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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Spurs for PouItrymen.

Incubators hatch better when filled
with eggs than if only partly filled.
If incubators or brooders are used, be
sure that the burners, wicks, and the
oil vessels are thoroughly cleaned be-
fore use begins.
Better results will be got by having
the eggs used for Matching all OF
like size, and more particularly when
an incubator is used.
Those who use hens for incubating
will find it gainful to avail themselves
of the method of incubator users In
testing out infertile eggs.
No amount of heat will take the
place of sunshine for small birds. even
If artificial heat may be necessary in
the early part of the season.
At the start fill the incubator to its
utmost capacity. When the eggs are
tested out, it will not be so full; and
the fuller it is the better will be the
chance for each egg to hatch.
An infertile egg under hen or in
an incubator will not develop the in
ternal heat that growing chick will,
and its touching others eggs that con-
tain growing chicks will have a harm
full influence.
The male birds should have plenty
of nourishing feed during the breeding
season. A specially gallant one that
may be more intent on feeding his
consorts than on eating what he should
have, should be so handled that he
will eat enough.
Early chicks avoid many handicaps
that those that are hatched later must
bear Furthermore, if the hatchilg
season extends over a longer period,
not all the youngsters of the year Will
be equally injured by the same period
of bad weather.-From the Progressive
Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
GARDEN FARM and CROPS

every one that falls below the 200
egg mark, and every one that produces
eggs poorly shaped or off color. or
course, to accomplish anything worth
while one must be accurate and be
willing to take the time to wait for re-
suits. Accurate records must be kept
until the laying flock is established.
Having then secured flock of twenty
or more hens which have made con-
tinuous record, the matter of increas-
ing the size of the flock will depend up
on proper mating. BY saving the best
laying hens and then the pullets from
these hens, and mating with cockerels
bred from laying strains, one can with
in a few years establish a flock that
will beat the dung-hill sort four to one.
This is work which should be under
taken only by those who have lik-
ing for the business, and who will stick
to it long enough to get results. The
men who will do it will find it prof
table outlet for every good cockerel
they can raise. Farmers are looking
for just such stock to breed up their
farm fiocks.-Indianapolis Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
The Use of Nitrate.

Commercial hay growers figure that
used upon a field of timothy in fresh
and vigorous condition q top dressing
of one hundred pounds of nitrate of
soda will increase the crop at least
a half ton, worth in the present mark
cts from IS to $40. The present cost
of nitrate of soda in Boston and New
York in small lots is about $3.50 per
hundred. Half ton of extra hay OBJ
tanned at this price would seem like
good value.
The chemical appears to pay better
applied to timothy than to other hay,
and better when applied to fields laid
down within year or two than to
old fields, and best Of all when applied
to such field at the very outset of
the growing season in spring. At that
time soluble nitrates are in scanty
supply in the soil, and an extra ration
of them pushes the growth ahead rap
irly and gets the crop we'll started be-
fore the fields without topdressing have
fairly begun to show green. 1t Is not
advisable to apply the nitrate the pre-
ceding fall, because, being almost as
easily dissolved as common salt, 1t is
apt to more or less waste from wash
ing. There may be other crops on
which nitrate pays better than on tim
othy, but on no other crop is it more
certain TO show definite results from
each and every application under the
conditions described.-American Culti-
vator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15

The inquirer who mentions having
red and white Holstein may be inter-
ested to learn that l purchased regis
tered bull from celebrated herd and
have three red and white heifers, and
also lost or vealed two more, all from
different mothers. | have been told
that the original colod of the Holsteins
that the original color Of the Holsteins
white calves are undoubtedly of oc-
casional occurrence. Whatever the Or
iginal color of the breed, and though
it has in the main been kept remark
ably free from the admiXture of other
blood it cannot be denied that there
has been some admiXture with other
breeds. French, German and English
breeds are mentioned by Sanders in
"The Breeds of Livestock" as having
been introduced to limited extent to
repair the ravages of war and disease.
He says: RED and white offspring,
from black and white ancestry of sew
eral generations, are sometimes pro-
duced These have come to be consid-
cred, in the Netherlands, as of the
same original breed, although the evil
dence of reversion is unmistakable. y
Country Gentleman.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Huskinu Corn,

When corn is to be husked direct
from the standing stalk, 1t should be
allowed to mature quite thoroughly,
particularly if it is of variety with
large ears and large cobs containing
large percentage of moisture, which
must determined by examination. The
time will also depend largely upon the
variety. Early maturing kinds have
small ears and small cobs and they
can be husked much earlier than late
maturing, large-ear varieties. Corn
when first placed in the crib contains
13 to 35 or As percent Of moisture.
In gathering, a common practice In
the great corn states is to start through
the field marking down" row. Husk
two rows to the left Of the wagon and
the one row that is under 1t. Go round
a good sized "land" in this manner.
The next time have the team straddle
the last row next the corn that has not
been husked. This will prevent the
necessity of picking up a down row
each time and will enable the husker
to do his work much easier and quick
er.
The ordinary wagon box will hold
from twenty-five to thirty bushels.
When the corn is exceptionally good. a
slIilful husker will be able to fill more
than one wagon box in half day. The
capacity of box may be increased by
putting on additional side boards. On
the right side of the wagon box it is
desirable to place one or two extra
boards to act as bump boards. The
husller will not need to use so much
care in throwing in his corn, which
will enable him to do more work. A
good husker so gauges the distance
from the row to the wagon box that 1t
is not necessary for him to look where
he throws his ear. All this may not
be entirely new to many Of the farmers
while to far larger number it will be
Of interest and value.-Agricultural
Epitomist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
The Sphinx and the Infinite.

I can imagine the most determined
atheist looking at the Sphinx and, In
a fash. not merely believing, but feel
ing that he had before him proof OF the
life of the soul Of Khufu beyond the
tomb of his pyramid. Always as you
return to the Sphinx you wonder at 1t
more. you adore more strangely its
repose, you steep yourself more inti-
mately in the aloof peace that seems
to emanate from it as light emanates
from the sun And as you look on it
at last perhaps you understand the
infinite; you understand where is the
bourne to which the finite flows with
all its greatness, as the great Nile
flows from beyond Victoria Nyanza
to the sea.-From Robert Hichens's
"The Spell of Egypt" in the Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15

No building on the farm pays better
than a good Toulouse. 1t should be
so convenient of access that there need
be no excuse for leaving farm imple-
ments exposed to the weather when not
in use. Properly cared for, many i'm
plements that now last only few
years ought to be serviceable as long
as the farmer lives to need them. Be-
sides, tool that has not been rusted
warped and cracked by exposure, will
work as well the second and third year
of its use as the first. On many farms
the tools are so much injured by being
left out of doors that after the first
season they cost more for repair than
they save in labor.-Epitomist
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
New Method of Churning Butter.

A new method of churning butter has
been patented by a native of Finland,
A. H. Borgstrom, says the Pacific Dairy
Review, which consists of churning the
butter at a temperature in the vicinity
of the freezing point. At this tempera-
ture the butter will not break" the
claim being, however, that the nature
of the cream is so changed that by
heating same to a temperature which
permits of the formation of butter, the
breaking" takes place almost instant
aneously The advantage claimed for
this method is that 'overchurning"
cannot take place, that less butterfat is
left in the buttermilk and that the
body of the butter is improved and has
greater keeping quality. 1t is further
claimed that the loss of butterfat in
churning sweet cream is largely over
come by this method of churning.
There is no record given in the advices
of any long continued practical tests,
but if the method has the merits claim
ed for it, it will certainly change the
methods for buttermaking.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
A Bath In Brittany.

About the time that the sun Is set
ting all the beggars descend toward
the sea and spread themselves out
on the beach. 1t is perhaps the only
bath that some of them get during
the whole year, and judging by the
cries of joy with which they divest
themselves of their clothes and
plunge into the water, they enjoy
it all to the full. In some cases they
are so anxious to take part in this
century-old ceremony of ST. Jean du
Doigt that they dash into the water
without troubling to undress.-Wide
World Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
In Need of Change.

A small girl recently entered a
grocer's shop in the suburbs Of
Whitechapel and said to the shop
man in shrill, piping voice:
please, sir, wants 'arf pound Of
butter and penn'orth of cheese
and muvver ses she will send shill-
ing in when farver comes home.
"All right" replied the man.
"But," continued the child, "muv-
yer wants the change, COS she as
got to put a penny in the gas meter"
London Telegraph.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
The Best Layers.

With a little systematic selection
even the common hens can be bred up
until most of the flock become prolific
layers. 1t will pay to watch each in
dividual hen, paying particular atten-
ton to the shape and color Of her
eegs. It will be an easy matter to keep
& record OF those doing the best work,
and after The second year Gull out
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
HAD NEVER TRIED THEM.

"Have you ever" asked Mrs. Old
castle, become interested in lime
ricls? A great many people-es-
pecially in England-seem to be al
most crazy about them lately" -
NO" replied her hostess as me
toyed with her sixty-karat solitaireI
"I've never got hold of any yet. ARD
they anything like these picked Spd
s?"-Chicago Record-Heraldy :
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
THE DEcApENT.


Among the virile hosts he passed along
Conspicuous for an undetermined grace
OF sexless beauty. In his form and
face
Gods mighty purpose somehow had gone
WRONG.
Shen on his loom he wove a careful song
OF sensuous threads, web of wordy
lace,
Wherein the primal passions Of the
race,
And his own sins, made wonder for the
throng.
a little pen-prick opened up a vein,
And gave the finished mesh, crimson
blot
The last consummate touch OF studied
art
8ut those who knew strong passion and
keen pain,
Looked through, and through the pat
tern, and found not
One single great emotion of the heart.
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox, in the Century.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
Cleanliness Necessary.

Too many poultry raisers imagine
that If they can see no chunks of dirt
In the drinking vessels, they must be
clean. 1t takes very little manure or
other filth to contaminate vessel, and
the water 1t may contain from time to
time, with harmful germs that may in
jure the health of the birds, whether
they be young or old. Scald the
drinking vessels occasionally and
brush them clean enough for a person
to eat from. Summing them afterwards
will promote a sanitary condition.
Progressive Farmer
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-15
ID. d. YOUNG,
ARCHITECT
Corner Grant and Fifta sts.. Reynolds.
sile. Pa.
PLAINLY APPARENT.

Pardon me-" began the new -
quaintance, "but are you the Mr.. Cad.
ley Nuritch who wrote that magazine
article last month for us?"
"Yes," interrupted Nuritch, "but. aA
course, you'll understand that ] don't
make business of that sort of thing"
"Of course, know that. l read
the article. e."-Philadelphia Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
RAD Time.

Public Printer Stillings pays a man
$1,000 a year to keep Uncle Sans
printery free of cockroaches I won
der if any of the typographical ar.
lists have shown him where the type
lice are?
A Nashville woman wants to be the
town dog catcher at nothing per
month. q She must be looking for ex-
perience in the catch line.
Pessimists who contend that the
newspaper has no influence these
days should know the case of an Ohio
man whose whole life was Influenced
thereby. He was walking along the
track when bundle of papers,
thrown from the train, hit him and
broke his back.
Someone wants to know why it ism t
called "feetball"? That's because one
leg of every player is in a sling most
of the time
I know what the other place is go.
ing to be like, all right I am running
a new hot-water furnace, now.
A Georgia man killed four rattle
snakes with an empty jug. 1t was
easy enough to kill them with an
empty jug, but how in the dickens did
he see 'em?
When the girl you have been court
ing so long says she is going to be an
old maid and stay: at home with
mother, it is sure sign that she is
willing to listen to reason at last.
The Smithville (Tex.) Times says:
"They laugh who win and they win
who laugh. Be jolly" In other words,
the. world swaps sunshine for. sun.
shine; If you want sunshine, let your
own sun shine.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
COMES BY WAY OF PARIS
Rumos OF Plot to Blow Up
American Warships.

Paris, Jan. 21-The reports cabled
from Rio Janeiro that the Brazilian
authorities were warned from Paris
Of d possible attempt Is blow up tho
American battleship fleet while in the
harbor there are true.
Some time ago certain suspicious
indicating the existence of a plot to
destroy the whole or a portion of the
fleet, either at Rio Janeiro or in the
Straits of Magellan, were aroused here
and naturally were communicated to
Rio and Washington. A chartered
steamer was reported to have con-
veyed explosives for the use of the
conspirators to Rio Janiero, arriving
there about the middle of December,
and John Fedher, whose name is men
toned in the Rio dispatches, was one
of the men whose name was revealed
here as being implicated in the con-
spiracy. The alleged plot is supposed
to have some rather startling ramifi-
cations, but the evidence along this
line is far from conclusive and rests
chiefly upon the statement of an indi-
vidual whose record was subsequently
proved to be anything but creditable
Consequently the whole affair is re-
garded with much skepticism and in
deed the presumption has been raised
that it may have been a deliberately
concocted scare. In any event, it is
now believed here that if the plot
actually did exist the timely warning
and precautions taken have complete
ly frustrated the plans of the con-
spirators at Rio Janeiro and COM
PEELED them to transfer their opera
lions further south, if not to abandon
them entirely. The latter hypothesis
is considered here to be the most
nrQhahla
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24

scalps be took. One Of these was the
official head Of G. W. Patterson, of
Worthington, who was succeeded on
the board of managers by Atkinson,
of Mankato. According to the story
told, Patterson's connection with the
board was riginally credited to the
activity OF Dan, and the severance of
of the same was due to similar activi-
ty on the part of the big fellow from
the Fifteenth. Patterson, if they tell
it straight, had senatorial ambitions
during the last state campaign, and
failing, gave his support to S. B. Bed
ford, Dams opponent at the primaries.
Dan lost out, but he did not sit down
and cry about it. He just waited and
planned, and that is why they say be
went home happy"
Inasmuch as Mr.. Patterson decided
as long ago as last September to re-
tire from the board, for personal rea-
sone,and further that his election was
brought about almost entirely with
out local influence, it is very evident
that the ex-senators Vaccinations in
the case proved a minus quantity and
that his alleged victory last week is a
very hollow affair. It takes a small
victory to crafty broken warrior in
his dotage.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
State Treasurer G. E. Dinehart in

State Treasurer 9. E. Dinehart in
an address to the Implement dealers
convention, advocated national law
securing the deposits of banks. He
spoke in the following manner as re-
ported by the ST. Paul Dispatch:
The central bank savored too much
of Capitalization and would put the
money of this country in hands of
a few manipulators, he said. The
asset currency plan would be all right
for national banks, but would not
protect the state banks in country
towns. He believed government
guarantee of deposits in banks the
most practicable plan proposed. This
provides for a sinking fund created by
tax on national banks which would
provide guarantee. Tho states could
do the same for the state commercial
banks and the people could thus feel
certain that their money in the banks
would be safe. Thus pa mics and de-
moralization Of the country s. finances ,,,,
would be averted.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
tuesday, Jan. 21.

House-Proceedings enlivened by a
political speech in which Champ Clark
predicted, amid thunderous Demo-
cratic applause, the nomination of
Bryan by the Democratic convention
at Denver. Penal code bill under con-
sideration all day.
Senate-Resolution to investigate
the circumstances connected with the
issuance of an Injunction in the case
of the Hitchman Coal and Coke COM
pany VS.. John Mitchell by Judge AL
ston G. Dayton of the United States
circuit court of the Northern district
Of West Virginia discussed, but no &C.
ton taken.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
SliXers of 1houuht.

If we only could see our duty as
other see it, what a nice world this
would be for our friends!
I'll bet cookie the man never lived
who cared for a furnace and had dys-
pepsia at the same time.
Great men don't seem to have a
habit of running In families. That's
why we are usually disappointed in
the sons of the great.
Well, have you made up your mind
how many of your New Years resolu-
tons you will keep and how many you
will make just to have the fun of
breaking them?
Some of the meanest men on earth
can lie down with their conscience and
sleep like babe until the breakfast
bell rings
An overdrawn argument usually GOV.
ers niger in the woodpile
It is all right to be proud Of your
manufacture but this habit of putting
the name of the maker on the tomb
stretching point.
Inc majority OF jokes reached that
age too many years ago.
A man is safer in a French duel
than he is doing the chamber maids
work for mule.
In the north of Sicily snow is sold
for cent a pound. When a man is
shoveling pounds and pounds of it of
his walk in the early morning, the
thought of this makes him mad.
There is a lot of money spent for
handbills that just as we'll could be
saved by telling the news across the
back fence.
Some people are 80 methodical they
take half the excitement out Of life,
The jan1tor bows very politely these
days, the elevator man is as courteous
as a southern darkey at his best, the
newsboy puts your paper right where
you want it, the barber salaams low
and your wife never fails to give you
an extra kiss as you leave for town
in the morning. Christmas is near!
One of the first things to learn about
setting hen is to get the hen.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
A Hollow Victory

The "County Chairman" made the
following observations in last Sum
days St. Paul Dispatch regarding
two prominent Worthington people: +.
: "A conspicuous and active figure
at the meeting of the State Agricul-
tural society held in st. Paul the early
part of the week was former Senator
Dan Shell, of the Fifteenth district.
Dan left town in, a. happy frame of
mind, not 50 much, il is said, because
OF the gathering, but because of a few
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
Farmers Institute Notes

A session of the Minnesota Farmers
Institute has been promised for Wcr-
tbington on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, Feb. 4th and 5th.
The Farmers Institute is the tray
cling school of agriculture for the
farmers of Minnesota. The Institutes
have been IN operation for twenty
years, and the work is we'll known
over the entire state. The instruct
ors who are employed are practical
farmers who have made success Of
their special lines of farming, and
who have the ability to go on the
platform and tell other farmers how
they have gone about their work.
They are all men who have learned
their work thru their own experience
and observation, and our farmers
should not miss hearing them and
getting from them all the information
they can.
Farmers Institute Annual No. 20
will be distributed at the meeting
here. This is a. new book that has
just been published, containing over
300 pages of the best farm reading,
and there should be a copy of it in
every farm home in the state. It can
only be obtained by attending the
Institute session.
There will he two sessions of the
]nstitute,-one at 10 a. m. and the
other at 1:30 p. m. The meetings
are always started sharp on time,
whether there be only one man in
the hall or two hundred. Those who
come late are sure to miss something
good. Be on time for both sessions,
stay till the close, and then say if it
has not been worth whole lot more
trouble than it has taken to attend. =
1t is not intended that these meet
ings shall be for the benefit of the
men only. The women and young
people will always be interested in
what is being done. They are often
the ones who are moro apt to take
hold of the improved methods that
are advocated: and 80 lead the way
for the nen of the family.
For the benefit of those who find
it imp ossible to get up in the
meeting and ask questions, box is
always placed on the platform into
which slips of paper can be dropped
concerning matters that of interest.
This question box is opened during
the afternoon session, and The ans
wers that are made to the questions
are very often most interesting part
of the session.
There will be no regular program,
only such topics as are of interest to
our locality will be discussed, and
will be taken up at such times during
the meetings as are most convenient.
Be on hand from beginning to end SO
that nothing will be missed. Bring
your note book.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1908-01-24
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Jan. -Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, s1.10%; No.
l Northern, $1.09%; No. Northern,
1.o6%; May, $1.10%; July, $1.11%. In
store-No. 1 Northern, $1077s; No. 2
Northern, $1.05M. Flax-To arrive
and on track, $1.18A; May, $1.2O%;
July, $1.22A.