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Incidentally. 1t may be observed
that the railroads would be gald to
help in making the tariff the para
mount issue next time.
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ALL THE WORLD

knows that Ballard's Snow LiDiment
has no superior for Rheumatism, Stiff
Joints, Cuts, Sprains, Lumbago and
all pains. Buy it, try il and you
will always use it. Aag1ody who
has used Billiards. Snow Liniment is
a living proof of what it does. All
we ask of you is to get trial bottle.
Price 25c, 6Oc ard $l.O0. Sold by
Yelton Drug company. tts
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Ing my training Of eight weeks foot
races at Salt Lake City, IN April
last, I used BAilasd's Snow tinimsnt
70 my greatest sAtistAotion. There.
fore, I highly rsoo,nusnd Snow Lini.
nsut 10 Ill who Ase troubled with
sreains, bruises or fheumatism. "
10, 900 And-Vi.oo Sold BY Yelton
Drug company. Ns
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Advertised Est4ks.

Following is list OF letters re-
naming uncalled for at the postoffice
at Florence, during the week ending
July 10.
Adams M.
Chambers Miss Lizzie
Dawkins w. w.
Evans Richard
ManIart Mr.. and Mrs. A. W.
Neese Miss Matte
Parker O. X.
Reid Miss Leslie (2)
Reid Miss Zelma
Stahl Warren
Smith Joseph G.
Snyder Miss Nina
Tucker Miss Ella
Taggert W. H.
B. F. @.
Parties calling for the same viii
say Advertised. and pay one cent.
NJ. E. LEWIS P. NJ,
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THE ALTON FAMILY-The free
exhibitions given by the Alton family
are very attractive and are watched
with keen interest by crowds assembl'
ed. They are artists of ability i'll
acrobatic performance and are great
drawing card for the carnival.
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YOUR LIVER

is out Of order. You go to bed in a
bad taste in your mouth. You want
something to stimulate your liver.
Just try Herbine, the liver regulator.
A positive cure for Constipation,
Dyspepsia and all liver complaints
Mrs. F.. Ft. Worth, Texas, writes
".Have used Herbine in my family
for years. Words can't express what
1 think about it. Everybody in my
household are happy and we'll and we
owe it to Herbine. A." Sold by 1elton
Drug company. TIL
The daily tribune., 1907-07-11

Baseball Players and Foot Racers.
Louis Kruger, ex-champion long
distance foot racer Of Germany and
Holland, writes Oct 81, 1901: Dur
The daily tribune., 1907-07-11
The Doctor Away From Home when
Nest Needed.

People are often very much disap.
pointed to find that their family ply.
sician Is away from home when they
most need his services Diseases like
crxmp collie and cholera morbus re.
quire prompt treatment. aud have In
many instances proven fatal before
medicine could be procured or . ply.
sicisn summoned. The right way il
to keep at hand bottle Of Cham.
berlain's Collie. Cholera and Diarr.
hoea Remedy. No physician can
prescribe better medicine for these
diseases By having It In the house
you escape much pain and suffering
and all risk. But 1t now; it may
save life. For sale by Daniels Drug
store. tts
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ssNTENTYOUs DOPE
BY A SOBER SAGE

~ 4
Incidentally, 1t may be observed
that the railroads would be gald to
help in making the tariff the para
mount issue next time.
President Roosevelt gave seventeen
hours a week to nature study at col
lege and six to politics. But man
makes q mistaKe who supposes he Is
not a full graduate on both nature
fakis and politicians.
II Judge Landis imposes fine OF
e29, 600, 900 against the Standard Oil
company, which it deserves and sends
John d. Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers ct
al to Jail as common criminals, as
characterized by the Interstate Com
merce commission, the people OF this
country will feel very much like
sending Judge Landis to the White
House.
The fact that the president spoke
of q five to four " decision against
tho income tax is significant, in view
Of the fact that he has appointed
Holmes and Moody since that decision
was rendered.
Japanese radicals are simply anus
ing themselves by pulling at few
feathers Of the eagles tail.
Schmitz is q striking example OF
tile kind Of man who seizes oppOrtu-
nifty greedily and wrings its neck.
The Alton has got rid Of Mr.. Har-
riman, but it hasn't relieved him Of
The report that there was to be
government regulation Of oratory was
really exaggerAted. Not yet. But
soon.
Kentucky is building now state
house at Frankfort without graft. It
cannot hope to attract mt oh attention
these days.
An English writer has selected q
husband for Marie Corelli. But he
used considerable discretion by doing
1t anonymously.
Xxx
The Taft forces are struck with con.
sternation at the strength of the Can.
non boom In Illinois Fudge. The
Cannon bOosn il joke.
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The best soda water; pure and
wholesome at Daniels. 9Otf
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4#eyaHTs ABOUT pA1H.Ixa.

Don't let yourself wish you had
built siio last summer another year,
Miik-giying is a Neutrality-suspicious.
characteristic, and matter of slow
breeding at that. Keep the good
miiHef and keep her female calves. =
If imam likes to work by lantern
light there is no objeetiet to milking
that Tina o'night, but 1t isn't neees-
sary to work that late even If you are
a dairyman. Truth Is, dairying Is no
harder work than anything else. The
man who wants to live without work
should go into politics.
There are great many honest
dairymen. but selling COW Is a hard
test to put them to. Better suggest
before they have committed them
selves, that Babcock tester doesn't
know how to lie.
Good authorities have been preach
| ing cleanliness in the dairy ever since
datrying began and vet 1t Is estimated
that fourteen tons of COW manure Is
sold in bottles in New York every
year. This does not sound enttcing.
but the estimate Is probably too low.
Selling milk to cheese factory Ia
like selling the farm by the hundred
pounds. In selling to q creamery the
skim milk comes back and with 1t
the fertility that was in the milk. The
fat of milk is merely sunshine and
water and they are plentiful almost
anywhere.
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method Is that 1t ia apt to be put off
until many items are forgotten. which
makes 1t inaccurate.
In addition to the farm ledger, a
book in which to record all property
on hand at the beginning Of the new
year, with its present value. is de-
sirable.
This is called an inventory, and the
difference between the inventory of
one year and the preceding one, will
tell just what the farmer has gained
or lost during the year, while the
separate accounts will tell In Just
what branches of his business he has
gained or lost 1t.
OF course, the amount Of crops and
stock may be no greater one year than
the year preceding. but in such cases
the gains will show up in cash on
hand. lands. buildings or other ways.
The farmer with the knowledge Of
his affairs, which simple system Of
keeping accounts will give him, Is
better equipped to stand com petition
and low prices and yet succeed by in
creasing those branches he finds most
profitable.-s. B. Hartman.
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BUILDING THE sILo.
Must be- Air Tight and Have q Coed
Foundation.

TNHM Illinois Experiment Station
has outlined the following plan
tor building silos.-
The one used on the State Farm Is
twenty feat Ia diameter, thirty-four
ana one-helf feet deep, holds sas
toms ana costs 1886.
For the foundation circle twenty
FEET, ten inches In diameter and four
feet deep was out and four inch
brick wall laid up against the clay.
Mortar was slushed IN at the back to
help the wall resist the pressure.
Within ono foot Of the top the wall
was thickened to eight inches and
carried six inches above the grade
limo.
An iron hoop was Undecided in the
wall just above the ground. Tile
drains carried OF every bit of water.
The sill on top Of the foundation
was Of 2x4, cut In two foot lengths
Embedded In mortar.
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LEARNED HOW TO RAISE SHEEP.

One Of my neighbsrs once started
In to raise a flock of sheep. He
bought good ewes and a fine bred
Shropshire ram and his sheep house
and surroundings were all right.
Two years later I visited him and
he told me he intended to go cut of
the sheep business.
They are nuisance" he said3 "Al-
ways snuff1ing or suffering from dis
ease of some sort,
We went to the sheep house and
found just what I expected: Fifty
sheep shut up In a place that was
foul with bad air as there was net a
bit Of ventilation.
Some of them looked damp.
caught one and showed my friend
that the fleece was wet to the skin,
He acknowledged that the flock had
been out in heavy rain the day be-
fore because someone had carelessly
closed the door to the sheep house.
That mass of rocking, steaming
sheep was enough to make a man
sick of sheep business or anything
else. The floor Of the house was wet
with the dripptngs from the flock and
was three inches deep with filth. A
more unsanitary floor could not be
found in the country
After heart talk to my
friend about ventilation. dry quarters
system and some science in feeding ]
left him. He is a man of sense and
energy and he took hold of the prob
lem in the right way.
Three years later he wrote to me as
follows:
II now have 1877 sheep, fine as you
ever looked at, no disease among
them and the most profitable thing on
the place. They are worth all the
care for the fertility they add to the
land. but I an, selling my spring
lambs at around 81 and I don't know
anything on a farm that pays better
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HOW THE ENGLISH feed
CALVES.
FEED

In England, calf-meals are fed by
nearly every stock-grower, and. as
large part of the milk produced in the
kingdom is sent to the city for i'm
mediate consumption, the calves are
put upon calf-meai ration at as
early an age as possible.
Many calf-feeders buy the CONNER
cial calf-meals, while some OF the
most progressive farmers feed meals
of their own mixing.
AS the ingredients employed In the
manufacture Of these calf-meals are
kept secret as far as possible. the
composition Of the most successful
milk substitutes is not generally
known.
In some cases a chemical analysis
has shown them to be composed
largely of fax-seed meal and linseed
oil-cake meal, with a little fenu-
greek or fennel seed added to give a
characteristic odor.
Following is formula recommended
by one of the Agricultural colleges of
England. This formula is as follows:
Flour .........y......16 as pounds
Flaxseed meal. ...,...33 1/3 pounds
Linseed oil-cake meal. SO pounds
The directions were: "Take 2 III
pounds of the meal as a days allow
ance for each calf; scald with boiling
water, afterward adding more water,
SO as to make two gallons from the
weight Of the meal: add little sugar,
and salt before feeding. 1t should
gradually take the place of new milk
after the first fortnight.
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ALL AROUND THE FARM.


With all classes OF stock If the
farmer expects good results he should
feed we'll.
1t is not enough that food makes
fat, II should also impart an agreeable
flavor.
1t Is better to buy a good animal
with poor pedigree than poor ami
NAL with good pedigree.
The first requisites of good crop
are, good land, good seed, good tillage
and good manure.
With all growing and fattening
stock anything less than full feeding
is sacrifice of net profit.
The crowding Of plants of any kind
never results In securing the best or
most valuable products.
The cost of feeding an animal in
creases with it's weight. but not In
direct proportion to the weight.
Nothing pays as well as thorough
preparation of the soil and this can
not be done without good blowing.
All breeding animals should have a
laxative ration before the young are
born and especially SO when on dry
feed.
The earlier in life that weed is
killed the better, as they rob the soil
of moisture and plant food
Farm life may be made burden
or pleasure according to the man
agement Of the home, the farm and
the farm work.
The most serious objection to SELL
ing hay from the farm is that It car
ries away too much of the fertility Of
the farm.
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THE BUSINESS FARMER

The business farmer should know
Just what each department of his
business is doing and which are the
most profitable and which the un-
profitable branches of the work.
There Is no way Of knowing this
except to keep some simple system Of
accounts. For instance, corn and
hogs may be making him money and
wheat losing part of II, yet II he kept
no record of the cost of growing each
crop or kind of stock. he would not
know but both were making him
money or the wheat sinstead of the
hogs. And SO on with nll kinds of
stock and farm crops.
To know anything about the profit
able departments of his business, he
must set down all the costs of the
crop as they occur, including labor
expended upon 1t, also all income from
It, and strike balance at least once
a year or after tho crop is harvested or
the stock sold.
To do this the farmer may carry q
pocket account book and pencil and
set down under its proper heading,
all transactions, expenses labor, etc,
as they occur. each under it's proper
heading at the top Of page used ex-
clusively for that field or crop or
kind OF stock. Or these things may
be jotted down in order as they occur
and posted from the small journal, to
a more pretentious ledger kept at the
house. whenever time permits.
Still another method. little less
accurate. is to 1ot the items directly
into the ledger at the house, each
evening. The trouble with this
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waste is found in the fiber and pro-
tein, the former being over per cent
greater in the waste and the latter
.64 greater in the stalks. It will also
be noticed that much larger percen-
tage OF the protein in the stalks Is Ia
the form Of albuminoids.
The waste is thus much poorer Ia
food constituents than the stalks. ana
is doubtless less digestible than the
part consumed but still possesses con-
siderable value for feeding purposes,
provided It can be rendered palatable
to the animal.
Shredding would no doubt result in
more complete consumption Of the
stalks, and, according to the New Jer-
sey Station, at least five-sixths of the
30 per cent waste In feeding dried
cornstalks, as indicated In the experi-
ments. could be prevented by using
a silo. Besides II per cent more milk
could be produced from the silage
than from the dried stalks
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PREY OF THE SPARROW HAWK

W
The sparrow hawk almost In
variably catches a flying bird for It's
meal. even striking down birds as
large as the wood pigeon, though
usually going no higher than a black
bird. II 1t does not exactly swoop like
the larger hawks, yet 1t must have
conditions Of chase of its own
choosing.
That is why the small birds usually
mob 1t with impunity when they are
numerous enough to bewilder 1t.
Once, however. saw sparrow
hawk that had been molested for some
minutes by a perfect cloud Of green
fnches, dart among them and secure
a victim.
The other day I had one of these
birds pointed out as the one which, a
few days earlier, had come close to
the house toward dusk and caught a
bat on the wing. That. however. is
Ia very unnsual neal.--London News.
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A NEBRASKA OATS CROP.

Will tell you how I grew my
bumper oats crop last season.
The field selected had grown sugar
beets the previous season and con-
tatned ten acres. 1t was double
disced. March 81 and April 2, by half
tapping the disc to leave the surface
level. This gave an ideal seed bed,
Arm sub-soil, with enough loose soil
on top to act as a mulch to check
evaporation.
April 2 and 3, twenty-seven bush ais
OF Kherson oats were sown with a
press drill. this was followed by a
spike tooth harrow. May al the fiald
was narrowed to break UP the crust
formed by a heavy rain and to aerate
the soil, but this was of little benefit
as quite a hard rain fell within day
or two.
June 13 and IA the field was irri-
gated, quite a heavy watering being
given. as not much time or attention
was given the job.
The grain was cut and shocked
July 18 and IS, and stacked about
two weeks later, the kernels shatter-
ing somewhat.
The threshing was not done until
December 6, when 1861 bushels
were threshed, with enough of wet
bundles on stack bottoms to make
$40 bushels, or an average of eighty
one bushels to the acre.
Kherson oats is variety secured
from Russia a few years ago, by the
Nebraska Experiment Station, and
has proven itself a desirable and
profitable crop. 1t is short straw
OATS has rather small kernels and
weighs forty to forty-one pounds per
bushel.
1t is quite drought resistant, is
about ten days to two weeks earlier
than the white oat commonly grown
here. This is quite an advantage
where the hot weather is apt to cur
tail the proper filing of the heads.
The yield this season was about
twenty bushels per acre more than the
common oat, or about $3.50 per acre
clear gain, at % cents per bushel, the
present selling price.
The market price of oats is around
2S cents, but I am selling mine for
seed, at 80 cents, or better than $40
per acre, much better, you will agree,
than forty-five bushels per acre at
25 cents to 80 cents, besides having a
place In the crop rotation.-H. d.
Lutte. Nebraska,
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DRAGGING MAKES GOOD ROADS
No Expensive Machinery is Necessary
to kee1, Highways In Coed
Condition.

TIME following points are to be
borne in mind in dragging a
roads Make q light drag, which
Is hauled over the road at an angle go
that small amount of earth is
pushed to the center Of the road.
Drive the team at q walk.
Ride on the dragi do not walk.
Begin at one side of the road, re-
turning up the opposite side.
Drag the road as soon after every
rain as possible, but not when the
mud is in such condition as to stick
to the drag.
Do not drag dry road.
DRAG whenever possible at all sea-
sons of the year. If, a road is drag
ged Immediately before a cold spell 1t
will freeze in smooth condition.
The width of travelled way to be
maintained by the drug should be
from eighteen to twenty feet; first
drag a little more than the width of
a single wheeled track, then grad
ually increase until, the desired width
is obtained.
Always drag a little earth to the
center of the road until 1t la raised
from ten to twelve inches above the
edges of the travelled way.
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~. . ! d i 4. Z. D..
When the top Of the first studs was
reached, they were spiked to the studs
OF the lower, tapping two feet and an
other section was then plumbed.
The plate at the top consisted of
sx4s cut into two-foot lengths and
spiked on top Of the studs.
The silo was lathed and cemented
with one part Portland cement and
two parts sand and received two coats
The second coat extended from the
bottom OF the brickwork to the top Of
the silo, making It perfectly air tight.
Z This silo contained three DOORS
made OF two thicknesses of common
flooring. run IN opposite directions
with tar paper between. They were
twenty inches wide, two and one-half
feet high and four feet apart.
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If / can see how a man takes care
of his cows know what to think Of
his prayers.
A lazy dairyman always has profit
less cows.
There are good scrub cows, but
they are accidents. A good pure
bred COW is result.
1t Is the poorest kind Of economy
to milk a COW UP to a short time be-
fore she is due to calve. Give her at
least sixty days in which to rest and
she will more than make up for the
lost time.
Feed the calf skim milk and corn
meal and it will never miss the cream.
Feed the meal dry.
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HINTS ON DAIRY BREEDS.

The Red Polled COWS come as near
reaching perfection as dual purpose
breed as any breed I have ever be-
come acquainted with
The Brown Swiss as a breed. are
8, little more inclined toward the dairy
type than the beef type.
The Polled Durham are excellent
for beef and there are some indi-
viduals that are profitable dairy ami
mails In this breed, but as breed they
are more inclined toward the beef
type than the dairy type.
The Short Horns are better known
and more widely disseminated than
any other breed of cattle.
The cows vary greatly in their
milking capacity at the present time,
but early in their history they were
highly valued as a dairy breed.
We have. In some Of the Eastern
States some excellent herds of dairy
Short Horns that have been, bred
along dairy lines for years and are
producing milk, butter and cheese
at as great a profit as the special
COWS.
There are some other breeds that
are claiming dairy honors, but at the
most they should be classed as dual
purpose, Among these are the Devon
and the Dutch Belted Cattle.
The Devons are an old English
breed and the Dutch Belted are what
their name signifies, Dutch product
of breeding.
The Aberdeen Angus, Hereford and
Gallaways are not considered by any
authorities as dairy breeds.
For producing city milk, the Hol-
stems and Ayrshires are good breeds
and will produce milk at low cost
per gallon.
The Ayrshires Is an easy keeper, a
good hustler and hardy. The Hol-
stein is slower, a heavy feeder and
more adapted to soiling and stall
feeding.
The Jersey is the most profitable
butter breed with the possible excep-
ton of the Guernsey. These breeds
require better care, warmer stables
and better feed.
They are very profitable breeds
when in the hands OF good dairy
man and feeder. and their products
command 9 prsnsi,lna on most mar
kets.
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The studs sixteen feet long AKA
were toenailed to the sill.
A large post sixteen feet long. was
set in the ground in the center and
boards extending from this to the
studs held them perpendicular.
A half inch board was then bent
around the outside of the studs at
this height and was tackled fast as
the studs were plumb.
The lining was of common sixteen
foot fencing, split in two. The joints
were always broken in the ceiling.
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ALFALFA AS A GOOD FEED.
An Illinois Farmer Tells What He
Thinks About 1t From Experience.

An Illinois Farmer Tells What He
Thinks About 1t From Experience.
IN the year 1909 I read a great deal
about alfalfa and SO bought 100
pounds Of seed and as soon as my
oat crop was sown prepared my land
for alfalfa.
chose very rich piece of land
which / plowed about eight inches
dsNp, pulvertzed 1t very fine and then
sowed the seed broadcast. I sowed
nurse crop in connection with the
alfalfar-twenty-hve pounds of alfalfa
ana one bushel OF oats. covered with
a drag,
About the first Of June I cut and
cured and put In the barn the alfalfa
and oats, ted this to my horses and
they did well. 4
Twice after this cut the alfalfa
and let 1t lie on the land for mulch.
The second year cut the alfalfa
three times, making about six tons to
the acre in all for the second year.
The third year cut 1t four times,
making ten tons to the acre for the
season of 1908.
My hogs eat the dry alfalfa with
relish, in fact, every animal on the
place seems to be crazy to eat alfalfa
hay. / feed a few cattle every year
and give them shelled corn ear corn
and shock corn with all the alfalfa
hay they will eat. They have good
barn to stay in nights and stormy
weather and never in all my feeding
saw cattle gain in three months as
these did from the time put them in
the feed yard until they were shipped
to market.
I think alfalfa Is one Of the most
paying crops farmer can raise and I
have been so well pleased with my
experience that am mulching the al
falfa with manure and think 1t will
help 1t to winter. I think there Is
danger Of freezing, although the land
faces to the south and is well drained.
"a. e. Calkins, Ottawa. Illinois.