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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Simple Remedies For Chickens.

1t is far more profitable to become
master of the art of prevention than
1t Is to be an expert in the art of
cure. 1t Is well to doctor the early
stages of sickness and thereby avoid
serious ailments. But when 1t comes
to the contagious diseases like roup
and cholera, we are strong in the be-
lief that they cannot be cured.
We may apparently cure these all
ments. but the germs of the disease
can never be eradicated from the
body When such birds are used for
breeding purposes, they have but one
result-a generation Of sickly. poorly
constituted offspring.
Here are few simple remedies
for early stages, which it might be
we'll to remember.
For bumble-foot, paint the corn
literally with tincture of iodine daily
for a week. If this is done in the
early stages, the corn can be spread.
For breaking down behind" there
| is no remedy. 1t is caused by dis
order of the oviduct. and the bird had
best be killed. AS this is really no
case of sickness, but more penalty
Of over-fat. the bird can safely be
eaten.
For canker, three applications of
fine salt rubbed on the sore spots has
been reported as an excellent remedy.
For catarrh, four drops of aconite
in a half pint of drinking water is
recommended. Gre lin, one part to
one hundred parts of water, has also
been known to cure; boric acid, 20
grains to one ounce Of water; or
listerine, one part to 10 parts of
water, are also safe remedies.
wattles with vaseline, after first hav-
ing bathed well with hot water. At
night, give one grain quinine pill. Re-
peat treatment each night for a week.
For colds, one grain quinine pill
each night for three nights, or week,
until cured. 2. Prepare a mixture Of
one tablespoonful of a good family
linament. one teaspoonful of spirits of
turpentine, and four tablespoonfuls
of water. Put the mixture in a sew
ing machine oil can When using,
warm slightly and shake we'll before
using. Inject two to four drops In
the nostrils. 8. Use Reliable Jour
nails remedy given for catarrh.
For costiveness, ten drops of sui
phate of magnesia to each pint of
drinking water.
For crop troubles, enlarged or sour
crop, add about half teaspoonfuf of
baking soda to quart of drinking
water daily for a few days, during
which time, feed sparingly. For crop
bound, Powell says he has cured bad
cases by making the afflicted bird
swallow all the warm coffee that could
be forced into it's crop. Repeat the
dose several times.
For debility, an English remedy Is a
raw new-laid egg every morning, until
the fowl begins to recover. Then
change to a little cooked meat, and
add little muriate of iron to the
drinking water. 2. When the writer
has fowl that is moping he gives a
family liver pill each night for three
nights in succession. Also gives the
bird free range over grass plot.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
ALFALFA LAYS ON FAT.
Experiments With Roughage in Cattle
Feeding in Nebraska.
BY Prof. n. r. Smith. Nebraska
College of Agriculture.

1t will doubtless be surprise to
the farmers Of the older sections OF
the country to know that the i'm
poverishment of the soil in Nebraska
Is already becoming an important
fact. This is due largely to the one
crop idea and lack Of stock feeding.
The authorities Of the Nebraska
Station say that more complaints of
soil impoverishment have reached
them in the last two years than ever
before and farmers are anxiously in
curing how the fertility Of their
farms may be maintained.
A few years ago when corn was
extremely low in price, it was used to
the exclusion of nearly everything
else. Cattle We're stuffed with corn
and anything that could be used as
roughage, usually straw or prairie
hay was pressed into service.
Experiments have demonstrated
that farmers cannot afford to make
corn their sole dependence, but must
supplement it with some food that
contains protein, the flesh making
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Keeping on the Mice.

Experiments by Professor H. L.
HUT of the Ontario Agricultural
College with several kinds of tarred
and felt papers showed that none was
injurious to the trees and all equally
effective in preventing injury from
mice during winter. The paper was
cut in strips about one foot long,
enough to go around the tree and
stand about one foot high. A piece
of string was used to hold the paper
in place and EARTH was banked around
the bottom Of the paper to keep the
mice from getting underneath 1t.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Going Back to s1erinos.

A good many intelligent farmers
are turning again to the Merino blood
to increase the weight of fleece. II
this turning is judiciously done, it
may sometimes be effected without
materially reducing the size of the
year old or the mother qualities Of the
ewes, but too frequently are the last
two things done and the increase OF
fleece is not sufficient to at all make
up the loss. Some of the heaviest
fleeces owe their weight almost ex-
clusively to the Lincoln or Cptswold
blood, particularly is this true when
the weight comes from length OF
staple which is a pretty good way to
have it come.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

is to be used for feeding purposes,
that type which will produce the
greatest amount of gluten should be
raised. 1t is as easy to grow corn
with starch or gluten as it is to pro-
duce any specific type of animal. Corn
breeding has become science, and
the wise farmer will make a study of
it if he would get away from the low
prices which generally prevail in sea-
sons of large crops, and get the top
market price for all he produces.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

The best way to solve the farm
help problem is to make farm life so
attractive and profitable that the boys
would rather stay at home than try
their luck in the city. Show them
that they can make money, have go ID
times along with hard work, and
develope business that will rank in
dignity and importance far above the
average business OF the city. and hired
helm hughear will take to the wnads,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Sheep as Weed Killers.

Did you ever notice how much
freer from weeds are pastures where
a few sheep are kept than are those
where only horses and cattle Craze ?
Nearly all, or quite all, the weeds are
eaten by the sheep, and being avoided
by other stock in their pastures they
soon overcome the grass which is
constantly handicapped by being eat
en- down. A few 'sheey should be in
levery cattle or horse pasture
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

used in handling heavy ordnance, as
for instance l--ountain batteries of the
colonial service. They are also being
used as mounts for officers and men
and for draught purposes in various
ways.
But there is no animal that can
beat the good old fashioned Ameri-
can mule for general purposes in
peace as well as in war.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Do Not Be stingy.

The young folks like to have a few
dollars they can call their own. 1t
makes them think the farm is all
right. Not that the dollar is all there
is of life on the farm, but ropes are
made of strands and this is one thread
in the cable binding the boys and
girls to the country. The boys and
girls are the best stock on the farm,
and do not let us forget it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11
Corn For Every Purpose.

Progressive farmers are learning
that it pays to make speciality Of
raising corn for the various purposes
to which it is best adapted. If located
within the vicinity of a starch factory.
corn that produces the greatest
amount of starch should be raised. If
in reach of a glucose market, corn
should be bred so as to produce the
greatest amount of saccharine. If corn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

good price for the rough feed. high
enough to make them profitable crops
to grow on the farm.
Had the feeds been sold, these
values for roughage would not have
been secured, nor would manure have
been left to make the next crop
larger.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

In spite of the thousands Of autos
that now roam over the country, the
first class horse brings more money
than ever. But the scrub Is out of
tha aama-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

Your wife is share in your work
and you never fail to unload your
woes upon her. 1t is only fair, there
fore, that she should share in your
prosperity and get as much fun out
of life as you do.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

The man who sows discord among
his neighbors is sure to reap mighty
poor crop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

The farmers begin to realize that
fact and want to buy purebred mares,
but there are no mares to be had, at
least but few among the breeders, and
only a very few have been imported.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

onstrating the fact that with right
breeding of sire and dam we are pro-
ducing as good horses here as in
Europe.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

disease, providing proper methods are
adopted to prevent contamination.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

Coach horses bring the highest
prices in the Chicago market, but
drafters are the most profitable be-
cause it costs less to fit them for the
market.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-11

Never breed an unsound mare. She
is pretty sure to drop colt with some
aharu of har IL, 6srait..
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
Reflections Of a Bach eIor.

Nearly all women are smart
enough to pretend that their hus-
bands have all the brains.
The way to have charmed life
is to be q rich relative of a lot of
poor kin who are waiting for you
to die.
Babies are pretty good not to
yell more than they do when you
consider the language they have
to submit to.
The man who has to support
his grown up children because
they can't support themselves,
dosn't get any credit from them
for hav ing as much brains as they
have Exchange.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
WaIthaIl's Brigade.

The annual re. union of Wal
thall's brigade will be held at
Oxford on Thursday, September
6, 1906.
shall endeavor to secure spec
ial rates on all railroads for this
occasion and tits earnestly desir-
ed that every survivor of this ia
nous Mississippi command will
be present.
An interesting program will be
arranged and the people OF Oxford
and Lafayette county will give US
an enthusiastic reception.
THos, SPIGHT, Com.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
HOUsEBREAKERs AT WORK
Two Houses in Coldwater Entered by
Thieves.

Thieves.
Burglars ''workedo Cold water
last Wednesday night. The
homes OF Spencer Wooten and
Druggist Robt. Bibbs were en-
tered and a pair of trousers and q
gold watch was stolen from each.
Nothing else OF value was re-
ported missing. Authorities
here were 'phoned to be on the
lookout for the thieves, but SO
far no clue Of their whereabouts
has been discovered. Burglars
have been visiting towns below
here on the Illinois Central rail-
road for several weeks. Bates
vile and Sardis are among the
towns in which they have opera
ted.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
Real Estate Transfers.

T. H. Turley to r. L. Kirk.
od-Honse and lot in Herman
do. Consideration 1926.
Emma L. Smith to Geo. Banks
One.sixth interest in Robertson
estate. Consideration IS, 900.
w. G. Davis ct ux to j. l..
Shelton ct ux-100 acres near
Alden. Consideration $4,000.
N. E. Wilroy, com missioner, to
Fannie Collins-Collins estate
near Kileton. Consideration
$4,725.
Fannie Collins to O. B. Collins
-120 acres near Kileton. Con-
sideration 81, 200.
Fannie Collins to Nettie Meach.
am-110 acres S. s, I. 3, r. 6.
Consideration 5000.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27

The Business World AnxiousIy Watchins 8
Result Of His Efforts.

Every year, about this time,
the greater business world looks
anxiously to the farmer, and the
foremost question is: How will
the crops turn out. This year
the anxiety is more acute than
common: because it is felt that
affairs are rather overstrained
and could i'll support the shockof
a crop.failure. This annual con-
fession of dependence upon the
farmer is exceedingly hu initiating
because the farmer is the only
person whom our system leaves
to shift for himself. Everybody
else's prosperity, if he'has any, is
benevolently provided for by the
high powers Of politics and
finance. It is due, as we are daily
reminded, to our protective tariff
and to our captains of industry,
who good -naturedly build rail
roads and mills, open mines and
develop territories in order that
labor may find employment. These
excellent men-in their own
phrase-Egive' work to the en-
tire Industrial population.
But the poor farmer! He has
practically nothing for a high
tariff to protect. His only inn
portant function under that ben
nehcent scheme is. to pay high
tariff prices for his clothes and
furniture. And the utmost the
captains Of industry can do for
hlm-with the kindest intentions
in the worlds to charge him
such freight rates as the traffic
will bear and sack up the cost Of
his coal, sus and t,53ibaecof
They cannot consolidate him, Or
finance him, or issue him in high.
ly.watered stock, or ''give" him
work. 1t is, therefore, humiliat-
ing for the rest of us, who pros
per by the bounty of a system
which. on the whole, treats the
farmer pretty shabbily, to have
to stand around every summer
and anxiously inquire what the
farmer is going to do for us. -
Saturday Evening Post.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
!. |. s c. EXPENSES.
Information Of Interest to all Prospec.
tive Students.

Information Of Interest to all Prospec.
tive Students.
The Industrial Institute and
College of Columbus has issued
a circular letter giving, among
other things, the following items
of expense to students in that in.
stitution.
Matriculation fee, S.; medical
fee, including hospital privileges
and trained nurse, IS, board, in
cludiug fare, room, fuel, lights,
laundry expenses, SO per month.
Total, $91.
Outside of this, students must
pay for text books, uniforms, and
music.
Provision was made by the last
legislature for student labor
fund, which will give scholarships
valued at $50 to one hundred girls
from the various counties. No
student under sixteen years will
bs admitted hereafter.
This county is entitled to three
students in the college for next
session. Applicants will be ex-
amined here.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
Will Exchange Business Places.

S. G. Riley and C.. B. Mooney
have made arrangements to ex.
change storehouses and will move
their stocks about August first.
After that date Mr.. Mooney will
only carry in stock staple and
fancy groceries tobacco etc, and
Mr.. Riley will handle dry goods
and heavy groceries.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
Veterans Will Meet.

All members of DeSoto Camp
Q. Q. V. are requested to meet
the Commander at the courthouse
in fernando on the first Monday
in August. Some of the veterans
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
Christian Endeavor Society Organize,

Christian Endeavor Society Organized.
Ten new members were added
to the Christian Endeavor Socie.
ty last Sunday. The local branch
OF this society was organized by
Miss Kate Logan at the Cumber-
land Presbyterian church Sun
day, July Is. A meeting will be
held every Sunday afternoon at
4:30 O'Clock. Everybody invited
to attend.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
HORN LAKE HAPPENINGS

| Mr.. Roy Murry, Of Arkabutla,
| is a visitor here this week.
Miss Newall, of Memphis, is
the guest of Mrs. P. M. Miller.
Mrs. L. A. Wilkinson, of Her.
nando,' lis visiting her sister here.
Miss Nettie and Mr.. Tom Win.
ders of Olive Branch, are visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Williams.
The farmers institute met here
Thursday. A large concourse of
people attended and Horn Lake
handed out the genuine article Of
Mississippi hospitality.
Rev. Randolph aud Rev. Lang
ford, Of Longtown, are holding a
meeting at the churce here this
week. Rev. Langford is doing
fs < 4 4 4 &
the preaching. He is an inter.
esting speaker. His sermons are
clear and logical. Considerable
interest is being manifested.
Horn Lakeis greatly in need of
a new school house, and the peo-
pie are very ANXIOUS to build one
and the only obsticle in the way
is the want Of land on which to
build it. IA mau in Memphis
owns . piece Of land here which
is the most desirable place for ii,
but his heartis SO tightly glued
to it, that he will neither sell nor
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27
Notice to Veterans.

Those disiring crosses Of honor
can procure same by applying to
Mrs. Harrington for blanks.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27

favor a reunion this summer, and
this question will be considered
at this meeting. Every veteran
please attend.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1906-07-27

give lot for the purpose. Per.
haps he thinks he will carry it
with him when he crosses the liue
into eternity.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-09
No One Wanted Box ID.

In no other western European coun-
try is superstition so prevalent as in
Austria-Hungary. Quite recently the
chamberlain's Office changed the num-
Der of box 10 in the Imperial opera
house and the Imperial Court theater
to la, because the public objected to
sitting in box bearing this unlucky
number. None Of the rich subscribers
who takes a box for the year wanted
No. 10, and for single performances it
was just as hard to dispose Of.
This superstition reaches its height
In medicine. Speaking at the health
exhibition, DR.. Heinrich Grun declared
that in many instances superstition
and especially local superstition, was
an absolute menace to public health.
In the Austrian hospitals one finds
no block or pavilion 10, no ward 10,
no staircase 10. Very few patients
will consent to be operated upon on
the thirteenth day Of the month, and
in this respect Friday, too, is consid
cred just as unlucky. At Carlsbad
Marienbad, Gastein and other famous
Austrian cure resorts nobody wants
to begin his cure on a Friday.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-09
Iodine a Cure for Snake Bite.

For sure cure for snake bite, take
about seven drops of iodine, scarify
md battle the wound also with iodine.
This remedy was first used by a med
ical officer in British service in In
dia. 1t has cured both man and a
number of animals; it never fails;
it is really wonderful in it's effects.
One instance l will relate. A young
man working for me in the harvest
field was bitten by very large rat
tlesnake on jne Of his large toes. l
gave him about seven drops Of tincture
OF iodine ON a little sugar, and to
make doubly sure repeated the dose
an hour later. His foot swelled, but
next morning he was all right. l have
had animals whose bodies have swelled
considerably, but all have recovered
from the bite.-Topeka Capital.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-09
LOVE LORE

II is easier to love and be wise
than to be generous and have money.
Jealousy is green and does not
harmonic with Loves hair and eyes.
Love laughs at locksmiths. because
parents don't lock up their daugh-
tiers any more.
When Poverty comes in at the door
Truelove engages her on the spot to
do the cooking.
The pity of Loves blindness is that
marriage Is the only oculist that guar.
antees to restore the sight
Don't complain OF your lovers ANA.
teurishness. In this you have proof
positive that you are the first.
Show me the sweethearts of the
land. and will confess myself that
much more puzzled about the men.
Life gave a dinner, and, while 1t
may not have been n feast from an
epicure's point Of view, 1t was a great
success. The guest of honor was
Love.
When Love begins to sicken and
decay, sometimes the tonic of in.
difference will effect quicker re-
covery than all the careful nursing
in the world.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-09
FOUR YEARS OF AGONY.
Whole Foot Nothing But Proud Flesh
Had to Use Crutches-"Cuti-
cura Remedies the Best on
Earth"

'1n the year 1899 the side of my
right foot was cut off from the little
toe down to the heel, and the physi.
clan who had charge of me was try
ing to sew up the side of my foot, but
with no success. At last my whole
foot and way up above my calf was
nothing but proud flesh. l suffered I'M
told agonies for four years. and tried
different physicians and all kinds Of
ointments. l could walk only with
crutches. In two weeks afterwards l
saw change in my limb. Then l be-
gan using Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment often during the day, and kept
it up for seven months, when my
limb was healed up just the same as
If l never had trouble. 1t is eight
months now since stopped using
Cuticura Remedies, the best on Gods
earth. am working at the presen.
day after five years Of suffering The
cost Of Cuticura Ointment and Soap
was only Sc, but the doctors bills
were more like 5000. John NJ. Lloyd,
us S. Arch Ave, Alliance, Ohio, June
81. 1906"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-09
Nothing Succeeds Like "EGG-o-sEE.n

The man who breaches the best SER
mon; the man who tells the funniest
stories; the man who keeps the best
store; or the man who makes the best
goods soon finds that people come to
him. Merit is the best advertisement
in the world. People speak we'll of
things they know are good. They pass
the good word along.
The best breakfast food is EGG-O-
SEE, for it contains all the life-giving
properties of natures best food, which
is wheat.
EGGO-SEE is deeply in debt to the
thousands of wives and mothers who
use it in their homes, for these good
women tell their neighbors about this
great food.
Children and aged persons alike are
friends of EGG-O-SEE.
Merit and common sense are the
things that advertise EGG-O-SEE
most. EGGO-SEE is cheap. A 10
cent package contains ten liberal
breakfasts. EGG-O-SEE is sold every
where. Grocers must keep it If they
want to keep their good customers,
for good customers insist on buying
EGG-O-SEE.
The fact that no preparation, no
cooking Is required, makes EGG-O-
SEE very popular. Open the package;
put as much as you like in a dish;
pour on milk or cream and eat. 1t
is delicious. 1t is wholesome. 1t
makes you strong
A lot Of interesting facts about
EGG-O-SEE have been published in
book form entitled. Back to Nature"
This book also has a course Of phys
ical culture-fully illustrated. Any
one wishing this book will receive it
free by addressing EGG-o-SEE Com
pany, 10 First St., Quincy, III.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-08-09
Hartman Resents overcharge.

e. H. Hartman sent his $4,000
automobile to a repair shop in New
York city in January, and when he
got bill for $1,797, refused to pay
1t. The owner of the repair shop re.
fused to surrender the vehicle and
Mr.. Hartman proceeded to recover it
by writ of replevin. The men who
are trying to collect this large sum
will now have to sue for their money.
Mr. Hartman evidently believes that
the charge was made in accordance
with his supposed ability to pay.