!.. N. W OODS, M. O.
Physician and Surgeon.
Oaltii*. OreK<)i>.
33.
S. J. H0WAIÏ3
Physician and Surgeon
DALLAS.
O SÉÜON
uiRcd iu Uflow building.
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lUilty Knlublo » ««e t» furninlioa. «n.l .....«y t»
,ao. S * loinml.tti 'il olmr^eiTon loan». Kooin.
•id i w.i*oil’» block. Dali**
J. L. C O L L IN S ,
u ia n ie y and C ou nse lo r at Law,
Miilellor lu Chaaeerjr.
¡i m u practice of hid profefluion in thi* place
j |i|t thirty yearn, and will attend to all bUNness
il itjd t. bis ^ are. Oiflce, corner Main and Court
x Dallas, Hoik Oo, ür
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ATTORNEY AT-LAW.
Room 1, OMicld building.
O HKÜ O X
OSCAR HA7TÜA.
A .tto r n e v 'a 't'-L jîi w .
OIBce iipstnirs in Cmnpbi 11’
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D A LL A S
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ORKGON.
X. L,. BUTLER
E F C-OAD
B U T L E R & (’ O A D
Attorneys-at-Law
D A LLA S, OREGON.
W i l practice in nil
over bank.
couiìs .
Ortie-
W .J . S T Ö W ,
\
peddling a wneelbarroW ami several
assistants being employed.
Kffbrnaka For Cream.
The trend of Nebraska’s dairying is
0 h 5 2 V .1 T > " .
emphatically toward cream production,
says Professor A. L. llaecker In
Creamery Journal. So pronounced has
(C r e a j n c r y i j
been this development that the state
may now be called a cream producing
From different directions conxe a state, for very little milk is being de­
number of Inquiries by young men livered to creameries. At the present
hunting to know if calvea can l>e fat- time there are four cream buying In­
tciuHl for market on artificial foods. stitutions iu Nebraska of considerable
As there are in ull Jersey herds a nun size, while there are nine or ten In­
stitutions that are buying Nebraska
b>‘ of bull calves from cow s o f only
cream. There are about forty cream­
o .vrnge capacity that should be ills eries and five cheese factories, while
f.*t(*l of as veals this becomes a p r the hand separators must number at
fluent question. My reply Is that sc least 8,000. The “centralising” Nan
fur as the dairy calf is cone mod from seems to meet the environment o f the
ten days after birth skim milk can be country, for everywhere farmers are
substituted for whole milk, and, :• c accepting the method and seem to be
cording to the strength and capacity <t satisfied with the change.
A T im e ly C riticism .
the calf, linseed meal, Blnehf orris m al
One of the German» agriculturists re­
and grains can more or leas rapidly be
substituted for skim milk, says L S. cently touring in this country criticised
the placing of a hand separator in the
Hr.rdlu In Jersey Bulletin.
middle of the dairy barn, and stated
But, so far as fattening calves foi that the German law would forbid the
market is concerned, while I have hoard placing of a separator in such a situa­
of some successes at experiment stations tion. Why? Because of the liability
in this line o f endeavor I do not know o f the cream to absorb barn odors,
of anj* one succeeding with artificial with consequent lowering of the qual­
food only. In this case the original f it ity of the butter. They evidently be­
of the ca lf must not only be retained, lieve in preventing the introduction
but continued with rapid growth. I o f off flavors in the milk instead o f re­
lying on the ability of the butter maker
know of no combination o f grains suf­
to get them out afterward.
ficiently palatable to the calf and as­
C ore o f th e C ow «.
similated with sufficient oas • to accom­
To my mind there is nothing better
plish the degired end. The simplest
in warm weather than to turn the
plan for fattening calVes fur market Is cows into the pasture at night—better
to allow them to suck native cows of for the cows and for the pasture, says
large milking capacity and allow each C. I). Richardson in American Culti­
cow to raise three or four calves to a vator. Barns should be well lighted
proper age for market. This saves em­ and ventilated. I would not keep cows
ploying milkers and is profitable wb n in stanchions all winter; it is not good
the calves hav$ some fat cattle blood in for the general health o f the animal
or for the production of a first class
them.
dairy product.
D a i r y i n g In P o r t o R i c o .
They should be turned into a shel­
The American visitor to Porto Rico
meets many surprises In the field of tered yard twice a day to drink. We
dairying, says It. A. Pearson. Cows cannot afford to keep our cow s other
give from u pint to six quarts. They than we do our families—In clean,
sweet, comfortable q liar ten. Take care
o f your dairy cow us you would your
driving horse.
D a lla s : ü re tro n
A fair ëhare o f patronage solicited
«ml all o-ders prom ptly tilled.
MOTOR TIME TAtfLE .
Leaven Independence for Monmouth and \irlio —
. :30 a m
3:30 |< in
Leaves Inde|iendiice for Monmoutli and Dallas—
11:10 a in
0 15 p m
Lc.iv« s Monmouth for Airiie -
.50 a in
3.60 p m
Leaves Monmouth tog Dallas—
M:20a ill
7:SU pm
Leaves Airiie for Monmouth ami In lependence—
1:0» am
6 p m
Leaves Dallas for Momnom h an» Imie eut jii :o—
1:00 PH}
7 30 p m.
R. C. CRAVEN
K. K. WILLIAMS.
I'resideut.
C'aaliler.
W . C. VASSALL, a s s is t a n t C a sttier
OF
CITY
DALLAS,
i»AAh
THE WHEELBARROW MILK ROUTE.
are milked only once a day, and it is
supposed necessary to keep the calf to
“ start the milk.” A part of the herd
Is milked at midnight for an early
morning delivery and the remainder is
milked at 7 a. ui. for trade later in the
day. Cows are kept In open sheds and
fed nothing but grass pasturage. The
miik is good when properly handled. It
is sent to the city ir. large cans with­
out being cooked. The city retail price
Is G cents per pint and a half. The il-
lnstrntioii sl.n ., > a »"uamon method of
OREGON,
Transacts a general banking mini S lliS,F iL L S CITY1KSTEBI
jess in all its branches; buys and sells
R A I L W A Y
«¿change on principal points in the
United States; makes collections on all
TIME TABLE:
¡Joints in the Pacific Northwest; loans
rniT: 0 * n. lv Dalian
nr 5:10 r in Ö55 MW
money and discounts paper at the best 1 i 2') P m
7:3
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lv
Tint« 8i«!in.»r 4 >4 1» in !» •!Pinn
1»
rates ; allow interest on lime deposits. 1 .9 P ui 7:39 a n iv UillisniH ar 4 31 p ni 9 mil
1*in 7:46 a in lv Bridiiejioit a* 4:44 p in 9 10am
• •
’'r>P in 7:f16 » mnr Kal * City Iv 4 33 p in 9.20bin
D.1\ exet-pt Sunday,
D R . J O R D A N ’S
v isit
i'r. iiin utofion siirnaD only.
LOUIS GERLING R, J R ,
orcat #
MUSEUM OF AN&TGKY*
i*iiiiuiTi>T.,nm isci‘.c»,cH f
The I-A/ynt Anatomical Museum in the A
WofiS. Weakuay-e* *>r any c. mra« te*1 T
•haeaee ae»ill»rly rar.d ,y the ol.teu A
w^ecUlift on ih« C owl Eat 3 « year*. y
On. JORDAN—DISEASES OF MEN •
i'r« UXS I Y r n :i.l< thoroughly eradica’ci A
> 9 ftoui yyylcfl without the u-e <.l Sertary T
r u l Trw.ee fitted hy an F«pert atedl- i
M H i eel rer. for Reylerr. A qN.rk and V
I 11 If taUicai cure for l*ll.e. Plenum and A
I B riateler, »>jr L>t Jor Jan * special pain I
• li lets methoda.
Cnneullatioa 'ret and atrirtJy private Treatment per A
— f nr by letter A fw tivr Cure in every case ▼
^4 e« Write for B >ek PH I.O*.«»e«»V mt i
1 f i t Ml A SB. mailed FKkl. (A ralueh' book W
men ) Call of write
1
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC
TIM E TABLE
CO RVALLIS MAIL— D A ILY
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At Albain »> d Cun all s connect with trains of
Oregon Central an«l Ka»ter:i railroad.
G tr.em l Manager.
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REAL, E S T A T E t J E A L E R S
FARiViS A N D C IT Y L O T S
— ALL KINDS OF—
IRON WORK TO ORDER
Repairing Promptly Done.
RD. BIDDLE.
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M A R T IN ,
Ï* A I N T E R ,
H ouse, sign end orn em en t»), g 'e ii
■ ( , ltelsoming end peper hanging.
D eu -a s,
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N o matter how hard
your cough or how long
you have had it, Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral is the
best thing you can-^ake.
It’s too risky to w<dt
until you have consump­
tion. If you are coughing
today, get a b ottle o f
Cherry Pectoral at once.
Three sizes: 25c., 59c., SI. All Ironists.
Consult your doctor. If he says take it,
then do as he says. If he tells you not
to take it. then don’t take it. He knows.
Leave It with him. We are willing.
J. O. AYER CO.. Lowell, Mass.
SIMPLE FISHER FOLK
THE NEWFOUNDLANDERS ARE EAS­
ILY IMPOSED UPON.
A Pathetic and Truffle Incident That
IlluMtriste« the Attitude of the “ Up­
per” Cl tie « cm —-The Hardy Courage
o f the Outportei«.
o < f*o
( t n t s ...
Enclosed with every bottle is a 10
cent package of Grove's
BLACK ROOT
OREGON 2
DALLAS
f io
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Purchasing agent for W C. McClure, of Saginaw,
Michigan, and other eastern timber dealers. Room
1, upstairs, Wilson building.
M
LIVER PILLS.
R-I-PA-N-S Tabu lea
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind.
The 5 cen t lo c k a g e i» enough for usii«l W CM ioni.
The famil>' b ottle, 60 cen t«, contain* a supply fo r a
. 1.1 ni..,.vo Si >i them.
Y AMHILL UI VISION:
Dallas Foundry!
“ My mother was troublea with
consumption for many years. At
last she was given up to die. Then
she tried Ayer’ s Cherry Pectoral,
and wss speedily cured.’ ’
D. P. Jolly, Avoce, N. If.
ed to a little wnite cottage wnere
three children lay sick o f diphtheria.
He was the family pliyslcian—that Is
to suy, the fisherman paid him so
much by the year f^r medical attend­
ance. But the injection o f antitoxin
is u ‘surgical operation’ and therefore
not provided for by fhe annual fee.
“ Tlity.’ said the doctor, ‘will cost
you $2 an injection, John.*
“ ‘Oh. iss, zur!’ was the ready reply.
‘I’ll pay you. zur. Go ou, zur.*
“ ‘ But you know my rule, John no
pay, no work. I can’ t breuk it for you,
you know, or I’d have to break it for
half the coast.’
“ ‘Oh, aye! ’Tis all right. I wants
un cured, i ’ ll pay you w hen 1 sells me
fish.’
“ ’ But you know my rule, John -cash
down.’
“ The fisherman had but $4, no more.
Nor could he obtain any more, though
the doctor gave him ample time. I am
sure that lie loved his children dearly,
but, unfortunately, he had no more
than $4. and there was no other doctor
for fifty miles up and down the coast.
“ ‘ Four dollars,’ suid the doctor, ‘two
children.
Which ones shall it be,
John?’
“ Which ones? Why, of course, after
ail, the doctor had himself to make the
choice. John couldn’t. So the doctor
chose the ‘handiest’ ones. The other
one died.
“ ‘Well.’ said John, unresontfully, the
day after the funeral, ‘ I s’pose a doc­
tor have a right t’ be paid for what be
does. But,’ much puzzled, * ’tis kind o’
queer!’
“ The Newfoundland outporters are
hardy, courageous, boldly adventurous
simple lived, God fearing, warm heart­
ed—a physically splendid race of men.
Cowards and weaklings have for four
hundred 3’ears been the unfit o f the
place; they occur, o f course, in the best
regulated families, but do not long sm
vive, for exposure kills off the weak­
lings, and in the midst o f many dan­
gers the cowards lose their lives. Chil­
dren learn to sail a punt at six or seven
years old, and at every age they are en­
couraged to piny at the highly danger­
ous game (cnl<4d copying) of prancing
about on floating ice. The skill ac­
quired In leaping from one sinking
block to another would make the
trumpeted river driver look like a
blundering child. As men, they know*
their punts as Intimately as a cowboy
knows ills horse, and they will say of
their boats in a gale, ‘ I thought she’d
not live through it t’day,’ with the
same uuftmeeru that a cowboy might
■ay of his horse, ‘ lie nearly throwed
me that time.’ The race is truly hardy
and courageous. It was John Butt,
with a broken collar bone nud a split
forehead to show for It, who survived
two wild, snowy nights and a day on a
twenty foot ice pan, over which for
11111113* hours broke great seas, heavy
with jagged fragments of Ice. and it
was a reck lew Green bay skipper who
let the wind blow the masts out o f his
schooner rather than reef her. because
he had been told that his crew thought
him ‘nervous*—a mad sort o f courage,
to be sure, but proof positive for ull
time that he was no coward.”
“ St. John’s, N. F., lives by its fish­
eries; nothing worth While is produced
there, blit, according to the uusophisti-
| ited stranger, there is a noisy and
vituperative wrangling over the wealth
biat comes down from the coasts,” says
a write« in the World’s Work. “ There
are some few factories, to be sure, but
they are too ingeniously managed by
half. For instance, a certain brand of
tobacco, made at St. John's and ex­
clusively ccusumed by fishermen, is
sold in the French island of St. 1 Her re
for half what it costs the Newfound­
land ‘bay noddle,’ and the manufac­
I m p r o v e m e n t In N e w Y o r k .
turers pay $13,000 yearly to the pro­
New York dairy and creamery butter
prietor of a rival concern to induce
should hold a still better position In the
him to keep his plant shut down. At
market as soon as the work of the four
St. John’s, too, is the aristocracy o f the
new state dairy instructors begins to
colony—merchants, middlemen, law­
show effect. They will visit tiie sec­
yers, physicians, officeholders, tricky
tions where room and desire for Im
tvtod abusive politicians and colonial
proveinent are seen and do what they
knights (the visitor may observe on a
can to point out the trouble. The salary
signboard above a little corner store.
of $1.-0 0 u year will probably attract
‘Sir. Thomas Morbitrn. Grocer. Cheap
many candidates, but the civil service
Teas’ ). There is neither sympathy nor
examination should weed them out
mercy for the fisherman here, though
satisfactorily.
The state cheese In
there is a most enthusiastic reception
structors are already doing good work
for what he takes from the sea. He Is
and competent butter teachers might
regarded as legitimate prey, is most
prove even more helpful.—Americai
marvelously lied to before election and
Agriculturist
abused, ridiculed and reviled after­
ward. But through it all he preserves
Already There.
a humble faith in ‘all those set iu au­
She—I heard you complimenting her thority over him.*
upou her girlish appearance. What did
“ A doctor of the outports—the inci­
she say?
dent is related because, though it may
He—She said. “ Ah, but I’ m sure I appear an extraordinary case, it yet
shall look much older when I’ m. forty.” aptly Indicates what has for years
P eculiar Twin«.
She—Huh! She means she’ ll look been the attitude o f the ‘upper’ classes
A Harlem mother who lias twins and
much older when she admits she is toVvurd the fishermen, without whom
Is perforce obliged to study the pe­
forty.—Philadelphia Press.
Newfoundland would lie waste and culiarities of the species uttirms that
deserted, the shame o f the fair earth— lever has she punished one o f them—
HU Title.
a. doctor of the outports was once call-
licy are both boys for a misdeed hut
“ How did he get his title of colonel?”
that the other committed the identical
»‘ He got It to distinguish him from
offense at the very first opportunity.
his wife’s first husband, who was a
Moreover, if one asks a question, es­
captain, and his w ife’s second husband.
q a o v E ’S
pecially in regard to an unusual hap-
Who was a major.” —Exchange.
pening. in the nboence of the other his
brother almost invariably repeats the
TASTELESS CHILL K ill)
An evil speaker only wants an op­
query and very frequently In the same
portunity to become an evil doer.—
Has stood the test of^25 years. An­ phraseology.
Quintilian.
Her twins are not had boys, but
nual sale over 1,600,000 bottles.
the mother says that she is satis­
Does Ibis record of mer­
fied of the fact that twins require as
it appeal to you?
much attention and make us much
noise as four ordinary children.—New
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DALLAS P tSHLNOEK—DAILY, EX SUNDAY
00 p m Lv
. . . P ortla n d ...
ArlO 20 « m
... P s H m . .
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.Lv T.-00
Paiw nirer depot f--ot o f Jiffer-wm street
AIR .IE F R E IG H T —TKI W EEKLY
L «a v e 7 :4 0 * m . . . P ortla n d ......... Arrive 3 :3 2 p m
Lp* c 3.50 p m ............D*i'a->...........
Arrive 8:20 a m
Arrive ft u5 p m .......... Airiie
Leave 7 00 a m
Mother
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TRU CK M AN .
DALLAS
NO. 37.
DALLAS OREGON SEPTEMBER JJ. 1903
VOL. X X IX .
3 ALEÊVT 3
BEST
O ld //nni; coit^ea S T O R E
*
* CURES A COLD IN CNE DAY
CURES GRIP IN TWO DAYS
f
&
Is known n« ilio pi »re where the
V
* I M ififftd for five yrr.rs w ith in fla m m a tio n
w h ich cnu-s.fi v iolen t g ain « n d o fte n tortu re « o
bo<l at tim e » tli a I cotiM n ot b r » b o u t t o a tten d
to m y d a ily d u d e * ,’' w rite « “Mr*. Inliiia C. Bell,
o f Bathspad. K in g s’ on , »»nt. " L i t e was sim p ly
m i i r r v t o m e a m i I did »»'A k n o w w h ich w a y to
turn fo r relief
H ad trie d d octor* but fou n d
t h e y did not h e lp m e
M y drnirgist a d v ised m e
to try D r P ie r ce '« F avori’t « P rev rqM ion- etilo-
¡fi. i.iK it in f?l< w in g term *. I d e c id e d t o a i v e it
a trial a n d b r m r'it a b o ttle h o m e
I am n a pp v
to n n v that n ter th e u«e o f th e fir»t b ottle I felt
• o m ilch in ip r o /e d I d e c id e d to ta k e a n o th e r and
a fte r tlm t a th ir d bottle
I have g o o d rea son * to
b e p lea sed , f * I *<n t »-day a v.-clT w o m a n , w ork
i* e s* v a n d tl>e w o r ld lo o k * brig h t. 1 h a v e p e r­
fect hea lth , th a n k * to y o u r m edR -m e."
* !-* are s d'l for the
iii o n c y
U p to d « t e s h o p V ' t p i u i * o u r ¡titti. S l a p d a « h , lia n in
g o lu c k y , w in o r b -»• ni t l i 't U «io n u t g o lu re. T u c r e is t o o t m ir h
at s la k e .
W e a r e b u i l d i n g b is im s-« u u t o f in a le x ia l tlm t w id la *
H O N EST GOODS
H O N E S T P R IC E S
H O N E S T S E R V IC E
*
i
S a t i s f a c t i o n in every in-»¡t»»ce • r m o r e f u n d e d .
S*ti‘ fs«»ion *
is citing hut yo*» Wrttif. We ttdl the troth n I.« hi out g mm !* or
» |l) r< fond y ur niinn v. If your | nr Ini f . 1 Hali-n, » !» »1 .tore
do,-» not piove ei tin ly ««ii-f»<-t'>ry , a i-hancn to ni->k* il ri lit i- -,
(■•ni—tlv nc|!ie«'«l
No'In .a i. any botln r 10 11 « if it result» ¡ » ( ^
SA HHKAC HON
Mail O rd srs W ill R eceive Prom pt A tte n tio on
n J
A
worn out, who never has ta
lift a hand for herself, who does not
know the meaning of the word " worry” !
How < « . it be possible? That it is possi­
ble is . ned by the exj>ericnee of many
a woman who, because of sleeplessness,
nervOia 'ieM, backache and other wom-
anly ills, becomes an utter physical
wreck.
Dr. Pierce’■ Favorite Prescription gives
new life ami new strength to weak, w rn-
out, run-down women.
It establishes
rc'T'ibirity, dries unhealthy drains, heals
infianitnation and ulceration, and cures
female weakness. It makes weak women
strong and sick women well.
THIS BIONATUU
6WA
V IS T APPEAR
ON EVERY BOX OF THE GENUINE.
Sick women are invited to consult Dr.
Pierce l*y letter, free. Address Dr. R. V.
Pierre, Buffalo, N Y.
* Favorite Presc ription ” makes weak
women strong, »ick women well.
Ac­
cept no sub*t itute for the medicine which
works wonders for weak women.
Dr. Pierre's Pleasant Pellets should bt
used with ** Favorite Prescription ” when­
ever a laxative is required.
O VER
ly dcniuiistriitp* the raci that nirnita
can bo «Kveaafully «rown Ly Inoculat­
ing tbo flnlds that do not contain bac­
teria with u nmn! uantlty of soil from
a Hold known
nave them.—Kansna
Fa ru.LT.
TR O U B LE S
f
“I And Th« dford’« Black-Draught
■ good medicine for li er d seas«.
It C" rod my on after he had ap nt
$103 with dootora. It is all tFe med­
icine I take."—MRS. CA OLINE
MARTIN, Parkers kurg, W. Va.
If your liver does not act reg­
ularly go to your iruggiat ami
secure a package of Thedford’s
Black-Draught and take a dose
tonight.
This great family
medicine frees the constipated
bowels, stirs up the torpid liver
ami cause« a healthy secretion
of bile.
Thedford’s Black - Draught
will ch ante the bowels of im­
purities and strengthen the kid­
neys. A torpid liver invites
colds, biliousness, chills and
fever and all manner of sick­
ness and contagion. Weak kid­
neys result in Bright's disease
which claims as many victims
as consumption.
A 23-cent
package of Thedford’s Black-
Draught should always be kept
in the house.
“ I used Thedford’s Black
Draught for liver and k dney com-
and found nothin« to exoel
f ilaint
t V ILL I AM COFFMAN, Mar­
blehead, 111.
TOMATO TROUBLES
Cnt o f D«for 1)I si > mnm —tn th racn o«
Ei ght h i m ! Leaf Spot.
Anti.rnen^seoccasionally causes small
depressed snots In tomatoes. It may
be checked by the use o f bordeaux mix­
ture«
Bacterial blight of the tomato, c ■*%
plant and potato causes sudden blfi ht-
ing and decay of the stems and bram h-
T H Z D F O R D ’3
LBAF S P O T
DLACIt-
DMUGHT
es attacked. Preventive measures rec­
ommended include fighting the Insects,
early removal of diseased vines, choice
of fresh land not previously in potatoes
or egg plant and tomato seed from
healthy sources.
Tomato leaf spot or leaf blight is an
outdoor trouble, ns are the two already
mentioned. The leaf spot fungus ap­
pears to be gradually traveling west­
ward from the Atlantic const. It may
he successfully prevented by about
three thorough sprayings with bor­
deaux mixture, though some difficulty
attaches to the treatment o f unstaked
plants in the field.—A. D. Selby, Ohio
tonggi!j»<nt station.
A L F A L F A B A C T E R IA .
A Laok o f Them the Canae of Diffi­
culty In ü r o n liif Alfalfa.
In some parts of the country alfalfa
without an3f apparent reason fails to
make a proper growth or a permanent
stand. The Kansas Farmer has sug­
gested that lack o f the peculiar bacte­
ria to produce the root tubercles which
appropriate atmospheric nitrogen to
the use o f the plant may in some eftses
St least account for the failure. Recent
experiments conducted by R. W. Clo­
thier, professor o f agriculture and chem­
istry, Southeast Missouri State Normal,
tend to confirm* this view. Speaking of
these experiments, Professor Clothier,
w ho is a “ formerly o f Kansas” man,
says :
I have long believed that the chief
reason why the farmers o f the Missis­
sippi valley have had difficulty in grow­
ing alfalfa is lack of bacteria in their
soil. I have been experimenting some­
what along this line here on the Nor­
mal grounds, and, while my work Is not
yet completed, it might bt* well for me
to present to you now for publication
the results already obtained.
The soil upon which I am working
is a loess clay on top of one o f the Mis­
sissippi river bluffs. A few years ago
the top o f this hill was all scraped off,
the dirt being used to make terraces in
other parts o f the campus. If I can
succeed in growing alfalfa upon such a
soil I am confident that It can be grown
upon any other farm In southeast Mis­
souri.
In October, 1001. I placed thirteen
ioads o f manure upop a part o f this bill,
the plat measuring 90 by 135 feet. The
manure was plowed under and the
ground left Idle till May 1, 1002. I then
laid off four small plats ten feet square
adjoining each other. All o f them were
sown to alfalfa. The two farther south
were untreated. One of those on the
north side was treated with fifteen
pounds o f unslaeked lime, anil the other
was untreated, with the exception that
two pounds o f dirt from an old alfalfa
field containing tubercle* was spread
upon a Mt rip two feet wide oil the west
side.
ReMt.lt« o f Kspérim ent«.
The alfalfa mine up nicely upon all
the plats. In about six weeks the alfal­
fa on the untreated soil began to turn
yellow and practically quit growing.
On the limed plat It continued to grow,
but dlil not have a bright green color.
On the Inoculated strip o f soil the alfal­
fa had n rich, dark green color, grew
nicely, and about the middle o f the
summer the green strip began to grow
wider. Examination o f the r»>ots showed
then) to Is» bountifully supplied with
nodules. At the end of the growing *<•«-
son last year the green strip had grown
to I k * five or six feet wide. The alfalfa
on the limed pari was still a good stand,
though having a pale green color, while
the alfalfa on the two plats untreated
had gradually died out till there was
practically none lef^ ami what little
could be seen was entirely killed by th°
winter.
Last spring the alfalfa on the In jcu
lat» m ! plat staited out with a dark
green color, and this color showed a
decided tendency to spread rapidly,
soon covering the remainder of the
plut and beginning to encroach upon
the limed plat. The alfalfa on the
limed plat still retalncMl Its pule green
color, grew slowly and showed a tend­
ency to die out. On May 25 the alfal­
fa on tlie inoculated soil was eighteen
Inches high, while that on the limed
plat, not yet ranched by the bn«*teria,
was not over eight Inches high. In
a very short time the bacteria F il
spread fn.n: a strip two feet wide over
a distance o f twenty fe~t and had
covered nil the limed plat except about
tb ^ s Jeet on one corner* T b k eertain-
L I F E IN
ON T O M A T O
LKAFLET AND S T E M .
E N G L IS H V ILLA G ES.
It l a N o t t h e I d y l l i c F o r m T h a t P o e t *
Min« A b o u t .
“ I know a village where there are no
fewer than thirty cottages with but
one bedroom apiece, and in each of
these single bedrooms six, seven and
more people are sleeping,” says A.
Montefloro-Bruce, writing in the Lon­
don Mail about life iu the average Eng­
lish village. “ In one o f them, father,
mother and eight children huddled to­
gether. In another, father, mother and
six children—three o f whom are grown
up—are sleeping.
In these cottages
there Is one living room downstairs
and no sanitary arrangement of any
kind. At the back o f the cottages runs
an open ditch. It is also un open sewer.
“ Here, in the very heart of the coun­
try, I expect to find abundance of pure
water, abundance o f sweet air. Too
often 1 find neither about the cottugus.
Hundreds o f villages have no water
supply, though a comparatively small
expenditure could provide it. I know
a village—it Is typical of hundreds—
where the cottagers have to go half a
mile to get water. A foul ditch fur­
nishes another village with the whole
o f Its water supply. Offensive refuse
heaps lie piled round the crumbling
walls of the cottages. The wooden
floors within are rotten with sewage.
“ Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex contain
many such villages, and other couutles
—such as Bedford, Cambridgeshire,
Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset—easily vlo
with them. I could write o f lonely
cottages far across the fields, with no
water within a mile, whence the chil­
dren morning after morning walk two
miles to school, and drag their tired
limbs that distance back again nt night
—and tills whatever the weather;
where the postal service comes but
once a week; where the men and boys
walk dally five or six miles to and from
work; where o f drainage there Is none;
where of the simplest sanitation there
Is none; where the medical officer of
health conics not, and where the In­
spector of uulsances Is unknown.”
The
C oun try
Town.
It's unAnon to sneer at the country town.
With Its quiet streets and Its peuceful
air,
Where the little river meanders down
To be lost in the broad, blue aea some­
where
As we «.ho think we are wise are lost
In the roaring city that, like the sea,
Hus its ebb and flow, with ita rr»..lions
tossed
Aajnib./«*-* robbed of identity.
There's fellowship in the country town,
W’tth Its empty streets and its spreading
trees.
Where the country song birds xarbie
down
At maids ¿4 fair as man ever set«.
Where »he wind blows aweet from the
Acids near by,
Whr*re men know the names which their
neigh bors bear.
Where a man Is missed when he*« gone to
I I h
\V».rt the peaceful ones wh'» havs ceased
to car»».
There are Joys out there In ths country
town
That we of the city may neveT learn
In the rush for money and for renown.
^«alrontlnff*stran -s where’er we turn!
Oh, wasn’t (Jod i v id serene and fulr
In the country town ere rfe came uwayT
And won't it be sw>*« t to sleep out there.
Far from the city’s roar, some day?
—Chicago Record-Herald.
I
Seventeenth
O n 's r y
Song.
New
Year*«
Wassail, wassail, to our town!
The cup is whits and the a.e Is brown;
7^*e cup Is made of the ash*-, n tree.
And so Is the ale of the goo*' barley.
Idttle maid little maid, turn the pin;
Open the door and 1st me corns in.
0od be here and God be there!
I his h fun all a» happy n*w ySarl