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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22

Colorado Springs, Col, Sept. a.
The scenes attending the passage OF
the presidential train along the route
today were repetition of those OF
yesterday. Crowds at every way
station cheered and waved to the
passing train.
The entire population of Colorado
Springs turned out to welcome the
president upon his arrival here al
$3.50 this afternoon. A reception
committee was In waiting at the sta.
ton to escort the president on his
drive about the city. After stay Of
one hour the presidential party de-
parted for Pueblo.
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L. c. c. Hearing in Salt Lake.

Salt Lake City,fi Utah. Sept. a.
Commissioner Prouty of the inter
state commerce commission gave a
hearing in this city today in the
case of the commercial club traffic
bureau of Salt Lake against the At
Crimson, Topeka & Santa Fee Rail
way and other carriers. The case
involves freight rates on both west
bound and eastbound traffic.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22
Busy Day For President.

Denver, Col. Sept. 22.-When
President Taft awoke this morning
he found before him the busiest day
that he has experienced so far on
his transcontinental tour. Shortly
after 8 o'clock he departed for Wolf
hurst to spend the forenoon as the
guest of Thomas F. Walsh. The
program for the afternoon provided
for visits to Colorado Springs and
Pueblo. At the last named place
the presidential party will be guests
of the state fair
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22
North Carolina Shooting Tourney.

North Carolina Shooting Tourney.
Durham, N. c., Sept. 22.-The an
nual meeting and tournament of the
North Carolina Sportsmen's associa-
ton opened at George Lyon park to-
day, with about thirty crack shots
fro North and South Carolina and
Virginia present. A larger attend
ance is expected tomorrow, when the
most important events on the pro-
gram are to be held.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22

Moscow on their wedding trip, in
company with the father and mother
and younger brother Of the bride
groom. The parents and younger
brother will then continue on their
way to China and the bridal couple
will spend the rest of their honey
moon in Europe.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22
First Hudson Celebration.

Lewes, Del, Sept. 22.-An inter-
esting celebration of the tercenten-
NAL of the Hudson-DeVries discov-
cry and settlement was held here to-
day. Delegations from Dover. Will
mington and other Delaware cities
took part in the program.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22

Take warning ana save money. On
September l coaster brakes will ad-
vance Csc. J. J. Eyer, IA N. Mis-
sion 80
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22
Michigan POstmasters Meet.

Grand Rapids, Mich, Sept. a.
The Michigan State League of Post
masters. comprising the postmasters
of the third and fourth class Offices
began its annual convention in this
city today with large and repre-
sentative attendance. The program
of the gathering covers two days
and provides for addresses and dis
cussions dealing with numerous prob
lens relating to the postal service
and the duties of the postmaster
P. S. Darlington is in Chelan this
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-22

The Rebekahs will hold their reg
ular meeting tonight in the l. o. O.
F. hall.
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]. H. Miller, of Cashmere, Is in
town today.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
A GOOD sHEEP-EEEDlNG TROUGH

Every feature of sheep raising should
be carefully studied If one would make
success in this business. No detail
looking to their care and comfort is
too small to be overlooked.
A fatbottom trough is better for
feeding sheep, as they will not waste
so much by pushing the feed out as
in the case Of the V-shaped trough.
The slower eaters also get little
better chance. A trough with an eight
inch bottom board and four-inch side
boards, beveled slightly so as to give
the trough wider top than bottom
makes a splendid feeding device fol-
ewes.
Corn and bran mixed may be made
in any proportion, onefourth corn to
three-fourths bran or one third corn
The former is preferable If the ewes
are thin and until they get accustomed
to the food.
One important matter is to have a
separate feed lot where the feed NAV
be properly placed in the troughs be-
fore the sheep are let into the lot; this
gives better chance for all to get ar
equal share.
1t is never advisable to leave the
weak in the main flock
AS soon as an animal is noticed seri-
ously on the decline take it out. Have
lot and shed where this class OF
ewes may be placed to recuperate I'M
der little better care and where they
will have better chance to eat SLOWLY
and get their allowance.-G. w. Her
yey,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
THESE HINTS MAY HELP

Every farm ought to be equipped
with a crowbar and ten-foot IRON
tipped wooden spike for moving heavy
objects. They save time and take the
place of muscle.
The best way to mend straps on
common farm work harness is to rivet
with copper rivets. They never rot
and hold better than wax ends.
1t will pay to have on hand dupli-
Gates of the most breakable parts of
the harvester. 1t costs time which is
money, to stop a machine in rush days
to wait for the broken parts.
Every farm ought to have. a little
workshop, stocked with few good
tools and plenty of bolts of various
sizes, nuts. rivets, a few pieces of
round and strap iron and such things.
If you happen to run into poison ivy,
wash in hot water just as soon as you
can. Grindelia, which can be had at
any drug store, rubbed on the parts
every five minutes until the itching
stops, will also cure it. ii done before
the pustules break,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
A FIFTY-YEAR-OLD FARM

Last year we enriched a field with
a heavy coat of manure with a view
OF double cropping it this year.
ton since 1858. That season the writer
planted it in corn and sold the crop (a
fine one) for 1871 cents per bushel.
Last May we drilled this field with
peas for the cannery. They did not do
as well as usual because Of heavy rains
during the planting and very hot and
dry weather succeeding, which baked
the soil.
After the peas were gathered the
field was replowed and planted in
sweet corn and white kidney beans.
After these crops were taken Off the
field was sown in Turkey red wheat.
A few years ago we grew three crops
from the same ground in the season.
One acre was planted with peas for
early market in rows 81 feet apart.
When we began picking the peas the
toes were planted. BY the time the
potatoes were ready for cultivation the
pea vines were removed and potatoes
cared for
We had transplanted celery plants
ready for setting by the time the pota.
toes were laid by in August, and the
celery was planted In the pea row mid
dies.
The fall being late we secured fine
crop of celery for the winter pits
]. H. Haynes, Indiana.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
FENCE RAIL PHILOSOPHY

The neighbor you slight to- day may
be just the man you need Tomorrow.
To appreciate the power OF parents
influence over the lives Of their chill
dren we need only to observe the I'M
bounded faith of the babe. II that
faith is ever destroyed it is not the
fault Of the child.
It's a wise parent, but not always a
happy one, that knows its own child.
A boastful man deceives nobody but
himself.
Good neiglbors are always known
by the line fence they KEEP.
A sheep-killing dog is the most de-
spised animal on the place and foul
minded man comes next.
The farmer who spends four or five
hours trying to make something that
can be bought in the city for half q
dollar is on the wrong track.
If you have an idle day for a team
and neighbor is behind with his work
you have an opportunity to add an
other star to your crown.
If you know a neighbor who does
not attend the Institutes you will be
doing him good turn by inviting him
and his wife to take a seat in your
surrey next time you go.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
BUSY DAYS IN THE SHEEP PEN

The lambing season is now here and
the shepherd who loves his sheep and
is in the business for profit can call no
hour. day or night, his own until all
the lambs have been dropped and have
been properly cared for.
This is particularly. true of a large
flock, but even on the average farm
where a dozen or two of ewes are kept
loss of lambs is almost certain to occur
unless greatest care is taken to pro-
vide the ewes with warm, comfortable
quarters and proper feed at the crit
ical time
The ewes should be separated from
the main flock and if each eve could
nave a little pen for her own, so much
the better. By this arrangement the
shepherd can look after each eve much
better than if they are allowed to run
with the flock.
In the case of twins the eve fire.
quently clings to one and rejects the
other, and this is frequently the
stronger one
the Weakling does not get his sup
ply of milk the shepherd must assist
him to do so. and it is often necessary
to catch the eve and hold her While
the lamb suckles.
Often eve will refuse her lamb.
even though it is a single one, and she
must then be shut up with the lamb
for several days and she must be held
while the lamb sucllles and until she
owns it,
Sometimes the eve dies in giving
birth to the lamb, and it is then neces-
sary to have some other eve adopt it,
and If this is not possible it must be
brought up by hand on cows milk.
This Is a lot of trouble, but it pays if
your lambs are thoroughbred.
At first the milk must be slightly
warmed and the lamb should be fed
at least dozen times day. The
number of feelings can be gradually
reduced until the lamb learns to drink,
when it may be fed four or five times
a day.
The great loss of lambs on the aver
age farm comes from exposure during
the night. Lambs are dropped in ex-
posed places and quickly become
chilled. and unless the ewes are con-
fned in comfortable quarters or in
single pens the shepherd must spend
much OF the night with his flock to
prevent such accident.
a chilled lamb can be quickly dried
hy placing 1t in a pail OF water nearly
as hot as the hand can bear, sousing him
all over, just leaving his nostrils ex-
posed and nothing more. If the lamb
is very badly chilled pour off the water
and fill the bucket again.
AS soon as he revives rub dry with
a cloth. feed him some warm cows
milk and in an hour or so he will be all
right and may be put back with his
mother.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
IS DEHORNINa CRUEL?

Inquiries are frequently received as
to whether the operation of dehorning
is very painful. and whether it may
not be classed as cruelty to animals.
Those who have had an extensive ex-
perience in dehorning appear to agree
that the pain induced by the operation
has been greatly overestimated, as
careful observation has shown that
shrinkage in the yield of milk as well
as of butter fat following the dehorn-
ing of cows is temporary and insig-
nificant.
On the other hand, the worry, pain
and cruelty often inflicted by cattle
upon their mates before being deprived
of their horns are much more to be
considered, and not infrequently result
in the death of valuable animal.
neighbor on an adjoining farm to
that owned by the writer few years
ago lost two good mich COWS in one
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
AMONG THE LIVE STOCK

Pork production returns to the soil
the grain food elements that are con-
sumed by the hogs, but cattle and
sheep feeding make possible the use of
clover, alfalfa and corn fodder and re-
turn them to the soil in a manner that
will encourage the growth of more
clover, alfalfa and grain in the crop
rotations and thus preserve the fer
tility of the soil.
The men who are most interested are
the ones who raise their own feeders
and make a practice of taking the very
best of care of their animals. No man
can go out and buy the class of young
feeders that are demanded in the pro-
duction of baby beef.
The advocate of baby beef has as
his chief argument that young and
growing animals make cheaper gains
than older ones, or that the cost of a
pound of gain increases with the age
of the animal This law is we'll estab-
lished and. is primarily due to the fact
that growth and lean meat require less
food for it's production than does fat
for lean meat is watery tissue COM
pared with fat, and is less concen-
trated product. Fat is the most con-
centrated animal product we have.
Experiments at the Kansas and In
diana stations show that the continued
feeding of moldy corn to horses causes
nervous and Intestinal troubles of a
serious nature.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
HELPS ALONG THE WAY

A Nebraska correspondent wants to
know If sorghum and millet are safe
for horses. They are not
Why should such feed as sorghum
and millet be used when there are SO
many more suitable feeds just as easily
raised on the farm?
If you have plenty of feed it does
not pay to sell off the horses in the
fall and buy them back again in the
spring. The market is wrong at both
seasons.
A mortgage on the farm is not such
deadly thing after all, provided the
farmer is young, willing to work and
reads good farm papers. Under these
conditions mortgages will not last
long.
How some of us missed the soiling
crops when the awful drought came
on last summer! But will we miss
them again?
There is no doubt that some Of our
college experts have. discovered the
means of killing weeds with chemicals,
but the time will never come when we
can with safety stop fighting weeds in
the old fashioned way.
out In Iowa farmers are forming CO.
operative associations, and so far they
have been very successful. Is it good
business sense to pay the railroads for
! hauling our live stock to the big pack
ing centers and then pay them again
for hauling the manufactured product
back to us for consumption?
A Pennsylvania man wants to know
how to estimate corn in the crib. If
the crib is the same on all sides null
tiply the length by the breadth in
inches and that by the height in
inches, and divide the product by 274S,
the number of cubic inches in a
heaped bushel, and the result will be
the number of lleaped bushels of ears.
1t is waste of time and a misdirec-
ton of a womans strength to make
soap on the farm. Soap-makers can
make better product than ever was
made on a farm. and cheaper at that.
If you want to have rhubarb earlier
next spring than anybody else in the
neighborhood don't forget to turn a
barrel over one or two good plants
this next fall and cover it with coarse
manure. There should be holes in the
barrel for ventilation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10

winter through their being disembow-
eled by the horns of barnyard mates
While out for exercise. He dehorned
his entire herd almost Immediately aft
erward. The increased safety of the
animals much more than compensates
for any loss Of beauty resulting from
the removal Of horns.
The horns should be severed from
quarter to a half inch below where
the skin joins the base OF the horn,
cutting from the back toward the front.
II the cut is made too high an irreg-
ular, gnarly growth of horn is very
apt to follow. 1t will be seen that the
point of union of the skin and horn
varies in different CATTLE hence there
can be no rule of measurement except
as the eye becomes trained to see the
point or line at which the cut should be
made. In the beef breeds fully one
half inch of skin, all around. is usually
taken off with the horn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
ADVANTAGE OF WOODEN HENS
Increased Egg Production Pos
sibIe by Preventing Hens
From Setting.
BY CHARLES P. EMERSON.

Poultry raisers naturally seek the
most favorable results possible for the
laying capacity of their hens; but even
among breeds of poultry well known
as egg producers not all the hens are
in fact good layers.
A large number of them lay but few
eggs, and often some of these are much
smaller than those from other hens of
the same breed.
The poultry man who would win Pc
cuniary success from egg production
must keep a close watch upon the lay
ing hens, and use for further breeding
eggs from those hens only upon which
the trap-nest sets the seal of success as
egg producers.
According to Darwin, all of our do
nestle breeds of poultry are derived
from the wild fowl; and the mode OF
life and, in particular, the propagation
activity of this original stock, are fan
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10

patch he should select about twenty
of corn of the seed to be planted this
year. termination test should be
made of each ear in order that no
weak ears may be planted. Shell off
and discard the small and irregular
butt and tip grains. Then shell the
ears together and mix thoroughly.
At the usual time Of planting plant
this corn on the south or west side of
the field to be planted with the same
variety. This location should be
changed if it is near a field planted
with another variety. Give this patch
unusual good cultivation, keeping the
ground free from weeds and preserving
loose soil mulch.
When the corn is five or six inches
high go through the patch and remove
all weak or backward plants. Also
when the tassels begin to appear go
through and remove all stalks which
are either weak, barren, smutted badly,
suckered, or for other reasons undesir-
able When the corn is mature, and
not later than Oct. Is, the seed should
be harvested. Select the seed ears
from the strongest stalks with the
large leaf development and those bear
ing the ears four or five feet from the
ground and holding it in right posi-
ton.
Through the seed corn patch the
farmer can do much to fix a desirable
type in his corn and to reduce the
number Of barren, diseased and suck
cred stalks that appear in his field. 1t
also furnishes him a convenient place
from which his seed corn in the fall
can be selected and he knows that it
is from the best seed that he planted
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
NuBBlNs OF FARM NEWS

In 1908 Utah raised over 1O0,0 0o, 900
pounds of beet sugar and now ranks
fourth in the production of that mo-
cessity.
Beauty doctors are treating the faces
of their patients with egg omelets.
which means boon to the poultry
men. Is that why eggs have gone up
lately?
A movement is on foot among or
chardists and horticultural societies
looking to the passage Of an insecti-
eide law at the next session Of con-
gress. The proposed legislation is to
be on the order of the pure food law.
only that it is to relate to materials
that are used in mixtures for spraying
as well as in other ways for extermi.
mating pests.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10

other than those of the present domes-
TIC breeds descended from it.
The wild fowl lays from seven to
twelve eggs, and is then seized with an
eagefness to brood; while our domestic
hens in general show far less inclina-
ton to sit.
Even those breeds which are known
as brooders lay (their eggs being re-
moved daily from the nest) larger
number of eggs before they develop the
desire to sit; and some breeds sit very
rarely.
Yet even in laying" focks much
trouble is experienced in practice with
individual broody hens.
Excessive inclination to brood js in
itself sign that the birds affected are
reverting toward the original type:
that is, they are approaching ever
nearer to the natural state, which
would be to lay small number of
eggs and then hatch them.
During the time when the hen is sit
ting, or raising her chickens, she lays
no eggs; and some hens are scarcely
through with the labor of raising one
brood when the desire to sit returns.
In small business a few such hens
can greatly reduce egg production.
While the inclination to brood, in a
moderate degree, is essential to the
business of those who raise poultry
upon small scale and for some reason
prefer not to use incubators, yet an
excess of the brooding propensity must
be- carefully prevented.
Now, how is, this evil to be met
There are few means to restrict the
disposition to brood; and most OF
those which are known are objections
able, either because of the waste of
! time which they involve or because
| they are not sufficiently effective. or
because of their cruelty
There is, however, one method which
has been tested for years, and has
proved a success in checking the tend
ency to revert to the broody wild type
and in restoring the egg production.
The method is this: First, isolate
the hen in place where she will have
no opportunity to sit upon a nest. and
good nourishing feed, including a
| generous amount Of green, will soon re-
store her egg production.
BY this method large egg produc-
tion can be obtained without using any
means which shall be cruel to the
hen.
With those breeds which are giver
to excessive sitting nothing can be
done; it is therefore advisable to Sc.
lect only breeds of the mon roodine'
class, with only few hens of the
brooding class added for work in thei,
own special line.
From among the nom breeders lie,
the best layers be selected, in orde,
to maintain, through these, the layins
qualities Of the stock: other hens thai
show great brooding proclivities should
be removed.
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
RYE OR CORN FOR SWINE

What number of pounds a bushel of
corn or rye will put on hog in good
growing condition is one of the very
many questions our experiment sta
tions have endeavored to answer by a
series of scientific tests.
These experiments have shown that
the average weight gained by hogs I'M
der good conditions is about twelve
pounds to the bushel of corn.
This of course varies with different
conditions of feeding, etc. Rye is a
little less valuable, pound for pound.
being about the same as barley. and
producing on the average about ten
pounds.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-04-10
SHEEP LIKE PUMPKINS

Common field pumpkins are invalu-
able aids to the shepherd at this time
of the year. Sheep will eat them
greedily and gain in weight rapidly
when feeding upon them.
There is never any danger of feeding
pumpkins, as they do not cause bloat
or Indigestion; and then, too, the
pumpkin seeds are an excellent vermi-
fuge and when fed in large amounts
serve to expel tapeworms and doubt
less other forms of internal parasites.
The seeds are the richest and most
valuable part of the pumpkin, and con-
sumed alone would prove too rich for
the sleeps digestion; but when eaten
with the pumpkin itself they do no
harm.
Do not break open nor cut into the
pumpkins when they are thrown to
the sheep upon pasture, but permit
them to gnaw into their shells at their
own will, and this process will be suffi-
GENTLY difficult, SO that when they get
one broken open they will consume 1t
entirely before attacking another.