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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1908)
Good Sheep Barm Poor One. A good sheep barn is a poor one. This may seem to be absurd, but the facts support such a statement' There is no question but that many flocks are rendered unhealthy and therefore les. productive . by reason of too close housing. In few sections do sheep need more than a windbreak and rain shed. Some of our best shepherds have kept their flocks for decades with only such sheds as would prevent the flock being exposed to direct winds, rain and snow storms. The cut shows the type of sheep barn found on the farm of a success ful shepherd, which might be copied with success. In this Instance the sheep are kept upon forage crops grown In four adjacent lots. The flock may be turned Into any lot at pleasure. It Is well to have this building equipped with a large ventilating win dow in the end near the gable or two small windows such as shown In the sketch. These, however, should be SOILING SHEEP FOLD. equipped with a sash that may be closed In severe weather. . Many farms where sheep are kept are equipped with a barn cellar In which the flock has been kept with varying success. The barn cellar Is an excellent place for sheep If rightly arranged. There should be plenty of openings to the south, allowing sun to reach all parts of the stable' so as to keep lt thoroughly dry. Thorough drainage Is essential. ' There must be ventilation at the rear of the stable. A bad practice Is to keep the sheep In stables on stable manure, says Farm and Home. The fermenting manure destroys the color and texture of wool. A hint which has been worth many dollars to me Is to use only long straw, hay or weeds for bedding sheep. If short straw or saw dust Is used It gets Into the fleece and is an everlasting nuisance. Profitable Cattle Feeding. The Missouri Experiment Station at Columbia has Issued a very elaborate and handsomely Illustrated, bulletin on the most successful methods of fatten ing cattle, by Dean II. J. Waters. This bulletin summarizes the expe rience and conclusions of about 1,000 of the most experienced and successful cattle feeders of Missouri, Illinois and Iowa, and contains also a summary of the results of a large number of tests with different kinds of feed, different ages of cattle, etc., conducted by the Experiment Station of Columbia. It considers such practical questions as the most profitable age to fatten cat tie, the proper weight, the best season of the year, the best method of pre paring feed, the best of shelter, the market demands, the best sort of roughness, etc. It Is illustrated with cuts of the different types of beef cattle, including excellent illustrations of the fat steer herd exhibited by the college this season at the Interstate Pair, Kansas City, the Missouri State Fair, Sedall a, the American Royal, Kansas City, and the International Live Stock Exposition, Chicago. These steers won nine championship prizes, seventeen first prizes, sixteen second prizes, seven third prizes and two fourth prizes. Every gteer won at every show excepting one steer In one show. CaltlTatloa of Oata. At Cornell University oats were sown broadcast In the usual manner, the yield per acre being 37 bushels. On another plot the outs were drilled in, 13 Inches apart, the hnndwheel hoe be ing used to work between the rows. This may appear to some as giving a large share of labor In that manner, but the yield on the drilled and worked plot was 01 bushels per acre, the meth od is worthy of attention. A man with a wheel hoe can go over a large piece of ground in a day, and It is possible that the method will pay. Roota (or Farm Anlmala. If roots are stored In a pit In the field a high, dry place ' should be chosen. If the ground Is clayey the roots should be placed on top of the , ground If It Is gravelly and drainage is good a shallow pit about 0 feet wide ana ai namaaarT length may be shov- eled out. The roots should be carefully placed In a gable shaped pile about 5 feet wide and as long as convenient A thin layer of straw should then be laid over the pile and this covered with j six or eight Inches of earth. Another, and thicker layer of straw and a final layer of earth will complete the work. Ventilators should be placed at inter vals of ten or fifteen feet, which should be closed when sweating has ceased. The pit should not be opened on warm days In winter. A ditch for drainage should be cut around the pit Roots 1 stored In this way do not keep as well as when stored In a good cellar; there fore, they should be fed out as early as possible. New Tork Cornell Experi ment Station. Flax la the Northwest. The second factor making for tb new prosperity may be termed "the dis covery of flax." For years there had been a few scattering flax fields, but It was only In the middle Wi that the Northwestern pioneer awoke to the dis covery that linseed oil was of more truly golden hue, not only than the wheat field, but than any gold-bearing quartz California ever saw. And so the endless golden yellow of the fields In August and the tinkling bells In September, or the flax field. Those who have never heard the ringing of the flax bells have missed a truly wonderful sensation. The round seed pods, smaller than peas, which contain the seed, give a faint metallic sound which as one drives or walks through a field, setting thousands In motion, m like myriads of infinitesi mal bells tinkling so faintly as to be all but inaudible. Nor Is the mere sight of a flax field in the mellow Au gust soon to be forgotten. Imagine a 100-acre field, filled with flowers of a blue more delicate than violets. And of its profitable character one Illustra tion will suffice. In June, 1900, Ole Jannsen bought 10 acres In the heart of the great flax belt for $10 an acre on the crop payment plan. Ole "broke up" that fall and the next' spring 135 acres and planted It in flax. In round numbers, he thrashed In the fall eigh teen and one-half bushels to the acre; sold It for $1.39 a bushel, total, $3,500 ; a little more than twice enough to pay for his land out of his first crop. Not only was the flax Immensely profi table Itself, but It removed from the country the stigma, "one-crop country." World Today. Barled Seed. The Department of Agriculture has undertaken a series of experiments In tended to answer, if possible, the old question, "How long can seeds remain burled In the soil and still retain their power of germination?" Many extraordinary stories have been told of the prolongation of the vi tality of seeds during many years, and eveu centuries, but very few actual ex periments have hitherto been made.. Dr. Beat has reported that -he has found seeds that responded to germina tion tests after having been burled twenty years. The seeds burled by the experts of the Agricultural Department at the Arlington farm last year were packed with dry clay in porous clay pots, covered with saucers and placed at various depths from 6' Inches to .34 feet There are 32 complete sets, in 3,584 pots, representing 100 spe cies, 84 genera and 34 families. Tests are to be made at the end of one, two, three, five, seven, teu, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, forty and fifty years. " Hire Frame Spacer. The arrangement here shown, If properly adjusted, is excellent; but says the Gleanings In Bee Culture, In the first .place It Is difficult to bend the nails, and, In the second place, it BEirr nails i it nun would be more difficult still to bend tbem all with exactly the same curve for it would be Important to have th bee spaces alike. In the third place, one would have to bore a bole in order to drive them into the frame for the reason that the hammer head would strike one side of the line of penetra' tlon of the wood, bending the nail over. Taking It all In all, the ordinary staple Is much easier to insert and far cheaper. Location of Beehlvea. Beehives should never be faced to ward tbejiorth. In a northern lati tude a northern exposure In winter It almost sure to cause the loss of th colony, by the rigorous north windi blowing' in at the entrance, and th confinement of the bees, caused by tbi entrances being shaded on mild, sunny days when the bees in the hives fad ing southward if freely. TO BE-EXTEB PULPIT. The first woman to be ordained a clergyman in the United States, Rev. Antoinette L. Brown Blackwell, now 83 years old, is about to resume active work In the Unitarian church. She gave the site, and with the aid of 30 adherents is having built the first Uni tarian church In .Union county, New Jersey, near her home, in Elizabeth. Every fourth Sunday she will accupy the pulpit. ( About 60 years ago Rev. Mrs. Black well preached her first sermon at Hen rietta, N. T. She was one of the first women In the UnWed Stntf-s to receive a college degree. In 1853 she was or dained a 'Congregational minister at South Butler, N. Y., accepting the pas torate of a church there. She is a noted woman suffragist THE AST OF BEGGING.. There are tricks In every trade, but the professional beggar Is about the trickiest individual at large. His suc cess depends entirely upon his ability ARMED ONE-ARMED BEGGARS. to awaken sympathy. Years of mis fortune alone are not always suffi cient so he resorts to deception ' In make-up, usually running toward de formity of some sort Playing cripple ts a favorite ruse. In the larger. cities, where begging still flourishes under the guise of ped dling, this deception Is resorted to dally. It Is an old dodge to pose as a one-armed man. A false stump is attached to the shoulder and the real arm is tied to the side of the body. A loose-fitting coat or a full blouse does the rest A Little Retouching. The wonders of photography are ever on the increase. Nevertheless, there are still some limitations to the power and skill of even the most ex pert photographer. Mr. Hall Is an amateur of no mean attainments, and when his old Aunt Hannah from Bushby came down to the city he secured a picture of her In her most characteristic pose arms akimbo and mouth' slightly open. ' When Aunt Hannah saw the first print she looked at it, t held it off, drew it close again, and then sat down to write her nephew. ' "Dear James," -wrote the old lady, "yours with photograph taken during my late visit Just received.- In reply I would say, I'm well enough pleased with it for myself and your folks. But in the one you send out to California to Emma, I'd rather you'd straighten out my elbows and let my arms hang. Affectionately, Aunt Hannah. "P. 8. Perhaps you'd better close my mouth a mite more, as Emma's husband Is a stranger to me." No Recourse. "John, I think I hear a thief in the dark closet beneath the stairs." "I don't doubt It; I have known it was there for some time." "Telephone for the police 1" "What's the use? You can't arrest a gas meter.' Houston Post After the Prom. Ethel Was he satisfied with one kiss? Gladys Humph, I think he was sat isfied with all of them. Yale Record, An Alphabetical Propoaal. She Do you like tea? He Yes, but I like the .next Vrtter totter. Wisconsin Sphinx i i ii i few,. w w ,r v - pnoig Impure or effete matters accumulated in the blood during the winter cause in the spring such disfiguring and painful troubles as boils, pimples, and other eruptions, also weakness, loss of appetite, that tired feeling. The best medicine to take is Hood's Sarsaparilla, which thoroughly cleanses the blood, and effects permanent cures by giving healthy functional activity to the stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels and skin. SarsatabS are Hood's Saraaparllla in chocolated tablet form. They have Identically toe same curative properties as the liquid form, besides accuracy of doia, convenience, economy. Do loss by evaporation, breakage, or leakage, !, of druggiiu or promptly of nibi mall. i U. 1. Hood Co., Lowell. Mala. Preparing to Faeo It Alone. "Children," hastily exclaimed Mrs. Sklmmerhorn, "your father la coming ! Run out and play awhile!" "What do you want us to run away from papa for?" asked the children. "I don't want you to hear what he will tay when he finds that his safety razor ease has fallen on the floor, spilled the bldes out and mixed them all up." His View of Them. First Visitor Most Interesting coun try round about here. Have you seen the ruins? Second Visitor (who has Just paid his bill) Yes; I suppose you mean the guests leaving this hotel. Detroit News-Tribune. Eclsoei ef Wt, Arlitldes was lamenting the ingratitude f the people of Athens, to whose service ne naa devoted the best years of his life. "Still," he said, "I want it distinctly understood that I am not going to make a noise like an unappreciated philanthrop ist." Picking up on of the current maga sinee he looked it over to see whether or net Tom Lawion was still throwing fits. Naturally. Elvers was walking the floor with the baby. ' "I wish," he muttered sleepily, "this youngster wasn't so so blamed egotis tical." "I guess you'd be egotistical, too," said the Indignant Mrs. Rivers, "it you were cutting your I teeth 1" "Republics," said v the disappointed itatesman, "are ungrateful." t "Well," answered Farmer Corntossel, ''It's so hard to tell a patriot from an office-seeker that I don't blame a re public for gettin' kind o' suspicious." Washington Star. Horrors ef the Saaotam. Rivers was writing a caustic review of the political field. "Brooks," he said, "give me a new aame for these chaps that go around the country presaging all sorts of financial disasters." "Calamity's ' presazents," suggested Brooks. An Awful RfaU. Oyer I hear your friend Matchem it married again. Myer Yes. This Is his fifth wife. Oyer Well, as a friend, you should advise him to be careful. Myer Careful? Gyer Yes. Some da1 he'll marry a woman who will live to become a widow. QualitVi The Behind the Dough! lAvy POWDER , 23 Ounces for 23 Gents A real power that raises and sustains the dough with absolute certainty. , OUNCES j No failures. A cake made with K C cannot falL We insist upon money if a trial UtSMAHf"t vince sunra nicra mo -Aapew fH bmttmr, wmar lotto, 4mm v JL ' 4 J . W.L Dotitrlai CI sn CR CIH Frfna Cknoe a.... VVJwi-aWI to ThibM she. UMihay!"' R PTl(" f "ami on bottom. Take Jim atMtltwta, raagaTaUST "LZilJ D-QuGuDOirs 1 At n iiiai,- fcf Mrs. L. Blckford. Gossville, N. H., says; "Every spring I was completely prostrated, run down, from dyspepsia and that tired feel ing. But I have found Hood's Sarsaparilla helps me from the first dose, completely restores good health and strength." The Modera Way. "Fifth grade next year, Johnny?" "Yes, sir." "Ah, you'll be in fractions or dec!, mals then, no doubt?" "No, sir; I'll be In beadwork and perforated squares." Pittsburg Post St. Vitas' Dance and all Nervons Dlaeaaee nermAuentlr cared br Dr. Kline's (iree erva Restorer. Bend for FREE (Stria! bottle and treatise. r.lL H.IUlae,I4,UAichBL,Phlla..l'a. ITeeeaaarily. Byers Seems to me furs are priced excessively high. Shqplelgh Yes, the fur trade is ad mittedly a good deal of a skin game. Kansas City Times. Mst?T? tM Mrs. Wlnslows Soothing Byrup the best remedy to nse fog their cOUOrea during the teething period. The Madera Way. Scribbles How would yon go about getting a play on the stage? Dribbles I'd first write a novel. Shake lata Yoar Sheet. Allen's Foot-Eaae. It eurea painful, swollen, tmartlng, sweating feet. Wakes new shoes easy, told by all Druggists and Shoe Stores. Don't accept anysubatitute. Sample 7JL Addreaa A. 8. Olmsted, Le Boy, N." Y. Always Talklaar. "My wife tells me everything she does," said the benedict, proudly. "Shi is Hke an open book," "I wish mine was like an open book," sighed the nieek little man with the chin whiskers. . "You do?" "Yes; If she was like an open book perhaps I would be able to shut her up." . There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country than all other diseaaea put together, and until the laat few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many yeara doctors pronounced It a loeal dlieaae and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling t cure with local treatment, pronounced it in ourable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall'a Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio, Is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from II drops to a teaspoonfuL It acts directly on ths blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case II falls to cure. Send for circulars and testi monials. Address: F. J. CHENEY t CO., Toledo, Ohio. Bold by Druggists, 75o. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Oh tha Tea Party Lima. Suddenly the alarm clock went off. The sleeper, half awake, listened. "It's only one ring," he said. "Ours is tour rings," Whereupon he went to sleep again and missed his train. .Purity Power refunding your does not con you. and D. c..ii.j at -. n.t.. &UttmJ3Z
