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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
ALL AROUND THE FARM.

The garden is seldom enriched as
much as it should be to get the best
results from it,
Rotation of crops is destructive to
predatory insects.
Gentleness in COWS is very desirable
and should be bred for.
The nervous COW is not at home on
the ordinary American farm.
A well of pure water is necessary
for the success of the dairy farm.
The 2OO-egg-a-year hen is reality
but not many of them ave found in a
flock. Ten dozen eggs year for a
hen is a good yield, and at that she
will pay 100 per cent. dividends.
A high up reputation has been made
with the low-down wagon. Give it a
respectful hearing as TO its merits.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
Keen Cows Clean.

Some cows are more Clearly in
their habits than others Some will
keep clean al all times if stall condi-
lions for cleanliness are possible,
while others viii invariably lie down
in their own filth Manure on the
cows udder and hind quarters is very
Objectionable Ii is unsightly, I'M
sanitary and causes extra work in
grooming the animal There are sew
eral devices for preventing a COW
from lying down in her own filth.
The most common one is the gutter
behind the animal for receiving the
droppings. Another plan is to place
a two by four plank across the stall
at the rear about even with the cows
| hind feet When she lies down she
will always lie in front of this board
where the droppings do not fall The
floor should slope from front to back
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
BREEDING UP is CHEAPEST.
No Money in Raising Scrub Stock
Get Pure-Bred Bull.

The farmer who intends to secure a
herd of pure-bred cattle will find it
cheaper to breed up than to buy pure
bred stock. This is especially true if
he is preparing to raise cattle for the
purpose of making beef. If he buys
all pure-bred stock, the investment
will be so heavy that he cannot afford
TO sell the progeny for the block, but
will feel constrained to go into the
business of raising breeding cattle, for
which he may not have taste and
adaptability
Good females of pure-bred beef stock
bring high prices and he would need a
considerable number of pure-bred COWS
to make . good start. But with a
pure-bred bull he can in few wears
have herd of cows that will make it
possible to market beeves of high
grade-market toppers. For the beef
maker, then, this is about the only
course possible.
In selecting a nerd of cows for
breeding UP, the Indiana Farmer sug-
gests that a man should try to get ami
mails in keeping with the breed of the
bull he intends to buy Thus, if he is
going to use a pure-bred Shorthorn
bull, he should find COWS having the
general conformation of the Short
horns. He will find it easy to secure
good animals having in them consider
able Shorthorn blood, though these
animals would have to be regarded in
his breeding operations as without any
pure blood, simply because the buyer
would not generally know how much
Shorthorn blood such animals con
tanned
The same is true in the use of pure
bred bulls of any breed If man
buys a Hereford bull he should hunt
up COWS having some of the general
conformation of Herefords and use
these for his breeding operations. II
such animals cannot be secured in his
own vicinity he can generally find
them at the big stock markets and get
them at meat prices. The breeding VI
process offers many advantages that
the other process does not offer.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
DAIRY POINTS.

Good dairymen clean out their COW
stalls twice each day in winter.
The manure and skim-milk are a
large part of the profits in dairying
The cream brings money now, but ma.
nure and sllim-milk bring money just
as surely after awhile
Get good milk vessels and keep them
clean. Cleanliness in all parts OF
dairying is an essential for permanent
success. Pure food is the kind that
will bring the money when people find
1t out.
Cowpea hay is very nutritious. 1t is
nearly equal to wheat bran as part OF
a ration. 1t is satisfactory for work
stock and for beef or milk production
and it gives good results when fed to
poultry.
No dairyman can afford to be with
out silo. | consider it the best and
cheapest way to save the whole corn
crop. | have fed silage to dairy cows
for about 10 years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
THIS w AM,
Ky x.SxIsga
II z!E2 5
MILKING A DAIRY COW,
II Docs Not Pay to Handle Any s.
Good Ones.

We are, as our readers will see, sti
osition, endeavoring to persuade on
readers to keep good cows, and as
many of them as they can milk as
chore, says Wallace's Farmer BY a
good" COW we mean one that will
give at least $50 pounds of butter a
year A COW that gives less than this
may pay expenses, but she will not
furnish sufficient profit to Justify the
farmer in keeping her.
We are looking at the thing Just
now from a different standpoint. We
wish our readers would sit down and
think how much time it takes them to
milk COW, or, to put it another way.
how much of their time is taken in
milking ten cows and caring for the
separator. Say 1t takes two hours
Now the question we wish to put is:
What is this two hours time worth?
How much profit are you making by
giving the two hours time twice day.
or four hours a day, and milking ten
COWS that will yield less than $50
pounds of butter, crediting the COWS
with the skim-milk and buttermilk
at is cents per 100 pounds? 1t is worth
80 cents now when fed to hogs; but
we take Is cents because that has
been about the average value when
fed to pigs and calves
Now what profit can farmer make
II he gives four hours day to ten
COWS, if his cows yield him $50 pounds
of butter year, with feed at present
prices or average prices? Suppose
you had nothing else to do and were
handling 20 cows; how long would
1t take you to break up and go
into the hands of the sheriff feeding
the average cows in the corn and
grass country, which yield only about
100 pounds of butter9 How much
longer would it take you to break up
If your cows give It's pounds. 200
pounds, 225 pounds? How much
would you make if you had your cows
up to 800 pounds, which you can cas-
lily do if you will follow our sugges-
tons?
Turn this COW question over and
look at it from this standpoint Then
have session with yourse4f and de-
eide whether it will pay you to at
once get scales and Babcock test
and go at it and find out what you
are doing in the COW department of
your farm
We have omitted one item. namely,
that the manure from a dairy COW is
worth about six dollars year when
hauled out at once on the fields. AS
1t is usually handled it is worth about
three dollars, less the cost of hauling
it out. Let us attend to business and
. look at this and every other subject
from matter of, fact. practical stand
| point. What is your time actually
worth to you in dollars and cents
when you are milking COWS that give
you less than $50 pounds of butter?
One great mistake of the farmer in
this and other matters is that he does
net consider his time worth anything.
at least, he does not seem to.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
HOMEMADE ANVIL.
serviceable Device Easily Made GU,
OF Piece of Old Rail.

The anvil shown in the illustration
is inexpensive, and easy of construc-
ton. AS shown in the cut, D is a
piece of old r. r. rail, which may be
from two to four or more feet in
length. The rail is turned bottom
side up as shown; 4 A are two pieces
of timber, two to four inches thick,
and six or eight inches wide, the size
G c will depend on the size of the
rail- but should be as heavy as pos
sible. The two pieces A A are shaped
as shown, and brought up close to the
top or rounding side of the iron, sew
eral bolts are now cut through A A
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
Hiah Yielding Oats.

Within the past 10 years 295 varie
ties of oats have been tested at the
Ontario Agricultural college and SO
varieties have been compared in each
OF the past five years. Among these
yellow Russian, Wick American Ban
ner and New Zealand ranked first in
grain production, with respectively lo2
bushels. 1919 bushels and 99.4 bushels
per acre as an average for five years
Hulless, the lowest ranking variety
Welded 56.2 bushels and 81 varieties OF
the SO yielded over 80 bushels pei
acre. Varieties possessing the stiifes'
straw in 1907. were Liberty, Daubeney
Banner. Kherson, Early Champion ano
Siberian.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
WHERE FALL FLOWING FAILS.
Not Every Soil Is Suited to Breaking
Ground Before Winter

SS''S oS'NiS NStuSSf.
Much has been said through the col
umns of the Prairie Farmer about the
conservation of moisture and fertility
OF the soil, writes a Rock county
tNeb.) correspondent Two things
you have recommended and urged
more than all others, namely, fall
blowing and the preservation of the
humus in the soil by the addition of
stable manure. The methods used
and urged are undoubtedly practical
In large part of the west; but In this
particular section, where we have a
light, sandy soil, light rainfall. and
are subject to prolonged windstorms,
the question is more complicated. or
rather has different complications.
Seven out of every eight of the
fields in this county would be ruined
In three or four years if they were
to be plowed in the fall and narrowed
smooth and left exposed to the winter
and early spring winds. | know of
many old fields that will not grow
enough weeds to cover them, and in
many instances are adjoining fields
that have produced more grain and
have been in cultivation for more
years, that are still producing from
20 to 80 bushels of corn and in some
cases as high as 40 bushels
The difference is all due to the
fact that the one has been repeatedly
left exposed to the sun and wind,
while the other has been protected by
the stubble, the stalks or weeds, often
through no forethought of the owner.
| have seen pieces of good land
plowed, planted to corn, carefully cul-
tiyated. the crop gathered and the
stock turned in to work the stalks
down, and as a result the wind has
been busily carrying off the very
cream of the soil on every windy day
through the fall, winter and spring till
planting time, when the operation
would be repeated
With good wild hay at two to
three dollars per ton, no one can af-
ford to cut up his corn or pasture the
frozen stalks. They are worth too
much more as a protection to the pre-
cious soil
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
THE LIVE STOCK.

Hogs should be kept away from
filthy water holes.
Wheat and barley mixed is a good
feed for pigs.
Soaked grain gives better results
than soaked meal.
Corn costs just about half what
oats do as fattening feed for hogs.
Rice meal and other byproducts of
rice can be profitably fed TO hogs.
Notwithstanding the many uses OF
the automobile there is still good
demand for horses, particularly good
draft animals.
After the rush of summer work is
over give the team vacation in the
pasture.
1t is poor policy to let the colts run
With their mother in the field or OIL
the road.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
KE0KUK PEOPLE
SEE THE FLIGHT
The Misses Gosewisch See Remarka
Bile Aeronautic Exhibition
at Los Angeles.

Fred q. Gosewisch has received
rom his daughters in Los Angeles a
most interesting account of recent
nght made above that city by Roy
hhabenshue in his new airship. The
demonstration was made to show the
practicability of the modern airship as
an engine of warfare, and the former
heokuk people vouch for the authenti.
Guy OF the following account from the
Los Angeles Times:
With the swiftnes of a bird. Roy
Ahabenshue guided his big airship
rom Its mornings at Chutes park
ABOUT 8 o'clock last night, rose to a
height of about 500 feet, travelled
straight to the City Hall, circled the
lower, and returned to the park, max
ing the round trip in twenty min
utes.
Although many interested persons
were anXiously awaiting the appear.
ahce OF the nervy aeronaut, Knaben.
snue was not discovered until he was
making his circle of the City Hall.
Were the aviator displayed a red
lght and dropped a paper bomb which
scattered confetti over the heads OF
me surprised gazers.
The primary object Of the demon
slfatiop sin showing that the modern
unprotected city would be absolutely
a. the mercy of an invading enemy
@uipped with airships, was entirely
Mccessful. Knabenshue's movements
we're not discernible until the red Ian
Tern was unsheathed That the avia-
!or had perfect control over his ma
cnlne was evident in the fight of the
afship around the tower of the City
nan, and in the rapid transit of the
machine to and from the park.
The engine of the machine devel-
oped probably fifteen extra horse pow
growing to the cold condensed condi-
uon Of the atmosphere. and the en-
slne being air-cooled gave the OPP
orator !. chance to send his machine
~ a speed Of close to forty miles an
hour"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
Treat the Calf Rioht.

The calf that is being raised by
hand in winter should be provided
with dry. wellbedded and we'll
lighted stall. The stall should be
large enough SO that the calf can run
and exercise in it. When this is not
possible, the calf should be allowed
some daily outdoor exercise. Direct
sunlight in the stall promotes health
and growth.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
shrinkaue of Hav in Stack.

AT the Arizona experiment station
in 1906, 25,530 pounds of new mown
hay, cut on five different dates from
April 10 to November 8, remained in
the stack until February II, 1907,
when the loss due to shrinkage
amounted to 2,S25 pounds, or II per
cent. The following season the third
crop of hay, amounting to IS tons
1896 pounds, was stacked about July
90. By December IA a shrinkage OF
FIVE tons, 9T1 pounds, or % per cent.
had taken place.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
GREATLY FRIGHTENED
BY THE ASSAULT
Saloon Keeper Jumped Through Win
dow and Boarded Moving
Car After Being Shot.

CHICAGO Dec. 24.-Jacob Geier, a
saloon keeper was counting his cash
in his saloon early this morning and
stepped in front of door opening
into hallway leading to his living
rooms. A man in the hallway shot
twice wounding Geier in the shoulder
and arm. He was so frightened that
he jumped through plate glass win
dow, rushed into the street and board
ed a moving car. The conductor saw
the blood and stopped the car and
in the living room and says she did
not see his assailant
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
SEE THE ORIGINAL
JAIL BREAKERS"
A Sensational Exhibition Will be Civ
en- on Main Street Tomorrow
Morning Which Every One
Should See.

Paul and Miller the original Jail
Breakers with the big white Rats
company, will give a sensational ex-
hibition here tomorrow forenoon.
Mad Miller will make police patrol
drive at 11:3 a. m. He will be hand
cuffed and leg ironed by the local
police department, making a seasa-
tional drive of four blocks on Main
street, escaping from the irons and
also from the wagon in full view of the
crowds. Everybody should see this
sensational and unusual act. Remem-
Der it will take place on Main street at
1880 a. m tomorrow
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

Take a two-incb
square timber for
the upright, and
make a solid base
by boring a hole
through the two
base pieces, then
drive the timber
into it. priv e
four-inch spikes
trough the up
right at intervals
of six inches
from four sides,
and stick the ears
of corn on these
spikes by thrust
ing the same into
the butt of tho
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

More people are taking Foley XII
ney Remedy every year. 1t is consid-
cred to be the most effective remedy
for kidney and bladder troubles tina.
medical science can devise. Foley
Kidney Remedy corrects irregulari.
ties, builds up worn out tissues and
restores lost vitality. 1t will M +
you feel well and look well. Wilkin
son 4 Co., and ]. f. Kiedaisch & Son
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
..,dent M. E. Justice Has Sent Out
letters Concerning the Gen.
trail Association
Schedule.
bnrNCY WANTS 40 GAMES
u,gager Hofer Figures That it Costs
Him Twice as Much to Main
tain Team on Open
Dates.

The matter Of arranging a schedule
now prominently before the man
ieers of the Central Association. The
|hct concerning the schedule which is
being more thoroughly discussed is
|ihe number of days to be covered. In
This regards President M. E. Justice
has sent out the following letter:
4 find in looking this matter up
That both May 80 and July 4 fall on
sunday, and the following Monday will
Probably be observed as the holiday.
Ii was the opinion of the directors at
this meeting that city having the
Sunday before the holiday should not
have the holiday, as it was better for
The league not to have games so ar
hanged And also in order to make the
schedule cover this period of time it
would be necessary to have about five
open dates.
4 wish each one of you would an
wer this letter Immediately, giving
Jour views on the subject as to wheth-
| er you think it would be better to com.
mence the season later and have only
ls6 games without any off days.
81 am quite anxious to get the work
started on this schedule and hope that
you will give ME prompt reply.
Yours truly,
IN. E. JUSTICE"
Quincy is in favor of 14O game
schedule with but two open dates.
Manager Hofer figures that aside from
| the $3.50 it costs him to maintain his
| team per day, every open date is twice
| that expensive by reason of the fall
ing off of the playing of the team on
every date following an open date in
the schedule Quincy suggests 140.
game schedule, beginning May A. and
closing on Sept 10, an open date on
June !, following the Memorial day
double header, the teams remaining
! where they are for two games on
June and 8.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

cob Numbers may be placed above
each spike, so that records can be
Kept of all the corn, suggests Farm
ana Home. The corn should be placed
on this rack as soon as picked and
husked, and may be left here until
planting time if the rack is placed in
dry room where rats and mice can.
not get at it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
End View.

center is the hay bay, which opens
into the feed racks on all sides except
to the northward where the gable of
the shed permits the hay to be put in
easily.
A corn crib can also be added, sug-
gests Farm and Home, and grain for
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

stored at the point where it will be
consumed 1t is often a financial ad-
vantage TO erect a shed in pasture,
even though good barns are available
elsewhere. This shed will accommo-
date 25 to 80 head of steers. In the
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
ADJUSTMENTS.
"The White Rats" all Stars at the
Grand


Grand.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening
the association of White Rats" of
America will present their own splen-
did show at the Grand. 1t will be
worth your while to put everything
else aside in order to see the fine
program which is offered 1t is the
biggest and best vaudeville bill that
has ever been put together. Such a
list of expensive all-star acts are sell
dom seen together. The company ar
rives here direct from Chicago at s 40
tomorrow morning, coming in their
own private Pullman car which will
be switched to a side-track near the
union station.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

Hard Colds People whose blood is
pure are not nearly so likely to take
hard colds as are others. Hoods
Sarsaparlla makes the blood pure:
and this great medicine RECEIVERS the
system after a cold as no other med
icine doe,. Take Hoods.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
Quarters for the Steers.

the steers kept there. shed of this
sort should not cost more than $500
at the present prices of lumber
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

The case of D. e. Reeves VS.
nshry Sanders which has been pend
~ ~ the district court has been set
VEG and dismissed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
BOMB SHELL TO
BE EXPLODED
When a Score More Arrests are Made
in the Pittsbure Graft Scandal.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 24-Twenty-two
additional arrests are expected today
in the bribery and graft scandals.
Members of the voters league reiter,
ate today that the work of purging the
Pittsburg municipal government has
just begun. These additional arrests
it is declare will astound the bust
ness and social life of the city
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24

For
In and other
New
etics during the although
This
evangsc work and from his talk would much rather
Ccago in
II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
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fARM 4 t;sS
{. garden
.,,,,, ,ss ::'.,s & ,'asssf - 60, eshs 70.
$500 s.%..S. go Z GaR y 5
A HANDY DEVICE.
For the Storing of Small Quantity OF
Seed Corn.

Here is simple arrangement for
keeping choice ears of seed corn
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-24
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d. - % 6gSbaNa
G}! --n'*<yll s-
GOOD STOCK SHED.
Arrangement Which Will Save Much
Labor and Time.

1t is a great saving of labor to have
the hay and grain for feeding steers
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-12
Two Games on Tap for Saturday
and a Double Feast for
Fans Sunday.

a hand from his old admirers in New
ark. Roy had a lot of speed yesterday,
but was not as sure as when In his
palfny days. Rock, however, Is still a
-youngster and covers a lot of ground.
Donohue, one of Duffy's newcomers, is
a youngster who showed UP well.
Those Grays will be here today and
will take part in a double bill, which
will be offered tomorrow.
On Sunday another double-header
will be played, Beams tail-end Shelters
being the attraction. A strange thing
about Jersey City clubs is that no mat
ter how poorly they show up against
other teams they always manage to
give Newark a hard rub.
Smarting under some of the past de-
feats the Tigers are anxious for Sun
days double-header. Stallings says Il
will be double revenge.
This afternoon Brockett will pitcn
against the Grays, while Slime will
probably be used by Manager Duffy.