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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1910)
Common Wild Plants That Qrow All Over the Country Are Im ported from Abroad. WIDELY USED AS MEDICINE. compllshed by another London atniete a few years ago. While staying at Hampton Wick, near Kingston on Thames, he walked a quarter of a mile. rode a horse for a quarter of a mile, swam a quarter of a mile, ran a quar ter of a mile, rode a bicycle for a quarter of a mile and finished up by rowing a boat for a quarter of a mile nil in the space of 189 minutes 32 2-5 seconds. Our grandfathers were rather fond of indulging In those novel tests of endurance and when many years ago a man ran - a mile, walked a mile, wheeled a barrow, ' trundled a hoop and hopped on one leg all the same dis tance, in two minutes under the hour an epidemic of curious athletic feats sprang up among them. In the same way we have been bitten lately with the craze for marathons and Lohdon- Thls country Is actually importing to-Prlehton walks. for medicinal purposes plants that are perhaps one of the most amazing growing wild ell around us, but "Which fgata was tnat 0( a famous pedestrian no one seems to think It worth while o tne namea Coates, who backed to gather. This fact Is pointed out himself to leaD a hundred hurdles In by the department of agriculture in a I a Bix-mlle race against a jockey on a bulletin called "Weeds Used as Medi- hunter. The horse was beaten and cine," wihdch It would be worth while ates Jumped his hundredth hurdle for the boy who reads this to write in the forty-second minute, the time Value In Such Boots as Burdock, Dandelion and Pokeweed and in Dog Grass and Catnip. for if Ihe wants to make a little money out of the vacant ground all around bim, a New York Herald Washington letter says. The bulletin will explain how to prepare the weeds for the mar ket and will eive some Idea of the price that the industrious boy can ex pect to obtain for the weeds that are marketable. paiim mid other Eurooean coun tries ship to this part of the world every year about 50,000 pounds of bur dock root. The root sells for from S to 8 cents a pound and the seeds for from 6 to 10 cents. This will probably be news to most of those dili gent workers who have been weeding out the burdock from thousands of farms, and carefully consigning It to the flames, while the more thrifty Eu ropeans have been selling It to us In consignments that come more than 8,000 miles to a country that abounds In It. Who has not wondered at the sight of Italians digging for dandelions. The country boy knows that dandelion greens are not bad for the table, but what few but the astute alien are wise to it that druggists derive part of their income from the sale of dande lion as a tonic and that from 4 to 6 cents a pound can be obtained from the root that flourishes everywhere ready for the plcklngt Instead of gathering the dock root that goes to waste all around us, the American nation pays for the Impor tation of 125,000 pounds of this plant every year. The dried -root sells at from 2 to 8 cents a pound, and Is con Btdered an excellent blood medicine. The waste lands are alive with It and any boy could make money by gather ing and preparing It for the market, A quarter of a million pounds of dog grass, a remedy for kidney troubles, comes to this country annually from abroad. Is It because we cannot grow dog grass In America? No, but be cause for some reason this unthrifty nation Imports It Instead of pulling it tip and preparing It from the places where It grows all around us. It brings from 8 to 7 cents a pound. Here's a chance for the boy who finds the long vacation begin to pall upon him to ehow he is as Industrious as bis competitor In the old world 'Then there Is poketweed, a skin and Wood remedy, the dried roots of which Bell for from 2 to 5 cents a pound; mullein, which Is a nerve tonic and a cough medicine, and which sells for good prices, but is not thought to be Bailable by tfhe boys of this country (German boys know better they sell limit being set at fifty. Mention of the Brighton walk recalls an extraordinary pedestrian perform ance of some Oxford undergraduates four years ago who walked from Ox ford to Reading, a distance of twenty nine miles, at midnight, In evening dress and court slippers, after a day of heavy driving rain. Various "mod put fivers" were laid that they would not do the journey within eight hours. But the undergraduates won, with twenty minutes to spare, although they were thoroughly done up and terribly footsore when they reached Reading. The performance, however, Is by no means so remarkable as that of Lord Kennedy, who years ago walked on foot from Inverness to Black Hall, in Klncardlnshlre, and by striking straight across the Grampians arrived four hours before Sir Andrew Lelth Hay, who took the coach road and who Advantages of a Silo. Silos have become one of the fixed appointments of successful dairy and stock farms where economy In feed is necessary to achieve profitable results. The expense of a silo often prevents its use by farmers who feel that they cannot spare the money or such an equipment The Intelligent feeder who has carefully Investigated the ad vantages of a silo Is the man loudest In Us praise. It - has become recog nized that high class results in feed ing live stock cannot be consummated without feeding silage. Deleterious results seldom follow feeding ensilage. If such results do follow It comes from either overfeed ing or from spoiled silage. Silage is recognized as of great economic value in feeding dairy cows. Where dairy farming Is made a specialty but few dairies are operated without the use of silage. It is equally valuable as a ration for young cattle and' has decid ed merits when fed to steers being fattened for market Sheep and swine thr'ye en s!!?. As a rrt f the ra tion of roughage it could be generally utilized for all classes of live stock. The dairy sow could be fed forty pounds of silage dally, while thirty pounds would be a ration for a beef animal. A silo enables the farmer to econ omize In space in the storage of feed. It requires double the space to store the same feed nutriments in dry roughage as in silage. The silo can be constructed of re-enforced cement and become a permanent Improvement had laid a wager of $12,500 that he that will cost nothing for maintenance. would be first. The Journey occupied a silo enables the farmer to save his thirty-three hours. feed with the minimum loss of nutrl- No one is more fond of novel sport- ents. Feed cured In the open air suf- lng matches than the London coster- fera a loss of about 25 per cent of nu- monger. Some years ago one backed trlments, while ensilage loses about himself to walk from Covent Garden io ner cent of nutriment to Hempstead Heath station and back on stilts, against an opponent carrying a sack of potatoes. And he won. Some time before this a Chelsea Silage b.as been comprehensively tested at nearly all the agricultural experiment stations with uniform fa vorable results. It Insures to the fish hawker, carrying half a hundred- dairyman succulent feed at all times weight of fish on his head, ran seven an important condition In milk produc- miles along the Brentford road from Hyde Park corner In forty-five min utes, and an orange porter won a bet of 10 guineas by carrying a hundred weight of oranges twenty times be tween Botolph lane and Spltalflelds market In one hour and twenty-five minutes less than the ten hours spe cified in the wager. tion, as succulent feed Is best dairy cows. GoodaH's'Farmer. for Farming as a Business. Science has shown that where there Is a farm that does not pay, the fault lies not in the land, but In the man who is In charge. Good or bad farm ing results from definite reasons. Suc cess results from painstaking, season able operations; the application of practical knowledge which has been Strictly Neutral. Among the humorouB and humau stories In Dr. T. L. Pennell's recent gained by studying the requirement book, "Among the Wild Tribes of the which are known will bring success. Afghan Frontier," Is one of a British Lack of ambition results In lndlf- offlcer In t!he Kurram valley who in- ferent work on the farm. Taking full terrogated an Afrldl with regard to advantage of the resources of any what was then considered a probable farm, and following Intelligent, up-to-confllct. date methods of farming will In due "Now tell me," said the officer, "If time mean steady and often very lapid there were to be war which God for- Improvement In yield or crops, in a bid between Russia and England, sense, the resources of a farm vary what part would you and your people with locality ; but in the main there take? Whom would you side with?" are many identical conditions on very "Do vou wish me to tell vou what many farms, me farmer wno wonts would please you or to tell you the to establish a well-set meadow, alms real truth?" was the naive reply. to get the hilly, washable, waste lands "I adjure you to tell me what Is the "et 6rass: utilizes .me rocny rougu i,nt. arnrA ' lanas 09 seiuug OUl utt ", "Then," said the old graybeard, "we ditches the low lands and reclaims the ..M liist .It nn hpro nn nnp mm.n. swamps; improves tno Biuujr items uj It for Importation to America) : lobelia .t,hin.. wh flcht tii picking off the surface stones so that seeds, whlcft sell for 15 cents a pound, we MW one 0r the other defeated. crP8 win the pIace! the "tone! ana catnip, which can be exchanged , i w occupied, uses some ot me ways 01 IX TV VJ TT VU1U VT U UI1U WWU xor pocKW money at the rate of from ii,,i tin th w mit anA Klns advantage w iu rauu. Ui 2 to 8 cents a pound. roat, what a time that would be farm- These are only a few of the nuv ..... The farmer who owns a big farm in I 1U1 UB .. . . ' V C I J 111 111 J lUBiauccs UUCP uvv mtuis Home-Made Art. crops that average as well as the farm- An American painter, says a writer er whose farm rarely exceeds sixty In Everybody's Magazine, once met an or seventy acres. The reason is the art editor who insisted on dragging large farmer cannot,' with the force him un to an exhibition of some "very he usually keeps, properly look after mnnav nut ot ,. h . I in,0.(niN nfot.nraa. The odrttor everything, seeing tnai seasonaoie "weeds that are salable, but which we allow to go to waste In this country, wMle -we buy the Identical thing from .broad. It will open the eyes as well s line the pockets of our boys to get -the bulletin referred to and make decidedly so. It has also been less1 productive as a rule than corn grown for no particular purpose Just corn. The conclusion Is reached from some plots that while this continued selec tion for a single purpose to the neglect of all other considerations has resulted in lower yields, yet this is not a neces sary result In some cases high pro tein corn has yielded well as compared with standard varieties bred for no particular purpose. The Profitable Dairy Cow. Some people seem to keep and milk cows simply because others keep them, without any regard to whether the mucn wormrPuc!t Visitor What have you ia luetic life erature? Librarian Cook books and Pearyodlcals. Brooklyn Life. "Don't you hate to find a worm when you're eating fruit?" "Well, not so cows are paying a profit. For a cow to be worth keeping she must pay a "I want one of the new spotted face profit on the t .n Mr rlvn her. I vells piease. -xes, maaam. epecKeo, For her to be really worth while, she paltered, or splotched ?"-Cleveland should nrnHnxa inn an mnn milk-1 riaiu ueaier. r Fv. weeding. CTOIOTJS SPORTING CONTESTS. Aa-alnst Horse la a Hordle Rate Manx Other Odd Feats. A match which took place at Prince's lew weeks ago between A. R. Hamil ton aud Capt. R. K. Price was no ueaa test of skill and endurance, Lon- don Tlt-Blts says. The. conditions 'were that a set of tennis, a game of rackets and a game of squash rackets (should be played consecutively, going from one court to the other, Capt Price, who gave his opponent points, lust winning by three points. This, however, is but one of the many curious sporting contests which have taken place of late years. Two years ago London athlete starting from Just above Hammersmith bridge rode mile, then swam a mile and. landing at Putney, ran a mile on the nromenade. following inie he aid a mile walk and concluded with mile ctc1 ride all wiinm a nour. This feat reminds ene of that m- evldently admired them greatly. Not work is done and that eacn rarming ... h. nointai. operation is well attended to. Each of "Vnn don't seem enthusiastic" said tnese is a great success iacior m mriu- ... T i 1 Inn.atnV.!.. the editor. "Don't you like thernT" "s- nu wur" T iv '.mr ri1lfi1 ths other. "Whr. some neglect or wors; inainereuuy man, I've got two maiden aunts who flon0- can knit better pictures than those!" I Corm Breedin The Illinois experiment station has just published the results of its ef- than her feed costs, including pasture. of course. It does not matter so much what breed a cow belong to. Simply be cause she is of Jersey or Holsteln blood, is not positive proof that she Is Wife (reminiscing) Well, I very nearly didn't marry you, John. John (absent-mindedly) I know but who told you? The Sketch. "It m'wlfe's awake,' I'll shay: 'M'dear, brought y' some c'sath'mums more than paying her way. A com- -chrysthmus chrasythums' hang it! mon cow may be doing better than wish I'd got roses." Life. she. The only way to find out what nnnoI1T w .... tnr tw she is doing is to weigh and test her ;feUow BJones WI(rwagye8, BJone. ml k at regular and frequent Intervals ( u one of tn0Be wl0WB who obJect t0 t-icv ucr Biaua on ner merits ana uui on her ancestry. ' One reason why some cows do not being used. Philadelphia Record. "What do they mean by an 'endur- pay greater profit Is that they are not' ff Two, chap br,agglf fed all the nutritious feed they will th,eIrnrefptl1v ,T eat This Is especially the case with. moblles.-Sprlngneld Republican, many farmers in winter, when pas- "I've Just figured out how the Venus ures are dead. Many of them keep de MUo came to lose her arms." tueir producing cows on hail loou iiCTTT" "So erase mem or. try'"? IO when they are not on pasture, and still button her shirtwaist up the back." expect the cows to make up the loss. If a cow Is worth keeping at all she Is worth feeding all she can be Induced Naua-at kat Aba "They f 11 said I would make a splen- fom br(Jed corn fof nlgh and ,ow protein content and for high and low oil content Ten generations of corn have been bred for these different pur poses by selection of seed having the desired qualities. In the effort to In crease the protein content the average has been changed from 10.92 per cent did candidate.1 "Well?" "So I became a candidate." "Again well?" "And now look what they say about me!" Louisville Courier-Journal. Ths Kaotlstteal Actor. ThMtHrHl Manaeer I'm sorrv. but to 14.26 per cent In the effort to de- there's no place for you In this drama; crease It from 10.92 per cent to 8.64 every part has been taken. Per cent Individual ears have been vwutwi Aoln Nflver m nil Mmr round wnicn contain as u.su I'll create my part Puck. iPr cent or protein ana mw as . per cent, as nign as .o per ccm i As a man (rows older, snow loses oil and as low as 1.60 per cent But most of the beauty It formerly the high protein corn has been m possessed, and Is merely cold, and every case less productive than any slippery, and good for the wtoeot. ,f ether three and In mm cases The Jewish Ledger. "The audience Is calling you," the playwright was Informed. "I hear to eat If it Is not found profitable them," he answered. "Show me the to purchase extra feeds so .that the cows may have all that they will con sume, then it Is best to keep only as many cows as feed can be provided for on the farm. Make the caw produce all the milk she can by good care and feed, and do not let her go dry until the time she is ready to turn dry. Keep the best heifers from the best cows. Jour nal of Agriculture. Breed and Feed. To cheapen the cost of production Is to increase the price of dairy prod ucts; and the only way to lower the cost Is to teed and breed Intelligently. Joax What make of car does hs mu. . v.... I. l i I . . - ,. . . . , n . mo dciud uutt is mo uaue nuii cursa arive: fnnaaeipnia xtecora. quickest way to get out of here." Birmingham Age-Herald. "New-mown hay is a delightful per fume; we Bell lots of It." "Haven't you something with a gasoline odor? I want people to think I own a motor car, not a horse." Life. Mrs. Newbrlde Boohoo! Henry threw a biscuit at me. One that- I made myself, too! Mother The mon ster! He might have killed you! The United Presbyterian. Hoax Out in Arizona he Is known as a bad man. Joax Is that so? Did he ever kill any one? Hoax Oh, yes. of the dairy Industry in Missouri and the Southwest, as it Is everywhere else. And It should also be remem bered that the best cow In the world may be ruined as a milk producer by Improper feeding. If you do not own a thoroughbred bull with . good milk stock In his pedigree, buy one at once. Get out of the old rut, and start right Go to work now and build up your herd. The chances are that 60 per cent of those who read this paragraph have a lot of cows that are hardly pay ing for their keep. But, by breeding Visltor-an you read the past? Fortune Teller Certainly. That's my business. Visitor Then I wish you'd tell me what it was my wife told me to get for her! Boston Globe. "Do you want employment?" asked the sympathetic woman. "I dunno wot dat la, ma'sm," replied the husky hobo, "but ef it's ennythlng ter eat, youse may gimme a few." Chicago Dally News. JudgeI'll have to fine ye fifty dol lars for exceeding the speed limit to the right sort of a sire, and keep-1 Jack Scorcher Look here, Judge, this insr the heifer calves from only the young lady and I want to get married. best milkers, and feeding Intelligently, ! Remit the fine and you get the Job. any man who reads this can have a i 1 D.iMvti T f fa U1UVB1JU lilio. herd of 300-pound producing cows iu five years. Missouri Dairyman. . Whale What are you going to tell your wife when you get home? Jonah I don't know; I don't suppose she would believe me If I should tell her that I had been to a fish dinner.- Waste of Feed. Wherever cattle or bogs are fed there Is a great waste In valuable feed The Bohemian. resulting rrom tne teeaing or too mucn i ... . . . tw, . ?' i nrt-in I ture of. Johnny?" said Mrs. Lapsllng, ous food. The time has come In the in a tone of reproof.. Tou ought to That high price of corn to call a halt to this r T'T?? wasteful method of feeding. To fully , l8thf tempJe,t Dlnab Rt EmPhaal8- utilize feed proper digestion must go on. and When corn is fed out of bal- Chicago Tribune. Cynlcus It is Impossible for a worn- ance with nitrogenous foods it Is not an to keep a secret Henpeckke I all digested and assimilated. These an't Know bdoui mat; my wue ana i a & . . mc.a Anfrao-oit fnr RAvprjtl wppf a hnfnra are very lmpunaiii mcis, now mat "e-o- . corn Is high In price and Is likely to sne "aid anything to me about it" stay so. What, then, Is the .food that rniiadeipnia Kecora. must take the place of part of the corn "Are you In favor of votes for wom- fed In making pork? That Is the en?" "Yes. Perhaps if -.we can get question that should be carefully them to think more about votes they studied and heeded by farmers. Cheap- will think less about clothes. 1 have er production through more econom- four daughters who are growing up." leal use of our feeds Is an Important Chicago Record-Herald. matter and must be so recognized a.Viw nf rM am vou have a real one?" "No." "Never go out In a buggy along a shady lane, with a plug of a horse and the only sooner or later by our farmers. Kan sas Farmer. Poultry Notes. Some farmers neglect the 25 to 50 girl In the world? Say, you don't cents that the battening of cracks In know what life It" Public Ledger. the coop would cost and each month Reporter Mr. Cummin, have you feed a dollar's worth of extra corn in the manuscript of the after-dinner order to supply the animal heat speech you delivered at that banquet needed. . last night? Ketchum A. Cummin Fowls love to thrash out a bundle of ' (with a gasp) Did I deliver a speech wheat or oats, and it does one good there, young man? Whose? Chicago to sten around to the door of the . Tribune. poultry house and listen to the merry chatter while the fowls are digging In the straw. ' The answer to the question, Does "The starvation experiences of those English suffragettes were trying." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne; "its pretty hard to be obliged to atop crlt- wlnter poultry pay? depends In a large , lclzlng the public policies of a great measure upon where your hens are government In order to find fault with roosting. If on the bare branches of i its cooking." Washington Star. a tree, on the northeast corner of the barn, there can be no doubt about it Scatter a little grain among litter "Over here," said the Arab guide, "we have another mummy. From the cooking utensils found near her, she la at noon, and give a full feed at night supposed to have been a cook. For What Is meant by a full feed of grain 2,000 years she has remained just Is about a good handful for each fowl In the pen. A mixture of corn, wheat oats and barley, equal parts by meas urement, makes an excellent mixture fo winter. where she was found." "Bosh!" scoff ed the American tourist "that's no cook." "Why not?" "Who ever heard f a cook remaining In one place that lomT Chicago Dally New.