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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

a farmer near Goliad had a novel
experience. A few years ago he built
4 small barn, and in the construction
used green willow posts at the corners
and along the sides For some time
nothing unusual was noticed. but after
4 year he saw that where he had laid
the floor near the ground it was three
feet above soil. He discovered that
the willow posts, instead Of being dead
We're alive. had taken root and were
growing. In their upward movement
they had carried the barn along. Last
spring the barn was on stills o feet
high, and he put in q new floor and
surrounded the posts with siding,
thereby making 4 two-stOry affair
There is now a space of 8 inches be-
tween the floor and the ground. and
the owner expects to have thrpe-story
barn in the course of timp.-Goliad.
(TeXas) Guard.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

Hog Cholera or Swine Plague as it is
sometimes called is a highly contagious
disorder.
When a hog shows any symptoms Of
this disease, he should be isolated at
once and the pen fumigated in order to
save the other hogs if possible.
Mix one part Sloan's Biniment with
two parts milk in a bottle and give
every sick hog a tablespoonful Of this
mixture night and morning for three
days SlOan's Liniment is a powerful
antiseptic, kills the disease germs,
soothes all Inflammation and acts as 4
tonic to the animal.
A. j. Mccarthy of Idaville, Ind,
says: My hogs had hog cholera three
days before we got Sloan's Liniment,
which was recommended to me by a
neighbor who was using it with sue
cess. l have used it now for three days
and my hogs are almost we'll. One hog
died before l got the Liniment, but
have not lost any since"
Mr. G. w. Balsbaugh of Peru, Ind,
writes: Il had four pigs that were
coughing and were not doing we'll. l
gave them some of SIoan's Liniment
and they got better at once"
Sloan's book on Horses, Cattle, Hogs
and Poultry sent free Address DR..
Earl S. Sloan, Boston, Mass.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Salt for Cows

A supply Of salt available whenever
the COW wants it is necessary to main
tain high milk yield. Salt stimulates
the appetite and assists digestion and
assimilation, which increase the flow
Of the fluids Of the body Sailing feeds
for dairy cows once a week is not suf-
ficient 1t is a good plan to keep rock
salt under shelter where the COWS can
get it at will and then feed loose salt
once a week in such quantities as the
COWS will eat. Loose salt may be used
exclusively if it can be sheltered from
rain. Do not mix salt with feed, for
frequently cows get more salt than
they need, which will reduce the flow
of milk. Cows having salt kept before
them at all times in separate compart-
ments Will not eat too much.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
siIage in Steer Feeding.

The use of silage in feeding steers
While fattening is growing in favor
steadily. and especially where lands
are high priced and when feeding
stuirs generally are high. There has
been q good deal of prejudice against
F!iage among extensive feeders. but as
they are induced to try it so 10 they
become converted to its use.
IN feeding experiments conducted at
the Missouri Station in j9G6-I With
steers weighing about SEQ I0u4dS each
a. the beginning. those fed Stage ate
less dry matter than those fed whole
stuver or shredded stove". and gained
IL weight, while the dry stoYer lots
lost. The same sort of results were
also secured from feeding sliced slower
compared filth air-dried material.
Professor Plumb, Of the Ohio Agri-
cultural College, has this ID say on the
subject:
'.If silage is fed under coyer, and to
cattle not wallowing in mud or oozy
manure, then good results viii gen
orally come from its use. However,
hay Or other dry roughago should also
% fed. Silage fed twice Il day and
hay once should give good results.
When cattle are being finished for
shipment, then the amount of silage
fed Should be reduced and the dry
rougllage increased this to prevent
much shrinkage in shipping However,
In what is known as rational feeding,
hut little shrinkage is apt to occur
from the use Of the silage. In expert
ments with steers fed different rations
a. the Virginia Station, those fed 81
lage showed no appreciate shrinkage
in the market over those fed exclusive
/ II dry feed"
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

Harry Lauder, the Scottish comedian
and golfer, was describing at dinner in
New York a great golf professional,
But he is ugly" Mr.. Lauder said.
"Dea" me, he is ugly. He is as ugly as
that medieval Sultan who hal all the
mirrors removed from the palace so
that he might avoid the pain of seeing
his own face.
This Sultan called on his grand
vizier one day and by accident happened
to catch sight of his reflection. His
hideousness overpOwered him and he
broke into violent sobbing. In this out
burst the vizer joined.
FINALLY the Sultan Gained down.
wiped his eyes, and got ready to smoke
and talk. But not so the vizier. He
sobbed on and on. His master, tapping
his slipper impatiently on the cushions,
waited for him to cease.
AT length the Sultan got angry, and
exclaimed:
Why do you weep longer than I,
vizier?
"'Alasr the grand vizier replied, you
wept, o, commander of the Faith
full, because you saw your face for an
instant; but | see it all day and every
day New York Tribune.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Beware of 0intmentS for Cdtarrh
that Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
TEN when entering it through the mucous
surfaces Such articles should never be
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they will do Is
ten-fold to the good you can possibly derive
from them Halls Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by F. ]. Cheney 6 Co., Toledo, o., con-
tains no mercury, and is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying Halls
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine.
1t is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by f. ]. Cheney & Co Testimonials
free.
Sold by Druggists. Price Use per bottle
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Is YEARS OF SUFFERING.

Burning, Painful Sores on Legs
Tortured Day and Night-Tried
Many Remedies TO No Avail
Cured by Cuticura.
After an attack of rheumatism,
running sores broke out on my hus-
bands legs, from below the knees to
the ankles. There are no words TO tell
all the discomforts and great suffer
ing he had to endure night and day. He
used every kind of remedy and three
physicians treated him, one after the
other, without any good results what
ever. One day l ordered some Cuticura
Soap, Cuticura Ointment. and Cuticura
Resolvent. He began to use them and
in three weeks all the sores were dried
up. The burning fire stopped, and the
pains became bearable. After three
months he was quite well. l can prove
this testimonial at any time Mrs V.
V. Albert, Upper FrenchviIle, Me, July
21 1907"
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Lack of Material,

The laying of soft-shelled eggs is
caused by lack of shelI-making ma
terial, IN the shape of crushed oyster
shells or some other form of lime. The
hens should have plenty of good grit
Half the time the fowls are left with
out a good supply of grit to grind the
food. the natural supply being made
quate or inferior Rice table scraps
will make hens over-fat and have a
tendency to cause hens to lay soft
shelled eggs.-Farmers' Home Jour
nal
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
The Poultry House.

Now is good time to disinfect the
poultry house, so as to keep the lice
from getting a mastery over you.
Any kind of liquid lice killer is good
to spray the house with, being sure
to spray the roosts and nest boxes as
well. If a cheaper disinfectant is re-
qlired, a whitewash can be made of
lilne and water, with some crude car.
bolic acid in it. This proves very
good Geodorizer and disinfectant, and
large quantity Of it can be used
without hurting the pocketbook too Sc
verely.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
MINERAL WATERS WASTED
Present Methods of Utilization Leave
Much to Be Desired

plea for more mineral spring resorts
is made in report just issued by the
geological survey regarding the produc-
ton of mineral waters in 1907, during
which year the total output in the Unit
ed States was 52,O60,520 gallons valued
at 1881, SOB. In the previous year there
were 4S, los, $50 gallons, valued at S.
026,3S1 There were 5S4 springs which
reported sales in 1907, against So
springs in 1906. The net increase in
product amounted to 1851 $40 gallons, or
over per cent, but there was n loss in
the value of the output of 1896, SS4, near
ly 8 per cent. This loss, however, is
more apparent than real, as the water
represented by it was largely used in the
manufacture of beverages of various
Kinds, excluded from the report for 1907.
Last year was the most prosperous one
IN the history of the trade. The United
States" the report points out, has a eli
mate as varied as any country in Eu-
rope and much wider range of mineral
springs, but the foreign spas attract thou
sands OF American visitors who find what
they cannot find at home. Our springs
lack attraction, less has been done to
beautlty the surroundings and the pres
ent methods of using the water leave
much-to be desired. For n guest to drink
as much of a strongly mineralized water
as suits HIM, whenever he has the whim.
regardless of the character of the water,
his diet or his mode of living at the re-
sort, is absurd"
The report urges that at the famous
resorts the effort should be to impress
on visitors the medicinal character of the
waters and the Importance of rational
use, springs should be developed, and
waste and deterioration of quality by ex
ceSSlVe use should be prevented.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Hawks Killing Of GrasshoDpers

Farmers living about six miles north
east of here were greatly astonished
recently by the number of hawks coming
in to that section. They say there are
thousands of them and that they seem
to have come from the north. They are
of good size and resemble the chicken
hawk.
They are feeding on grasshoppers and
are benefting the farmers TO a degree
hard to estimate, as they not only de-
stroy the insects, but seem to be eating
the eggs also, and if they stay long
enough the grasshopper pest in that sec
ton at least will be destroyed.-Long-
mont Cor. Denver Republican.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Wounds on Trees.

No artificial medium can be applied
to the surface Of tree wound which
will induce it to heal more quickly.
The activity of the healing process de-
ponds upon the character and position
and the time of the year when the
wound is made, rather than upon pro-
tective coverings, but where a large
surface Of heart wood is exposed it is
advisable to protect it from decay by
a coat Of white lead or other satisfac-
tory covering.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
HOP INDUSTRY ON THE WANE.
Temperance Movement Lowers Prices
for Product on Pacific Coast.

The hop industry is on the wane in tn
Pacific coast states, and the prospect is
that it will be entirely abandoned in the
near future. Most of the growers in the
Puyallup valley have ploughed up their
hop yards, and the doing as well or bet
ter with berries than they have for some
years in hops, according to the Utica
Press. w. D. Cotter, a member Of the
Puyallup Fruit Growers association,
and formerly an extensive hop grower,
says that in his opinion the temperance
movement, which has been sweeping
over the country, has had a large part
TO do with the wane of the hop industry.
''The nO-license movement" said Mr..
Cotter, has certainly helped to paralyze
the hop industry in this state. 1t is about
done for, too. This year the best that can
be done is to sell them for cents a
pound. Then cannot be picked for that.
In the palmy days, twenty-five years
ago, hops sold for 81 a pound. -Four
years ago they sold for 80 cents, and
were a profitable crop at that. But now,
at cents, the hop industry is dead"
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
NOah'S Excuse

Capt Pritchard, of the record breaking
Mauretania, told a group of Americans
on a recent voyage that a sailors life
was a hard one.
1T is not so hard as it used to be be-
fore the coming of steam" he said, but
it IS still fearfully hard for all that. In
fact, I never heard of but one man who
had decent excuse for going to to sea- sea, .
Chicagoan.
Noah" the captain answered. For if
the old fellow had remained on shore he
would have been drowned."~ New York
Tribune.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
How Seeds Are Scattered.

DR.. Howard, secretary of the Amer
lean Society for the Advancement of
Science, writing of the manner in
which seeds are carried to great dis
tances by birds, recites an experiment
Of Darwin which had a curious result.
Adhering to the leg Of a wounded part
ridge, Darwin found a ball of earth,
weighing six and a half ounces. From
the seeds contained in this ball he
raised thirty-two plants, belonging to
five distinct species.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
MIX for CuIHPs

The calf finds in fresh milk while it
is still warm with the animal heat of
the cow. it is said, a constituent value
not found in the milk after it is allowed
to get cold. The chemist cannot define
it, and it cannot be restored again by
warming the milk. If every calf could
be fed its milk sweet, and While it still
retained its animal heat. there would no
doubt be fewer cat-hammed steers going
to the block
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

Pass the lines thrC ugh bit rings and
snap them into the rings at the brow
band. This. with a common jointed
bit will enable a child to hold pull
err or hard-mouthed horse with ease
under almost all circumstances. 1t can
be used on a fast horse in double team
or on both, as desired. 1t is cheap and
easily applied and it won't make the
mouth sore.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Hauling Crops,

Inquiries conducted in over 1000
counties of the United States by the
Department of Agriculture indicate
that the average length of haul of
crops over country roads is 12.1 miles,
the average weight Of the load 2,OO2
pounds and the average cost per mile
25.2 cents, or about So per load. the
figures being based on the cost of labor,
feed Wenr etc
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Mix for Rhcumatism m.

The following is a never failing rem.
edy for rheumatism, and if followed up
it will effect a complete cure Of the
very worst cases: Mix one half pint
of good whiskey with one ounce OF
Toris Compound and add one ounce
Syrup Sarsaparilla Compound. Take in
tablespoonful doses before each meal
and at bed time" The ingredients can
be procured at any drug store and
easily mixed at home.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

Peanuts only thrive in a warm eli
mate. The plant requires a Iimey
mate. The plant requires a limey
sandy loan, and yields from two
bushels of pods planted an acre to as
much as 40 or 80 bushels of pods and
two tons of straw. The seed is plant
ed about one inch deep in rows from
% to Sc inches apart, and from j.
to 16 inches in the row.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
The Potato.

Recently, in Hartz, Germany, a
monument was found bearing this in
scription: Here, in the year 1747, the
first trials were made with the cul-
tivation of the potato" By the way,
when Frederick II. introduced the po-
tato into his domain his subjects did
not like it; they refused to be both
cred with it, and the emperor had to
force them to cultivate it.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Dolphin and Flving Fish.

One day last week a ship was lying
at anchor at Boca Grande, when the
crew observed a dolphin chasing Il fly
ing fish. both coming directly toward the
ship.
On nearing the vessel the flyer arose
in the air and passed over the bow, just
abaft the foremost AS it did So the
dolphin went under the ship and. coming
up on the other side, sprang from the
water and caught the flying fish on "the
fly" just rs it was curving gracefully
down in its descent to the water.-Punta
GOrda Herald
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Tuberculosis in Cattle of England.

TUbercuIosis In Cattle of England.
Consul Joseph G. Stephens Of Ply
mouth, advises that the English auth
critics are making known through the
medium Of the press the disagreeable
facts relative to tuberculosis in COWS
and phthisis in human beings in that
section Of England. The relation Of
the two is said to be q scientific fact
In many districts of Devon % per cent
Of the cows have tuberculosis. The
average number of deaths from con-
sumption among the people of the sin
gle County of Devon alone exceeds 300
per annuu. In one charity organiza-
ton so per cent of the children are
suffering from this dread disease.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Bad Luck.

Mother" said 5-year-old Jack. ''how
much older than you is father?'
Just thirteen years." replied the I'M
suspecting parent.
well, mother" seriously continued
the child, the next time you marry
don't marry a man thirteen years older
than you; don't you know it is bad
luck E-Yhe pelineator.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Why He Was Angry.

In Boston the property man had fitted
a scene with unusually handsome gold
furniture and asked Nine. Bernhardt
how she liked it.
"Oh, bon! bon!' she exclaimed; where
upon the property man promptly bundled
the furniture off the stage.
''She said it was bum" he explained
The Bohemian Magazine.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

lower driveway. If built upon a hill
side the job of making the fills will
not be serious. Even on level ground
this can be done without a great ex-
penditure Of labor with the use Of
a road scraper
The entire building must be raised
upon piers about #. high, so that
the bottom Of the bins is not much
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

When marketing chickens do not tie
several of them together. They get the
string twisted around their legs and it
cuts them. Take the chickens to town
in a coop, or some other humane way.
They are in absolute torture when sew
eral are tied together.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

According to statistics obtained. it
appears that potatoes constitute about
13 per cent Of the total food CON
sumed by the average family. They
are essentially starchy and eaten alone
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

got so severe in time
that l could not get
around. The kidney
SecretiOns became bad
ly disordered and at
times there was al
most a complete stop
of the flow. l was ex-
amined again and
again and treated to
no avail and kept get
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Happy Man.

"Since de rich mems amt happy" said
Brother Dickey, 4 hez come ter de con-
clusion dat dey amt no use fer me ter
complain: and yit, if l didn't complain,
how would de rich folks know dar wuz
SIGH a po' creetur ez me in de worP p
Atlanta Constitution.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
Storing 0nions

Considerable care is necessary in
storing onions through the winter with
out loss. They should be entirely free
from dampness when put away. Store
on scaffolds or in shallow bins, but
never pile them
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

According to the Novoe Vremya of
St. Petersburg a Norwegian fisherman
has fitted up a telephone apparatus OF
his boat which enables him to hear the
fish approaching and even makes a
guess al their number.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

"A party of musicians sailed from
New York recently as part of the GOV
ernments plan to furnish wholesome
amusement for the thousands of men al
work on the Panama canal
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

ting worse. I have to praise DOan's
Kidney Pills for my final relief and
cure. Since using them 1 have gained
in strength and flesh and have no sign
of kidney trouble"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, \. Y.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
In a Pinch, Use Aliens FoOt-Ense

powder to shake into your shoes. It rests
the feet. Cures Corns, RuniOns, Swollen,
Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Aliens Foot Ea Sc
makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all
Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample
mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted,
LIE Roy, n Y
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

is hauled in the
upper drive and
poured from the
wagons into the
bins, and is then
removed by be
ing drained from
the bins into the
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

Thorough preparation Of the soil be-
fore planting is as profitable for COW
peas as for any other crop; the greater
the care in this respect, the greater
the satisfaction and profit in the yield.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
The Horse that Pull. on His Bit

1t is claimed by one who has tried
it that Il driving horse that pulls on
the bit can be cured by fastening a
small ring Oh each side of the bride
and as near the brow band as possible.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

On the largest tobacco farm in the
world a 25,0O0-acre affair, near Amster-
dam. Ga, is grown about a third of all
the Sumatra tobacco used for cigar
wrappers in the United States
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

There are 413 species of trees found
within the limits of the United States,
the woods of sixteen of which, when
seasoned are SO heavy as to sink in wa
ter.
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E-Milwaukee Newsp Union & Madison Lists.

YOUNG NAN earn 500 s. month Mechanical
Draughtsman- Learn in two months; We have
the best course. FREE drawing instruments
and outfit. National School OF Mechanics,
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
KEPT GETTING WORSE
Five Years {

Five Years of AwfaI Kidney Disease.
Nat Anderson, Greenwood S. c.,
says: kidney trouble began about five
years ago with dull backache, which
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06

MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for
Children teething; softeus the gums, reduces in.
Illumination. allays pain, cures wind collie. %
cents bottle.