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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
Drew a Lizard.

Jas. r. Flood is exhibiting a lizard
which he took from the filter on the
faucet of his water pipe last week.
The reptile is about three inches long
and one wonders now ~ managed to
get through toe valves into the service
pipe.
The city water is taken from the
river and is not filtered before entering
the intake A filter was constructed
originally but il didn't last and the
pipe is open 20 anything in the river.
The water in winter time is very
clear and looks good" but now it is
a yellowish color. so much so that
little foam on it would convert it into
an excellent bkeness Of beer.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13

Tomorrow the Woodmen. Maccabees
and Odd Fellows will observe memorial
day for the three orders There will
be a joint meeting of the several orders
at the Diamond Drill hall at i0.30 a.
m. whore procession will form under
the direction Of John Klesges. the
marshal OF the day.
The procession will march to the
cemetery where each order will In turn
hold the memorial services and strew
flowers on the graves OF their deceased
brothers.
After the ceremonies the procession
will seform and return TO the lodge
hall whore they will be dismissed.
All members OF the different orders
are requested to be on hand TO partici-
pate ~ the ceremonies and honor of
the dead
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
EspI aiming the Candle Power.

Ia Illuminating circles one hears
great deal about candle power" and
nearly everyone. II asked. would in
stantly reply that candle-power was
the light given by a single candle But
candles differ in luminosity as well as
incandescent lamps. and candle power
IL not one thing but several according
10 the country where used
m Great Britian and the United
States the standard light unit il the
amount given by "spermaceti candle
br-ning up at the rate OF 1870 grains an
ho with a flame forty-five millmeters
.hign. or l.76 inches In France the
standard candle is made OF stearine,
and Hermany's candle was. until a few
years ago, paraiiine. Now the latter
country uses the so-called Hefner unit
Of hah, the mount given by y certain
form Of lamp burning actetate Of amyl-
Another lamp standard, called the car
Gel. was used in France In this puri
He'd rape seed oil is burned. Becaus,
OF this unsatisfactory internationa
cnaos II Is now proposed that our nat
ional bureau Of standards at Washing
ton take steps 10 establish standar,
international candle which would b
acceptable to at least nine countries
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
Bids Wanted.

For the erection OF two story brick
building with basement and foundation
on lots in front of Lockwood House.
Plans and specifications can be seen at
the store OF the Fipnish a. Swedish
Mercantile Assn. All bids must be
filed by 600 O'Clock june ~ The
directors reserve the right 70 reject
any or all bids
Finnish n Swedish Mercantile
Assn.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
ROAD BONDS
NOT TO Be ISSUED
LosTlN THE COUNTY BY A VOTE or
TWENTY TO ONE
DISSATISFACTION IN EVIDENCE
Resignation os the Entire Board OF Com.
misionen is Not an improbable
Outcome

The special election called for the
purpose Of voting ON the question of
bonding Iron county for 500. 900 for
good roads was held last "Wednesday
and the proposition was showed under
so deep that it will be long time in
thawing out.
The vote throughout the county was
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
CLOSING EXERCISES IN ALL the
GRADES AND HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT ON WEDNESDAY
. Class Day Exercises VIII Occur On
Tuesday Afternoon Address by DR..
Storms Wednesday

The annual closing exercises OF the
Crystal Falls schools will occur next
week, beginning on Monday when the
closing up OF work in the grades will
be had
Each OF the grades. both In the city
and in the outlying schools will have
appropriate exercises and the pupils
will be given their certificates OF pro
motion.
On Tuesday evening the Glass Day
exercises of the high school will take
place at 80 in the Assem- bly, room.
The program for these exercises is as
follows
Chorus Girls Glee Club
salutatory Agnes A. Cassidy.
William Cullen Bryant
NJ Violet Mortensen
Glass History Myrtle NJ. Wills.
Chorus Boys Glee Club.
Child Labor Bernhard A. Lindholm
Glass Poem NJ. Jennie Cayia'
The Conaueror Martha f. @. Baumann.
Solo Miss Adams
Prophecy Flora A. Pearce and
Alma A. Spanner.
Glass Grafton Charles f. Richard.
Chorus Girls Glee Club,
A String of Pearls Elizabeth'A Moore
Giftatory Elsie A. Ford.
Valedictory Beatrice Nj. Perry.
Glass Song Glass OF 1908.
The annual commencement exercises
OF the high school will occur on We'd
nesday evening in the high school as
sembly loom This commencement
will be the twentieth IN the history cf
the school and class Of twelve will be
graduated. TO which is added one pupil
who finishes postgraduate course
The program for the commencement
is as follows:
Invocation Rev VIM Poyseor
Address The Age Of Science
DR. A. r. storms
Violin Solo Herbert Larson
Presentation Of Diplomas.
Chorus Girls Glee Club
DR.. Storms who is 10 be the main
actor In the exercises of Wednesday
evening is noted educator and lectur.
or and his address will be well worth
hearing.
The class roster Is as follows
Latin English
Mary Jennie Cayia
German English
Agnes Anna Cassidy. Beatrice Maud
Perry. Myrtle Merle Wills.
latin German
Martha Elizabeth 9. Baumann, Elsie
Maria Ford Bernhard a. Lindholm,
Elizabeth Anita Moore, Mary Violet
Mortensen, Flora Alice Pearce Charles
Francis Richard, Alma Alexandra
Spanner
Post Graduate Latin German
Charles Gregory Rogers
Clnss Motto. In TO Win Cclors,
Green and White Flower. White Rose
On Sunday evening at 80, Rev. q
V. Hoard will give the baccalaureate
address 20 the class in the high school
assembly room.
The closing exercises are open TO all
who desire 10 attend and it is very pro.
bable that the capacity Of the assembly
room will Ia taxad A., tl,a limit
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13

Miss Anna Manthey il at Toledo this
weeK representing the lady Maccabeee
of this section in the great hive review
Mrs Richards of Claiming died last
Thursday at a hospital In Green Bay
where she was for medical treatment.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13

A regular examination for teachers
OF Iron County will be held In the
court house at Crystal Falls beginning
Thursday. June 18th. Certificates Of
all grades will b. granted from this
examination
John H. Mason, Comir.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
AFrost.

A light frost was in evidence about
here last Wednesday night and some of
the tender plants were nipped
A neavy fog overhung the earth 80
that the frost didn do as much dam
age as it nskht have done
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13

Miss Arlie Hanahan, formerly book
keeper for tane Michigan Telephone Co.
at Iron Mountain has been promoted to
the cashiership of the local exchange
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13

Divine services win be held Sunday
morning at 1880. Cordial invitation
is extended 10 all
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-06-13
INTENTION Woodmen.

ATTENTION ~ Woodmen, Macca.
bees and Odd Fellows You are want
ed tomorrow ~ 1913 snre Don't be
late
Robt Munns IL at Toledo this week
a delegate for the Maccabees He viii
visit at the 500 on his return.
Captain VIM. TrewrtfMn IL on the
Gogebic range this week
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
sow PLENTY OF ALFALFA SEED

In some farm papers exceptions have
been taken in regard to heavy seeding
OF alfalfa. Let me say that this sea-
son was only able to sow at the rate
of thirty pounds of seed to the acre,
and the stand does not begin to be as
good. and there are more weeds to
contend with.
l believe that forty or fifty pounds
is better than thirty, for the reason
that there will be fewer weeds, a finer
stalk, and June grass will be held in
check.
From one piece of four acres / have
drawn into my barns in three cuttings
twenty eight large loads Of fine green
hay. In this piece the June grass came
in strong, but in the spring / shall
disk and sow in wherever needed a thick
seeding and hope to make the field
hold out at least two years more be-
fore blowing under. 1t has been in
alfalfa four years and yielded a large
amount of nice alfalfa hay.-D. C.
Dean, Michigan
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
FARMING NO "sNAP"

I often see wild yarns telling how a
mechanic with $500 to $500 can make
a good living on few acres of land.
or a stenographer or school teacher can
earn enough to support a family with
chickens on town lot.
People who are ignorant Of the farm
ing business are often induced by these
silly stories to throw up their jobs
and try it. Any kind Of farming is
serious business and requires a lot Of
technical knowledge, and it cannot be
learned in day or a year.
If a mechanic is SO situated that he
can get a piece of land near his job
on which he can experiment, keeping
close to the payroll at the factory
meantime, he will be able to tell in a
year or two whether it is a good thing
or not.
Go very slow and when you venture
on farming or chicken raising stick
close to some other kind of a job that
will keep the meal tub supplied till
you are sure that you can succeed
Then go at it for all you are worth.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15

enough grain to keep them in good
growing shape and prepare them for
the period of full feeding when desired
to be put in the feed yards and finished
for market
The coming of damp, cold weather
upon poorly fed f1ocks reduces their
vitality, and for a long time any per-
ceptible gain, even under liberal feed
ing, is retarded. An undue exposure
to severe, cold and hard storms re-
quires large amount of carbon feed
to keep up the natural warmth of the
body.
Sheep will do better if not too close
ly confined or kept too warm. They
need a good dry yard for exercise, with
constant supply of water and access
to salt, and shed that is dry and
kept clean and well scattered with
straw and litter.
1t is useless to prescribe with par
ticularity the kinds of feed, only to
say that there should be a proper pro-
portion of fat and flesh forming sub
stances, as bran, oil meal, corn, peas,
oats and good clover and mixed hay.
Feed with the highly concentrated
food the less nutritious and more bulky
products, always including proper
proportion of roots or ensilage, which
not only give bulk but give variety
and are conducive to the good health
of the digestive organs.
1t is a good rule to feed hay or for
age twice day and feed grain when
the racks are filled with hay morn
ings and nights and feed roots or en-
silage at noon. Feeders have been able
to make gains of eight to twelve
pounds when feeding oats and corn
with good quality Of clover hay and
straw.
There are numerous sources of profit
in sheep feeding, and one of the adj
vantages is found in the fact that il
furnishes an interesting branch of in
dustry for the winter months wher
ordinary work on the farm is sus-
pended.
One of the positive and valuable
phases Of profit, east or west in fertile
or unfertile sections, is assuredly found
in the valuable fertilizer which it sup.
| plies the farmer 1t is point upor
which we all seem to agree, but which
| the majority seem to ignore
English farmers understand the
matter practically and estimate the
| value of the manure from a ton O.
clover hay fed to sheep at about $40
| from ton of corn about 81, from {
ton of peas $13, from a ton of oil mea
about $40, which is little less thar
the price often paid for some of thes,
feeds. They find it necessary to grow
some certain crops and find that sheer
are the best adapted of any farm ami
mails to consume these crops at {
profit.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
THE POULTRY YARD IN SUMMER

Many poultrymen hatch out frying
chickens this month. Some start up
the incubators for one hatch and 9TH
ers resort to broody hens.
These chickens will find a late fall
market, before turkeys and game come
in.
In order to raise these chicks sue
cessfully shelter of some kind must
be provided so as to shield them from
the direct rays of the sun.
Care must be taken that the stock,
both old and young, are not overcrowd-
ed during the hot season.
1t is still very important to fight lice.
In fact, this kind of warfare is always
in order.
1t is a good rule to use kerosene lib
orally about the interior of the place
the entire year.
Once week, from January to Jan
uary, saturate the roosts and nest
boxes, and once month spray the
entire interior of the building with kerr
osene.
If this work is done every month OF
the year and a liberal coating of white
wash used once a year-say, spring OF
fall. both would be besr--there would
be little or no trouble with bad at
tacks of vermin during the hot sea-
SON
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
MONEY CROPS and OTHERS
Great Difference in Value o.
Produce From Same Soil
and Climate.
BY 9. 6. BowsrrELp, ILLINOIS.

There is an amazing difference in
The value of crops. 1t is within the
capacity of every farmer to make a
comparison of profits. Such a COM
parison will startle some of the old
fashioned agriculturists, who persist in
funning large farms on the one-crop
ssea.
= has been shown by competent au-
thorities that the wheat crop of the
country returns an average profit of
much less than $40 per acre. In fact,
many people agree that when the ex-
pense of equipment, the value of land,
the cost ,of seed and the worth of the
tF,bor are considered there is no profit
whatever in raising wheat.
The American farmer, as a rule, does
not count his own time, the value of
his land or the cost of horses and ma
rhinery in estimating his profits on
grain If he has a crop of 100 acres Of
wheat that will clear $500 for him after
reckoning the value OF seed, the cost
OF help and the expense Of threShing
he puts it down at $500 profit, though
he has put most OF his years time into
1t, besides maintaining the land and an
equipment of horses and machinery
worth several hundred dollars.
An my own range OF experience ]
have demonstrated that grain pays the
least of anything raised on the farm,
end the dairy is not much better. Not
Eoing in for fancy forming in any
sense, 1 have found during the last
FIVE years that the person of limited
capital is best or on small tract of
iend-say twenty TO fifty acres-with
Bis wide a diversity of interests as can
reasonably be male. The following
table, showing the relative value of
trops, is based on my own expert
Nice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
HANDLING WEANLING COLTS

The most critical time in the life OF
colt is when he is first taken from
his mothers side.
FIe has a great deal of exercise by
running In the fields and on the roads
with his mother and it would be a
great mistake to shut him up now and
deprive him of exercise.
1t is bad practice to tie a colt in a
barn all day. Like children, colts must
develop bone and muscle by exercise
They cannot be shut up in a barn and
do well any more than a ten year old
boy can grow rugged and strong while
shut in the house continually.
They also need sunlight and vari-
ETY. of food, and with this oats may be
the foundation. If they have learned
to eat oats before weaving time SC
much the better.
A moderate supply of good. clean hay
should be provided Give them plenty
of this hay and don't worry about the
big belly as long as they are thrifty
and healthy.
A pot-belly that comes from lack o.
thrift, improper feeding and wind colo
| is altogether different thing. A little
| green grass to keep their bowels il
good condition is very necessary, o
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
PIG MONEY IN WASTE LAND

The woven wire fence is revolution
lzing the hog industry in the whole
country, and when farmers learn to
utilize every bit of waste land for pas
ture for their hogs the herds will be
healthy and the cost of production will
be decreased many dollars. 1t won't
do to allow the pigs to lie in the
shade of the corn cribs or to allow
them only run of pasture. Feed a
little corn all of the time that the
pigs are running in the pasture. The
grass grown pig does not appear so
attractive with his working clothes on,
but when he is well developed and
ready to be fitted he makes the pam
pered pets look like thirty cents. He
makes fine appearance and is credit
to his owner and feeder.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15

Of burning.
During recent years a form Of lime
called ground lime has been put upon
the market. 1t is produced by grind
ing cob lime by machinery to very
line powder, and it is thus made pos
sible to broadcast lime in caustic
condition and in finely divided form
over the land.
Ground lime Is applied in quantities
varying from five to twenty hundred
weight per statute acre, and when put
on. with Stag sower can be uniformly
distributed.
The question which at once becomes
apparent is whether limestone rock and
carbonate lime ground to a fine pow
der and evenly distributed over meadow
land might not give results equal to
those produced by cob lime and ground
lime, and thus dispense with the ex-
pensive process of burning the rock.
In considering the results it must
always be remembered that the action
of lime in the soil is very slow and
is extended over a number of years !;
consequently but few conclusions can
pc drawn until more hay crops from
these plots have been weighed.
| LhS duNdHldge, however, Will be no.
ticed rests with the finely divided
varieties of lime, and undoubtedly the
application of lime to the soil in a
finely divided condition is attended
with more immediate results than
where cob lime is employed
In districts where, owing to nearnAs
of limekilns, it is more convenient efo
use cob lime, it is essential that the
lime be spread from the heaps as soon
as fallen, and also, in order to insure
more effective distribution, the light
harroWs should be passed over about
two or three days afterward, so as to
scatter any Jumps that may not have
fallen in the heaps.
Ground lime should not be delivered
at the farm until all arrangements
have been made for its application, as
loss will be occasioned by the burst
ing of the bags.
When ground limestone is used il
should contain high percentage Of
carbonate of lime.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
RATloNs FOR DAIRY cows

.
Use for mich cows Weighing from
500 to $50 pounds:
Alfalfa hay eighteen pounds, bran
two pounds, middlings four pounds and
oilmeal one pound.
Mixed hay twenty pounds, ground
oats four pounds, ground corn three
pounds, oilmeal one pound.
Glover seed four pounds, oat straw
four pounds, corn slower six pounds,
oilmeal three pounds, bran four pounds,
ground corn three pounds.
Clover hay twelve pounds, corn sto-
yer eight pounds, buckwheat middlings
four pounds, wheat bran two pounds,
corn and cob meal two pounds.
Silage forty pounds, hay five pounds,
buckWheat middlings four pounds and
bran four pounds for cows weighing
1000 pounds and yielding ten to fifteen
quarts Of 4 per cent fat milk.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
Lime SWEETENS THE LAND
Replaces Elements ofPIant Food
Lost Through Cropping
and Other Causes.

Meadow land frequently dressed with
farmyard manure will at certain in
tervals respond to a dressing of lime.
The lime applied replaces that which
has been used up in the natural de-
composition of the organic matter in
the soil--that which has been lost in
the drainage water, and also that which
has been carried off yearly in the hay
crop and in the cases of grazing ami
mails.
1t is common custom when lining
land to apply the lime as cob lime
(called also lump lime, burnt lime,
shell lime and quick lime) in small
heaps placed regularly over the field.
Slaked lime is In shorter or longer
time combined chemically with the
same gas carbon dioxide of the air
that was driven off from the lime-
stone carbonate of lime in the process
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-15
BEWARE The Willy AGENT
Buy Trees From Reputable
Dealers Only and lnsss
on GUARANTEES.

The fruit tree agent will soon be
soliciting for spring delivery. Buy only
from known houses and always get
written guaranty.
Do not pay fancy prices for fancy
names; they are only snare.
Plant nothing but what you know to
be good variety or one recommended
by a reliable fruit grower.
Plant standard apples forty feet each
way, with peaches or pears as filters
between them. When the filler trees
are well grown they will have room
and will not crowd the standard ones.
Train the tree to the desired shape
the three years following It's planting
in the orchard and 1t will need very
little pruning afterward.
Spray all fruit trees while dormant
with lime, sulphur and salt as pre-
ventive of San Jose scale, and you will
destroy many funguses as we'll. A great
many insects attack only dead or de-
caying trees, and these form breed
ing place for many other varieties OF
insect pests.
Do not rush headlong into the arms
of the fruit agent to give him an
order for trees to be delivered next
| u.
ground for the trees.
Order few choice varieties of peach
from some reliable nursery to be de-
livered next spring. Spring is the
best time for setting the peach orchard
For all other fruits fall setting Is
best This gives us chance to pre-
pare the soil, which will become set
tied about the roots of the young trees
and they will start off early and get
a good hold on the soil before hot or
dry weather next summer.
Select mediums ized trees. They
give better results than large ones
i Make up your mind to spray, prune,
cultivate and fertilize the trees that
are starting In. If you cannot do this
let fruit growing alone.
Varieties of apple and peach for q
family orchard for home use: Apples,
Early Harvest. Yellow Transparent and
Red Astrachan, for early and medium
early.
Northern Spy, Maiden's Blush, Rome
Beauty and Fallawater for fall Grimes
Golden, Jonathan, Stamen, Winesap
and Black Ben Davis for winter.
Peaches, Sneed, Alexander, GaBell
Mamie Ross Mount Rose. Old Nixon
Tree, Elbera, and Old Nixon Cling.
These ripen in the order named.