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Oklahoma farmer, Wednesday,., march is, 1907.
Is certain if yon lake Hood's Sarsaparilla.
This great medicine cures those eruptions,
pimples and boils that appear at all seasons;
cures scrofula sores, salt rheum or eczema;
adapts itself equally well to* and also cures, dys-
pepsia and all iftomach troubles; cures rheu-
matism and catarrh; cures nefvous troubles,
debility and that tired fueling.
Sarsatabs—For those %-rho prefer medicine in tab-
" lorni. Hood s.Sursaparillttis now put up in choco-
!i , J called Sarsalabs, as well as in the usual
'""'id ,on"- ^apjatulis luivo identically tho same
curative properties as the liquid form, besides accu-
racy of convenience, economy,—110 loss Ky evap-
oration. breakage, or Icukug-e. Druggists or promptly
by mull. C. 1. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
IF YOU WANT WHAT YOU WANT WHEH
YOU WANT IT
ALWAYS KEEP A BOTTLE OF
« IN THB HOUSE AND YOU WILL HAVE A
QUICK, SAFE AND SURE REMEDY FOR PAIN
WHERg YOU CAN GET AT IT WHEN NEEDElf.
PRITF A Kin
r^v^er- I^'irlincton, Vt.,
 a.' -: rlie rare* of a largo farm, so
much to do and so iittlo health to do it
with, canned almost a coiiiphtn break
?/ *": blood poor and thin: 110 str.iigtii,
Jit-tle sleep. Hood's Sarsaparilla irave
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appetito, jiatural sleep, perfort health,
strength fb do all my work."
Gi ARANTEED under the Food and Drugs Act. Juno 30, 1006. -No. 324.
-- Pn0BLEM CENERAL ACRICULTUnE WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THIS DEPARTMENT.
SPRING WORK ON THE. FARM.
Wo can begin now to think about
(the spring' crops. Oats will come
first in must latitudes. ]f the land was
Vltnved last fail, you arc so much
ahead. You can draw out the manure
now and have everything ready to
sow as soon as the soil is dry enough
and warm enough. Don't be in a hur-
ry to do it. Walt till the earth is
dry. Nothing was ever gained by
plowing land too wet.
W hat does it do to land to plow it
too wet.' Well, just look at your fur-
lows when you think you must push
things before it is really time. How
it shines in the sunlight! Now there
is lots of water in the earth when it
shines that way. The sun comes up
and simply bakes the earth. There it
lies, hard and lumpy. No amount of
harrowing can ever mellow that soil.
It will stay so all summer, and the
likelihood is that it will get worse and
worse as the season advances. It
never pays to be in too big a hurry
B-lx'Ut such things. Give nature a
chance to work for you. She will do
it, if you do not get smart and think
you can do it better than she can.
when-the field.* arc frozen. although
many geod farmers prefer to apply man-
ure just before plowing in the spring.
1 .-ie.se are matters of minor importance,
, ;>ln thing being to get the manure
onto the land evenly rfnJ without loss of
big Va'U0 by fennenfation or loach-
I lie value of stable manure is known
to run aU the way from $2 to $I per ton
depending upon the plant food in it and
effected somewhat by tne kind of animal
that produces it. therefore, the farmer
who does not so manage his business as
to produce as much manure as possible
and then use every pound of it to the
best advantage, is losing ground every
year.
C. M. S.
Nursing Mothers and Mniari.t.
T!.e< Id v.b i r 1 tihili Tcnlc
C'svfs #ui Jin'«r.a and u i the  t*lc.n'
*®lcl .y •'! at. \ltrs tor 2? yvair. Fric • 50*ce:.t«.
that the New England growers will re-
CC1VA a inuf   .. 4 1 ■
ceive a just compensation for Vhis ef-
Xorn farmers of the united states are
drge.1 to better this great show now
Let them select tlieir seed with that in
view picking out ears that are uniformly
true to type and with a high percentage
■ germination. I-et them select a tirst-
Pl'int 't'he6 ° I'* '"'6pare 11 cawfUlly,
" ?Utl -i, S oT at J"St the rifrhl
cultivate, it thoroughly, and be i„ posi-
t on to select show sample, when tlie
/ E^'ery locality should -bear
n mind and take a personal inte"<st
hi seeing that the visitors in the great
lorn exposition know just what that
locality can present.
The exposition will he a success This
goes without.saying, from the fact that
„ J,uah an<3 ^"ergy is bolitnd the
movement. The rncn invino .1. ,
men na\ing the exposi-
tion 111 charge are the leaders in Chlc-i<->
balXlVZ e,ntPrr,risos- They are used' io
h.mdilnt large propositions. Tiiev pro-
pose Ki make tills the greatest thing 011
rVncl 1,1 ls is "if same as saying that
>t will be the greatest thing on earth.
PII.BS ' I'HKB i V t. TO IJ R.w-Ob
fiwB?i?rBISFjs guaranteed to cure any
Wto. in'«'to"ft 2IUd' or Pr....ruuiug
lu b to 11 dW^ or luouti- ref inded. (Ma
I Save Your Alfalfa f
I Seed
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I $
| Mammoth Corn I
J Exposition i
To Drive Out Malaria
And Uulld L'p Tbo Syitem
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Chicago, March ll'.—More .than a year
ago. members or tiie Commercial Asso-
ciation 01 Chicago, began working for a
corn exposition to be held in Chicago
At toat time more than $50,«0u was pledg-
ed lor tlus work, it was decided to wait
until Ui« ;ali of 1307, at which time Iho
U'ht sreat corn exposition will open.
j-a«t week the members of the Commer-
cial association who have this matter
most at heart, met aua organized the
.National Corn exposition, electing offi-
eers and appointing comniktees. It was
decided to expend something like $100 OCO
en this exposition, a goodly proportion
ot which will be paid out in prizes -a-
cording to present plans the date of the
exposition is from October 5 to 19, 1M7.
Adequate facilities will lie secured Tor
ho:ding this big show. The buildings will
be elaborately decorated, but the central
Idea of the great show will be "educa-
tion.
Culture of corn lias become a scienc&i
and it is the desire of the management
to demonstrate that it is possible for tlio
n\erage corn-grower to produce greater
yields -and better quality than hercfo-
011. Coring the put ten years the mat-
ter of seed selection has been worked
out ana it has been shown that by this
alone, it :s eaaiij possible to increase the
yield from two to ten hu-hels per acre
It is possii,ie to select seed properly on-
\ wjioii t!ie grower h.is become familiu*
.with the proper type of the ear, hearing
properly shaped kernels, possessing good
germinal:ng qualities ar.d high vitaVitv*
lKse pomts will bo Illustrated at the
great show and tlx object le.-son« here
presented will be of inestimal !c \alue to
corn growers everywhere.
It is tlie desire.of the management to
make the Corn exposition as valuable io
f "'me?s as tho 1 ternatioi.u 1 ^lo d«
exposition is to the stock raisers. The
worth of this latter exposition has been
fully demonstrated. It >s even ens!
for the corn grower to improve his pro-
duct than it is for the stock man. Con-
sequently tho benefit that, will come to
corn farmers throughout the United
States through the effort of Chicago's
business „ien cannot be calculated
The details for awarding premium
'' ","t >"l been Vnrkcd out, but in a
f. ii'i* V' •1,r<! verv liberal. Cash prises
. !• .^l'red un(1 these will be so dis-
trihuted that every corn section of tlie
r..ted States will awarded, proYided
It participates In this exposition. There
will bo given state prizes, probubly dis-
trict prizes, mid certainly prizes for the
Tanner, the farmers wife, the farmer''!
son. the farmer's daughter, etc. If, for
example. Connecticut grows good corn,
prises will be arranged for that section.
It may not be possible for Connecticut
growers to compete with Illinois or Iowa
In certain respects, but it will be easily
Ptkisible to arrange tho premium list no
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MORE MANURE THE BETTER.
Seme Farmers Still Believe it Hurts the
Soil "•
There are thousands of farmers in this
enlightened age who *,:« boii -Ve ti ■ t
stab!., manor# * harmful to land and
o nn°t I - lodhioed to apply it; i„ gom«
sections or the South, It Is bellev. d that
manure iioisons land Winy far-
men* who use it 011 corn and Other grn?*
reeding grains and meadows, believe it is
death to wheat land.
The objection to stable manure is due
Jo ignorance of the proper w.c to apply
It. In the high prairie lands and the s ml
fjrid regions, strawy manure or s did.
heavy manure in coarse chunks applied
irregularly 011 the surra ^e after the crons
fire in. has worked injury, and this fa t
rxaggei-nt. ,i and greatly misundeistood
has give,, gj ourid^ fo<- the erroneous be-
in ■ in regard to it.  
The elements of plant food contained in
stable manure are available only when
moist or ill liquid rorni. Moisture is lie -
'vs.ry to produce ferment*tlon, breaks
up the organic matter ana forma car-
bonic acid gas. which passes orr In the
form of 8team.
it" msnure Is aXlovreO to stutid ln 4
he:i|,s. it will quickly los. if.- value, be-
cause of rapid fermi at a Hop and leaching.
The rains wash oni of it tiie nitrogen nui
potash, and the dark T own liquid that
is seen oozing out from-the big manure
piles Is good money t unning/o waste.
To get the beat results from stable ma-
nure, it should lie hauleil to the filers
as fast as it is made. If It is allowed to
lie near the barn In big pi: s. where it be-
comes hard and is then piled out In huso
masses and distributed over the land .r
left io lie in small piles, it will do as
tnuoh or more harm than gopd. The
ground directly under the piles of coarse
chunk* is so strongly fertilized that noth-
ing can grow there or the plants will be
suffocated, while the rest of the Held Is
left unfertilized.
The only right way Io apply manure Is
by use of n si.rea.der. The manure can
be put Into the machine every day direct
fiom the barn, thereby saving one hartd-
ing, and when a load is ready,* can be
Uken to the field and applied easily. The
manure spreader breaks up coarse por-
tions and reduces it to the proper fine-
ness and then spread* it over all the land
not only a part.
This work can be ^"r.a In the winter,
?<ZaUalrls™
at the price is^ hIgh" a S
alwnvs run fhr* riei- , K'1, and y°'d
< oburn of Kansas „ k a~-
knows ns much about a'lr-ilfl prohab,y
nun in the West Tari ff f a"y
g 'Si   - wfe , TZ-
'•> *u o(, per cint Th. «.♦ ,. ■' 1
j-'^ira si od more tiia'V o„? ^ ^
I.ot gertilrnate h.w? l.eon viiniv .. ,
Thl thisrflteni01^ is whoJly ^ron'ont
n,ThS U!?T, ea''lier cuttlngs of hay., IUM
th tf . i hlossom '■ ^o c.onstruc?ed
h,d.1 " '« '"JPossible for It to rertiiiz,. it-
must l)e carried to the
'V11'! ;;! fertilization by somcv.-emw, and'
" ,ort^ S " ar'l "ISOC,S- A hundred se d
i,'. ' t ^-re ^'heied from a Kansas Held
.Xv'"ofV;^i,,'S Una'V fFOm ""J known
onj ot wes !1U(i another 100 pounds
°'n " field less than one-half mile from
an apiary. It was found that the pods
1 rl" 'T 7 lh" '""S two!
fluids Ri cater number .of seeds- wiii
in"sL'a rb0r'<iPllU""er J110re a,"J' unifo:m
"1 MXe than those taken at a distance
Irofessor a. B. Ten Ey. k. of the Kan-
sas station, .who has given more atten-
,fnrP of nIfalfa than any
other investigator, says it is a difficift
matter to (stimate tv ith 4nv    .,f ,
curacy early in the growth Of the eroo
what the yida of seed will be. The bios'
som should be fargo (md of dark rich
color. If small and light in color, it is
e\'deuce ,,f n ll.trht seed crop. If ||l0
soma fertilize properly, tiie nowei= dry
and stick tq, the slcm a few da-, s. VvMi0
I i iey are not fertilized they drop qui, k-
tlf si pin stands bare.
'Ihe pods should ajlpear thickly set on
t :e stems, two or more In a group to
insure a good see" crop. During d':1m,,
mim weather the ripe seed may spr.,ct
or when the weather turns dry. the ripe
pods may ]>urst nn.l scatter their seeds.
if the weather ha, tp  wet and
the alfalfa grows to/ rank, cut for bay.
In a fuorablc season with even blooming
j"" "V" <HatU-n« "f «he weed, the rule
Is to harvest the alfalfa when a large
proportion of the pods have turned brown"
to the average season, as the alfalfa ma-
tures. part of tJie seed will be ripe
While some is over-ripe and shattering
and some is yet immature. It is there-1
fore necessary to strife, an average and
harvest when the largest .amount of
plump sound seed may be saved.
1 he majority of farmers prefer to har-
vest when most of the sfed is ripe and
when two-thirds oi three-fourths of tlis
pods are brown, but others say It is
best to harvest when one-half of the pods
arc brown.
Mature alfalfa seed has a clear, light
golden color. Immature seed has a
greenish tinge and may be shrunken. But
if the crop Is.not harvo.--.tod until the seed
's 'ujjy ripe, the pods drop off and there
is great loss from shattering. The gfren-
ish, colorered seed, ir not too shrunken
is Vital and Will germinate well. '
w' en'The "I"''" >'S mowod 111 ^e morning
ilh(l°W. is on and raked immtd-
lately, there is much less shattering of
foHow YiCUt ''Uw in "lc day- men should
follow the machine with forks, moving
th,( cut alfalfa out of (Tie way of tne
team and the machine to prevent shatter-
ing. A machine with a Tiuneher or wind-
riiwer attachment will save more se d
than the ordinary mower.
If threshing cannot bo done imme-
diately, it js best to follow the mower
closely, placing the airalfa in larger
pi.es—about what a man can lift at on.e
rork-full, thus avoiding pulling tho
bunches apart in loading, which would
cause the pods to break off and the seed
to Shatter. This also prevents lbeaching.
. ome farmers us a self-rake reaper
with excellent resultse, and some cut the
crop with a header, leaving the alfalfa in
•w nui sows across the Hole. Some farmers
prefer to bind the alfalfa in bundles and
shock ns wheat, in this way it may be
cut a little greener and the seed does not
shatter so readily. If bound in the shirk
the alfalfa should stand a couple of weeks
or until dry enough to thresh.
Some farmers prefer to thresh with a
hullor nr with a common grain separator
with a huller attchmcnt. It takes longer
to thresh with a huljer, yet, as a rule,
enough more seed may lie secured to pay"
!' 1!'r ejftra time and expense required.
I lie seed should bo cleaned with a good
fanning mill. If green or damp when
threshed, spr**d the seed twelve or
eighteen inches deep on a tight flodr in
a dry place and shovel-oyer until perfect-
ly dry before it is cleaned and packed.
Only One "liKOKO (JlIMvj-i
That is LAXATIVE BRO.MO Quinine. Simi-
larly named remedies sometimes deceive. The
first and onpinai Cold Tablet is a WHITE
PACKAGE with black and red lettering, and
bears the signature of J£. \V. GROVE. 25c.
the dogs inheritance
By, tlie environment of his Tor bears ror
generations back, you may know the do-
An Eskimo or Sledge Dog, or a Chines'e
Chow Chow could never create the deep
friendship that a Deerhoimd or an Old
English Sheep I>og, or a Collie, or a
Bulldog, or a Terrier Is capable of in-
spiring. Years before any or us were
thftugit of, the Sledge Dog was a beast
ot burden, tolerated because human Ii.es
depended on his •'motor" power, .
grudged tlie necessary wherewithal to
k< ep his "machinery" in good order, and
treated not .as a companion, but as a
pariah and as a brute without feeling
without •thought, without hope: I-row ex'-
pect a descendant of the e half-starved,
cuffed, and buffeted animals not to shrink
fn,m ,lie   "ad hand and treat wbh
suspicion all friendly overtures? All men
has done for him and his forbears ias^
been to play the -brute and make life
a dreary bondage. And 'in air parts of *
the globe where the struggle for life is
most desperate, and pcople-accordlng to"
our estimate—are brutes 0r semi or whole,
savages, so are the dogs of that people.
Persian Wolfhounds, Chow Chows. "Din-
fiaes in the wilds of Australia, Tibet
Mastiffs, Russian Sheep Dogs, Samiy-
edes, all more or less dread man, who
many years ago beat them into subjec-
tion, not affection.
With the $500, $1,000 and $2,000 champ-
ions and their brothers and sisters and
cousins who made last month's West-
minster Kennel Show tlie success it was,
the story is different. Neither they nor
their ancestors iiavo known What it*,
was to turn cannibals to avert starva-
tion. Man did not I eat them into drudge
cry. Man warmed to them and they gave
their all to man. And of the 2.(b o dogs
gathered, together from here, there, an l
everywhere, there were probably not a
dozen who would churlishly snarl at a
s' ranger's {y.-eting.- It. . KMayheiv. In
"Dogdom's 'Four Nluiulred,' " in tha
March Everybody's.
Alfalfa and corn-and-coh meal
put fat on a steer about as quickly
anything.
:iH
Molasses is fed to cattle In the South
with very good results. One ration re-
ported by the Texas static Ls compos. (1
of cotton seed meal, rice hulls and no*
lasses, with sorghum hay for roughage.
E. R. Barker, a South Dakota farmer,
writes that he takes n1>out six weeks Io
put his calves on a good balanced ration. c
He feeds all the alfalfa and young millet
hay they will cat for roughage.
Malaria Makes Pale Blood.
Thf Old Standard drove's Tasteless Chill Tonic
s!>£e,K laalaria and builds up the system.'
bold by all dealers for 27 years, price 50 cents.