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The Greeley tribune., 1910-01-27

/ HSHt Is nerWeen tne railroads ana
that the city will not be affected.
II might be we'll to remember that
the city has already been affected: ::
that the municipality has gone TO
some expense to torestall the Union
Pacific and that it Will be forced to
go to much more.
The action brought against the city
to quiet title to the 400-foot strip
through Greeley. If successful. will
certainly hurt the city to the extent
of many thousands of dollars And
the road has not brought the action
for any other purpose except to win
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

salt Unless the natural drainage Is
such as to carry off this accumulation
OF underground water or an art1tcla
system is provided to Go so such land
IL bound To become 20 wet or 80 aka
line rs to be useless. The cure, and
the only permanent cure, for alkall
trouble lies in the installment OF
drainage system which will cause a
downward and lateral movement q
the soil water. While this may be ef-
fected in part by the open ditch system
the underground tile system, with main
leads and laterals at intervals to prop
erlv handle the flow. has proved most
effective. The alkali trouble may De
postponed sometimes by sparse use
Of water and very thorough cultlVa-
ton, but these will not prove an eHec-
tive cure. Inasmuch as one ranch may
be flooded with water coming through
the subsoil from a higher level. 1t is
imperative that the drainage PROPOSE
ton should be viewed as well as nan
died as cooperative and community
ENTERPRISE. lit j. advisable not to To-
cate in a section where the troubles
referred to are likely to develop. Dut
if one is already located and such trou-
bles develop subirrigatiOG offers the
only practical solution.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
WILL 1T PAY?

Parents often ask themselves the
question whether it will pay to send
the boy away to school or college.
This will depend bit on the college
but vastly more on the boy and the
stuff-the grit and perseverance he
possesses. In general way 1t may
be said that If the boy cares enough
about an education to work for it
such part Of the financial end as may
be necessary-it will pay him to 60
to college, and it will pay his folks
I'm satisfaction to make up the bal
ance OF the needed expense money.
On the other hand, if the boy is too
proud or too lazy to lift his finger in
working his own way and has to call
on the old gentleman every five or six
weeks for fat check, good share Of
which goes into Incidental" expenses.
q college education in all probability
would make him a more useless mem
Der of society than he is now, and he
would better stay at home. However,
If the boy has a desire to buckle into
the job and give it a fair tryout, help
ing to earn his way in such ways as
are possible. it is worth letting him
have chance to do so. whereas III he
doesn't take to 1t he can turn his hand
to something else that's useful and
worth while. 1t may not be necessary or
advisable for the boy to do anything
toward earning his way. but he should
prize an education sufficiently so that
he would be willing to work if it were
necessary.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
DAIRYING I'M DENMARK.

Professor Bocggild. noted Danish
dairy expert, has recently been on a
tour of America and has given those
who have listened to his addresseS
many interesting facts and Impress
sions of the famous dairy country from
which he halls While Denmark has
but one-seventh the area of the state
of Minnesota, it has an equal num-
Der of cows, 100000. He states that
twenty-five years ago the average
Danish COW gave 5000 pounds of milk,
which yielded from so to 100 pounds
of butter fat. This standard has been
raised by selection. testing and breed
ing until the average cow gives $500
pounds of milk in a year, which con-
tains from 200 to 800 pounds of but
ter fat. Along with this Improvement
in the cows of the kingdom there has
been a corresponding advance in the
prosperity of the farmers. Thirty
years ago they were poor, devoting
most of their energies to raising rye.
barley and oats ard exporting them
i'm the rough. Today they import large
quantities of cereal foodstuffs and ex-
port millions Of pounds of the finest
butter. Prosperity today IL general
among these same farmers or their
descendants. A most important fac
tor in the large success which has
been achieved in the Danish dairy
business has been the cooperative
creameries. The first, costing $4,000,
was started i'm 1882 with 300. cows.
Today there are 1900 cooperative
concerns and 300 creameries which are
privately owned. Much Of the success
attending these cooperative enter
prises Professor Boeggild attributes
to loyalty to the organization, which
in turn he considers due to placing on
each individual member his full share
of responsibility Cor the direction and
success of the enterprise.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
TOO MUCH WATER.

There is no irrigation enterprise. thai
l. worth a copper unless water L.
avallabi.. FOR irrigation purposes at
those intervals during the summer
months when it is needed, and yet
there are many owners of tracts IL
sections where ditch water has beer
abundant who have been severe suf-
ferers financially for the very simple
reason that they have had at their
disposal and used too much water. liz
fact. tracts which have had too little
water and where economy has been O
matter Of necessity have proved the
most successful from the standpoint
Of crop production. In many Of the
arid sections of the mountain and Pa
cific coast states, where Irrigation en-
terprises have been developed, serious
trouble has resulted on lower levels
from rising OF underground waters, {
trouble that goes hand i'm hand witt
that due tO the presence or alkalls
which are dissolved and brought to TIL
| surface in such quantities M to retart
Oh stop plant growth. While the tern
| alkali is generally used to refer t,
any salts in the soil-usually sodium
Eulphate, sodium chloride and sodium
\ carhonate-the last only ~ an alkalin
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
Moving Marble In Italy.

Hand labor is the rule in the ia
| nous marble quarries Of Carrara,
Italy, since the disturbance separat-
ing quarry from quarry and the dec
livitous nature Of che country pre-
clude the use of machinery. The
methods of the lizZatura, or workmen
who convey the marble over the
| roadless steps that stretch from the
quarries to the wagon track, are in
teresting.
When a great fragment of marble,
detached by a blast, has stopped roll
ing, it is roughly squared into a
block weighing, say, forty tons. Then
the Workmen set about getting it
down.
"A series of stout posts has been
firmly driven into the mountainside
along certain lines of descent offer
ing the least resistance. The LIZA
tura, by means OF croWbars and screw
jacks, raise the block on to a soaped
skid of hard beechwood. Previously
they have secured the block by means
of three long hempen cables, with
which they take turns around the
posts. They pay out sufficient rope
to allow the ponderous mass to slide
over the soaped skids by its own
weight, but not enough to allow it to
gain too much momentum down the
incline.
During this descent, besides the
men failing on the ropes, two or more
men are seated on the block. A man
following closely in the wake of it
hands them the skid just passed over,
which they resoap and hand to a man
who keeps just in front of the moving
mass, to put it down it's path, and so
provide a continuous "way" This
last mentioned worker has the most
dangerous task. Should one of the
cables part at a critical moment, or
should a mistake be made in paying
out or slackening them, he will inevi-
tably be crushed.
1t is an amazing fact that in former
times the lizzatura used only one ca
BILE to hold back the load, until the au-
thorities, rightly regarding theirs as
as a perilous occupation, enacted q
law that not less than three cables
should be used. 1t is said this work
is responsible, on an average, for
three deaths a year, remarkable fig
ure in the circumstances, and show
ing that the finest discernment, judg-
ment, GOODNESS and skill are displayed
by the liZzatura, who work in
bands numbering from twelve to fif-
teen men.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

to-day well woman. Mrs. WILLIAM
AHRENs, 988 w 21st St., Chicago, Ill.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi-
cine in the country, and thousands of
voluntary testimonials are on file in
the Pinkham laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, from women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female complaints, Inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements, fibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every such suffering woman owes it to
herself to give Lydia E. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound a trial.
LII you would like special advice
about your case write a conffden-
tia1 letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
Orchard and Garden.

Store the ladders under cover, but
give them a good coat of paint first.
Now j. good time to apply manure
to raspberries, currants, gooseberries,
etc. ~E str=.
ln filling apple barrels, fill until the
last layer stands an inch above the
chime of the barrel. This ensures
solidity when the head il pressed
down carefully.
When the ground freezes hard
enough to hold up a wagon, IL the time
TO mulch the strawberry bed with
straw or marsh hay. Don't be i'm too
big hurry. aNHf-
\ Young trees may require stalking il
planted in windy, exposed places;
but see that the ties cannot chafe the
trunks Bands OF cloth or leather
can be arranged to prevent this.
Late in the fall plOw a furrow
down through the orchard between
every two rows OF trees II the ground
~ apt to be wet. The trees will clio
great deal better for this drainage.
From November Farm Journal.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
Holds Court by Telephone.

Bellefontaine, Ohio.-While a train
was held on which Judge Broderick
was departing for Marysville he went
to the telephone and accepted the
pleas of guilty Of Name Cooper, OF
Lima, and Ida Richards, of Belle
fontaine, indicted by the Grand Jury
for intoxication.
Ten and COSTS" said the Judge,
and boarding the train continued his
journey. The women were with three
men who quarreled over the right Of
the road with Clarence and Jerry
Sweigert, of Potsdam, Miami county
The men are indicted for cutting tic
kill
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

That the tendency of corn to sucker
is due more to inherited tendency than
to character of soil was nicely shown
this season in the case of two vari-
cites of corn which were planted side
by side on the same soil and at the
same time on the writer's ranch. One
variety which was home grown was al
most entirely free from the sucker
forming tendency. while the other. an
imported pediSreed seed, produced
from two to four suckers for each
stalk.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

The development in the potato situa.
ton during the past three weeks has
certainly kept buyers and sellers
guessing With tubers retailing at
$1.4O Aug. u and the prospect good
that they would climb still higher, the
late crop is turning out far better than
it was expected it could, with the re
suit that prices have suffered decided
slump, though this is doubtless en-
couraged by the buyers. who are al
ways bears until the crop is well out
of the hands of the growers. The
grower who is fixed for it might store
part of his crop rather than let it 20
at once for less than 40 cents, in
which case not all of his eggs would
be i'm one basket. He may get more
than so cents by Christmas, and then
again he may not.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

On Nov. 80 there will be thrown
open for entry in Alabama a consider
able portion of land which was with.
drawn in the year 1908 in the creation
of the Alabama national forest
portion Of the total area has been ap.
propriated under existing land laws
while other portions Of considerable
extent will be withheld from entry be-
cause supposed to be underlaid with
valuable mineral deposits
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

A little stack of clover or alfalfa
should be included i'm the winter food
supply of every flock OF hens from
which eggs are expected during the
winter months. 1t provides protein in
a form which they greatly relish.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

If all of tho railroads of the coun
try have as large car repair" bills as
are being brought to light in the pres
ent Illinois Central graft inquiry anC
these have been Systematically charged
up to operating expenses" it il no
surprising perhaps that the farmer.
and other Originators of freight ART
asked for an increase in transportation
charges
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

The everyday experience of the
average dairyman as we'll as the
handling of special milking tests of
long duration proves very conclusirely
that a cow which is given IL rest Of
six or eight weeks between milking
spells will produce just as much milk
and butter fat in the course of a year
as a COW which is MIXED to within a
few days of dropping her calf. 1t is
very natural that Sis is 50. for If she
does not have this period for recupera-
ton she has just so much less vigor
and reserve force with which to begin
her second period of lactation.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

1t was the fellow who went right
on cultivating during the dry weather
and using plenty of bug poison at the
critical time who has been rewarded
the past few weeks by digging a sat
isfactory crop of potatoes.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

The average man gives a far better
account of himself and is also more
useful member of society if he is so
fixed that he has to keep scratching.
What is true of the human is true of
the hen tribe.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

An investigation by members of the
forest service in one section i'm Oregon
where there had been much loss from
forest fires disclosed what was believ-
Cd to be an apparatus purposely de-
signed for the setting of these fires.
1t was about a. large as a gallon oil
can. equipped with time fuse and a
supply of oil which would be ignited
some time after the contraption was
placed. The miscreant who operated
this Internal machine probably took
1t into the section which he wished
to fire, placed it. piled a lot of dry
STUFF around 1t, started the fuse
mounted his horse and by the time the
blaze got under Roadway was miles
away It ~ likely sharp lookout viii
be kept for devils Of this type mex;
season. and it j. safe to assume that IL
caught they will be allowed d mighty
short time to make explanations.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

UOlS Sdlu 4 COuIu AOU
get well unless I
had an operation.
II knew / could not
stand the strain Of
one, so I wrote to
you sometime ago
about my healt h
and you told me
what to do. After
|takin G Lydia E.
|Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound and
Blood Purifier I am
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

A reader of an eastern agricultural pa
per recommends sprigs Of arbOr vitae
or white cedar, as IN effective means
Of Kidding the henhouse and nest boxes
OF lice. This may be the case, but the
cautious poultryman will still keep his
kerosene can and sack Of sulphur
handy
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

Straw is not only more economical
feed for horses than rich hays when
they are not working hard. but is pref
cradle from the standpoint of their
health. A good deal of bright straw
will be thus fed the coming winter.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

The LeghOrns and the Brahmas are
the Jerseys and Shorthorns of the poul-
try world, the similarities being trace
able in several important respects.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

The class of paop!e who squander the
most money on get-rich-quick schemes
are not much better nor IL great deal
worse than the sharpers who fleece
them. for both are playing the same
game-getting something for nothing
the latter successfully. the former I'M
successfully
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
DRESSED In "RLAck AND YELLOW,

Not Football Colors" but the color OF the car
toon containing Foley's Honey and Tar the best
and safest cough remedy for oil coughs and colds.
IA Genuine Foley's Honey and Tar In yellow
cartoon with black letters. For sale by Shaw
Drug Co.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

Where the current is available there
In no light for use in the barn that if
SO safe and convenient as the electric.
1t is always on tap. and there isn't Il
continual expenditure for broken CHIN
neys. while the danger from fire as Il
Is reduced to minimum.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr.. Otto Paul, Milwaukee. Wis. says Foley's
Honey and Tar is still more than the best. He
writes u.s. All those that bought it think it il
the best for coughs and colds they ever had and
l think it is still more than the best. Our baby
had bad cold and it cured him IN one day.
Please accept thanks. For sale by Shaw Drug
o.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
FOR SALE.
TOR SALE.

TOR SALE.
A bay family driving mare. Gentle
and easily kept. Also harness and COM
bination rubber tire buggy and run
about. Sold together or separately.
H. p. GORSUCH,
nov 11-3t Westminster, Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

In 1909 the people of the United
States imported $75,OOO.OOO of Cuban
sugar, but IL the development in the
beet sugar industry of the country
keeps up at the present rate another
decade will see good share of this
produced at home. While the high
price and scarcity Of labor tend to
discourage the growing Of any crop
which savoFs OF intensive soil tillage.
it should be said in behalf of beet
growing that beets do not pull heavily
on the land. that there is good reve-
nue. in raising them and that they
leave the soil i'm the best possible filth
for other crops used in rotation. Con-
ditions to be found in the states of
the west where water Is on tap from
ditch when wanted and where sun
shine is the rule through all the grow
ing season are ideal for their culture.
for the soil is marvelously rich and
the weed pest reduced to minimum.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

Oats have been recognized as a sort
of ide"l horse feed SO long that any
suggestion which appears to controvert
this view seems to be sort of revolu-
tionnry. but this in just what the Iowa
experiment station has done lately. 1t
has concluded some rather exhaustive
horse feeding experiments and finds
that. while oats are usually the lowest
priced cereal fed To horses, they may
In the end be the most costly ration
that can be used. 1t was found that
by substituting for them oilmeal. cot
tonseed meal or gluten meal just as
satisfactory results were had at less
cost. In results secured q value of $50
per ton was placed on oilmeal and an
even higher price on cottonseed meal.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

Y nsidering the disastrous experience
which q number of western fruit grow
ers have Ind the past season through
use Of Il lime-sulphur summer spray, it
il safe they will give the subject some
study this winter before applying the
spray.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
OWES
HER
LIFE TO
Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Chicago, Ill.-"I was troubled with
falling and Inflammation, and the doc
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

While pocket gophers are quite gen
orally distributed over the western two
thirds of the United States, the dam
age they intiict to crops and trees is
perhaps most serious in those sections
Of the west where summer rainfall Is
limited and where natural heritage.
which usually forms portion of their
bill Of fare. Is scarce. The under
ground habits of the rodent are so
familiar as hardly to need description
The methods of destruction lre chiefly
by means Of traps and poison. The
ordinary steel traps give good results
by placing in the main tunnel. Sew
eral types of special gopher traps are
preferable because they kill the ami
NAL at once. OF poisons which have
been used strychnia sulphate Is the
most effective and is made as follows:
Dissolve an ounce of the poison in
quart Of boiling water and add a
quart of thick sugar Sirup. mixing
thoroughly. This amount Is enough to
poison thirty-five pounds Of barley or
wheat or thirty pounds of green al
falfa. If the latter is used more wa
ter is added. When the bait has been
prepared it can be inserted into the
gopher tunnels through holes made
with spade handle shod with a met
al point and having a metal bar for
the foot about fifteen inches from the
point. For loose soils a pointed stick
will serve the purpose. Where the
soil is too hard for prod spade will
he needed in digging TO the tunnels
In studies which have been made by
the biological survey of the natural
enemies of the gopher a very high
value is placed on the barn owl, the
great blue heron. badgers. skunks,
weasels and snakes. and of the last
named enemies the Pacific bull snake
is considered most valuable. All Of
these gopher enemies are stanch
friends of the grain and fruit ranch
man and should be accorded his pro
lection at all times.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

While it may be viewed as an act of
generosity for parents to divide all of
their property equally among their
several children. there are good rea-
sons why they should keep enough of
1t to provide themselves a modest
home and good living in their old
age. entirely apart from the hospitality
which. as rule. il gladly extended to
them in the homes of their children.
There is no place like home. and to
people Of no other age is this truer
than those we'll along in years. To have
q spot or realm which il ones own
and in which one can do as he pleascs
is prerogative that every parent
should enjoy 1T not only breeds 4
spirit of Independence on the part OF
th" parent. but induces wholesome
respect on the part of children and
other relatives.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25
Foley
Kidney
Pills
what They viii Do for You

What They Will Do For You
They will cure your backache,
strengthen your Kidneys, cor
rect urinary irregularities, build
up the worn out tissues, and
eliminate the excess uric acid
that causes rheumatism. Pre-.
vent Bright's Di ease and Dia-
bates, and res.ore health and
strength. Refuse Substitutes
For Sale BY SHAW DRUG COMPANY
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

In the main. to be worth the price
asked for it. land should yield net an
annual crop return which will repre-
sent a fair interest return on invest
ment price. If lit does not do this II Il
On d speculative basis, which may or
may not de- well grounded.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-11-25

This matter must not he reprinted with
out special permission.l