STANDS DOT WINDS
WILL WITHSTAND HOT WINDS
AND DROUTH.
GOSSIP FROM STATE CAPITAL
Items of Interest Gathered from Re
liable Sources and Presented in
Condensed Form to Our
Readers.
Discovery of corn that will with
stand hot winds and grow despite of
drouth is believed to have been made
by Curator M. R. Gilmore of tbe state
museum as 3 result of experiments
conducted on the advice of an Indian
tribe which formerly lived in this
state. The seeds for the corn were
sent to Mr. Gilmore by Sitting Bear
of the Arikara tribe, now in Wiscon
sin. The local man planted the corn
in June and left it to its own re
sources. There were no rains to help
it along in its growth, but wbile
plants and vegetables around it were
withering up this corn flourished and
ripened. Its hardness and tendency
to grow- without moisture and general
adaptability to Nebraska conditions
such as prevailed in many sections
during the season just closing, are
looked upon as points that will com
mend iL to the average Nebraska
farmer. Federal corn experts have
become interested in the plant and
stale authorities will also look into
the matter. It is likely that a bulletin
will be put out on tbe subject within
a short time.
Marked Success of Dairy Train.
Nothing in, the w^ay of a promotion
and educational train has ever trav
eled over Nebraska with such marked
success as the state dairy' train. The
train has taken to the people of north
ern and westevn Nebraska practical
illustrations of the possibilities of
farm development, and increase in
farm profits to come through increased
milk and dairy production. In the
two weeks that the train has been on
the road fully 40,000 farmers have
beard the practical lecture talks, have
seen the cow demonstrations, have
passed through the exhibit cars and
returned to their farms with new and
practical ideas, not given them in the
spirit of dictation or interference, but
simply given them as the results of
practical experience in other places
and showing (he practical way to
work out problems in the dairy inter
ests at their own homes.
Tuberculosiu in State Cattle.
Dr. Kigin. state veterinarian, has
completed an inspection and test ot
dairy cattle at the Hastings asylum
for tuberculosis. He found forty
seven tubercuiais out of 120 head
tested. In order to demonstrate the
ravages of tuberculosis he dissected
the carcass of one animal, which
proved to be affected throughout the
entire system. The animals that show
signs of the disease will be sold sub
ject to inspection, after they are
slaughtered. Where the disease is
local the meat is approved for sale as
food. Dr. Kigin reports the stable at
the Hastings asylum in very poor con
dition from a sanitary standpoint. It
is poorly lighted and badly ventilated
and has been crowded most of the
time. He heartily approves the plan
of the board of control to build a new
up-to-date sanitary dairy barn. Dr.
Kigin killed two more glandered
horses at Mindett. Five were killed
there recently, but he does not expect
the disease to appear again in the
6ame locality. _
Must Not Overtest Cream.
If a buyer of cream desires to raise
his price and outbid a rival for busi
ness he will in the future be com
pelled to openly announce that he will
pay more than his competitors instead
of trying to get business by over-test
ing cream and in this manner pay more
than his rival and at the same time
make producers believe his rival is
making an unfair test It is against
the state law to o^ertest or to under
test cream bought for commercial pur
poses. This law is upheld by a de
cision given by the supreme court in
the case of the State vs. Thorp, from
Cuming county. Another result of the
decision is that Nels P. Hansen of
Lincoln, formerly state food commis
sioner, will not have to pay $50,000
damages to Thorp.
What is believed to be the shortest
brief on record has just been filed by
Assistant Attorney General Edgerton
in a case before the Nebraska supreme
court. The brief contains twenty-three
lines, not counting signatures and the
date line.
A quarterly magazine will be pub
lished by the Mississippi Valley His
torical society, the first issue to ap
pear in December. The Nebraska His
torical society is one of the guaran
tors of the magazine and Secretary
Paine is its secretary treasurer.
Bank Deposits Reach High Mark.
Nebraska state bank deposits
reached the highest amount ever be
fore known in Nebraska during the
quarter ending August 26, according
to the consolidated report of the
state banks, just compiled by the state
banking board. The total is $94,194.
166.83. or an increase of $6,603,716.45
over that of the previous quarter. The
total number of depositors was 290.370.
The number of banks reporting is 710,
with deposits of $94,194,166.83, and an
average reserve of 30 per cent. Loans
have increased $7,834,000
Attorney General Martin has ruled
that it is not compulsory upon a
county board to divide their county
into road dragging districts. The ques
tion arose in Platte county. The at
torney general holds that If a finding
of a board is that it is not practicable
for the county to adopt the district
system and that the roads cannot be
improved by dragging, owing to their
natural condition, witch finding of the
board is final and cannot be overturned
except by appeal to the district court.
The law, he declares, gives the board
discretionary power
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
Filler boasts of having the test
reads in the state.
The magnificent $30,000 athletic
park at Beatrice was dedicated last
we ck.
fork will compel infractors of the
city ordinances to work on the streets
hereafter.
The State band of Lincoln will fur
nish music for the Seward festival,
October 8.
J. W. Dodd, a Fairbury laborer, fell
while pushing a wneelbarrow and bit
off his tongue.
Mrs. R. J. Woodworth of Wahco suf
fered a broken wrist when she fell o£
the porch at her home.
Miss Alice Cleaver of Falls City i*
soon to start for Paris to spend the
year studying painting.
Marie Strauch, three years old, was
burned to death at Lincoln when her
clothing caught on fire.
Holland Scott, of Alliance, suffered a
broken limb in a football practice
game at Hastings college.
Thomas O'Gorman, coroner of Hali
county, was fatally injured in an autc
accident near Wood River.
J. L. Slocum has sold the apples in
his twenty-acre orchard near Sliubert
to St. Joseph buyers for $1,70.0.
Mrs. Mary Flynn. 81 years old, was
found dead in bed at Seward by rela
tives who had called to visit her.
The Iowa-Nebraska Public Service
corporation at Norfolk haw been ad
judged a bankrupt in federal coun.
Frank Worthington, a Beatrice boy,
was killed at a fire at Billings. Mont.,
by being run over by a hose truck.
Attorney Henry Nunn of St. Paul,
who accidentally shot himself in the
foot while hunting, died from blood
poisoning.
Prizes of $30, $20 and $10 are offered
at the German day celebration at Lin
coln for out-of-town clubs inarching in
the parade.
James Bratunek found a wallet con
taining $900 on a Union Pacific train
near Grand Island. It belonged to a
cigar man.
One hundred out o? a herd of 300
sheep owned by John Weinert. a Rich
ardson county farmer, were poisoned
by rn fodder.
musical festival will be held in
Seward, October 8. under the direction
of the commercial club and business
men's association.
The commercial lighting ordinance
was passed by the Lincoln city com
mission without a dissenting vote and
without comment.
The splendid new St. Libory Catho
lic church, costing $65,000. is nearing
completion and will be dedicated some
time in November.
A vicious dog attacked a six-year
old girl at Fairbury, and tore several
bad gashes In her face and arms be
fore it was beaten off.
Many of the Nebraska booster edi
tions issued throughout the state were
a credit to the publishers and the
offices putting them out.
James Weeks accidentally shot off
two of his fingers and a portion of his
left hand while, hunting ducks on the
Elkhorn river near Neligh.
Frank Manley, a conductor on the
Union Pacific, was held up in the resi
dence portion of Grand Island and re
lieved of a diamond ring.
Probably the oldest man in the state
Is Thomas Morris of Custer county,
who was born at Berrew, North Wales,
in 1794, nearly 120 years ago.
Bert Marts, the Rock Island brake
man who was shot and killed by a
tramp at Limon, Colo., was a Falls
City boy, the son of Sam Marts, the
chief of police in that city.
Abraham Nichols, a peddler, was
instantly killed Wednesday morning
when a Burlington passenger train
struck his buggy at the main crossing
of Burnham, near Lincoln.
Sylvia Kramer of Syracuse was
probably fatally burned and the fam
ily home demolished by the explosion
of a gasoline lighting plant resulting
from a visit to the cellar with a light
ed lantern.
William F. Kelley, a Lincoln attor
ney. has been appointed confidential
secretary to Secretary of State Bryan,
and has gone to Washington to as
sume his duties.
The dedication ceremonies for the
Oregon trail monument located on the
Kansas-Nebraska state line, near Lan
ham. have been indefinitely postponed
owing to weather conditions.
Harvey Livingston, a Lincoln boy,
was badly wounded on a hunting trip
Sunday when a shotgun was accident
ally discharged by a companion, the
load taking effect three inches above
the knee.
i Many farmers In Hall county are
j putting in small irrigation plants of
! their own. using large wells supplied
i with centrifugal pumps and dyking
j the fields.
Members of the cadet band of the
I Omaha high school are on strike on
account of the efforts of four colored
I boys to become members of the or
I ganization.
The last Sunday in October was
designated “Wesleyan University day"’
by the M. E. conference, and collec
tions for the support of the college
will be taken in all Nebraska churches
that day.
Mrs. Grant Willoughby, living near
Fairbury, was thrown from a buggy
in a runaway and received injuries
that may result fatally.
Mrs. Maggie Johnson, wife of the
man whose dismembered body was
found in Salt creek at Ashland a week
ago. is under arrest charged with the
crime.
A. A. Lasch. who owns a large apple
orchard near Weeping Water, is mak
ing preparations to harvest what will
be one of the largest and best crops
ever produced in the orchard. His es
timate on the yield is 8,000 to 10.000
bushels.
A manual training class has been or
ganised at the Weeping Water high
school with practical work in a local
carpenter and machine shop as one
of the features of the course.
Bertha Liebke, better known in sev
eral states as “Fainting Bertha,” Is
soon again to be allowed to enjoy lib
erty. She is to be liberated from the
hospital for the insane at Hastings,
October 22.
Railroads report that the Nebraska
soil is now in splendid shape for plow
ing and seeding, and that 70 per cent
of that important work has already I
been done.
STICK TO DRAFTERS AND HEAVY HORSES
Prize Donkey Mare.
Many farmers make the mistake of
fooling around with trotting horses.
Breeding trotters is a distinct branch
of the business and initiation into ma
king a success of it requires a train
ing of years.
Stick to the drafters and the heavy
carriage horses on the farm; they are
always saleable and will bring good
prices.
Some men say mud should be al
lowed to dry on a horse s legs before
being removed. Don't believe it. Mud
should be washed as soon as the horse
comes into the stable and his legs
rubbed thoroughly dry.
Farming communities may be easily
sized up by the quality of its horses.
Poor and worthless old plugs, pull
ing at the harness, keep company- with
the poor and shiftless individuals
bolding the lines.
The mule is the most tireless work
er on the farm, eats less than a horse
and does more work.
A mule is also an excellent saddle
animal if one well learns the trick of
saddling him.
His feet will stand the hard road
better than those cf the horse.
Prepotency is a fixed characteristic
in all pure bred sires. The grade sire
is a proposition we should steer clear
of.
No one point in the horse is more
essential than well shaped hoofs and
sonnd hoofs. The value of a horse
depends to a large extent upon his
feet.
The fact that a horse is imported
does not add one cent to his intrinsic
value for breeding purposes.
The horse that is afraid of the auto
mobile never can be taught to pass it
quietly by whipping.
A very young colt should have
plenty of sleep and rest.
A mule's age cuts little figure in a
sale. No one seems to care how old
a mule may be. However, he will
bring from $150 to $200 when he Is
full grown if he is big, smooth and
strong.
FATTENING SHEEP
IN A CORNFIELD
By Growing Rape and Pasturing
It Intelligent Flock-Owner
Can Make Money.
(By WALTER B. LEUTZ.)
As a feeding proposition there Is
none that affords better profits, con
sidering the amount of capital in
vested, than fattening sheep in the
corn field where rape has been sowed
at the last cultivation of corn. The
rape should be sowed at the last time
the corn is cultivated.
The sheep may be bought early and
pastured or fed earlier soiling crops
until the rape is ready for them to be
turned into the corn field. The Dwarf
Essex rape is the variety best adapted
for sheep pasture. About five or six
pounds of seed will afford an excellent
stand if sowed broadcast after the
final cultivation of the corn field, pro
viding that the moisture conditions
are favorable for an early germination
of the seed.
Practically no damage will result to
the corn crop, the sheep will con
sume a large percentage of the lower
leaves and lodged stalks. Old breed
ing ewes that have passed their ma
ternity usefulness can always be
bought at prices which make them
profitable to turn into a rape and
corn field.
Yearling wethers may be fattened
in the same way. No grain foods will
be required. Rape alone will pro
duce a sufficient increase in weight to
insure a good profit. By growing
rape in the corn field and pasturing
It with sheep an intelligent flock
owner may greatly increase his in
come from his.corn fields alone.
PROPER CARE FOR
THE LITTLE CHICK
Expert of Wisconsin Agricultural
College Tells How to Feed
the Youngsters.
(By PROF. J. F. HALPIN. Wisconsin
Agricultural College.)
For the first ten to fourteen days
we fed the chicks at the university
farm a little commeroial chick feed,
which is thrown into a fairly deep
litter of hay chaff three or four times
a day.
In the middle of the forenoon and
the afternoon we feed a little mash
made up of equal parts of coarse
ground corn, wheat bran, wheat mid
dlings and rolled oats. Once a day
we mix a raw egg in with this mash,
one egg for about each 60 chicks.
As they get older, we gradually in
crease the amount of raw egg, adding
enough water or, better still, milk to
keep the mash from being sticky and
soggy.
As fast as they learn to eat it,
we mix more and more wheat and
cracked corn into the chick feed, so
that by the time they are three weeks
old they are eating cracked com and
wheat entirely. From the start we
give access to dry mash made np at
first like the wet mash, except that
the rolled oats to omitted after the
second week.
Fine sand on the brooder floor,
covered with short-cut alfalfa hay, to
Ideal. Ground hone in little hoppers,
so that chicks can help themselves, to
also good. A few drops of potas
sium permanganate stock solution,
Just enough to turn the water red, or
inst enough Zenoleum to turn the
water whitish, may be put into the
drinking water.
Applying Manure.
In applying manure with a spread
er it to put on more uniformly, and all
parts of the field are equally bene
fited.
PROPER MANNER OF
FEEDING THE CALF
Young Animal Should Be Taken
From Cow After Fourth Day
and Placed in Pen.
The calf may be left with the cow
for three or four days, or until the
milk is fit for use. The calf should
then be taken away and placed in a
separate stable, if it is possible, as
the cow will give less trouble if she
cannot see her calf.
By missing one feed the calf will
usually be hungry enough to start to
drink readily and will usually give
little trouble when it finds the bucket
contains milk. Four pounds of milk
per feed three times a day for the
first ten days will give the calf a
good start, when a small amount of
skim milk may be substituted for a
part of the whole milk, the amount
of the skim milk being increased, so
that when the calf is a month old
it is getting skim milk entirely. When
the calf is two weeks old the feeds
may be changed to two per day, with
th'4 amount of milk increased as the
calf shows ability to handle it. After
three weeks the calf will begin to eat
a little grain. An excellent grain mix
ture for calves is made of corn meal,
oats and wheat bran in equal parts,
with a little linseed meal added.
To grow- calves well they should
have just what they will clean up
readily at each feed. Plenty of green
grass is good for them.
Calves should have milk until they
are five or six months old for best
results. If they are forced to subsist
on coarse feeds and grain too young
they will be stunted, as their diges
tive system is not developed enough
to handle such food exclusively at an
early age.
CULLING OUT THE
UNDESIRABLE HENS
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All Fowls That Have Passed
Term of Usefulness Should
Be Sent to Market.
It is always seasonable to cull out
the undesirable birds from a flock.
All hens that have passed their term
of usefulness should be marketed.
While culling should be continued
throughout the entire year, the most
heroic work should be done in the
fall.
What are called yearlings In poultry
are those which were hatched the year
before the pullets. They are nearer
two years old than one, and make ex
cellent breeders. After breeding pick
out of this flock those that are con
sidered unprofitable.
What we call the two-year-olds
are the ones that are going into their
second molt. Very often some excel
lenth layers are found among these,
and it pays to keep them, but at that
age the closer we cull the better will
be our profits. This culling, however,
can only be successful by close watch
ing.
No matter how valuable a ben may
be. If she proves to be a feather pull
er or an egg eater, she, too, should be
sent with the culls to market
Beet Time to Seed Lawn.
The beet time to seed a new lawn
is during the latter part of August or
the early September. At that season
the heat is over and showers are al
most sure to come, and the young
grass will have several months of
cool, moist weather in which to grow
before winter.
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Dairy Equipment
Every farmer should be part dairy
man, and every farm dairy should be
equipped with a milk teeter, thermom
eter, separator and a pair of
I
LIVER; BOWELS
No sick headache, biliousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box.
Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having a bowel wa6h-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out of the system all the
constipated waste matter and poisons
in the bowels.
A Cascaret to-night will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep—never gripe, 6icken
or cause any inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue. Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
Selfish Eyes.
A New York theatrical manager
said:
"American ragtime is sweeping Eu
rope. but the American ragtime com
posers get no credit and no cash
either.
"Hence our composers can't help
looking at this ragtime furore with
sad and perhaps selfish eyes.
"We look at everything, you know,
i selfishly. We say, with the million
[ aire:
Poverty is no disgrace, provided
the victim doesn't owe us anything."
RASH ITCHED AND BURNED
400 South Hermitage Ave., Chicago,
111.—“1 was attacked with a breaking
out on the inside of my arms. It was
a small rash or pimples and it itched
and burned, especially at night, so
that before I knew it I had made my
self sore. I had to wear the finest
kind of cotton underwear, no woolen
at all. because the least thing irritat
ed it and made it much worse. The
rash itched and smarted until at times
I got no sleep at all.
“I had this trouble and took treat
ments for about one year, but they
only gave me relief while taking
them. Then I began using Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and I got relief
right away. In three months I was &
well man again.” (Signed) H. W.
Foley, Nov. 5, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card “Cuticura, Dept L, Boston.”—Adv.
This Beats Wlnsted, Conn.
Some Danville fishermen captured
this week on a trot line a large cat
fish that was wearing a pair of
glasses. Upon investigation it was
found that the spectacles were those
recently lost by Mr. Edward McCon
nell when he was thrown into the
water by a boat capsizing. The
glasses were turned over to Mr. Mc
Connell.—Danville Advocate.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
Infants and children, and see that It
Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Tears.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
His Chief Concern.
Mrs. Hemmandhaw—If another man
should win me would you sue him for
my love?
Hemmandhaw—Yes; just for spite.
—Judge.
Red Crews Ball Blue gives double value
for your money, goes twice as far as any
other. Ask tour grocer. Adv.
Our idea of a true heroine is a
woman who could talk back but
doesn't.
The Best is the Cheapest
JOHNNY COOK
The Leader of the Leaders
and when it all costs
the same why not have
The Best?
Send your next load
of stock to the
Great Western Commission Company
South Omaha, Nebraska
Pistol and Ride Cartridges
Winchester cartridges adapted to
Winchester rifles are made to get
the best possible results out of
them. As the same equipment,
organization and system are
employed in making all Win
chester cartridges, it naturally
follows that Winchester cart
F ridges produce the best results
in all firearms. Winchester cart
ridges are made for all calibers
and makes of rifles, revolvers
and pistols. Sold everywhere
I Ask For The Red W Brand. :
These Bankers Will Assist
Ml
Progressive Farmers
If you or your sons wish to learn the EXACT
* FACTS about the Ozark Region of Missouri, and
what progressive farmers can do there, write to
The Ozark Bankers Development
Committee
This committee is composed of 102 Ozark bankers,
each pledged to see that you shall be fully advised
as to how to succeed in the Ozarks.
The banker knows you can succeed; this is why
he is willing to help you in every possible way.
He Has Ho Land to Sell
but he will aid you in finding land at a price
which you can farm profitably and will fully in
form you as to marketing and other conditions.
Write for names and addresses of
Ozark Bankers
They will be sent to you free of charge with a
history of
The Ozark Bankers Development
Committee
also something about the Ozarks of Missouri and
what the Ozark Banker can do for you. Address
I02A Department of Development, Frisco Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.
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