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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1908)
miss. 0OK 5? 54RM Tho Idle lino tolls tlio Htory of u weedy garden. There Ib novor an overproduction of choice fruit. Milk twice u day and milk at regu lar timcB If you would obtain tlio best results from your herd. Whothor It Is sutiHlilne or rain, tho good dairy cow Is alwaya biwy turning a profit for lior owner. Chickens in tlio orchard pick up thousands of Insects, worms, etc., which would prove injurious to the trues and fruit. Starved land cannot grow good crops. Provide the elements which the crop needs and harvest day will bo a day of rojolelng. Don't let tho work-day drag out to .14 and 1G hours. Ten hours of Held work Is enough and will accomplish as much in the long run as a longer day. Try It and see. A few days of pasturing on the stub bio fields after the grain is cut and out of tho way will provide considerable good feed for the stock and will bo a good tiling for the Hold. Tile aro far to bo preferred to tho open ditch. They cost more, but they do tho work of drainage more perfect ly, and do not. offer tho chance for the Boll to wash away as Is tho case with tho open ditch. Don-'t haul your hogsln tight box wagons. Tho loss of one hog by over heating will more than pay for a panel rack for tho wagon. Monoy Is well-Invested that provides greater comfort for tho stock. The fenced farm Is tho only ono on which livostock can ho kept and tho rotation of crops followed, and as this method of farming is tho only profit able ono In tho long run, it follows that tho farm must bo fonced' to bo handlod proporly. Twenty per cent: butter fat weighs 8.4G pounds to the gallon after all tho air haB settled from it, whllo tho 40 per cent, weighs only 8.22 pounds When fresh from the separator tho weight Is loss bocauso of tho air con tained in tho cream. Prevent the soil washing on your farm. Many fine fields In somo of the western stales have been ruined by soil washing. Somo aro washod so badly that they can no longer be worked with modern farm machinery. Soils that have a good supply of hu mils are not subject to washing, as thoy have a greater water-holding ca paclty. Unless the stock is fed an amount over and above that which is needed for body maintenance thoro will bo no gain. A thousand-pound stcor has been found by experiment to require dally 15 pounds of timothy hay, 12 pounds of clover hay and seven pounds of corn menl just to keep on an oven keel. Moro must bo fed if thoro is to bo any gain. An ontorpriBing merchant In a west em town has fitted up a rest room for tho wives of farmers who drive to town und who sometimes have tedious waits for tho husband to finish his business and his streot-cornor gossip Furnished as it is with rockora and tablos on which ur magazines, fash Ion books, ote., It Is growjng In popu larlty, and Is good advev'ing for tho merchant. Hero is a hint for mor chants In other towns. no sure that tho influenco of tho hired liolp upon your boys Is not harm fill. You aro pressed for tho nood of holp and you take in most anybody that will glvo you tho needed nsBlBt anco, and that person may bo lmpur in thought nnd deed, he may bo given to vllo language and delight in tolling tho unclonn story. Do not let your boy bo thrown With such a porson wholo days at a time. Think of th corrupt seeds which may bo sown in a hoy's Impressionable heart, nut which aro almost sure to bring- fort fruits of misdeeds some day, W lD II Jfi 1 1 1 Are the lice and mltca harvesting' your oggs for you? Charcoal In appreciated by tho flock. Provide It for them. Hotter to plant a little In tho gar den and plant, well than to half plant a great quantity of stuff. A little fertilizer well placed will bring bettor rettirtiB than an unlimited quantity carelessly applied. The community where tho good dairy cow Is In tlio majority 1b the community which Is marked by con tentment and prosperity. Well-grown fruit or vegetables, well marketed, bring a profit which the careloBB producer never realizes. It pays to do things right. Tho draft horse Is tho ono for the farmer to raise, because It can be done in harmony with tho other in terests of tho farm and with the great est profit. Tuberculosis In cattle and scab In sheep Is spread from tho stock ynrds of tho largo cities by the feeders who purchase animals from tho pens with out proper Investigation. Novor let the dead wood remain on tho fruit trees. It not only provides hiding places for Insect pests, but It opens the way to extending tho de cay into tho hoart of the tree. An attachment for the corn cultiva tor which will replant the missing hills Is said to bo the Invention of a handy Mlssourlan. It fastens on tho tongue of tho cultivator and Is worked from the seat by a string. I'lio farmer who leaves tho machines funding In tho fields where they were last iiBed is following an expensive practice. It pays to havo a tool houso and after a machine Is through with to clean, oil und house it. nood pasturage and plenty of water s all that breeding stock need, but pigs which are to be marketed at six months must have plenty of grain to bring them up to the best marketable weight, about 200 pounds. Generally speaking, tho cow which las had her milk-producing capacity encouraged and developed will bo very ikely to transmit these traits to her progeny. Raise tho heifers of your best cows nnd you will bo on tho road to Improving your herd. Don't dope yourself Indiscriminately when you feel unwell. More people ecovcr without tho use of medlclno than with Its supposed aid. Glvo na ture a chanco and she will do moro for you than all tho self-prescribed medicine you can pour down your throat. However fancy the breed of fowls may be, tho front yard Is no placo for their yarding. Reserve tho front of tho iouso for green Bward and foliage and flowers nnd relegate the chickens to tho rear. However, keep tho chicken yard and house as clean as though thoy woro on display. A morning feeding about eight o'clock will act as an inducement to keop tho fowls around the poultry houso until after the egg-laying duty has beon discharged for the day. Many an egg la lost, by turning tho hens out early In tho morning and giving them tho range of tho farm. s A noat sign bearing the name of tho farm placed near tho road so that it can bo read by passorsby gives char actor to your placo. People think as they pasB that tho placo that lias an individual namo must amount to some thing. In picking a name lot somo characteristic of tho placo receive recognition. No ono would think for a minuto that he had a right to invnde a bit of woodland upon a farm and carry off firewood, and why should It be thought that tho wild fruit growing in such a placo is any tlio more public property? Anything growing upon a man's land is his property, and should not bo dis turbed or taken without his expross permission. How often does tho henhouso need cleaning? As often as it gets dirty. And by dirty wo do not mean simply reeking with accumulations of drop pings and filthy scratchlngs. No, wo novor saw a henhouso yet which could bo kopt clean short of two cleanings a woek. Ho faithful during tlio warm weather or tho lico and mites will got tho uppor hand. Intonslvo fnrnilng and extensive farming sound a good deal alike, but thoy are vastly dlfforont. Intonslvo farming means that tho farmer Is making tho small tract pay, whllo ex tensive farming too often means that tho farmer Is spreading himself over bo much land that nono of his work Is well done and his margin of profit Is smaller If not wholly eliminated. Farm little and well rather than much and poorly. STAR WASHINGTON PITCHER WALTER c70HNqJ02J Pacific Coa6t Twirler, Secured by the Doing Good Work In STAR PITCHERS WORKED AGAINST M0RDECAI BROWN Rival Managers Make Big Mistake in Doing So, Believes Manager Frank Chance. Tho Chicago Cubs say that the oth er National league clubs invariably nurse their star pitchers to oppose Mordecai Brown. The policy of holding out tho best pitcher on tho staff to face Drown Is ono that Is almost universal In tho Na tional league. It is tho usual proced ure in all leagues against tho best pitchers, but It Is a policy with which Mannger Chanco does not entirely agree. Tho Philadelphia club can bo taken as an example of how that policy works out as a rule. During the re cent visit of tho Cubs to Philadel phia, Urown, tho best the Chicago Na tional league club possesses, was Blatod to work, so Murray sent In Mc Qulllen to pitch for tho Phillies. Mc Quillen was vanquished, possibly not through any superior pitching on the part of Brown, but through tho gen eral superiority of the club behind him. Then Chance used his other pitchers, who again had tho same ad vantage over Murray's "next best" that Brown held over Qulllen, and the result was that Chicago kopt on win ning. Had Murray sent one of his "sec ond-class" pitchers against Brown, a game that was almost suro to be lost by tho Phillies, ho would still havo had McQulllon in reserve to send In against thoso who followed the groat three-fingered wonder, and the chances would have beon much greater of tho Phillies winning, for tho general su periority of tho ball club might have been partially overcome. "This is a policy almost universal In baseball," said Chanco, "but It does not strlko mo as being good sense all tho way through. It is a different thing for mo to use Brown against Mathewson, for Chicago holds, or has hold for two years past, enough su perior strength over tho GlantB to bring Brown homo a winner In splto of tho best efforts of McGraw's star. Tho rosult is Brown wins from 'Matty' much oftener than he loses, and tho rest of our pitchers aro just as strong ub any McGraw can lead out. "Now, It seems to mo It would bo a more far-seeing policy for a manager to save his star until our star had been used, for tho chances of winning would bo groator. Of courso, Brown Is not Invincible. Ho Is boaton occasion ally, but tho chances In baseball aro all in favor of his buccoss, and the do feat of tho opposing star, other condi tions being equal, for ho is almost cer tain to got bettor bncking both in tho field and with tho stick." MAJOR LEAGUE NOTES Pitcher Herbert Sylvester Slncock, tho University of Michigan twirler signed by tho Cincinnati club, has Joined tho Hods. Tho Reds will hnvo to do more hitting if thoy expect to stay up near tho top. Thoy havo beon very weak with tho attck for several weeks. Dodo Criss, tho St. Louis utility nlavor and nitchor. is loading tho leaguo with an avorago of .189. Al Brldwoll, the former Columbus Intloldor acquired by tho Giants from Boston, punched McGraw for calling him namoH. Now Iio'b suspended. Jack Stab! started tho season In tho load of tho baserunnors. On April 21 he had annexed six liases, sluco that time lie luu; gathered but one. Washington Club Last Year, Who Is the Box for His Team. NEW RULING ON PAY MADE BY NATIONAL COMMISSION No Club Can Release Player Without Ten Days' Notice and Salary Goes to Same Time. In rejecting the claim of Player Jerry F. Donovan for salary alleged to be due him from thePhlladelphla Na tional League club, the national base-, ball commission recently made a new rule In cases where players make claim for salary provided for In their major league contracts when they aro released to minor league clubs. ' The new rule provides that no major league club has a right to reloaso a, player at any time unless it gives him a ten days' notice of such re lease. If this notice is given ten days before the season commences the major league clubs having title to tho player need not pay him any salary. If the tea days' notice covers any part of the playing season then the major league club releasing the player unconditionally must pay him for the number of days such notice covers of the playing season, and If the player is released by a major league club to a minor league club by sale or otherwise the major league club will In such case be required to pay the player the difference in salary between ten days' pay under hlr. major league contract and the amount tho player could have earned during the time had he reported promptly to tho club securing his services. Donovan contended that he had signed a contract with Philadelphia, for 1908 calling for $1500 per month, and that at tho commencement of tho season he was released to the Johns town club of the Tri-Stato league and that tho latter club offered him a contract calling for only $200, which contract was unsatisfactory to him, and thereforo he did not report to tho Johnstown club. Ho requested that tho Philadelphia club bo required to pay him his salary or else glvo him his unconditional release. The player's claim was rejected be cause tho committee only had his statement that ho signed a contract, while tho Philadelphia club stated poslllvoly that ho did not sign a coiv tract. "Silk" O'Loughlin Is a firm bolievor that tho baseball fans of to-day would prefer to wltnosB a low score, groat pitching nnd fast Holding game, than a veritable slugging bee, productive. of a dozen runs or more. "The truth' Is," said O'Loughlin, recently, "that about two or threq hard hitting big scoro games In a season Is quite enough. Thoso 15 to G games aro too much like old-fashioned vlllngo three-old-cat for tho red-blooded fans of to- day. The truth is, too, that tho games that mako now fans and bring tho old ones out tho next day aro tho 1 to 0, 2 to 1 and !$ to 2 contests In which, from start to finish, a hit or a bril liant Holding play will turn the tide of victory or defeat. Tho fan who do clarcs he likes to seo 'slugging' be lievcs what ho says, hut ho is mlsta- kon. If It is tho visiting team that is doing tlio 'slugging' this fan doesn't got over his madness for a week. Tho games that llvo In one's memory aro tho games la which both pitchers aro at their best; In which the ball Is all tho tlmo In play; in which tlio hitting is Just hard enough to mako sensa tloual fielding possible, and In which a score Is so close that tho result Is actually In doubt until tho twonty-sov enth putout has boon made on both ildes." O'LoughJIn soos 151 games a season and has the opportunity to test the temper of nil kinds of crowds. MEANT TO GIVE WILLIE A TIP. But the Lady of the House Amended His Father's Instruction. "My son," said the head of tho fain .ly after ho had read all the sporting news, "here Is a good thing for you to. remember. I give it to you out of the, store of my experience. Had I under-i stood it at your years it would havo saved mo a good many mistakes: "Always notice the way your friends laugh. By their laugh you may know their character. "The laughter of human beings Is based on the vowels. If n man laughs in A the open tone of A which Is ah. then ho Is frank and honest, a little fond of noise and excitement, perhaps, and perhaps of a somewhat fickle dis position; but at any rate honest. You can trust him, son. "Thoso who lauch in E nronounced. ay are melancholy. Thoso who laugh' In I pronounced ee are gleeful. Chll-j dren most often use that tone, as do. the simple,' the obliging, the affection ate, tho timid and the undecided folks., "When your mother asks mo If I am going to the club ngaln and I laugh, using the eo sound, It Is not because I am timid, but because 1 am unde cided. It is well to mako a note of these things. "Those who lnugh roundly In O are generous and Inclined to bo of a dar ing nature, the former of which is a good thing, son, and tho latter very bad for little boys. "Never trust a man who laughs in U. He's a scamp. Tlio gas man laughs In U. Yes, Indeed, after you grow up you will notice these things." "Yes, Willie," said tho lady of the house from the other side of tho table, "remember what your father says, because to-morrow night he will want you to repeat jt to company and say ho told you. But for your own in struction I will tell you an easier way to pick out nice people than that some what complicated method mentioned by your dad. "Notice the thing that makes men or women laugh. Never mind how thoy laugh or in what vowel sound thoy do it. Find out the thing that creates the laughter. "If it is really a funny thing they are all right. If it is some predicament. that somo one else is in or some idea that is not kindly or gentle then they ire not all right. And, Willie, it la about time you went to bed now." "No woman ever did have a sense of humor," remarked the head of the family of the family as he went out and silently closed the door after him. Magnesia Preserves Teeth. One who has tried tho experiment says that if tho teeth are thoroughly brushed at night the last thing before retiring and a pleco of magnesia the size of a filbert taken into tho mouth and chewed so as to bring it in contact with all of the teeth at all points it will prove of great advantage. The magnesia not only corrects th acidity of the mouth, but forms bj somo chemical action not fully under stood a coating over the enamel, which remains over night and protects the tooth from any injury from the stom ach acids. It also assists in prevent ing the recession of tho gums, which Is such an unpleasant trouble. Brushing tho teeth with a six part solution of dioxide of hydrogen is ex tremely advantageous. A few drops of myrrh used dally to brush the teeth is an old and favorite corrective of bad breath and decay. Health. A Freak Rose Bush. W. R. Wilson, the president of the Huntingdon (Pa.) borough council, has an oddity at his home on Mifflin street in tho form of a perfectly white rose blooming on a rose bush which has borne only red roses and on which all tho other flowers now blooming are red. Tho rose Is a climbing rambler, and about eight feet from the ground uh tho side of tho house tho ono perfect ly white rose has grown, standing out prominently among tho red ones sur rounding It. He Would Return. "Fifty dollars Is tho price," said the magistrate, "and I hope, sir, never to seo you hero again." "Novor to see mo here again? Why, you're not resigning, aro you?" And with a nonchalant laugh Torn-lug-Karr threw a crisp $50 bill to tho clork, entered his waiting 90-horse-power racer and set out to break an other speed law. Resilient Support. "I might havo known that Bubklns would como out as an advocate of elastic currency." "Why so?" "Because ho Is such a bounder." Want the Practical. Preaching optimism Is, of courbe, well enough, but thoso who aro out of work would bo better satisfied with something a llttlo more practical. Buffalo Commorclal. Summer Frivolity. "What will tho program at tho edu cational convention at Ocoan City em brace?" "I don't know, but If I am consulted, I say all tho protty toachora."