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The midland journal., 1915-11-05
MAKING FoUR-HoRSE EvENEE
Illustration Shows Arrangement Often
Desired at Flowing Time-one
Horse Worked in Furrow.

A four-horse eyener without side
draft is often wanted at plowing time.
We give here subscription Of good
arrangement Of this kind furnished US
by Mr.. ]. F. Krens, Woodville, Wis.
The cut will show how the evener
Is made, and the measurements are
as follows:
Two doubletrees of ordinary length,
a good tough stick Of which to make
the long evener, two iron pulleys
which will let strong small link
chain work through them, two bolts to
go through the pulleys. and two strap
iron braces over the pulleys, will be
needed. The stick for the evener
should be. 5 feet inches long, and the
first pulley will be put on inches
from the right end of it, measuring to
center of pulley. Measure 15A
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
MAKE MONEY in DAIRY
Better Prices Secured for MIX
in Winter Than in Summer.
Average Farmer Can Pay More At
tention to Work in Cold Weather
Than When Crops Are Grow
in1-cows Must BE Fed.
By r. B. RUstIING.l

The profits in winter dairying are
often greater than those obtained from
the milk that is made in the summer.
This, however, is because prices for
milk, cream and butter are usually
much better in the winter than in the
summer and often the question Of la
bor is not so acute in the winter sea-
son.
find it necessary to have some of
my cows come fresh in the fall where
such profit is to accrue from the win
ter dair5ing. About half the cows
coming fresh in the fall equalize the
milk supply the year around.
The cost of producing winter milk
should not be contrasted with summer
milk in figuring profits, because the
cows have to be kept anyway, and
just about as much feed would have
to be fed If the COWS were drying up
as if they were in milk, If they are
fed as they should be.
There is of course more feed given
in the winter when the milk produc-
tion is being stimulated, but that addi-
tional feed is about the only charge
that should be added. Since the cows
have to be fed anyway the whole year
around, the average cost of feeding
should be figured summer and winter.
Adding to that the little extra feed
that must be given to stimulate milk
production, should be the real cost
of winter milk production. Milk and
dairy products are easier to market
in the winter than in the summer the
milk being cooled with cold air and
the cream kept in the same way.
| always look forward to the winter
dairying as I do to winter profits in
the poultry yard. think that all will
agree with me that the largest profit
is to be made from winter laying, and
I, for one, have found it just so with
the winter dairying
When man has well-filled silo
there is no reason why the milk flow
should not be kept up during the win
ter. The feeding of the good sweet
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
Indian Folk Sonn.

In Philadelphia, snort time ago. l
heard the first performance in Amer
lea of a new composition by one Of
great Italian, Busoni. It was played
by the composer and by the Philadel-
phia Symphony orchestra under the
baton of Leopold Stokowski. who de-
clared that this new work was posi-
bly, the most important step in musi-
cal development since Debussy first
began to break fresh paths in tcnal
and harmonic relations. This COM
position, already played with great
success in Europe, is built entirely
upon American Indian melodies-not
imaginative inventions of the COM
poser, but genuine indian songs, for
whose authenticity / can vouch, as /
myself wrote them down from the lips
of the Indians in the far West and
later gave them to Busoni at his re-
quest.-Natalie Curtis in the Southern
Workman.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
INFERTILE EGGS KEEP BEST
Large Poultry Plants Seldom Have
Male Fowl on Place-Essential
to "Swat the Rooster"
(By J. A. HELMREICH, Colorado Agris
cultural ColIege.)

(By ]. A. HELMREICH. Colorado Agris
cultural ColIege)
Many people think that the cocks
have to be with the hens in order to
get eggs. This is a mistake and has
been demonstrated as such by expert.
ments and practice, for the large poul.
try plants seldom have a cock on the
place and their hens will actually lay
more eggs without the cocks around.
| do not sayise you to kill or dis.
pose of valuable breeding stock, but
merely separate them from the hens.
When we stop to consider that there
is $6a0,0O0,000 worth of poultry sold
by our farmers annually. and that this
amounts to as much as the money re.
ceived for wheat or hay; that 5 per
cent of all the eggs sold are lost
through careless handling, and that
large per cent of this loss is due 20
the production Of fertile eggs during
the hot months of the year, it is easy
to see how essential it is. to swat the
rooster
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
TRYING FARM HELP PROBLEM
Hired Laborer Should Be Moderately
Intelligent and Well informed
Keep Children on Farm.

The requirements of the farm In
the character of the labor employed
are changing radically. The labor to
be performed by the farmer should be
governed by extensive information and
considerable scientific knowledge. A
successful farmer at the present time
may need considerable knowledge Of
chemistry, of bacteriology, of econom.
ic entomology, of the pathology and
physiology of plants and animals; OF
plant and animal breeding, of fungi.
cides and insecticides, Of the conser.
walton of soil moisture; of botany,
pomology, viticulture, horticulture, and
certainly much concerning the prac-
tical handling and marketing of his
products. The hired laborer does not
need to know so much, and yet he
should be at least moderately intel
ligent and well informed. With re-
gard to the future, the forecast is that
farm labor will not be recruited in
appreciable degree from the city. The
farmer would not need to get his
labor from the cities if he could hold
the country population to the soil, and
the recognition of the Importance Of
retaining the children on the farm and
of keeping country labor from migrat-
ing to cities is governing most of the
work by nation and state in behalf of
agriculture. In addition to efforts to
promote economic Improvement, many
agencies are at work upon the country
people to improve their home life, and
their social activities, which are all
ready beginning to count against the
unpleasantness of country life and
in favor of making it attractive.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
lEAlslIERAL
JERM'5N0rBS
BE master Of your own barn.

Be master of your own barn.
Study rations for each COW.
Grow your own feeds to the utmost.
4y- VI
Milk comes by invitation, not force.
Seek June conditions in feeding in
December.
Tickle the cows palate and increase
production.
Study the whole problem from a
business standpoint.
Test, weigh, weed out. The margin
of profit allows no guess work
Brains in the milk pail insures quail
ity, quantity, and cleanliness.
More sunshine for the big producers.
more fresh air for the whole herd.
No man can succeed by being sim
ply a machine capable of performing
so much labor.
BE content with nothing but reach
ing after more.
Clean every particle of fertilizer out
of the drill before putting it away, or
the parts will rust.
Good cows are never cheap. are hard
90 find and harder to buy. Re-enforce
your dairy from your own best COWS.
Do not be cursed by feeding mass
o. stun under the name OF mixed
lseaS- plade we know not how.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
METHODS OF MANAGING MIND
Psychology and lts Effects Will Be
Found Well Worth Anyone's
Patient Study.

Despite the difficult look of the
word, psychology is most interest
ing and intensely fascinating subject.
Briefly, it is the science which deals
with the extraordinary effect of the
mind ON the body, says London AM
swers.
To mako matters clearer, here i3 .
simple instance of ordinary psychoIog.
ical effect You are cycling, and come
to q long, steep hill. If you let your
eyes dwell ON the hill and its length q
feeling of depression and discourage
ment at once affects you. That is
communicated to the body, which in
stantly tires and loses energy.
The hill, sight, mind. muscles
there's the psychological sequence.
But if you keep your eyes fixed on
the road just ahead and pedal on that
strange tired out" feeling doesn't
come. It's quite weird.
Soldiers, tired to the point of ex-
hahstion, will revive and march with
energy if the band plays.
Why do we prefer twisting road
for long walk in preference to one
which, If shorter, stretches out like
an endless ribbon straight in front of
US? To avoid the psychological de-
preston of spirits which the long,
straight road gives.
Now you can see that study of
psychological effects is practical and
useful.
An interesting example of being psy-
chologically ''unsensed' is to be found
in the attitude of civilians living in
the fighting zone Of northern France.
The effect on them has been such that
they have lost the Danger sense"
They go about their ordinary occu-
pations apparently careless of shot or
shell. 1t is not bravery. nor is it res
ignation: their attitude is a psy-
Geological one.
A commercial traveller has stated
that he always knew when the psy-
Geological moment had come for him
to snap the order he had been ang-
ling for. That is, he noted the swing
of the wavering mind, and booked his
WuCA pCAuIO uAS CuStOmSr WAS D6l.
anced" again.
The best safeguard against being
psychologically affected is to maintain
your hold over your mind and to keep
your feeling in equilibrium. Manage
your mind and don't let it manage
you!
The best antidote to ordinary. ev
eryday life psychological effects is to
have many interests in life-one main
one, and the rest side lines, as it were.
A busy mind keeps it's equilibrium,
and where stern common sense reigns
psychological effects have no place.
The subject is worth studying, is il
not? Follow 1t up. This article
touches but the fringe.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
Waste Mica Now Used.

Mica mining in the United States
began in 1903 with the opening of the
Ruggles mine, in Grafton county. New
Hampshire. Until mica mining began
in North Carolina. about 1867. New
Hampshire furnished the entire output
of mica in the United States
In 1914 North Carolina ranked first
in the value of its mica output. and
New Hampshire second
Mica is still obtainable in consider
able quantities from the dumps of the
old mines in New Hampshire. at which
material for small sheets was thrown
away thirty or forty years ago.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
MAKING MOST OF THE PHLox
BY |. NJ. BENNINGTON.

Nearly everyone can grow phlox and
have what is regarded as great sue.
cess, yet few, even among professional
gardeners know how to coax the great.
est growth and beauty out of this
plant.
Hardy phlox can be transplanted at
any time, preferably in the fall or
early spring, by dividing old clumps,
or they can be grown from seeds plant
ed very shallow as soon as they are
ripe. When allowed to become dry
they are more or less disappointing
in termination, so that we may say
that division is the best method. If
string divisions are taken early in
April and planted about Is or 18 inches
apart and the tops are pinched back
when about 4 inches high to make
them spread and not more than two
or three growths are allowed, they
will give very large head of bloom
with maximum of fiorets. Give
clean culture and an occasional dress
ing of manure or manure water.
By this method of culture the phlox
becomes an exceptional flower when
compared with the big clumps that
most people allow to grow. To get
best results they should be planted
new each fall or spring and give plenty
of water while in bloom.
When big masses of plants are de-
sired, about one-third of the stems
should be pinched back. This will
produce a much longer season of
blooming.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
FUN AND MONEY IN AsTERs
By LIMA R. ROSE.

Asters should be started in the
House. Two hundred seedlings can be
started in one cigar box, which is a
most convenient shape and size for
standing on the window sill.
Fill boxes to within one-half inch
OF the top with loose loan. 1t is al
ways well in sowing seeds in boxes
to sift the top layer. Make four
trenches the length of the box Place
seeds in trenches and cover.
Before watering cover with cloth.
A strip torn from coarse linen towel
is good. Water thoroughly. The
cloth win prevent the water from
washing out the seeds the first time
you dampen them and subsequently
will prevent rapid evaporation.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05

silage win afford June pasture during
January and February.
By being thus supplied with the sue
culent feed, with the addition of
enough concentrated feed to balance
the ration the milk flow will be kept
up to its average in the summer.
There is another point in favor Of
dairying in the winter for the farmer
VINO is not making dairying his spe-
cialty. Dairying, like everything else,
must have personal supervision and
the average farmer can give much
more attention to the work during the
winter than he can during the summer
when the work of making the crops is
pushing hard.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
Weeds.

A very erroneous, idea is prevalent
among a great many farmers that a
crop of weeds turned down is as good
as a coat of manure. They are of as
much value as a coat of shavings from
planning mill. The only thing know
they are good for is to furnish a splen-
did place in which the moths may lay
their eggs for a big crop of cut worms
the following spring and summer
@. B. r.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05

sun.
or set In box with packing of moss
around them to encourage moisture.
Root geranium slips now, If you
want winter bloomers. Keep grow
ing thriftily and pinch OF all buds.
Do not make the mistake OF root
ing for winter bloomers plants that
bloom only in summer Some ge-
raniums bloom more freely than 9TH
ers.
Plants that are not growing need no
fertilizer.
Large pots for foliage. Small pots
for flowers. Plenty of sunshine for
geraniums.
If soil in the bulb pot in the cellar
seems dry, moisten moderately. but
don't keep wet or the bulb will rot.
Work every day to keep the plants
comfortable. They are like children.
Don't let the insects get at them If
Snu love them.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
Monument for Hindenburs in the Alps

Monument for Hindenburg in the Alps.
The Liskelle mountain in the Carin-
THAN Alps. near the present Austro-
Italian theater of war. has been re-
named 'Hindenburg Height" On the
summit of the mountain. one of the
highest of the Carinthian chain. an
obelisk will be erected IL honor Of
the victor of Tanneoerg and the Ma
surian lakes. The work has already
been started under the direction OF
Architect Arnold of Hanover. The
dedication of the monument is to take
place next summer and Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg has promised to
be present at the ceremony with his
wife.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
HOUSE PLANTS

Don't neglect the potted plants; wa.
ter well and shade from the after
noon sun.
When shade is recommended, dark.
ness or dense shade are not meant.
All plants require a good light.
Many plants will bear strong sky
light that would be badly damaged If
set In strong sunshine.
For potted plants that must have
sunshine. set the pots in a jardiniere,
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
Umbrella win Fan Attachment.

To circulate air below the canopy
of an umbrella a patent has been 10
sued on the invention OF Sylvester
Onyskow of Jenkins, Ky.. in which a
far with folding blades, so that it can
collapse with the umbrella. ID ar
ranged directly below the canopy and
suitable motor battery and switch
mechanism for driving the fan Is also
carried by the umbrella
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
GET RID Of THEM

House plants that are buggy and
shaggy and refuse to improve should
be thrown out. They are an eyesore.
Better demolish the window garden
than to mock nature with the victims
of ignorance or neglect.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
AIMED.

"Has your summer tan worn off,
Jack?" asked one boy of another.
1T sure has, but dad gave me fall
tsn last night that'n stick for come
lime"
The midland journal., 1915-11-05

If possible, set the box where it will
have bottom heat for three or four
days, and be sure to keep moist,
when, if your seeds were fresh, you
will find the rows all cracked open and
the green seed leaves peeking out.
Remove cover and take away from
heat Immediately. Place in a strong
light.
These directions you viii find ap.
plicable to all small seeds, vegetable
as well as flower. Never forget to wa
ter, however, and keep covered with
cloth until removed to the window.
DO not let them grow long stems.
Spindling seedlings are calamity.
When the plants have their fourth
leaf, transplant to fiat an inch apart
each way. These transplant1ngs cause
a wonderful root development, which
tells later in the quality of bloom.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05

Leave fuchsias in the cellar until
March.
Be ready for the cold days They
are at hand.
Keep window garden clean. Remove
dead leaves. scrub pots, shower foli.
age. Keep window glass clean.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
Near and Convenient.

The garden should be mean the
house so as to make the gathek
ing Of vegetables convenient
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
And Now They Don't Speak,
credulous.

Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago
for illustrated Book of the Eye Free.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05

Queen Elizabeth of Belgium holds
a degree of doctor of medicine.
The midland journal., 1915-11-05
The CHARM
OF MOTHERHOOD
Enhanced By Perfect Physi-
cal Health.

The experience of Motherhood Is try
ing one to most women and marks dis
tinctly an epoch in their lives. Not one
woman in hundred is prepared or un-
derstands how to properly care for her
self. Of course nearly every woman
nowadays has medical treatment at such
times, but many approach the expert
ence with an organism untitled for the
trial of strength, and when it is over
her system has received a shock from
which it is hard to recover. Following
right upon this comes the nervous strain
Of caring for the child, and a distinct
change in the mother results.
There is nothing more charming than
ahappy and healthy mother of children,
and indeed childbirth under the right
conditions need be no hazard to health or
beauty. The unexplainabIe thing is
that, With all the evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting from
an unprepared condition, and with am
pie time in which TO prepare, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
Every woman at this time should rely
upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, most valuable tonic and
invigoratOr of the female organism.
In many homes GO @SSSS
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II yOu want special advice write to
Lydia e. PiRkham Medicine Go. (cOnfl.
dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by q
woman and held in strict confidence.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-03-26
SPARKS FROM
THE WIRE

Anderson, Ind, March 22.-James A.
B. Brunt, banker, announced a gift
of $125,000 towards the establishment
of Y. M. C. A. building here.
Washington, March 23.-The United
States Supreme court recessed until
April 5.
Auburn, N. Y, March 23.-With a
prayer on his lips, Giuseppe Cino,
twenty three years old, was electro
cuted for the murder of Mrs. Lugina
Rizzo in Buffalo year ago.
New York, March 25.-The Chilean
government has suspended the duty
on wheat because Of the high cost Of
bread
Washington, March 22.-Brig. Gen.
Charles Francis Adams, attorney, his
torian and head of the great Adams
family of Massachusetts, which gave
two presidents to the United States,
died suddenly at his residence here
today.
New York. March 20.-Lenora Cohn.
five years old was killed by Jack
the-ripper." Her body, mutilated with
a knife. was found in the hallway OF
her home In the fingers of her left
hand were clutched several strands
of short gray hair.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-03-26
BRITAIN LOSES FIGHT
GENERAL HAWLEY AND 1000 MEN
KILLED BY DERvIsHEs
All Prisoners Are pecapitated-R.u
roads and Telegraph Wires De-
stroyed in Sudan.

Berlin, Germany (by wireless to
Sayv1lle, L. ID, March 2O.-A German
merchant who has returned from
Egypt is authority for the declaration
.nat the whole of the Sudan, includ-
ing hhartum and also part of Nubia.
is In possession Of the dervishes.
Inc statements of this traveller are
published in the Vossische Zeitung.
He describes also an engagement near
Fasnoda last December, in which
General Hawley of the British armv
ana number of other officers, with
nearly 1000 men, lost their lives.
The merchant relates a story of
the alleged uprising of the Senussi
trlDesmen in November. He declares
that they destroyed an Australian
camp near the pyramids November
IL, killing 200 Australians and cap
turing guns and provisions.
Later. in large force not fewer than
$4,000, they overlooked the entire
province of Fayum and destroyed all
railroads, including the Cairo-Assuan
line. December 1 they destroyed the
Alexandria-Cairo railroad near Danlan-
hur.
Thousands of tribesmen responded
to the appeal Of the dervishes and
December 10, 10000 of them marched
in the direction of Fashoda, on the
White Nile, where General Hawley
opposed them with 5000 troops. OF
the men under Hawley all the native
soldiers deserted to the dervishes.
leaving them only 1000 men.
Most of this contingent was killed
and General Hawley and all his Off
GERS fell. Nabur- ELAsi, commanding
the dervishes, had all his prisoners
decapitated.
AS result of this victory all the
native chiefs joined the dervishes,
who, January 1, took possession Of
the important military post at Nasser.
in the district of Seminar.
The merchant also declares that the
dervishes destroyed all the telegraph
lines in lower Egypt No word of the
conquest of the Sudan has been al
lowed to leak out.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-03-26
u. S. NAVAL OFFICER BROWNS
Lieutknant-commander ericker and
Three Sailors Lose Lives in
the Bosporus

Constantinople (via Berlin and Am
sterdam, March While rowing to
United States converted yacht Scor-
MON in the Bosporus. Lieutenant-Com-
mander William F. Bricker, .. s. N,
and three American sailors named
Ford. Bowel and Leverings. were
drowned on Saturday night. Their boat
was swamped by heavy seas thrown
nm by a south gale. Lieut.. Herbert 8.
Rabbit. u. s. NJ, and fourth sailor
who were in the boat were saved. Lieu
ant-Commander Brickler arrived
here six days ago to take over COM
mand of the Scorpion.