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Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

averaged for the twenty years 251s
bushels per acre. In all these figures
the number of acres sown is given and
the number of bushels harvested.
During the twenty years." said Mr..
Hollinger, 81 have aimed to carry
enough cattle to use up the rough
ness and the corn raised on the farm,
usually from 100 to 400 head. OF late
years I have paid more attention to
cattle and alfalfa, and have found
that it was far more reliable CON-
bination than purely grain farming in
which I was chiefly engaged in the
earlier time of my experience. There
is no question but that any intelligent
farmer can make a competency, and
support his family in abundant COM
fort in central Kansas. 1 have done
no more than any of my neighbors did
or might have done. Each YER the
same income approximately can be Sc
cured if the work is carefully planned
and such crops are raised as areadapted
to Kansas soil and Kansas climate"
AS an example of Mr. Hollinger's
stock raising it may be mentioned that
he came to Kansas City recently with
$4,000 worth of stock which he sold
off his farm. He has lived on the
same place for thirty-three years and
is not leaving Kansas because he is
entirely satisfied with his wealth but
because he wants to give his family
a broader education and to secure
recreation for himself. 'I think I
have enough to keep me from want"
he said, land am entitled to get some
thing more out of life than I have
heretofore DONE"
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

and other necessities is not so
high as in the colder parts of
the country, as much of it is
usually produced near at hand. ALI
of these things combine to make the
regions of Southern California most
attractive to poultry growers, who may
be seeking a softer climate to lessen
the aggravation which the rigors Of
winter heap upon some member of
the family. Many have gone there
seeking place merely to benefit their
health, and have been much improved
by so doing; but they have also been
able to make a living for themselves
and their families through the COM
bination above described.
ALL CANNOT SUCCEED.
All do not succeed. This can not be
in any following of life. Those who
do succeed usually have more or less
experience in the business before they
embark upon it. The failures come
to the inexperienced, and those who
are unable to contend with the diff
culties always confronting one in the
upbuilding of a new home in any To-
cality.
What are known in the San Fran
cisco market as grange" eggs, the Nc "
York market designateg as "fresh-laid"
eggs. Ranch eggs of California are
the fresh-laid eggs that are brought
direct to the market and sold as such.
During November and December last
this quality of eggs sold in the mar
kets of San Francisco as high as fifty
one cents dozen, and as low as thirty
cents, Influenced, no doubt, by the SIP
ply and demand, governing this pro-
duct in every locality.
Eggs sold in Chicago during the
year of 1905 as low as fifteen cents.
In San Francisco the lowest price
quoted for the year was fourteen
cents. When the lesser expense of
caring for them is Considered, the ad-
vantages or profit from poultry grow
ing should be fully equal to, if not bet
ter than would be the same pursuit in
Illinois.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
the Government to Start plague Among Destructive Val

Did you ever see rat or mouse or
wild rabbit sick from what might
be termed natural causes? Any
one who can contribute such an animal
to the Department of Agriculture may
unwittingly confer a benefit of mil
lions Of dollars annually on this
country. What the Department wants
is a fatal and contagious malady,
which it is working hard to get now,
but up to date the work is merely
promising, there having been no salts
factory result to record So if any one
has a hutch of rabbits swept off by
a sudden and mysterious disease, or
If he notices any swift and sudden
mortality among the rats and mice
in his locality, that may be the very
thing the Department is looking for,
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
BUSINESS METHODS IN FARMING
Successful Kansas Farmer Who Has
Kept Trace of Receipts and Ex-
peuditures for Twenty Years.

the Kansas City Journal of the sue
cess of A. L. Hollinger, well-to-do
Kansas farmer who opened set Of
books when he began farming twenty
years ago and who has kept his ac-
counts as accurately as bank does
its. The other day he struck a trial
balance and found himself $4,000 to
the good. He has now retired from
the farm and will make a tour of
America.
The compilation of his long record
beginning with 1886 shows the total
figures given as follows: He has
raised 5,265 acres of wheat, a yearly
average of over 263 acres, and on
that area has raised 9S,791 bushels, or
an average per acre for twenty years
of 1875 bushels. During all the two
decades henever had an entire failure of
wheat, although an average of ~
bushels an acre in 1895 came very near
to it.
His corn record is equally interest
ing. He has raised 2,S46 acres of
corn, yearly average of 142 acres.
The total number of bushels was r.
672, or an average per acre for twenty
years of 251a bushels. The corn
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

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tive our readers the best of ever
thing, we are about to offer you
serial form, the unusual and a
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1.-THE WHITE COMPANY" "
by no less great an author tn.
Sir A. Conan Doyle, who for T.
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
have been published and rel
throughout Europe and Amer1c
In fact, no writer of late yea
has received more popular 8
tention or merited more prai
than this gifted Enslishman: II
style is most pleasing and his IL
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usual. j
We have secured from >
Conan Doyle's American publis1
ers the right to this novel. and
is with great pleasure that we al
able to announce its early appeal
ance in the Magazine Sect1onI
BE sure to get the initial chapter
as it is a stirring tale that will hol
your interest from first to last.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
PRAIRIE DOGS.
One of the Pests of the West.

the biologists were loaded for rabbit,
so to speak, and they furnished the
forest people with a harmless wash
to soak their pine nuts in before plant
ing, and with cheap dip for the
nursery stock which a self-respecting
rabbit will no more nibble than will
an ordinary human being smell auto
mobile odor for perfume.
In this the biologists confessedly
took leaf out of the book of the
Piute and other desert-dwelling In
dams. The Piutes have been caching
food supplies Of pine and pinion nuts
in the desert for hundreds of years
and they found that the rabbits, the
ground squirrels and prairie dogs
would clean out their cache. But
they found by experience that there
was a little desert weed that the
ground animals disliked excessively
and that anything dipped in a tea
STEPPED from the bark of the weed was
rabbit-proof for long time thereafter.
So the rabbits were checkmated on
that play and the forest officers have
no more trouble from that quarter.
PLAGUE OF THE WOLVES.
But it is the very presence of the
forest reserves that has bred the
present plague of timber wolves in
the West. No hunting is allowed in
the reserves and they form nurseries
for game of all sorts. But it seems
that they breed wolves quite as fast
as they breed anything else, of which
| fact the cattle raisers have been made
painfully aware.
In the days of the buffalo on the
plains, thousands of wolves lived on
| the herds. When the buffalo were
killed off the wolves disappeared also,
till there was not one where there used
to be a thousand Then the cattle
men began to stock the ranges, and
the wolves found conditions much the
same as in the buffalo days. They
promptly multiplied and increased till
they are now doing an immense
amount of damage, aided largely by
their asylum in the forest reserves.
The biological survey has sent out
Mr.. Vernon Bailey, one of its best
men, to study the wolf problem, and
he has been skeeing and snowshoeing
through Wyoming and Montana while
the snow was on the ground and the
wolves were particularly easy to track
and study. He has not done any
shooting, but is trying the effects of
poisons and traps. But the wolves are
about as cunning as foxes, and after
you have trapped and poisoned few
in a given district the rest grow wary
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL
TO BREED UP A DISEASE.

be bought by the pound and spread
on bread. The contagious quality
has not developed yet in any of the
foreign cultures tried.
THE RABBIT PEST.
The biological survey has been able
to do good deal in a practical way
with the rabbit pest. Some time ago
the forest service set up a howl of in
dignation. 1t had planted some hum
dred thousand young trees, nursery
stock, in one of the California forest
reserves, and the rabbits ate them
up in about a week. Then it seeded
several hundred acres with white pine
to restore the land after fire, and
the rabbits cheerfully set to work, dug
up all the seeds and ate them. But
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
GREAT BEAR COUNTRY.
Representative Bede of Minnesota
Tells the President About Big
Game Hunting i'm Duluth.

Tells the President About Big
Game Hunting i'm Duluth.
How it happened that the war cor
respondents at Washington found out
about ]. Adam Bede's conference on
bears with President Roosevelt does
not appear However, a full report of
the Minnesota Congressman's tales
has been made, and was made public
in the New York Evening Post. 1t
makes an alluring document Mr.. Bede,
who is the acknowledged wit of the
House, sought the President with the
friendliest intention. "You like to
shoot BEARS" said "Jadam," diplo-
matically. Mr. Roosevelt admitted it.
But you don't have to go into the
wild West for your SPORT went on the
Minnesota statesman. Think of this
fact: thirteen bears were shot in the
streets of Duluth last year-in Du-
luth, the pride of the Northwest, that
beautiful city on the great unsalted
sea- The statement had a perceptible
effect on the President. and Mr.. Bede
was encouraged to go on. Its the
only place in the whole world, Mr..
President, where you can go bear
hunting by trolley car, under the cleo
trio light, and on asphalt pavements.
We have all the conveniences so dear
to the heart of the true sportsman,
and without leaving your hunting
ground you can walk across the street
to the mail box and drop in postal
card to your friends, telling them all
about the game you have bagged."
With the Congressman was a Duluth
constituent, a lady with first t-hand
knowledge Of bear hunting in that
city. She added her corroborative
statement: "Oh, yes, Mr.. President, a
short time ago friend of mine heard
a noise outside his window, and on
looking out saw that it was bear try
ing to climb telegraph pole. He shot
that fellow without leaving his bed
room" Then, to the joy Of the Pres l.
dent, Mr. Bede took up the tale: why,
bears are common things with US up
in Minnesota, Mr. President. Last year
five bears held up one of our trolley
cars. They were two old ones and
three cubs. This occurred right in the
streets of Duluth. The big fellow got
in front of the car and put his paws
on the dashboard, driving the motor
man off, while mamma and the Gu BIS
went around after the conductor. After
they had had enough of this sport tn ey
raised the siege and trotted off toward
the outskirts Of the city. Oh, no, we
don't let the bears trouble US much.
When they get too bothersome we turn
them over to the police, who drive
them out of town; but it's great bear
country up there, and I'm sure you
would like to see a bit of it." Now, if
it is announced that President Roose-
velt means to take vacation up in
the Minnesota woods, the correspond
ents may go straight to Duluth, where,
as Mr.. Bede is true prophet, the
great bear slayer may be found sitting
in the door of an up-to-date hotel, a
rifle across his knees. waiting for the
promised sport.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

and the poisons and traps are rele-
gated to seat %. The wolves get so
crafty that they will not swallow a
piece of meat without mouthing it,
and if they get the bitter taste of
strychnine or arsenic they drop it and
look for something else to eat.
Whether or not the survey will be able
to kill them off with some contagious
disease is a question, but they are
rapidly becoming as great a pest and
far more dangerous than the smaller
"varmints."
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

feeding the fowls; and the facility
with zero weather during the winter
months. Protection from rain, damp
and vermin is the most necessary ad-
junct to a properly constructed poultry
house when the poultry can not run
at large and range over the land.
There is no month in the year in which
they can not find more or less animal
and vegetable life for food upon the
range. This IL months of food supply
reduces the expense very materially in
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
Egg Farms of California.
By T. f. McGRTw


Many years ago I assisted a friend
in the loading of car of poultry for
California. This car was shipped from
Central Ohio, and the fowls contained
therein were very well selected from
f1ocks of desirable varieties. The
owner of this car crossed the conti-
nent in care of his birds and settled in
Central California. Reports from
there a few years later told a direful
story of the impossibility of success
in poultry-growing in California.
1t is unnecessary to relate the many
troubles experienced, except to say
that the amateur in poultry at that
time imagined that the birds would
live and prosper in the California eli
mate without proper shelter within
houses during the cold, damp weather.
A close study of these conditions
has entirely eliminated all these mis-
takes, and to-day there is no place
in the United States where there is an
enthusiasm equal to that found
throughout California with reference
to this industry.
The construction of proper houses,
the selecting of proper breeds and the
proper caring for them has built I'D an
enormous egg business through that
section of the country.
In the neighborhood of Petaluma,
more Leghorn fowls are probably kept
for producing the white-shelled eggs
for the California city markets than
can be found within the same number
of miles in any other place in the
world. One enthusiastic visitor to that
locality has made the statement that
every acre in the fifty thousand acres
visited contained hundred Leghorns.
The climate of Southern California,
the beauties Of the scenery, the pleas
ure of fruit cultivation and the profit
able growing of poultry have attracted
many hundreds to that section to en-
bark in these pursuits under pleasant
conditions.
A Mr.. Brownlow who purchased a
few acres Of ground in that locality
ten years ago has built up for himself,
with the assistance of his wife and
children, a most profitable combination
Of poultry, fruit bees and squads, all
of which thrive continually under the
softer climates of that locality, ena-
bling these people to produce broilers
every month with a minimum amount
of care and attention, the fruit and
bees being remarkable source of
profit during the greater part of the
year.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

with which SQUAD breeders can fly
their birds at large, continually adds
vigor and strength to the breeding
stock, which naturally assists in the
quick growth and size obtained in the
squads.
The quotation of eggs, dressed
poultry and squads in the California
market, while not the equal of the
New York and Boston markets, will
grade well in value with the average
markets of our larger inland cities.
The expense of living as to food
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
REAL ESTATE.

20 ACRE TRACTS CHoICEsTfruit and farm land
ION the Gglf N Coast Highlands In Alshamal for $50
cent?. Crops pay SIS to $3.50 an acre year Remark-
ably healthful. Send for booklet Irvington Land
Co.. ls4 La Sale ST., Chicago, Ill.
WANTED: WICHITA PROPERTY. Lands in
Southwest Kansas. What have you for sale2 "a
years buying and selling Kansas dirt. Choice $40
acres near Garden City, $6 400. Write E. l. Spencer
1l5 s. Lawrence Ave-, Wichita, Kansas
of 1000 to 10000 acres; low prices easy terms level
rich alpval soil; abundance Of water; best climate
Mason Bldg, Los Angeles, Cal.
COUNTRY PROPERTY oNLY-EvERYwHERE
Farms, residences, hotels, stores, etc. Catalog
Free to intending buyers. Owners wishing to sen
call or write at once. Phillips g. Wells, 95X Tribune
Building New York
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

made two entire failures, one in 1895
and one in 1901. In 1895 it was very
near failure, only 3 bushels per
acre. Less attention was paid to oats
and only 679 acres were raised. This
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
BUSINESS EQUIPMENT.

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Yost, Densmore & Jewett 1890 each. Electric
Commercial Graphaphone Outfit, new taper-arm
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Eradicator never fails. Send &c. for bottle. Best
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Washington Ave-, New York;
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
PROTECTION AGAINST DAMP
IMPORTANT.

The buildings used for poultry in
these localities need not be so expen-
sive in construction as is necessary in
that portion Of the country visited
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22

D first days use Of DR., Kline's Great Nerve Re-
storer Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise
Dr. 4. h KLINE Ltd, 931 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pa
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
LADIES APPAREL.

SHIRT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARY
keeps waist down all around: no pins or hooks tc
tear: send 25c. with waist measurement corset
and ask for white or black. Felix Corset Co.. l3l
Prince St., New York.
Amador ledger., 1906-06-22
MALE HELP WANTED.

WANTED: Amateur photographs suitable for
art and advertising subjects. Mali print and price
with postage for return not accepted, to The Geo.
Ill. =
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30
GREAT REVIVAL
MEETINGS HELD
REV Gates. WHO HAS BEEN CON.
QUOTING WONDERFUL MEET.
iNGS IN MEMPHIS AND PADU.
Cab, WILL BE CAIRO.

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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30
PROPER CARE OF CLOTHES.
fine Wei Spent in Keeping Belong.
ings in Order,

We all like good clothes and the
ceiling Of being welI dressed. II is
lot entirely question of money; it
S also matter of detail and of giving
1 small portion OF our time to keeping
sur belongings in order No matter
low expensive or well fitting ones
iress Is the appearance lis spoiled by
soiled stock or piece Of Lace Or a
crushed and frayed skirt
lust stop and think what a saving
Of time and money the short skirt Il
o woman, especially the busy WON
IN. No tkirt braids ncaa renewal; p2
frayed edges give her N uatdy air
oearance.
!. Take look at your everyday skirt
and think what all improvement q
good pressing would he to it. This
san be done very easily at home and
should be done every week or tive
Place your skirt on q covered ironing
board and have HANDY two hot irons
rather heavy In weight: ROW cover the
portions to be pressed with q thor
Dughly wet piece of uuhleachcd mus
in folded double, and when pressing
don't move the iron too qulckiy over
Fit. but press until the material stous
steammg.
Should there remain dullcd cr
glazed spots sponge lightly and press
again This repreasing whom damp
viii form steam that will remove such
spots.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30
TRY SWEDISH FRUIT SOUP.
It Is an ArpctiziHa and Nourishng
Dish fer lnvaiids.

was in Swedish hospital with
fever that might prove typhoid
Keep her on q milk dict. sand tho
doctor to the nurse.
Il loathed milk. yet the next day
Keep her on a milk diet" said ths
learned man. besoneht the nurse
for baked potatoes and she firmly re-
peated the doctors words: "Kcep her
on a milk Diet
But one day that blessed nurse from
Sweden brought me a bowl Of fruit
soup.
The Mohammedan paradise holds
no JOY equal TO tie taste OF it. ca-
ioled that Swede woman into giving
me the recipe
Fruit Soup-Stir together a handful
each of dried apples, pears. cherries
ralsins, pruncs and currants. When
done add water to make a gallon
sweeten to the tastct and aid two
Tablespoonful Of vinegar. Thirtpu
with potato four or with oatmeal
Potato -four 10 he used for thicEcn-
Ing and for pudding is made as fol
lows. Crate potatoes. soak iB cold
water. strain out en- The roatoes first
with a coarse sieve then with q fine
enc, leaving the potato starch in me
water. pouring off each one as Iona
as there Is any color in the water.
Finally having poured on the last
water let the starch cake and take
out and dry on cloths-Kansas City
Star.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30
Burnt Cork Mustaches.

A late officer Of the Household cav
airy tells 4 story about the days when
the order TO wear mustaches was first
issued in the early 40s My father
was q snbaltern in the Ninth Lancers
at the time, and every officer and man
in the regiment was clean shaver. To
show his devotion to discipline the
colonel ordered the regiment to as
sumo artificial mustaches married ont
with burnt cork 70 set pattern. -
London Chronicle
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30
MANY CHRISTMAS
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO CAIRO CHlLDRENs HOME
ARE GRATEFULLY AcKNoWL.
EDGED an LADIES I'M CHARGE
or TIE INSTITUTION.

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The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30

Three and a half pounds veal. a
chicken or rabbit two stalks of
celery, any poultry bones, two blades
Of mace, one onion two quarts Of
cold water; cut the meat into small
pieces and break the bones; put them
into the pot with tno water and bring
slowly to the boil skim thoroughly
add lhe other ingredients and simmer
slowly for four hous strain and
when cold remove the fat The bones
may again be boiled down.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-30

Two cups Of graduated sugar one
cup molasses, three cups of graham
-four siited two cups 81 white dour.
three cups Of seeded raisins. three
cups Of curraAts, half pound citron
two cups Of milk, one teaspoon saler
atus. one teaspoon Of cloves. one tea.
spoon of ailspice one teaspoon Of salt.
two teaspoons Of cinnamon. Grease
tins and put in slow oven and do not
touch for half an hour Be careful in
turning them or they will fall Fake
for 21a hours to three hours. Makes
two good loayes.