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The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Time to Build Warehouses.

This is the time OF year to build
warehouses and gins. Get in Pc
sition to handle and control your own
cotton. Be able to market intelll
gently. The mills require year to
manufacture and the world takes a
year in which to consume it. Then
why try to force it all on the market
within one-fourth of this time?-Na
tional Co-Operator.
If every cotton farmer understood
trade, manufacturing and market con-
ditions as we'll as he understands
planting, tilling and harvesting, he
would undoubtedly be a great deal
better off If cotton selling, with or
without the warehouse plan, were
made an all the year round business,
like butter and egg selling, and cotton
buyers were required to work twelve
months TO earn their salaries, it would
certainly affect the stability of the
price to the advantage OF the pro
Queer. If it were necessary for the
mills to look for stock every month
in the year instead of four or five
months, they might be better bidders
Dallas News.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Her Reserved Seat.

It was raining and the car was sop
ping wet. Most of the passengers
stood, but there are always excep-
tons.
One big pink man with snowy
beard defied rheumatism and wet
cloth by pumping himself down on
one of the drippy seats. His presum-
able wife, with laughing explanation
that she was tired, seated herself in
his lap And when the conductor
came along to collect fares she in
CURED, with the earnestness Of one
who seeks knowledge:
do | have to pay extra for re-
served seat?"
The conductor spoke no words that
could go resounding down the corri-
doris of time. He just grinned, and
the passengers grinned with him.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Kansas Hog Versus the Missouri Hen

A Kansas paper says that if all the
hogs raised in that state last year
could be rolled into one hog it could
dig the Panama canal in two roots
and a half, and wants to know how
long it would take the Missouri hen
to scratch out the canal. We can't
tell him about that. says the Humans.
Vile Star, who goes one better and
continues. but we do know that the
Missouri hen can pay for the big ditch
in one and a half years"
Farmers have discovered that the
best types of corn do not contain
fourteen pounds of cob per bushel.
and the grower who has 1000 or
1000 bushels of corn TO spare shells
it and keeps the cobs for fuel. He
sells the corn shelled at fifty-six
pounds to the bushel instead of sew
enty on the cob. and finds that he
actually marketed more bushels. This
makes large corn shelters in demand
in every neighborhood
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
The College Farm Boy Maker Of
New Prosperity.

Throughout the country the benefit
| leges is beginning to assume an I'M
| pCrtance in the eyes of the farming
communities which it never had be
| fore.
The boys who come back to the
farm inbued with the idea of semitic
| farming are making records for them
| selves which causes the old time
farmers TO open their eyes.
The experienced farmers who
| thought they knew all about corn grow
| ing for instance, are finding that these
lads who come back from school with
scientific knowledge as to the best
methods of preparing the soil, select
| ing the seed, and doing other things
| of vital importance, are growing crops
that are record breakers.
The yield that the average college
| boy secures from his experimental
| corn field is so great that his corn
is Immediately in demand for seed
among the neighbors who see how
much better success he is having than
| they have had, and while they will
| not be able TO produce a good crop
from his seed alone they are begin
| ning to follow his methods OF cultiva-
| ton and the result is an increase in
| the quality and quantity OF the corn
yield.
One farmers son in Wisconsin Is
said to have cleared S6,000.00 from
| his seed corn, this amount being in
| excess of his fathers entire income
| from the whole farm. Another col
| lege farm boy secured $4,000 per
| bushel for his seed corn, and so it
goes.
| The average American farm boy
| is not only substantial and respon
| sible young man, but he is filled with
I an ambition 10 do better things than
| have ever been done, in whatever he
undertakes to do: and twenty years
| from today, the neighborhOods where
| the finest crops are produced and
where the best and most productive
| farms are located, will point back TO
the time when the boys were first sent
| to agricultural colleges as the begin
| ming of this new prosperity, which Is
dawning upon the farmers OF the
country -Oklahoma Farmer.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Small Fruits for Fall.

One of the objects sought in late
years has been the creation of over
bearing varieties of the small fruits
or of those that will bear second
crop in the fall.
This has never been achieved, al
though claims have been made from
time 10 time. The tree fruits, such
as the apple and peach have always
possessed sorts that naturally fruited
in the fall, but the raspberry, black
berry and strawberry and other small
fruits have their one appointed season
for bearing and it is in all cases IN
the spring, or at least the fruits
blossom and start into growth at that
time, though some varieties of the
blackberry do not ripen till the sum-
mer is more than half gone.
Claims have been made for An ever
bearing raspberry. but it does not
seem to have been Success. 1t is,
however, common in the case OF all
these berries for them TO bear kind
of second crop by putting forth fruit
stems now and then after the main
crop is gone.
The strawberry, too, often blooms
in the fall after a long drought, fol
lowed by copious rains.
Recently, however, some varieties
of genuine fall-bearing strawberries
have been introduced, whose claims
seem to be we'll substantiated. But
aHy
everbearing, but bear in the fall only
when their blossoms have been kept
picked off during the spring, other
wise they would bear all their crop
in the spring, just as other kinds.
These fall-bearing strawberries pro-
mise to become very valuable and OF
great commercial importance in at
least the southern states, where the
fall is warm and frost does not come
till towards Christmas.
This would give them a long sea
son and an opportunity to bear large
crops. But even in the middle and
even Northern states they would be
welcomed if they are able TO AFFORD
a supply of the delicious strawberry
even for a short time.
One of the best known of these
the Pan-American-wa originated
in New York, and annually produces
its Srowers quite a crop during Sep
TENDER and up till frost.
They can be made to fruit in Aug
ust if desired by allowing the bios
SONS to remain thirty days before.
There seems to be no reasonable
doubt that fall strawberries will soon
be seen in all the markets, and it is
not too much to expect that the same
will eventually be true OF the rasp-
berry and other small fruits.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Don't Get Excited.

Many newspapers and men are aw-
fully afraid the Farmers Union is 60
ing into politics. Don't become eXcit-
ed please there is no danger as the
Union going into politics; but we are
going to do like all other people. We
are going to make demands of those
that represent US in the halls of legis-
lation and if they fail TO look to our
interests as they do other class in
terests we will have something to say
about their going back in Object.
B. Taylor. in National Co-operator
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Is Not a Minor.

Alfalfa, this comparative new plant
for America, is as old as the hills, to
use a familiar expression. Away back
in the ages, when civilization was
still in embryo. centuries before
Christ, Alfalfa was grown by the
tribes and nomades. who populated
the elevated plains Of Central Asia,
where the cradle of humanity is
supposed to have stood. Later on
we find it mentioned in the dav of the
Roman empires, and after crossing
Europe during the middle ages, it was
brought to South America by the
Spaniards, from where ii was brought
10 California in the sos.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Farmers Educational
AND
Cooperative Union
Of America
From Day to Day,

From Day to Day.
A solemn proverb haunts my mind,
With meaning deep and vast,
The mill will never grind again
With waters that are past.
Take the lesson to thyself,
Loving hearts are true,
Golden years are passing by,
Life is ebbing, too.
Learn TO make the most OF life,
Lose no happy day;
Time can never bring thee back,
Chances swept away
Leave no tender word unsaid,
Love while life shall last,
The mill will never grind again
With waters that are past.
Exchange
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Be All you Can.

Let us do all the business we can.
If we can't be lighthouse, let us be
a candle. Some one has said, Il can't
be anything more than farthing rush.
light" Well, if you can't be more. be
that; that is we'll enough. Be all you
can. What makes the Dead sea dead?
Because it is all the time receiving
and never giving out anything
Dwight l.. Moody
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
WHY NOT?

Try SChaap'S Laxative
Chill Cure and do not GU
through the same old siege of
Fall sickness again. 1t IS the
best Remedy made for CMlis
and Fever, Bilious FeverS.
Swamp Fever, Dumb Agues
all Diseases due to Malaria
1t is warranted to cure oC
money refunded. Price Soc.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Until recently. and even now. tn,

Until recently, and even now, the
farmer is the least understood man
on earth. In the opinion of the mass
es, farm is a place where potatoes
corn, hay, grain, cotton and other
things are grown, and the farmer. sit
ting upon his Independent doorstep
envies the city man who may obtain
more money In a year, but who has a
smaller balance at the roundup.
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27
Those Meni

Il went into the office looking like
a fright" said the woman. i didn't
have a chance to straighten my hat
or pat my hair or anything. | had in
tended to primp going up in the ele-
vator. but there was a man standing
before each mirror twirling his mus
tache and | couldn't even get peep
at myself"
The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1901-1982, 1908-08-27

Do not feed too much white bread
TO young chicks or you will find 1t fS
tai to many of them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
Notes from the Dairy.


Bad cream will never make good
butter.
Cream left on the milk too long will
get bitter and rancid.
AS a rule churning is put off too
long in the winter time.
In the perfect creamery the animal
heat and odor are got rid of as soon
as possible.
The sooner milk is set in a cool place
raadv for the cream to rise the more
cream there will be.
Not only the flavor, but the keeping
onalitv of butter is injured by keep
mo the cream until its gets very sour.
Use only salt that is fine in quality
ana grain for butter
If the salt is not we'll mixed through
tbe butter it will crystalline on the out
side and probably make the butter
streaked.
Milk pans and pals are all the better
for good sun bath in sweet, airy
n1eoe after having been washed, scald-
ed and dried
The cream pot should have its con-
terts stirred every day at least, and
every time any cream is added. This
insnres an even ripening and better
quality Of butter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
DoNT,s FOR CHuRCHMEN.

Don't live for fun lest you die fool.
Don't mistake slothfulness for toll
Grafton.
Don't stop to deliberate after oppor-
tunity has arrived.
Don't seek Gods service to secure
your own promotion.
Don't offer the hungry world the lat
est thing in theological logic.
Don't forget that the most heavenly
things on earth are everyday virtues.
Don't place so much emphasis on
form that you lose sight of your fellow
man.
Don't have larger ideas of liberality
of other peoples money than you have
of your own.
Don't fail to remember that a little
material aid is worth more than a lot
of sacred sympathy.
Don't try to increase the riches of
the soul by what you save, for these
depend on what you sow.
Don't wear a cloud on your brow
when you engage in Gods work lest it
overshadow your efforts.
Don't imagine that you can lease
heavenly mansion with rent secured
from wrecking tenements.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16

Of short, sharp barks he sat up on his
launches and howled. I think Of Ca
lamity's' bowls in these times when GER
tain leaders Of certain political parties
sit on their launches and howl 'Calam~
ity! Calamityr
''When orders came for us to return
to Wisconsin and be mustered out there
seemed to be no one in the brigade
gladden. than Calamity Those regi-
ments that did not belong to Wisconsin
in our brigade were given a farewell
visit by the knowing dog and when we
marched to the landing Calamity was
too full of high spirits to indulge in a
raid on his favorite razor-back. He
was about the first member Of the regi-
ment to get onto the steamer. When
ever we stopped to wood or take on
supplies or passengers Calamity would
dodge off and visit the landing. The
night before we reached Cairo we
stopped quite a spell for wood. Ca
lamity' got off, but did not return when
the wooding had been completed. There
was a panic among the men. Where
is 'Calamity''? we must not go off
and leave "Calamity"' The captain
of the boat was interviewed and in
duced to wait certain length of time
while the f1eetest footed of our num-
Der went in search of the lost dog.
They returned without him, and we had
to pull out Calamityless. The Twenty
Fo11 hnot
and stopped at the same place to wood.
Calamity was there to greet them. He
knew them and they him.
ut seems that Calamity realized
that he was leaving the land of the
razor-back never to return, and had
gone so far from the landing in search
of one of his favOrities for a farewell
tussle that he did not return in time
to join his command. The minute the
Twenty-seventh landed at Cairo Ca
lamity' dashed from the boat and fair
ly flew to the TWenty-eighth. Every
body welcomed him. When we parted
at Madison and left for our homes
Calamity's' right paw was shaken by
nearly all in the regiment. He went
home with Peter Bodette, the man who
named him, and lived with him for
years When he died the veteran and
his family gave Calamity suitable
burial and marked his resting place
with monument that can be seen to
this day in the town of Vernon.
"As you see, gentlemen, l heard my
first calamity howl down in Arkansas
nearly a lifetime ago"-J. A. Watrous,
in Chicago Times-Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
Worth Reading.

The population of Canada is now
about 100000.
The average height of the Laplander
is less than five feet.
Sixty languages are in everyday use
in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Nerve messages in man travel at the
rate of 10 feet per second.
An elephants burden is from 1880
to $500 pounds, and that of horse
from 200 to $50 pounds
Out of every million letters that pass
through the postoffice it is calculated
that only one goes astray.
The oldest national flag in the world
is that of Denmark, which has been
in use since the year 1910.
Louisiana has 100000 acres of
marsh lands which, II properly treated,
are capable of great fertility.
Enos 3. Hoops of Midtown, Pa,
successful grower Of asparagus has just
received $50 for a big bunch of fine.
quality. 1t measured twenty inches in
length and weighed ffty-four pounds.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
A Cute Trick.

The Confederate cavalryman was Of
ten puzzled as to how to provide HIM
self with a horse. The authorities
gave him his choice to keep mounted
or go into the ranks with his musket,
as horses were not furnished by the
government. To be dismounted and
become a foot soldier was worse to him
than a court-martial, and he would
risk much in his efforts to get horse
from the enemy.
In the fall of 1868 q rebel cavalry
man had his horse killed in q skirmish
near WarrentOn, and, as his best
chance was then to capture one from
the enemy, he put his wits to work to
devise the ways and means. He was
with the outside pickets, and not far
off. on the pike, were the cavalry pick
cts of the enemy. He procured piece
of telegraph wire from the railroad, and
when twilight came on stretched this
across the road, fastening one end to-
the fence and the other end to q con-
venient tree just high enough to catch
a cavalryman about the belt. When
matters were thus arranged to his lk-
ing he started down the pike and stop
ped in plain view of the enemy.
1t was not long before three of Them
gave chase, mounted on good horses.
1t was now too dark for them to see
the wire, and on they came, determined
to have a prisoner. The chase was
sharp and quickly over, so that by the
time the rebel schemer had passed
through and under his trap the enemy
was upon him.
The sequel is not hard to guess. Two
of the pursuers were quickly and most
unceremoniously endorsed, the third
being so much astonished and frighten-
ed at their fate as to turn and beat
hasty retreat. The two horses without
their riders continued down the road,
and were easily captured by the Con-
federate, who, by his clever ruse, be-
came their owner, and kept his place
in the cavalry.
The two pickets left to themselves
hurriedly made their way back to their
comrades as crestfallen and astonished
as two men could well be. The hero
of this incident tells the tale himself,
and adds he rode one of these horses to-
Appomattox, and from there to his
home, and that it was one of the best
he ever owned.--Washingto Post.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16


mt off selecting the brood soWs
/ = +lor need for breeding next year
4 ,o+o in +hp fall or right at breed
i limo When this is done we are
- take the best-looking indivldu-
rostrg sight If many of the essen
i . real good breeder. l believe
/ ,o-,ino over ali tire old sows which
\ nrovpd good mothers and whose
gro thrifty. Not all sOws which
~, Ifttrrs are desirable breeders,
o,,so some iittcrs lack stamina and
hocome thrifty. Cut these sows
m matter if they do bring ten to
7ra pfgs. Then cut out the cross,
+omnprpd sows, and the chicken eat
Save every old SOW that is really
nod mother Many of these old sows
| Ie down to almost skin and bones
N doing that they have given their
lers mighty good start, and good
/ will fetch them up in condition
:cE1r The selection Of the young
l. fa = much harder problem. l new
nick for ''butter-balls." They sell
make satisfactory breeders, and
h. few months they are bound to
in condition. Take the rather
,sp thrifty ones, coming from big
Eers end from mothers which you in
h +o kpep.-L. C. B., in the Indiana
,Tppr
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
SHORT METER SERMONS.

The ready made religion always looks
the part.
There is nothing holier than every
day helpfulness
Faith never would know itself but
for foul weather.
A passion for speaking seldom is a
passion for souls.
You cannot elevate society at the
price of the individual.
The strain of the market should be
the gain of good morality.
The man who can keep his religion
to himself hasn't any to keep.
There never will be a closed town
until there is wide open church.
He who does not get his education
from everything gets it from nothing.
The honest man knows himself too
we'll to think he wholly is self-made.
Religion never will be attractive so
long as it only offers easy things to
men.
There are some men who, if they
were drowning, would wait for a quar-
ter sawed board.
When a man meets doctrine that
doesn't square with his living he calls
it "dogmatism."
Menwill bother little over the breadth
of your opinions unless you have, too,
depth of convictions.
It's usually the man who has learned
how hard it is to begin to think who
denounces intellectually.
It's strange delusion of many that
God can have no new thoughts when
once they have spoken.
Some people have way of praying
for peace that only prods their neigh
bors into open hostility.
There may be more religion in ours
ing as though you liked it than in
praying as though it hurt you.
The man who cannot go to church
without sleeping has remarkable
power Of keeping his eyes open at
political meeting.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16


Eho corn is most easily handled by
f. with a corn binder and using
IA 20 cutter of a sufficient capacity to
.snid the necessity of cutting bands.
No. corn is fully tasseled it contains
IL than one-fourth as much dry mat
u as when the ears are fully glazed.
non this time to maturity the increase
{ but slight. Records of the cost Of
ia filing were kept by the Illinois
.xpprimpnt station on ten different
rms and the cost was found to range
fpm 40 to re- cents a ton, the average
dng BE- cents a ton.
That silage should keep well the corn
hould not be cut until most Of the ker-
as are glazed and hard If too ripe
Ii silage will not settle well and the
II will not be sufficiently excluded to
lpvent spelling. Corn seems to be the
Isl single crop for the silO, and by
ahbining 1t with cow peas or soy
aans the feeding value is greater ton
O ton than Of corn alone. OF 373
onparisons made between silage and
milk 60 per cent were in
Nor Of the silage milk, % per cent
lere in favor Of non-silage and II per
ebt Indicated no preference.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
con, calcium, iron, magnesium. potas-
SUM and sodium are derived from the
soil, though several are also in part
derived from the air.
Cost of Faedinn

Cost OF Feeding.
From experience of feeders at the
experiment stations the pig increases
with greatest profit until or Z months
OLD, when it has reached the maximum.
AFTER that the gains require a larger
amount OF grain to produce a given
amount of pork, and they should be
fattened and disposed of.
One bushel of corn made thirteen
and one-third pounds of pork at 6
months old, at months old one
bushel made 1872 pounds, and at 8
months old one bushel made 1876
pounds
While there are varying conditions
that have their influence upon the
amount of gain made, it is a general
principle that after or months the
amount of gain from a bushel of corn
Is on a decreasing scale, and it has
been demonstrated again and again that
the first hundred pounds costs less than
the second, and the third less than the
fourth hundred, and that to produce
the fourth hundred too often costs
double as much as the second hun
dred.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
The Best Eggs.

There is constantly growing de-
mand for eggs that are both uniform in
size and color. Such eggs, while not
demanded are generally the first Sc
lected and, all other things being even,
they will sell more readily. About the
only way one can judge of eggs offhand
is by their appearance, and if all are
uniform in color and size they will be
more likely to command a better price.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-10-16
Tube to Supply Air

Tube to Supply Air to Tree Roots.
An inventor in Algeria, Africa, has
devised and had patented an air tube
for supplying air to tree roots. The
tube is made Of ceramicware, and is
almost indestructible. Placed in the
ground beside a tree, with the top
slightly above the surface to admit the
air, the young roots find their way
through a number of holes. Expert
ments have proved, says Popular Me-
chanics, that the growth of vegetation
has been greatly advanced by it's use.