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The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
PRUNING MAXlMS.

Prof. Hutt of the Utah Experiment
station gives in bulletin SO some wise
naxims on pruning, as follows:
/. Start the tree right.
2. Do not cut out large limbs.
8. Keep your tools sharp.
4. Never prune in frosty weather.
5. Frost-bitten wounds are slow to
heal
6. Never leave stubs in cutting off
limbs.
7. Prune annually, but never heav-
lily.
s. Wounds heal most rapidly in
spring.
9. Heavy pruning conduces to
wood growth
10. Never use a hatchet for remoy-
ing suckers.
II. Avoid injuring the cambium in
any way.
u. Don't leave your pruning to the
hired man.
13. The more you understand trees
the better you will prune them.
IA. A severe heading-back will re-
new the tops of old peach trees.
IS. In transplanting be careful Of
the rOOt-hairs.
IS. In transplanting cut back top
and root.
II. Do not head trees so low as to
interfere with cultivation.
IS. Drastic pruning strikes at the
vitality Of the tree
19. Do not start all main limbs at
the same height.
20. Keep the tree free OF suckers
q. Summer pruning induces fruit
fulness.
%. Torn wounds are generally ia.
tai.
%. Paint over the larger wounds.
"a. Trees are delicate structures
and require careful handling.
%. A heavy pruning is always fol-
lowed by heavy growth of suckers.
26. Never slit the bark, bore holes,
or drive nails into trees.
q. Never allow stock to prune
your trees.
2S. Unpruned, uncultivated or
chards are not money-makers.
20. The orchard is not a profitable
source Of firewood
80. Blackberries and black rasp-
berries should always be tipped back
in summer.
81. Prune gooseberries and cur
rants by the renewal of rotation sys-
tenn.
80. Do not decapitate shade trees.
SO. Never prune evergreens.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
WHY HE FAILED WITH HOGS.

Because he bred from worn-out
stock.
Because he failed to provide ample
range for the sows.
Because the pigs lacked vigor.
Because he had some litters arrive
early in the winter.
Because he did not attempt to pro-
vide natural conditions for his pigs.
Because his sows furnished scanty
nourishment for their offspring.
Because his pigs took the scours
from sleeping in cold, damp beds.
Because he did not know that the
pigs stomach is small and needs con-
slant replenishing.
Because he did not know his pigs
ate their heads off during the winter.
Because he did not know that sew
enty per cent Of the pigs live weight
Is water
Because he did not get the pigs out
Of the nest and compel them to exer-
else some every day.
Because he did not go after the ver-
min until the pigs were completely
lousy
Because he cut away all his woods,
and was glad he had no trees to con-
tend with.
Because he never thought that the
| disease-proof "razorback" lives most
ly in the woods.
Because he boasted that his hogs
could be grown on less water than
any others in the neighborhood.
Because he could not understand
why half dozen of his best pigs
perished from sunstroke.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
Waste-Paper Profits.

The Salvation Army industry In
waste paper provides some astonish.
Ing figures. Every morning horse
vans. men with hand trucks and men
with bags 60 the round of the London
business premises and collect the ac.
emulation of paper and rubbish Of all
sorts. It is taken to the army's set.
tlemept. where the unskilled workers
are set to sorting it. The waste paper
so collected is sorted into no fewer
than ffty.two different classes. Last
year the army collected 1895 tons of
waste paper, obtaining for 1t a sum
well over $4,000.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
Fashions Slow to Chance.

Four generations ago 1t was Gus
tomary for professional men to wear
muffs, so that it was almost a prov.
erb that "a muff is more than half
in the making Of a doctor" The
umbrella Is an invention OF COM
paratively recent date. A satirical
writer in a women's paper In 1856
remarked that Jonas Hanway, who
had been seen abroad under the shade
of cotton umbrella, would be well
advised, in order to keep himself dry
from head to foot, to wear the maids
pattens. Until the nineteenth cen
tury had almost dawned the umbrella
was practically unknown. In 1897 there
was only one umbrella in all Cam.
bridge. and that was kept at a shop
and let out like a sedan chair by
the hour. In London women carried
umbrellas before men had taken to
them; but the first umbrellas were
heavy, awkward machines, made of
oiiskin or taffeta.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
coffee users has some form of incipi.
ent or chronic disease; realize for one

ent or chronic disease; realize for one
moment what terrible menace to
nation Of civilized people, when one
kind of beverage cripples the energies
and health of one-third the people who
use 1t.
We make the assertion advisedly
and suggest that the reader secure his
own proof by personal inquiry among
coffee users.
Ask your coffee drinking friends IL
they keep free from any sort Of aches
and ails. You will be startled at the
percentage and will very naturally
seek to place the cause of disorder on
something aside from coffee, whether
food, inherited tendencies or some
thing else.
Go deeper in your search for facts.
If your friend admits occasional neu.
ralgia, rheumatism, heart weakness,
stomach or bowel trouble, kidney COM
plant, weak eyes or approaching nerv-
Gus prostration induce him or her to
make the experiment Of leaving of
coffee for 10 days and using Postum
Food Coffee, and observe the result
It will startle you and give your friend
something to think Of. OF course, II
the person is one Of the weak ones
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
Jefferson's Cheerful Philosophy.

We spoke Of happiness. writes
Francis Wilson, in Scribner. Joy"
said, was the God of our house
hold. No one was permitted to hang
crepe on the door of our feelings"
That's the proper way" he made
answer. Happiness is the religion
of our family. To begin with, we
take all the comic papers. No one
Is permitted to read aloud, and he is
begged not to read, even to himself,
about the mangled corpse OF the
father and the roasted bodies Of the
babies-subjects with which the
daily papers disgustingly teem."
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
SHEEP.

II your sheep run in the same yard
chat the COWS must occupy part of the
day, have an adjoining lot into which
you can let them run while the COWS
are out. This will keep them from be-
Ing chased and perhaps fatally injured
by the COWS.
Do you look for early lambs? Then
be sure to give the ewes good warm
quarters every night from this on. If
anything is discouraging it is to 60 out
and find nice lambs chilled to death.
Talk much with your sheep when
among them. They should know your
voice every time they hear it; and it
is well worth while, too, to speak in
kindly tone every time.
Sheep should wear their bells in
winter as well as in the summer. In
fact, dogs are fully as apt to get
among them when huddled in a ward
as when in an open field.
Sort out the little potatoes and give
them to the sheep as a change of ra-
tion. Watch them eat these, and rest
assured that you are putting dollars
into your own pocket while the sheen
are putting down the potatoes.
Glover is splendid feed for sheep in
winter. 1t is rich and sweet-provid-
ed it was properly cured. Musty clo-
yer is worse than good clean timothy.
When you clean the leavings from
the cows hangers, take it out and put
it in the rack for the sheep to look
over. You will be surprised to see
how much of it they will eat up clean.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
TT TSt~ :, Simple.

In a little village there once lived
boy who was supposed to be dull,
witted, and the men Of the village
used to find great fun in offering him
the choice between a threepennybit
and a penny, OF which he invariably
chose the latter. A stranger one day
saw him choose the penny rather
than the threepennybit and asked
him for the reason. rs it because
the penny IS the biggest" the
stranger asked. Nav, not cause it
is the biggest. If took the three
pennybit they'd gle DER off'rin' it."
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

Because a firm sends out fine sta
tionery, soliciting shipments of prod
uce to be sold on commission, it does
not mean that it is reliable. Scores
of farmers have been robbed by
swindlers who use engraved bill and
letter heads. Look out for all such.
Deal only with men who are reliable,
even if they do not make quite so big
promises as the fancy letterhead men.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

The mangel wurtzel beet Is a dandy"
for stock feed. Try a small patch for
your mich cows, and you'll keep 1t
up. The seed should be planted as
soon as the soil can be gotten into
good condition. Plant in drills 20 to
80 inches apart, dropping from IL to
20 seeds to the foot. This will re-
quire from 10 to Is pounds of seed to
the acre. AS soon as the young plants
have started sufficiently to make the
rows visible, they should be cult.
waited, and should receive constant at.
tention so as to keep the surface soil
loose and destroy the starting weeds.
When the beets are about two or
three inches high they should be
thinned out 80 as to stand six to ten
inches apart in the row, and cultiva.
tion should be discontinued as soon
as the roots have commenced to form
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
GROWING FEED AND FERTILITY.

The twOfOld problem confronting
many farmers is, how to maintain the
Sartility of the soil while growing crops
that are to be sold and removed from
the farm, and how to grow on the
farm substitutes for the expensive pro
tein feeds now so generally purchased
by dairymen and stock feeders.
The air is a great stOrehouse OF
nitrogen and vast amounts of potash
and phOsphOric acid. If we can trap
or coax the nitrogen from the air and
unlock the other ingredients from the
soil and unite them in living plants,
duce the cost of farm, stock and dairy
products and largely increase our
profits. While scientists are deyising
some means to combine the nitrogen
of the air with some other substance
that will make it available for agri-
cultural purposes, the best we can DO
is to study with care the leguminOus
plants that we now know do actually
draw part of their nitrogen from the
air and store it for use in their roots,
stems, leaves and seeds.
These plants, clOvers, beans, peas,
ETC., furnish for stock what we call
protein, a nitrOgenous substance, nee
essary for the making of lean meat,
milk and eggs, that are always salable
farm products. The entire plants, or
their roots deCaying in the soil, add
to it a considerable amount of the val
liable plant food We call nitrogen, and
leave it in a comparatively stable
form. Even if part Of this nitrogen
has been obtained from what was al
ready in the soil, the legumes have
brought it up from below by their long
roots, or have collected it from near
the surface, where it was going to
waste. In other words, they have
trapped some from the air and gath
cred the wastes and have put it into
form available for the crop that fol-
lows.
1t is also characteristic of these
plants that they leave the soil in a
mellow and friable state favorable to
the growth of other crops. We feel
sure from the experience we have had
that it will be profitable for many of
our readers to experiment this year on
their own account, to learn how they
can make some of the lesser known
legumes profitable in their farming.
Particular attention is called here
to the soy or sofa bean, one of the
least known of the legume family Of
plants. 49,
1t comes to us from Japan, and has
been tested in limited way by few
persons here and there. Five years
ago at the Kansas Experiment station
several fields aggregating sixty acres
were planted with very satisfactory re-
suits in every instance.
In feeding the beans they take the
place Of linseed meal or gluten meal.
They surpass linseed meal in the per-
centage of protein and fat. In the
bean meal there is 36,S per cent of pro-
tein and 1862 per cent of fat; in lin
seed meal 1872 per cent and 3 per cent.
Comparing soy bean hay and dry corn
fodder, the former has 15.4 per cent
of protein and 81 per cent of fat,
while the latter has 3S per cent and
IL per cent. The green beans are
also twice as rich in these respects
as green corn. Thus it appears they
afford convenient feed for balancing
the corn crop to make it a suitable ra-
tion for growing or fattening stock
and for making milk
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

How marvelously has this catalogue
making grown since thirty years
At that time there was scarcely a
catalogue that had more than half a
dozen illustrations, and they were, as
a rule, wood cuts so crudely done as
to be almost unrecognizable, unless
they were labeled-and as to colors,
they were scarcely thought of. To-
day many Of the catalogues contain
more sound information than many
books which have been written on the
same subjects, but a few years since.
They are virtually text books in gar
dening. AS a rule the information is
condensed and so boiled down as to
be readily understood. And all these
catalogue may be had for the asking.
A postal card is all that is necessary
in most cases to obtain them. Write
now for them, get them, and read
them from cover to cover. Be care
full to read and note down what Is
said about the new flowers, the new
vegetables, and the new fruits.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

Please remember we never nl
dinary coffee hurts everyone.
Some people use It regularly
seem strong enough to Withstand
attacks, but there Is misery int
ease in store for the man or vcss
who persists in its use when ls1
protests, by heart weakness, stans
and bowel troubles, kidney dsas
weak eyes or general nervous pIos
tion. The remedy is obvious.
drug caffeine, contained In all oft1
coffee, must be discontinued aDsdp
ly or the disease will continue infI
Of any medicine and will grow EasI
1t is easy to leave of the olen|
ioned coffee by adopting Postum 81
Coffee, for in it one finds pleas
hot breakfast or dinner beverage 1
has the deep seal brown color. ci4|
ing to a rich golden brown when ~
cream Is added. When boiled "
enough Us minutes) the favor hp
that of rank Rio coffee but yer! \
the milder, smooth and hignsn
Java, but entirely lacking the "
effect of ordinary coffee.
Anyone suffering from disorden :
up by coffee drinking tand there ~
extensive variety can absolulsg :
pend upon some measure OF reilsl I
quitting coffee and using Postuni''
Coffee. !.
If the disease has not becon. :, .
strongly rooted, one can with go0a !.
son expect it to disappear enns 4.
a reasonable time after tne ~
cause Of the trouble is remover :.
the cellular tissue has time 70 na.a. y.
ly rebuild with the elements lu'n''
by Postum and good food.
It's only just plain old e0DD'
sense.
Now, with the exact facts Oe,u, y. 4 i
reader, he or she can decide the =, |,
course, looking to health aDS
power to do things. "A
If you have any doubt as y =,
cause OF any ache or all you n,. ,.,,,, :
remember the far-reaching telsss' !
| of a hurt nervous system trassi =, :,
heel to head, and it may be wen '. "
your while to make the e1perlus, /,
leaving of coffee entirely Tor 'sD :
and using Postum in its place. :.
You will probably gather sODs :, !
solid facts, worth more tnan -,
mine, for health can make sOls !.
sickness lose 1t. Besides an. .ors
the fun, for it's like con'iu.n II
ternal frolic to be perfecu! Wv
There's a reason for
POSTUM!
n... r.,, r. It'd. Battle cst@
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
Alaskan Exposition.

Godfrey Chealander, the author OF
the proposition to hold an Alaskan
exposition in Seattle in 1907, to cele-
brate the fortieth anniversary of Alas
ka's annexation, was born in Sweden
thirty-seven years ago and came to
this country when seventeen years OF
age He has travelled widely in Alas
ka, knows the resources Of this vast
and rich province, and has taken an
active part in the building Of the Far
Northwest.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
CATS PREFERRED TO Yyss,
Chicago School Teacher Civ.
sons for Her Theo,i.,

We forget who it was tia, =
the phrase, AL big things con,,l
Chicago" but we would like b |
that occasionally some big ,As,l
are also born in that netrons|
the West.
A Chicago teacher, who we nuI
is at yet heart and husband 4
evolved the interesting theory tr|
a life companion a cat is IA, !,
preferable than a man.
After enumerating the faults 4,
average husband, she proceeds
tell OF the high qualities Of a c,t
when she came to that part IN hs,
ton when comparisons became y,
sary, poor husbands had not 4 h
stand on.
The three strongest points that
made were that cats trim their
whiskers. never complain and III
happen to come home late in tA.r
small hours, they do not iuvsk
cuses, and though guilty Of nj
havior. they never walk dIagn
across the room, chewing q su
rate cigar and vainly endeaVurirl
make themselves understood.
Well. Il seems as II the ein
the better OF II, and 50 far 10
fender Of poor downtrodden rn
appeared on the scene.-E1thus
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
The Coffee Debate,

The published statements Of a mum.
ber Of coffee importers and roasters
indicate "waspy" feeling towards us
for daring to say that coffee Is harm
ful to percentage Of the people.
A frank public discussion of the sub
ject Is quite agreeable to US and can
certainly do no harm; on the contrary
when all the facts on both sides of any
question are spread before the people
they can thereupon decide and act in.
telligently.
Give the people plain facts and they
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
Growth of the ei.

In 1906 there were tb,s
service; in 1906 there ave- .ss ~
and ladder companies !
are thirty-three. 10 M|
In 1900 there were ss,..
CINE companies; in Ie'saNA Ie'e
eighty-seven. 1'V6 "a
In 1900 there were l3ss :.
men in Manhattan and ',S ~ o.s
oughs; in 1896 there a,a .us j. b,
and men in the same bo,.M, wv |
work Of the paid depar,m,'ls U,'ls
mond Borough has been ass' .ss Z
OF Manhattan and the Run aaaet
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
One at a Time There!

A green grocer's boy hailed a vessel
in dock at Cardiff, says the New York
Tribune. The surly mate responded
gruffly and asked what he wanted
I've got some vegetables for the ship"
was the reply.
"All right, you needn't come aboard !;
throw 'em up one at a time" said the
mate, as he stood in readiness to re.
ceive the expected vegetables.
"AhOy, there-iook OUT" shouted the
Lad, as he threw a single green pea
toward the mate. 1--WE got sack OF
them for the captain"
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

Wood ashes or SCOT sifted over
young radishes that have just put
forth their first leaves, protect them
from the rayages of the fly whose
larvae cause wormy radishes later on.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

Who was the first whist. /
what did he whistle?-Tbe WHY vi,
he whistled Over the Hills a. n
Away"
"Portem today showed cops,,I
patient did not have yellow al
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
Queen Bees pro,.,,,

Modern beekeepers II wv
rearing OF queens to that. s' q
MES. Left to themselvs," "
queens only when they
swarm, when their Queen !. u
ally killed or when, on ,c...' = ''
age or from some otbe, ~.
does not lay enough egp, | =
when the young queens ,o'
their cells there Is a b..S r'
among them, the final sD,r,.' a'
accepted as queen Of n. ~"
But this is a waste Of goos .
which the modern beekeen., .
permit. So his ARTIFICIAL J
queens emerge into little WI.
or nurseries. where thev a., .
kill their neighbors nor he ,S..
killed.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

I stand by my kind, and thank
God for the temptations that have
brought me into sympathy with them,
as | do for the love that urges me to
efforts for their good. G. Holland.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

pie each month and the coffee import
ers themselves are cordially invited.
Both Postum and Grape-Nuts are abso-
lutely pure and made exactly as stated.
The formula of Postum and the an
alysis made by one Of the foremost
chemists Of Boston has been printed
on every package for many years and
is absolutely accurate.
Now as to the food value of Postum.
It contains the parts Of the wheat ber.
ry which carry the elemental salts,
such as lime, iron, potash, silica, ETC.,
ETC., used by the life forces to rebuild
the cellular tissue, and this is particu-
larly true Of the phosphate of potash,
also found in Graps.Nuts, which COM
bines in the human body with albu.
men and this combination, together
with water, rebuilds the worn-out gray
matter in the delicate nerve centers all
over the body and throughout the
brain and solar plexus.
Ordinary coffee stimulates in an I'M
natural way. but with many people it
slowly and surely destroys and does
not rebuild this gray substance so
vitality important to the we'll being Of
every human being.
These are eternal facts, proven, we'll
authenticated and known to every
properly educated physician. chemist
! and food expert
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
will take care Of themselves.

We demand facts in this coffee dis
cussion and propose to see that the
facts are brought clearly before the
people.
A number Of coffee importers and
roasters have joined a movement to
boom coffee and stop the use of Pos
tum Food Coffee and in their newspa-
per statements undertake to deceive
by false assertions.
Their first is that coffee is not harm
full.
We assert that one in every three
coffee users has some form of incipi.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

and says 'T cant quit" you will have
discovered one Of the slaves of the cof-
fee importer. Treat such kindly, for
they seem absolutely powerless to stop
the gradual but sure destruction of
body and health.
Nature has way Of destroying a
part Of the people to make room for
the stronger. It is the old law Of "the
survival Of the fittest" at work, and
the victims are many.
We repeat the assertion that coffee
does harm many people, not all, but
an army large enough to appal the in
vestigator and searcher for facts.
The next prevarication Of the coffee
importers and roasters Is their state
ment that Postum Food Coffee is made
Of roasted peas, beans or corn, and
mixed with a low grade Of coffee and
that 1t contains no nourishment.
We have previously offered to wager
$100,00000 with them that their state
ments are absolutely false.
They have not accented our wager
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

To live in love Is to live an ever.
lasting youth.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

The world is given as a prize to 4
man in earnest-Robertson.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06

and they will not.
We will gladly make a present Of
SIS 100000 to any roaster or importer Of
oldfashioned coffee who will accept
that wager.
The Rice belt journal., 1906-04-06
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