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The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
THE HoNKY-BEE.

There is probably nothing produced
on the farm to-day that is sold on the
market so widely misunderstood as
honey. Honey is not gathered by the
bees. but is produced by the bees
Scientifically speaking, the bees gath
er nectar from the flower, which is no
more honey than cream is butter. At
ter the bees take it up into their
pouch. It is converted by them into
thin honey. This. after being depos-
tied In the wax cells. is evaporated by
a process Of the bees wings to nearly
so per cent. and then becomes honey
In strict sense of the word.
1t is one Of the sweetest known ar.
ticles naturally produced without the
agency of man, and, therefore, pure
honey commands a good price. Like
every other article that Is of high
value, in the past it has been largely
initiated. No poor article is, ever
counterfeited. The very fact that i'm
itations of various kinds have been
on the market, would prove the value
of real honey. The pure food laws of
our various states have done won-
ders in wedding out from the market
a great deal of adulterated honey.
One of the worst adulterations that
we now have on the market is piece
of wax comb which contained honey
and from which the honey has been
extracted, placed in a jar and a COM
position of glucose and honey poured
in around it, and sold on the market
as honey. The public. seeing some of
the wax comb in the center of the
liquid, have been led to believe in
buying it that they were getting the
real article. This has led to the vari-
GUS newspaper reports and their ex-
aggerations, which might lead the
public to believe that comb-honey
was adulterated. All honey, when
gathered by the bees. is placed in lit
tie wax cells of hexagonal form, and
after being filled up by the bees, the
comb is capped over by them in the
same fashion as the housewife seals
the preserves which she puts up in
the summertime.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
HORSE NOTES.

More vicious horses are made SO by
i'll and injudicious treatment and train
ing than by inheritance. A good SEN
sible horse possesses a high-strung
nervous temperament that will not
brook teasing, nagging and abuse. A
horse controlled through fear will
sooner or later break over such
bounds and cause trouble. Kindness
of action and word is much more ef-
fcacious for control of most horses
than violent language and harsh
treatment
The we'll trained horse Of whatever
breed or type is much more desirable
and possesses a higher market value
than the wild, skittish and awkward
animal of same size and quality. The
best method of horse training on the
farm is to begin handling the colt in
infancy, make it "halter wise" and by
persistent, patient and kind treatment
secure it's confidence and friendship.
Prohibit all monkey shines" by the
boys among the colts-and horses,
also.
The public watering trough-that
most effective dissemination of glan-
ders, distemper and other contagious
horse ailments-is again in commits
sion. When driving to and fro on the
highways farmers would do we'll to
use bucket for watering their horses
rather than risk exposure to contagi-
GUS diseases. Watch the number and
character of "crowbaits" that patron
izez public watering trough during
half day in warm weather and you
will realize the force of this admoni-
ton.
Be very careful how you go into the
stall by the side of strange horse.
Some horses are extremely sensitive
when thus approached. and are likely
either to kicn or to bite the one who
does it. Never enter the stall of any
horse, no matter how we'll you may
be acquainted with it, without speak,
ing to it.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
IN FAVOR OF SHEEP.

Sheep have way of utilizing by
products which no other animals
seem to have, says publication of
the Iowa Agricultural college. OF the
400 or 500 different plants which may
be found in any locality sheep will
eat all but a very small percentage,
while cattle and other stick will
touch only little over one half.
Even if sheep are turned into an ideal
pasture they will now and then nibble
at the weeds; determination of the
weeds results. When the grain is har-
vested and taken from the field the
place for the sheep is the stubble.
Rose bushes, wild buckwheat and the
weeds and grasses to be found in the
fence corners and fence rows fall VIC
Tins to them and furnish fall feed.
thereby fulfilling two-fold purpose
for their owners; that of destroying
these pests and converting these
waste products into good mutton and
wool. The lamb crop may be fattened
and developed in the corn fields in the
fall. If at the last cultivation of the
corn dwarf essex rape is planted be-
tween the rows in the moist soil it
will make very rapid growth and by
weaving time it will be ready for the
lambs. Old sheep cannot be turned
in this way because they will pull
down the corn; lambs, however, will
do no damage, but on the other hand
they will eat much of the pigeon
grass and other weeds.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
BucKwHEAr AS A CATCH CROP

We sometimes lose our seeding in
the oats or wheat, and rather than re-
seed we plow the ground as soon after
harvest as possible and SOW to buck
wheat. Buckwheat is an exhaustive
crop, but I occasionally use it to
further my. grass seeding plans. I
have never failed in getting a good
catch OF grass or clover, though buck
wheat fails occasionally in maklnR a
good CROP Weeds growing in the
wheat stubble after harvest is sure
indication that the clover seed is
gone. 1t only takes about go days for
buckwheat to grow and ripen. Il wi /
usually yield ten to 20 bushels per
acre, 20 It pays we'll for the labor in
volved and at the same time makes a
fhe shade and protection for young
grass and clover sown at same time
with buckwheat. l SOW about thres
Decks Der acre. Il, b IS II
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
ROTATION AND SOIL FERTILITY

Only during recent years farmers
are coming to more fully realize that
systematic rotation secures the MAIN
tenance of fertility with increase in
the production of crops. All plants do
not equally draw the elements of
plant food from the soil. Their roots
are sent to different depths in the soil
and have different solvent action
upon the constituents they reach. Ro-
tation tends to disperse insects and
fungous diseases are reduced ma
terially. Weeds are more readily
eliminated, the soil is maintained in
good tilth, the humus compounds of
the soil are increased and the work
of the farm generally is more easily
and naturally disturbed.
Schemes of rotation should have
the growing of at least one legumin-
GUS crop. BY this means large SUD-
plies OF nitrogenous food are secured
from the air. Potash and phosphoric
acid, If lacking in available forms.
must be supplied by manure or ferti-
l1zer, unless caustic lime is used to
break down these latent minerals and
convert them into soluble plant food.
Stock raising, dairying and poultry
keeping are profitable lines to carry
on in the scheme for improving the
fertility of soils. No one system of
rotation can be successfully applied
to all conditions of soil, climate and
markets.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
TONIC TREATMENT
Wsak Stomach and Sick Headache;
Cured BY DE-. Williams
Pink Pilla.

The symphonic Of stomach trouble
vary. Some victims have a rayenous
appetite, others loathe the sight Of food,
Often there is a feeling as Of weight on.
the chest, q full feeling in the throat,
Sometimes the gas presses ON the heart
and leads the sufferer to think he has
heart disease. Sick headache is q fire..
quent and distressing symptom.
A weak stomach needs q digestive
tonic and that there 10 no better tonic
for this purpose than DIR. Williams Pink
Pills is shown by the statement of Mr..
A. o. Merrill, a mining man, of Oneals.
Calf, a veteran of Battalion O. Third
U. 9. Regular Infantry.
81 had never been we'll since I lefA
the army, - he says, always having had
trouble with my stomach, which was
weak. Twas run down and debilitated.
Could keep nothing ON my stomach.
aud at times had sick headache 60 bad
that I did not care whether lived OF
died. My stomach refused to retain
even liquid food and I almost despaired
OF getting well as I had tried 80 many
kinds Of medicine without relief. Then
was bitten by a rattlesnake and that
laid me up from work entirely for =
year, six months Of which spent in bed. ]
lone day a friend recommended Dr.
Williams Pink Pills to me and I began
taking them. They cured me when AM
other medicine had failed. I have
recommended the pills to great MANY.
for during my recovery every one asked
me what was helping me so and I told
them Dr.. Williams Pink Pills. I can.
not speak too highly of them"
II you want good health you must have
good blood. DIR. Williams Pink Pills
actually make new blood aud restore
shattered nerves. They are sold BY
al druggists or sent. postpaid, ON re-
celpt OF price, 6Oc. per box, six boxes for
SS.6o by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Co., Schenectady, ny.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
His Candidate.

District Attorney Jerome tells of q
certain citizen whom he encountered
on the last presidential election day
Conversation was somewhat ham
pered by the fact that the citizens
vocabulary was limited to about
eighty-fve words. ''Who." and what
were evidently one to him as yet, but
he made himself clear on one point.
"How long have you been in this
country?" he was asked.
"Ah bane one month";" he answered
"Are you going to vote?"
"Yah."
"Whom are you going to vote for?'
"Ah bane goin' vote for tan dollars,
was the self.satisfled response.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
KNOWS NOW.
Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case
for q Time,

Doctor Was Fooled by His Own Case
for Time.
It's easy to understand how ordinary
people get fooled by coffee when doc.
tors themselves sometimes forget the
facts.
A physician speaks Of his own ex.
perience:
Il had used coffee for years and
really did not exactly believe It was
injuring me. although had palpitation
Of the heart every day.
Finally one day a severe and al.
most fatal attack of heart trouble
frightened me and gave up both tea
and coffee, using Postum instead, and
since that time have had absolutely
no heart palpitation except on one or
two occasions when I tried small
quantity Of coffee which caused severe
irritation and proved to me must let
1t alone.
when we began using Postum It
seemed weak-that was because we
did not make 1t according to direc.
tions-but now we put q little bit Of
butter in the pot when boiling and al.
low the Postum to boil full is minutes
which gives It the proper rich flavor
and the deep brown color.
Il have advised great many Of my
friends and patients to leave on coffee
and drink Postum, ID fact5I daily give
this advice" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Greek. Mich. 4.3 III I
Many Thousands Of physicians use
Postum IN place Of tea and cofIee "a
their own homes ana prescribe IL "a
patients. There's 3 reason. .s3
!, Ai remarkable little, book .The Road
70 Wellvills" can b found a pkgs. \
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
THE LAWN AND lawn MOWER
aow to Keep the Mower IN Good Or
der-Better to Now Twice Than
Once q Week. ~

The lawn mower Is generally much
abused by the majority Of those who
use 1t. When nicely adjusted and in
good working order It may be kept
so by a hairs breadth turn of the
adjusting screws or bolts and no one
should be allowed to meddle with
f, these parts unless he fully under
stands them. The blades Of the lawn
mower strike the cutting bar in such
manner as to be largely self-sharp-
ening and no machine, II well oiled
and adjusted, will need sharpening
unless 1t is run into stones or other
hard substances that may dull or bend
/, the knives.
The ordinary machine oil used upon
larger machines than the lawn mower,
on wagons, etc., is too heavy for the
lawn mower except in very hot wealth
er and should be thinned with an
equal amount Of kerosene. No ma
chine will keep in perfect working or.
der for a great length Of time with
out cleaning and the lawn mower
which is run through SO much dust
0AN 0AAe 0AOulO UC l0hCn apart OuC0
or twice every season, each part care.
fully cleaned and wiped and then
freshly oiled. The machines with
large wheels and ball bearings run
more easily than many of the older
patterns, but the latter, IL kept in
perfect order, will run with compare
tive ease and will do good service for
many years.
When the lawn clippings are Short.
not over an inch in length, they will
settle down among the grass stems
and decay, but If they are too long
or are wet they will bunch. and in
very warm weather will smother the
grass stalks and roots under them. In
most cases 1t will require less time
and effort to NOW twice week sHld
let the clippings drop on the ground
and remain there than to cut but once
a week and rake up the clippings, as
must often be done.-Chicago Cmon.
icle.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
curlosltles Of the Cactus.


Mexico has a cactus which grows
tooth picks; another, ribbed and
thickly set with teeth-like spines,
which furnish the natives with combs;
there is another cactus, the long,
curved spines of which resemble fish
hooks; there is another which is an
almost perfect Imitation of the sea-
urchin; still another resembles q
porcupine: there is another covered
with long red hair which is nick
named the "red-headed cactus"
There are several varieties which
serve as timepieces. One Of these,
the Cereus nycticalus, opens its bios
SONS at z o'clock in the evening and
closes them at o'clock in the morn
ing; another opens at 8 O'clock and
closes at 8 the next morning; another
opens at o'clock in the morning and
closes at noon.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
Office Boys pabble In Wall Stree.

Office Boys Dabble In Wall Street.
AS the pages In the senate some.
times hold an extra session all by
themselves, SO the Office boys in Wall
street conduct a lively market at
times after the brokers have gone
home. They call up a number at ran.
dom, It is answered by another office,
and a conversation something like
the following ensues:
Hello! This is Mr.. Jones of Bill,
Bang & Bung's. Kindly buy. me H.
000.000,000 shares of Amalgamated
Copper Immediately"
"All right. This is Mr.. Smith of
Hop. Skip & Jump. But we will need
more margin for that. Kindly send us
a certified check for $1,000, ,000, ,000."
A wordy argument ensues, and the
Office boys finally hang up their
phones and go home content with the
days transactions.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21

Sometimes the fruit on a single
tree is worth more than two or three
acres of wheat. There is tree in
northern Delaware, Is years old, that
has produced an average of $50 worth
of fruit annually for nearly 20 years.
One year the cherries sold for $50.
Six years ago this old patriarch bore
"a peach baskets of delicious fruit or
about 1,1O0 pounds. And all of this
fruit has been a free gift Of nature,
as the old tree has stood in a door
yard all these years unattended and
uncared for except in cherry time.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
Saratoga Chips.

Wash and pare medium sized pota.
taes, slice very thin Il use a slaw cut
ter for slicing), drop them into cold
Water as they are cut and let them
remain there until they are very firm.
Have a kettle on the stove about half
full Of lard. Lift potatoes out of the
cold water and put into clean, white
cloth. Press them in this until they
are quite dry; then drop them into
the smoking hot lard. Let them fry
a delicate brown. When done lift
them out with a wire spoon. Sift salt
over them as soon as they are taken
out, while warm. To have them at
their best, they should be used when
first made. Damp weather will affect
their crispness.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
FEEDING CATTLE ON GRASS.

Experience shows that greater gains
In pounds Of beef with less grain can
be made on grass than with grain and
roughage and with less labor involved,
II corn Is fed it should be soaked, and
although a less quantity is necessary.
The price is relatively higher in sum-
mer than in winter. Grain and grass
finished steers show a greater shrink
age In going to market than when
finished on grain and rough feed,
However, summer feeding of grain
with grass, to animals of proper age
is coming into popular favor and ou.
best farmers are beginning to appre-
ciate their grass lands as never be.
fore.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
KNOWING HOW TO MILK.

Know how to milk? Of course we
do! And yet, if the old COW could
speak, she might quite often say, that,
in her humble opinion, you could
profitably take a few lessons in that
gentle art
1t is business for the COW to be
milked. Sne considers it so, and you
ought to.
1t is not fair to sit down to a cow
and pull and haul her until she steps
around in the stall and acts as if she
were being shamefully hurt Some
times a COW will stop eating and wait
until the ordeal is over before she
will resume operations in that line.
The COW that does that is not COM
Portable. Uncomfortable cows do not
do their best for their masters.
Other men have way of milking
that so pleases the cow that she
clearly shows that she enjoys the
process. These are the men after
whom we should pattern.
Watching them, we see that they
never yell nor strike, nor otherwise
mistreat their cows. They sit down
quietly, take hold of the cows teats
gently, no matter in how much hurry
they may be. and begin to draw the
milk, without pressing too hard, for
they know that they are touching her
at her tender point, then they keep
=. steadily at it until the last drop is
out
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21

Gooseberries can be grown on a va
riety of soils in northern latitudes.
However. 1t prefers cool, strong, rich
soil, but on a northern exposure will
succeed on light, sandy, or even
gravel loan. A mucky soil will pro-
duce an abundance of growth. The
plant requires much food and there
fore needs to be fertilized heavily on
light soil. A heavy top dressing OF
cow manure each fall on such soils is
necessary, while on the richer soils a
dressing of manure every two or
three years is sufficient.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21

Plant sweet corn, potatoes or some
other hoed crop between the rows of
blackberries and raspberries the first
season after setting. 1t will be a
source of profit to you and an ad-
vantage to the young berry plants, for
you will not be SO likely to neglect
their cultivation. Berry planta should
never be mulched the first season,
most berry growers prefer cultivatiDg
to mulching at all times. It insures q
healthier cane growth, and the planta-
tion will last longer than when
mulched with straw, 40 the plants
root deeper and are not 20 badly In.
jured by long continued drouths.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
TIMELY FLORAL NOTES.
The Season for Various Favorites and
the Commoner Flowers Not to
Be Despised.

Oriental poppies, with very large
and imposing peony-like flowers, make
a brave show in the garden from the
end of May through the first weeks OF
June. These will bear transplanting
If carefully handled.
Foxgloves, white, spotted and pale
lilac, are well worth place in any
garden. In the hardy border, where
they are best placed, 1t is well to
plant them back of sweet williams or
else with peonies. They blossom at
about the same time and the tall,
graceful spikes of foxgloves rising
above and behind the others produce
beautiful effect. Canterbury bells,
having much the same habit as fox
gloves, are grown In the same fash
ion; they are white, pink, blue and
purple. Both are biennials; that is,
start from the seed one year and
blossom and die the next. They are
much more effective grown in clumps
Marigolds, both the double French
and the double African, are apt 70 be
treated with contumely during the
reign of more delicate and beautiful
summer flowers, but with what crate
fulness we turn to them in October,
when everything else is gone!
The new varieties of zinnias are BY
no means to be despised. They are
fine in color, many new shades having
been developed, are very double, and
are fine for house decoration, the
stems, being long and stiff.
Ida d. Bennett Gays she has grown
saliva splendens (scarlet sage) to a
height of five feet, in bed of marsh
earth kept we'll supplied with waite.
through pipe. Saliva will do we'll in
the hottest sun If we'll supplied with
water.-Michigan Live Stock Journal.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
TeIephonina Herring.

A Berlin paper tells Of a new device
that makes herring fishing easy. A
microphone, which magnifes sounds,
is plunged into the sea to ascertain IL
fish are passing that way. A wire
connects the submerged microphone
with an ordinary receiver, with which
one listens to what is going on in the
depths of the sea. Excellent results
have been obtained in the North sea
by the invention for signaling the
passing Of the herring shoals.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
Brown Bread.

One cup black molasses. one cup but
termilk, one cup water. one teaspoon
each Of salt, soda and baking powder,
and one quart -four. The coarse,
the -four. the better. This viii
and one quart graham flour. This will
fill three one-pound baking powder
cans, when done. But divide the mix
ture equally in the cans-they will be
about one-half full, and raise to the
top. Be sure to put lids on and bake
one hour in a moderate oven.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
"Be Pleasant Every Morning until
Ten O'clock; the Rest Of the Day
Will Take Care Of Itself"

"Be Pleasant Every Morning Until
Ten O'clock; the Rest Of the Day
Will Take Care Of ITSELF"
This is one Of the best little ser
mons we know. Have you ever
stopped to think that the ,morninR
Is the time when your temper is usu.
ally rufied, and have you ever
stopped to think that the cause Of
bad temper In the morning is nearly
always because your stomach has not
been working properly during the
night? It has contained q lot of indi.
gestible substances that form gas
and makes you have dreams. It
breaks up your rest and you wake up
In the morning tired, instead of re.
freshed. as nature intended you
should.
Our grand sires required no ad.
monition to "Be pleasant every morn.
Ing until 10 o'clock; the rest Of the
day will take care Of ITSELF" for they
digested their food and woke up fun
OF lie and energy ready for the days
duties, and this was because they
lived on simple foods instead of high.
~ seasoned palatable concoctions.
which contain no nourishment. Ma.
ture gave US milk, wheat and eggs.
and on these foods q person can
i've indefinitely, but If the milk il
SKINNED, and II the outside of the
wneat Is taken of the kernel. and tf
the lime, the salt, and the iron. which
Is IN the outer part of the wheat
perry, It these are all removed. Won
nave simply starch alone: the starch
goes into the stomach and becomes
sugar.
Do you know that person would
starve to death on plain white bread
ana water? Do you know that he
could live indefinitely on whole wheat
bread or on whole wheat food ana
water! These interesting facts ~
all set forth in a book called "Back
to Nature" which tells about pronar
living and gives recipes for meals Of
the simple kind-the kind that makes
you strong and we'll: the Kind that
makes you Pleasant every morning
until 10 o'clock" This book is pub.
hsned at great expense, but It IL
given free to every reader of this
paper. t y an advertisement Of
EGG-O.SEE," the great food-wh,ch
IS made from whole wheat. which n
baked and predigested and is ali
ready 70 serve from the package .you
Day at your. Gr0cers. You Get mora
me and energy from q l0-cent MOI
age OF EGG-O.SEN than Yon vii -
rpm thousand sdollars' worth M AZ
white bread. This 4 no Idle ciain.
II is = scientific fact. We want ~
tell about this simple food uuastinn 3!
90 write 10 and ray {. .Please send ma
q copy OF your honk su.ni. - ~
The Wahpeton times., 1906-06-21
One on the Par.on.

This is story which the late Dean
Hole was fond Of relating. A vicar
went to preach for a friend, and in
the vestry afterward he said: II must
apologize for the brevity of my ser.
mon, but our fox terrier got into
my study last night and ate several
pages Of my manuscript" At this the
wardens giggled, but one Of them.
bolder than the rest, remarked:
"You couldn't let our parson have a
pup, could you?"