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KILLING FE Promising Experiments Ur tural De GUY ELLIOT To stamp out Texas cattle fever. This is the hope of the Department of Agriculture. The Department has been working on the problem for some time, and it has almost been proved to the satisfaction of officials that the tick which causes the fever can be eradicated from a pasture simply by keeping cattle out of that pasture. The tick is not a herbivorous insect, and it will die out if the pasture is kept free of cattle. It is believed that if one pasture on a farm is always kept free of cattle over what might be termed the life period of the tick, it will furnish perfectly safe pasturage for uninfected animals in case fever breaks out in the rest of the herd. Of course, the Department of Agri culture has no right to go into a State and enforce the free pasturage policy, and the matter cannot be, or at least Is not, always dealt with satisfactorily by State officials. But in cases where the Department is officially invited to come into a State and take charge of cleaning it up, it is quite ready to do so. Tentative arrangements have al ready been made for this work with the authorities in some States, and it is believed that it will be quite pos sible to stamp out the fever and al low the free interstate transportation CATTL INFECTED of cattle, which is now prohibited. The saving in money and the convenience to shippers of this arrangement can easily be understo0od. To Introduce Cattle from India. 'While this quarantine and extirpa tion work is going on, a similar experi ment - lines directed to the same end will soon be under way. There have been imported to some of th .exsrngssecmn o.h Iniafc cattle, whcasn poiiteas Te saving ina money andrthemmuneenoenhe Texsipper ofppisarngtemen csan eaily bnte unsktaoio epgandoh tik Atrodny ratthey frol notiar Whilte parasie qaTie hafbds trad tion wormas gotinn u on ia xesix teenth onr din lnesdiraee toe good saeen wtll ascan be funda. There hae ben imotnento some agans the aimneportaienof ore stound ita they counr iutho ther Tuhexaination Apantl thereane oileinftre siht is rytoipugrat tockh tick. At fany ate Indi winthar bor theS parsie. ofhPerex. hal-odsn arrnhedr however blood thae beenul Tere Dearemer storakent laesm ganteiportation of foremue nin t ouge, aato and qualrayletfranrtie; rmsofaaasIndia wipikthemout. h eat mr.AnStre of Agriultuel ed ase caranedinr howeer whmn the Agicul turalmeptmfabot 100 haead larg im ptnaonofthed immne Indian smat ileand ofhs glred coast tilr itishe India tongn pino them out.Te Doepat mtg ovgicualtill esend wose cAfvterinary afterl habnd thrt suhen poven ate0ya will beue Tx'nndbte teyrel schppdatnde th e quaanautibne oa o ne ith small isanbds ff thte ul cast tnil t is e-a tmned thalseto td the : in dangpe, ofc pper rininngvas in oe sbouide-ntr so::e stan and5v4inehfflicionmeence wore pehasc. ithTxa Pwflen-e.scetaal r AftrTeeoef th ias z have been thd or1 o Ehy ve nr thewl enintro dessd amnte Texasb wiherdsone. ibt i hope ONrsssfLY e.fro~ $1.00. Sen ymi ~iea~h oen adjgand Sor and. you shd tnc 'rne rti reunde td -t.~ spera nder1.0 b Ra'rd L~e ti fee.ot on oure.oTdle.cIfeyou dthim Teleshope be maldd foe VE2 TICKS. dertaken by the Agricul partment. r MITCHELL. that they will produce a fever-resisting strain that will be a valuable Lcquisi tion to the cattle men of the South west. These two experiments of Uncle Sam's farm department hold out a promise of very great importance to the live-stock industry, and conse quently to all meat consumers. The Manure Pit. Where is the wise farmer who would sell to his neighbor a load of his finest corn or a load of some green crop for a dollar bill, Yet there are thousands of agriculturists all over the country who are doing practically this very thing when they dispose of their barn yard manure for $1 a load. Others are wasting the most valuable constitu ents of the manure they save. The manure produced on the farm is its most valuable asset. There are in the United States, in round numbers, 17,000,000 horses, 61, 000,000 cattle, 47,000,000 hogs and 45, 000,000 sheep. Experiments have shown that if these animals were kept in stalls or pens throughout the year and the manure, both liquid and solid, carefully saved, the approximate value of the manure produced by each horse WITh TEXAS FEVER. annually would be $27, by each head of cattle $.9, by each hog $12 and by each sheep $2. The fertilizing value of all the manure produced would, therefore, be for horses, $459,000,000; cattle, $1,159,000; hogs, $564,000,000; and sheep, $90,000,000, or a total of $2,272,000,000. These estimates are based on the values usually assigned to phosphoric acid, potash and nitrogen in commer cial fertil'zers, and are possibly some what ioo high from a practical stand point. On the other hand, no account is here taken of the value of manure for improving the mechanical condi tion and drainage of soils which is almost as important a consideration as its direct fertilizing value. It is generally conceded that at least one third of the value of r~anure is lost by present wasteful management or a total loss to the country of over $750,000,000. Return Full Value to the SoiJ. If a farmer desires to maini:ain the productiveness of his land, i; is es sential that the amount of potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen removed through the selling of meat, milk, grain, hay, fruits, vegetables, etc., should be restored through an intel lIgent conservation of the barnyard manure. It seems to be a hard matter to In duce the average farmer to abandon the time-honored practice of! piling TYPICAL. CROP WH ERE MANURE is WASTED. manure In the open air, exposing it to leaching by rains and fermentation by hot mid-summer suns, and adopt ra tional scientific methods. He also hesi tates to incur the necessary expense of building suitable receptacles for the storage of manure, frequently assum ing that this expense is greater than it really is. Manure is considered a waste and It is hard for him to put PECIAL 60 DAY OF U WANT ON SEA, PA] sope for- Terresatrir1 a,1 caletial ume. This Telescope is pr wonderful evn-piec3""I look the sun square in the face.< rou do the mnoa at nlight. Every student, male or femial th~e mysteriorus recurrent son spote which apr-ear and di 'I os of the kn. Yn-1 will re.-.tit it yno neelect to secmt ras ,.ar aod for- this price bufnre. 'These 'relescopes ao .measur- elaaed 12 inches and open 31-2 feet in inu .* Bra.. Boeod. Br...a 'afety Cap on~ each endl to e'loc tnd ad adljusted. Gunnranteed by the 3laker. Becret, 'rem *s ootn D1O.OO. ir should certainly scure enie of these Instruments ;and r It are bronehr to view witi aetonishing clearness. SetI i reonI4 for at10. Our new e tatov-ne or Gnus. etc..sen' weg C miss It. we war-raat oeh elescope just as represence W8 orde. Rie. MoDgy Order, or Bank Draft payablet mia postage. into practice the new idea that the manure should be as carefully pre served from unnecessary loss, as should any other farm product, after he has for twenty years stored the farmyard manure under the eaves upon the slope which forms one border of the running brook. Experiments made by va:-ious Gov ernment experiment stations show that the construction of sheds or covered yards for the protection of manure is well worth while. T.he manure from the horse and cattle stables and the sheep and calf pens should be spread THE WASTE OF out evenly over these yards, covered with coarse litter, and the whole kept firmly packed by allowing animals to run over it, thus preventing injurious fermentation. To Save All the Fertility. A more elaborate and expensive style of covered yard, a plan for which is furnished by the Department of Agriculture, provides not only for the required protection of both animals and manure, but also affords an ex cellent grain chamber where feed can be stored for convenient use. Under the side roofs is also afforded a chance for the storing of small tools and a great variety of articles that are con tinually in the way when lying about the farm buildings. It also provides splendid protection to animals when housed at night during the summer, this roof protecting them from heavy showers in the night and affording good chance for exercise in the win ter, as all the sides, except that toward the south, can be protected against cold winds through tempo rary boarding. Many stables are so situated that by adding a cheap lean-to, a manure "pit" is easily produced. The out side boarding of the lean-to should be, for a part -f the way at least, put horizontally and hung in the form of fiat doors, so that the manure can be easily loaded on a wagon standing on the outside of the building. A great number of farmers who have adopted manure sheds and covered A CONVENIENT CC yards have obtained unsatisfactory re suts, but the Department of Agricul ture believes that this is probably due to the fact that these structures have generally been loosely put together. allowing a free circulation of air, which has dried out the manure. On this account barn cellars, so common in New England, possess decided ad vantages as receptacles for manure. The common practice of allowing swine to "work over" the manure in these cellars is a wise one, since it mixes the manure and keeps it well packed and moist. In fact, if these cellars are provided with impervious otoms to hold the liquid manure, this system of storage is probably the. most perfect practiced. Manure the Best Fertilizer. Barnyard manure is the most ef fective means at the disposal of the average farmer to permanently im prove his soil. No other fertilizer pos sesses to so great a degree the power of restoring worn out soils to produc tiveness and giving them lasting fer tility. It provides actual fertilizing costituents: it improves the physical properties of the soil, increasing the amount of humus, which is generally deficient in worn soils, bettering its texture and increasing its water-ab sorbing and water-holding power. Ex periments have shown that the influ ence of manure may be perceptible twenty years after application. It di rectly represents fertility drawn from the soil and must be returned to it if productiveness is to be maintained. In many cases it has been demon PER TO INTRODUC LM, RANCH OR IN T. WANTS G Centlemen-Please send another Tc!cecope. Mot coling many times the money. 1 . .SUPERIOR T( P'red walsh. of THowe island. Ontario Canndn. ea'n to ao-e wh ich '- h- .~ wh"ich cost $15.Q) L'o ye mo~otan ouue whLat:, coL me. jCOULD DISCERN BOATS Mr. (. M. Miediea. of Duluth. Mlnn., who purchas'ed h le e~tsected.tihn': wmtb i t hetoultd discrnr boat' "tn the weahe i h cold read the names o~f steamers and othe: strated that the value of the manure obtained in cattle feeding represents largely, If 'not entirely, tie profit of feeding. There are sound, scientific reasons for the high esteem in which farm manure is held. It contains all the fertilizing elements required by plants in quickly available forms that insure plentiful crops and permanent fertility. It supplies nitrogen, phos phoric acid and potash, and it also ren ders the stored-up materials of the soil more available, makes it more fri able and warmer, and enables it tc retain more moisture. 7 BARNYARD MANURE. Ruttlesnake Den. We were lumbering in central Penn sylvania during the summer of 1S70, our portable steam mill standing in a piece of woodland, near a small stream and within a short half milc of a rocky ledge, known as "Rattle snake Den." During the hot days, rattlers werc constantly met, and "H-arry," whc drove the daily stage through the "Nar rows," had won quite a local reputa tion from having killed more than a score since the melting of the srows. The pretty youn;; wife of our en gineer had charge of the boarding house, and after the noon meal was served, the dishes cleared away and the house put in order, she was ac customed to bring her sewing into the shade near our Planer, which was the cleanest and coolest part of the mill, and sit for an hour or two before com mencing the preparation of the sup per. She was a sweet, attractive sight that hot afternoon of which I speak, her beautiful arms and neck rival ling the whiteness of her simple frock, the only female in our camp of rough, brawny men, but one whom any of us would have defended from all harm at any risk. Some of the men were rolling up the logs on the skid, some sawing them into boards, others carrying the boards to the yard, while my partner, Manuel Motz, was personally tending to thE more skillful work at the planer, in VERED BARNYARD. front of which and facing it, May sat. I was j-ist then acting as engineer and fireman, andl as I happened to look in their' direction, to my horror, saw an im~mense rattier, coiled within a foot or less of \Iay's back, his body swaying to and fr-o, and his angry eyes shining like sparks of fire. I was lit erally paralyzed with terror, for though but twenty feet away, it seemedi as if the blow would be struck be fore I could take even the first step. Motz must have seen the snake at the same moment, for I heard his voice clear and sharp above the roar of all the machinery. "May. there's a rattle snake tha: will strike if you move; sit perfectly still." As he spoke he grabbed from a beam the bull whip, which we used for our ox team, and with the slightest movement of his powerful wrist snapped it at the rep tile, as if striking at a fiy. I remem ber I thought what a fool action that was, why didn't he dash forward and at least attract its attention! But I looked again and the body lay quiv ering and twisting, but with a broken neck. "Pretty close call. May." he said cheerily, "but its easy when you know the trick."' May h-xd been perfectly cool and obedient till the' danger w-as past, and then, womanlike, she quietly swooned away, and for a day or two we did our own cooking. Automobiles are now running a milE in less than half a minute, and twc miles in one minute. E OUR NEWl EXCE EE SCHOOL. ATescp ANOTHER. Brandy. va. y ncocd. Other was a bargain, goo a~ en'rmn >A $15 GZaASS. 4nnt sav it surpt.sses n11ernectations. It is far superir s ao, Just a few s:ghts I hav~ sen with it are wur: FROMI FIVE TO TEN MTLES. me nf these Tekec onee savs the-y ares sneior to anythir r'-at 1,ak,- nt a J.rltance'f . to 10 miles, and la clea craft at a distance. oft one-blaf miue away. BEWARE OF NOSTRUMS (QUACK MEDICNES) which taken into the stomach to cure a complaint are lable to create a habit for strong drink. THE PRIUCIPLE OF ABSORPTION Is the surest means of curing disease. The actienof nearly every drag is three if not four times greaterif absorb,:d by the skin-than if swallowed. HOILMAN'S LIVER PAD Is the only Safe and Sane method of treating liver and stom ach complaints. The tonic prop rperties of the Holman Liver Pad TRADE 3.U. enter the system through the nerves and circulation, Just where you need It. For the cure of all complaints due to a disordered con dition of the Stomach. Liver or KIdney. its action in restoring a healthy condition is wonderful. The Holman Liver Pad causes to be removed from the system all poisons. leaving the various organs free to perform their functions under natural conditions, tti insure,4 health. For the positive and absolute Cure of Malaria the Holman I.iver Pad has never been known to fail. It isa Poitive Preventive of Yellow Fever, Typhoid Fever, Srmllpox, Diphtheria and Billousness. Having used your Pads for some months past, both in my practice and family, I unhesitatingly recommend them to the profession and public for all diseases of the liver and stomach. 'he Pads have never failed to give me entire satisfaction. Very resnectfull ATLA.TA GA. iV. N. JtDSON, M. D. "FRE3D rmTRIA X". If you desire to give the Holman Liver Pad a Free Trial mail the coupnn to Holman Pad Company. 39 Cortland St., New York. HOLMAS PAD COMPANY, Mail me one of your Liver Pads which I promise to wear according to directions:if I find myself bene fitted after wearing same 2 weeks I e to remit $z.oo, otherwise the pad will be return to you. Name............................-- ..------.. Street..................................... City & State........................... . A.M Your Money Back If You Want It. Will bring you by mail a 2 oz. box *''itherVanilla Crystals, Orange, Lemon, Almond, Clove. Nutmeg, Ging;er, Rose or Cinnamon Crystal. The best Flavoring ever moe. Non-Alcoholic and Lnchangeabli in Cooking. Superior to any 25c. bottle of Liquid Extract. Endorsed by U. S. Food Commission Send'lo Cents to-day to JOS. BUTL.ER CO., 17 Battery Place, - N. Y. CIty. CONSUMPTION CURED BY * Lung 0 ermine Not just one case alone but hu~ndreds of eases where all hope had bcea pn . where the D of eth seemed to have forever closed upon them. 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It has stood the most rigid tests ro often and so welt, It has brought hope end life to so many hundreds who were amileted with oonsumptilon end had lost all hope, and It bas proven its supreme value In destroying TuberculosIs germs in so many, many cases that it Is used today arnd recommended be numerous large institutions end sanitar fume. And positive proofs of all these facts we will give to you freely. If you have consumption or eyof its symptoms, conghing and hawking continually, spitting yellow and black matter, bleeding from the lungs weak voie. fiat chest. night sweats, flushed complexione pain in chest, wasting away of Seth, etc. You may havo a Fi EE trial treatment sent you at once, together with a booklet on the treatment and care of consumption by simnpl~y sending in your name. Don't Delay-Write Today Your life may be at stake. Your letter may save you mnonths of torturing Illness and prolong your life to a good old age. To wait means too late in many cases. 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