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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
POPULAR ENING

Don't you think it would pay you to
plant more early potatoes in the gar
den this time? You may have to make
the garden little larger. All right.
There is nice money and lot of it ia
early potatoes, remarks an exchange.
The Early Planted Peas.
The early planted peas almost inva-
riably do the best. Get them into the
ground just as soon as you can have
the soil in shape to receive them.
A Garden Staple.
Cabbage Is grown by the dozen in
amateur gardens and by ten thousands
In market gardens. Since it responds
SO readily to right treatment 1t Is enti-
tied to all the space, care and atten-
ton given it, The soil most suitable
for the cabbage is heavy sandy loan,
with rich dressing of well decayed
stable manure plowed In deeply and
thoroughly narrowed Mark off the
ground into rows two feet apart one
way and sixteen inches the other. At
each intersection scatter a little con-
deep, nearly to the first leaf, firming
the ground well around the roots. Cul-
tivate thoroughly and frequently and
Doe deeply
Small Early Table Beets.
Seed can now be sown in open ground
and for succession every few weeks.
For the small early table beets the
rows may be made one foot apart and
the plants be thinned to stand three or
four inches apart ia the rows.
Onions For Home Garden.
Oaions for the home garden should
be raised partly from seed and partly
from sets or transplanting. The small
onions picked off from one seasons
crop may be used as sets the next year,
when they will give much earlier
crop than those from seed. The same
ground that grows onions may some
times be used to grow cucumbers or
melons at the same time. since onions
do not shade the land much or take
much nourishment from 1t except early
In the spring.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
COVERED SHEDS FOR COWS.
Advantages Claimed For the Dairy
Farmer on High Priced Lands.

FARMER ON Hixh fr1ced Lands.
From the experience at the UNIVERSE
ty Of Illinois with covered sheds for
cows the past two years it has been
found that the cows keep much cleaner
than when stabbed and that the milk
ing stable is in more sanitary condi-
ton, consequently 1t is easier to pro-
duce clean milk. BY this method there
Is less difficulty In providing cows with
an abundance of fresh air, and they
are more vigorous and healthy and
have better appetites than when kept
In the stable. Since they can move
about and get exercise they will not
suffer in cold weather if the tempera-
ture is somewhat lower than in the or
binary stable. Labor is saved, as the
shed can be bedded much more easily
and quickly than can stalls. There is
little stable cleaning to be done, and
the manure is hauled directly from the
shed to the field at any time most con-
venient and when least damage is done
the land by tramping.
Fertility Saved.
Another advantage is the saving of
fertility much more completely. Many
barns do not have cement floors, and
SO there is more or less waste of the
liquid portion of the manure. Since
land is becoming so high priced no
farmer can afford to allow any fertil
ity to be wasted, and by this method
all the liquid is saved. as it is absorb
ed by the bedding. If only enough
bedding is used to keep the cows clean,
they tramp the manure so thoroughly
that it does not heat to make the air
impure. If manure is hauled directly
from the stable to the field, there is a
considerable portion of the year when
1t must be allowed to accumulate in
the yard, where it will leach badly. or
1t must be hauled on to the land when
II is so wet and soft that much injury
Is done by tramping. This is especially
true on clay soil.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
THE X. /. MIXTURES.
why Their Action on Trees and
Scales Is Variable.

Scales Is Variable.
One of the newer insecticide combi-
nations for treatment Of San Jose scale
consists OF mixture of kerosene in
water produced by the use of lime in
very fine particles. This combination
has been strongly recommended by
few experiment stations and has been
used on a large scale with more or
less satisfactory degree of success by
some orchardists. 1t possesses an ad-
vantage over the sulphur washes in re-
curing no boiling But tests made at
TIE New Jersey station during 1903 In
dictate that the lower strengths of the
"K. L." or kerosene lime. mixtures are
not efficient against scale and that the
stronger mixtures - those containing
larger percentages of kerosene-are liza
BILE to injure the trees because certain
portions of the mixtures contain much
more of the kerosene than other por-
lions. In other words, the mixture is
not uniform or not permanent.
In the original preparation OF these
mixtures at the Delaware station
commercial form Of lime and other
forms of water slaked or finely ground
lime were found to give about the
same results.
Various treatments of trees at the
New Jersey station with these prepare
tons resulted In lack OF uniformity
of effect some trees being seriously
injured or even killed by applications
that did not affect other trees In the
same series to any noticeable extent,
while even a 10 per cent solution was
not wholly satisfactory in killing scale.
The Mixture Separates.
Careful examination OF the various
mixtures showed the lack Of uniformi-
ty to be due to imperfect emulsifica-
ton of the Ingredients-that Is, the
mixtures. though made by the same
formula. from similar ingredients and
handled the same way. would show
great variation In the amounts Of true
emulsion of water and Of precipitate,
as shown by layers into which the ma
terial soon separated on standing.
These variations showed that as or
dfnarily made these tx. l." eruulsions,
% called, may give at the nozzle pure
oil. pure water, whitewash or an emul-
sien. BY chemical determinations far
the greater part Of the kerosene =
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
Tomatoes ON Glover sod.

A much worse selection OF soil could
be made for tomatoes than clover sod
With some additions Of animal ferti-
lkers, ashes, potash salts. fish, acid
phosphate, ETC., good crop should be
grown. Cutworms may trouble the
plants when first set. To kill these
worms the best way Is to scatter pieces
Of green sod, the grass side sprayed
with paris green solution here and
there over the field to be planted. A
paper collar placed around the stem
ct time of setting the plants, with low
or edge entering In the ground. will
keep the marauders of.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
Growing Value of Trees.

Get right away from the idea that
because trees do not grow and ripen
as fast as other crops forestry In the
wood lot will benefit future generations
only. Most forest trees will reach COM
mercial size well within an ordinary
lifetime and many of them In much
shorter period.
Don't fall into the way Of thinking
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31

that the only interest which tree
yields Is its annual growth. That in
itself shows a fair return but your
trees are not only increasing in size;
they are also increasing rapidly in
value.-Farming
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
Pig Feeding.

Wherever field peas and alfalfa can
be grown pork can be economically
manufactured by adding a little corn
to top off the fattening period, but hogs
cannot be profitably fattened for mar
ket ON alfalfa alone, says Colorado
exchange.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
E.timat.nx Content. of siio.

Many wish to build silo, but do not
know what size they need or how 10
ind the capacity. 1t is an easy matter
II you know the combination. says Il
Rural New Yorker writer. To find the
capacity Of square silo we multiply
the length, width, and height of the silo
In feet and divide the result by hfty 10
get the tonnage, as an average cubic
foot of silage weighs forty pounds. thus
requiring fifty cubic feet for ton.
For circular silo we square the d.
ameter and multiply by 1851 to get
the surface measurement and this by
the height. Suppose we wish to build a
silo thirty feet high and sixteen feet In
diameter: 16 by Is - 256 x .7So4 =
20l.06 * 80 - 6031.S = so = 40, the
tonnage capacity of the silo.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
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49, 'ND GARDEN
POPULAR COS LETTUCE.

Paris White ls Best For Either Pri-
vate or Market Garden.
Paris White Is typical cos variety.
strictly self closing, extremely large in
comparison with either the butter or
crisp sorts-large even for this group
late In season and slow TO shoot TO
seed; plant fairly compact, decidedly
upright; color very dark green, never
spotted nor brownish in any part:
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
aGeAKMhk
FlELRaAp lRRDEN
SssN&ss-
GRAIN SMUT.
A Dakota Farmers Method of Treat
ing Seed wheat.

j. III. Wilkinson In the Dakota Farm
err gives the following method of han
ding wheat when treated for smut:
81 have seen wheat treated for smut
by sprinkling and shoveling on barn
floor; by dipping with a perforated
scoop In trough; by filling barrel
with wheat, then pouring on the mix
ture and after soaking letting the wa
ter off through vent, then emptylng
the wheat out and drying 1t; also by
using the wagon tank method. But the
quickest, safest and most successful
method is as follows: Take two boards
sixteen feet long and one foot wide
and make two troughs eight feet long.
Cut kerosene barrel in halves to
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
Onions For Home Garden.
Believed Him.

He Qndignantly)-I beg your pardon.
miss. but l always keep my word. She
(complacently) II can easily believe
that, for no one would lake it
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
The Lovage Plant.

The lovage plant Is not a celery at
all, the stalks being only useful as
substitute In the same manner as the
blanched shoots of chicory or fennel.
The root of lovage is long lived and
may be increased by division like rhu-
barb. 1t is quite possible that the
promoters Of the new hardy celery"
believe they have valuable new Prod
uct and are reasonably justified in de-
handing a large Introductory price for
the roots, but II Professor Hilborn's
Identification is correct and they are
really disseminating the old and COM
paratively valueless lovage plant as a
sensational novelty they cannot be in
formed too soon.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
INTERESTING PRODUCT.
Expression of Opinion Concerning
the New Perennial "Celery."

Expression of Opinion Concerning
the New Perennial "CeIery."
Writing of the Silver King Hardy
Celery In Rural New Yorker, w. v. #.
says The name of Professor w. w.
Hilborn, superintendent of the Ontario
experimental farm, bennington, Ont.
being given as reference, we applied to
him for information, inclosing a circu-
lar exploiting this phenomenal novelty.
Here Is his reply under date OF March
10:
81 did not see the circular until last
week. They have no authority to put
my name to any such testimonial.
What | did say was that 1T Is very
good substitute for. but would never
take the place Of, celery At the date
I gave that testimonial had not seen
the foliage and did not recognize the
plant We tested a large sample OF
the stalks last spring. At first our
family ate quite freely of 1t and
thought II a very good substitute for
celery, especially as 1t came early In
the spring when there was no other.
After using for three or four days
most Of the members of the family ate
very little Of the vegetable. During
the summer l saw the plant growing
and believe II to be the same thing we
grew In our garden over forty years
ago. 1t was called 'lovage' or smell
age The leaf is not unlike celery. but
when you crush 1t between your
thumb and fingers II has very rank
odor not at all like celery" (.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31

found In the upper layer, while only
small portion Of the oil Is carried to
the lower layer by lime as it settles
down.
The Conclusion.
As kerosene, when applied pure, may
cause severe injury, the foregoing facts
explain why these tx. L." mixtures
have injured some trees while others
were unaffected. The figures also ex-
plain why enough scales escape to
stock the trees with young, since a 8
per cent or 5 per cent strength. such
as would be given by the lower layers,
would have practically no effect upon
the scales unless they were buried or
suffoca ted by the whitewash.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31

Young Americas Reply.
I'VE have a new baby at our house"
sWhat's his namer
Il don't know. He didn't bring any
lard"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31
BEEF PRODUCTION.
Profitable Combinations Of Western
Feeds For Western Conditions.

Feeds For Western Conditions.
For beef production ground Kaffir
corn is about equal, pound for pound.
to corn and cob meal when alfalfa hay
Is fed with either of these concen-
trates. However, with sorghum hay as
roughage it required fifty-seven pounds
more of the ground Kafiir corn than of
the corn and cob meal to produce a
hundred pounds gain. AS would natu-
rally be expected when the Kaffir corn
hay constitutes the roughage of the ra-
ton, 232 pounds more of the ground
Kaffir corn than of the corn and cob
meal were required to produce hun
dred pounds gain. Cattle can be well
finished for the beef market on a ra-
ton of ground Kaffir corn and alfalfa
hay.
Ground Wheat Not Economical.
Ground wheat and alfalfa hay fed
together Is not an economical ration
for beef on account of the loosening
effect of these feeds on the steers and
the expensiveness of the wheat. With
corn and cob meal at As cents per
bushel and wheat at 7S cents per bush
ell, the cost of hundred pounds gain
when both are fed with the alfalfa as
roughage is $5.13 with corn and cob
meal and with the wheat Is $3.50, or a
difference of S3.43 in favor of the for
mer.
Various ROughages.
A matter of this experiment of con-
siderable interest, especially to the
western farmer, is the part that the
various roughages play IN beef produc-
ton. A ration Of alfalfa hay at 81 per
ton with corn and cob meal produced a
hundred POUNDS of gain for S5.13, but
when Kafiir corn hay at SD per ton was
substituted for alfalfa hay the cost Of
hundred pounds of gain was increas-
ed to $7.32, while with sorghum hay at
So per ton substituted for the alfalfa
hay the cost was increased to S9!06. In
other words. one bushel Of corn and
cob meal fed with alfalfa hay as
roughage produced 1l.S pounds OF
flesh, while the same amount Of corn
and cob meal fed with sorghum hay as
roughage gave In return only G.25
pounds of flesh, thus a difference of
SO pounds. or SO per cent, in favor of
the alfalfa hay ration.-Kansas Exper-
iment Station.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-05-31

Onions as a Money Crop.
Onions have become a staple money
crop In many parts Of the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16

All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
Chance ON
Covering
First Base
Great Baseball General
Says Difficulties of the
Position Haze Increased.
Try For EUery Ball,
No Matter How Bad
the I'hrO7V. 2"
By FRANK CHANCE.

captain-manager and first baseman of the
Chicago Nationals
First base is a position that is re-
Quiring more brain work right along.
and il has increased manifold in diff
Guilty in the last ten years.
More qualifications are required of 4
first baseman today than formerly. and
head work is considered among the
first. Besides this. first basemau
must bat hard and run the bases well.
He must understand how to advance
a man on base and play team work
both with his bat and in the field;
hence the position is not the easy one
some persons who have never given the
matter any study imagine.
The main fault with young players is
that they do not give attention enough
TO headwork.
Ii they have good height and reach
and can play a good mechanical game
that is all they think is required of the
position. This is all wrong. Head
work and snap on the part of the first
baseman puts life into team. and the
finished points which come only with
study and practice are the ones which
tell in the long run.
Avoid being only Il mechanical play
er. and try to make yourself an active,
hustling member of the team.
The first baseman is on one of the
danger points Of the diamond.
Throws if unstopped at that point
are more likely TO do serious damage
than those to any other place on the
team. On throws from shortstOp, third
baseman and pitcher there is no chance
TO back him up. and if the ball gets
past the first baseman the runner Is
sure of third if not of home
On throws by the second baseman a
good catcher will prevent the runner
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
HANDY GAUGE FOR TANK.

The hand CA moves around dial Cd,
with as many inches marked on it as
it is desirable TO let the water fluctuate
up and down in the tank.
When the float in the tank falls the
rack gear is drawn toward the right,
causing hand CA to move to the left.
When the float rises with the water
In the tank. weight (E) draws the rack
toward the left and the hand moves
in the opposite direction till it reaches
Z, or whatever the number may be, in
dicating that the tank is full. This de-
vice is recommended by correspond
ent of the Engineers Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16

Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman."
| Edward Peple's The Prince Chap
Alfred Sutro's The Walls of Jericho"
and Henri Lavedens The Duel" The
rest of the years plays, save Richard
Mansfields production of ''Don Car
| los take lower rank.
These eight plays, generously patron
lied through the several months of
their runs, bear testimony to the in
creasing catholicity of taste on the part
of New York theater goerS. Similarity
In subject and treatment exists be-
tween only two. 1.-The Girl of the Gold
en- West and The Squaw Man" The
others have no points in common. In
fact, they cover almost the entire range
ofwhat now passes under the name Of
stage literature.
And in this new evidence of varied
taste and the royal patronage of these
plays at the expense of nearly all the
others lies an indication of an irnprov-
ing public intelligence as manifested in
the theater By the nature of things
the drama can be no better intellectu-
ally, than the people who support it.
Unlike it's sister arts, it exists in re-
Spouse to an immediate call. The spe-
cial plea for better plays may be
sounded till doomsday. but they will
not improve until the majority of those
who support the theater demand them.
The general public taste for the drama
is law, and that, this year, plays of ar
tistic merit have been most successful
is an encouraging sign.
The greatest genuine enjoyment by
the greatest number probably was de-
rived from Peter Pam the delicate
and delightful fantasy by j. NJ. Barrie
which was first warmed to life by the
popularity of Miss Maude Adams: but,
gradually becoming better understood,
it pursued triumphant course on the
basis of its own substantial merits.
The Squaw Man." in which William
Faversham starred, had well develop
ed dramatic strength of a cumulative
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16

c., M. & st. p. Excursion Rates.
HomeseekeTs' tickets on sale the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
ARTIFICIAL ALBUMEN.
Discovery of q New Condensed Food
to Supplant Meat.

Consul Pike of Zittau reports that an
interesting discovery is being discussed
by the German press, which refers to
the result OF a recent investigation by
Professor Emil Fischer of Berlin. He
writes:
1T is contended that the principal
nourishment required by the human
body for its maintenance is albumen,
according to the renowned professor
Of physiology, Pfeiffer, the source or
all muscular strength. For this reason
IL has at all times been the endeavor Of
our learned men to obtain more knowl-
edge of this important ingredient OF
our daily food. Up till now all such
efforts have been in vain, but 1t was
recognized that were it possible TO
make artificial albumen complete
change in the present system of nour-
ishing the human body would be
brought about and would render the
now so necessary meat foods to q great
extent dispensable.
Professor Emil Fischer. director of
the leading chemical institution. the
Berlin university, has gained the credit
OF having accomplished the first analy-
sis of natural albumen. He has estab-
lished the composition of the various
ingredients. some of which he has sue
ceeded in producing artiticially. The
substance thus obtained he has called
polypeptide.' and IL is said to possess
q large number of the properties char
acteristic of natural albumen. The
vast Importance of this discovery will
be better comprehended when we real
ize that the Introduction of this arti-
fetal food will reduce the disastrous
effects of bad harvests, pestilence. etc,
to a minimum and cause famine TO be-
come a thing of the past"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
Reproduces Music.

Consul Liefeld sends from Freiburg
description Of new musical instru-
ment. 1t is called the mignon, reSem-
bles an upright piano and reproduces
music just like the player has rendered
it. To prevent limitations the consul
understands that the original record
ing apparatus is not patented, but its
construction Is kept a trade secret.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
Southern Wit.

In the early days of the civil war
says Mrs. u. G. Wright in a Southern
Girl In 81" many northern senators
We're especially violent in their dcnun-
Citations of the seeding states. Occa-
sionally much to the amusement of
their listeners.
On one occasion western senator
ended speech by declaring that were
certain threatened events to occur he
would 'leave this country and join
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
ReUie0U
Of Season s
DrumNtlCS
Peter Pan, !" The Lion
and the Mouse, " The
Square Man" and "The
Girl of the Golden
West" Proceed Leading
Successes.

fFrom Our New York Dramatic Corre-
Spondent.l
Looking over the list of productions
at the twenty eight metropolitan thea
ters this season that take the initiative
In the dramatic affairs of the east only
four plays stand out in deservedIy bold
relief. They are j. NJ. Barrie's Peter
Pan" Charles Klein's The Lion and
the Mouse" David Belasco's The Girl
of the Golden West" and Edwin Milton
Royle's The Squaw Man.
Four other plays are only a short
pace behind them. They are George
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16

some other nation. Even the Co
manches he would prefer TO this gov
eminent in such a case"
Senator Wigfall of Texas rose in an
swer and stated in a tone of grave re-
monstrance that he trusted the senator
would consider we'll before he took
such step. for the Comanches bad
already suffered too much from con-
tact with the whites
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16
Simple Tank Gauge.

The handy tank gauge herewith
shown consists of a gear wheel set on
a pinion to which is attached the hand
ca. \ rack gear Oh meshes into the
gear wheel and slides on the seat (C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16

first and third Tuesday in each month
to points in Iowa, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and to other home
seekers territory For further infor-
nation phone or call at any C., M. G.
st. p. office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-16

Constipation makes the cold drag
along. Get il out of you. Take Ken.
nedy's Laxative Honey and Tar cough
syrup. Contains no opiates. All drug
gists.