FANDLING THE SHYING HORSE. Many a high-strung young horse is oiele much less valuable and not-in- frequently spoiled for road work by =xelens and ignorant treatment in #he hands of persons who neither know nor care what vices the horse santracts, so long as they can have Be satisfaction of venting spite on the animal! when he shies or shows signs of fear at objects that with alarm The following sugges. fions given by a writer in Farmers’ Almarac, while referring chiefly to aocquainting a horse with cars, will be found of value accustoms- ing him to automobiles, thresh- ers, road ete. A few hours spent in thus educating the colt or forse to lose of what terrifies him 1s time spent and may vent loss of or serious ater. and in case first-class road animals add half or value, The writer The fom them cams ap to thirty My +plag the torminns ful Jistance, When it was ten minutes of round it in cire street in steam Ty rollers, fear well life the will pre- of frequently selling referred to says: difficulty to the trolley cars the roads at any miles an hour, was ride quietly and walt, at a the advent stationary I sp its in les of aradually nore to their chief was to accus- along speed to to respect- o of a ent riding dimin car the tay th» horse coaxed to fess than So right up to the caresses from the The next step was to follow starting car, which, luckily slowly for the first mile, Bind and alongside, till fook no notice of it whatever that it was merely fang cars at slowly till gradually th scenstomed fo face them In teaching ! of any siran alarming obj of conduct to which th ception: Never speal er use your whip him forward with frightencd or ner fogically ened child, Sensey expect idity by him, or by the arm? dt is ‘imposs atrongly the mouth, and across hi tice usually yoeated when hows sympte alarm at an approaching obi as a molor-car: a greater tive of nearer than approach an hour, he renerally, in horse car and conductor, the if accept went trotting the horse After matter of meet be. | a points where they moved © ohioe? vous h the equivalen Would a fright- in his ® tim sol whipping by hie condemn too 4 horse's smartly . Drac ad Bae i "to mi stake future trou made thet a thing the § from fears ia neither log practice i place” a tling with horses. his usual tightening one afore divert his attention of yourself in his good motto when de A sudden curtailment freedom of movement, by the reins, when a nervous horse looking suspiciously at some strange approgehing object, naturally increases his alarm: while use of the whip en. graders fear of the object. which it | will take no end of time and trouble fo eradicate “The fact that the approach of the alarming object was quickly follow ed by punishment naturally produces an association of the two in the | equine mind, and a logical objection es face that object again : 8 of ig fine cut straw is good nesting ma Grease of any kind on spoil them for hatching A pound of napthalene crystals dissolvefl in a gallon of coal oil is sald ‘o make an excellent lico | for the rooszts. Don’t forget that water Is quite as fmportant as and should be given clean and fresh The hen that one that Is always busy scrafching among the litter for grain and feed. Get rid of the Idlers. Use every possible means to rid the premises of rads before the early ehieks and ducklings hatch The poultry keeper has no worse enemy. "The effectiveness of whitewash In the poultry house is much increased By applying it hot and getting fit into the cracks and corners. Always add plenty of galt, MM a good dog contracts the habit of sucking eggs, a dose ¢an be made of red pepper and Ipecac, put In an empty shell, pasted over with white paper and Mr. Dogz will soon lose Bis appetite for fresh hen fruit. The pale-faced sitting hen is lousy. Remove her from the nest, rub ine eset powder through her feathers, provide her with a dust bath of dry warth and while she is taking it put 4a handful of insect powler in the nest Drain the milk through a clean fiannel cloth or through two or three ‘thicknesseg of cheese cloth, Aerate and cool the milk as soon we 3b ia strained. The cooler it is * ezzs will | fond the more souring {is retarded. If covers are left off the cans cover with cloth or mosquito netting. Never mix fresh milk with that which has been cooled, nor close a can containing warm milk, nor al low it to freeze, CLOVER--ITS USE AS The use of the clover plant as a means of adding fertility to the soil | | is generally thoroughly under stood than uses for soll renova tion. By renovation we mean put ting the soil in a friable and condition and preparing it for { feet pulverization by the tools ployed in cultivation. C i a silent for that ' certain gases that make the soil porus, thereby allowing circulation of the air and the roots | of the plants. of and water { gather nitrogen { while decaying furnish renovating qualitis for fut Another important clover solves { cate weeds sume the clover plant when vyenis even a start establishes a mulch of fertility are few but clover on certain portions and improve the of the soil Clover roots A 80IiL. more its per eny lover acts ce or body vn free around This en KASS the to action alr ables the from plants air and fertilizing and use ths is that of helping erad! that con The pre the ure problem t otherwise +} would fertility of the soil wrted weeds that prevents well sts f Of and » ue the soll. need escape from what 10 renova farms physical condition EO and bring up large mineral plant food from decaying le it where and grass can utilize profitable advantage. Not true but other plants send ing roots through the | soil that was occupied d they also find they otherwl into the amounts WwW deap bel cereal is i ave Crops 10 only | i lown the ag | 8 in clover roots mineral food nlant pian believe that clo urns say an that 1 re simply to nothing creasing i 1 Bed A GOOD DAIRYMAN Our re that if fit ada, and ougnt io can abla to nt abie to p whore out it tae corn Writing of lie belt winters with to the Canad Batre pats an Da‘rym SAYS fous d 13 one dairy i requ ires too much sity on ¥ 3 1ge me ge that it gave as oasfer ET about acre of sug he hogs who well a kind On my always grows corn Is he has farm, 108g some the farm en first 1g at five by six work Is We start f are through ! giv attention n o'clock and o'clock “It 1 I started dairy well satisfied obtained. 1 that 14 to each from ded toodis ven 8 #0 years this spring = oe farming and I am the results 1 have books They show during the last five years cows have averaged me cream alone The skimmidk and calves ad that My hogs averaged $400 a year “During the past five years, | have i sold $562.45 worth of grain and bought worth of bran, shorts and of! leaving a balance of $158 in my On my 100acre farm, my ae i" with Keep me my 88a turns he ‘pa ih for Tre to cake, favor. 50 each year and my hogs, $400 CORN FERTILIZATION study of corn fertilization has conducted by the Connecticut For six successive years the yield acre was seventy bushels land dressed with manure dressed with hog bushels: land chemicals, sixty-three without manure or kind, thirty-seven The sixth crop was largest the hog manure plot, but the av | erage yield per acre showed but lit {tle difference between the crops that were fed with either | the fertilizing materials, but they all showed an increase in yield of about | fifty per cent over the land that ro i ceived no fertilizer of any kind. The amount of dry matter—upon which the feeding value of a crop depends—varied but very little, which indicated that the feeding qualities of the corn were influenced but little, if any, by the fertilizer used, but show ed plainly that the value of the corn when used depended almost entire ily upon the cultivation, and curing of the Witness, A been per on land seventy-four with land chemicals of ‘any three Cow fertilized crop. — Weekly SELL, FANCY BIRDS Have you bought good birds an! neglected them, and but to sell.” If we do not remem: e get will remind us of It sultyg | foreibly. saloon business, ce 00-00-0060 9+-0-0-09 Russian Farmers In Kansas Keep Their Money | in Cans ~, Boots Raow po thing of Banking, Nor Do They Want +o I.earn. er . A 9+ @ 0-99-0900 + BeBe G-0 of “A large tof Ellis C | slang of { tion t i i A portion the population up Rus. no working knowledge ) ystem or 0 learn anythi about Hayes City, banker “They banking strong | consists of a tin an old vault ; in the } some unty is who have our be made of disposi it,” said ng tKan,) thelr Own do Their i can or safely $ he want man country is "Our deposits Ameri f the Ra 4H We among the in ans have ign m ind r younger ol begins ¥ 3 Russian er many and fleld jiglous arises ’ rday idays RECNCY Russ bath day and keeping it holy Ame {rue boll and them dur re. pre an from remembering of re! Ruaslans the igions the have many of summer days ig basy months it was y-iwo the YOArs my then they like guinea pigs It the family met And older thes relatives first usgian ool ot . Ellis « muti mnty. Since plied timated that average tains eleven time to get in financial back to Russia friends and the colony ing right along More than twenty families been brought over this year is pay the the and his family to this is compelied to repay his benefactor in work When this debt wiped off the slate he Huys farm on stick.” Any a farm that way His fri : lends him enough to get started, and in a few years, usually four or five, he pays for his farm and has monty in the tin can. Then he Is himself, to send to Rusia for a rela tive or friend One secret of the money making ability of the Russians is that they raise enough children to 40 the work They employ no outside labor to speak of except In harvest time, and then very much. Again they are no only frugal, but very plain livers and dressers. They only wear enough to hide their bodies in summer and to keep warm in the winter. shore fr time, as the gottlers shape, ’ send word » or ANd keeps increas Mon advanced to 1E08 immigrant He exnen is + on Fewer socks, per capita, are worn here than any place in America. A Russian cannot understand why socks | and boots are both necessary. Neith. er are they inclined to recreation. An amusement concern would starve to death among them. A street fal” is In progress here this week. The , Russians do not patronize [L. Their | children are deprived of the delight ‘of riding on the merry-goround or | the Ferris wheel. They can ge! enough riding In the harvest fields on real horses and wagons, 80 . the old folks say. ! The Russian have one trait that is repugnant to Americans, and that Is their treatment of the daughters, No | Russian girl gets a share of her par | ent's property. It all goes to . the boys. As a rule the family hangs to: gether like beeswax. The father handles all the funds. When a boy get married or ls deemed competent to start out for himself the old man sets aside a quartersection of land for him. This Is repeated to the other boys as they get old enough | to branch out for themselves. But up until thit time the father keeps all the money and buys thelr cloth. ing for them and feeds them The girls are always provided with good homes and plenty to wear, such as it is, but they never get any farm. After the boys are all provided for and the old man still has land left he divides It up among the boys in his will The only show the girls have is to get married. That's wha they are for. 8o the parents aver They marry young. The records show that 756 per cent. of the Russian brides are under eighteen years of age, One little Russian mother, who is now twenty years his four Wr only children. old, CANNED THUNDER. Dynamite in the Making, As Setn A! a Great Plant, So thoroughly deceptive | in the making t disappointed of things fancy ing s¥ ne 5 dvnamite apt surface hat are to be wing tl could you on You rboltg leapl blue forces vie thunde from tender fearful under most hidden are suc terior Nitroglycer ine, would miles land around Of cape you and ing stage ine expert irons iuminate nati Al BOQUEn is agitated tured Around you pra are other houses distanceg apart, a series of narrow-gauge erein workmen are itrogiycerine from Gere In and tra wh n ling house ready to pass cerine house phore =i to whic hurried Aroun ong tons of nnd wont tly this pulp w hi eno will assume 2 eaior under the nitrating than Proce ng carbon judson and suddenly becom gs, tiercules, foroite the > or what virtues pow it iynamite jer develops quasi dynamite atine in which more patural condensed to the cublc anywhere else or gel forces are ox int in creation. Death ions and tons. Annihilation threat ens al every turn, in the form of po tential pulverizing forces But 1h man and the mercury are there aise alert, regponsive, reliable Leslie’ A ROLLING PLANT. California Cactus Which Blows Around the Desert for Months. Curious among desert, Th says the Technical World is plant, a round, compact growth for some eight or nine months of the tossed hither and yon by the thote months. Atl the coming of the rains, or rath er the cloudbursts, which sweep the in its springtime, this cactus takeg root wherever it happens te it was the plaything and immediately begins to put out al around its small shoots, which in ture become cacti, exactly like the par ent plant, These young growths increase size rapidly, sucking in the surrounding earth. The roots do not penetrate the soll deeply, bul spread often over a circle whose radius is not less than ten feet. Theae roots, too, are small, innumerable, and they get every bl of moisture and plant food to be had in the territory they cover, Maxim Gorky has written a new drama whioh is about to be publish od in a St. Petersburg magazine pre vious to a stage production. It 1s entitled, “The Lowest of the Low” and is a tragedy of graft, RI SRS. 0 WR The mutton on market of London de ton received at that point from Aus tralia are constantly Increasing YaoTer%ev7arTev7av7a07 Tre ve sere WORTH QUOTING s ae enh ot oe, revi 2 A thing as proud confesses | be asked subscr of some corporaticn a red cent that of the about he maxes a4 man himself as New York he can . is to stock when he hasn't Press to ft ibe ww the demand not raliroad rates is { showing of dull { New York Mall | “the boom" as based It well quent depres ‘Die and the fresha me jife by mean but jet him respe er people lo choose od for themselves its victims tubercle baci air, it t ut there are 4 rejoice out of oth it doors generally ie vil od ve Bronchit when Fifty years ago General Sam Hous ton of Texas & resolution on foreign report as government claring and main proieciorate over i joo, Nicaragua, ( Honduras and San form and to such an be necessary gecure the poopie of sald States the blessings of goo republican government.’ laid this resolution or {irecting commited relations: to the of the the inquire ane expediency of the rs States efficient th 5 8 . { Aeox sata Rica, Guatemala Se vador, in } as shal to fled de "|e extent Io 10 i and stable { The senate | the table —— Every native-born American its an Intultive knowledge of pumpkin ple. He cannot escape exercise of this mysterious facuity if he wonld. It is bound up in the very roots of his being, along with love of home and mother, Washington Post. If the coal trust the jee trust, th oll trust ang al | the other trusts are wise they will see that there 13 no pumpkinpie trust. The public is a patient ass and will bear many a burden. Dut | there is a limit that cannot be passed. inher real the ws The marked tendency toward an In most satisfactory and encouraging feature of the era of prosperity. There is no doubt of the reality of this | movement, to the Boston Post, It la | felt and manifested lo all scotras | of the country and in all branches of industry. Moseover it is not due to violent agitation on the part of labor, but to a recognition of the right of Smplogass to a more nearly equal share in the gains of production. And | for this reason it ls the more gra‘ity. The General Demand of the Well-Informed of the always been for a simple, efficient liquid laxative value; a laxatis l smnction for family ponent wholesome Acceptable THE DUT base Materialist, Hicks' Capudine Cures Women's The Senator's EAry posit tor « eratic quite not model for vy § § Fol figur But the wore ab clothes ye were were with When the ti} gave a sigh of vork flown fraye {iM now They scendant word wae law 000 red men, erty n the shi 1.2 wampsett, Mass Tew ma and Wooton At is being made {0 secur or those | of the royal bl i of the Wam grnition En vie oy ¥ a material reco rights and of the ancestors, the n performed fo England For g frie ndship and w services whi © ¥ mighty =a the pior thout New EL struggl ing colonists swept from the iil » sol protection the heen WE have ago Ne oul MOTHER AND CHILD Both Fully Nourished on Grape-Nuts.. The walue of this famous food is in addition to be expected from iis Grape-Nuts food is made of whole and barley, Is thoroughly ingredients in, It eontains also the phosphate of potash grown in the grains, which Nature uses to build up brain and nerve cells. Young children require proportion. ately more of this element because. the brain and nervous system of the child grows so rapidly. A Va. mother found the value of Grape-Nuts in not only building up her own strength but in nourishing her baby at the same time. She writea: “After my baby came I did not re- and the doctor said 1 could not nurse the baby as 1 did not have nourishment for her, besides §} was too weak. “He said 1 might try a change of diet and see what that would do, and’ recommanded Giape-Nuts food. I bought a pkg. and used it regularly. A marked change came over both baby and IL “My baby is now four months old, is in fine condition, 1 am nursing her and doing all my work and never felt better in my life.” “There's a Rea son.” Name given by Postum Co., Battie Creek, Mich, Read “The Road to: Wellville,” In pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A pew one appears from time to time, They wre genuine, true, and full of buman, Interest.
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