Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — Page 3

FARMERS CORNER

The Fin Coniter. The put herewith illustrates a style ts plow coulter which is often used in the West. It is made from high-grade i rucible steel about three-eighths of an inch thick, and cuts through the soil easily. There are certain conditions under which the rolling coulter will not work well, and then the fin coulter can often be used to good advantage. Years ago the land side of the share was always dovetailed and the cutterset in level, but later manufacturers and blacksmiths have simply riveted orJiolted the steel to the share without dovetailing. This is cheaper than dovetailing, but the latter method causes the plow to run better than when the cutter is bolted to the side. The cutter is always slanted well back hint is rounded back at the top. When made in this form, wear does not so soon impair its usefulness as if the edge were made straight like a cutter .which is cast on the share. A fin cutter mad 6 with a straight-cutting edge

PLOW SHAKE WITH FIN COULTER.

and rounded forward at the top would soon wear so that grass, roots, trash, etc., would not readily pass upward and off at top of coulter. A few years ago I bought a plow with fin attachment, the cutter having been put on by the manufacturers. It was such a clumsy affair that I would have done much better to have bought the plow and had the smith put the cutter on, for it was over one-quarter thick and stood forward at top so mueh that it would not work at all until it was remodeled. There was one nice feature about this cutter, in that it was bolted on with stove bolts, so it could be taken off and put on agaln v as conditions required.—Geo. T. Pettit, in St. Louis Republic. Co-Operatve >litk Selling. The Springfield (Mass.) Co-operative Milk Association is regarded as something of a model of its kind. The association received during the year 4.210,321 quarts of milk and paid the farmers $123,297.77 for their product. This lack's a small fraction of being "three cents a quart for the year round paid for the milk furnished. The volume of business done during the year was not far from $300,000. A report was made on the creamery established by the association in Washington County, N. Y., from which it now receives its supply of cream and butter. In eight months the product amounted to one hundred thousand pounds of butter. The association received 579.000 quarts more of milk this year than last, and paid the farmers about $18,900 more than last year. The farmers were paid on the whole product about one-sixteenth of a cent more per quart than the preceding year.— American Cultivator.

Bheep for a Weedy Farm. A Kansas correspondent has a weedy farm, wishes to try sheep, and wants to know what breed is best to start with in a section where but few sheep are grown and the surplus would have to be sold to the local butcher. We would get as good a type of mutton sheep ns we could conveniently without inquiring particularly ns to the breed. We would not take Meri-

nos, however, unless they were pretty , well graded up with some of the mutton breeds of which the-ts Shropshire is the most generally known and a very popular breed. We would not get more than twenty-tive or fifty to start with and would use a buck of the mutton breeds that we could get most conveniently: Shropshire, Southdown, Hampshire or Oxford. If the butchers do not give enough we would kill the surplus and sell them to the neighbors. Where a man has weedy pastures or weedy lands, any kind of sheep will pay even if lie has to sell the surplus fit low prices.—Wallace's Farmer.

Cattle and Meat Inspection. The departmental report of the Bureau of Animal Industry from which Secretary Wilson prepared that part of Ills annual report relating to live-stock matters will show' an increase In the number of government meat inspection depots from nine in 1891 to 15U In 1903. During this year 11.900,000 live cattle were Inspected by the bureau agents. 14,000,000 sheep, 1,040,000 calves, 31/HKi.OOO hogs and a few horses. Of these animals about 125.000 were rejected, subject to the result of post mortem examination. The post mortem Inspections for the year show practiceUy # the sumo figures* a total of 37,201,029 carcasses, of which -78.472 carcasses were condemned nnd 04.480 parts of carcasses condemned. The figures show' 344 horses slaughtered for food purposes.

Good Point* of Macaroni Wheat. Macaroni wheat is a drought resistor, a heavy ylelder, an early maturing grain, and has another good point for poultryinen—lt lias a large kernel. This grain sown by itself, or with oats, and kept In the bundle makes a poultry ration hard to beat. We would auggeat getting the smooth varieties, as the strong barb on some of the beared varieties might he objectionable when fsd in the bundle. Mixed with oats.

as many do now for horse feed, thli heavy-yielding grain certainly bids fair to be a good one.

Testing the Seed Corn.

The Illinois Agricultural College authorities are urging the importance of testing seed corn, and have found in their tests samples from farmers ranging in vitality, from 63 to 97 per cent. The importance of testing seed corn cannot be too strongly urged. The following is an extract from a letter received from j Professor A. W. Hume, of the Illinois College on this subject:

‘'lf. as seems probable, we are compelled to select seed corn for next spring from a crib having a large percentage of frosted ears or of ears which for various reasons will not grow, the question is what can be done to help insure our stand of corn for the coining year? It will hardly do t,o plant seed on valuable land with a certainty that one-fifth will not grow. The best suggestion the writer has to offer to corn growers is that they make a most careful inspection of corn, which they expect to use for seed, whether it be purchased from reliable growers or selected from their own storehouses. We believe it would be possible for every ear of corn planted in Illinois to be tested for vitality. If an ear does not come to the required standard, it may be possible to discard it, thus reducing the amount of seed which will not grow and materially increasing the stand of our corn crop the coming year.” Selecting a Good Laye*-. An old country poultrymau makes the following suggestions as a help in selecting good layers: “There are certain individual characteristics, one of which is the shape of a bird. If a straight line be drawn from the back of the head to the toes, the hen which is likely to be a good layer will usually have the hinder half of her body largest, whilst a hen which may be suspected of being a poor layer will show more in the front; the reason being that a poor layer makes a better table bird, and, has a larger, longer breast, whilst a good layer makes a poor table bird, and has a comparatively small breast, whilst the egg organs are more fully developed. Birds which are good layers are usually very active. They always look healthy, and in most cases their combs are usually fully developed, t particularly if they belong to the long-combed varieties, which are reputed to be the best layers. A hen with a long comb may usually be regarded as a good layer, and if she is not there must be some special reason for the contrary.” Five-Horse Equalizer. A. J. Ratan, of Treesbank, Man., writes the Nor’-West. Farmer inclosing a sketch of a five-horse equalizer. He says: “I have had considerable experience in breaking up grub land and have found that the very best results come from a good strong fourteen-inch grub plow. Two men, an ax, brush scythe and five horses comprise the best outfit that can be obtained for any field. In order to equalize the combined strength of lh4 horses an evener is made on the plan shown in the illustration. A piece of timber 3x5 and fifteen inches long is'selected. An inch hole is bored three-fifths of the distance from the end for the clevis

which attaches the timber to the plow ring. A tliree-horse attachment is fastened to the short end, a chain is attached to the long end of the piece of timber running between the two ofT side horses through their neckyoke ring and attached to a double-tree clevis for the lead team.”

Use for Cottonseed Hulls. Taper from cottonseed hulls is the latest utilization of a waste product. A factory has been established at Niagara Falls. It-is said that a good quality of paper can be made from this material. The diminishing supply of*\vood and other materials for paper stock has caused a search for substitutes. If the utilization of cottonseed hulls in this way proves a success, It will mean a new Industry for the South. Now that the mills have found an honest use for hulls, it Is hoped they will keep the stuff out of the meal which they send North.

Setting a Gutc Post. Have a large solid chestnut post to begin with. Then aim to make the l>ottom of the post immovable. Tamping near the surface Is of llftle use. Make the hole large enough to leave a sixdneh space all around the post. IMaoe the post, brace It straight, then put In about eighteen inches of broken rock, and pour liquid cement (three parts Portlund cement, two parts sand) into the spaces, making a solid masonry setting. The rest of the hole may be filled with rocks and earth.

CTrowth of Pigs. Foster nnd Merrill in Utah made two tests to Compare the relative fattening values of harrows and sows. In the first test of ninety-one days, six barrows made an average dally gain of nine-tenths of p pound, and three sows an average daily gain of eightythree one-hundredtlis of n pound. In the second test of 133 days, three barrow’s made an average dally gain of seven-tenths of a pound, and six sows an average dally gain of eighth-eight ooelinndrrflths of a douq<L

POLITICAL COMMENT.

Plan of Campaign.

It seems to be a settled fact that the tariff will form the principal issue in the campaign of 1904. The issue will, however, be presented in a somewhat altered form. Not again, we think, will the country be asked this year to decide between protection and free trade. Evidences abound that the Democratic party is not going to repeat the blunders of past platforms by denouncing protection as a robbery and a crime, a scheme of organized plunder whereby the few are enriched at the expense of the many. In the past eight years something has been learned by the party of which it has been said that it never learns and never forgets. It has been discovered, among other things, that the sentiment of a large majority of the voting masses is favorable to the general proposition that it is a wise thing to conserve and maintain an internal trade amounting to thirty billion dollars annually, and that it is an unwise thing to give to foreigners privileges and opportunities in this vast market that will curtail domestic production, employment and wages. Realizing the folly of attempting to overturn a fiscal system whose fruits have so strongly commended them-

CERTAIN TO PROVE AN UNDESIRABLE CROP.

Farmer Sam —That’s u queer-looking crop you are cultivatin’ over there,, neighbor. Don’t believe you’ll do Avell with it. Better stick to the old Protection seed.

selves to popular approval, the Democrats will not, presumably,, antagonize protection to the extent of calling for a repeal of all tariff duties levied for protective purposes. They will not undertake to storm the citadel and carry it by open assault. To do that would be to rush to certain defeat and disaster. In their plan of campaign for 1904 they will resort to strategy and indirect methods of attack. They will adopt the underground approach, and by the tactics of the sappers and miners will endeavor to weaken the wall in spots, not to destroy ft all at one blow. To proclaim the abuses of protection will be one of their biggest mines, one of their highest explosives. They will point to the trusts and demand that these aggregations of industrial production be forthwith deprived of all the benefits of protection. This they are sure to do in spite of the fact that the same torpedo that blows up the trusts will inflict far greater damage and destruction upon that very Important part of our production which is wholly outside of trust eontiol. But they will have smashed domestic industry and over the market to foreigners. Another underground passage to the. base of protection's wulls will l;e chosen by the Democrats in the shape of a general scheme of reciprocity in competitive products. This strategical mode of ussault has gained great favor with the Democratic tacticians. By Itt employment they expect to gain some reinforcements through de-ertions from Republican ranks. In this they will probably be disappointed, but they are quite certain to try it. If, as now seems certain, the Democratic plan of campaign for 1901 is to embrace tariff reduction as a means of dealingwith the trusts, and tariff reduction througli reciprocity arrangements as a means of insuring nn Increased in flow of foreign competitive products, it should follow, and we think It will follow, ns a matter of course, that the Republican plnn will be to meet tbe issue squarely by refusing to smash the protective tariff because of the trusts and by refusing to. countenance free trade ori the Installment plan by providing for reciprocity in competitive products. Republicans know that tlae best way to keep protection is to fight for it. They know, too, that nil tbe advantages of position are theirs, and that in the facts of tbe past seven rears of prosperity tbe best weapons

and the most effective ammunition are in their possession. Retaining these advantages and making good use of them, they cannot fail to win the fight. —American Economist. It Can He Hone. Under protection more than sixty countries are being supplied with American shoes. And yet some people still believe, or affect to believe, that such things can’t Jbe until “the wall of protection” is torn down. —Burlington Hawk-Eye. In Harmony. Congressman Dalzell’s conception of reciprocity is in perfect harmony with that expressed by President Roosevelt and in which the American people thoroughly believe. It is the only kind of reciprocity which American citizens want. —Ottumwa (la.) Courier. A Solemn Joke. The Minneapolis Tribune, voicing the views of the millers, the railroads and the jobbers, is disgruntled at the platform declaration of the Republican State convention regarding tariff aud reciprocity. “The reciprocity plank,” says the Tribune, “is a solemn joke.” It certainly is a joke, and a rather

solemn one, on the wide-open reciprocitarian Interests for whom the Tribune speaks. These interests have for the past two years been scheming to open the door to 'the unrestricted competition of Canada's natural products. They were turned down at the convention, just as they deserved to be. If they want wide-open reciprocity with Canada, of course they cannot consistently refuse to co-operate with those who want wide-open reciprocity with pretty much all the rest of the world. They went to the wrong place to look for aid and comfort. They would probably fare better at a Democratic convention. • _ lowa*ft Feelinjc* lowa is not going to the national convention with the demand that the flag of protection to American industries and American labor be hauled down. —Manchester (la.) Press.

A Susceptible Patient.

“Your rich brother is in the hospital, isn’t he?” “Yes.” “And how is lie progressing?” “Oh, I’m dreadfully worried about him.” “So sorry. Are you afraid he will not recover ?" “Oh, no, it isn't that I’m worrying about. It's his pretty nurse.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Good Substitute.

“Yewr aunt,” said Uncle Hiram, “seen a nd in a paper what sed ez heow a feller In th’ city would send ennybody a resect for makin’ puddln’ without usin’ rrilik, an’ a heap sit*; richer, an’ all fer a dollar; an’ she up an’ sent th’ money.” “And did she get the desired Information?" nuked the nephew. “Yep. Th’ feller wrote back an’ told her to use cream.”

Then He Got Busy.

“Grammatically speaking,” said the bashful young man, “would you call a kiss a conjunction?” “I don't know.” replied the fair maid in the parlor scene, “but whatever It may be, it’s something I ctnraot decline.” - x

Mystery Solved.

Mrs. Urban—l* wonder why wc ara never bothered with tramps any more? Urban—l suppose they have got next to the fact that you do the cooking. my dear.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. A Blackmailer Caught and Confesses! Attorney Found in Used-up Condition—Child Burns in F arm house.

Prank Glore baa pleaded guilty in ICendallvtTle ‘to an attempt at blackmailing tlie Flint Waiting Manufacturing Company. tlie larg-st windmill factory in the world." In an anonymous letter Written tlie manage - be threatened to dynamite the factory if $2,000 was not left in a hollow stump iu n certain field. Tlie ■package .vas sent one nigbt, with a Pinkerton detective in waiting. Glore, when Trapped, attempted to hide tlie package and then protested his innocence. Glore tvas kept in tlie sweatbox until lie made a full confession, including; some similar attempts on prominent Kendallville business men. Find Victim of Robber. Perry A., Collins. Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney for tlie twelfth judicial circuit, was found on tlie streets of Vincennes in an unconscious condition and was taken to the hospital iu a dying condition. He was evidently held up and sandbagged, as lie lias several cuts on the head where lie had been hit. Two years ago lie was visiting his brother-in-law near ’ the coal mines when a stick of dynamite was throwu into tlie house, tearing tlie building to pieces. Collins sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered.

Child Burned with House. Edward Harris, a farmer living sixteen miles south of Shoals, and his wife went to tlie barn, leaving their 1-year-old son in tlie house. A few minutes later the residence was discovered <>u fire and the child was burned to a crisp. The house and contents tvere a total loss. Robbers in Unsuccessful Raid. Cracksmen attacked the safe of the Flat Rock Banking; Company. Hairy Nading, the president, on entering tlie bank, found that the doors of the safe had been blown off with dynamite, but no funds were missing. The time locks of the safety vaults had saved them. Christmas Money in Will. Tlie will of Miss Cynthelia Sizemore of Paris. 111., filed in Terre Haute, gives SI,OOO for Christmas presents for poor children, the bequest being to the Paris Methodist Church, to be invested, and the interest used each Christmas for presents. 1 Short State Items. Grip is fast dying out. The fruit is not all frozen. Coal City has a measles epidemic. Lawrence County is to have more turnpikes. Oat sowing is On and a large acreage will be put in. Miss Lizzie McCarty of Marion enjoys the distinction of having been married seven times in nine years. Frank Murphy and wife of Armstrong ate a large quantity of polk root, which was thought to be horseradish, and both died.

AfW, Jones, 04, of Mitchell, who died a few days ago, is survived by his wife and eleven children. Two wives preceded him to the grave. Miners of the Linton district in a mass meeting refused to return to work until an agreement with the operators is reached and a scale signed. Leo O. Cox. little son of Richard Cox of G teen field, ate n quantity of concentrated lye and his mouth and throat were badly burned. Not enough was taken to cause death.

Mabel Howard, a Washington society member, was accidentally shot by her fiance, John Fougerousse. Fougerousse thought a revolver unloaded and was playing with it when the weapon was discharged. > A body was found in Wildcat river ai Kokomo that was later identified as Arthur Jackson, a popular Kokomo man, who disappeared mysteriously three weeks ago. Cuts and bruises indicafe foul play. Because they disturbed religious services at the Methodist Church in Walesl»oro, affidavits have been filed against John Zuckschwerdt, William Ping, Frank Carmichael, Edward Zueksehwerdt, Charles Simmons and Arthur Crowe. The young men caught a number of sparrows and while the minister was praying turned them loose in the church. The pranks of the boys broke up the meeting.

As'.the result of an attempt to assassinate William Horn, a fanner of St. Joseph County, Charles Anthony, a neighbor of Horn, is under arrest on a charge of attempted murder. The ar rest of Anthony caused « sensation aim developed the story that it was on Ills account that Mrs. Horn is plaintiff in a suit for divorce, which was recently tiled, ltecause Horn saw that Anthony was winning his wife’s affections lie ordered him from lu» home. “Button, button, who’s got the button V’ Anderson claims it, Richmond thinks it has it, while Rising Sun is positive it is wearing it. Anderson inaugurated a scheme to boom tiie town by the sale of buttons at « dollar each. The buttons bore the inscription. “Anderson, 40,000,” which means that Anderson wants to grow till she reaches that size. The buttons, which qre manufactured at a nominal cost, wen* purchased by thousands, and the funds raised from this source will.be used in industrial development. Richmond caught step and will sell 5,000 buttons to start with, bearing the inscription, “I am for Richmond.” Rising Sun lias ah* launched a button boom, ami it is a full-fledged one. A sow belonging to a farmer uear Hartsvilie gave birth to a pig having four eyes, four nostrils, eight legs, two tails and two tongues. A hen in the chicken yard of Mrs. Thomas Fowler, at Columbus, captured a full grown rat and held it in her beak until it was killed by Mrs. Fowler. Terre Haute prohibitionists have nam* ed Strother Pierson, a former saloon* keeper, for Mayor. Strother was onct tried for killing a man who created a disturbance in his place on Sunday. He escaped conviction on a plea of aelf-d* tense.

PULSE of the PRESS

These are tlie days when nil the littkl rivulets obtain recognition.—Pittsburg Press. The grand jury is forging to the front as tlie nation’s paramount institution.— Milwaukee Daily News. Flour is going so high that paste diamonds may soon be worth more than ths real.—Cincinnati Times-Star. There is one ambition left to the billionaire, and that hr to be able to trim his clothes with radium. Dispatch.

. It seems now that Congress and th« postal department both live in glass houses and both throw stones. —Atlanta Journal. The purification of St. Louis politics hi not only an iridescent dream, but a horribly fictitious nightmare-—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. J. I). Rockefeller says that golf has mude hint feel twenty years younger. Promising for Chicago University.—St. Louis Republic. It is now generally believed that next to Ohio. Satsuma, Japan, is tlie greatest breeder of great men on earth. —Cincinnati Ti»ncs-Star. Proof renders with a working knowledge of the Russinn language should command high salaries from now on. —■ Boston Transcript. A Baltimore young man claims to be able to talk 65,040 words an hour. His political debut cannot be long postponed, —Washington Post. The Democracy is taking so much time in developing a candidate that he ought to be a fine specimen when he materializes.—Washington Star. Tlie New England undertaker who advertises himself as a “mortician” is trying to put the English language underground, too. —Philadelphia Ledger. European editors continue to sneer at the Monroe doctrine, and European governments continue to treat it with the utmost respect.—Kansas City Journal. The rise in the price of camphor balls is regrettable, of course, but the high ball remains serenely perched on the usual price.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

A Harvard professor declares that football is breaking up study. Heretofore it lias been content to break up and mutilate students. —Washington Post. The man in Cleveland, Ohio, who has been eating match heads would be in a sad fix if they should obey the tendency of the times, and strike!—St. Louis World. What next after a great financier proceeds in court against his wife’s brother for alienating his wife's affections? This ought to approximate the limit.—Boston Ilernld. Secretary Taft says it will be many years before the Filipinos wiil be fit for self-government. Sometimes we might envy the Filipinos.-—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Bunau-Varilla says the building of the canal will take seven years; but Uncle Sam and Joan Crapaud are somewhat different when it comes to doing business. —Washington Times.

The “N'iederoesterreichische Gewerbeverein” of Austria is coming to the world’s fair. The information bureau will have a special clerk during the visit. ■—St. Louis Republic. Alia! now we know why Uncle Andy Carriegie lias been so eager to give away liis money. It has been discovered that all money has bacillus staphylococcus on it.—Augusta Chronicle. Korea has recognized Panama, but it is greatly feared that Panama will be unable to recognize Korea after the warring powers retire from her territory.— Cleveland Plain Deajgr. A Swiss gentleman says that he has an electrical instrument that could kill off an army at ode shock. The man must he an opponent of the pension system.—Topeka State Journal. The reduction of half a cent a gallon in the price of refined oils must be a great blow to the hopes of President Harper to make it really a “great university.”—lndianapolis News. It is stated that prominent women in New York have formed a guild for solving the servant girl problem. But the servant girl is not a problem, she is u riddle. —Philadelphia Evening Item. Poor old New Jersey! Its trust mill ground out such small grist last year that the taxpayers may be called upon to go down into their pockets and pay the expense of State government. That's distressing.—Milwaukee Daily News.

Women Who Want to Wed.

Rev. Charles W. Savidge, of the People’s Chart'll, Omaha, Neb., is being swamped with letters from women in all parts of the country who are eager to be u wife to the rich ranchman in western Nebraska, who several days ago Journeyed to Omaha on purpose to request the preacher to find him a spouse. “I have 1,000 acres of land, 3.000 head of cattle, and huudreds of horses, but no wife,” lie said, and added: “If you will find me one, 1 will pay you handsomely for her.” The story of the ranchman's singular offer was wired to newspapers throughout the country, and letters have been pouring in from all directions. Thus far Mr. Savidge has received letters from 200 women who describe themselves as pretty blondes, ITS as brunettes, 75 as widows, 80 us'dtvorces, and 50 as spinsters.

Dissensions Among Mormons.

It is said that the younger element of the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City la rebelling against the intolerable tyranny of the Mormon leader*. Ten young men, all officials of the church, have been expelled because they refuse to promiaa obedience in business and political affairs, and many others been given seven day* in which to submit or bo expelled. j* Fire in the Cooper office budding at Denver caused a heavy lose, principally to the Colorado and Southern Railroad.