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H o m e f o r D r r l n f S w eet C oro.
I hare for several yea n been rais­
ing sweet corn under contract, and the
accompanying illustration w ill convey
some Idea o f my drying bouse. I t is
also my granary, the upper floor con­
taining grain bins on one side. Tbe
lower floor and south side o f tbe up­
per floor are arranged for sweet corn.
Tbe most essential part of drying
sweet corn Is to have a free circulation
■of air. Therefore 1 cut doon through
as shown. These doors are on both
sides and on the back. They are hung
on hinges and can be opened and jthut
when needed. Tbe sweet corn should
t>e spread In layers; therefore we use
racks made o f 1 by 3 Inch slats placed
twenty Inches to two feet apart, one
above tbe other. I f the corn Is green
and milky when buskpd It should be
pu t on the racks very thin, not more
than two or three ears in depth, and
turned frequently, but If it Is more
.matured and the kernels are glazed It
•Testlaw for Plant Pood.
One of the simplest methods o f as-
certalnlug what plant food* Is needed In
a soli Is to test the soil with a grow­
ing plant. I f tbe soil is deficient in
nitrogen the leaves of grasses and cer­
eal grains w ill be either bluish or yel­
lowish, the latter in tbe case o f the
grain, while a deep, vivid green in d i­
cates a good supply of nitrogen In the
soil.. Any soil In which rape, cab­
bages and other member» of the turnip
fam ily thrive Indicates that such soil
has a good supply o f phosphoric add.
Where potash In the soil Is abundant
the leaves of the growing plants have
a yellowish green cast, while If potash
la deficient the shade of green Is o f a
bluish color. Naturally It requires a
practiced and observant eye to deter­
mine accurately these things, but tbe
plan Is correct and worth following.
The indication of sorrel In a meadow
seeded to mixtures such as redtop,
timothy and clovers, Is a pretty good
Indication that tbe soil needs lime.
However, the litmus paper test for
acid soil Is the quickest and Is thor­
oughly reliable.— Indianapolis News.
V a in * o f D r y B a rth .
I t Is w ell known that fine, dry dirt
Is one o f tbe best absorbents and dis­
infectants known. It is also plentiful
and costa nothing but thp labor of
handling. It makes excellent bedding
If covered over with a few inches of
straw, and It really keeps the cows
clean, even when used in the stalls
without straw, as It Is easily removed
from the hair with a brush. A stall
bedded with dry earth can be cleaned
out in a much shorter time, and, as it
absorbs the liquids and gases, quite a
saving Is effected In that manner.- Its
use goes beyond the stall. As the
stable should be cleaned daily, quite a
large quantity of dry earth w ill be
used In the course of a year, and w ill
necessarily be added to the manure
heap. Although It adds nothing to the
heap Itself, yet Its presence therein
w ill double the value o f tbe manure
by preventing loss of fertilizing ma­
terial. I t Is a better absorbent than
straw or cornstalks, and is easily han­
dled when the manure is hauled to
the fields.
T o I t s o v a U O ld F o r m *.
The best mode o f renovating old
worn-out farms is to raise sheep on
them. But in raising sheep the land
should be divided Into fields and some­
thing grown thereon, the crop only
reaching a height sufficient for the use
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o f the sheep. The animals should nev­
may be put on thicker. I can dry er be compelled to hunt for their food.
600 or 600,bushels In this building.— No profit can be made on sheep, unldNi
they receive, care add assistance. With
Correspondence Ohio Farmer.
tbe production o f wool, mutton and
A H a a S y W ood B lock .
lamb, and the gradual enriching o f tbe
On every farm there is more or less soil, the profit is sure In the end. Do
wood-chopping to do, and, as a rule, not expect too much In one year, but
It Is back-breaking work unless somo keep on, and good results w ill surely
device, something like that shown In follow.
the cut, Is used. This is simply made
C n tttTS tlon o f T rees.
and constats mainly of two pieces of
I f you have old trees that have fail­
logs sawed smooth so that they w ill
ed to give profitable crops o f fruit, dig
stand firmly. These are set about four
the soil up thoroughly and then apply
feet apart and each log Is about three
a good dressing of wel]-rotted stable
feet high. On top of these logs Is
manure and work thoroughly into the
placed another, which reaches from
soil. Then, If you have them, apply a
end to end of the base logs, as shown
dressing of wood ashes. I f these fall
In the cut Stakes are cut and fasten­
to revive the tree after giving a good
ed to the log as shown, so as to hold
pruning It Is past redemption and
It firmly In position. The whole ar­
should give way to something better.
rangement Is planned so that the log
Good rich soil for three or four years
w ill be of the right height for cutting
can be profitably planted to some crop
without causing one to bend over too
while the trees in the orchard are
far. In order to prevent danger from
growing, but after that the best plan
flying pieces of wood, such as small
is either to seed down to clover, and
tw igs of trees, an iron, bent as shown
use as a hog pasture, or to cultivate
without allowing any crop to grow.
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A G ran d Old C h e rry T ree.
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A H A N D Y WOOD BLOCK.
Sometimes the fruit on a single tree
is worth more than two or three acres
of wheat. There Is a tree In northern
Delaware, seventy or eighty years old,
that has produced an average o f $50
worth of fruit annually for nearly
twenty years. One year the cherries
sold for $80. Six years ago this old
patriarch bore fifty-four peach baskets
o f delicious fruit, or about eleven hun­
dred pounds. And all of this fruit has
been a free gift from nature, as the
old tree has stood in a dooryard all
these years unattended and uncared
for except in cherry time.— Country
L ife In America.
in figure B, is fastened to the chop­
ping log, and under this iron Is placed
the small tw ig -or limb to be cut, the
ax striking It on the side nearest tbe
chopper, and the bent iron preventing
it from flying up and striking the
w orkA. A wood block arranged in the
P o u l t r y N o t e «.
manner Indicated w ill be found ■ to
Stone drinking vessels are cooler
save many backaches and can be than tin ones.
worked on quite as well as If the block
A quart o f feed for twelve hens Is a
were lower.— Indianapolis News.
good measurement.
Tincture o f Iron is a good tonic to
S ta r t w it h Good B ird s.
A few extra good birds for the foun­ give during the hot weather.
Air-slaked ¿lime dusted over the
dation stock Is far better than twice
.
the same number o f ordinary ones. A yards Is a good preventive o f gapes.
When the egg shells are thin it Is an
good beginning Is the “ short cut'* to
success. L ife Is too short to breed Indication that the bens need lime.
Don’t forget to chop up dandelions
from Inferior birds. I t may be cheap
at the beginning, but expensive in the for the little ducks If kept where they
end,— American Poultry Advocate.
cannot get grass.
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Boiling the milk fed to poultry w ill
B eea a n d l>am a sea.
The 8upreme Court of Iowa has check looseness of the bowels, a com­
held, In the case of Parsons vs. Mau­ mon trouble In hot weather.
Market all the early chicks not want­
ser, 03 Northwestern Reporter, 86, that
the owner of bees, who knows that ed for next year's breeding. I f you
they are prone to attack horses, If caponlze any, let It be the * later
near them. Is liable to one whose batches.
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I f done hatching send the useless
hbrses were stung to death by the
bees while fastened to a hitching post roosters to market or to the pot in-
In the vicinity of the hives. The lat- stanter.
Overfat and •broken-down
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! ter were near the highway, and the hens, ditto.
Never give crushed oats to young
* post was erected by the owner of the
bees for the purpose o f hltçblng chicks without first sifting out the
horses, and was In the course usually hulls. The hulls, either on or off the
kernel, are liable to produce a stoo-
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from their hives*
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KILLED TO SAVE HER SOJL.
S tran ge Cass o f F re d eric k C. Fischer*
th e f S t ffo r a ls W ife -M e rd e rer.
BIO rROPITS IN F A R n iN U .
Willamette
MAY BB FOREST RESERVE.
Valley Raadmrs WUI Do Commissioner Richards Qives
Well This Year.
tor Withholding Largs Tract.
Register Dresser, o f the Oregon
W illam ette valley farmers are re­
joicing over Ik * prospect for good City land office, has received from
profits In almost evety thing they Commissioner W. A. Richards, o f the
have to sell this year. Not only are United 8tates land office, a letter re­
prices good, but yields are large and lative to the telegram of recent date
as a consequence there will be more withdrawing certain public lands in
money in the valley this year than that district from settlement. The
there has been for more than a de­ letter directs the withdrawal, tem­
porarily, of all vacant unappropriated
cade before.
W heat at Salem is quoted at 70 lands In townships 5 to 13 south, both
cents, with the mills paying a 2-cent inclusive, range 4 east, from settle­
premium. In ordinary years all above ment, entry, sale or other disposal,
50 cejuis would be clear profit, but be­ under the public land laws, pending
cause o f the high wages paid to farm the determination as to the • advis­
help this season it w ill take from 52 ability of Including said area within
to 55 cents to pay the cost of produc­ the Cascade range forest reserve.
Regarding the rights o f settlers
tion. The average yield, so far as
who
have already located on lands In­
can be learned, will be about 20 bush­
els to the acre or more. This means cluded in the specified aYea, Commis­
a clear profit of from $3 to $3.50 an sioner Richards says:.-
“ Nelther this temporary withdraw­
sere on wheat, after allowing for all
al,
nor the permanent reserve of the
labor and expenses. Oath have turn­
ed out better in proportion than lands which may follow, will affect
wheat, and the large yield, with a any bona fide settlement or claim
price o f about 25 cents per bushel, properly Initiated upon the lauds
will leave a good‘ profit on that crop. prior to the d a te’ hereof, provided
j The season has been very favorable that the settler or claimants continue
for hay, and yields have been good. to comply with the law under which
The prices quoted at present are from their settlement at claims were ini­
$7 to $8 a ton in the local market for tiated, and place tnelr claims duly oa
stat­
loose hay. Farmers say that about record within the prescribed
utory
period.
The
withdrawal
oper­
half of this, price is profit. Yields run
from two to three tons per acre, mak­ ates to defeat all settlement claims or
ing this crop a better paying one than other claims initiated subsequent to
this date, regardless o f the date upon
wheat.
Hops promise a price ranging from which you receive the telegram."
15 cents upward, and it is generally
DAILY ATTENDANCE SMALLER.
figured that all above 8 cents is profit,
though growers who hire all their
work done and give their yards a good Though Oregon’s School Population Has
spraying say that the cost of produc­
Orsatly Increased.
tion is 10 cents a pounds At any
Superintendent
o f Public Instruc­
rate, there seems to be aa excellent
tion
J.
H.
Ackerman
has Just finished
profit this year.
The prune crop is large, and though compiling the annpal school statis­
the domestic market has not opened, tics as gathered from the reports re­
has been making sales at its own cently filed in his office by the sever­
al <county superintendents. As ¿he re­
price, a 2% -cent basis, which price
leaves the grower a “ better than fair" ports fo r last year covered a period
of 16 months, there Is no basis for
margin.
comparisons except in a few partic­
A ll through the year dairy products ulars.
have brought an extraordinary price,
The school census for the year end­
gnd even country butter has found a
ing in Jhne, 1903, shows that there
ready market at paying figures.
are In the state 143,757 persons be­
Woolgrowers sold their fleeces this
tween the ages o f 4 and 20 years. At
year at a high price, and sheep have
the same time last year the school
been in demand all through the year.
population was 138,466, so that an in­
crease o f 5291 Is shown.
The average daily attendance In all
CATTLEMEN R8FUSB TO SBLL.
the public schools o f the state during
the preceding year has been 64,21«,
Despite Scarcity of Feed They Hold for
while for the preceding year it was
' Botter Figaros.
66,779, or a decrease of 2560. A de­
N ever In the history o f the eountry crease In the average daily attend­
around Dale has the cattle market ance at the same time that there Is
been as unsettled as it is at the pres­ an increase in the school population
ent time. Prices offered by export- is probably due to the scarcity of
buyers are extremely low, and the labor and the high wages, which, to­
gether, take many o f the older boys
cattle- raisers are refusing to sell.
Crowding on top o f this, there is a out o f school during the greater part
scarcity o f hay as compared with last o f the year.
year, and prices are running moun­
tain high. Hay. is selling in the field
Protest Agalast Withdrawals.
at $10 per ton, whieh is $4 higher
A special meeting o f the Roseburg
than it was last fall. Cattle-raisers board of trade and citizens generally
who have not a sufficient supply are has been called to protest against the
trying to contract for all they can se­ withdrawal o f any more public lands
cure, but the farmer will not sell.
from 'entry in that portion o f the
Again there are more cattld on the state. Other commercial bodies in
range this year than last, without suf­ the western port o f Oregen wlU be
ficient feed for them. Notwithstand­ invited to co-operate In protesting to
ing the discouraging state o f affairs tbe officials in Washington, D. C., and
which confront the cattleman, he is to our senators and representatives
willing to wait for further develop­ in congress against the further ex­
ments.
tension o f our already Immense for­
The export cattle-buyers who have est reserves. Such recently proposed
been in the country have had to go to extensions w ill work serious hard­
other parts because they could not se­ ships on many bona fide settlers now
cure the cattle here. The buyers located on some, o f these lande,
give Portland quotations here at $2.70
per hundred for cows and $8.35 tor
PORTLAND MARKETS.
steers. The average Is $3.75. and
even better prices than that were re­
ceived last year. If both the buyer
Wheat— Walla Walla, 76978c; blue-
and the seller continue to hold out, it
stem, 78<§81c; valley, 79980c.
Is believed that there will be a num­
Flour— Valley, $8.6093.86 per bar­
ber of forced sales on the part o f the
stockmen, and that they w ill sell at rel; bard wheat straights, $3.6093.85;
hard
wheat, patents, $4.1094.60;
a loss to themselves.
graham, $3.8593.75; whole wheat,
$3.569 4.00; rye wheat, $4.00.
No Gross to Fight Over.
Barley— Feed, $20 per ton; brewing,
There is no range war In the Upper
Deschutes valley. On the contrary, $21; rolled, $21921.50.
Oats— No. 1 white, $1.07K : gray,
there Is the peace o f desolation. The
range was overstocked and eaten out $1.05 per cental.
Millstuffs— Bran. $23 per ton; mid­
and no grass worth making war over
remains. Where neat cattle and dlings, $27; shorts, 123; chop, $1$;
horses once throve by the thousands linseed dairy food, $18.
there is now none too much feed for
Hay— Timothy, old, $20 per ton;
a few hundreds. Twenty years ago new, $14916fc lo v e r, nominal; grain,
there was no finer grazing region in
$12; cheat, nominal.
the United States. Men who now ride
Butter— Fancy creamery, 20922Me
all day in a cloud o f dust tell o f the
per
pound; dairy, nom inal; store, 16
time when the grass was up to their
knees as they bestrode their horses, 917c.
and cattle fairly wallowed in the feed • Cheese Foil cream, twins, 14c;
that covered the 30 miles o f present Young America, 14c; factory prices,
desert between Bend and Prineville.
1 9 1 * « less.
Poultry— Chickens,
mixed,
119
Te Nave Brand New School House.
l l * c per pound; spring, 1 6 9 1 7 *c ;
Canyon City is to have a new and hens, 1 2 9 1 $M o ; broilers, $293 per
up-to-date school building that w ill be dosen; turkeys, live,
10912c per
a credit to the town. The school au­ pound; dressed, 14915c; docks, $495
thorities are advertising for bids tor per dosen; geese, $596.60.
Its construction.
The building will
Eggs Oregon ranch, 19920c.
be two stories high and w ill have tour
Potatoes—
Old
Burbanks, 70976c
class and recitation rooms. Its cost
per
sack,
growers'
prices; new pota­
w ill be about $3000.
toes, Oregon, 8 0 * 9 t l per sack; Cali­
President Smith Inspecting Farms.
fornia, le per pound.
K. L. Smith, o f Hood River, presi­
Wheat Backs— In lots of 100, 6 * c .
dent of the State Botyd o f Horticul­
Beef — Gross steers, $3.7594.25;
ture, is in Coos county on a tour of dressed, 6 * 9 7 * c per pound.
inspection. W hile there Mr. Smith
Veal— 8c per pound.
will visit most o f the principal farms
Mutton—
Grose, $3; dressed, 5 * 9
in the county.
6c; lambs, gross, $3.50; dressed, 7c.
Hogs—Gross, $6.6096.75; dressed,
• Planing Mill Burned at Haines.
7c.
The Haines Lumber Company’s
H o p »—1902 crop, 15916c per pound.
planing mill, at Haines, was burned
Tallow—
Prim e, per ponnd, 495c;
last week. The Ibss Is $5000. The
plant was owned by James Mitchell, No. 2 and grease, 2 * # 8 o .
« v lnsur
■ i mn
Wool — Valley, 17918c; Eastern
of Baker City, who carried ■ no
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Frederick C. Fischer, barber, preach­
er, political organiser, grand larceny
thief, burglar, highwayman, bigamist,
w ife murderer— who was banged at
San Quentin prison for chloroforming,
choking and burning his w ife to death,
at Riverside, Cal.— has been labeled
“ The Human Mystery."
The puzzling psychological features
in his case consist of his undoubted
sincerity as a church member and re­
ligious worker while he was also a
thief, both In the Bast and West— for
he has preached In every prison he has
ever been In— and of bis desertion o f
the wives he did not love and killing
of the only one he cared for.
His story, verified In part, was that
he told bis w ife be was a bigamist and
feared arrest, asking her to go away
and remain In seclusion while he gava
himself up and served his time, then
he would rejoin her and they could
live happily without a recurrence o f
the fear that was then overshadow­
ing him. She refused and, It was
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stated, told him she would commit
suicide if he YVas arrested.
Fischer said he had figured from the
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Bible that not only is the soul o f every
suicide lost, but eternal damnation
awaits those who cause others to kill
..themselves, hence, to ssve both their
souls, he killed her snd asked for and
received f o r g i v e n e s s for himself. E x ­
perts found he wss entirely s a x »'
even exceedingly bright, and that he
was mainly a man o f humane tenden­
cies—the kind o f thief who returns
plunder when he finds he has stolen
from tbe poor.
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Fischer was 81 years old. In the In­
vestigation of his case it was found
that bis parents, while also church
people, encouraged him to steal as a
child, and that his grandfather was a
thief.
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A sharp pain In the lungs or side
can be driven away by applying vase­
line and mustard in the proportion of
two parts of vaseline and one o f mus­
tard. Itnb it together, and spread on
a piece o f muslin as you would an or­
dinary poultice. This is also excellent
for a Bevere pain in the back o f the
neck, and has been used with good re­
sults for breaking up influenza.
A Simple W ater T e s t— A ll mothers
of families are aware of the need for
purity in the water supply. A simple
test, easily tried by any one. Is given
in a scientific paper as safe and effi­
cient. Draw a tumblerful o f water
from the uncertain well or tap, put in
it a piece o f lump sugar, and let it
stand over night In a room where the
temperature w ill not be under 60 de­
grees Fahrenheit. In the morning the
water, if pure, w ill be perfectly clear;
If contaminated by sewage or other
Impurities tbe water w ill be milky.
Schule, an eminent German physi­
cian, has recently made a series of in­
teresting observations upon tbe condi­
tion of tbe stomach during sleep, and
has ascertained,that tbe movements o f
tbat organ are greatly lessened, while
the acidity is greatly Increased.
He
concludes from this that it is o f espe­
cial Importance that persons suffering
from weakened digestion, particularly
those In whose cases there Is excessive
formation of hydrochloric acid— a con­
dition known as hyperpepsla— should
avoid sleeping after meals, but should
remain for some time after eating in
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