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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

averaged for the twenty years 253
bushels per acre. In all these figures
the number of acres sown Is given and
the number of bushels harvested.
During the twenty years." said Mr..
HOllinger, 81 have aimed TO carry
enough cattle to use up the rough
ness and the corn raised on the farm,
usually from 100 to 400 head. OF late
years l have paid more attention to
cattle and alfalfa, and have found
that it was q far more reliable COM
bination than purely grain farming In
which l was chiefly engaged in the
earlier time of my experience. There
is no question but that any intelligent
farmer can make a competency, and
support his family in abundant COM
fort in central Kansas. l have done
no more than any OF my neighbors did
or might have done. Each year the
same income approximately can be Sc
cured If the work is carefully planned
and such crops are raiseda as areadapted
to Kansas soil and Kansas climate"
AS an example of Mr.. HOllinger's
stock raising it may be mentioned that
he came to Kansas City recently with
$4,000 worth Of stock which he sold
off his farm. He has lived on the
same place for thirty-three years and
is not leaving Kansas because he is
entirely satisfied with his wealth but
because he wants to give his family
broader education and to secure
recreation for himself. 81 think I
have enough to keep me from want"
he said, land l am entitled to get some
thing more out of life than l have
heretofore DONE"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
GREAT BEAR COUNTRY.
Representative Bede of Minnesota
Tells the President About Big
Game Hunting in Duluth.

How it happened that the war cor
respondents at Washington found out
about ]. Adam Bede's conference on
bears with President Roosevelt does
not appear. However, a full report or
the Minnesota Congressman'S tales
has been made, and was made public
in the New York Evening Post. 1t
makes an alluring document. Mr.. Bede,
who is the acknowledged wit Of the
House, sought the President with the
friendliest intention. "You like to
shoot BEARS" said "Jadam," diplo-
matically. Mr.. Roosevelt admitted it.
But you don't have to go into the
wild West for your sport" went on the
Minnesota statesman. "Think of this
fact: thirteen bears were shot in the
streets of Duluth last year-in Du-
luth, the pride of the Northwest, that
beautiful city on the great unsalted
sea-" The statement had perceptible
effect on the President. and Mr.. Bede
only place in the whole world, Mr..
President, where you can go bear
hunting by trolley car, under the cleo
trio light, and on asphalt pavements.
We have all the conveniences so dear
to the heart Of the true sportsman,
and without leaving your hunting
ground you can walk across the street
to the mail box and drop in a postal
card to your friends, telling them all
about the game you have bagged."
With the Congressman was a Duluth
constituent, a lady with first-hand
knowledge of bear hunting in that
city. She added her corroborative
statement: ooh, yes, Mr.. President, q
short time ago friend of mine heard
noise outside his window, and on
looking out saw that it was bear try
ing to climb telegraph pole. He shot
that fellow without leaving his bed
ROOM" Then, to the joy Of the Pres i
dent, Mr.. Bede took up the tale: why,
bears are common things with US up
in Minnesota, Mr.. President Last year
five bears held up one Of our trolley
cars. They were two old ones and
three cubs. This occurred right in the
streets of Duluth. The big fellow got
in front of the car and put his paws
on the dashboard, driving the motor
man off. while mamma and the GU BIS
went around after the conductor. After
they had had enough of this sport tn ely
raised the siege and trotted off toward
the outskirts of the city. Oh, no, we
don't let the bears trouble us much.
When they get too bothersome we turn
them over to the police, who drive
them out of town; but it's great bear
country up there, and I'm sure you
would like to see bit Of it." Now, If
it Is announced that President Roose-
welt means to take vacation up in
the Minnesota woods, the correspond
ents may go straight to Duluth, where,
as Mr.. Bede is a true prophet, the
great bear slayer may be found sitting
in the door of an up-to-date hotel, a
rifle across his knees, waiting for the
promised sport.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

and other necessities is not so
high as in the colder parts of
the country, as much of 1t Is
usually produced near at hand. All
of these things combine to make the
regions of Southern California most
attractive to poultry growers, who may
be seeking q softer climate to lessen
the aggravation which the rigors of
winter heap upon some member of
the family. Many have gone there
seeking a place merely to benefit their
health, and have been much improved
by so doing; but they have also been
able to make a living for themselves
and their families through the COM
binatiOn above described.
ALL CANNOT SUCCEED.
All do not succeed. This can not be
in any following of life. Those who
do succeed usually have more or less
experience in the business before they
embark upon it. The failures come
to the inexperienced, and those who
are unable to contend with the diff
culties always confronting one in the
upbuilding of a new home in any 10
cality.
What are known i'm the San Fran
cisco market as grange" eggs, the Nc "
York market iesignateC as "fresh-laid'
eggs. Ranch eggs of California are
the fresh-laid eggs that are brought
direct to the market and sold as such.
During November and December last
this quality of eggs sold in the mar
kets of San Francisco as high as fifty
one cents a dozen, and as low as thirty
cents, influenced, no doubt, by the sup
ply and demand, governing this pro-
duct in every locality.
Eggs sold in Chicago during the
year Of 1905 as low as fifteen cents.
In San Francisco the lowest price
quoted for the year was fourteen
cents. When the lesser expense of
caring for them is Considered, the ad-
vantages or profit from poultry grow
ing should be fully equal to, if not bet
ter than would be the same pursuit in
Illinois.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
BUSINESS METHODS IN FARMING
Successful Kansas Farmer Who Has
Kept Trace of Receipts and Ex-
penditures for Twenty Years.

the Kansas City Journal of the sue
cess of A. L. Hollinger, well-to-dO
Kansas farmer who opened set Of
books when he began farming twenty
years ago and who has kept his ac-
counts as accurately as a bank does
its. The other day he struck trial
balance and found himself $4,000 to
the good. He has now retired from
the farm and will make tour of
America.
The compilation of his long record
beginning with 1886 shows the total
figures given as follows: He has
raised 5,265 acres of wheat, yearly
average of over 263 acres, and on
that area has raised 9S,791 bushels, or
an average per acre for twenty years
Of 1874 bushels. During all the two
decades henever hadan entirefailure of
wheat, although an average of IL
bushels an acre in 1895 came very near
to it,
His corn record is equally interest
ing. He has raised 2,S46 acres of
corn, a yearly average Of 142 acres.
The total number of bushels was r.
672, or an average per acre for twenty
years of 251s bushels. The corn
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
Egg Farms of California.
,ructivc varnlnts.


by Il. II. MCGhEW.
Many years ago l assisted friend
in the loading of a car of poultry for
California. This car was shipped from
Central Ohio, and the fowls contained
therein were very well selected from
fiOcks Of desirable varieties. The
owner of this car crossed the CONT
nent in care of his birds and settled in
Central California. Reports from
there few years later told a direful
story of the impossibility of success
In poultry-growing in California.
1t is unnecessary to relate the many
troubles experienced, except to say
that the amateur in poultry at that
time imagined that the birds would
live and prosper in the California eli
mate without proper shelter within
houses during the cold, damp weather.
A close study of these conditions
has entirely eliminated all these mis-
takes, and to-day there is no place
In the United States where there is an
enthusiasm equal to that found
throughout California with reference
to this industry.
The construction of proper houses,
the selecting of proper breeds and the
proper caring for them has built up an
enormous egg business through that
section of the country.
In the neighborhood of Petaluma,
more Leghorn fowls are probably kept
for producing the white-shelled eggs
for the California city markets than
can be found within the same number
Of miles in any other place in the
world One enthusiastic visitor to that
locality has made the statement that
every acre in the fifty thousand acres
visited contained hundred Leghorns.
The climate of Southern California,
the beauties of the scenery, the pleas
ure of fruit cultivation and the profit
able growing of poultry have attracted
many hundreds to that section to en-
bark in these pursuits under pleasant
conditions.
A Mr.. Brownlow who purchased a
few acres of ground in that locality
ten years ago has built up for himself,
with the assistance of his wife and
children, most profitable combination
Of poultry, fruit, bees and squads, all
Of which thrive continually under the
softer climates of that locality, ena-
bling these people to produce broilers
every month with a minimum amount
Of care and attention, the fruit and
bees being remarkable source of
profit during the greater part Of the
year.
PROTECTION AGAINST DAMP
IMPORTANT.
The buildings used for poultry in
these localities need not be so eXpen-
sive in construction as is necessary in
that portion of the country visited
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
PRAIRIE DOGS.
One of the Pests of the West.

the biologists were loaded for rabbit,
SO to speak, and they furnished the
forest people with a harmless wash
to soak their pine nuts in before plant
ing, and with a cheap dip for the
nursery stock which a self-respecting
rabbit will no more nibble than will
an ordinary human being smell auto
mobile odor for a perfume
In this the biologists confessedly
took leaf out of the book of the
Piute and other desert-dwelling In
dams. The Piutes have been caching
food supplies of pine and pinion nuts
in the desert for hundreds of years
and they found that the rabbits, the
ground squirrels and prairie dogs
would clean out their cache. But
they found by experience that there
was a little desert weed that the
ground animals disliked excessively
and that anything dipped in Il tea
stepped from the bark Of the weed was
rabbit-proof for long time thereafter.
So the rabbits were checkmated on
that play and the forest officers have
no more trouble from that quarter.
PLAGUE OF THE WOLVES.
But it is the very presence Of the
forest reserves that has bred the
present plague of timber wolves in
the West. No hunting is allowed in
the reserves and they form nurseries
for game Of all sorts. But it seems
that they breed wolves quite as fast
as they breed anything else, of which
fact the cattle raisers have been made
painfully aware.
In the days of the buffalo on the
plains, thousands of wolves lived on
the herds. When the buffalo were
killed off the wolves disappeared also,
till there was not one where there used
to be a thousand. Then the cattle
men began to stock the ranges, and
the wolves found conditions much the
same as in the buffalo days. They
promptly multiplied and increased till
they are now doing an immense
amount Of damage, aided largely by
their asylum in the forest reserves.
The biological survey has sent out
Mr.. Vernon Bailey, one of its best
men, to study the wolf problem, and
he has been skeeing and snowshoeing
through Wyoming and Montana while
the snow was on the ground and the
wolves were particularly easy to track
and study. He has not done any
shooting, but is trying the effects of
poisons and traps. But the wolves are
about as cunning as foxes, and after
YOU have trapped and poisoned a few
in a given district the rest grow wary
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

Did you ever see a rat or mouse or
wild rabbit sick from what might
be termed natural causes? Any
one who can contribute such an animal
to the Department of Agriculture may
unwittingly confer q benefit of mil
lions of dollars annually on this
country. What the Department wants
Is q fatal and contagious malady,
which 1t Is working hard to get now,
but up to date the work is merely
promising, there having been no salts
factory result to record. So if any one
has q hutch of rabbits swept off by
a sudden and mysterious disease, or
IL he notices any swift and sudden
mortality among the rats and mice
In his locality, that may be the very
thing the Department is looking for,
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

and the poisons and traps are rele-
gated to seat %. The wolves get so
crafty that they will not swallow a
piece of meat without mounting it,
and il they get the bitter taste of
strychnine or arsenic they drop it and
look for something else to eat.
Whether or not the survey will be able
to kill them off with some contagious
disease is a question, but they are
rapidly becoming as great a pest and
far more dangerous than the smaller
"varmints."
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

feeding the fowls; and the facility
with zero weather during the winter
months. Protection from rain, damp
and vermin is the most necessary ad-
iunct to a properly constructed poultry
house when the poultry can not run
ut large and range over the land.
There is no month in the year in which
they can not find more or less animal
and vegetable life for food upon the
range. This IL months of food supply
reduces the expense very materially in
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

with which squad breeders can fly
their birds at large, continually adds
vigor and strength to the breeding
stock, which naturally assists in the
quick growth and size obtained in the
squads.
The quotation of eggs, dressed
poultry and squads in the California
market, while not the equal of the
New York and Boston markets, VIII
grade well In value with the average
markets of our larger inland cities.
The expense of living as to food
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
TO BREED UP A DISEASE.
ent to Start a Plague Among Ocstr
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL

be bought by the pound and spread
on bread. The contagious quality
has not developed yet in any of the
foreign cultures tried.
THE RABBIT PEST.
The biological survey has been able
to do a good deal in a practical way
with the rabbit pest. Some time ago
the forest service set up a howl of in
dignation. 1t had planted some hun
bred thousand young trees, nursery
stock, in one of the California forest
reserves, and the rabbits ate them
up in about a week. Then it seeded
several hundred acres with white pine
to restore the land after fire, and
the rabbits cheerfully set to work, dug
up all the seeds and ate them. But
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

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In fact, no writer of late years
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We have secured from Sir
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BE sure to get the initial chapters,
as Ii is a stirring tale that will hold
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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

made two entire failures, one in 1895
and one in 1901. In 1895 it was very
near a failure, only 3 bushels per
acre. Less attention was paid to oats
and only 679 acres were raised. This
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
BUSINESS. EQUIPMENT.

CALIGRAPH TYPEWRITER $1,000. Remington.
Yost Densmore & Jewett, $500 each. Electric
Commercial Graphaphone Outfit, new taper,ar1mn
disc photograph cheap. Edison Monograph SlOUU-
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terms TO Agents. H. A. Ink Eradicator Co., 1850
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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

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storer Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and treatise
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
LADIES' AP3plRHL.

SHIRT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARILY
keeps waist down all around no pins or hooks 70
tear send 2c. with waist measurement over corsess
andAask for white black. Felix corset Coz ioi
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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
REAL ESTATE.

aOACRE TRACTS CHOICEST fruit and farm land
Con the Gulf Coast Highlands In Alabamal Tor you
cash and monthly IN & OF sV year
ably heathful. Send for booklet. lrvington Lana
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WANTED: WICHITA PROPERTY: Lands In
Southwest Kansas. What have you for sa!et w
years buying and selling Kansas dirt. Choice $40
acres near Garden City, s. 400. Write E. 1. spencer.
lis S. Lawrence Ave., Wichita, Kansas.
CALIFORNIA COLONIZATION LANDS Tracts
of 1000 to 10000 acres low prices; easy terms level,
rich. auvial soil abundance of water; best climate
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COUNTRY PROPERTY ONLY-EVERYWHERE
Farms, residences, hotels stores, etc; CataioG
Free to intending buyers. Owners wishing 70 sell
call or write at once Phillips Wells, 95X Tribune
Building. New York.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

SELF FILLING "Blohl Fountain Pen. The
best and most simple self filling Fountain Pen made
Sl to introduce II to the trade Regular retail
price $500 For sale at any Stationery Dept store or
Jeweler, or of the manufacturer. Diamond POINT
Pen Co. IG2 Beekman ST., New York.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16
PROTECTION AGAINST DAMP
IMPORTANT.

The buildings used for poultry in
these localities need not be so expen-
sive in construction as is necessary in
that portion of the country visited
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-06-16

rs VISITING CARDS 1Oc. Your name neatly
printed in script, old English, or Roman on q fine
Bristol cards, only 10c; name and address, l5c. 5O
with name and address, Csc. Matteson. 3O246th ST..
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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-02-28

The readiest and surest way to get
rid Of censure is to correct ourselves
Demosthenes.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-02-28
SLAVERY IN CHINA.

Savage Cruelty Melted Out For the
Most Venia1 ORenses.
Says an editorial in the Peking
Times: 'The position of the slave girl
in Chinese home is very hard one as
rule. These slaves are generally the
property of the wife, and no one iuter-
feres with the mistress in her treat
ment Of the poor little things, who will
as often as not be subjected to the
most savage cruelty for most venial Of
fenses. A few weeks ago we recall
case of great hardship being brought
into the mixed court, Shanghai. in
which a small slave girl had been gag
ged with piece of iron and severely
beaten because, when half starved, she
helped herself to some scraps of food.
"Our attention has now been called
to piercing cries which emanate from a
house near Canton road and are said to
proceed from little slave girl who for
some reason is beaten almost daily
with thick knotted rope, but for what
reason is unknown.
sour informant thinks a word in
public, showing that the incident has
been noticed, may suffice to check the
cruelty without lodging formal COM
Dlaint with the municipal police, which
=1night make matters worse for the poor
little sufferer in the long rum"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-02-28
ANIMAL ANTlPATHIES.
The Fear Horses Have of Came1s and
Cattle of Dogs.

The Fear Horses Have of Came1s and
Cattle of Dogs.
'sIn some towns they won't let US
show" said the circus animal trainer,
unless We have no camels with us.
Camels are serious drawback tC
shows. Horses are so much afraid of
them that lots Of towns won't let a
camel enter their gates.
"a horse won't go near a piece Of
ground a camel has stood on. The
very smell of a camel in the air will
make horse tremble and sweat, ana
this fear isn't only found occasionally
in horse here and there. 1t is found
In every horse all over the world.
Queer, isn't it? l often wonder why 1t
Is. Cattle hate dogs in the same way,
and cats hate dogs so too Here,
though, we can account for the hatred.
Dogs in primitive times fed on cattle,
no doubt, and even today here and
there they kill and feed on kittens.
Horses love dogs. I'm sure don't
know why. Dogs fear no animals but
pumas and leopards. You can take
dog up to lions or tigers cage. and
he will show no fear, but take him up
to the cage Of puma or leopard and
he will tremble and moan and stink
away out Of sight.
"All very puzzling, isn't itw.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-02-28
THE CITY MAN.
ais Lot In Life Compared With That
of the Farmer.

of the Farmer.
According to the National Magazine.
''men in the cities work twice as hard
as the farmers, and they get few or no
holidays. Thousands and thousands Of
professional men, clerks and men in
small business enterprises delve and
toll their entire lives away and at the
end are carted out to the cemeteries
without having had any more leisure
or enjoyment in their lives than horse
on treadmill. The rut they toll along
In Is as narrow as a case knife" This
Is not the farmers view Of the city
man, whom he sees only during vaca-
ton, when the city man is taking a
brief and much needed rest. The farm
er sees him sporting his "glad rags"
and mistakenly imagines him to be ali
the year round only an idle butterfly,
consuming the produce of the horny
handed son of toll. The truth, it is
held, is that the city man, as rule, lS
the harder worker and gets much less
enjoyment out Of life. He longs for the
rural scenes and occupations Of the
farmer; his dearest hope is to get back
to the country to spend his last years.
A few Of the city folks make big lot
Of money and get their follies and
amusements in the newspapers, but the
great majority of city toilers live
very monotonous and stupid as we'll as
a very laborious and poverty stricken
life. The farmer, it is concluded. has
''the real thing" while the city mah
hoc oTo1r1 hnt aiOnn% md ScnYN
pointments. The contented farmer ls
not only the wisest but the happies1
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sun.