Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1920 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Public Sale Having: disposed of oar farm we will dispose of our stock and implements at public auction at a sale to be held at our farm, 6 miles north and 2Mi miles east of Rensselaer, known as the Dr. Krealer farm, on WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1920 Sale to commence at 10:00 a. m. The following property: IO—HEAD OF HORSES—IO Constating of team of bay mares, eight years old; brown mare, nine years old; grey gelding, 4 . years old; black gelding, 8 years old; roan mare, 14 years old; black mare, 9 W years old; two yearling colts. 4—HEAD OF CATTLE —* Jersey cow, 7 years old; Jersey cow, 4 years old, If 7T fresh; spotted cow, 3 years old; spring heifer calf. 40—HEAD OF HOGS —40 Consisting of two registered Duroc sows, Duroc gilt, subject to register; 6 tried Duroc sows, Duroc gilt. These sows are all bred. Duroc boar; 80 head of fall pigs. FARM IMPLEMENTS. Two farm wagons with 40-inch boxes; hay rack; gravel box; Deering 8-ft. cut binder; Deering mower; hay rake; John Deere, disc, 9-ft.; 7-ft. disc; Janesville sulky plow; Rock Island sulky plow; 14-inch walking plow; Hayes corn planter with 100 rods of wire; Double fan endgate seeder; three-eection flexible harrow; two-section flexible harrow; 3 riding cultivators; 2 scoop boajrisj manure spreader; carriage and poles; hog feeder; two hog crates, hog chute; nine hog troughs; cattle trough; four tons timothy hay in barn; one rick of straw; four seta double harness; 8. collars; 130 oak posts; stone boat; twenty rods of new hog wire; post hole auger; thirty pounds binder twine; lot of new oak lumber; lot of old oak lunmber; lot of old pine lumber; 14-ft. log chain; wire stretcher; 6 bundles of red cedar shingles; and many other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS —A credit of ten months will be given on all suras of over $lO with 6 per cent interest if paid when due, if not so paid notes to draw 8 per cent from date of sale. *2 per cent of for cash when entitled to credit. Sums of $lO and under, cash in hind, • Lunch by Ladies’ Aid. BATES BROTHERS. Auctioneer: W. A. MeCurtain. Clerk: C. G. Spitler. •

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Of Russia's population, two out of persons are peasants. Five states in the November election chose women for state euperintendents of public Instruction. * One of the greatest dykes In Holland is forty miles in length, and has been holding back the water for seven centuries. a The fossil coal to a depth of more than a mile would last 6,000 years at the present rate of consumption, if it were all recoverable. The walrus supplies about 1,500 pounds of meat, 1,000 pounds of oil and 500 pounds of leather, and the white whale supplies much more. Some London doctors are urging the wearing of less clothing, taking the position that the people generally are too well wrapped up in wool and fur to be good for their health. They are advocating t jvhat they call an all the-year-around suit.”

Taking advantage of the imitative faculty of song birds, a simple mechanism has now been contrived that actually teaches canaries and other pet warblers how to increase their singing repertory, says Popular Mechanics magazine. A partly waterfilled cylindrical metal tank, in which a slightly smaller inverted tank slides up and down, provides enough air pressure for blowing a serios of whistles of different tone.

After gaining a reputation among fishermen and camping parties by many years of reliable behavior, Parmelia lake, in the mountains of western Oregon, suddenly sprung a leak last summer like a punctured basin, says Popular Mechanics magazine. Toward the end of the season the water surface had shrunk to a few acres, all the rest having drained out through fissures in the bottom, enlarged apparently, by some subterranean disturbance.

Electrical dehydrating plants for fish are promised as a result of recent experiments in England, which demonstrate that it is possible with the aid of heated air to accomplish in a brief time results that now require many days of %ir curing, says Popular Mechanics magazine. Deprived of