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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

Using pure-bred mares for the home
production of the seventeen hundred
and forty-five pure-bred stations need
ed in Wisconsin to displace the grade
and m0ngrel or scrub stations now
used, ought to be profitable. We are
pleased to be able to state that intel
| igent farmers are of like mind regard
Ing this subject and are securing pure
bred mares as opportunity offers.
During 1911, more pure-bred mares
were bought and brought into the
state than during any other year of
the pas decade. This is shown in
Circular of Information % which is
GUST issued by the Wisconsin expert
ment station.
Such mares, however, have en-
HANGED almost 100 per cent. in value
during the past eight or nine years
and are now so high in price that
farmers hesitate to buy. When the
price ranged about $500 to $500 for
a first-class, registered mare they
were not afraid to buy; but double
that figure proves prohibitive in ma
jority of cases.
The need of a large number of pure
bred mares is as pressing now as ever
before in Wisconsin. The demand is
for young mares of good breeding and
quality and the imported mare is still
the favorite, but getting beyond the
pocket book of the average buyer. 1t
is now generally understood and APP
preciated that pure-bred mares can
well earn their living by daily labor
on the farm and at the same time re-
turn handsome profit by producing
foals. The demand for mares, there
fore, is keen in this state and a SIM
liar interest is being shown in other
states. Elsewhere plans are being
put in practice to aid farmers to buy
pure-bred mares at reasonable figures
and similar plans should be devised
and introduced in Wisconsin. While
imported stations are in demand and
coming into the state in increasing
numbers yearly, rapid progress in the
elimination Of our 1,745 grade and
mongrel or scrub stations can only
come from the home ownership of
pure-bred mares and the home produc-
ton of a majority of the stations.
The Commercial Club of Norfolk,
Neb., through the efforts of G. L. Carl
son, is setting an example in enter
prise which is being watched with in
terest throughout that and other
states. 1t possibly offers a solution
of the problem in Wisconsin and at
least suggests that our farmers who
desire to buy imported mares might
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
State Tax Levy Shows increase.

Secretary of State ]. A. Freal
announced the state levy for taxes of
the state.
The total amount to be raised is
$500 ,255.95, divided as follows:
State aid for the maintenance Of
county charges in state charitable and
penal institutions, $364,24427.
Special loans to cities, $210,391.S7.
School district loans, $301,617.75.
Interest on state indebtedness, $751;
$40.
State aid for free high schools,
$150,000; graded schools, $4,000;
university, $1,103,029; normal schools,
$490,235; common schools, 81, S58,9S9.
For the new capitol, $450,000.
State aid for county highways $780,
900.
Milwaukee county is assessed at
1867 ,424.S1, which is the highest ap-
portionment in the state. Dane coun-
ty is next, for $3.50, 2S3.S0. Florence
county, having the least property valu-
alton, is the lowest on the appOrtion-
ment list, the amount being $7,708.21
The levy this year is $85O,000 more
than it was last year, the increase be-
ing due to the $350,000 for public high
ways and 100000 for the state uni
versity and other educational pur-
poses.
The new levy by counties is as fol-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
Genuine Merit Required to Win the
PEOPLES Confidence

Have you ever stopped to reason
why it. is that so many products that
are extensively advertised, all at once
drop out Of sight and are soon forgot
ten? The reason Is plain-the article
did not fulfil the promises Of the man.
ufacturer. This applies more particu.
larly to a medicine. A medicinal prep
aration that has real curative value al
most sells itself, as like an endless
chain system the remedy is recon-
mended by those who have been cured,
to those who are in need Of 1t.
In an interview on the subject a
prominent local druggist says Take
for example DR.. Kline Swamp-Root,
a preparation I have sold for many
years and never hesitate to recon-
mend, for in almost every case it
shows immediate results, as many Of
my customers testify. No other kid
ney remedy that l know Of has SO
large SALE"
The success Of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root is due to the fact that it fulfils
every wish in overcoming kidney, liver
and bladder diseases, corrects urinary
troubles and neutraliZes the uric acid
which causes rheumatism.
A free trial bottle will be sent by
mail, absolutely free. Address DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, and
mention this paper. Regular size bot
ties sold at all druggists-50c. and
S100.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
THERE WITH A REPUTATION
DOUBTFUL and Inundated Hubby Now
Probably Believes Wife Can
Keep a Secret.

"Fne late William Rotch Wister,
the father of American cricket, might
also be said to have been a godfather
Of the feminist movement" said a
wtman writer at the Acorn club in
Philadelphia.
Mr.. Wister," she continued. "abomi-
nsied that type Of husband who treats
his wife like child, refusing to take
Der into his confidence. / once heard
Mr. Wister tell a story about a Ger
mantoWn man Of that sort.
THE man came back from bust.
ness meeting wherein the future vel
fare of himself and his family was
vitality involved but he declined to
tell his wife what had been the meet
ing's outcome
"'Oh. no., he sneered, T can't tell
you anything. You'd repeat 1t IL
did Yor, being a woman. are consti.
tutionally unable to keep secret
But the wife, with a quiet smile,
retorted: George, did l ever tell the
secret Of how you were led astray
that summer the church conference
met in Chicago and got arrested in a
saloon for biting off the bartender's
carp"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

Humane Society Meets.
The annual meeting Of the Dane
county branch of the Wisconsin HUI
name society was an open meeting in
Mad!>on. AL
Following was the program:
Invocation-Rev. C. H. Thomas, of
the African Methodist Episcopal
church.
Lecture on manity'-Attorney
T. @. Richmond.
Reading from Eugene Field-Mr.
H. K. Bassett, instructor in English
at the university.
Violin solo-Miss Erminie Brictson.
Musical selection-Rev. E. E. Horth
and wife.
Sketch of last years work of the
Humane society-Dr. j. w. Quinn, the
humane officer.
Election of officers for the ensuing
year.
Report of the superintendent of the
Band of Mercy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Shorts Cost University $4,000.

Athletics at the University Of Wis
consin cost $35,669.48 last year, &C
cording to the athletic councils state
ment. The largest item was football.
The receipts were: Football, $751;
569.33; basketball, $2,93S.96; baseball,
$2,3909O; track, $798.29; rowing,
$500; swimming, SIS; general, $1S
The previous years balance and in
terest aggregated over $4,000.
Expenditures were: Football, $10,-
5000; baseball, $3,466.53; track, ST.
959.51; basketball, $3,O66.32; rowing,
$3,82843; Camp Randall, $7,630.29;
swimming, 1921; tobogganing
$S16.97; skating, $592.O4; gymnastics,
$1892S; cross country, $158.07; fenc
ing, $129.37; golf, $75; tennis, 1882;
wrestling, $36.75; general, $1,442.O9;
petty cash, 5000; total disbursements
35,669.48.
The statement shows a balance OF
$1,4O2.63.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
RAISING PROFITABLE
AND HEALTHY CALVES
BY PROF. C. HUMPHREY,
Wisconsin College of Agriculture

The method employed in raising
dairy COWS in our university dairy
barn during the past four years has
been very satisfactory. 1t may not
coincide with the equally successful
methods employed with other dairy
men. but it is one which can be recon-
mended.
1t is aimed to give the COWS of the
herd the best care as regards feed,
shelter and handling. Six weeks prior
to calving, COWS are carefully dried OF
in order to give them rest from pro-
ducing milk, which is to be recon-
mended in all cases. During this time
the grain ration is continued by feed
ing two to four pounds of oats and
bran, or two pounds of bran and one
pound of oil meal, the amount depend
ing upon the condition of the cow.
It has been observed that this prac-
tice gives strength and vigor to the
COW and to the calf she produces. The
first two to four days, the calf is al
lowed 60 run with the COW, after
which it receives three to five pounds
of its own mothers milk three times
per day until four weeks old. In
some instances, if the young calf
small and inclined to be weak, a
smaller amount at a feed four times
per day is fed. After the calf is ten
| davs or two weeks old it usually
noses about and will pick up hay or
grain. It will sometimes pick up
coarse butts of fodder or silage of
corn cobs and swallow them, which is
very sure to bring on a case of indi
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
THE TEA PENALTY.
"a Strong Mans Experience.

Writing from busy railroad town
the wife of an employee of one of the
great roads says:
my husband is a railroad man who
has been so much benefited by the use
of Postum that he wishes me to eX-
press his thanks to you for the good
it has done him. His waking hours
are taken up with his work, and he
has no time to write himself.
HE has been a great tea drinker
all his life and has always liked it
strong.
Tea has, of late years, acted on
him like morphine does upon most
people. At first it soothed him, but
only for an hour or so, then it began
to affect his nerves to such an extent
that he could not sleep at night, and
he would go to his work in the morn.
ing wretched and miserable from the
loss of rest. This condition grew con-
stantly worse, until his friends per
suaded him, some four months ago, to
quit tea and use Postum.
"At first he used Postum only for
breakfast, but as he liked the taste Of
1t. and it somehow seemed to do him
good, he added it to his evening meal.
Then, as he grew better, he began to
drink it for his noon meal, and now
he will drink nothing else at table.
His condition is so wonderfully i'm
proved that he could not be hired to
give up Postum and go back to tea.
His nerves have become steady and
reliable once more, and his sleep is
easy, natural and refreshing.
He owes all this to Postum, for he
has taken no medicine and made nc
other change in his diet.
His brother, who was very nervous
from coffee-drinking, was persuaded
by us to give up the coffee and use
Postum and he also has recovered his
health and strength" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich.
Read the little book, THE Road tc
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's reason"
Ever read the above letter. new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full OF human
interest
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
STATE BANKERS
SELECT SMITH
Group Five of Wisconsin Asso-
citation Elects Officers.
HUNDRED MEMBERS PRESENT
Checks OF a Uniform Size Are Voted
for and the Distribution of Cal
endars by Banks Is Opposed
by Convention.

Madison.-Group five of the Wiscon-
sin Bankers association at Beloit elect
ed officers as follows: President, S. M.
Smith, GAINESVILLE; vice-president, H.
A. Moehlenpaugh, Clinton; secretary
treasurer, H. D. La Adams, Delavan.
There were 100 bankers present.
The convention voted in favor of
checks of a uniform size, and against
the distribution by banks of calen-
dars. X. L. Hatch of Madison, in his
paper, urged bankers to encourage
farmers. Among the subjects dis
cussed was that of banking insurance
rates. The visitors had dinner and an
auto ride in the afternoon
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Toastinq the Teachers.

There was a meeting of the new
teachers and the old. 1t was sort OF
love feast, reception or whatever you
call it. Anyhow, all the teachers got
together and pretended they didn't
have care In the world. After the
eats were ct the symposiarch proposed
q toast:
Long Live Our Teachers!"
It was drank enthusiastically. One
of the new teachers was called on to
respond. He modestly accepted. His
answer was:
What on?"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

The state tax commission has adj
vised the district attorney at Mantle
voc that it will bring action in court
to uphold its ruling that city boards
of review cannot make changes unless
upon sworn afidavits of owners of the
property and asks the attorney to be
ready to proceed against the city
clerks Of Manitowoc and Two Rivers
in event that they refuse to restore
the tax rolls as reported by the
assessors. Both city boards made rad
ical changes in the assessors figures
and the commission holds it was with
out warrant of law and will make a
test if necessary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

gestion and sometimes serious diff
Guilty. One should be careful to see
that in the feed or bedding there is
nothing of this character to cause the
difficulty
During the fifth week the milk is
graduallN changed to skim milk The
amount is not increased until about
the eighth week, when the calf can be
fed eight pounds twice day A
small amount of grain and dried Glow
er or alfalfa is placed before the calf
after it is ten days to two weeks old,
the grain is fed Immediately after
the calf has taken the milk. The
feeding pals, stable and calves are
kept as clean as possible and plenty
of pure air is provided. The calves
are kept on cement floor over which
are laid boards to keep the calves off
the cold cement. The stable should
be kept warm.
A small amount of corn silage Is
fed after the calf is month or six
weeks old During the first summer
the calves are fed regularly in the
barn and turned out for exercise in
shady paddocks or during nights only
Up to "a or 80 months of age the
/ time the heifer drops her first calf.
she does not receive more than three
pounds of grain per day. From the
time she commences to eat grain, as
| a calf. she is fed as much as she will
relish up to this amount, which, with
skim milk up to the age of six, eight
or twelve months of age, depending
upon the supply of skim milk. corn
silage and hay, is sufficient to pro-
| duce a very satisfactory growth. Our
grain mixture for calves consists OF
mixture of five parts whole oats.
three parts wheat bran, one part
corn meal and one part oil meal Wa
ter and salt are supplied daily, as the
calf wants it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Wisconsin Pensions.

Pensions have been granted to the
following Wisconsin persons: Walter
T r. Bradford, Sc; Jane e. Butler,
S12: Alexander Sinclair, $40; August
Capelle, SIS; Byron J. Erskine, $16;
Maggie Griffith, $12; Harrison ]. Hole
Sc: Kittie E. V. Hollister, SIT; VIII
liam L. Hunter, SIS; Margaret Ley
kom, $12; Charles w. Mower, slo;
Frank M. Seymour, SIS; De Elite G
Stewart. s12; Gertrude Tausend, $12;
Anthony Zerwas, $40; Silas j. Crock
err, SIS; Goodrich e. Erickson, 500
Mary L. Foote, $1z.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Minded His Pa.

Mars Cassidy, official starter for
several years at most of the once
great race courses of America. is
man of infinite patience. His three
motherless boys have never felt SO
much as the weight of his finger in
PARENTAL correction. but his metnoas
of moral suasion are effective. Every
body but the victim decided recently
that the youngest Cassidy boy. five
years old, needed a dose Of castor oil.
This is for your good. and don't
~ant to hold your mouth open ana
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Names Aids for Bancroft.

Governor McGovern appointed as
special counsel to assist the attorney
general in his defense of the constitu-
tionality of the new water power law.
George Lines, Walter d. Corrigan and
Theodore Kronshage Of Milwaukee,
and of the income tax law, George G..
Greene, Green Bay, and former SUI
preme Court Justice ]. E. Dodge OF
Milwaukee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

pour it down your throat, but yoa
must take it," was the parental ulti-
matum. The boy glared at his father.
took the medicine and then climbed
upon the knee of his grandmother
who was almost in tears of commisera-
ton Never mind, gran'ma," he whis-
pered, as she coddled him, Wen snow
bsrs. Soon as he goes out I'll froW
Il np."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
The Model

I'D gladly lend you $40, Jones. ="
said Narrowly. but really I'm busted.
We've just moved out into the coun-
try, and I've had to buy machine. :"
Really? Runabout or touring carp"
asked Jones.
Neither" said Narrowly. Nov
ing."-Harper's Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Wisconsin Patents.

The following patents we're re-
Gently granted to Wisconsin invent
ors: Arthur J. Brown, Milwaukee,
adjustable series shunt; Herbert w.
Cheney, Milwaukee, system of cleo
trical distribution; James A. Coogan,
Milwaukee, sad iron; Orville H. En-
sign, Madison, gas cleaning apparatus;
John w. Held, Jefferson, dust allay-
ing attachment for furnaces; Hans H.
Jensen, Milwaukee. rod cutter; Fred
erick Leonhardt, sheboygan, liquid
guage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
1.16a Freshman Students.

Freshman at the University Of Wis
consin this year number 1,168. In the
college of letters and science there
are 564, of whom 385 are men and 179
women. In the college of engineering
there are 236 men. In the college Of
agriculture there are 333 frst-year
students of whom 200 are men in the
four-year and two-year courses in
agriculture and of whom 1873 are wom-
en- in the home economics course.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Bankers Elect S. M. Smith.

~t>~'S -'SSe ~ IVts
Group five of the Wisconsin
Bankers association at Beloit elect
ed officers as follows: President, S. M.
Smith, GAINESVILLE; vice-president, H.
A. Moehlenpaugh, Clinton; secretary
treasurer, H. D. La Adams, Delavan.
There were 100 bankers present.
The convention voted in favor of
checks of uniform size, and against
the distribution by banks of calen-
dars. X. L. Hatch of Madison, in his
paper, urged bankers to encourage
farmers. Among the subjects dis
cussed was that of banking insurance
rates.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Strictly Culinary.

Don't you believe this regular out
cry against the meat supply is all cook
ed up?"
1T certainly does seem soma lila
| roasting the beef"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Ma cnmments From Hubby.

"What freakish hat, Mabel! What
do you suppose your husband will say
when he sees it"
HE won't dare say word. He's
wearing one of those fuzzy felt things
himself
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

combine, pool their funds, employ an
agent and buy abroad, at cost plus
expenses, the number of mares they
desire to use.
The club mentioned sent an agent
abroad last year to investigate mat
ters pertaining to horse breeding. In
Belgium he found an ample supply
of good, heavy pure-bred mares which
could be purchased at reasonable
prices. He interested several men,
bers of the Draft Horse Breeders so
ciety Gle Cheval de Trait Belge'O to
do the work necessary in Belgium. AS
a result of this arrangement twenty
head of selected, registered two and
| three-year-old Belgian f1llies were
safely landed at Norfolk last Febru-
airy and since then we are Informed
that a carload has arrived almost ev-
cry month. With the exception OF
three mares the imported animals
have been sold to farmers in the dis
| trict. The mares were carefully Sc
lected with reference to soundness.
uniform type, conformation and color
and laid down at Norfolk at from $300
to S492.5O each. They are not of
fered for sale to outside parties. Sc
lected by the Belgian society and han
died by the Commercial club all COM
missions have been saved, so that
these imported mares could be sold to
farmers st prices they could afford to
pay. 1t is expected that about one
hundred mares will be SO placed in
the Norfolk community every year
and the enterprise may be ex-
, tended to include cattle and sheep.
Two very high-class young Belgian
stations have also been imported for
use in the community and are offered
! to purchasers of the imported mares
at the low service fee of $15: The
| stations are golden chestnut in color
and of great size.
A similar plan no doubt could be
followed for the purchase and impor-
| tation of pure-bred mares Cs the other
| foreign breeds.
! The illustration shows a group OF
/ pure-bred Clydesdale mares, the breed
which stands second in popularity in
Wisconsin as draft horses.
We shall be glad to receive express
sions of opinion from Wisconsin
breeders relative to the scheme out
lined above If a number OF our
breeders decide that they would like
to import mares such a plan, or
as direct or joint buyers, it seems pos
sible that arrangements could be made
| F,,I1
ject.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Apotheosis,

Wife (complainingly)~-You never
praise me up to anyone
Hub don't, Ell! You should hear
me describe you at the intelligence
Office when l am trying to hire 5
cook.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Didn't Trouble Her LONG.

Miss Malaprop. in returning from
her first automobile ride. said that
the constant OSCILLATION troubled her a
little at first, but that she soon got
used to t.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Mistaken.

g. found ten-dollar bill in my last
summer suit
Gee! Why, | thought you were
married. Toledo Blade.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

Barron.-Slowly sinking to GER
tain death in the mud surrounding
Rice lake, John Brinkman, aged TWEEN
ty-three years, La Crosse, was rescued
by two hunters. He was up to his
arms in the mud when found. Rice
lake is Mecca for hunters, as wild
ducks are numerous on the marshes
surrounding the lake. Brinkman, with
several companions had been out on
the lake the greater part Of the day.
Shortly after noon the party separat-
ed, the members plunging into the
wild growth at the edge of the marsh,
intending to scare up a number OF
birds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

Sheboygan.-The police have ia
ken into custody James Kelly, a
stranger who hung about the Fifth
ward grounds and kissed and Rugged
three of the little girls who attend
school there, it is charged.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

Woman is an institution to which
mar pays homage during courtsclg
and indemnity after marriage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02
Gulf Coast Country
of Texas and Louisiana

Three crops year is making mon ~ just
times as fast as you are, and the Gulf Coast
farmer saves more of what he makes than
the northern farmer, because he has none OF
the northern farmers heavy winter expenses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-11-02

last he planted 6 acres to corn. He
got 24o bushels, which sold for 81
a bushel. The whole cost of rails
ing came to $33, leaving a net profit
of $2o7. June 1st he planted a
SECOND crop and got $40 bushels.
This crop cost $50. leaving him a net profit
of $2oI. From the crops he cleared
$4o8-not bad for acres; and he can grow
a crop of fall potatoes on the same land
and market them before Christmas. This
is not unusual in the