Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1917 — Page 4

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FOR SALE—Th Bedford farm of 37 acres, adjoining city of Rensselaer; splendid location for fine home. (200 per acre. Terns, one-third down, one-third nine months, onethird eighteen months. CHAS. W. POSTILL, Administrator.

FOR SALE—One small hard coal burner and 'one soft coal burner, both in good condition. Phone 475, Charles Clift. _ JOR SALE OR TRADE— L -1912 5passenger Studebaker in fair condition. rhone 176. Alex. Merica. FOR SALE—Large three year old horse. Ready to work. Cash or bankable note. —Russell Lesh, Phone 921K or 908-G. ~ . FOR SALE—Stove length wood. — James C. Clark, Rhone 166. FOR SALE—A limited amount of mixed fertilizer containing 5 per cent potash.—J. W. Faylor, Rensselaer, R, I>. No. 2. FOR SALE —A two horse breaking plow or will trade for single plow; also dresser and vacuum cleaner good as new. —Phone 304-Red. FOR SALE—S year old Shorthorn cows, one fresh now, the rest in February and 'March. Good quality. Also some hedge posts. Five miles south and two west of Rensselaer. Phone 927-E, Riley Tullis. FOR SALE OR RENT —Good 9room house with barn and other excellent buildings. Five acres of best truck land.—L. H. Hamilton. FOR SALE—Bargain for quick sale, a two year old pure bred Holstein bull and 7 months old male calf. Write C. F. Mansfield, Jr., Rensselaer, Ind.

FOR SALE—Lot in Factory Addition. Well located. Quick sale price SSO. Call phone 78-8.- -- FOR SAT.F.—IOO shocks of corn, 4 tuns of hay in bam—David Stoner, Phone 913-D. FOR SAT.F. —Cord wood, 4 foot, de livered to any part of city. Phone 837. J. E. Walter. FOR SALE —Two bay mares, one broken and one unbroken. Will sell the team for $l5O if taken by January Ist. —John Garland, Phom. 930-L FOR SALE—Fire wood, $1 per load. Phone Lewis Hooker. FOR SALE—I6O acres pasture land, $25 per acre, SI,OOO cash and easy terms on balance. Any man with a little nerve should act quickly. Will make you $1,600 in leas than one year.—J. Davisson. FOR SALE—Sawed oak lumber ;f all kinds, red or burr oak. Sawed in any dimensions desired. 4 miles west of Rensselaer. AM building material SIB.OO a thousand; also some 12, 14 and 16 foot bridge plan- in burr and white oak. Phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr. FOR SALE—Slabs, SI.OO per load, six loads for $5.00. —Arthur Mayhew, Phone 919-0, Rensselaer. wantedT WANTED farm hand to help hog herdsman and care for recorded hogs. Cannot smoke or drink. Steady job, good wages. < No attention to any but personal applicants. 'Must come before February 6th.—Jennie M. Conrad, Conrad, WANTED—Private party, who has SI,BOO or $2,000 for investment, can secure 6 per cent for same on a 3 to 5 year loan. First mortgage on small country place adjoining town, worth at' lowest $5,000. For particulars ad dress P. O. Box 764, Rensselaer, Ind. WANTED —Married! man wants job on farm with hoiise for family. Leslie Warne, Fair Oaks, Ind. ‘ WANTED—The Ladies Industrial L Society, oftfce Cimrch wITI sew or quilt. Phone 632. ' ’ '1? "

WANTED—VeaI and poultry of all kinds. For good market, call 477, H. A. Quinn. WANTED—To rent, modern five or six-room house. Sam Karnowsky. Phohe 577. ■ ■■ ■ ' ■■ 1 lw "* WANTED—A few more milk customers. C. Kellner, Phone 64* WANTED—To-rent good sized residence centrally located. Possession March Ist. Inquire of L. H. Hainilton r this offiee. ——- ——* —* “ - WANTED—Messenger boy.—Western Union office. LUST. LOST—Small pocketbook containing sum of money. Reward.—J. W. Faylor, Rensselaer, R. D. 2, Phone 926-F. - FARM LOANS. FARM LOANS—An unlimited supply of 5 per cent money to loan.— Chas. J. Dean A Son, Odd Fellows Building. FOttldSNT. FOR RENT —100 acre farm 114 mile north of Gif ford. Enquire of J. E. McClanahan, Gifford,' Ind. FOR RENT—Six room house, barn, city water and fruit. For further information inquire of Robert H. Yeoman. —Eunice Adamson Babcock. MISCELLANEOUS. 'money TO LOAN—WiII have twenty thousand dollars to loan on good real estate on March first, 1917. George A. Williams, Attorney.

MONEY TO LOAN—S per cent farm loans.—John A Dunlap. AUTO RADIATOR - TROUBLES remedied. For full particulars address the Monticello Auto Radiator Co., 224 North Main St., Monticello, Indiana. B. J. Jarrette went to Chicago, Monday. Jerry Gailand returned home Monday, after a few day’ visit at Pine Village. Vntalic auto tires, guaranteed, for sale by Kellner & Callahan. Get their prices. Full stock on hand. The regular meeting of the Dorcas class of the M. E. Church, will be held this evening at the home of Mrs. Tom Hoyes. All members asked to be present. ’i’he Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society, of the Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, at the home of Mrs. John Eger. All ladies of the church are cordially invited to be present. MWiltshire went to Fowler .today- A twenty- three year old son of her sister, Mrs. J. W. Childers died there yesterday of pneumonia. At this time of his death his mother was in Town Creek, Alabama. ■-

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WASTE LAND EXPENSIVE

Every acre of nonproducing tillable lane* should be put to work or sold, says a new publication of the department, Farmers' Bulletin 745. Many farmers would make more money if their business were larger, but the size of a farm, from a financial standpoint, is measured not by the number of acres embraced in*it but by the number that are producing crops, pasturing animals economically, or supporting a growth of marketable forest products. Nonproductive acres are loafer acres, and the money tied up in them is dead capital. On every farm, however, there are certain areas necessarily devoted to nonproductive purposes. Fences, ditches, lanes, and building lots produce nothing themselves, but they are frequently essential production on the rest of the farm. Nevertheless, they may occupy in the aggregate to a con siderable percentage of the available land. It is a part of efficient farm management to see to it that this percentage is no higher than necessary. In this connection, some interesting figures are given by the bulletin already mentioned in regard to the amount of land occupied by fences of different kinds. It takes, for instance, only 209 rods of untrimmed hedge and only 214. rods of zigzag rail or worm fence to waste an acre of what might be productive land. For the-same expenditure -of land one can run 459 rods of woven wire and 473 rods of barbed wire. Other considerations, of course, may make it desirable to use the hedge or the worm fence, but tha waste involved is a factor that should not be overlooked. Similarly, farm lanes often may be eliminated by a simple rearrangement of fields; headlands, or turning spaces at the edges of fields, avoided ; and the farmstead itself — the group of farm buildings with their lota and yards, the garden, and the made - compact. In the case of the farmstead, however, considerations of health and attractiveness may well justify a slight sacrifice of economy. While a little planning often will result in the saving of much land now devoted to these unproductive uses, a more difficult problem is presented by waste land—land that is rendered untillable by swamps, ravines, rocks, slopes, etc., woodland that produces nothing salable, and pastures that are too poor to be profitable. Some areas are, of course, hopeless, and in that case they should be left out of the reckoning altogether. Before this is done, however, it will pay to look into the possibilities, of profitable reclamation. Man; untillable fields, for example, may be turned into productive pastures, or, if they will not grow enough grass to make this eco nomical, they can be used for the production of timber. On the other hand, it frequently happens that woodtotswhich yield nothing but a little firewood for home consumption are permitted to occupy valuable land. In deciding whether such lots should be cleared and tilled, the cost of clearing, ♦he increased value of the—cleared land, the Interest on the investments,the salable value of the timber products, and the added expense for fire wood which will follow the disappearance of the timber must all be taken into account. With unwooded areas) the advisability of bringing theffiAunder the plow may be determined, by comparing the probable cost with the, market price of good arable land in the neighborhood. Obviously, the higher the price ot land rises the more incentive there is for the farmer to avoid waste in the utilization of it. It is significant, however, that the investigations of the department have shown that, irrespective of the price, tenants put a greater part of the land to productive use than owners. The tenants pays rent for each acre and he can not afford tc have any of them idle. On the other hand, the man who has no rent to pay may be able, to get along on the produce of a part only of his farm, and he is, therefore more likely to overlook the potential value of the part he wastes. By so doing he is, of course, throwing away opportuni ties to make money, but this is not always appreciated by those who have not grasped the important fact that the average farm is too small for maximum efficiency and that in the majority of cases to increase the size of the farm business is to increase the profits from -it Those owners.however, who, realizing this, are operating leased land in addition to their own, are, like tenants, careful to see that they pay for no loafer acres. To anyone yho is buying or leasing land, then, the important question Is not “How much am I paying an acre for this tract?” but “How much am 1 paying for the acres that are going to work for mer'_..ln' it is calculated that a farm of 100 acres, selling at >IOO an acre, will cost the purchaser actually 1111.11 an acre if 90 per cent of it is productive, and S2OO an acre if only 50 per cent of it is productive. As a matter of fact the percentage of improved land in* farm* east of the Mississippi is only 59.5 and west of that river only 50.8. Improved land, however, it should be noted, is not always the same as productive land. A good timber lot, for examplefcjjnqt improved, hut it may be highly productive, .and farm buildings and fences stand on land that is improved but produces nothing. In the final analysis it is the amount of productive land that determines the earning capacity of And that should therefore determine its price.

Household Pets

Parrots are very long-lived bird;?, some having been known to live more than a century. They are very favorite birds with many people, as they are often extremely beautiful, and can, if reared early to do so, learn to speak more or less welj, and also to warble and imitate the songs of other birds. Naturalists say that if you want a parrot to speak very distinctly you should get one with a thick, rounded tongue. Bird-fanciers say that the very best food tor parrots is the crumb of white bread, well baked without salt, it should be soaked in water, and then a little squeezed in the hand. However excellent this food is, it Is certain that parrots, like human beings thrive better when their jnenu is a little varied, and some students of the subject have noticed that parrots fed the Above-named -food and that alone often get thin and hardly have strength enough to bear moulting. It is clear that feeding them only on this food, which has very little if any moisture in it, is not sufficient to nourish them properly, at least during the. moulting season and while the feathers are growing again. I never saw a parrot in better health -than one which belonged to a lady, who fed it on white bread soaked in boiled milk, having more milk than the bread would absorb, which the parrot drank with apparent pleasure. It was also given fruit when in season. It is necessary to be very careful that the milk is not sour. It- is well to put some water in one division of the tin drawer in the cage, and they should always be encouraged to bathe, as this keeps them in health and facilitates the process of moulting, which is very painful. The two most docile parrots are the ash-colored and the cream Lory. Both these parrots live on all kinds of fruit and grain, and in this country they eat any. of our food, preferring, however, white bread soaked in boiled milk, and fruits. These parrots are fond of meat but that seldom agrees with them. The ash-colored parrot, like the cream Lory, can learn to speak and whistle, as well as to play tricks. As a proof of the talent of this particular species, the following account of -one which, “ being instructed on its voyage by an old sailor, had acquired his harsh, hoarse voice so perfectly that it was often mistaken for him. Though it was afterwards given to a young-person, and no longer heard the voice, it never forgot the lessons of its old master, and it was exceedingly amusing to hear it pass from a soft, pleasing voice to its old hoarse sea tone. This bird not only has a great facility in imitating the voice of a man, but also seems to have a wish to do so, and this wish is shown in its great attention, the efforts it makes to repeat the sounds it hears, and its constant repetition of them, for it incessantly repeats any word it has just learnt, and endeavors to make its voice heard above every other. One is often surprised to hear it say words and make sounds which no one has taught it, and to which it was not even suspected to have listened. It seemed to practice its lesson every day till night, —beginning again on the next morning. It is while young that it shows this great facility ih learning; its memory is then better, and the bird is altogether more intelligent and docile.” Tarrots, like all birds and pets, require care and cleanliness, and those who eannot devote time to seeing - that they are kept in order, had Detter not have them at all.

The Work That’s Never Done.

It is a good plan to always save tumblers which have contained sliced bacon or dried beef. They take up very little space in the refrigerator and are splendid to keep left-overs in.

To separate whites from the yolks of eggs it is sometimes well to tak£ the precaution to break them into a funnel. The whites slip through and the yolks remain. Crisp cabbage may be substituted for celery in chicken salad when the celery is out of season. Don't move your cake in the oven when you want to see if it is baking welt Open the cfoor Quickly, strike a match, and you can see at a glance the whole surface. Moving the cake will sometimes cause it to sink in the middle. ▲ good way to stain steps that are in use is to stain every other one the first day, requiring members of the family to go uosfairs two steps at a time, skipping the newly-varnished stairs. The next day repeat the operation on the other steps. To clean old iron spiders, boll in them a mixture of a pint of vinegar and a handful of salt a half hour. Empty and rub every portion of the Inside with a cloth dipped in the mixture. Finally scour the iron thoroughly with sand and soap. The most blackened spider will shine like new.

Mustard For Meat.

One heaping teaspoon of flour, two even teaspoons of sugar, two even tablespoons of mustard, yolk of one egg. Mix with a little cold water, then pour over this o»«-half qup of boiling water. Boil in doable boiler until it thickens. Thia with vinegar.

STUDIES OF MARKETING

Office of Markpts and Rural Organ! zation Reports on Results of Year's Work. c The advantages of cooperation in the marketing of farm products are emphasized in the annual report of the Office of Markets and Rural Organization of the Agricultural Department. "The .conclusion seems warranted says the report, “that in communities where cooperation is practically applied to the farmer’s business, the results obtained are far more satisfactory than those secured by individualmethods.” It is estimated that farmers’ cooperative marketing and purchasing organizations will transact this year a total business amounting to more than >1,400,000,000. Agricultural cooperation in the United States is, therefore, far more prevalent than it generally believed, but it is not yet upon a sufficiently strong business basis. For this reason the Office of Markets has studied the various methods employed by these associations and has worked to devlse means by which these methods can be perfected. The studies also have included the prevailing methods of marketing perishable products—cotton, grain, cotton seed, live stock, and animal products. Studies have also been made of city markets In order to secure in this way information which may open up outlets for farm products. In this connection the report calls attention to the experimental work in distributing timely market information concerning perishable products. An effort has been made to keep producers informed of arrivals and conditions in the large markets and, on the other han-1, tp keep dealers informed of shipments from the important producing sections. Strawberries, peaches, tomatoes, and cantaloupes were the crops covered in this way during the past season. There is evidence, says the report, that as a result of this service, distribution has been improved, glut ted markets have been prevented to some extent, total shipments from several districts have been greater than they would have been otherwise, and that large bodies of growers have received accurate and disinterested information concerning prevailing conditions in competing producing areas and in distant markets. Several Important newspapers have cooperated in this work by publishing these reports, and there is reason to believe that others will publish them when the service is extended to cover products that are of particular interest to their readers. The work of encouraging the propex preparation of products for market has been continued. The ultimate aim of this campaign"of education Is the national standardization of market grades and also packages or containers.

Investigation into the problems <>f transportation and storage has been continued with a view to determining the causes of the great loss of-food-stuffs between the producer and the consumer. Experimental shipments jyy parcel post and express were maae during the year with many kinds of fruits and berries, lettuce, milk, but ter, eggs, sirup and vegetables.

Milk as a Source of Protein

A quart of milk rnd three q darters of a pound of sirloin steak contain about equal amounts of nutritive material. One quart of milk ~ contains about 520 grains of protein besides its sugar and fat. Milk, then, is our cheapest and surest protein supply. To make it pure and appetising is our problem. People who eat a great deal. of meat rarelyTHK nflßk. In. fact milkand meat are not easily digested together. Of the two milk is so much cheaper and so much better In its results that a comparison with meat is hardly possible. Good, well flavored milk means good healthy cows, well fed and jvell cared for. Really the fine flavored milk cannot be produced unless the milk is drawn in a covered pail. We have tried both ways and the milk drawn in a clotbcovered pall is so much fin er that the other method has long since been abandoned. Milk must be clean all the time. Then, too, milk must be cooled quickly and be kept cold all the time. This is old to most of our readers, but it must be repeated over and over again. The outdoor window shelf, mentioned recently is great for cooling milk quickly in clean air. Then cooled milk must-be set on shelves in a clean place. Those who use separators will not be concerned with cream raising, but I cam not refrain from: saying , giving about sixteen quarts a day, furnishes all the cream and butter for a family of five, three quarts a day to a neighbor and a gallon of skimmilk every other day to a needy friend, besides a two quart pitcher full for tvery meal of the day. The milk that comes to the table is from thirty-six t® forty-eight hours old, and it is aim ply delicious, the best protein food that can be found at any price. Milk goes into the cooking in every possible way. When I hear persons say that the children do not like milk, that no one cares for milk in their family, 1 am pretty sure where the trouble began. The milk simply must be good, appetising, cold and sweet. It may require a little time to cultivate a large de mand for even so good an article of food as milk. But the cases are very few in whidh it cannot be done. "Without protein food all animals starve, even with an abundance of other food elements." Let the farm boys and girls have a truck patch, the proceeds to be theirs.

Professional Cards - . DR. E, C. ENGLISH v Physician and Surgeon Opposite Trust and Savings Bank. Phones: 177 —2 rings for office; 3 rings for residence. Rensselaer, Indiana. C. E. JOHNSON, M. D. Office in Jessen Building. Office Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 1 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Specialty: Surgery Phons 211. i r l' i <>• ~— DR. I. M. WASHBURN Physician and Surgeon Attending clinic at Augustano Hospital on Tuesday morning from a. in. to 2 p. m. “ Phono 48. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN Law, Real Estate, Insurance 5 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block.

F. H. HEMPHILL -Physician and Surgeon Special attention to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s Drug Store. Telephone, office and residence, 443. DR. F. A. TURFLER Osteopathic Physician Telephone, office and residence, 442. Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Building. Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—2 rings on 300; Resi-dence—-3 rings on 800. Successfully treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. - WILLIAMS &-DEAN Lawyers Special attention given to preparation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstracts of title, and farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows Building. JOHN A? DUNLAP Lawyer (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice in all courts. Estates settled. Farm loans. Collection department. Notary in the office. Rensselaer - Indiana H. L. BROWN • Dentist Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods In Dentistry. Gas adnln Jst ered for painless ex traction. Office over Darsh’s Drug Store. E. N. LOY Homeopathist OFFICE PHONE 89 Successor to Dr. W. W. Hartsell. Office —Frame building on Cullen street ■ rtestrtenre College Avenue. Phone 89-B. east of court house.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at public auction on the Headquarters Otis ranch, 2 miles east of Roselawn, sale commencing at 10 o’clock a. m., on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917, the following property: 21 Head Horses—Gray mare 9 yrs old, wt 1500; bay horse 11 years wt 1400; (black mare 10 wt 1500; . black mare 5 years wt 1300; bay horse 7 years wt 1200; sorrel mare 11 years wt 1100; black mare 14 ’’cars wt 1400; black horse 4 years wt 1200; bay horse 4 years wt 1200; black mare 4 years wt 1200; black mare 3 years wt 1100; buy mare 3 years wt 1200; 2 coming two year old colts; black mare colt eomnig 2 ’’Cai's; year . old colt; bay mare in foal 10 years wt 1200; bay horse 9 years wt 1000; sorrel mare 10 years wt 1000; bay horse 10 years wt 1300; gray horse TO years wt 1800. / ■ 24 Head Cattle—2o heifers from 6 to 11 months old; 4 calves 10 weeks old. Farm Tools—2 wagons, 2 hay loaders; Deere corn binder; Janesville com planter with 80 rods wire, good as new; 3 cultivators, one gopher; one 7-ft disc; 2 gang plows; 4 sets work harness. Terms—A credit of 11 months will be given on sums over $lO on approved security at 6 per cent interest if paid when due; if not so paid 8 per cent will be charged from date of sale; a discount of 5 per cent.for cash on sums over $10; $lO and under cash in hand. No property to be removed until settled for. PETER WALSTRA. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. E. P. Lane, Clerk. Lunch served.

The Best Recommendation. The strongest recommendation any art.'cle may receive is a favorable word from the user. It is the recommendations of those who have used it that makes Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy so popular. Mrs. Amanda Gierhart, Wayesfield, Ohio, writes: “Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been in my family off and on for twenty years and it has never failed to cure a cough or cold.” For sale by B. F. Fendig. C —— . Do you know, a successful business man who doesuot advertise ? For the successful merchants of this city consult our advertiser*.,