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Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
Proposals
FOR
Driving City Sprinkling
Wagon
SEASON OF 1910.

Pursuant to law and resolution OF the Board
of Trustees OF the City Of Jackson, California
adopted April z, 1910 the undersigned will re-
ceive bids at his office in the Mareia building
Court street, Jackson, California, until O'Clock
p M on May 6, 1915, for doing the following
work. to wit:
Driving the City Sprinkling Wagon during
the coming season Contrac tor to furnish
frst-cIass four-horse team and driver over
twenty-one years Of age, work to be prosecuted
ten hours day, seven days a week
The successful bidder will be required to give
security in the sum Of S5G0O0 for the faithful
performance of the work and will be required
to water the public streets of the City of Jack
cordlng to specifications on file in the office OF
the City Clerk Failure so to do will work o
cancellation of the contract, and subject the
bidder to the penalty of his bond.
Right reserved to reject any and all bids.
G. M KELLEY,
City Clerk.
Dated April 16, 1910 ap1S3
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
WET AND DRY MOONS.
Old Superstition and Cold Facts From
the Astronomers.

Old Superstition and Cold Facts From
the Astronomers.
There is an old superstition which
dies hard, and that is that the posi-
ton of the horns of the new moon
tells what the weather will be. If the
horns of the crescent are on the same
level it will hold water, and hence it
Is dry moon. but if it is tipped up
then the water will run out, and it is
wet moon.
One thing has helped keep this be-
lief alive. The moon is dry il the
part Of the spring that is usually fair,
while it is wet" during the season Of
autumn rains.
If this were sure sign of the
weather we could have our predic-
tions published many years in ad-
vance, for an astronomer can predict
the exact position of the moon at any
time in the future.
The cause for the different positions
of the crescent is simple. The moon is
south of the sun in the autumn and
north of it in spring. The crescent is
found by the light of the sun falling
on the moon, and the horns are natu-
rally in a line perpendicular to the di-
rection of the sun from the moon.
That is all there is to this old super
stition.-Boston Herald.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
Valuable Horse
In Smash Up

A horse trainer named Hartte, met
with an accident last week that might
have proved very disastrous, but which
turned out to-. be triflng. Hartte was
driving Duke, a pacing stallion along
the county road near Amador at pretty
good gate, when his cart struck a pile
of rocks in the roadway. and the shaft
snapped. The driver was thrown to the
roadway, ssand the horse ran into an in
closure at the Keystone mine, and there
fell and was captured by miners, and
taken to the livery stable where his
owner received him.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
Heiress Eloped With
a Young Clerk

Evansville, lnd.-Miss Bessie Morgan
of Owensboro, KY, an heiress under
age, whose mother is worth several mil
lion dollars, eloped with and was ymar-
ried to Forrest E. Miller, an Owensboro
clerk, while her father hastened to
Jefferson, Ind, thinking they were run
ming to that Gretna Green.
The brides twin sister recently mar
ried Jack M. Barrett, cigar salesman
of San Francisco, who, when she de-
serted him, sued her father for alienat-
ing her affections, but finally agreed to
give her divorce Tor a money con-
sideration.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
Candy As Food
Ably Discussed

Anxious mothers, says writer on
household topics in the Boston Herald,
who read what is said on both sides of
the sweet question, and who want to
take good care of their children's
health, but not to deny them any harm
less pleasure, must be sadly perplexed
One class Of writer's consider sugar in
any shape as next to poison, and seem
to hold it responsible for half the ills of
life. If you follow their teachings, YOU
will feel it criminal to let child ever
taste sweets.
On the other side, we read how very
nourishing sugar is, how different
governments give their soldiers extra
rations OF sugar when there are special
demands on their strength and endur-
ance. Then there are reports of fatten-
ing cattle on treacle, and interesting
items on the fine teeth and good health
of the negroes on sugar plantations, and
the great amount of sugar cane they eat.
Reading such articles one might think
it duty to give children all the sugar
they want
Both views are extreme and not ap-
plicable TO the case. The fine teeth of
most negroes is a race Characteristic,
and probably is no more affected by
their diet than is their kinky hair, and
children don't have to do the work of
soldiers or plantation hands. But lik-
ing for sweets is surely natural taste.
All domestic and most wild animals are
fond OF sugar and honey and all chill
dren and most grown people like sweets
so well that it's pity they should not
have reasonable amount if it does not
do them any real harm.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson in late lee
ture on the subject carries the discus
sion further along. He says
"Give children plenty of pure sugar,
taffy and butterscotch, and they'll have
little need of cod liver oil. In short,
sugar is. after meat, bread and butter,
easily our next important and necessary
food. You can put the matter to a test
very easily Just leave off the pie,
pudding and other desserts at your lunch
or midday dinner. You'll be astonished
to find out how quickly you'll feel
empty again, and how unfinished
the meal will seem. You can't get anv
workman to accept dinner pail with
out pie in it. And he's absolutely
right. The only thing that can take the
place of sugar is beer or wine. 1t is a
significant fact that the free lunch
counters run in connection with bars
furnish every imaginable thing except
sweets. Even the restaurants and lunch
grills attached to saloons or bars often
refuse to serve deserts of any sort
They know their business. The more
sugar and sweets man takes at a meal
the less alcohol he wants Conversely,
nearly every drinking man will tell you
he has lost his taste for sweets. The
more candy nation consumes, the less
alcohol.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
Narrow Escape.

She-Of course he bored me awfully,
but don't think l showed it. Every
time yawned l just hid it with my
hand. He Crying to be gallant-Real-
ly l don't see how a hand so small
ould-er-hide - er that is - beastly
weather we're having. isn't it?-Phila-
delphia Press.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13

AN INTEREST in the Sacramento River Power Company
(ncoporated which and controls of the greatest
sources of water power in the West at Kennett Shasta
County, California income to you for fe and to
your heirs after you 1t is mine Of wealth that
be worked out.
Situated at the head of the great Sacramento Valley
with electric roads projected every direction and being
rapidly built only 275 miles from San Francisco and Oak
land and 185 miles from Sacramento to which points eec
trio power is being transmitted, the market is practc
ally unlimited.
Stock is selling at $500 per share payable in five
monthly nstaments if desired per cent discount al
lowed for cash. Only 10000 shares to be sold.
Balance of money required for installation of plant raised
by sale of bonds
By investing you get large interest at small cost
and every share buy will pay so per cent annual dv
dends it's present price when plant is completed. This
will be demonstrated you if you doubt it,
No order accepted for less than 10 shares Remit by
check draft money order If you desire further nfor
nation cut out the attached coupon fill it out and mail to
This will involve obligation to buy stock, but will
bring you full particulars.
Representatives Wanted In Every Town Address
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
A Man Wants to Die

only when a lazy liver and sluggish
bowels cause frightful dependency.
But DR.. Kings New Life Pills expel
poisons from the SYSTEM bring hope
and courage; cure all liver. stomach and
kidney troubles; impartS health and
vigor to the weak, nervous and ailing
25c at Spagnoli's drug store.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
An Old SAVING Amended.

The Man-Won't you marry me,
then? Bachelor Girl-Certainly not!
When singleness is bliss tits folly to
be wives.-Illustrated Bits.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13

A man must be excessively stupid
as well as uncharitable who believes
there is no virtue but on his own side.
Addison.
Amador ledger., 1910-05-13
Told Often Enounh.

"I ought to know what is right and
proper"
"So"
"Yes; I've three grownup daughters
at home to tell me."-Detroit Free
Press.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-19

com bination solution should be freely
used for all forms of mango or
chronic disease Of the skin in hogs.
To destroy lice mixture of equal
parts of kerosene and machine oil,
or one part of turpentine and two
parts Of machine oil, should be ap-
piled to every part of the hog by
means of a rag or swab Of cotton
waste; or it may be applied along
the back. from ears to tail, with a
common machine oil can and allowed
to ooze down the sides Of the hog.
Repeat the application in 10 days.
AS a remedy for lice on black hogs
crude petroleum oil is successfully
used. 1t is mixed with an equal
amount Of warm water and applied
with a spray pump or brush. A re-
petition of the application, in 10 to
IA days, eradicates lice with certainty.
Irritating applications, such as I'M
diluted kerosene, cannot safely be
used on pregnant sows, as abortion
may follow their use.
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PICKED UP IN THE ORCHARD.

The National Plant Introduction
Garden at Chico, California, Is ex-
perimenting with the raising of the
cork oak, which has not yet been
grown commercially in the United
States. The cork Oak thrives in Spain.
where it is the basis of an important
industry.
There are now 100000 acres Of
planted trees in Central Kansas,
where at one time it was thought
trees could not be grown.
To rid a young orchard of Ber-
muda grass, pillow as late in the fall
as you can turn the sod and leave
the roots Of the grass to freeze. Plow-
ing and narrowing in the dry, hot sea.
son of summer will also destroy it,
especially if the roots are exposed to
the sun.
Calcutta India, has an enormo Gus
tree which is noted for its wonderful
gnarled trunk. Out Of this has been
constructed a mosque, and is one OF
the most curious places Of worship in
the world. The natives who gather
in it to say their daily prayers re-
gard the temple of worship with great
reverence.
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Is better. and following clover hay
is best Of all. See that the soil is
inoculated so that you will have bac-
terra there to enable you to get nj
trogen from the air. The best meth
Cd is to use soil that has bacteria
in it already. You can get this from
an old field where alfalfa has been
growing several years. or you can
get it from an old patch Of sweet
clover.
Sow it in at the time you SOW the
seed. When the soil for incubation
becomes somewhat dry it is easily
scattered by hand from the wagon
CT from a sack which one can carry.
sometimes it is. applied by means
OF an end-gate seeder or fertilizer
drill. Don't scatter infected soil over
the land and let it lie for many hours
in the hot sun, for most Of the bacte-
ria will be killed. Use a wagon load
to the acre If you can get it-the
more the better.
Alfalfa is almost always benefited by
moving. Next to that is disl1ing. If it
does not do we'll NOV and disk it. We
want to get nitrogen into the soil
and consequently tho soil must be
open and porus. That Is one reason
why we disk alfalfa when it gets a
year or SO old, after every cutting.
Disk it at first If the ground is hard.
Set the disk not too slanting. so it
won't cut the crowns off, and don't
set 1t so it will cut the roots off,
Disk it twice. If it Is all right.
You can set the disk pretty straight
the first time; the next time set 1t
at a sharper angle.
The two objects are to loosen up
the ground so the nitrogen will enter
and to root out blue grass and foul
weeds. The disking won't kill the
deep alfalfa roots.
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The hog louise is q common cause
of thriftlessness in young pigs and
VIII en- numerous, tends to retard fat
tening in adult hogs and injuriousiy
effects brood sows and boars. It is
advisable and profitable to keep
swine free from lice at all ages and
stages of their existence and develop
ment so far as possible. To this end
their houses, pens and sleeping pla-
ces should frequently be cleaned and
disinfected, the woodwork white
washed, the bedding material kept
fresh, clean and dry and the yards
free from Accommodations Of litter and
filth 1t is impossible to keep hogs
free from lice without maintaining
sanitary conditions in their quarters
and in attempting to rid them or
these pests the treatment must in
clude not only the hogs, but prac-
tically everything with which they
come in contact daily.
To disinfect recently purchased
hogs that possibly may carry disease
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SEVERAL POINTS IN STARTING ALFALFA
BY Dr. Cyril

Alfalfa is a hard crop to start II
is delicate and tender, and to put al
falfa on ordinary land without any
protection or any help, IS about like
throwing away 81 an acre. The mo-
ney is ordinarily wasted If you SOW
it as you would clover or most other
rcrops.
| We want to prepare and enrich
the land and give alfalfa the best
! possible chance to start with. II. the
land is sandy, put on 20 loads of
manure per acre, 80 loads would be
better. You are preparing the land,
not for one year, but for ten years.
You can afford to do almost any
thing to get 1t In shape.
The land should be worked until
it is free from weeds. You cannot
have alfalfa prosper with weeds and
foul grass; destroy them before you
SOW tae crop.
If you will have the land free from
weeds and the surface soil enriched,
so that the alfalfa will live say two
years, then it will grow and take
care Of itself.
Alfalfa gets it's roots away down
below where any other crop has been.
1t draws phosphorus and potassium
from the deeper soil. 1t is not ne
cessary to apply phosphorus to alfalfa
land. If the soil Is acid, put on p,en-
ty Of ground lime stone and manure.
Get five cents worth of blue litmus
paper from the drug store, break in
two a mass of the moist soil, insert
a piece of the litmus paper, and press
the soil firmly together again.
After ten or twenty minutes re-
move the soil and allow the paper
to dry. If the dried test paper is
pink or red, as compa~,d with the
original color the Sc. is acid and
needs the ground limestone, about
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BY DR.. Cyril G. Hopkins.

one ton per acre. thoroughly mixed
with the soil.
If you have clean, rich land, you
can seed alfalfa early but from a
good many years experience we ad-
wise sowing alfalfa between the middle
of July and the middle of August.
Have the ground made rich the year
before, and we'll drained. Plow the
ground in the spring at the time you
would for corn, then disk it or har-
row it about every week or ten days
until you are satisfied the weeds and
foul grass are practically all started
and killed. If it takes until the mid
die of August. why work it until then!
When the weeds come, kill them with
your harrow.
In a few days there will be another
crop of weeds spring up. Go on with
your disk and harrow your ground,
and let the weeds up as long as they
will; Kill each crop. You have both
killed the weeds and preserved mois-
ture.
Then thoroughly inoculate and
ground and SOW 20 to 25 pounds Of
good alfalfa seed and harrow it in
we'll. If the ground has been well
MANFRED the year before, I cannot
tell you any better way than this,
but I don't believe it is necessary to
thus give up the use of the land
and I think after you have found
that you can grow alfalfa you will
follow the plan of taking field that
has been in the winter wheat or
clover, pillow it Immediately. work IT
a month and SOW it about the last OF
July.
If you have harvested the clover
hay crop you can give up the land
the last of the year to get the alfalfa
started. After the oats crop it is
getting too late; follow winter wheat
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-19
BREEDING FARM ANIMALS.

All breeding animals should have a
sound constitution.
A vicious disposition can not be
bred out.
Breed only from pure-bred males
We should breed the best, and
breed for definite purpose.
Breed only from mature animals
Breed dairy cows or beef cows
never try mixture.
Judicious selection should be
coupled with good judgment.
Do not breed animals that have an
Inherited tendency to disease.
Do not mate extremes-have the
crosses in harmony.
Avoid inbreeding except to render
permanent some desirable quality.
Breed the kind of animals the mar
ket demands-not what you like best.
Good care and food, comfort and
nuietude should be meted out to every
animal bearip5 young.
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This picture was drawn from an
actual photograph. The owner OF the
farm had no corn crop and wondered
why. Apparently the ground had
been broken up when it was dry and
no attempt had been made to reduce
the big Jumps and put the soil into
good condition for planting.
Of coarse. soil in this condition
would hardly produce an average
crop. In planting some of the corn
would lodge on top Of the clods while
others might fall down into the holes
between, six inches deeper.
Time spent in putting corn ground
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per cent, is within the limits of posi-
bility.
If an average yield Of 20 tons per
acre and an average sugar content
of IS per cent could be reached. we
would have an average yield Of 1900
pounds of sugar per acre.
Clay loans are very satisfactory for
sugar-beet production, provided other
conditions are favorable; but more
depends upon the physical condition
Of the soil and upon methods of cul-
tivation than upon the particular
kind or variety of soil used. The
soil, however should be well supplied
with humus and we'll drained.
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The SUGAR-BEET CULTURE

per acre in this country is about 10
tons, and the percentage Of sugar &C
tually extracted and refined does not
exceed -, making the average yield
of sugar per acre approximately 2.40O
pounds.
Yields of more than 80 tons of beets
per acre are sometin es obtained, and
yields of more than 20 tons are COM
mon.
From 20 to rs per cent Of the SUI
gar in the beets has been reported
so frequently that it Is safe to assume
that an average sugar content Of IS
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gArSbeet be allowed to stop growing
FOR II It once becomes stunted It is
6o0htful whether It will ever make
~ good a. beet az 1t would have
bssh unfer conditions Of continuous
growth.
Ax,ot11sr way the beet has been i'm
proved Is by increasing its sugar con-
tsut. This has been done without
increasing the size Of the beet.
ia largely Increased yield Of beets
is e9m6ened With much higher su u
obtain three times as much sugar per
acrs a. is produced on an average
1t the. present time.
The average yield of beets
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WHY HIS CROP FAILED

in good condition before planting is
never wasted. If the sol! is we'll fined
the weeder can be run over it Just
before the corn comes up and cu.-
tiva ton thereafter will be much easier
than if the ground is left in a raus!,
condition.
In case Of drouth vel! fined soil
will, if it receives frequent cultiva-
ton, retain moisture much longer
than rough ground, and there is really
no reason, except ignorance or iazi-
ness, which should prevent this most
important work in the growing OF
corn.
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A BRACE THAT BRACES.

Material for the brace. If sawed
stuff, should be 2x6 inches, If poles
are used they should be heavy
enough to fill the notches in corner
and brace posts. First cut notches
for the brace, in the post then set
corner or end posts good and deep,
lamp we'll. Brace the set brace posts
six feet from end post, cut the braces,
two of them, fasten piece OF inch
board between at each end temporar-
lily. Nail the braces lightly to hold
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seven Sugar-beet factories working
three months each year. grinding.
boiling and squeezing the sugar out
Of nearly forty thousand tons Of beets
every working day. but this does not
near fill our wants. These facts ought
to be encouraging to beet-growers.
Thorough cultivation is an import
ant factor in producing good sugar
beets. 1t Is q common saying among
Germans that tho sugar must be
hoed into the beet"
In no time Of its life should SUI
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PASTURING THE SPRING LAMBS

In these days Of high priced meat
the farmer with limited number of
lambs should strive to put every
pound possible upon them by the most
approved feeding, and by excellent
pasturage.
AS soon as the lambs are weaned
and taken from the ewes a great deal
Of care should be used in providing
them with Just the grazing which will
make them grow fast, and put flesh
upon their bones rapidly. The pas
ture should be judiciously selected.
It should be young pasture, prefer
ably rape or clover. The grain ration
should be little more than they had
before they were weaned; say about
Q pound Of oats daily.
No corn should be ted to the lambs
TO complete the allowance they should
be we'll fed on turnips, cabbage. car
rots, mangel w,raels and other sue
culent root feed.
The allowance Of oats may seem
small to some feeders but the exper-
fence Of sheep men has shown that
excessive feeding OF grain seriously re-
duoes the capacity Of the lambs stom-
ach for all tirne.
i 21n T. great O6iloV0T III TOOL crops
for lambs and sheep, as we'll as for all
ot11sr farm stock, and do not think any
farmer will have the best success with
his lambs unless he grows a good sup
ply Of, these crops.
In the summer care of lambs
great deal Of thought should also be
given to providing them with good
shelter from storm, excessive rains
and other bad weather.
Thaoe should be some roomy, pro-
tected place at the barn large enough
to accommodate all your lambs,
where they may take refuge during
severe weather-some place walled in
agatnst haosing rains. and yet not too
dark.
It should be clean and kept thickly
fioored with nice dry straw or hay, so
the lambs will be comfortable and at
ease, no matter how bad the weather.
It. should not be near the stalls of
the horses and mules, and there
should be no loud, harsh noises
aroxnd the barn while the lambs are
bodied down in the straw.
Qu1etude and peaceful surrounding go
arc as necessary to growing animal
as proper food and shelter-especially
80 in the case Of timid little lambs re-
Gently separated from their mothers.
IL. Notes.
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more water If the mixture becomes
too thick to stir. The heat from the
shaking lime will boil the mixture
violently. A piece Of carpet thrown
over the top of the barrel helps to keep
the heat In and thus to prolong the
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KEEP SWINE FREE FROM LICE

germs or vermin into the herd. wash
them in a warm 2 per cent solution
of coal tar dip and repeat the treat
ment in 10 days or two weeks; or
apply the solution freely with a spray
pump and rub it in with a brush.
The addition of flowers of sulphur at
the rate Of 61s pounds to each 100
gallons of dip mixture renders the
solution more effective and such a