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The Nature of the Work. “What made Mary go to preserving all at once?” “I think she saw the fruit and did it on an impulse.” “She couldn’t—there’s too much pre- meditation about it. Preserving is al- ways a put-up job.” Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrap- For children teething, softens the gurus, reduces tm- fammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. '25c. bettle- Some people do nothing but hate people who chew toothpicks on the street. FITS, St. Vitus Dance and Nervous Diseases permanently cured by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Send for Free $2.00 trial bottle and treatise. Dr. R. H. Kline, Ld., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. If a man says he likes to work it’s usually a sign that he is eligible for membership in an Ananias club. WE PAY TOP PRICES FOR CREAM. MILLER & HOLMES, St. Paul, Minn, Lots of men are se contrary that they would refuse to take whisky if the doctor prescribed it. WE SELL GUNS AND TRAPS CHEAP & buy Furs & Hides. Write for catalog 105 N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn. One little mistake in a drug store may cause more trouble than two bulls in a china shop. iDesoattend ee Uitetaieadi ne teak pon Weialanckuge resti hg, sweating feet, 2c. free. A. 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. There are countless people in the world who do not count for much. 48 THE DUTCH ¥ BOY PAINTER _STANDS FOR PAINT QUALITY 4 ITIS FOUND ONLYON MADE BY THE OLO DUTCH PROCESS, TOILET ANTISEPTIC Keeps the breath, teeth, mouth and body antiseptically clean and free from un- healthy germ-life and disagreeable odors, which water, soap and tooth preparations alone cannot do. A germicidal, disin- fecting and deodor- izing toilet requi: of exceptional ex- cellence and econ- omy. Invaluable for inflamed eyes, throat and nasal and uterine catarrh. At drug and toilet stores, 50 cents, or by mail postpaid. Large Trial Sample WITH “HEALTH AND BEAUTY" BOOK SENT FREE THE PAXTON TOILET CO.. Boston, Mass. SICK HEADACHE] SOM SPEC In a three-year rotation of corn, oats and clover, let us assume yields of 100 bushels per acre of corn and oats, four tons of clover and four bushels of clover seed. We may sow cowpeas in the corn, the last cultivation, and pos- sibly produce a catch crop of one-half ton to the acre. We will plan to husk the eat corn and leave the stalks on the land to be disked down for seeding oats and clover. The oats should be cut as high as possible and the threshed oat straw should be spread over the land either before or after rotting, as may be found best. The third year the clover may be clipped two weeks be- fore haying and left lying on the land, the second crop being harvested later for seed, using a buncher at- tached to the mower so as to avoid raking. The threshed clover straw should be spread over the land, and if rock phosphate is used it may be ap- plied and plowed under with all of the accumulated organic matter in prep- aration for the following corn’ crop which would begin the second rota- tion. These three crops remove about 173 pounds of nitrogen, while the clover and cowpeas return about 182 pounds of nitrogen, and together with the corn stalks and oats straw furnish a large supply of humus. This is a sys- tem of grain farming planned to main- tain the supply of humus and nitro- gen. If the yields are cut in two the basis of the system remains the same. Many other rotations for grain farm- ing might be followed, but in all cases liberal use must be made of legume crops, catch crops, other green manure crops, and crop residues in order to supply humus and nitrogen. In live stock farming take a five- year rotation, including corn two years, oats with clover and timothy seeding the third year, and two years of clover and timothy, using one year for hay and the other for pasture, as- suming the same yields as_ before. Shock one-half of the corn or put it in the silo; husk the other half and use the oats straw for feed and bed- ding. The four crops will remove from the soil about 369 pounds of nitrogen, and the clover hay -will contain about 120 pounds, which we assume was se- cured from the air, making 489 pounds of nitrogen in the total feed and bed- ding. If one-half of this is recovered in the manure and returned to the land, there would be a deficiency of 124 pounds. But two-thirds of the ni- trogen can be recovered by feeding upon cement floors and a liberal use of straw and shredded fodder for bed- ding, thus reducing the deficiency to 43 pounds. The pasturing may gain 12 pounds of nitrogen. By feeding more or less upon the fields and by leaving consid- erable clover in the pasture to serve as green manure, this small deficiency can be replaced, but to maintain or increase the supply of humus and ni- trogen in the soil is by no means an easy problem, even with live stock farming. Keep in mind these two _ words, phosphorus and humus. If these are increased in soil the farm will be growing richer and more productive but whoever removes the phosphorus or destroys the humus more rapidly than they are replaced, will have poorer land year by year with poverty as the only future for the children who continue the same ruinous sys- tem. A 100-bushel crop of corn requires 23 pounds of phosphorus; a 50-bushel crop of wheat, 16 pounds; a four-ton crop of clover, 20 pounds. And to produce such crops for a lifetime, 70 years, would require as much phos- phorus as the total supply in the first seven inches of most common Illinois prairie soil. Phosphorus is sold from the farm largely in grain, in the bone of ani- mals, and hay. The phosphorus re- moved from the soil in the average corn crop of Illinois (grain only) is equal to the total phosphorus con- tained in 50,000 acres of our corn belt land to a depth of seven inches, and a large amount is removed in the ag- gregate of the other-crops. Because ‘the effect is only gradual and wide- spread, many people ignore it. The most practical and economical method of maintaining the supply of phosphorus in the soil is by the appli- cation of 1,000 pounds to the acre of fine-ground natural rock phosphate, once every four to six years, in con- nection with liberal supplies of decay- ing organic matter, as farm manure, Jegume crops, or other green manures. But repeated experiments have shown that natural rock phosphate gives practically no immediate returns if used in the absence of decaying or- ganic matter. Humus is the decaying organic mat- ter of the soil. Its most important constituent is nitrogen. A 100-bushel crop of corn for 32 years would re- quire as much nitrogen as ig contained in the first seven inches of ordinary corn belt prairie land; if the stalks are returned to the soil the nitrogen would be sufficient for 48 such crops. If we are to enrich the soil in nitrogen by growing clover the clover must be returned to the soil either by plow- INT | SSOLTRRIMUTY. BY PROF, CYRIL G. HOPKINS. IALIST 2’ ILLINOIS: UNIVERSITY - =e Se, ing under digectly or in the form of manure. The animals retain one-fourth of the nitrogen and phosphorus in the feed consumed, and two-thirds of the or- ganic matter in mixed feeds. Not more than one-fourth of the dry mat- ter and not more than one-half of the food elements will be returned to the field in the manure, and if the manure is left exposed to the weather for three to six months these proportions should be divided by two. The Ohio experiment station has, as an average of 13 crops of corn at 35 cents per bushel, 13 crops of oats at 25 cents, 12 crops of wheat at 70 cents, ten crops of clover and ten crops of timothy at six dollars a ton, on land that is richer in phosphorus than our land,. but poorer in nitrogen than our land, is found that every dollar invested in phosphorus paid back $4.76, while nitrogen or potas- sium paid for its cost. The same station has found as the average of 56 tests in 11 years’ work, that when rock phosphate was applied in connection with manure, every dol- lar in rock phosphate paid back $5.68. On three different series of plots at the University of Illinois phosphorus has doubled the yield of clover as an average of the last three years. On the Bloomington (Ill.) soil ex- periment field phosphorus increased the yield of wheat ten bushels per acre in 1905, increased the yield of clover more than one ton per acre in 1906, and increased the yield of corn following clover by 19 bushels per acre in 1907. ‘The increase in either crop would practically pay the cost of phosphorus applied for the three years. In both the Illinois cases bone meal, which is more expensive than rock phosphate, was used. Experiments with the rock phos- phate were started more recently in lllineis, but have given good results on our soils. Four years’ experiments at the university have resulted in an average increase of the crop equal to $7.95, while the 250 pounds of phos- phorous applied cost eight dollars, but 210 pounds-.of it still remain in the soil for use in future crops. The re- sults of 1907 alone are an increase of $11.68 or $3.68 more than the cost of the rock phosphate, while four- fifths of the phosphorus applied still remains in the soil. The value of the increase from rock phosphate in six crops grown in the Galesburg experiment field amounts to $14.40, or $2.40 more than the cost of the phosphorus applied, while four- fifths of this phosphate still remains in the soil. Plenty of nitrogen can be secured from the air by growing legumes, the organic matter of the crops can be returned to the soil, but the one ele- ment phosphorus must be _ bought. One ton of rock phosphate containing 250 pounds of phosphorus can be bought for about eight dollars; the same quantity of phosphorus in one ton of steamed bone meal costs $25, in two tons of acid phosphate costs $30, and in four tons of complete fer: tilizer costs $80 to $100. GOOD FRAME FOR HAY BARN By Joseph E. Wing. This is the best possible frame for a hay barn—nothing whatever in the way inside. The posts may be of sol- id timber, 8x8 inches, or else built uy Frame for Hay Barn, of -2xS-inch stuff. Set on concrete blocks, good ones, and bolt each post solidly to the concrete blocks, then no wind storm can disturb your barn. The outside braces cover over careful- ly with galvanized iron on three sides; leave bottom open else they will decay and iron will rust. There may be a floor, or a simple scaffolding of poles under the hay, to let air under. The braces will not look bad and will be absolutely out of the way. You can place bents 16 feet apart. Have sev- eral transverse driveways through the barn.—Breeders’ Gazette. When Hatching Ducks. — When ducks are hatched out by a hen they should be removed from the nest as soon as possible, owing to their rest- lessness and the likelihood of the hen treading on them. Bugs Are Best.—No butcher can supply meat to the fowls that they will relish as much as the bugs and worms that they catch themselves. The Cackling Hen—The hen that cackles loudest and longest doesn’t al- ways lay the most eggs. . Princess Henry of Battenberg, Mother of Queen Victoria of Spain, whose interference in the royal house- hold led to a “scene” with King Al- fonso, which ended in her abrupt de- parture from her royal daughter’s home, WEALTH HIDDEN IN OLD TABLE. Problem California Woman Left for Public Administrator to Solve. Cunningly hidden in a secret recep- tacle deftly carved in ‘the leg of an antique table, the fortune of the late Mrs. Jessie Fremont Dietsch of San Francisco, relative to the noted path- finder, Gen. John C. Fremont, was found recently by the deputy public administrator, W. J. Hynes. The The neatly fastened little bundle gave up a bank book showing deposits of $4,200, a costly collection of time honored jewelry and countless shares of wildcat concerns worth their waste |make one’s flesh crawl. sued for several days with great 2arnestness. When Mrs. Dietsch died, on April 28, alone and in seclusion, her effects were taken charge of by the public administrator in the ab- sence of any near relatives. The of- Teers were {nformed that the old woman was possessed of great wealth and the stories came from such relia- ale sources that it was deemed advisa- ale to make a complete search of the oremises, With this end in view Hynes and 1is assistants strained every effort to ocate the hidden treasure. Every ar- ticle in the house was overturned and thoroughly searched without avail. Even the carpets and tapes- tries were ripped open in the hope that they would yield some of the glit- tering gold which the aged recluse was supposed to possess. Just as Hynes was about to aban- don the search he accidentally knocked off the hollow leg of an an- cient table. In a cleverly contrived cache the public administrator spied an old wallet: Opening the bas, Hynes discovered that it contained the bank book, jewels and stock cer- lificates, SNAKES IN FLOOD TIMES. Found in Great Numbers in Trees ana Higher Spots of Ground. A visitor over in the bottoms now who has not thought about anything but the high water would get a shock of surprise when he landed on any of the higher spots of land which were unsubmerged during the recent floods. On every hand are snakes, wriggling, which paper value, The discovery of the effects of the 2rratic woman of historic lineage ends 1 search that Hynes and his men pur- slimy, cold blooded serpents, not remain Jong in water, as they are not amphibious, and at this season of the year they soon become help- less with the cold if immersed in the turbid waters of the floods. If una- ble to reach a dry spot they worm themselves upon the limbs of trees, climbing higher and higher as_ the water advances. Old fishermen trav- ersing the brush land are wary of passing under trees now as the slimy brutes are liable to drop from their airy perches on slight disturbance. The railroad embankments are fa- vorite places of refuge for them, as the steel rails radiate the heat so much desired by the reptiles. Just now there is every class of them, black snakes, garter snakes, water moccasins, the latter perhaps as dead- ly as any known to science, with nu- merous rattlesnakes, vipers and the like. English Manners. As things are, the most perfect manners in the world are to be found in some few families of our own aris- tocracy and in the “vielle noblesse” élange for the better is to realize that we have of late changed very much for the worse. The Shy Boarder, If landladies served flying-fish, I believe, by jing! That every time they passed the dish Td get a wing. An Explanation. “J don’t see why I didn’t: get that appointment. My well-wishers were as numerous as fleas on a pup.” “But evidently not so active, my boy.” Thousands of these reptiles have taken refuge on these spots of dry land. As is well known, snakes can- | No Great Risk. “I wouldn't trade places with Rock- erbilt.” “Oh, consider. I know he’s a shrewd trader, but how could you lose?” The Archbishop and the Bulls. At the time Archbishop Ryan was selected for the position which he now occupies with so much distinction, there was some difficulty concerning the official announcement of his ap- pointment. Three or four weeks elapsed, and still the papal bull had not reached him. One of his friends, who was deeply concerned in the document, said to him with much so- licitude: “Your grace, what do you suppose has become of your bulls?” “T don’t know,” was the smiling re- joinder, “unless they are grazing on the Alps.” OPEN DEALING IN PAINT. Buying paint used to be like the proverbial buying of a “pig in a poke.” Mixtures in which chalk, ground rock, etc., predominated were marked: and sold as “Pure White Lead,” the deception not being ap- parent unti! the paint and the paint- ing were paid for. This deception is still practiced, but we have learned to expose it easily. National Lead Company, the larg- est makers of genuine Pure White Lead, realizing the injustice that was being done to both property owners and honest paint manufacturers, set. about to make paint buying safe. They first adopted a trade mark, the now famous “Dutch-Boy Painter,” and put this trademark, as a guaranty of purity, on every package of their White Lead. They then set about familiarizing the public with the blow-pipe test by which the purity and genuineness of White Lead may be determined, and furnished a blow- pipe free to every one who would write them for it. This action was in itself a guaranty of the purity of Na- tional Lead Company’s White Lead. As the result of this open dealing the paint buyer to-day has only him- self to blame if he is defrauded. For test outfit and valuable painting, address National Lead Com- pany, Woodbridge Bldg., New York. He Wanted Her to Be Happy. An individual of the Weary Willie type was given 10 cents by a philan- thropic lady, who said, as she handed him the money: “IT am not giving you this because you begged, but for my own pleasure.” “Oh, ma’am,” replied the tramp, “make it a quarter and thoronghly en- joy yourself.” PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Reported by Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 911 Pioneer Press building, St. ‘Paul, Minn.: J. E. Belt, Minneapolis, Minn., current motor; W, H. Diers, Red Wing, Minn., nail; W. A. Houston, Tracy, Minn., fountain pen; L. A. Leu, Fessenden, N. D., cigarholder; W. M. Murfin, Sleepy Eye, Minn., wire stretcher; P. G. Olson, St. Paul, Minn., lubricator guard; A. G. Warde, Minneapolis, Minn., respiro- meter. At the Barber's. Tonsorial Expert (cutting colored man’s hair)—’Rastus, your hair is just like wool. 3 ’Rastus—Well, yoh didn’t spect to cut silk fo’ 15 cents, did yoh? It makes no difference how pretty a girl is, or how sweet her voice, if she wears glasses the boys are afraid of her. booklet on | Nature and a woman’s work com- bined have produced the grandest remedy for woman’s ills that the world has ever known. In the good old-fashioned days of our grandmothers they relied upon the roots and herbs of the field to cure disease and mitigate suffering. The Indians on our Western Plains to-day can produce roots and herbs for every ailment, and cure diseases that baffle the most skilled physicians who have spent years in the study of drugs. From the roots and herbs of the field Lydia E. 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