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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

No. I, Sisters cultivatine the Corn
fieId-No. 2, A Farmers Daughter
in Charge Of the Horse-power-No.
4, Rolling the sod-No. 5, Woman
Flowing.
all day long. and with equal skill
they cultivate the corn later on. Pre-
pairing the sod with. the land roller
and sitting on a disk harrow are all
tasks that of late years have been
done by women, since the country
cousins have seen fit to 60 to cities
and help city cousins twist cigars in
factories, or work in the iron mills.
They have become the handy girl
around the barn." instead of the for
mer handy a around the house.
They have been reading agricultural
papers, some have attended agricul-
tural schools, and quite a few have
not only studied domestic science to
be useful in the farmhouse kitchens;
but they have studied feed rations,
dairy methods and soil fertility, so
that they know better how to feed a
dairy COW correctly than did their
fathers a decade ago. They are also
able to enforce the sanitary methods
in and about the dairy barn, SO that
meat and milk inspectors need not
spend extra car fare to inspect their
farm premises.
Still some of their work is done IS
mother and grandmother used to do
it. Small farmers, who do not wish
- o~ 10 tho nvnorcn ne byyjro oil tho
modern machinery. still cut their
grain with the cradle, and the daugh-
tiers bind the grain. No orn husk-
ing machines have yet been invented
that husk corn like a human hand
can, SO women are see in corn fields
In great numbers. Those farmers
who still cut their grass fields, and
particularly wet meadows, still use
the forks to spread out the grass to
dry instead Of using tedders, and this
work is all done by young girls.
Many farmers still use the horse
power for operating their threshing
machinery, and here the young wom-
en- find numerous tasks they can do,
such as acting as driver, whipping
and urging the horses around and
around the customary circle In the
horse power shed, feeding the sheaves
into the threshing machine, handing
them to the fodder and pushing the
straw from the barn-loor to the sta
bles below.
In this respect cooperation, how
v lessons this kind Of work. For
in many sections 1t is customary to
have some farmer make the rounds
of all the farms in the neighborhood,
with his gasoline engine and grain
separator and cleaner, doing the work
quickly; but rel here woman takes
her position in helping to fill the
sacks. hand the sheaves to the opera
tor and see that all the straw gets
into the NOW or the extra straw
shed.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
TRAMP pefr,uded Lawver..

solicitors were alleged to have been
duped by George Sullivan, otherwise
Murphy Finnegan, a laborer on
tramp, who was recently committed
by the magistrates for trial on
charges Of obtaining money by false
%pretenses. Representing that he had
been knocked down by a motor car,
he asked, 1t was stated, each of the
solicitors to act for him in a COM
%pensation claim, and they all gave
him money when he told them he was
penniless.-London Mail.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

With all this open air work on the
farm, woman is becoming the real
Queen Of the Farm. The public
schools begin to teach agriculture,
state experiment stations send out
bulletins giving to them easy meth
DDS Of study, how to train to become
real handy on the farm, either as
wife, daughter or helper, so that we
have in Pennsylvania, as well as
other eastern states, modern women
gardeners, managers Of dairy farms,
owners Of poultry farms and apiaries,
besides showing an equal interest in
the method of marketing farm prod
ucts, sowing good seed and applying
the proper fertilizer, according to
modern soil surveys, which tell the
farmers just what is lacking on his
own farm.
The modern farmers wife does not
think her household duties a drudg-
cry any more. Her better half has
seen that the day is at hand for bet
ter conditions. SO he has installed a
modern heating system in the farm
house, bath rooms and first-class laun-
deries. The kitchen is remodeled and
equipped in the best sanitary way
and instead Of standing at the old
colonial table working butter into the
old-fashioned forms, she has the
cream separator or the community
creamery, either to make the work
easier. or eliminate 1t altogether.
Modern methods and better schools
in rural districts have given us the
"Farmerettes." They are not only
queens If their husbands farms, but
they are sole ruler we their own
farms. Pennsylvania has a large num-
Der Of women farmers. who not only
do real farm work, but who manage
hundreds of acres Of and that the
same r scientifically titled and
managed on a business-like system.
One Pennsylvania woman, with the
aid of a sister, both being single. con-
Quoted a seventy-acre farm for years,
did many Of the outdoor tasks. except
the heavy work, and conducted a
dairy Of thirty cows, yer attending
to the details Of selling every quart
Of milk in a retail way to the Gus
toners in three neighboring towns.
Another Pennsylvania woman con-
aoSISo oO-oS Idl LII, WHiCH was III
a rundown condition when she ac-
CURED 1t, but in a few years her bank
accounts grew SO much that a large
real estate owner appointed her man
ager OF a series of farms. Another
woman farmer in this state has SO
elevated the dairy end Of her farm
work that she Is now doing a flourish
ing business selling milk. nicely put
up L.. bottles and stamped certified
milk" which physicians recommend
especially for the babies.
Then, there are half a dozen wom-
en- farmers In one Pennsylvania coun-
ty who have made a remarkable sue
cess with growing small fruit; an
other has managed a peach farm, and
still another uses all the milk of ten
COWS to make a certain kind of
cheese, which is sold in eastern cities
under the name Of cup cheese" and
the demand has been SO enormous
that she paved the way to success for
half q dozen other worthy competi-
tors who are all making money.
The Queen OF the Farm today Is a
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Pentwater, Mich.
very weak and the

began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and now / am strong
and healthy. Mrs. ALICE DARLING,
RID. No. 2, Box n, Pentwater, Mich
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sayss
Peoria, Ill.-"I had such backaches
that Icould hardly stand on my feet. I
would feel like crying out lots of times,
and had such a heavy feeling in my right
side. / had such terrible dull headaches
every day and they would make me feel
30 drowsy and sleepy all the time, yet I
could not sleep at night.
after I had taken Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a week I began to
improve. My backache was less and
that heavy feeling in my side we.lt
away. I continued to take the Conn
pound and am cured.
"You may publish this II you wish"
Miss CLARA L. GAUwITz, R.R. Nc. 1,
Box 62, Peoria, III.
Such letters prove the value Of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for
woman's ills. Why don't you try it,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

tientIy to Katie. It's no older than
Oracle and 1T brushes its own hair
""Well so would our baby answered
the loyal Katie, III 1t got any attention.
Why, yesterday, Nellie was teaching
her how to play peek-a-boo and you
wouldn't believe how quick she caught
on
AT that Mrs. Joyce turned to me.
$50 thet's why the lace curtains
were NOT mended. ] thought you'd
been wasting your time!'
After hat ] tried to amuse
the baby. ] sat and sewed and sewed,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

but my heart ached for that patient
little grille watching me over the pill
lows. She wanted to get out and use
her legs. Think! She was nearly a
year old and could not creep, let alone
walk. Katie said Mrs. Joyce wouldn't
let her be taught because she's get In
to mischief and keep the girls back In
their work and the nursemaids had to
do the upstairs work.
"Her house was furnished in beauti-
full taste. She never bought anything
cheap, nor anything that did not have
a practical or decorative use. She
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

Singing Of Wires Laid to Tremors.
A new theory of the singing of tele-
graph wires has been offered by Pro-
fessor Field. No explanation yet given
seems to have been perfectly satisfac-
tory, and the suggestion is now made
that the sounds represent minute
earth vibrations, which are trans
mitted to the wires through the poles.
These vibrations depend largely on
varying air pressure. The song of the
wires, therefore, may give good baro-
metric signals, a sharp sound indicat-
ing that a change is close at hand,
while a low humming shows that pres
ent conditions may continue a day, or
perhaps two.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

IlouS VI -
slogan, Back to Farm" had to be
changed to Stay on the Farm"
During the last decade or two, thou
sands upon thousands of young men
left the farm for what they deemed
easy Jobs in the city. Lots of farm
ers' daughters also left the farm
house kitchen. So that to find a way
to enforce the latter slogan, Is GER
tainly a modern idea, and one which
must be enforced not by arbitrary
methods, but by ways and means that
will lessen the drudgery Of farm work,
for either husband and wife, son or
daughter.
On many farms 1t is stlH custom
airy for the housewife to split the
wood she needs in her kitchen stove.
In such homes nobody needs to ask
the question why the daughter left
for the city, to work at a loom in a
silk mill for 81 or IS per week. Her
mothers wrinkles and her growly ex-
preston can answer this question.
On the other hand, the farmer who
sees that his coal bins are full, his
woodpile always replenished, the
wood chest filled every night for the
next days necessities, and who pro
yides a gas stove to iron the clothes
in summer days, when the ordinary
wood fire would make a furnace out
of the farmhouse kitchen, is the
identical farmer who can enforce the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Mr.. Wrinkles Houe to Go.

Two buildings in Birmingham ssso-
ciated with Dickens have been de.
molished, and a third, Mr.. Wrinkles
house, is being pulled down.
When Mr.. Pickwick asked the wait
er at the Old Royal where Mr.. Wrinkle
lived he replied: "Close by, sir; not
above 500 yards. sir. Mr.. Wrinkle is q
wharfinger, sir, ct the canal, sir" And
Mr.. Pickwick found in "a quiet, sub
~stantial looking street stood an old
red brick house with three steps be-
fore it, bearing. in fat Roman capitals,
the words, Mr.. Winkle.' Pail Mall
Gazette.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Room for the Eat

The doors Of a certain new house
had shrunk horribly, as Is the way
of the modern door made of unsea-
soned wood and left to shrink in use.
The builder would not send the joiner
to replace them. So the householder
tried the ironclad method and wrote:
Dear Sir: The mice can To-
der most of our doors, but our cat
cannot follow them. Will you please
send a man at once to make room I'm
der the doors for the cat, and much
oblige?"
Next day the joiners came.-Man-
chester Guardian.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Tack Hammer for Surgeons.

Tack Hammer for Surgeons.
Scientific hammering of the spinal
column, technically known as spondy-
lotherapy, is one Of the latest treat
ments to be adopted by members Of
the Philadelphia medical profession.
1t consists Of tapping certain por-
lions of the spine for patients suffer
ing with heart, lung. stomach, and
liver trouble.
The "tack-hammer treatment" was
discovered by DR.. Albert Abrams, a
nerve specialist Of San Francisco
Philadelphia Dispatch to the New
York American.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
But She Hadn't.

But She Hadn't.
Whats the matter, old chap? You
look as II you hadn't had a wink of
sleep all night"
Il haven't. You see, my wife threat
ened to speak to me again II
I didn't come home last night before
ten o'clock, and I didn't"
Il see, you're finding out the lone
someness Of solitude because she
kept her word, eh?"
mot by a jugful. I wish she had"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

kept a log ready to light In the living
room with its six-foot fireplace. but
she wasted a log on mere COM
fort. I've known her to see the right
person coming up the street and send
me scurrying down to light the log"
-Woman's Home Companion.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
NOT IN RIGHT SENSE A HOME
Il Is to BE Feared There Are Other
Households Conducted as Was
That Of Mrs. Joyce.

A nurse girl writes of her expert
euce with a Mrs. Joyce, who managed
her house SO as to make the best pos
sible showing at the least expense:
zone day Mrs. Joyce came home
feeling quite pettish about her baby.
"sYou should have see Mrs Wilton
Browns baby today she said impar
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
What She Wanted.

Matrimonial Agent-What kind Of .
husband do you want?
Girl-One who doesn't smoke, drink
or swear, who brings me chocolates
rants every day.
Matrimonial Agent-You don't want
a husband. What you want is a beau.
Judge.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Modern Conditions.

I'D like to get that son of mine to
spade up the yard"
"Well why don't you direct him to
do it,"
II don't know If I have a right to
without consulting his Scout commits
eioner."
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

No Work for Him.
BILL hear Gill is looking for work.
Jill-No, he's not. He's try to get
a political Job.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
1t Puzzled Him.

Newedd-Did you spend SO much
money as this before l married you?
Mrs. Newedd-Why, yes.
Newedd-Then l can't understand
why your father went on so when I
took o away from him.-Roston
Transcript.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
xceptions

Never put your foot in it when
acknowledging a birthday present"
mot even if it is a pair of slip
pers?"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Explained

The Venus of Milo explained.
81 was trying to make myself into a
cubist effect" she said.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

Some men are insignificant by ma
ture. and some are made SO by mar
riage.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

The people who have money enough
do not seem to know 1t.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
South African Industry.

South African mines paid in wages
during the past year to white en-
ployes $51. 500. 900; to native laborers
81, 800, 900 and expended in stores
seq, $780, 900.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
WOMAN COULD
not walk
She Was So Ill-Restored to
Health by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.
"a year ago was
doctor said I had q


serious displace-
ment. l had back
ache aud bearing
down pains SO bad
that I could not sit
in a chair or walk
across the floor and
/ was in severe pain
all the time. ! felt
discouraged as ! had
taken everything I
could think Of and
was no better.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Chfldrei.
seething, softens the gums, reduces infiamma-
Gon, allays pain cures wind colo, DC q bottle Adv
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
Their Location.

." have been looking over your
masters wardrobe. Where are his
spats?"
Mostly with the missus, sir"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
The Queen %he Farm and
Her Work a
9y III. Winslow FeQ1ey

T a recent convention held
in Philadelphia, Pa, noted
educators from all parts OF
the United States and Eng
land, gathered to study the
condition of rural life. A
noted educator and one who
knows the practical condi-
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-05-30
nrEATo Watson z. Coleman, Wash.
ington, DC. free. High
~ est references Best rssuItA
w. N. u, SIOUX CITY, NO. 22-1e1s.
Sad Fast.

Two are company"
Eyes, until they are made one"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09
Richfield Day the Year Round
Idaho Irrigation Co. Will Maintain Permanent Display
Of The Products That Make The RichfeId Tract
Famous---Bring In Stuff to Help!

The hundreds of people who looking at the magnificent
display in the agricultural hall Riched Day regretted
that fine lot of grain should be destroyed will be glad
learn that the show is to be continued for whole year
Manager Kays for the Idaho Irrigation Company has
leased the middle Of the Recorder block for the
ing year. and has most of the Rched Day display
up for exhibition The display taken down to the Tr-
County Fair at Jerome where the grains especially made
almost clean sweep.
l}ichfed ocular demonstration of what the tract will
produce Nothing finer for ordinary field cultivation
shown in the state 1t object lesson that should
cnch many land sale herethat Will do if the people
get buyers here to see it,
The Recorder is not authorized to say but volunteers the
suggestion that any who has anything that would make
good permanent exhibit of the best products of the tract
alfalfa clover grains grasses wool aakthng that will keep
wi gladly be given place by The company And there
will be several weeks this fall an all Of next spring. when
pershabe stuff like potatoes cod kept and renewed
they wlted, without freezing idea ofmainaning such
permanent exhibit is helpful to the whole community
that the Recorder believes this volunteer help will apprec
ated and be of benefit to all.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09

on their list, except Mathewson, in try
ing 70 head of the victorious Athletics.
Home Run Baker made one home
run and other hits for Philadelphia
On Wednesday, however, the Giants
won by a 3 to 0 score Neither side
scored until the tenth inning, Mathew
son for the Giants and Plank for the
Athletics both pitching air tight ball
with faultless support. But in the
tenth inning, Mathewson batted in a
run. and two others also scored, while
the Athletics failed to score. Never
were two teams apparently more close
ly matched, and the full games ought
to be required to decide the series.
Philadelphia won the third game, on
Thursday, to 0, by batting Tesreau
all over the field. Bush, recruit from
Missoula, Montana, boy under 20 and
in his first year of major league ball,
pitched for Philadelphia. He is herald
ed as another Walter johnson. Only
two errors were made in the game, one
on each team.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09

izing the three women. When East
wood came home and found him, and
prepared to send word to the officers in
town, Mitzenburg attacked him with a
pumphandle for club. Eastwood fin
ally secured "a Winchester 22-special
rife which the women handed him, and
shot him twice when Mitzenburg con-
tjnued his attack. When Mitzenburg
fell, Eastwood Thought him dead, and
came to town to report the trouble
Mitzenbur G recovered. however, and
fought the doctor and the officers who
went after him. The county physician
sent an auto up from Shoshone that
night, to take Mitzenburg to the coun-
ty hospital, where he now is He was
shot near the heart and in the groin,
and is dangerously wounded.
A legal hearing will be given when
the result of Mitzenburg's wounds is
known.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09
fCooyright.I

G. S. Hopes is one interested read
er of the score in the worlds cham
pionship baseball series between the
Philadelphia Athletics of the American
League and the New York Giants OF
the National League. Pennock, one of
the young pitchers of the Athletics, is
a step-nephew of Mr.. Hopes. He has
been with the team for two years, and
while he is only boy, and has not been
worked hard, he has won majority of
his games, and has been so successful
and promising that he has not been
''fasmed out" to the minor leagues. 1t
has not been expected that Pennock
will get into the championship series,
as the older pitchers, Bender, Plank,
Coombes and others, are hard to dis
place. But you never can tell-he might
be the bright particular star of the lat
ter part of the series.
Philadelphia won the first game, on
at New York, by good mar
gin. Bender was invincible, while the
Giants used practically every pitcher
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09
Premiums at Tri-County Fair
Rcheld Made Away With Fine List of Prizes Mostly In
Grains, At the Jerome Exposition Last Week

Richfield won a fine lot of prize 8
at the Tri-County fair at jerome
last week, as the following list will
show. The exhibit was taken down
rom the Richfie.d Day show, being
made up from what was shown here
= IS a longways to haul vegetables
md such stuff, and yet not as much
was taken as should have been
the Richfield products won out in
many events, and would have won
many more if we'd really thought
We had chance to win and had
taken it down there.
Here is the list of the premiums
Acn Tor Richfie-d:
First Premiums.
Mrs. Henry Fulbright, tomato g.
Martin Lucich, sheaf oats.
Burton w. Reeves, cabbage.
r. d. Addison, stock squash.
c. o. Pau.son, sheaf wheat.
j. G. Pearson, threshed oats.
Martin Lucich, blue sem wheat
R. w. Pridmore. brewing barley.
c. A. johnson, Dietrich. red
clover
Mrs. Sarah Garner, Dietrich. navy
beans
- Gladly, North Shoshone. hulless
barley.
Second Premiums.
Streitz & Fields, thresh d barley.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09
Blooded Berkshires Are Here

The Berkshire Breeders Association of booded pigs
arrived here last week. from Illinois There 125 of the
animals probably the finest big shipment that to
the West They bred by of the most famous Berk
shire breeders in America and all registered They have
been against cholera and swine plague and
should be immune to disease.
There should be several hundred booded pigs for sale here
next year. the progeny Of this initial shipment Rchfed
is likely become the of the Berkshire breeding
dusry of the whole northwest through the enterprise Of the
Richied Berkshire Breeders Association
The pigs out the company farm adjoining town.
where they may be Thcy'r worth seeing
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09
SHOOTING AFFRAY.
Bill Mitzenburg Badly Wounded
BY l.. c. Eastwood.

Richfeld had a shooting affair, We'd
nesday, which may result in the death
of Bill Mitzenburg. He has been en-
ployed by Hugh Fenton on his thresh-
ing machine, and is said to be capable
worker. Wednesday he came to town.
got too much whisky, and then started
for the Fenton home. The connected
story from then on is not known; but
it seems the team must have run away
from him, as the buggy was found a
wreck. He got to L. c. Eastwood s
house, where he broke out the windows
and did other damage. Then he went
to the Fenton house, where he wreck
grain drill and other property, terror
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1913-10-09

E. q. Church, barley.
Idaho Irrigation Co., alfalfa.
Bert Davidson, sheaf barley.
]. j. Mulvaney, thrsshed wheat.
F. F. Merihew, threshed oats.
Mrs. Quet Johnson, green peppers.
F. S. Stewart, egg plant.
c. a. johnson, Dietrich, peas.
S. c. Ray, Shoshone. hul,ess bar
ley.
In squashes, cucumbers and other
vegetables, Richfield missed first
place only because of not having
a large enough number on exhibit
ton; the quality of those shown
was coed enough to win an easy
first. but where an exhibit of five
was required and only four were
shown, no prize could be awarded.
even though Richfield could have
filled the prize plates a thousand
times over with others just as good
as those which were on exhibition.
1t will be noticed that. while ths
Idaho Irrigation company gave the
services of Mr.. Pearson as freely for
the Gooding, the North Shohcne and
the Dietrich tracts as for the Rich
field tract, most Of the prizes came
here. The enthusiasm Of Richfield
Day went a long way in getting the
people interested enough to save
their stuff for exhibition.