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Show Cutting Sweet Make War on Pocket Gophers in October Many Farmers Make Big Mistake in Allowing Crop to Stand. Spread Out Poisoned Wheat in Systematic Manner. Clover for Ha make a grave mis- allowing sweet clover to stand too long before cutting for hay. Sweet clover should he cut while it is in tlie bud stage and not after it is in bloom. Tlie biennial white blossomed sweet clover develops a coarse stem as it is passing through tlie bud stage. Tills fact makes it so succulent that it is an Impossibility to cure it and poisonous substances develop in tlie stem. North Dakota has found that many animals have died hy ttie eating of this sweet clover. Many farmers take by half-cure- Avoid Spoiled Clover. We desire at this time to warn our farmers against tlie putting up of spoiled sweet clover hay, says It. A. Moore of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture. Unless one can cut it at the proper time for luiv, it is altogether best to leave it run into tlie seed stage and cut it for seed or pasture the same. Undoubtedly tlie greatest good derived from sweet clover will be from pasture and from the turning of sweet clover as a soil For these two great purposes sweet clover 1ms no equal. Sow With Cereal. It really pays any farmer, no matter what cereal crop lie grows, to sow sweet clover with such cereal crop mainly for plowing under. Often one gets a good cutting of hay in the full when tlie sweet clover has been sown with oats, barley, or spring wheat. The full cutting of sweet clover, ns a rule, makes exceptionally tine liny and no evil effects so far have been discovered from the use of the hay which is acquired from sweet clover the first fall after seeding. We also usually have good hay making weather In August and September when tills first cutting cun be taken and do not have tlie frequent showers that usual.Tune ly obtain In the early part of when sweet clover is reudv to he cut ELMO SCOTT WATSON X NOVEMBER 11, 1922, when the Unknown Soldier was enshrined at Arlington cemetery, among the high ollieials and other dignitaries who took part in that impressive ceremony, was the figure of an Indian chief, resplendent in buckskin, scalp -shirt, fringed leggings, beaded moccasins and a magnificent war bonnet that swept to the ground. As he stepped forward to place on the white marble tomb a war bonnet and a coup stick, he said in Ills native tongue, I feel it an honor to the red man that hit has taken part In this great event today because it shows that the thousands of Indian soldiers who fought in the great war are appreciated by the white man. I am glad to represent the Indians of the United States in placing on the grave of this noble unknown warrior this coup slick and war bonnet, every eagle feather of which represents a deed of valor by my race. I hope that the (treat Spirit will grant that these noble warriors have not given up their lives in vain and that there will be peace to all men hereafter. This Is the Indian's hope and prayer. This chief who was chosen as the representative of nil ttie Indian tribes to place the red man's tribute upon the grave of the Unknown Soldier is known among his people, the ns mean- ing Many Achievements." But the white men who call the Absarokees Crows, he Is more commonly known ns Chief Plenty Coups, perhaps the best known Indian in the United Stntes today. For that reason one of ttie outstanding biographies of the year is the book American, published recently by the John Day company, for it is The Life Story of a .Great Indian, Plenty Coups, Chief of ttie Crows,", ns lie told it to Frank B. Linderman through the medium of an Interpreter and the sign language in which both Plenty Coups and Linderman are adepts. American is not the first Indian autobiography but it is outstanding because it is the story of a genuinely primitive Indian, When Plenty Coups was horn in Montana in the late '40s Ids people were still living tiieir normal nomadic life in the days before the buffalo herds were swept away, and these wild horsemen of the plains were almost untouched by any contact with ttie whites. His early life was lived under tribal conditions, but little changed over a period of hundreds of yenrs; in his early manhood lie Witnessed the first conllict between the two races with their Inevitable climax of ttie subjugation of the rod and the domination of the white and his declining years are being passed in an era which is swung a century of history concentrated in a decade. So in a sense the life story of this Indian chief is an epitome of not) gears of American history, from savagery to c! vilizu! ion, from a wilderness to the Industrial age. Plenty Coups has remained a boy 11 his life and the naturalness of childhood is reflected throughout his story What are your earliest remembrances?" Mr. Linderman asked him and the old man smiled. Play, he paid happily. All hoys are much alike. Their hearts are young and they let them sing. And In his telling of the events of his boyhood and his training at ttie hands of the eiders of tin tribe, there is food for thought by the white man who believes that men of his color are superior in any way to men whose skins are red. No doubt it will lie a shock to most white men to realize that in the eyes of tl e Indians while children are so disgustedly ill bred. for hav the second year after seeding. Rat Poison Fatalities Show Material Decline At the second annual conference of district, the Eastern llodent-Contro- l held in Washington, it was reported that clippings from thousands of Innewspapers throughout America dicated a material decline in the number of accidental human deaths from rat poison during 1929. Since tlie sales and use of exterminators have not decreased, the conference concluded that the diminishing death rate is due to the increased, nation-wid- e use of powdered red squill, which is unique as an exterminator in that it is deadly to rats and mice but harmless to humans, livecoops wiTHmsjyrs stock, dogs, cats, poultry and even ISo profiting by the example and the more seriously thun he did his laws, baby chicks. It is highly recominstructions of his elders, Plenty and that he kept both of them just mended hy tlie United States Departto use when they ment of Agriculture. behind him Coups boyhood was spent in the kind of play which was the beginning of might do him good in his dealings with bis education in physical development. strangers. These were not our ways. Contaminated Hog Lot We kept the laws we made and lived In plains and wood craft and in strict Is Cause of Diarrhea self discipline of body and mind. lie our religion. We have never been white to who aide understand the man, the other boys played at making Diarrhoea in young pigs is usually and but himself. . . . caused hy war, and with great eagerness be fools nobody being in old contaminated looked forward to the day when lie Now, too lute, we know that the white liog lots and is due to infection. Bigs man is not wise. He is smart, not at this might go out on the first war party age also get diarrhea when wise, and fools only himself. and have the chance for that distinckept in apparently clean quarters, if To rend Plenty Coups story is to not allowed to get out on clean ground. tion so much desired by all prospective warriors counting coups. This realize that lie deserves the characterKeep them in clean dry quarters' and ization of a great American by what- out of old muddy lots. If they get might be accomplished in one of sevever standards, either white or red, outside, put them on clean pasture, eral ways. He might strike an enemy with his coup stick, bow or quirt, belie may he judged. A part of his not previously used for hogs for at fore otherwise attacking him, or take greatness lies in the adjustment lie least one year. his weapon while he was still alive, made between his people nud ours, in Add middlings to tlie milk and make lie might count coups by striking sim- bis patience, his diplomacy and his a thick slop. It would also be betilarly the first of the enemy's dead or firmness which saved the Crows from ter to feed shelled corn until they are Ids breastworks under fire or by stealtlie tragic fate which overtook other older. We Indian tribes. Of them he says : Give two ounces castor oil, then ing horses from the village of an enemy. Unlike the white man's idea it saw that those who made war against give five grains each of salol and subwas not so much an honor to be the white man always failed in the nitrate of bismuth, three or four times wounded in action. When a warrior end and lost tiieir lands. Look at daily. who had been wounded dunned an the (Cheyeagle feutlier to commemorate the ennes). Most of them are living Boar Pigs to event, lie must stain it red, and such whore they hale tlie ground that Selecting a feather was esteemed less highly Be Used for Breeding holds tiieir lodges. They cannot look than one which bore t ho distinctive at the mountains as I can, or drink The season is at hand for sizing up markings showing how a coup was good water as I do, every day. In- spring farrowed hoar pigs to be used counted. stead of making a treaty with tlie for breeding purposes. If a hour pig white man and hy it holding tiieir is six months old and has been norwas manhood Plenty Coups young country which they loved, they fought. mally developed to that age, lie will tilled with innumerable skirmishes beAil! how those warriors fought! And show any tendencies lie may have totween the Crows and their traditional enemies, the Sioux, the Cheyennes, the lost all, taking whatever tlie white wards undesirable conformation. In man would give. And when tlie hearts selecting a young hoar one should see His Araptihoes and the P.lackl'eet. tlie givers are filled with hate tiieir ids sire ami dam and make inquiry of men with contact real white the first came when lie enlisted as a scout with gifts are small. into tlie breeding qualities of Ii is anGenera! Crook and served vulorously Tlie Clioyoiines and tlie Sioux, who cestry, particularly with respect ro In addition to this inforwitli that officer in the great battle fared a little better, have always been prolificacy. with he Sioux on the Rosebud. For our enemies, hut I am sorry for them mation concerplng tlie feeding qualiAmericans with tiieir traditional love today. I have fought hard against ties of the ancestry is a valuable inof good sportsmanship" tliore is an them in war. with tlie while men more dex of desirable qualities. than once, mid often with my own interesting example in Plenty Coups' attitude towards his enemies. In neartribe before the white men came. But Alfalfa in Egypt when I fouzlff villi the white man ly every case in which lie tells of a tlie best of hay crops, can Alfalfa, was not I it foeman whom lie fought and killed, them because against lie ends the story by adding gravely, loved him or because I hntf.d tlie lie grown in southern Illinois if con He was a good man, that Sioux, and Sioux or Cheyennes, mt because I ditions are made suitable for the a brave warrior. saw this was tlie only way we could plant, according to I). 0. Maxwell of of Illinois. But the opinions of the white man keep our land and it was my dream the University The first of tlie southrequirements us the way." expressed by this old warrior is not that taught ern soils is good drainage, which is talked such comfortable reading for those Although Plenty Coups freely had In some sections of tlie slate due who fondly believe that the white race about his early life, even to tlie into subsoil The rolling is superior to all others. But Is good, timate details of his dreams and all and impervious need lime and soils for the tlie other elements which make up ttie exaggerated perhaps, some humus in to make a of the eonqueriiig white to mysticism of the Indian a rare oc- success of alfalfa general production. read tlie.-- e words of Plenty Coups and currence for ttie red man to Imre his refieet upon them with an honest soul to the white man his hook tolls mind : Smaller Turkeys They spoke very loudly when little of Ids life after tlie passing of they said their laws were made for tlie buffalo. Tlie descent into poverty It Js too often tin rule that all eerylmdy; but we soon learned that and dependence upon ttie while man's turkeys reaching marketable weight When tlie are sold or. tlie Thanksgiving market although they expected us to keep bounty broke his spirit. them, they thought nothing of lire,'ikbuffalo went away tlie hearts of my and tlie process repeated at Christing them themselves . . . (Tiieir people fell to tlie ground mid they mas time, those left constituting tlie could not lift them up again." lie says, next season's breeding flock. Tlie repriests) said we might have their religion, but when we tried to underAfter this nothing happened. There sult of slid) a practice is smaller turstand it, we found that there were too was little singing anywhere." And keys raised wit It each succeeding seamany kinds . . . tills bothered us those mournful words are a tilting son and fewer of them for this a good deal unlit wo saw that the white requiem for tlie whole race of red practice insures the retention of the man did not take his religion any mon. least thiifty birds. cmmirr story -- ... s ) self-estee- . BAYERASPIRIN is always SAFE Bucket gophers, pests of alfalfa fields, have life habits that tend to lull tlie farmers Into allowing them more security than they deserve. In spring and summer when tlie alfalfa grower is in ids field cutting ids hay crop lie finds new evidences of tlie multiplication of pocket gophers In tlie form of new mounds of loose earth thrown up from tlie tunnels they dig. It is not until late in September or until October ttiat the mounds multiply. All during spring and summer the pocket gophers are rearing tiieir young and working from the old tunnels, clipping and eating the tap roots and laterals of the alfalfa and causing scanty nourishment or death to tlie plants. Tlie are out of sight, but they are really busy at work. Each pair of old pocket gophers Is raising four or five youngsters that are intense Individualists and that in fall will strike out for themselves, dig tiieir own burrows, make the fields bumpy and difficult for tlie hay makers, and prepare for more multiplication tlie next spring. Tlie practical procedure for ridding the fields of pocket gophers is to let them make a fair start with their new burrows in tlie full, and then put out poisoned wheat Iif a systematic manner so that ail may have tiieir fill. In the autumn fields tlie new burrows can lie located easily and effectively, and tills is the season when the pocket gophers are laying in their winter hoard of food. Beware of Imitations GENUINE Bayer Aspirin, the kind that doctors prescribe and millions of users have proven safe for over thirty years, can easily be identified by the name Bayer and the word genuine on the package as pictured above. Genuine Bayer Aspirin is safe and sure; always the same. It has the unqualified endorsement of physicians and druggists everywhere. It does not depress the heart. No harm- ani-mu- ls ful hogs bowels In use. August Day Eventful Tlie following suggestions are made as offering means of avoiding losses due to hog flu: 1. Have animals accustomed to tiieir winter quarters before time for unseasonable weather. Do not wait until cold rains or snow have fallen to provide good shelter. Herds that are hogging down corn should not be allowed to Sleep in the open but should be trained to seek good sleeping quarters every night. 2. Furnish an abundance of clean, dry bedding for steeping quarters. Avoid dampness or dust by frequent change of bedding. 3. Avoid closed, unventilated shelter. Overheated hogs are the ones most apt to contract respiratory diseases through chilling on leaving the house in tlie morning. tlio its Bayer Aspirin is the universal antidote for pains of all kinds. Headaches Neuritis Colds Neuralgia Sore Throat Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache of Bayef Aspirin is the trade-mar- k manufacture of monoaceticacidester of salicylicacid. Suggestions Made to Avoid Hog Flu Losses 4. Keep follow after-effec- ts in American History August 3 has proved to he such an eventful date In Amerlcnn history Hint tlie War department has Issued a long comment on It, Incorporating tlie following facts : It began tlie World war. which contributed most to American history. It 'marked the opening of the Ban-am- a canal. It marked the peace treaty 135 years ago between tlie government and tlie Indians of tlie Northwest, giving us Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and western Pennsylvania. Tills treaty followed one of the most terrible nud destructive Indian wars In American history. In which George Rogers Clark, "Mad" Anthony Wayne and others distinguished themselves. good LJntravelcd Clergymen To have lived within 219 miles of tlie Atlantic ocean for a lifetime without seeing it is an experience that comes to few in these days of automobiles. Vet lift ecu of tlie seventeen Vermont clergymen who attended the New England rural church workers' conference near Old Orchard, Maine, laid never seen the sea, says tlie Boston Globe. condition, not with drugs but with proper feed. Linseed meal is laxative and may well be used for this purpose. Feeding Soil Bacteria to Release Fertility Feed tlie bacteria and they will is a slogan that is true in relation to soil fertility, according to O. II. Soars, University of Illinois. Bacteria are largely responsible for tlie changes in soil whereby soil fertility is liberated to produce good feed you, Thi Regulated Age Let me see your license. Autoist Marriage, car, drivers, fishing, dog, hunting or builder's license? Cop crops. Blowing under straw Just ahead of a corn crop has a detrimental effect on the corn crop, as the organisms that break down the straw use the nitrates of the soil that should go to corn, while If tlie straw Is plowed under in the fall the straw may favor tlie utilization of nitrates by bacteria and thus prevent tlie leaching of nitrntes during the dormant season of tlie wheat plants." Rotating Clover If a large field of clover Is grown as a part of a crop rotation and hogs are moved from one field to another during successive seasons, as a part of a sanitation scheme, tlie crop may lie handled in tlie following ninmipr: A cultivated crop such as corn should preferably precede it but this is not necessary. It Is most advantageous to follow sweet clover with a tilled crop to eradicate volunteer plants not desired in the rotation. There May be Poison in YOUR Bowels! (S t Blenty of exercise, less grain and more roughage, such as alfalfa, will tend to prevent a large amount of paralysis in pregnant ewes. ... ... Wlmn tlie rows full off in produc- (hui rapidly it Indicates lack of 'sufSeme supplement firient nutrients. should lie provided at onee. - Sunflower seeds in limited amount make splendid winter feed for chickens. Because of the tough fibrous hull, It dees net do to feed in great amounts. ... Low prices for eggs and making room for ttie growing pullets are two geed reasons for reducing tlie laying flock at tlie same time tlie roosters leave tlie farm. ... One of the more common troubles on many farms Is overcrowding in the hog house. Hogs compelled to pile up become too hot and tlie building will likely he damp and steamy. ... Tlie calf's digestive capacity is not large enough to allow it to consume enough giiis alone to moot (s needs. Some grain should he fed nil through tl.e summer as v. ell as in lie winter. l j t STEP out tomorrow morning with tlie fresh buoyancy and briskness that comes from a clean Intestinal tract. Syrup Pepsin a doctor ' prescription for the bowels will help you do this. Tills compound of fresh laxative herbs, pure pepsin nnd other pure Ingredients will clean you out thoroughly without griping, sickening or discomfort. Poisons absorbed Into tlie system form sousing waste In the bowels, cause that dull, headachy, sluggish, bilious condition ; coat tlie tongue; foul tlie breath; sap enerA gy, strength and nerve-force- . little of I)r. Caldwells Syrup Pepsin will clear up trouble like that gently, harmlessly, in a hurry. Tlie difference it will make in your feelings over night will prove Its merit to you. Dr. Caldwell studied bowel troubles for forty-seveyears. This long experience enabled him to make Ids prescription just what men, women, old people and children need to make tiieir bowels help themselves. Its natural, mild, thorough action and its pleasunt taste commend it to everyone. That's why Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin," ns it Is called, is tlie most popular laxative drug stores sell. Da.W. B. Caldwell's SYRUP PEPSI INI A Doctors Family Laxative |