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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-10

For Sale-Apples, % and soc SIX
beans. s and IOc ID; squash, loc;
pumpkin, loc.; Onions &c. To- aoo
a,rrots 75c SIX. w. + Morris,
near Grange Hall, East Greenacres.
2t N3-l0
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-10
There is a Real Difference

Cream of tartar, derived from orano.
is used in Royal Baking Powder because
it is the best and most healthful Ingredient
known for the purpose.
Phosphate and alum, which are de.
rived from mineral sources. are used IN
some baking powders, instead of cream Of
tartar, because they are cheaper.
If you have been induced to use baking
powders made from alum or phosphate,
use Royal Baking Powder instead. Yo,
will be pleased with the results and the
difference in the quality of the food.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER co.
New York
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-10

Money to loan at per cent on goou
improved farms. Address Sampso"
Paal Estate Exchange, Cgur d'Alene'
Idaho.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-10

~ cents for hides.--InQulre Rath'
drum Meat Co.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1916-11-10
BUSINESS BRIEFS.

Ford touring car in first class cen
dition for sale at the right price-R'
r. Beseke, Rathdrum, Ida. N3-lop
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profit, and from the rest one class of
products after another must be elm
mated because of the prohibitive cost
of hauling, and beyond lie vast terri
tories that cannot be cultivated with
out the building and constant main
tenarce of roads suited to whatever
traffic there may be developed.
1T has been demonstrated that as
the roads from the market towns have
been improved there has been great
increase of their business and CORE
spending improvement in the condi'
ton and opportunities of the rural
population, larger prosperity of the
individual farmer, greater traffic for
the railroads, better supplies and low
er prices for the consumer. 1t does
not pay to raise crops that cannot be
marketed readily and cheaply. Mil
lions of dollars worth of field and or
chard crops have been utterly wasted
because Of expensive and inadequate
facilities for marketing This is one
of the hard problems with which the
United States department of agricul-
ture is trying to deal through the
greatest experts in the land, and they
have found that the building of good
roads is essential to the success OF
their plans
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good results, but the birds should al
ways be eager for each feed. In cold
weather feed about one-third of the
scratch grains in the-morning and
two-thirds at night. In this way the
hens are forced to exercise more than
if they receive all the grain they de-
sire at the morning feed. Scratch
grains, mash or ground grains, animal
protein, green feed, grit and shell
should be supplied in the winter. A
good scratch mixture may be made
of equal parts, by weight, of cracked
corn, wheat and oats; and a mash
may be made of two parts corn meal
and one part each of wheat bran,
wheat middlings and beef scrap.
Green feed, such as cabbages, mangel
wurzel, beets, cut alfalfa or sprouted
oats, should be supplied to replace
the green feed which the fowls have
been securing in the fields; and beef
scrap, skim milk, cut green bone or
similar feed is needed to replace the
bugs which the fowls have been get
ting on the range. Beef scrap or feed
of this nature is very essential in Sc
suring good supply of eggs during
the winter months.
Clean the dropping boards at least
once week, and spray the roosts
with kerosene or some commercial
preparation for killing mites once a
month during the winter Have
good supply of sand or dry dirt on
hand to use on the dropping boards
during the winter
If any of the birds develop colds,
put as much potassium permanganate
as will remain on the surface of
dime into a gallon of water and keep
this mixture in their drinking water
for several days, or until the symp-
toms of the colds have disappeared.
Remove any sick birds from the flock
as soon as they are noted, and treat
them in coops by themselves, or kill
and bury them if they are not worth
treating.
Examine the pullets and hens for
lice, and dust thoroughly with good
insect powder or apply a mixture of
two parts of vaseline and one part
of mercurial or blue ointment, about
the size Of pea, one inch below the
vent of the bird, rubbing the mixture
lightly on the skin. An application of
this ointment two or three times a
year will keep the fowls free from
lice. = Where insect powder is used,
it should be applied three or four
times a year, or oftener if the fowls
become infested. Provide a small box
in the house partly filled with dry road
dust or fine dirt in which the hens
may dust, thus helping to keep them
selves free from lice.
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DAIRYING ON BUSINESS BASIS
Farmers Must Use Milk Scales, Tester
and Record Book-Keep Account
With Each Cow.

In order to put dairying upon bust
ness basis every farmer needs to use
the milk scales, the tester and the rec
ord book Farmers must come to this
proposition and do a little simple book.
keeping to know where they are
Every successful business man has a
ledger to guide him in his transac.
tions
Every dairyman needs to enter a
separate account with each of his cows
so that he may have an indicator to
tell him at the end of the year just
how much feed each has consumed
the amount of milk produced and the
percentage it tests.
Too many farmers of this country
are still keeping scrub cows, feeding
and milking them twice each day,
fourteen times each week and sixty
times each month.
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MUDDY BARNYARD IS
MOST INCONVENIENT
Keep Out All Water Possible and
Provide Means for Removing
All That Enters.
(By z. r. JONES, Secretary of Wiscon.
sin Drainage Association.)

(By z. r. JONES, Secretary of Wiscon-
sin Drainage Association.)
Both convenience and economy de-
mand a dry barnyard. The flooded,
muddy barnyard drives the chore boy
of the farm, carries the manure pile
down the creek and makes the old COW
wallow in the mire to reach the water
tank or the barn door A dry barn
yard is within reach of all.
Assume that fate has been most un-
kind to you-that you have inherited
q barnyard that is flooded by the high
er land, that it is so fiat that even its
own rainwater cannot escape, and that
it has no convenient outlet for a line
Of tile to carry the water piped from
the eavestroughs.
With a road scraper or grader you
can throw up a dixie around all but
the lower side of the yard Seed grass
in the dixie and in the shallow ditch
on the outside of it. The dixie and
ditch will carry the food water around
the yard.
Next, make slope in the yard.
Raise the floor of the barn until it is
two feet higher than the surface of
the ground 100 feet away You may
have to raise the entire barn, but do
it. Haul earth from the nearest sandy
knoll to I'LL outside of the barn to with
in half a foot of the new level Of the
floor. Haul enough to slope the sur
face gradually for fifty feet or more
away from the barn. Then pipe the
cave water to the ditch outside of the
dixie.
In short, keep out all the water you
can and provide a means for remov-
ing wha:, enters in spite of you. I'm
like cultivated fields, barnyards are
tramped so hard that drain tile for
underdrainage are too slow. Surface
drains act more quickly.
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URGE CLEANLINESS IN DAIRY
Mechanical Mixer Admits No Dust or
Dirt, but Must Be Kept Scru-
puIousIy Clean.

Much is said of the cleanliness Of
milk. Most people like to use pail In
milking that has as small an opening
as it is convenient to milk into. The
mechanical mixer has no opening
that can admit dust or dirt into the
milk except where the milk is taken
into the tubes. These can be packed
with clean cotton if necessary, thus
preventing the entrance of dirt or
dust.
But the milk taken into the ma
chimes may be contaminated by the
dirt left in the machine from the
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(From Weekly Letter, United States De-
partment of Agriculture)
To obtain good results from flock
of poultry during the winter all
houses and coops should be put in
good condition, only healthy fowls
placed in the buildings, and good care
given to the poultry. The houses
should be thoroughly cleaned, disin-
fected and made tight for winter. If
the house has a dirt floor, it is well
to remove three or four inches from
the top and substitute fresh gravel or
sand. If the floor is cement or wood,
remove all litter and dirt and put in
four or five inches of fresh straw or
litter. BE sure that the house is
tight on fhree sides and that there is
no chance for draft to strike the
hens. If hens roost or are placed in
a draft during the fall and winter,
colds are sure to develop, which may
result in roup and other troubles
The south side, or front, of the poul-
try house may be left comparatively
open, but should be under control, so
that the openings may be closed
gradually as the weather becomes
cold. Have muslin curtains in the
front of the house, or leave a window
partly open even on the coldest nights
to allow some ventilation in the house.
Fowls will stand considerable cold air
provided it is dry, and ventilation will
keep the air thoroughly dry in the
house.
The pullets should be brought in
off the range and put in winter quar-
ters, but before they are mixed with
the older fowls be sure that the hens
are banded or that the web of the
foCt is punched in some way so as to
distinguish between the pullets and
the hens. In this way the older stock
may be culled out whenever it ap-
pears desirable, and the young hens
kept for further laying. Gull the
chickens which are brought into the
laying house carefully, and fatten and
market all chickens which are small,
poorly developed or in poor condition.
These small, poorly-developed chick
ems are apt to catch cold if put in with
the other poultry, and develop dis
eases which quickly spread through
the flock. Market all surplus cocker
els or older male birds which are not
desired for breeding or not wanted
for later market.
Feed the grain in deep litter on
the floor and make the hens exercise
for all of their grain. The mash may
be fed either wet or dry, and should
be so regulated that the fowls will
get about equal parts of mash and of
the scratch grains. 1t is necessary
to give the fowls plenty to eat to get
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TO KEEP WASHERS
SOFT AND PLIABLE
Leather DeteriorateS Rapidly Un-
less Given Some Protection
From Action of Air.
(By L. D. GRAIN. Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, ColoO

(By L. D. GRAIN. Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins. Colo)
Stock leather washers, although
made from oil-treated material, If
stored without protection, soon become
dry and hard. The deterioration is
rapid and the usefulness of the wash
ers is greatly lessened.
Those who carry a stock of cup
washers, fat washers or any form
made from leather will find it to their
advantage and profit to preserve them
from the action of the air. One meth
cd is to pack these leather parts in
tin or galvanized iron box and cover
them with melted tallow. It has been
found that since these parts are made
from an animal substance, the cover
ing of grease used should also be of
an animal origin.
On removal from the pack these
washers will be found sufficiently pill
able to be applied Immediately to the
pumps or other machinery for which
they are intended.
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GOOD
ROADS
LOWER EXPENSE TO FARMERS
Good Roads Reduce Greatly TroubIe
of Transporting Crops to Market
Cause of Distress.

Before the war in Europe affected
the rates at sea it cost the American
farmer more to haul bushel of wheat
nine and a half miles to the railroad
station for shipment than it cost the
buyer to ship the same bushel of
wheat from New York to Liverpool, q
distance of 5000 miles" according to
a bulletin issued by the American
Highway association. The average
cost of hauling ton Of farm produce,
or ton of anything else, over the av-
erage country road is about twenty
three cents a mile; 70 years ago the
cost of the same service was II cents.
The cost of hauling over the railroads
is less than one-ninth as much as 1t
was go years ago. The cost of hauling
by railroad has almost reached the
vanishing point; the cost of hauling
on the country roads has gone up as
the roads have gone down.
by careful calculation, Logan Wal
lie: Page, director of the United States
office of public roads, has reached the
conclusion that with wise and eQuita-
BIZ road laws and good business man
agemen' it would be entirely practica-
BILE for the people to save themselves
on the two items of hauling and ad.
ministration the enormous sum of
$29O,0O0,O00 yearly. The railroads in
the United States carry about 900, ,0OO,-
900 tons of freight annually, and of
this vast tonnage at least 200,000,000
tons are hauled over the country roads
to the railroad station or to the canals
for shipment. The immense volume
of mining products aggregating mil
lions of tons is not included in this
estimate, but only the agricultural,
forest and miscellaneous products
hauled by wagon over the public roads,
nor is the cost of hauling back and
forth between the farms and the mills.
THE main cause of agricultural dis
tress," says the bulletin, "a subject of
perennial alarm to popular favorites,
is not so much the wages of the work
ers or the infertility of the soil or the
prices of the products, but the enor7
nous drain of getting the stuff to
market, the waste of the roads in the
wear and tear of machinery, the sacri-
flee of teams, the ineficiercy of serv-
ice compelled By impossible highways.
Tributary to every market town or
railroad station there are what Mr..
Page calls zones of production
Prom the first of these zones all prod
ucts can be delivered to market at a
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THE NEWEST REMEDY FOR
BACKACEIE, RHEUMATISM AND DROPSY

eaten, and even from some vegetables.
The poor kidneys get tired and back
ache begins. This is a good time to
take "Anuric," the new discovery Of
DR.. Pierce for Kidney trouble and Back
ache. Neglected kidney trouble is
responsible for many deaths, and In.
surance Company examining doctors
always test the water Of an applicant
before a policy will be issued. Have
you ever set aside a bottle Of water
for twenty-four hours? A heavy sedi-
ment or settling sometimes indicates
kidney trouble. If you wish to know
your condition send a sample Of your
water to DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel.
Buffalo, N. Y, and describe symptoms.
1t will be examined without any ex-
pense to you, and DR.. Pierce or his
staff will inform you truthfully.
Anuric is now for sale by dealers, in
SOC pck'gs.
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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told my husband about it. ]
said I know nothing will help me but I
will try this I found myself improv-
ing from the very first bottle, and in two
weeks time I was able to sit down and
eat hearty breakfast with my hus-
band, which l had not done for two years.
l am now in the best of health and
did not have the operation. " - Mrs.
JOHN A. KoEN1C, 5O2 Flushing Avenue,
Astoria, N. Y.
Every one breads the surgeons knife
and the operating table. Sometimes
nothing else will do; but many times
doctors say they are necessary when
they are not. Letter after letter comes
to the Pinkham Laboratory, telling how
operations were advised and were not
performed; OF, if performed, did no good,
but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
peundwas used and good health followed.
If you want advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co.
(cOnfdentiaD, Lynn, Mass.
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''CASCARETS' FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath,
Sour Stomach and
constipation.
Get a 1O-cent box now.

No odds how bad your liver, stomach
or bowels; how much your head
aches, how miserable and uncomfort-
able you are from constipation, indiges-
tion, biliousness and sluggish bowels
you always get the desired results
with Cascarets.
Don't let your stomach, liver and
bowels make you miserable. Take
Cascarets tonight; put an end to the
headache, biliOusness, dizziness, nerv-
BUSINESS, sick, sour, gassy stomach,
backache and all other distress;
cleanse your inside organs of all the
bile, gases and constipated matter
which is producing the misery.
A 1O-cent box means health, happi
ness and a clear head for months
No more days Of gloom and distress
If you will take a Cascaret now and
then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't
forget the children-their little in
sides need a cleansing, too. Adv.
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Mo Such Thinq.

John L. Sullivan said in a temper
ance address in Chicago:
''Too many people are like the Lon
don navy. In London. you know, the
saloons are only open now an hour in
the morning, an hour or so at noon,
and another hour in the evening. The
navy didn't like this.
mo. the navy didn't like it, and he
was expressing himself very forcibly
. about it one night at the Marble Arch,
when stranger said:
but, friend, the worllin' clawses
need to economic these ere war
times. Don't you know there's too
much money altogether spent on un-
necessary beer?
Unnecessary beer?' roared the
NAVY. Unnecessary beer? Why,
there amt no sech thing!'"
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former milking This makes it imper-
ative that the mixer be well cared for.
The milk separator should receive
no more careful cleansing than the
mixer. After milking it is a good
plan to dip the teat cups in cool water
and allow the machine to pump water
through the tubes. All parts should be
scrubbed with a brush and washing
soda and then rinsed. The metal parts
may be well sterilized with steam and
the rubber parts kept suspended in
solution of II pounds of salt and five
ounces of chloride of lime in 10 gal
Ions of water. The solution will have
to be changed every week, and it is
well to put in an extra ounce of chic
ride of lime every other day.
When proper care is taken, extreme
ly clean milk can be gotten with the
mixers, some dairymen producing
certified milk with them, but on the
other hand, If no care is taken to keep
the machine clean it will prove to be
collector of dirt.
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Storm Doors and Windows.

= few dollars invested in storm
doors on the house will not only save
fuel, but will prevent sudden blasts
OF cold air from reaching the occu-
pants-a thing which is always at
tended by some danger If you put
storm windows over the regular win
dows, be sure to provide openings in
both for proper ventilation 1t is a
fearful thing to sleep in an air-tight
room.
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To half pint Of water add OF. Bay Rum, a
small box OF Barbo Compound, and n OF. of
glycerine Apply to the hair twice a week
until it becomes the desired shade. Any drug
gist can put this up or you can mix it at
home at very little cost. 1t will gradually
darken streaked, faded gray hair. and re-
moves dandruff. It Is excellent for falling
hair and will make harsh hair soft and glossy
1t will not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub of.-Adv.
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5est.Payinu Cow.

It is much cheaper to milk and care
for one COW giving 300 pounds of but
terfat in year than it is to milk and
care for three COWS giving 100 pounds
of butterfat each and if the 300-pound
cow is heavily fed she will not eat as
much as the three 1OO-pound cows.
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plan to Keen eahhanss

Cabbage can be kept nicely BY
wrapping the heads tightly in news
papers and placing in room where
they will keep cool Instead Of wrap.
ping the heads in the paper they may
be covered with straw.
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81. .ooo. 100000 Worth Of Roads.

While talking about preparedness
it may be noted that the $1,000, 100000
proposed to be expended would build
100000 miles of hard-surfaced high.
ways at the rate of $4,000 per miles.
If the government contributed sc
per cent, its billion would cover 500,
900 miles.
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Leaumes Are Valuable.

Leguminous plants are of special
value il feeding animals as we'll as
for impr wing the fertility of tho soil.
The hay of leguminous crops is rich
in protein and also carbohydrates,
hence is more economical for animals
than hay made from the non-legumes.
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DAYS Work. Of PIow.

An average days work with a two
horse walking plow is a little less
than one and three-fourths acres,
while an average days work for
three-horse sulky plow is between two
and two and one-half acres.
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COu1CSs i WdS BcST
ingworse everyday.
/ had chills, my head
would ache, ] was
always tired. Icould
not walk straight
because Of the pain
in myback and Ihad
pains in my stom-
ach. / went to a
doctor and he said /
must go under an
operation, but / did
not go. / read in
the paper about
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No Change.

It's a scandal the way women dress
nowadays. Our grandmothers never
wore any such immodest garments"
Perhaps not, but I'd be willing to
bet that our grandfathers made just
as big fuss over the things they did
wear as you men do about the present
styles"
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Avoid Dairy prudaery.

Do not make dairying or any other
farm work a drudgery. Milking cows
in the early morning, and late at
night, and doing full days work in
between during the day will eventual
~ drive the boys to the cities, and the
hired man viii lose interest.
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Place for the EaII Calf.

A clean, well-bedded place, well
lighted and well ventilated, is impor
tant for the fall calf. The calf pen
preferably should be on the south side
of the barn and in a part of the barn
where the temperature does not vary
much, and where there is no direct
draft.
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Kidney, Bladder and Uric Acid trou-
bles bring misery to many. When
the kidneys are weak or diseased,
these natural filters do not cleanse
the blood sufficiently, and the poisons
are carried to all parts of the body.
There follow depression, aches and
pains, heaviness, drowsiness. irrita-
bility, headaches, chilliness and rheu-
matism. In some people there are sharp
pains in the back and loins, distressing
bladder disorders and sometimes obsti-
nate dropsy. The uric acid sometimes
forms into gravel or kidney stones.
When the uric acid affects the muscles
and joints it causes lumbago, rheuma-
tism, gout or sciatica. This is the time
to send DIR. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel,
Buffalo, NJ Y, 1Oc for large trial pack
age of "Anuric."
During digestion uric acid is alb
sorbed into the system from meat
Now They Don't Speak.
He says he can read much in my
face"
Between the lines, | suppose" sug-
gested the other girl.
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Destroy the Cutworms.

Arsenate of lead at the base of
plants will destroy cutworms. Use
a tablespoonful or two of paris green
to pint of bran and molasses for
cutworm bait
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Rust Must Eollnw.

The man who let's his plows stand
in the field during the winter should
remember that manufacturers have
not yet discovered iron and steel that
will not rust
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Specializing.

What is your boy studying at
school now?"
"Jedgin'," replied Farmer Corntos-
sci, from the way he keeps re-
mindin me Of expenses, l should say
it was mostly arithmetic"
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Place for Mich Goat.

The mich goat seems to have
place on the backyard farm, but it
should be remembered that in most
cases a liking for goats milk must
be acquired.
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Extensive.

I'm thinking of spending the winter
at Palm Beach,
believe me, old man, if you go
there you'll spend more than the win
ter"
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The best-fed army in the world is
the American, while the Japs eat the
least and the Russians the most.
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New Quarters for pins.

In buying pigs, keep them by them.
selvec fer little wEile until they be.
come accustomed to the new atmos
phere.
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cInver. Hav for Horses

Clover hay is good for horses, but it
is best cut and noistened and the
Srain fed mixed with it.