black bass or muskellunges in it.
The tourists here are just daffy
about climbing mountains and glaciers,
and they talk about it all the
time, and l could see dads finish.
They told him that no American
that ever visited Switzerland would
be recognized when he got home
if he had not climbed the glaciers, so
dad arranged for trip up into the
sky. We went 100 miles or so en-
the cars, passing along valleys where
all the cows wear tea bells, and it
sounds like chimes in the distance. 1t
is beautiful in Switzerland, but the
cheese is something awful. A piece of
native Swiss cheese would break up a
family.
At night we arrived at a station
where we hired guides and clothes and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08

How often do we hear women say: cit
seems as though my back would break, !"
or Don't speak to me, / am all out of
sorts?" These signi6cantrem prove
that the system requires attention.
Backache and the blues" are dire ct
symptoms of an inward trouble which
will sooner or later declare itself. 1t
may be caused by diseased kidneys or
some uterine arrangement. Nature
requires assistance and at once, and
Lydia E. Pinkha1n's Vegetable Com
pound instantly asserts its curative
powers in all those peculiar ailments of
women. 1t has been the standby of
intelligent American women for twenty
years, and the ablest specialists agree
that it is the most universally success
full remedy for woman's ills known to
medicine.
The following letters from Mrs.
Holmes and Mrs. Cotrely are among
the many thousands which Mrs. Pink
ham has received this year from those
whom she has relieved.
Surely such testimony is convincing
Mrs. ] G. Holmes, of Larimore, North
Dakota, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
II have suffered everything with backache
and womb trouble let the trouble run on
until my system was in such a condition that
was unable to be about, and then it was
commenced to use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. If / had only known how
much suffering would have saved, i should
have taken it months sooner-for a few
weeks treatment made me well and strong.
Ny backaches and headachesare all gone and
/ suffer no pain at my menstrual periods,
whereas before 1 took Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound suffered intense pain. "
Mrs. Emma Cotrely, 100 East 18th
Street, New York City, writes:
Ask Mrs. Pinkham,S ADVICE Won
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
MANAGING A SITTING HEN.
How One Successful Poultryman Nests
and Handles His Fowls Dur
ing the Period.

In the first place, do away with ali
the fixed nesting boxes, either singly
or in rows, and make movable boxes
just large enough for the hen to sit in
nicely, and hung by cleats projecting
above the box, on two nails. These
nests should be put up wherever the
hens lay and should ,i'e taken down oc-
casionally to be painted with mixture
of one part crude carbolic acid and two
parts kerosene for disinfecting and rid
ding of lice. Then they should receive
new filling.
When a hen wants to sit, give her
the eggs and let the box remain where
it is for a day or two. Then at night
carry it, hen and all, to an apartment
in the brooder house or to any other
room where the hens will not be mo-
Tested. They never object to being
thus transferred and there is no trouble,
as there frequently is when a hen is
locked on a nest where she did not get
broody, says Grant Davis, in Orange
Judd Farmer. Then, too, several hens
may be put in one apartment and all
the attention they need is to throw
them some feed every other dav and
give fresh water. They can get off and
On when they feel like it, have plenty
of room and the eggs keep cleaner and
hatch better than when a hen is locked
on a nest.
Another plan for managing sitters
once read of and saw pictured out in
paper, was to have a row of nests
built on the ground and have an alley
way one foot by six feet in front of each
nest That seemed quite plausible, but
experience has shown that it is not prac-
ticable.
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things, and the next morning we start.
ed. Dad wanted me to stay at the sta
ton couple of days, while he was
gone, and play with the goats, but l
told him IL there were any places In
the mountains or GLACIERS any more
dangerous than Paris or Monte Carlo, /
wanted to visit them, SO he let me go.
Well, we were rugged up for discover
ing the north pole, and had alpen-
stocks to push ourselves up with, and
the guides had ropes to pull us up
when we got to places where we
couldn't climb. / could get along all
right, but they had dad on a rope most
of the time pulling him until his
tongue run out and his face turned
blue. But dad was game, and don't
you forget it.
Before noon we got on top of a
glazier, which is the ice of frozen
river, that moves all the time, sliding
towards the sea. There was nothing
but hard winter, in summer, to the
experience, and we would have gone
back the same night, only dad slipped
rope on him, and the two guides
couldn't pull him up, and we had to
send lunch down to him on the rope
and one of the guides had to go back
to the village for help to get dad up.
Well, sir, l think dad was nearer dead
than he ever was before, but they sent
down bottle of brandy, and when he
T. Of hn hn0on
melt and he was warm enough to use
bad language.
He yelled to me that this was the
limit and wanted to know how long
they were going to keep him there.
yelled to him that one of the guides
had gone for help to pull him out, and
he said for them to order yoke OF
oxen. I told him that probably he
would have to remain there until
spring opened and that was going
back to America and leave him there
and he better pray. I don't know
whether dad prayed, down there in the
bowels of the mountains, but he didn't
pray when help came, and they finally
hauled him up. His breath was gone.
but he gave those guides some Ian
guage that would set them to think
ing if they could have understood
him, and finally we started down the
mountain. They kept the rope on dad
and every little while he would slip
and slide 100 feet or so down the
mountain on his pants, and the snow
would go up his trousers legs clear to
his collar, and the exercise made him
so hot that the steam came out of his
Clothes, and he looked like locOmo-
tive wrecked in snow bank blowing
off steam.
It became dark and expected we
would be killed, but before midnight
we got to the station and changed our
clothes and paid off the guides and
took train back. Dad said to me, as
we got on the cars: "Now, Hennery,
have done this glazier stunt, just to
show you that brave man, whatever
his age, is equal to anything they can
propose in Europe, but by ginger, this
settles it, and now / want to go where
things come easier. am now going
to Turkey and see how the Turks wor,
ry along Are you with me?" "You
bet your life,' says I. Yours truly.
HENNERY.
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every cent we had gambling. Well,
we wondered about it all night, and
had our breakfast sent up to our room,
and had it charged, expecting that
when the bill came in we would have
to jump into the ocean, as we had no
gum to kill ourselves with. Just after
breakfast duke, or something, came
to our room, and dad said it was all
off, and ne called upon the Dakota
man to make speech on politics,
while dad and I skipped out. We
thought the duke. who was the mana
ger of the hotel, would not under
stand the speech and would think we
were great people, who had got
stranded.
The Dakota man started in on a
democratic speech that he used to de-
liver in the campaign of '96, and in
falf an hour the duke held up his
hands, and the Dakota man let up on
the speech. Then the duke took out
a roll of bills and said: "Ze shentle-
men is what you call bust. Is it not
SOP" Daid said he could bet his life
it was so. Then the duke handed
the roll of bills to dad, and said it
was a tribute from the prince of
Monaco, and that we were lis guests.
and when our stay was at an end. auto
mobiles would be furnished for us to
go to Nice, where we could cable home
for funds. and be happy
Well, when the duke left us, dad
said Wouldn't that skin you?" and
he gave the Dakota man one of the
bills to try on the bartender, and
when he found the money was good
we ordered an automobile and skipped
out for Nice. The chauffeur could not
understand English, so we talked over
the situation and decided that the only
way to be looked upon as genuine au-
tomobilists would be to wear goggles
and lock prosperous and mad at
everybody We took turns looking
mad at everybody we passed on the
road, and got it down so fine that peo-
pie picked up rocks after we had
passed and threw them at us, and then
we knew that we were succeeding in
being considered genuine, rich auto
mobile tourists.
After we had succeeded for an hour
or two in convincing the people that
we were properly heartless and purse
proud, dad said the only thing we
needed to make the trip success was
to run over somebody. He said nearly
all the American automobile tourists
in Europe had killed somebody and
had been obliged to settle and sup
port family or two in France OF
Italy, and they were prouder of it than
they would be if they endowed uni
versity, or built church, and he said
he trusted our chauffeur would not be
too careful in running through the
country, but would at least cripple
some one.
Well. Just before we got to Nice, and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
USE OF GASOLINE BURNER.
Successful Poultry Raiser Tells Why
It Is Better Than the
Usual Lamp.

The letters piling up here state
that there is room for oceans of i'm
provement in breeders" There seems
to be hardly anyone satisfied with his
brooding arrangements, and as it is
impossible for me to answer any
more personal letters, l will give a
description of our houses, writes Floyd
@. White IN the Rural New Yorker.
You can try the gasoline burners on
your old breeders if you wish, as
they merely take the place of lamp,
doing the work much better and cheap
er, too. Any person wishing to raise
only a few chickens can get along
with a kerosene lamp, but when you
have 1000 or 1000 little ones to look
after in all kinds OF weather, then is
when you will appreciate our system
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-08
Method with Pole Reons

Here is method of treatment for
pole beans: When they get as high
as bush beans the runners are cut c1f.
The plants then form a bush. but re-
tain the productivity of the pole bean.
They also mature earlier. No poles are
needed So it is said. At least it is
worth while to try dozen or so of
hills. Pole beans are more productive
than the bush varieties. especially the
Limas. The objection to them is the
poles. They would be much more COM
monty planted were it not for this.