Nebraska Newspapers

    Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher. -
LOUP CITY, . • NEBRASKA.
No other city disputes Boston’s
title of “Hub.’’ Too suggestive of
wheels.
Miss Leiter will get the Suffolk fam*
ily gems; Suffolk will get the Leiter
family "rocks.”
Exchange says that “a woman can
make a fool of any man.” As a rule
she doesn’t need to.
The New York papers have kindly
refrained from describing Uncle Rus
sell Sage’s Christmas.
Doubtless the proposed permanent
alliance of Balkan states would be a
good thing while it lasted.
A New York man is living with a
rubber stomach. The rubber neck
may be taken for granted.
The boll weevil’s increase of activ
ity leads to a suspicion that the Guate
malan ants went over to the enemy.
Port Arthur's new tenants may like
the location, but they will find the
premises in a shocking state of disre
pair.
Was there ever a baseball player
who, in December, wasn’t going to be
in “better shape than ever” in the com
ing year?
The mikado denies the authorship of
the poems that were recently attrib
uted to him. And they were pretty
good poems, too.
The Pulajones are on the war path
in Samar. This is the first outbreak
that has occurred in the Jones family
for over forty years.
That last year's calendar may not
be altogether useless, after all. You
may need it to figure up how long
your note has yet to run.
They are always talking about
lambs in Wall street, but our experi
ence is that the lamb there is mighty
tough.—Indianapolis Sentinel.
Bob Fitzsimmons’ typewriter was a
little rusty, but by oiling it up he
succeeded in starting a pugilistic bat
tle in the most approved professional
style.
Enter the joke about the joke about
the joke about the broken resolution,
the diary, the expense account, and the
rest.—New York Evening Mail.
As above.
Why, certainly, there is a “general
election” this year. It is up to the
people generally to elect whether they
will keep their new year resolutions
or not. Go to.
That lecturer who says a woman
should not marry until she can sup
port a husband must want to put the
men of this country on a level with
foreign noblemen.
Lord Rosslyn’s sisters are hard up
for money. If Edward will make titles
descend from women the he title hun
ters of America will keep English
ladies out of the poorhouse.
By changing its name to Cushman,
Bernardston can have $10,000. Many
women have changed their names for
less.—Lewiston Journal.
And been sorry for it afterward.
A woman was arrested at Jersey
City a few days ago for obtaining
$1,500 on bad checks. Considering the
brevity of her financial career, she
couldn’t have been much for looks.
After falling from the top to the bot
tom of a hundred-foot hole Patrick
Joyce of New Jersey and the County
Sligo said he could whip any man who
said he was dead. And not a man said
a word.
Villagers in Kamtschatka are hav
ing a deal of trouble with starving
bears, which, in their turn, have
trouble in digesting the villagers. The
average Kamtschatkan is “a tough
proposition.”
According to Agricultural Depart
ment statistics, the fartn products of
this country amount to $2,734,863,702
—not counting the precious and costly
vegetables that the suburban backyard
farmer raises.
Now that jiu-jitsu is to be taught at
the naval academy st Annapolis, it
ought to be taught at West Point, too,
or the West Point boys will be at a
disadvantage in the next army and
navy football game.
A Lutheran minister in Tennessee
says life insurance is gambling, and
therefore something to be condemned.
But might not the same be said of fire
Insurance which the strictly orthodox
consider so essential?
Mrs. Elliott spoke the other day
about "the tongue of scandal taking
liberties with a woman’s skirt,” and
Irvine’s son-in-law says: "Father can
not talk because his hands are tied.”
The whole case seems to be badly
mixed.
"If your stomach is normally
healthy,” says the Nebraska State
Journal, "you can eat a bowl of corn
meal mush and milk for supper and
sleep like a kitten till the roosters
crow at daylight.” But why mush and
milk if the stomach’s O. K.?
A w'oman was fined for disorderly
conduct at Bristol, England, the other
day because she wTas found by a po
liceman “kissing all the men she
could lay her hands on.” It w?ould, of
course, have been very rude on the
part of the men if they had pushed
her away.
It is still within the power of Marie
Corelli to score heavily on Andrew
Carnegie by working him up in her
next novel as a creature with horns,
hoofs, and a caudal appendage with s
barb at the end of it.
A Real Bird
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Her eyes are as brown as the thrush's
garb;
Her neck, like the swan’s downy coat.
Is whiter than snow in it's whitest state;
And her voice has the tune of a night
ingale's throat.
Her hair is as black as a raven’s wings,
Her grace, even when she is still.
Is that of the eagle which soars high
above;
And every three months there’s a milli
ner's bill.
She’s as proud as a peacock, that rain
bowlike bird.
With dignity often absurd;
With feathers and two little feet pigeon
toed
My wife would in fact be a consum
mate bird.
—Philadelphia Press.
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(Copyright, 1905, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
roe sunshine seemea unusually
pleasant that bright spring morning.
How good it was to be out! How
the buds were swelling and how busy
the birds were, hopping about from
place to place choosing sites for their
summer cottages. All nature seemed
rejoicing that the long, cold winter
was past.
Old Mrs. St. Leger stood for a mo
ment in the open doorway, enjoying
It all; then she noticed a bit of vine
which the wind had loosened from
the trellis. She stepped on a chair
and stood on tiptoe to put the truant
back in its place, when she over-reach
ed and would have fallen had not the
strong arm of a passerby caught her
and deftly placed her on the veranda
floor.
“Lucky thing I happened to be pass
ing or you would have had a nasty
fall if not a broken limb.”
“It was indeed fortunate for me and
I am very grateful to you,” she said,
as she looked at the tall form bending
over her.
“What were you trying to do?
Bring me a hammer and some nails
and I’ll fix that broken trellis for you.
It’s not the handiest thing in the
world for a woman to do that kind
of work.”
Seems as though the place needs
quite a bit of fixing. I guess I’ll have
to get a man in for a day or two.”
“You’re a bit like myself, I see. You
miss your partner and I miss mine.
But you’re better off than I am; you’re
in your own home, while I’ve had to
give up mine and go and live with
my children. None of them want me,
so I have to “live round” with them.
Do you understand. Stay with this
one a while and then with that,
always feeling that I’m not wanted
and in the way.” A mournful tone
had crept into his voice and a shade
across his kind face.
She sighed in sympathy as she
said: “I know, and that’s what I’m
coming to. The children say that I
can’t stay here another winter. Last
fall I had to sell my cow’ and through
the winter I killed all my chickens.
I hate to give up my little home
w’here I’ve been so comfortable all
these years. This living with the
children takes away the independent
feeling that makes one so contented.”
“That it does; I’d rather live on
less and have it under my own roof.”
They sat awhile in silence. The
warm spring sunshine fell on their
locks, whitened by the snows of many
winters; their toil-worn hands lay
idly in their laps. The tabby cat was
taking a nap on the old lady’s skirt
and his dog Rover, which followed him
everywhere, lay curled up at his feet.
They had spent useful lives and had
looked forward to a winter of quiet
content, which, alas! seemed to have
slipped from the grasp of each. Her’s
was a cheery disposition, however,
and she strove to look at the bright
side.
“Well* I’ve one more summer In the
old place anyway. My tulips and cro
cuses are looking fine. Horace used
to say to me, ‘Wife, yours are the
finest and earliest tulips on the
street.’ He loved to look at them
as he sat at the south window. Just
around the corner I’ve a bed of pan
sies and alrealy the buds are show
ing.”
“You’ve a clump of daffy-down-dil
lies, somewhere,” he said, catching her
spirit. “I always like those for they
remind me of England and my child
hood’s home.”
“Listen, do you hear the bluebirds
In yonder grove? See that inquisitive
A passerby deftly caught her.
robin; I do believe the same robin
builds in our apple tree every spring.”
They sat enjoying the pleasant
spring sunshine, the balmy air and
the chorus of song from God’s little
choiristers. A quiet, restful feeling
seemed to take possession of the old
man who presently said:
“Mrs. St. Leger, this is a pretty and
a neat little home; you would hate to
leave it as I disliked leaving mine.
We are both well-to-do. Both have
grown-up children, and both without
a home, or nearly so. Now jou need a
man about the place, and I a woman.
I’ve always liked your looks and be
lieve we could get along pretty com
fortably together. What’s to prevent
us getting married? We could both
have a home then and not be shoved
from pillar to post, or made to feel
that we’re in the way,” and a great
longing crept into his voice while his
eyes grew moist.
‘‘There’s a good deal of truth in
what you say, James Crosby, but—1
wonder if we could get along to
gether?”
‘‘To be sure we coujd if we made
up our minds to do it. I’d be willing
to sacrifice something if I could only
sit at my own fireside once more.
I’m tired of being shoved around from
“Be ready, Mary, in half an hour.”
one child to another and wanted by
none.”
“I’ve not come to that yet but I will
next winter if something isn’t done.”
“As I've said, I’ve always liked your
looks. I’m sure you’re not hard to get
along with.”
“Well, I’d do my best to make the
home comfortable for you, and, as 1
rather like your looks, but—what will
the children say?”
“They need know nothing about it
until it is done. I’d leave you enough
when I died so that you wouldn’t
have to live round. The children
ought to be glad that they wouldn't
be bothered with us.”
“That’s so. We could live here,
couldn’t we.”
“Yes, if you like, Mary. I’d buy a
cow and some chickens; then I’d look
after the garden and provide for the
house.”
They were silent for some time,
thinking of the future; then he reach
ed over and took her hand as he said:
“Think of having a home, Mary,
where we could do as we pleased, and
not feel in the way. Think of the
comfort, the joy of one’s own home!”
“Yes, it would be nice. I wouldn’t
have to go and live with the children.
I’ll do it, James, and try to make you
so comfortable that you’ll never re
gret it,” and she looked up into the
kindly face beside her.
“I’m sure you will, Mary,” he said,
as he kissed her. “I, too, will do my
best to make your life contented and
happy. Now we’d better go to the
minister's at once, before the children
get knowledge of it, and have a
chance to make a fuss.”
“But, James, I’d like to clean the
house up a bit, and—”
“You can tidy up the house; Mary,
while I clean the yard. Just think of
having a home; I feel ten years
younger at the thought. Now, I’ll go
up street and get the license while
you get on your bonnet. Then we’ll
go over to the minister’s and get mar
ried; we’ll come back to our own
home for dinner. After dinner I’ll get
a pony and carriage and we’ll drive
out into the country and look after a
cow and some chickens.”
He stooped and kissed the bright,
cheery face of the old lady, and said,
as he walked to the gate:
“Be ready, Mary, in half an hour,
for I’ll be back then.”
Roche’s Strenuous Career.
Jim Roche, the man who smuggled
a torpedo destroyer out of England
into the service of Russia, is a man
of varied and exciting experience. He
has led a revolution in South America,
has had a tombstone erected to him
somewhere in northern Europe, stood
as a model for the late Sir John Mil
lais, struck oil in a southern state and
at one time was an ally of Ernest Ter
rah Hooley, the south African pro
moter.
Photographs Wild Animals.
The African explorer Shillings has
brought to Berlin an extraordinarily
interesting series of photographs of
wild animals taken by themselves.
His method was to attach to a. piece
of meat a string, which, on being
touched, brought on a flashlight ex
posure. Leopards, hyenas, lions, apes
rebras and other animals were thus
taken in the most diverse attitudes,
ITS WINTER SLEEP BROKEN.
Big Catfish Disturbed by the Intrusion
sf a Lot of Buffalo Fishes.
The Aquarium’s big Mississippi riv
er catfish, which in winter lies on the
bottom of its tank motionless for
weeks at a time in a state of hiberna
tion, woke up in great shape on Mon
day last when some other fishes were
introduced into its tank.
For years this big catfish has had a
tank all to itself; but when the fishes
from the St. Louis exhibit, a big lot,
were received on Monday, it was nec
essary to double up the stock here in
a few of the tanks, and then the buffa
lo fishes,which have been in the Aquar
ium about six months, were placed in
the tank with the big cat.
The buffalo fishes came from the
same waters as the big catfish, but the
catfish regarded their coming into its
tank as an intrusion, for all that,
and it got up out of bed—out of its
bed of sand on the bottom of the tank
—to say so, chasing the buffalo fishes
about with a liveliness quite unwonted
to it at this season. The buffalo
fishes are sizable specimens, but not
nearly so big as the catfish, and they
fled at its approach.
When it had driven the buffalo
fishes all into the upper waters of
the tank, the big catfish went back to
bed again, and once more settled down
and went to sleep. And so it has since
remained, the buffaloes keeping well
away from it.
Apparently it is now sleeping well
and soundly again, but when it
dreams—if catfish ever do dream—its
sleeping visions doubtless take the
shape of those unmannerly buffalo
fishes, which so rudely broke in upon
its long winter slumber.—New York
Sun.
CHARITIES OF HELEN GOULD.
Her Gifts Bestowed With Unswerving
Business Instincts.
Her law school course illustrates
another trait in her character. She is
careful, judicious, an excellent busi
ness woman even in the bestowal of
her charities. The misdirected fer
vor of the sentimental giver of gifts
is not hers. She is fortunate that it is
not. Emotional philanthropy would
long ago have made her a bankrupt.
Her fortune, at a conservative esti
mate, is about $15,000,000; if she com
plied with all the requests for money
which she receives it would take her
something less than two years to dis
pose of it. She receives about 100 let
ters a day asking for sums which
make a weekly total of about $150,000.
She is asked to buy vessels for old
sea captains, to raise mortgages on
western farms, to train the voices of
embryo Pattis on the prairies, to edu
cate young men for the ministry, to
contribute to ladies’ aid society fairs
in country villages, to endow all sorts
of institutions. Herself a strikingly
unextravagant woman in matters oi
dress and all personal expenditure,
she is asked by prospective brides to
provide sums ranging as high as
$2,000 for their modest trousseaux
Parents write her enthusiastic let
ters describing the charms of young
Helen Miller Gould Smiths or Joneses
and saying how gratefully a nucleus
! for these young ladies’ future dowries
will be received. In one banner week
the begging public—including, ol
course, the respectable beggars foi
worthy charities, as well as the mere
prayers on unsophisticated kindness
asked for a million and a half dollars
—Harper’s Bazar.
Woman Rules Snake Indians.
Alexander Posey, interpreter and
diplomat of the Dawes commission,
who recently spent some time among
the Snake Indians to secure evidence
needed in making record of Creek In
dians, tells of a strange discovery he
has made.
Among the fullblood Snakes he
found a woman who is the modem
Zenobia of her race. Her Indian name
is Fahnee. She can not speak Eng
lish, but is considered a woman o!
wisdom ainong her tribesmen. She is
50 years old, and for years there has
not been a council of war, or anj
other matter of import to the tribe,
at which she has not been present and
given advice.
She is always listened to by the
men of the tribe, and seldom has hei
judgment been at fault. She has been
in sympathy with the faction, which
has always resisted the allotment ol
lands.
She has never led a band of In
dians in a fight, but she has taken a
very active part in shaping the polic>
of the tribal government for the last
twenty-five years.
Japanese Retort Courteous.
Nagahaki, the celebrated Japanese
juggler, was a great favorite wherevei
he went, and just before the present
war broke out he was performing in
St. Petersburg.
When hostilities commenced he had
to clear out, and his admirers, among
whom were many officers of the gar
rison, gave him a farewell supper.
At the close of the banquet they
were wishing him “Goodby” when
some of them exclaimed, “Not good
by, but only au revoir, for we shall be
drinking your health in champagne in
Tokio before the year is out.”
“I am afraid not,” replied Nagahaki,
gravely. “Japan is a poor country, re
member, and I fear we shall not be
able to give our prisoners cham
pagne.”
The Voyage.
Each night I launch my caravel
Upon the soundless sea of sleep;
My sails with freshening breezes swell,
I cleave a pathway through the deep;
And, sick of mind, I leave behind
The old world, weary grown, and sad,
And on and on I sail to find
The stranger coast, the Islands glad!
At morn the voyage ends—I wake!
Look through my cabin window. (That’s
Right near my bed! The sun doth break
In silver splinters through the slats!).
What strange new land lies there at
hand!
What gladness fills the wondering
sight!
What leagues of sea I must have spanned
From that old world of yesternight!
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
White Cattle to Be Sold.
A herd of aboriginal, wild white
cattle, which has been confined for
nearly seven hundred years In Chart
ley Park, Staffordshire, England, on
the hereditary estate of the Earl Fer
rers, Is to be sold. The park, consist
ing of nine hundred acres, is to be di
vided up. The herd has numbered as
many as forty-three, but numbers now
only nine. It was shut up In 1248.
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Forcing Tomatoes.
Tomatoes have been forced as an
early summer crop at the Ohio exper
iment station for about twelve years
with uniformly good results and the
product has been sold at remunerative
prices.
At the station tomatoes forced in
spring and early summer have not
only sold readily but the cost of pro
duction is so much less at that season
than in mid-winter that they have
proven a very profitable vegetable for
forcing.
Greenhouse tomatoes, because of
superior quality, sell more readily and
at much higher prices than the south
ern grown product on the same mar
ket.
At the station, tomatoes grown in
the spring have betn much more prof
itable than either lettuce or cucum
bers grown at the same season.
The average yield has been over
two pounds per square foot and the
average price 12 cents per pound.
Thus the returns have been more than
20 cents per square foot of bench
space.
Raised benches have the advantage
over ground beds in earlier ripening of
fruit.
Sub-irrigation or mulching is essen
tial to success in tomato forcing and it
is advantageous to combine both meth
ods.
For a spring and early summer crop
the seed should be sown in flats about
the first of December. The plants may
be pricked off into pots or flats, flats
being more economical. The second
and third shifts should be made into
pots.
Under ordinary care plants from
seed sown Dec. 1 will be ready to set
in the permanent beds about the mid
dle of March, and the fruit will begin
to ripen from the first to the middle
of June.—From Ohio Experiment
Station Bulletin 153.
Improving Poor Fruit Trees.
There are plenty of fruit trees that
ought to be robustly in their prime
that are in very poor condition. Some
people may also talk of cutting off
hese weak trees and planting others,
but with such reasons this is unneces
sary. So long as the trees are healthy,
although inefficient, there is every
chance of their being renovated, and
great crops will be secured much
sooner from them than by planting
small and young trees. Pruning is one
of the aids to improvement. The
growths may not be strong, but they
may be crowded, and this must be
relieved at once. It is a first and
absolutely necessary step; then the
roots must be seen to. If turf growls
round the stems, remove it all to a
distance of 18 inches or two feet out.
Take it away, and do not let it regrow.
The soil should then be dug aw%v till
the roots are met with in quantity,
then fork a liberal supply of cow ma
nure among them. Bon« manure is
also suitable as an artificial. Use
plenty, and in filling in give plenty
of manure among the soil. If the soil
is gravelly, try and refill over the
roots with loam, but do not place the
soil much further up the stem than it
was before. When any good liquid
manure is available, saturate the roots
thoroughly with it.
Prune Gooseberry Bushes.
If the pruning of gooseberries is
neglected, the bushes fill up with wood
and the berries become small and dif
ficult to pick. The fruit is produced
from lateral buds on one-year-old
wrood, and also in short spurs on wood
two or more years old. The same
spur may produce fruit for three or
four years if the strength of the bush
is maintained by proper fertilizing and
pruning. The first two crops from a
given spur are, however, usually the
best. The new wood which is pro
duced in a gooseberry bush each sea
son appears as new branches arising
from buds on the previous year's
growth of the canes already present,
or as new' shoots arising from the
crown of the bush. The new branches
on the old canes will produce fruit
from the lateral buds the year follow
ing the one in which they develop.
The new shoots from the crown will
become fruiting canes when two years
old if allowed to grow. The new’
branches on a comparatively young
cane are much stronger than those on
an old cane. After a cane has reach
ed the age of about five years, the
new growth is likely t- be short, weak
and unproductive. As soon as a cane
shows signs of weakening It should
be removed.—Farmers’ Guide.
Fruit One of Farm’s Blessings.
Most farmers cannot afford to take
time from their other work to grow
fruit for market, but enough should
be grown so that the farmer’s family
may have an abulfdance of each kind
in its season. That is one of the com
pensations of farm life.
Season’s Potato Yield.
Revised returns justify the esti
mate of an average yield of 110.4
bushels of potatoes this rear, instead
of 100 bushels, as stated in the last
number. The average yield for the
previous ten years was 81 bushels,
making the present a bumper year for
this crop. Maine is credited with the
largest average acre yield, 215 bush
els. rfhe Southern states had from 61
to 80 bushels, except Florida, which
grew 102 bushels. Iowa’s yield was
136 bushels and Wisconsin’s 126, both
extremely good for this country. The
average of the old New England states
is higher than in the same number of
newer western states.—Farm, Stock
and Home.
No Lime On Manure.
It is a mistake to put lime in the
manure heap, for it destroys the salts
ot ammonia, and by compelling it to
take the gaseous form drives it off.
Lime will rot manure very quickly
and do its work well, but it will be at
the expense of a loss of nitrogen,
■which is an ingredient of ammonia,
savs the Farm Jaurnal, and it's'good
authority.
Stuffing Fowls for Weight.
It is not the man who keeps feed
before his fowls all the time who has
heavy birds, as birds, like people, do
not want to see what they are obliged
to eat all the time. And, again, they
soon tire of anything they are con
stantly nibbling all the time, says the
Farmers’ Advocate.
Have stated times to feed and let
the fowls get hungry; then, by feed
ing the right kind of feed in the right
way, you can have your birds up to
weight, and are liable to carry away
the blue. Many a would-be winner
loses the prize on account of its
weight in the showroom.
Place not more than five birds in a
coop 4x5 feet, with floor covered six
inches with straw, and change this
straw three times a week. This will
enable the birds to clean themselves
nicely in this coop. Have a box of
good grit, a watering dish, and keep
these two dishes well filled all the
time.
Now for the feed. Take equal parts
of corn, wheat, oats and barley. Have
them ground together. Mix with wa
ter or milk, and give the birds all
they will eat up. In fifteen minutes
take the dish away so they do not
even see it. Then at noon give them
another feed, and after fifteen min
utes take the dish away. Follow this
for ten days, giving them meat three
times a week, if their combs are
small. If too large, do not feed meat
or bone, as it will make their combs
grow too large. This manner of feed
ing can be continued two weeks, if
necessary, but not longer. If a bird
gets off his feed, the “jig” is up with
him, and it will be better to take him
out of the pen.
Green Food in Winter.
The aim in feeding poultry in the
winter is to give variety and come as
near to meeting summer conditions as
possible. Therefore, the providing of
green food of some sort for winter
feed should not be overlooked. Right
now is a good time to look after this
matter. Roots, such as turnips, man
golds and sugar beets, can be fed to
advantage in ihe winter provided that
the poultry quarters are not too cold.
Cut the roots into halves and place
them on spikes or nails driven into
the walls so as to be in easy reach of
the fowls. The poultry will pick out
the meat of the beets with a relish.
Another source of green food is cab
bage. They should, however, be fed
sparingly, because of the danger of
diarrhoea. Cabbage intended for feed
may be stored in root cellars or, where
the winters are not severe, in trenches
out of doors, and covered with dirt and
leaves.
Vegetables, such as potatoes, can be
cooked and fed to advantage. On
many farms there are often quan
tities of small potatoes that are
wasted every year that might as
well have been fed to the poul
try during the winter months. Bright
clover and alfalfa hay chopped
up and placed in the scratching pens
are great helps in winter feeding.
Rape and kale sown in the early fall
can be used as a food in the early
winter. The neglect to give a proper
amount of green food or substitutes to
poultry in confinement causes much
sickness in the early spring.
The Destructive Rat.
Housewives in the country some
times complain that poultry raising is
a great care on account of the losses
that occyr among the young chicks
largely due to the presence of rats.
The rat is far harder to hedge against
than the cat. A good strong parti
tion to the poultry house or a good
wire fence around the poultry yard
will keep out cats, but these have lit
tle efTect in checking the depredations
of rats. They can gnaw through the
partition and tunnel under the wire
fence and do the work so expeditiously
that the damage to the flock is done
before the farmer has had time to take
combative measures. Then when he
begins to fight the rodents he finds
that the process is not a smooth one.
The animals avoid the steel trap and
the wire cage. Poison is the only
thing that seems to be effective, and
the farmer hesitates about employing
this, as he is afraid of hurting other
animals. But this method of destruc
tion will be found to be about the only
effective one if the rats are very num
erous. If poison is used it should be
placed where only the rats can get ac
cess to it.
Poultry Pickings.
Confinement and idleness causes the
vice of feather pulling.
Poultry raising is one of the most
attractive branches of farming.
Water is as important as food and
should be supplied clean and fresh.
The views of many persons in poul
try culture are more to be relied on
than the views of one, because the one
has had only a small proportion of the
possible experience.
When confined fowls have no oppor
tunity of gratifying their desire of the
choice of food. There are three points
to be observed, which are that nitro
genous food is necessary, that too
much green food must not be given,
and that fowls must not be made too
fat.
Poultry raisers differ in their opin
ion on account of the great differences
in the experiences. No one person’s
knowledge covers the whole range of
experience.
Because a person fails at the busi
ness of poultry raising is not a sign
that he would not succeed in another
attempt at the same enterprise. In
fact his chances of success are in
creased by his first failure.
If a person can succeed with a small i
flock of chickens or other fowls there
is no reason why he or she should not
succeed with a large one, provided
that the large one is given the same i
care that the small one receives.
The man that dreams about poultry
raising but never tried it imagines i
that the whole business consists in I
feeding the fowls and gathering the
eggs. When he gets into the business
he finds that his dreams were mere <
shadows. i
LIVE!
STOCK,
The Hog Machine. *
While the use of corn exclusively is.
to be depreciated, says the Agricultur
ist, especially as a ration far young
growing stock, it is all right for the
final fattening process. And it is hard
to tell what the farmers of the great
middle west, or corn belt, would do
for a market for their surplus corn fc|
were it not for the ever accommodat
ing stomach of the omnivorous hog.
He not only converts, but condenses
it into wholesome food product that
can be conveyed to market in much
easier form.
This applies not only to corn, but to
all kinds of feed and garbage going to
waste on many farms but for the
presence of hogs.
Thus it is the hog is really a living
machine that requires but little more
attention than any.other machinery
on the farm, but this little should be
given ungrudgingly, as nothing will
pay you a better per cent on your in
vestment, one year with another.
Another source of income from the
hog, if properly considered, is the
wealth of excellent manure that he
makes during the year.
It Pays to Feed Cows Well.
To make a success out of the dairy
business a number of things are es
sential. Prominent among these are:
First, the right kind of cows; second,
the right kind of food, and third, lib
eral feeding. A number of other es
sential factors, such as proper shelter
for the cows, a good market for the
products within easy reach. Eliminate
any one of these factors and at once
there is something wrong.
It is not our purpose to speak of all
these factors at this time, but rather
to confine the discussion to the feed
ing problem. As a matter of fact a
great many farmers do not put the
amount of thought and study into the
feeding of their cows that they ought
to. They imagine that they have nol
»ime for that as there is too much
work to do on a dairy farm. In talk
ing with a farmer the other day about
the value of reading good agricultural
papers he replied: “I like to read good
farm journals, as one finds many val
uable suggestions in them, but the
trouble is I have not time to read
them.”
Wool Clip Contracted.
Dealers in wool seem to have no
fears of a decline of wool prices foi
another year at least. In various
western states dealers have alreadj
been closing contracts for next year’s
wool clip at from seventeen to twent>
cents per pound and seem willing ic
take all they can get at those figures |y
While many farmers have sold their
next year's crop on such terms as
these some are willing to wait until
spring to dispose of their clip, taking
the chances on the price going down
They don’t consider there is much risk
to run when buyers are so anxious tc
contract so far ahead, and prefer tc
take chances rather than to sell now
and likely to regret making the agree
ment before shearing time.
The farmer who breeds and raises
good sheep may be pretty sure oi
reaping some good profits from both
his wool and mutton during the next
few years. The sheep business cer
tainly has a bright outlook at the pres
ent time.
Sulphur of Little Value.
The statement is frequently mad6
that feeding stock with sulphur will
prevent such stock from being infest
ed with ticks, lice, etc. Of course, if
this were the case a great deal of
work in dipping such animals could be
avoided. It does not appear, however,
that there Is any authentic evidence
of the success of the sulphur feeding
method. On the other hand the chiel
veterinary surgeon of the Cape 01
Good Hope, in conjunction with the
government entomologist of that col
ony dosed a young ox and a colt daily
for months without the slightest effect
upon the ticks which preyed upon
these animals. Toward the end of the
experiment the dose of sulphur was
three ounces daily for each animal.
Hornless Cattle Favored.
We notice a growing sentiment
among dairy farmers n favor of horn
less cattle. Shorthorns and Jerseys of
pure blood are now being bred with
out horns and herd book record the
names of such animals and their
breeders. Beef producers here in the
west have for many years been
crossing common cattle with the
polled Angus and Galloways for the
double purpose of breeding off the
horns and improving the stock as beef
producers but the dairy people have
been slow in adopting the clipping ma
chine. The Red Polls are more of a
dairy breed, some of t/tem having high
records in that line, although when
matured and fattened they are quite
acceptable to butchers.—Denver Field
and Farm.
Barn Ventilation.
There is urgent need of study of the
Important question of ventilation and
lighting in farm barns. A recent in
vestigation carried on by the Agricul
tural College of Wisconsin has shown
that scores of costly barns, intended to
house valuable blooded live stock, and
an which thousands of dollars have
been expended to secure perfect sani
tary conditions, are a complete fail
ure so far as ventilation is concerned,
ind that this lack of proper ventila ^
tion is causing more serious increased!
n the spread of tuberculosis and se- "
'iously impairs the profits of feeding.
With the brood sow exercise is es
sential and while it is necessary to
teep in a good thrifty condition, they
should not be allowed to become too
leshy, as an excess of fat is not de
sirable.
The best evidence that a cow baa
;he right kind of food and sufficient
lood is a sleek, soft skin. I
Sour apples may be fed, but very
tarefully, as they sometimes make the
nouth sore.