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The Nebraska Independent
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JANUARY 3, 1907
tests have shown that from 88 to 96
per cent germinated.
The sunflower crop Is one. of the
-roost profitable harvested in Russia.
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the-field, $25 an acre. The seeds are
sold by the farmer for 50 to 75 cents
a pound; then the merchants salt
them and retail them for $1.50 a
pound. At " every street crossing in
Russian provincial cities are stands
and peddlars with baskets, selling to
the passers-by the salted product of
the sunflower, which forms a favorite
food.
Cowpeas Are Great Stuff
It is said that it is Impossible to
get from land something for nothing,
but one crop proves that this is not
strictly true. Cowpeas will more than
maintain the fertility of the' soil. Grow
cowpeas on one piece of land and let
land by the side of it lie idle; and
next year the ccop will be better where
the cowpeas grew than on the ground
that went uncropped. Cowpeas will
grow on lana ioo poor 10 grow ciover
rr- onw nihetv orftn that T If now nf ThfV
will stand more drouth ' than Kaffir
corn. No hay- is better winter feed
for milk cows, calves and horses than
cowpeas, since they are both grain
and hay; and never did our chickens
lay more eggs than when we put a
stack of cowpeas where they could
run to it. When stacking it, the stacks
should be covered with hay of some
kind, cane hay being the best for cow
pea hay like clover will not turn wa
ter. Jacob Faith, -Montevallo, Mo.
Hog Prices . - ,
There may be a break in hog prices
early in the season, that is the rule,
nowadays, but it is difficult to see any
grounds for apprehending low prices
during the winter ; there is nothing in
the supply or demand situation that
makes low prices probable. Even a
pressure to bear the market by the
big buyers can have only a tempor
ary effect at most,' and if there is
no hurry to fatten hogs for market
a temporary backset is not probable.
While pigs are growing framework it
is likely to prove profitable to let
NOTICE OF EXECUTOR'S SALE
In the district court of Lancaster
County, Nebraska. In the mat r of
the estate of Peter S. Schamp, de
ceased. Notice is hereby given that in pur
suance of a license of Hon. Lincoln
Frost, Judge of the District Court of
Lancaster County, Nebraska, made
and issued on the 28th day of Novem
ber A. D., 1906, for the sale of the
real estate described as north eighty
two feet of lots one (1), two (2) and
three (3), and all of lot four (4) In
block four (4) of the village of Mal
colm, Lancaster County, Nebraska,
the undersigned, executor of the will
of Teter S. Schamp will sell at the east
door of the court house in Lincoln,
Lancaster County, Nebraska, on the
14th dny of January, 1907, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon of said day
at public vendue the real estate Above
described, such sale to bo on the fol
lowing terms, the highest bidder for
cash, subject to all liens and incum
brances. Said sale will remain open for one
hour.
Dated December 19, 1906.
ASA P. SCHAMP.
Executor of the will of Peter
Schamp, deceased.
them grow it, allowing the fat to come
later.
It must be remembered, however,
that it does not pay to hold hogs after
they have cease i to gain. All the
feed given after that Is a dead 1of3,
and there is the ever present risk of
illness or loss of appetite and thrift
through heavy feeding after the hog
has ceased to grow in weight. If you
fatten early be prepared to sell early;
if later sales are decided on then later
fatting is the ebtter policy.
Do You Put Up Ice?
If you do, do not put it off too long.
The first good ice there is, lay in
your stock. You are not sure of any
thing later.
Do not saw the cakes too large. It
is hard work enough at best to gather
ice without killing one's self lifting
blocks of ice that are unreasonably
large.
Take all the saw dust out of the
house good drainage by laying a lot of
poles before you begin packing. Pro
vide for a scantling in the bottom,
criss cross so that the water will work
out. Cover these with at least a foot
of saw dust. Begin packing about a
foot from the sides of the house. Fit
the pieces closely together. To do
this you must have the blocks sawed
the same size and true on the edges.
I do not know of any worse job than
trying to fit a lot of cakes of rough
and uneven ice together. If you have
this task before you, provide yourself
with an ax and shovel and fill all the
holes between the blocks with ice
shaved from an extra chunk.
After one flooring has been laid
down fill in around the edges with
sawdust. Keep the dust up even with
the ice all the way.
Cover the top over with a flooring
of sawdust at least two feet thick.
Leave a window open at the top of ihe
building for ventilation. When warm
weather comes you may close the door
through which the ice was put in for
storing. Ice packed in this way will
keep all summer.
Automobile Comments
Derivation; from the Anglo-Saxon
words, ought and to; combined with
the Latin, mobilis; meaning, ought to
be mobbed.
1. An automobile assumes the func
tion of a horse and wagon without
the horse.
Like a wagon, it runs on four
wheels sometimes on two; when run
ning on two it is not so safe as a
wagon.
Like a wagon, you can put anything
In it, from a cabbage head to a million
aire. It is used for both purposes
judging from its speed.
A wagon runs over people, an auto
mobile runs over more, and hits them
harder. A man may be run over sev
eral times in his life by a wagon, but
never but once by an automobile.
Like a wagon It has a crank: a
crank In a wngon Is used to decrease
Us speed; a crank In an automobile
Increases It.
2. Uke a horse, an automobile eats
but not oats. It costs to feed either.
A horo smell horse, but an auto
mobile smells wors
Like a horse, It must have a driver.
An autotuobllo driver Is called a
"Chaffer" (chafe-er; one who chafes).
A chaffer runs as close to everything
as he can without hitting it, pedes
trains not excepted. A chaffer runs
away after he has chaffed too close;
the pedestrian never.
Like a horse, an automobile balks.
When a horse balks it changes its
mind sometimes; when an automo
bile' balks if you want to get home, get
out and walk.
3. An automobile is like a criminal
in that it runs' away when it has done
something it ought not to. "Be sure
your sins will find you out," does not
apply to automobiles.
4. Like saloons, automobiles are
licensed. Saloons pay for the privilege
of taking human life; so do automo
biles, but not much. Both are often
fined for exceeding the speed limit,
but they do the same thing over again.
Exchange.
Saving the Manure
Kansas experiment station has
found that the waste by exposure in
six months amounts to fully one-half
of the gross manure.
Cornell experiment station says: "If
the question is how to get the best re
sults from a given amount of manure
there Is no question but that it may
be done by moving it to the fild and
spreading on the land os soon as pos
sible." . Professor Vorhees, of . New Jersey,
claims that more than one half of the
total annual manure product of tho
cow may be lost by exposure of less
than four months. Tho manure should
slble after made.
The department of agriculture has
completed its experiments In the man
ufacture of table syrup from sugar
cane. Syrup made directly from the
cane is considered preferable to molalN
sea arising as a by-product of sugar
manufacture, as the latter contains
chemicals used in bleaching the sugar.
It appears from a general survey of
Ihe data collected in these experiments
that it is entirely possible to supply
the demands for table syrups in the
United States directly from the origi
nal sources (the maple tree, the sor
ghum plant, the sugar cane) thus re
moving the danger of adulteration or
contamination with substances injur
ious to health. The molasses made as
a by-product in sugar manufacture the
department proposes to use as stock
feed and in the manufacture of alcohol.
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