Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — Page 2

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The Burdock Tonic Offer Continued. Arrangements have been made with the Brook Drug Co. of Battle Creek, Mich, to continue the sale of the Burdock Tonic Compound, during the month of March, at 50 cents a bottle. Don’t miss the opportunity of getting a dollar bottle of the best Tonic Compound for 50 cents. Ask your friends about it and get a bottle at A. F. LONG, Druggist

M O NFY TO LOAN On all kinds of GOOD IfIWIET IV SECURITY, including loans on second mortgage real estate, chattel mortgages, and personal security. Loans on city property made for one, two, and three years, Tepayable in monthly installments if desired. Sale notes purchased. Money on hand for above loans, no delay. Loans on farms negotiated at a low rate of interest, without commission. A set of Abstract Books Call personally or write. James H. Chapman, R uSTTnV r

In the Panhandle of Texas. The Panhandle Is considered one of the most enticing and encouraging sections of the U. S. today, for the farmer. It Is well and plentifully watered, has most excellent climate, ' a deep rich and fertil* soil; has coast markets and low freight rates. Beautiful farm lands sell here at from f 5.00 to sls per acre. Don’t you want to own your own home? You can do so, for this fine farm land is sold on the most liberal terms. For literature descriptive of this country and Its advantages call on or address THE FARMERS’ LOAN AND ABSTRACT CO. r of Rensselaer, Ind. , i , THE NORTH TEXAS LAND CO. Texline, Texas.

CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the f\ » Signature /jhxr *Jr * n r\Jf* Ose va For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA TUI •laiaWA VOBrAIITt HIW Tuna «• ■

FARM & GARDEN

RAKE TOOTH GATE HANGER. 1 r New and Novel Use to Put Worn-Out Rake Teeth. A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer v. i ices saying that he has. been

of a large staple. In case he is using six-inch board in his gate, he makes the loop in the staple seven Inches so as to allow plenty of sliding space for the gate board. The legs of the staple are left about six or eight inches long so that when two holes are bored into the posts, quartering as shown in the cut, the staples will be reasonably firm. The reason for boring the holes quartering is obvious, inasmuch as it is necessary to secure sufficient space to open and swing the gate to one side.

ONE MAN SWING SAW.

Device by *Which the Farmer Can Manage Big Saw Himself. This saw frame is of Ix 2 inch pieces, except silla which are of 2x4.

The Saw Frame.

Frame is made 14 inches wide with guide in center. Make any height to suit, suggests the Agricultural Epitom--Ist, using a common crosscut saw.

STUDYING THE SOIL.

The Successful Farmer Must Know Nature of His Land. .je To be successful In Its cultivation, the farmer must study his soli. If he expects to hold and increase the soil’s fertility, rendering It flt for cultivation, It is necessary that he should know of what It is made. Knowing that he can intelligently add to or subtract from the Ingredients In which it is deficient, or with which It superabounds. A fertile soil is one of apparently good texture, or peats, containing sulphate of iron, or any acid matter; and yet such a soil can be remedied by a top dressing with lime, which converts the sulphate into manure. By the application of sand or clay, says the Epitomlßt, a soil in which there is an excess of limey matter can be improved. A dressing of clay, marl or vegetable matter will likewise benefit a soil that is too abundant in sand Peat will improve light soils and peat will be improved by a dressing" of sand, though the former in the course of nature is but a temporary improvement. Soils which are loose in their texture, neither so light as to become readily dry, nor so heavy that they will get ..too wet in rainy weather, are the most fertile. The amount of nitrogen in the soil largely determines its fertility. ’l'his nitrogen is stored up only by previous generations of plants. The most fertile field can sooner or later be brought to a state of exhaustion by severe cropping, in which more nitrogen is removed from the soil in the crop than is formed and stored up in the soil during the same period.

FARM FACTS.

Don’t be a dead one. Get out of the rut. The proper handling of a farm calls for thought as well as work. It pays to study every field and crop. The waste of the farm will pay the Interest on the mortgage If handled right. Weed/j may be turned into seven-cent lambs and mutton. Half the money spent each year for wagons could be saved if better care was taken of the old ones. Make It a rule not to leave the old wagon out of doors over night. The farmer who raises some grain and keeps a few will find that a flock of 100 to 300 fowls can be m*de very valuable. The skim milk and the grain will be well paid for fed to good fowls.

Give a Little Feed.

Look for the roosting places of partridges 'and quail and throw them some feed during February and March If the snow Is deep or the ground covered with a crust of Ice. They are both valuable blrdß around the farm, particularly the quail, which many Injurious insects. Post your farms and do not allow anyone to shoot your frinds. ’

using old broken or worn-out rake teeth for handling his "■ gates. ' He sends a sketch showing the method which is simple. This farmer takes teeth to his shop, where he has a forge, and after heating them cuts off a portion and bends the other in the form

A GOOD LAND ROLLER.

Edgar L. Vincent Tells How He Made One. ) 1 We had been wanting a land roller, but had not quite come to the placja where we felt that we could spend the money for one out pf the store. We had been spending a great deal for buildings and felt that to buy a readymade roller just at that time would be more than we could stand. A neighbor who had been longer In the way than we had stepped to the front with the question, “Why do you not make one yourself? This is what we did. Come up and see ours.” And we went up. The result was that we made a trip to the city and out of an old scrap-heap fished four wheels that had done service on mowing machines. They were about the same size, as would be essential in such a case. We also bought a steel rod large enough to fit the holes in the wheels and some rivets three inches in length. Armed with these and a few steel drills the same size as the rivets, we went home and, waiting for a spell of stormy weatfier, we tackled the job. “I have got you into the scrape and now I’ll see you out,” the neighbor said, and we were very glad of his help. The first move was to get into the mill a cut of hardwood maple log as long as we wished the roller planks to be. We had them sawed two inches thick and six inches wide. It was not a vdry hard Job to drill holes through the rims of the wheel for the rivets which were to hold the planks. Two were provided for each wheel. Small grooves had to be cut in the planks to fit over the elevations on the outer surfaces of the wheels designed to keep them from slipping. That was easy. Boring the holes through the ends of the steel rod lor the lynchplns was the .hardest Job we had. That was slow work, but we accomplished it at last The rod was slipped through the wheels and it began to look quite like a roller. Of a local wagonmaker we bought an old mowing machine tongue. A frame of hardwood scanting {pur Inches square was made to set over the sections of the roller. The pole was bolted to t v is. Braces were run from the frame part way up the pole to, strengthen it at the turns. A cover was put over the sections. Another old mowing machine attachment in the form of a seat was bolted to the top and the job was nearly complete. I say “nearly,” for there was one thing more that served to make the roller complete. Naturally the middle of the roller would be inclined to fall behind a little while in motion, especially when a stone happened to be In the way. This would bend the shaft and cause the roller to scrape heavily on the frame on top. We went to a blacksmith and had a hook made of heavy Iron to clasp over the shaft This was furnished with two heavy links like the links of a chain, the whole being bolted to the frame of the roller. You can see how this would work. When the shaft bent the links would straighten out so that the hook Would draw on the shaft, preventing it from scraping on the frame or top. , We have used that roller more than a dozen years and it Is all right now. It cost us about $4.75. Of course the work we counted as nothing.—Farmers’ Review.

USE FOR OLD MOWERS.

How It Can Be Rigged for Utilizing If Horse Power. Many mowers that are still good in the gear, but rendered useless by defects in other places, are discarded as worthless or sold for old iron. Such mowers make excellent powers for light work and would be handy on any farm. Take oft the levers, seat, cutter l#r and tongue which are of no use. Then turn the mower on its side, with one wheel up and ■ -WMI "-- 'Sfr—pniw -V ■ Ml Ifll Hllllll HI) nil l Mnnai-I.

Good Use for Old Mower.

the other down. The wheel on the gear side should be down. Stake and wire It tight so It will be solid and fasten the frame bo it cannot turn. Fasten a sweep, a, to which the horse Is to be hitched, to the top wheel, e. Now attach your tumbling rods, b, to the crank-wheel by which the sickle pitman is run and your power is complete. This makes a nice power, Bays Farm and Home, for running light shelters, grinders, washing machines, etc.

Anchoring Down Wire Fence.

We notice that many farmers who use woven wire fencing have them staked down by crls-croßslng small stakes over the bottom wire In order to prevent hogs creeping and forcing their way under and Into adjacent fields where they are not wanted. We use a better method. Between each post we dig down 18 Inches and place a loop of heavy galvanized wire and Into each hole sink a small Btone or piece of old casting and cover deeply. Then withg our foot we hold the fencing tight to tho ground surface and with the pliers twist the ends of the buried wire about the bottom fence wire. This makes an anchor that lhsts as long as the fence lasts and Is not rotting off or being lifted with the frosts every winter, as stakes do. If the fence posts are exceptionally far apart two or three of'these anchors may be placed betweenjeach nost

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NOTICE OP DISSOLUTION. Rensselaer, Ind., Feb. 17, 1908. The blacksmithlng firm of Hemphill Bros, is this day dissolved, S. James Hemphill retiring from the firm, and Fred Hemphill continuing the business at the old location on Cullen street. All persons indebted to the firm should make settlement at once with Fred Hemphill and he will also pay any debts of the firm. Fred Hemphill. S. James Hemphill.

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CHICAGO and the NORTHWEST, INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, La MISVILLE. FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, and the SOUTH, rime table No. 13, taking effect July 22, 1806. South Bound. - North Bound. Now 81..4:49 am No. 4...4:30 & m No. 6..10.65 a m No. 40..7:31 axa No. 53.. 2:04 p m No. 32..9:56 a m No. 39..6:44 p m No. 6...8:81 p m 4a 8..11:06 p m No. 30..A.36 p m *Ta 46.12:63 p m No. 38..2-6? p -* I Na 4. No. 30—Dally except Bnn<to® No. 38—Sunday only No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and the south No. 4 will stop at* Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Ifonon. W. H. BEAM, Agent

MONEY TO LOIN We have money to loan at *ny time, and in any amounts to suit borrowers. Our specialty is loans on farms and city real estate for one, two, three four or five years, with interest payable semi-annually, to suit borrower, and with the most liberal terms as to payments on part of principal. We also loan on personal security and chattel mortgage. Don’t fail to see us before borrowing elsewhere. Austin & Hookins

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