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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

One funny phase of W tern agricul-
ture consists in the leasing Of musk
rat marshes by the owners and the
mortgaging Of the frog crop, things
which are actually done in some of the
wet sections of the northwest.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The agricultural department places
the value Of the corn crop of 1905 at
a billion dollars. No other crop grown
anywhere on earth is worth so large a
sum.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The owners Of those western Kansas
cheap lands not long since considered
almost worthless are making fortunes
out of them from the fine crops Of win
ter wheat which the unusual rains of
the past three years have enabled them
to grow.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

Western farmers have been altogeth-
er too much interested in teams of
draft horses exhibited at the various
state fairs purely for advertising pur-
poses by a lot of old brewers. A fine
horse never appears to greater disad-
vantage than when he Is hauling beer
wagon or man when he is carrying a
load of the stuff.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The country school where ten or f1f-
teen little folks are taught by bright
woman is about the best kind of school
to be found. It is better than q town
school where thirty pupils are depend
ent upon the same woman.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

A 1000 pound horse sold in Chicago
recently for $500. There is a pointer
here for horse raisers. The market
always wants the large horse at good
figure. There were a lot of 1000 pound
horses sold the same day for SIS or
less.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24
OUTLOOK FOR THE FARMER.

OUTLOOK FOR THE FARMER,
The new year opens auspiciously for
the farmers Of the country. Crops have
been good and the general level Of
pEices for all farm products very salts
factory. Money is abundant and in
terest rates low. There is more gen
eral attempt to apply science to agri-
culture than ever before, and it is be-
Ing done with marked success. 1t
touches the breeding of animals, ami
NAL diseases, crop rotation, drainage,
irrigation, the storage and marketing
of farm products, cooperative efforts
among farmers. The new year finds
most farm homes connected with the
outside world by rural mail delivery
and telephone and broader field Of
effort opened to every man who tills
the soil. Not the least important and
significant thing is that more men than
ever before are beginning to realize
what an intelligent and scientific work
ing and care of a small piece of land
can accomplish and how such work
may be made to materially increase in
comes none too large. While floods,
droughts, elemental destruction and I'M
profitable markets may conspire to re-
duce the farm income it is still true
that never before has the average
farmer been so we'll prepared to meet
such miSfOrtunes. nE
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The intrinsic value of any soil lies
in it's ability to produce grass. If grass
can be made to grow on any soil it is
all right. If grass will not grow it is
best let alone.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The United States will have about
20O,OO0,OO0 bushels Of the wheat crop Of
1905 to spare, the crop last year being
one Of the largest ever grown.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The American people have eaten
more mutton the past year than ever
before and are eating up their sheep
faster than they can breed them. This
is good thing in way, for there is
no more profitable animal to keep on
the farm than the sheep when present
prices for wool and mutton prevail.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

Some of the SO called most highly CIV
ilized people Of Europe might well learn
something from the japanese in the
matter Of personal cleanliness. The
Jap bathes often and keeps clean, while
some of the people who rate him as q
heather do not battle once year.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

If never done before, at least next
spring try the experiment Of so clean
ing all seed grain that none but the
best and most perfect kernels shall be
used for seed. No matter If you can
get only twenty bushels out of hun
dred bushels Of this sort of seed, it will
prove to be the biggest paying job
which you will do during the whole
year.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The farm hand wanted today is not
so much a seller of crude muscle as
one trained in the handling of machin-
cry and stock. More and more is the
machine being made to do the work Of
the man on the farm, and the man who
understands how to handle machinery
to the best advantage is the man who
Is wanted on the farms Of the country.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The mission of second wife is to
make man think more of the first one
than he ever did when she was alive.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

Better relations are being established
between the horse and the automobile.
The horse no longer wants to run away
and tear everything to pieces when he
sees one.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24
Notice to Owners orlEKeepers of

DOgS.
Notice is hereby given that---the
License on Dogs is due and payable
to the City Recorder on June lst,
1916, by all owners or keepers of. dogs
in the city Oh Warren, at the follow
ing rates.
For Male Dogs S1.0O
For Female Dogs $500
Dated at Warren, Mimi, this 18th
day of May, 1906.
W. N. Powell, City Recorder.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The genuine Swiss cheese Is to be
made in this country, colony Of Swiss
farmers in Missouri having taken up
the manufacture of this popular brand
Of the cheese.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

A few years ago it was regarded as
something rather remarkable for a
man to husk 100 bushels Of corn in one
day. During the past three years this
record has been so frequently beaten
that 100 bushels is regarded as only
just good days work. Even the wo-
men are beating this record, two young
women in Iowa having exceeded 40
bushels, one of whom got married as
soon as the corn was gathered, and the
other obtained nice piano for her
very extraordinary work, and possibly
the prize drawn by the last one was
the better, for she will at least know
where it is nights.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

Where a man has dairy of ten cows
1t will pay him well to buy separator.
The machine will pay for itself with
that number Of cows in little over a
year.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

A field Of corn which gave last year
an authenticated yield Of 147 bushels
per acre was grown thus: An old blue
grass pasture was turned over in Sep
TENDER, 1904 The field was thoroughly
disked and narrowed to get the seed
bed In the very best condition. The
corn was then planted in rows two
feet apart, the kernels six inches apart
in the row. The cultivation was done
with single horse cultivator.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24
FOR SALE.

l have 200 bushels of clean seed
flax, first crop of sod: on my farm,
on Lower Snake. John Walberg,
IT, Alyarado, MINI.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

E-E ~ o. p = = r s l.
A German bit illiterate and not
rated as very smart still knew enough
to buy ten years ago tract Of seventy
acres of cut off timber land in the
Hood river valley in Washington,
which he planted out when cleared to
Spitzenberg and Newtown Pippin APP
pies. The land cost him $40 per acre,
and lately he has been offered $4,000
for his little farm. These choice APP
pies, which find their very highest de-
velopment on the soil and in the eli
mate Of this valley, represent about the
most profitable branch Of horticulture
to be found in the whole country. This
fruit is all taken for export at fancy
prices, some Of the fifteen-y ear-old
trees bringing in an income Of $50
each.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

A man who had lived on a western
farm for forty years and who was a
lover Of trees was very proud of an
elm which he had planted when the
country was new in front of his house
near the public highway. Circum-
stances compelled him recently to sell
the farm, and one may judge Of his
feelings when the very first thing
which the new owner, foreigner, did
was to so at this beautiful tree with
an AK and fell it to/the ground He
felt, no doubt, as Tennyson express
ed it.: s>-
Oh, would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me!
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The demand for Christmas trees is
becoming serious menace to the re-
foresting Of much territory where it is
q shame to destroy the young trees.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The department of agriculture could
do no more practical and useful thing
right now than to issue bulletin de-
scribing all the new tracts Of land
which the government will throw open
to settlement within a few years as In
dian reservations or as tracts which are
included within the various irrigation
schemes now under way. Such bull
letin should give the locality, the terms
Of settlement, the names of the proper
parties to apply to for detailed informa-
ton. Such bulletin would be worth
to the public at large a hundred times
more than some treatise on bugs Bet
ter get at this, Mr.. Secretary.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24
California is noted for its hospitality,
md this is all right, for the state large
~ lives off its visitors.

Any education is lamentably defec-
tive which makes the young man or wo-
man look with contempt on good, hon
est hard work.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

FLAX AND POTATO SEED.
I have flax seed raised on sod for
sale, and al so some fine seed pota-
toes.
q Tnl1or
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

The temptation with the average meat
seller is so great to make his sausage
meat up of all sorts of scraps and odds
and ends in our larger towns it is prac-
tically impossible to buy a pound of
good sausage meat for love or money.
It seems strange that this should be so
when there is an almost unlimited de-
mand for fine article Of sausage at
big prices. IL
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

duO euuS III our larger towns IL IS praC-
tically impossible to buy a pound Of
good sausage meat for love or money.
It seems strange that this should be so
when there is an almost unlimited de-
mand for fine article Of sausage at
big prices. ~
It is said that 5,OOOOO Of the people
Of England are out of employment, all
on the ragged edge Of poverty and
many of them half starved. Could they
only be sent to the United States there
would be work and food in plenty for
all. The women are wanted as domes-
tic help, the men as laborers on farm
and in factory and mine. Rich men
with money to throw to the dogs might
better turn their philanthropy in this
direction than to the establishment of
libraries and colleges.
We think that one reason why ex-
perimental plats of alfalfa in the states
east Of the Missouri river so often fail,
turning yellow and dying out, is that
the soil where sown is deficient in nj
trcgen and the plant, being gross
user Of nitrogen, perishes for lack of
it, while, like calf, if it can be prop
erly and adequately fed until it can
take care of itself by getting it's own
nitrogen appropriating machinery into
operation, it would become an easy
matter to secure field Of this valua-
bic legume. Assuming this to be
fact, as we believe it to be-, it logically
follows that an ample supply Of nitro
gen should be furnished the plant
when young, which can best be done
by thoroughly enriching the soil with
liberal supply of barnyard manure
1t will pay any man who contemplates
sowing alfalfa to heed this suggestion
Through much Of the west the feed
ing of beef for market has been at
tempted quite generally the past four
years. Taking the four years, it may
be said that as a proposition it has not
been success. Only the very few
have been able to feed cattle with
satisfactory profit. The many have got
nothing to show but mortgage and a
lot of valuable experience. For this
reason we feel like commencing the
cow as a very much safer and more re-
liable proposition for the average farm
er than the beef steer With the COW
the market for her product is practical
" assured at q profitable figure. The
market for butter and cheese varies
but little from year to year, while the
making of beef IS speculation pure
and simple, the price Of the product be-
Ing practically fixed at the caprice OF
one of the most arbitrary trusts in the
country. For this reason we think It
Is safer for the man who wishes to
feed cattle to feed cows rather than
steers.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24
WARREN MARKET.
Giving prices each day during the

Feed l7 ton Corn s1s ton. Bran s14
q ton. Shorts Is.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-05-24

VIM. Merdink, of Stephen, wa
doing business in town SATURDAY..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
QUEEREST SCHOOLS IN EXIST
ENCE

1t is proposed to open in London a
school for nursemaids, where girls over
10 years of age may be given lessons
IN the management Of infants, prepar-
1ng p Of CHILDREN dk4 food. plain sewing
garten system Of education.
Such an institution already exists in
Berlln. 1t was founded two years ago
by a clergyman, and is in connection
with a founding hospital. The grow
ing girls of this establishment are
taught to become competent house
maids, and positions are found for them
IN the houses of the best families: in
Germany. = 49,. 5.'7s. ~ T.. t,!yy->y.>"
Russia possesses a school for police
men, where young men are trained for
the force. The school is situated in St.
Petersburg and in museum connected
thereto the pupils make themselves
familiar with jimmies, drills, chisels
and other tools used by professional
thieves: A particular branch of the
school is the Russian passport system,
which every budding policeman has to
stud y in detail.
A remarkable educational establish
ment is the school for judges opened
recently in Paris. Here make believe
trials are held by the pupils under the
supervision of we'll known ATTORNEYS.
The whole procedure, from the issuing
of a warrant for arrest to the summing
up and the Judge g verdict, is car
rled thru in a businesslike manner.
At Monte Carlo there is a school of
croupiers. It is held during the six
summer months in the clubroom of the
!ir aux Pigeons and the Sale d 'Escrime,
in the Casino building. Here are tables
similar to those in the Casino gaming
room, and each pupil in turn takes the
role OF croupier, while others personate
players and stake money over the table.
At a given instant the croupier must
calculate and pay out the winning stakes.
There are usually between forty and
fifty pupils in this school, and six
months course is generally sufficient
to turn them into finished croupiers.
A very odd educational establish
ment is the school for gravediggers in
Belgium. It was founded by the direct
ors Of the Great Evere cemetery, and all
candidates for posts as sections in Bel
GUM must undergo training in the
school and pass an examination.
There are several schools of house
wifery in this country, the principal
Of which is connected with the National
Training School of Cookery in London.
Every branch Of household management
Is taught at this school; the keeping Of
accounts, the principles of domestic
! sanitation, and certain amount of sick
training being included. Tit Bits.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
e. MODERN SOLOMON

Joseph Choate, the famous lawyer,
related at dinner party atLenox soma
Interesting "reminiscences of the bar
and, bench. r.; =, 49,. Il.
"a striking case,'' said Mr.. Choate,
"happened in the zoos. It was case
Of workman who claimed to have lost
the sight Of his left eye in an explo-
sion. ','
- "There was no doubt about the ex-
plosion, and there was no doubt that
the workman's eye had been injured;
but the physicians claimed that he
could see out Of it, while he stoutly de-
clared that the sight was utterly de-
str e9T3
pro and con. Then, sending the work
man from the courtroom. he said:
-" Get blackboard, and write a
sentence on it with green chalk. Also
get a pair Of spectacles, with ordin-
aly clear glass for the left eye. and
"This, in the course of an hour or so.
was done. Then the workman was
brought back, and he was ordered to
put tho queer glasses on. -..v
"HeSput them on, and the. Judge said
to him: =
" Turn the blackboard round, and
see it you can read what is written +:
The man read the sentence without
hesitation, whereupon the Judge said to
him sternly: - ..,>.@.!
your case is dismissed. You are
an impostor. You must have read that
sentence with your left eye, for the
red glass over the right one turned the
green writing black. and made it quite
invisible on the blackboard. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
LIBEL ON PHILADELPHIA

II. Bartol Brazier of the PHILADELPHIA
Automobile club, said recently that too
many motor cops were grafters. ,, 49,
AL motor cops are not grafters, -
said Mr.. Brazier. "The majority are
not. But too many Of them are. Too
many of them hold up automobiles
not so much for the purpose Of main
tanning the law as of lining their own
pockets. ... -
TN TRUTH Mr.. Brazier went on,
laughing, ,"my friends and myself have
were as dishonest as the Philadelphians
of the old Bucks county story.
You know that story9 Its date is
1888. And, Of course, it ism It true.
According to it, farmer, Penn
ssylvania- Dutch farmer, once brought
to the old market down near the river
wagonload of pigeons. It happened
that a half dozen other farmers had
brought in pigeons that day, too, and
the market was in consequence glutted.
1.-The Dutchman, finding he could not
sell his pigeons at full price, offered
them at half. But no one would buy.
HE offered them at quarter, still in
vain; and finally, since he did not want
TO- cart the great load Of birds home
again, he offered to give them away.
r Ba a1 tRh s9P it, according to the story
" They must be old and stale, said
the people, COR else he wouldn't act
like this, you may be sure 49,: -
"Seeing that the Philadelphians
would: not have his pigeons at all, the
farmer, determined to be rid of them
somehow, drove thru the Streets. drop.
ping, as if by accident, two or three
birds out every rod or so. But the
Philadelphians picked them all up and
ran after him, shouting, Here, man,
threw. them back into the cart again
"The farmer for a while was at a
loss. Then another idea for extricat.
ing himself from his troublesome pig.
cons came to him, and he halted on
Chestnut street in the shade Of chest,
nut, and, leaning his back against the
tree, pretended to sleep. 49,.
"Instantly, according to the old
Dutch story, the Philadelphians, man,
woman and child, swarmed softly into
the cart, and in jiffy every pigeon
was stolen,''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
HALF A MILLION "A YEAR ON ADS

The Advertising agent took i down
from the wall a letter framed in: oak.
81 wouldn tsen you this letter. he
said, "for a small fortune. It was
written to me by,S,a famous English
patent medicine man { He tells me in
1t bat that he spent every year 100000 on
The letter, dated May 20, 1890, was
in a neat, crampeds hand. It said, after
some advertising Instructions:
"A few facts may be interesting to
you. Your informant tells you that
was a Shepherd which is true. In the
year. 1928 I was sent out to work; that
work consisted of Eminding sheep in
eae+s open en- fleld and snay wages were 81
early in my, teens took charge of Tho
entire flock, and stuck to it till I was
70 years Of age. A slight turn in the
tide OF events caused me to give it up.
[ may here say that for some years
before the above age thirst for a
little knowledge Of humanity had
sprung up within me; slight wave of
opportunity presented itself, and l.
laughed my tiny, bark on the ever
shifting s i sea of commercial uncertainty
| | he have no cause to complain, for after
fifty years of hard work and practical
experience;,I :, can now look back and
take a,'sqrvey Of the KEEN competing
crowd, who are struggling daily on the
ocean Of life, and, Say to myself, 4
envy none. of YOU have seen sew
enty Christmas days. and am happy to
tell you I am as bright for work as
ever; Your. informant says + And
spends upwards Of !$150,00oF a. year in
a adSs The ). fact is, I spend a
600 year in advertising. pay the
inland revenue close upon, if not quiet.
$l50, 700 a year for patent medicine
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
CLOSE CRITIC OF THE COW

He was a well-known artist and he
was standing near the offspring of his
brain-these original expressions flow
from us sometimes-in the picture gal
lery, when an old gentleman whose at
tire suggested a country tailor suffer
ing from neuralgia approached, inspect
ed the picture and burst into parox-
ysm of laughter.
"Seems to amuse you, sir,' said the
artist, huffly.
cit do that.'
'sIt ism meant to be funny''
"Noa9 Well, I never!'
"I've been offered $500 for that
picture, Probably you don It think it IS
worth it; probably you think you know
more about it than all of the best crit
les. who have praised the work-eh?O
Don It know nothing about art, mis-,
ter said the old fellow, wiping his
eyes, 'sbut I be dead nuts on cows
Where did you see that COW what you we
painted there getting up from the
ground forefeet frst9 I've had fifty
year of farmin' and I never see COW
get up that way yet.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-06
A CAUSE FOR DIVORCE

"What is the most frequent cause
/. The divorce lawyer frowned thought.
fully. INK ,....
ut is nearly incredible,'' he said
but thing that causes divorce oft.
ener than you'd imagine is married
peoples quarreling over their right te
open one another's letters. -"
1.-The husband will claim that he is
entitled to open the wife g mail. The
wife will claim that she is entitled to
open the husband s.. In the letters OF
neither will there be- anything Of a
private or compromising nature, bu1
nevertheless they both want to get
their mail inviolate-it enrages then
to have it opened and read. 49,
~. "Qnarrels over this letter-opening
married couples. Of this copper cent a .
dlstressingly large proportion 90 or
from bad to worse till they wind up in
the divorce court. y.
So young man, when you come to
marry, leave. your wife 8 mail alone
no matter. how she may pry Into
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