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PATENTS. | List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press building, St. Paul, Minn.: Tracy Campbell, Aberdeen, S, D., telephone call mechanism; John Crowley, Du- luth, Minn., railway track rail gage holder and brace therefor; Gustavus Duncan, Deadwood, S. D., apparatus for treating slimes in ore production; Marshall Lloyd, Minneapolis, Minn., tree guard; al ALFALFA VS. CLOVER. Deadly Parallel Drawn Between the Two Forage Crops. Alfalfa is ready for cutting a full month before red clover. There is a strong advantage in dairy farming, since green crops are needed at the earliest possible moment in the spring. After cutting, alfalfa springs into growth more promptly than clov- er and a second crop is produced within six to eight weeks. Clover lasts two years and alfalfa ten to thirty years. In New Jersey the av- erage yield of green forage per acre was 36,540 pounds: for alfalfa and 14,- 000 pounds for red clover. The wieghts of dry hay were 8,258 pounds and 4,088 pounds, and of protein 2,214 pounds and 616 pounds per acre, re- spectively. In the same state alfalfa was found to contain 1,809 pounds of dry matter and 265 pounds of protein per ton, as compared with 1,694 pounds and 246 pounds for clover. In other words alfalfa not only yields two and one-half times as much as red clover, but its feedimg value is much greater pound for pound. Country Life in America. The Reason Why. Drummond, Wis., Aug. 21st (Spe- cial)—Whole families in Bayfield County are singing the praises of Dodd’s Kidney Pills and the reason why is given in experiences such as that of Mr. T. T. Wold, a well-known citizen here, “I had such pains in my back that I did not know what to do,” says Mr. Wold, “and as I came across an adver- tisement of Dodd’s Kidney Pills, I sent for a box. That one box reliey- ed me of all my pains. My wife also used them and found them just what she needed. I recommend Dodd’s Kid- ney Pills as a sure cure for Back- ache and other Kidney Troubles.” Backache is one of the earliest symptoms of Kidney Disease. -Dodd’s Kidney Pills cure it promptly and per- manently and prevent it developing into Rheumatism, Dropsy, Diabetes or Bright’s Di e. A Little Mixed, After a meeting of the parish coun- cil in a New England town the chair- man rose to sum up. “You keep us here,” he said ‘’till 10 o’clock at night, and then you cast the town drains in our teeth. You keep us here plowing the sands, and then when all decent people are asleep you go into the public drains, causing un- nec y friction. It won't do—it’s too barefaced to hold -water.”—Har- per’s Weekly. Never Tired, One day several years ago a Yankee told a farmer that he was never tired. Well, my man,” said the farmer, “J think you will just suit me. I don’t like men who are always getting tired.” Then he set the Yankee hoeing weeds in a field. After a while the farmer came along to see how he was getting on, but was surprised to see the Yankee lying on the ground, fast asleep under a Hedge. The farmer e him a push and said: “I thought you teld me you never got tired.” The Yankee was scarcely awake, and after rubbing his eyes he said: “Well, boss, I never am tired, but if I did not lay down several times every day and have a good sleep I should get tired, like the rest of folks.” WRONG SORT Perhaps Plain Old Meat, Potatoes and Bread May Be Against You for a Time. A change to the right kind of food ean lift one from a sick bed. A lady in Welden, Ill, says: “Last Spring I became bed-fast with severe stomach trouble accompanied by sick headache. I got worse and worse until I became so low I could scarcely retain any food at all, al- though I tried every kind. I had be- come completely discouraged, had giv- en up all hope and thought I was doomed to starve to death, till one day my husband trying to find some- thing I-could retain brought home some Grape-Nuts. “To my surprise the food agreed with me, digested perfectly and with- out distress. I began to gain strength at once, my flesh (which had been flabby) grew firmer, my health im- proved in every way and every day. and in a very few weeks I gained 20 pounds in weight. I liked Grape-Nuts so well that for 4 months I ate no other food, and always felt as well sat. isfied after eating as if I had sat down to a fine banquet. “f had no return of the miserable sick stomach nor of the headaches. that I used to have when I ate other food. 1 am now a well woman, doin; al] my own work again, and feel thai life is worth living. “Grape-Nuts food has been a god send to my family; it surely saved my life and my two little boys have thriv- en on it wonderfully.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. “There’s a reason. Get the’ little book, “The Road tc Wellville,” in each pkg. — Ss Dark Stabies. I have just been over to one of my neighbors who has completed an addi- tion to his barn. In the addition are the stables for the cows and the horses. It is not wise for one to criti- cise his neighbor, or at least to the neighbor’s face, so I did not make any comments on the arrangements of the stables. But to the Farmers’ Review I will express the opinion that the stables built are all wrong. I do not see how it will be possible to keep them clean, The great objection to them is the fact that they are on the north side of the barn and have no windows at all except the small win- dows that are made for the purpose of throwing out the manure and which are kept covered with slides. Through these small apertures little light perco- lates. The stables will always be dark, and that means that they will be al- ways dirty and have in them bad smells. The man keeps six cows, and there is but one aperture behind the cows. Late in the winter the manure pile outsidé will be higher than the little window, which would not, of course, be left open in the winter any-, way. I have always found that a dark stable will continue to be a dirty stable, no matter for what animals it is used: A man does not generally ‘ight a lantern to find the dirt in his stable, and that means that the stable 's never perfectly cleaned out. The ase of water in the stable that is lark results in dampness and mold. I aave a strong sympathy for the ani- mals shut up in a dark stable, either summer or winter—James Williams, Cass Co., Neb.,.in Farmers’ Review. Wheat Screenings for Sheep. Wheat screenings may be fed to sheep with better results than to any other class of farm stock. Screenings tontain a large amount of weed seeds, and such seeds are not eaten generally by other stock than the sheep. Sheep naturally feed on weeds and weed seeds as well as on the grasses. This makes it safe to feed to sheep seeds of troublesome weeds. I was over in Western Canada awhile ago and found that they have laws against the sale of wheat screenings, except when it was certain that they were to be fed to sheep. The motive for the laws was to prevent the germination of these weed seeds. Where screenings can be obtained at a low price they can be fed at a profit to sheep, if to no other farm stock. Even the poultry seem to eat less of them than the sheep.—Joseph Bowler, Carroll Co., Ind., in Farmers’ Review. ’ Tending Toward Fineness. There has been much complaint about fineness in our breeds of swine. The real complaint should be that this fineness has been attained through loss of energy, power and prepotency. The ten- dency of ali breeds that are improving is toward fineness, and this is not necessarily to be abandoned because we have been destroying the vitality of our hogs. The destruction has come through wrong methods of feeding, especially in the matter of an overbal- ance of corn in the foods. Let us con- tinue to improve the quality of our hogs, but let us cease giving them mushy bones. Because a bone is small is no reason why it should not be strong. In the race horse we have fineness of bone with great strength, but the racehorse has ,had the best of food out of which to make such bone. A Good Bone Desirable. A good bone in a hog is a thing to be desired. The bone that is made of lime only and has in it no mineral matter is a very unreliable bone to have in an animal, even though he is to be used only for meat. The weakness of the pone is the cause of many hogs “go- ing down behind,” as it is called. A good many hogs get fat and their bones splinter and break being un- able to stand the strain. Proper feed, that not overbalanced on the side of the starches, will give good bone, but not a great improvement can be made in one swine generation. Cheap Beef on Young Steers. Cheap meat is made on young steers. The steer, from the time he is born till the time he reaches the age of two years, maintains practically a uniform rate of gain. This does not, of course, include the birth weight, which is fre- quently figured into the earlier gains, This increase in weight, though steady, does not mean that the gain the second year is made at the same cost as the first year. The amount of live weight to be kept ‘alive is constantly increasing, and 4lso mere food is required to make a pound of gain as the animal grows older. Utilizing the Hog. N. A. Clapp says: “One of the most economical ways of feeding corn to cattle is in the “shock. While at first thought this may seem like a slipshod method, with hogs to follow the cattle and to consume the undigested corn that passés the caitle, there is but little lost. Under this method the food con- sumed by the hogs would be well nigh valueless without them to con- sume it. Hogs fattened in that way yield a large profit.” Spirits of camphor will remove white spots made by wet or hot dishes on polished and varnished furniture. Avoiding Potato Ret. It has for many years been a theory of mine that the late blight of pota- toes is directly connected with potato rot., After I had come to this con- clusion I learned that the theory had been already proved by the scientists. One year I dug in the fall two fields that had been affected by the late blight. One field was dug while the potato vines were still green, and the potatoes from this field rotted badly in the cellar. We did not get around to digging the second field till after the frost had struck and killed all the tops in that field and a light crust had formed one night on the ground. The potatoes from that field kept well all through the winter. In both cases we picked out all the discolored potatoes produced in each field before storing them in the cellar. I have no doubt’ that the frost killed the blight spores in the latter field. Since that time, when I have had a potato field af- fected by blight, I have let the digging go as long as possible. But a man must not let them remain in the ground till the frost hardens the soil for the winter, else he will lose his potatoes.—Charles Comstock, Cass Co., Mich., in Farmers’ Review. The Cottony Grass Scale. In some of the eastern states dur- ing the past two years the cottony grass scale has been troublesome, de- stroying much grass. This is unusual, as the scale is not a new insect, but has generally been present in such small numbers that losses from it were considered insignificant. The present increase in its importance is supposed to be due to a sudden de- crease in the number of its parasitic enemies that kept it in check., Just how far westward it is working we have no record, but it is well to be on the lookout for it. The mature female scale lays an immense number of eggs, inclosing them in a small white sack, which is produced at the same time. Some times this sack is half an inch in length. When they are fully devel. oped they are easily seen. The remedy is to burn the dried grass, either in fall or spring, but it is just as well to leave them till spring if.the matter will not then be overlooked. The burning of the grass destroys the en tire generation. Farm Accounts. One of the greatest obstacles in the way of successful farming is the general lack of farm ac count’ ‘books. This science, the science of numbers, is regarded by the farmer as a side issue. He says that a crop will bring in just as much money whether he has kept an ac count of it or not. This is true, but if a man does keep account of all he does and of the profit and loss on every transaction, he will soon come to know the enterprises that lose money for him and avoid them. A farmer should know every day how much his obligations amount to, as by so doing he can keep from running up bills for farm appliances that he can. not pay. It will pay the farmer with a family to have one of his children learn bookkeeping and give that child the task of keeping the farm accounts in regular order. Day’s Work on the Farm. There is little reason why 8 day’s work on the farm should not be about the same as in any other place. The farm day has be come a joke with some people, whe claim to have been victims of it when they were young. On some farms only a fair day’s work is done, and that is as it should be. On other farms the day’s work is from four o’clock in the morning in summer till eight o’clock at night. That makes sixteen hours’ work. Hired men frequently revolt against that kind of a day and they are justified in doing so. The farmer’s wife, however, does not have a chance to revolt; she is too busy For her sake, if for no other reason, the farm day should not be any longer than it must be, which is much short of sixteen hours. Where that is the duration, management of the work is in bad hands. Trap Nests. Trap nests are those nests in which the hen lays an egg and then finds herself in atrap, which has been sprung by her own weight when she entered the nest. She must remain in her prison till some one comes to take her out. The attendant ‘| Was Fast Drifting reads the number on the hen’s leg and records the laying of the egg. The weakness about this plan is that it assumes an attendant present at al- most all times of day. The trap nest is very useful at experiment stations where some one is always at hand to nelp make the frap workable. It is also useful on those poultry farms where one or more persons have to give their time to the care of the poul- try. It will not prove useful gener ally on the farm. Co-operative Creameries. Co-operative creameries seem to be largely on the increase and are giving generally good | satis- faction. The managers have learned how to settle differences, with- out wrecking the creameries, and from the time that lesson is learned the success of a creamery is gener-/ ally assured, provided it is located in! @ community that produces enough } milk to keep it going. | Sith fe LOST 72 POUNDS, Into the Fatal Stages of Kidney Sickness. Dr. Melvin M. Page, Page Optical Co., Erie, Pa., writes: “Taking too many iced drinks in New York in 1895 sent me home with a terrible attack of kidney trouble. I had acute congestion, sharp pain in the back, head- aches and attacks of dizziness. My eyes gave out, and with the lan- guor and sleep- lessness of the disease upon me I wasted from 194 to 122 pounds. At the time I started using Doan’s Kid- ney Pills an abscess was forming on my right kidney. 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