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The Washington times., 1906-09-20
Muslin Underwear

Women's Drawers. open and closed:
made of splendid quality OF muslin;
cut full width: finished with deep ruf-
fies. fine tuCks- and hemstitCh- n &C
ing; sizes 3 To g. q. T. P........ Z ,
WOmen's Drawers made OF good
quality Of muslin and cambric: cut
extra full: finished with deep embrOid-
cred ruffie: cluster tucks above; = Gc
G. T. P-...................... = ;
Chemise made OF excellent quality
OF CambTic: full width and length:
trimmed with neat hemstitched
rufns; IN sizes from 36 10 46. 0Oc
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Ladies' Hose Supporters

Ladies Pad Hose Supporters; fine
satin padi fancy frilled webbing; an
other exceptional value. These sup
porters have ALWAYS sold faF l5e. Oc
c. T. P........-.............
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SIS Eton Suits Sc a8

IS EtOn Suits, made of due quality
Panama Cloth: braid trimmed. satin
lined coats: kilt skirts and full erOns:
in blue, brown, old rose, and
lavender. Worth $500. G. S6 OQ
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Proper Decorating of Homes

requires t0e services OF experts See US
uTVu T. Dnaka 20 years CSC Pa. ave. So
AAs OsA S4AASs q Painter. Phons z. So
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NEW YORK GIRLS
BECOME FARMERS
Do All Hard Work Without
the Assistance of Any
LabOrerS.

WATERBURY,, Conn. Sept. 2O.-About
fifteen miles from here. in one direction,
and twenty in another two abandoned
farms have been purchased by young
women from New York, who have set
out to earn their living in an uncon-
ventional manner Miss Florence +.
Randolph and Miss Bertha Carleton.
who were school teachers in New York.
have bought "A siXty-aCre farm at
Bakerville, and Miss Mildred b. and
Ada J. F8irchild, sisters. are the own
ers OF q fOur-aCre place at TeTryVille.
The Bakerville girls are known in
business as Randolph a. Carleton. and
their speciality is the making OF peanut
butter They ara pretty. They manage
the farm without male help, excepting
a tWeIve-yeaT-old chore boy. The girls
have long cherished the project they are
now engaged in.
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NIGHT Gowns.

Ladies Night Gowns made Of good
quality OF muslin; surplice, empire
and Chemise necks; daintily trimmed
with four rows Of Hamburg insertion;
sizes ID TO Il; worth SLO0. EQC
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SOC Wells, 39c

Lace Wells. only 2 few dozen left;
our REGULAR soc article. in black, white,
and all the desirable shades Will
mt the balance on sale Friday. 2Oc
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Corsets.

r. and G. Corsets, made OF good
quality of Coutu or batiste. low. medi-
um. or high busts; deep hip. hose sup
S.00 G.. T. P........................ U =
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Not a Bit Lonesome.

Lonesome? Not bit of it. Neither
are We afraid. We are able 10 take
care Of ourselves. We keep pistols in
the house and know how 10 use them"
The Fairfield girls at Terryville go in
for straight farming and vegetable and
flower raising Mildred Fairfield was an
inspector Of Ienements in this city. She
was dismissed for political reasons. She
sued the city for salary due and won
her case. The girls purchased the farm
last winter and have met with much
success. This summer they made con-
siderable money by selling flowers in
New York They Go ali the hard work
on the farm and say that they like il.
The Washington times., 1906-09-20
Belts

OClAS
Ladies Black Beaded Elastic Belts,
good Jet; in more than q dozen very
desirable designs; going to be a
great fad; are clearly worth zoe. ENC
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Plaid SIX Belts. 10 styles to select
from; IL TO 4 in. wide; pearl and gun
metal buckles. ia oval round and
square shapes; great fad; IN all
the desirable combinations. G. A 0c
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New Black SILK Girdles; made Of
fine quality of black taneta. beau
tifully shirred; exceptional values: in
black AMI white; very neat q. 60c
r. P...-.................-.. ......-..-..... , "
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81 Gloves. 75c

Ladies' Long Idsle Gloves; 15-but-
ton length; reach above the elbows.
in black and white; all sizes. this is
our regular Sl00 glove. g. 7. = &C
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Waists-

Just received so new FAN Waists;
broad pleats each side; with embroId-
cred front piece; tucked collar
and Guns; easily q soc waist. n nc
Friday only. G. T. P..............ZS ( >
Clearing up Of 25 dozen Persian Lawn
Waists; In q variety OF styles hand
somely trimmed with embrOij-
cry lace. Worth S125. EOc
y. 1. P.--.......-....... .....--..--....O y ,
Fine Mohair Waists; pIeated and
tucked. well tailored; in black. navy
blue and white; in sizes from 81
TO Il. Clearly a $3.50 waist. G. n OC
4. E...s.---.. .-4.-.-.--.----- = -
New FAN Waist I'm all the latest
plaids: strictly tailored: trimmed with
narrow black braid: in black and
white, green and red, and-aU desirable
combinations. Worth $500 81 Hg
Large assortment of Net Waists all
Jap lined, open back and front elab-
OTately trimmed with French Val IN
all OF the newest and pret-
uest designs Worth 81 50 0O
10 White Jap SILK Waists; some lace
trimmed some double pleat, some box
pleat; assorted sizes: all worth n CC
at least 50. @. T. P...............S .
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Petticoats.

over IS different styles 70 choose
from: all trimmed with lace and en-
brOidered ruffle: hemsitched tucks
above; one particularly good number
is trimmed with three rows OF wide
Torchon Insertion, hens and 90
deep edge. Worth $50 C. T. P..1O .
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Found Pitching Hay.

A visitor 10 the place found Miss Ran
dolph pitching hay In the barn, and
Miss Carleton milking one OF the six
COWS they keep.
Miss Randolph said, we are just
ordinary girls wIo became tired Of do
ing ordinary things. Being free agents,
we made up our minds 10 embark in
business which would in time net as q
competence. We were both tired OF
teaching school when the idea OF owning
q farm came 10 Us We saved our
money until we were able 10 BUY this
place, which we had long admired.
I'VE used 20 make peanut butter for
our own consumption while living in
boarding houses. II occurred 20 US that
IL would be a good plan 10 make the
butter and sell il 10 other people We
tried IL in "a small way and found that
there was a demand. Then We thought.
Why not make peanut butter on the
farm we had planned TO buyT We have
been here since June and are doing well.
Soon we shall need more help. and then
! suppose We shall have 20 hire male
assistance. So far We have got along
without IL
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
Poisoning the Boil weevil.

B. w. Marston Of the Louisiana crop
pest commission predicts that In FIVE
years the cotton boil weevil will be
universally poisoned wherever 1t is In
April and May, just as the potato bug
is being universally poisoned. Mr..
Marston bases his prediction on expert
ments carried on at Keachie, La. last
year. He contends that it has been
conclusively proven that the hibernated
weevil can be killed in April and May
with Paris green, and, he adds, in
Farm and Ranch:
"The Keachie demonstration proves
that had every weevil in Texas and
Louisiana been poisoned upon its first
appearance it would have solved the
boil weevil proposition. But 1t Is said
that the boil weevil continues hibernat-
ing into the hot, scorching month Of
June O.. All the weevils put up this
last year died in December. We can
risk those June hibernated ca weevils."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
BOOKS AND A GENTLEMAN.

A gentleman does not have a full
wine cellar and empty bookshelves.
A gentleman does not possess a box
of carpenters tools, but no paper knife.
A gentleman does not borrow good
works which he is in position to buy.
A gentleman does not cut books with
his fingers, even after having washed
his hands.
A gentleman does not use eau de CO.
logne and read greasy volumes from a
circulating library.
A gentleman does not give his daugh-
ter dowry of from $4,000 to $3.50
600 and forget to provide her with a
bookcase.
A gentleman does not talk about the
latest literature when he is acquainted
only with what has been said of II by
the reviewers.
A gentleman does not send to his
bookseller for a parcel of books on APP
prevail, and, after having read them,
return them, saying that none Of them
suits him.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
A Thirsty wooden uck.

One of the best story tellers Of his
time was Han Thompson of Auburn,
Me. The following is what Han told
Of what he and his brother John tried
to do in the way Of catching a wood
chuck: They had tried quite number
Of times to capture the animal, but I'M
successfully. At last they decided to
drown him out. So, procuring four
pals, each took two, and they carried
water for two solid hours and poured
II into the hole In the ground In which
the said "chuck" had taken up his
abode. Getting tired, they sat down.
After about half an hour the wood.
chuck cautiously left the hole and de-
li5erately walked down to the brook
and took a long drink OF water. and
then scooted. much to the disgust of the
two boys.-Boston Herald
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

1t is not necessary to have cement
floors, tiled wainscoting and vanished
ceilings to secure clean milk. If tue
cow should stand on platform short
enough to keep her TANKS clean when
she lies down and her udder and ada
cent parts are brushed before milking
If the milking is done with clean hands
and the milk is cooled to 90 degrees
soon after milking by setting the can in
cold water in a place away from the
stable odors-there is no question but
that it can be delivered to the creamery
sweet three times week
The can should be set in cold water
summer and winter, not covered till
cold. The cooling power of water at
any given temperature is very much
greater than the cooling power of air
at the same temperature, as any one
can testify who has fallen in the water
when skating. During cold weather the
cooling process should not be overdone
by allowing the milk to freeze either in
the cooling tank or on the way to the
creamery. H. E. Van Norman, Pro
fessor of Dairying in Pennsylvania
State College, in National Stockman.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

1t is generally advisable to have
cow go dry before she freshens. From
four to six weeks Is none too long a
rest Many good cows have their milk
ing habits so firmly established that
they must be forced dry. The simplest
and safest way to stop the milk flow
Is to cut the feed down to a small al
lowance Of hay and milk but once
day, or empty but half the udder at
one milking and the other half at the
next, thus alternating till the milk flow
ceases. Then more generous feeding
should be resumed, but the feeds used
should be of laxative character. A
freshening cow is a sick COW and
should be treated as such. She should
not be exposed to violence. to cold or
to storms. Her feed should be limited
In quantity and be easily digested. As
she fully RECEIVERS gradually increase
her feed to a full varied ration.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
Humor Gue Philosophy
BY DUNCAN N. SMITH
THE MAKING OF HER.

It's not the clothes that make the man.
They may be fine and neatly fitting
And thus secure for him place
Where high and mighty ones are sitting.
But yet in spite of all of that
His reputation may be shady.
Oh. no: the clothes don't make the man,
But really they do make the lady!
or course all womankind are good.
That goes- indeed, without the saying.
What is the difference in them, then,
When social preferences are weighing7
It's just a question of the togs
In which the darlings go parading
That makes or mars the creatures and
Establishes their social grading.
For who would want lady round
Where swell and tidy ones were sitting
Who was what's called a perfect fright,
Whose clothes were shabby and i'll fit
ting?
For she might have a kindly heart,
But IL she lacked I'm fur and feather
The world would slight her IL she looked
AS though she had been thrown to-
gether.
It's not the clothes that make the man.
As to the woman-well, God bless her,
We like to meet her when she is
A very swell and nobby dresser
Though for her virtues unexcelled
This may not be the proper payment
That is the game she's UP against
We Judge the woman by her raiment.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

Nothing eats up butter faster than
discomfort and fear. because they
shrink the butter fat and so make their
milk, which is steering the butter into
the manure pile instead of into the
churn, says j. V. Van Mott In Rural
New Yorker. Therefore have warm
floors and warm stables. A COW cannot
run a furnace and churn with the
one feed. Another butter eater is the
stanchion. Farmers are very careful
to have for themselves warm floors
and feather beds, but leave their duti-
full cows hanging by the necks In the
cruel stocks named stanchions and to
get what sleep they can on frost car
peted floor. Both should be abolished
by law as cruelty to animals.
We can also class the horns with but
ter eaters, and the boss COW eats more
butter than the farmers family, for
every time she spears the other COW
Shrink" goes the butter fat. Her ally
Is the dog.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
Kicking Cows.

1t Is not natural for COW to kick
when she is being MIXED. Kicking
habits are almost invariably contracted
on account of mistreatment on the part
of the dairyman, and every good COW
man knows it is much easier to prevent
a cow from acquiring the kicking habit
than 1t Is to cure her Of it after 1t has
once been learned. A heifer never be-
gins to kick unless she is afraid of
something; hence the Importance Of
handling heifer carefully and being
kind to her at all times. If COW has
confidence In her master she likes to
have him draw her milk; hence treat
your heifers with kindness from calf
hood up and avoid the necessity Of hav-
ing to resort to means Of keeping her
from kicking when mature.-Farmer's
Review.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
A Valuable Dairy Cow.

II there is a dual purpose COW, which
very much doubt, it is the Ayrshire,
writes correspondent of American
Cultivator. Being a good feeder and
inclined to lay on fat when not in
milk, which is at long intervals and
for short periods, she will not make
SO much beef perhaps as some Of the
larger breeds. but of quality second
to none.
Her milk, which is ample in quanti-
ty, contains at least an average amount
Of butter fat, and when separated con-
tains enough solids to make it Of extra
value for feeding purposes and SUI
perior to some milk yielding a larger
per cent of cream.
Besides being valuable dairy COW
the Ayrshire Is a fine looking animal,
which Is certainly no discredit to her,
II Of no Advantage, and with most peo-
pie looks is prominent factor.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
The Cost of MIX production.

The New Jersey experiment station
demonstrates that with cows yielding
$500 pounds of rAilk per head per year
the cost per quart is about "a cents.
What must be the cost of the quart In
the case OF the 5000 pound cow, the
1000 pound COW. the 5000 pound cow
and the $500 pound COW? VIII not
the cost range higher as the yield
ranges lower?
If the $500 pound cows put "a cents
into a quart of milk the 5000 pound
cows will put 81 cents, the 1000 pound
cow over 3 cents, the 5000 pound cow
close to 3.5 cents and the $500 pound
COW nearly cents into the quart.
On the other hand, II the $500 pound
cow makes milk at cost Of "a cents
quart 1900 pound COW will put
only about 2 cents into the quart. the
5000 pound cow only 10 cents. and the
1900 pound and 10000 pound cows
would put proportionately less cost In
to the quart-New York Farmer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
MILKING THE COW.
Things 10 Think About-The Mixer
In the white Suit.

An important thing in connection
with milking is the condition of the
hands and clothes of the mixer. The
mixer should be clean personally and
should be required to go about his work
In clean clothes. The milking should
be done with dry hands. The habit of
some mixers of wetting their hands
with milk just as they begin is a filthy
practice and the cause of much bad
milk and poor butter. There is some
thing in the presence Of n mixer in a
white suit that calls for clean work,
particularly if he is required TO keep
the suit clean while about his work.
Many dairymen require their mixers to
be dressed i'm white.
The same prihciple is true in regard
to whitewash on the interior of the
barn. a carefully whitewashed wall
shows off cobwebs TO their disadvan-
tage, and they will usually be removed.
There Is something out of place If part
Of building is kept clean and fresh
as whitewashed wall. for instance
and other parts are a mire of filth.
Whitewashed walls go with clean floors,
and the two with a white clad mixer,
Edwin III. Webster.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
The Engineer.

The engineer sits in his cab
And sees the mile posts flicker.
And then he pulls the throttle out
And makes the wheels go quicker.
He has to have a bunch of nerves
And small regard for danger,
Because he never knows when he
May run into stranger.
The passengers who sit at ease
In velvet splendor tossing
Don't know the troubles on his mind
At every grade and crossing,
Nor do they think while loafing there
On passing landscapes gazing
That he has forty times a day
Adventures quite hair raising.
He never knows when just ahead
Excitement may be brewing
Or when a calf may wander on
The track to see what's doing.
He never knows when some old mule
Who's bidding for a tossing
May balk right at a crossing.
The engineer who runs the works
Has trials that are many.
And, though his pay is pretty fair.
He earns II, every penny.
For when perchance he loses time
He straightway must pursue It
And keep his engine on the track
How few of US could do IT.!
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
RIDING A CAM Ell.
More Convenient and Less Tirius
Than Horseback Riding.

Camel riding In the desert OF Sahara
Is not so very fatiguing after one has
learned how. veteran traveller in
that district describes the process;
Each riding camel has a bride, or
rather a halter. of plated leather like
an ordinary halter, and the camel Is
guided as a horse would be If riding
him with one rein only. The saddle is
most elaborate affair. To adjust
one properly on a camers hump is an
art extremely difficult to master First
two cushions of leather stuffed with
grass straw, are placed on the animals
hump, and on these is set the saddle,
This latter consists of two wooden
forks. one in front and one behind, con.
nected by a side board. Above this is
placed the seat of the saddle. which is
built like square saucer. The tops OF
the wooden forks rising in front and
behind form two saddlehorns, and,
once one has negotiated his way into
the saucer and installed the feet and
legs by letting them, from the knee
downward, hang over the front, one is
pretty safe from falling out. Cushions
and rugs placed In this saucerlike de
preston add to the comfort. The sad.
die is secured by wide girth and also
by a shoulder strap and girth at the
back that takes the place of crupper.
There are, Of course, no stirrups. the
foot merely hanging over the front.
After one has learned to avoid an oc-
casional dig In the middle Of the back
from the hindmost horn and has be
come accustomed to the weight OF the
legs hanging over the front, camel rid
Ing Is very comfortable and far less
firing than horseback riding especially
as ones position can be varied In many
ways by riding sidesaddle or crossing
the legs on the camel's neck. and 50
forth. The long, swinging gait Is
fairly easy, and one can move about
on cameps back In a manner that
would startle any ordinary horse.
"On the saddle are carried a pair of
leather saddlebags, wherein carry
books, maps, instruments, cartridges,
lunch and the like. From the horns of
the saddle are hung rifle, field glasses,
prismatic compass and water bottle.
Altogether 1t Is pretty complete out
fit and only equaled by Chinese chair
for convenience In travelling when one
wishes to hunt and nap at the same
time"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

The points In the operation of a
cream separator by the farm dairyman.
given in their order of Importance as
bearing on the quality of the work, are
summarized as follows by an authority
on buttermaking:
First-The speed of the separator
must be uniform and up TO the stand
ard required by the makers CT that
particular machine.
Second. temperature of the milk
should be such as will make it flow
readily; the warmer it Is the more per-
feet will be the separation.
Third.-The amount of milk that Ia
run through the machine should re-
main constant and should not be in
creased over that which Is intended for
the machine
Fourth--The machine should be set
on solid base or foundation, so that
there will be no jar or shaking about
as II is turned, such as would tend to
interfere with the even flow of the milk
through the bowl and thus destroy Its
efficiency In skimming.
Fifth.-The separator must be kept
thoroughly and scrupulously clean,
particular care being taken that none
Of the tubes through which the milk
flow becomes INSTRUCTED In any way.
Sixth.-The test of the cream can be
readily changed by changing either the
cream outlet or the skim milk outlet.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
CAME af Coxx Eailure.

Don't let your COW eat her head OF.
A few cows give 400 pounds of butter
fat in year. A great many give 300
pounds or more, and yet 1t Is deplora-
BILE fact that the average COW does not
produce much over 100 pounds in a
year. But in great many instances
this failure Of the COW to reach point
where she may be considered as prof
liable investment is due to the care. or
rather to the lack of care, which she re-
ceives.-Michigan Farmer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
siI.xe For MIX Cattle.

A New York farmer writes as fol-
lows In American Agriculturist: 81 have
had silo for the past eleven years.
The first six years the corn was put In
whole, but since then 1t has been cut.
We prefer 1t in this form, as there Is no
waste. We have had no complaint about
q silage taste In the milk. Our winter
ration for milk cows is as follows: Be
fore milking In the morning the cows
receive grain ration and after milking
Q bushel Of silage; before noon. hay.
and at night another ration of grain be
fore milking and hay after milking.
My stock have always done well on o.
lage and are always ready for more Of
NJ