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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
EIGHTH BIG INTERSTATE FAlF
Sioux City's Annual Autumn Show
Fortunate in Location-1he
Heart of Corn Country.

The eighth annual fair of the Inter
state Live Stock Fair association will
be held at Sioux City, Iowa, Septem'
Der 10 to "a, inclusive. This fair is
the largest independent fair in the
United States. The success of this
fair undoubtedly is due to the great adj
vantage of it's location-being in the
corner Of the four great states of Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Mime
sofa.
Within the circle described by this
area lies a country rich in the fertility
Of its soil, cultivated by the best class
Of farmers, and which annually pro-
duces more corn, cattle and hogs, than
Naturally, the center of such IN agri-
cultural empire is the ideal spot for a
live stock fair.
It is because the farmers and stock
raisers flock to this fair that official
recognition of its superiority is given
by the American Hereford Cattle
Breeders association, the American
Shorthorn Breeders association, the
American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders
association, the Red-Polled Cattle club
and the Percheron Society of America.
Every year special cash premiums
for carloads of fat cattle are offered
by the Sioux City Live Stock exchange,
the Sioux City Stock Yards company,
Armour & Co. and the Cudahy Packing
company.
A fine speed program has been ar
ranged for the week and the free vaude-
vile attractions will be on a par with
the best in the west this year.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

being SO far apart, for the reason that
it takes too much time to go from one
to another; but for convenience l like
plenty of room. Of all unpleasant
places to work 1t is an apiary where
the hives are crowded together, or
where they are under trees. If hives
must be set under trees, the limbs
should be trimmed high, so as to
avoid catching the veil. Since l have
no trees or bushes in my yard I use
the ventilated covers and shade-boards
owe them. During the hottest wealth
err l draw the hives back beyond the
end of the bottom-board SO as to give
more air.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
ODD LOVE MAKING
Balcony Plays Star Part In Por-
tugaIs Wooing.
Girl Lowers Cord and Draws Up Ad.
mIrer's Note-If Parents Ap-
prove He Is Permitted
to Call.

Lisbon.-Marriage, as in the lives OF
many, is certainly the most important
event in that of the Portuguese
early days of courtship it is attended
with some romance, for there is less
of business and more Of romance in
the ways of the Portuguese lover.
This is how the Portuguese cavalier
conducts his affairs de occur: If he
sees a pretty girl in the street with
whom he would like to become ac-
quainted, he follows her. He follows
her in the face of all difficulties
chaperons and duennas-right to her
door, and he notes the address.
Next day he comes again and if
the young lady approves of him she
will most certainly be on the look
out, but sometimes hard fate, an an
cry guardian or a stern parent pre-
vents her, and then the gallant youth
Is kept waiting.
Sc if during a rambie through Por-
tugal you should notice a young man
lettering at the conner Of the street
or gazing intently at a house, you
must not imagine that he is medita-
ting a burglary or anything so des-
perate, but know that he is merely a
harmless and amorous youth gazing
at the windows of his lady love.
Be sure if there is a way she will
not keep him waiting long, for the
Portuguese girl is a past master in
the art of intrigue.
Soon she leans over the balcony and
smiles at him, and the happy youth,
thus encouraged, ties a note, in which
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

NEED OF GOOD FERTILIZERS
Application Of Commercial Product
Enhances Wheat Growers
Chances for Big Yields.

With the majority of farmers the
use of commercial fertilizers In Wheat
seeding has become quite the rule.
| While they do 0 use particularly
large quantities per acre, they have
found from experience that zoo to 400
| lbs. per acre annually is a good in
vestment.
In many sections wheat has become
rather an uncertain crop, and those
who raise it year after year appre-
ciate the necessity of furnishing COM
plete cultural conditions and seeing
to it that the soil contains sufficient
plant food to feed the crop through to
maturity. In other words, taking every
precaution that will reasonably as
sure fairly good yields and profits.
The season just past has demon.
strated that even in good wheat years
when fields without special treatment
proved profitable, the application Of
commercial fertilizers pays, the ad-
vantage of applying fertilizers is read
lily apparent. When fertilizers pay in
good years, the results from it's use is
ali the more striking In off years
when the general crop proves a fail
ure.
The growing of wheat, IN fact any
crop. is surrounded with enough I'M
certainties without trying to make
good yields on poor soils which have
shown their gradual impoverishment
by the decreasing yield each succeed
ing season.
BY applying commercial fertilizers
the wheat growers chances for good
yields are materially enhanced, and as
no one can foretell whether the sea-
son will prove unfavorable, it is econ
omy to use fertilizers on every seed
ing. One of the chief functions of
commercial fertilizers with wheat, is
to furnish the young plant with plenty
of available plant food right from the
start, enabling them to make rapid
and vigorous growth at a time when
1t will mean most to the later develop
ment of the plant. With such a start
the roots soon reach down into the
soil wher they gather food from the
less available sources. This keeps
the plant growing steadily all through
the season. With the use of fertilizers
ther is no standing still, which is Oft
en- the case where no fertilizer is
used. The most perfectly prepared
seed bed will not present a condition
suitable for rapid growth unless there
is plenty of available plant food near
the surface where the first formed
Notlets can readily find it.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Cleans the Rake Teeth.

rake. Attached to this piece of wood
were two pins which passed through
the back of the rake. Two compress.
sion springs placed on these pins be.
tween their heads and the rake back
kept the strip OF wood at the base OF
the rake teeth. II the grass or leaves
would stick to the rake teeth after
drawing of the rake, all that was nee
essary to do to clean them was to turn
the rake over and strike the heads OF
h pins on the ground. The teeth
would be cleaned instantly.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
EIGHTH BIG INTERSTATE FAIR
Sioux city's Annual Autumn Show,
Fortunate In Location-The
Heart Of Corn Country.

The eighth annual fair Of the Inter
state Live Stock Fair association will
be held at Sioux City, Iowa, Septem'
Der 10 to "a, inclusive. This fair is
the largest independent fair in the
United States. The of this
fair undoubtedly is due to the great adj
vantage OF its location-being in the
corner OF the -four great states Of Iowa,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Mime
sofa.
Within the circle described by this
area lies a country rich in the fertility
of It's soil, cultivated by the best class
OF farmers, and which annually pro-
duces more corn, cattle and hogs. than
any area OF similar size in the world.
Naturally, the center of such an agri-
cultural empire is the ideal spot for a
live stock fair.
It Is because the farmers and stock
raisers flock to this fair that official
recognition OF It's superiority is given
by the American Hereford Cattle
Breeders association, the American
Shorthorn Breeders association, the
American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders
association, the Red-Polled Cattle club
and the Percheron Society Of America.
! Every year special cash premiums
for carloads Of fat cattle are offered
by the Sioux City Live Stock exchange,
the Sioux City Stock Yards company,
Armour & Co. and the Cudahy Packing
company.
A ine speed program has been ar
rangedforthe week and the free vaude-
VILE attractions Will be on a par with
the best In the west this year.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
RIot u ~Pennsxlvanla.

Scranton, Pa--During : riot at Car
bondale between strike breakers and
sections hands OF the Delaware and
Hudson railroad one man was shot
and viii probably die. The men at
work were attacked by the strikers, a
majority Of whom are Italians. and
fully 200 shots were exchanged. one
of them striking James Ciccone at the
base OF the brain. State police are ac-
cused BY the strikers Of having fred
the probably fatal shot, and two Of
them were placed under arrest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

he declares his undying passion. to
the cord which the fair lady has drop
ped from the balcony. The next day
the young man, buoyed with hope,
comes again, but this time he is bold
or, for he rings at the door.
If the inquiries which the lady's
parents will doubtless ave made
prove satisfactory, he is admitted to
make the acquaintance Of the young
lady and her family, and then should
he please and the lady's father be pre-
pared to give the necessary dot, we'd
ding bells will end this little romance.
Once married, the death knell Of ro-
nance and all else Is often sounded
for the Portuguese bride. Married
often when yet a child, she has the
cares Of wifehood and motherhood
thrust upon her.
For, unlike her sisters of France,
marriage does not spell her emanci-
patton. her freedom from the cha
peron. The bride Of today has no
more freedom than the maiden of yes
terday; without husband or chaperon
she may not walk abroad. A Jealous
husband will often keep her as closely
guarded as though she had taken the
veil.
The lives, therefore, of the Portu-
guese women are often as barren and
devoid of interest as those of the
women in the far east. Certainly
among the rising generation there is
a growing unrest, a yearning for cul-
ture, a vague idea that there is a
world somewhere beyond Portugal.
but the lives of many are often as
hedged in as their own back gardens.
In fact, to many their house and
family, their kinlar or orange grove.
represent their whole world-the only
world they know. It Is no unusual
thing to ind a Portuguese woman
who has been willingly incarcerated
for several years. One lady OF my ac-
ouaintance told me she had not been
beyond the garden for four years.
And you are not bored?" ! ex-
claimed in establishment you do
not want to go QUIT"
III / should go out" she replied in
her pretty broken English. Il rest not
till / am returned; for who knows
what may happen in my absence?"
60 out she continued with q
shrug Of her plump shoulders. FOR
what for should l go out? Here }
have my children, my husband. my
home; what more can l want?"
What indeed?
About the balcony q whole boob
might be written.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Pillow Land. Well.

! I want soil plowed fairly deep. and
insist on having every inch turned
over, realizing the truth Of the old
adage: Land well plowed is half
hoed." I use the disk harrow, going
over the piece about once In two
weeks until the ground freezes, thus
securing a sod bed that is in the best
possible condition for the following
crop. says a writer in Baltimore Amer.
lean. l have taken a field that was
badly infested with witch grass and
by following this method have en-
tirely eradicated It, and l believe that
I have Increased the crop fully Is
per cent. by 80 doing.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
SPRAY FOR POTATO BEETLE
Most Growers Neglect Applying Poll
son Until Insects Have OBJ
tanned Start on Vines.

The chief diff in spraying for
the potato beetle seems to be that
most growers postpone applying the
poison until the beetles have obtained
a good start upon the vines. The best
time to kill them is Immediately, or
soon after they hatch.
The destructive season of the bee.
ties upon late potatoes lies between
July 1 and August 10. The season OF
greatest destruction from blight upon
late potatoes usually between
August Is and September 1.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
sELF-cLEANING LAWN. RAKE
Simple Wooden Attachment SO Ar
ranged That Implement viii
Thow OF Accommodations.

When cleaning a lawn of dead grass,
leaves. ETC., with a garden rake much
time is lost in removing the trash
clogged between the teeth. I was us.
ing a wood back rake for this purpose
and decided to make an attachment
for s~elf-cleaning, writes John Blake of
Franklin, Mass, in Popular Mechanics.
I procured a soft and light piece of
wood, y in. thick. ~ in. wide. and
as long as the rake bar. and bored
holes in it to match the teeth Of the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Masee Fam

Water Famine In Guthrie.
Guthrie. Okla.-Continued drought
has brought about a water famine In
Guthrie. The municipal water plant
Friday had barely enough water in
the standpipe to last ~ hours.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

- NOTE!S
hi Isl ALMOST imnnssihle tn nreuenI

1t is almost impossible to prevent
swarming when producing comb
honey.
The honey extractor saves the bees
much time in comb building, and thus
the b~eekeeper can secure more honey.
Improve your bees by always rear.
ing queens and increasing from col.
onies h q have gathered the most
honey.
Never mix sun-siaked lime with ma.
nure, as 1t will cause the escape of
the ammonia, one of its most valuable
elements.
Satisfy is a common vegetable oy-
ster and. properly prepared, it is one
of the most delicious vegetables the
garden produces.
Never extract honey before at least
two-thirds of the comb is sealed or
capped over. Otherwise the honey IL
not ripe enough and will ferment.
There is no month In the year when
manure cannot be hauled and scat
tered on the fields to advantage. II ia
better on the land than in the stahles
and lots.
Plan to plant all the land to some
crop. Green crops prevent the ground
frsm burning out from the hot sun.
and the roots of the plants help to
loosen up the soil.
II q half barrel is sunk at one cor
ner Of the box and connected BY a
spout the liquid from the manure viii
in this amer all be saved and can
be applied to the plants ~ needed.
The disk harrow is . good tool for
loosening up packed plowed ground.
Disking both ways will put the ground
In fine shape for seeding, the disk to
be followed by . smoothing harrow.
Let the grass grow along fence
rows. You do not need to make Il
grow. for It will come Of itself and
make Z good sod II the other growth
10 cut on two or three times during
the summer. Grass will not grow
under dense shade or brush and wesda
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
esekeepina Furnishes LIvIno.

Beekeeping is not an occupation in
which one can easily become wealthy,
but It can be depended upon to fur
nish a comfortable living, and perhaps
enable a man to lay up q few thous-
and. Fortunately, however. the pro
~fessional mans happiness bears little
relation to the size Of his fortune:
and the man with the hum Of the
bees over his head finds happiness
deeper and sweeter than ever comes
TO the merchant prince with his cares
and his Thousands.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
ARRANGEMENT OF AN APlARy
System Of Locating Whereby There !
Straight Line to Honey House
From Each Hive.

My plan of locating hives is sucA
that a hand-cart may be wheeled
straight from any hive to the honey
house. The rows of hives extend IL
every direction from the honey-house
the plan being like a huge wheel with
the rows OF hives for the spokes and
the honey-house for the hub. The
diagram shows the system that l fol
low for numbering the stands, writes
Carey w. Rees, in Gleanings in Bee
Culture. Some object to the hive
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
4A0
Potato Spraying Machine.

Some farmers are deceived in think
ing that they have the beetles under
control when the large insects sud-
denly disappear. The fact is these
beetles go into the ground to get their
wings, and when the mature insect
comes out they cause serious loss to
the crop by chewing off the leaves
and leaving the stems nearly stripped
of foliage. They cannot be con.
trolled at this stage.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
wife Does Penanee.

Chicago-Because Of a family quar-
rel in which he Insisted his wife was at
fault. j. Anderson of Waukegan COM
PEELED her to do penance by crawling
on her knees several blocks to a
church and confess she had married
the domestic tranquility.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
condition Of Banks.

Washington, d. ca total Of 7.914
national banks in the United Staes
responded to the call for the controii-
or Of the currency for reports on their
condition at the close of business on
June 30. This Is an increase of 21a
hanks since June %, 1909.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
rwo Women Drown.

St Paul, Minn.-An attempt made
by Mrs. John Crosby and daughter
Pearl, 10 years old, of Lindstrom,
Mimi, to save the lives Of Mrs. Chris
MieseA and her 8-year-old SOL John,
of st. Paul, resulted In both being
drowned in the waters Of North lake.
q branch Of Lake Chicago.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Application for Posta, Banks.

Washington, d. C.-Applications Tor
postal savings banks have been re.
ceived by the p~ostoffice department
from 24O postmasters in SO different
states. Banks to the number Of $50
In "A different staes have applied to
the department for designations as
postal bank repositories.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
shelia Pierce Yacht.

Newport, r. HAIRY Payne Whit
ney and his brother. Payne Whitney,
had q narrow escape during the sub
caliber practice at Forts Wetherin and
Greble. Wednesday. Two shells
pierced the mainsail OF the formers
steam yacht, Atlantic, as they
passing the forts.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
LIst os Dead sixty

Milan.-The list OF dead in the cy-
clone which swept over the district
OF Milan has increased to
go and the injured@number several
hundred. The material losses are es'
timated 1t many millions.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Actor KHIs His wife.

New York.-Alfred II. Daily. for
merly a musical director with DeWolf
Hopper, in view Of crowds leaving the
theaters, shot his wife, known as
Teddy" Hudson, a chorus girl, and
attempted to kill himself on Brca5
Way.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
First Train Ride At Ass Of q.

Johnstown. Pa.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Sha6er, eighty-three years old. came
to this city recently from her home at
Stoystown, Somerset county. and for
the Arst time in her life saw and rode
on q railway and had her f1rst view Of
. trolley
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
pualpsnvsr Tragedy.

Denver. embarrassing q revolver
against the temple Of her husband,
Frank ". Ferris, as he lay asleep, Mrs.
Lulu Ferris sent q bullet crashing
through his brains and . few minutes
later blew out her brains.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Showers OF sandbags and monkey
wrsnches will mark the course of ayia,
don. Tho pedestrian suffers at every
turn from every innovation.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

CoErespondent asks anxiously why
seoSmany weddings take place in June.
HscanGe IN this season the contracting
parties aren't 70 likely TO have cold
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Sioux City Live stock Market.
Sioux City.-Friday's quotations Oh
the Sioux City live stock market fol
low: Top beeves. $3.50. Top hogs
$50.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Reckless asroplanists may yet run
Aown innocent automobiles leaving
them helpless and bleeding on the
rod The world do move.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

While Il may be cruelty to mi
sro6ess the human society announces
Got there viii b. no prosecutions
against bakers who wrap their bread.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Tho sultan OF Sulu will visit the
United States. bringing $3.50, 900 worth
Of pearls. He'd better bring a body
guard. while he's about It.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
long Trip for = Wager

Washington, d. C.-Having driven a
team Of Angora goats q distance OF
more than 1000 miles a. the result OF
y wager. Capt. v. Edwards, a ranch
owner Of San Diego, CAL, arrived here
the other day from San Diego. Cal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

In hot weather. too, the iceman has
o. exasperating habit Of falling to
- the card placed conspicuously in
your front window.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

II the. economy Of modern civiliza
ton the ny has no place. Swat him,
and swnt TO kill!
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
esooeoo Fire Lee.

Golden. b. C.-The Columbia River
Lumber company's nav was destroyed
~, Are rscsoNy. 1oaA 100000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Il WIN b dinicuit L make . fool.
ofool automobile.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

DOES any one remember the big
snowstoRm OF last winter and the fear.
tai oaths that were uttered then?
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
Aesor overton psad.

ST. Louis, Mo.-John 8. Overton. an
old time actor. Who played with Edwin
Booth, Lawrence Barrett and other
lfamous stars, died here 1t the ags Of
90 years
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

That Texas man who has adopted
dollar bills as his calling cards will
probably flnd the folks at home at any
time. A
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Tho back-tothe-farm movement is
very popular with those who could not
20 II they would and would not go II
they could.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Aviators now get $4,000 q day. but
- prospect is that their wages will
- cut down ut least ten per ant
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

The man-bird who sees his supply
q gasoline running low becomes q
oubject Of ridicule to the other birds.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

HalIsy's comet and Theodore Roose-
yDat AZ now retired from the spot
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

Thsss are busy days for electric and
49, bali fans.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

The man-bfrds are beating the othel
berds II their own speciality.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29
sioux City Live stock Market.

Sioux City.-Thursday's quotations
on the Sioux City live stock market
follow: Top beeves. $3.50. Top hogs,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

xssp IN sheshade. Du. not shady.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-07-29

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