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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
WILSON ON DAIRY INDUSTRY
Extensive DeSand for Products in
Newly Settled Regions-CeveIop-
ment Urgently Needed.

In much Of the west cattle raising
for beef has long been the principal
business" said Secretary Wilson, but
dalrying is comparatively new. There
is an extensive market, however, for
dairy products; and especially in the
newly settled regions it is found that
the GARY industry fills such a place
IN agricultural economy that its de
Velopment is urgently needed.
In addition, a special enterprise
has been undertaken with creamery
patrons in Iowa, the object being to
determine whether it will pay cream-
cries to carry on the same sort Of
work among their own farmer patrons
for the sake OF getting a better quail
ity of cream as material for making
butter. Here, also, record keeping
has been introduced, along with other
improved methods, and the effort is
made to discover the leaks that re-
duce profits.
In the older states of the north,
where dairying is already an estab-
lished industry, the work of the de-
partment outside of advice to individ-
uals upon request, consists chiefly in
he propagation of cow-testing asso-
Citations and the improvement of city
milk supplies. Cow-testing %associa-
tions are societies for cooperating in
the keeping of herd records by en-
gaging a man who goes from farm to
farm periodically, makes observations,
and keeps records for the herds Of all
the members of the association. By
this means records are secured with
out the trouble or expense involved
when each man keeps them for him.
self; and in various other ways the
cooperation Of the farmers is produc-
tive of profit. The primary objects
are to detect and weed out inferior
individual cows, and by the use of
purebred bulls to perpetuate and in
tensify the valuable characteristics of
the cows that are found to be good
oIss-thus raising the average quail
ity of the individual COW and the to-
tai productiveness of the herd. There
are IS cow-testing associations now in
20 states, comprising $4,000 COWS.
The records of one OF these asso-
Citations show that the profit was
instance, a man with eight cows
founC, the first month of keeping rec
ords, that he was losing five and one
half cents per COW, or A cents on his
herd for hat month. After three
months testing he was making a
profit of $32 a month on the herd, and
at the end Of the year his profits had
increased to $50 a month. This not
able increase was due largely to the
sale of five of his poorest COWS, and
the purchase of as many well-prOduc-
ing ones to take their places. In addi-
ton, there were changes made in the
methods of feeding which conduced to
the result"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

and are fastened to the door by nails
or screws. The dotted lines show the
position of the working parts when
the tumblers are back SO that the
door may be opened.
OBJ A coil spring that holds the
tumblers in a closed position. The
edge Of the door jamb where the
tumblers rub as they pass to the
sockets, are beveled SO that there will
be the least possible opposition to
them entering.
The notches at Co are oblong, that
the pins that work in them may not
bind, as the tumblers are withdrawn.
The dotted lines at CD represent a
notch that is in the door, through
which the pin moves when the door
is Unattached.
At (E) there Is a piece o~ne-eighth
Of inch thicker than the tumblers and
the pieces that are marked Co; this
permits the tumblers to move easily.
There is used three-eighths-inch
bolts at (E) to bolt piece CO. to the
door, and short bolt Of the same size
at CD with the heads next to the
door. These bolts work loosely in the
holes made in piece co..
All working parts work just loose
enough to move without rubbing hard,
but not SO loose that there will be any
rafting on the door by the wind.
To open the door, the pin CD is
pushed toward the edge of the door,
and as soon as released, the tumblers
retain their former position, and when
the door Is shut, the tumblers will
slip in place and hold the door secure.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
hA!MNO!TS

Palatability is an important feature
of good dairy rations.
Facilities for handling milk are Civ
ing an impetus to the market.
Don't let the cows out in the storms
to stand around. 1t doesn't pay.
1t is rather a difficult task to dry
I'D a COW when in full flow of milk.
II a COW has a habit of side-stepping
while milking, examine your finger
nails.
A COW producing average testing
milk should yield. from 1000 to 5000
pounds of milk in a year.
Gentleness and Patience with the
heifcr hat has calved for the first
time will win out every time.
Just after the COW has ~freshened
she should have the same feeds she
has been given previous to calving.
To feed COWS profitably without
some home grown sort Of protein, such
as the leguminous hays, is difficult
Sweet corn Is one OF the very best
crops to grow to feed as a soiling
crop to the dairy cows in summer.
Remember that the tendency to
transmit a defect is just as strong
and often times it seems stronger
than the tendency to transmit a good
point.
Corn and cornmeal are %carbonace'
Gus matter, similar in composition to
that of cream, and there is no feed
that a calf likes so well as shelleo
corn or cornmeal.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
WANTED TO MAKE IT SURE
Merchant, in His Long Life, Must
Have Had Some Dealings With
the Limbs Of the Law"

The aged merchant was undoubtedly
very i'll. In his own mind, at all
events. he felt his days were num-
bered, and ent for the family lawyer.
This light of the law now sat at his
bedside, notebook in hand, eager to
catch each word as it was uttered.
Il wish" began the sick man.
"Yes?" answered the lawyer, has
tily filling the gap.
"All my property and estate to go to
my eldest daughter"
The legal gentleman duly made a
note Of the fact.
Il wish to die firm in the knowledge
that the property is assured to her."
continued the merchant. with eager
excitement
of course-of course!" fused the
solicitor.
Would it be too much" hesitatingly
asked the sick man, "to suggest that
you should marry her?'-Answers.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
RsSa1P 9eh..o STATS
Practical Dairy Barn.

The dotted lines in the diagram show
the partition between the old barn and
the lean-to. BY doing this a consid-
cradle saving in building material was
effected as we'll as time saved in con
struction work.
The usual dimensions were followed
in the construction Of the stalls and
alleys. BY making the lean-to on the
east and south sides Of the barn SUM-
light entered all parts of it some time
of the day. Ventilation was provided
by Ringing the windows at the bottom
and providing 8 out-takes, n at each
! end and one where the additions
meet.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Mean People.

Henry Russell, the head Of the Bos-
ton opera. was describing his foreign
tour in search of talent.
They we're mean people, he said
of the singers of a certain city. II
could do no business with them. They
thought only of money
Mr.. Russell smiled.
"They were as bad as the man who
discovered the Blank theater fire.
1.-The first intimation the box Office
had of this fire came, at the end of
the third act, from a fat man who
bounded down the gallery stairs,
stuck his face at the ticket window
and shouted breathlessly:
"'Theater's afire! Gimme me mon
ey back!'"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

was going to shoot 1t. Some of the
did, and SO the next day all loose
stones were picked up and taken away.
That night Harrison had another
walk but he was decent about i
that time. He got us all awake. l
lay next to him and got a hard kick in
the back. Quieting down. he began
to mutter and then to talk. saying.
Pretty birdie! Got a letter-and for
me- His hands rloved as If receiv-
ing and opening a letter. Written in
blood! In six days you will be out
of bondage He sighed, turned over
and was soon asleep, and SO were we.
Ten days afterward we were out
of that prison and on our way to Gods
country to Union lines. We were
taken by boats to the barracks at
Selma. from there by train and boats
to Jackson, Miss, and on foot through
Black River swamp in a heavy rain
and heavy thunderstorm. wading deep
water for five miles across Black
river on a pontoon bridge, hen by
train to Camp Fiske, 16 miles from
V~icksburg. where were 5000 paroled
Union prisoners guarded by United
States colored troops.
Several years ago in the west I
told this love story to an audience at
a state encampment of the Grand
Army. A few weeks later I received
a postal card from a comrade who had
heard me tell it, saying. Say, that's a
good dove story. all right. I'm a
---.A. ~~~I 1i1~ ~,y~ -- ---sA
beat it. l was there. l saw the dove
with the black ring around its neck,
saw the sleeper and heard his words
and was on my way to freedom ten
days later, March 21, 1865"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
a Rabbit Hunt.

A member of the Twenty-tifth Ohio
says that while his regiment was sta
toned at Edgefield, S. c., an Irish
recruit chased up a rabbit. He threw
down his gun, and started after the
cottontail and ran him for about a
mile. He returned to camp putting
and blowing and without the rabbit.
His comrades asked why he had not
shot it. Says Mike:
Il never thought of that"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
SLEEPER TELLS OF RELEASE
Somnambuiist Eoretells Removal OF
Many Union Prisoners From
Prison at Cahaba.

Release of a large number or prls-
oners from the cotton warehouse prls-
on at Cahaba, Ala, was foretold by a
sleeping northerner in the hearing OF
several of his fellow prisoners, ac-
cording to l.. Q. Jeffries, who received
his freedom two weeks before Lee S
surrender at AppomattoX. Mr.. Jenrles
O of the weird happening Is CIV
en- here as he himself has written IT;
after telling of earlier experiences at
Cahaba.
The Alabama river oweriowed and
the water became Of the average
depth of one foot in the prison, and IN
one end it was waist deep. We stayed
IN this water for eight days, because
all available boats were used IN
transporting Confederate troops to
reinforce Mobile.
Seven of US formed a mess. We
we're known as tie hymr-singing mess,
and a few times we were aroused py
a guard from our sleep on the ground
in the corner where the water became
the deepest to sing to him. This we
did to the annoyance of others there
by awakened. who told us to shut up.
Harrison of our mess was in a way
a somnambulist, because of our sur
~roundings. and ne kept US awake al
most nightly by imagining he com
manded a battery. He would square
himself around and at his command,
'Fire!' would kick us in the back. We
had to sleep spoon fashion so that
one gray blanket might cover US all,
but when Harrison walked he had
the blanket.
"One day a black-ringed dove gain
ed an entrance through the roof en-
tilator and perched itself on the
beams. One of the guards said he
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Always Leap Year.

Its leap year every year in Papua,'
said an ethnologist. THE reason isn't
hat the women are the bosses there.
No, quite the contrary. The reason
is that love-making is supposed to be
a thing beneath the notice of the Pa
puan male.
"All women look alike to him. So
the matrimonial pourparlers all fall
on the female sex.
"If 4 nan accepts a girls proposal,
the fact ma he is engaged is chalked
on his back. But on the girls back
the engagement is branded with a red,
hot iron"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Domestic Difficulties,

Observation-Disclosures the matter, dear?
Why do you look so worried?
Wife-Oh. I've just got everything
all ready for Mrs. Neatleigh's visit.
I've done up all the curtains and
pillow shams and bureau covers and
centerpieces, and they're all spick and
span.
Husband-Well, if everything is in
such apple pie order why look SO dis
consulate about it?
Wife bursting into tears)-Oh, l
just know, as o o as she sees them.
she'll know l cleaned everything all up
because she was coming!-Judge.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
But Mamma Didn't.

Little Mabel was always tumbling
down and getting hurt, but as soon as
her mother kissed the bumped fore
head Mabel would believe it cured
and cease crying. One day she accom-
panied her mother to the Union depot,
and while they were seated in the
crowded waiting room an intoxicated
man entered the door, tripped over a
suitcase, and fell sprawling on the
floor. The attention of every n was
attracted to the incident, and in the
sudden silence following the fall Ma
bel called out:
Don't cry, man. Mamma ii kiss
90, and zen 90 III be all right."-Lip-
pincott's Magazine.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
The Man and the Place.

Andrew Carnegie was giving advice
On a recent Sunday to one Of the
younger members of the Rockefeller
Bible class.
Il am an advocate of early mar
riages," he said. THE right man in
the right place, at the right time, is
a very good saying. and to my mind.
the right man in the right place at the
right time is unquestionably a husband
reading to his wife on a winters night
beside the radiator.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Ration for Cows,

A COW, generally speaking. requires
n pound Of grain per day for each
three to three and one-half pounds Of
milk that she yields per day when
she is receiving a liberal feed Of silage
and other rough feed or as many
pounds of grain per day as she pro
duces pounds of butter fat in seven
DAYS
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
PRACTICAL BARN FOR DAIRY
Diagram Given Herewith Shows How
Wisconsin Man Solve Problem OF
Modern Building.

The accompanying diagram shows
how a Wisconsin dairyman solved the
problem of building a modern dairy
barn at low cost, says the Prairie Far
mer. This dairyman was also con-
fronted with the problem of construct
ing a barn on short notice as he had
moved to a newly purchased farm
which afforded but a mere excuse of
a dairy barn. Accordingly he made
his barn in the shape Of a lean-to on
two sides Of an old but well built barn.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
LANTERN HANGER FOR BARNS
Safe and Handy Way to Use Light in
Stable Is Shown in Illustration
Won't Turn Over.

The hanger shown in the sketch
makes a safe and handy way to use a
lantern in a barn or stable. 1t is on
structed of an old groOved pulley with
a U-shaped hanger made of sheet iron.
The U-shaped hanger, says the Popu-
lar Mechanics, is made Of a screw eye
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
1he EARN Separator.

The farm separator and the home
reared calf keep about all the fertil-
ity on the farm, but selling milk for
the city trade takes fertility of the
farm ands sells it in tin cans at SO
much the hundred pounds.
There is one thing the farm separa-
tor does not dot does not separate
the dairyman from his profits.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

NO a6AEsI#kg XssS27|gywD
E1Ns 81 S1s
M3@ESISEIs NEn EWM
FASTENING THE HEAVY DOOR
Catches Described Herewith Will Hold
Fast and Prevent Warping-How
Working Parts Are Made.
(By j. w.

To prevent a door from being blown
about by heavy winds, there should
be a fastening at the top and one
near the bottom. A hook at the top
and a chain at the bottom looks like
life in the primitive age.
The fastenings herewith described
are those that will stay fastened, and
they will prevent the door warping,
swinging out at the top or bottom,
n will catch every time the door is
closed.
The six pieces that hold the work
Ing parts to the door are made Of
heavy hoop iron, bent in the shape as
shown in the small drawing at (A),
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Dual Purpose Cows.

The dual purpose COW may be good
enough for the man who wants to kill
his dairy cows for beef, or try to make
dairy COWS out of his peel cattle, but
for the man who is running a straight
dairy he should eliminate all bee
blood from the strain of his animals.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
A SIiuht Mistake.

When the One Hundred and Tenth
Pennsylvania owe from Winches-
ter towards Fredericksburg in May,
1862. they passed a n~ice-looking farm.
where a couple Of calves scampered
across the meadow beside the road.
What poorly liz cowlets." said one
in babyish accents.
"Ye air ~mistooken," came from a
~prosaic individual in the ranks behind
him; them air bullets"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
a a..tle ..searedy VA,

Well, what was the bloodiest bat
tie you were ever in? Where did the
balls fall thickest?"
Gettysburg. sir-Pickett's charge.
The balls flew like hailstones, and"
Why didn': you get behind a
tree?"
Get behind a tree! Get bektnd a
tree! Why, there wasn't trees enough
for the officers"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Cow Must Have Water.

Remember that the COW that gives
q large flow of milk must have an
abundance of good, pure water. II
she has to get this out in the old the
chances are she will not drink as
much as she should.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Select Heifer Calves.

The heifer calves from the best
cows must be carefully selected, prop
erly handled, and ever then there viii
be considerable culling to do before
the herd can be pred up to the stand
ard of highest profit.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
A QUARTER CENTURY

Before the Public. Over Five Million Free Samples
given away each year. The constant and increas-
ing sales from samples proves the genuine merit of
ALIENS FOOT-EASE, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes for Tired, Aching. Swollen,
Tender feet. Relieves corns and bunions of all pain.
Sample EREE. Address, Allen S.Olmstod Leroy. NY.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Lantern Hanger for a Barn.

cut off and riveted in place, the hook
being formed of heavy wire. The pull
ley is run on a wire stretched over
head from one end Of the barn to the
other. The lantern can be easily
moved from place to place, and, as it
is out of the way, it cannot be turned
over
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

Mrs. Wfnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teethinR, softens the gums, reduces iniamma.
ton, allays pain. cures wind collie, Csc a bottle.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
All Eresco.

Why does that old maid use SO
much paint on her face"
she's making up for lost time
Brooklyn Life.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

Love may not make the world go
FOUND, but it seems to make a lot Of
people giddy.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

1t is said that contentment is bet
ter han great riches-but most peo-
pie are willing to lake chances with
the great riches.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

Too often the man with the hoe gets
the worst of an encounter with the
mar with the gold brick.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

Your druggist win refund money II PAZO ONT
MENT fails to cure any case OF Itching, Blind,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
Absent-Minded

81 want a %dog-collar, please"
Yes'm. What size shirt does he
wear?"--Life.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

A mirror often prevents a woman
rom getting lonesome.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

A self-made man nearly always
makes a play for a tailor made wife.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
important to Mothers
Feasibility Exclaimed.

Feasibility Explained.
isn't your husband getting a fear
fully bad Disposition" asked Mrs.
Shortsoot.
No" replied Mrs. Leedout. He
has read somewhere that brainy men
are always cranks and he's trying to
get a reputation"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

Some of us are born foolish and new
n outgrow it.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23
A&M
Read About These Three Girls. How Sick
They Were and How Their Health
Was Restored by
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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-02-23

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A SCHOOL TEA GRATITUDE:
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II Is a world OF mischief that may
be done by single example OF avar'
ice and luxury.