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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
FEED RACK FOR THE LAMBS

To get the best results from feed
stock should have feed-saving and con-
venient racks and boxes.
Sometimes there is more feed wasted
than eaten by the stock especially
when the corn is thrown out in mud
eight OF. ten inches deep for the hogs
to muss over, or when sheaf oats and
clover hay are piled out by post or
against the side of the shed to be
trampled under foot by the cattle and
horses.
A feed rack made like the one in
the picture may be moved around the
lot or field. 1t is handy to use for the
hay or sheaf oats. Just drive up to
the barn door, fill in what feed is
wanted, then drive to where it is to be
used.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
WEARS OUT HIS FARM IN A SINGLE LIFETIME
Rich Soil Rendered Sterile Through Continuous
Bad Cropping and Poor Management of Fertility

for a series Of years. And many an
other Illinois farm has been practically
ruined in the same time, though per-
haps not many by the so-called farm
ing of one person.
The owner can never build UP"
such land. The utmost he can do is
to live. He has not even a dollar per
acre to invest in improvement. Money
for such wise investment must come
from outside the farm.
1t takes little longer to ruin the
richer land of central Illinois, but it
can be done just as certainly, as is
shown by the thirty years of continu-
Gus corn growing on one Of the uni
versity plots at Urbana.
Now every intelligent farmer is be-
ginning to see that without some
proper care and repair his soil will not
maintain itself forever, any more than
would his buildings. And happily in
most parts Of Illinois the farmers are
still able to improve or to preserve
their soil.
Nothing more significant to Ameri-
can agriculture has ever been uttered
than the two sides of the same propo-
sition persistently taught by DR.. Cyril
soil expert, as follows:
ITO permanently maintain profitable
systems of agriculture is our most i'm
portant material problem, not only in
Illinois but in the United States.
IF we shall succeed in Illinois in
discovering and adopting into general
agricultural practice systems of farm
ing that will restore our soils to their
virgin fertility and permanently MAIN
tain high productive capacity for
these Illinois lands, it will be the first
time for this to be accomplished any
where in the world over such an area"
This is getting down to bedrock in
agriculture. The most far sighted and
unselfish farmers are just beginning
to comprehend the literal meaning of
these facts and the advisability of act
ing upon them before it is too late.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
BY ARTHUR s. BILL,
Illinois.

"Our inexhaustibly rich soil" and
many similar expressions to indicate
that the land would never become less
productive were quite common a dec
ade ago. But you seldom hear such
words now; they are passing away
with many other thoughtless conceits.
But whoever heard of man taking
q piece of virgin soil and literally
wearing 1t out in his own lifetime?
A most impressive illustration of this
very thing recently came under the
writer's personal observation, few
miles from Carbonate in southern
Illinois
A man now we'll along in his nine
ties is living upon a 12o-acre farm
which he secured from the govern
ment about sixty years ago at Sl.25 an
acre. The place has never been trans
ferred to another person.
1t was good ground and used TO
produce thirty-five bushels of wheat
per acre, but has been farmed so con-
stantly to corn and wheat without any
intelligent rotation or provision to re-
turn the plant food taken off in the
crops that now the produce of the land
barely enables the occupants to exist.
The last wheat crop was two BUSH
els per acre. Probably less than ten
BUSHES of corn per acre were raised
there this year. The land can be
counted on for little if any more than
O quarter of an average crop. Some
of this land must lie idle every year
to rest up for the next crop-as the
writer saw.
A nearby farmer has forty bushels
of corn per acre and may have above
thirty bushels per acre this year. Land
is good price in that locality.
For any real farming that contem-
plates more than keeping soul and
body together this farm has been
ruined 1t will amount to nothing
until 1t has the effect of right treat
ment, and rather expensive treatment,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
A few SHEEP FOR EVERY FARM
Small Flock of Sheep Properly Looked After Is
Source of Profit Any Farm

But the farmer must not fail to care
for these few sheep. The beginner can
learn more from few sheep than
from many; he can know each one
individually and its troubles. II you
are to do sheep any good when ailing
you must get at them quickly
If the sheep drops the angle OF its
ear few degrees there IS something
the matter, demanding immediate at
tention. The owner should see the
sheep each day. The ram should be
allowed with the ewes sonly at the
breeding season.
The most advantageous time to sell
a sheep is when it is lamb. II the
lamb weighs 80 pounds, is fat and has
the quality, it will sell as prime lamb
the year around; if it weighs 81 to IS
pounds on the farm it will weigh about
80 pounds on the market.
With this weight the buyer is more
assured that he Is getting lamb, and
the cuts are more convenient to use.
The average person eats about the
same number of chops and it is more
economical to get the smaller ones.
The roast cuts are also more con-
venient to use. To-day the SO-pound
lamb is most popular.
1t Is Important to see to it that this
lamb is fat; if not, it will be discrimi-
mated against. You can't feel the ami
mars ribs very we'll if it is properly
rat, but If the animal is not fat your
hands will rub over it's ribs as they
would over washboard.
Its quality is indicated by short legs,
line feet, compact form, without big,
wasty middle.
The male lamb should by all means
be castrated when s to 16 days old:
but 80 per cent of the owners neglect
to do this and thousands OF dollars
are lost in this manner
There is no mistake about it. Such
lamb always brings less money in
the market
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
RATTLlNG IN CHICKENS THROAT

Rafting in the throat" is promi-
nent symptom of bronchitis. Isolate
all afflicted fowls and begin treatment.
In the early stages of the disease
give one drop of tincture of aconite in
half. teaspoonful of water.
Repeat every hour for five hours, and
then once in three hours. Give a hot
mash of st least one-half bran, the
other half middlings or bread crumbs
Also slightly acdulate the drinking
water with ten drops each Of sulphuric
and nitric acid.
In place of the aconite a teaspoonful
of glycerin and about two drops OF
whisky added will often allay the irri
tation. Repeat daily for about week
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
A H0G.RINGING BOX

One of the incest labor saving de-
vices is an attachment like one shown
in the picture-a hog-ringing outfit.
1t may be attached to any ordinary
hog box or may be made in connec-
ton when the box is made.
The space between the upright pieces
may be contracted or made larger by
the changing of the pins which hold
them in place.
The lever should work in slot at
the top of the box, SO as to open up
the space, that the hog, after being
ringed, may go on through and not
have to turn back into the pen with
the others.
The lever may be made of by 4
inch piece of oak or other hard wood
and should be put in so as to work
easily, having holes in the box to cor
respond with the ones in the lever
An iron pin is tied.with stout string
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
CARE Of MARKET AND BREEDING HOGS
FEED AND MUST VARIED IN ACCORDANCE w7H MHA7 IS TO
Be DONE WITH THE ANIMAL

OF frame and bone; not fattened on
corn, but expanded by feed rich in
protein.
At to or 10 months of age they
should show more length of body and
more scale than the market hogs and
be smooth and we'll covered, but not so
fat as for market.
This can be very easily done by feed
ing mixed grain ration, with 10 per
cent Of tankage or 10 per cent of oil
meal.
Use corn, barley and oats ground
together, mixed thickly with water and
fed at once while sweet. 1t is much
better to mix three pounds of milk to
one pound of grain.
If one has no milk the next best feed
is 10 per cent of tankage. If one has
the corn and does not want to buy
the mill feeds, he can use 80 per cent
Of corn and 20 per cent Of tankage and
have a we'll balanced ration.
The summer treatment of young pigs
should be about the same as for the
market pigs. For late summer and
fall have made it a practice to have
field OF Evergreen sweet corn to feed
in the roasting ear.
I begin by adding one stalk and ear
for each pig in addition to his other
feed; in few days, two stalks and
two ears, and gradually increase this
amount to full feed, while diminish
ing the other ration.
In winter the brood sows should
have something to take the place OF
the green pasture.
I know of nothing that will equa
alfalfa, bright and green, run through
cutting machine. Two thirds chaffeC
alfalfa and third shelled corn
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
By A. ]. 1oyy1oY.


The pig that Is to be sold for meat
has but few months to live and there
should be no let-up in feeding from
birth.
1t will begin to eat shelled corn at
3 or weeks of age, and a little sweet
ykim milk or a thick mush of the same
material as that given the mother is
great help to hasten growth.
Well bred or even good grade pigs
should weigh so to 80 pounds when
Weaned at months Of age, and should
then go on alfalfa, clover or other
fresh green pasture and have corn
Twice q day.
Late in the summer there should be
ready for them pasture of rape, field
peas or soy beans, besides the corn.
II their teeth become sore, change
TO shelled corn. soaked twenty four
hours in water slightly sailed.
It will pay to have a cool, shady
place where it is rather dark, il pos
sible, for the pigs to lie in during the
heat of the day, with free access to
mixture Of salt, copperas, lime and
ashes.
The feeder should watch closely to
see that every pig Is eating with a
relish.
If pigs cough 1t is probably due to
d dusty shed. Worms will also cause
a cough, and If the hair becomes starv-
Ing and dead in appearance 1t is we'll
10 give worm powder.
In raising hogs to be used as breed
ers the object is very different. They
are not to go to market at to 10
months Of age, but to grow ON to ma
turity.
They should be pushed for rapid
growth, but must be fed for growth
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
FOR THE HORSE RAISER

A we'll matched pair of pure bred
draft mares ought to be worth, in spite
of the autos, $1,000 apiece, and proper
ly bred stations will bring even more
than this.
Many mares are unable to supply
their colts with sufficient milk, particu-
larly when hard worked. In such cases
they should be helped out.
If you cannot afford to buy pure
bred mares at the start, buy the best
you can, then trade and buy until you
can get the real article
If the horses name is heavy and in
clined to work under the collar, thin it
out, because it will almost certainly
cause a sore spot.
1t is easy to teach a sucking colt
how to drink milk and a quart of warm
cows milk in the morning will give it
IL,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
GOOD CELLAR VENTILATION

A cellar that meets modern require
ments must be dug in ground that is
well drained, either naturally or by
artificial means. 1t must be remem-
bered that cellar is not, first of all,
a storeroom; it is an essential part Of
well-planned house, especially neces-
sary in the northern states. in helping
to keep an equable temperature; and
If its walls and floor are what they
should be it prevents dampness and
ground air from rising into the house.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
DAIRY NOTES

Take good care of the calves. for
they are the nursery of the dairy, and
calf which has been raised in the
"potbellied" style on Stops and kept
in a shadeless, CRASHES lot all the
first summer never makes good COW.
Cows should not stand facing win
dow unless the window be covered
with muslin. By the way, the muslin
window in a cow stable is better by
far than glass. It gives subdued
LIGHT and furnishes ideal ventilation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13

the ventilation Is excellent and they
provide warmth and shelter. To make
such a coop first drive single nails
through the hoops on both sides of
each stave, clinohing them firmly.
Divide the barrel In halves by saving
through hoops and bottom. Drive
stakes to hold the coop in place and
provide gate which can easily be
removed. This should be covered with
wire screen small enough to prevent
weasels and other animals from get
ting into the coop.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13

ground the cellar windows must be
wide enough to compensate for their
lack in height, and must be set oppo-
site each other in order to insure good
draft. A method that is sometimes
used is to dig out space in front of
a window, making little area which,
laid in either brick or stone, may be
whitewashed and reflect light into the
cellar as shown; it also allows of sink
ing the cellar window deeper and OBJ
tanning better ventilation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
IN THE ORCHARD
Legg.

When scraping out the decayed cav
ity of a large tree to be afterward
filled with cement, as much care should
be taken to remove every particle of
decayed matter as good dentist does
to remove the decayed matter in a
tooth before filling. Otherwise your
labor is lost.
Whenever large limb is sawed from
the tree the wound SHOULD at once be
covered with wax or thick paint,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
CHEAP CHICKEN COOP

Some Of our grandmothers used to
make chicken coops out of barrels, as
shown in the picture, and they were
very good coops at that. The rounded
sides allow the young chicks to escape
from the treading of the nervous hen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
FORCING RHuBARB

The forcing Of rhubarb has been
much practiced within the last few
years. The Gardeners Chronicle says
a family supply of rhubarb may be
had by forcing the roots In the cellar.
Dig the roots late in the fall and allow
them to freeze before placing them in
frost-proof cellar. Bury them to
depth Of four inches in moist sand
The plants thrive best in total dark
ness. and if the compartment in which
they are growing is comparatively
small lighted lantern kept in the bed
will give heat enough to facilitate
rapid, even growth. In no case should
one attempt to force the plants with
out first freezing them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13

ing the hog.
The box may be set with end next
to the lot or pen in which you have
the hogs. Open the gate little, just
enough so that the box will fill the
opening Keep the end where the
lever is closed until hog is driven
into the box, then open up the lever
end gradually and as the hog starts
to go through close up on his neck.
This will not choke him or damage
him in any way, but will hhold him
until, you put on the "jewelry."-K.
Weslav Griffin.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13
COMFORTABLE SQUIRREL HOUSE

suitable for this purpose, which is
great deal smaller and warmer than
the summer cage. OF course the size
depends on the number of squirrels to
be kept in it. The case shown here is
made Of sound one-inch boards.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-13

Asbestos mats placed under dolly
will protect dining table from hot
dishes.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-02-11
vote against Nardaman.

vote against Vardaman.
Mr.. Percy has in his ranks some
of the prominent oil mill men of
Mississippi who are urging the
Legislature Of Mississippi to NOM
mate Percy.
Now with reference TO the con-
troversy between DIR. Bailey and
Mr.. Vardiman which occurred
eight years ago, and the criticism
by Mr.. Nardiman of the Rev.
Quincy Ewing. / have only this to
say: If Mr.. Percy had been an
ingenious opponent, he would
have quoted the entire article pub
lished in the Commonwealth of
August 18th, 1902. He would have
given the world the criticism which
DIR. Bailey's paper made of Mr..
Nardaman.
Mr.. Vardaman reply to DIR.
Bailey was caustic and severe. But
it was not more severe than the
criticism DR.. Bailey's paper made
of Mr.. Vaadaman.
But Mr.. Percy was not interested
in doing exact justice to Mr.. Ward
aman-he was no. solicituus that
the legislators should know the
truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth about this transac-
ton.
His purpose in quoting that old
worn-out political hack the in.
temperate editorials was TO injure
Mr.. Vardaman with the legislators.
Mr. Percy was equally disingen-
uous in quoting from the editorial
criticising DR.. Quincy Ewing
But why waste time?
These editorials have done serv-
ice in other political campaigns.
They we're published in black
type, hashed and rehashed in the
campaign Of 1908. together with q
lot Of slanderous and mendacious
stuff which the enemies Of Mr.,
vardaman employed in the cam.
paien of 1903. IN which be wal
o1eeesd oovsrnor.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-02-11
OVERTAXED
Hundreds of Aberdeen Readers
Know What 1t Means.

The kidneys are overtaXed; have
too much to do. They tell about it in
many aches and pains Backache,
sideache, headache. Easily symptoms
of kidney ills. Urinary troubles, dia-
betes, Bright's disease follow.
An Aberdeen citizen tells here. the
way to keep the kidndys well.
j. p, Sheppasd, Maple St., Aber-
deem, Miss. says: II actually believe
that Doan's Kidney Pills are worth
their weight in gold. Eight years ago
l strained my back while carrying
some heavy lumber and as the result
l was laid up for few days. From
that time on / frequently had pains
in my back and suffered severely.
Whenever | arose from chair, a
sharp catch caught me and it was Of
ten impossible for me to straighten.
The strain brought on the mucles of
my loins while working aggravated
my suffering and | was in misery,
when someone told me of Doan's
Kidney Pills. | at length procured a
box at the Phoenix Drug Co. and be-
gan their use. They cured me and |
only wish that the great value of
Doan's Kidney Pills might be made
known to all persons who suffer as
did,
For sale by all dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo.
New York, sole agents for the Omitted
States. Remember the name
Doar 's-andtake no other.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-02-11

As further proof of the ungen-
erous purpose of Mr.. Percy in re-
producing these editorial excerpts,
| am going to reproduce here an
extract from an interview which
friend wires me from Greenville,
Miss, given out by Mr.. Percy on
the 23rd day of May, 1908, and
published in the Greenvilie Times
of that date.
Mr.. Percy had read the Quincy
Ewing, and the Roosevelt and Bal
ley criticisms. But Notwithstanding
all that he is reported as saying of
Major Nardaman:
Il feel, if elected, that Major
Varda man will give a clean and
fearless administration-one gov
erned by patriotic impulses and
high ideas. And il his appoint
ments he will be influenced by the
good people of the state alone, seek
men best qualified to serve, not
designing to create henchmen to
forward his political fortunes. He
will give an administration un-
smirched by scandal and untainted
by political jobbery Influenced by
suchI motives, lifetime resident of
the delta thoroughly cognizant
with the paramount Importance of
the levee question, conversant with
the peculiar local conditions ex-
listing here. the people behind the
levees could rest assured that their
interests were in safe hands intrust-
ed to him And this consideration
| is potential in influencing me to
favor his candidacy and support
him.
The bitterest enemies of Major
Vardaman" will not deny that he
made good as governor. And that
everv good thing predicted of his
administration BY Mr.. Percy in
1903 was fulfilled.
AS to the criticism of Theodore
Roosevelt, I have no desire to ex-
plain. or apologize
Nothing was said in that editor
Iial deroeatory to the good woman
who gave him birth.
When the editorial was written.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1910-02-11
AS TO MR. PERCY.

My attention has been called to
a communication to the Jackso n
Evening News Of the 31st of jan
uary, by Hon. Leroy Percy. in
which that distinguished gentleman
sees fit to make certain observations
and charges which call for atten-
tion at my hands.
After quoting from an editorial
publihsed in a recent number of
The Issue, he says: This is mere
empty vaporing, or a deliberate
charge that all of the trusts and
corporate influences in the state of
Mississippi are actively engaged in
corrupting the Legislature in order
to bring about Nardaman's defeat !;
that only the pure in heart are
supporting him, and only such legis-
iators are to be found opposing him
as have been corrupted and debau-
ched by trust and corporate inhu-
ence."
This statement is wholly gratui-
tous.
1t is not justified by anything
written or said by Mr.. Vardiman.
There was nothing in The Issue of
the 29th ult. to call for il. or in
the least justify it.
Nothing was said about de
bauching the Legislature. Not one
word was written about bribing
the Legislature, or corrupt in
fiuence upon the Legislature.
Just why Mr.. Percy saw fit to
write that. am going to let the
reader draw his own conclusions.
| am sure it is not case where
the wicked is fleeing when no man
pursueth.
Now | did state teat the railroad
attorneys and the represen tatives of
the lumber trust, and the oil trust,
and the whiskey trust, and every
other trust that do business in the
state of Mississippi have their
agents In jackson fighting Varda-
mans nomination. And the MEM
bers of the Legislature know that
to be true.
/ did not say that the candid ate 9
for the senate had brought the rep
resentatives of the trusts and the
railroads here to fight for them.
only said that the representa-
tives of the trusts were here.
Mr.. Percy wants names.
1t is not necessary to call names.
Mr.. Percy knows who they are.
| He knows that the attorneys for
the Yazoo and Mississippi! Valley
Railroad, and the Illinois Central
Railroad. and the Southern Rail-
road. have been here in Jackson
urging the legislators to vote fol-
him, or to vote against vardaman.
| He knows that the chief counsel
Of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
for Mississippi and the special
scent o. the Nozzle and Ohio fol
| Min1innippi haxe been Ia Jackson