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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

Beekeepers themselves know tina
no matter how bright and favorable
| the prospects are there Is no GER
| tainty Of the crop until 1t Is actually
secured and with the comb honey
| might say until it has been taken Of
the hives and graded for som etimes
1t will happen that there will be
fair crop stored In the hives in sec.
| tions nearly ready to come of, wher
the flow may suddenly cease and g
large part of the sections may be
partially or wholly unsealed.
In some cases the honey may be
sealed and of the hives and on COM
ing to grade it part Of the crop may
be unsaleable on account Of bee
in the sections.
Such instances have occurred with
me and no doubt with thousands OF
others. There Is so much pollen here
that colonies that did not swarm
would oftimes carry 1t into the Sec
tons; but years ago I accidentally
learned how to almost entirely over
come this by changing the places of
the combs on the hives. This was
done to discourage swarming.
It is by no means an easy task to
obtain readily well-flled sections,
though If the sections are properly
prepared and placed upon strong col
onies or swarms standing near fields
or white alsike clover, or similarly
good honey-breeding crops, the bulk
Of the sections will generally be well
finished.
The great secret of obtaining we'll
filed sections is to crowd the bees.
This is done in two ways, either by
removing the outer frames from a
strong colony and substituting dunn
mics at the commencement Of the
honey flow, or by giving very strong
swarm limited room in the brood
chamber when hived.
BY adopting the former method the
crowding has a tendency to cause
swarming, but SO long as the fine
weather continues, and the bees have
ample but not too much super-room,
so long will swarming, as rule, be
averted.
1t is where there comes a change in
the weather, compelling the bees to
leave the super and further crowd in
the brood chamber that swarming is
Gel ldlIl, uoi4AS LILO
time they are crowded, work in the
form of comb building is given by
substituting empty for full frames in
the brood chamber.
I have found that 1t is difficult to
get the beginner to see the importance
of keeping the full working force Of
the colony together during the entirs
honey flow.
They nearly all seem to think that
the more colonies of bees they have
the more honey they will get and Il
is not easy to get them to understand
why it is that good strong colony
of workers will gather a surplus Of
so to IS pounds Of honey, while if
they had been divided and two COL
onies made out Of them they would
probably not have given their owner
any surplus honey at all.
am becoming more and more con-
WINGED Of the value of drawn combs
Supers containing sections with full
sheets of foundation do very we'll, but
it is plainly seen that those supers
containing drawn combs are entered
more quickly, filled with honey and
capped over.
If you wish to know if colony is
preparing to swarm, by building queen
cells, or If you wish to cut out cells
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

Certain varieties Of grapes and ber-
ries are also more susceptible than
others. The disease Is not necessarily
fatal, but diseased trees are frequently
more or less stunted and sometimes
die from the effects of this disease.
The root system Of many varieties will
be imperfect and the trees can be
readily blown out by storms and can
not produce the maximum crop Of
fruit. Certain varieties when affected
will produce q much smaller crop
than healthy trees. Such trees will
occasionally produce good crops, but
do not thrive and produce as we'll as
healthy trees under the same treat
ment. When the disease is predomi-
nant at the crown, the possibility OF
growing fruitful trees, even of the
hardest varieties, is greatly reduced.
Alfalfa is Natures choicest gift to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24
Injurious Plant Diseases
BY NJ. T. COOK,

That crown gall and hairy root are
serious diseases cannot be doubted.
That they may be much more serious
in some localities than others, and
upon some plants than on others, is
equally true. In some sections of the
east it may be said that they are most
injurious on cane fruits, especially red
raspberries. In other parts of the
country they frequently prove very in
furious to peach, cherry and some
times to apple trees.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

The degree Of care it will pay you
to exercise in handling your apples
will be determined largely by the
grade Of fruit you are putting on the
market and the care with which you
guard your reputation as fancy fruit
producer.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

A bran mash, once g. week, Is a
renovation for the driving horse. Two
quarts of shelled oats and the same
quantity Of wheat bran, scalded about
midday and then covered with q
blanket or cloth, to keep in the steam,
add a pinch Of salt and feed at night.
Give no other grain with this mash,
but Of course the regulation ration Of
hay. This once-a-week mash, given
preferably Saturday night. will do
your driving or riding horse all the
good in the world. The work stock
will also appreciate the mashs too.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24
"Staghead" Of Shade
and Fruit Trees

Very frequently apple trees and
some varieties of shade trees are seen
with the topmost branches dead and
remaining as dry sticks like antlers
projecting above the foliage. This
condition may be due to various UNI
favorable conditions, but 1t is chiefly
encountered with old trees which have
long remained unsprayed, unpruned.
uncultivated and unfertilized. This
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24
Seeding Meadows
and Pastures
BY G. HUTCHINSON.

> There is probably no agricultural
prartce regarding which there is
gr~>ser difference of opinion among
farmers thanIthat Of the methods OF
seeding meadows and pastures. This
is largely due to the fact that a stand
of either clover or grass is dependent
upon many factors, such as weather
conditions, soil, and quality Of seed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

For lockjaw in man or beast, give
half a five-cent packet Of smoking to-
bacco in a gallon of hot water. Cool
and inject per rectum.-Dr. Gray.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

If your wax beans are free from
,pot or anthracnose, save some of the
beans for seed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

Fowls that are dry picked present
q much better appearance than those
that are scalded
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

Alfalfa fills the haymow and pays
for the privilege.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

Nearly ,2o0,O0O,oOo residents of In
dia are dependent upon agriculture
for their living.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-24

Alfalfa is Natures choicest gift to
the dairy farmer.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
FIRST DAYS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Painters reared Discovery Would DO
Away With Demand for Prod
ucts Of Their Art.

Perhaps it is difficult fully to I'M
derstand the panic into which the fol-
lowers of the art of painting we're
thrown on the discovery Of photog-
raphy, since to US the place of the
two arts is sc thoroughly assured and
SO a~ssuredly separate. But we must
remember that to an photographed
age the, art Of painting necessarily
meant something quite different from
what it means to u own kodaked gen
GRAFTON. Figure to yourself" cries
a writer in shrill excitement in the
Moniteur Universal, January IA, 1889,
figure to yourself a mirror which, af-
ter receiving your image. presents you
your portrait, as indelible as a paint
ing and much more faithful" And in
rendering the image of nature, how
immensely significant becomes the
language of the bill which was intro
duced before the French chamber to
pension M. Daguerre: ITO the travel
er the apparatus of M. Daguerre would
become a continual and indispensable
necessity. 1t will enable them to fix
their impressions without having re-
course to the hand of a stranger
Annie-Nathan Meyer, in the Atlantic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
it his class. soundness, good manners

fit his class. soundness, good manners
and durability.
The market demands a mule with
quality and size, good conformation,
suundness and ability to perform
labor.
For the production of horses and
mules to be put on the market to yield
a profit there are two fundamental
factors. First, the use of only the
very best sires obtainable. The truth
Of this is easily seen when one real
ICES that the get of some stations, as
compared with others when sold on
the market, average $40 to $50 a head
more in price. This statement is based
upon the use of the same mares in
both cases.
The second factor is constant breed
ing within n breed. 1t is folly to
mate a draft mare with a trotting stall
lion or a saddle mare with a draft
stallion, and the markets are eliminat.
ing this practice by refusing to give a
profit on such horses. @
A careful study of the market, to-
gether with the observance of the
above principles, coupled with good
care and management, will make a
reasonably safe and profitable bust
ness out of horse production.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22

alone, wearing a very long skirt, and
blowing her way slowly towards the
summit. They could hardly believe
their eyes, for the climb is no child's
play, and both watched in horror, ex-
pecting every moment to see her fall.
They dared not call to her, for fear
Of frightening and causing her to
slip.
Hurrying as fast as they could,
they caught her up, and found she
was an American. Mr.. Grande asked
her what brought her there, and she
answered that she had followed the
path marked in the guide book, and
that she meant to come down by the
sleighs.
"Sleighs?" asked Mr.. Grande, much
puzzled. She pulled out the guide
book, and showed the following SEN
tence: "The descent 1.-TWO and one
half hours) may be considerably cur
tailed by glissades down three snow
slopes"
Mr.. Grande quietly explained that
this meant coming down on ones own
feet, with mountaineering boots and
an ice ak to regulate the speed, or
stop altogether, If necessary; and the
explanation not only surprised but
frightened her badly. The end of 1t
was that Mr.. Grande had practically
to carry the foolish woman down for
a matter Of 1000 feet.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
WASHES CAUSE HEAVY LOSS
BY N. r. Miller, Professor of Agron
omy, University of Mis-
souri,.
Stop the washes.

Vi. X
When washes in fields, caused by
heavy rains, start they should be
stopped at once by means Of straw or
refuse. Large washes can be filled by
persistent effort, but it takes strenu-
GUS measures to do this. 1t is better
to stop the small washes than to have
to fill big ones.
There is no greater loss to the farms
Of Missouri than that brought about
by washing of the fields during heavy
rains. This loss Is greater than the
loss through cropping. Most farmers
do not realize the fact. One has only
to visit the southern states. where the
land is rolling and of a nature which
washes readily, to see what havoc can
be wrought by the rains. While this
injury is not so great in the corr belt,
mainly because of more level lands
and of freezing during the win.
ter, the spring, summer and fall losses
on all rolling lands are very great I'm
der the average system Of soil man
agement.
Land should never be left without a
cover during the winter If it can be
helped. Stalk land offers great op-
~portunity for washing. 1t does not al
ways seem to be possible to cover this
with rye or other grain crop during
the winter, but the time is coming
when this will always be done on roll
ing land.
Deep fall blowing, where fall plow-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
SCALP TROUBLE FOR YEARS

26S Harrison ST., Elyria, Ohio.-"My
case was a scalp trouble. | first no
ticed small punches on my scalp which
commenced to itch and l would
scratch them and in time they got
larger, forming a scale or scab with a
little pus, and chunks of hair would
come out when I would scratch them
off. 1t caused me to lose most of my
hair. 1t became thin and dry and life
less. l was troubled for over ten
years with it until it got so bad / was
ashamed to go to a barber to get my
hair cut.
Il tried everything I could get hold
of, - and ---, but received no
cure until I commenced using Cuticu-
ra Soap and Ointment when the scale
commenced to disappear. The way l
used the Cuticura Soap and Ointment
was to wash my scalp twice a day
with warm water and Cuticura Soap
and rub on the Cuticura Ointment. l
received benefit in a couple of weeks
and was cured in two months"
(Signed) F. ]. Busher, Jan. 2S, 1918.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
Best Of Fire Alarm Roxes.

After work extending over two
years, officials of New York city have
devised a fire alarm box which has
been dedicated to the use Of New
York without royalty, and it is ex-
pected that the cost under competitive
bidding will not exceed $45. The
price Of fire alarm boxes during the
last several years under competitive
bidding has run from SIS to $175 each.
The average price has been $125 each.
The estimated saving, therefore, will
be $50 q box. The fire department
experts have finished their box just
in time to meet the needs Of the city,
as only six per cent. of the boxes are
modern, the rest being obsolete and
many being in an unsafe and even
dangerous condition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
What Is Comma?

Whitney Warren, at the recent New
York horse show, nodded toward a
young man in tight morning coat and
rakishly tilted top hat, and said:
That young millionaire has already
had three wives. Yet he is received,
yet he is even lionized, everywhere.
What is the world coming to?
What is the world coming to-" Mr..
Warren pursued. las l look about me
at the tolerant, the too tolerant So
ciey Of today, l think of the horse
thief.
"'Yours is a very serious crime, my
man. a Judge said sternly to a horse
thief. Fifty years ago it was a hang
ing matter
well, your honor said the horse
thief, calmly, fifty years hence 1t
mayn't be a crime at ALL"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22

ing is practiced, left untouched by the
harrow during the winter months aids
in preventing washing. Shallow fall
blowing is very bad practice. If the
land is kept we'll supplied with organic
matter or humus it washes less.
Where land is handled by a tenant
it is the duty Of the landlord to make
the conditions sufficiently ,lenient that
he may establish a definite under
standing as to the ARE of the land.
Usually there is no understanding,
and especially with the system Of one
year leases no effort whatever is made
to prevent washing. Sometimes the
tenant is to blame, sometimes the
landlord, depending upon what sort of
a contract exists between them.
Every landlord should realize that it
is his duty and that it is to his advan-
tage to prevent this washing. Where
a man farms his own land there is lit
tie excuse for land washing, If he is
farming his land as it should be
farmed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
TRAGEDIES OF ALPS
Many Lives Lost in Attempting
Their Ascent. I'D
Death Roll Averages Between Sixty
and Seventy Per Year-oanserous
Climb Of an American
Woman Related.

London.-"Highplac are homes OF
ancient worship Ascent is a conse-
Grated type of labor with an exceed
ing great reward"
So wrote the late MI. Donald Rob
ertson in the Alpine Journal. And he,
n Of the finest climbers, who had
travelled the Alps from end to end,
was killed about four years ago while
leading a party up a comparatively in
significant Welsh mountain.
Most mountaineering accidents oc-
cur In Switzerland, and the death
roll of the Alps has now risen to an
average Of between 60 and 70 yearly,
while another 800 people are o
or less seriously injured. In one year
$4,000, the number of the killed was
no less than 119.
Examine the published statistics of
these accidents, and two points strike
you. First, that comparatively few
Of the tragedies recorded occur at
great heights or in VIGOROUSLY difficult
places; secondly, that a large ma
jority of the victims are women or
very young men.
A third point is that in 90 per cent.
of cases they were climbing without
guides.
The fact is that ignorance or reck-
lessness account for by far the great
er number of Alpine accidents. Peo-
pie who have, perhaps, lever climbed
before in their lives start out to
ascend mountains with which they are
totally unacquainted. In most cases
they are physically unfit for the Sc
we're exertion entailed by climbing,
and very often they are not properly
clothed or equipped for the expedi-
ton.
An instance in point is given by
Mr.. Julian Grande, a well-known mem
Der of the Alpine club. Accompanied
by a friend, he was climbing the
Schlithorn, a respectable peak of about
10000 feet in the Bernese Overland.
At a great height, he noticed in the
snow the track of a small boot, evil
IDENTIFY a lady's. This was sufficiently
astonishing, but the amazing point
was that there were no signs of nails
in the boots.
AS they approached the summit they
suddenly caught sight of a woman
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
COTToNSEED MEAL AS FEED
BY G. A. TrcWbridse, Professor Of
Animal Husbsndry, Unlver-
city Of Missouri.

The value Of cottonseed meal as a
food for live stock was not realized
until recently. It has not been many
years since c~ottonseed meal was con
sidered not only unfit for live stock
feed, but dangerous.
Cottonseed meal is very concen-
tratcd, very high In heterogeneous ele-
msnts, and serves a very excellent
purpose as a feed to balance corn and
other carbonacrous feeds.
Some say that cotsonseed meal
auses sore eyes among horses and
mules. Sore eyes among horses and
mules is the result Of the use Of the
meal in large quantities and for an ex-
tended period Of time, the dust blow
ing in the horses eyes and serving as
an irritant.
Cottonseed meal should be used as
q supplement when fed to horses. 1t
may be fed with, corn in the proper.
tioniof about one part cottonseed meal
10 seven or eight parts corn or other
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
East Is West.

1t isn't so very many years ago
since China was regarded as a land
apart, having nothing in common
with Occidental civilization. Now it
is coming with a rush into the west
ern world.
Until recently all that was heard
from that remote land-almost as re-
mote in this age as in Marco Polo's-
was about queues, and heather idols,
and bound feet, and hatred of for
eign devils" 1t is different now.
A Pekin suffragette goes up to lick
the editor. Parliament is in session.
1t is in session for a year without
doing anything. The government calls
for prayers. People insist that the
school system is out of date. The
president his devotion to
the constitution.
They used to say that "east is
east" 1t isn't any longer. It's west.
Kansas City Star.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
What It Came To.

1--WE figured the whole thing out,
father said Mabel. "The car, to be-
gin with, will cost $4,000, which at six
per cent, is 5000 a year. II we charge
ten per cent. off for depreciation it
will come to $500 more. A good chauf-
feur can be had for $125 a month, or
$1,000 a year. | have allowed $40 a
week for gasoline and S. for repairs.
The c%hauffeur's uniform and furs will
come to about 5000. Now, let's see
what it comes to. Three hundred plus
five hundred"
Don't bother me, my dear, l know
what it comes to-" said the old gen
tleman.
"What?" asked the girl.
my DEAR" said the father, impress
sively, "it comes to a s~tandstill, right
here and now."-Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
ROBBERS FoRTIFY A BANK
Bold Bandits Build Wire Defence Be-
fore Blowing Safe Of
Concern.

Charlotte. N. C.-Robbers blew the
safe in the bank at Ellenboro, a small
town so miles west of here, and took
$1,000, leaving $17O behind. Citizens
say nine explosions were heard.
One man approached the bank upon
hearing the explosions, and was driv-
en- back at the muzzles Of guns. The
robbers constructed q defense Of
heavy wire fencing In front Of the
bank. The vault wal demolished.
Bloodhounds traced the men,to Hen
rietta, a small station several miles
away, where 1t is believed they es-
capped BY automobile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
Significant.

Miss Elsie De Wolfe, commenting at
a tea in New York on the engagement
to her mothers French maid Of a
young man belonging to a rich old
Knickerbocker family, said:
Marriages Of that type r seldom
happy. They turn out like the boot
makers"
Miss De Wolfe, smilingly, resumed:
"a retired bootmaker, who had mar
ried his servant as his second spouse,
vas once asked by a friend how he
was getting on. His significant reply
was:
"'Soles make stiff %uppers.'"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22

IF 20 men reap a field in eight
hours, how long will it take Is men
to reap the same field" a student was
asked. He thought long before writ.
ing down his answer, and when he
handed in his paper this is what the
examiner read: The field, having al.
ready been reaped by the 20 men
could not be reaped a second time by
the IT,"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22

Kidney Pills the swelling disappear
ed and he felt himself again. He says
he has been benefited and blessed by
the use Of Dodds Kidney Pills. Sew
eral months later he wrote: I have
not changed my faith in your remedy
since the above statement was author
lied. Correspond with Rev. E. Hes
lop about this wonderful remedy.
Dodds Kidney Pills, SOC. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
English and German words) and re-
cipes for dainty dishes. ALI 8 sent free.
Adv.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
Top Dressing Wheat Land.

The top dressing of wheat land with
manure is a good practice. 1t is not
followed enough in most wheat sec
tons of the state. A manure spread
er is essential, scattering three to five
loads In acre in the fall or winter,
when the ground is dry or frozen.
Such a top dressing greatly stimu.
lates the wheat and almost always in
sures a successful grass and clover
stand where wheat is used as the
nurse crop. Farmers can well divide
their manure applications between the
corr and wheat land, where wheat is
an important money crop.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-01-22
Nothinn To Worry About.

Have you heard about the awful
thing Mr.. Jobson did this morning?
Several of the neighbors a him
dragging his wife around in the back
yard by her hair. Don't you think the
authorities ought to do something
about it?' Why should the authorities
interfere? Haven't you heard that
Jobson and his wife are working for a
moving picture film concern?"