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Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
HANDS CRACKED AND BLEED

st. Clair, Monty trouble began
some claimed eczema. The form the
disease worked under was a breaking
out with watery blisters on my hands
which would then dry and scale, and
then would follow the trouble of
cracking and bleeding, also itching
and hurting. My hands We're disfig-
ured at the time, and ore. The trou-
BILE vas very annoying, and disturbed
my sleep. This last February it was
ever so much worse than before. l
did not do all my work on account of
the condition Of my hands. 1 could
not put them in water without max
Ing them worse. I tried a lot of home
remedies, also salveS and liniments
that claimed to be a cure for the
trouble, but I did not obtain a cure.
"At last I saw the advertisement for
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent
for a sample. l thought they would
cure, so I sent for a fifty-cent box of
Cuticura Ointment and some Cuti-
cura Soap. A doctor advised me to
keep ahead with the Cuticura Soap
and Ointment and they cured me COM
pletely. No trace of the trouble re-
mains" (Signed) Mrs, Mary Taylor,
Mar. 20, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample Of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston,"
Adv.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
MORE ATLANTIC
LINERS REQUIRED
CONGESTION ON EXISTING STEAM
SHIPS ON ACCOUNT OF CANA
DIAN IMMIGRATION.

1t is reported that eight new Trans
Atlantic liners are under construction
for the exclusive use of the Canadian
Trade. These are being built by the
White Star, Canadian Pacific and
Cunard Companies.
The liners to be built for the White
Star are to be of the same type as the
Laurentic and Majestic, and will re-
place the Canada and Teutonic. The
Cunard Lines new steamer, Ascania,
has already completed successfully
her maiden voyage from England to
Montreal, and her sister ship will be
launched early next year.
1t is predicted hat the Canadian
Northern will not be slow in following
the example of the other big concerns.
as it is a matter of common belief that
Canada, more thar any other in the
world, will be the country of the fu-
ture, and the best field for investment
by shipping interests.
An official of n Of the companies
already building steamers for this
trade told the American yesterday
tina the ideal steamer for this service
is the two-cabin boat, having acc IN
mediation for s~econd-class and steer
age passengers only.
I'VE do not expect that the $4,000
cabin de luXe class will travel be-
tween Canada and England very ex-
t~ensively," he said, but the business
that is to be obtained there will be
immensely lucrative, and for the next
ten years the eyes of the shipping
world will be riveted on Canada The
Panama Canal, undoubtedly i'll re-
ceive a lot Of attention, but the bust
ness in that route will be nothing COM
pared with the Canadian trade for the
immediate future. Panama will de-
velop and become bigger in the years
to come, but at the present we are
most concerned with the tremendous
tide Of immigration that is being d.
verified from the United States to the
Dominion.
THE farm land Of the vast North
West is the attraction, and while this
food of immigration is at its height,
the Canadian Government exercises a
strict censorship over the class of i'm
migrants admitted. In this way they
are drawing their future citizens from
the Northern countries and nave
shown an unwelcome face to h peo-
pie of Southern Europe."-Advertise-
mant
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
CANN|RAL KING
Ruler of Ashantee Is Now a Pris-
oner on Island of Maize.
Ceposed Eater Of Human Beings Had
Palace in South Africa Construct
ed of Victims Bones-British
Caused His Downfall.

Victoria, South Africa.-The Sey-
board, have of recent years been turn
ed into a political prison for those
deposed cannibal kings whose king
doms have, on one excuse or another,
been added to the dominions of the
British crown. At present there are
three political prisoners of note on
the Island of Mahe-King Kobanga
Of Uganda, King Assibi of the Gold
Coast and King Premper Of Ashantee.
Though all of these ebony royalties
were enthusiastic patrons Of the cook
ing pot, King Prempeh is by far the
most notorious and the most inter
esting personality of the three, for 1t
was his palace at kumasi that was
built of the skulls and surrounded by
a neat picket fence made from the leg
and arm bones of the people he n
his tribesmen had eaten.
Owing to an error of judgment in
selecting a British commissioner as
the piece de resistance for N Of his
feasts, an expedition was sent to
Ashantee. the country annexed to the
DIlLlsH eIlplie, anu us ruler loTCeu W
exchange his skull-walled palace in
kumasi for a four-roomed t~in-roofed
cottage in the outskirts of Victoria,
he capital Of the Seychelles. Here,
surrounded by the huts of the chief
tains who accompanied him into exile,
he lives on the meager pension grant
ed him by the British government.
Clad in the flaming cotton robe of
red and yellow, which is the West
African equivalent of royal ermine,
worn over a pair Of very soiled pa
jamas, his majesty received me on the
veranda of his little dwelling in the
presence Of the constable, who guards
him and who ACTS as interpreter when
the kings very scanty store of Eng
lish gives out.
Now | am not an entire stranger to
the ways of the Lords anointed, but
this audience with Prempeh of Asian
tee was one of the most remarkable
experiences that / can recall. In the
first place, the mercury had crept up
and up until it lowered in the neigh
borhood Of $50 degrees in the shade
of the house; in the second place, the
sons Of the king Che told me he had
AZ in alb had crowded into the tiny
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
FARM OF FORTY ACRES
Equipment, Management and In
come of Small Place.
Convenient Scheme for Dividing Land
Into Five-Acre Tracts-One OF
These Utilized for Home
stead and Garden.

By w. J. SPILLMAN. Chief of United
States Bureau of Farm Management.)
Mr.. II. H. Mowry of the office of
farm management, has been making
a special study of the equipment, man
agement and income Of a large num-
Der of small fruit and truck farms,
many of them run by people who have
recently come from the city.
This study has given US somewhat
a new point Of view. In general these
small farmers are not successful. This
fact has led us to study the question
more closely, and as a result a
scheme for the management of a forty
acre farm is outlined below, which
to be practicable.
Figure l shows a convenient scheme
for s%ubdividing forty acres to fit it for
the cropping system to be outlined
below. 1t will be observed that the
forty acres are divided into eight FIVE
acre tracts. One of these is set aside
for what may be called the home
stead These five acres are at the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
REVEALS IDENTITY IN DREAM
Medford (Ore.) Man Sent Home After
Being an Inmate of infirmary
for Four Years.

Oakland, Cal.-The TACT that A. J.
Farhar of Medford, Ore, had. regained
his lost identity through a dream was
disclosed when an application was
made to the Oakland board of super
visors for transportation for Farhar
to his former home. Farhar has been
an inmate of the county inffmary here
since July Z, 1911. under the name of
A. C. Richards. About two weeks ago
he told DR.. C. A. Willis, superintend-
ent Of the inflrmary, he had dreamed
his name was A. J. Farhar, and that
he had been county superintendent OF
schools of Medford. Investigation
proved the truth Of the revelation.
A letter to Mrs. Farhar brought a
reply that her husband had disap.
peared and that he had been county
superintendent Of schools.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

human system, which stimulates the
flowing action of the blood through
the veins, especially at the pont where
the vibrator is applied.
The system of imparting this vibra-
tory action to buds and blossoms has
been worked out and patented by
Herman L.. Darling of Delta, Colo. 1t
comprises the installation in the tree
of a small electric motor having a
trembling rotary motion and con
nected by transmitting wires to an
electric current.
During the months of April and May
when the orchard is subjected to sud
den freezes, by mea of this system,
a vibratory trembling motion is i'm
parted to all limbs of the tree, trans
mitted to twigs and bulbs and this
motion starts the sap to circulating,
invigorates the buds and strengthens
them against the killing effects of the
frost.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

room until the place fairly reeked
with the smell of perspiration; in the
third place, l IA at a loss what to
talk to his majesty about.
After an awkward pause, during
which the king shuffled his feet I'M
easily, and l wiped away rivulets Of
perspiration, he said something in
Ashantee to one of his attendants,
who shortly returned with a tin tray
holding a bottle of whisky, a siphon
Of luke-warm setter, and a couple OF
very dirty glasses. After another
long and uncomfortable pause, the
king asked me if I wouldn't have
something to drink. Taking it for
granted that Prempeh's capacity for
drink would be as outre as his choice
of food, l poured his beer glass full
to the brim with whisky, giving to
myself the drink sanctioned by civil
lized custom.
"1n my country" said the king.
leaning forward and speaking in the
broken English which he had ac-
CURED from the government chaplain,
bad men sometimes try to poison
king. so king turns drink other way
round" and suiting the action to the
words. he turned the tray SO as to
place before me the beer glassful of
whisky. I have never been quite GER
tain whether or not there was a twin
kle in the eye of that si~mple-hearted
cannibal when he literally turned the
table on me.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Stops Work of Lice.

The poultry department of Ohio ag-
ricultural college is recommending a
lice powder which it is said poultry
men will find effective in Kidding the
poultry of parasites.
Directions for making the powder
are: Put two and a half pounds plas-
ter of paris into a pan. Then mix
three-quarters pint gasoline and quar-
ter pint of cresol. Stir the plaster of
paris while adding the liquid. When
ready the mixture should be rather
crumbly. After drying it should be
sifted, when it will be ready for use.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
When the Sun Will Die.

1t may be said unqualifiedly that
the sun, like every other thing con-
nected with the present order. will
finally cease to be what it is today.
The time will most surely come when
the sun will have ceased to throw off
light and heat. Long before that hap
pens however, the earth and other
planets will have become dead
worlds" like the life of any
sort upon them. 1t has been calcu-
lated that the sun will cease to throw
out it's heat somewhere about seven
million Of years from now.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
GOOD NATURED AGAIN
Good Humor Returns With Change to
Proper Food.

For many years ! was a constant
sufferer from indigestion and ervou
ness, amounting almost to prostra-
ton" writes a Montana man.
my blood was impoverished, the
vision was blurred and weak, with
moving spots before my eyes. This was
q steady daily condition. / grew i'll
tempered, and eventually got SO nerv-
GUS / could not keep my books post
ed, nor handle accounts satisfactorily.
I can't describe my ~sufferings.
Nothing l ate agreed with me, till
one day l happened to notice Grape
Nuts in a grocery store, and bought
a package out of curiosity to know
what it a
81 liked the food from the very
first. eating it with cream, and now /
buy it by the case and use it daily.
l soon found that Grape-Nuts food was
supplying brain and nerve force as
nothing in the drug line ever had
done or could do.
1T wasn't long before l was re
stored to health, comfort and happi-
ness.
Through the use of Grape-Nuts food
my digestion has been restored, my
nerves are steady once more, my eye
sight is good again, my mental faculties
are clear and acute, and / have become
SO good-natured that my friends are
truly astonished at the change. l feel
OUNCE and better than l have for 20
years. No amount Of money would
induce me to surrender what l have
ra,~od fbrN1,~b tho raa nf Gronp.Nnts
food" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich. There's >rea'
son. Read the little book, '"The Road
to Wellville," in pkgs."
Ever read the above letters A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine. true, and full Of humaz
terest. Adv.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Soils,

Clay soils are unfavorable to vege-
tation because the soil is too close and
adhesive to allow the free passage of
air or water to the roots of the plants.
1t also obstructs the expansion of the
fibers of the roots. Sandy soils are
u~nfavoravle because they consist of
particles that have too little adhesion
to each other. They do not retain
sufficient moisture for the nourish-
ment of the plants. They allow too
much solar heat to pass to the roots.
Chalk soils are ~unfavorable because
they do not absorb the solar heat, and
are. therefore, cold to the roots of the
plants.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Draft Horses Scarce.

A. B. Afford, a transfer man of
Philadelphia, states that while sta
tistics show a larger number Of
horses in the United States than aver
before, it is harder to get hold of q
good draft animal at a fair price than
it was fifteen years ago when he could
buy all he wanted for from 500 to
s125 and today he cannot get horses
OF the same kind for 5000 or $3.50.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
PROTECTS BUDS FROM FROST
Colorado Man Conceives Idea of PIac-
ing Electric Motor in Tree to
Cause Vibration.

A recent invention relates to a new
system of motor operated tree vibra.
ton for saving buds and blossoms
from frost.
The new system aims to create in
fruit trees a movement of the sap to
the buds and blossoms that tends to
vitalize them enough to resist the at
lacking blight of frost. This move
men Of the sap might be called a
capillary action, and can be likened
to the gentle exercising action of an
electric vibrator instrument on the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
your fathers
oue.o victorla petested TOBACCO,

The number Of smoking rooms now
distributed over Windsor castle
would considerably astonish Queen
Victoria could she but see them. Her
late majesty could never bring herself
to do more than tolerate the weed in
any form, and the smoking room was
always relegated to a very distant
part of her various residences. Nor
we're the guests permitted to solace
themselves with a quiet smoke in
their own apartments, as on their ar
rival they were specially warned not
to do SO.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Automobile Aroma.

Farmer Hiram was mending the
front fence when an automobile
whizzed past, emitting a trail Of blue
smoke from it's oil-choked engine.
Farmer Hiram's hand went to his
nose. When the car had disappeared
far down the lane and the smell had
died away he ventured to address the
hired man.
Sam he said, they may be swell.
city fellers an all that; but they GER
tainly was smokin' some vile see
CARS"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
In the Day of the BiIIionaire.

A brilliant New York lawyer said
at a dinner at the Lotus Club apropos
Of certain trust m%agnates:
Thanks to watered stock-and wa
tered stock is criminal abroad-these
men are indeed rich beyond the
dreams OF avarice.
IF the watering of stock is allowed
to keep on we'll hear our billionaires
talking like this some day:
"'Hullo! There goes Jones in his
800 horsepower car. Do you know
him?'
"Do / know him! Do know
Jones! Why, man alive, Jones and
we're struggling young m~illionaires to-
gether!'"-New York Times.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Cholera Serum in Demand.

The veterinary department of the
Agricultural College Of Missouri has
been unable to supply the demands
of the state for hog cholera serum
Four thousand doses Of the serum
have been sen cver the state within
q short time.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
NoIIe Pressed.
Rastus had caught sambo red-hand-

Rastus had caught Sambo red-hand-
ed.
"Ah'm gwine hab yo' arrested foh
stealin' nah chickens, yo' Sambo
Washin'ton-dat's jess what ah'm
gwine to do" said Rastus.
GO ahead, niggah," retorted Sam
DO. go ahead and hab me arrested.
Ahll mex yo' prove whar yo' got dem
chickens yo'self!"-Harper's Weekly.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Find $3.50 Stolen by Bandits.

Greensburg, Pa.-Alfred Wheeler of
seabrooke, N. c., and Sam Miller, for
merly Of Mount Pleasant, Pa, found
In a cave an old iron kettle contain
ing $3.50 alleged to have been depos-
tied there years g by q gang Of
mo1rtain bandits.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
1.aD,Es CAN WEAR SHOES

one size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, the Antiseptic powder to be shaken in
to the shoes. 1t makes tight or new shoes
feel easy. Gives rest and comfort. Refuse
substitutes. For FREE trial package. ad-
dress Allen S. Olnsted. LIE Roy. N. Y. Adv.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
He Is Still SinoIe.

you are the first girl l nave ever
loved"
"And you'd be the last man I'd
ever love-"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

A German investigator has discov-
cred that plants resist cold best when
they are given special nourishment to
keep them warm. Fol instance, to
feed a plant sugar stimulates it's pow
er OF resisting low temperature, much
as like food acts upon animals, though
in less marked degree.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Not in Sioht.

Hokus-"Do you think we shall ever
have universal peace?" Pokus-"Not
so long as women continue to play
bridge for stakes"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

It is far worse for a woman to mar.
ry a man she can't love than it is for
a man to love a woman he can't mar
ry.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

F~iguratively speaking, a man and
his wife are one, but the figures on
the grocery bill are apt to disprove it.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Its Kind.

is this a tentative arrangement"
"Nothin' like that. It's jest to try
it out for awhile"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, Softens the gums, reduces infiamma
ton ,allays pain, cures wind collie Csc a bottle .Ads
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

When a mar begins to think of get
ting married he never figures on a
church wedding.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

If you would strike a man favorably
never hit him in the vicinity OF the
pocketbook.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

Pay compliments if you will, but
pay your bills first.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

The average man has a lot more to
say about what he is going to do than
about what he has done.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

Ever notice how eager one doctor
is not to boast of the ability of an
other?
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
Important to M othere
Apology.

Apology.
You called me a dog, sir"
"Oh, no.! Some dogs are very fine
| called you a cur"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28
LovaI to Her Teacher.

Sunday School Teacher-Yes, chill
dren, the Lord made everybody.
Small Girl-Did he make you, teach
er?
Teacher-Yes. He made me, too.
Small Girl-And he's got nothin' to
be ashamed of, either.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

Many a man fools himself when he
thinks hat he is fooling his wife.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

Only One "BROMG OUININE"
That is BROMO UININE Look
Tor the signature of X. w Cures "a Cold
in One Day, Cures Grip in pwo Days. 9c.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

Any man who shaves himself is apt
to cut his best friend.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-02-28

FOR SALE OR TRADE FOR MINI. DR.
Iowa land, 800 a. near Canning. Hughes Co.
S. D.. 10 a. cult. bal. prairie. all tfllablc.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-05

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- - Sios9' pte tiie pfeeVer usually 's
cause his pigs usually possess all the
poor qualities of both sides. If the SOW
is in fault in any point, the boar should
be strong in that particular. The boar
should impart quality to the herd.
hence should not be coarse. If there
is coarseness, let it be in the sow. Wei
can get size and quality without
coarseness
IF | am to choose d Young hoe. i
prefer one OF early farrow, because the
pig of early farrow makes a stronger
growth lie should have masculine
head, that is broad between the eyes. a |
thicker nose than the sow. and short |
jowl, plenty of heart girth and not low
in the back He should be well fctl.
with roomy quarters. and as with the
SOW should not be bred too Young.
think more Of us make n sad mistake
In trying to breed to a small Young
boar. because he is cheaper than an
older one. Ii is not an easy matter tot
keep over d pig of fan farrow TO nse
Vet 1t paws to breed to a matured hos.
ii is certainly a mistaken notion some
have Of buvine voune nie. for breedinp
every wear. because they are NOT ma
tured ana if followed IN win cause !
in the size of the indi-
yiduals. AS with tia SOW. 50 Win the
boar. the matured boar breeds stronger
and better ana larger pigs gives more
vieor ana vitality ia The offspring.
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