The new era., June 06, 1907, Image 2

About The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??

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NOTES FROM MEADOWBROOK FARM
By Williem Pitt
The good farmer is proud of his
.ailing.
The scrubby mare will not prove a
profitable breeder.
White lead mixed with putty will
make it stick better.
Before setting the celery plants
shear the tops, as it tends to make
them stocky.
More plants, it is safe to say, are
lost from failure to pack the soil
about them than from any one cause.
Give variety of food to the growing
chicks. A monotonous diet is as dis
tasteful to them as it would be to you.
In planting beans, peas. corn. etc..
In the garden, plan to have a succes
sion by planting ten days to two
weeks apart.
A man who can tell a whole truth
in a horse trade can be depended on
to be honest from the inside out and
from top to toe.
Don't dose the fowls to keep them
healthy. It is sure to have the oppo
site effect. Good management does
away with the necessity of drugging.
It is an easy matter to keep dis
ease and pests out of a flock of sheep,
but it is a hard matter to get rid
of them once they have gained a
foothold.
Have you ever stopped to think that
If you grow the crops which are un
suitable for your farm or your market
that that is one reason of your failure
to make farming pay?
It does require patience in handling
(he calf. But then remember that it
is just a baby and doesn’t know much.
Don’t lose your temper and let its
first lessous consist of harsh words
uud stinging slaps.
From seven to ten weeks is a good
time to wean the pigs and it can be
best done by first taking away the two
strongest and two or three days after
wards taking away another pair, and
bo on until all have been weaned.
If a question as to which shall be
Improved, the barns to make the
6tock comfortable, or the house to
provide you with comfort, start with
the barn, and it won’t be long be
fore you will have enough to improve
the house, alsa
“Are your eggs fresh,” asked the
cautious housewife of the German
truckster who w'as salesman for his
own .wares. “Fresh!” repeated the
Dutchman, indignantly, “let me dell
you, madam, dot my hens lays not anv
dings but fresh eggs!”
Never drench animals through the
nostrils, always through the mouth, as
the former method may result in chok
ing and anow parts of the drench to
get into the windpipe and thus to the
lungs, where inflammation may be set
up, resulting in pneumonia or lung fe
ver.
It has been figured out by some ex
pert that an acre of peach trees will
in ten years use 490 pounds of nitro
gen, 125 pounds of potash, 300 pounds
of phosphoric acid and 730 pounds of
lime. If this means anything it means
that fertilizing and cultivation are a
heavy factor in successful peach cul
ture.
Have any of the experiment stations
ever attempted to measure the effect
of a harsh word or a blow upon the
profit of a dairy animal? Animals
which live in an atmosphere of fear
never can or will return the profit
which is to be realized from those
who only know the cheery word and
the encouraging pat of the hand.
. The farm work should be so man
aged as to give one time to keep the
garden in good growing condition. If
Vou will atop to figure it out, we
think you will agree with us that no
bart of the farm pays so large a pro
portion of profit and contributes so
largely to the health and happiness of
the family as the well-kept garden.
A whitewash recommended by the
government experts is made as fol
lows: Slake half a bushel of lime in
boiling water, covering to keep in the
steam. Strain the liquid and add a
peck of salt previously dissolved In
warm water, three pounds ground rice
boiled to a thin paste and stirred in
while hot. one-half pound Spanish
whiting, and one pound glue dissolve*
by soaking in cold water and the*
hung over a slow fire in a glue pot To
this mixture add five gallons of hot
water, stir well and let stand for sev
eral days covered from dust It is bet
ter applied hot
The busy bee loaded with honpy
will not attack an intruder.
White hellebore Is the best remedy
recommended for currant worms.
Dig out the borers from the roots
of the peach trees.
Queen less colonies are apt to be de
stroyed by the bee-moth or robber bee
as he is called.
Clip the hair from the fetlocks of
the horse and it will bo easier to clean
him.
The, crow sometimes develops an
appetite for young spring chickens.
Look out for him.
Try a bit of heavy wrapping paper
around the stem of early cabbages to
protect from cutworms.
Don’t let any swarms of the been
get away from you. Me ready to
hive them, and be on the watch for
the event.
Look to the nuts and bolts on tho
farm machinery before using. Many
an accident might be avoided by a lit
tle forethought and care.
It doesn’t take a very big hole in a
barrel to let all the water out, neither
does it take much of a leak on the
farm to swallow up the profits.
The heifer that is harshly treated
when she begins giving milk for the
first time is the heifer that will carry
the blemishes in her character as loug
as she lives.
The dairy cow should be given food
that is as easily masticated as possi
ble, that is grain ground and roots
sliced. In this way you will be mak
ing the large milk flow easy for her.
The food value of the potato lies
chiefly in the startcli it contains. The
percentage of composition of the
white potato is as follows: Water, 78;
protein, 2; starch, 1S.6; mineral mat
ter 1.0.
Keep your eye on the shoulders of
your horses during the heavy work o!
the spring and early summer, for a
small abrasion or sore will cut the
pulling power of the horses down al
most one-half.
After you have harrowed the ground
as much as you think necessary give
it another turn to catch any of the
lumps missed and then harrow it
again just for good luck. It takes a
little more time, but then, it pays.
The theory that a warm egg fresh
from the lien will not hatch
first cooled before starting the process
of incubation is like a good many
other theories based on a bit and miss
observation, and is not to be relied on.
If dairymen wpuld remember that
the little germs which do so much
mischief in dairy products cannot
thrive in a low temperature they
would see that the milk and cream
was cooled more quickly and tlion
oughly.
“No lice on my liens," we hear thi
take-it-for-granted man say. We hop#
not. but just take a look and makf
sure. Many a time we have been sun
prised, and shall we say ashamed, by
what our investigations have uncov
ered in our henhouse.
The teeth of a sheep are a good in
dex to its age. A yearling sheep has
its first pair of wide incisors; a two
year-old. two pairs; a three-year-old,
three pairs; and a four-year-old, foui
pairs, or a “full mouth.” but the freetb
are all white and fresh.
The man who doesn’t take pure do
light in seeing Ills stock grow and
thrive, and who does not find real
pleasure in feeding and caring foi
them, cannot expect to have niucfl suo
cess. A close sympathy should always
exist between stock and stockman.
The Illinois Dairy Cattle Improve
ment association is the latest dairy or
ganization in the field, with Hon. John
Stewart, of Elburn, as president; Dr.
T. W. Brophy. of Ingleside, vice-presi
dent; A. O. Auten, of Jerseyville, sec
retary, and F. G. Austin, of Effingham,
treasurer. May it have a long and use
ful career.
In a sample of chicken feed exam
ined by the Connecticut experiment
station it was found to contain about
90 per cent, of wheat and also oats,
barley and seeds of ragweed, mustard,
flax, bindweed, cockle, rape, etc. In
every 300 pounds there were nearly
two pounds of ragweed seed. Think
of giving that nasty weed a foothold
on the farm!
At the Urbana, 111., experiment farm
one field which has grown corn exclu
sively for 30 years without manure oi
fertilizer of any kind yielded last year
less than 19 bushels per acre, while
not ten rods away another field with
everything else the same except that
fertilizers had been used, 75 bushels
to the acre were harvested. Think on
this and go thou and fertilize for all
you are worth.
We want to warn our readers to be
on the lookout for gymnosporangium
juniperinum. It has, we are Informed 1
by a recent work on plant diseases, an j
epipyhllous spermogonia and a hypo- j
phyllous pseudoperidia. This descrip-;
tion will make identification easy and
enable the intelligent readers of Mea- 1
dowbrook Farm Notes to be prepared
to fight the disease, for to be for*- j
warned is to be forearmed. |
HOME TRADE FABLE
HOW THE TRANSFORMATION OF
A TOWN WAS EFFECTED.
A STORY WITH A MORAL
One Public Spirited Citizen Who
Realized the Big Possibilities and
Cultivated the Field to Ad
vantage.
Once upon a lime there was a Man.
who in his youth was reared upon a
farm located near a Small Town of
Great Promise. Two weeks in each
year when he was not sawing wood,
feeding the stock or picking potatoes,
he was allowed to attend the little red
schoolliouse in the town. By hard la
bor during the day, and persistently
reading a few old books which were
heirlooms in his family, and each week
absorbing the intelligence contained
in the Weekly Mirror, ho. by the time
he could mark down his age at 18
years, had accumulated sufficient
knowledge to run away from home.
He wandered to a large city and there
his great n. scular power assisted to
gain for himself a position as Chief
Scrubber in a large store. He had not
acquired the cigarette habit, and his
faithfulness to his scrubbing brush,
and his unwillingness to know all
about his employer’s business, soon at
tracted the attention of the Old Man,
and at the end of a year he was pro
moted to Head Rustler in the shipping
department at the large salary of eight
dollars a week.
His disregard for scooting when the
closing time came, and his total lack
of swelled head so pleased the Old
Man that from time to time the ambi
tious youth was advanced until at the
end of sir. years he was drawing the
biggest salary paid by the house, and
The advertising magnate will draw trade to the stores of our community
just as the advertising of the catalogue houses is now drawing it away from
the home store. The people are interested in the store news of this town.
Will you not give It to them?
soon he was taken in as a member of
the firm. Age and hard knocks and
brushes with the business world de
veloped in him marked business acu
men. He forged to the front as a
financier and a public-spirited citizen.
As years passed he prospered. Early
and late he was ever looking after his
vast business interests. There were
times that he longed to be again in
the small home town. Often in his
youth he dreamed of some day being
chairman of the village board. Only
once since parting from the old home
had he returned, and then to find the
town just the same only a little more
delapidated, and in the weed-over
grown kirkyard the neglected graves
of his good parents.
Strenuous business life and assid
ious attention to the accumulation of
capital without vacation, caused him
to suffer from what the doctors pro
nounced neurasthenia, and advised
total rest from mental effort. The man
had labored too diligently in amass
ing money. Residence in a quiet place
was recommended and retirement from
all commercial worries. The Great
Merchant sold his vast interests to a
combine, and after careful thought,
concluded that he would seek rest and
a renewal of health in the town where
he at one time attended the little red
schoolhouse, and where In childish im
agination he would be powerful and
famous by becoming chairman of the
village board. Accordingly he retired
from the city, purchased the old home
stead where he was reared and picked
potatoes, and also built a residence
and became a Great Factor in the
town. Time had made few changes in
the landscape. Buildings and streets
were the same, only showing the rav
ages of decay. The old stores were in
possession -of the descendants of the
owners who conducted them when he
was a boy. They were not doing the
business that they should. One great
innovation was the town had a rail
road. All about was suggestive of
peace. It was an ideal place for a
man who desired to pass his declining
days in contemplation of the here
after. There, life was much like unto
death. There was fresh air in abund
ance. All of nature lavishly spent Its
1 beauty over the country and the town,
I and even the weeds on the streets
j were allowed to spring up, bloom and
! reach maturity without interruption
by the scythe or the side.
| Within a year the Retired Business
Man had regained much of his old-
I time spirit and health. Habits of ac
j tivlty and love of business impelled
him to once again seek work that i
would keep his mind occupied. He
loved the old town. He saw that it
needed new life. He figured out that
there were COO farmers in the neigh
borhood. Each farmer surely spent
SSO a month somewhere for supplies.
This meant a total of $30,000 a month;
$300,000 a year. Then the few hun
dred people in the town would add
other thousands to the volume of busl
ness. Why not build a great store and
supply the wants of the people? He
would spend some mcyiey and build
up the town. He bought half a block
on which three of the stores stood.
He erected a large brick building, and
soon he had installed in it great stocks
of goods. Other merchants in the
town shook their heads. The Public-
Spirited Man was certainly crazy.
Farmers when they came to town
looked up the big building with won
der. The Weekly Mirror had to send
away for type to set up the page ad
vertisement for the new store, and to
get a new press for the printing of cir
culars and posters.
One month after the opening of the
store the graveyard quietness of tho
town had passed away. Streets were
lined with the teams and the wagons
of the farmers. A new elevator for
grain had been started. The railroad
placed a new switch in the yard to ac
commodate the increased business.
The son of the old town blacksmith
reopened the old shop closed for years
because of no trade. New life was
rapidly being injected into the place.
There was an election. A lot of
newcomers selected the Public Spir
ited Citizen for chairman of the town
board. He was elected. In six months
the streets wero paved, an electric
lighting plant was in operation, along
with a water works. The Great Store
keeper had away of doing things, and
ho did them. News of the activity of
the town reached near-by villages, and
the people came to see the Big Store
and to buy goods. A cold storag<
plant in connection with a new com
mission house operated by friends o
tho Storepeeker, caused Farmers ta
bring in tons of butter and hundreds
of thousands of eggs, and chickens
and othet produce. The transforma
tion was quick from a Dead Town ta
a Lively Small City. A high school
was established, new churches built,
and some of the pious people wers
shocked to see an opera house erect
ed. The Pan-Handle & Skedunk rail
road, which for years had been run
ning 20 miles from the town so
changed its route as to have it on the
main line, so the place had two rail
roads. Enterprising men who wanted
to locate in a Live Town turned their
eyes toward the place. Soon therfl
was smoke from a half dozen big fac
tories, and in five years after the Pub
lic-spirited Citizen had started his
store his old home town has increased
its population 1,000 per cent. It waa
no longer printed in little type on the
maps, but in capital letters.
MORAL —Do not underestimate She
possibilities of your or
fail to develop them. No city waa
ever made great by Its people buying
goods elsewhere.
D. M. CARR.
Civilization in Abyssinia.
A sawmill is already at work at
Adis Ababa, Abyssinia, and Greek ar
tisans are engaged in quarrying and
stone hewing. Machinery in connec
tion with house building generally is
likely to be in demand as soon as the
means of transport are simplified. The
government is already building in Eu
ropean style and stone houses may be
seen, some even of three stories in
height in the capital.
World's Submarine Cables.
The total length of submarine
cables in the world is about 450,000
kiloms —279,622 miles, of which 60 per
cent, are British, ten per cent. Ameri
can, a little more than nine per cent.
French, and about seven per cent
German. A great advance in this do
main has been made during the last
few years by Germany, w’hose efforts
tend to constitute an independent sys
tem. —Memorial Diplomatique.
Dreams Go by Contraries.
"What do you suppose is every Lon
doner’s day dream?"
“I don’t know, unless It is to be
come a knight mayor.”—Baltimore
American.
A Fowl Question.
“Pop?”
“Yes, my son.”
“Do Mother Carey’s chickens —■*
i out of the ship's hatches?” '
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS
The fellow who stole a piano out of
a Denver home may have to face the
music.
Wiley is to have a now sugar factory
to cost $1,000,000. Wiley will be jus.
100 sweet!
Denver will have 150 voting ma
chines at its next election. Heretofore
two have been doing the work.
Three Colorado couples were wod in
Clievenne In one day recently. It’s a
wonder Colorado people wouldn’t pat
ronize home Industry.
The commissioners of Mesa county
have purchased eighteen voting ma
chines which will be used in future
elections. They cost S6OO each.
Because her husband insisted that
she go to work on the day following
her marriage, Mrs. Mary Calbcrt ob
tained a divorce at Trinidad and had
her maiden name destored.
Ault claims a larger population than
Eaton. The school census, just taken,
shows 399, of which 96 are males and
303 females. With the usual multiple,
2V6, this makes the population of Ault
700.
Peter Leonard, aged sixty-five, died
of injuries which, it Is alleged, were
indicted by John Dowling, proprietor
of a saloon at Blende. It is charged
Downing kicked him. He was ar
raigned and held for trial.
While drinking with L. F. George
and Thomas Thurston Patrick Riley,
af Pueblo, aged 23, is said to have con
fessed to stealing a mail sack from the
railway station at Green River, Wyo
ming. Riley was arrested. He says it
was only a joke.
While working on the top of a 40-foot
ladder on the roundhouse of the Den
ver & Rio Grande at Grand Junction,
Harry Wilbur, a young machinist,
fainted and fell to the ground, being
rendered unconscious. His condition
is serious.
A charivari party attacked the home
of Sid Butler at Rifle the other night j
to make Sid, who had just been mar
ried, “set ’em up.” Sid paid no atten
tion to horns, cow bells, etc., but when
one of the party began to sing he
“loosened” quickly.
At a meeting of the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly it was decided to
have the different unions assist an
anti-trust oil company which is buck
ing the Standard Oil Company in Den
ver, and lias already succeeded in low
ering the price of oil.
The Young Men’s Christian Associ
ation fund at Cripple Creek has passed
the $14,000 mark. At a meeting of
sixty-flve representative citizens fur
ther support was pledged and the $25,-
000 required for the establishment of
an association building is practically
assured.
The first case of a dairyman being
arrested for selling milk at Pueblo not
up to the standard came up in the po
lice court when A. Robinson was fined
$25 for violation of the city ordinance
requiring a certain test for milk. The
case will be appealed.
Mrs. J. A. Davis, wife of J. A. Davis
of tho Wliite-Davis Mercantile Com
pany of Boulder, died suddenly from
heart disease while preparing to take
a train for Denver. She was fifty years
old and had been a resident of Colo
rado for thirty-four years.
For seven days Quincy Brown, a
Colorado & Southern brakeman, who
sustained a fractured skull by being
knocked from top of a car, has been in
an unconscious condition. During all
of this time he has taken no* nourish
ment, hut in spite of this the physi
cians in attendance hold out hope for
his recovery.
At a meeting of the Tri-County Fair
Association, comprising Pitkin, Gar
field and Eagle counties, the old offi
cers were re-elected —W. S. Copeland,
president, and Charles Dailey, secre
tary. October 3st, 2d. 3d and 4th was
selected as the time of giving the fair.
A large executive committee to make
arrangements was appointed.
About half of the thirty resorts fined
for violating the Sunday closing ordi
nance were closed at Silverton. The
other half remained open, as was their
usual custom. The Italians, in trying
to resent the action of the enforcement
of the law bought several kegs of beer
on Blair street and imbibed freely of
the liquor in open air.
Frank White, colored, became en
raged at Scott Williams, another negro,
in a ball game at Colorado Springs
and, it is said, struck him on the head
with a stone, inflicting serious wounds.
White tried to make his escape and
was pursued by a mob of 200. He
was caught while hiding under tho
bed In a rooming house and was ar
rested.
The jury in the Samuel Shawcross
case at Cripple Creek, after being
locked up for twenty-two hours re
ported inability to agree and was dis
charged by District Judge Morris. The
defendant was charged with larceny
of precipitates and zinc shavings worth
SI,OOO from the Anaconda mills. The
defendant was released on $2,500 bond
pending a new trial.
Tuesday afternoon, June 4th, will
witness the last baseball game of the
season on the Gamble field, when the
Colorado College team and a nine rep
resenting the University of Colorado
will play an exhibition game. The
event Is right in the middle of com
mencement week and a number of the
members of the alumni as well ns the
friends of the university will be pres
ent to witness the contest.
The Eaton sugar factory is adding a
molasses silo to its equipment. The
silo will be 90 by 300 feet on the out
side and 30 feet deep in the clear, al
lowing a storage capacity for 7,200 cu
bic feet of molasses. The molasses is
made from the residue after sugar
making. The factory will also build a
large boarding house with modern con
veniences for its employes.
Some interesting records of the
prices which Colorado fed lambs have
brought in Chicago have Just been
given out. These records show that
for three days three states were repre
sented in the top price marks. These
states were Colorado, Wyoming and
Minnesota. Wyoming lambs topped
the market four times, Minnesota
twice and Colorado twenty-seven
times. Colorado lambs also brought
an average price of $8.70, at least 10
cents more than the other prices.
Nothing l Ate a
Agreed With Me.
sms. LENORA BODENHAMER. fj
Mis. Lenora Bodenhamer, It. F. D. 1.
. Box 99, Kernersville, N. G\. writes:
k -1 suffered with stomach trouble and
’ indigest ion for some time, and nothing
, that I ate agreed with me. I was very
nervous and experienced a continual
feeling of uneasiness and fear. I took
medicine from the doctor, but it did me
no good.
“ I found in one of your Peruna books
& description of my symptoms. I then
wrote to Dr. Ilnrtuian for advice. He
said I had catarrh of the stomach. I
took Peruna and Muualin and followed
i his direeiions and can now say that I
feel as well as I ever did.
“ 1 hope that all who are afflicted with
the same symptoms will take Peruna, as
it has certainly cured me. ”
The above isonly one of hundreds who
have written similar letters to Dr.
Hartman. Just one such case as this
entitles Peruna to the candid consider
ation of every one similarly afflicted. If
i this be true of the testimony of one per
, son what ought to be the testimony of
hundreds, yes thousands, of honest, sin
' cere people. We have in our files a great
many other testimonials.
ONCE THE PATH WAS SMOOTH.
: Discard That Old Adage About the
Course of True Love.
1 A remarkable wedding has lately
taken place at Naples, remarkable be
cause of the extreme youth und alert
, ness of the happy couple. When Ce
■ lestino Giordano, aged 15, with Gicelia
Nappi, his chosen bride, went to the
i registry office to be married, tlio com
-1 missioner was very loath to perform
■ the ceremony, for the pair had not
reached the age limit prescribed by
> the civil code. The young folks had
evidently expected to have to over- J
1 come difficulties to their union, for
’ while the commissioner was hesitat
’ ing as to what he should do, they
sprang a surprise on him and settled
the matter by producing a royal de
| cree of dispensation, which they had
; obtained direct from the king. This
being proved genuine the children
[ were joined to wedlock in the pres
ence of their parents and a large gath
ering of interested spectators.
Ghostg of Dead Lakes.’
In the great basin between the
. Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas lie
, the ghosts of many dead lakes. Rlv
• ers still flow down to the dry edge of
i these one-time great reservoirs and
. are licked up by evaporation and the
Chinook winds. Of all the lakes that
once lay there, only Great Salt Lake.
1 Lake Tahoe and Bear Lake are left.
The Southern Pacific rolls for 165
miles across the bed of what was once
Lake Lahontan, and the passengers
! gazing idly from the windows may see
! the terraces and wrinkles in tho crust
; of the fossil lake which nature robbed
and defrauded of its crystal treasure*
ages ago.—Exchange.
Her Answer.
“Now, children," said the kindergar
ten teacher, “I have explained to you
how many trees give us food, in the
| way of fruit, and in other ways. You
remember that I said man taps the
maple trees to get maple sirup.
, Where does the tapioca come from,
then?” “I guess,” said Olive, after
a pause, “that you tap the oaks, don’t
you?"—Judge.
DR. TALKS OF FOOD
Pres, of Board of Health.
“What shall I eat?" is the dally In
quiry the physician is met with. I do
not hesitate to say that in my judg
ment. a large percentage of disease ia
1 caused by poorly selected and improp
erly prepared food. My personal ex
perience with the fully-cooked food,
known as Grape-Nuts, enables mo to
■peak freely of its merits.
“From overwork, I suffered several
yea s with inalnutriton, palpitation of
the heart, and loss of sleep. Last
summer I was led to experiment per
sonally with the new food, which I
used in conjunction with good rich
cow’s milk. In a short time after I
commenced its use, the disagreeable
Bymptoms disappeared, my heart’s ac
tion became steady and normal, the
functions of the stomach were proper
ly carried out and I again slept as
Boundly and as well as in my youth.
“I look upon Grape-Nuts as a per
fect food, and no one can gainsay but
that It has a most prominent place in
a rational, scientific system of feeding.
Any one who uses this food will soon
be convinced of tho soundness of the
principle upon which it Is manufac
tured and may thereby know the facts
as to its true worth.” Read, “The Road
to Wellvllle,” In pkgs. “There’* •
Reason.”