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The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
REETS ARE. UNCERTAIN CROP
However, One Farmer Cleared $47.60
Per Acre-Raisers Use Too
Much Water.

One Of the beet growers of the
acre cost Of growing such crop and
gives the following: For plowing,
narrowing, planting, cultivating, irri-
eating. topping and hauling to rail-
road, the cost was this year $43 the
acre, which is a pretty stiff tax for
such an uncertain crop. For plowing
out the beets and hauling to cars he
paid $5 day for man and team, says
the Field and Farm. His beets re-
turned $90.60 the acre, however, leav-
ing $4760 the acre for the use of his
land, which ought to satisfy anybody
and if others could do half so well
we would hear no complaint about
disappointing results in beet culture.
This man holds to the belief that
beet raisers use too much water. Dur
ing the growing season he was with
out water for ten days just when the
beets needed 1t very badly, but dur
ing that time he cultivated his crop
every two or three days with the ex-
ception of four rows through the
middle Of the field, which he left as
test to see what they would make
without either cultivation or water.
AS result the four rows were hardly
worth pulling, while the remainder Of
the crop was eighteen tons to the
acre.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
William A. Clark Mansion.

liest American home ever construct
ed. 1t is placed on the tax books this
year at a taxable valuation of $500
900. The annual taxes will be 100000,
or nearly 5000 a day. The furnish
ings and decorations have cost mil
lions Of dollars and practically all of
them have been installed.
Thomas w. Lawson of Boston, once
referred to this mansion, which con-
tains 121 rooms. as "the biggest, bull
liest and brassiest of all American
castles" No building in the world,
according to experts who have ex-
plored the interior, carries so much
bronze as has been worked into this
mansion. The grand staircase is of
bronze and its bronze entrance doors,
cast solid, are numerous. The con-
servatory contains three hundred
thousand pounds Of the metal. Even
the door locks and radiator gratings
have been wrought of bronze.
1t is well known that Senator Clark
has planned this wonderful house
largely with a view of pleasing his
young wife. She was Miss Ada La
Chappelle, the daughter of French
Canadian doctor, who was the friend
of Senator Clark's youthful struggling
days in Butte, Mont.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
POULTRY NOTES.

Warm wheat for breakfast makes
the biddies shell out the eggs.
Don't be too sure your fowls have
no lice; examine them closely.
Don't permit a sick chicken to run
with the healthy ones minute after
ailment is discovered.
Clean out the nests. Burn the old
nesting material and replace with
clean. Kerosene the boxes.
If you have beef scraps before the
fowls in hoppers you should not use
meat or blood meal in the mash.
The average age for pullets of the
medium sized breeds to begin laying
is between six and seven months.
Infertile eggs taken from the in
cubator need not be an entire loss.
They may be boiled and used as chick
food.
Plenty of bone all the time. If you
haven't a cutter use an old ak or a
hatchet, but break the bone in small
pieces.
During the winter months, when
green food is scarce, turnips, swedes,
mangels or potatoes form an excel
lent substitute.
Pigeon-grass is becoming widely dis
tributed in the east. The seed has
much nutritive value and is fine for
turkeys and chickens.
Sell off all the scrub stock and keep
nothing but fowls of good quality,
&c fhn r111n Of fhnrOnOb 1V
successful poultry farmer.
The first egg laid by pullet is the
smallest and the size increases grad
ualIy until about a dozen have been
laid, when they begin to decrease.
Chickens, bees and small fruit make
an excellent combination for profit on
the farm They interfere with each
other to very slight extent only.
The first two weeks of a chicks
life are critical. They should start
growing from the first and keep it up.
Give them sweet, clean food, exer-
else, pure air and warm quarters, and
they will thrive.
Takes more to fat hen now than
it did two months ago, but don't win
ter the hens that are so old they may
die before spring. Feed them well,
keep them warm and let them go the
first chance you have.
Green food must not be forgotten.
Some feed green rye when it can be
had, others give sprouted oats, others
beets and turnips and cabbage, and
others add cut clover hay to the mash.
All of the greens mentioned are good.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
What Hogs Paid for Corn.

A farmer from Ohio writes to the
Swine Herd that he made a test of the
price per bushel of corn fed to hogs
under the following conditions: Last
March, before his sows began to far
row, he began to feed them from a
crib of 200 bushels of corn. These
sows were fed besides corn the sep
arated milk from four pure-bred Jersey
COWS, and daily ten pounds of ground
oats, corn and wheat middlings. They
also had the run Of a clover field. AS
soon as the pigs were old enough to
eat the separated milk and mixed slop
were given to the pigs. There was
plenty of good, fresh water at all
times handy to sows and pigs. At this
writing, October 7, he has sold over
5000 worth of pork from this 600
bushel corn crib, and has his brood
sows and little corn yet left. Allow
ing the separated milk, the mixed feed
and the clover to be worth the manure
left on the clover field, it seems to
show what we may get for our raw ma
terial produced on our farms when put
into finished product This corn was
fed after the first Of May over the
field. Up to that time it was fed on a
cement floor and the litter hauled and
spread upon the field.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
BIGEL0W, SO, STILL BUSY
Aged Writer, With His Mental Vigor
Undiminished, Continues Active
In Literary Work.

New York.-John Bigelow Of New
York has recently celebrated his nine
ty-third birthday in undiminished men
tai vigor. In fact Mr.. Bigelow is hard
at work on a book. His ninety-third
birthday was celebrated at his home
in Gramercy park by his numerous de-
scendants and hundreds Of his friends.
Pierpont Morgan took luncheon with
him and other noted men called to pay
their respects. Mr.. Bigelow is not
alone active in literary work but he is
president of the board of trustees Of
the New York public library, trustee
of the American Museum of Art, and
president of the Century association.
John Bigelow was active in public
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
A Little Mixed.

Admiral Evans, at a luncheon in
San Francisco, said of a naval policy
he disliked
1T is mixed and illogical 1t re-
minds me of Bob Backstay, who be-
came engineer on a submarine.
Bob said friend, don't you find
it dangerous work, this knocking
about in a submarine deep beneath
the sea-?
"'Yes, very dangerous Backstay
admitted, but a mans got to do some
thing, you know, to keep his head
above water"
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
AbSent-Minded.
TOO FREQUENT.

The professor had just sneezed for
the thirtieth time, and it naturally at
tracted some attention.
whats the matter with the profes-
sor?" asked the visitor HE appears
to have a bad cold
"Oh, no." said Madame la Profes-
soress. "It is only his fearful absent
mindedness. 1 left him in charge of
the baby for a few moments this
morning, and when he cried he gave
him the pepper-pot to play with in
stead of his rattle. ."-Harper's Week
".
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
FORAGE Lands In Montana.

Much of the irrigated lands of Mon
tana are being devoted to growing
alfalfa and other forage for sheep and
cattle, and as the many mountain val
leys are brought under water this, we
believe, will prove one of the most re-
munerative uses to which they can
be put, says an exchange. In this
way the vast areas of rough, untillable
land can be made to bring In the most
as pasture, and the stock industry will
still continue the great one Of the
mountain range country. M
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

affairs decades before the birth of
many men who have now retired from
participation in the concerns of this
earth because they think themselves
too old. He is a perennial font of new
ideas. Like the late William Cullen
Bryant, he devotes a certain amount Of
each day to reading in order to replen-
ish his intellectual stock. He wrote
the biography of that poet and journal
list many years ago as a tribute to a
fellow worker in literature.
Born at Maiden, Ulster county, on
November %, 1917, Mr. Bigelow has
for nearly a century found this the
busiest kind of a world. He was grad
uated from Union college in 1885, and
four years later was admitted to the
bar He was an editor for II years,
served as secretary of state in New
York and has been United States min
lister to France. Mr.. Bigelow has been
and still Is a prolific writer on po-
litical and economic subjects.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
A Christmas Criticism.

Orville Wright, discussing flying In
New York, said to a reporter:
The French claim to make the
best machines, but our foreign order
books tell a different story.
Our foreign order books give the
game away like the little Dayton boy
at the Christmas treat. He got from
the tree at this treat a pair of trous.
ers, and, waving them around his
head, he electrified the entire Sunday
school by shouting in loud and joy.
Gus voice:
"'Oh, ma, these pants must be new.
Pa never had a suit like that"
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
Farm Horses Wanted.

The demand for farm horses is now
unprecedented. The farms are short of
workers and farmers are either going
to market for them or buying freely of
dealers who take carloads to country
points. Probably this year will mark
the high point in this trade. The young.
sters are coming on and taking their
places in the teams. Farmers are rea-
lizing, too, that it is easier to raise a
couple of horses than it is to find
the cash to buy them.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
HOPE OF ARID WEST
Irrigation Made Possible by
Great Chain of Mountains.
Rockies, Stretching From North to
South, Is the One Thing Above
All Others That Makes Coun-
try Habltable.

Irrigation is the chief hope of the
arid west and owing to the climatic
conditions that prevail, the great
chain of mountains, the grand old
Rockies stretching from north to
south or from southeast to northwest
the entire length of the continent, is
the one thing above all others that
makes the country habitable. The
mountains are awe inspiring. We will
never forget the evening we first got
glimpse of this picturesque pile. We
were on the sweeping Platte river val
ley, journeying westward-toward
Montana, the land of gold. The noun
tain lay like a bank Of clouds against
the western sky, writes r. N. Suther-
lin of Great Falls in the Dakota Farm
er. The teamster who drove the wag-
on was kind enough to turn the wag-
on so we could see the dark, irregular
ridge against the blue sky and we
watched with boyish eagerness from
our sick bed the sun go down, but we
little dreamed that that grand moon
tain range was or could be made the
source Of life almost beyond compu-
tation. The mountain wild rearing
itself above the plain is the life of
irrigation. We pitched our tent on
the Missouri valley about October 1,
1856, and within ten days had begun
an irrigating ditch from the first
creek north of the round grove and
from that day to this we have been
an irrigator. We have learned to love
these dear old mountains for the ia
cilities they afford In getting water
onto the valley land. For all these
years we lived and talked irrigation
and growing crops and making the
land TEEN with verdure and from that
day to this we have never seen a crop
failure. Once in a while the grain
crop has been threshed out by the
hail storm and in earlier days we had
the grasshopper scourge; that was Sc
we're, but we used to fill the water
bitches so full that the pests could
not ferry them, and in many ways
fight the scourge with water.
All that mountain agriculture is to-
day has come from irrigation. Her
homes are the abodes of happiness,
are homes that TEEN with abundance.
We are proud of them; they are fit
abodes for kings. Fruitful, peaceful
and pleasant, the embodiment of COM
fort, the hand of man never construct
ed better or surrounded people with
more of the good things of life. 1t is
homes like these. hid away in cool
shady groves, by babbling brooks,
with blooming meadows and never
falling grain fields, homes with or
chards and berry patches, that flow
with milk and honey, that fire mems
souls to the greatest exertion. 1t is
abodes like. these that make men
patriotic and willing to die if they
need to for their country, and it is
homes like these that make Montana's S
women strong. 1t Is this that has
caused them to brook the hardships
and dangers of frontier life, that has
made them the best mothers the
world ever knew.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
Father of the Man.

Miss Amelia Austin listened with
breathless attention to Mrs. Amasa
Hunting's radiant account of the do
ings of James Hunting, her husband S
younger brother, who had left Wo-
brook-in-the-Hills in his youth and
had become a millionaire.
where is Jim this summer" Miss
Amelia inquired, at the end of the re-
cital.
He has gone abroad for baths" re-
piled Mrs. Hunting.
Il amt one mite surprised to hear
that" Miss Amelia said. His mother
never could make him wash his
neck."-Youth's Companion.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
OLD COMMON SENSE.
Change Food When You Feel Out of
Sorts.

"a great deal depends upon yourself
and the kind Of food you eat" the
wise old doctor said to a man who
came to him sick with stomach trou-
BILE and sick headache once or twice a
week, and who had been taking pills
and different medicines for three or
four years.
He was induced to stop eating any
sort of fried food or meat for break
fast, and was put on Grape Nuts and
cream, leaving off all medicines.
In few days he began to get bet
ter. and now he has entirely recover
ed and writes that he is in better
health than he has been before in
twenty years. This man is So years
old and says he feels like new man
all the time"
Read 1.-THE Road to Wellville," in
pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above Ietter9 A new
ONE appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
CLARK'S HOME is FINISHED
Was Eight Years in Building and
Cost More Than Seven Mil
lion Dollars.

New York.-That wondrous man
sion of stone, marble and bronze. at
Fifth avenue and Seventy-seventh
street, which was built by William
A. Clark, ex-senator from Montana, at
a cost of more than $7,000.000, has
been completed. Within few weeks,
it was learned, the senator and his
family will move into their new home.
Mrs. Clark and their two children,
Andree, seven years old, and HUI
guette, four years old, will come from
Paris to be present at the house
warming"
Senator Clark's castle has been un-
der construction for nearly eight
years and it is said to be the cost
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

altitude to sea level proved too much
for me and became afflicted with ca
tarrh and cold in the head. and general
debility to such an extent as to almost
incapacitate me for attending to my
duties.
Il was induced to try Peruna, and
after taking several bottles in small
doses am pleased to say was entire
Iy restored to my former normal condi-
ton and have ever since recommended
the use of Peruna to my friends"
Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna
Almanac for 1911.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
MaIady Worth Having.

"I can't understand my husband,
doctor; l am afraid there is some
thing terrible the matter with him"
What are the symptoms?"
"Well, l often talk to him for half
an hour at time and when l get
through he hasn't the least idea what
I've been saying"
Don't worry any more about your
husband. l wish 1 had his gift. -
Stray Stories.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
A Valuable Hen.

Refusing an offer Of $125 for hen
is one of the incidents Of the Boston
poultry show She won a prize Of $1OO,
and is of much more consequence now
than she has been reckoned in the
past People eat more eggs and the
flesh Of fowls, and they are increasing
their demands for all the products of
the hennery as the years go by.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
Younu Cockerels,

Keep the young cockerels by them
selves, for they annoy the pullets and
interfere with their laying. If they are
not to be caponized sell them off now.
What's the use of feeding a lot of
young roosters for three or four
months? No profit in it.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are, tonic
to the stomach, liver and nerves. They
invigorate instead of weaken; they en-
rich the blood instead of impoverish it;
they enable the stomach to get all the
nourishment from food that is put into
it.
These pills contain no calomel, no
dope, they are soothing, healing and
stimulating. They school the bowels to
act without physic. Price 25 cents.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
The Pronouns,

1--WE must economize," said the
man of high financial authority.
your grammar is at fault" replied
the ordinary citizen. why do you
insist on using the first instead of the
second person pluraI?'
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
CONSTIPATION

M u n y o n S Paw
Paw Pills are unlike
all other laxatives or
cathartics. They coax
the liver into activ-
ity by gentle meth
DDS. They do not
scour; they do not
gripe; they do not
weaken; but they do
start all the secre-
tions of the, liver and
stomach in a way that
soon puts these or
gans in a healthy
condition and cor
rects consultation.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

The next time you feel that swallowing
sensation, the sure sign of sore throat,
gargle Hamlins Wizard Oil Immediately
with three parts water. 1t will save you
days and perhaps weeks of misery.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
The Wrono Pios,

If some farmers put as mush money
into feed for their farm pigs as they
do to support the blind pigs" in town
their families might have more to eat
and wear better clothes.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
A Brush With Madam.

Artist-Madam, it is not faces alone
that paint, it is souls
Madam-Oh, you do interiors, then.
Boston Transcript.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
Companions In Misery,

Ella-For all sad words of tongue
or pen
Stella-Forget it; I'm an old maid
myself.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

Nothing amuses the average man
more than to have some woman be-
lieve she is bossing him.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

When a woman has an eye for the
beautiful she hunts up mirror.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
She RaVed,

Mr.. Burble-That elocutionist Ia
some queen, isn't she?
Mr.. Bored-A raving beauty
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
PROMINENT
ODD FELLOW
Bad Case OF casarr!i and Other
Complications. Fully Re.
Z stored by PeruEa.

Mr.. Chas. L.
Sauer, Grand
Scribe, Grand
En- ncampment
/. o. o. F., Of
Texas, writes
from San An
tonic, Texas:
Nearly two
y e ars ago l
a C c. e p t e d a
po s i t ion as
secretary and
tre a surer of
on e of t h e
/ e a d ing dry
goods estab-
lishments Of
@ lv e S t on,
T e K a s. The
6 u d d e n
change from a
l,g-I, 41 I-y
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

Your tracts to the Hottentots may
count for little compared with your
acts to your own washerwoman.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

Free lunch is sometimes pretty ex-
pensive food
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK?
Have You Rheumatism. Kidney Liver OF
Bladder Trouble?

Pain or dull ache in the back is evi-
dence Of kidney trouble. 1t is Natures
timely warning to show you that the
track of health is not clear.
Danger Signals.
If these danger signals are unheeded
more serious results follow; Bright's
disease, which is the worst form of
kidney trouble, may steal upon you.
The mild and immediate effect of
Swamp-Root the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy is soon realized.
1t stands the highest for its remark
able curative effect in the most dis
tresslng cases. If you need a medi-
cine, you should have the best.
Lame Back.
Lame back is only one of many
symptoms of kidney trouble. Other
symptoms showing that you need
Swamp-Root are, being obliged to pass
water often during the day and to get
up many times during the night.
Inability to hold urine, smarting in
passing, uric acid, headache, dizziness.
indigestion, sleeplessness, nervousness,
sometimes the heart acts badly. rheu-
matism, bloating, lack of ambition,
may be loss Of flesh, sallow complex
ion.
PreValency of Kidney Disease.
Most people do not realize the alarm
ing increase and remarkable preva-
lency of kidney disease. While kidney
disorders are the most common dis
eases that prevail, they are almost the
last recognized by patient and physi-
clans, 1chO usually content themselves
aotth doctortng the effects, while the
original disease constantly undermines
the system.
A Trial Will Convince Anyone.
In taking Swamp-Root you afford
natural help to Nature, for Swamp
Root is a gentle healing herbal com
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The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

There is always poison in the
wound that is inflicted by friend.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

Ever notice what poor care other
people take Of their health?
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the gums reduces in
ammation, ,alays pain. wind collie. 25c bottle
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Ouinine Tablets
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. w
GROVES signature is on each box. 25c
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

under oath Stone root cILnns csnsden-
nsoot(SdL
root
Il
and healthy.
red blood
assme from the food
and
thinblooded people, the refreshing
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Medical Discovery will half good
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
Weak Heart

Many people suffer from weak hearts. They expert
shortness of breath exeon pain the heart,
dizzy feelings oppressed breathing after meals their
eyes become blurred their heart is sufficiently strong
pump blood the extemes and they have cold hands
and feet poor appetite because of weakened blood supply
the stomach heart tonic and alternative should be taken
which bad after effect. Such Dr. Pierces Golden
Medical Discovery which contains dangerous narcotics
nor alcohol.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14
Important to Mothers

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Bears the ~ <<~z
Signature of AxHZzzezsM
In Use For Over 80 Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
The Winslow mail., 1911-01-14

pound-a physicians prescription for
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Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size
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Don't make any mistake, but remem.
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In taking Swamp-Root you afford
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Root is a gentle healing herbal com