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kept failowed until the laH OF June
when the seed is sOwn. This enables
US to get crop the first year either
for hog pasture or for hay.
Advantages of this method are:
/. We do not lose the use of the land
for one year.
2. There is less damage from injury
by grasshoppers than in the case of
late summer seeding.
3. 1t insures a strong root system
and less chance of winter killing. The
only disadvantage of this method Is
that, If the ground is foul the alfalfa
may be smothered by weeds.
Spring Seeding Without Nurse Crop.
In the West and North It has been
a common practice to sow in the spring
without nurse crop, keeping the
weeds moved down during the sum
mer to prevent smOthering the alfalfa.
Ground that is MANFRED and fall
plowed is best for spring seeding. The
next best is corn stalk ground, either
manfred the year before or in the
winter or early spring, thoroughly
the middle of April
1t is important that the weeds be
moved two or three times during the
summer or they will choke out the al
falfa.
The disadvantages of spring sowieg
are:
1. The loss of one seasons GRIP
where no nurse crop is used.
2 The extra labor required to keep
down the weeds.
3. The danger Of neglecting the
weeds and the consequent loss Of
stand or securing only "patrhy
stand"
A. Ii Is the most crowded time or ghe
year, and we either fail To put I'm he
alfalfa at all or slight the work.
There is no one thing that wifi do
more TO insure success in getting
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bed. About the first week In August
seed the alfalfa as described above.
Spring Seeding With Nurse Crop.
A fourth method is to seed in the
spring with light nurse crop of early
oats or barley. In case oats are used,
it Is best to sow not more than bushel
to the acre, cutting them when in
bloom for hay. The advantages of
this method and also of the second and
third methods mentioned above are
that we secure crop and do not lose
the use of the ground for one year.
Some Of our best alfalfa growers have
used the beardless barley as nurse
crop with good results in spring seed
ing.
Good Results From June Seeding.
Some of the best stands of alfalfa
have been secured by seeding in the
middle or last of June. For June seed
ing, the ground is MANFRED and plowed
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Good Method for a Small Patch.

Good Method for a Small Patch.
For u small patch of two or three
acres perhaps the second most salts
factory method is to manure u piece
of ground near the barn where il can
be most conveniently used for hog pas
ture. The ground should be plOwed,
fitted and sOwed TO rape, early in the
spring. This should be used for hog
pasture during May and June. During
the first week of July the'rape stubble
should be moved down and the ground
thoroughly disked, then plowed and
again disked and narrowed.
Any time during the last week OF
July or the first week of August, the
ground should be thoroughly disked
and worked down so that it is firm and
solid. If there should come rain dur
ing the latter part Of July or the first
of August, IL is a good plan to prepare
the ground and SOW the seed at once
while there is sufficient moisture In
the ground to sprout the seed and give
the young alfalfa good start.
Alfalfa After Barley or Early Oats.
A third method. and one with some
advantages over the others, where the
season is not too dry, is to grow crop
of winter wheat, barley, early oats, or
early potatoes, and follow that crop
with alfalfa.
As soon as the grain is ripe it should
be cut and removed from the field. APP
ply ten or fifteen loads of manure To
the acre. Disk the ground to mix the
manure and stubble with the soil, and
pillow and again disk and harrow and
work down 10 give firm, solid seed
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LOOK TO FOURTH GENERATION
First Three Generations of Mod
ern Americans.

The North American child Is too
often merely the by-prOduct of mar
rlage. II serves as an outlet for thft
pride which the parents cannot always
reasonably take In themselves. 1t is
petted, cajOled, pampered, Overdressed
and underdiscplined, till there is
evolved strange pigmy for whom the
world soon grows banal, who is desti-
tute of the petitionary appeal of child
knowledge, Alan Sullivan writes in
Harper's Magazine for August. The
world is its football. II is smart be-
yond description. But there is I'm the
forced garden of its life no sheltered
bed where may bloom the flowers of
graciOusness or peace. OF such will
be the new aristOcracy, and its tradi-
tons will he of grandfathers who, by
virtue of that fine native American
lOngheadedness, delivered the goods
OF their period and were promptly and
suitably rewarded. But there will be
few traditions OF cOurtliness, scant
reminders that nObleSse oblige. and
but scattered memories of inherited re-
sponsibiities. The scmipiternal dollar
will still dominate. One generation
was too busy collecting and the other
will be too busy spending. The sec
ond generation offers no promise and
the third but little. The fourth will
probably open a new and finer cycle.
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stand Of alfalfa than lime and barn
yard manure.
Well Prepared Seed Bed Essential.
A well prepared, firm, solid seed bed,
plenty Of good barnyard manure and
summer fallow to kill the weeds, are
most important.
Alfalfa seed may be either drilled, or
sowed, broadcast and narrowed in, or
even dlsked in, especially If the sur
face of the ground is dry.
Sow ten to twelve pounds of seed
per acre. If evenly distributed this
will give fifty to sixty seeds for every
square foot, while one thrifty plant to
the square foot is sufficient
Cut alfalfa before il is i'm full bloom
or as soon as the young sprouts or
shoots start to grow at the base of the
plant. Cut late in the afternoon or
evening.
When alfalfa is left too long the
leaves, which are the most valuable
part of the plant, fall off and the stems
become woody and the yield of the
next crop is greatly reduced.
Alfalfa can be placed In the barn or
in stacks much greener than any other
kind of hay. Twenty pounds of salt
sprinkled over each load OF hay will
help to prevent heating and also add to
the palatability of the hay.
Where alfalfa is used for pasture,
care should be taken to avoid pastur-
ing ii too closely. Don't turn stock on
it too early in the spring.
Make a Beoinning-Start Now.
1 wc-lld advise every farmer to try
at least a small piece of alfalfa and If
he does not succeed at first, try again
and keep on trying until he does sue
coed. IL is worth the while.
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bring greater profits than five or
ten acres put into alfalfa, provided the
work is done properly and good
stand is secured.
Alfalfa a Poor Weed Fighter.
Alfalfa, when small, grows slowly
and is not good weed fighter-that is,
it cannot compete with weeds, and es-
pecially with crab grass and foxtail
during the dry weather of July and Au-
gust
The following methods of seeding al
falfa are among those that have been
most successful in the United States:
Late Summer Seeding.
Probably no method will more GER
tainly assure a good stand than to ma
nure a piece of stubble ground and
fall pillow It, or manure the ground In
winter or spring, disk IL thoroughly as
soon as possible in the spring (first
part of ApriD, pillow the latter part of
April, and again disk. 1t should be
summer fallowed, that is, disLed or
narrowed, often enough during May.
June, and the first part of July to kill
the weeds and to prevent the ground
from becoming hard. Sometime during
the last part of July or the early part
of August the ground should be disked
and narrowed and the seed sown at
once with drill, or broadcast and har-
rowed I'm.
Dat or wheat stubble ground ma
nured and fall plowed is especially
good for alfalfa. Disk the ground the
following spring as soon as dry enough
to work, summer fallow and seed as
described above.
This method has the advantage Of
1. Clearing the ground of weeds, the
greatest enemy OF alfalfa.
2. Seeding comes at q slack time,
when the work can be done without
neglecting other crops.
3. II Insures a firm, solid seedbed
with sufficient moisture to terminate
the seed.
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Making a Bad Matter Worse.

1t is dangerous thing, when you
have let slip an unfortunate remark,
to try to cover up the blunder
Mrs. G. was talking with the wife
Of Judge ii. about her sons choice OF
a profession. IL don't want him to
be a lawyer" she said.
"Why not?" said the judges wife.
81 think there is nothing much finer
than the legal profession for bright
boy"
WELL said Mrs. c.. bluntly, IA
lawyer has to tell so many lies. Then
IL dawned on her that she was talking
to the wife Of lawyer; so she hastily
added, THAT is--er--to be good law
yer w-Youth's Companion.
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GET A START WITH ALFALFA

There are few farmers whose profits
would not be increased greatly by rails
ing alfalfa.
There is no combination of feed so
economical for production of beef,
pork, milk, butter and eggs, and for
growing animals, as corn and alfalfa.
We need alfalfa, because it balances
the corn ration and saves large waste
of starch which always takes place
where corn is fed alone, We need al
falfa because we can, in this way,
grow on our farms the protein more
protitahly than We can buy it in manu-
featured feedstuffs. We need alfalfa
because it enriches the soil and en-
ables us To grow larger crops OF corn,
oats and other grain; because it pro-
duces on an average double the feed
value per acre that red clover or any
other forage crop will produce. Al
falfa is no harder 10 grow than any of
the other forage crops. 1t adapts itself
readily 10 all kinds of conditions Of soil
and climate and produces three and
sometimes four crops year in the
corn belt; in the cotton belt states,
sometimes seven and eight crops.
When good stand is once assured it
lasts four or five years in humid re-
gions. and much longer in states west
of the Mississippi river. Alfalfa can
be fed TO all kinds. of farm animals and
has no superior as a hog pasture. 1t
adds humus TO the soil and resists
drought better than any other crop.
No piece of ground on the farm will
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mend your Compound to other ladies. =
Mrs. MARY RIDGwAY, Durand, Wis.
A Massachusetts, w oman Writes:
Blackstone, Mass. -" My troubles
were from my age, and felt awfully
sick for three years. had hot flashes
often and frequently suffered from
pains. 1 took Lydia Z. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and now am WE'LL"
Mrs. PIERRE CoURNoYER, Box 239.
Blackstone, Mass.
Such warning symptoms as sense or
suffocation, hot flashes, headaches, back
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of che
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
lsTities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness, should be needed
by midde-aged women. Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has carried
many women safely through this crisis.
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MollYeoddle.

did you see thatT yelled the ex-
cited man in the Panama hat. THAT
robber of an umpire calls Gilligan out
at third and Rafferty, never come
with in foot of touchin' him"
at looked that way To me, too"
admitted the man beside him. "Still,
/ dare say the umpire could see the
play better from where he was than
we could from up here"
Jaw, go on home 20 retorted the 9TH
er savagely. "You amt got no bust
ness goin' to ball game. You're one
Of these blamed pacifists, that's what
you arei'
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HanGlcanned.

First Stranger (tO second stranger,
who is sporting massive watch
charm) -Whats the time, friend?
Second Stranger-Can't tell, just
now, mister.
First Stranger - Can't tell me?
You've got Il watch, amt you?
Second Stranger-Yes. I've got a
watch, mister; but the blamed thing
stopped about a month ago, one noon
time, an ever since amt been able
10 tell whether it's right unless
hear the twelve o'clock whistles blow
in.
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His Caution.

"Tuther morning" related Mr.. Gap
Johnson Of Rumpus Ridge. while l
was in bed, wrapped in the arms of
MCrpuS, ana wife cooking breakfast,
she suddenly hollered for me To get
up quick, b'cuz Rowdy, the baby, had
sWallower a quarter.
No, l reckon not, just yet says
/. while l admire to see child de-
velop a saving disposition this early in
the game, don't want to natter the
little cuss by paying too much dtten-
ton to him. kansas City Star.
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Feasibility Of conbustion.

Rhe danger of fire from oil-soaked
rags such as many hOuSekeepers keep
on hand for wiping up vanished
floors was demonstrated at fire-risk
exhibit given in New York window
recently. A quantity of oil-sOaked rags
were placed in the window with Il pa-
card stating that they We're liable to
take fire AT any time from lnstantane-
Gus combustion due to the action of
the atmosphere upon the rags. A num-
Der Of small blazes were started by
rags in this window. In one instance
combustion took place within seven
hours after the rags were placed in
position.
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FOR HAIR AND SKIN HEALTH
cutieura Soap and cuticura Ointment
Are Supreme. Trial Free.

These fragrant. super-creamy emol-
lients keep the skin fresh and clear,
the scalp free from dandruff, crusts
and scales and the hands soft and
white. They are splendid for nursery
and toilet purposes and are most eco.
nomical because most effective.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere-Adv.
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Make a Beeinnino-start Now.
RELIABLE REMEDY FOR LICE
Any Good, Mild Grease, Either Lard
or Meat Fryings Mixed With
Kerosene, Is Favored.

For chicken lice one of the most
reliable remedies is any good, mild
grease, either lard or meat fryings, or
a mixture of any with n little kero-
sene. 1t won't hurt the chicks or large
fowls as long as you don't get II too
strong. Rub the grease in the feath-
ers for lice on the body, while for
mites put kerosene on the roosts once
q week.
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A Soother.

"Bliggins is an Optimist."
mo, he isn't. He talks that way
because things just now are going
pretty much the way he likes and he
doesn't want anybody to make a fuss
and disturb them"
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Lydia II. Pinkham's
Vege table Com
pound. When l was
As and had tn 9
Oh ange of Life,
a friend recon-
mended it and it
gave me such relief
from my bad feel
ings that l took
several bottles. 1
am now well and
healthy and recom-
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NO place Cor Poor Farmer.

A good farm is a poor place for a
poor farmer, because no man could
be on good place long and still re-
main poor. He would be poor farmer.
indeed, II he did.
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No matter how much milk the ewes
may have at the birth of their lambs,
the lambs must early be taught TO eat
extra food If you would make big
weights at an early age.
The Yale expositor., 1916-09-07

Brazilian coconut palms are believed
to live from 600 to 700 years. and the
date from 200 to 800 years.
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No Need to Worry.

Rankin-My wife speaks six differ
ent languages.
Phyle-I wouldn't worry.
Rankin-Whaddye mean worry?
Phyle-She can only talk one at a
tme.-Pittsburgh Telegraph.
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Skin-deep beauty is all right--if
the girl has the money.
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Only Natural.

HE seems welded to his work"
''IIe ought TO be; He married his
employers daughter. Judge.
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ELDERLY WOMEN
SAFEGUARDED
Tell Others How They Were
Carried Safely Through
Change of Life.

Durand, wis., am the mother Of
fourteen children and owe my life to
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ALFALFA BALANCES
THE CORN RATION

in the fall, and In the spring kept Gull
tlvated or disked through April, May
and In the first part of June to kill the
weeds; or I'm case the ground is not
fall-plowed, IL should be MANFRED,
disked, plowed and again disked as
early In the spring as possible and then
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-28
Issued on Friday of Each Week
Playing Both Sides.

The Des Moines Register and Leader,
for half century the leading Repub-
lican newspaper of Iowa and the middle
west, editorally summing UP the state
Republican ticket and the platform
adopted in the state convention at Des
Moines, Wednesday, has the following
to say:
''The proceedings of the Re ublican
convention yesterday were evidently
designed to hold dry Republicans in line
while making a bid for wet support,
and to gain as much support as possible
from the mud roads contingent without
entirely sacrificing self-respect. The
platform bears the ear-marks of an
attempt to handle delicate situation
without giving offense to anyone, and
at the same time without appearing
ridiculous. The wishes of county and
district candidates, who always desire
strength near the head of the ticket,
were mainly manifest.
I'm the Slavery lobby discussions which
preceded the ballot on attorney general,
the one universal remark was that the
Republicans should balance their ticket
by nominating a dry The dry candi-
date, Mr.. Havner, received the vote Of
such wet strongholds as Scout, Clinton,
Clayton, Crawford and other counties.
rIf Mr. Harding isn't wet, why
was it necessary to balance the ticket?
''The platform indorses previous par
ty declarations on temperance and pro-
hibition, and declares there shall be no
backward step. The last preceding
declaration upon the subject in state
platform calls for the maintenance of
the mulct law. The republicans yes
terday did not indorse the repeal of the
mulct law. That would have alienated
Scott county. So the convention strad-
died. The party is making bid for
saloon support, and nothing else can be
twisted out of the specious set of al
legged principles which passes as dec
laration in favor Of temperance.
.'For the real sentiment of the con-
vention toward its candidate for gov
used in describing him and in describ-
ing Hughes. The following includes
everything of a descriptive nature in
the platform.
Hughes of the hour,
'matchless leader, honesty, fearless
ness, wonderful mental achieve
ments, true Americanism, 'unblem-
ished private and public life
Harding Fearless and progress
sive Americanism, leader of thought
and action
ttln the hyperbole of platform eulo-
gy, damning with faint praise is quite
effective. In this case the convention
had no malice 1t was simply COM
PEELED to face the facts"
The Register and Leader is in a po-
sition to know whereof it speaks and it
Is more than probable the voters of
Iowa will look at the matter in the
same manner. SIS
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-28
l. Harding til. Republican Candidate

Now.a-day we are hearing the feeble
cry that Republicans should support the
party nominee (Harding) for Governor.
The question arises in our mind, is he
the party nominee or merely the nomi-
nee Of those Republicans and Demo
Gratis that place the liquor interests
above honse, home, wife, children, and
everything else that is good. These
men coupled with those that Mr.. Hard
ing has been able to deceive by his fall
sifying the road issue, by his playing
mud roads" in one community, good
roads, in other communities. "Dry"
where he thought it paid to be dry"
''wet" where it pale to be "wet. :"
Iowa has now had such a damnable DR..
Jykle and Mr.. Hyde candidate for office.
Every man whether he believes in good
or bad roads, in saloons or prohibition,
should at least remember that no polit-
ical shyster should be made the Gov
ernor of SO great a state as Iowa.
Harding is not the nominee of any
party. He is the nominee of COM
bination composed largely of bad inter-
ests. Every good voter Of Iowa should
be determined to stamp out this polit-
ical leprosy from our state.
You can settle the liquor question by
vote on that amendment. If Iowa
wants saloons, let's vote 'em. If Iowa
wants prohibition, let's vote it; but for
Goods sake" and for "Iowa's sake, "
stamp out the prince Of political crooks
by refusing to make him the head of
your and my great state. New Hamp-
ton Tribune.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-28
The Primary Hasn't Changed the Facts.

The reason why we opposed w. l..
Harding for Governor before the pri-
maries still exist. Therefore our oppo-
sition still stands and on the selfsame
grounds. Many of the Republican edit
ors we fear are more Republican than
they are honest, in that they also
opposed Harding before the primaries,
throwing out strong arguments against
him but now since his nomination
through a mistaken loyalty to party
they discredit their own former argu-
ments and shout just as Justify for him.
If he was not a proper candidate before
the primary he is not now.-Riceville
Recorder.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-07-28
HON. e. 7. MEREDITH.

I have been advised to talk in gen
oral terms when discussing road mat
ters, the argument being that II I
went too much into detail some would
object to some feature while II talk
Cd in general terms voters would
lake no offense because l would real
" not have said anything.
/ have also been advised to say
pothing regarding roads until after the
primaries when I would know who
my opponent was and might then
1esire to say something different.
do not see that whether one man or
another is my opponent can change
what / think about roads, so why not
30 on record one time as we'll as an
pther? l am consequently going to
talk roads tonight and not wait for
the Republican Primaries. l am also
going to talk ~ plainly as I know
how, that you may know exactly
where l stand rather than to talk in
general terms and when get
through have you wondering what
really think about roads. believe
This is what you would wish.
Before entering upon a discussion
Of the road problem itself I wish to
call your attention to some of the
)alse assertions that are being made,
pr at least false impressions that are
being very GENERALLY circulated.
There Is an organization known as
The Tax Payers League, the member
ship OF which l believe to be largely
made up of honest patriotic Iowans
but who have been misled by schem-
Ing, unprincipled men, whom l fear
have some selfish purposes of their
own to serve. l find, for instance, in
Z recent call for one of their meet
lngs, the following:
"Organize for your homes. Hard
roads will mortgage our homes and
place debt upon our children that
will be worse than the war debt OF
TO all grafters and all candidates
that favor the paving of our public
highways. Let us fight for our
homes"
In another notice, find this:
These tax eaters, If we don't stop
them, will get law compelling the
farmers to pave their COW lots and
pasture lands to keep the cattle of
The grass, on account of sanitary ne.
eessity."
quote the following from Mr. Hard.
Ing. candidate for nomination as Gov.
Ornor:
Because l am opposing proposed
issue of $100,0O0,0OO in bonds to pave
the highways of the state am brand
Cd as an advocate OF bad roads"
Now l would DO pleased to see any
authoritative statement from any can
dfdate or others who are urging paw
ing or a S100,0O0.00e bond issue.
an not asking that our roads be paw
Cd and l have not found others WIG
are Let's have Il settlsd once and fos
oil that 30 far at least n the Demo
cratic Candidate for Governor 10 CON
oerned he 10 not urging paving. ] ID
wish you to understand, however. that
I am for better roads than we nov
have in Iowa. ! an not appealing d
you for votes On . mud platform q
making IN effort 70 be elected GOV
ernor Of lows on . re-aetionary o. -
nothing policy.
am for progress in Iowa and -
Neve coed roads are highly nseeseasz
. our prolress.