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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
BRAIN POWER
Increased by Proper Feeding.


A lady writer who not only has done
good literary work, but reared a fam.
lily, found in Grape-Nuts the ideal food
for brain work and to develop healthy
children. She writes:
Il am an enthusiastic proclaimer OF
Grape-Nuts as a regular diet. / for.
merry had no appetite in the morning
and for 8 years while nursing my four
children, had insufficient nourishment
for them.
unable to eat breakfast / felt faint
later, and would go to the pantry and
eat cold chops, sausage, cookies,
doughnuts or anything ! happened to
find. Being a writer, at times my
head felt heavy and my brain asleep,
When l read of Grape-Nuts l be
gan eating it every morning, also gave
it to the children, including my 1C
months old baby, who Don grew as
fat as a little pig, good natured and
~contented.
81 wrote evenings and feeling the
eating a small saucer of Grape-Nuts
with milk, instead of my usual indi.
gestible hot pudding, pie, DR. cake for
dessert at night.
81 grew plump, nerves strong, ane
when / wrote my brain was active ant
clear; indeed, the dull head pair
never returned"
POSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd.
Battle Greek, Mich
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Coops,

For shipping live poultry to market
the following sizes Of coops are most
generally used in the West: Coops
should be 4S inches long, 80 inches
wide, u inches high for chickens
and ducks, and 10 inches high
for turkeys and geese. Use lumber
as follows: Two by two for cor
ner posts, or 1x2 will answer. If you
cannot get them, get 1x4 and rip them
in two. Cut six pieces so inches long
and nine pieces II or Is inches long for
each coop. Nail the short pieces one at
each end and one in the center of the
long ones, using ten-penny wrought
nails. Make three of these frames, one
for each end and center. For the bot
tom use half-inch boards or 1ath, make
the bottom tight, using siX-penny nails.
Use Ax2-inch strips of lath for sides.
ends and top, put them IL inches
apart; the width OF lath is about right.
Leave two laths loose on top in center,
or make a door of them to open, in
order to put poultry in and take 1T out.
Now nail a lath around the coops, each
end and the center, outside, the three
frames made first. This will keen the
lath from coming off and make the
coops stronger. For broilers the coops
can be made 10 inches high and "a inch
es wide. This will make a good, strong,
light COOP. III. Sprague.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Farm Notes.

Every crack in the barn means so
much added drain on the feed bin.
The crusade against tuberculosis in
cattle INDY ultimately lead to colder
stables and blankets ON the cattle.
Scatter salt over sprouts ard stumps
and other noXiousf weeds and the sheep
will clean them up
High and dry is the rule for locating
the poultry house and yard. Do not
suffer puddles to exist in the vicinity
thereof.
Hunger is a good tonic. Don't feed
the sick hog and in most cases he will
get back his health and his appetite all
right.
The farmer who thinks more of his
own comfort than he does of the com
fort Of his stock, is the farmer who will
be disappointed on market day.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
r.. Aim straight Is Human.

Anthropologists have remarked that
taking aim is a human characteristic
that even the anthropoid n9es cannot
be said to share. Apes and monkeys
frequently thrown nuts and sticks,
sometimes with unpleasant conse-
quences to others, M they show little
or no ability to take accurate aim. The
haboon is said to excel somewhat IN
this respect. but sill it would rerer
pass for a marksman. Accuracy of
eye and the Judgment of direction ana.
distance that are involved in real aim
ing have beef developed only by man
and are among the tokens of his In
tellectuaI superiority .-Sr. Louis Re.
public.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Hog Cholera.

THE greatest drawback to the hog
industry which breeders in this country
have to contend with is what is known
as "hog cholera" n Swine plague
Hog cholera is a highly contagious
sadisease n unless checked is liable to
carry off a great number Of hogs in a
very short time.
Isl Mr.. A. P. Williams, Of Burnetts
Greek, Ind, tells Of an experience which
he had with some hogs that had the
cholera. "Five years ago." says Mr..
civilians, 81 was in the employ of Mr..
". D. Richardson, Lafayette, Ind, as
This barn foreman. Some fine hogs that
vi was feeding took the cholera. L
Igave them Sloan's Liniment and did
( not lose a hog. Some were so bad
they would not drink sweet milk and
I was compelled to drench them. J
havetried it at every opportunity since
and always find it o. X"
Write for DR.. Sloan's free book on
Ne treatment of Horses, Cattle, Hogs
and Poultry. Address DR.. Earl S.
Sloan, 615 Albany street, Boston, Mass.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
pinnninp the uomeErouuds,

Because of the permanency Of habi-
tat1on on Il farm the greatest care
needs to be taken in deciding upon
plans for dwellings, barns, lanes and
tree planting. Unlike the town resident
who Is here to-day and away to-mor-
row the owner Of a farm becomes at
tached to his home and can look for
ward confidently to leaving it to his
sons and ~grandsons after him. The
site for the house, having been fixed the
other buildings will group themselves
to the side or in the rear. 1t is not to
be expected that in the first few years
after taking up a homestead that the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
NO RELIEF FROM ECZEMA

For over Two Years-Paten Mcdi-
clnes, Qunck Cnres and Doctors
FafI-Cuticurn Succeeds.
Il was very badly afflicted with &C.
zema for more than two years. 'Ebe
parts affected were my limbs below the
knees. I tried all the physicians in
the town and some in the surrounding
towns. and | also tried all the patent
remedies that l heard of, besides all
the cures advised by old women and
quacks, and found 10 relief whatever
until / commenced using the Cuticura
Soap, Cuticura Ointment, and Cuticura
Resolvent. In the Cuticura Remedies
I found immediate relief, and was soon
sound and well. G. v. Beltz, Tippe-a-
noe, Ind, Nov. Is. 'O5.e
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
John Millions Cottage.

One of the best preserved historic
country houses in all England is John
Millions cottage at Chalfont st. Giles,
to which the blind and aging poet fed
when the great plague swooped down
on London. That was in July, 1865,
and Milton had just finished paradise
Lost" and received a fve-pound note for
1t, with a promise of three more five
pound notes if the poem sold four edi-
stands at the top of the village, and it
Is in practically the same condition as
when Milton left it. Here the poet re-
ceived his distinguished guests during
the latter part of his life.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

Hippophagy being in low water III
these later days, somebody has set him
self to show whac an exceedingly re-
spectacle history attaches to the prac-
tice. Among tie a%ncients, especially in
China, eating horse flesh was general,
and it was only killed in Europe by a
Papal decree of Gregory Ill, though
why horse flesh should have been in
terdic:ed does not appear. 1t was only
the famine caused by Napoleon's in
vasion that revived the practice in Ger
many, where ii has survived ever since.
London Globe.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

All farmers do not feel able to af-
ford a bathroom and furnishings. But
what class of people need an evening
bath more than q farmer after a busy
day AZ the dusty fields? A good bath
at night should be a necessity that
ought nor to be neglected, and hus-
band and hands should have q bath
every night during hot months. But
how? Well, get some empty oil bar
rels, knock put one end and let oil
%evaporate, and your bath barrel is
ready. Fill barrels at noon (half or
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
A DfpIon,atsc sy.tcm.

ITO what, SIR we asked a middle
aged. happily married man recently.
do you attribute the success you have
mad of your married life?'
Ills a bit of elementary wisdom,
my son." he replied. when my wife is
in the wrong, l agree with her, and ali
is well. When she is in the right. l
argue against her; she emerges trt-
umphantly, proves me foolish, feels
good all day-and again all is well.
Learn this, my SON, ere you marry
Cleveland Leader.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

not a model to be followed in detail,
but e%mbodying some general principles
that may be adopted.
Straight lines and square plots so
desirable in the laying out of fields are
not the most desirable for the home
grounds. Curved lines especially for
the driveways take away the stiffness
and add naturalness to the scene In
the illustration the double driveway in
front makes too complicated a plan for
the ordinary farm. A variety of trees
and shrubs should be used around the
house without having them too close
to allow free circulation of the air and
a view of the roadway in front.-Mon-
treal Star.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Frozen Milk.


Whenever milk is scarce in the cities
somebody forward and suggests
that it be shipped from distant points
in a frozen condition.
This idea has been frequently sug
gested during the past years. but it does
not seem TO be coming into practica,
use. The latest suggestion is that the
fresh milk should be frozen by sub
merging the sealed cans in brine chilled
FAR below the melting point of ice. The
milk would not only be frozen, but
would be cooled still further to a hard
dry ice, which, 1t is claimed, would re.
main in the solid form after removal
for q day or two before the entire
mass would rise to a melting point
the keeping qualities being much ST
perior to that of milk which is merely
frozen at common temperature.
The operating plan would be to es
tablish Il freezing plant at the cream,
cries and milk stations, the frozer
product to be shipped in ordinary cans,
thus doing away with the present higEa
cost of refrigerating cars.
1t is claimed that frozen milk kept
over a month in a refrigerator room
showed no change In taste ON thuwing,
and that the cream remained evenly
mixed throughout the solid mass, not
rising, as it would when milk is merely
kept liquid at low temperature. Milk
for freezing would need to be in fresh,
clean condition when frozen. else its
keeping period would be very short
after melting. If this plan ever comes
into favor, it would greatly increase
h competition in the business of sup
plying milk in the great cities.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Repairtnr Lenky ROOF.

Take coal tar and sift coal ashes in
until the thickness of stiff mortar. Plas-
ter it around leaks. If used on slate
roofs the snow and rain cannot blow
in. This cement will harden like a
stone and is apparently as indestructi-
BILE. 1t answer admirably for PAPER
rooms and If properly put on it seems
to be there forever.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

Two things are essential to the thrift
of animals-a variety in their food and
regularity in its receipt. One article
of food cannot supply all the necessary
~sustenance, because it may lack some
of the essential elements, and is almost
sure to have some insufficient quaint
ties. Animals do not thrive as well
when fed irregularly as when they get
their food at certain seasons. The
more regular the food is supplied the
better the results.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
free Fountain.

An extraordinary curiosity is to be
seer in the Swiss village of Gunten. on
Lake Thun. 1t takes the form of a
natural tree fountain, the water flow
ing continually from a spout high up
in the tree. About twenty years ago
the water from "a spring was conducted
through a shaft, and the supply pipe
was directed through the cut trunk of
a young poplar tree. which was rammed
in the ground, say Woman's Life. Aft
er a short time the trunk rooted,
branches followed. and now there is a
splendid top growth.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
HELPFUL
y c

You won't tell your family doctor
the whole story about your private
illness -you are too modest. You
need not be afraid to tell Mrs. Pink
ham, at Lynn, Mass, the things you
could not explainto the doctor. Your
letter will be held in the strictest con-
fdence. From her vast correspond
ence with sick women during the
past thirty years she may have
gained the very knowledge that will
help yourcase. Such letters as the fol-
lowing, from grateful women, es-
tablish beyond a doubt the powerof
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
PURE FOOD.
No Food Commissioners of Any State
Has Ever Attacked the Absolute
o. Purity of Grnpe-Nuts.

Purity of Grnpe-Nuts.
Every analysis undertaken shows
this food to be made strictly of Wheat
and Barley, treated by vi processes
to partially transform the starch parts
into a form OF Sugar, and therefore
much easier to digest.
Our claim that it is a "Food for
Brain and Nerve Centers" IS basel
upon the fact that certain parts o!
Wheat and Barley (Which we USE
contain Natures brain and nerve.
building ingredients, viz, Phosphate
of Potash, and the way we prepare the
food makes it easy to digest and as.
simulate.
DR.. Geo. W. Carey in his book or
THE Biochemic System of Medicine
says:
When the medical profession fully
the phosphate of potassium, insane
asylums will no longer be needed.
THE gray matter of the brain is
controlled entirely by the inorganic
cell-salt, potassium phosphate.
This salt unites with albumen, and
by the addition of oxygen creates
nerve-iuid, or the gray matter of the
brain.
"Of course, there is a trace Of other
salts and other organic matter il
nerye-huid, but potassium phosphate
is the chief factor, and has the power
within itself to attract, by its own law
Of affinity, all things needed to mann.
facture the elixir of life. Therefore
when v symptoms arise, due to
the fact hat the nerye-fuid has been
exhausted from any cause, the phos.
plate of potassium is the only true
remedy, because nothing else a pos
sibly supply the deficiency.
y'The ills arising from too rapldls
consuming the gray matter of the
brain cannot be overestimated.
phosphate of Potash is to my MIND
the most wonderful curative agent
ever discovered by man, and the bless
ings it has already conferred on the
race are many. But what shall the
harvest be- when physicians every
WlISAG Iuily ulluCl oIctuu lhS part LILLE
wonderful salt plays in the processes
of life? It will do as much as can be
done through physiology to make q
heaven on earth.
Let the overworked business ran
take it and &C home good-tempered
Let the weary wife, nerves un~strung
from attending to sick children or en-.
tertaining company, take it and note
how quickly the equilibrium will be
restored and calm and reason assert
her throne. No 'provings' are required
here. We find this potassium salt
largely predominates in nerve-fuid,
and that a deficiency produces well.
defined symptoms. The beginning
and end of the matter is to supply
the lacking principle, and in molecu-
lar form, exactly as nature furnishe-
it in vegetables, fruits and grain. To
supply deficiencies-this is the only
law of cure" l
Please observe that Phosphate OF
Potash is not properly of the drug
shop variety, but is best prepared by
"Old Mother Nature and stored in
the grains ready for use by mankind
Those who have been helped to better
health by the use of Grape-Nuts are
legion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Cou1an,t Take the Job.

An inland graduate came to New
,prk to seek employment. Through a
fiend he received an offer of a place
J shipping clerk to a certain firm. In
kply he wrote as follows: Il regret
cannot accept Your kind offer of
{ position as shipping clerk, but the
let is that / am always sick when on
be water."-Success Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

more) with water, let set in sun at
night put a gallon of hot water in each
barrel and when darkness has fallen
then take a bath, and with thin gauze
undershirt and drawers they are ready
for bed. Their sleep will be sweeter
and the work lighter on the poor wash
erwOman,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Recognized HIS pai.in~,

Woman of the House-A big, strong
fellow like you ought to be willing to
work and earn his own living.
Languid Launcelot--1hat's wot ails
me, ma'am. Me muscles is all right, but
me will power is all gone.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
Neighbor1y Cordin1fty.

Mrs. Calder (rising to depart)-Well,
pu must come and call on me some day.
our turn now.
Mrs. Chillicon-kearney-Yes; I think
has beer my turn for the last five or
+ times. hasn't it?-Chicago Tribune.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

The rebuilding of San Francisco has
been hampered greatly by the exorbitant
wage schedule. The rates exceed by a
dollar per day the maximum scale in New
York. ..
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

Austrian mines are provided with res
cue chambers at convenient locations I'M
foreground. They are equipped with food
and conveniences for miners in case of
accident.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

1t is estimated that in New York City
there are 1890 men who were educated
for the bar who are in various employ
ments outside of law offices.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

We Sell Guns and Traps Cheap,
Buy Furs & Hides, or tan them for robes
& rugs. N w. Hide & Fur Co, Minneapolis
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

Mrs. Winsiowas soothing syrup Tor MID
Examination, aIlays pain, cures wind collie.
Csc q bottle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

A BEAUTIFUL WATCH FOB FREE
ITO those who ship us So worth of hides or
ITO those who buy guns or traps to that
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

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149o.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
WORK OF
CONGRESS
N~~oo~~~~-

The reading of the presid ant's message
concerning the employers liability act.
the granting of injunctions in labor cases
and other matters of a general uature
concerning corporations was the chief fea-
.ure OF the Senate proceedings Friday,
che message received careful attention.
The Senate ordered 10000 copies printed.
The remainder OF the day was devoted
70 routine business and a further consid-
Grafton of the bill to revise the criminal
Jaws of the United States. The irsI
reading of the bill was concluded. The
Senate adjourned until Monday. An I'M
usual and almost unprecedented scene was
enacted in the House of Representatives
Us the result of the reading of a special
message to Congress by the President,
urging additional legislation in the mat
ter of relations of labor and capital and
Of corporations and the public. TIL Wig
crous language of the document brought
forth storms of applause. first on the
Democratic side of the House, then on the
Republican, and eliminating in a general
demonstration by the entire body. After
passing 2SS pension bills. the Indian APP
preparation bill was discussed. Its con-
sideration had not been completed when
the House adjourned until Monday.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy Cor female ills,
and has positively curedthousands Of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
ton, fbroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness, ornervous p~rostration.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14
LYDIA E. PlNKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND

to conquer al female diseases
Mrs. Norman r. Barndt, of Allen
town, Pa, writes: .
"Ever since I was sixteen years of
age I had suffered from an organic de-
rangement and female weakness; in
consequence I had dreadful headaches
and was extremely nervous. My physi-
clan said I must 60 through an opera
ton to get well. A friend told me
about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, and I took it and wrote you
for advice, following your directions
carefully, and thanks to you l am to-
day a well woman, and I am telling
all my friends of my experience"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-14

Senator Piles of Washington Monday
delivered an eloquent appeal in favor of
an appropriation by Congress of $780,
IN FOR a government exhibit at the Alas
ka- Yukon-Pacific exposition, to be held in
Seattle next year. The day in the Sen
ate was chiefly devoted to a considera-
ton of bills on the calendar, several of
which were passed. Three of the giants
of the House had their innings Monday.
Technically the Indian appropriation bill
was under discussion, but legislation was
RELOCATED to the background while ma
tional politics occupied the stage. Be
fore the political question cropped out
the House, with next to the largest at
tendance of the session present, with but
one dissenting voice, passed a general
widows pension bill granting a fiat pen
sion of %12 a month to the widows of all
honorably discharged soldiers of the Uni
ted States who nave not heretofore re.
ceived the benefits of the pension law
and an increase of 81 a month for those
who have under the act of June 81, 1890.
The bill involves the expenditure of more
than S12,OOO,O00 annually. The political
debate was opened by Mr.. Townsend of
Michigan. who, in a prepared speech,
claimed for the Republican party credit
for all national legislation in the last
fifty years of vital interest to the public,
In this he was vigorously disputed by
Mr.. Cochran of New York. Mr.. Hep
burn followed, defending the Presidents
message, and said that condemnation OF
it had come only from the great malefac-
tors of the age and the gentleman from
Ohio meaning Senator, Foraker.