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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
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Dairying in the South.

Oairyine in the South.
Dairying has not yet made very
great progress at the South. People
that have been south know how diff
ncult 1t is to get cream at even the
best hotels. This shows a lack both
in the general public and in the pro-
ducers. The one does not strongly
demand the products of the cow and
the other does not try to produce the
article and place it where the public
can be educated in its use. Reading
dairy statistics of the south is not
very interesting, as they are too
meager. A small herd here and there,
often of Indifferent breeding, COM
prises the list of producing factors.
Most Of the Southern states have no
dairymen's associations. This shows
the apathy existing among the people
on the subject of dairying.
In the South a great many COWS are
Kept in cities. and from these come
most of the supply of milk. In the
north this is not generally practieed.
The cows in the north are kept in the
country instead Of in the city, and
the milk is shipped in over roads that
make point to encourage the milk
trade. In the south the milk trade is
SO little of factor that the milk
train is unknown. The south is, how
ever, moving in the matter of a bet
ter milk supply, and here and there a
city ~ appointing milk inspector to
see that it gets only pure milk.
Where this is done the milk trade is
benefited, as one of the obstacles in
the way of better business in milk
production is the suspicion of the pub.
lie that much Of the milk sold Is dirty,
adulterated or watered. There is no
doubt that the time is coming when
milk producing will be a great bust
ness in the South. The mild winters
and the abundance of forage make it
an ideal part Of the country in which
to produce milk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Barred Plymouth Rocks.

A government report says: The
Barred Plymouth Rock is Of gray
ish white color, regularly crossed with
parallel bars of blue-black running in
straight, distinct lines throughout the
entire length of the feather, and show
ing on the down or under color OF the
feathers. The barring is somewhat
smaller on the hackle and saddle
feathers than ON other portions of the
body. The bird is of medium size,
with broad neck, fat at the shoulders,
the breast is full, and the body broad
and compact; medium-sized wings
that fold gracefully, the points being
we'll covered with breast and saddle
feathers. A medium-sized head. or
namented with upright. bright-red
comb and wattles; a large, bright eye,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
A TYPICAL SOUTHERN HOUSE
Either Rambling Bungalow or Mod
ern Frame Structure.

Externally the typical southern
bling bungalow like WitchwOod-one
of the most attractive places near
Asheville-an Italianesque structure
with white columns, reproduction in
part of some old antehellum man.
Sions, for the like of which the south
was famous-or modern frame
structure quite architectural and COM
pact, with loaded windows, half-tim-
Der borders, and an open terrace built
upon a foundation of gray stone with
coping of the same, or modification
of these three ideas.
In it's interior arrangement, says a
writer in the House Beautiful, the
southern residence has always been
called upon to meet not only the de-
mands of convenience and comfort.
but also those of hospitality and en-
tertainment as well, for the south
erner is decidedly social being,
given to entertainment in all its
forms. This characteristic was not
only gratified, but actually fOstered
by the big rooms of the white-col-
umned houses of the old south.
Soon after the war the populariZa-
ton of the sliding door made it pos
sible for small rooms to perform the
functions of large ones on occasions.
and for while the southern builder
cut his house up after the manner of
his northern brother, though not
quite in the same restricted proper.
tions. That phase may now be said
to have passed, and general taste in
the south is once more in favor of
spacious chambers. So genuine Is
this preference, that even in small
houses the space usually divided be-
tween two rooms is now given to
one. Usually the room thus formed
is long one, sort Of salon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
HIT THE NAIL STRAIGHT.

PhiiadeIphian's Trite Remark Well
Expressed the Situation.
A well-known minister, in an ad.
dress, praised the quiet and domestic
type of life.
"Give me-" he said, "the evenings
spent at home-evenings around the
bright fire, the father and mother alb
sorbed in good books, the children alb
sorbed in innocent games. That is
the typical American evening, and I
am glad it is so common in the West.
In the East, am sorry to say, it be-
comes more rare each year.
1T was to an advocate Of these
quiet evenings, Philadelphia Of for
ty or so, that his gay wife said one
day:
John, we haven't chairs enough
for our company
There are plenty Of chairs. the
man replied. but too much COM
pany.'"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Profit in Remedial Measures.

The overwhelming experience of
the past dozen years makes it almost
unnecessary to urge, on the ground OF
pecuniary returns, the adoption of
measures against insects. To EN-.
phasize the value of such practice it
is only necessary to call attention to
the fact that the loss to orchard, gar
den, and farm crops frequently
amounts to from Is to Is per cent of
the entire product, and innumerable
instances could be pointed out where
such loss has been sustained year aft
er year, while now, by the adoption of
remedial measures, large yields are
regularly secured with an insignificant
expenditure for treatment. 1t has been
established that in the case of the ap-
pie crop spraying will protect from
so to Is per cent of the fruit which
would otherwise be wormy, and that
in actual marketing experience the
price has been enhanced from 81 to
$3.50 per barrel, and this at cost of
only about 10 cents per tree for labor
and material. This is especially true
of regions where the codling moth has
but one fall brood annually. In the
case of one orchard in Virginia, only
one-third of which was sprayed, the
result was an increase in the yield
of sound fruit in the portion treated
of nearly so per cent, and an increase
of the value of this fruit over the rest
of 100 per cent. The loss from not
having treated the other two-thirds
was estimated at $4,000. The saving
to the plum crop and other small
fruits frequently amounts to the Sc
curing of perfect crop where other
wise no yield whatever of sound fruit
could be secured.-U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
n. K. White Appointed Postmaster
at Alexandria.

H. K. White was appointed post
master at Alexandria Tuesday. When
seen by reporter this morning Mr..
White said that he did not know of
the appointment until he read it in
morning paper.
H. K. White is an old veteran of the
civil war. He enlisted in the Sixth
Maine infantry on April Is, 1861, and
served with his regiment until June 1,
1864, when he lost his arm in the
battle of Cold Harbor. He was in a
hospital at Washington from that time
until his regiment was mustered out
of service. MIR. White came to
Douglas county in 1868 and settled on
farm in Orange. In the fall of 1873
he was elected county treasurer and
with his family moved to Alexandria.
He served as county treasurer for two
years. For one year hew as manager
OF citizens grain warehouse at this
place and then was book-keeper for
the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
company at ST. Cloud for about a year.
In 1881 he returned to Alexandria and
took charge of large elevator which
the citizens had built. This position
he held until 1882 when he was elected
clerk of court. Mr.. White was clerk
of court of Douglas county twenty
years and declined reelection two
years ago. He is now one of the
principal stockholders in the Atwood
Bros. & White Milling company.
Mr.. White does not know when he
will take charge of the Office. AS to
future arrangements he said that he
had not thought Of the matter. All
he could say was that he would run
the Office to the best OF his ability
Alexandria Post.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Virtues Quick Reward.

Nothing ever better illustrated to
me" remarked the doctor, ''the old
adage Virtue is its own reward than
an experience l had the other day.
Called for the first time to a patient
who was desperately i'll, in addition
to being penniless, gave her five dol
lars with which to purchase the ne
cessities of life. The next morning l
received note from her not to call
again. Later learned she had called
in a homeopathic physician, to whom
she paid fee of two dollars, and
with the remainder of my charitable
contribution she paid monthly in
stallment on a photograph"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
SKATE SAILING LIVELY SPORT,
Sailor May Travel Mile a Minute
with No Power Save the Wind.

Sailor May Travel Mile a Minute
with No Power Save the Wind.
To be ones self the mast and the
tiller and the boat-sailing and skat-
ing blended at the speed of high
class lOcOmOtive-thi is the sport Of
skate-sailing, says writer in Country
Life in America. In an automobile,
in racing keel, on a blooded horse.
the man that guides by clutch or till
er or bride is piece of dead freight,
being to the extent of his weight U
drag on the speed; but skate-sailing
alone, of sports that attack time,
makes use of the guidance itself as
a part of the propulsive force.
The man himself is both sail area
and live ballast. With forty-mile
breeze behind him, and clean, green
ice ahead, the skate-sailer comes the
nearest we shall ever get to the wing
footed god that slid down a rainbow.
Wings on his feet. and his arms teth-
cred to great white wings, he is the
Tyre of the west wind in kind of
rhapsody of motion. He is as sensi.
tive to the situation as photograph.
ic plate. Every tremor of the sail &C.
ton passes through him, and he
adapts himself momently to the vari-
atiOns of an off-shore breeze.
The old world dream was of CEN
taur-man-horse-tw natures in one
body. In this twentieth-century sport
we have realized a man-boat. The
effort to prove that a man may cover
a mile minute, unaided by steam
or gasoline, by the propulsive power
of wind alone, will be made this ad-
vancing season by some skate-sailers
at least
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19

and yellow beak. legs and toes, places
the picture before us in its entirety.
The difference between the Barred
and the Pea-comb Barred is that the
latter has small, firm and even pea
comb, instead of single comb.
For the farmer or market poultry
man they are favorites, being of me-
dunn size, we'll proportioned, with q
deep, full breast, making a most ad-
mirable bird for market purposes.
They are hardy, mature early, and
make excellent broilers from eight to
twelve weeks old. They are good
layers the year round, and in winter
they lay exceptionally well. Their
eggs are brown in color and average
eight to pound. They are good sit
tiers and excellent mothers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Prepare for Turkey Raising.

If the turkey crop is short, as it
now seems likely, it will be a good
thing for those intending to purchase
new stock to secure birds as soon as
possible. AS the birds are sent to
market and the supply thus becomes
smaller, the demand will increase and
the price will rise. The increase of
population and the increasing popu-
larity of the turkey as table bird
are factors that are continually con-
spring to send up the price of breed.
ing turkeys. If, however, the birds
are purchased at this time the buyer
should make sure that he does not
receive culls. No breeder that has a
proper care for his own reputation
will sell culls for breeders, but there
are some men that will sell for q
breeder any kind of a bird they can
get the money for.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
WALLS ENTIRELY OF FOSSILS
Unique Building Material In Church
Near Niagara Falls.

There is a church in the quiet lit
tie village Of Mumford, near Niagara
Falls, which is composed entirely Of
fossils. At first glance the walls ap-
pear to be constructed of rough sand
stone smeared with an uneven coat
ing Of gritty, coarse plaster, but a
closer view reveals the error of this
first conclusion. Instead of plaster
the eyes behold traceries of delicate
leaves, lacework of interviewer twigs,
bits of broken branches, fragments of
messy bark and splinters of wood, all
preserved against the wasting of time
and decay by being turned into the
hardest of fiinty limestone. AS a mat
ter of fact, every block of stone in
the four walls 10 a closely -cemented
mass of dainty fossils.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Faker's Ingenious Device.

There was a man recently who did
a tremendous business at French
fairs, selling powder that was HARM
less to men but deadly to rats. He
would spread some of the powder on
a slice of bread and eat it; then put
a portion under glass case, in which
was a rat, that died as soon as it ate
the bread. Here is the explanation
of the trick. The powder was ordi-
nary sugar. But the glass case was
connected with an electric battery.
and as soon as the rat touched the
bread the current was turned on. and
it was electrOcuted.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Dairy Idols.

Cows become favorites with their
owners not altogether by reason of
the milk they produce. We have
known cows that their owners thought
a great deal Of because of the kindly
disposition of the animals. One COW
that the writer remembers gave but
few quarts of milk a day, but she
was a pet of the family. She would
prefers the company of members Of
theSfamily rather than of other cows.
IL the cows were being taken to pas
ture she would insist on walking by
the side Of the one in charge of the
herd. 1t is hard to order a cow of this
kind sent to the butcher, and many
people will not do it. Instead, the ami.
mails are kept for dozen years and
not only allowed to eat up the prov
ender without returning a compen-
sation for it, out are allowed to add
to the herd more COWS after their own
ability not to produce milk These
may fairly be called dairy idols. Their
owners claim great things for them
without being able to suDstantiate the
truth of what they say.
But the family pet is not the only
brand of dairy idol. There are the
general purpose cows that quite gen
orally have the entire confidence of
their owners as to their great value
They are idols that the single purpose
cow men have demolished again and
again, to their own satisfaction, but
they are still to be found all over the
land.
The dairy idol is thing that can be
dispensed with to the advantage Of
the owners Of the cows. The war.
fare against them will be kept up and
little by little the factors we are war.
ring against will disappear. 1t may,
however. take about as long to elm
mate them as it took Christianity to
drive the idols out of the pagan world.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
A Page for the Farmer

thoughts for nerselI o save the life
of her mother. Sne administered to
her wants as far as the government
would permit, and perhaps no better
exhibition Of devotion to a mother
was ever manifested than the girls
effort to reach President Johnson on
the day of the execution in order that
she might prevail upon the executive
to spare her mothers life or stay the
sentence Of the military court.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Don't Take the Adv

A contemporary says edo not feed
sloppy food, as it goes through the
gizzard without grinding, which is not
the way food should pass through the
digestive organs of fowls" That Is
advice that it is better not to take.
The giZzard argument is detective.
The gizzard is for the purpose OF
grinding food that needs grinding. II
the gizzard let's the food pass IL, 1t
is because that food is already 80 well
pulverized that it does not need fur
Their grinding. There is nothing to
show that grain ground by a gizzard
is any more perfectly ground than
grain ground in a mill of human con-
struction. Where the feed OF fowls
consists largely of whole grain a sort
feed once day will be found very
helpful.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19

in the direction OF ascent anu nayIux
an uneven taper; and still others are
short, thick and inclined to branch.
Yet, Notwithstanding this wide diver.
gence of character, these trees may
all be first-class. The character or
habit of the variety must be fully
studied and then trees possessing a
strong inclination to follow the type
habit should be selected-Prof. E. r.
Lake.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
A Devoted DAUGHTER,

Mrs. William p. Tonry. the only
daughter of Mrs. Mary e. Surratt, who
was involved in the Lincoln conspir-
acy, recently died at Baltimore, Md.
The girl, just becoming woman at
the time of the assassination, had
been literally educated, especially in
music. and was one of the most pro-
ficient pianists in the South. On the
arrest Of her mother, the girl gave
un har education. Der music. and all
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
The Farmers Flock.

The farmers flock should be one
of pure bred fowls of some kina. He
can afford to keep pure bred birds Ii
keep inferior fowls. That the farmer
is better situated to raise pure-bred
fowls than any other man seems to be
evidenced by the number of profes-
sional chicken raisers that every year
send their fancy eggs to farmers to
be Matched and to have the BIRDS
from them brought up to a consider
able size before being taken home
to the poultry farm.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
The Palm Oil Decision.

For many months very important
case has been before the United
States Supreme Court, namely, wheth-
er the commissioner of internal rev.
enue has the legal power to decide
what should be considered coloring
matter in butter. Oleomargarine
manufacturers had used palm oil ex-
tensively to give yellow color to
butter. 1t is said that the very large
amount of this used led the authori-
ties to begin suits agstnst the makers,
and as fines and penalties the govern.
ment collected in the neighborhood of
a quarter of a million dollars. The at
torneys for the companies contended
that it was unconstitutional for Con-
gress to place in the hands OF the
commissioner authority to determine
what was coloring matter. They said
that this was function that be-
longed to the courts. They readily un-
derstood that if they could bring each
case before court and have it tried
nv jury there was every reason to
believe that they would get favorable
yerdicts, or at least that the juries
would disagree. The supreme court,
however, has decided that the act of
Congress is constitutional and that
the commissioner has the power to
say what is and what is not coloring
matter. AS the commissioner has al.
ready decided that palm oil is
coloring matter within the meaning
of the law, all butterine containing
this ingredient is subject to a tax of
10 cents pound. This closes the last
avenue that seemed to be open by
which colored oleomargarine could go
out to the people without paying the
10-cent tax.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19
Grapes as Diet.

Many well-known physicians insist
that to eat and repeat the perform
ance three or four times a day win
work wonders with thin, nervous
anaemic people who are prone -
worry and whose digestion is out q
order. ALI we know is that the grslR
has wonderful gastric yirtues and
perhaps the most digestiole frule u
existence.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1905-01-19

Nest boxes should be frequently re.
newed if mites are about.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-02-03


The Great Northern has just
issued its annual North Dakota
bulletin, and the work is the
best ever put out by that road.
There is a splendid article from
the pen Of A.. NJ Powell, the
land man Of this city and Capt.
Thos. Anderson, one of the sue
cessful farmers and stock raisers
Of this county. There is an en-
tire page Of crop yields taken
from the Inter- Ocean, which, by
the way, is the only paper in the
state which is quoted, and shows
the manner in which outsiders
appreciate the good work done
for this county by this paper.
The work is splendidIy illustrat-
ed throughout, many of them
being scenes Of interest to local
people, one especially so Of
Judge Cowan and Att ,rney Burke
of this city holding a twenty -one
pound pickerel caught in Fish
lake in the Turtle Mountains.
Mr.. Powell has the bulletin fol
free distribution.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-02-03
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 8, 1905.

It is said, through the state
went 6, Q lid be taken with a
grain of allowance, that the pur-
pose of the recent visit of Col.
Bryan to Washington was for
the purpose Of joining the fol-
lowers Of the Nebraskan with
those of the president in a
word, in turning over to the re-
publican party those who believe
the same doctrines as does the
editor of the Commoner.. While
s;sr'e is probably no grounds for
such radical statements, the in
,terviews given out by Mr.. Bryan
on his trip east in which he I'M
qualifiedly endorsed the position
of President Roosevelt and
through him that of the republi-
can party, on a number of i'm
portant public ma tiers,
would indicate that wisdom has
come to Mr.. Bryan with his adj
vancing age and broader exper-
fence, and that he, like thou
sands of those who marched I'M
der his banner in 1896 and 1900,
has learned that the true princi-
pies Of representative govern
Inent are those taught by the
party of Lincoln. The republic
can party has not changed. It
has met new questions and con-
ditions as they have arisen, but
that is all, The augmentation
OF its ranks from the lines of it's
political enemy must indicate
that these recruits are. being
educated in the: principles Of
true government.