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Ploughing aa a Great Sport,
In tbe Minnesota Agricultural Col*
lege they are applying the lesson that
Mark Twain's hero, Tom Sawyer, had
Impressed upon himself on that Sat
urday morning when his aunt set him
at work whitewashing the fence—
that Is, that what one must do is
work, and that play may be turned
into work or work into play. At the
college a ploughing contest was re
cently held, and it has been decided
to make such contests a permanent
part of the held day sports.
In reporting the success of the com
petition in which the first prize, a sul
ky plow, was won by a freshman in
the school and the third prize by a
senior, the Pioneer Press of St Paul,
advanced the theory that if, all the
energy now expended in foot ball and
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Exprestage Prepaid
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THE) GBI3H MANUFACTURING CO.,
47 EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YORK. .
Will Stop any Horae or Honey Refunded,
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.
Consumers the world over, and not
alone in the United States, as has of-
ten been asserted by magazme writ-
era are very fastidious In their selec- j
tioii of article, of diet. Peculiar aa it.
may neem, tliia selection la not. made
with the idea of procuring something
which will please the palate or which
ia nutritious, but more with regard
to the efTect upon the eye of the ol>-j
Jcet sought. Sometimes, too. there It* |
a hide-bound conception of bow a cor-:
tain food should be and noiulug cun i
break the public of this fancy. J hf
Department of Agriculture, a year or
so ago. found that the English peo
ple would not purchase a consignment
of American sweet potatoes, the sole
complaint being, that while the tubers
were of good color nnd satisfactory in
every other respect, they were sweet
in taste. The English conception of
how n potato ought to taste was cer
tainly a compliment to Irishm n.
Butter, an article of food supposed
to be purchased for food reasons alone,
depends largely upon Its flavor and
perhaps, still more upon Its color as to
its quality when It comes to purchase.
In some European countries there I* a
preference for the darker-skinned
chickens. A curious preference, en
tirely unassocinted with taste * '*
color of eggs. While in Bosto
eggs sell for a cent or two p<
more than white eggs, the coi
true in New York, and if one
dirty eggs are visible tiie prici
lower. It Is said that Chicago
criminating In regard to the
eggs, but that San Francisco prefers
meat of Agriculture. Each of them
is about eighteen feet tall.
In the Spring when these trees are
In llower a botanist watches till the
gum exudes from the stigma. This
sign tells him that the ovary of the
flower ia ripening for the reception of
the pollen and the conception of the
fruit Straightway he clips the sta
mens—those delicate filaments, flno as
hairs, which extend themselves from
the heart of the flower. He clips them
because at their end bang tiny pods—
the anthers—in which the pollen, or
the germinal dust, is held. Going to
is the
brown
Sandwich
Suburban Co-Operation.
In Kensington, -.Maryland; one of
Washington's suburbs, ilioro is a
group of pretty little ost-
tages inhabited mostly by gov
ernment office-holders. There is no mu
nicipal gasllgbtlng or water supply sys
tem, ami to offset the benefit of tbe
health and pleasures derived from liv
ing near to natnre, there Is some dis
comfort to those who are used to these
city luxuries. One honsebolder, of an
inventive torn of mind, however, has
seemed to solve-the problem for him
self and neighbors. The party who
lived next door to him owned a gaso
line engine, hut he had no deep well
from which to obtain a supply of pure
water—the government employe had.
A deal was fixed np between them by
which the inventive genius was to set
up and install tbe engine and connect
it with his pntnp, so by a system of
piping, water could be had liy both
parties without tbe newssitv of hand
pumping or a windmill.
This system of water supply has
worked welMso welt Indeed that the
piping has been laid to a couple of
neighbors even more distant, and tbe
well, .being of ample capacity, now
supplies# half a dozen families with
SELF rm> rot CIRCLE TWO HORSE
Eggs Colored With Coffee.
In England,, where brown eggs are
the favorite, dealers go so far as to
color the shells of white eggs with
cither strong coffee or some dye
stuff. New York likes a white halter
but Chicago and Philadelphia a little
dnrkor, while Washington demands a
deep yellow butter, and New Orleans
wants a color still darker than Wash
ington. IIovv far Otis question of col
or goes may lie taken from a little in
stance in which a car-load of butter
•Intended for Washington was sent on
to New York, and the butter originally
consigned to New Y'ork was sent to
Washington. The receivers in both
places remonstrated strongly, the ouc
claiming tho butter to be too dark and
HAY PRESS
tiie orangery of tbe department he
gathers the bursting anthers of tho
The Baler for speed. Bales 12 to 18
tons a day. Has 40 Inch feed hole.
Adapted tobank barn work. Stands up
to its work—no digging holes for wheels,
Self-feed Attachment Increases cap
acity, lessens labor; makes better bales
and does not increase draft.
TIIE CONSUMER'S FANCY
Warrants the Shipper in Packing Extra Fruit
in Expensive Baskets
plows, there would scarcely remain
space for cities to flourish on un-
pioughed land.
it appears that the ploughing con
test was introduced this year ns a
new feature of the fle'.d day sports.
Preliminaries were held nnd the best
E lowers in the school were .selected.
Inch contestant was given a strong
team and a plow. Ho was required to
lay out a "land" about twenty feet
wide anil finish ids "land.” The con-
SANDWICH MFC. CO„
124 Main Street, Sandwich, III
Well Drilling
Machines
EXPERIMENTAL-ORANGE TREE.
1 ><-pari merit of Agriculture.
sweet oranges and sprinkles the sweet
orange pollen on the stigma of tho
bitter orange.
Tiie 'pollenntlon of these trees has
been made for about ten seasons and
each year the fruit of the little bit
ter orange has improved till this sea
son the oranges will bo fairly good
Over 70 rises and styles for drilling
either deep or shallow wells in any kind
of soil or rock. Mounted on wheels or
sills. With engines or horse powers.
1—, j #— An y
me-
A HARDY ORAXCE.
chanic can operate them easily.
SER11 TOR CATALOGUE
WILLIAM BROS,, Ithaca^H. V
Crossing the Florida Variety on the
Sturdy Japanese Species,
Botanists in tho employ of tho
United Slates Department of Agricul
ture hope to bring Into being an orange
tree which will bo ns sturdy ns the ap
ple tree; an orange tree that will not
perish in the chill of northern winter,
which In December will bear - its
wreaths of snow nnd In May Its gnr-
lnnds of bloom, and which when sum
mer comes will yield fruit as good as
that sweetened and gilded In tho south
sun. This may seem to bo an un-
Kirk’s
An Adopted English Knight.
An Englishman who visited New
York' City a short time Mo had oc
casion to ask an Irishman the direc
tion of n certain business house. This
son of Erin happened to bo going that
way. and offered to guide his Inquired
"Tell me. honestly, dearie, how could
these doughnuts be/improved?"
"By making the holes a little larger.”
AMERICAN CROWN
How to Hake a
Home for
Ten Gents a Year
The Britisher drew himself up with
dignity and replied:
"I nm the Honorable John Ken
neth Edgerton of London, Knight of
the Garter. Knight of the Bath,
Knight of St. John. Knight of the
OoMen Fleece. Knight of the Royal
Legion and of the Iron Cross. And
« an effort to make tiie citrus
om which Is obtained the sweet
table orange, as hardy and insensitive
to cold as tho orange tree from which
Is obtained tho bitter unedible orange.
By crossing a citrus treo which grows
In the north and which bears an un-
*# a green soap, consistency of paste, a perfect
cleanser for sntomobllo mschinery end oil
vehicles; will not lojon the most highly
polished surface. Made from" pure vegetable
oils. If your dealer does not csrry American
Crown Hoop In stock, sad ns his tun tad
address and Vs will too that your waatt (re
supplied. Put up in 1IK K and E0 lb palls.
James S. Kirk & Company
CHICAGO, ILU
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MAXWELL’S
which will bo combined the good traits
of each.
Government botanists are confident
that tbe result of this citrus marriage
will be a scion that will grow and
fruit at a latitude midway between tho
northern limits of the sweet orange
and tho northern limits of the lino of
growth of the unodlbllc orange. If
"Ol am Patbrlck Timothy Flnnnt-
gan of Hoboken, to-nolght lnbst
noight, nolght befonr Inhst,' nolght be-
foor thnht, to-morrow nolght, tho
nolght following and Iwenr other
bloody nolght of the wake, Including
Sunday nolght bo gorrn!"
OYSTER BLEACHING IN FBE31I WATER AND FANCY CONDENSED J1ILK CANS
go and beautiful, arc, If anything, the other too light, nnd that no' custo
erior In flavor to tho wild ones mer could bo found for either. Tho
mil along tho roadside. Ited apples matter was adjusted only through tho
tlio loading favorites of tlds sort reshlpraent of tho consignments to tho
fruit. An Instance of tills Is the proper places.
l Davis, one of the bent seller# and Consumers, of course, are nppcaied
tnlnly the poorest eater' toln tho selection of some foods
through tho quantity of advertising
Artificially Colored Meats given to a particular product Instance#
lent dealers have found that corn “braa'ktost “ and 8 heSith 0 ?^
f, cured hnm nnd some salt meats Jfjft iSmS*
l a much more ready sals where, in ‘‘i"* ” r „° ®,°
process of curing, some saltpoter P a . I ’ n c 1 r ,J!“? aJJIJME nnd
ir e0 Sa\mgra t0 nnd P ot r hcr forms It °r ,t b 7 them merely for tho sick; in
rod meat Iro frequently colored by *2$ jk'iJXL*"**
EXCAVATION WOR«pM
With Greatest Economy ' - ^
use the ; 0
Western Elevating Grader jfa
tills should bo there might bo orange
groves In central Virginia, mlddlo Ken
tucky, southern Indiana, southern Illi
nois, central Missouri and central
Kansas. Think of orange gardens
around tho homo In Norfolk, Rich
mond, Lyochbnrg, Lexington, Louis
ville, Cairo and perhaps In Cincin
nati, St. Lonls, Jefferson City nnd
Kansas City. 1 '
and Ditcher.
It I# understood thst the Kentucky crope
promise on unusual largo output of pun
Cuban tobacco this year.-
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THE ARROGANCE OF INVENTION
IfljFPASpCOF'
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NO fUUTKH Sj
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PICKING. UP A BIT
something that appeals to the eye, and
the dealer appreciate# that in order
to catch the fancy of a customer It Is
more important to place a product in
a Bhowy and convenient package,
than it Is to furnish a'wholesome or
well-flavored food.
Hodgtns’ automobile ran away with
his mother-in-law and seared her so
that she's been speechless ever since.
Hodgin# considers the Investment a
good one.
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