Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 1, 1908 Page: 2 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1 903.
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All Communi-
cations od Farm
Matters will be
we lcome here. *
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Letters to The Farmer should be writ-
ten on one mile of the paper only.arkjj
should be accompanied by the name and
address of the writer. I,otters should bo
made as brief as possible. Those who
wish their letters returned when not
used should inclose postage.
SOME FARMS ARE TOO LARGE.
The story is going the rounds of the
press of a man that had a 1,200-acre
farm and had three daughters. As
each got married tie gave her a quar-
ter of the farm, or 300 acres, and ptit
all his stock and all his energies on
the remainder. To his surprise he
found that he made just aa much mon-
.ey on the smaller portion as on the
larger portion. When he had but 300
left he found his profits as large as
they had been on the 1,200 acres, and
he was being worried a great deal
less.
There are many farmw that are too
largo. They are too costly to keep up,
and their owners cannot manage to
advantage. The larger tho farm the
more skillful must the management be,
for the greater will be the proportion
of work that must be done by others
than by the owner. This is the point
at which the big farm is put to a dis-
advantage. A hired worker can never
do the work that the owner can, for
ho lacks 'interest.
Tlieer are a great man?- large farms
says the Farmers' Review, that would
bo more valuable to the community if
they were broken up into several
farms and were sold to different farm-
ers- that would live on them and be
contented with owning one farm and
no more. Intensive agriculture must
come more and more into vogue with
the Increase of population, but this
should bo under indivhTiial owners,
rather than under a system of fand-
lordism in which tho Owners are re-
siding In the cities and working the
land by proxies.
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j but a sympathetic reflection. Gradually
'< the little one reaches upward toward ihe
u arcnt vortex, and the latter stretches
hi a heling hand downward. The two
S unite and the tornado has found it-
H self. Leaves and dust ascend through
^ the sucking spiral giving color*to the
g mass. Now Its growth is rapid. Twigs
and heavier, objects are carried up-
ward, and as its strength increases,
board*, branches and loose objects >f
every description are added to tho
whirling conglomeration overhead. The
cold, dfy air quickly congeals the
moisture of the lower stratum, and
forms first a vapor and then a cloud,
giving the finishing-touches of color
to the funnel which is now in good or-'
der and ready for business. Planks,
trees, shingles, bricks, dust, feathers,
fence-rails, and even animals and
houses, may be seen floating around
in the vortex, like swallows circling
about a chimney, as one observer de-
scribes it. When it becomes surcharg-
ed with debris it bursts like a huge
bomb, emitting volumes of dense black
vapor like smoke, and scattering its
contents over acres of ground; then
it resumes its funnel shape, repeating
the belching process as fast as its gul-
let is filled.
THE BENEFIT OF SUNLIGHT
Many persons labor under the delu-
sion that it is necessary to avoid sun-
light for fear of spoiling the complex-
ion. Aa a matter of fact, the sun's
rays arc necessary to give It the deli-
cate tinting of beauty and health. Air
is necessary to the first inspiration
and the last expiration of our lives,
but the purity and activity of the at-
mosphere depend upon tlie warming
rays of the sun, while our bodies re-
fluiro' light for their healthy stimula-
tion. It is well known that without
solar heat there can be no proper
vegetable growth, and it is equally
necessary for the beauty and perfec-
tion of animal development. It be-
hooves us. therefore, declares the New
York Weekly, to see that our homes
are open to tho sun's rays and are
made as bright anil cheerful as possi-
ble, and they ought to freely admit
the sunlight. It is welt known that
some diseases which have baffled the
skill of physicians have been known to
yield when the patients were removed
from dark rooms to light and cheerful
apartments. Sunlight is especially
necessary for the healthy growth of
childfen.
THE TORNADO
At birth the tornado is a harmless
little thing, Just strong enough to stir
the leaves and dust in playful eddies.
l';ir ov rh ad, where the opposin;' cur-
rents of warm and cold airs clash, is
a stronger whirl, of which the other is
AUCTIONEERS
JOHN D. SNYDER
Auctioneer, Winfield, Kan.
Sales of Oklahoma Parmer readers solicited.
Sold in seven sta es last year.
Fred A. Speakman
stock AUCTIONEER
Write or wire me for dates.
WELLSTON, OKLAHOMA
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CUBES
•HEADACHES
104,25l50t Bottles.
WORLD'S LARGEST BOWLDER.
The largest bowlder in the world is
In Victoria, Australia. The name of
"The Leviathan Rock" has been given
to it. Its estimated bulk approaches,
if it does not exceed 30,000 tons.. This
great rock may be likened to an im-
mense egg lying on its side, the part
resting on mother earth being not more
than 30 yards square. Hundreds of
persons could find shelor under it from
a passing storm or the sun.
CURIOUS OLD LAWS OF INDIA.
Some of the old laws of Nepal, India,
were curious. Killing cows ranked
with murder as a capital offense, f«r
instance. Every girl at birth was mar-
ried with great ceremony to a betel
fruit, which was then cast into a sa-
cred stream. As the fate of the fruit
was uncertain the girl was supposed
never, to become a widow. To obtain
divorce from a husband, a wife had
only to place a betel nut under his pil-
low and depart. In Nepal the day is
considered to begin when it is light
enough to count the tiles on the roof
or distinguish the hairs on a man's
hand against the sky.
WOMEN
"I can march up to a fortress and sum-
"tin o tli.- place to surrender.
But march up to a woman with such a
proposal 1 dare not;
I'tn not afraid of bullets, nor ^hot from
the mouth of a cannon,
But of a thundering 'No!' point blanlc
from the mouth of a woman,
That I confess I'm afraid of, nor am I
ashamed to confess it.—
HENKY W. LONG-FELLOW.
"I could find in my heart to disgrace my
man's apparel, and to cry like a
woman.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
"Tea,. He thinks thee even true to him
as thou art frcklfc. false and subtle.
JAMF.S WHITCOMB RILEY.
"The curse of Adam, the old curse of all
Though P inherit in this feverish life
Of worltlly tdll, vain wishes, and hard
strife.
And fruitless thought, in care's eternal
thrall,
Yet more sweet barely than bitter gall
I taste, througfl thee, my Eve, my
sweet wife.
* THOMAS HOOD.
"Give n t thy strength unto women,
nor thy ways to that which destroys
kings.
—PROVERBS XXXI, 3.
VINEGAR PIE
Stir together one cupful sugar and two
tablvspoonfuls Of flour, one cupfftl of cold
vinegar, beat well. Have one pipt of wa-
ter boiling on the life; stir the above
mixture In until thick, add one teaspocrn-
ful of butter. Roll crust and perforate all
over with fc fork and bake in pie pans.
When brown pour In the filling, place in
oven and bake for n few minutes. Use
nothing but equal parts Of lard and wa-
ter to wet flour. Salt causes a sting to
any acid pie, such as cherries, currants
gooseberries, vlnesrar, lemon, etc. .
For Cholera Morbus-—Stir one teaspoon -
ful of baking s<>da Into one-half pint af
warm water and drink all at one time.
Repeat In. one-half hour If not relieved.
"GRAFT EVERYWHERE" IS
BOY S TERSE PHILOSOPHY
(International News Service.)
New York, June 27—James Ryan, aged
9 coi'l 1 hardly see over the railing, be-
fore Justice Olmstead, in the Childrens
court, but he kicked another boy along-
side hint and listened unabashed as tho
policeman who had arrested them for
breaking into a stationary store told his
story.
"It's no use," Jimmy said, when asked
If the charge was true. "Le cop ketched
us, I broke de winder w'd a stone, hid
in me bat. Den we pinched some fish
lines and a bat and ball. Dis feller wid
me was dead slow or we'd 'a' made • a
gitaway." ♦
"Your record is very bad," remarked
the judge. "Two years ago you and an-
other baby—that's all you were—stole a
bottle of whiskey and were pi< ked up
drunk. Last year you went to the tru-
ant school. You were arrested for shoot-
ing craps. This is your second burglary
offense—why," remarked the judge
"you're on parole now."
"Surest thing you know,' 'ejaculated
the prisoner. "I'm in bad, I guess"—
"Jimmy," sajd the judge* "you go to
the Protectory for a couple of years.
You'i; have to work there. Do you real-
ize that?"
"Oil, I dunno,' 'replied Jimmy. 'Dey's
graft everywhere, mo brudder says."
SCALES FISH BY BUNCHES
A machine which, it is claimed, will
(intomaticallw cut and dr, ss iish a
minute, or 15,tA0 an hour, lias been plac-
ed on exhibition by its inventor, a Phila-
delphia man, at the Eleventh street
wharf, and is attracting a great deal of
attention. It is stated the machine can
do the work of a dozen men, as an expert
cutter and cleaner can cut and clean
only i,000 or 1,300 iish an hour.
The fish are slid Into pockets in the
rear of the machine, and two automa-
tic c'utches at once grip the flsh back
of the head and near the end of the
tail. A circular knife then decapitates
and ■= tripes the flsh .while three knives
on a revolving shaft, still further in the
machine, thoroughly cle in it- After this
operation the fish slides down a shaft in
to a basket, while the head and cuttings
are deposited in a separate compart-
ment.
It is rt ited the machine can be con-
structed lo cut from five to twenty-five
fis.i at each stroke, and can be operated
by one man and two children. It is fitted
wit i an automatic register, which keeps,
an account of the flsh which are cleaned.
BIRDS WILFULLY DECEIVE
"A.l birds a: e not so innocent as they
would seem,' 'says a naturalist.
"Take, for nstanoe, the goose. Most
people have head a goose hiss when
1hreatencd by danger. Well, that is a
ti ick on the bird's part. In past ages,
when the mother goose was sitting on
her ncsl among the reeds, she somehow
learned that this action made her head
and neck stimulate a snake. So it form-
ed a line defense.
"The lapwing is another deceiver. If
you approach ner nest, she will set up
a dismal outcry, and run backward and
forward, trailing one wing on the ground
as though it were brotten. Thrilling to
pick her tip, you follow. Thus ne lures
you away from her young.
"In times of druuth the thrush acts a
lie. He will beat upon the 'ground with
his claws like u dancer. By this he makes
the earthworms thing It is raining. Up
they come and then the wily thrush dines
luxuriously." •
CUP OF COFFEE FOR $4,000
A naval officer returned from Col-
umbia to this country and exhibited a
elii .k he win; given in a restaurant la
Cartagena, lie went one morning and
«ot a cup of coffee and a roll. The wait-
er gave hitn a check for $4t(i00.
"Good Lord!" spattered the naval of-
ficer in the best gpantsh he kjtew, 'what
do 'you mean by this? More than $4,000
I'oi a cup of coffee! It's an outrage! I
can't pay it, and 1 won't."
The proprietor came around and suavr-
ly explained that that price was In Col-
umbian paper currency for which the
ratio that morning was $23,000 to $1 In
gold.
APPLES CURE FOR INSOMNIA
A medical writer declares that the
apple Is such a common fruit that vefy
few •persons Income familiar with itq
modMnnl properties. The best thing
just before going to bed, he says, is to
en I an apple. 'Persons uninitiated in the
nfltfirici of tin* fruit,1' ho continues,
"are likely to throw up their hands In
horror at the visions of dyspepsia which
such a suggestion may summon up, but
no harm can come even to the delicate
system by th* citing of a ripe and jucy
apple before going to bed. The apple is
excellent brain food, because it has more
phosphoric acid in easily digested shape
than any other fruit. It excites the ac-
tion of the liver, promotes sound and
healthy sleep and thoroughly disinfects
the n.outh This Is not all; the appla
prevents indigestion and throat diseases."
RABBITS MENACE FARMING
Rabbits have of late Increased in nuin-
1)'i s so enormously in the northern por-
tion of the Isle ofMan as to constitute
a menace to agriculture . Says tho
London Standard.
Yesterday the House of Keys passed a
bill having for Its object the abolition of
the pest. The bill treats rabbits as ver-
min. and empowers occupiers of land to
carry a gun without a license for their de
«tructlon, and to authorize other persons
to carry guns without license for a like
purpose. '
ARC LAMPS FROM CHARTERS
Everybody knows that an- arc light is
formed by causing an electric current to
pass betyeen tho points of two carbon
rodi, says the Philadelphia Record, One
of thes eis called the positive nnd the
other the negative electrode, nnd the cur-
rent passes from the former to tho latter.
Particles of carbon are carried on from
the positive electrode until its end be-
comes cup-shaped.
To this little cup thus farmed th«
name of crater is applied, and from this
little crater four-fifths of the the light
is emitted. The negative electrode doeg
not becom ■ as hot as the other. Between
the iwn a little cloud of vaporized carbon
is formed, rising from the crater, and this
vapor gives forth a golden yellow light.
But it Is overpowered by the light of
the crater itself, which has a violet
tinge due to the incandescence of solid
partk'lee of carbon. The arc light ex-
tended from one electrode to the other
also has an avis of violet color, which is
its most brilliant part. The fact that tho
crater explains the reason why the light
does not appear eqnal in all directions. It
i the brightest from tl at point of view
which shows the largest portion of tha
crater.
An Interesting effect Is often notlcevs
when 'lies or other insects flutter about
an are light. Their shadows cast on a
neighboring wall appear gigantic. The
nw is that tho light of the crater is
concentrated In a point smaller than the
bodies of the Insects and the boundaries
of the shadows consequently widen with
Increase of distance.
HISTORIC OLD OAK SAVED
Westminster Gazette.
Sacley forest, near Northampton, where
some fine old oak trcf s have been dam-
aged by fire, is tho least known of all the
royal forests, though it formerly extend-
ed across the bonier Into Buckingham-
shire, and there are nearly 2,000 acree
in charge of th commissioners of woods
and forests, rt was settled In IGfir, 'wi'h-
our timber" by Charles TI, upon Queen
Catherine, as part of her jointure. The
great glory of this forest has been the
Salcey oak, now a mere picturesque syl-
van ruin, which Is forty-seven feet in
circumference and fabled to be over l.r>00
V'ars old. This famous tree was spared,
not for sentimental reasons, In the 1^'ii
century, when all the finest oaks were
felled for the navy by shipwrights from
Deptford doekyarvt, .who converted the
wood on the spot to save the excessive
cost of transport.
NURSING MOTHERS AND MALARIA.
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
Chill Tonic, drives out malaria and builds
up the ?XBtem. For grown people and
children. 50c.
WHY IS SUGAR SWEET?
If sugar did not dissolve In the mouth
you could not taste the sweet. GROVF'S
TASTELESS CHILL TONTC is as strong
as the strongest bitter tonlo, but you do
not taste the bitter because the Ingredi-
ents do not dissolve in the mouth, but
do dissolve readily in the acids of the
stomach. Is just as good for^Grown
1'eftple as for Children. The First and
Original Tasteless Chill Tonic. The
Standard for 30 years. Price 50c. •
MEN
The best elect-leal appir'ance in th«
world, for men. Positively restores lost
vitality, weak and utirunken parts.
Sent to you for $10, After one day's
trial, If not satisfactory, return and your
money will be promptly refunded.
American Medical Institute,
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