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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1914)
1 M MEADOW FAI?H Wiiiniww iiiiuiii nil jrtfn? Groom the horses. Save all poultry feathers. I3e regular In feeding. Feed for a purpoBo. V There Is a dearth of good aspura bus In every city market. The man' who has already used the fiilo will tell you whether tt payB or not. The most Important factor In rapid herd Improvement Ib a sire of high dairy quality. Improper ventilation makes more hen houses cold and damp than rain and zero weather. Why not mend the old harness this winter, and spend the money making the wife's work easier? ' ' Why not settle on dairy farming as n business? Then breed, and feed, and work for a better breed. If a colt has not style enough nat urally to hold his head high, high mangers will not make him do It. Statistics show that the manure from each pig is worth $12 a year. You see It will pay to save this manure. A great deal of the sow's future use fulness depends upon how she Is cared for and fed until bred for her first litter. Let the sunshine and fresh air come Into the hen houso through the win dows Instead of through cracks In the Biding. A young, highly-bred, trottlng-bred mare has been working on a farm for two years with an aged horse of light er weight One thing no hog grower can afford to do without Is a good feeding trough, nig cracks sometimes take more than the hogs do. It may snvo time to hurry through the milking, but it doesn't help the milk flow, nut the milker should keep steadily at his job. The 50-pound hog Is the proper prof itable weight. Get sires with heavy bone, broad back, and deep body. Take time In selection. Urlng your horse In cool and breath ing easily. If he comes in hot he will sweat in the stable, and the sudden stoppage of hard work is bad for his feet. Pruning In tho summer will have a tendency to promote frultfulness In the tree, although It may have exact ly tho opposite effect unless done at the right time. If you will put storm windows over the regular windows, be sure to pro vide openings in both for proper ven tilation. It is a fearful thing to sleep In an air-tight room. Do not let the colts run down In con dition on frost-bitten grass. They may till up, but tho nourishment Isn't there. Loss In tho condition of a growing colt Is a most serious one. There are countless ways of ma king money while tho young orchard Is coming into bearing, and It is a problem which does not worry any able-bodied man who has the hustle In him. The first spraying for the codling moth must be completed beforo the :alyx of each blossom has closed. After that tlmo the thoroughness of the ap plication Is made very much more dlf tlcult, Llttlo leaks In farm work are what need looking after. The big ones are easier seen but the small ones are often passed by, but do not forget that many little leaks are the same as a large leak In the end. Thero are cases In which medicines may bo advantageously given or ap plied to sick fowlB, but generally Hpeaking it is better to kill all the sick birds and thus avoid tho spread of disease to many other birds In the liock. There will always bo horses as long as thero are men, for from time Im memorial man and tho horse hnve been Inseparable companions, and tho latter will never bo supplanted in the love of the former by any gaHolino contraption. Tho sows that are to bo kept for breeders should be separated from tho others and fed plenty of flesh, muscle nnd bone-forming foods so that they may devolop good, wtrong constitu tions and not become overloaded with an exccBB of fat. NOTES f BROOK V i tjtt:'4(v SmimisimS Kill all sick fowls. Keep tho chicks at work. He regular with the milking. Get out the blankets and use them. The draft horse Is always in 'de mand. A well-fed, well-nourished ewe will shear a heavy Heoco. Grade cows with good production records arc nothing to be nbhamed of. Hogs often have sore throat, quinsy, etc., ftom exposuro to drafts and cold. If your pig squeal they are either cold, hungry or uncomfortable in somo w ay. Isn't tho first month of the year a first-rate tlmo to begin testing tho cows? Feed tho heifers so they will keep on milking and form tho habit of per sistency. Dish water and hotel slops are about equal to south wind and sea water as swine feed. A cow lying on a bare floor cannot bo expected to mako much of a show in tho dairy. Every man who bundles horses should hnve the fundamental gift of common sense. Keep your separator and milk houso clean. What Is worth doing at all, Is worth doing well. ' Do not let the flock rush through narrow doors. You may lose both ewo and lamb in that way. If you have a horse which tho wom en and children can drive safely, think twice before you sell It. Clean up the yard and farmstead generally. Plan to set out a few more ornamental trees and plants. Land which receives the same treatment year after year rapidly de preciates In Its crop-producing power. This winter will again find tho cream can the meal ticket on many a western farm thnt and the egg bas ket. Sudden fright and excitement at onco tells on the egg crop. 'Never al low strange dogB about whero tho hens arc. Do not forget to salt tho horse once a week; or, better still, keep salt al ways before him. IIo knows best how much he needs. The dairy farmer who has a good bunch of hogs to eat up his by-products on the farm Is sure to make money in tho deal. In hot weather or in drawing heavy loads, watch your horse's breathing. If ho breathes hard, or short and quick, it is time to stop. Tho Implement dealer's best friend Is the farmer who houses his farm machines at the side of a barb wire fence or under the shade of a leaflless tree. Butter or cream may be hauled to market at less expense than any oth er farm crop. Anil you aro selling less- fertility off tho farm than with any other crop. Itemember that vigor and good di gestion are more necessary to egg pro duction than the exact color of the feathers, though It Is posslblo to have both in the samo bird. Because of tho fact that the weather is cold, do not neglect giving the hens nil the fresh water they can drink. It should bo slightly warmed to keep It from freezing up at once. Forcing n cow for a short period cannot always bo accopted as the le gitimate measure of her capacity ot any breed, no matter how well authen ticated any great performance may bo. The most profitable method ol starting tomato plants Is to sow tho seeds In dirt bands in tho hotbed, and shift the plants to the field at setting tlmo with the dirt band and soil In tact. It takes about tho samo amount of dry matter to mnke a pound of butter as a pound of beef. Beef may sell for $5 CO per hundred and butter for 20 The latter leaves more, fertility on the farm. Some of tho most Interesting parts of the papers that are published now adays are tho advertisements. Thero Is no reason why a person should skip these: In fact, some writers saj that they judge a magazine by the adver tising It carries. If you have a heifer mdklng udder and ono of her quarters Is not filling out properly, rub that quarter daily knead and roll It between your hands A liniment of lard and alcohol may be applied and well rubbed In, but rel mainly upon tho rubbing. Thero Is very llttlo possibility of going wrong In tho hog business. Tho man who tins a few good hog to use his sklm-milk and to eat up part ol the corn that has nut been put In tho silo Is Buro to market both ot these commodities at a high price. THE NORTH PLATTE 8EMI UNIFORMITY IN MARKETING THE SHEEP An Excellent Trio. (By W. C COKKP.Y ) If closo proximity to tho regions where most of the sheep are produced wero tho only factor in determining the best location for a market, tho largest markets would be still farther west than Uiey are, because nearly scventy-fivo per cent, of the she'ep in the United States aro wust of the Mississippi river and fifty-seven per cent, aro in tho Rocky mountain region and west to the Pacific Coast. Shipping facilities for getting the output of tho packing houses to the consumer have an important bearing. Still another factor which has a great deal of Influence Is the fact that many sheep from tho west are fattened In the Mississippi and Missouri valleys Many of these are handled twice by the markets, first as feeders, and again as sheep intended for slaughter. When sold as feeders they go only a com paratively short distance from the market and this Is a factor that equal izes tho seeming disparity of tho markets being too far removed from regions of heaviest production and really makes such places as Chicago and Omaha the actual ccntors of the sheep trade. The great central sheep marketB of today have enjoyed a very large growth during tho last twenty years, tho number of sheep received in Chi cago being 2.S57.253 more the last year than twenty years before. This growth is largely traceable to the turning of tho Bheep husbandry Inter ests In the west from wool production, as a primary object, to the production of both mutton and wool, and to the rise of tho sheep feeding Industry. Bj liberal Infusion of mutton blood Into their flocks, and by mnrketlng their eheep at a younger ago than formerly.) Western tlockmasters supplanted a dry, ill-flavored mutton with a whole some product that met with ready de mand. Almost at the samo time sheen feeding, becamo popular, and these better bred sheep of the range were also better fed. A further Impetus was thus given to mutton consumption which has now reached tho point In many of our cities at leoBt, whore the only check to liberal consumption Ib tho lack of the ability to buy. With this greatly Increased activity in tho production of better mutton In the west and in feed lot operations, the largo markets have not only In creased In volume of business but they have also Improved in their organiza tion, as mny be seen In the review of conditions past and present at the Chi cago market. Formerly sheep on this market wero not classed and graded, but were sold In mixed bands just as they were unlonded from tho cars Often those mixed shipments were made up of all ages and sexes, In every degree of quality and condition. The volume of business was small; mutton was not much sought ufter, and hence the need of careful discrimination was not felt. To the commission mnn or the buyer this system perhaps did not offer great inconvenience. Perhaps the buyer even counted it to his ad vantage as he is inclined to measure the value of tho whole offering by tho inferior Individuals In It. But to tho shipper who occasionally visited tho market, little opportunity was pre sented by such a system to determine the preference of buyers. This ays tern gave way to one that Is more or derly and definite. Tho day of tho buyer taking "pot luck" on shipments is over. Now thoy arc sorted into the different classes and grades and thus prepared for tho Inspection of tho buy er. The result is a market by which the man who follows his shipments to bale may bo enlightened, and from which market quotations may bo mado thnt will bo of aid to those who have sheep to sell. With respect to control of receipts bo that violent fluctuations In prices do not occur within a short space of time tho Chicago market has greatly Hustling for Feed - WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Improved during the last twenty years Until the sheepmen ot tho west be came recognized as specialists in mut ton production, treacherous fluctua tions wero matters of almost dally occurrence. Thero are records of de clines of fifty cents per hundredweight In prices within an hour. Tho largo western Bhlpper wns obliged to fore stall such ruinous conditions. This was done by establishing feeding sta tions on the railway lines tributary to Chicago from the west Most of theso aro owned ami controlled by tho rail road companies. Tho large shtppor consigns his sheep to some ono of these foedlng stations and then awaits the advice of IiIb commission firm ns to the number of ahecp nnd tho time he shall send them to market. A shipment of say .twenty thousaud sheep Is thus dlBtrlbuted over a period, of u week or ten dnys instead of all being dumped on tho murket on tho same day. Since from Blxty-flvo to boventy-lhe per cent, of tho aheop i caching Chicago market aro sent first to the feeding stntlons. It can readily be seen how much they aid In prevent ing market glutting. Tho record run of sheep on tho Chicago market for one day Is about 60,000 and a run of 40,000 Is considered very henvy, but wore It not for the feeding stations It la claimed that thero would frequently be days when the run would bo nearer 100,000 head. ANTI-HOG CHOLERA SERUM TO FARMERS Department of Agriculture Been Endeavoring for Years to Pre vent Spread of Disease. The United States department of ugilculture has been engaged contin uously for more than 25 years In on deavorlng to discover somo method of preventing or curing hog cholera. Ah Is now quite generally known, these experiments of tho department finally resulted In the discovery of a serum that will prevent the dlseaso when properly prepared and administered. Tho robults of theso experiments of tho department of agriculture wero brought to the attention of tho author ities in all of the states, and ns a re sult approximately 30 different states arc engaged in the distribution of antl-hog-cholcra serum to farmers. This work has undoubtedly resulted In a gieat saving to the indlgldual farmer, but it has not resulted In the eradication or noticeable diminution of the disease in the country as a whole. The department of agricul ture believes that with this serum to use as a basis, a country-wide cam paign, looking to tho elimination or control ot hog cholera should be un dertaken. Congress has recognized the importance of such work by an appropriation or ?i 5,000. Hub appro priation authorizes tho department of agriculture to demonstrate tho best methods of controlling hog cholera and tho work thus authorized has al ready begun, although, owing to the small amount of money available, It Ib necessarily restricted to a few local ities. Millet Hay Not a Safe Feed. As a result of extensive Investiga tions, the North Dakota experiment station decided that millet hay when used entirely as a coarso feed is in jurious to horses. It produces an In creased action of tho kidneys, causes lameness and a swelling of tho Joints, produces an Infusion of blood Into tho joints, and destroys the texture of tho bone, rendering It softer and less to uncious eo that traction caiiHes the ligaments and muscles to be torn looso During Winter. OlOTm IJAItM hWQ UIOiT aia Lnro;miftn aw a uy c. u. Ltwio. Miss Dorothy Spencer, spinster and forty years old, lived In tho outskirts of tho vlllago of Grafton. She kopt a Borvant and n cow, had a cat and lived In a comfortnblo way on her Income. Sho was neither homely nor good-looking. She had a widowed sister living In Iown, and ono day thnt sister nr rived on a visit. Hor namo was Han nah, and. Ilko most other widows, Bhfe was full of business. There wero things sho wnnted to know about al most beforo she had taken her bonnet off, and thero was ono thing in par ticular that she lost no time In bring ing forward. "Now, then," she said, as sho got seated In tho big rocking chair, "f want to know why you haven't mar ried. It's nothing leas than a burning shame that you have lived to your age- without catching a husband." "I I havon't been asked," was the embarrassed reply of tho sister. "But why not?" "I I don't know." "Then we'll find out. Haven't you kept company with anyone? "Y-o-s." "For how long?" "Please lot's not talk uboutlt, slater. Wero tho Perkins family woll when you left home?" "Novor you mind tho Perkins fam ily, but pay attention to this other matter. What's tho name of tho mnn you've been keeping company with?" "U'b Henry Goodheart. I don't know whether you'd call It keeping compnny or not. Ho cornea Sunday and Wed nesday ovenlngs and talks for awhile." "Twice a week, eh? And how long has ho kopt this up?" "N-nlne years." "Dorothy Spencer!" exclaimed Sis ter Hannah, as sho almost sprang out ot her chair. "Do you mean to tell mo that a man has been dawdling around hero for nine years nnd novor Bnld a word about marrlngo?" "But he's one of tho moat bashful men you over saw," protested Dorothy, "and 1 I " "You are going to say you couldn't ask him to marry you. Of course you couldn't, but you could havo brought him to tlmo yenrs ago." "He's a very nice man, and every hmlv thinks so. I cucss ho thinks I don't want to get married to anyone" "What business has ho to think that? Of course you want to get mar ried. Every woman does. All widowB and single women nre just dying to bo nsked. Nino long years and he has not naked for your hand! I thought thero was a nigger In the fence some where, and havo come on to see about it I have been married three times In eighteen years, and I'm expecting tho fourth man to come along any day. I didn't keep company with any of my husbands over bIx months. After that tlmo had passed 1 Just wanted to Know what they wero hanging around for Dorothy, something has got to be dono. Thnt Goodheart, or Goodllvor, or what ever his namo is, has got to come to tlmo." "PleaBo, Sister Hannah. If you should go to mixing In I'd bo so shamed that I'd feel llko running away." "You leave it to me, and don't worry. I'm older than you are. l'vo had threo husbands nnd know how I got 'em. Thoy wero all bashful men. I shan't do anything to shame you." It was a conspiracy of one. Neither Dorothy nor Mr. Goodheart waB taken into tho widow's confidence. She had been In tho houso threo days when Sunday evening camo and he showod up on his bi-weekly tour. Tho widow liked him. Ho was slow, but sturdy and honest. Ho didn't look nor talk love. He talked more of sunflowers nnd onions than he did of love. Dor othy was ill at ease, as sho did not know what was coming, and her heart beat like a trip-hammer ns .tho widow finally said: "Mr. Goodheart, I think I shall tnko Dorothy back to Iowa with mo when 1 Bo." Ho gave a start of alarm and tho red camo to his faco. He mado no reply, however, and soon took his depar ture. "How could ou!" exclaimed Dor othy, with a glanco of reproach, as tho gate was heard to latch behind tho man. "I wanted to Jnr him," replied tho widow. "Hoil bo over heio within a day or two and aBk you to mako him happy." "Hut It will look as if wo wero drag ging him in by the hair of tho head." "Never you mind tho looks. Tho great object is to get married." Mr. Goodheart didn't show up till his usual Wednesday evening, how ever. About the tlmo ho was expect ed tho widow was at tho gato to meot him. When thoy had saluted each other shu said: "Mr. Goodheart, I want to ask you a queHtlon In confidence." "Yes?" I understand that a sewing machine ugent who conies through theso parts Is very much smitten on Dorothy. la his occupation an honorable ono? Do you think lilm the man to lovo and aro for her? As her elder sister 1 feel llko a guardian toward her." Mr. Goodhcait gavo a start, and his hand on tho gate trembled. He had to wait a minute before ho could trust his voice, and then ho aiiHworcd that he didn't go much on sowing machine agents. Tho widow sighed and said It was a cold world, and tho two went into tho house together. Her object Uud been to arouse the spark of Jeul- I ouay, but nfter tho man had stayed hut! notj imiinl hnnr nnd ilmmrted she could toll whethor It wns a bucccsb or net. Ho had talked about as usual. Did you say anything to him out att the gate?" asked Dorothy. "Nono o' your business whether l did or not. Ho's tho woodenest mniv In four states, hut I'll bring him to tlioi mark. He has either got to show his. hand or dust along and mako room for somebody else. 1 Imnglno ho'll bo nrouud tomorrow night." ' "It's awful, slRlor positively aw-) ful," said Dorothy, as tho toara fllledj her eyes. Mr. Goodheart did not mnko his ap pearance at tho time expected. He wan! In no hurry to get up a feeling ofj jealousy. Tho widow was provoked.) On Sunday evening sho met him iw quarter of a mllo down the road anil gavo him moro of hor confldouco. Shet confidod to him tho fact thnt Dorothy was ono of tho host housekeepers for a hundred mllos around. Sho was amoi economical. Also loving and clinging' In hor disposition Mr. GoodhoarU agreed to all this, but during hlB hour, ho Bat and talked of chlckonpox and; measles anl went nwny as placid ami nereno as usual. Tho widow had ni remarks to make, but sho did a heaf of thinking. Sho know that Mr. Good heart would bo hoeing potatoes in a certain field next morning, and at nlno o'clock sho was there. Sho didn't havu any tlmo to waBto. "Mr. Goodheart," she began, "at tho tlmo I Rpoko to you about tho sowings mnchlno man I didn't know that you( and alster wero engaged. You really1, must excuao me. When talking with you last night I did not know that the marrlago day hnd been sot for tha fourteenth of noxt month. I congratu late von. You will hnve ono of tha best wives In tho state. I shall stay tol tho wedding nnd tender you my heart iest wishes." Tho man stnmmered nnd blushed! and looked around for a way to e cape. There was nono. Tho wldowt had run him to earth. "Yes Just bo," was all ho could sayj but a month later ho was on hand for tho wedding. "Hero only two weeks, and yet sea what I have done!" said sister Han-, noli after tho knot had been tied hard! nnd fast. "I tell you, Dorothy, tho way, to got married Is to got married, I've tried It threo times and ought to know." WAS AN IMPORTED EXOTIC John Endlcott Credited With Introduc-i tion f Weil-Known White- NVeed or Daisy. Tradition has It that from tho early, garden of Gov. John Endlcott In Snl em, Mass., camo what 1b now perhaps tho commonest field flower In tho United States. Few persons, write. Grace Tabor In "Old-Fashioned Gar dening." know that tho pcstlferqus white-wood, tho Jubilant, smlllns daisy, Is nn Imported exotic From this old dooryard garden Jb has danced to tho music of tho cast wind straight across tho land; up and down tho moadowB, through tho long grass and tho short grass, along ev ory highway and every byway. Wher ever man una gono h nas wuuwuu gaily; often it has driven him com pletely out of tho fields ho has made. That Endlcott valued tho daisy enough to bring it with him to tho now England from tho old marks him as u man of taste, for this flower had In ancient days "found Its way into the trimmest gardens; tho green swards and nrbors wero 'powdered" with daisies," and Chaucer wrote or It In suporlntlves. It Is not native to England, cither, however, but camo, from tho continent, or'porhapB by way of tho continent from an original homo still farther oast, in northern. Asia, Youth's Companion. Somo Scope. Dr. Charles 11. Colmore, tho now bishop of Porto Itlco, said of divorce in America: "Oh, ours Is not tho only country with n rampant dlvorco spirit. I wn talking ono day to a Roumanian prlcHt nnd he Bald that the Greek church only nllowed threo dlvorcos. "'Only,' mind you thoso wero his very words 'only!' "IIo said ho married a couple onctf and tho brldo having already been di vorced twlco, ho said to her in a whisper nt tho altar: " 'You'd bettor bo careful thlB time. Hcmomber, by tho law of tho church, this Is your luBt chance. This tlmo U'b for keopH.' " 'Oh, no,' said tho bride, with a toBH of tho head; 'oh, no. My first husband was my cousin, bo that mar riage was Illegal, and consoquontjy I havo still somo scope.' " Filial. Violet found herself tho other day lu tho company of nn old schoolmato ono she hadn't soon for quite a year There were many questions to ask "And, oh Daphne," said Violet, "what's become of that Jolly girl that! used to como to see you at Mis Prism's tho awfully young and pretty ono, you know?" "Oh, that frisky minx!" waB th startling answer. "Hadn't you heard? Sho's my mother now." Apprehensions Aroused. "All tho Christmas presents I want aro a few things for tho table," said she. "What, for Instance?" asked her huMband. "Well, Forao oystor forks and aoint, egg cups and a fish sot and a game sot nnd " "I don't mind getting you tho dlBhes. Hut what's tho use? We'll novor bo ublo to buy the food to tit 'em."