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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-10
Taxation of Telegraph Companies.

W. II. Pattangall appeared in support
of his bill TO tax telegraph companies
UPON their valuation as deter1ineat by
the state assessors. The rate win be two
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
jungle iousekeepino.

The negro housewife In the West
Indian jungle finds housekeeping very
easy. Fruit and vegetables grow wild
all about the hut and the river abounds
with fish. On wash day all she has to
do is TO pick a few of the berries Of
the soap berry tree. take her clothes
to the river and use the berries as she
would use ordinary soap. Even her
cooking pots grow on the trees. the
calabash cut in halves being used for
this purpose. Calabashes are used
also for bowls. basins and jugs for
carrying water from the river while
the small ones make excellent cups.
In the afternoon. when she Is ready
for her cup of tea. the negress picks
half dozen leaves from the lime bush
growing at her door. boils them.
squeezes the juice from a sugar cane
for sweetening and the cocoanut sup
plies the milk. Thus she has deli
cious cup of tea without depending on
the grocer for IT, She makes the mats
for her floor out of the dried leaves of
the banana. plated and sewed togeth-
err as the old country people in this
country make their rag mats.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
SchooIboy Definitions.

Here are some definitions from the
schoolroom: "A Jacobite is a man
descended from Jacob" Snoring is
our breath meeting the air which is
coming In our mouth" "Sneezing il
a kind of 'coffing' in the throat" An
other boy writes, "When you are cold
the inside of your body rumbles and
then 1t makes noise which is called
sneezing." "A telephone is a kind of
long wire with a spout ut each end
Westminster Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
THE LlME-sULPHuR SPRAY.

With both landscape gardeners and
horticulturists the lime-sulphur spray
Is being used with increasing satisfac-
ton as substitute for the bordeaux
mixture for shrubs and fruit trees
while in dormant condition. Not only
does the lime-sulphur spray check
fungous diseases. such as apple scab.
leaf spot. leaf curl. etc. but it will
kill the San Jose scale. the minute
parasitic insect which is generally dis.
tributed over the country. If applied
just before the buds burst in the spring
the spray will also destroy many eggs
Of the several varieties of aphides. Ii
one is in section where much spray
ing is done much trouble can be saved
by buying the ready made lime-sul
phur spray. which should be diluted in
about twelve times its volume of
water. If this cannot be obtained the
spray material can be made according
to the following formula Forty poun1
unslaked lime. twenty pounds sulphur.
fifteen pounds salt and sixty gallons
water. Take ten pounds of lime and
twenty pounds of sulphur and boil in
ten gallons Of water from one and a
half TO two hours. until the sulphur is
completely dissolved. which will be in.
dicated by the liquid turning a clear
amber color. Stake the balance OF the
lime and TO it add the salt When this
is dissolved add 1t TO the lime and sui
phur solution and boil from thirty to
forty-five minutes longer. Add enough
hot water 10 make The sixty gallons
and apply TO trees or shrubs while
hot. To get best results the spraying
should be thoroaghly done. 50 that all
parts of the trees VIII be reached This
spray is quite caus,ic to the human
skin. and this effect may be in a meas
IRE counteracted By washing the face
and hsnds before beginning the spray
ing in a weak solution of vinegar. IN
any case IL is well 20 use gauntlet
gloves and a broad trimmed hat 20
shelter the face. 1t should be reulcn-
bered thar the above spray is for trees
and shrubs in dormant condition
only and will dcfoliate them and ruin
blossoms or fruit if applied after they
have started 10 grow. For use during
the growing season the self boiled
lime-sulphur solution is used and in a
much more dilute form than the one
described.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
First Test of The Air pumn.

The first public test of the air pump
was In 1864 by its inventor. Otto Won
Guericke. in the presence of Emperor
Ferdinand of Germany. Guericke APP
piled the carefully ground edges of
metallic hemispheres. two feet In d.
ameter. TO each other. After exhaust
ing the air by his apparatus he at
tached fifteen horses to each hemi-
sphere. In vain did they attempt to
separate them because of the enor-
nous pressure of the atmosphere. The
experiment was great success.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
CORN WITHOUT CULTIVATION.

A yield of 125 bushels of corn per
acre was raised under rather unique
conditions the past season by farmer
we read of the other day. The land
In question: small tract-was fall
plowed sod. The owner put the soil
in good shape last spring and planted
corn. For some reason the seed was
slow In terminating, and. thinking it
would not sprout at all. he straddled
the rows already planted and put in
as much more. To his surprise. when
the rains and warlier weather came
on he found both paintings germinat-
ing nicely. The rows were so close
together that he could not cultivate.
so he let things jingle. planning to
cut the whole for fodder AT har-
vest time he husked this field and
gathered from II al the rate of 125
bushels per acre The farmer doubt
less wonders. In view of this yield.
whether what he has been taught
about proper stand and benefit Of cul-
tivation Is correct after all. Two
points that serve 20 explain the situa-
ton. however. are richness OF soil ard
abundance of humus.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
WAY 1T PAID

From time to time during the past
three or four years the writer of these
notes has made mention of the bene-
fits to be got from thing low and wet
land. For those who know from their
own or Others experiences the benefit
of making such Improvement further
evidence would hardly seem neees-
sary. We give the following concrete
case of the advantage Of thing for the
benefit of those who are still some
what skeptical about the matter. The
farmer in question owned n little less
than a section of land. one-third OF
which. or about ninety FIVE acres. was
too low to raise anything but swamp
grass and weeds. Barring the small
amount of pasturage which this FIR
nished and the meager cutting of wild
hay got from the edges. there had
been no revenue from it for years. At
last the owner got interested in the
subject of thing and under compe-
tent engineer laid out drainage sys-
tenn which cost him in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000. Last spring he sowed
TO fax the reclaimed area. and when
the crop was sold he found that this
first crop paid for the improvement.
which amounted to $20.10 per acre for
the land drained. and left him. besides.
$40 per acre, or S1,425. which would
have been fair revenue If he hadn't
paid out anything for thing at all
There are literally millions of acres
of the richest kind of land that can
and should be redeemed in this same
way and which will be reclaimed
when the owners wake up to the bene-
fits of thing
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
80 Aid.

Now" said the professor, suppose
you had been called to see patient
with Mysteries some one, for instance.
who had started laughing and found
il impossible 20 stop what Is the first
thing Won werId do|
'Amputate bis funny bone. prompt
d replied the new student 2ss e'gssss
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
Not stronn Mindecl

"Your wife. Clark, IS. Should say.
strong minded lady"
There you wonld be wrong. /
should rather describe her as brittle
minded"
brittle mlndedi"
res; she's been giving me pieces of
her mind for years
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
simpIified ssellina.

"Why did you take Elnora away
from school. Aunt Mahaiyg" lady
asked her cook one day. Aunt Mahaly
shifted scornfully
Cause de teacher amt satisfaction
airy tub me. Mis- Mally What you
reckon she tell DAT chile yistidy2 she
low dat Nv spell four even a
idjut 'ud know dat II spells w."
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
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:. DENMARK. i.

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:. DENMARK. =
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The much advertised aviation meet
ing, when air men viii make an effort
to fly around the entire kingdom of
Denmark. will soon be held and al
ready the sum of $4,000 crowns has
been collected for this purpose. The
balloons and alrships will start from
Skagen, near Copenhagen, and the
course mapped out for the circum-air
trip will be via Fredriskhavn, Aalborg,
Aarhus, Skanderborg, Horsens, yeile,
Holding. Midelfart. Odense, Korser
and Roskilde. The fight may last
three days, at any rate that is the
limit set. The following aviators
have sent in their applications to par
ticipate in the event: Paulain and
Cozic of France and Swenson of Den
mark. Other applications are ex-
pected.
The well known Hotel d'Angleterre,
located near 'Kongens Nytorl." has
recently passed into the hands of a
receiver. 1t was owned by Danish
English concern, and it is reported
that o. Davidson Of Gothenburg was
q heavy stakeholder in the company.
It Is reported on good authority that
two more of the city's leading hotels
are on poor financial basis and a
general hotel "krasch." as it Is desig.
mated there. may soon follow
Hans Freeze, a prominent anti
Mormon, who has been sent by a
Christian American womans society
to deliver a series Ut lectures against
Mormonism in European countries. ar
rived in Copenhagen the other day
after having visited England. Holland
and Germany. Freeze was born In
Utah OF Danish parents who were
polygamists, he being the son Of his
fathers second wife
MARION s. NoRELru'
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Give old Biddy the right kind Of ra.
tion and a warm spell Of weather In
midwinter and she will knock In the
head the tightest egg corner ever pro.
NOTED. 1t Is largely because Of this
combination Of circumstances that
eggs are now down so that man with
a family can afford to have them once
in three days.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Any farmer living near a railroad
track would do well to carry insur-
ance on his stock, as he never can tell
on what day gate may be left open
and valuable stock be killed by pass
ing train. We read of farmer the
other day who lost four fine colts at
one time in such manner. While
the railroad can usually be made to
pay damages. they do not always COW
er the loss.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

1t is not a particularly reassurine
thought that about 90 per cent of all
hogs and cattle found affected with
tuberculosis are used as human food,
this being due to the fact that the flesh
Of such animals is considered whole.
some for food unless tubercular lie
SLOTS are found In 1t.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Some figures which have been COM
piled the past season on the subject of
pasturage for hogs are interesting and
may be put to good use next spring in
providing such pasture. They show
that an acre of mixed oats, rape and
clover produced S31 pounds Of pork at
cost Of 1884 per hundred; clover
alone. 748 pounds at $3.51 per liun-
dredl; rape, 713 pounds at S3.44 per
hundred; oats, rape and Canada field
peas, GOA pounds at $500 per hundred.
while an acre of blue grass and tim
othy produced 367 pounds of pork Mt
cost Of 1881 1t is interesting to note
the economical production Of pork
with the first two pastures. in which
clover appears. Had alfalfa pasture
been available in the experiment It
would probably have made an even
better showing than did the clover.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

1t is pretty sensible thing to steer
shy of the fellow who is dead anxious
to sell you something that is going to
fetch you health or wealth by short
cut and with the investment Of a rela-
lively small amount of money. In nine
cases out of ten he does not belong to
the benefactor class at all. but is a
plain CRATER and eager to get his
hands on your hard earned money.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

In Arizona at the present time min
tag bears to agriculture the ratio of
seven to one, but this will not long
stand, as irrigation projects are being
undertaken and completed which will
make agriculture much larger factor
In the states development
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

One Of the largest certified milk
diaries in the country, which is To-
Gated near Boston, is owned and OPP
Grated by woman, Mrs. Ware, and
Is known as the Wareland dairy. This
field has been occupied by women In
SucceSs
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

The same difference In atmospheric
conditions which relieves the dweller
Of low and humid sections Of his asth.
ma when he removes to higher and
drier country rids horses of the heaves
If they make the same change.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

At the national corn show held the
latter part of January at Columbus,
o.. the first prize of $1,000 for the best
ten ears of corn exhibited was award.
ed to Roy Clore, lad nineteen years
old, of Franklin, Ind. 1t will be re-
won the championship prize in 1907
and 1908 and was barred from com
petlng, but it is a fair assumption that
the boy had some of the old gentle
mans seed corn as wen as the benefit
Of his many years of experience
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
AZ - Arrannnment.

Wife-An T. then. never to have my
way in anything?" Husband-C Certain
", dear When we are both agreed
you can have your way. When we
differ I'll have mine"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Once give your mind to suspicion
aud there Is sure 10 he food enough for
Il III the stiliest night the air is filled
with s0uuds tor thp wakefnl ear thar
Is reserved 10 hsyen
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Denmark Is dlminutive country,
about one-tbird the size Of an average
btnte. yet 1t produces annually eight
times as much In dairy products as
Illinois.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

In starting dairy herd 1t is much
better to pay two prices for the cows
that the other fellow would like to
keep than to take the ones he is per-
fectly willing to part with for song
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

There are many who hold that when
the farmer in the northern half Of the
corn belt knows as much about rails.
Ing alfalfa as he already does about
growing corn and oats he will have lit
tie trouble in raising the legume.
There would seem to be something in
the contention.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
- -, - cor.rI.irt-

Probably this expression is used
ofteuer by people thai auy other: Ey.
erythiug IS blamed on me Atchison
Globe
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Feeding tests which have been made
by two or three experiment stations
seem to show that If alfalfa is ground
into meal there is loss In feeding val
tie of or per cent over that realized
when the hay is fed in its natural
state. Just why this is so is not stat
ed. but it seems to be due to the bene-
fetal effect of the thorough mastica-
ton given the coarser feed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

The most important factor in the
choice of sire for the dairy herd is
not the length of his pedigree or a
hifalutin name, but the number of
pounds of butter fat produced in a
year by his dam, his grandam and
great-grandam. This will be the only
safe guarantee that he Will beget heifer
calves Of fixed milk giving habit.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

An irritable man lies Ike a hedge
hog rolled up the wrong way. torment
ing himself with his own Driekies r
2. Hood
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

1t Is all right to feel keen interest
in the conservation of the countrys
natural resources in the shape OF tim
Der and mineral wealth, but the aver
age farmer has good deal more
pressing conservation problem on his
hands in the matter of so handling
the homemade manures that he will
realize their approximate value of
$2.25 per ton instead of allowing them
to steam and leech and get but one
half or one-third of this amount from
them
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

In general way that type of farm
ing has most to commend it from the
standpoint of the welfare Of the soil
and the owner of it in which the
amount paid to railroads for transpor-
tation OF products is reduced to mini
mum. IT is because of this fact that
raising hogs. sheep and cattle Is bet
ter type Of farming than grain selling
and why butter production is better
than either. With grain the value Of
the shipment is from cent to a cent
and half a pound, with stock to 10
cents and with butter % to 35 cents.
Not only this, but the amount of fer
tility removed from the farm Is In d
quite accurate indirect ratio to the
value per pound of the product ship
ped. There is something in the above
facts that the general farmer might
well take note of.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

There is no asset with which young
folks start out in life which begins to
compare in Importance and value with
good health. In all too many cases we
take this endowment as q matter OF
course, underrate and often despise 1t
and wake up too late to a realization
Of the fact that we have impaired or
destroyed It. 1t is pretty good idea
to look after our health as we go along.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

With the fur business becoming
more and more important each year
and trappers getting handsome re-
turns for their pelts. more interest
should be taken by both trappers and
buyers in changing of the open sea-
son from Nov. 1 to Dec. /. 1t is the
consensus Of opinion among those who
have given the matter attention that
much fur caught prior to Nov. 20 and
classed as unprime would be rated as
prime and fetch a much higher price
if caught after Dec. /.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

II the field on which the stalks are
standing is well supplied with humus
-decaying vegetable matter--there is
no particular reason for cutting them
TO pieces and blowing them under, as
the mineral fertilizing elements-phos-
phorous and potash--will be left in the
sell in the shape OF ashes in case the
stalks were burned. But the fact re-
mains that the vast majority OF soils
are deficient in humus; hence it Is bet
ter to cut the stalks TO pieces and
plow them under. When silos are in
stalled on every farm. as they ought to
be, this question OF what to do with
the stalks will take care OF itself, as
the bulk Of them will be converted into
ensilage. with nothing but six to eight
inches of stubs left afield.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

Among the diseases which are
known TO be caused by microbes are
tuberculosis, pneumonia, diphtheria,
typhoid fever. lockjaw, blood poison
ing, malaria, sleeping sickness, bubon-
ic plague, cholera, dysentery and cere-
bro-spinal meningitis. Other diseases
not yet proved to be caused by germs,
but believed by scientific men to be.
are scarlet fever, measles. yellow fe-
yer, rabies and infantile paralysis. OF
all these maladies several have been
deprived of their former terror by
the serum treatment, chief among
them being diphtheria, for which the
antitoxin treatment is now given with
most gratifying results.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

The forest service is conducting an
experiment in the foothills of southern
California that Is bound to be followed
closely by all who are interested in the
reclamation or use of millions Of acres
OF rough and inaccessible desert land.
Briefly, the experiment is the setting
out in representative localities of 100,-
600 eucalyptus trees, for which the
ground viii not be prepared beyond
the digging of Il hole two feet across
and fifteen inches deep. No attempt
will be made TO cultivate the little
trees nor 10 keep the chaparral from
growing about them. nor viii there be
any way in which they can be irri-
gated.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

To one who has made the rail- trip
across the Utah deserts 1t seems inn
possible that men from The more hu-
mid eastern states would have the
hardihood 20 locate there and under
take dry farming. and yet this Is ex-
actly what is being done. As result
the big sheepmen who have herded
their focks on the mountains in the
summer months and In the winter on
the deserts. where they subsist on
sagebrush and cactus, contend that
this movement of settlers to the desert
means the ultimate extinction of the
grazing business as it has been known
in years past.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

In serving as a judge Of an exhibit
Of grains at 4 farmers institute a
short time since the writer weighed q
sample of Swedish select cats that
tested forty-two pounds TO the bushel
and two other samples Of white oats
that weighed forty pounds TO the
bushel each. Several samples or
wheat examined showed like plump
ness and soundness Of berry. which
furnished proof that the heat moisture
conditions for the maturing Of the
grain were as nearly ideal as could be.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27

In the mining of gold and silver at
Leadville, Colo, for years past little
attention has been paid to the thou
sands of tons of oxides or other met
ais which have been cast aside as
worthless. Lately. however, IL has
been found that this waste contains a
very large per cent Of zinc oxide OF a
very high grade. while there are lit
orally millions of tons of 1t untouch-
ed in the neighborhood. IT is estimat-
ed that this newly realized source OF
wealth viii bring TO Leadville more
revenue than was ever received for all
her silver and gold.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-07-27
OF INTEREST TO
SCANDINAvIANS
Recent Happenings In This Coun.
Try and Abroad.
KING GUSTAV IS FIFTY.FIVE

Ruler Of Sweden Recently Celebrated
elrthdsy Anniversary--Johan Svend-
sen, Who Died Recently, Was One
Of Norway's Greatest Artists-Avia.
tors to Make an Effort to Fly
Around Denmark.