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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
SENSIBLE FEEDING SUGGESTIONS

A ration consisting of two thirds
corn and cob meal and one third bean
meal may be fed to dairy cows with
good results.
Most feeders find two carloads of
cattle can be fed together to better
advantage than a larger number.
Good protein from clover or COW
peas, combined with some nice corn
slower (stover is simply the stalk
without the ear, and may be used
whole or shredded) will make a salts
factory roughage for feeding young
heifers
A limited amount of silage may be
| fed with satisfaction to sheep-say
about ten pounds per head each day
But it should be fed in connection witt
some dry roughage, such as clover OF
alfalfa hay, or even mixed hay ant
straw.-D. B. Green. Ohio.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
LIVE STOCK RAISING

When one. has young pigs and breed
ing stock to care for he must think
further than merely what food will
fatten most.
Feeding without care is useless. Give
the cow sunlight; it has its place in
the economic production of milk Just
as well as good food.
A successful dairyman feeds his cows
this excellent balanced ration: Glover
hay and corn fodder, all the cows will
eat up clean, for roughage; for grains,
peas and oats, ground fine, and bran IN
equal parts by weight, and feed one
pound of grain to three or four pounds
of milk, with sixteen pounds of sugar
beets day.
| For generations English farmers
have made extensive use of Dwarf Es-
sex rape as stock food. This plant
may be described as a rutabaga rur
to head. The seed is sown like ruta-
baga turnips and cultivated without
thinning. Sow two or three pounds
in drills, or four or five broadcast, and
plant in early spring. The seed Is mo-
expensive and the crop is easy t.
raise.
Experiments prove that a heifer II
easier to fatten than steer.
If you haven't a hog pasture 1T will
pay to fence off a corner of the Glove
meadow for them. The hogs will ge
more value for you out of the Glove
than it would be worth in the form
Of hay, and save the harvesting of II
If whole oats are scattered YER
thinly on a floor and the brood sow !
allowed to feed on them she will ge
enough to keep thrifty, while not get
ting enough to grow fat This ais
keeps her busy and contented.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
WATER FOR THE CHICKS

Take an ordinary baking pan and
have the tinsmith rivet on an "ear" on
one side for mailing to a tree. Have
him also make a hole in the bottom
in one corner, that the water can be
let out every day and the pan be kept
clean. Nail the pan to a tree about
twelve inches from the ground so the
chicks can drink without getting into
1t with their feet. The birds will soon
discover that it is a fine place from
which to get drink on hot days.
Sometimes they find, too, that it is a
convenient place for bath, and this
of course makes the water dirty. But
1t is not much trouble to refill the pan
with clean water, and this should be
done two or three times day. Chick
ems and birds require a great deal OF
water, and they often suffer for lacl
- IL Don't neglect them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
NuBBlNs OF FARM NEWS

]. C. Evans of Harlem, Kan, has a
fine orchard of 200 persimmon trees
The fruit is about as large as Cali
fornia plum and he finds ready mar
ket for his product at Kansas City
The 200 trees yield an average income
of about 81 each year.
The largest pumpkin grown in the
state of California was raised in Santa
Clara county a number of years ago
1t weighed 264 pounds.
1t is better to raise onions which
weld on an average 100 to 125 bushels
per acre, even if the price is SO cents
bushel. than to raise 10-cent cotton
The cultivation of camphor trees as
a substitute for oranges is being con-
lsiderea in parts of Florida
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
METHOD OF ROSE GRATING

BY new method of grating Hugo
H. Lillienthal of Berkeley, Cal, has
very recently discovered a new way
of saving young roses from mildew,
and thus preserving from destruction
from so to rs per cent of the roses of
American gardens and hothouses.
LillienthaIs method is a grating of
tender slips upon the dog rose, the
graft entering the dog rose bark OBJ
liquely, but not puncturing the core.
The dog rose having hard, glossy
leaves, able to resist the attack of the
mildew, protects its little proteges and
lends to them some of it's own hardi-
ness. This discovery is considered one
of the most important of recent years
to hsrticulturists.
Rose growers have found that the
hardest problem they had to face was
that of mildew.
1t is estimated that the mildew is
responsible for the loss of from 30 to
rs per cent Of the younger plants IN
commercial and private gardens. sc
| destructive was the fungus, in fact
that horticultural journals, both in Eu-
rope and America, have been pleading
for years with horticulturists to give
their attention to this mildew problem
Mr.. Lillienthal's method is new II
two particulars-both in the method
of the graft and its application to thu
mildew problem.
1t will permit the production annu
ally from each bush Of not less thar
5000 disable rose slips. The operation
is delicate one and requires the mos
care that is known to the horticul
turist surgeons. Mayne Baltimore
/ San Francisco.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
HEAD OF STEER SHOWING
RESULT OF PROPER
DEHORNING.

will rub their heads against dirt or
gravel bank or the rough bark of a
tree, and foreign material may thus get
Into the cavities, though usually the
soreness of the parts is sufficient to
prevent this.
If the animals are dehorned in warm
weather it is well to apply some pine
tar with a view to keeping flies from
the wounds. Some operators do this
in nearly all cases, thinking that it
facilitates healing. The dehorning
operation should always, when pos
sible, be performed in cool weather,
and upon animals which have at least
attained the age of 2 years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05

squeezes into the bud and devours the
semi-huid contents of the ovary.
This is, of course, before the flower
has been fortified. Now we can get
rid of this pest very easily. All you
need to do to save your seed from the
nudge is to cut the hay crop a little
earlier than usual; in this latitude as
soon as possible after June II.
You can even wait until part of the
clover is fresh in bloom, but you should
not wait until many of the heads have
turned brown.
If you cut your clover early you
catch these grubs in the heads and
they are killed as the clover dries.
| Furthermore, you hasten the matur-
| ity of the second crop of heads, and
] by the time the second brood of
midges IL on the wing the heads are
too ripeSfor them to lay their eggs in.
The grub lives inside the ripening
seed and eats it out, leaving only a
shell. 1t works on alfalfa as we'll as
on clover.
| The adults are minute, black, fiy-like
insects. We find them in abundance
on clover heads about June ~. anf
again in the middle of August.
They are most numerous wheneye,
there are the largest number of Glove,
heads Just turning brown. These in.
sects do not lay eggs in the greer
heads like the seed nudge, and the,
cannot lay eggs in seeds that are hard
Most of the eggs are laid in the seed.
of flowers which have just begun t,
wither-fowers that have been fertil
! lied and the seeds of which are goin,
to develop.
The female sticks her long. needle
like ovipostor into the green seed an
lays an egg therein, and the eru
when fully grown nearly fills the SEED
The adult escapes from the seed b
!. biting out a hole in the shell.
At threshing time these shells ar
: swept away with the chaff, thougl
:. many of the seeds from which tn
, adult has not emerged remain benin
with the sound seeds. These affecte
seeds can be easily recognized
l Glover seed having a grub in it Wi
. not grow. If you want good crop O
hay you don't want to let any of it tur
i black. To get rid of this seed pest, Gu
5 your clover early, as just recommends
8 against the seed nudge, or pasture @
/. clip back in May or early June.
Jute yarn is fine thing with whic
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05

lowering the temperature of house during the cold
weather
The most economical construction is a house built
five feet from the floor to the (the south
side) and from six to eight feet the north SIDE
Houses with roof of this style naturally very hot
in summer, but if built high the sout side it will
be found almost impossible to get satisfactory alley
in the building. For this a building that is
twelve to fourteen feet wide and six the floor
to the and from eight to nine from the floor
to the ridge leaving the loft free floor to roof is
most satisfactory.
A house such this with capacity for 200 pairs
should cost about $5O per pair including the cost of
fly, nests. water fountains, ETC.
The partitions between the lofts should he tightly
boarded to the tops of the nests is naturally
draft through the house. yet in order get proper
ventilation 1T Is well to poultry netting division
from the tops of the nest to the roof This will
free circulation of air in the peak of house
cially by having windows the north side that may
be opened when particularly during
months.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
FOR PROPER DEHORAIhG
Mistakes Made by Using Instru-
ments Which Cause Lasting
Injury, Sometimes Death.

Whether or not dehorning is cruel
depends upon the methods employed
and the instruments used. 1t is stated
by an authority that in the dehornlns
of over 10000 cows with the saw there
were no deaths due to the operation,
while in cows dehorned by shears there
was trouble afterward in healing OF
the wounds, due, no doubt, to the
crushing, fracturing action which this
instrument has upon old horns where
Justification of the cores is advanced
1t is not usual to apply any prepara-
ton after the operation of dehornins
to prevent bleeding as the loss of blood
Is not sufficient, as q rule, to be of con.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
BY G. X. GRAHAM.

is debatable question with squad breeders day
whether birds should be kept in small large focks
While will advocate keeping not fifty pairs in
loft another will advocate keeping Twenty-Five and
third will claim that there is harm in keeping
200 pairs together. Observations have led be-
eve forty pairs be kept together quite
cessfuly These should have about fifty square feet
of floor space and the lofts should least six
feet high.
There should also be fly from six to eight feet high
loft and twenty to thirty in
length. Some breeders make the fly high enough
it will extend part of the roof of the pigeon
house, that the birds may sit in the This
not only injurious to the roof but encourages the
birds habits whereas to get. successful results
in breeding they must be kept working not
encouraged to ideness
Probably the enemies that pigeons
have rat in. order to fight it the houses
generally built eighteen inches to two feet from
the ground using trap the floor to the
in order to keep the wind from blowing under and
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
A HOMEMADE LADDER

Get a straight,
smooth pole sixteen
or eighteen reel
long. One about
4 inches in dame
ter at the butt and
21a inches at the
top after the bark
has been taken OH
is best.
Fasten an iron
band on tight six
feet from the large
end. Split the pole
from the large end
up to the band.
Bore Inch holes
one foot apart, be-
ginning one 1901
from the large end.
Make the first rung
at the bottom ga
feet long. Above
the split make them
| Q feet long, gradu-
ally running to ls
inches at the top.
Put a band on
the little end OF
wrap it with wire
A ladder like this
answers every pur-
pose on the farm
and can be made in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
SNAPSHOTS AT FARM WORK

Is there any wild grass that 20.
can cut down and bring in for the cat
tie to stamp down in the yard fol
manure? There may be low swat
where you can get some of this.
will all help to keep up the farm.
There is no better way to stop Wasf
in a field than the following method:
Get some old rails and sharper
them; then drive them into the ditch
level with the ground. so that wher
the rains come the rails will gather the
stalks and grass, and in a years time
the ground will be nearly level. Such
dams should be four to seven rods
apart.
After your potatoes are out OF bloom
NOV the tops off, but not too close
and see If you don't have the finest
and most beautiful crop you ever had
| This is an Irish kink from potato
grower Of washington county. the
Idea is that the tops have done theif
duty after blooming. Try a few.
The dairyman who is up to date VIII
not be satisfied by knowing the COW
that gives the most milk or butter in a
| day or in a year, but he will seek the
COW which produces the most from,
each dollars worth of feed.
i Last year the farm products OF Kan
sas amounted to s463,648,6 07 All this
4 produce comes from 100000 acres OF
A land, which is cared for by less thar
| 100000 people.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
NOTES OF THE ORCHARD

The Ben Davis sells better in Lon
don than any other apple.
The Mission grape is the commercial
grape of New Mexico.
Rye makes a fine cover crop where
there is nitrogen in the soil.
The grapevine should be kept free
from growth up to the crotch.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05

sequence. Care should be taken, how
ever, to prevent substances from getting
into the openings left after the horns
are removed. The horn cores are
elongations of the frontal bones of the
skull, and are hollow. They commu-
nicate with the frontal sinuses, or air
spaces, of the head; therefore foreign
substances or fragments of horn Which
act as an irritant in these cavities are
apt to set up an Inflammation, result
ing in the formation of pus or an abb
scess, which may prove quite serious.
Occasionally animals after being de-
horned and turned out of the stable
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
THERE, is PROFIT IN SAGE

Twenty-Five cents worth of sage seed
will furnish about 1000 plants. Enough
sage can be picked the first year to pay
for all the labor of sowing and picking
the sage. Early in the spring the
plants should be removed, set in rows
three feet apart one way and half
that distance the other. If the plants
are planted in good soil and properly
cultivated they can be picked three
times each year for several years.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05
STEEL FRAME FOR BARN

There is decided movement In
favor of metal frames for barns and
other buildings because of their dura-
bility and safety from fire.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-05

Jute yarn is fine thing with which
to tie up vines to wire trellis.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

Ben Weille & Son have just re
ceived their new sweaters for ladies
and children -..
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

rounded by the members of her fam
lily. Her health has been reclining
for about year and several months
of this year were spent at Hot
Springs, but she was unimproyed.
Mrs. Payne was Miss Hill before
marriage and was born and reared g:
Maxon Mills. After marriage she re-
sided az Ogden for several years but
for the past several years had resided
at La Center. Besides her husband
she Is survived by four children:
Misses Minnie and Lucy Payne and
Howard and Dewey Payne. Mrs
Payne had many friends both in Me
Cracker and Ballard counties, and
was a devoted Christian woman.
Mrs Payne's parents are dead. and
she leaves two sisters Mrs. Mary
Harper and Mrs f. Willett. The
funeral will be tomorrow at 10
o'clock at McKendree church.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
SUCCEEDS AT LAST
MISS HAWKINS PUTS END To
HER LIFE.
Daughter of Elkton Preacher Com
mits suicide While ON Visit
In Fayctte County.

Elkton. Ky. Sept. 29.-Sunday,
Miss Lizzie Hawkins. daughter of
Elder and Mrs. j. T. Hawkins, took
her own life by hanging. She was
on a visit to her married sister at
Richmond. Ky. and hanged herself
while the family were at breakfast.
Last May she attempted suicide by
shooting herself with a pistol, the
ball entering her left breast and
passing through her body one inch
above the heart. From the effects
Of this wound she had entirely re-
covered, and with her mother went
to Lexington to attend the state
meeting of the Christian church and
stopped ut Richmond to visit her
sister.
The deceased was "a years of age
and a lovely young lady. Elder J
lT. Hawkins is the pastor of the
Christian church in this city. The
remains reached this city last night
at nine O'Clock and the burial took
place this morning in Glenwood
cemetery,
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
"Way Down East I"

"Way Down East" that rural elias
sic which comes to the Kentucky
theater soon for one nights engage
ment. never fails to I'll the theater
II the story Of Way Down East" Is
conventional, It is so directly and
simply told. and its pathos and hu-
NOR are so natural and unstrained
that one forgets that there is nothr
ing new in the fact that stubborn
old mans son is wilful enough to love
one girl, when his father wants him
to love another. Miss Blanche Shir-
ley plays the part of Anna Moore
which receives the best possible in
depreciation at her hands. That stern
old character. Squire Bartlett, who
believes is Giving according to the
scriptures" Is in the hands of John
r. Armstrong. who has played the
part for several seasons. while Beth
Summeryille will give her sweet and
wholesome portrayal of a gentle-nur-
tured New England woman. Others
in the company are Dorwin KaTr
Bertha Mann, Daniel Roach. Jane
Mllward, Charles II. White, Warren
Cook and J. A. Mccurdy, and will be
assisted by the ever present village
choir.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
TELEPHONE GIRLS BRAVERY.
Saves AN Ohio Town From Destruc
ton by the FLAMES.

gainesville. o., Sept. 29.-- The
bravery of two telephone girls, Hazel
Christian and Alice Warren. sleeping
in the telephone exchange at Perry
a village near here, saved that town
from total destruction by fire early
today.
Fire broke out in store beneath
the exchange. The girls were alone
but stuck to their posts. and tele-
phoned the sleeping citizens. They
had trouble in getting answers to
their calls, and then they called to
the gainesville and Madison fire de-
partment for help.
While talking with the gainesville
fire chief the flames burned the wires
and the girls in their night clothes
stumbled down the stairs through
the smoke to the street.
Two stores. a livery stable ana res
idence we're burned before aid from
other towns arrived. Loss $25 900
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
News of Theatres

Within a short while beautiful
Florence Gear. in the merry musical
comedy Fluffy RufIles" will hold
forth at the Kentucky theater. The
part OF Fluffy Ruffles" is said to at
Miss Gear even better than did
Marrying Mary" and her success in
that role was the talk OF last season
A hint Of the quality Of the company
that is supporting Miss Gear Is con.
veyed By the statement that every
part 10 taken by a specially chosen
artist A has always been her GUS
tom. Miss Gear is displaying some
stunning gowns and hats.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
DANDRUFF
Failing Hair and Itching Scalp arr
Caused by Microbes.

There is no doubt about it. Doc
tor Sabourand proved It when he in
fected guinea pig with dandruf
germs and all It's hair disappeared
In a short time. The entire medi-
cal world has accepted DR.. sabou-
rand's discovery as final. Ask any
worthy physician.
Paris leads the world In knowl-
edge OF diseases of the hair aud
remedies for the same.
And Partisan Sage which can nov
be obtained at leading druggists all
over America is the one great REM
edy that kills the dandrun germs.
And that is why w. J. Gilbert says
10 every reader OF the Paducah sun
II Partisan Sage does not Danish dan
druff. stop falling hair or itching
scalp in two weeks he viii refund
the purchase price.
Dandruf is the forerunner CT
badness. Take care OF your hair
while you have hair TO take care Oh.
XIII the dandruf germs now before
the dandruff germs kin your hair.
Use Partisan Sage, the guaranteed
dandruff cure and delightful hair
dressing.
II is used extensively by ladies Of
refinement because II keeps tho
scalp absolutely clean and gives u
bewitching lustre TO the hair. Price
80 cents at w. J. Gilbert's drug
store and leading druggists every
where. Girl with Auburn hair IN
every package. Made in America by
Glroux Mfg. Co. Buffalo, N. Y, Mail
orders filled. all charges prepaid.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
"The Golden Girl"

LOrt II. Singer. who has produced
the many successes that have made
the LaSalle and Princess theaters
famous. has exceeded all former ex-
penditures in his production OF THE
Golden Girl" which comes to the
Kentucky theater during November
as this new musical comedy Is said
to have cost $50 900 before the cur
tain went up on the first perform
anee. His good judgment, however
was shown by the phenomenal run
of this play in Chicago, where IL re,
ceived its premiere. as well as its
remarkable success on the road.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

Another large audience witnessed
a Daughter OF Judea" last night
which In the hands Of the Gertrude
Ewing company, was a capable and
pleasing rendition, Miss Ewing show.
ing to special advantage "a Leah.
and demonstrated her superior abil-
ity as to an emotional actress. Miss
Ewing's support was adequate in ev-
cry way, especially so was MIR
Bracket as Rudolph" The vaude'
Vile numbers again scored hits and
Is a feature with the compeny. To-
night they present the sensational
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

The. steamer Mississippi will be
met by a scout tug. decorated in the
national colors. which will return
ahead of the fleet to announce the
coming of the presidential party. As
the feet comes into view, the presi-
dental salute will be fired from the
heights overlooking the town and in
view of the river.
The flagship will land at o'clock
p. M, and the president will be met
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
WARM WELCOME FOR TAFT.
Provided by the People of Hickman
with Gov. Wilson as Speaker.

Hickman, k, Sept 29.-The pro.
gram has been arranged and APP
proved by President Taft for the
hour President Taft will be in Hick-
man on October 26 Great arrange
ments are being made for this DAY
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

at the wharf by the governor, the
Hon. Augustus e. Wilson, together
with the local committees. The pro.
gram follows:
Cd March to pagoda accompanied
by band playing "Stars and Stripes
Forever"
CD Introductory speech by the
Hon. Augustus E. Wilson, governor
of Kentucky.
CD The presidents address.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29
MRS. PAYNE DIES
AT La CENTER, KY.
WIFE OF sToKELY PAYNE sue
CUMBS To LONG ILLNESS.
She Was Native of MaNon Mills, This
county, and Had Many
Friends Here.
SHE LEAVES FOUR CHILDREN

La Center, Sept. 29.-Mrs. stokley
Payne. 81 years old, died yesterday
afternoon about 1 o'clock after a two
weeks illness OF complications
Death came quietly as she was sur
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

ALL of~the newest things in la
dies and children's sweaters have ar
rived at b. Wellle & Son.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-29

comedy drama. "slaves of the Orient
with special scenery. costuming and
new vaudeville. Camille" and the
directorie bown will be Thursday
nights offering.