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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
Paving in Iowa Cities.

Sioux City has been buying concrete
pavement at prices as low as $1.lO a
yard, or cheaper than any other Iowa
city. The pavement has been laid in a
single course mixed one, two and four.
The mayor in statement recently
published indicates that the pavement
is wholly satisfactory and that con-
tracts for many additional streets will
be let. 1.-The council" he says. gave
the closest attention to an investiga-
ton Of the best and cheapest methods
of paving streets not devoted to bust
ness purposes, and finally decided upon
concrete as satisfying both require
ments better than any other material
The contracts for large number of
blocks on cross streets were let during
the past winter ard the work was be-
gun early in the spring. The work was
done by the contractors in such man
ner as to satisfy the closest inspection,
and there is no doubt that the question
of securing a cheap, durable and salts
factory paving tor residence streets
has been solved in Sioux City. So
we'll satisfied with the new paving
were the property owners and the
council that still larger amount of it
was ordered and isehow being laid.
There is good reason to believe that
much of this paving will be asked for
in other sections of the city in the near
future"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

seems a little overdrawn, but If 1t
Is tried it will be found to be eaten
lutte readily by the hog. As tonic,
ashes, charcoal, lime and salt can be
mixed and put in self.feeder some-
where in the pen, SO that the pigs can
have access to it at any time. Simple
remedies, as dips, turpentine and sui
phur, can be substituted with good
results in place Of the stock foods
that are somewhat in general use.
Hogs can be fed and housed cheap
ly through the winter in this way and
brought out in the spring 100 to $50
pounds heavier. They will make the
owner more clear money than If they
all slept in one pen with the dams
and were fed on corn and water.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
SIGNALS OF DlSTktSS,

Cresco People Should Know How to
Read and Heed them.
Sick kidneys give many signs of dis
tress.
The secretions are dark, contain a
sediment.
Passages are frequent, scanty, pain
full.
Backache is constant day and night.
Headaches and dizzy spells are fire.
quent.
The weakened kidneys need quick
help.
Don't delay! Use a special kidney
remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid
neys, backache and urinary disorders.
Mrs. B. M. Bell, Route No. 3. Fred
ericksburg, Iowa, says: 81 was troub-
led by backache and a difficulty with
the kidney secretions. Doan's Kidney
Pills were finally recommended to me
and | procured supply. l used them
according to direc tons and received
great benefit. l do not hesitate to
recommend loans Kidney Pills as an
excellent remedy for kidney trouble. "
For sale by all dealers. Price 60
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the Doans-and
take no other,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
WINTER CARE
OF FALL LITTERS.
By NJ. Walter O'Donnell, Iowa Agri.
cultural College.

By NJ. Walter O'Donnell, Iowa Agri-
cultural College.
In the care of fall litters the first
and most essential consideration is
the care of the sows. These must
be in healthy, vigorous condition in
order that the pigs will not be rob-
bed of milk and become stunted. At
this time Of the year the care Of the
fall pigs would be the care of pigs
eight to ten weeks old, as most of
the fall pigs have reached this age.
The care up to this time is import
ant, for it is during this period that
the pig gets its start toward doing
we'll or becoming runt. If the pigs
are we'll fed up to weaving time and
kept on coming after being taken
from their mothers, there is no rea-
son for fall pigs becoming runty and
losing the owner money.
During the cold weather the ques-
ton of quarters is as important as
feed, for with either lacking the
other is Of no value. The houses
should be free from draughts, yet
we'll ventilated, we'll lighted, warm
and clean. The pens Of these houses
are most convenient when they are
divided so that not more than three
filters will be sleeping together. This
is for the reason that more than
three sows cannot agree very we'll,
and even !. they do get along the
pigs will he more or less inclined to
pile up on cold nights and losses will
occur as result.
The feed of the sows and pigs
should be a we'll balanced ration Of
corn, shorts and tankage fed in such
proportions that they will meet the
requirements of the different sows.
The pigs should be fed on a more
heterogeneous ration than the old sows
are receiving. You get bit strong
er pigs in this way. The question Of
feeding soft feed to pigs in winter
is of interest in feeding fall pigs,
because each side has such strong
supporters. One thing, however, is
certain, if the feed is fed scalded the
gains will be quicker, although the
nutritive cost may be greatly in
creased.
The general method of feeding
pigs is to let them learn to eat at the
troughs of the old sows. When they
are about four weeks old they will
not lie getting enough with the old
sows and small feeding pen with q
screen door small enough to turn the
dams, but let the pigs pass through,
should be provided. In this pen the
pigs can be fed all that they will
clean up in from ten to fifteen min
utes. For roughage after the pas
ture is gone, both the old sows
and pigs might be given access to a
ration of clover or alfalfa hay. On
first thought this feeding Of hay
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
COUGH IN HOGS.

An Iowa Falls hog grower sends
this pig problem to the Iowa Agri-
culturist at Iowa State College,
Ames:
"Some of my small pigs have been
coughing for several weeks and few
of them have been off feed. l thought
the trouble was worms and gave them
some medicine for the trouble, but do
not seem able to stop the cough. Sew
eral are getting very thin and have
not eaten anything for several days"
Prof. ]. M. Evvard Of the Iowa
Agricultural Experiment Station
pives this explanation Of the trouble,
and advice:
Tn all probability your pigs have
lung worms or stomach worms. These
worms are sometimes hard to get rid
of, but I would suggest that you try
feeding eight grains of san;onin per
100 pounds of pig, giving two MORN
ings in succession upon an empty
stomach, or in other words, after the
pigs have been tasted from twelve
to eighteen hours. Follow at the end
of the second day with an ounce of
epsom salts per pig. Give these
medicines in a thin slop.
Cough in hogs is sometimes caused
by dustiness in the sleeping quarters
or in their runs. Turn them out on
pasture so they may have consider
able range"
"The best way to avoid worms is
to feed up your pigs and keep them
coming. Under such conditions they
are better able to withstand the raw
ages of the parasite and have the
constitution to throw them off.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
Brass Pin in Appendix.

Marshalltown, la. Oct. 5.-The very
unusual situation of finding a pin in
an appendix, took place at St. Thorn as
Hospital here yesterday when Mrs. A.
T. Lewery, of LeGrand, was placed on
the operating table for an emergency
operation for appendicitis. When the
woman's appendix was removed, its
unusual size and the marked negree of
inflammation caused DR.. NJ. U. Chesire,
the operating surgeon, to cut the ap-
pendix in two. There, in the middle Of
an abscess that had begun to form,
was found an ordinary sized pin. Sur
geons who witnessed the operation,
and others who have seen the appendix
with the pin enclosed, declare it the first
time in all their experiences that they
have witnessed similar case.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
Kull,s Contention Evidently True.

Kull's Contention Evidently True.
Suit charging violation Of the anti
trust laws were filed by the govern
ment at St. Paul. recently, against the
Northwestern Lumberman's associa-
ton, the lumber Bureau of informa-
ton, the Lumberman publishing COM
pany and Luke w. Boyce, owner of a
private detective agency. The action
is the fifth in the governments fight
to break up the so.called trusts"
charged conspiracy to prevent compe-
tition and the maintenance of an alleg-
ed "black list" by means of the pub
fishing company. The suit is directed
against the following:
The Northwest Lumbermans' asso-
citation, an Illinois corporation, already
under fire in another suit brought
against the trust" in Colorado. Lew
w. Boyce, owner of a private detec-
tive agency, who is charged with spy
ing on independent lumber dealers who
are said to have violated the trade
"edict" laid down by the alleged trust.
The Lumberman's publishing company,
publisher of trade journal which the
government charges has been the or
gan of the trusts in that section.
Platt Walker, editor of that paper is
made defendant as are the following:
r. r. Wood, Parker, S. D., Chas.
Webster, Waucoma, Iowa; Willard G.
Hollis, Minneapolis, Mimi; George F.
Thompson, Minneapolis; G. M. Porter,
Oskaloosa, Iowa; G. F. Flynn, Mimi;
F. P. Baxter, Winona, Mimi; f. II.
Day, jr., Dubuque, Iowa.; 7. McMahon,
Fergus Falls, Mimi; c. A. Flnkbine,
Des Moines; John W. Barry, Cedar
Rapids.
AS in similar suits now pending
against the interstate Retail Lumber
dealers association and the Lumber
secretary's bureau Of information,
fourteen members of the latter organi-
cation being under criminal indictment
charging violation of the antitrust
law, the government alleges that the
lumber trade has been unreasonabIy re-
by illegal agreements, and un-
which prevent the con-
sumer from buying from whom and
where he will, which absolutely makes
no competition possible. 1t is also al
eged that the names of lumbermen
who have violated the "edits" have
oeen published to the trade in the Mis-
;issippi Valley Lumberman.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

Miss Kate Shelly. 1owa's famous
heroine, is very very low at her home
near Moingona. She is bedfast with
Bright's disease. The doctors have
given up hope of her recovery. Miss
Shelly saved Northwestern train
from destruction years ago by crawl
ing across t0tteripg river brifge
She rushed to Moingona and gave
warning as the train was pulling out.
A small bridge had been swept out by
a flood which had undermined the big
main river bridge. Miss Shelly saw
the bridge 90 out with the crew. She
then collapsed The Northwestern
company rewarded her and the Chi
cago Tribune made her a handsome
present.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
FREE IF IT FAILS.
Your Money Back if You are not
Satisfied with the Medicine
We Recommend

We are go positive that our remedy
will permanently relieve constipation,
no matter how chronic it may be, that
we offer to furnish the medicine at our
expense. should it fail to produce salts
factory results.
1t is worse than useless to attempt
to cure constipation with cathartic
drugs. Laxatives or carthartics do
much harm. They cause reaction,
irritate, and weaken the bowels and
tend TO make constipation more chronic.
Besides, their use becomes habit that
is dangerous.
Constipation is caused by weakness
of the nerves and muscles of the large
intestine or descending colon. To ex-
pect permanent relief you must there
fore tone up and strengthen these Or
gans and restore them to healthier
activity.
We want you to try Rexall Orderlies
on our recommendations. They are
exceedingly pleasant to take. being
eaten like candy, and are ideal for
children, delicate persons, and old
folks, as well as for the robust. They
act directly on the nerves and muscles
ct the bowels. They apparently have
natu. al action on other associate Or
gans or glands. They do not purge,
ca Use excessive looseness, nor create
any inconvenience whatever. They
may be taken at any time, day or night.
They will positively relieve chronic or
habituaI constipation, if not of surgi
cal variety, and the myriads of asso l.
ate or dependent chronic ailments, if
taken with regularity for reasonable
length of time. II tablets, 10 cents;
Sc tablets. Is cents; 80 tablets, SO cts.
Sold in Cresco only at our store-The
Rexall Store. Edward T. Tomas.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

inches in width at the opening at
the bottom. The end boards, as may
be seen, are the same width from
top to bottom. The length may be
whatever desired, from foot to
three or four feet. The hopper OPEN
ing should be a couple Of inches
above the bottom board of the feed
trough. The lid may be made as
shown, or it may be made fiat; made
sloping as it is in the illustration, it
is better adapted for out door use
and weather.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
Ships Charts to Far of India.

DR.. A. ]. Swezey received the other
day letter from far off India, inclos-
ing remittance and order for large
shipment of the eye charts which he
has been selling throughout the United
States and Canada the past two or
three years. The charts are especially
designed for school use in testing pu-
pills eyes, and are said to be the best
charts of the kind ever devised. He
started to dispose of them on small
scale in this country, then orders be-
gan to come in from Canada, and now
comes one from famous physician at
Calcutta, India, royal physician, with
string of titles nearly as long as your
arm. 1t is refreshing to note that
along with its notoriety in many other
4, respects, the little city of DEBORAH has
a physician of international reputation.
DEBORAH Public Opinion.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
SPREADING WEED SEEDS
BY MEANS OF MANURE.

BY Prof. L. H. Pammel, Iowa State
College.
A Polk county farmer writes as
follows to the Iowa Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station: "Please advise me
about using manure. I can get all
I want from Des Moines for hauling
it, but I am afraid of weed seeds. Is
there any certain way to get around
this trouble?"
There is wide spread impression
that weed seeds may be scattered
with manure. This is true for weed
seeds with very hard coats, among
which we may mention the velvet
weed, cheeses, and some seeds of the
clover family. Here again however,
it is question of how thoroughly
the manure was composted.
The writer and Miss King conduct
ed an experiment with a large num-
Der of weed seeds which were left
in manure for little over a month
and in but few cases did we obtain
seeds capable Of termination. Thus
termination of the following weeds
was obtained after five weeks: lady's-
thumb, curled dock, and one quack
grass plant. These seeds were plac-
ed IN the manure on May 10th and
removed June 10th. However, no
termination of any of these weed
seeds was obtained by July LIST.
There are very few seeds, espe-
cially of the grass type, like quack
grass with thin coats, that are
capable Of prolonged vitality under
the conditions we had in the manure.
If, however, the manure is not COM
posted and fresh manure is placed
on the field there is danger that
various kinds of weeds will be scat
tered. It would probably be safe,
therefore, to take the manure in the
winter, throw it on pile and let it 60
into decomposition during the months
of March, April and May and place
it upon the field after the oats crop
is removed.
This is true with the possible ex-
ception Of a few weed seeds with
hard coats, like the cheeses and sweet
clover, and these may possibly retain
their vitality, but we have no expert
ments at hand to indicate how long
their vitality may be preserved.
An interesting series of expert
ments was carried on by E. l. Os-
valid to ascertain the vitality of seeds
when placed in manure under differ
ent conditions. Three kinds Of man
ure were used in equal parts. The
manure was placed in separate piles
and seeds enclosed in gauze bags
were placed in the manure and al
lowed to remain varying periods Of
time, in some cases 60 days, in others
6 months. This lot contained 81 diff
ferent kinds of seeds. After the re-
quired length of time, the seeds were
planted in the greenhouse and it was
found that they had become thor
oughly rotted and their vitality de-
stroyed. In order to cover the con-
ditions usually followed by dairymen
and gardeners where the manure re-
mains but a short time, another set
of experiments was started in the
fall. The seeds remained in the pile
only one month and were then plant
ed as in the previous experiment. The
results Of the experiments entirely
confirmed those of the previous ex-
pertinent except in the cases Of the
seeds of ribgrass, horse nettle, COM
mon plantain, large ragweed, bitter
dock and mallow, which were still
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
SIMPLE SELF. FEEDING
HOPPER FOR POULTRY.

The poultryman who wants a self
feeding hopper will find it profitable
to try this simple homemade device
designed by the poultry department
of Iowa State College. 1t may be
made of one inch material and any
odds and ends of board may be used
for it's construction. This particular
hopper is 20 inches high, IL inches
wide at the top with the hopper
proper sloping down to three
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
The Judicial Recall.

California adoption of the Recall,
judges included. is an interesting COM
mentary upon President Taft's recent
veto of the judicial Recall in the Ari-
IONA Constitution. The Recall receives
the largest vote and scores the largest
ma jority of all the questions on which
the people of the Golden State voted.
If moral principle, or any large politi.
cal or judicial principle, had been in
volved in Mr.. Taft's Arizona veto, this
rekuke from the people Of California,
whether right or not, could and should
be regarded as an instance in which a
president had courageously done what
he believed to be the right thing re-
gardless of public opinion. But Mr..
Taft voiced nothing more at the very
best than the prejudice of profession
which has never as whole been dis
tinguished for sympathy with our popu-
lar government. Every political argu-
ment tells against him on this question.
Every argument growing out of the
necessities of the time and cjrcum-
stances tells against HIM Every ar
gument for the right of new State to
come into the Union with its own
fundamental law, if republican in form,
tells against him. The only argu-
ments m his favor are those that ap-
peal most strongly to the plutocracy
that elected him, that has promised to
elect him again if he is good" and
that looks upon judges as it's most use
full class of upper grade clerks. The
people of California have spoken on
this subject as doubtless the people of
other States will speak when their
time comes, and they have put Mr.
Taft to the bad, where, from any but
4 pIutocratic point of view he rightly
belongs. Public.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

Northwestern Governors 60 east in
November with exhibits of their states
and mean to talk to 10000, 900 school
children. They travel by special train
and hope to turn youngsters thoughts
towards western homes. It's very
public-spirited job for the governors
to tackle,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
AVerts Awful Tragedy.

Timely advice given Mrs c. Willough-
by. of Marengo, Wis, Or. No. u pre-
vented dreadful tragedy and saved
two lives. Doctors had said her fright
full cough was a consumption" cough
and could do little to help her. After
many remedies failed her aunt urged
her to take DR.. Kings New Discovery.
have been using it for some time"
she wrote lard the awful cough has
almost gone 1t also saved my little
boy when taken wi severe bron-
chial trouble" This matchIess medi-
cine has no equal for throat and lung
troubles. Price Soc and $l.OO. Trial
bottle free. Guaranteed by P. A.
Clemmer. T
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
Her Stronu Point.

The sentimentalist was thoughtful
He was thinking of tears. What IL II
about woman" he asked slowly,
that will move the strongest Of
men,"
And fifty masculine voices rang out:
DE hatpin, mister, de hatpin."
N. Bile discovered he was ad'
dressing convention of street thu9A
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31
An UnpIeasant sv,pleion.

Robert. l must remind you not to
linger in the hall when have few
business associates to dinner"
II was only keeping my eye on the
hats and coats, sir"
"Eh! Why, you didn't do that at
your former place, did you?"
mo, sir. Ny former masters
guests were quite different sort. sir"
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

You are not experimenting on your
self when, you take Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy for a cold as that prep
aration has won its great reputation
and extensive sale by its remarka BILE
cures of colds, and can always be de-
pended upon. 1t is equally valuable
for adults and children and may be
given to young children with implicit
confidence as it contains no harmful
drug. Sold by all dealers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

The best plaster: A piece of flame
dampcned with Chamberlsin's Lini
ment and bound on over the affected
parts is superior to plaster and costs
only one-tenth as much. For sale by
all dealers.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-10-31

COW in American
dairy farming.
that goats milk
will replace cows
milk to a large e1.
tent In many mar.
kets as q food bev.
erage. end that
American diaries
will produce fancy
cheese such az 10
r,odo IN CW}t10r,