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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Eeedinn Young Chicks.

A flock of young chickens is very
much like a drove of pigs, when you
once get them used to being fed IN
one place, they will always be there
at their regular feeding time. A self.
feeder arrangement is all right, but
must be enclosed in pen where the
chickens may get but the old hens
cannot. First of all, after such an ar
rangement has been made, is to get
the flock in the habit of eating there,
then all is easy. AS long as they are
fed outside, they will not usually
come to the pen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
In Extremis.

The yacht was heavily becalmed.
There were but ten bottles of cham
payne in the lockers. Their last signal
of distress had been sent up, without
bringing any response.
Gentlemen" exclaimed the commo-
dore, in a quavering voice, Il can no
longer conceal the hideous truth from
you. Sobriety stares us in the facet
1t was a wildly various scene which
ensued. Some blasphemed, some
prayed, some, in an access of frenzied
wantonness, sang songs, while some
sat stoically by, awaiting their fate
with at least an outward calm.-Puck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Arrangement Of the Bottom.

six inches long. Fasten one end of it
to the 2x4, the other to a small strip
fastened under the 1x3's as per illus
tration. Now, by setting this founda-
ton on the smooth ground many a
load of honey will be saved that would
be lost if the hive were so arranged
that a nearly WORKOUT bee could not
climb from the ground to the hive.
find they will frequently fall in front
of the hive with a heavy load of honey,
and wings worn out, but still able to
walk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Cold Water Cure.

Six glasses of water are to be taken
during the day for digestion's sake.
Though rather a bother at first, like
keeping the run OF medicine time, it
easily becomes a nabit. Next in i'm
portance is the cold shower bath,
which should invariably follow the hot
bath. Besides lessening the danger Of
taking cold, it is an easy means of OBJ
tanning the healthy circulation so neg
essary to color the cheeks and lips.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
John Henry
OnGolf
~ HUGH McHUGH
fG1o~Sp ". Hobart

Hereafter golf is the game for
ellis.
Me for the niblick and the brassie-
finei
Billy Baldwin, Harry Ford and Ed
die Bartlett took me out last summer
and put me wise to the whole layout.
In less than an hour could play
the game better than Doolan, and he's
the man that made it.
Golf has all the other games slapped
to a sit-doWn.
Know it because | played it once
and Billy told me that as soon as a
few Scotch thistles sprouted on my
shins I'd be the real rinakaboo!
Harry told me / could drive good
enough to own hack, and Eddie
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Wha4 Did She Mean2

Mrs. Armitage had a negro servant
who continually prated of certain
Mrs. Reed for whom she formerly
worked. Weary of hearing Mrs. Reed
quoted so often, the mistress asked one
day:
well, Samantha, what kind of work
did you do at Mrs. Reeds, anyway"
well, honey, l cooked fob huh,
did, an I cleaned fob huh, an sweep
fob huh, an I washed huh pussonel
appea' ce.''-Lippincott's
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
The Modern Child.

Five-year-old Nellie had been
naughty all day. Finally her mamma,
very portly woman, sat down and
drew the little culprit across her am
pie lap to administer the long delayed
punishment. Nellie's face was fairly
buried in the folds of her mothers
dress. Before the maternal hand could
descend Nellie turned her face to say:
well, if I'm going to be spanked
must have air.'-Harper's
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Give Chicks Charcoal.

When chicks are fed mashes it is a
great benefit to them to add a little
powdered charcoal to their food.
Have the mash moist enough so the
charcoal will stick. The chicks will
soon learn to like it and will eat the
mixture as readily as plain feed.
When they get older feed the charcoal
alone and see how they will eat it.
1t is fine thing to keep them healthy,
for it is a great corrective. preventing
fermentation of food in the crop, and
for that reason is great aid In ward.
ing off bowel complaint.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
The Size of Him.

eyes," snarled the eminent Octo-
pus who had just had returned to him
what Shakespeare sarcastically called
trash" ''This is my purse, and the
contents, $1,143O9, are intact; but it
is three days, seven hours and nine
teen minutes since / lost it. Where
is my interest, young man; where is
my interest ?''-Puck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
crits Are Needed.

A plentiful supply of good grit should
always be kept where the fowls can
helm themselves. It is very necessary
in aiding the action of the gizzard in
grinding the food preparatory to diges-
fion. and the failure to supply it is
often the foundation of many fatal all
mentS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
A HILLSIDE CHICKEN COOP.
Arrangement TO Prevent Over-croWd-
ing of Chicks.

Every year during the breeding sea-
son thousands of chicks are stunted
and dwarfed by being over-crowded in
undesirable coops. At the start these
coops are all right for Is or %
chicks, but as the chicks grow larger
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Hioh Price for London Property.

London city churches when they
come into the market fetch big prices
The building and site of the Church
Of st. Peter lie Poer in Old Broad
street have just been sold for $3.50, 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
VENTILATED BoTToM-BoARDs.
How Moisture and Rotting of Frames
Can Be Avoided.

One of the objections to hive-founda-
tons is the moisture that gathers be-
tween the hive bottom and the founda-
ton causing rot.
In order to avoid the objection, writes
a correspondent of Bee Culture, I
make a different foundation as fol-
lows: I use a 2x4 at each end, as
long as the hive is wide. On top Of
these l fasten a 1x3 at each end.
These 1x3's l cut 80 inches long, which
makes a foundation six inches longer
than my hive bottom. I now take a
piece of board wide enough to fill in
between the two pieces of 1x3, and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Woman Grave-Diaaer.

A woman of 25 has been appointed
grave-digger, bell-ringer and organist
in the Danish town of Grenaa. She is
the first woman grave-digger in Den
mark.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Bio Money for Cream.

oT VIII elaa pay m9re tnan E 1P o SHfS ffff
r. E. COBB. St. Paul. Mimi.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

Tt is always safe to do right; and
the trusted expediency is simple JUS
tice-Whittier.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

Mrs. WinsIOw's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng scftens the gums reduces In
ammaton, aays pain. cures wind collie. CSC bottle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
No Headache in the Morninc.

Krause's Headache Capsules for over-in-
Norman Lichty Mfg. Co., Des Moines, la.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

Write us to-day for particulars and tags.
MILTON DAIRY CO.. st. Paul, MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

Tt is pleasant to look on the rain
when one stands dry.-Dutch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
McMurray's Vanilla

Worth a dollar a drop, sold by all Gro
GERS at a low price.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
High Cream Prices.

Hold on, hope hard in the subtle
things. That's spirit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

We reason from our heads, but act
from our hearts.-Fielding
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

The truly wise will halt before a
fact, no matter how humble or COM
mon.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15

They have hope of victory who en-
dure.-Persius.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
Shin Your Cream TO Us.

We always pay the highest market price.
Samels Bros, Minneapolis, MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-15
JOHN HENRY.
CHANGE OF HEART.

Copyright, 1906 by G. W. Dillingham; Co.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
HOW TO RUN AN INCUBATOR.

See that the incubator sets perfectly
level, otherwise the egg chamber will
be warmer in one place than another.
Use only the best oil and feed and
trim the lamp every morning, no mat
ter how long 1t might burn without
doing this.
Every time the lamp is filed, clean
the burner thoroughly by scraping the
wick tube until it is bright inside and
out. Keep the screen in the burner
clean SO air can enter from below.
Do not turn the eggs for three days
from the beginning Of the hatch, nor
after the nineteenth day.
Open the egg-chamber only when
turning the eggs. Take the eggs out
to turn them and shut the egg-cham-
Der while they are out. Let the eggs
cool for from ten to thirty minutes,
according to the weather, every day.
Do not open the egg chamber after
the chickens begin to pip the shell,
even If some chick seems to be having
hard time to get out. A chick that
cannot get out of the shell without
help is not worth saving. If the chicks
gasp and struggle do not bother them
lit is good for them.
Leave chicks in the incubator from
twenty-four to thirty-six hours after
they are Matched; they do not need
feeding for at least thirty-six hours
after they come from the shell.
Nature has provided for their sus-
tenance during this time
Keep the temperature as near 103
degrees as possible, but do not worry
II it runs UP to 105 degrees or as low
as 80 for a short time. Watch the size
of the lamp flame and keep it ais
nearly the size that will produce the
proper temperature as possible.
Use only the eggs that have strong
fertility. No incubator will give a
good hatch from weak eggs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
CAN KILL THE BLISTER BEETLE.

The Colorado potato bug may be
Paris greened; but the old-fashioned
potato bug or blister beetle only hobs
up serenely from the arsenite, and
seemingly laughs at you for your
trouble.
This insect almost seems to have in
telligence. AT the slightest sound it
tips it's head as if to sight the enemy,
and if disturbed it instantly drops to
the ground and hides or feigns dead
thus rendering Manipulating difficult
By filling a pail half full of water
and adding a spoonful of Kerosene,
holding an empty pan or other shall
low vessel under the infested branch
and Earring them into it, they can be
at once shifted into the pail from
which they will never escape. BY
working quietly. a surprising number
can thus be Jared off and destroyed.
Frequently they can be whipped so
that they will take the hint and leave
If they have just commenced in one
side of a field. But this can scarcely
be called neighborly method for, OF
course. the beetles thus driven simply
hunt a neighbori,atr field.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
THIS HEN A CHAMPION.
Trained by Professor GowelI, Lays $50
IInfrS a Ynar

Trained by Professor Gowell, Lays $50
Eggs q Year.
Inc champion hen made her record
at the experiment farm of Maine, I'M
DER the tuition of Professor Gowell,
VINO has done a great work in up
breeding egg-producing hens.
Professor Gowell believes that he
can produce breed Of hens that can
lay more eggs than the ordinary hen,
whose laziness is responsible for the
nigh prices of eggs in American mar
kets today. Thus far he has developed
more than forty hens which have in
a year laid more than 200 eggs apiece,
while great many have exceeded 100
eggs in year.
Persons who understand omelet bet
ter than they do hen history, and who
nave better appetite for eggs than
they have for statistics do not realize
the Importance of this effort for poul-
try Improvement, but some idea of the
benefitsNto flow from even partial sue
cess in Professor GowelTs work may
be gained from a few figures.
Even If the experiments in progress
at orono shall accomplish no more
IMAM TO produce breed Of chickens
5000 oiAelii SuiPdSS IIlo present breed
IN egg laying by one dozen per chicken
year, then, for the state of Maine,
with its 100000 chickens, that would
mean about s150,000 a year increase in
egg value, the average price in Maine
being slightly more than is cents a
DOZEN. while for the whole United
States. with it's nearly 234,00O, 900
chickens, the increase in value OF the
egg product would be about
$25, 100000 year.
The experiments began several wears
ago with about 1000 hens, Barred Ply
mouth Rocks and White Wyandottes.
During the first four years in which
PROFESSOR Gowell selected breeding
stock by use Of the trap nests he
found thirty-flve hens that yielded
from zoo to 251 eggs in a year. Sew
eral yielded only thirty-six to sixty
eggs and three laid no eggs at all. The
Plymouth Rocks have far outstripped
the Wyandottes in laying all through
the six years of the experiments.
From the mating of cockerels and
hens Matched from the eggs of his re-
markable egg layers Professor Gowell
expects to produce still more wonder
full hens.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
COPYRIGHTED 1906, BY THE ASSOCIATED FARM PRESS

dentally parked" bandage the wound
with COW manure and burlap.
An experienced orchardist says that
it is an excellent plan to leave the
clippings under the trees in the win
ter when pruning an orchard, so chat
mice and rabbits will eat such tender
twigs instead of gnawing at the tree
trunk itself.
| Coal ashes are almost worthless as
a fertilizer, but they may sometimes be
used to good advantage as mulch for
currant and gooseberry bushes. Wond
ashes however, are an excellent fer
tilizer for fruit trees, and should be
carefully saved.
Protect young fruit tree trunks from
the teeth of rabbits and mice. Wire
netting or strips of lath or wood
veneer, wrapped around the lower part
Of each trunk, furnish an excellent
protection. The wood strips are par
ticularly good, because they protect
against sunscald as well as girdling.
1t has long been known that bud
ding trees, when transplanted in the
evening. were more likely to thrive
than those that were moved in the
daytime. A French expert has gone a
step further, and proved that dis
tinctly beneficial results can be gained
by transplanting In the dead of night
He has transplanted large tracts with
out losing any of the trees by the
adoption of this method. Trees, he
says, should not be moved while their
buds are too tender and the work
should be done between 10 p. m. and
2 a. m. The roots should be covered
with earth which has for several days
been exposed to air and light. This
should be settled by copious watering,
and not by pressure Of the feet. For
the first two weeks after moving. the
boughs and leaves of the trees should
be thoroughly sprinkled.
'"The Japanese varieties of plums
continue to be largely planted over a
wider range of country than ever be-
fore. Their popularity in the more
important plum growing sections
however, is undoubtedly on the wane
In western New York particularly they
are now held in light esteem. The
popularity Of the Japanese varieties is
due to the ease with which they grow.
the earliness with which they come
into bearing and their prolificacy. In
the sections where the Domestica va
rieties succeed, however, the Japanese
varieties compare unfavorably with
them in the points of hardness. lon
gevity and quality Of the fruit" So
says F. A. Waugh, in a special report
to the American Pathological Society,""
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
GROW YOUR OWN FEED STUFF.
NO REASON WHY EVERY FARMER IN CORN BELT CANNOT DO So
(BY R. K. wlkINsoN)
(By R. x. WILKINSON.

BY growing timothy, clover, straw,
corn fodder, oats and corn, and by ex-
changing part of our corn or oats
for oil meal, bran, or some similar
feed, and by grinding corn cob meal
and mixing with a small amount of
oats, we have the best possible ration
for our cattle; and if we had good,
high-grade Short-horns. or Angus, or
Herefords, and fed them the right
kind of ration, we could grow the best
beef to be found in the world.
live in Champaign county, Illinois,
and one of the very biggest cattle feed
ers in that county had fine, lot of
cattle in his lots. He had beeh feed
Ing them for long time on snapped
corn. They were big and fat, weighing
on an average about 1,500 pounds, and
he wanted to rush them a little faster
30 he had lot of corn shelled.
He had been feeding three pecks Of
snapped corn per day and everyone
of course knows that the hogs got part
of that. When he got the corn shelled
he made a sharp change from the
snapped corn to three pecks of shelled
corn per day. and as result, inside of
three days he had several dead steers
and lot of others out of-condition.
He shut off the corn, fed them on
hay for few days and shipped them
to Chicago. This was done by an old
experienced cattle feeder.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05

houses, and the small stopper is re-
moved. The water runs out filling the
shallow box forming the top of the
sled to the level of the small opening
in the barrel. The hogs may drink at
any corner of the box. AS the water
is consumed, more runs out. Two such
barrels are placed in each Enclosure
filled once or twice a day or as often
as they become empty.
New barrels are frequently not air.
tight To remedy this defect, whom
the openings which admit the air are
mot plainly visible. the barrels are
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05

a How often we hear men say they
got their cattle on full feed in a week.
It is men who do this that have to ship
before they get their cattle well
started. Six weeks is none too long to
get a lot of cattle on full grain
ration. Shocked corn is good starter,
fed lightly at first, with plenty of other
roughness and with snapped corn or
ear corn mixed in a little later. on,
SO that when the change is made to all
ear corn it will not be radical
change.
In case Of storm, when the cattle
will not leave their sheds for feed or
water for twenty-four hours, shut off
the corn ration entirely and give a
, little better quality of roughness, and
then take from two to three days to
go back to full feed of corn.
My advice to the feeder whose cattle
get to a point where they are doing
no good is, not to ship them, but to
. take them off feed and start over
again. Take good cotton seed meal
and ground ear corn and mix it with
little oats or bran, and gradually get
them started on feed again in this way
) If you cannot get them in thrifty con-
dition again within short time, the
only thing to do is to ship them.
We start our cattle on feed in the
fall by hauling out shock corn and
scattering it around the pasture, aim
ing to give only a few ears to steer.
We gradually increase from day to
day and then feed shocked corn in the
morning and a small amount of
snapped corn in the evening, increas-
ing the amount, SO that at the end of
six weeks they are getting all they will
clean up.
About this time we put them into
the feed lot and feed them snapped
corn or ear corn in feed hunks, with
hay or straw or corn fodder in racks
SO they can get all they want Of it at
all times, water convenient to them
and box filled with salt constantly
before them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05
PUSH THE COLT ALWAYS.

AT no time In a horses life can YOU
make horse out of him faster than
the first year. Give him anything he
will eat, and all he will eat, and do
not be afraid of overlooking as long as
he cleans his feed up each time. The
mare must have grain ration. If the
pasture is good and she is a good
mixer and has no work to do, per-
haps once a day is often enough to
feed her, but IL she has work on the
farm give her extra feed and care:
and do not entertain the mistaken idea
that in order to raise good colt the
mother must run idle all summer.
When The weather gets hot and the
flies troublesome, put the mare and
colt in a darkened stall during the day,
away from the flies and hot sun: feed
them there, and at night turn them
out. II the pasture gets short give
them some green fodder and fresh
clover hay.
When weaving time comes the colt
thus cared for will not have to be
weaned in the usual sense of that
term. He will know how to eat grain
and hay, and will be able to get along
and thrive without his mother in two
or three days after she leaves him per-
manently. The first winter Of the colt S
life give him extra care; continue the
summer feed and increase it; do not
let him, lack for anything. If this
treatment is kept up without pause,
at two years old you will have big,
plump, well-developed colt that is able
to go to work and earn his own
feed.-A. C. Anderson
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-05

see the note books out and people eag-
erly jotting down these facts. But
after getting the audience enthused, he
| would almost invariably take up a
| little vial away down at the extreme
end of the line and say:
But, gentlemen, here is vial of the
seed of the common red June clover.
| 1t stands head and shoulders above
every other leguminous crop"
This would fall on his audience like
a thunderbolt out of clear sky, and
what did it say to me? Simply this:
All have told you is true and very
nice to know, but when you get down
to business, clover, the common red
clover. is the thing to tie to-"
And have tied to it and with spletl-
did success. If you feel you cannot
afford to buy seed, raise it. I have
raised all my seed for years and thou
sands Of dollars worth to sell. To
grow clover seed successfully your land
should be reasonably fertile and we'll
drained. Glover will not do well on
wet, soggy soil.
The fact that the land is high does
not prove it requires no drainage. BY
constant cropping and blowing the
humus is so worked out of the land
that it becomes soggy and packed
down. 1t then needs draining more
than lower land, which is full of
humus and naturally more porous.