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The fall working of the public high-
svaya Is u mistake.
> August lllcs nmko the cows shrink
lu their milk , no matter how good the
pastures may be.
Timothy will do well sown the fore
part of September , but do not BOW the
clover until spring.
1 When the young rooster begins to
crow , he wants the frj'lug pan , or ,
rather , the frying pan wants him.
' Cows , clover and corn will , If proper
ly combined , put any farmer In the
( western pralrlo sections on his feet
financially.
The census shows that the state of
Iowa produces just a million dollars
n day in farm products for every day
In the year.
i There are lots of farmers who overwork -
[ work themselves for thlrty-flve years
BO as to be able to spend their savings
and last days at some sanitarium In a
4valn effort to recover lost health.
We have found the purple top Swede
turnip sown about the 1st of August
to give the best turnip for table use
which we can produce. Turnips make
their best growth during the moist ,
cool fall days.
' It will always be hard to make some
farmers understand that they do not
Lave n right to kill the game and catch
the fish in the streams on their farms
Just when they want to regardless of
etato laws defining closed and open
seasons.
r The katydids made their appearance
this year earlier than usual , about July
20 , when they are not usually due till
about the 10th of August If the old
saw holds good six weeks to frost
from their coming an early September
frost will pinch a lot of late corn.
' The great objection to clover as a
dry forage plant is that it is very diffi
cult to cure properly , the season when
It should be cut being almost always
ehowery. Not one-fourth of the big
crop of clover where the writer lives
Ctvas secured in good shape this year.
1 Sprecklcs has discovered a new meth
od of refining sugar at a cost of $1 a
ton against § 7 , the present cost to the
sugar trust , aud the process Is so sim
ple that It can be carried out on the
plantations where the raw sugar is
produced and with inexpensive appli
ances.
' \Ve have a letter from a good friend
of the farmers' mutual insurance com
panies who favors the payment of all
losses up to two-thirds of the value of
the property destroyed and Insured re
gardless of the manner in which the
tire loss occurred save in case of in
cendiarism.
For every acre of crops destroyed on
the bottom and slough lands of the cen
tral west and northwest this year by
the excessive rainfall there will be five
acres of splendid crops produced on all
those areas where the normal rainfall
Is too scant to Insure large crops in an
prdlnary year.
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' Wo have known some balky horses
beyond the reach of moral suasion ,
Ji ? kind treatment and prayer. Nothing
( would start an old buckskin we once
owned but a split plug of tobacco
[ wrapped around his bit This would
make him so sick at the stomach that
ho forgot all his meanness in a very
short time.
1 Of course it may not be possible be
cause of the press of other work to do ,
but there Is no work on the farm which
pays better than getting the stubble
and weeds well plowed under during
the mouth of August It has almost al
the advantages of a summer fallow ,
cleans the laud and makes of the rub
bish covered up a valuable plant food
for the next season.
* As with all other unrefined and unde
sirable things in this world there are an
aggressiveness and intolerance about
weeds which put one to his wits' em
to know how to manage them. Now ,
, why should a burdock grow thrifty and
lusty and a tomato ptant not four feet
from It under same conditions , without
culture , only grow to be a poor , little ,
spindly , unproductive thing ?
' Maybe some of our readers will be
doing the same thing wo did last
year get to hunting all over the gar
den for some dead and putrid thing
.which wo could smell only too well ,
but could not find , to find later on
the cause of the trouble to bo a stinkhorn -
horn mushroom growing near a post
and almost out of sight. If you smell
this smell , look for a mushroom and
not a dead cat
The attempts at skunk funning have
nil provwl fit Hurts.
It Is a mls"rablo alternative when n
farmer l.s forced to take tramp help ergo
go without.
When a three-months-old calf will
bring $20 for veal , It helps out the
dairy business.
Alfalfa furnishes lots of food for the
jces , in which respect It is far ahead
of red clover , whose nectar , can only
be reached by the bumblebee.
Marching off a lot of hoboes at the
muzzle of shotguns to the harvest
Quids to work was one of the funny
harvest season freaks of Kansas this
year.
No sUite In the Union Is coming to
the front with larger or better crops
; hls year than Nebraska. This year's
crop will bo worth as much OH the
land which produced it through much
of the state this year.
The farmers' telephone lines in a
western state did much to bring to an
abrupt ending the late attempted cor
ner In corn In Chicago. Every man
holding any corn of the contract grade
was reached In a hurry by the tele
phone.
It means either tile draining or seed
ing down for lots of land all through
the prairie sections , the excessive rains
of the summer having completely ruined
the growing crop upon all lands which
were originally sloughs , basins and
marshes.
We noticed a row of dewberries nice
ly trained up on a low wire fence the
other day and readily saw that this
method removed one of the great ob
jections connected with this fruit the
gathering of the berries with the vines
sprawling all over the ground.
A permanent drought seems to have
settled down upon all that part of in
terior Australia which has heretofore
been a great pastoral country. The
sheep and rabbits , combined with the
lack of rain , have ruined the country ,
and the stock losses have been enor
mous.
True that the rain falls upon the
just and the unjust alike , but this year ,
when the just man on the river bottom
tom got his share and then all that
fell on the unjust man's place on the
hill above him to boot the theological
equity of the old saying was knocked
into n cocked hat
Riding across the country lately dur
ing a severe storm , we noticed that
In nearly every pasture where stock
was kept the cattle all bunched near
to the fences , which , being of wire , ex
plained why so much stock Is killed by
lightning where the fence wires are
not properly grounded.
Wo Just remark that good , old fash
ioned oatmeal , properly cooked , still
holds first place with us in competi
tion with all the newfangled germ and
malted cereal foods with which the
country Is flooded. The canny Scots
man is said to be the legitimate prod
uct of oatmeal and the Shorter Cate
chism.
Some men a good many make the
mistake of sowing too large a field of
rape for the stock which they wish to
eat it. Rape needs feeding off close ,
when the new growth will give all
through the season a young and tender
foliage. When allowed to grow , It
soon becomes strong , tough and un
palatable.
The question of saving the corn fodder
der will soon be up. The value of thfs
fodder has been demonstrated the past
winter ns never before , and , while hay
the country over will be more plentiful
and much cheaper than a year ago , the
corn fodder Avlll still be saved , for
when well cured It is the best fodder
produced on the farm.
The elderly man who is bothered to
know Just where to place some of his
money for investment would do a good
thing to hunt out some deserving and
poor young man and help him on his
feet. In most coses such investments
would not only bo profitable In a finan
cial way , but much satisfaction would
result from the doing of such a gener
ous act
We have known a man owning a ten
thousand dollar farm to kick because
he had to pay an annual tax of $45 on
It This man should go to Bulgaria ,
Turkey , Egypt , India and other semi-
civilized countries If he would know
what real taxation Is. In no country
on earth does a man get more In re
turn for the taxes ho pays than in
America.
It seems funny to turn back fifteen
years and read what a furious contro
versy there was over the question of
dehorning cattle. The various humane
societies and all tender hearted people
were up in arms over the new barba
rism , as it was termed , while broad
sides of indignation were hurled at the
men who ventured to practice it It
took time to prove the humanity of the
process and quiet the opposition. Now
there Is no voice of protest
Where the writer lives there Is hard
ly a week gdes by that some man does
not have a valuable horse ruined by
the barbed wire ; not all In the pas
turcs by any means , but a horse Is
tied near a fence and gets a foot over
or It runs away and into a fence , or
careless drivers drive the horse over
down and loose wires all sorts o :
ways. Then lightning kills a good
many by reason of their standing will
their heads near the fence during elcc
trie storms.
WHAT SMALL TIIIH MAN HOT
A. uMilli'inim Ihli'g In Ktnluc'cy
wrlty nuking HOIIIO ndvlco. llo lives
on a forty nm > farm , the soil of which
In none too good. 1U > him u wife Mini
twi'lvi children , nil undi'r ago. Ho HIJH
that It Is hard for them lo make u liv
ing from this poor little piece of land
and wants UH to toll hint where lo go
so that ho can better his condition. Ho
can ncrapo up about $1,000 to Htnrt
with Homewhero eluo. It Is a delicate
buslm'Sfl attempting to advise a manse
so Hltuatud , and about all wo fool like
doing In to state a few facts for hln
consideration. In the first plaoe , wu
notice that southern bred people sel
lout fool at homo In the north-IOHH HO ,
wo think , than northern /j-oplo who
Bt'ok homos In the nontli $ Jl for thh
reason It would not seotu boot for our
friend to souk a home In the north or
lorthwest. It would look as though
with such a family ho would be spe
cially well fixed to get hold of a truck
farm In the south , where early vegetables -
tables and borrlus could be produced
for the northern market. There are
much profit and reasonable safety and
certainty In this business , which Is bo
ng developed at a rapid rate in North
Carolina and many of the Atlantic
coast sections. Wo are reliably In
formed that a very fair quality of laud
timbered can be bought on easy
.onus contiguous to lines of railway
and that the throe cropa of strawber
ries , potatoes and string beans can be
raised and put on thu eastern markets
so early that more clean money can bo
made from twenty-five acres In such
crops than can bo made off the best
eighty acre farm In the west A man
with such a family has no right to M >
ocate that his children will bo de
prived of all educational advantages ,
and a frontier location too often In
volves this. There are other good loca
tions In Louisiana and Arkansas
where fruit raising and poultry keep-
, ng could be mndo very profitable. The
trouble Is that men situated Just as our
friend Is do not know Just where to go ,
and for all such so situated we would
advise sending for all the literature
which can bo obtained descriptive of
those localities where land Is cheap.
This literature may be obtained of the
passenger or land agents of any of the
railways , of the state land commis
sioners or state auditors in fact , al
most any citizen will give information
touching his locality when written to.
Get all this information together , then
decide where to look first and make n
personal Inspection. The chances are
that you will thus find the place you
seek.
GROWTH OP DAHIY INTERESTS.
The late census bulletin on the coun
try's dairy interests Is out and shows
a most wonderful development of this
interest during the past twenty years ,
or since the date of the establishment
of the creamery system. There are
now 0,335 butter and cheese factories
in operation , Iowa leading , with 824 ;
Wisconsin , 788 ; New York , 740 ; Penn-
sylvauln , 010 ; Minnesota , 540 , and
Illinois , 405 , strictly butter factories
or creameries , and New York leading
with 1,314 cheese factories. The total
capital employed Is $30,508,015 , and
the value of the product is $131,100-
277 , a gain of 100 per cent In ten
years. But all this lepresents only a
fraction of the benefit which the de
velopment of the dairy business has
brought to the country , the Increased
fertility of the farms , the enormous
meat Interests and the more bclen-
tlflc and Improved methods of agri
culture which have over followed In
the wake of the dairy interest , repre
senting a gain in agricultural wealth
which It Is Impossible to compute.
The cow has done great things for
the country.
A HANK'S nESrONSIIHlITY.
Here's a difficult problem : One coun
try bank turned In to another a bundle
of bills which was counted by the re
ceiving bank and found to contain
$500. The next day this package of
money was paid out to a farmer for
$500 and at the time was counted nei
ther by the banker nor the farmer.
The farmer carried the money all day
and at night deposited the still unbro
ken package In another bank , when ho
discovered that it was $200 shy. He
then sued the bank of which ho got
the package , and the higher court held
that the bank was liable. It would
Took to us as though the loss should
have been equally divided , for neither
ono of them counted the money when
It was paid over.
THE SIAUTIJT AND TUB SPAnUOW.
Of our smaller birds which like to
frequent the haunts of men the house
martin is about the only ono which can
hold his own with the bullying English
sparrow , and In the annual contest
between these birds for the possession
of nesting places the martin generally
comes off victor. All our other small
birds warblers , bluebirds , wrens ,
grosbeaks , orioles , song sparrows , cat
birds and many others are simply
driven away from any locality where
the sparrow congregates. This Is no
guesswork , but the well proved result
of the closest observation by our best
students of bird life.
TiaiDEH IN MISSISSIPPI.
There will not be a lumber famine
In this country for many years , though
the price of lumber may and probably
will be higher. The south has vast
and almost untouched .forests. Twen
ty-five counties In the state of Missis
sippi contain 0,800,000 acres of pine
land , which will cut an average of
0,000 feet to the acre , making 34,100-
000,000 feet , worth , at $10 per thou-
tand. $341,000,000.
Clash Between Guards and
Miners at Ncsquchoning.
INTENSE EXCITEMENT FOLLOWS.
%
One of the Doputlcn Arrested on
Charge of Murder After Order la
Restored and Lodged In Jail at
Mauch Chunk , Pa.
Nosiiuohonlng , Pa. , Aug. 10. In a
clash botwium sti Iking inlno woikcis
and deputies huro lust night , Patilck
Sharp , a Htilkur of Lunafonl , was shot
and killed almost Instantly by a dep
uty. Thu shooting caused consltlura-
bio evcltt'inont for a time , but order
was soon icntorod without any other
persons liulng Injured aud the town Is
now quli't. A deputy mimed Harry
MrHlnioylu wan arrested clmigod with
the killing of Sharp and was tukon to
the county jail at Mauch Chunk. The
shooting occurred shortly aflor (5 (
o'clock. Flvo deputies were on their
way to shaft No. 1 of thu LchlKh Coal
and Navigation company , jiifit outside
of the town. In the ccntor of the town
they wore met by a number of sti lit
ers , who began persuading thorn not
to KO to the colliery. The olllrois did
not stop , but Ifupt on their way and
tried to prevent any trouble The
strikers , It Is said , bugan to aluiHo the
men and followed thorn neatly to the
colliery. There nro conflicting Btorlua
as to what actually brought on the
clash , hut JiiHt before the deputies en
tered the place a shot was hoard and
Sharp dropped to the giound. The
bullet entered his body oloso to his
heart , and ho died almost Instantly.
Witnesses say the shooting was done
by McElmoyle. and that he stood only
six or Hovon feet from Sharp when ho
fired. Only ono shot was llrod The
deputies Immediately withdrew to the
colliery and a largn crowd gathered
about the place. When It was Icainod
that Sharp was dead there was the
greatest Indignation among the strllc
era and other townpeoplo , and for a
time It looked as though sorlous
trouble would occur. Cooler heads
among the mlno workers prevailed on
the crowd to disperse , urging
the argument that If there Is any
bloodshed troops will surely bo sent
hero from Shcnandoah. The crowd dls
peraed and the town soon calmed
down to Its normal stato.
UNION PACIFIC SHOPMEN STRIKE
Car Carpenters and Painters Join Ma
chinists and Boilermakers.
Omaha , Aug. 10. Two hundred cai
carpenters and painters at the Union
Pacific shops Joined the striking ma
chinists and bollcrmakors yesterday.
The strikers demand the abandon
ment of piecework in their depart
ment , which method they accepted
from the company only seven weokn
ago on a ynar's trial. They charge
that the company has not maintained
its part of this year's agreement In
that It has slashed the wage scale.
The company Insists that It has kept
the agreement.
Congressman Hltt III.
Chicago , Aug. 19. Congressman
Hltt of the Ninth Illinois district IH
seriously ill at the Stratford hotel
While driving to the depot yesterday
to take a train for his homo In Mount
Morris , 111. , ho was taken violently
sick with dysentery and was compelled
polled to return to the hotel , where ho
was put to bed. About the hotel the
Impression was general that Mr. Hltt
was a very sick man.
Minister to Run for Congress.
Cleveland , Aug. 19. Rev. Morgan
Wood , D. D. , pastor of Plymouth Con
eregatlonal church , and one of the
most widely known ministers of his
church In the United States , an
nounced yesterday that ho would bo a
candidate for congress on the Demo
cratlc ticket from the Twenty-first
Ohio district. The Republican noml
nee Is Hon. Theodore E. Burton , the
present Incumbent.
Nelson Breaks World's Record.
Plttsburg , Aug. 19. Joe Nelson , the1
"cycle wonder , " supported his title last
night at the Coliseum by breaking the ,
world's record for twenty miles and
beating Freeman and McFarland. The
men were In a three-cornered race for
the distance and Nelson set the crowd'
wild by his superb riding. Nelson' ! , '
time for the twenty miles was 27:18 : , '
beating the world's record of 27:34 : 2-5
Judge Shlras to Retire.
Plttsburg. Aug. 19. "It Is true that
my fathet expects to retire from thei
bench of the supreme court early In
the coming year , " said George Shlras
today. This Is the first direct state
ment confirmatory of the report that
Justice Shlras contemplated leaving
the botch.
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digestanta and digests all kinds ol
food , It gives Instant relief and never
fails to cure. It allows you to eat all
the food you want. The most sensltlva
stomachs can take It. By its use many
thousands of dyspeptics have been
cured after every thing else fallen. 19
unequalled for the stomach. Child
ren with weak stomachs thrive on It.
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Fall Term Opens Sept. I.
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