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MAKING FARM CONCRETE POST Ordinary Few Modifications of the Molds Are Necessary to Make the Post Hollow, To construct hollow re-enforced con crete fence posts, a few modifications of the ordinary mold are necessary, in addition to the core to be placed in the center of the post. The mold foi an ordinary four-by-four-inch post Molder for Fence Posts. even feet long, consists of a bottom two sides and two end gates, all of which are held together by three iron clamps placed over the top of the sides after they are put together. The sides are held to the bottom by small dowel pins inserted in holes in the bottom, so that the sides may be readily removed, leaving the finished post lying on the base to harden. One end gate must have a two-inch hole through which the core may be with drawn. NOVEL TWO-PURPOSE RUNWAY Morses and Cattle Pass from One Field to Another, But Hogs Kept in One Pasture. 'Farmers who want to let horses and cattle run from one field to another and at the same time -"keep hogs in wjll find this device of value. Make am opening in fence and across it nail Cattle Pas But Hogs Can't. two 18-inch planke to posts or stakes 15 ? inches apart, says a writer in Mis souri Valley Farmer. A hog can pass between them but It can not turn so as to jump over either plank, and the distance is great enough so thai it can not jump over the two planks at once. Horses and cattle can go over without any trouble. CULTURE OF THE ASPARAGUS Importance of "the Proper Care of the Beds During the Hot Summer Weather. Asparagus is in the proper state fo: cutting when.'? the shoots are two inches above the surface of the grouni. and the top buds are close and com pact. The shoots should be cut every morning. All small stems should hi cut off close to the ground. Garden ers use an asparagus knife, having j. straight, narrow, tapering blade abot:: sin to eight inches in length aud abou: an inch broad at the haft. The knift should be sharp. Cut the shoots off slanting, about three inches below tin surface, taking care not to wound or break off the young shoois cominr, from the same root To have ten der, melting asparagus, cut the shoots when six inches high, cutting level with the ground; the whole will then be tender. All below the surface o. the ground is tough and stringy. The asparagus rows should be kept per fectly free from grass and weeds. Run the cultivator between the rows and close up the asparagus shoots by fre quent cultivation and free use of the" steel rake. The ground can be kept mellow and 'the young weeds de stroyed without much work. If weeds and grass become deeply rooted, the work will be greatly increased. The cutting should cease as soon as the shoot appear small and weak. Close cutting will exhaust the roots and succeeding crops will be dimin ished. Making Clover Hay. Farmers differ considerably as to how to make clover hay. Often the crop is cut too soon If it is heavy and cut green in full blossom it is hard to cure without danger of mold ing. I have cut clover green on Mon day and been obliged to leave it un til Thursday or Friday, and even then the heavy stems were not cured, says a. writer-- in Baltimore American. If the ground is wet the plants are hard to dry. Many times I have cut early so as to get a crop of seed, and then cut rather late, when half or more of tbe heads were brown, and the late cuttings always made the better head. Stock ate the hay more readily also. We sometimes salt the hay when we put it in the mow damp, with good results.- , Keeping W.eeds Down. Veplow our Jand in November with a sulky plow, from eight to ten inches deep. In the spring we harrow with a, spring toot, harrow, several times, and furrow op tne sod, and it is easy planting.. ,We put all the fertilizer in the .fy 11,, using, barnyard manure,- hen manure aqd. fertilizer, in, every hill there are exceptions. : CMd hens often on any present-oay metnoas, as tne we plant We cultivate and hoe and make, the best mothers. We should method will not permit of much ex keep every weed down. Exchange. keep the exceptionally good old heis. animation or handling. B. D. Thomas. WAY TO FASTEN FULL SHEETS. New Method for Arranging Founda- I tfon in Brood-Frames and Pro vide Winter Passages. My method of fastening full sheets of foundation In brood-frames also pro vides permanent openings through the top bars of the frames, allowing free communication to all parts of the hive, I writes Joseph G. Hutt in Gleanings of Bee Culture. No wedge or extra saw- cut is needed for holding the founda- Foundation Sheets. tion, and there is no need of a bee- space over the top bar when my plan is followed. I bore six three-eighth-inch holes through the top bars, as shown in the illustration. These holes should be a little nearer the lower edge of the top bar than the upper edge. There should be a saw-cut in the lower edge of the top bar deep enough to extend half way through the holes, as shown. Then when the foundation is slipped into this saw-kerf it may be quickly fastened by punching a round piece of wood or metal into all of the holes, giving it a twisting motion to fold over the edge of that part of the foundation extending into the hole. HOT WEATHER CHICKEN COOP. Canvas Covering Affords Artificial Shade for the Hen and Her Brood on Warm Days. For warm weather use the accom panying Illustration gives a good idea of a method of protecting a coop for a hen and her brood by the means of Protecting Coop with Canvas. canvas. This coop is particularly use ful where it is not possible to supply either the hen or chickens with nat ural or other artificial shade. CARING FOR THE INCUBATOR. Needs Constant Attention as Tempera. ture Dropes or Rises; Eggs Also Need Turning, and Wick Trimming. This is not like dish washing, a job that can be passed successfully from one member of the family to another. as convenience dictates. To secure the best results, it is better, if possi ble, that one person take the entire charge of it, says the Farm Journal. Those who think it can be run like a clock, simply wound and then never thought of until the next time for winding, will find out their error in an expensive manner. While the im proved machines require comparative ly little attention, yet a certain amount is essential, and this must be iven in an intelligent manner. It does not take many days for the attendant to be able to approximate just about what the machine is doing and needs at a certain time in the day. If the weather is warm and it is in fluenced either by a stove or the sun, the lamp may need lowering a little during this period. Or if the tempera ture drops, a corresponding increase of artificial heat will be required. These become almost intuitive serv ices to the one who has observed the changes from day to day; yet to an other member of the family, even though instructed on the point, they many be the means of a "bungle." Turning and airing the eggs, too, should be done in a regular way. The , 1 T trimming of the wick slightly different . in that direction. All right; but you may destroy the equilibrium of tern-j would better be careful how you mon perature. key with bees unless ycu want a life- Finally, it is not so much skill as re- J liability which counts. To the one ' accustomed to its care, duty calls at regular intervals; others may forget. or remembering, be over zealous, and kill with kindness." Bee Sense. Gaston' Bonnier affirms that the ability of bees to fly straight to their hives from a distance as great as two miles is not due, as some have be lieved, to either sight or smell, but to a special- sense of direction possessed by bees. Mons. Bonnier bases his be lief in the existence of this strange sense, which would be extremely use ful to man also, on a series of experi ments with homing bees. He does not know in what organ the sense is lo cated, but he says that, at any rate, it ,B not in the antennae. Pullets are the best layers. Old hens bring the record down. Of. course, . 'EGG-A-DAY" LAYING HEN. Experiments Show the Egg Yield May Be Greatly Increased by Scien tific Selection. By B. E. Lara. Poultry raisers in the United States are greatly indebted to the thorough ness of the tests made at our exper nient stations lor a great many im porianc improvements In every branch of the poultry industry. These experimental farms hav proved beyond doubt that by syste matic feeding and scientific breeding of hens the latter can be made to greatly increase their number of eggs and also improve the richness and weight of the same, thereby raising their market value. The gratifying success thus far at tained by experiments in the way of increasing the egg-producing quali ties of certain breeds of hens has made breeders hopeful of securing still greater achievements along the same line in the near future. Perhaps to no state in the union is due a greater credit than to Main White Leghorns. for the improvement and betterment generally in poultry raising. Prof. George Q. Gowell, who died last summer, engaged in this inter esting and profitable work and . his discoveries influencing the lien's won derful production of eggs are claiming earnestattention in every section of the' country.' - ' " A summary of the results of a se nes or experiments shows that of some 2.000 hens placed under observa tion for longer or shorter periods about 20 had laid more than 200 eggs apiece in a year, while two hens, both of Plymouth Rock breed, and both marked acording to standard regula tions, have stood out so conspicuous ly for their performances that they may ie counted among the most profitable fowls in this country, if not in the world. The special pet of Prof. Goxrell's heart, and the bird which has demon strated the successfulness of his un tiring efforts and discoveries to make hens produce a larger and better -qual ity of eggs, yielded 251 eggs the first year. She would be regarded as of the egg type by those people who pro fess to tell the egg-yielding capacity of hens by their forms and markings. A number of other hens yielded 240 238 and 235 eggs each for the year, not one, however, producing less than 200. Frof. Gowell's methods of selecting breeding stock for high egg produc tion are to save the eggs from the hens of greatest egg yield and hatch chicks from those. By so doing his experimental pens are now lilled with pullets and cock erels the ancestors of which came from stock that had given 200 or more eggs 111 a year. HOW TO BEGIN WITH BEES. There Are Several Ways to Start, Such as Buying Hive from Neighbor, or with Nucleus. I am reminded that some who would keep a few bees have none to start with and would welcome a little light time iob, for, like photography, once a a person gets a good start it is almost impossible to quit. There are several ways to start, such as buying a full hive from some one who advertises, or just buying a nucleus or two, which are little hives of bees just started. Or one might probably buy from a neighbor who had a few bees to spare. I would prefer to get them in movable frame hives, or, if in the old-fashioned kind, get them cheap and transfer comb bees and all into movable frames. At any rate, two or three will be enough for the beginner until he acquires experience. Of course I know that they can be kept sometimes to a little advantage In boxes and kegs, but I would com pare such a 'procedure to harrowing with- a brushy sapling instead of using a good disk harrow. In fact, if you are going to keep bees in a box or keg, it- is a waste of time to read up SssBSBBSBsssB&sBssBSB)pBaBn PAUL ON SELF DENIAL Way School Leuoa for Not. 28, IH Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT. Rom. 14:10-21. Mn- ory vrses 19. .0. GOLDEN TEXT.-"It is good neither to eat llesh. nor to lrink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbletli." Kom. 14:21. Suggestion and Practical Thought. One. The School of Self-Control Temperance means the control of all the lower parts of a man's being by his reason, his conscience, and his will. It is "keeping the soul on top." The all pervasive thought in the verses of the lesson for to-day is this self-control, the basis of temperance Why are we all, even the youngest children, placed in the midst of so many temptations, to lie, to steal, to gamble, to drink intoxictaing liquors, to be selfish, and disobedient? Because there is no other way of opening the door to man's highest pos- sibilities, his fullest development, his purest holiness, his greatest happi- ness. his largest usefulness. All who would become strong and useful must gain their power largely through vic tory over temptation. It is thus that the soul "builds itself larger man sions." It is a chief factor in educa tion. Men cultivate courage through things that test courage. They grow in faith through the things that try their faith. They learn business by taking the risks of business. People without trials and temptations are al ways failures, Why are we so full of impulses and passions, of faculties and powers that may be used for good or tor evil? Be cause the question of life with every man is the question of self-control, of temperance. Prof. Thomson in his Brain and Personality says that "the Will creates the man." "We make our own brains" by repeated choices "which are acts of Will. "The Will is the ranking official of all In man." wny men do we pray, Lead us not into temptation? Because there are plenty of temptations for our edu cation without our seeking for more. Because our only true attitude toward temptation is that of a fighter, a con queror. Whoover goes willingly, with desire, into temptation is already more than half fallen. The mad man. described in the Greyson Letters, had an illusion that he waB acquainted with the devil. "They say the de'il is very busy in tempting men; but he maun hae an easy time o't, I'm think Ing. All of them meet him more than half way. Ilk ane seems to gang to him and say, 'Haena ye some dainty -temptation for me to-day, now, Daddy Satan? I'm salr wracked for a coax ing temptation.'" J - A Troy i A learned, professor wrote, the other that people ought to drfnk a little wine moderately, in order to train themselves in self-control. But that is to throw open the castle of your life to the enemy. It gives him every ad vantage. For the tempter is like those people who go in a large band to haze a simple freshman, or as was once the custom in a national military school to make an untrained newcom er fight an athlete of an upper class Two. Away with the Stumbling Block of the Saloon. Hon. Neal Dow was lecturing, one summer evening, and the flies and gnats gathered in such swarms around the lamp near him that he took his handkerchief and waved them away. They went for a time, but soon returned. He repeated his movements with his handkerchief. with the same results. Finally, he turned around and blew out the light; and henceforward the insects were no longer attracted, and kept away. So warning people away from saloons will not be enough; you must extin guish the saloons themselves. Three The Only Safe Way. Don't Begin. A little couplet, written for children, holds weighty wisdom: 'rom drink, with its sorrow and ruin and tin, urely am safe if I never bej;in. Said a young man to me oace 'When I feel a thirst coming on that brings visions of the delight of its slacking, I drink all the -'water that I can a great deal more than I want- and then think of something else.1 But, one asks, "must 1 not use wine because others abuse it?" Does every one who drinks wine be come a drunkard? By no means. But no one ever be comes a drunkard who refused to take the first glass. Several times men have tried to sail across the Atlantic in a very small boat. It was very dangerous and some succeeded. But if you cross in one of the great liners, which can carry more than ,000 persons, and can laugh at and sport with the waves that would over whelm the little boat, you are as safe as you are at home. When I cross the Atlantic I take the great liner. If some millionaire should offer me $1,000,000 in gold on condition that with it I should take a drunkard's craving appetite for strong drink, and run my own risk, I would refuse it in stantly, though I went to the poor house the next day. Don't begin, because it is easy to go down into the depths, but very hard to return, one of the hardest victories ever won by man. I heard Mr. Ed ward Carswell, in a lecture, tell of a magicion who offered to change any bright boy into an idiot. A mother onsented to have him try his power on her son. The boy went forward; the magician made his passes; soon Ihe" bright look fades away from the boy's face, a vacant stare takes It place, and the boy becomes an idiotic !ool. At length the mother asks the. magicion to change him back again. But this he could not do. RIAL ESTATE MIIMAPB PUBLISH R1WKKKL,Y byw.h hichakoh. OREGON, MO. OFPICK 0PSTA1K8 IN 1HK MOORE BLOCK. Abstracter aHi Kenotiator of Loans. Transfers for week ending Novem ber 13, 1909: WARRANTY DEEDS. Malinda Banning to Albert P. Brown, lot 3, block 52, Mound City $ 200 Ed. G. Sheldon to Wilson F. Langley, e2 se 10; pt ne 15, 61. 39 9,800 Wm. Hoblitzell to Jess Scott, w 60 ft lot 8, block 7. Mound City 500 Geo. Wagner to E. G. McDon ald, pt ne 4: lot 1, 3, 62, 37; pt se 33 and lots 2 and 3 and 34, 63,37 1 L. E. Sipes to S. A. Tribble, lot 2, block 1, Devorss' first add Forbes 1.000 Clementine E. Zachman gdu to Aan'l B. Kunkel, lot 7, block 1, Oregon. .....1,000 quit claims. C. B. & Q. R. li. Co. to T. C. Dungan, pt se se 11: pt sw sw 12; pt nw nw 13, 60; 39 1 Wm. Benner to W. S. Thomson, administrator, part lots 17 and 18, block 6: part lots 13 and 14, block 9, Craig 1 Clementine E. Zachman to Dan!l B. Kunkel. lot 7. block 1, Oregon 400 Nancy May to Cora A. Sinclair, ne sw and 25a ne 27, 60, 39. . .-. 350 Jno. R. Minton to J. L. and T. M. Minton, lots 3, 4, 22 and 23, 14 and 15, block 2, Fortescue Transfers for week ending Novem ber 20, 1909. WARRANTY DEEDS. ?: W. S. Thomson to D. W. Guil- liams, e2 se and sw sene and se se ne 35, 63, 40 $6,545 Ora M. Means to M. E. church South, lots 3 and 4, block A. J. & M. add Craig 900 Malinda Banning to Albert P. Brown, e2 frl block .51, Mound City .'..'.. 7?: .7. 200 Jas. M. Carson to Jas. W. Gib son and wife, lots 1 and .. 4, block 46, Mound City. 1,150 Sam'l B. Keiffer to E. G." Mc Donald, 3.85a se se .4, 62,. 37 . : . . 2,200 L. K. Chase to Ruth :E: Zook, lots 11 and 12, block 17, Mait land 500 Chas. Wuelner toChas. F. Flinn and wife, sw se 10, 60, 38 2,800 Mary A. JNevins tp'iChristian , church, lots 8, 9 and 10, block 2, Maitland '. 500 Lossen Sipes by executor.tq Jno. Speer and Seville Dickson, se se 23: sw sw 24, 59, 38 2,660 DID HIS DUTY AS EXECUTOR. Thrifty Scot Simply Carried Out the Terms of the Will as He Under stood Therri. Alexander Wright,' - brother of the county auditor, who is visiting Cleve land for a vacation period, and who is in the public service JiT his Scottish home, tells this tale anent one Mc Gregor, a thrifty man Ina land of thrift, who w'as seen in Glasgow wear ing a lustrous sparkler in his cravat. To him said Sandy McDermott: "Who gi'n ye the di'mon', McGregor?" "Nobbut myself," was the answer. "Oh, aye,,J venture'd'the questioner. "Ye've been.trating yersel, eh?" "No that, eyether," McGregor made reply. "But ye ken I'm "executor of the estate o' Sammis McDougal." An' ye hae yer han's- in the pile the noo?" "Hush, mon," said McGregor, look ing hurt. " Tis a i th' will. First, it said, his lawfu debts were to be paid, which was onnaicessary under the law. Then, it said, th' execooter j was to set aside thirty-fi' pun for th' buryin. D'de mind?" "Oh, aye," responded McDermott. "An' then he wished th execootor to procure as handsome a stone as could be had in a' Glasgy fer a mat ther o' seventy pnV Aye?" Aweel, mon," concluded McGregor, "this is the stone." Cleveland Leader. PUT END TO INTERROGATION. Chauffeur's Quiet Rebuke Adminis tered to Too Inquisitive Club man. Senator Depew rebuked quaintly, on his 75th birthday, a reporter who asked him a too intimate question. "You remind me," he said, smiling. of an elderly colonel in a Now York lub. There is no question this colonel hesitates to ask. "The other day he saw drawn up be fore Sherry's a fine motor car, and at the, wheel of the car sat a chauffeur who had formerly been in his 'own employ. The colonel stopped -and asked the chauffeur who his master was, how he liked his job, and what wages he drew. j "The chauffeur answered these ques-' tions politely. There was a cold glit ter in his eye, though. He "was wait ing for an opening. It cante when the inquisitive old clubman said:' " 'Er Gaston, whatr-rer--how much did your empoyer pay for this car?" '"The. fact Is, sir,' the-chauffeur an swered promptly, 'I never had the im pudence to ask him.'" Church Directories. rresbyterism Church. Rev. James M. Walton, Pasior. Sabbath School at 9:30 every Sabbath. V. P. S. C. E. at 6:30 p. m. Prayer Service Thursday evening at 7:3S p. m. Preaching every Sabbath at 11 a. m. ar d 7:10 p. m. Woodvllle every Sabbath at 3 p. m. a Everybody cordially Invited to attend tie above services' If the pastor can help you, please call for bis services. Christian Church. Elder B. H. Dawson, Pastor. Bible school every Lordsday 9:45 a. m., D. P. Brooks, superintendent. Y. P. S. C. E. every Lordsday 8:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30. Preaching every second and fourth Lords day, morning and evenlBi , 11 a. m., 7:30 p, m All cordially invited to attend all meetings ol tiechurcn. All made welcome by the pasto Evangelical Church. E. F. Boenringer, Pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday at 8 p. ra. Services every Sunday .morning and evening. Regular preaching services the first and bird Sundays at 11 a. m., and the secosd and fourth Sundays at 8 p. ra. Preaching at Nickell's (Jrove on the first and bird Sundays at 8 p. m., and the second and fourth Sundays at 11 a. m. Preaching at Benton church every 'San day afternoon. All are cordially Invited to attend. BCethodist Episcopal Church. Services each Sunday as follows : Sundav school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching service at 11 a. m. Junior League at 3 p. m. Eporth League at 7:00 p. m. Preaching service at S:00 p. tn. Prayer meeting each Thursday at 8:00 p. m. You are cordially invited to attend all these services. T. C. TAYLOR, Pastor. German M. X. Church Rev. Henry Brans, Pastor. Sunday School at 9:30 a. m. Preaching every 8unday at 10:30 a. m. Preaching every Sunday at the Nodaway ahurchat2:30p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday afternoon xm. Everybody cordially Invited to attend above nvlces. BeT. T. D. Roberta' Appointments. New Point, every SabMth, morning mad evening. Sabbuth School at 10 a. m. every Sabbath. M. X. Church , Forest City. Kev. C. H. Werner, Pastor. 1st Saturday'evening, Sunday morning ak& evening at Tarkio Ctiajpel. 2nd Sunday mornlng at 11 a. m. at Forecfc. City ; Sunday evening at Kimsey school house at 8 o'clock. 3rd Sunday morning at Tarkio Chapel at iU a. m. and evening at Forest City at 8 p. m. 4th Sunday at Kimsey at 11 a. m. and at. Forest City atrfi p.-n. Sunday school at 9:30 :u m.. J. M. Lease,. Superintendent. - Junior League at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Werner,. Superintendent. ' fcpworth League at 7 p. m. Miss Mary Bul lock, President. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. Women's Home Mission Society Friday at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Scott, President. Choir practice Thursday at 8 p. m. Sunday school at Kimsey school house at It a. m. S. Smith, Superintendent. Epworth League at Kimsey school house Sunday at 7 p. m. Sunday school at Tarkio Chapel at 9:4o -m. E. E. Boyd. Superintendent. Prayer meeting at Tarkio Chapel Sunday and Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. Christian Church, New Point Hunday school, 9:30 a.m. -Preaching on the first and third Sundays ' aacbmouth, 11 a. nr.., and evening. Y. P. S. C. K. every Sundaylevening,6 :S0 p., All are cordially Invited to attend. Oarzon Christian Church, Bluff Citj. W. H. Hardman, Pastor. Preaching on the second and fourth Lorda tav at 11 a. m. and 7 :30 p. m. Bible chooI each Lordsday at 10 a. m. McCALL PATTERN'S C Ici'ratcJ for style, pcrfict fit. rimpHdty and reliability near'y -1J j- r. 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