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I FARad: talk: 4 1 W I 't Our New Department. Under this head it is our purpose in the future to conduct a part of a page that will be of special interest to our farmer readers. It will be noticed that our material is clipped from some of the leading agricultural journals in this part of the country, but we do not want to confine it to these clippings. Farmres and anyone else who may be interested are invited and requested to send us communications for this depart ment, as they will undoubtedly prove both interesting and instructive read ing. We also ask our farmer friends to be free with whatever criticisms they may find to offer, and to make any suggestions they may think will bet ter the service in any way. We want to localize this department as much as possible, remembering always that we live in central Nebraska, and that Nebraska problems are the ones that interest our readers the most. Home Preservation Of Eggs. As the moulting season comes, there is a decline in thenumber of eggs that go to the market and a corres ponding increase in the price of fresh eggs, especially as the weather grows cooler and fewer spoiled eggs reach the market. Many poor-quality eggs are found to reach the markets in hot weather as long as the railroads are allowed to handle eggs they way the do now. No matter how fresh they go from the farm, fertile eggs will not be good when they finally reach the city markets if they have been allowed to it for hours in the hot sun on station platforms, or are carried in hot freight cars that are equal to in cubators. Hut that is getting away from the subject of preserving eggs for winter use. Few Hocks lay to amount to any thing during the moulting season and many do not finish the moult in time to begin laying before cold weather comes, so with plenty oT hens, many farmers mlist either buy or go with out eggs lor a while. It would pay always to put down a few eggs in waterglass for home consumption, if not for sale, and there is no objection to selling them if they are sold for what they are preserved eggs. Of all the methods of presrevation tried at experiment stations only the lime water and the waterglass methods have proved satisfactory, and water glass of the two is the preferred me thod. Waterglass is a pale yellow, odor-le.-s. sj'ruppy liquor made from solu Tuesday, August 1 3 $3,200,000 IHVE8TC3 CAPITAL $7,000 BAIL CXPCR8ES gB M aH H VvftJ U1 rjiwi y-T x A a,: 1 i.t 1. . . u'-ft em ran IS MOTEL f &&: Vw-f M A A THE LAnUCa Dm :7v ltiirAl , 6 BIG ARENAS tmSmTSSU ALL NEW UNIQUEanp NOVEL? 1000 PERSONS. CIRCUS ACTS 4 600 horses jjgSrz y. 19R IXlfl f . v XIhh Ibw mmM VV . f9. 4mV' - i jjgm AUTOMOBILE DOUBII 3 HERDS Oir-fihV Vdr GREATEST THRILLER OF THE AGE OF TRAINED elephants; 2 TROUPES of TRAINED mioooffiwaiKosjf til ' Ji ! w tmnnnmmumt j -yy fSjS tyi n.t TICKETS ON SALE SHOW DAY AT ble silicate of sodium. It may be brought from most druggists at from 60 cents to $1 per gallon. For use, stir one part of waterglass into eleven parts of water that has been boiled and cooled. It may be mixed hot, but must be allowed to cool before us ing. Only absolutely fresh, clean eggs with good, firm shells should be pack ed. The better way is to put eggs in each day as gathered, leaving out any that are soiled or cracked. Either earthen or wooden ware may be used, but the wood must be absolutely clean and sweet. The vessel may be filled until only about two inches of the so lution may be seen at the top. The vessel should be covered to keep out dust and prevent evaporation. One gallon of the waterglass as, bought, will preserve 100 dozen eggs, making the cost about ,1 cent per dozen. Eggs gathered in cool weather will, of course, keep cool best, but those gathered in July and August may be kept very well. See that they are entirely cool before they are put in the liquid. An egg that retains the animal heat would be apt to spoil if put in at once. The lime water method is cheaper, and more convenient in some cases. Slake three pounds in a small amount of water, then add the milk lime thus formed to three gallons of water. Keep the mixture well stirred for a day, then allow the excess of lime to settle and use only the clear liquid. Vessels containing eggs inpresreva tives should be kept in a cool, well ventilated place, such as a good cellar where they will be cool in hot weath er and will not freeze in cold weath er. In either of these solutions the eggs may be put in from day to day, a few at a time, and no farmer need be with out practically fresh eggs during the fall and winter when the hens go on strike. Should the winter prove to be an open one, and the hens keep up the supply, these eggs may be sold for little, if any, less than fresh egg prices, so there is nothing to be lost in any case and much to be gained by insuring a supply of eggs for the win ter. Try it. Nebraska Farmer. The Farmers Balance Sheet. Probably fanners have benefitted more than any other great class in this cycle of prosperity. In ten years, according to the Bureau of Labor, the price of farm products advanced sixty live per cent, while the price of all leading commodities, taken together. SMILES OF P1RIDE GLIDES 1 ACHES F HITERMOOF TENTS fij V V r lilKtM 1 ?0 n Tt' u J r&Z i vJ '7mJl IsfSsV Jmm OoSSSi SMBtWIttl m mmmm - . mmmwM CBEDTU HuSrBeV l pLylL vljl rx VI 750 WILD ANIMALS .. - a MLKLO Vfc OF CAMELS THE X' ." fnftrr ntftiM SOnERSJUE OK A SPRIMC W.ATFORK ftrr- WAY. SEALSSEA LIONS 3 - m. a r . xa. iso iwSz advanced only twenty-one per cent. According to the Department of Agriculture, the farm value of an acre of the chief crops increased seventy-three per cent in a decade; and a long table containing prices of most of the articles which fanners buy shows that with the proceeds of one acre a farmer can buy fifty-four per cent more of the things he com monly uses than he could ten years ago. There is, however, another side to the account. In 1895 the price of metals had fallen twenty-five per cent below the level of 1890; and the out put of pig-iron the basic material had decreased twenty-five per cent also. As to other products, during hard times the manufacturer simply shut up shop, turned his labor adrift and waited for better conditions not that this wasn't the sensible thing for him to do, but the farmer was not in a position to do it. In 1896 the price of farm products had fallen thirty-five per cent below the level of 1891; but the farmer was cultivating as many acres and producing as many bushels of grain as in the former year inci dentally wearing his summer clothes in winter, burning corn for fouel and mortgaging himself up to the eye brows to keep afloat. Broadly speak ing, he has to keep his shop open and stick to his job whether gets any pay for it or not. Saturday Evening Post. Millions For Good Roads. The good roads problem was brought before the attention of congress dur ing the past week by Senator Swan- son, of Virginia, who urged an annual appropriation of $20,000,000 for five years to improve the post roads and rural delivery routes of the country. Senator Swanson explained that his plan would open up more than 1,000, -000 miles of road to government aid. His bill would create a road depart ment consisting of engineers and cap able officials to carry out the object, which, because it deals only with post roads, he contends, would not be un constitutional. Speaking in behalf of his measure Senator Swanson said: "The federal government should delay no longer extending to the- state and local authorities generous aid for road improvement. When the federal government begins to bear its fair share of the burden of improving pub lic roads that day will work the be ginning of the end of bad roads in this nation. Our wealth is greater today than that of any other nation; we have become supreme in finance and fore most in the world's commerce; we surpass in money expended for prmary and general education and milage of railroads, navigable riversand improved harbors; the story of our progress reads more like romance than history. Yet no other enlightened people in the world are cursed with such a wretched condition of roads, with more than nine-tenths of the public roads and highways in the United States during rainy seasons almost imassable. It is estimated that 90 per cent of our internal commerce must first or last be hauled over the public roads. The (average haul of this vast commerce over the public highways has been es timated at a little more than nine miles, averaging in cost twenty-three cents per ton per mile against seven cents in France and eleven cents in England and Germany. Based on es timates of good authorities improve ment of main lines of the system of roads in this country along methods adopted abroad would save in hauling more than 823,0000,00 annually to the people of the United States.' This sum of $230,0000,0 is what Senator Swanson calls a mud tax paid each year by Americans for hauling their products over poor roads. It is not considered ilkely that Sen ator Swanson's bill will be adopted at a very near session of congress, but he has succeeded in giving publicity to a cause which needs enthusiasm as much as anything else. His bill and his speech may result in members of congress studying the subject of good roads very carefully, possibly in order to make political capital for them selves out of it. Whatever the mo tive, however, good can hardly fail to result from the nation's lawmakers bceoming petter posted on a subject which is of prime importance to nine tenths of the people of the nation. Iowa Homestead. Stocking Up After Hoe Cholera. A Nebraska correspndent writes: "We have just recovered from a seige of hog cholera. The hogs and cattle yard contain about four acres of ground. The barns and sheds are in these yards. The hogs have free range of about 100 acres of pasture, following the cattle. Would there be any way of fumigating the yards? How soon would it be advisable to bring their hogs on Jthe place and would vacination be a sure preven tive?" There are three safe ways of stock ing up after hog cholera. Stay out of the hog business for a year; disin fect pens, houses and feeding troughs thoroughly and bring in new hogs af ter a couple of months; or vacinate by what is known as the simultaneous method and bring in a new stock of hogs at once. The most convenient way of restocking after an outbreak of hog cholera will generally be found to disinfect the premises completely and start in again after two or three months' time. The method of doing this is to thoroughly clean out all straw and rubbish from the houses, pens and feeding floors and then disin fect with a strong solution of coal tar dip, or corrosive sublimate, one part to 1,000 parts of water. Disinfec tion must be carried on especially carefully around the troughs and feed ing floors. It is well to follow dis infection with a good coat of white wash. If the hog houses are old and likely to fall down anyway the safest plan would be to burn them. Plough ing the yards up or burning a layer of straw on them is about all that is ne cessary to disinfect them. The veter inarians say that if the work of disin fection is done properly, fresh hogs may be brought on the place within two or three weeks, but to be on the safe side we would advise a delay of two or three'months. Hogs vacinated by what is known as the simultaneous method are im mune from cholera and may be brought on the place with safety even while the disease is still raging. Hog chol era vacination should be done only by a veterinarian who knows his busi ness. Wallaces' Farmer. Alfalfa On Potatoes. We fear the potato crop will be a failure on many farms this year on account of the extended and severe drouth. Many fanners who have suff ered a failure in potatoes may want to sow the field to alfalfa. Those fields are usually near the build ings and in the right place for alfalfa as meadow or hog pasture. We would suggest to our readers, where the potato crop is an assured faiure, that they have given in the cultivation, of their potatoes about the best preparation of the seed bed pos sible for alfalfa. Every reader know how luxuriant almost any kind of crop grows after potatoes. This is due sometimes to the fact farmers select good, rich loamy soil for pota toes, but not altogether. The luxuri ant growth which potato land gives is due to the thorongh cultivation of the soil essential to the growing of jxtatoes. Therefore, where you know that you are not going to get any jotatoe.s worth while, or where they are the early sort and have been dug, why not give the land two or thre harrow ings at intervals of about a week, and seed the land to alfalfa? You will never get a better seed bed than you have there. Sow any time during the last half of August. If you sow ear lier than that, you may have weeds to contend with, but at that time it is too late for any great development of weeds, and your land has been put in about as good a condition as it will ever be. Of misfortunes we may reap success. If we cannot get a crop of potatoes, we can at least got the benefit of the cultivation we have given them by sowing to alfalfa. If that is not de sired, we can put in winter wheat and then seed down to timothy and clover the next spring. One of the great se crets not only of farming, but of life, is to fall on your feet when you do fall, in other word?, to pluck the flow er of safety from the nettle of dan ger, or in still other wonls, to save what you can out of the wreck ami make the most out of it. To do this requires a quick eye, steady nerve and prompt action. --Wallaces' Fanner. Sorghum Poisoning. When sorghum, kattir corn or re lated crops are suddenly checked in their growth, before maturity, by dry, clear weather, the plants become dangerous for pasturage. The reason for this is that there is in sorghum, Kafiir corn and kindred plants a kind of sugar that is capable of being broken down into simpler compounds, one of which is the deadly Prusic acid, and this breaking down process occurs whenever the plants are checked in their growth by the causes we have mentioned. For some years it was thought that only second growth plants were poisonous but now it is known that the poison may develop in the standing plants whenever they are stunted by dry weather. Last fall in the writing about this we suggested that the hay from such stunted plants would also be danger ous, but Dr. F. J. Alway, chemist at the Nebraska Experiment Station, in forms us that such is not the case. He says no instances are on record where cattle or other animals have died from eating sorghum hay made from stunted plants. Apparently the curing process causes a reaction in the plant juices that changes he Prusic acid of harmless compounds. But such plans used for pasture are deadly. In Nebraska this year there are many localities where the sorghum and re lated crops are very much stunted by dry weather, and reiorts are coming from here nad there of sorghum poi soning. We wish to warn our read ers against allowing animals of any kind to pasture on stunted sorghum, kaffir corn or plants of that nature. If you must feed it to them now, cut and allow it to cure before feeding. The poison works rapidly, but in case animals are taken in time there is hope of doing something by giving large doses of corn syrup such as is bought for table use. Large quanti ties of milk may be used with good effect, too although the glucose of corn syrup treatment is most effec tive. The better plan is to use pre vention rather than to be forced to re sort to cure. That means that cattle and other animals should be kept away from stunted sorghum and re lated crops as they would be kept I away from arsenic Nebraska Farm-'er. NO REASON FOR IT When Columbus Citizens Show the Way. There can be no just reason why any reader of this will continue to suffer the tortures of an aching back, the an noyance of urinary disorders, the dan gers of serious kidney ills when relief is so near at hand and the most posi tive proof given that these ills can be cured. Read what a Columbus citizen says : Mrs. C. A. Beardsley,. 1710 Olive St., Columbus, Nebraska, says: "In July, 1907, I gave a public statement in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills, say ing that a member of my family who had suffered from lame back and disor dered kidneys had used this remedy with marked success. For some time he had been troubled with sharp pains in the sides and loins and no doubt, the misery was caused by a strain. Doan's Kidney Pills proocured at Pol lock & Co. 's. Drug store, proved to be just the remedy that was needed and it did not take them long to bring relief. He has taken Doan's Kidney Pills since then and they have always proven effective. I, too, have used Doan's Kidney Pills and think very highly of them." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. Dr. H. . Arnold, office on ground floor. Meridian hotel annex. LEKAL NOTICE. Sealed buN will lie received at the office of Ihe County .luitaeof Platte county. Nebraska, at Columbus, on or before I- o'clock noou of Auvu.nI ilbi. It'll, for the grading and improi-e-niciit of the following described roads of l'lattc county, to -wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of the rioutbwoUiuarterof the Southwest quarter. Section IS. Towutuip ) north. Ilane 1 east and running east one and one-quarter miles. Al commencing at the southeast corner Section IS. Township iu north. Range 1 cast and niimliiL' south about lflm foet. Also com mencing near the southwest corner of the J Northwest "uartcroi me aoriuwesi quarter. Section IS. Township 31 north, Kange I east and running north about ITiwfeet. Also com mencing at the northwest corner or Section Is, Towuhip 31 north. Kange 1 east and run ning est one-half mile, according to the plans jimtlles. sketches and specifications on Hie at theoiliceof the County Clerk of said county. The successful bidder is required to give good and sutlicient bond for the faithful perform ance of hN contract. The Hoard of Suerlors reserves the right to reject any and all bids. I5v order ol the Hoard of Supervisors. JOHN'CKAK. County Clerk. Hated at Columbus, Nebraska, this 19th day of July, I'.n I. NOTICE PROBATE OF WIL.U In the County Court of Platte county, Ne braska. ,. . Notice probate of will of Sylra A. Mahaffey. deceased. The State of Ncbraka to the heirs and next or kin of said Sylva A. Mahaffey. deceased: Take notice, that ujwn tiling or a written it struiueiit puriwrtint; to be the last will and testament of Sylva A. MahatTey for probate and allowance, it is ordered that said matter Iw set for hearing the lluh day of AnKust, A. I. 1U1I. bcrorc said county court, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. in., at which time any person interested may appear and contest the same: and due notice of this proceeding is ordered published throe weeks successively in the Columbus Tribune-Journal, a weekly and legal newspaper printed, published and of general circulation in said county and slate. In testiuiouv whereof. I have hereunto set inv hand and olllciul seal at Columbus this -"tilh da"v of Julv. A. D-. 1911. JOHN KATTERMAN. sEAi- County Judge. Many a Suffering Woman Drags herself through her daily tasks, suffering from backaches, head ache, nervousness, loss of appetite and poor sleep, not knowing that her ills are due to kidney and bladder trou bles. Foley's Kidney Pills give quick releaf from pain and misery and a prompt return to health and strength. No woman who so suffers can afford to overlook Foley Kidney Pills. For sale by all druggists. I MID SUMMER CLEARING SALE During this SUMMER CLEARING SALE we will make special prices on all Summer Goods throughout the entire stock. It Will Pay Reduced prices on all Summer Wash Dress Goods, Ladies Muslin g Underwear, Ladies White Waists, Ohildrens and Ladies Wash SS Dresses and Wrappers, Ladies Coats and Tailor Made Suits Laces and Embroideries. X I J. H. GALLEY, X 505 Eleventh Street COLUMBUS, NEBR. gg xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx YOU WILL, ENDORSE our Savings Bank, because our financial condition is satisfactory in every way, and because your deposit is given the protection under the Nebraska Law, of the DEPOSITOR'S GUARANTY FUND Remember, the guaranty of bank deposits is now in force in Nebraska and you have the protection of that law when you deposte your money in THE HOME SAVINGS BANK Open Saturday evenings until eight o'clock. G. W. PHILLIPS, Cashier THERE IS PLENTY OF WATER IN THE Big Horn Basin and Yellowstone Valley All of the rivers and irrigation canals are now running bank full. Tho oriior ha inat returned from an extended inspection trip through the Big Horn Basin and Yellowstone Valley, all the water they can use for irrigation; OPPORTUNITY FOR INVESTMENT. Money invested in Government Irrigated lands, Carey Act lands, or deeded lands in the Big Morn uasin, ac present prices is sure to bring large returns for the reason that the fanners of this country are beginning to understand that the Basin and Yellowstone Valley have an ample water supply and that the water comes down from the mountains just at the time when it is needed for irrigation. PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS ro,,A .;!. mo An nn nf mir neraAiallv conducted excursions, first and third Tuesdays, and let me show you the crops that follow a reliable water supply. Write today for our new folder telling all about these lands. It is free. D. Clem Deaver, Immigration Agent, 1004 Farnam Street, Omaha, Neb. InTowhwithtie Most merchants and professional men take long summer vacations, using the long distance lines of the Bell System to keep a watchful eye on the progress of their business affairs. Bell Telephone Service not only reaches more than 50,000 cities and towns in every state, but extends to farm houses and ranches in all parts of the country. &Jmh OF ALL SUMMER SaMay, An; And Continuing' One You to Attend This Sale where he found that the farmers have crops are accordingly very fine. Office 'SsSSix Nebraska Telephone Co, C. I. MARTZ, Commercial Mgr. GOODS WeeK ! i I