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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
81, 02O Average Return Made
for Use of $17,490 Capt.
tai and Labor.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
An average cash balance of $500 was
returned to owner-operators in 1923
on 1913 farms surveyed by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. In addition to this margin of
cash receipts over cash expenses these
farms increased inventories of crops,
live stock, machinery and supplies
$3.50, making an average return of
81 ,020 for the use of SIT, 400 of capital
and the labor of the farmer and his
family. These farms also produced
food and fuel consumed on the farm
estimated to be worth $3.50 on the av-
erage
Better Than in 1922.
This is slightly better than shown
by a similar survey for 1922 on 6.O94
owner-operator farms which averaged
cash balance of S715, increased in
yentOry of $500, and produced food
and fuel worth 1924 on capital amount
ing to $16,410.
The cash balance of $500 in 1923
was all the average of these farms
made available to the owner to pay
his living expenses, take care of debts,
and make improvements. Interest
paid on debts during the year 1928
averaged $3.50 and the reported outlay
for improvements averaged $40.
Sales of crops in 1923 on the aver
age totaled $3.50 or 80 per cent of to-
tai cash receipts of $2,240. Sales of
live stock or live stock products were
81, $40 or 5S per cent of the total re-
ceipts. Miscellaneous receipts were
$50.
Cash expenses amounted to $3.50,
which included hired labor worth $3.50
for the year, live stock, $240, feed
500, fertilizer $50, seed $40, taxes
$3.50, machinery $11O, and miscellane-
Gus $3.50.
Size and Value.
The size of the farms was 800 acres
the average and the reported value
of land and buildings was -$14, $50, the
size and value of the farms being
larger than the average reported in
the 1920 census. The value of crops,
live stock, machinery and supplies on
hand at the beginning of the year was
$1,000. The acreage OF the farms re-
porting in 1922 was 252 acres and
the average capital $16,410.
The department points out that the
figures apply only to the farms report
ing and to the farm business in each
year. Many farmers have property
besides the farms they work, or sup
plemented their farm returns with out
side work, and many drew on savings
or borrowed to meet expenses not COW
cred by current receipts. 1t Is prob
able, however, that the figures give
fairly accurate picture of the state
of the business of owner-eperators in
the years covered by the surveys, the
department says.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Juries Of Farmers Pass
Verdict on Scrub Sires

An outline for conducting scrub-sire
trials, recently prepared by the United
States Department of Agriculture, has
been distributed to practically every
state in accordance with several hun
dred requests. While county agents
plan to conduct most of the trials,
surprisingly large number are being
planned by school superintendent,
live stock organizations, business men,
debating societies, creamery organiza-
tons, live stock breeders, agricultural
officials of railroads, county farm bu-
reaus, and, in one case, by silo
manufacturer.
Judging from the plans outlined,
many trials will be conducted before
juries of farmers, in connection with
county fairs, agricultural clubs. and
farmers picnics, although most of
them will be staged as Independent
affairs. In Minnesota locality the
fate of the scrub sire will be decided
in town hall debate.
Copies of the outline may be OBJ
tanned on application to the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Preparation of Ground
for Crop of Sow Beans

Ground, for soy beans, should be
prepared much the same as for corn.
1t is best to pillow early and then keep
the weeds worked down till after corn
planting before planting the beans.
For hay they should be either drilled
or broadcast but it is much more sat
isfactory to drill. Use the oats feed
and set to drill from 60 to 80 pounds
per acre. Drill from 1 to inches
deep. If soy beans have never been
grown before they should be inoculat-
ed either by using commercial liquid
material or By mixing or quarts
of soil from soy-bean field with each
bushel of seed when sowing. Soy
beans for hay may be planted as late
as the first of July but should be
planted sometime during June. Many
farmers are having good success feed
ing soy-bean hay to horses. However,
it is a very rich hay and should not
be fed in large quantities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Remember to Make Success
sive Vegetable Paintings.

Dry weather and being behind with
the farm work are no reasons for neg
lecting the garden. The fellow who
gets the best price for his vegetables
looks ahead and has them when the
other fellow has allowed his garden
to go to waste Remember to make
successive paintings, and keep in mind
the surplus needed for canning, adj
vises A. E. Schilletter, extension hor-
ticulturist at Clemson college. who
suggests the following things to do
in the garden at this season:
1. Insects are bad. Cabbage and
tomato worms may be checked by
busting the plants (when wet with
dew) with a mixture of equal parts
of arsenate of lead and air-slaked
lime Plant lice and pumpkin bugs
may be checked by spraying with
nicotine Cucumber and squash Dor
ers can be best checked by clean up
methods and early planting.
2 Spray tomatoes and melons with
Bordeaux mixture and arsenate of
lead to prevent and check diseases and
insects Keep the grape vines COW
cred with Bordeaux to prevent black
rot.
g. Corn, potatoes, and beans require
good cultivation. Keep the top soil
eose and save moisture.
4. Lengthen the season by keeping
he vegetables gathered when ready
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
EARMNnQlTES

Give the little chicks milk and
plenty of it.
small flock of hens will insure
breakfast eggs.
The estimated number of horses on
farms in this country the first of the
year was 18,263,OO0 and of mules
5,436,O00.
If you spend dollars worth of
labor pulling dollars worth of fod-
der which cuts dollars worth from
the corn yield, you have lost dollar
and your time.
Fowls that get bald" or lose me
feathers on the head or back of the
neck are usually affected with the de-
pluming mite A mixture of sulphur
and lard rubbed on the parts will help.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Sweet Glover for Seed
Can Be Clipped for Hav

Where second year sweet clover is
to be cut for seed it should be clipped
for hay or pastured the first part of
the season or otherwise the growth
will be so tall that it will be very
hard to handle, suggests the Nebraska
Agricultural college. Unless this is
done, the growth, especially of the
white blossom sweet clover, is very
likely to be so heavy that a binder
will not handle it.
Where it is clipped unless it is cut
early in the season and to 10 inches
high, the sweet clover rs apt to be
killed. The long stubble makes it
rather difficult to handle the sweet
clover hay. For this reason and be-
cause of the danger of killing the
sweet clover, pasturing is to be pre-
ferred. Let the permanent pasture
get good start in the spring by pas
turing the second year sweet clover
the fore part of the season.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

The recent case, In which couple of
years elapsed between the commission
of q crime and its discovery, falls far
short of record.
The famous case of Eugene Aram,
which later formed the subject of the
novel by Lytton and the poem by
Hood, is leading one, for the murder
was committed in 1745, and Aram was
executed in 1859. In the same century
a man named Horne was executed for
the murder of his child 80 years earlier,
and there is also the case of Governor
Wall, who was hanged in 1902 for a
murder committed in 1882.
Apart from capital crimes, the laws
delays have always been notorious. 1t
was stated recently, for instance, that
a lawsuit about some land, which had
started in 1776, had just been finally
settled, and Iitigant is even now
suing the United States government
over property alleged to have been
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

length. Il left the horses tied in the
field"
so you must. l shall let Wilson
visit you frequently, If he is Lot a
trouble"
Then she had chosen a couple of
blooms and pinned them on his coat,
laughingly overriding his protest that
they consorted poorly with his cos
tune. And she had shaken hands and
said good-by in the manner of good
friends parting.
The more Grant thought of it the
more was he convinced that in her
case, as in his own, the years had
failed TO extinguish the spark kindled
IN the foothills that night so long ago.
He reminded himself continually that
she was Transley's wife, and even
while granting the irrevocability of
that fact he was demanding to know
why Fate had created for them both
an atmosphere charged with unspoken
possibilities. He had turned her words
over again and again, rejecting upon
the abrupt angles her speech had
taken. In their few minutes converse
ton three times she had had to make
a. sudden tack of safer subjects. What
had she meant by that reference to
Eastern and Western flowers? His
answer reminded him how well he
knew. And the confession about her
husband, the worshiper of success
what he calls success"-how much
tragedy lay under those light words?
The valley was filed with shadow,
and the level rays of the setting sun
fell on the young mans face and
splashed the hilltops with gold and
saffron as within his heart ragged the
age-old battle. But as yet he
felt none of its wounds. He was con-
scious only of wholly irrational de-
light
AS the next forenoon passed Grant
found himself glancing with increasing
frequency toward the end of the field
where the little boy might be expected
to appear. But the day wore on with
out sign Of his young friend, and the
burrows which he had turned so joy
ously at nine were dragging leadenly
at eleven. He had not thought it pos
sible that child could so quickly have
won way TO his affections. He fell
to wondering as to the cause of the
boys absence. Had Zen, after a nights
reflection, decided that it was wiser
not to allow the acquaintance to de-
velop? Had Transley, returning home,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

placed his veto upon 1t? Grand his
heart paused at this prospect-had the
foot been more seriously hurt than
they had supposed? Grant told him
self that he must go over that night
and make inquiry. That would be
the neighborly thing to do. =.
But early that afternoon his heart
was delighted by the sight Of little
figure skipping joyously over the fur
rows toward him. He had his hat
crumpled in one hand, and his teddy
bear in the other, and his face was
alive with excitement. He was putting
profusely when he pulled up beside the
pillow. and Grant stopped the team
while he got his breath.
"Myl Myl What is the hurry? 1
see the foot is all better"
"We got pigw the lad gasped,
when he could speak.
"a pig'
"Yessir! A live one, too! He's
awful big. A man brought him in a
wagon. That is why couldn't come
this morning"
Grant treated himself to a humble
reflection upon the wisdom of childish
preferments.
what are you going to do with
him?"
Eat him up. guess. Daddy said
there was enough wasted about our
house to keep a pig, so we got one
Aren't you going TO take me up?"
"Of course. But first we must put
teddy in his place."
I'm to go home at FIVE O'clock" the
boy said. when he had got properly
settled.
The hours slipped ty all too quick
ly, and If the lads presence did not
contribute to good blowing, 1t at least
made a cheerful plowman. 1t was
plain that Zen had sufficient confidence
in her farmer neighbor to trust her
boy in his care, and his frequent ref
erences to his mother had an interest
for Grant which he could not have
analysed or explained. During the aft
ernoon the merits of the pig were sung
and re-sung, and at last Wilson, after
kissing his friend on the cheek and
whispering, 81 like you. Uncle Man
on-the-Hill." took bis teddy bear I'M
der his arm and plodded homeward.
The next morning he came again,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Carelessness Is Cause
of Spread of Foul-Brood

1t is best to remove diseased col
onies from the apiary as soon as dis
covered. Carelessness is the cause of
most of the spread of foul-brood.
Never use combs or equipment that
have come from an apiary or district
where foul-brood is known to exist.
When colony shows disease every
frame connected with it should be de-
stroyed. If there is any possibility
of robbing diseased colonies should
not be opened. Be careful about
moving frames of honey from one
hive to another. The liberal use Of
hot lye water is advised in the inner
surface of all hives that have been
used. Be careful to remove and pre-
vent bees getting at infected combs
or honey.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

table Compound has given me back my
health and can not praise it enough. |
am perfectly willing that you should use
these facts if my letter will help other
women who still suffer. Mrs. DEL
BERT BUSH, r. F. d. l, Massena, NY.
The spirit of helpfulness shown in the
letters we are constantly publishing is
worthy of notice.
These women know by experience
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound will do. Your troubles are
the same as theirs. ISM it reasonable
to expect the same results?
If you have pains and dragging
down feeling and are nervous and irri-
table, profit by Mrs. Bush's experience
and give the Compound trial.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

An attack by cougar, one of very
few on record, has been reported from
the Olympic National forest. western
Washington, by Glen Merchant.
former forest guard. says an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch from Olympia,
Wash.
Mr.. Merchant said the cougar sprang
from some brush and tore off trOus-
ers leg and severely scratched him
He hit the cougar on the nose with
a fishing rod, and ran. The beast did
not follow.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Not a Crime, a Miracle

1t was very cold, but still the angler
sat patiently by the side of the stream,
waiting for the bite that did not come.
An aged man approached and took
up strategic position behind him.
"Are these private waters, my man?'
asked the angler, looking over his
shoulder.
The aged man shook his head.
NO." he said.
.'Then it won't be a crime IL 1
land fish," pursued the sportsman.
Again the aged man shook his head.
till his gray locks fluttered in the
breeze.
NO" he said. "It would be a
miracler'
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
NO GOOD REASON FOR FARMER
NEGLECTING HIS GARDEN PATCH

for use. Squash, okra, beans and
cucumbers cease to bear when al
lowed to stand on vines.
5. Shading the ground with old pa
pers after small seeds have been plant
ed often results in better stands. Wa
ter and make dust mulch about the
plants Immediately after setting them
out. In setting out large tomato
plants, take up and transplant with
ball of wet soil.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Something Wrong

Proud yather-Well, Tommy, what
do you think of your new bouncing
brother?
Tommy = Something's the matter
with him, paw. dropped him as hard
as could on the floor, but he wouldn't
bounce.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

Famous Lawsuits That Lasted Over Century

alienated during the American Revolu-
tionary war.
A well-known barrister used to re-
call remarkable case of this kind. In
1868 he prosecuted, as counsel for the
Crown, man who was charged with
stealing leaf from parish register
in 1S03.-London Tit-Bits.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Fiue Minutes to Live

If one were given five minutes warn
ing before sudden death, five minutes
to say what it had all meant to us.
every telephone booth would be occu-
pied by people trying to call up other
people to stammer that they loved
them. You would want TO tell a whole
lot of people that you love them, but
had been too clumsy and too shy to
admit Christopher Morley in Gen.
fury Magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Returns in 1923
Slightly Better

handling so as to save leaves is of
almost equal Importance with ordinary
with sweet clover. If mower is
used some device is necessary for
raising the cutting bar if one is to
avoid killing the plants.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

ing tnat affected me
so that / couldhardly
walk, and l got run
down. A friend who
had taken Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound ad-
vised me to try it
and / have taken it
with the best re-
cults. | do my house.
work and also some
outdoor work on the
farm. The Vepe-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
Eat Fruit of Cactus

Papago and Pima tribes eat ths
fruit and seed Of the giant cactus
called the Saguaro In Nay Nexsco.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22

Worse than being bored is trying
to act as If one were having a good
time when one isn't.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
MRS. BUSH TELLS
OTHER WOMEN
How Pains in Side and Drag
ging Down Feelings Were
Relieved by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

Massena, N.Y.-'T had terrible pains in
both my sides and dragging-dow feel
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-08-22
|Cuticura Soap
Best for Babyl
Cougar Attacks Man

Soap, Ointment. Tslcum sold everywhere. SsmplesI
free of cuticure Laboratories Dept N. Maiden, hssG
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-31
"Good FelIolO" Seldom
Makes a Good Friend

Starting with the best will In the
world, with ability, with ambition,
many business worker has come to
grief simply through failure to know
a trouble maker when he sees one.
Yet his failure in this respect Is
after all not so surprising. There are
as many kinds Of trouble makers as
there are varieties of pickles, says IL.
Addington Bruce, In Forbes Maya
zine. And comparatively few Of them
go about placarded, Il am out to
make trouble"
COmmonest of all trouble makers,
however are the so-called "good-fel-
lows" who insist that life was meant
wholly for delight.
They may or may not be vicious
Usually they are not. Usually they
are as n matter Of fact possessOrs Of
tralts-energy generosity. amiablllty,
franltness, high splrit--that would go
far toward making them real sue
cesses II only they were animated by
an achievement motive.
That Is why the good fellow" no
matter how pleasing his personality,
is trouble maker par excellence so
far as all ambitious workers are con
cerned To select good fellows" ex-
cluslyely or chiefly rs ones friends,
is virtually to condemn oneself TO
life OF unaccompllshing medlocrlty.
Youth, inexperienced youth, Is all
too likely to be unaware Of this as
Of the larger truth that every man
whose point Of view makes for a weak
enlng or dIstortlng Of honest, sincere
endeavor is a potential trouble maker.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-31
Plant With Bad Odor

A wonderful and unpleasant plant
from the Indian jungle Is in the IA
nous Kew gardens in London, Eng
land While in flower the odor from
this tropical visitor Is extremely IN
pleasant, somewhat like carrion. Male
and female species Of the plant
appear in the flower, the male pOr-
ton being a ring Of bead-llke yell
low blossoms on top and the female
a second ring Of smaller and closer
petals below. When the bloom was
ut It's height the Odor of tainted meat
was so strong and unpleasant that
visitors to the house FASTENED from
II. II is the evil swell Of the flower
which attracts the glgs, and they. In
their turn, pollenatc The plant. As the
flower dies and iis lorp purplsh-col.
Ored mantle shin' single leaf
springs from the cy"ylng bloom, and
reaches In short period the great
height Of 10 tcc' Il is classified as
one Of The inuf pp'Hlius species.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-31
CABIN JO1 NJ
PARK,
HOMES AND INVESTM ENT.
ON CONDUIT ROAD.

A subdivision attractive in every way.
200 lots l00x200 feet desirably located,
About 10000 square feet in each lot,
Prices range from $500 to $500 per lot
Terms easy-lO per cent cash end per
cent monthly.
Lots $4,000 to $4,000 So f. ut &c foot,
Hill sites to 10 acres for large homes,
All manner situations for country homes,
Level, slopinf. undulating and hi sides,
In open space and among beautiful trees,
High, dry;healthy and good neiehborhood,
Overlooking river, creeks and Virginia hills,
On Conduit Road and 100 to 500 yards back,
-Four miles front on Conduit and State roads,
New Conduit will make double boulevard,
Canal, Potomac, hills picturesque scenery.
Suburban demonstrating, bathing. boating,
Many cold water springs and 81 ade trees,
Fine soil for fruit and garden crops,
Splendid section for raising chickens,
Good home sites-splendid Investment
Have located over 100 families at c. J. p.
Postoffice, stores, schools and churches,
Famous C. j. BRIDGE miles from Whine
House.
Roads like city streets electric light,
Tract $50 acres-hne for subdivision,
Location insures increase In values,
Joins this side Congressional Golf Club,
Maps and full information upon requesa
Personal inspection trip by appointments
$500 acres, sheep goat ranch H. orchasd
(Va.)
ASK
j, S. TOMLINSON.
1914 W. Ave.
feb l-6m Washington, D. O.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-31

Visitors TO the engineering section
Of the British empire exhibition being
held Mt Wembly must take great care
OF their umbrellas and any other ar
tIcles containing steel or iron, for one
OF the exhibits Is giant magnet
weighing nearly 6.720 pounds. The
magnet has several times stolen sou.
yenIrs from visitors woman carry
Ing handbag apparently OF silver
had II drawn from her grasp, and sey-
eral umbrellas have been snatched
from the hands OF their owners. The
magnet can lift $1,000 pounds OF
metal
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1924-10-31
DISCOVER Oil in France

A sample from II boring near Sund-
hansen, 20 or 20 miles south Of Stras-
bourg, France, has been confirmed az
petrollferous upon analysis by repre-
sentatives Of the University OF Stras
bourg and the ministry Of public
works. The well was drilled last Feb
ruary to provide water for farm use
the oily content appeared at the depth
Of five meters and persisted ms the
drilling was carried deeper. Means
for exploitation are now being consId.
cred. The only petroleum source of
any Importance In France at present
Is the PecheIbronn field, north of
Strasbourg.