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AntIeIp.tIna the sprIna Hatehes.

Anticipating the spring Hatehe&
Ny experience has been that the
nearer we keep to nature the better
success we have. I usually mate my
birds the latter part OF February or
the first part OF March. and commence
to set the eggs to hatch the last week
In March or the first week In April.
Even then. II the weather should be
very cold for the season or stormy
the chicks will have to have extra
care. or some will die from exposure
II allowed to run at large. Chicks
never do well II confined any great
length of time. The chicks must have
great amount OF exercise. The
mother hen should be confined. but
the chicks should have free run.
The question is asked. Are early
birds as good layers as those hatched
n little later and pushed forward"
have never had facilities for Matching
and caring for chicks earlier in the
season than about April !. but my
early birds were my best winter lay
ers.
find that the number of eggs
placed under hen should not be too
large. | have used hens mostly for
Matching, and It is my experience that
can get great many more chicks
with thirteen eggs under a hen than
with more. With thirteen eggs have
sometimes had every egg hatch. while
with fifteen or sixteen would get only
seven or eight chicks. Where there
are so many eggs. some OF them are
not properly covered and they get
changed about and in that way hall
the eggs will be spoiled.
keep my sitting hens in n room
away from the others. Each one has
her nest and number. and Is confined
on the nest. but is taken OF. fed. wa
tered and allowed a dust bath every
day. 1t is best to have the room not
very light. but well aired and dry
C. +. Thomas. Kandlyohi Co. MINI.
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l|1((l|SI|(|IIII
{saS;ss7Z .N''''!i
Kentucky Blue Grass.
(POa pratensis.)

This Is one OF the very famous
grasses Of the United States and one
a the most valuable. In different
parts Of the country 1t is known by
different names. among which are:
Green Meadow Grass. June Grass.
Common Spear Grass.
The grass attains . good height.
sometimes being 80 inches tall. The
leaves are narrow and long and are
easily distinguishable from Canadian
blue grass. which has q broad leaf.
The roots are perennial and creeping.
and . pasture Of this grass. II taken
care Of. will last for many years. The
grass starts to grow very early In
the spring and flowers in the North
ern United States In June. 1t likes
. limestone soil. and on soil rich In
lime 1t establishes itself by forming
very compact sod
This grass Is better adapted to pas
ture than to hay meadow. for the rea-
son that It does not work well into the
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rotations. It takes three or four years
for II to form n compact sod. When
pasture has been once taken by blue
grass. the farmer has something that
will stay by him through cold and
heat. nooi and drouth. In Kentucky
the farmers pride themselves on the
luxuriance Of their blue grass pas.
lures. some Of which are more than
nifty years old. It flowers but once In
the season. but after being grazed or
cut 1t quickly sends up a new visor-
GUS growth.
The grass does well in rather dry
soils. but will adapt itself to almost
any soil. even to the wet meadows.
In Kentucky and other states in which
the winters are mild 1t is used for
winter pastures and It is not infre-
quent that herds are kept on 1t the
year around. It does particularly
well where trees are scattered about
to give 1t partial shade during the
hot days OF summer.
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cemen. Floor. IN Poultry Hou..,.

Cement floors have not been very
popular with poultry raisers. Stone
and cement are very good transmit
ters OF heat and in the winter the
cement floor very quickly takes on
the temperature of the ground below
1t. The great thing to be said about
the cement floor is that 1t is clean.
If built 1t should be laid upon cinders
or some other material that will pre-
vent the temperature Of the earth be.
ing transmitted to the cement. In
any Gaze 1t should be covered with
cut straw in winter.
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Growing Clover.

We have trouble to get clover to
grow on our prairie land. have seen
an occasional field of fair clover on
the timber land 1t Is considered i'm
practicable to grow clover on the
prairie land. but the experiment sta
tion has proven that It can be made
very valuable crop on this light col
ored clay soil.
find that sowing the seed the last
OF March, when the ground is honey
combed" with the frost, has given good
results. II will grow well in corn sown
at the last cultivation. II the season
is favorable. also have It doing
well in meadow sown in September.
SO that I am OF the opinion that it
will do to SOW II at any time when
conditions are favorable for it to
germinate and get a start. do not
know Of any being sown on snow.
have not grown and threshed any
seed, and all the seed used in this
locality is brought from other sec
tions. We have no trouble with poor
seed when good recleaned seed is
bought from reliable houses.
To grow clover successfully on
the prairie land the work Of the exper-
iment station has shown that we must
add lime. phosphorus and inoculate
the soil with clover bacteria. I sowed
aisike clover last summer in the corn
At last cultivation. This was in a
young orchard Of 30 acres, every two
middles have been taken for an e1.
pertinent plot. On all those treated
with lime and phosphorus the clover
made q fair growth. Where lime
alone was used there was very little
clover; where there was no lime there
was NO clover. Even on the plot with
phosphorus alone frock phosphateJ
the clover did not grow.--A. A. Hink
ley, Washington Co.. III. in Farmers
Review.
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Man J. Master Of the Land.

There are no coil conditions that
cannot be overcome by man II those
conditions are such that they inter.
fere with the growing Of crops. What
seems impossible now will be possi-
BILE later. when the value Of land has
risen to the point where great oper-
ations viii pay. The sandy, leachy
soilssc can be covered with layer Of
clay and the heavy lands can be sand.
"a. The swamp land can be drained
ana the arid lands watered. The
4fne VIII come when man viii Put
into Us evesy foot Of land mot closed
- ~ ~ etsrnat Ice around Tie pc3ss.
GtSS II ihe fsr nortn. glass gardens
IN ~ bteoune nunefCus md bsst
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Fertilizers.

A man must use fertilizers intsIli.
gently or he will throw away q great
deal Of money upon them. II is alb
surd for a farmer to purchase a fer
tilizer just because It Is a valuable
fertilizer and put # npon land that
he does not know needs fertilizers.
a man should not expenl dollar ip
fertilizers tiiI he knows rhAt Kind
he nesds. II ~ Ias1 n r5eb II I
certain s1emenf ~ S5E ut fbr0v
nnoa1y eOag = ~ bs1s feffl1fserp 4
~ - ~ 1Ael WnGf1oG neoe9 =
~ ~ = - - - DaaaCtiep = ~
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The Death Of Time.

The comedian was rehearsing his
great song. when the leader OF tho
orchestra pulled him up.
"My dear sir" said the latter In
asgrieved tones. don't you know that
YOU are numbering the timer"
Well" was the quiet retort. ITS
better TO murder the time once and
for all than to beat It night after
night, as you do,"-Exchangc.
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A pis,urbina Element.

Didn't the colonel get on the water
wagon?"
Yes. he did. but he didn't stay long.
Maybe he might o stayed longer II no
hadn't given his pocket flask to tho
driver. who let the horses run away
and spill the entire outfit into the mill.
pond. II was too bad. but the colonel
always was disturbing clement
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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orlaIn Of the Shire Horss.

Bulletin 1877 Of the Wisconsin Ex.
pertinent station says: The heavy
black stations of Flanders, used upon
the native mares OF the fen counties
Of England. founded this breed of
ponderous, hairy legged draft horses
many centuries ago. and 1t still ia
bred pure and gradually has been i'm.
proved in many particulars. The
black color is no longer characteristic
Of the breed. Its Representatives now
are mostly bay or brown, and they
are less coarse and sluggish than was
formerly the case. Many Shires of
very poor quality were imported into
the United States in the early days
Of the business. Later on better oual.
!ty characterized the importations. In
recent years comparatively few Sbkres
have been imported. The first volume
Of the Shire Stud book Of England
was published in 1880. and that oi
the American Shire Horse Association
appeared few years later.
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Chance to &c, Even.

Tho Friend-i cant understand your
method of dealing out Justice.
The Judge-You cant. eh?
The Friend-No. For instance. why
did you give that woman ten years
at hard labor yesterday for assaulting
n nelghbor?
TIE Judge-Because she once gave
my wife cooking lessons. That's tho
answer.
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What He Threw,

Ma Twaddles-Tommy. what do you
mean by coaxing this horrid dog homo
with you?
Tommy Twaddles-I didn't coax
him. ma-honest. didn't. | throwed
things at him to make him quit fol-
lerin' me, but 1t didn't do no good.
Ma-What did you throw at him?
Tonmy-Oh, bones an things.
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A Sort Of Invitation.

My" exclaimed the silk tie in tho
hatter's window, Just listen to the
wind bowling out there"
Yes" remarked the brown derby.
but it's rather sociable sound. It
seems to say Come out. and I'll blow
you on"
The Ordway new era., 1906-02-16
Logically pemonstrated.

Shc--l can prove logically and
mathematically that women are worth
more than men.
Held like to see You do 1t, my
dear.
She--Isn't miss as good as a mile!
He--So they say.
Shc--And doesn't 1t take n whole
lot OF men to make a league?
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Not Continuous.

Mrs. Cleveland-oh. I'm so glad to
see you again. It's been five years
since We met. hasn't 1t. And ! hear
you've been getting married since |
saw you last.
Mrs. chicago-weil. not right along.
Only three times.
The Ordway new era., 1906-02-16
An Anront.

One individual stopped another u
the street.
II want to ask you a simple ques'
tlop." he said.
Go ahead" replied the other,
ut is this. When is that bill o.
Ketchem & Holden to be paid!
Say" was the reply, Il may do :
little newspaper work occasionally.
but don't run the puzzle DEPART
ment."
Thus ended the confab.
The Ordway new era., 1906-02-16
soHB QUIET slfILSs|
,NpucsmsNrs TO LAuoh AND
oRow FAT.

M. Monks Idea Of the ossesnt es
Man-Papa Had orIshs Idea o.
sprino Fevsr--coionsi . Disturbing
Element on Water Wagon.
The Ordway new era., 1906-02-16

Regular attention to all live stock
and especially to fAttening ones Is yerv
important. with regularity nothing IL
fprsctfsn and nothing is done twice
The Ordway new era., 1906-02-16

"oh. pop. just saw man.eatins
tiger"
~ man will cat anything nowadays.
He has degenerated since he was .
monkey"
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The plMeee,.e.

She's really mot cultured q III.
ne says che can't undesytand Hrown.
[ing - All. 4 < 4 4 Il q
Int enp NY " eulturo6 ma ~
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N nasnfs n the horss stabls :
eeN1ft1Ies vesy injuSious to:s5 II q;
eepeff ~ w1ea 4 = ~ ~ ~
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31
Too Many Legs.

Senator Elsberg of New York was
talking In Albany about VIGOROUSLY
untruthfui man.
Like ali great liars" said Senator
Eisberg, .he Is careless. He falls to
keep accurate note or all the lies he
tells Hence innumerable contradic-
lions. innumerable stories that won't
bold together"
Dear Father-I have lost another
leg In stir engagement. and am In
hospital without means. Kindly send
$500 at once
To the last letter OF this sort that
the boy wrote home, he received the
following answer:
Dear Son--As, according to your
letters. this is the fourth leg you have
lost, you ought to be accustomed to
IL by this time. Try and hobble along
ON any others ron may have left -
Boston Herald.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31
rhs nan 4. a..,vn T...,.

it lei curious faet that eyery hoax
written on lawn tennis cautions the
player 10 keep his eyes on the ball at
the momons OF striking II. yet there are
very few expert players who do so.
A rife shot looks ut bis target, a bowl.
or looks at the pins. and billiard
player generally looks at the object ball,
not the cue ball, have found II next
to impossible to carry In my mind,
while moving rapidly to play a flying
ball, the exact height Of the net, the
direction of the lines OF my opponents
court and his position. 30 that II has
become second nature with me and
with most other players to look up in
the direction that the ball Is to go
before It actually leaves the racket. 1t
Is principally because the reverse OF
this Is necessary in golf that lawn ten
mis- players have so much trouble in
mastering the old Scotch game. From
tennis habit they take their eyes Off
the ball too soon for golf success.-J.
Parmly Paret, in County Life In Amer.
lea
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31
Now aIking ON the Water,

Two inventors are claiming attention of
the scientific world just now in conncc.
ton with a. kind of aquatic shoes. jose
Antonio. a Mexican student in the depart
ment of mechanical engineering at Cor
nell. gave a successful test of his device
by walking a mile and a half on the sur
face OF Cayuga lake. The shoes. which
closely resemble small boats, are con-
structed of tin, ) feet 3 inches long. Il
inches wide and or inches deep. Each
contains four separate air chambers. be-
sides the compartment for the foot The
shoes are equipped with collapsible fans.
which close as the wearer steps forward
and then open to prevent the shoes from,
slipping backward.
A somewhat similar footsear for water
walking is described in the Technical
World Magazine for August. and credited
to Lieut.. Arthur L. Sadler of the United
States volunteer life-saving crew at
Charlesbank, Mass. Sadler claims to have
made two-mile trip on his shoes. lie
says he got his idea from watching the
way a duck uses It's feet. His shoes are
4 feet 3 inches long, inches wide and
So inches deep. being the smallest that
would carry his weight, 49, pounds.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31
NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Cheap Substitute for Present Fila
ment Wires in Bulbs.

Cheap Substitute for Present Fila
ment Wires in Bulbs.
A new electric lamp, which threatens
to revolutionize the present system of
lighting by means of the electric cur
rent, has been devised by an Austrian
chemist-Dr. Hans Kuzel-who has oc-
cupied many years in studying the prin-
ciple involved in his invention. He has
succeeded In devising a lamp which he
calls the syrius lamp, and which prom
lses to reduce the price of electrical
lighting to a wonderful degree, says
the New York Tribune. As is well
known, incandescent gas lighting is
much cheaper than electric light under
the present systems, because the fla
ment wires of the latter are very ex-
pensive, and the glass bulbs soon wear
out in service. DR.. Kuzel has invented
a substitute for the glow thread, by
forming out Of common AMI cheap met.
ais and metallods colloids IN a plastic
mass, which can be handled like clay.
and which. when dry, become as hard
as stone. Out of this mass very thin
wire threads are then shaped, which
are of uniform thickness and Of great
homogeneity. These two characters
tics are of great value In the technics
OF incandescent lamps.
The Kuzel or Syrius lamp requires
scarcely one-quarter Of the electric cur
rent which the ordinary electric lamp
with filament wire requires. Exper-
iments have shown, it is asserted, that
the new Syrius lamp can burn for g.,
500 hours at stretch. Another ad-
vantage claimed for the Syrius Is that
the intensity Of the light always re-
mains the same, the lamp bulbs never
the ordinary bulb.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31
eA,cAoo BANK cAsnlrR TAKEN.


cAskter Aa wTeeAsa aNak IL noss
fer liberalization WAshaas n~li.
Keary w.Hertnx, cashier Of the NIL
waakee Avenue stare RaMk In chi
cage. which closed It's doors several
days ago, was arrested In that city the
other, day. He was refused bail until
bis connection with the Disappearance
Of nearly 81 eee,oG OF the banks funds
10 cleared up,
The delving into the ruins of the
wrecked institution developed the most
astounding mass of financial rotten
Ness ever unearthed since the State of
Illinois undertook the supervision Of
the peoples saving repositories.
With Cashier Henry w. Herring a.
special and none too willing guide
to the investigators new and novel de-
vices of bank footing were shown up,
together with certain evidence lnvolv.
ing other bank officials and even out.
siders In the spreading plot.
Even State Bank Examiner C. G.
Jones, who has been checking up fall.
ures in the State for twenty years,
gasned over the barefaced frauds which
have been perpetrated with impunity
under his nose In this institution.
The most startling of the revelations
was the finding Of dozens OF checks for
various amounts, which the examiners,
to their establishment. found signed.
not with names but with numbers.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31

l457--Book of Psalms, first book printed I;
| by Faust and SChoffer.
l5lo-Sir Richard Empson and Edmund
Dudley executed on Tower Hill.
| lo21-Mexico surrendered to Cortcz.
i53i-Order of Jesuits founded at Paris
by Ignatius Loyola.
l5ST-yirginia Dare. first white child in
America, born.
1642-Gates of Coventry shut against
King Charles of England.
i156--Forts Ontario and 0swcso de-
stroyed by Montcalm.
1159-Eugene Aram hanged Mt Tyburn.
1I69- Napoleon Bonaparte born. Died
May 4. 1921.
lII6-Fight in Hudson river between
American fire-ships mad British men
of-war.
lISo-Engagemen at Fishing Creek. :.
c.. Battle of Camden. S. c. De
kalb killed.
lS96--First stone laid for the Are de Tri-
omphe. celebrating the success of the
Grand Army of Austerlitz.
1S12-Detroit surrendered TO the Brit
ish.
1s13-British sloop Pelican captured
United States sloop Argus in English
channel.
1S31-Steamer Rothsay Castle lost; f0a
persons persisted
1Si2-President proclaimed Florida war
at an end.
1S4T-Battle of Churubusco, Mexico.
1S4S-Oregon territory formed by act Of
Congress.
1SJ0-Denmark coded possessions on
west coast of Africa to Great Britain.
lS51-Lopez captured and garroted at
Havana.
1S52-Steamer Atlanta lost on Lake
Erie; $50 persisted.
tS55-Russians defeated at battle OF
Techernaya, Crimea.
iS59-Tuscany declared in favor of unit
ed kingdom of Italy under Victor En-
manuel.
is62-First issue of postal currency.
ls63-Kagoshima Japan. destroyed by
the British fleet. =. Mississippi river
declared open for trade.
1S65-Final proclamation of cessation of
hostilities in the Civil War.
1S6T-Dexter made the fastest time on
record, 2;17A, at Buffalo.
1ST1-Steamship Lodona lost off the
Florida coast, with 81 lives.
1850 Cathedral at Cologne completed;
632 years building.
1SS3-Kimball house, Atlanta, Ga,
burned.
1SS5-The Caroline islands seized by
Germany. :. German corvette Au-
gusta lost in the Red Sea with 2SJ
officers and men.
1SS6-Eight Chicago anarchists SEN
fenced to death.
1SSS-Convent of the Sacred Heart, New
York, destroyed by fire.
1S9o-Dayis Dalton swan across the
English Channel on his back
1S9l-Earthquake in Martinique; $40
persons killed.
1S92-Queen Victoria's carriage stopped
by an insane man, who threatened to
kill her.
lS93--Receivers appointed for the North
ern Pacific railroad.
1S9i-Steamship Campania established
new record between Queenstown and
New York time, ) days o hours and
u minutes.
f903-Jeffries defeated Corbett in fight
for the pugilistic championship.
l90i-Naval battle off Vladivos.ok
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31

Passenger officials Of the Northwestern
predict an extraordinary movement on
account OF the national encampment Of
the G. A. r. at st. Paul.
The Illinois Central railroad now car
ries nearly every pound of its fruit In its
own cars. this company having in service
5000 of its own refrigerator cars.
The Virginia Corporation Commission
yesterday declared the Churchman 2-cent
railway mileage act Of the Legislature in
conflict with the Constitution OF the
United States and therefore null and void,
and entered an order dismissing the pro-
ceedings.
The Indiana Railroad Commission
handed down decision by which the Van
dalia Railroad Company will be compelled
to make general reduction of 33 1-3 per
cent In the rates charged for all classified
freight from Indianapolis ws~t to the In
diana State line.
Because of the rising Of the Saiton Sea
the Southern Pacific is reported 10 b
about to move its main line in that VI
cinity for the fifth time. The waters are
now approaching the track. and 1t h
thought 1t will be necessary to create the
new line within sixty days.
Under express instructions Of Georgs
J. Gould. the Western Pacific Ia making q
special effort 90 secure 1000 laborcrs In
addition to 10000 men now at work In
Utah. Nevada and California. Construc-
tion work Is to be rushed with all possi-
BILE speed, and 20 that end agents have
been sent into the middle West and North
west In an effort TO secure the needed
~orkmen.
The anticipated action OF the Wisconsin
rate commission fixing cents mile a.
the maximum passenger fare has been de-
layed for several weeks in order that the
81. Paul road may present new arguments
against the proposed rate.
An effort il being made 70 obtain the
ce-operation Of eastern trunk lines in the
endeavor to secure ruling from the Sec
rstsTy Of Agriculture that will enable
the railroads everywhere to receive con.
signmsuts Of meat for transportation By
stamping he way Bills 70 show thAt chs
sar has Sssa ssaisd ~ sevsnnsas ias1ss
texu.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31
GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.
No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain
/ and Nerves.

Lying awake nights makes 1t hard to
keep awake and do things In daytime.
To take 'tonics and stimulants" under
such circumstances is like setting The
house on fire to see IL you can put it
out.
The right kind Of food promotes re-
freshing sleep at night and wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way OF
eating to Grape Nuts. and says:
For about three years | had been a
great sufferer from indigestion. After
trying several kinds of medicine, The
'ioctor would ask me to drop of pota-
toes, then meat, and so on, but In few
days that craving. gnawing feeling
would start up. and l would vomit ev-
erything | ate and drank.
When I started on Grapefruit vom-
iting stopped, and the bloatlng feeling
which was so distressing disappeared
entirely.
My mother was very much bothered
with diarrhea before commencing the
''"Pe--Nutr, Ottause he' stotuHth vas
SO weak she could not digest her f>od-
Since using Grape Nuts she Is well, and
says she don't think she could live with
out It.
ut Is great brain restorer and nerve
builder. for ! can sleep as sound and
undlsturbed after supper Of Grape
Nuts as In the old days when | could
not realize what they meant BY q bad
stomach There is no medicine 20 ben
encial to nerves aud brain rs q good
nights sleep. such as you can enjoy
after eating Grape-Nuts."
Name given By Postum Co. Battle
Greek, Mich.
There's 3 reason.
The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1906-08-31

The bureau Of labor has issued statis.
tics for 1905, and estimates that the Ia
boring man Is better of as to wage. anfl
hours OF labor. In 1905 the purchasing
power Of wages was ! per cent higher
than in 1904 and the retail prices OF foai
were slightly higher. This advantage was
more than Offset, however. by the increas,.
in the purchasing power of his wages.
The average wages per hour In 1905 were
$50 per cent higher than the average
period from 1896 to 1900. and the nun.
Der Of employes were 30 per cens greater.