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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

ture earning power of the female off
spring of from one hundred to several
hundred dollars, counting the number
of years she will give milk and the
number of calves she will give birth to.
which in turn are to become produ-
GERS.
A calf is about the cheapest and
easiest large animal raised on the
farm. The production of calves in the
dairy. bushes is a necessity in order
to have the COWS freshen yearly, or at
regular intervals. AS far as feed and
care are concerned, it is almost as
easy to raise 500 calf as it is to
raise $40 one. There is good profit
in the former, but absolutely no profit
in the latter. In fact, cheap calf
consumes much more feed than it will
sell for on the open market. Many a
calf sold for veal at, say So, consumes
$40 or $12 worth of milk before 1t is
marketed. For this reason many dairy
men either kill or give away their
calves at birth. OF course all male
calves, except those of high grade
saved for breeding purposes, must be
disposed of at an early age at no
profit, except on farms where pasture
is very plentiful and they are saved
for beef steers. But the raising of a
good heifer calf will more than COM
pensate the loss.
The illustration shows the head Of
Ferris Golden Winnie, champion g
year-old Jersey heifer, owned by the
Wisconsin State Farm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
RAISING THE HEIFER CALVES
Two important Factors to Keep In
Mind in Producing Future Milk
Cows.

Within only a very few years it
will be as difficult to buy good cows
or good heifer calves as it will be to
buy good land, and the man who be-
gins now to breed to good stock and
saves and properly raises his heifer
calves will be in a position to make
money in the production of milk or
butter or to sell stock at high fig
ures.
There are two important things to
keep in mind in producing calves for
future milk production. One Is that
the dam shall be of known good record
and the other is that the sire shall be
of a line of dams of exceptionally high
record. Breed only to the sire that
is known positively to be of a high
producing strain, even if the season
cost twice or three times as much as
that from one of unknown merit.
Five or ten dollars extra in this mat
ter will make a difference in the flu
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
SUCCULENCE IN MILK FOODS
Water Which Cow Gets In Her Food
Rather Than That She Drinks
That Goes Into Milk.
(By CHAs. G. wENTzLER.)

Ss -
Succulence Is a term applied to
foods which contain a certain proper
ton Of water. Milk is "a per cent.
water. In summer cattle get all the
succulence they require. In winter
succulent foods have to be furnished
If we expect to keep up the milk how.
It is the water which the cow gets
In her food rather than the water
which she drinks that goes into the
milk. Much of the water which she
drinks is used by nature to carry OF
certain chemicals in the system for
which she has no longer any use. The
excess of nitrogen is carried OF In this
way and gives this expelled water an
ammonia odor.
All grains contain some water, but
not enough. Silo and roots are rich
IN water content. When her ration
is made up of share OF succulence
in winter the COW keeps up her nor
NAL supply. But it is due to this
principle that an improperly winter
fed COW, increases her milk flow when
she is returned TO pasture in the
spring
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
RanIne From Above.

To see murder and rapine in pure
perfection one has only to visit some
of the more solitary shores in the
autumn when the tide is coming in
and watch the fish hawks, those
wolves and pillagers of the sea, and
see for ones self how easily they hunt
at heights and deliberately pick their
prey. Not by any means do they nab
the first too large or too little fish,
but wait and pick out the very fellow
the right size for flying away with.
Nearly every time they fall all in a
bunch from a height of hundred or
more feet with a splash and are of
with the poor wriggling fish-as easy
as falling off a log.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

pods of the locOweed and the aromatic
plants of the Yerba santa, or mountain
balm, was but the work of a few mo-
ments, and there on the top stood the
little groves of rare trees, sheltered
for the most part In small ravines,
some specimens, however, growing at
the extreme edge of the bluffs where
the hooks and crannies offered but
scant foothold or nourishment for
vegetation Some of the trees are as
much as four feet in circumference
and rise to height of from five to
fifty feet, those standing in exposed
places being more bent and fantas-
tically formed than those growing in
the dells Most remarkable are the
dark green tufted leaves and abundant
cones of these Torrey pines; the for
mer grow in fascicles of five in close
sheaths, and are the largest pine
leaves known to the world, being from
nine to thirteen inches long; while the
cones are five to six inches long and
ten to fourteen inches in circum-
ference, oval, with thick scales termi-
mating in stout recurring beaks. The
nuts are fiattened and have a black
wing, the shells being hard and thick
and the seeds edible. The pollen-bear-
ing flowers are terete.
The habitat of the Torrey pine Gov
erS some four hundred acres, owned
for the most part by the city OF San
Diego, though recently the finest
groves have been purchased by Miss
Scripps of La Jolla, who, realizing the
lance of these trees, has determined
to do everything possible to preserve
them from mutilation and possible ex-
termination.
No words can describe the wonder
full beauty of the surroundings of
| these Torrey pine woods. The scenery
in California always exercises a fasci-
nation by reason of it's individuality,
for it is a land in which man and the
desert are ever wagfng relentless
war; where the desert has proved i'm
pregnable the cacd forbid encroach-
ment and f1aunt their flaming red and
yellow flowers in the face of defeated
TOLL, out WuSTS UHu ussS COnQueACus
welding the silver scepter of irriga-
ton and a2nexing the territory thus
torn from the prickly fingers OF the
opuntia, there grows a garden whose
luxuriance overpowers and whose pro
ductiveness is amazing.
Encircling the valley stood queer
honeycombed cliffs, whose strata Of
burnt sienna and chalk white stone
formed bands of startling contrast
and beyond them rose the grim gray
mountains of San Bernardino. On the
other side of the point Of pines the
cliffs fell away in sheer declivity to
the sea, across whose waves, now
stilled by the sunset peace, the level
rays of light were painting paths of
purple, rose and amethyst. Over the
rim of this ocean of color the sun like
golden galleon sailed down into the
west, the light turned pale, beryl and
primrose usurped the place of fire
and flame, then gray vapors drifted
softly up to the zenith and Venus
shone out between the points of an
ashen aurora, cool breezes sprang to
life, dusk blotted out the underbrush
and the southern day was over.
JULIA w, HENSHkW.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
SHOVEL-KINK VERY USEFUL
Excellent Implement for Digging Up
Muddy Ground-Readily Cleans
Itself.

A railroad grader lately visiting the
writer showed him the shovel-kink
herewith illustrated. AS the idea
seems good, we pass it along, writes
J. E. Bridgeman in Farm and Ranch.
The writer was opening up small
ditch that drained one corner of a
cow pasture. The ground being very
muddy, the dirt stuck to the shovel,
causing us to do more or less cleaning
of same. Our visitor remarked that it
was not at all necessary, and proved
it by the simple method herewith IL
Illustrated.
The six three-eighth-inch holes were
drilled through the shovel, and 1t at
once caused same to scour. Even the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

lowing the directions given below
one can be constructed with small ex.
pense:
Get check valves q inch to an inch
in size and pipes to fit. Bore hole
In the side of pump barrel near the
bottom, put in nipple and screw on
a check valve. Then screw on an ell
bow with the opening upward. In the
bottom of barrel bore a 11s-inch hole
and put piece Of leather over it.
Leather should be put on the inside
Of barrel and nailed down on only one
side so 1t can flap up and down.
Make the plunger Of hard wood, ma
king it to fit rather loosely on the In
side Of barrel. For rod get straight
pole IL inches square and fasten 1t
securely to the plunger. When this is
done all that remains is to make a box
frame for rod running to pump handle
and frame to run the pipe out of
the top of well.
To do this take boards long enough
to reach down into the water, Gu. the
ends off square and plane them
smooth. Then, using square, make
a box inches square on the inside.
The barrel with it's valves should be
sunk below the surface Of the water
IL to feet. By putting two elbows
on the upper end of pipe the water
will be thrown downward into pail or
trough.
The pump can be let down into the
well by mailing cleats on the sides, but
one must be careful not to let the nails
go through into the barrel and thereby
spoil the pump. This pump can only
be used In shallow wells, as it could
not be made strong enough for a deep
well.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
Cow Testing Organizations.

In some parts of the country the
farmers are forming county cow test
ing organizations through which they
hope to weed out the deadhead board
ers from their herds. One small as
ISOLATION which conducted this work
last season found many cows which
were drones supported by others OF
the herd. These have gone to the
block and the dairy business has been
put upon a more profitable basis. This
should be an incentive to every other
section of the country to take similar
steps, and while on this point why
would 1t not be good idea to tag the
owners?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
German Alcohol Stills.

An authority on alcohol stills says
that there are 10000 farm stills in
operation on as many farms in Ger
many. The German government per-
mits the farmer to produce certain
amount of grain or potato alcohol, the
amount depending upon the size and
location of the farm and the annual
demand for the product, upon the pay
ment of a reduced revenue tax. Alec
hol distilled in excess of the quantity
allowed is subject to the higher rate
of taxation. Denatured alcohol, how
ever, is not subject to any tax.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

wES HAT which is rare In the world
of nature is always richly
priced by man, be it some
strange fantastic form, some
exotic growth, or some very
beautiful bloom. The stonecrop, the
sage-brush and the cactus have
claimed California for their own,
spreading out into the desert-lands
which lie to the eastward, and climb
ing up over the foothills of the Sierras,
where they mark the boundary of fer
tility and clothe the nakedneSs of
sand-dune and soil-serac with a spuri-
Gus vegetation; thus by the artemisias,
salVias, audibertias, dudleyas, Opun-
tias and mamillarias is the wilderness
made to bloom But it was not to
revel in the marvels on the mesas,
nor the charms of the chapparral that
] jOurneyed one afternoon to Del Mar,
q tiny wayside station near San Di-
ego, perched on the top of high cliff
above the wash of the blue Pacific
soul in the delights of the woods and
wastes, found companionship with
birds and things that creep, and gath
cred here and there fragile fragrant
flowers. But now the rarest tree in
the whole wide world had called to
me from it's isolation; the report of
Its marvellous characteristics, it's
rugged beauty, its picturesque ha oitat
had all been detailed, and so one
glorious day, when the California sky
was domed like lapis lazuli, travelled
to Del Mar to see the famous Torrey
pines.
1t fl enthralling to think how ma
ture has set this handful of conifers
on a Californian cliff, the only speci-
mems of their kind ever found on
earth, save for a few on the near by
island of Santa Rosa. 1t was not I'M
til the year 1850 that these trees were
discovered by Mr.. J. L. LIE Conte, who
forthwith named them Pinus torrey-
ana, after DR.. John Torrey of New
York, and since then many botanists
and nature-lovers have made a pill
grimage to this lonely shrine on the
summit of the windSwept bluffs,
among them Engelmann, Asa Gray,
Bayard Taylor and. Charles f. Holder.
Leaving the station at Del Mar, / fol-
lowed the railroad for a mile or so,
emerging out of a cutting on to a
strip of track which skirted deep
ravine chiseled and channeled like the
Grand Canon of Colorado in miniature;
thence rounding a rampant of rock l
came upon a mass of Quarried quarts
shlmmering in the sunlight, such as is
used for the foundation of roads In
this vicinity. The shining pyramid
was my signpost to leave the steel
rails and turn towards the sea.
A steep, sandy trail led down to join
the oiled road which skirted the shore
as far as the foot of the southerly
headland, and then wound away
among the hills behind the cliffs. From
this point / gained my first view of
the Torrey pines, cluster of tortured
trunks and twisted branches covered
with fascicles of immensely long
leaves outlined against the sky sew
eral hundred feet above me. To scram-
BILE up the dry banks covered with
manzanita, masses of pinkish buck
wheat and all manner of cacti and
stonecrops mingled with the inflated
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
Two Reasons.

Seymour don't intend to marry
until reach the years of discretion.
Ashley-In that case you'll never
marry.
Seymour-How do you make that
out?
Ashely-In the first place, you would
never reach the years of discretion,
even If you lived a thousand years; in
the second place, if you did reach the
years of discretion you would know
enough not to marry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
Two Cases.

Towne-My wife's nerves are such
peculiar things. She always worries
when she's having dress made just
as if
Browne (interruptiEg him)-Huh!
My wife only seems to worry when she
isn't having one made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
Cheap Roofing Paper.

A cheap grade Vf roofing paper
makes a good lining for the COW sta
bic. It may be put on the inside and
held in place by plastering lath or
thin boards nailed through to the out
side board. This will keep out the
cold wiras and keep in the warmth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
The Reverse.

do you believe in humoring hus-
bands?"
We'll. my dear, when you have been
married as long as I have, you will
find that if you begin by humoring
husbands, you will soon find them hus
banding humors."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
A Close Corporation.

81 want to get line on that fell
low. Whom does he care for prin-
cipally?"
Himself"
''But has he no companion?"
"Oh, yes: his umbrella"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

Gunner-"They say since Coggwood
bought his new automobile he has run
into wealth" Guyer-"Yes, he ran into
a 4OO-pound hog the other day"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
A Shovel Kink.

thick mud would readily leave the
blade. The holes, 1 suppose, allowed
the air to escape from the surface be-
tween the shovel and the dirt. At any
rate. the shovel readily cleared itself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
PUMP FOR WATERING STOCK
Detailed Instructions, With IIlustra
ton, Showing How to Make
One Cheaply.

A pump is an absolute necessity on
any farm and, the nearer it is located
% the live stock, the better. By fol.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07
True WomanIY.

Poor Mrs Flubb, who's dead and gone.
Was often heard to say
She didn't care how things turned out
jest so she had her way.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

They need no other rosary whose
thread of life is strung with pearls Of
love and thought.-PerSian.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

Mrs. wins1ow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces In
nammation alays pain. cures wind collie Csc bottle
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

Don't throw kisses, my boy; deliver
them in person.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1910-07-07

post, and given 80 laSheS on his naked
back once a week for six months. If
that remedy were applied, some of
your "genteel drunks," who are de.
stroying their families, dissipating
their property. insulting society and
damning young men would be immedi-
ately and effectually cured.
The idea of a man getting drunk.
going home and insulting his family,
abusing his little, helpless wife, ter
rorizing and cursing his little chill
dren, is repugnant to every thought.
His poor, helpless wife and little chill
dren seem to be without remedy at
the hands of your courts, because
justice is administered by namby-pam-
by men who seem to be afraid to pun
ish a genteel rascal. The whipping
post ought to be established for wife
heaters, professional DRINKS and men
who disregard their duties to their
families, their children and society.
Remember that said / was deeply
interested in and sorry for the man
who is born a drunkard, and by inner
itance was cursed with an appetite for
denounced wine. Such man, II he
becomes a drunkard, ought to be tried
for insanity and confined in an asy-
lum for life. The man who is drunk
is parallel with the man who is in
sane, and his condition is almost
identical with certain forms of in
durable insanity. Then, for the man
you say is a helpless drunk, the
and his family and society be relieved
by putting him in the asylum and
keeping him there for life.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-05-31
STATE MONEYS.
STATE SCHOOL TAX.

Jan % D 5 VOORHEES,, State
Treas, $llS32l 40
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
HELPING HUMANITY.
Fathsr and Son Viewed Conditions
From Opposite Standpoints.

Fathsr and Son Viewed Conditions
From Opposite standpoints.
Twenty years ago. says the Chicago
Advance, a discouraged young doctor
In a large city was visited once by his
old father, who came up from a rural
district to look after his boy.
"Well. son. he said. 'how are you
getting alongY
I'm not getting along at ALL" was
the disheartened reply. I'm not do
ing a thing"
The old mans countenance fell. but
he spoke of courage and patience and
perseverance. Later In the day he
went with his son to the free dis
pensary. where the young doctor had
an unsalaried position and where he
spent an hour or more every day. The
father sat by. silent but intensely in
terested spectator. while twenty five
poor unfortunates received help The
doctor forgot his visitor while he bent
his skilled energies to the task. but
hardly had the door closed on the last
patient when the old man burst forth:
Il thought you told me that you
were not doing anything. Why. if
had helped twenty-five people in a
month as much as you have in one
morning 1 would thank God my life
counted for something"
There isn't any money in 1t.
though" explained the son. somewhat
abashed Money" the old man shout
ed, still scornfully. Money: What
Is money in comparison with being of
use to your fellow men? Never mind
about money. You 60 right along at
this work every day. I'll go back to
the farm and gladly earn money
enough to support you as long as
live-yes. and sleep sound every night
with the thought that I have helped
you to help your fellow men,"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
sHREWD VICTOR HUGO.
Quiet Way In Which He 6uIlied the
Theatrical Managers.

Quiet Way In Which He 6uiIied the
Theatrical Managers.
Here are the methods which Dumas
the elder and Victor Hugo employed
when they had a new play to offer to
the theater. Dumas would write to
the director of the Porte St. Martin:
My Dear F'riend-I shall bring you on
Monday a play in five acts. l shall need
Mile. Georges, Nine. Dorval. Bocage. Lock-
roy, Provost and five new scenes.
This extravaganza would alarm the
director. who would put off the pro-
duction Of the play till better days.
Then Victor Hugo would appear and
shyly draw a manuscript out Of his
pocket He would agree to everything
The stock company would play his
piece admirably. since all he wanted
was a good ensemble; no new decora-
lions would be needed nor any change
at all.
So the piece would be read. and as
the roles were distributed Hugo would
say musingly. "Dieu. how fine Freder
lex would be in that part" THAT is
true" Horel would murmur. and a few
days after he would announce that
Frederick was engaged. Hugo would
then demonstrate that this destroyed
the equipoise of the cast. and Raucourt.
Laferriere and Mile. Georges would
be engaged. Then Hugo would attack
the stage setting. Old scenes that
the public had tired of were almost
an insult to these great artists. II
Horel showed reluctance at this. Hugo
to 4 1, to,
And so the game would go on till.
little by little. Hugo had obtained ev-
erything he wanted. even to the
changing of the paper hangings In the
stage boxes
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
X. of P. meet Monday night
L. o. O. F.
A Woman's Wit.

The husband of Lydia Childs was an
invalid for many years. He was not
well of in this worlds goods. and
much of the support Of the family was
earned by the wife. Thinking of this
and of his wife's many sacrifices for
his comfort. Mr.. Childs once said to
her regretfully, "My dear. 1 wish
were Croesus.''
Whereupon Mrs. Childs. with ready
wit and gracious tact. responded,
"You are Croesus. for you are king of
Lydia. LOS Angeles Times
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
KNIGHTS or PYTHIAS

Conventions held every Monday ev-
ening in Castle Hall, over Peyser's
store. \ cordial welcome to visiting
knights. f. c. Staley, c. G.
Chas. X. Sage, K. of r. and S.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
lmaoinarv Pains.

Don't laugh at hysterical people with
their imaginary pains. says a physi
clan. A ''delusion" is reality to the
sufferer When one believes one has a
pain one has the pain. All pain Is in
the brain, and to believe one has it is
to have it, 1t matters not a whit
whether the message is sent by ones
toe that some kind friend is treading
on or whether it is sent from one part
Of the brain to another.-New York
Tribune
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
Much In Little.

Tommy-Pop. what does multum in
pAzvo mean? Tommy's Pop-Multum
In parvo is Latin. my son. 1t means
er-well. haven't you ever seen a fat
woman in bathing suit ?-Philadel-
phia Record.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-11-12
A Quick Lie.

Presence Of mind recently saved an
eminent actor his gold watch and
chain. White crossing a bridge in
thick night mist suspicious looking
man suddenly doomed up out Of the
obscurity.
Can you tell me the time. gov nor p
he gruff1y inquired.
you are too late. my dear SIR" re-
piled the actor suavely. "a gentleman
who passed a minute ago stole my
watch!"-Exchange.