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MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some Up-to-date Hints About Cultiva
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture, Viticulture and Flori
cvltare. done? Poor dairy
ing is overdone,
but good dairying
' is not This is
about as correct
1 an answer as oc
curs at mis iiuiu,
writes F. W. Mose
ley in Indiana Far
mer. The number
of cows anywhere
cannot be Increased only at about a
certain ratio each year. Those who keep
cows for dairy purposes keep small
herds as a rule, and until a successful
milking machine has been produced
and comes into general use this condi
tion will likely continue. Of course
there are so.ne large dairies in this
country where cows are kept by the
hundreds, but such herds are rather
rare exceptions, and a good proportion
of them are kept by milkmen not far
from large cities. These herds are kept
up by purchase.and the owners of them
can be more properly called milkmen
than dairymen. They arc not dairymen
in the true sense. They do not raise
their herds nor the crops on which they
are fed, but depend mainly on purchase
or feed used. Most of these herds are
managed very successfully, and by
men who give the business intelligent
attention. There is little danger of the
milk business, as it relates to large
cities, being overdone. But if at any
time it should be, those in it on a large
scale near cities can get out of it very
easily by disposing of their herds.
Those who are distant from the cities
who have been furnishing milk for
milk routes, can easily change to some
other branch of the business, such as
butter or cheese making. The real
question whether dairying is overdone,
or likely to be overdone, applies to
those dairymen who have for years
been growing up herds for dairy cows,
and to all farmers who keep a few
cows, and who can each year, if they
choose to do so, increase them up to the
capacities of their farms, which capaci
ties will be constantly increasing if
the right system of dairying is correct
ly conducted. One great thing in favor
of dairying is that the real profit con
sists in not seeing how many cows a
farm will keep, as much as in seeing
how much can be produced from each
cow. These dairymen who practice the
best methods and get the best results
cannot be driven out of the business
by an occasional depression of prices.
The man who makes his small herd of,
say six to twelve cows, produce as much
butter or cheese as his neighbor vho
keeps nearly double that number, will
not say anything about dairying being
overdone, because his products cost him
less, and as a result he gets more for
them pound for pound than the dairy
man who is keeping double the number
of cows. The result will be that the
man who does not succeed in dairying
will go out of the business; either that
or improve his methods. In addition
to our home markets we have good
markets abroad, provided we furnish
good dairy products. However, our
home markets can be greatly enlarged
by the same means, and the additional
means of producing a greater variety
of dairy products. This last reference
is mainly to the different variety of
cheese that can be produced, and such
varieties as will create a greater de
mand for cheese among American peo
ple. Doubtless the dairy interest has
suffered more from bogus dairy prod
ucts than from any over-production of
genuine goods. But it is safe to say
that there has been a great change in
public opinion in regard to curtailing
the output of bogus goods to be sold
as genuine. No objection is made to
the manufacture of oleomargarine and
butterine if they are sold for what they
are, but the presumption is that in a
large per cent of cases persons who buy
them for consumption buy them for
genuine products. This is not right
and should be stopped, and in a great
measure will be. Taking everything
into consideration, we think it is safe
to conclude, as stated in the first sen
tence of this article, that good dairying
is not overdone, and further, that it is
in no immediate danger of being over
done. Like all other branches of agri
culture, it will have its seasons of de
pression, but as a rule less frequent
than in most other lines of farm prod
ucts. Making: Money in I'oultry.
When we foot up the sales this year
I think I shall find a larger cash bal
ance than we have had for some years,
and I think this is due to two things,
says a poultry breeder. First, better
feeding: and, second, wiser marketing.
Of ono thing I am sure, and that is that
I never before got as many eggs in a
season from the same number of fowls,
and I never fed soregularly and care
fully. Our hens are now many of them
moulting, and the number is reduced
to about eighty, as we lost quite a num
ber from apoplexy during the hot
weather, cooked several before the
young chickens weie old enough to eat,
and sold a few to a neighbor; but dur
ing the two months of July and August
we sold 1S3 dozen of eggs from them.
I did not keep an account of the eggs
used in the family, but as this is the
season of the year for picnics and com
pany, and on several occasions we used
more than a dozen eggs a day, I think
that our hens laid fully 200 dozen eggs
in the two months. In these times of
low prices. $9 or 10 a month in cash
is not to be considered insignificant.
At no time during these two months
did the hucksters who pass my house
pay more than 7 cents a dozen for eggs,
or the grocer more than S cents in
trade, but my eggs were all sold for
cash to one customer for 10 cents. Hew
could I get above the market price? By
warranting every egg fresh, and fur
nishing only clean, attractive looking
eggs. I say to any customer who will
agree to take eggs regularly of me:
"If you find a bad egg among them. I
will replace it with two." I can afford
to make this offer because I attend to
gathering the eggs myself, and as I
leave no nest eggs and. have clean nests
my eggs are not only good and fresh,
but attractive in appearance. If an
egg gets soiled, as sometimes one will,
it is carefully washed and dried with a
towel. The eggs are kept in a cool cel
lar, and delivered to my customers .on
a fixed day each week.
Western Sheep Men.
The heaviest sheep owners of Col
orado and Wyoming are not the men
who came into this country from twen
ty to twenty-five years ago with capital
that they invested in herds, but the
owners of thousands of sheep at the
present day are their former employes,
says Denver Field. The men with the
capital obtained the experience, not
always profitable, while the hired
herdsmen, many of them very intelli
gent Americans from the cast, ob
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tained their wages and pronted by their
experience. They secured little flocks
that have now grown to thousands in
number of sheep, studied conditions
carefully, adapted themselves to the
conditions, until to-day they are able
to profltably compete with the great
wool-producing foreign countries. The
sheep owners of the past in this coun
try endeavored to run what they called
a sheep ranch. This means keeping
the herds on the same tract of land
year after year until the land was un
able to sustain them. Rotation in pas
ture for sheep is just as necessary as
rotation of crops on a farm. This sys
tem of changing ranges or pastures for
sheep has been the custom in Spain
and Switzerland for centuries, and also
other countries. Sheepmen have fail
ed by trying, to keep the sheep winter
and summer on the same range. There
have been exceptions to the eastern
methods, but they are few.
An English Co-Operative Failure
Many of our readers will regret to
hear that the effort lately made in the
north to establish a co-operative asso
ciation for the sale of Aberdeenshire
meat in London has failed. The. scheme
was generally a good one, but it met
with inadequate pecuniary support, not
withstanding the fact that it was tak
in up both by lairds and producers.
The objects aimed at were to supply
the consumers in London with the best
quality of the genuine Aberdeenshire
produce, and to enable the producer to
leceive the full value of his cattle an-1
sheep, without so much of the profits
being diverted into the pockets of mid
dlemen. The exposures made before
the house of lords' commission, and oth
er circumstances, have created a con
viction in the minds of northern farm
ers that they were being defrauded V.v
the state of things prevailing in the
meat trade, and a remedy was sought
in co-operation. The method proposed
was to open shops in the metropolis
exclusively for the sale of northern
beef and mutton. There is little doubt
that purchasers would have appreciated
the opportunity that would have ben
thus afforded them for obtaining prime
British-fed meat, about the origin of
. IiuMi there could be no deception. But
the scheme has failed on the financial
difficulty sufficient capital was not
forthcoming; and for the present both
producers and consumers will have to
be content with the old arrangements
of supply and sale. London Fanner.
Kertl More Yrgftahlc food.
Vegetables and green food of all
kinds will assist greatly in keeping
the fowls in good condition during the
winter says Thrice-a-Week World. All
the small potatoes should be boiled
and given to the hens, who will greed
ily pick them to pieces. The same is
tiue of turnips. Parings of all kinds
of vegetables will be readily eaten.
Poor worm-eaten apples will give a
zest to their appetites, and a cabbage
hung where they may peck at it will
serve the same purpose. Pumpkins
are also appreciated. Clover hay or
corn fodder cut to half inch lengths,
scalded and sprinkled slightly with
corn meal supplies a very good and
economical ration. Pears and beans
cooked and thickened with bran are
excellent for laying hens, so is sweet
ensilage. Beets and carrots form a
splendid winter relish, while onions
are popular and exceedingly healthful.
If fed in moderation there is not the
slightest fear that the last named will
affect the flavor of the eggs. The great
value of these vegetable foods lies not
merely in their power to tempt the
appetite, but in their supplying the
bulk necessary to thrift and egg pro
duction; in mere nutritive qualities
most of them are inferior to the grain
which they should supplement, not dis
place. Variety, too, is an important
feature which should also be consid
ered in supplying the grain, for mix
ture of corn, oat, wheat, buckwheat,
barley, etc., will be found to give bet
ter results than where one grain alone
is used.
More Diversity Needed. The seem
ing certainty that the great staple
southern crops will no longer warrant
the farmers and planters of the south
ern states in buying away from home
all their current supplies and produc
ing at home only these great southern
staple crops, must lead every thinking
person identified with southern agri
culture to the imperative necessity
that now confronts us of protecting
ourselves by producing at home all of
the agricultural products that we have
been in the habit of buying from the
other states. This is said in no selfish
spirit, but as a matter of absolute ne
cessity, and without which reform
general bankruptcy will surely reach
most of the farmers and planters of
the south. Southern Farmer.
A Homesick Horse. A day or two
ago a gentleman told of his having
pensioned an old work horse that for
years had done good service. He put J
him out on nice pasture for the re
mainder of his days. The horse cleared
the fence and came home. Three times
the experiment was repeated till they
became convinced the horse was too
homesick to stand it. When they hitch
ed him to his old wagon his manifesta
tions of joy were almost human, ;nd
now he is delivering groceries, as he's
been doing for almost a score of years,
green pastures haing no allurements
for this town horse. National Stock
man. Give the children a chance to make
some money. A couple of hens, ducks,
geese, or turkeys, will start thi'ra 10
figuring and to working. The little
money earned will be a gerat pleasure
to them. You can afford to give them
the grain to feed their fowls, if they
will put in the work. They vrill thus
be taught to study the needs of the
poultry, and become wise in all thtt
regards feathered stock. Their little
trials and triumphs will be remembered
by them in the years to come, and
cause them to think with pleasure of
the old home.
Few people who have not given tho
matter special attention have an idea
of the extent to which grain, fiuit and
live stock are liable to injury by in
sects. According to Prof. Panton of
the Ontario Agricultural college there
are nearly 100 species that prey on
erain and forase crops, unwards nf
forty attack vegetables, no less than o0 '
menace the grape, and 75 threaten that
king of fruits, the apple. The pine has
123 species of enemies, the oak COO, the
elm 80, tie hickory 170, the maple CI,
the beech 130, while the unfortunate
willow battles against 400 Insect foes.
Ventilation for Plants. Ventilation
may frequently be given window plants
by opening the transoms and doors
leading to corridors or other apart
ments. Lowering the sashes from above
for an hour or two, allowing the air to
circulate over the plants, even in ex
tremely cold weather, is advantageous.
Devise some method of protecting the
plants from dust while the apartment
is being swept. Dust on the foliage is
a foe to health and a blemish on the
face of the plant. Ex.
Clean out the hen house often. The
health of the poultry requires it.
DAIEY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of tho Farm A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
HE deductions of
M. Comon, one of
the foremost
French agricultur
ists, prove that the
dry matter con
tent of potatoes is
notably increased
by the use of phos
phatic and potassic
fertilizers, but les
sened if nitrogen
fertilizers predominate. This fact has
been often suspected and the labors of
M. Comon and his coadjutors now
leave no doubt in this respect. M.
Comon says: In the culture of the po
tato the question of fertilizers is su
preme. The plant is not fastidious in
this respect, but if not fertilized it
will yield little. A large and first
class yield can be expected only
through plenteous and suitable fertiliz
ing. That the yeild depends in
great part on fertilizing is not dis
puted by any sane person, but it is less
generally known that the kind of fertil
izer exerts an influence on the quality
of the product. This is a fact that
seems to be undoubted. The exclusive
use of dressings in which nitrogen pre
ponderates is prejudicial to the elab
oration of dry matter; the simultaneous
use of these same nitrogenous fertili
zers, with phosphatic and potassic fer
tilizers is, on the contrary, favorable
to the securing of tubers of a high con
tent. While this statement may have
only a secondary importance for the
majority of our potato growers, who
cultivate this plant merely for their
own consumption or for that of the in
habitants of the towns, it is far other
vise with those who grow the potato
for industrial purposes and have in
view the production of the starchy
matter. Th importance of the obser
vation of this truth in practice -an be
easily reckoned. Allowing that an acre
planted in potatoes gives an average of
10,000 kilos (22,000 pounds) of tubers,
the gain of 3 per cent of dry matter,
for example, obtained by the applica
tion of phosphatic fertilizer to potassic
in the stead of nitrogenous organic fer
tilizer, would lesult in an increase
equivalent to nearly 20 per cent in thc
yield. To l'rune or. Not to J'rutic.
The discussion in these columns re
cently concerning pruning has doubt
less "interested many of our readers,
says National Stockman. Much may be
;aid on both sides of the question. That
pruning was practiced in the most an
cient times, as attested by the oldest
writings extant, can hardly he claimed
r.s conclusive evidence of its useful
ness; but that it has continued in vari
ous forms until the present time and
is still in use among intelligent horti
culturists is not without weight. Pass
ing through the country one often sees
fruit trees with great limbs four or five
inches in diameter cut off, and sinks
three to six inches long left sticking out
enough to turn any lover of trees
against pruning of ail lands. This,
however, may be said to be the abuse
of pruning. That trees endure such
cutting and live is evidence of great
vitality. The Osage orange as used in
hedge-making is a striking example of
this. Its strong hold on life enables it
to withstand the two primings in each
year which are necessary to a perfect
hedge. Though ueer killed by this
operation when properly performed it
is repiessed and kept in bounds; crip
pled, it may be said, and prevented
from taking its natural way and in
time mounting upward fifty or sixty
feet. The usefulness of prun;Jg is
clearly seen hero. But pruning may be
done for different ends from this: To
direct growth; to thin the crop of fruit
and prevent injury by overbearing, as
in the shortening in of the peach, etc.
The grafter prunes; the builder must
prune; the grape grower trims his
vines annually in order to obtain the
best results. In the case of the grape
it is pruning and training combined.
So with apple, peacli and other fruit
trees grown on a trellis or espalier, as
is done to a consideiable extent m Eng
land and on the continent of Europe.
In this connection we recall the recom
mendation some time ago of our occa
sional correspondent Hon. Cassit's M.
Clay of Kentucky, to omit pruning as
a preventive of grape-rot; just what we
had been doing with our Duchess, not
removing a single cane, spring or sum
mer, but without checking the malady
in the hast. An examination of the
principal authorities on horticulture
and pomology, Downing. Thomas,
Warder, Dairy, Nicholson, etc.. will
show that they are all favorable to
pruning. But it is moderate, careful
pruning, at the right time and with a
correct understanding of the end 10 be
attained. What is justly reprehensible
is the indiscriminate cutting and slash
ing, of which tho professional as well
as the unprofessional primer is too often
guilty.
I101110 Croun Celery.
We know many farmers who have
learned to like celery, and who buy
considerable amounts every fall and
winter, but without a thought of grow
ing it themselves. They keep from
planting celery under the impression
that its cultivation, and especially the
blanching of the leaves, is a difficult
operation. Celery used to be grown
much more expensively than now. The
deep trenching that was once thought
necessary is now considered injurious,
as sudden showers in summer vrill fill
the trenches with water, and half bury
the young plants in mud before tile;,
have fairly begun growing. It is
much better to plant on level surface,
and blanch the stalks by excluding
light with boards set against the rows
of celery on each side. The soil needs
to be as ricli as it is possible to make
it, and with plenty of water so that
the growth shall never cease. If there
is anj stoppage of growth, the celeiy
will be tough, stringy, and lacking iu
the nutty flavor of celery grown from
start .to finish as quickly as possible.
Coarse stable manure must not be used
for celery. No matter how much water
the celery has, the manure will at
some time heat and cause the celery to
stop growing. That will make the
celery tough, no matter how well
grown it is otherwise. The best ma
nure for celery is nitrate of soda,
which will furnish nitrogen in avail
able form without heating.
Tho Lamb Creep.
The lamb creep has not been in gen
eral use among sheep owners .of the
United States, writes G. W. F. 'in Na
tional Stockman. To a large army of
sheep owners it is an unknown device.
Many would not adopt its use, if they
did know. A few would not employ H
If they knew it would make money for
them. The lamb creep is a lot or an
apartment so constructed that the
lambs can creept through and have a.
guiet meal to themselves undisturbed
8
by older and larger sheep. Some sheep
owners construct it in such a way as to
adjust the creep holes by having roll
ers above and at the sides of the creep,
and the wool will not be rubbed off. I
do not do anything of the kind. I made
a series of hurdles with a creep hole at
each end of the hurdle nine inches wide
and about" thirty inches high. An adult
sheep that can get through this hole
needs more feed or something else.
Feed is employed in the barn in a self
feeder, but when the creeps are re
moved to the pasture they are supplied
twice daily with the ration. Lambs
that have access to lamb creeps will
mature earlier, grow larger and become
better sheep than those without this
advantage. In the use of hurdles for
sheep I never allow anyone to nail them
up. Wool twine is brought into play
for fastening hurdles. They can be
held to place by twine, and a good knife
or a pair of shears which is almost al
ways at hand will cut the twine when
thej are to be taken away, and new
twine will make them fast again. Try
the creep one season if you have not
done so, and see if you do not like it.
lVaeli Growing In Canaila.
Mr. W. W. Ililborn, in charge of the
Ontario Southwestern Fruit Station,
gives his method of planting and cul
tivating a peach orchard, which he says
has answered well with him: Select
medium size trees, one year old from
the bud. Shorten in the roots and cut
off all side branches of the top if there
are good strong buds on the main stem.
Cut this back to two or two and a
half feet in height. Each succeeding
spring we thin out superfluous
brandies, and shorten in the new
growth nearly one-half until the trees
begin to bear fruit in quantity. When
the trees bear large crops of fruit they
do not make such long growth of wood
and require less pruning. Cultivate
often and thoroughly, from early
spring until midsummer. If no other
crop is grown among the trees, sow to
rye about the 1st of September; this
will form a covering for the soil dur
ing the winter and some food for the
tiees when plowed under in early
spring. The rye also absorbs some of
the surplus moisture during the grow
ing autumn season, which prevents a
late growth of wood on the trees that
would otherwise take place. If we ex
pect to have the trees go through the
winter uninjured, we must have the
wood ripened up thoroughly when cold
weather sets in. The soil among the
trees should net be plowed deep at any
time after the roots have made suffi
cient growth to be in danger of being
disturbed by the plow. One of the
most important considerations in cul
tivating any orchard is to stir the soil,
always to about the same depth; the
roots are then undisturbed to any in
jurious extent.
Winter Ksrs.
With warm houses and plenty of
such feed as I name 3'ou will get eggs
in winter when they will bring a high
pi ice, writes W. G. Brown in exchange.
There is more in the care of poultry
than the breed, and the better the care
the greater the profit. I had never fed
lettuce to poultry until last year, but
after feeding it to several hundred
young chicks and chickens for two
seasons I pronounce it the most satis
factory and the cheapest of all foods for
poultry. Of course, it does not take
the place of giaiu, but if your fowls are
fed all the lettuce they will eat they
will need less grain and grow faster
than without it. I was surprised this
year to find that I could cut over a
pound of lettuce to a foot of drill, and
as it can be grown in drills 1C inches
apart it wail be seen that more than
cne hundred and fifty pounds can be
grown on a tquaro rod. A single plant
ing will furniah feed for a month, and
by making several plantings the sea
son can be made much longer. The
eggs and poultry used in the family will
go far toward paying for the keep of
my fowls, for we use both eggs and
chickens freely all the year around,
and my books show that the eggs sold
from my hens since January 1st have
brought me $(JC, and I am sure that this
is all net profit, for in addition to what
we have used we hae 100 fine young
fowls, moie than half of them pullets,
and some of them iarge enough to lay.
K'.tusas Dairy i'roiluets.
The following table shows the value
of butter and cheese manufactured
and milk sold yearly in Kansas in the
ten years beginning with 18S7, as re
turned by assessors:
Year. Total value.
1SS7 4,S60,377.32
1SS3 5,09 1,075.13
iouj ............ x, lt)l,r..l .Uw
1S00 4,100,872.28
loJl 4,938,961.47
A-UJa4 ...................... 'IflJUO,4jdiOj
-lthi) ...... l,o"il, loo. 47
Ioj I 4,870,481.32
lov'o 4,ol0,G31.93
1S9C 4,972.445.90
The table below shows the number
of milch cows iu Kansas in each of
the years named, and the average value
of their yeariy individual dairy prod
uct, as deducted from the table above:
Av. value
No. of of product
Year. cows. per cow.
1SS7 G92,o38 $7.01
1SSS 742.C39 6.S6
1SS9 723,552 6.15
1S90 G7 1,705 6.07
1S91 G90.C1L 7.1S
1S9- .... (ul,oG 1.08
1S53 3G7.353 8.54
1S94 521,127 9.29
1S95 517,251 8.72
1S9G 513,075 9.G5
F. D. Coburn, Secretary.
Raising Large Trees. In the vi
cinity of Philadelphia they have a
fashion of lifting large trees
where the grade has been raised that
docs not "seem to be in practice else
where. Two ropes are attachd to the
top of the tree so that each can be
drawn in different directions. A
trench is dug around the base of the
tree the circle being as wide as may
ser-iu judicious. When dug to the depth
desired, the earth is forked away from
the ball on one side and a block set
under the roots as a sort of fulcrum.
The rope on that side is drawn over the
block, and the result is the lifting up
of the mass of rooots on the opposite
side. A little earth is then placed
under these elevated roots, and the op
posite rope drawn to that side. This
lifts the roots over the block, and more
cartlr is placed there. The tree, by the
aid of the opposite ropes, is then drawn
backwards and forr-srds, more earth
being placed at each turn. In a very
short time the tree may be elevated as
many feet as may be desired, standing
on the summit of a firm mound of
earth. Trees 25 to 50 feet high, with
trunks 12 to 18 inches in thickness,
have been lifted in this way with very
little check to future growth. Mec
han's. -
, Ex-Gov. Northen of Georgia has es
tablished come fifty agencies in Illinois,
Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin for
the purpose ofencouraging emigration
to that state.
Get rid of a scrub cow.
Fera's Beggars.
Several beggars in Pera own a large
amount of property. One well known
man has houses worth ten thousand
liras, and yet is to be seen begging in
filthy rags. A poor governess, who was
very charitable, used to give him a pi
astre twice a week. One df V she missed
a lira (pound) and thought she must
have given it to the beggar by mistake.
He had gone home for the day, so she
followed him to his house on the Tax
ime. He received her graciously, look
ing like a pasha at least in his magnifi
cent robes. "I never like to lose a good
client," he said, and sent for his bag of
takings; '"If there is a lira here we
shall find it" Sure enough, the lira
was there. "Take it," he continued,
and the poor girl, full of thanks, was
hurrying away when the beggar stopped
her. "Wait a moment; you haven't
given me the piastre."
A Splendid Creature
A steady increase in the eppctites of
the students at Vassar College is re
ported by an 'expert. Lafety a New
York society debated the question of
physical deterioration consequent on
too much nervous and brain develop
ment. With the foremost female edu
cational institution setting the stand
ard of healthy appetites, there is small
danger of physical deterioration. The
latter day civilization, with its gospel
of liberty and fresh air for women, is
developing the head, heart, and body
of a splendid creature, who bears in
her bouyatt blood and sound brain the
best evidence of the physical, as well
as the mental, salvation of the race.
Baltimore American.
Rev. I. J. Berg, pastor of the Swed
ish 31. E. Church, Des Moines, la., on
March 4th, lS'JG writes: '-Last year I
was troubled with a bad cough for
about live months. I got medicine from
my family physician and I tried other
remedies without relief. When I first
saw Dr. Kay's Lung Balm advertised I
thought I would try it and I am glad
I did. I bought a box and took a-tab-lct
now and then without any regu
larity and after a few days to my gieat
surprise the cough was gone. Ten days
ago I had sore throat, I was out of
tablets and could not get them in Des
Moines, and I sent to the Western office
of Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co., Omaha.
Neb., for six boxes and as soon as I
took it a few times that soreness and
hoarseness all passed away in one
night. I believe it is also good for sore
throat." Kr. Kay's Lung Balm does
not cause sickness at the stomach like
many remedies and is more effectual
than any other we know of. Sold by
druggists at 2."cts or sent by mail, five
for S1.00. Why not send 3'onr orders at
once and have this valuable medicine
on hand? It may save your life, you
certainly will need it before spring. A
dose in time will save nine, and may
save your life. Order new. Address
Dr. ! J. Kay Medical Co.. (Western
oilice) Omaha, Neb. Send address for
valuable receipt book.
A Handsome Kerrption Conn.
A day dress of green cloth has a
bolero over the bedice that is cut into
a point under either arm. This zouave
is of jet and steel and looks very pretty
over a tight under bodice of green vel
vet. In front there is a full vest of
yellow lace over cream satin. A folded
belt and collar of heliotrope velvet of a
very pretty shade afford an agreeable
contrast of color. For wear with this
there is a black felt hat with black
plumes and bows of dark green velvet:
knots of shaded violets under the
brim correspond with the belt and col
lar of the dress. St. James Gazette.
STATE Or OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO.
I.UCAs COl'NTY. ss
frank . I. Cheney makes o.itli that he is
tlie -cnlor partner of the lirm of V. J.
Cheney A; Co.. (loins business in the City
of Toledo, County rinil State aforc-aid.
and that --;ticl lirm will nay tho Mini of
i.E lir.ii:i,l) l(M,Ai: for each
and every ca-e of catarrh that cannot lie
cured by the use of Mall'-. Catarrh l re.
1KANK J. CIIFXI.Y.
s-'wc rn to hefore n and .iib-.erihril in
my precnec, this frth day of December,
.. D. 1m5.
(Seal.) A. W. Ol.EAON.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken "internally
and acts directly on the blood anil mucus
surface-, of the system tend for testi
monial:., fiee.
f. .!. CHENEY .S. CO., Toledo, O.
Fold by drusists, 'iZc.
Ball's family Pills are the best.
Mine. Virgine I )emont-r.reton. daugh
ter of the celebrated French artist,
Jules Breton, herself an artist, and the
wife of an artist, is the only woman
painter since Kosa Bonheur to receive
the cross of the Legion of Honor. Mrs.
Henry Bacon contributes a sketch of
Mine." Deniont-Brctou 10 the Christ
mas Ccnturv. under the title of "A
fainter of Motherhood." The article
is accompanied by reproductions of a
number of the artist's noted pictures
of child life.
rv'erchanls Hole!, Omaha.
coi:m:i: nniiExru ami pak.n am srs.
Street cars pass the door to and from
Loth depots; in business center of city.
Headquarters for state and local trade.
Hates ?',' anil S:i per dav.
PANTON & DAVEM'OItT, Prop's.
H.iuk is I.oratrd.
Tie notorious Lon Hawk, of Ander-.-on.
Ind.. who escaped from the Ohio
penitentiary, has been located. Hawk
is well known over the entire central
states as one of the smoothest men wiio
ever operated in Indiana. Ohio and
Illinois. He was sentenced in Ohio,
but escaped from the penitentiary. Jie
always had the South African fever
and lost no time in putting tiie ocean
between him and Ohio otlicers.
The Modern Mother
Has found that her little ones are im
proved more by the pleasant Syrup of
Figs, when in need of the laxative effect
of a. gentle remedy than by any other,
and that it is noie acceptable to them.
Children enjoy it and It benefits them.
The true remedy, Syrup of Figs-, is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Company onI
Loo'dns a dillicu'.ty square in the fate will
often kill it dead.
'J be first hones in this country were
brought here in die year 111.
T,ln. AA"lnlovfj ithlnc fjr!
PorrMIiInntccthins.'oflcn'll'fC"'" reduces in3am
matiun, allnjs pain, tures wind colic, ti ica!si bottle.
A well trained wife is one who always
laughs at her Imsl ami's jo!es, no matter
how often she has heard them.
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is a disease which afflicts over 75 psr
cent, of the American people. It is a
dangerous disease because it not only
poisons the blood but causes heaviness,
oppression. and dulls the intellect. Then
follow chronic headache, loss of appe
tite, slow digestion, nervousness, bad
bre2th, dingy complexion and low
spirits. It will eventually bring on
liver and kidney disease in some incur
able form. But sufferers from thl3
dreaded malady are speedily
Warner's SAFE Cure and Warner's
SAFE Pills. Leading physicians the
world over, have acknowledged thi3
fact, and thousands of people through
out the land have testified to it.
SAPE Cure puts a step to backaches,
headaches, constipation, loss of appe
tite, dyspepsia, tired feelings and sleep
lessness. It builds up the exhausted
system. It is a sure cure for liver and
kidney complaint in any form, and the
only remedy that has ever been able to
cure Bright's disease.
If you are feeling the need of such a
remedy, ycu cannot do better thaa try
this king of remedies, the great
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Excellent Farming Lands
A Good Fruit and Farm In Region
Now Being Settled.
This tract of land lies ia the Eastern part
of Colorado County and Northern part of
Wharton County, Texas, about fifty miles
west of Houston, the great commercial cea
ter of the state. The soil is a rich, produc
tive sandy loam. This district ia Texas
has plenty of rainfall for crops, and one of
the necessities in order to secure a (rood
farm is to have land that lays smoothly
and has high enough altitude for perfect
drainage, which can be secured in this
tract, as it is a smooth rolling prairie, lying
on the divide between the San Bernardo
and Colorado Rivers.
This district has a mild, delightfal
climate, enabling you to produce some
thing almost each month in the year. An
other great advantage is that through this
tract there are two lines of railroads, and
within the limits of this tract, which is
twelve miles North and South, and eight
miles East and West, there are two towns
located, one on each road, which gives spe
cial advantages to any farmer locating
there.
We anticipate that yon desire to invest
in lands for a farm and home, where the
prices are low, the terms easy, and where
you can purchase and pay for the land in
three or four years, as cheaply as you are
now paying rent.
We run excursions to the lands over the
C, It. I. & P. to Ft. Worth, and from there
over the Santa Fe to allis, Texas. We
secure you the lowest rates and will ac
company vou. Write is us for our book,
"Fertile Farm Lands,'' excarsion rates,
dates and how to get
FREH FARE TO TEXAS.
6OUTUEKX TEXAS COLONIZATION CO.
John Lindekuolm. Mgr..
110 Rialto BIdg., Chicago.
Orders In Latin.
At the time of the peaco jubilee, Dr.
C. IS. i'orter of Boston returned to his
office one day and found the slato in
the hall covered with Latin words and
signed O. W. Holmes. lie immediately
got down his dictionary and with much
effort discovered that Mr. Holmes had
been to the peace jubilee, and had
soiled, his boots so thoroughly that he
disliked to go down town in such a
plight, and had stopped and asked Mr.
Porter's servant for a foot brush, that
he might clean up his boots; and he
had dignified this rather menial per
formance by writing it all out in Latin
on the slate.
Ills Ready Answer.
The Herman emperor, while recently
inspecting a body of naval recruits, no
ticed an unusually stalwart man in the
ranks, and asked him where he hailed
from. The recruit, in broad bavarian
dialect, replied: "From Wiesbach, your
majesty."
Did you understand whom I meant,"
the emperor asked, "in addressing yon
sailors about the foreign foe?"
Recruit "Yes. Russians."
The emperor "Und enemies at
home?"
Recruit "Prussians, your majesty."
He Didn't Want Them.
Agnes Strickland once urged Mr.
Donne to introduce her to George !or
row. author of "The Romany Rye."
Rorrow. who was in the room at the
time, offered some objection, but was
at length prevailed upon to accept the
introduction. The authoress com
menced the conversation by an enthu
siastic eulogy of his works and con
cluded by askin? his permission to send
him a copy of her "(Jueens of Eng
land." "For God's s-ake. don t madam.
I should not know what to do with
them,"' exclaimed Rorrow.
Cne'a Coagh) Balua
Is tlie oMet ami licst. It will liri-aic up a cold quicker
Jhannn.vthlnsrel-Hr. It lialwajs reliable. Try It.
The publishers of McClure's Maga
zine announce a Christmas number of
quite extraordinary qualitj-. both in
its reading matter and its pictures.
There is to be a richlj printed cover,
decorated with one of Rotticclli's most
famous Madonnas, specially drawn by
Henry McCarter: a first reproduction of
a Madonna painted by Josephine Wood
Colby: a reproduction of a portrait of
Washington painted at Valley Forge
by Charles Wilson Peale. and never be
fore published.
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Mind this. It makes no
?& KP h am s
Balatllli-t I lUPIH
of the Muscles, Joints, and Cones is cured by
C8CJU8 II Oil ! 80111 1 111! II 8
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Important Notice!
The only genuine "Baker's Chocolate,"
celebrated for more than a century as a de
licious, nutritious, and flesh-forming bever
age, is put up in
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Omaha Weekly
This year the Omaha "Weekly
to new and old subscribers better
BnvAX's New Book, describing
lansiiag'. givins his leading speeches and containing a short biographi
cal sketch of him by his wife as well as a discussion of tho great money
qur-stion by himself, is now on the press and will be read, for delivery
just after Christmas. It will be bound in cloth, printed in clear type
on good paper and contains about COO pages, handsomely illustrated.
OUR GREAT OFFER.
We will send the Omaha Wekly World-Herald ono Cnr anil a copy
of Bryan's Book for -32.00. Postase prepaid The Wi'My World
Herald alone is $1.00. Mr. Bryan's connection with the World-Herald
has made it the leading silver paper. It is published in two sections
MCfi '.vcek. eight pages Tuesday and four pages Friday. We will send
ins book alone, postage prepaid for $I.W).
Bryan's Book has bren eagerly expected and the first edition will
no doubt be quickly exhausted. The first five thousand orders will be
promptly filled from the first edition.
Address,
WEEKLY WORLD-HERALD,
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What a Bf aa Caaaot Do.
Assail cannot do two things at a
time A woman can broil a steak and
see that the coffee does not boil over,
and watch the cat that she does Hot
steal the remnant of meat oa the kit
chen table, and dress the youngest boy
and set the table, and see to the toast
and stir the oatmeal, and give the or
ders to the butcher, and she can do it
all at once and not half try. Man has
done wonders since he came before the
public. He has navigated tho ocean,
he has penetrated the mysteries of the
starry heavens, he has harnessed the
lightning and made it pull street cars,
and light the great cities of tho world.
Rut he can't find a spool of red thread
in his wife's workbasket: he can't dis
cover the pocket in her dress hanging -in
a closet. He cannot be polite to
somebody he hates. He can't sit in a
rocking chair without banging the
rockers into .the base-boards. He can't
put the tidy on the sofa pillow right
side out. In short he can not do a
hund things that women do instinct
ively. New York Ledger.
TraimmWsloa of Power.
The late Mr. Tweddell. an English
engineer of wide experience with hy
draulic machinery, said that in tho
transmission of power to machine tools
electricty is to be preferred where ro
tary motion is required, as in lathes,
while hydraulic transmission is better
for forging, riveting, flanging and
other operations in which a great force
must be applied for a short time or
through a short distance. Hydraulic
transmission is also superior when the
workman needs to know, with some
precision, the pressure that is exerted
against the work.
About Ueadaehr.
Mrs-Mary Svabek. r,'35 South 14th
St.. Omaha. Neb., writer: ''I havo been
sick three years with headache, pain in
stomach, dizziness and no appetite. 1
tried three doctors and all kinds ol
medicines all of which failed. I have
since used two -3 cent boxes of Dr.
Kay's Renovator and I have no more
headache, good appetite and stomach
in good order as well as my whole sys
tem.' Sold by druggists at SJ cts. and
51.00. Send at once for valuable book
let treating nearly all diseases with
many receipts. Dr. ICay's Renovator
will be sent by mail on receipt of "."
cts.. or S100. or six large size for $5.00.
Address Dr. K J. Kay Medical Co.,
( Western office) Omaha. Neb.
FITS stoppl f rw ami jiermnnrntly cum!. So flt
aftrr tlrM tlar u nf Dr. Kline' f.rrat Si-ne
Hrtorrr. Vre $2 trial tattle anj treatise
t-en4 to 1k. Kliic.331 Arch M.. I'tnlaiklpliia, Vx.
A New Tclrphuuv.
Edisons now telephone, a sample of
which he had given to Li Hung Chang,
does away with the receiver, and per
mits a business man to carry on a con
versation at a distance of a few feet
from the instrument, which is placed
against the wall of a room, without
leaving his desk or touching the in
strument, which works automatically.
"Mend it
or End it,"
has been the rallying cry of
reform, directed against abuses
municipal or social.
For the man who lets him
self be abused by a cough the
cry should be modified to:
Mend it, or it'll end you. You
can mend any cough with
Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral.
difference,
Chronic,
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Inflammatory
Blue Wrappers and Yel- t
Be sure that the Yellow X
Trade-Mark arc on ever
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than any ever made before.
his great campaign in Ins ov
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