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Couch Advancement,

The following way Of making up a
couch when used as Il bed will prove
satisfactory, provided the couch is of
that type which has sides that can be
let down like the swinging ends or
sides of kitchen table: Make up the
bed in the morning the same as ordi-
narily, but when the sheets and blank
cts are in place, instead of tucking
them IN at the sides, fold the blankets
and then the sheets smoothly from the
sides toward the center Thus the
bedclOthes will occupy only the top
of the couch, leaving the sides free.
Drop the sides, spread cover over
the whole couch and a neat result will
appear. Have for the pillows day cOv-
ers like the couch cover, which can be
easily slipped off at night.
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who dress well are buying morning
frOcks of dark-blue and stone-gray
oharmeuse.
These are made with the simplicity
that now characterizes the best of
French gowns for French women, and
they present a most alluring contrast
to the overturned and overlooped
gowns that have been offered US for a
year.
They have small bodices, usually
fastened down the front with satin
covered buttons, sometimes. in the
color of the, gown, again, in an Op-
posing color. The long, Slightly loose
sleeves are finished with turned-over
cuffs Of white Organdie, often built up
from three and four layers, which is
a Cheruit trick Of trimming a sleeve
that was advanced twO'years ago.
One of the prettiest of the motor
caps offered to devOtees of the ma
chine" is shown in the illustration.
Copyright. 1916, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate)
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IOWA ALFALFA FARMER CARRIES ON
MANY INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS
Owner of Magnolia Crest Farm in Scott County, Iowa. of Wide D
VerSiy of nterestsBeeves Rotating Pastures Wherever
POssbe-Carefuy Selects and Stores Seed cOrn-Never
Was Successful With Potatoes-Proft in Sheep.

Mr.. Lau has IA Red POlled COWS Of
high grade which produce from $500
to 5000 pounds of butter annually,
which he sells on contract delivered at
35 cents the year round. In 1914 the
production was 1850 pounds. Each
COW returned him $73.65 last season as
follows: ITO pounds butter, $50; A.
600 pounds skim milk at Is cents per
hundred, Sc; calf, IS, and Is pints of
cream used in household, $2.65. They
are fed silage and alfalfa as the basis,
with small quantity of corn grist con-
sisting of corn and cob ground to-
gether. These COWS constitute the
largest factor in his total income every
year. He regards silage and alfalfa
as the very best feed.
He owns one of the oldest silos in
Scott county, having had it for 81
years. It holds IS tons, has dimen-
sions of IA by 25 feet and requires from
to acres to ill. 1t is constructed
of wood slaves and is built inside the
barn and has proved practically per
h4e@AOAI 1nO COSI Wd6 P1OO
Mr.. Lau estimates the annual cost of
filling at $50. He always adds water
to his ensilage in filling and finds that
he can get good grade of feed by
putting it in when just beginning to
dent. To prevent spelling on top it is
thoroughly sprinkled with water and
tamped down three different times
He had never had any trouble from
feeding and values ensilage highly for
both cattle and sheep. In his opinion
every farmer should have a silo.
Cows and Steers.
He keeps, in addition to his COWS,
25 head Of young cattle. The steers
he sells as butcher stock. Purebred
Red Polled sires have been used in his
herd for 20 years, but the start was
made with common COWS of different
breeds. Now their owner regrets that
he didn't use purebred dams as the
foundation.
Seven horses are kept to do the
work on Mr.. Lau's farm. They are
fed alfalfa as roughage almost exclu-
sively. They are also given some silage
and oats and corn. Care is taken that
the alfalfa and ensilage be bright and
wholesome. No colts are produced.
Mr.. Lau has found sheep very profit
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By G. H AFFORD. State Demonstration

(By G. H. Afford, State Demonstration
Agent, Maryland.l
C. w. Lau, who lives on the
Magnolia Crest farm, six miles from
tho city of Davenport, in Scott county,
Iowa, is a man of such a diversity OF
interests and carries on so many inter-
esting and valuable experiments that
we can learn much by study Of his
methods. Mr.. Lau owns 100 acres OF
land. OF this 12O is tillable, while 40
Is left in permanent pasture and car
ries about one head Of cattle per acre.
This ground is low and has very
troublesome ditch running its entire
length, making it difficult to maintain
fences and impracticable to cultivate.
He believes that he can double the
carrying capacity Of this pasture by
disBing in the ground occasionally and
sowing in mixture of grasses. He
will try a mixture of timothy, blue
grass, white clover and sweet clover
seeded in a two-year-old alfalfa field to
produce pasture of this sort next sea-
son. Mr.. Lau believes in rotating pas
lures wherever this Is possible.
First Success With Alfalfa.
Mr.. Lau maintains rotation of two
years of corn, one year Of barley in
which alfalfa is sown, followed by two
years of alfalfa. He can rightly claim
the distinction of having first gained
an unqualified success in the growing
of alfalfa in Scott county. He now
has on the place some 80 acres de-
voted to this crop. So firm is his faith
In the alfalfa plant that he has dis
carded red clover entirely and expects
TO follow a rotation in which alfalfa
has prominent part. He also has
placed his seal of condemnation on
timothy.
Charles Lau says that one years
eeeding is five years wedding. To pre-
vent this he clips his stubbles with the
mower before the weed seed ripens.
This is better than plowing early and
exposing the land to parching suns
and teaching rains.
From 40 to go acres Of corn are
grown and the average production is
about 55 bushels per acre. The seed
is gathered early and the ears placed
In ricks in the open doorway Of his
barn loft. In this way it is located in
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a draft where it dries out very quick
Iy. 1t is left until quite thoroughly
dried out and then taken to the base
ment under the house where the fur
mace completes the task Of drying. He
tests for termination in the spring
Mr.. Lau's corn tested in the county
experimental plots at the orphans
home yielded at the rate of IS bushels
per acre.
From 25 to 80 acres of barley are
produced Last year he threshed 756
bushels, or S6 bushels per acre, which
he sold at rs cents. For two years
he treated the seed with formaldehyde
and had no smut in the crop. No oats
are grown and only one acre of pota-
toes. Mr.. Lau has never been very
successful with potatoes, but his son,
Carl, raises from one-half to one acre
of popcorn and has gotten very salts
factory returns from it.
Careful of Manure.
The production on the rolling farm
which Mr.. Lau owns is maintained by
about 200 loads of manure annually,
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HATS TO MATCH THE EYES
Pretty Notion of the Season Popular
With Mothers Who Are Blessed
With Little Girls.

Mothers, this season, are adopting
the rather pretty notion Of matching
! the hats worn by their little girls with
the wearer's eyes. The brown-eyed
| youngsters have hats of Tuscan straw
and blue-eyed youngsters wear white
Milan with blue ribbon trimming eX-
actly matching the gray blue or sea
blue shade of the iris. Black hats are
for children with gray or hazel eyes.
Children'S hats, like the hats worn
by women this year, have rather high
| crowns, but the head size is always
large, so that the hat slips down well
over the hair. Nothing is uglier than
Il small, high-perched crown on q child
iSh head. The smaller the hat itself
the lower it must descend to be smart
Very soft AlilanS are worn by children
who can afford the best in millinery,
and there are new plaid MiIans, made
of strands of colored straw, that are
very distinctive. Some of these are
in the Glengarry or Scotch shape. A
red and white plaid Glengarry is
trimmed with a band and streamerS Of
red velvet ribbon and u cluster Of
bright red cherries near the front.
Sailor hats of colOred Milan with
crown top and trimmed band of col
Ored glazed kid are also very smart.
Children's sailor hats this year are
saucy and dashing in shape, especially
those of the jack tar or coast guard
type. Picture hats for special wear
are of Leghorn, or very fine white
Milan hemp. with wide, supple brims
and rather low crowns. A band of
black velvet ribbon tied in a small
bow, with long streamer ends, and a
single rose, handmade, Of silk, con-
stitute a mOdish trimming for such
hat
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PRETTY THINGS FOR THE CHILD

namented with patches of white silk
cut to resemble little youngsters in
their nighties. And then across the
bottom the words, "The Sandman Is
Coming" should be outlined. Such a
quilt would make any youngster anx-
iOus for bedtime.
If one does not care for siikoleen,
chambray, unbleached muslin, silk
muslin or sateen might be substituted.
Then. too, in place of kiddies one
might have animals from Noah's ark
appliqued to the quilt.
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Subject Which Mothers Will Do Well
to Give Their Deepest considera-
tion and Care.

How much happier everyone would
be if everybody would try to do those
things which he or she would please
the other person. While this applies
to adults, 1t is also applicable to chill
dren. and can possibly be carried out
more readily for them. All mothers
should aim to make their children's
childhood so bright and happy that
in years after the youngsters will al
ways remember with gladness those
early days.
Especially should pretty things be
provided for the child's bedroom, so
that it can carry cheerful thoughts
into dreamland. Among the many
articles that can be made for the
nursery is a patch quilt. Not the
kind that grandma used to make, with
the square and oblong pieces of mate
riel neatly joined, but a quilt of col
Ored silkOleen nicely stitched and or
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able, as they cost very little, clean up
the weeds and transform much rough
age into money through the sale of
wool and mutton. He now has II ewes
and gets about ten pounds Of wool
at the average clipping. Before he
kept sheep, he had great deal of
rag weed in his pasture, but now a rag
weed Is a scarce article on his farm.
Experience With Hogs.
Mr.. Lau has had many and varied
experiences with hogs. He raises from
70 to 90 head of Poland China per
year. In the "a years he has farmed
he had cholera three times. In 1912
it broke out and from some so or 60
head he saved about 25. They were
not treated, as Mr. Lau had no faith in
serum at that time, having made test
the preceding year with some So
called serum which was being used
in the county. He treated with this
two of his hogs and put them in a
neighboring herd where cholera pre-
vailed. In short time they contract
ed the disease and died and Mr. Lau
was convinced that the serum treat
ment for hogs was a failure.
However, the success of the treat
ment at the Iowa farms near Daven-
port soon set him to thinking again
and he secured three pigs in the fall
of 1912 from the Iowa farms which
had been given the simultaneous
treatment and placed them in three in
fected herds in his neighborhood. All
three pigs Weathered the storm sue
cessfully, although nearly all the hogs
in the three herds died. That put
new aspect to the subject and in the
summer Of 1913 Mr.. Lau gave all his
pigs the serum-simultaneous treatment
without any loss, although cholera pre-
vailed in the neighborhood. He now
gives his hogs the serum-simultaneou
treatment every year.
Mr.. Lau raises about 100 head of
chickens each year, planning to sell
of the cockerels and old hens each
winter and keeps the pullets. He sells
them dressed at 20 cents per pound in
Davenport. He has had considerable
trouble with chicken cholera and with
blackhead in turkey, being compelled
to cease raising the latter fowl on that
account.
Gross Returns.
There are few farms in Scott county
which give higher gross returns per
acre than that operated by Mr.. Lau.
His gross returns for 1914 from his
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Double Belt.

There is a new double belt in sports
skirts which adds quite little dash
to them. The first belt is a regulation
one about the waist; the second, of
the same width, goes about the hips
neither tightly nor loosely, and is often
run through tiny straps to hold it on.
Such a belt can be tightened up so
the skirt fullness does not fly out
unnecessarily.
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with one lead of hose will do the work.
A duplex outfit is needed for an or
chard of from 10 to 20 acres and a
tripIex outfit for 20 to 80 acres. Keep
the chemicals in your solution well
stirred. A cuT7ed-bottom cypress tank
is the best.N A belt connection from
the engine to the pump is better than
a chain. A 35-foot hose is the most
convenient length.
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pirectoire Stick.

Doubtless we shall again witness the
use of the directoire stick and, in fewer
instances, the exploitation of the man.
nish cane. These certainly add to a
period" costume, but they would seem
to have little place with the town garb.
And unless a woman is physically In
capacitated the carrying of the heavy
cane does not add to tue sartorial ef
feet.
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BEST OUTFIT FOR SPRAYING
Hand Sprayer Is Sufficient for Two or
Three Acres-keep Chemicals
Well Stirred.

Size Of orchard, nearness to water,
and size of trees are big factors in
determining the size of sprayer to
buy, Generally the following sug-
gestions hold good A hand sprayer
Is sufficient for two or three acres.
For three to ten acres of full bearing
trees small power outfit equipped
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various sales are given herewith: De-
Quoting four acres for roads his gross
receipts for 1914 were $29.23 per acre.
Record Of Sales.

It is interesting to note that Mr..
Lau realized $1,O5O in cash from his
1914 crop of alfalfa. There was no
better field of alfalfa in Scott county
last year. He put up over five tons
per acre from these cuttings. In 1918
he cut five tons per acre and was Of
fered $40 per ton for all of it. He es-
Inmates that it costs $3.50 per ton to
put it up. The first cutting in 1914
he kept for feed and it carried 40 head
of cattle, 15 sheep and horses
through the winter, while the second,
third and fourth cuttings returned him
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SELECT EGGS FOR HATCHING
Never Use Those From Entire Flock
IndiscriminateIy-Keep Breeders
in Separate Pen.

Never set eggs from an entire flock
indiscriminately, but select the best
birds and give them separate place,
or pen up the flock and let this pen
run at liberty during the Matching
season. The latter is the better plan
because the eggs will be more fertile
and hatch better.
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spread at the rate Of six loads per acre
on the corn ground. The hills are
given an extra dressing of manure
every two years. Mr., Lau is very care
full to conserve all his manure. He has
built a concrete cistern to receive all
the liquid drainage from the COW
barns. When the manure is to be
hauled out, it is heaped up in the yard
and then this liquid is pumped over
these manure heaps and hauled into
the fields in that way.
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Just One Thing After Another.
''Oh, Tom, baby has a tooth"
Huh! More expense! Now we'll
have to buy him toothbrush "-BOs-
ton Evening Transcript.
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Foot-Rot.

Look out for foot-rot. Wet ground
will produce it.
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INTERNATIONAL
SUNlAXSOOOL
LESSON

(By E o. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
the Sunday School Course of the MOODY
Bible Institute. Chicago.)
Copyright. 1916, Western Newspaper Unlonl
Middletown transcript., 1916-07-22

There are few farms in Scott county
which give higher gross returns per
acre than that operated by Mr.. Lau.
His gross returns for 1914 from his
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
Indians Pick AppIes

The boys and girls of the Indian
school at the Mission spent Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week picking apples on shares for
Edgar Charles of the Mission Hill
dairy. A total of 1875 sacks of
choice apples were picked and half
of these were given the pickers. The
young Indians took most of the APP
pies to their homes and turned the
remainder over to Mr.. and Mrs
Fisher, in charge of the school, who
will keep them during the winter
and give them out each day in adj
dition to the regular lunches.
The Indian Mission now has the
use of a telephone which was re-
Gently installed and among the first
to use the phone was Congressman
Addison T. Smith who was in the
city yesterday and who took adj
vantage of the opportunity to con
graduate Mr.. and Mrs. Fisher on the
progress they have made with the
Kootenai Indians.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
Northside Republicans Busy

The republican of the North Bon
ners Ferry precinct are live bunch
A couple Of weeks ago these repub-
licans gathered at the school house
and organized for effective work be-
fore and on election day. Com
mittees were appointed to circulate
the Hughes and Fairbanks club
membership lists, to arrange for a
political meeting on the Northside
and to prepare and serve sandwiches
and coffee on election day at the
republican headquarters. On Mon
day night of this week another meet
ing was held and the reports of
committees heard. The Hughes and
Fairbanks club on the Northside has
a membership now of over $50 and
there are yet a large number of
voters to be seen.
1t was decided to hold a republican
rally at the school house the evening
of November 2. After the speaking
there will be dancing, Maughan's or
chestra furnishing the music. Ar
rangements were also made for the
serving of refreshments at the meet
ing: Everything free and everybody
invited.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
County Campaign Program

This evening the republican can
didates will meet with the people
of PASSPORT ct a meeting to be
held at the S. l. hotel at Eastport.
Several brief addresses will be given
after which the evening will be
spent in a social manner.
The people of Eastport' have ar
ranged to serve a lunch after the
speaking.
Tomorrow evening the republicans
will hold a meeting at the Settlers
hall in the Round Prairie district
where the program for the evening
will be the same as at former coun-
ty meetings. Large crowds are an
ticipated for both these meetings.
On Saturday evening, November
A, the republican candidates will
meet with the people of Porthill at
the l. o. o. F. hall. After the
speaking dancing will be in order
and a lunch will be served.
All the republican meetings are
free and all are welcome. There are
to be no charges for the dancing.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
Fine Threshing Record

Last Friday the Polzin Bros, COM
pleted the last contract for thresh-
ing for this season having been en-
gagged almost continusly since August
10th. The record made was 403,-
259 pounds of grain; 97,116 pounds
of peas; 10,264 pounds of vetch /;
400 pounds of carrot seed and 81
pounds of alfalfa seed.
The Polzin Bros. kept careful rec
ords of the crops threshed and they
give B. Nels Peterson, of Moravia,
first place for the best crop of
wheat-40 bushels to the acre. S.
w. Biggar grew 90 bushels of oats
to the acre. Polzin Bros. raised
peas that threshed 30 bushels to
the acre and ]. j. Kindschuh Sc
cured SO bushels to the acre.
Polzin Bros. started the threshinp
game a few years ago when they
built a threshing machine from parts
and scraps of machinery picked uT
from all parts of the country. Last
year they purchased a new outfit
which has done fine work.
A. B. Ashby, E. H. Wells and G
r. Knight raised carrot seed thi:
year and harvested good crops
Henry Tank experimental with rails
ing alfalfa seed and the Polzin boy
demonstrated that their machine wa
capable of threshing it perfectly.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
Borah Endorses State Ticket

The republican state committee
and republicans generally of Idaho,
deeply regret that it was impossible
for Senator Borah to make more of
campaign in his own state. He
is in such demand elsewhere, how
ever, that he could not be spared
except for a few speeches.
The national committee felt that
he could do more good in the ma
tional campaign than to confine him
to Idaho, where the republican party
is reunited and where it is believed
there is little danger of republicans
being carried off their feet by So
phisteries, insinuations and cajoEer-
les of an opposition that the day
after election would give them the
"horse laugh"
Senator Borah, in addition to dis
cussing national issues, took occa-
sion in all his Idaho speeches to
voice his warmest endorsement of
the republican state ticket from top
to bottom.
Speaking especially of D. w. Da-
Wis, he said he knew him to be
a clean man in his private and pub
lie life and that as a member of the
legislature his record was such as
to inspire the highest confidence in
those who want a governor who pos
sesses sound judgment, sterling hon
esty and who would be absolutely
fair to all interests.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
CLAUDE ALBERTS is DEAD
Fails to Recover From Operation in
Spokane Hospital Tuesday.


Claude, the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Alberts, died in Spokane
Tuesday evening at the Sacred Heart
hospital following an operation for
an abcess in his left ear.
The funeral was held in Spokane
at two o'clock yesterday at the
Smith Undertaking Parlors, the fol-
lowing schoolmates and friends of
the deceased acting as pallbearers:
Charles Zimmerman, Fred Causton,
John Jarvis, Kenneth Mahoney,
Charles McGlocklin, Howard Kent
The deceased was 81 years old.
He spent most of his life here until
this fall when he went to Spokane
to attend a business college. While
in Spokane he made his home with
his uncle, V. d. Williamson. The
trouble which resulted in his death
started about a month ago.
Claude Alberts was a young man
man admired and respected by old
and young alike. He was bright
likeable and Industrious and gave
promise of making a success of life
In their bereavement his parents and
brothers and sister have the deep
est sympathy of their friends and
neighbors.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-10-27
RAILR0ADER SAYS ADAMSON
BILL IS "A GOLD BRICK

opposed to the working man having
an eight-hour working day. AS a
matter of fact there was no eight
hour law passed by congress as re
ferred to above. They merely gave
it that name for something to work
on and the average railroad man
as well as some others who have
not taken the trouble to look into
it imagine they have a splendid
thing. Lets see how it work.
At present a brakeman is paid
1925 for 100 miles and if it should
be necessary for him to remain on
duty 16 hours (Which is the limit
he could be kept on duty out of
the "a hours) he would be allowed
100 miles which would give him
$500 for. his days work.
We do not know just what the
scale of wages will be under the
new system but assume it will be
left to remain as at present which
amounts to about 1924 cents per
hour. Then suppose the railroad
managers arrange the divisions
(Which no doubt they will do) so
that the crews will have to get
over their divisions in the eight
hour limit. What have they got for
their days work? Only $3.50 as
against $500 that he might make
under the present system.
This is just what Mr.. Hughes is
opposing and what the democratic
press has confused with an eight
hour working day.
The railroad man who thinks he
is getting just what he has been
looking for so long will look at his
gold brick when he gets it and
wonder what it is.
But that is not all there is to
it. The general public will have
something to do with it. The presi-
dent has recommended to the rail-
road managers that the interstate
commerce commission might be in
duced to grant a slight increase in
freight rates to offset the expense
of changing the divisions to conform
to the eight hours. This is where
the public gets a turn at it, and
will have to pay the increase in
freight rates.
c. ]. INGRAM.