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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1909)
MERINO SHEEP CAN BE GREATLY IMPROVED United States Behind Germany In Producing Mutton nnd Wool In Combination How to Advance By S'. M. Cleaver. TO HEAD BANK OF TURKEY rA 3 'n . of his koy got arlcs to government officials, or tho troops were on tho verge of mutiny without thnir mniinv .n nni nf nil Infrnmtmtt Antut. roncc sho hurried off to ono or other luuu 10 imcuy ner creditors. , Now, howover, Turkey Is regenerating hor system of government and lionceforth will have n regular budget, bo such u stato of affaire will no longer bo necessary, nml tho national bank, aa soon as It gets Into working nrrinr will nn.rn. 11 ii . . . " -.-v.., ..... vunutui uioso nnanciai cents formerly carried out. Theso jng those of an Industrial, commercial and land-mortgago bank, nnd It Is ..-uu, uidu, io ranKo n a cnannei vu m mo uuuiury ior uio aeveiopmont or us resources. It Will not bo Sir Henry's flrnt mont as secretary to the postofllco V,UU1WI1 Ul i"u wuoman jruuuo jjcot guinea aunng uiat timo will doubtless prove of great valuo to hlin In his present position. Besides thnt, ho has served in many pnrts of tho world In tho British civil sorvlco. After an education at Eton nnd ou.u.ui uuiiuin, no uegnn ins puunc mo as examiner in tho education dopart jnent, afterward becoming private secretary to Mr. (afterward Lordl Onsnhnn .when chancellor of tho exchequer. uio men viceroy, Lord Elgin, for llvo years, nnd In 1899 was sent to Natal on a financial mission. ' Ho bocamo n knight commander of tho Bath In 1908, nnd ho also has tho .Turkish ordor, first-class Osmanlch. He Ib 4C years old nnd is a tall, broad shouldered, youthful-looking man, with a brown mustache and brown eyes under a clover overhanging brow. Ills wife cornea of dlnlomatlc atopic. nW being tho daughter of Lord Elgin. mo post, or secretary to iter father WORLD'S BIGGEST FARMER - estate men told him that no railroad would over go near tho Missouri lands, but for all that he sold his farm and bought all ho could of the land at $6 an acre. Recently ho took an inventory of his possessions In tho neighborhood of Trklo, Mo., where ho bought tho cheap acreago, and it showed that he owned 25,610 acres, 12,000 fattening hogs, 9,000 cattle, 800 horses, more than 100 cottages. In which the employes of tho big farm were housed, great quantities of farm machinery and tho like. Mr. Rankin comes of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Ho wub born in Indiana in rural poverty, and ho got his start In life trading a colt for calvea and raising tho latter into stoors. To-day, In addition to his farm, ho ownB an Implement factory, a municipal water system, a telcphono company, a bank nnd other enterprises, and when tho notion takes him ho adds $50,000 or so to tho endowment of Tarklo college, a Presbyterian school in his home town, which has known his generosity to the extent of $250,000. r HIGH RANK loves. Geographers all over tho world aro lauding tho duko for his ascent of the lofty Himalayan peak, K2, or Mount Goodwin-Austen, as tho Royal Geo graphical society named tho mountain In. honor of tho first explorer of that region. K2 Is tho highest mountain In tho world, savo ono. It Is 28,250 feot high, only 725 feet lower than Mount Everest, which rises to tho bluo higher than any other part of tho earth. Tho duke reached tho height of 24,000 feet on Mount Goodwln-Auston, and this Is a record in mountnln cllmbliig,-"ecllpslng that of Dr. Graham, who, in 1883, reached tho top of Mount Knbry In tho Himalayas, an altitude of 23,900 feet. FIRST WOMAN CORONER Dr. Byrd's departure. Mrs. Byrd has been summoned to Investigate half a dozen suicides, tho samo number of fntal accidents, and has officiated In two cases of murder. "I haven't found tho duties of coroner especially dlsagreeablo," said Mrs. Byrd. "In tho absence of my husbnnd I look upon tho work as my regular business and I try to dispatch it in n buslnessllko way. I am pleased to know that I havo won tho commendation of the othor authorities and have not been criticised by tho public. "Of courso I nm not a graduato 'of medlclno or surgery, nnd in cases .whoro It is necessary that an autopsy. ho performed I doputizo a physician, 'but thorn aro not a great many such cases." By the establishment of a national bank Tur key hna taken a decisive stop towards reform and ordor which all Europe la watching with Intercut, ana Ktiginnu with tlie keenest Interest of all, for tho bank una been floated chiefly with English cntlltlll nml Ha tirnalilnnt ntinnlntnrl "n tlm roniinut r, VHMVM, iFWIIIVM tlt IIIV 1 1 V. J k majesty's government," In tho person of oir 11. uanington srnitn, who will resign his present appointment of secretary to tho postofllco and proceed to Constantinople soon to tnko tip his new duties. Until now the Ottoman government hns been nt tho mercy of two foreign banks, tho Ottoman bank nnd tho Deutschn bnnk. nml whnnnvnr Tnr. Into pecuniary difficulties and found hcr- uuu wuuoui inc wnerowiinai to nnv ovarium nni. of these concerns and humbly begged transactions winch tno two foreign con win h nf nn nvtnnivn .!,,. tnrough which foreign capital shnll be ho was British representative on tho ior tnrco years, nnd tho experlcnco Cambridge university, whoro ho took In 1894 he went to India as secretary to Ho married her In 1898 while holding In India. David Rankin Ib tho biggest farmer In tho world. "Lots of men have more land than I," says Mr. Rnnkin, "but they uso it for cnttlo ranges only. MIno is n farm." Mr. Rankin nei ther rnlses cattle nor furnishes range. Ho buys tho raw steers from tho plains and fattentf thorn until they aro worth twlco what ho payB for tho "feeders," as thoy aro called, He never sella any corn, cither, beenuso by feeding it to cattle, ac cording to n mlnuto calculation of his own, he gcta moro ample returns. Nearly 40 years ago Mr. Rankin, then an Illinois farmer, discovered that land on ono sido of a state lino was, soiling for $20 an acre, while ho might buy any amount on the other side of tho imagiunry dlriding mark for less, than a third of that amount. But real FOR DUKE When tho duko of tho Abruzzl returns to Italy from mountain climbing In India, In tho near future, ho will be promoted to tho rank of ad miral in tho Italian navy and put in command of tho naval arsenal In Venice, according to Infor mation from naval officials. These samo officials assuino that tho duko has given up hopo of marrying Miss Katharine Elkins. But In this assumption It scorns most probablo that th$ wish Is father to tho thought. Tho duko Is as far as over from bolng on good terms with King Victor Emmanuel, Downgor Queen Marghe rlta and others of his royal relatives who oppose hla marriage to tho American girl. Nothing could prolong tho duke's quarrel with Ills kin but his continued determination to wed tho woman ho In theso days of suffragists and suffragettes women aro filling nil sorts of offices, but it re mained for a St. Joseph, Mo., woman to become tho original "lady coroner." Tho duties of tho coroner of Buchannn county lmvo for sovoral weeka been performed by Mrs. 0. P. Byrd, whoso husband fills that offlco when ho is nt homo. Just now Dr. Byrd Is visiting tho exposition nt Seattle and is enjoying his vacation with tho nsBiiranco that tho emoluments thereto nccrulng nrc not escaping tho ptirso of tho Byrd family. Slnco Coroner Byrd left homo thoro have been an unusual numbor of coroner's cases in St. Joseph and tho county, and In each of them thore hns been n prompt response by Mrs. Byrd, who was legally commissioned as IiIr 1 Oniltv llnfnrn 1 - ...ikvvi m ' S&l .-v 'V, . . S -J jtinftB0TTOf13 "Rivers are great studies. They aro as changcnblo as a woman, yot over keep in tho samo general courso. Con fined within certain limits with moodB thnt vary, thoy wander on, obedient to tho laws that hold them to their courso. Thoy nro sometimes tempes tuous and careless as men, wiping out at ono sweep tho farms that lmvo claimed their ancient channels and as serting onco again tho full sweop of their Individuality. Somotlmea they sleep tho peaceful reposo of a babe. At other times they burn' away nnd lcavo but tho bed, from which tho fe vered wnters riBO again to commenco tho elemental cyclo of vapor, cloud, rain, rlvulot and river. And ench of theso rivers haB Its own Individuality. Somo aro long; some largo; some deep; somo shallow; somo quiet; some turbulent. Tho'Srltansaa la not long enough to bo classed among the longest rivers of tho world, though among tho tribu taries to tho Father or Waters it is second only to tho Missouri. It is not largo and does not spread out tho ac cumulated waters in wldo sheets; yet at times, when the Aztec tain gods pour out a dolugo nnd tho lower courses nro fed bv the InHnwInir creeks and rivers, its magnitude is maJeBtlo, Inspiring, destructive. Nor is the chaunol deep. For tho moun tnln pebbles nnd tho rich, red snnd ond the plain white snnd nnd nil othor varieties of Band from tho mountains to tho gulf aro constantly fllllnir In. scooping out, rolling nnd gliding down tho swift current, piling In bare, building up Islands or lovelfnc the In. equalities of tho bed. And tho flow Is Btronc: tho BWoen nf hn wntnrn In n mighty power, unharnessed, to go on, ever, to tho sea. Whether at tho buow neaked anrlncn whoro it rises in tho Rockies nnd enca dashing down tho mountain defiles, whether fretting its way botwecn tho man-built walls through tho city of Pueblo or Klldlnc throuch dm nniihiv foothills, whether winding Its allvery way across tho Colorado and tho Knn Ens plaliiB or clldlnr: on betwrnn tin- Oklahoma bluffs and hills, whother watering tho mlstletoo bedecked olms or the canebrakoB In tho stato whoso namo It bears, tho Arkansas has a beauty, a charm, that makes oho love to dwell thereon. Anywhere along Its course Its ncauaintnnco a sort of chance acqunlntunco and one icoib n nouier, widor sontlment, liko thnt which comes from tlm mn. tact with n hrond, free-mlndcd man. However, slnco It cannot hn rnnnlii. ered as n whole, let tho acquaintance bo narrowed to that beautiful sweop of iho stream flowlnc botw pen tlin Osago reservation nnd Pawneo coun ty, Ulna,, whoro on ono s do nr Mia other, nnd sometimes both, fnrma have been hown from tho wooded valleys: whero the snnrint nun lilnffn rise, sometimes 50, sometimes 100 feot, with niches whero tho great horned owl, tho poregrlno fnlcon nnd tho hugo turkey vulturo find n nesting site, nnd whero. In olden iinvn tim eagles renred their young. Hero tho red wators hurry down, dnwrt inwn with a swish that mingles with tho rustfo or tho leaves, tho Bhrlll of In sects nnd the cries of birds. In one sweet symphony that drowns tho troubles, tho stress of life, and gives new vigor to tho ono who can sepa rate himself from his business or his strife, as he learns now things first hand from God's great book. Here along the bottom romln thn grcnt cottonwoods rlso, with masslvo pIllarB that reach up and up, over a hundred feot, Just right for a clnnt'H walking stick. Great pecan trees. hugo burr oaks, walnuts, hlckorleB and three or four smaller vnrintinn of onk, black, whlto, red und chin- aunnln. nro hero. Then thorn nm great hackberrles with tho corrugated and winged bark, and hero Ib that beautiful black coated member of tho r080 faml y Which has hnnn dnnlirnnt. ed by the natives us the shlttlm wnnri of tho Sacred Book. Tho wood Is bard, tho hardeBt of tho forest trees, with tno cosslblo execution ot thn persimmon; but tho persimmon sel dom gets beyond the bush slzo. in i mm mmmmM i m m r lie i mi m BfUKeICROJi THE RIVR fiAR CLCl'SltffP, though there aro somo Inrge trees. Here, underneath tho taller growth, nro tho black haw bushes, while grow ing out of tho bluffs aro JuneborrleB, both prizes for boys, but Insipid to a mature- nppotlto. And along close to tho stream nro tho fow romnlnlng ce dars which woro uncut by telephone polors bofore tho land was open to settlement. To climb among tho bluffs, to In spect holes left by disintegrated fos sil trees; to listen to tho tufted tit mouse's golden call; to see the "mountain boomer" scamper along to tho Bholtoring rocks, whoro ho loaves his tnll in plain viow and, doubling back, pokes out his head to boo whero tho dangor lies; to look at tho ferns clinging to tho rock, la rojuvenating, inspiring, llfo giving. Thoro nro at least sovon varieties of ferns. Tho abrupt perpendicular walla clothed with tho resurrection fern aro passed by unheeded when tho heat drlea up tho fronda brown and Inconspicuous like tho hands of a paralytic; but the rains come and tho fuco of tho bluff Is spotted with great dark green patches whero tho mass of separate fronds blond in green drapery. And thore, on tho north aide of a hugo, wot rock, Ib tho walking leaf, camptosorus chlzophlllus, the Blender, lenf-llko frond, a drawn-out arrow hoad, whoso long whip cracker ond takes root in tho moss nnd liverworts and starts a now plant. Of tho spleenworts there nro two species; ono Bmall, growing out on tho under sido of cool, wot overhanging rocks; another, tall and Blender, living moro in tho open. And, clingtng to tho side of tho canyon, aro forns a foot or moro high and sub divided a sort of magnified edition varying, however, from tho two amall or species thnt can bo found growing an auout tno woods. Tho most singu lar, howover, is the very small, dwarfed ono on tho odgo of lime rocks frond nnd all but a couple of inches long with wiry stomB llko tho maiden hair, which spring back and forth with their sprawling, scattored doublo compound frondlots an eighth of an inch long, dark green abovo and white underneath, with wholo masses growing from a perfect nest of fine, black rootlets Imbedded in tho cracka of tho rocks. From tho bluffs ono can look out across tho treo tons to tho other nldn. whoro tho Osago hills, wavo upon wavo, reach as far as tho oyo can soe, with hero nnd thore a deadening, whoro tho leavos of tho girdled trees make a brown patch on tho land scape. Fields freshly plowed or cov ered with corn and cotton stretch away in tho valleys, whllo tho nearby hllla still boar tho scattered growth of oaks and hickories. And far, far away tho bold pralrlo oxpanso, with hero nnd there a clump of treos to break tho contour, can be Been India tlnct in tho distance. And tho rlvor banks, with fringes of willow, tho whlto cottonwood limbs, tho arllatmi. lug bnrs, and tho wnter over gliding on and on, Automobiles In Nova Scotia, Pcoplo who have been making auto moblio tours In Nova Scotia havo run up against some BtraiiKu reitulatlnnn of tho provlnclnl chnracter which havo tended to considerably abrldgo tholr convenience and contort They did not ilnd nn nbsolutn nrn htbltlon against cars, aa In Nantuckot, but tho regulations thoy did find worn ovon moro annoying than that at Nnn- lucicot, oecauso or tho lattor thoy aro specifically Informed and so would not unacrtauo n tour there. It appears that tho Nova Scotia reg ulation forbids cars from using tho highways In certain sections on tho market day In each weok, whon tho country folk flock into tho town to do their trading. They discovered, too lato for their convenience, that tho market dayB do not occur on tho aame day of tho weok In every town, so that whllo thoy steered clear of that In ono town thoy brought up with a bang against tho bars In another town on tho lino of the routos they had planned. Keep Interested In 8omethlno. Many old mon break down and bo como childlike bocauso thoy abandon business, and thua loso much of their ovory-day Intorest In tho world around them. It is not uncommon for old poo pie to tako up courses of study nnd successfully pass through them. All such occupations servo to keop tho Interest allvo In something besides moro selfishness, and do more toward warding off "tho blues" than all the medlclno In tho drug stores. Tho improvement of tho merino In tho United States aa a wool producing animal haa far surpassed that of any othor country, Wo, howover, fall short of Germany in tho production of wool nnd mutton in combination, writes S. M. Cloavor, in Orange Jttdd Farmer. Tho brooders of this coun try havo had varied idcaB in attempt ing to improvo tho merino. With an ambition to increase the wolght of fleeco, selections wero mado of tho animals showing tho greatest number of wrinkles, for tho ronson that whoro numerous wrlnklos woro found, in creased density wna produced, with alBo nn increased amount of oil. By following this lino ot brooding tho weight of tho rlccco was doubled several times. Wool was tho prime object sought as Americana worovthon not considered mutton enters. Tho light shearing merino was speedily Gibson's Lincoln Ram. dovoloped into a profitable wool pro ducer, without any Bpeclnl Intorest bo lug taken In tho dovolopmont of tho carcass. Merino breeders in Ger many hnd to compote with tho mut ton breeders in n country of mutton eaters. Consequently, as much at tention was paid to tho development of n mutton merino as to that of wool producing merino. Tho Germans), thcroforo, carriod both points to a very high standard of perfection, American breeders mado a anoclnltv of tho greatest number of pounds of wool per slnglo Individual ot sum- An Ohlo-Dred clont fineness to command tho high est prlco paid for merino wool. A portion of our brooders, striving to produce an oxtra flno fiber of high priced wool without tho uso of wrinkles, succeeded fairly well for In breeding with tholr own flocka so many years, it is a well established fact that tho morlno will not improvo under strictly closo Inbreeding, Tho greatest improvement has been mado by proporly mating animals from flocka not closely related, Tho pro duction of oxtromoly heavy floeces haa been at tho sacrifice of tho carcass. Tho typical mutton forms havo POULTRY RAISED IN ORCHARD Orcharding und Chicken nalatua: Aro Nuturul Complcmento ot Each Other and Profitable. Tho question Is often usked whothor poultry can bo Bafcly raised In tho young orchard whllo tho troes are coming on. Undoubtedly thoy can, and with great advantage to tho trees as woll aa to tho poultry, Tho two branchofl orcharding nnd poul try raising aro natural complements of each other. Whon tho troes como Into bearing tho fowls will somotlmea climb Into tho trees and Injuro tho fruit, but until such tlmo tholr pres ence Is to bo commonded. Fowls in good, health aro groat workers and aro constantly turning ovor tho earth In tho search of grubs, worms orsubtor ranoan Insects, and thoy will also cap ture many moths and othor Innocta on tho wing and In this manner great ly roduco tho number of injurious In sects In the ordchard and prevent td been producod nt a sacrlflco in fleece. Tho Improver of tho merino in tho fu turo must carry tho two essential points profltablo fleeco and a well formed carcass of sufficient alzo to mako tho animal as profltablo for a mutton Rheop as a wool producor. Americana aro now mutton caters. Thoreforo, it is highly Important that we pay na much nttcntlon to tho pro duction and dovolopmont of a mutton form na wo do to that of a wool pro duclng form, in aplto of tho fact that our heaviest wool producing sheep carry but llttlo mutton nnd tho strong. est mutton producers usually shear a light flcoco, Thoro la n largo op portunlty for tho breeder to uso his skill In tho combining of thoso two characteristics in ono animal without ono being sacrificed to secure the other. , I nm of the opinion that tho field for improving tho merino is very largo nnd tho dovolopmont ot tho most profltnblo and practical wool mutton merino Ib still In Its Infancy. With tho oxpcrlcnco of tho past, tho noxt 20 or 30 years Bhould bring about a combination morlno of groat or valuo than any to bo found to-day. ThlB unimnl must grow rnpldly, mn turo oarly, havo good quarters, doop body, short, strong nock, carrying tho form of n typical shorthorn. It must bo coated with n iloeco of groat bulk and sufficient quality to command a fair prlco. In producing n hoay fleeco Merino Ram. It Is a mistake to havo n largo per centage of that iloeco consist of oil, a product that ia cntlroly worthless to tho manufacturer. Do not mlsundorstnnd me. It la highly Important to havo n ronsonablo amount of oil in tho flooco in order to Bocuro tho strongest nnd host fi ber, but do not overdo tho nmttor. With caro wo can Just aa woll dou blo tho quantity of wool por fleoco without destroying tho valuo of tho fiber or without diminishing tho nmount of oil to a point that will weaken tho flbor. a great extent damage to tho trooo from that sourco, tholr droppings nlso enrich tho soil, and, whllo necessarily limited in quanttly, thoy contain moro fertilizing qunlltios than any othor form of mnnuro, ho that in both theso respects fowlH nro bonoflclnl In tho young orchnrd. As a mcanB of helping along until his orchnrd becomes profltablo thoro Is nothing bottor thun n flock ot fowls. Thoy will gnthor n very largo part ot their living from tho soli, give occupation to tholr owner until his tlmo ia domnndod in n moro profltnblo direction, and prove n source of in como whllo ho Ib waiting. When tho troea como Into full bonrlng his wholo tlmo will bo required in tholr atten tion nnd thon, tho poultry having served Its purposo, can bo disposed of, If It becomes detrimental. Reserve Feed 8upply. If tho supply of grain eating otock lH-kopt up to a certain numbor on tho fnrm, why Bhould not tho supply of grain bo kopt up in equal proportion? Wo aro all too frco to dlsposo of tho surplus whenovor thoro Is a "fat" year.