A .'''"'iiqfi s* W.J WANTS CON8ERVATIOMCON&RE88 Ralph Wheelock Urges Claims of the 1ea7in\efMk§ Twin Cities. Washington, D. C. Minnesota's HENNEPIN COUNTY LOSES IN invitation to the National Conservation IV always tea time when DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. league to hold the next conservation you are tired or thirsty. Interesting Information on Minnesota Agriculture congress in the Twin Cities was presented to Thomas R. Shipp, secretary The Teapot Test by Our Special Correspondent. of the National Conservation league, by Ralph Wheelock, secretary The final proof of Salada superiority is in the teapct TO HAVE A DELEGATION OF lit to Governor Eberhart. test. If Salada" Ceylon Tea does not prove superior In his presentation to the league The object of drainage is to prevent Corn vs Oats. Wheelock goes into details relative to in fragrance, flavor and refreshing qualities, then the tea has water standing on the fields. In excavating The average yield of corn in Minnesota, Proposed Appointment of Convention the interest in conservation in Minnesota care should be had to not for ten years, has been approximately not been properly prepared. lower the low places nor leave the a's evidenced at the recent conservation 30 bushels per acre. The average Delegates Based on 1908 Vote The teapot, having been scalded clean, put in a teaspoonful congress in March. He states ridges too high. Water itself makes yield of oats in the state, for the for Governer John A. that local organizations of the Twin of tea for every two cups. Pour on freshly boiled (bubbling) a good level, and any intelligent farmer same ten years, has been approximately Johnson. Cities are already perfected, and that can begin to drain his field at the 32 bushels per acre. Comparing water and allow tea to brew five minutes before serving. If in the important matter of publicity lowest point and as fee excavates the these two crops by bushels of yield is tea has to be kept longer than five minutes, pour the liquor water will run off. Many other unproductive the Twin Cities and the state as a not a true comparison from a feeder's St. Paul. Hennepin county will off the leaves into another warm teapot. fields can be reclaimed in whole have already in perfect working standpoint. TMrty-two bushels of oats have 111 delegates in the democratic this way. The careful plowing of order exceptional facilities for covering weigh, in round aumbers, 1,000 pounds. You'll get the delicious cup of tea you ever tasted. state convention, Ramsey county most dead furrows leading into the main every detail of such work. In both Thirty bushels o£ shelled corn weigh, 78 and St. Louis county 39. The drain will afford excellent help in taking cities, the commercial clubs and other ••Salada" in round numbers, 1,600 pounds. Ask your grocer for Tea or apportionment of delegates has not water from a field. Even ordinary business organizations,' including the io for a Comparing these feeds with bran been determined, but the plan presented send cents sample package ss-zasa a pa of Publicity Club of Minneapolis, are at $20.00 per ton, the acre yield of plowing with the furrows running which makes 40 cups delicious tea. to the democratic state central whether Black or Green tea is ready to push the congress in every Say oats, 1,000 pounds, is worth $9.50 toward the low places will go a committee by John King, state librarian, desired. way possible. while the acre yield of corn, 1,600 long ways towards carrying off the met with the approval of the Our booklet, "The Story of the Tea pounds, is worth $17.36. The cost of water. members. It is based on one delegate Plaot," sent free, Pledges Support of Press. production of these two crops in Minnesota for each 250 votes cast for John A. "Little drops of water, little grains "SALADA" TEA CO. is, including rent, $10.44 per "Behind all this," says Wheelock, Johnson in November, 1908, and in Yearly sale over 20,000,000 packages 6helby Block Detroit. Mich. of sand," etc., was never more practically acre, for corn husked from standing newspapers of the Twin Cities are in addition each county is to have three illustrated than at the Minnesota stalk, and $8.86 per acre for oats, thus full accord with the conservation delegates-at-large:, making a total of Experiment Station in the breeding ROOTS THAT NEEDED SOAKING THE GREATER HONOR. leaving a profit of $0.64 from the oat movement in all its bearings. It is 947. Hennepin county loses six from of wheat. Here, from one kernel crop and $6.92 from the corn crop. siife to say that their efforts in behalf its representation of two years ago. of wheat planted in 1892, this "little The above facts make it evident that of the national gathering would be Pat at Least Told the Exact Truth in grain" has grown until its progeny Up to Executive Committee. a greater acreage of corn is warranted measured only by the physical limitations His Application for covers more than half a million acres The apportionment will be made by in Minnesota. Results of the past few of their respective editorial staffs Whisky. of Minnesota soil and has attracted the executive commimttee which will years have shown that Minnesota is and mechanical plants. What is true wheat growers in other states and nations. be appointed by Frank A. Day. This The town of Dedham is under prohibition in the corn belt, and that by the use of daily newspapers is equally applicable It is known as Minnesota No. committee also will fix the time and law, apothecaries alone being of varieties adapted to this location, to all other classes of publications 169. A shipment of this wheat has place of the convention, but will select permitted to sell alcoholic stimulants. yields of corn above the average of the in country." just been made from the Experiment either Aug. 17 or 24. The other day a son of the Emerald best corn states may be expected. This Wheelock discusses climatic conditions, Station to South Africa for seed. Frank Nelson, of Duluth, who attended Isle entered a drug store there, and, is, of course, based on the supposition hotel facilities, and calls particular the meeting, announced that taking a bottle from his pocket, asked Farmers' Library No. 3 is ready for that good seed is put upon a well prepared attention to a recent increase in he is about ready to declare himself for a quart of whisky. The salesman distribution and is being forwarded soil and given good care. The the latter in both cities and also to a candidate for congress against asked to what use it was to be put, to all those whose names have Been reason the average yield per acre for near-by lake resorts, where such delegates and the reply was: Clarence Miller. He has made no requested to be placed on the mailing the state is less than 30 bushels is because B. as choose may secure quiet accommodation. "To soak roots in it." formal announcement, but expects to list. All other residents of the state too many are satisfied to produce He also calls attention The order was filled, and the clerk, get into the race. less than an average yield. Let who wish to receive this literature are to railroad facilities, including twelve after handing over the bottle and its us have more bushels per acre and requested to send their names at of the leading railroads of the country Votes for Counties. contents, inquired* in a conversational .more acres. once so that back numbers of the Library The county representation which which center at the Twin Cities. manner: may be sent before the several Mr. King proposes and which the "What kind of roots are you going First Kid—My old man's locked up editions are exhausted. Bulletin No. members of the committee "believe Will Meet Other Propositions. Poison Cure for Potato Scab. to soak?" fer shooting a dog. 3 gives detailed information regarding will be adopted is as follows: Don't plant potatoes on land on Closing his statement on behalf of Pocketing the bottle, the customer Second Kid—Dat's nothin'. My old the state industrial contest for said: Aitkin, 7 Anoka, 8 Becker. 9 Beltrami, Governor Eberhart and the Twin "which scabby crops have been raised man's locked up fer shootin' a copper. Minnesota boys and girls. 9 Benton, 7 Big Stone, 7 Blue "The roots of my tongue.be jabers!" Cities, Wheelock says: "While it is previously. If seed to be used is Earth, 15 Brown 11 Carlton, 7 Carver, —Argonaut Storyette (1886). 10 Cass, 6 Chippewa, 7 Chisago, not possible at this time for your committee scabby it should be treated as follows: A. P. Nelson, of Maynard, has found Not Quite. 9 Clay, 9 Clearwater, 5 Cook, 4 on the one hand and our representatives Dissolve two ounces of corrosive sublimate by experience in operating a grain "Young man," inquired her father, Cottonwood, 6 Crow Wing, 8 Dakota, Took Them at Their Word. 13 Dodge, 6 Douglas, 10 Faribault, 8 on the other to enter into sternly, "will you give her a home like in fifteen gallons of water, and farm that where scarcely a dozen cattle "Any article removed from the window," Fillmore, 9 Freeborn, 9 Goodhue, 13 any specific arrangement as to provisions the one she has been used to?" before cutting put the potatoes in it could be supported on the farm by Grant, 6 Hennepin, 111 Houston, 7 was the notice prominently displayed for an hour and a half. Remove, cut, Hubbard, 6 Isanti, 8 Itasca, 9 Jackson, for the general expenses of "No," replied the truthful suitor, the old hit-or-miss* method of farming, at an outfitter's shop. Attracted 8 Kanabec, 5 Kandiyohi, 10 "for there will be no grumpy father to and plant, or spread out to dry. Corrosive congress, I am authorized to say that by rotation of crops, he can now easily Koochiching, 6 Kittson, .7 Lac qui by it, a supercilious person entered come home and make every one miserable sublimate is a deadly internal Parle, 6 Lake, 5 Le Sueur, 12 Lincoln, all such expenses will be taken care keep half a hundred cattle, supporting the shop and asked to be allowed to 7 Lyon, 8 McLeod, 11 Mahnomen, 4 by his kicking over trifles and poison and should not be left where of. I would suggest in this connection them on the otherwise waste products Marshall, 9 Martin, 9 Meeker, 10 inspect a particularly vivid tie in the swearing at matters in general. There animals or poultry can drink it, nor Mille Lacs, 6 Morrison, 12 Mower, 9 that should you decide upon the Twin of his farm without in the least decreasing front row. The salesman having disarranged Murray, 7 Nicollet, 9 Nobles. 9 will be no mother to scold her from should any of the treated potatoes be the total yield of grain. Cities an early conference should be Norman, 6 Olmstead, 12 Otter Tail, the window and brought out morning to night for wasting time eaten by animals or human beings. 1» Pine, 9 Pipestone, 6 Polk, 15 held on' the important details, and the desired object, the supercilious The way to get a good, fast walking Pope, 6 Ramsey., 78 Red Lake, 9 Redwood, merely because she wants to be neat. pending such conference I can only Use wooden vessels, not metal. The person remarked: "Rather loud, isn't 9 Renville, 11 Rice, 13 Rock, 6 team is to not over-load and not trot There will be no Jig brother to abuse solution may be used as long as it say further that the interests of the Rosseau, 6 St. Louis, 39 Scott, 11 it?" •iem. Two 1,200-pound horses, on a Sherburne, 6 Sibley, 11 Stearns, 23 her for not doing half his work, and lasts. Keep treated potatoes out of Twin Cities will meet any proposition "Well, somewhat striking," agreed Steele, 9 Stevens, 6 Swift, 8 Todd, 10 14 or 16-inch plow are over-loaded. no little brother to make enough noise and away from bags, baskets or other that may be advanced on behalf of Traverse, 7 Wabasha, 12 Wadena 6 the shopman. They are loaded too heavily to walk Waseca, 9 Washington, 12 Watonwan, to drive her crazy when her head receptacles in which scabby potatoes other cities seeking this same honor." "I thought so," replied the visitor, 7 Wilkin, 6 Winona, 18 Wright. thr^e miles an hour. Three horses aches. There won't be any younger 12 have been. Formaldehyde, a less dangerous Yellow Medicine. 7. VV115- Discussing prospects of having the as he turned to leave the shop. "It on the" same plow will make the work sister to insist on reading some trashy chemical than corrosive sublimate, congress held in the Twin Cities, ofTends my taste. You needn't put it lighter and reduce the cost of plowing. novel while she does all the work. and therefore a little more satisfactory, Wheelock said: I feel confident that back. Good day!" TAKES $80 FROM TREASURER. thickly, either She will not have with me a home like Sow fodder corn may be used instead. Mix the committee will decide in our with a grain drill or corn planter, she has been used to, not if I can help of Getting Even. one pound (one pint) of commercial favor." Stranger Reaches Through Grating it."—Puck. at the rate of 30 to 50 pounds per William, aged five, had been reprimanded a formaldehyde (40 per cent) with thirty Winona County Office. by his father for interrupting acre, cultivate one way, cut with a gallons of water in which potatoes "DRYS" GAIN TERRITORY. Evidently Not. while his father was telling his mother corn binder, shock in the field, allow Winona.—County Treasurer Ben should be immersed for two hours. They had met at Bluepoint, L. I., about the new telephone for their to stand until fed or hauled to the Placing potatoes to be treated in a Kalmes is out $80 as a result of the two years before and were celebrating house. He sulked a while, then went barn. Not a Saloon Left Between Mankato gunny sack and then immersing them antiquated equipment provided in the ft by a little dinner at a cafe. over to his mother and, patting her In the solution will be found a very The Best Way.—There is always a treasurer's office at the courthouse. and Des Moines. "I shall never forget how we became cheek, said: .convenient way of handling them. The openings at the bottom of the best way of doing things on the farm, acquainted," he was saying. "So "Mother, dear, I love you." brass gratings at the paying windows but it often takes study to find it. Mankato, April 17.—As a result of romantic. In swimming. That was "Don't you love me too?" asked his are so large that a person can force The result is worth the effort. I| elections held this wjeek, there is not when I first saw you. You went into father. Potatoes vs Corn. his arm thorugh entirely across the a saloon between Mankato and Des three feet of water and got frightened. some one else is getting better resuits Without glancing at him, William In some localities in Minnesota counter. A taxpayer went inside of Moines, Iowa, along the Omaha road, I rescued you from a watery grave than you are, find the reason. said disdainfully: "The wire's busy." hardly adapted to corn raising experiments the office through the adjoining office a distance of 201 miles. and we were friends at once." He for steam and gasoline show that the potato crop is A Short Course of the county auditor and paid $80 on In Blue Earth county, Lake Crystal, called the waiter. "Bring me the wine Just the Job. engineering will begin at University well adapted to many large areas, as taxes, on which change of 60 cents list," he said,, explaining. "Because we Garden City, Vernon Center and Amboy Old Argus was boasting about his Farm. on May 4th and continue a money maker, and can be used in was due him. began our acquaintance in a watery hundred eyes. have voted out the saloons. They until the 17th of June. Tuition, place of corn as a cleaning crop in While making change Treasurer way, it needn't always be watery." "A useful man for an office," cried have been "wet" towns, but last year $15,00, board, $3.50 a week. rotation. The production of seed potatoes Kalmes placed the $80 on the counter, the populace. they went "dry," and this year voted in the state is becoming an established It will not cost the farmer more Good Illustration. and when he turned to give back the "Yes," added Argus, "and I can keep to continue so. This week Amboy Mrs. Bridgewhist—What is the subject industry, and many other than ten cents an acre to select out half of them closed when I want to." change the money was gone. It is regarded voted on the license question and defeated of Mrs. Suffragette's lecture this communities can profitably take up of his wheat bin the plumpest and Here the populace clapped their as certain that some person it on a tie vote, in a total vote afternoon? the work. The potato crop offers one heaviest kernels for seed. He will outside the railing reached in and hands wildly. of 128. It was the most strenuous Mrs. Clubwoman—The disasters of of the best propositions for a community then improve his crop and yield. "We'll make him custom-house inspector," took it. campaign that the village has seen in married life. of interests, whereby the Pasture and hay crops are very they declared. years. Conveyances were sent miles Mrs. Bridgewhist—I suppose she neighboring farmers can individually easily and cheaply grown, and in addition to bring back voters temporarily sojourning REFUSE TO PAY TAX.* will have her husband on the platform raise a small acreage of a single variety The Worst of It. to the value of the crops is the in nearby villages. as an exhibit?—Stray Stories. "Oh, she's awful. Whenever she tries and market them as of one man valuable effect such crops have on Charles Chamberlain was elected to sing a song she simply murders it." Two Duluth Phone Companies Oppose in large quantities, whereby they will the soil and its productiveness. mayor, Nathaniel Stephens, Stephen A Case in Point. Gross Earnings Levy. "But that's not the worst of it. If bring a better price than the same Cynicus—It is impossible for a woman In selecting a brood sow it is important Lamos and Fred Appitz councilmen, she'd only murder it outright, I number of bushels of several varieties to keep a secret. that the number of pigs she J. H. Dredge recorder, Charles Ott Duluth.—In proceedings brought to wouldn't mind, but she tortures it so marketed individually. Community Henpeckke—I don't know about farrows, the number she raises, and force the Duluth and Zenith City telephone treasurer, N. W. Sargent justice, and long." of interest is adopted by the great inIndustrial that my wife and I were engaged for her attitude toward them be determined companies to pay their personal Charles Chamberlain, constable. concerns and prosperity several weeks before she said anything before purchasing. property taxes for 1909 both companies Need Care for No One.. comes to them. Why shall not the to me about it.—Philadelphia No man is more independent than filed their answers with the clerk Prof. Haecker, who is international farmers co-operate and do business as NEW MAYOR PUTS ON "LID." Ro«ord. he who can pay his bills. of the district court. authority on dairying, estimates the & single man? In answers filed by the companies, feeding value of a ton of fodder corn which are much the same, the claim is Sunday and Early Closing to Be Ob* at $4.90 as compared with a ton of Domestic Science. Day After Day timothy hay at $6.00. made that the personal property tax served at Sauk Center. Domestic science according to was levied without .considering that Miss Shepperd, chief of the Domestic were at The Most Valuable Farms each year they pay a gross earnings Sauk Center.—The "lid" is on in Science division, at the State Experiment one time sloughs and swamps and tax. Sauk Center, the first time for some One will find Station, is that part of a girl's considered worthless. Drainage has They claim also, if they have paid months. The day on which he took education which specially prepares made them what they are now—valuable. their gross earnings tax for the year the reins of municipal government in her for a home maker and renders 1909, they are therefore exempt from his hands, the new mayor, Dr. H. F. her a constant dispenser of good Lawn Clipping.—If no other and the personal property tax. The amount Hennemann, held a conference with cheer. The object of the science is better means for keeping the lawn of the tax of the Zenith company is the saloon men and told them he expected to promote universal good health and clipped be at hand the horses or $3,810 and was based on a valuation them to obey the law in all respects. banish drudgery from the house, to sheep will be of great service in doing of $100,000, the assessed value of the He expected them to close, Post do Which the girls must be led to it. Toasties property. The Duluth company paid he said, at 11 p. m. on weekdays, to constantly apply the facts given in A mixture of a little salt, charcoal, $5,715 on a valuation of $150,000. keep closed on Sundays, and to have educational lines to special home Toasties ashes and air slacked lime has a good regard" for other provisions of the liquor needs, whereby home duties can be effect upon parasites of the digestive laws. raised from irksome tasks to pleasant TWO MINN. EDITORS BURNED. system of either young or old pigs. The conference was a good-natured occupations and interesting experiments. a constant delight. one and the liquor dealers agreed to and modern Oil Causes Trouble at Hayfield and Domestic science shows the Pleasant surroundings conveniences, easily obtainable, will assist the mayor in the strict enforcement Gasoline at Eveleth. evil effects which result from improper "T —r 'ri'iiir 11 The food Is crisp and of the laws. No threats were go a long way in keeping the boys and habits of life in the matter of girls on the farm. Hayfield. R. B. Russell, editor made, but every man present showed wholesome and so dainty food and drink, and shows the ideal the right spirit and all went away feeling of the Hayfield Guard, is dead and tempting, that it appeals home conditions. It shows the processes hard work and small compensation Isolation, Mr. Russell's body is one mass of kindly toward the new executive. is too often the lot of the of breadmaking, the spoiling of to the appetite all the burns and is the result of an attempt Mayor Hennemann says he expects food, the possible prevention of disease, farmers' wiv«s. These are burdens this condition to continue throughout time—morning, noon and to start afire in his qjfice with kerosene. that need lifting. etc., and impresses the fact that his administration. night. the place to apply the principles way of securing The Most Economic learned at the University Farm is in a permanent road bed is through Some folks*' have pronounced NYE URGES INCREASE. BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE. A Compound the home. drainage. It solves much of the good 0 Post Toasties the roads problem. New Club Selects "Boost for Owaton* Wants "Limit of Cost for Minneapolis DUST FROM THE SOIL. choicest flavoured bits of may be provided Farmers' homes na" as Slogan. Postoffice Raised to $750,000 with many of the modern conveniences cereal food ever produced. Every Minnesota farmer Cs entitled that city people enjoy.. Owatonna.—"Boost for Owatonna" is Washington, D. C. Representative Popular pKg. lOc. to have his name placed on the Extension the slogan of the newly formed Owatonna Nye appeared before the house is splendid Family size 15c. The orchard a place Division mailing list and to receive Business Men's .Association, and committee on public buildings and for poultry range in. Poultry is a to regularly the Farmers' Library. the idea is to be carrded out in every "The Memory Lingers" very good insect destroyer. urged favorable action on his bill to TSTo one 3hould be negligent about re-questing. possible way. At a banquet held in _inprease, the limit of .the cost of the Place the h^MgS«igs gqojt 4|itooe» that thV the Hotel Owatonna the business men prndMce' building in Minneapolis fSom the hbuscff. ^5cKirar ifom .should provide meisffisW6pi%^'s(CT^lig: from $50,000 to $780 $00. Nye said h% decided to push Owatonna in every pens are not agreeable. the Library for future reference, for way. was confident the committer would Over 10Q business men have Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich., U. S. A. it will be full of useful hints and suggestions Plan* trees this spring to protect I authorize the increase if a public been enrolled. In the new club, and at which will prove valuable from wind and shut out undesirable building bill is reported. each month a banquet will be held, year. any season of the views. .•&, J. ..