Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 30, 1910, Page 6

Snuff and a Crook. Robert Pinkerton once told a 'story of his father, the founder of the de- tective agency, which illustrates the elder Pinkerton's caution. A noted criminal was detained in Pinkerton's Chicago office. The elder Pinkerton left the roowm and when he returned took the precaution of holding a re- wolver in froot of him ready for use. He saw the criminal standing by the door with a snuffbox he had picked up from Pinkerton's desk In his hand. “This is good snuff,” affably re- marked the crook as he took a sniff. “For the eyes or the nose?’ asked Pinkerton, who knew that the crook tad intended to blind him in an effort to escape. “Well.” remarked the criminal, “I'm sorry to say that the nose gets it this time.” Appius Claudius. Appius Cluudius, surnamed Caecus {the blind). was a Roman statesman who lived during the third century be- fore the Christian era. He was a Ro- man censor. 312 to 308, and consul 807 to 206. He commenced the Ap- plan way -and completed the Appian aqueduct. [from his Roman juris- prudence, oratory, grammar and Latin prose date their beginning. He abol- ished the limitation of the full right of citizenship to landed proprietors. In his old age he is said to have be- come blind, whence bhis cognomen “Caecus.”” He was the author of works in both prose and verse, of which almost nothing is known. SKIN AND SCALP TROUBLES YIELD TO ZEMO. A CLEAN LIQUID PREPARATION FOR EXTERNAL USE. The City Drug Store is so confi- ‘dent that ZEMO will rid the skin or scalp of infant or grown person of pimples, blackheads, dandruff, -eczema, prickly heat, rashes, hives, dvy poison or any other form of skin -or scalp eruption, that they will give ‘your money back if you are not en- tirely satisfied with the results ob- tained from the use of ZEMO. The first application will give prompt relief and show an improve- ment and in every instance where ased persistently, will destroy the germ life, leaving the skin in a clean, healthy condition. Let us show you proof of some re- markable cures made by ZEMO and ! )give you a 32 page booklet how to preserve the skin. The City Drug]| Store. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. ‘Sealed proposals will be received by the 'Clty Clerk on or before the 10th day of Ucto- ber 1910, for the building of alockup. remodel- ing the City Hall, and for the heating and plumbing of said City Hall and Lockup. Contractor may furnish bid for the three contracts or separate bids may be submitted for each contract. The City Council wiil open and consider all bids at their regular meeting of above date at § o'clock p. m. Ten percent of bid in form of certified check on a Bemidji bank shall accompany each bid. o ‘The couhcil reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of Uity Clerk or at the oftice of H.E. Reynolds. THOS. MALOY. CITY CLERK. H.E. REYNOLDS, ARCHITEUT. ‘Sept. 29. Oct. 6. WOOD! Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S. P. HAYTH Telepbone 11 R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER ‘Office 313 Beltramli Ave. Phone 319-2. FACIAL Defects QUICKLY CORRECTED [ The chief surgeon of the Plastic Surgery Institute quickly rights 4 all wrongs with the human face or features without knife or pain { to the entire satisfaction and de- {light of every patient. The work i} is as lasting as lifeitself. Ifyou { have a facial irregularity of any kind write Plastic Surgery Institute Corner Sixth and Hennepin MINNEAPOL'S, MINN. L R R R R o R o T; Fall Tillage Most Beneficial to Soil. gl ol o ech LR o ote . D. Wilson, Minnesota Agri- cultural College. + okt bbbkt The idea seems to be quite genera! that tillage, with the exception ol plowing, is all done in the spring. The past year, however, has furnished an excellent illustration of the value of conserving, during the fall, any mois- ture that may fall on the fields, and of leaving the field in such condition dur ing the winter that it will take up as much moisture as possible. Loss of Moisture During Fall. Moisture is lost from the soil by twa methods: First, by evaporation from the surface of the soil; and second, by its being drawn from the soil by grow- ing plants. When grain crops are har vested, the fields are as a rule left bare, with the exception of growing weeds. Where they are bare, evapora- tion goes on very rapidly, because the soil has become settled during the summer and any subsoil moisture is rapidly brought to the surface and evaporated. The surface of the soil being hard and compact, any rain that falls is more likely to run off over the surface than to settle into the ground. Where weeds are growing, they draw large quantities of moisture from the soil, which is as completely wasted as 13 the portion evaporated. Disc Stubble Fields. Much good can be done by discing the fields soon after harvest. This breaks up the crust, checks evapora: tion, destroys weeds, covers up weed- seeds so that they will germinate and grow, to be killed later by the frost; and leaves the surface of the soil loose, so that rain falling upon it will settle into it. Plowing. b b > It has been thoroughly demonstrat- ed, in many instances, that fall plow- ing is preferable to spring plowing for practically all .crops. : If plowing can be done early, discing the stubble fields is unnecessary; but if the plow- ing cannot be done-until late in Octo- ber, it is better. to disc the fields first if .possible. The advantage of fall plowing over spring plowing is that it checks the evaporation of moisture from the subsoil. The furrow slice ot course dries out, but it acts as a sur- face mulch and prevents the water from the subsoil from moving up tc Plowing a good straight furrow. Plow ing is the first operation in the prep- aration of land for crops. the surface. It allows the soil all winter in which to settle down, so that the furrow slice becomes connect- ed with the subsoil; and next spring when crops are planted, they can draw on the subsoil moisture; while if planted on spring-plowed land, they are partially shut out from this mois- ture, because the soil is so loose that moisture does not move readily up through it and thus reach the plant roots, which, in the early stages of growth, are entirely in the furrow slice. Harrowing Fall Plowing. We do not deem it advisable to har- row fall plowing in the fall, unless some crop is to be sown on it in the fall; because the plowing will check the evaporation of moisture without harrowing; and, if the land is left rough, it catches snow better; rain is more likely to settle into it than to run off over the surface, and the soil is in a much more mellow condition in the spring. Anyone who has observed cultivated flelds has noticed that, when the ground thaws out in the spring, the Jumps of dirt left by the plow thaw out on the outside first and then crum- ble off, and by the time the ground is thawed out and the surface a little dry, these lumps fall apart into a mel- low seed-bed. While, if the soil were dragged the fall befsre, it would be solid and compact, and moisture would be constantly moving up to the surface from below, thus keeping the surface wet and cold; and it would re quire more work in the spring to get a mellow, loose seed-bed than it would if left rough in the fall. £ + +* * EoROR S R R R KRR e e e o e e Small grain must enter into practical crop rotation, as a market crop. Cultivated crops must enter into crop rotation, so that weeds may be Kkept down. RO OR R R R R R I+++++’l‘+++++++++i % Very Good Method of % Seed Grain Selection. < & o kol * A. D. Wilson, Minnesota Agri- * i culstural (::.vlleg:.t ol : o ol ol oo ofe oo ofe ofe ofe oo oo oo ofe oo ofe ofe o Practically every one is aware of the advantages gained by sowing good seed. We submit this article with a view to encouraging farmers to take a new step in the selection of their Bkl bbbk d seed grain. The common practice on most - farms is to market or feed a large portion of the grain raised dur- ing the fall and winter; and in many instances, when seeding time comes, there is little more grain in the bins than is necessary for seed. This makes it impossible to make a careful selec- tion of seed grain. The method we earnestly advise is to select, from a large portion of the grain threshed, the largest and plump- est kernels to be used for seed; then sell or feed the balance of the grain. In this way one can get the very best seed out of all that he raised. Grain is easily and cheaply sep- arated in this way by running it through a common side-shake fanning mill. The wind blast will make a sep- aration of the grain by weight, as it will blow the lighter kernels farther than the heavy kernels. A screen can Diagram of a side-shake fanning mill set for grading grain, both by size and weight of kernels. be set in the lower part of the mill, at such a distance from the rear end of the machine that the lighter kernels will be blown over the end of it and the heavier kernels on it. This screen should be coarse enough so that the small kernels will fall through. The screen will then convey to the front end of the mill only the large, heavy kernels. If one takes but from 10 to 25 per cent of the largest, plumpest kernels out of the grain he raised, he can usually get a most excellent qual- ity of seed. Two men with a fanning mill can separate grain in this way at the rate oi from thirty to forty bushels per hour. If they run through 300 bush- els of grain in a day and save out 25 per cent of it for seed, they will have seventy-five bushels of very.good and clean seed grain. These seventy-five bushels of grain would cost but two days’ labor, or about $4 more than seventy-five bushels of grain of the average run. This would mean an additional cost for the seed grain of between 5 and 6 cents per bushel, and it would be the best seed raised, and would be absolutely clean. We urge that grain-growers give this matter some consideration before disposing of their grain. For further information on this sub- ject, write for Experiment Station Bul- letin No. 115. b b d b bbbl b Bull thistles, common in pas- tures, cannot always be killed by mowing. Mowing tends to prevent maturity of seed. Cut- ting off the thistles just below the surface of the ground, two or three times a year, will ef- fectually eradicate them. Work- ing the ground in a rotation of grass, grain and corn is a very sure way of eradicating weeds, and is practiced at the Minne- sota Experiment Station. fobdecbebpcbdobbobbdb kg B e a i i a a a a EE R TR POTATOES AS HOG FEED. Show They Produce Good Results. Potatoes make very good feed for hogs, and if cheap enough are econom- ical. Experiments show that four and one-half pounds of potatoes are about equal to one pound of corm. Both being of a starchy nature, a nitrogenous food should be fed to make a balanced ration. A good ra- tion, as suggested by the Minnesota kixperiment Station, would be twenty Experiments pounds of potatoes, eight pounds of ! corn, and one and one-half pounds of tankage. Grinding the corn and mix- ing it with tankage would be a good plan. This mixture could be fed in a trough, and the raw potatoes on the feeding-floor or on the ground. If it is convenient to cook the: potatoes, they might be mixed with the tankage and corn. Cooked potatoes are prefer- able to raw ones; but sometimes the cooking involves an expens: that is hardly warranted, when rompared with the results obtained. Feed no more at a time than is eaten clean and quickly. Not over seven or eignt pounds should be fed per hundred weight. o cfod ok ek of ok kb bkl oo b The silo supplies what is practically summer feed for cows all through the year. All experiment stations, including that of Minnesota, concur in this idea. doole ok oo foole ol o R ool ofe ol oo ol o e o kb bbbk od bt s T, oS Antiquity of Shorthand. Shorthand is apt to be looked upon as an essentially modern art. The predecessors of Pitman—Byrom in the eighteenth century, Mason in the sev- enteenth—are dim and distant tigures beyond which it seems useless to ven- ture. Cicero dictated his orations to his freedman, T. Tullius Tiro, and was inconsolable when temporarily depriv- ed of his services, He complained in a letter to a friend that, while “Tiro takes down whole phrases in a few signs, Spintharus (his provisional sub- stitute) only writes in syllables.” We need not, however, suppose that the “pnotae Tironianae” were actually in- vented by the freedman in question As M. Guenin points out, the Romans created very few of the arts of peace. contenting themselves, as a rule, by copying from the Greeks. M. Guenin. however, Indicates the banks of the Nile as the cradle of the art.—T. P.'s London Weekly. A Boomerang. “Call that art!" exclaimed a would be critic, pointing to a painting in a studio. *If that daub is a work of art, then I'm an idiot!" *“The latter part of your statement.” rejoined the artist calmly, “would seem to furnish conclusive proof that it is a work of art.” MR. RENTER Have you ever stopped to think that every few years you p actically pay for the house you live in and yet do not own it? Figure it up for yourself. . Thecdore Roosevelt says: “No Investment on earth i so safe, so sure, 5o certain to earich its owners as undevelopzd realty.” We will be glad to tell you about the City of Be- midji. and quote you yprices with easy terms of payment if desired on some of the best residence and business propertv in that rapidly growing City. A letter addressed to us will bring you tull part cu- lars or if you prefer to see the property, call on H. A. Simons, at Bemidji. The Soo Railroad will be runming its freight and passenger trains into Bemidji within a few months; investigate the opportunities offered for business on a small or large scale. Bemidji Townsite & Improvement Co, 404 New York Life Bullding ST. PAUL MINNESOTA It You Are Looking For A Home READ THIS $350 $5500 avenue. 8-room house, strictly modern, full basement, corner lot 50x120, fine location. large modern house, three lots, on Beltrami - $2100 10-room house, one block from lake. These lots may be bought on very easy terms, and I have several others from $900 up. H. E. REYNOLDS Building Contractor and Real Estate Broker ROOM 9, O'LEARY-BOWSER BUILDING Office Phone 23. House Phone 316. Bemidji, Minn. Ederheimer Stein & Co. and Kohn Bros. 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