The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-14

sters about the house get hold of it.
Most of this peddled trash contains
deadly poison, which will not only
make child sick. but kill 1t If in an
overdose.
More than one housewife saves her
self world of hard work by having
the men of the house put off their
muddy boots and shoes before going
into the kitchen or dining room. This
takes little time, but the reasonable
ness of it will be appreciated by any
fair minded man who will get down
on his prayer bones and scrub the floor
two or three times
Recent feeding experiments conducted
by the Massachusetts experiment sta
ton at Amherst in the matter of feed
ing alfalfa meal and bran have demon
strated that there is no disadvantage
in feeding the former unless it can be
got at the same or a less price than
bran. Analyses showed the bran to
have trife larger protein content,
readily and resulted in manures of
considerably higher fertilizer value.
If any Of our readers have been be-
lated, as the writer has been. in the
setting Of fruit or shade trees, the
fault may be remedied in part by a
judicfous watering, care being taken
to see that the ground is mellowed
shortly after the watering is done so
as to prevent the formation Of a crust
about the tree. while the application
OF shoyelful of well rotted manure
through which the rain or water arti-
ficially applied can soak is an excel
lent aid in enabling the tree to make
up for the lost time.
A majority Of the soothing sirups at
present on the market and frequently
used by tired mothers to quiet crying
babies contain considerable quantities
of morphine or cocaine, both of them
deadly poisons. and many of the so
called cures for several drug habits
contain the very drugs a craving for
which these cures are supposed to re-
lieve the drug victim of. Farmers
bulletin No. 1893, put out short time
ago by the department Of agriculture
at Washington, goes very thoroughly
into the subject of these death deal
ing nostrums. There should be one In
every home.
Nature seems to have provided ex-
ceptional means for reducing the baby
hood-the helpless period--of the birds
to minimum. thereby decreasing the
likelihood of their destruction by their
several natural enemies. This safe
guard lies chiefly in the enormous eat
ing capacity of the newly Matched
birds, three or four nestlings keeping
both parent birds busy from daylight
until dark stuffing their uplifted and
gaping mouths. This large consump-
ton of food results in like prodigious
and rapid growth and development.
the young birds testing their wings in
fight from the nest but few short
weeks after Matching.
Beyond treating dirt roads at the
right time and keeping them well
crowned so as to shed rainfall quickly
there is probably no factor that will
tend better to keep them in good con-
dition than the use of broad tired
wagons in place Of the narrow tired
ones which have been in so general
use in the past. There is always
period when road has been worked
into shape, but has not been packed
down hard, when a narrow tired wagon
heavily loaded will undo much of the
work. The same thing is true during
rainy seasons, when the road, however
well graded becomes soft Whatever
the season. the broad tired wagon has
a decided advantage over the narrow
in keeping the roads in good condition.
The Satsuma orange introduced into
the United States from Japan twenty
five years ago and thither from China
300 years prior, gives promise Of being
valuable addition to the citrus fruits
commercially valuable. 1t is unique
in that it is the only citrus species
which is deciduous, casting all its
leaves in the autumn, as do our com.
mon forest trees. 1t is both the ear
lest and hardest variety of orange
grown, its fruit ripening early in Oc-
tober. 1t Is seedless, like the navel,
and fine favored. A further interest
ing fact concerning it, recently brought
to light, is that it is absolutely worth
less as a fruit bearer unless budded or
grated on trifollate stock. This is a
fact that the settlers of new orange
groves would do well to keep In mind