BUILDING LIVE STOCK CHUTES LIEUT. GOVERNOR IS SWORN IN. An Unusual Attribute. Little Johnnie, who cannot pronounce of Kansas Farmer Solves Problem S, has been frightened into Leading Animal Into Wagon in keeping out cf the attic by tales told Satisfactory Manner. Dy his nurse of a dreadful ghost that but 23 minutes deliberate lives in the dim recesses under the Perhaps every farmer has occasion eaves. The other day he was overheard CLEARS THE ALLEGED SLAYER load some animal into a wagon and Interesting Information on Minnesota Agriculture to to say confidentially to a small OF AAGOT DAHL. many of them prepare for this by building friend: by Our Special Correspondent. a stock chute. Frequently these "We've got an old gho't up in our chutes are built as a permanent fixture attic!" in connection with the feed lot, To which his friend, much interested, GETS LIBERTY IN THIRD TRIAL but are often made so that responded: "Do he butt?" they they Pintsch Oil For Gophers. FARMERS' SHORT COURSE. In Colorado prairie dogs have been The faculty at the college and school Easy for Him. •destroyed with bisulphide of carbon of agriculture at St. Anthony Park, is Tommy's Mother—Why aren't you a Prisoner, Awaiting Verdict, Visibly :gas in a manner similar to the experiment already preparing for the Farmers' good boy, like Willie Bjones? Nevous for First Time in Six tried in Minnesota at University Short Course next winter, when a Tommy—Huh! It's easy enough for Farm on pocket gophers. Recently much larger attendance is anticipated Years.—Leaves the Courtroom him to be good he's sick most of the the Colorado Station has tried, with than ever in the past. Last winter's time.—Philadelphia Record. Amid Congratulations. "wonderful success, Piii'tsch oil—a byproduct course brought nearly two hundred and of the Pintsch gas used for fifty farmers to the Experiment station. SUCCESS FOR SEVENTY YEARS lighting trains. has been used in Facilities were over-crowded. It Aitkin. Paul Fournier, who was the same manner bisulphide of carbon The dining room, originally intended as accused of having killed Aagot is used, with equally fatal results for the accommodation of four hundred The success of a scheme depends Edward E. Smith. Dahl near Quaring, Beltrami county, largely upon the man behind it on the prairie dog. is assumed in people, last winter had to accommodate It March 7, 1904, is a free man. The about twelve hundred. Without Minnesota that if Pintsch oil fumigation Paul.—Senator Edward E. Smith, St. jury in the district court here returned Constipation causes and aggravates many serious is destructive of prairie dog life the short course difficulty was experienced Minneapolis attorney was sworn in Chute on Wheels. diseases. It is thoroughly cured by l)r. Pierce'* a verdict of not guilty after in Colorado it ought to be equally in taking care of the school at noon as lieutenant governor of Pleasant Pellets. The favorite family lpxative. so can be transported from one part of having been out but 23 minutes. and college. in Minnesota with pocket gophers, and Minnesota. The oath was administered The man who bets on the wrong the farm to another. When a chute There was so little delay in receiving Prof. Mayne is having the basement the Minnesota Experiment Station in the office of Governor A. horse is apt to have a race prejudice. O. this kind -is built heavy and strong of the verdict and while waiting for of the dining hall reconstructed Eberhart by George A. Corell, chief probably will experiment with it. This enough to support the weight of a mature STS. the jury to come in Fournier was visibly •oil is only half as expensive bisulphide so that less trouble will he experienced clerk in the office of the secretary of Wlnslow's Soothing- Syrup. as hog or a large calf, it becomes a For children teething, softens the gums, reduces til nervous for the first time in the of carbon, according to the next winter. He will also reconstruct state. Witnesses were Governor Eberhart, tlammation.allay pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. clumsy thing to move. Mr. R. J. Linscott, six years he has been under arrest for Colorado report, and can be procured the systems of instruction so that Executive Clerk J. A. O. Preus, Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of owner of the Rosalpha Jerseys the murder of N. O. Dahl and daughter. classes will be promptly and systematically at railroad centers where there is Senator George C. Carpenter of Buffalo fame.—Euripides. a at Holton, Kan., has solved this problem Pintsch gas factory. Only half as much handled. and James S. Arneson. of inconvenience in a very happy When the jury was seated Fournier of it is required to kill a prairie dog Senator Smith as president of the way as is shown in the accompanying became deathly pale as he scrutinized in his burrow as of bisulphide. state senate became lieutenant governor Summer School At University Farm. illustration. The wheels and axle used the countenances of the men who had in fact upon the death of Governor A summer school at the Minnesota are parts of old machinery found on decided his fate and when the clerk John A. Johnson, when Lieutenant Agricultural College at St. Anthony Scours In Pigs. the farm, the wheels being taken from of court read the words "not guilty" Governor Eberhart succeeded to the Park will begin on June 20th and continue an old mower. The upper end of the The Minnesota Experiment Station a smile spread over his countenance Governorship. He did not take the until July 29, to give agricultural at St. Anthony Park has found the chute is provided with two strong Products and he was much relieved. oath at that time, but decided to do instruction to school teachers, cause of scours in little pigs to come iron hooks which are sharpened so as Fournier heartily thanked all the so now, as he is legally the incumbent principals and superintendents of to engage the bottom of the wagon largely from over and irregular feeding, members of the jury and Judge Stanton of the office. schools. Those wishing college credits bed and prevent slipping after the animal together with sudden changes in LiHy's and bubbled over with appreciation will be regularly registered as university starts upward. With such an arrangement, food. The little pig is greedy and its as he left the court room, being students and pay a fee of $10.00. stomach and intestines are comparatively there is no difficulty in FRANK DAY OPERATED .ON. without the custody of an official for Those desiring the work outlined small. The digestive juices decompose building a chute of ample strength because the first time in six years. without taking the college credits will the question of weight has relatively the food and turn it into a The Democratic Chairman Seeks Relief Contains double the nutriment As Fournier left the court room he be charged $4.00. Minnesota teachers little importance. The chute milky, soupy condition from which the was heartily congratulated by a great From His Suffering. taking elimentary agriculture only will and none of the can be hooked on behind the wagon digested material must be assimilated, many who had witnessed the trial. be charged $1.00. Board and room for St. Paul.—Hon. Frank A. Day, and hauled to any part of the farm, or it must be pushed through the intestines. Two years in the penitentiary and impurities so often found the six weeks will cost but $21.00, in chairman of the Democratic state When an excess of food is and it is a comparatively easy matter one in the county jail has not robbed advance. central committee and prominent leader given the overplus must be passed to put it in position by hand. Fournier of his personal magnetism in so-called fresh or raw of the Democratic party in Minnesota, along with the indigestible matter in and the little Frenchman seems little was operated upon at the Cobb milk. the faeces. The faeces are thin, soft Farmers' Clubs. affected by his close confinement of BRIGHT FUTURE FOR SHEEP hospital in St. Paul. and watery, and the animal is scouring. The report of the Farmers' Clubs (JL late years. Scouring pigs are not economical Meeker County, reaching the Extension The operation is designed to correct The verdict of the jury is received The use of Lilly's insures an abdominal disorder from which Mr. Nothing Will Build Up Run Down pork producers. Division of the Minnesota Department here with approbation generally, as it Day has been suffering for two years. Farm as Quickly and Cheaply as pure, rich, wholesome, Lighter feeding is the remedy rather of Agriculture, shows the shipment is the general opinion that the evidence How serious the trouble was probably Good Flock of Sturdy Animals. than drugs. Sudden changes in the of a car of stock every week and given by the state's witnesses healthful milk that Mr. Day did not realize himself. ration should be avoided, but the the receipt by the farmers co-operating was largely made questionable as to It was little less than a year ago (By PROF. R. J. KUISER.) amount of food should be gradually of the entire proceeds of the shipment, truth, through efforts at impeachment is superior in flavor and Money invested in sheep will near« that Mr. Day sent his chief, the late increased from day to day in proportion except a small commission honestly made by attorneys for Fournier, ly double itself in one year, since the Governor Johnson, to Rochester for an with the pig's development. earned by, and paid to, the manager Scrutchin and Crowell, and the jury economical in cost. fleece will pay for the feed and care operation for a trouble similar in character. for going with the stock and doing the also carefully considered the fact that of the sheep, and the lambs, often That operation was fatal. Bacon Hogs.—The Experiment Station business. The Club also maintains a most of the testimony was clearly circumstantial. two per ewe, are the profit. Libby's Evaporated Milk is Realizing that he would be compelled at Grand Rapids is raising bacon seed exchange at Litchfield where It is estimated that ten sheep can to seek relief himself, through an the farmers can procure home grown The closing of the trial was dramatic the purest, freshest high hogs—Improved Yorkshire, and practices be kept where one cow can, and the operation, Mr. Day went ahead quietly seed. The social features are also a and the spectators were wrought having their sows farrow in risk is much less. It may be said that grade milk, obtained making his preparations. Only a March and April. The pigs are turned means of promoting the greatest harmony up by addresses of Mr. McKusick for the sheep always carries her pocketbook few very intimate friends knew beforehand the state and Messrs. Crowell and into a clover pasture when from six among the people of the neighborhood. with her. from selected, carefully of his condition and intentions. Scrutchin for Fournier. Attorney to eight weeks old, and are fed a little If she dies, her pelt or fleece pays Saturday Mr. Day closed up his business Scrutchin made the effort of his life shorts and milk. In September barley Dassel has club that has recenSy fed cows. It is pasteurized a her funeral expenses. If she lives, her affairs and walked to the Cobb in his address. and peas are added to their ration, tested one hundred and fifty head of wool in the spring and her lambs in hospital, which is near the home in and then evaporated In his address to the jury Prosecutor and for two months they are fed all cattle for tuberculosis. It maintains the fall pay double revenue. No other the Midway district, where he underwent Chester McKusick gave the state's they will eat. They reach prime conditjpn a system of cow-testing for milk production. stock pays as large a percentage of (the water taken out), the operation. theory how N. O. Dahl and daughter about the first of November and Every cow entered has a correct clear profit on the money invested. After it was over, Dr. Sheridan G. Aagot met death in the old man's lonely weigh from 130 to 150 pounds. In the ration worked out for her every filled into bright, new In years past complaint has been Cobb who, with the assistance of Dr. cabin near Quiring, Beltrami county, local market the price the past three month according .to Prof. Haecker's made that the Industry could not be J. E. Moore.of Minneapolis, performed March 7, 1904. He said that late years has 'averaged eight and a half standard. More than three hundred tins, sterilized and sealed made profitable because of the losses the operation, pronounced it successful. in the afternoon Paul Fournier and cents per pound. The cost of production cows are in this association. Co-operation from dogs and coyotes, but statistics Wesley, the latter now in the penitentiary, air tight until you need it. has been estimated by Supt. is also practiced in buying supplies show that losses from this source last Mr. Day is resting quietly and easily, went to Aagot Dahl's cabin McGuire to be four and one-half cents and selling produce. The social year were less than half of one per with every apparent chance for a quick saying they wanted to buy seed potatoes a a pound. Good housing, early farrowing and business features are attracting Use Libby's and tell cent. recovery unless complications, always and lured father and daughter clover pasture, skim milk, barley, new members. Crop rotation, soil fertility, to be feared in operations of this character, Nothing will build up a run down your friends how good to the old man's cabin, where the po-' shorts and peas, easily obtained with better care of stock are among should set in. tatoes were kept. There they shot farm as quickly as a flock of sheep. little expense, make a good profit in the subjects of frequent discussion, and it is. The operation was for what is While pasturing the sheep's manure them, the prosecutor declared. McKusick the pig industry. attract new members. known in surgery as a seriously developing is distributed about so evenly that no occupied over an hour in his argument to the jury. hernia. Mr. Day was on the manure spreader could equal the Eight have been in Meeker Pigs Per Sow The Live Farmers' Clubs Libby, operating table thirty-five minutes. sheep in its work. W. H. Crowell of Bralnerd opened McNeill raJaed at the Northeast Experiment county, where there are twenty or pa the argument in behalf of the defense, Speaking of its afterwards, Dr. Cobb The American people are consuming Station at Grand Rapids the past more co-operative creameries and elevators, & Libby reviewing the evidence in the case said: "The operation cannot be described more mutton every year and three years. The Yorkshire breed is have become associated in a as major operation, although and showing in a forceful manner the very bright future is in store for the a noted for its large litters and strong central league. This suggests the Chicago operations of this character are always discrepency in the testimony given by sheep industry. constitution. The brood sows are thought to the division of agricultural the state's witnesses denouncing as out more or less serious. Mr. Day came wintered on second crop of clover, extension that all the farmers' clubs out from under the influence of the rageous the too evident bitter hatred boiled roots, skim milk and half a in each county, all co-operative creameries DIPPING TANK OF CONCRETE anesthetic nicely and is bright and of the prisoner which had been so pound each of grain daily. They are and co-operative elevators, should cheerful." openly exhibited by the majority of comfortably housed with access to a get together in a .central federation, those testifying in behalf of the prosecution.' WESTERN CJUMMA One Shown in Illustration Will Prove yard in the day time. Exercise is an and at least once a year meet and He appealed to the jurors to Effective for General Farm Use BIG SPEAKERS FOR ST. PAUL. important element in their care. The discuss the matters that have arisen bear well in mind the geatlemanly —Slide of Metal. sows are bred in December, farrow in in the different local clubs for which demeanor of the man who had thrice Best in Country Picked for National What Governor Deneen, of Illinois, March or early April, and raise but no satisfactory solution has been been tried on the most serious charge Several readers have asked for Says About It: Conservation Convention. •one litter a year. The Station keeps found. Wherever matters. of mutual in the criminal calendar, murder in plans for a dipping vat for cattle. We .Governor Deneen. of Illinois, owns a secof the good mothers as long as they are interest to a county have arisen in any land in Saskatchewan, in the first degree, with his life at Washington, May 25.—Plans are going present one form that will prove effective Canada. He lias said in productive—from four to six years. one club worthy of promotion the several an interview: stake. forward in fine shape for the national for general farm use, says Only brood sows are carried through clubs can unite and decide upon "As an American I am Wk Charles W. Scrutchin, chief counsel conservation convention to be Breeder's Gazette. It should be all delighted to see the remarkable the winter. a course of action, discuss everything progress of for Fournier, followed Attorney Crowell held in St. Paul in September. The built of concrete except the fenee, Western Canada. Our pertaining to the common good and people are flocking across in a two hours' talk. He carefully fact that former President Roosevelt the boundary in thousands, develop other questions worthy of promotion. Land in Northeastern and I have not yet An Acre of analyzed the evidence given at this Is to attend and speak has aroused met one who admitted Minnesota, when cleaned of stumps, he had made a mistake. trial, and was bitter in his scathing unusual interest in the event. Most They are all doing weH. •will usually go far toward paying for denudation of the state's principal of the plans for the convention, so There is scarcely a community In the Middle or the cleaning with the first year's crop, is not recommended, Harrowing corn witnesses, whom he denounced as perjurers. far as the national association is concerned, Western States that has a representative in Manitoba, but if farmers persist In this practice, According to experiments .at the Grand will remain uncompleted until Saskatchewan or Alberta." Rapids station. The Station recommends it should be done when the corn is dry. 12S MQIioa Bushels of after the return of GifCord Pinchot, co-operative buying of dynamite It is then less tender and not so liable president of the organization who is Wheal hi IMS LINE DRAWN ON MALT. in the timbered sections of Minnesota to be broken down. Harrowing should now en route from Europe. Western Canada field crops for so that it may be procured in large not be done when the land is wet and Secretary Shipp of the association 1909 will easily yield to the farmer Fergus Falls.—Following the opinion $170,000,000.00 la cash. onough quantities to be had at the weather cold. Care must be exercised has prepared a partial list of the by City Attorney N. F. Field a few Free Homesteads of 160 acres, and of pre-emptions 160 acres wholesale price. Duluth and the iron not to thin out the stand when harrowing. speakers, which includes, in addition days ago to the effect that malt sales at 93.00 an acre. Railway and range towns affords one of the best If the ground is lumpy, full of .band Companies have land for able to Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Pinchot, can be prohibited under the provisions at reasonable prices. Uany farmers local markets in the West for farm old corn stalks or rubbish harrowing for have paid their land out James R. Garfield, former secretary of of the city charter, Mayor M. D. of of the Broeeeds one crop. products. The land is wonderfully productive is even more undesirable than on good Splendid climate, good schools, the interior Frank C. Gowdy of Denver, Brown today issued a proclamation excellent railway faculties, low when cleared of its natural incumbrances. land. chairman of the conservation directing that after May 31 no malt freight rates, wood, water and lumber easily obtained. Dynamite and knowledge commission of that state Newton C. «y shall be sold in this city. This is JFor pamphlet "Last Best West," of its use do the cleaning. particulars as to suitable location Blanchard, former governor of Louisiana A1 «sa Instruction in the Origin of soils, likely to close several establishments and low settlers' rate, apply to trap't of Immigration. Ottawa, their physical make-up, movements m, Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, president of here, nearly all of the former saloonkeepers van., or to Canadian Gov't Agent. soil water and tillage the seed—its of the University of Wisconsin having opened places in which in northeastern Cfasi.PllllBg, FUlTerdBlk.GrudForka^t.D. In Raising Pigs J.M.Mar,LachlBn,Uoxll6,lYateriowB,S.D. parts, germination, selection and storage George C. Pardee, former governor of malt is the principal drink dispensed. Minnesota, as practiced at the experiment OftlPPINO P£NS K.T.lIolnes,315Jaeksoi)St.,St.P*ii],MIu. will be given at the teachers' summer The mayor says: California Paris Gibson, former United station at Grand Rapids, it is (UBO address nearest yon.) fl) school at the Minnesota Experiment States senator from Montana Senator "The somewhat prevailing idea that Important to remember that some of Station, St. Anthony Park, beginning Your Liver Newlands of Nevada, Representative beverages containing not more than 2 the most profitable food is clover pasture June 20th. per cent of alcohol may be sold without Scott of Kansas and George F. and skim milk. Expensive grains A Dipping Vat for Cattle. is Clogged up a license is not the law. It must Swain of Harvard university. are fed only to finish the product which may also be of concrete if desired. Because of the many requests have been clearly the intent of a majority grown on inexpensive pasture and Domestic Art and Domestic Science throughout the country for speakers of the voters to dispense with dairy by-products. Good clover pasture will be two of the subjects taught That's Why You're Tired—Out The design has the common form the saloons for at least one year. If on conservation, Secretar}' Shipp said always should be ready for the young ladies attending the summer Sorts—Have No Appetite.^ and means of getting cattle into the that this list will have to be doubled not proper to tolerate them school and college of agriculture, St. alx weeks old pig. so, it is CARTER'S LI1 dip, being provided with a slide of even in a disguised form." before the summer is well advanced. Anthony Park, from June 20th to July LIVER PILLS metal that will precipitate them in CARTERS 29 th. Those desiring may confine will put you right Over a period of nine years' experimentation head-foremost. Abetter plan is to provide in a few day*. their work to those subjects, or may, BANKERS AT ALBERT LEA. at the Ohio station, shallow Wrecker Assails Flyer. gradual decline that will take They do a in addition, elect one or more regular cultivation of corn shows a lead in Thief River Falls.—An attempt was the animals in till the water is half their duty. subjects. Members of First District Gathering grain harvested of four bushels per made to wreck the Winnipeg flyer up to their sides, then giving them the Cure for Annual Meeting. acre over deep cultivation during that Con*tips. drop. With such an arrangement cattle on the Soo at the small station of Albert Lea.- —A large number of is but one object of tion, Bil period, regardless of weather conditions. Killing Weeds will hardly need any urging to Halma near this city. A party of bankers from the Twin Cities as well ioaueit, hdSpifa, aid Sick SoJick Experiments at the Minnesota cultivating corn. While important to pass through the dip, and there is yougg persons on their way to a wedding, as the southeastern part of the state station St. Anthony Park are in kill weeds the preservation of moisture at SHALL PILL. SHALL DOSE. SMALL PUCK much less shock and injury to them. were here to attend the annual meeting on passing over the crossing, line with Ohio and several ether in the soil is equally so, and is GENUINE must bear signature: discovered a large rock wedged between of the First district group of done by shallow frequent cultivation. states. and the rails near the crossing. bankers. The local bankers entertained Planting Rhubarb. the visitors and the ladies accompanying The fresh tracks of a man were discovered The rhubarb should be divided Frequent and Shallow Cultivation of them the Auditorium in the soft soil leading away at promptly roots are crowded, plant if AHIIIU or Morphine Habit Treated. corn-at the Minnesota Experiment Station University Write Pfof. D. D. Mayne, theater,. from scene of the attempted :and later the room ^ras the 111 HH Free trial. Cases where other check rows .4x1 and toiM^iss with shows best results at husking in Farm, St. Paul, for Agricultural Summer IIW*- lUHl remedies have foiled, specially cleared dancing wreck, and was indulged In and the railway detectives are nitrate «oda. time. UWIUUiMti Mti fQt IMSIu WivTOfc School bulleti* by all who desired. endeavoring to discover the culprit