APRIL 19 1906
Ge Nobrasko. Independent
PAGE Tl
milked at her regular time and al
- lowed to run over to her next time
of milking, her udder Becomes so full
and tight that she is In misery. This
is very unkind treatment. And such
treatment induces the udder to be
come inflamed and might injure it
and the milk-also. Have a definite
hour to milk and always milk when
that time comes. There is a time to
milk, the same as there Is a time to
eat and sleep. A man does not want
to miss his meals or his sleep and
he .wants them on time ana usually
gets them. It is just as reasonable,
that the cows should milked, fed and
watered at an appointed time. Some
people think a cow Is nothing but a
cow and it matters not whether she
is milked and fed at regular hours
or whether it is done right, and when
they do milk her they will give her
a few raps over the riDs with the
milk stool before they get her milked
and say, So there, or I'll break your
old neck." Then they'll quiet down
" and go to milking as they would punip
' ing water acting just as if the cow
had no more feeling than the pump
S they were drawing water from.
The cow which does this can not do
her best. Be kind and patient with
the cows and they win repay you well
in the pail.
Farm Notes.
,When you sit down in the house to
read your farm paper, read It aloud,
so" that your wife can hear. She
will enjoy it just as much as you do,
and she will love you, all the better
for it.
Lots of people writing in to know
when to set strawberries. There is
just one month to set them in this
section, and that is AprII. You are
generally wasting your time to try
to start a patch any other month of
the year. Now, if you let this April
go by and don't set a patch, don't
say I didn't warn you. Asparagrus is
the same way. Get the plants and
set them just as early in the spring
as you can. "
Better dip your seed potatoes for
?scab this spring. - .It will cost ; but
very little and will make a oocf
many dollars'- difference in the crop
Even if the seed looks clean it will
do not harm to dip them. Take mer
curic bichloride (corrosive sublimate)
one-half pound to . sixty gallons of
water. Soak the potatoes for two
hours before cutting them. That's
' all there is to it. The same solution
can be used time after time. We use
it in a trough and shovel potatoes in
and out with a wire scoop. Soak about
eight bushels at a time.
- Give the boy a patch of ground of
his own this spring and let him tend
it according to his notions. Give him
a good piece,' too. Not some out-of-the-
way, - wreedy corner. Give him
some really good ground and plow
and harrow it in good shape for him.
He will learn a heap tending that
ground and selling the products.
Get some letter heads and envelopes
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printed with your name and address
on them. It will cost you more than
drug store paper and it is a lot "more
satisfactory. People away from home
to whom you write business fetters
will often size you up by your letter
and if you have a nice-looking letter
head they will "think you are some
body," and pay you special attention.
One farm paper lately referred to their
people as "farmers with letter heads,"
and there is food for thought in that.
For low moist places the best mead
ow or pasture mixture is timothy and
alsike clover. Did you know that you
can get the seed ready-mixed in about
right proportions for less than you'can
buy them separate and mix them? It's
a fact. You see, such meadows are
cut for seed and the mixture has to
be sold as it is, because it is impossible
to separate the two. You can get
timothy, redtop and white clover the
same way, too. If you are buying
grass seed remember this.
If you have not already done so,
get out the first nice day now and sow
the "onion seed, and radishes, and
early peas, turnips and beets. All
of these are safe to go out any time
now. Even if we have quite a cold
snap, yet they will not be harmed. I
have had the ground freeze severa
inches deep after the pear were sprout
ed, and it never hurt them at all.
Spread out your seed potatoes and
let them sun awhile. It will improve
them very much. If. the sprouts are
short and green and thick they will
go right to growing as soon as the
potato is planted. You can gain at
least a week in earliness by sunning
the potatoes this way.
Told the Truth.
The editor of an Indiana paper
grew tired of being called a liar so
he announced that he would tell the
truth in the future. The first issue
thereafter contained the following :
"John Jones, the laziest merchant
in town, made a trip to Bellville yes
terday.
"John, Smith, our groceryman, is do
ing a poor business. His store is
dirty, dusty and noxiously odorifer
ous, how can he expect to do much?"
"Kev. Chump preached last Sundav
nignt on charity'. The sermon was
punk."
"Dick Sims died at his home in this
place. The doctor gave it out as heart
failure. The fact is, he was drunk,
and whiskey, is what killed him."
"Married Miss Sallie Adams and
Henry Hatch, last Saturday evening
tit the Baptist narsonaee. The bride
is a very ordinary town girl who
doesn't know any more than a jack-
rabbit about cooking, and never helped
her mother three days in her life. She
is not a beauty by any means, and
she has a gait like a fat duck. The
groom is well known as an up-to-date
loafer. He's lived off the old folks
all his life and don't amount to shucks.
They will have a hard life."
The paper had no sooner reached
the public than a committee was sent
to him bearing a petition asking him
to continue in the good old way and
stated that they believed him to be
a truthful, honest man. '
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In reply to a communication of
Stephen Lyle, of Muskingum county,
Ohio, in which he states - that the
order suspending service on rural
routes on holidays should be revoked,
on the ground that it delays the de
livery of a considerable quantity of
mail. The fourth assistant postmaster
general says: After due consideration
of the matter, in view of the fact that
rural, letter carriers are not allowed
any leave with pay, it was decided
to suspend service on all rural routes
on the following holidays: New Year's
day, Washington's birthday, . Decora-
tronday, Independence . day, the first
Monday in September, known as Labor
day, and such as the president may
designate as Thanksgiving day. Un
der the regulations postmasters are
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in addition to Christmas, but it is re
quired that on such days offices must
De Kept open a sufficient length of
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AN OFT TOLD TALE OF OPPRES
SION AND FRAUD
Nothing that has not been heard
many times before about the criminal
methods of the Standard Oil company
and the disgraceful complicity of the
railroads with the odious Rockefeller
trust has been brought out in the
hearing before ' the interstate com
merce commission in this city. It is
the-' same revolting story of inquisito
rial cruelty and oppression that makes
one think of medieval persecution
in the king-ridden , countries of the
old world and almost gasp in amaze
ment that such things can happen in
a land where the people boast of their
liberty. .
There is nothing new in the story.
It is an oft tale quasi-pulflic corpora
tions which derive their right to ex
istence from the state corrupted and
intimidated by an insatiate monopoly,
and concerted into agents of fraud
and oppression; the employment ol
what are called the "best lawyers"
to defend lawbreaking in its most
dangerous form, and patronizing
scorn for the officers of the govern
ment of the United States.
It should never have been necessary
to tell the story but once. The first
complete and authentic expose of the
Rockefeller conspiracy against trade
and its collusion with the railroads
f should have marked its overthrow.
But the tale loses nothing by repeti
tion. It becomes no less hateful by
reiteration. The country must feel
a little deeper twinge of shame every
time it hears it. Let it be -related
again and again, until the inherent
decency of the nation can stand it no
longer and until. the. American sense
of honor is aroused to swift and suc
cessful revolt. Kansas City Time?'
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