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Show DRY AREA FARMING Certain Broad Essentials Whioh Farmer Must Observe. ' Mors Careful That Cultivation Hai Been, More Completely Will Moisture Be Preserved That Has Fallen Growing Alfalfa. When growing winter crops In dry areas, a certain course of tillage must be followed to bring success with it, . A Nation of Bridge Builders. The United States is notably In advance of all other nations In the science and practice of bridge building. The increasing demands of com merce Justified longer and longei spans, tbe weight of locomotives and trains doubled and trebled, the single bridge members Increased to one hundred feet in length and one hundred tons weight, wonderful steam, pneumatic and electric ma chine tools were made to fashion them with, and costly special shops were built in this country and operated by thousands of meu. The methods and facilities of erection have kept pace with these developments. Enormous derricks, traveling towers and steel rope tackles operated eight at a time by a single steam or electric hoisting engine, with many other costly special appliances, have been provided for assembling the great members, quickly, cheaply and safely into tbe finished far In span. America stands advance of all the world in the daring designs, high quality and econom-- ' leal and rapid construction of many great bridges. P. W. Skinner hi Harpers Weekly. to-da- y A Model Man. Periodically there are published the 01 celebrities who were famous before they were 35. But genius is The great mass of peoexceptional. ple might enjoy the facts about some desirable model whom they may hope to equal some time If they live and learn. ' For their consideration, thereachievefore, we here set down the ments of a certain man. ' At 20 'our hero bad learned to bathe properly and to sleep with the window open; at 25 he had loved a wholesome girl and married her; at 35 he had mastered his temper and learned to reserve Judgment; at 45 his children were proud of him; at 60 he had achieved kindness, moderation, and the respect of his neighbors. Colliers Weekly. names Maligning Mother. Mrs. Brennans ten children had gathered at the old home for the first time in years. She surveyed the group proudly. From Cnpt. Tom of 85 to Mary of 11, she believed they were equally dear to her. Mother loves all of us, said llttl.e Mary, meditatively,' but she loves Tom beat because hes oldest, Mrs. Brennan protested that she cared for all alike, then appealed to her second son. Dick, you grew up with Tom, and can Judge better than Mary. Did I ever treat him better than you? "Only in one way, mother, said the- big fellow, a twinkle in his eye. "On cold nights you used to come In and pull the covers off me onto Tom. Youths Companion. - ' Cross-EyeJustice. These two items appeared in the same column of a local paper: "Lillie Sutton of Ocean Springs, MIbb., an orphan, who had the care of an Invalid brother, was arrested for stealing five ggs and a half pound of butter, and was sent to prison for a term of seven "William Kevelwich of Balyears. timore, a chauffeur, who ran down and killed Albert Pries, a little boy, in Buffalo, last July, pleaded guilty to the charge of manslaughter In the Becond degree, and was placed on probation for ten days upon the condition that he would within that time pay to the New York boys father $1,000. Tribune. d Permanently Cured. Starr Jordan, discussing .at a dinner in Washington certain rulings of the International fisheries commission, said: "The fish there get no chanc8. They have as hard a time of it as the whites In the interior of China. "A Chinese druggist said to his Dr. David clerk: " Did 1 see a foreign devil come cat of here as I came down the street? " Yes. sir, the clerk answered. He wanted a permanent cure for headache, and I sold him a bottle of rat poison. writes Prof. Thomas Shaw in Dakota Farmer. The winter crops which In northern areas consist of wheat and rye must be sown early. The object sought in sowing them early la to give them time to form a good strong top and root that they may go through the winter safely. .Wheat in northern sown In August. Rye ireas should mav do a little later, but It may also ue sown earlier If It Is pastured. In 3rder to Insure germination at that mason when the weather Is usually very dry the ground especially for wheat should be summer-falloweWhen summer fallowed every care should be taken to keep all the moisture In the land that was there at he time when the land was plowed and all that has followed subsequently, which means that it must be pressed down as Boon as plowed, and frequently harrowed especially after rain. It may also be a good plan to drill wheat In among the standing corn, the corn being cut subsequently, but the value of growing it thus has not apparently been proved under dry farming conditions. The wheat and also the rye, especially the latter, may In some Instances bo drilled In etubble, as for Instance hulle8s barley stubble, and still produce a good crop. But this can only be done safely when there la enough moisture to germinate the seed. The amount to sow will .vary with the soil, but usually from three to four pecks of wheat per acre will be enough. Considerably more rye Is wanted, as It does not stool so readily- as wheat. Both wheat and rye should lie harrowed early in the spring and possibly once again after it has made considerable growth. The object is of course to retain moisture. Spring crops, as wheat, barley, oats and spelts are sown on land, or on land that was cultivated, while it grew the last crop taken from It This means that it will follow corn, potatoes, roots, field peas, beans and in some Instances sorghum or kaffir corn.. The success of grain following these will be measurably dependent on the carefulness of the cultivation given to the preceding crop. The more careful that the cultivation has been, the more completely will the inolBture be preserved that has fallen.' As a rule, the ground should not be plowed after the cultivated crop, but simply prepared by disking and harrowing. To plow after these crops would tend to liberate - moisture. These cultivated crops may be grown on land that was cropped the previous year. The cultivation given to them while growing aids In keeping in the soil the moisture necessary to produce them. Whether peas have an Important mission in such areaB has not yet been worked out. It is pretty certain that they will grow well on the soils of the Eemi-arlcountry, but it has not apparently been proved as to whether the yields when grown In rows will be such as to Justify growing the field crop thuB. There should be no doubt, however, as to the profitable results that would accrue from growing garden varieties for seed or for canning. The pes's would put nitrogen In the soil. They could be planted with the grain drill, using only such tubes as were necessary. The distance between the rows would be 24 to 30 Inches according to the variety. While alfalfa may he started on new breaking of the first year.it is better to put it on older land. The land d. should bo fallowed for it tbs previous year, and It will add to the strength and 'sureness of tbs stand if It can be manured. Alfalfa cornea la nicely after the potato crop Is well cared tar. Corn would' do aa well, but for the tube remaining In the land. A nice smooth seedbed should be .made In the spring, and tbe alfalfa drilled In alone at the rate of about 10 pounds per acre. It should be clipped off once and the next year It should furnish S crop. It la Improved by disking and harrowing each spring, setting the disk so as not to destroy many of the plants. Potato and corn crops should be put reasonably well down. It la specially Important that the harrow shall be used on them freely and Judiciously. These crops should be very extensively grown In the dry .country because of their Intrinsic vaiue and because of tbe Influence whleb the cultivation would exert on the crops that follow them. The greater the area of these, the leas the necessity that exists fur large areas of fallow land. When breaking up the prairie in a dry country, it is well 10 plow It deeply at the first. This may not add to the yield of the first crops grown, on the other hajid it may somewhat detract from them, hut the Influence on future yields will be helpful. Because of this the aim should be to break those .lands as far as practicable by the aid of steam or gasoline. DOCTORS BEST FORMULA WANTS HER For Remarkably Quick Action en Colds and Coughs. Thla prescription will frequently cure the wont cold In a days time and it la a sure cure for any cough that can be cured. "Two ounces Glycerine; half ounce Concentrate Pine; Pat these Into half a pint of good whiskey and use In doaea of teaspooaful to a every four boors. Shake bottle well each time." Any druggist has these Ingredients In stock or will quickly get them from his wholesale bouse. Benefit of Women who The Concentrated Pine la a apodal pine product and conies only In half from Female Ills ounce vials each enclosed In an air Mlimeapoiia, Mbm I was a gnat tight case; But bo sure It la labeled "Concentrated. This formula cured gnfferor from female troubles which caused a weakness N hundreds here last winter. . UTTER PUBLISHED table-spoonf-ul For Suffer and broken down condition of tbs system. I read so mnchofwhatLydla E. Pinkhams Vf-etab-le Compound had done for other suffering women 1 felt sure it would help me, and I must say it did help me Probably a Female Doctor. "My wife looks very poorly, you think, doctor? Yes, I do. "What do you think she needs? A new hat and a new dress ! Yonkers Statesman. When Coloring Rags for Carpets or ruga, always use Dyola Dyes because the one package will color any material. Satisfaction guaranteed. Once try. Dyola and you will never go back to the old fashioned dyes. 10c per package at your dealers. Write Dyola, Burlington, VL, for free book of directions and color card. ' rew stronger, and wi wu a perfectly well woman. I want this letter made public to Show tbe benefit women may derive from Lydia E. PinkhamB vegetable Compound. 8115 Second Mrs. JohxG. Moldah, fit, North, Minneapolis Minn. Impolite Papa. Thousands of unsolicited and genumakes what "Mamma, papa ine testimonials like the above prove SOWING SEEDS IN DRY SOIL ' that funny noise? the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinknams "Hes snoring, dear. Vegetable Compound, which is made Freahly-StlrreGround, Brloging But you always tell me It ain't po- exclusively from roots and herbs. Moist 'Soil Near Surface, Is Women who suffer from those dis- lite to blow my noise out loud. Ksy to Success. not lose tight of these facts or doubt Children Who Arc Sickly. Hothera should- sever be without m box ot tbe ability of Lydia E. Finkhama Garden soil hardly ever gets so dry, Bother Sweet Powders for Children. Onj'i to restore ifady even In a long drought, but that with They break np colds In M hours, cure Feverish- Vegetable Compound Disness, Headache, Teething proper sowing we can expect good ordersConstipation, and Stomach Troubles. Over 10,000 yon want special advice write seed to grow, writes T. Griener In testimonials. At all Druggists, Be. Ask toto Mrs. Pinkbam, Lynn, Mass, day. Sample mailed FBEX. Farm and Fireside. Freshly-stirreAllen S. Olmsted, Le Boy, N. Y. letter fihewilltreatyonr asstrictly ground, so as to bring moist soil near confidentiaL For ISO years she There Is no conversation so agree- has been helping sick women the surface is the key to success. in A garden patch that was plowed in able as that of a man of Integrity, who tills way, free or charge, Don! once. spring, and perhaps has had an early hears without any intention to be- hesitate write or radishes, or peas, tray, and speaks without any intention crop t"&nd consequently to deceive. Plato. etc., growing A LifetiaM o Good Service has betn kept in good tillage, usually NO STROPPING NO BONING raDtainV plenty of moisture further WHY suffer with eve troubles, quick lief PETTIT'S EYE SALVE. 25c. rdown, even If an Inch or two of the All or Howard Bros., Buffalo, N.Y. . surface should be If we Just go ahead and sow seed may this be Time cannot remove kindly acta WOULD OVER mows THS radishes, or lettuce, or late beets, or from a grateful heart Royston. i turnips, or any other into this dust YOURSELF dry top layer, it may remain there whan yon feelDOCTOR s cold coming on by tssms s few doses lnlnWItr. ItlsDetterlhBnQnlnlae without sprouting for weeks, and final- of Prrry Dart,' dmfer. The lugs He bottles am the cheapest. ly never come up. But when we plow the patch over anew (this being the Health may be wealth, but that iant most effective way), or even stir It what makes the doctors rich. with a cultivator, we can owe secure a nice, moist seed-beIn which The oxiv BBOMO QulNIHS. Is IiSXATpm "BBOHoonmn. for of H. W. (Jltovk. Umd thevi seeds deposIt&Tat once will promptly the slsnsture over to Cnree Cold In One Day. He. sprout in the hottest and driest weather. .It might Improve the pound cake to It is the soils that have as yet been hit it with. an ax. W. N. U., 8alt Lake City, No. unattended this season, being neither plowed nor tilled otherwise, which in a dry time become hard and dried out to such an extent that even the plow will fall to bring moisture to the top. Science has never gone beyond the above simple Sowing seeds In such land is a bad of scripture. But it has illuminated that statement proposition. By applying plenty of and given it a meaning ever broadening statement water to the drill where the seed Is to 'with the increasing breadth of knowledge. When he. sown, and then sowing as soon as the sollj Is just In the right condition the blood is bad or impure it is not alone the afterward, ijjpay wet the seeds to body which suffers through disease. The brain is grow, und nralhsceme within a reaalso clouded, the mind and judgement are effected, sonable length of time afterwardi we and many ah evil deed or impure thought may be may get a crop. directly traced to the impurity of the blood. Sometimes In early Juiy, when I find Foul, impure blood can be made pure by tbe it difficult to' set cabbage plants and use ef Dr. Plena' a Golden Medical Discovery. make them live, the soil being very It enriches and purities tbe blood thereby dry, I resort to the method of dropping a few cabbage seeds in the hill, firmaffec-tiocuring, pimples, blotches, eruptions and other " ing the soil over the seeds well by as eczema, tetter, or hives and other squarely stepping on it. and 1 find that tatloas of impure blood. I can almost depend on thus raising In the cure of scrofulous swellings, enlarged glands, open eating good cabbages. ulcers, or old sores, the Golden Medical Discovery has per The Wagener Apple. formed the most marvelous cures. In cases of old sores, or open The Wageaer apple may become a eating ulcers, it is well to apply to the open sores Dr. Fierces favorite in Pennsylvania. It succeeds Salve, which possesses wonderful healing potency when well in various localities and the qualused as an application to the sores in conjunction with the use of Is so excellent that it merits the ity Golden Medical Discovery n as a blood cleansing constitutional attention of all prospective growers. If your druggist .dont happen to have the treatment. Wagoner belongs to the Northern Spy Salve in stock, you can easily procure it by inclosing fifty group, although smaller than Spy.- It Is a winter apple and fairly attractive cents in postage stamps to Dr. R.V. Pierce, 663 Main St., Buffalo, in color. N. Y., and it will come to you by return post. Most druggists keep it as well as the Golden Medical Discovery. DRY FARMING WILL REMAIN lous much that Is now close to desert mt afford to accept any medicine of unknown composition si a sub. stitute for Golden Medical Diicoveiy, which ia a medicine of knows and waBte. ' But, all this will come having a complete list of ingredient! in plain English on its if Conservatively and Carefully Studied more slowly than some believe the same being attested as correct under oath. Will Eventually Reclaim DesDr. Pierces Pleasant Pelieta regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Milk. ert Waste. Producing Only a few general principles are ' Dry farming has come to stay. It Involved in producing the highest sill be abused and used by the un- grade of milk and cream. Cleanliness principled to lure many to loss and and low temperature are two of the grave disappointment if not ruin, on main things that must never be overlands where even the best soil tillage looked. Both of these are simple .tnd cannot wrest a living from the easily understood by any one. Keep the cow clean, milk In a cleanly manBOll. Dry farming cannot make poor soli ner in clean vessels, and keep the good; cannot make sand produce like milk and cream in the very cleanest rich loams, nor can It make our more and sweetest place. Bacteria begin eastern prairie soils produce like the to work In warm milk within from peculiar soils of Lethbridge. It cannot twenty minutes to half an hour, hence make crops grow on shale rock bot- the necessity of cooling the product toms, nor on beds of gravel, nor on Im- as soon as drawn from the cowa. pervious hard pan rock, says Dakota The RAYO LAMP is a an Joaa Scale. lamp, sold at a lewprich Farmer. Dry farming cannot fill dry Thera are lamps thst cost axm. but tbereM no better Lop at any wells In waterless districts, nor will Use spray for Ban Juan scale soon price. The Bose, tbe Wick, die Chimney Holder ell era it do away with dust, and wind and as leaves fall In November. The best vM riunp a lasm dme parts ef die RAYO LAMP a cold. But there la something In dry spray for coddlin moth la arsenic of perfectly constructed and then is nothing known ia die sit of fanning, and we firmly believe It will lead. Beat times to spray aye (1) liiiig that could odd to tho value of tho RAYO aa do much for the great dry west, as a when petals fall; (3) when eggs of device. Snkablo for aay loom io aay he easier everywhere. If not at yocrs, write and moth are present on fruit or leaves; whole, and if conservatively descriptive d malar to the Bearcat Agency of the carefully learned and followed, will (3) at Intervals of ten to fourteen CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY eventually make productive and popu days, two more sprayings. . cl If at d at ag-latt- - summer-fallowe- ra-uri- dust-dry- d , deep-runnin- g d. The Blood is The Life d w ns, salt-rheu- m, All-Heali- ng All-Heali- ng - com-Vosrno- M, bottle-wrapp- High-Grad- e over-relucta- hirfi-ffa- -- j i . er, |
