The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-10-08

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The world admires good fighter and
q cheerful loser
Did you know that turpentine applied
lightly with a brush on floors and walls
Of closets will destroy moths?
If you buy seeds from the grocery
man make him swear that they are not
left over from last years stock.
The farm wives Of America have
done more toward paying the national
debt than all the other women pu. to-
gether.
Push the lambs along as fast as you
can. The sooner you get them to mar
ket the more money there Will BIZ in
them.
1t is estimated that the honey pro
duced in the United States last year
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from Chicago to New York.
A New Jersey farmer says that chop
ping wood will be made easier and
with better progress If the cutting is
done mostly with the inside corner OF
the ak.
Next time you paper the house scrnpe
every particle of loose paper from the
walls first, then cover with thin coat
ing of glue water before putting on the
new paper.
A small family should leave few
table scraps, but n large family will
cause more The fowls, old and young,
appreciate these, If free from bones
and not sour.
Hens and chickens like alfalfa. 1t
must, as usual. be clipped several
times first year. To prevent it being
dug up cover with lattice, through
which 1t is picked by the fowls.
Animals Of vicious habits should
never be used for breeding purposes.
as vices are transmitted. By careful
breeding In this respect the disposition
Of the animals can be positively coil
tsolled
| Every well bred COW that is kept on
| the farm by the very law of its being
Is ready and able TO assist in giving
additional value TO all crops grown on
the farm if we only surround it with
tho right conditions.
Wyoming experiments in preserving
fence posts show that when the posts
were dipped in crude petroleum and
burned off so that the ch lrred portions
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will keep indefinitely.
The tremendous rush OF unfit hogs
to market last fall resulted in 4 great
depression in the mutton market. and
sheep and lamb feeders have been
greatly discouraged. However, bust
ness I'm both lines is rapidly improving.
Some folks use their fireless hay
cooker In which to raise bread and find
II works TO perfection. as it keeps the
dough Mt exactly the right temper
AZURE or course first warm the nests
by placing kettles of boiling water In
them.
We can starve cow into eating most
any old thing on the place, but. like
the Irishman's horse, whose owner fed
him shavings and put green spectaclss
on him to make him believe 1t was
grass. she is likely to die as soon as
she gets used to II.
II you have had any contagious dis
Ease I'm the house follow the directions
Of your physician implicitly in the mat
ter of fumigating the room after the
patient has been removed. 1t Is gen
orally cheaper 10 destroy all bed clothes
and clothes worn by the sick one than
to run the risk of another outbreak of
the disease.
An even and tractable disposition In
horse is often spoiled by improper
handling and training, as is often the
case with the strong wllled and wide
awake boy or girl. The very qualities
which make the child or horse most
make them the more difficult to man
age il they are not properly handled IN
the early stages.
Thsre is type of folks that are as
tender hearted as can he I'm their re-
latlons to and treatment of dumb Sni-
mails who are seemingly calloused
when ii comes to hurting the feelings
Of their own folks or circulating false
report which may besmirch the good
name or a neighbor or acquaintance.
The first named trait is a most com
mendable one. but should not be di-
vorced from the higher type Of benev-
olence.
While having n seemingly hard and
tough bark, trees, especially the fruit
bearing kind. are exceedingly suscePti-
bic TO damage by fire. This is due TO
the fact that the life layer of the tree.
the light yellow cambium layer, Is
Just beneath the outside bark and. be-
Ing so near the surface, is easily affect
ed by an extreme of heat. One learns
the truth Of this to his sorrow at times
when fire gets away from him when
burning litter I'm the garden or when
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