Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1908 — DENTISTRY. [ARTICLE]

DENTISTRY.

All you’ve “guessed” about artificial teeth may be wrong; what we know about them is the result of long experience. Possibly it would surprise you to know how reasonable In price they are made our way. We make so many sets that we can afford to give you more reasonable prices than most dentists do —that Is, for first-class work. We are told again and again ant, Ivan hoe (Hagermann Pass), New Castle, Grand Junction, Colo.; Helper, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Lemay, Rambo (bn the lake), Utah; Stockton, Oakland, San Francisco, San Ardo, Watsonville, Pajaro, San Luis, Obispo, California. While at that our work is by far the best In the district. We always intended that it should be; we always try to give superlative service. We use the best materials, take greatest pains. Our fee depends upon what requires to be done. We always give estimates most gladly, and we guarantee entire satisfaction. J. W. HORTON, Dentist. „ On East Side.

Northern experiment stations would perform a real service for the northern orchardiar if they would discover some orchard cover crop that could be used Instead of clover, the price of whlcb this year has been almost prohibitive and the getting of a stand of which Is not an easy matter.

Where an abundance of clean straw or even light manure is available s good layer of It scattered among the raspberry bushes is a first rate thing. This covering not only keeps down a rank growth of weeds, but serves aa s mulch to hold the moisture when the dry weather comes on.

The old Indian sign that corn should uot be planted until tbe leaf of the bur oak is as large as a squirrel’s ear is based on a pretty sound meteorological philosophy In that It takes real warm weatber, something more than is indicated by the first robin’s song or croak of frog, to start buds on tbe deep rooted oak.

Tbe experience of a good many farmers in the north part of the corn belt last year points quite conclusively to the fact that the rather small and early maturing variety of native corn is a better agricultural asset than the big shoe peg kernel variety that gets pinched by the frost at both ends of tbe season and sours on the cob after it is put in the crib.

One section of 200 acres near the town of Sanford. Fla., has given a gross return of $250,000, or $1,250 per acre, when devoted to the growing of celery. This was in a portion of the state formerly devoted to orange growing. bnt the killing freeze of some two years ago. which wiped out almost every orange grove in the state, made the raising of some other crop necessary.

One of the results of the prevalence of the rabbit peat in Australia haa been the building of a rabbit proof fence across the continent a distance of 2,020 miles. The cost of this bunny barricade, which was recently completed, was close to $1,250,000. It it furnished at Intervals of five miles with systems of traps, In which hundreds of rabbits are captured and destroyed dally. On the eastern side of the fence rabbits are said to be teeming and vegetation almost completely destroyed, while on the west side the rodents have not aa yet put in an appearance.

The highest dam In the world was lately begun near Cody, Wyo., when the first stone was laid on solid rock sixty-five feet below the bed of the river In the foundation of the big Shoshone river dam, which is being built under the government reclamation service. Exclusive of the foundation, the dam will be 315 feet high, overtopping any structure of its kind In the world, and will form a reservoir for a water supply which will make possible the conversion of 120,000,000 acres of land which produces now naught but sagebrush. greasewood and cactus Into productive orchards, gardens and grainfields.

A bulletin issued by the bureau of statistics of the federal department of agriculture gives the estimated losses of the different kinds of farm animals for the year ended April 1, 1908, as follows: Horses, per cent loss from disease 1.7, number 342,000; cattle, from exposure and disease 3.1 per cent, 2.203.000; sheep, from exposure and disease 4.5 per cent, 2,478,000; swine, from disease 5.2 per cent, 2,940,000. In the case of botb cattle and sheep the looses from exposure for the year Just closed are considerably less than for the preceding year and still smaller In comparison with the figures given for the ten year average loss from this cause.

If the true reason could be got at the difference between the milk production of a cow In different seasons, barring that due to the process of maturing, It would quite likely be found to be the kind of a pasture she had,*} fact not fully realized perhaps at the time. From the financial standpoint abundant pasturage, for which one pays $8 or $9 for the season. Is a decidedly better proposition than that which may be had for $6, but which does not furnish a sufficient amount of nutrition above that actually required to keep the physical organism of the cow going. Unless the feed In a pasture Is exceptionally heavy it ought not to carry more than two cows for every three acres. On this acconnt pasturage that is nominally cheap may be very expensive.

Doubtless a good many readers of these notes will some time this spring be under necessity of grading up about their premises and getting a lawn started, and in the doing of this it is well to remember two or three simple thing*. One is that so far as may be possible the soil used for a top dressing should not only be fine and rich, but should be as free as possible from weed seeds. When the soil has been graded up as one desires it should be floated or rolled until it is firm and solid. This will give the lawn grass which is sown a suitable seed bed and will keep the plot from being •easily marred should any person or stray animal tread on it. White clover and blue grass make an excellent lawn in most sections and should be sown at the rate of three parts of blue grass to one of clover. Frequent watering in case of an insufficient rainfall will be all that is needed to give a good stand of grass. The new grass should not be mowed until it has made a good growth and developed a fairly strong root Oats are sometimes sown with the grass seed as a sort of nurse crop; but this is not necessary if care is exercised in the particulars mentioned.