Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 27, 1903, Page 7

IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE, . People in every walk of life have bad backs. Kidneys go wrong and_ the back be- gins to ache. Cure sick Fil Kidneys and = backache quickly dis- appears, Read this testimony €nd learn how it can be done. A. A. Boyce, a farmer living three and a half miles from Trenton, Mo., Says: “A severe cold settled in my Kidneys and developed so quickly that I was obliged to lay off work on ac- count of the aching in my back and Sides. For a time I was unable to walk at all, and every makeshift I tried and all the medicine I took had not the slightest effect. My back con- tinued to grow weaker until I was un- fit for anything. Mrs. Boyce noticed Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised as a ‘ Sure cure for just such conditions, and one day when in Trenton she brought @ box home from Chas. A. Foster’s drug store. I followed the directions carefully when taking them and I must Say I was more than surprised and much more gratified to notice the backache disappearing gradually, until it finally stopped.” A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Boyce will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Real Distinction. Miss Redingote—No, Aunt Brindle, I am not engaged. When I marry it wil’ be a great man. Mrs. Brindle (doubtfully)—Well, I dunno, You can’t always tell how a man will turn out. Now there’s Jo- siah— Miss Redingote—You don’t mean to say Uncle Brindle has ever distin- guished himself! Mrs. Brindle—Well, I'll tell you what le did. I sent him down to the store with a ribbon the other day and he matched it—New York Times. Selling Cream for Cash. Cream, like the agriculturists’ grain or miners’ gold, can now be sold for cash. A new system of buttermaking enables the most perfect creamery, just complet- ed by R. E. Cobb at St. Paul, to buy hand separator cream at any point within 400 miles from St. Patil. This: house also pays cash for butter, eggs and poultry throughout Minnesota, Dakota and Wisconsin. By writing to R. E. COBB, St. Paul, Minn., you will immediately receive prices and full par- ticulars. Could Mention Two. “By the way,” said the doctor, “the president is talking about the ‘fighting virtues.’ What are they?” “Well,” responded the professor, * “there are benevolence and caution, for instance. They are always fight- ing each other.”—Chicago Tribune. Makes Her Feel Foolish. “Something that invariably makes me feel like a fool,” remarked the pleasant little Mount Pleasant matron, “is when a feeble-looking man offers me his seat in a car and I refuse to take it he replies, always rather dis- gustedly, ‘Oh, I’m going to get off at the next corner, anyhow.’ ”—Washing- ten Post. Stops the Uough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price25c. Woman’s Best Friend. Patience—Woman is woman’s best friend, after all. Patrice—I guess you're right. ‘Certainly I’m right. Even when she is getting married doesn’t a man give her away and her maid of honor stand up for her?—Yonkers States- man. Fi nara rmanently cured. No fitsor nervousness after FITS Resr ‘day's use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restor. er. Send for FR oH B2.OO trial bottle and treatica. Da. R. H. Kine, Ltd. 931 Arch Street. Philadelphia, Pa Do not treat your dearest friends like a cobblestone here and then give them a marble shaft when dead. The most polite people in the world are those who have gold bricks to sell you. Ido not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs a:d colds.—Joan F Boren, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. 15, 1900 The older a girl-gets the more re- spect she has for the wisdom of her mother. Look for this trade mark: ‘‘ The Klean, Koo: Kitchen Kind.” ‘The stoves without smoke, ashes or heat. Make comfortable cooking. You can’t measure a genius by the length of his hair. Some people never tire of doing good because they never do any. Gles @rbolisalve The Great Skin Remedy will stop the pain of burns and scalds at once and there will be no scar. Don't wait ‘until someone gets burned but Keep a box handy. 25 and 50 cents by all druggists. WESTERN CANADA Is attracting more attention than any other distric! fn the world. «The Granery of the World.” ‘The Land of Bun- shine.” The Natural Feeding Grounds for Stock Area under crop in 1902 , . . 1,987,330 acres. Yield 1902. . . 117,922,754 bushels. J Abundance of Water, Fuel Plentiful; Cheaz Building Material; Gooc Grass for pasture and hay; a fertile soil; a nt rainfall and 9 climate giving an as sured and adequate season of growth. HOMESTEAD LANDS OF 160 ACRES FREE. Close to Churches, Schools etc. Railways tap all settled districts. Send for Atlas and other literature to Buperintende tion, Ottawa, or to E. T. Holmes, Ci ‘Government Agent, $15 Jackson 8t., St. Paul, Minn., who will supply you certificate giving you reduced railway rates, etc, | tions Grain Ration for Steers. In the heart of the corn belt, where feeding operations are conducted on a much larger scale than in this state, the steer is usually supplied corn ad libitum, says Professor W. A. Henry. Often this grain is thrown to him in such quantities that all of it is not even swallowed, some falling to the ground to be trampled under foot in the filth, possibly to be picked up by pigs running in the feed lot. In many of our middie western states from twenty to thirty pounds, in a few cases as much as thirty-five pounds, of corn are fed to the steer daily for weeks at a time. Then, too, there is little variety to the feed given. Some- times corn constitutes the sole con- centrate and straw, hay, or more often cornstalks, constitute the only rough- | age. It is. true that as a rule we in Wisconsin do not place quite so much grain before our steers as do the feed- ers farther south, but still the allow- ance is heavy, and there is often no thought of attempting to reduce it in any way. When corn was cheap— only a few dollars a ton—it did not matter much whether the steer ate a few pounds more or less, especially in seasons when cattle sold well. The cost of corn, however, is steadily ri- sing, and this increase is not alto- gether met by an equal rise in the price of fat cattle. The burning ques- tion, then, is, Is it possible to fatten our steers on a smaller allowance of grain than has been customary in the past? In helping answer this ques- tion let me first call the atteation to feeding operations in Great Britain. No one can say that the beeves of Scotland and England when sent to market are not well fattened. What is the practice of the English and Scotch farmer in regard to the amount of grain which he allows his bullocks? I have spent considerable time in going through the literature on the subject, and am surprised to find that the British feeder gives to his fattening beeves but a small grain allowance. Searching authentic sources of information, I find that the usual grain allowance for the fatten- ing steer in England and Scotland ranges from six to eight pounds a head daily. In a few cases it reached ten pounds, and in only one case out of a score or more of reports have I found it stated that so much as twelve pounds of grain was fed to a steer in a single day, and this amount only at the close of the feeding period. The grains used in Britain consist usually of barley, cornmeal, cottonseed meal, and linseed meal. You all know that the turnip or rutabaga, as we call it, is extensively used in feeding opera- in Great Britain. With the smal] grain ration is fed from 50 to 100 pounds of sliced turnips, four or five pounds of cut straw, and from five to ten pounds of hay, either cut or long. On this ration the steer in England and Scotland makes a gain of between one and _ three-quarters and two pounds daily, or say, from fifty to sixty pounds per month. There is no need of saying that the English stockman does not fatten his bullocks or that they are inferior to ours when they are sold for the block. The English stockman, as a rule, has good cattle, and he usually puts them on the market in a finished condition. s Cost of a Pound of Beef. One who has followed carefully the feeding experiments cannot but be im- pressed with the great variation in the amount of feed required to pro- duce a pound of beef, says Professor Frederick B. Mumford. I have given this somewhat careful study, and I have found that the number of pounds of grain required to produce a pound of gain at the different-stations has varied from two pounds to fifteen pounds. Even when the same grain ration is used the variations in the amount of grain required to produce a pound of gain are very great. In one experiment at the Missouri experi- ment station, where corn was the principal grain ration, three pounds of corn were sufficient to produce one pound of gain, while at the Kansas station, where corn was the principal grain ration, it required fourteen pounds of corn to produce one pound of gain. Now, if the profit is largely dependent upon the amount of grain required to produce a pound of beef, then a knowledge of the conditions which make it possible to produce a pound of beef with one-half the quan- tity of grain will be of the greatest possible assistance in determining upon the methods employed in prefit- able cattle feeding. One of Nature’s Tricks. It is well known that many insects bear a close resemblanée to leaves, twigs and other things, and there is no doubt that this is for their pro- tection against, or their, concealment from, their enemies. One of the most remarkable cases of this kind was recently made known to the Entomo- logical society of London. It is that of a spider that lives in the rocks near Cannes. A certain kind of moth in- habits the rocks also and their cases are to be found all about. It was no- ticed that the spider, when at rest, looked exactly like one of the moth cases. The cows in Belgium wear earrings. The law decrees that every cow wher it has attained the age of 3 months ' must have in its ear a ring, to which is attached a numbered metal tag. Clean and Dirty Milk. From the Farmers’ Review: Many dairymen apparently fail to recog: nize the fact that when milking and caring for milk they are handling hu- man food and that it should be treat- ed as such. In many dairies the milker goes to his task with soiled hands and dust-laden clothing and without so much as brushing the loose dyst and dirt from the cow. Un- der such conditions much filth must of necessity find its way into the milk. No other food is produced in such filthy surroundings as is fre- quently the case with milk and no other food will absorb odors so read- ily and become tainted so quickly as will milk. It is, therefore, doubly important that great care be exercised to have milk produced under the most sanitary conditions possible. One can judge something of the amount of filth in milk by the sediment found at the bottom, but only a small part of the contamination is in visible form. Milk sours because of the presence of certain kinds of bacteria, which, act- ing upon the sugar of the milk, change it into lactic acid. Other organisms cause different changes,some offensive to taste and smell and a few danger- ous to health. Tlese bacteria are living organisms, though so extremely minute that 250 of them placed side by side are equal only to the thick- ness of ordinary writing paper. While thorough straining will remove all visible filth the greater part of it is in solution which, of course, will pass through even the best of strainers. Milk in the udder of a healthy cow is both pure and sterile, and if it could be drawn and handled without con- tamination would remain sweet and wholesome for an indefinite length of time. However, bacteria accumulate and multiply in such places as mud holes, manure heaps, seams of uten- sils not thoroughly cleansed, or where animal or vegetable matter not liv- ing is exposed to warmth and mois- ture. They are present in dirt and dust of every description, and because of their great numbers and their wide diffusion no practical method has yet been devised by which milk may be drawn absolutely free from contami- nation with living germs. Yet they are unnecessarily numerous in milk as or- dinarily drawn, because it contains a thousand times more bacteria than that which may be obtained by using extreme care in regard to cleanliness. Hence the necessity for keeping every- thing about a dairy scrupulously clean, particularly in hot weather when conditions are especially favor- able to. bacterial growth. Clean milk will not only remain sweet longer, but as everyone knows is a more whole some food. If it were more fully reai- ized that milk is a food and not sim- ply a commercial commodity it would seem that dairymen would not allow so much filth to get into it—W. J. Fraser, University of Illinois, Scrub Feeding. From Farmers’ Review: Men who grow live stock at home often become over-enthusiastic over pure-bred stock after returning from a visit to the agricultural fairs or fat stock show. They reason that the difference in size and appearance between the ribbon winners at the ring and their own stock at home is due solely to good breeding. Oftentimes good blood is sent home. The rapid change in form, and a tendency to early maturity do not take place. The good animal is given scrub conditions. A scrub farm- er with scru» feeding will soon make scrub stock out of the progeny of our | national prize winners, even though they have a long pedigree of royal blood. It takes an improved farmer who will improve his system of feeding | and care to handle successfully pure bred animals on the farm. He must know their characteristics; he must know the relation of various foods to animal nutrition, and then be willing | to bestow patient care and attention upon the animals he has in charge. Before launching into the business of breeding high-class animals the farm- er has much to learn; but if he will amply rewarded, not only in a financial way, but he will get what money can- not purchase—a genuine satisfaction | that he is doing a creditable work.— W. B. Anderson. Length of Hog’s Intestines, Darwin states that the nature of the food supplied the pig by man has evi- dently changed the length of the intes- tines. He quotes Cuvier as reporting the total length of the intestines of the wild boar to be nine times the body length; in the domestic boar 13.5 ta 1; in the Siam boar, 16 to 1. The writer measured the intestines of thirty-nine fattened hogs and found that the large intestine varied from 13 to 16 feet, and the small intestine from 54 to 60 feet in length. The average exteme body length of these animals was 3.5 feet. This makes the small intestine alone from 16 to 19 times the length of the body, and the large and small intestines combined about 21 times the body length. From these figures it appears that the intestines of pigs of the improved breeds are longer in proportion to the body than those given by Cuvier. This may indicate that the modern pig can digest his food more thoroughly than his ances- tors, and also that he can eat a larger quantity of food in a given time,— Prof. W. A. Henry. Progress at the Kansas Branch Sta- tion, From the Farmers’ Review: The heavy snows and early rains put thc ground in good shape for spring work The 200 acres of fall wheat sown is excellent. Of the 165 varieties sown all but 22 came through the winter Of those that did not get throug the larger part failed on account o! poor seed as no stand was secured A few winter killed. Only one of the nine varieties of rye sown gives prom: ise. The area devoted to each va riety varies from the small space giv en a few grains to over twenty acres The larger number are hybrids of the best varieties in this section, and va rieties that have been introduced from other countries where conditions are similar. It is the object to watct each variety carefully, with the hope of finding better yieldings, and mor< desirable varieties. Careful notes ar¢ taken frequently regarding each va riety. Some of them have already shown great promise. The Macaron: wheats are also receiving attention Five varietfes were sown on sod lasi spring, and in addition thirteen new varieties have been sown, covering ar area of nearly 40 acres, Also 22 va rieties of barley, and 18 varieties oj oats have been sown this spring. This makes 230 varieties of small grain or an area of 340 acres. The work witk grains and grasses is largely in co-op eration with the United States De partment of Agriculture. Work in ir rigation is also being begun in co operation with the irrigation investi gation. Large wells are being put down, and centrifugal pumps will be used to raise the water, which wil! be applied to various crops in com parison with the same crops not ir rigated. Quite 4 number of varieties of corn will also be tried. These have been collected from Old Mexico ané other places in the drier parts of the country. As a beginning in horticul ture and forestry, 400 fruit trees, con sisting of apples, peaches, plums ané cherries, and 300 berries have beer planted. One thousand forest trees have been set for shelter and shade. Four thousand small seedling cedars and pines are planted under a partial shade to give them as nearly as pos sible natural conditions. After twc years in the nursery they will be transplanted along the creek banks to beautify the twelve miles of timber that grows along the stream. The legislature last winter appropriated $32,500 for equipment and mainten- ance for the next two years.—J. G Haney, Fort Hays, Kans. Value of Barnyard Manure. Few realize the great value of barn- yard manure, in comparison with oth- er fertilizers. In the regions devoted to market gardening, barnyard ma nure is found to be a necessity, if large quantities of commercial fer- tilizers are to be used. In some way it assists the elements found in the manure, even though these elements may be the same as in the manure. In Germany some experiments along this line have given rather surprising results. The greatest yields of root crops were obtained only when barn- yard manure was used in conjunction with the commercial fertilizers. The experimenters there express the be- lief that this is due to the mechanical effect on the soil of the barnyard ma- nure. Another surprising result was the discovery that even though a very heavy application of nitrate of soda was made, the plants took up less ni- trogen than when barnyard manure was used in conjunction with it, and! 2 dressing of barnyard manure alone gave heavier crops of potatoes and turnips than when nitrogen, phoric acid and potash were applied in their commercial forms. A new fact seems to be brought to light, as it is said that a quantity of nitrogen taken up from the barnyard manure produced more substance than when the same quantity was taken up from the commercial fertilizer. Just how much the difference was we do not know, but if considerable, it should lead to some experiments to find the | f this. set himself to do it he is sure to be Sra acs The barnyard manure was found to be less valuable than manure from stalls where it had not been exposed to the weather. These experiments teach lessons that are applicable to soils of old lands, or such as are deficient in ni- trogen. It is evident that in soils having an abundance of available ni- | trogen and humus the application of barnyard manure would have little or no effect. For it is manifestly im- possible to scientifically treat any soil without knowing its mechanical construction, its content of available plant food and its usual supply of humus and moisture. The Argentine Corn Crop, Broomhall:—The Argentina corn crop is officially estimated at 147,857,- 000 bushels, which compares with a crop a year ago of £4,000,000 bushels, 73,700,000 bushels in 1901, and 60,00,- 000 bushels in 1900. The exportable surplus of the new crop is officially astimated at 108,000,000 bushels, which compares with 43,000,000 bushels actu- ally exported in 1902, and 39,800,000 bushels in 1901. Reid’s Yellow Dent corn was originated by Robert Reid, of Taze- well county, Illinois, in 1846. It is adapted to central and northern Illi- nois and similar latitudes. fea SMR ACH PEME, phos- | ‘An Ideal “os So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of 325 So. College St., Nashville, Tenn., of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. ~ Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy for female diseases equalled that at- tained by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and never during the lifetime of this wonderful medicine has the demand for it been so great as it is to-day. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and throughout the length and breadth of this great continent come the glad tidings of woman’s sufferings relieved by it, and thousands upon thousands of letters are pouring in from grateful women saying that it will and posi- tively does cure the worst forms of female complaints. Mrs. Pinkham invites all wo- men who are puzzled about their health to write her at Lynn, Mass., for advice. Such corre. spondence is seen by women only, and no charge is made. OHIO LAWYER’S BILL. Made Out a Bill for Listening to His Client’s Stories. Here is the story of an Ohio Lawyer who did not become a politician, as he was not built on political lines. It is told by a Washington man who was his clerk at one time. Lawyer B. was a gruff sort of personage and believed in making every one pay for every service. One of his clients was the the president of a bank, who, during the pendency of his case, dropped inte the lawyer’s office very frequently and told stories. The lawyer was a good listener and seemed to enjoy the sto- ries very much, but after the banker went out Lawyer B. would say: “Here, charge Mr. Blank $10 for an hour of my time. If I have got to listen to his stories he has got to pay me for it.” Finally the bill was made out and car- ried to the benker. It was an itemized account’ stating the date of each call. He scanned it closely and remarkgd: “He has made me pay for it pretty well, hasn’t he?” “Pay for what?” asked the clerk. “For listening to my stories.” And he paid the bill—Washington | Post. A Cure for Dropsy. Sedgwick, Ark., June 22d.—Mr. Ww. §. Taylor of this place says: “My little boy had Dropsy. Two doctors—the best in this part of the country—told me he would never get better, and to have seen him anyone else would have said they were right. His feet and limbs were swollen so that he could not walk nor put on his shoes. “When the doctors told me he would surely die, I stopped giving him their medicine and began giving him Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I gave him three pills a day and at the end of eight days the swelling was all gone, put as I wanted to be sure, I kept on with the pills for some time, gradu- ally reducing the quantity, till finally I stopped altogether. “Dodd’s Ktdney Pills certainly saved my chilid’s life. Before-using them he ‘was a helpless invalid in his mother’s arms from morning till night. Now he is a healthy, happy child, running and dancing and singing. I can never express our gratitude. '“Dodd’s Kidney Pills entirely cured our boy after everybody, doctors and all, had given him up to die.” Just as Good. Elderly Customer—Have you any preparations that will eradicate wrin- kles? Conscientious Druggist—No, ma’am, put we have a preparation that will fill them up.”—Chicago Tribune. Some people don’t care what hap- pens so long as it doesn’t happen to them. CHAMPION TRUSS EASY TS Wear. sk Your Physician's Advice. BOOKLET FREE. Piliadelphia Co., 610 Locust St, Phila, Pa, wests We BLOOD HUMOURS ‘Skin Humours, Scalp Humours, Hair Humours, Whether Simple Scrofulous or Hereditary Speedily Cured by Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills, Complete External and Interne! Treatment, One Dollar. 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