CATALO COMBINES USEFUL QUALITIES
Courtesy of the Forecast.
This Animal Is Five-Eighths Buffalo and Three-Eighths Hereford.
The Spanish edition of the Pan
American Union Bulletin reviews Mr.
Borthwick’s article on the “Catalo”
in the Forecast. The following Eng
lish version gives the salient fea
tures:
It seems that a new species of the
genus bos has beeu evolved in the
United States and Canada. As is well
known, the American bison, or buffalo,
has become almost extinct, only a few
small herds, nearly all to be found in
captivity in zoological gardens, being
left to propagate the species. The
catalo, the name given the new spe
cies, is a cross between the buffalo
and the domestic cow, and according
to an article by Mr. Benton Borth
wick in a recent number of the Fore
cast (published in Philadelphia, Pa.),
much may be expected from it as a
meat producer. He states that un
like most hybrids, which proverbially
Inherit the worst qualities belonging
to both parental strains, the catalo
Beems to have selected and combined
In himself the most useful qualities of
both buffalo and cow. He is so hardy
that he can live on pastures that
would afford poor sustenance for even
a sheep, and his meat is equal to the
best beef, to which has been super
added the tender* luscious hump 'that
made the wild Durtaio bo eageriy
Bought by the huntsmen of the plains.
It was the extreme desirability of
this hump, combined with the value
of his shaggy hide, that helped to
bring about the practical extinction
of the American buffalo. The Indians
appreciated both, but they lived in
peace and amity with the buffalo and
left enough of them to insure an in
exhaustible supply of meat and topees
for future years. The white man's
appreciation was equally keen, but,
like the Indian, th£ buffalo was in
his way. He wanted the plains for
his cattle to range over and he did
not approve of the cattle associating
with the buffaloes. Therefore the buf
faloes were gradually exterminated.
Even in the early days there were
gome far-seeing individuals who dimly
saw the possibilities of an animal
which would be a blend of buffalo and
cow, so a number of breeders tried to
establish a species of cattle carrying
the buffalo strain, and the experi
ments began as far back as the first
invasion of the western plains by
white men, but they always failed.
Even down to the present day there
are but two breeders who have suc
ceeded in establishing this new bovine
strain, one in Texas and the other in
Canada.
The important fact remains, how
ever, that the new species-has really
been established and there are now
a sufficient number of catalces, ac
cording to Mr. Borthwick, to make it
safe to prophesy that the new ani
mal will play a leading part in the
future food supply of the United
States.
Unlike the mule, this hybrid is able
to perpetuate its own species without
reverting to type. So far as is known,
no males have ever been born from
this first cross. The heifers resulting
from the first cross are bred either
to domestic or buffalo bulls, so that
the second generation is either three
quarters or one-quarter buffalo, as the
case may be. In this second genera
tion the animal resembles very closely
either the buffalo or the domestic
cow, according to the preponderance
of either species in its blood.
From those animals are produced
the true catalo, the animal that has
both species on both sides. When the
true catalo appears, it becomes a type
which combines the characteristics of
both lines of ancestry and is quite
distinctive. It has a heavier coat than
the domestic animal, carries a larger
hump and bigger hind quarters than
the buffalo and—what is still more im
portant-carries approximately 150
pounds more of edible meat than the
ordinary beef animal.
Knowing that the great secret of
producing a larger quantity of meat
lay in the hump of the buffalo, the
first care of the breeders of the cata
lo was to transfer this hump to the
back of the new hybrid animal. In
stead of being a huge lump of fat, the
hunp of the catalo forms the upper
cut of a rib roast of beef. It is
tender, clear meat of excellent flavor
scarcely distinguishable from that of
the ordinary beef cattle. The great
valuo of the catalo as a meat animal
is that 70 per cent of his weight can
be sent to the table.
As the situation stands today, the
problem of the catalo is not one of
the mechanics of breeding. That
has all been done and now it is sim
ply a matter of selection. The rule
has been established that if an animal
is one-eighth buffalo it can produce
fertile bulls. Therefore the best of
the hybrids are all being used for
the purpose of propagating better ani
mals and the others are being used
for meat. Already carcasses have'
been sent to the slaughter houses.
Time alone is necessary to estab
lish a race which will make produc
tive vast areas that are good for little
else. On these almost arid plains
grazing is too thin and water too
scarce to allow the better grade of
beef animals to exist, but the catalo,
if left to itself, will thrive and gain in
weight. The range animal of the past
has been responsible for tough, fibrous
meat—too often diseased. The range
animal of buffalo strain is hardy
enough to resist disease and will pro
duce clear-fibered meat that never gets
tough. Before many years it is like
ly, according to Mr. Borthwick’s view,
that the problem cf our meat supply
will be solved by the blending of the
American bison blood with that of the
beef animal that for a century has
formed the main food dependence of
the people of this continent.
ENEMIES OF TREES
IN LARGE NUMBERS
1 Weather Conditions Have Been
Favorable for Reproduction of
Plant Lice or Aphids.
This season plant lice or aphids on
trees and shrubs are more abundant
*han in many years.
Weather conditions have been very
favorable for their reproduction and
very unfavorable for the reproduction
of their parasitic enemies.
Many of the aphids in normal years
attracted very little attention.
In abnormal years artificial methods
of control must be used to keep them
within bounds.
ThlfS^Md It*'Young Are the Result ot a Mixture of Buffalo and Do
meatlc Cattle Through Both Line* of Descendants.
DANGERS IN MANY PASTURES
Farmer Rune Risk of Losing Stock by
Turning Them Into Field of Rank
Growing Alfalfa.
There ie always more or less danger
in pasturing cattle on alfalfa, clover
or rape. This has been known for
many, many years. When one turns a
bunch of cattle In a field of rank
ing alfalfa, clover or rape he does so
at the risk of losing several of “e“
Sometimes there is no loss, but It is,
luck if there is none. If there are
other grasses with the alfalfa, as June
qi* red top. or timothy, the dan*
ger is not great, for cattle like these
grasses best and will eat them first,
and by mixing them in eating, the
danger from bloat is largely elimi
nated.
The r 'ickest and easiest way to re
lieve a case of bloat is to use the tro
car and cannula, and it is mere effective
also. Be sure to keep the animals
well salted while on this kind of pas
ture; it, In a measure, is preventive.
[ PORTUGAL’S NEW PRESIDENT
Bernardino Machado, the recently
elected president of Portugal, has
been prominent for years in public
life, having served his country as pre
mier, provisional minister of foreign
affairs, minister of the interior and
minister to Brazil. He has been con
sidered the foremost man in the re
publican party, and before the over
throw of the monarchy was regarded
as the logical choice of that party for
the presidency. In January, 1908, he
was accused of conspiracy against the
crown, but the charges never were
proved.
Senhor Machado, who is sixty-five
years old, formerly was professor of
philosophy in Coimbra university, but
was ousted from his chair because he
joined the anticlerical movement. He
is an excellent speaker, and during
his public career has been regarded
as strongly pro-British.
One of the interesting stories re
garding Senhor Machado is that he
served as Portuguese minister to Washington in lyOO ana luui unaer me
name of Marquis de Santo Thyrso, but was recalled because he made a pre
mature announcement to his country of President McKinley’s death, which
resulted in Lisbon sending messages of condolence four or five days before
the president died. After his recall, according to the story, he dropped the
title, which was of papal origin, and resumed his family name.
The president of the Republic of Portugal is elected by joint vote of
both chambers of parliament for a term of four years, and cannot be re
elected.
PLEASANT TOM TAGGART
The power tf personality never
was better illustrated than in the ca
reer of Thomas Taggart, the Indi
ana—and national—political leader.
Irish by birth, Taggart must have
caressed the blarney stone from the
earliest da,ys of his infancy to the day
of his departure for American shores
This is not to say that he is an orator
He is nothing of the sort. On the con
irary, he is no- .speechmaker at all.
But when it comes to saying quicklv.
In private conversation, or in passing
greeting, the right thing in the right
way at the right moment. Taggart is
without a superior in the whole coun
try. Not even his bitterest enemy will
find the slightest fault with Taggart’s
ever-brilliant, ever-pleasant smile.
That was the gift with which he
began life. That was his talent and
his capital. A cheery smile, a firm,
friendly hand-clasp, a ready sympa
thy—these went with it. And the com
bination elevated Thomas Taggart
irom a cierK s position behind a depot lunch counter and a salary of eight
dollars a week to the highest position of political bossism in state and nation
and to the millionaire’s status in point of fortune.
Taggart’s intimate friends are agreed that Taggart's political leadership
has cost him, in money, far more than it has ever put in his pocket. His
hands, they say, are clean. His fortune was made when he gained control
of the company that operates the French Lick Springs hotel.
GUARDS PREpiQUS DOCUMENTS
Woman’s sphere in affairs of state
extends into one of the most impor
tant offices of the government. Espe
cially important at the present day is
the library of the state department,
where are kept the treaties, records
and valuable data that determine the
American policy in world affairs.
Miss Lucy Stuart Fitzhugh, who
has catalogued and classified the
library. Is the expert clerk of the
library, and cares for its precious doc
uments. She takes the place of the
honored “keeper of the rolls,” who
ranks as a high dignitary in foreign
governments.
“We have here a great many pub
lications and documents that are to
be found nowhere else in the world,”
she says. "Among our most precious
documents are the Declaration of In
dependence and the Constitution of
the United States in the originals,
with the articles of confederation, the
emancipation proclamation and other
papers vital to our country’s history.”
Miss Fitz'nugh is a Kentucky girl. She taught school In Pennsylvania,
Georgia and Michigan, and won her present office through the civil service
Dr. Eugene Wambaugh of Harvard, who was a special counsel for the state
department when the European war broke out. remarked that the govern
ment had at least one employee well placed. She translates foreign lan
guages, and knows the contents of treaties like a book.
CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE'S JOKE
—- w
Although ponderous and learned
and dignified. Chief Justice White of
the Supreme court cracks an occa
sional joke.
White buys cigars at a certain
drug store in Washington, and the
man behind the cigar counter has
come to know him well enough to talk
to him rather freely.
One day as he handed the chief
justice his change the cigar salesman
inquired breezily, by way of small
talk:
"Well, Mr. Chief Justice, how’s
the Supreme court going to decide
those antitrust cases next week?”
“It isn’t a matter that we’re sup
posed to talk much about," replied
White, pleasantly. “Still I don't mind
telling you, provided you’ll give me
your assurance that it will go no fur
ther.”
“Oh, I shan’t tell a soul,” declared
the cigar man, earnestly. “Not a
vnrd ”
White leaned over the counter and whispered:
‘‘We're going to decide them—right"
Wife's Ingratitude.
“All my efforts to be useful around
home come to naught," wailed an
Atchison man. "The other day it en
tered my head to do the family wash
ing. But because 1 put tea towels in
the washing machine with white
clothes, and later put colored clothes
with white clothes, and still later
washed dishes with water 1 took from
the washing machine after the wash
ing was done, my wife ordered me t
leave the premises."’—Kansas City
Star
Religion and Business.
Unctuous Stranger (who has been
SBked to lead in prayer)—Oh, Lord!
prepare us all to die; so dat when
dat dread moment arrives we kin
calmly say. “Oh. death! whar Is dy
sting? Oh. grave! whar is dy vic
tory? And, oh, Lord, if dar am any
present here tonight dat am not pre
pared to die. guide them, we beseech
thee, around to room 74, at de Amer
ican Eagle hotel, whar I am stoppin’
as de general agent ob de Coontov/n
Life Insurance company!—Life.
GOtOD
ROADS
ROADS MUST BE MAINTAINED
No Phase of Public Thoroughfare
Problem of More Importance—
Keep Surface Well Drained.
There is no phase of the road prob
lem more important than that of main
tenance. The general impression that
there are certain types of roads that
are permanent is erroneous. No per
manent road has ever been construct
ed or ever will be. The only things
about a road that may be considered
permanent are the grading, culverts
and bridges. Roads constructed by the
most skillful highway engineers will
soon be destroyed by the traffic, frost,
rain and wind, unless they are proper
ly maintained. But the life of these
roads may be prolonged by systematic
maintenance. A poor road will not
only be improved by proper mainte
nance, but may become better in time
than a good road without it.
The first and last commandment in
earth road maintenance is to keep the
surface well drained. To insure good
drainage the ditches should be kept
open, all obstructions removed and a
smooth crown maintained. Except for
very stony soil, the road machine or
scraper may be used very effectively
for this work. The machine should
be used once or twice a year, and the
work should be done when the soil is
damp, so that it will pack and bake
into a hard crust. Wide and shallow
side ditches should be maintained,
with sufficient fall and capacity to
dispose of surface water. These
ditches can in most cases be con
structed and repaired with a road ma
chine.
All vegetable matter such as sods
and ■weeds should be kept out of the
road, as they make a spongy surface
which retains moisture. Clods are also
objectionable, for they soon turn to
dust or mud, and for that reason
roads should never be worked when
dry or hard. Bowlders or loose stones
are equally objectionable if a smooth
surface is to be secured.
A split-log drag or some similar de
vice is very useful in maintaining the
surface after suitable ditches and cross
sections have once been secured. This
drag can also be used to advantage on
a gravel road as well as on an earth
road. The principle involved in drag
ging is that clays and most heavy soils
will puddle when wet and set very
hard when dry. The little attention
that the earth road needs must be
given promptly and at the proper time
if the best results are to be obtained.
In dragging roads only a small
amount of earth is moved. Just enough
to fill the ruts and depressions with a
thin layer of plastic clay or earth
which packs very hard, so that the
next rain, instead of finding ruts, de
pressions and clods In which to col
lect, runs off, leaving the surface but
little affected.
The drag should be light and should
be drawn over the road at an angle of
about 45 degrees. The driver should
ride on the drag and should not drive
King Road Drag.
faster than a walk. One round trip,
each trip staddling a wheel track, is
usually sufficient to fill the ruts and
smooth the surface. If necessary the
road should be dragged after every
bad spell of weather, when the soil
is in proper condition to puddle well
and still not adhere to the drag. If
the road is very bad it may be dragged
when very wet and again when it be
gins to dry out.
Crown of Earth Road.
The slope or crown of an earth road
should be about one inch to the foot.
If the crown becomes too high it may
be reduced by dragging toward the
ditch instead of from it. If the drag
cuts too much, shorten the hitch and i
change vour position on the drag. If
it is necessary to protect the face of
the drag with a strip of iron, it should
be placed flush with the edge of the
drag and not projecting. A cutting
edge Bhould be avoided, as the main
object in dragging is to smear the
damp soil into position.
Roadside Trees.
Well-kept trees growing along the
roadside contribute greatly to the
pleasure and comfort of the travelers
besides lending an attractive air to
the grounds along the side. For the
best effect the trees bordering tne
road should be uniform in size and
shape and placed iu a row parallel to
the boundary fences.
Use Wood Ashes.
Wood ashes make an excellent fer
tilizer tor use in the orchard and on
the strawberry bed.
A Natural Consequence.
“I see that Cleveland has one of
those perfect babies now,” said Mr3.
Blight. "Perhaps it 1 bad not been a
perfect baby I would not always be
casting gloom upon my enemies (1
have no friends), my surroundings and
myself today. But when I was a
child my parents, in their hygienic
craze, fed me only sweet milk. etc.
And now that 1 have grown up,^ my
disposition craves the sour.” ®
FACE BATHING WITH
Cuticura Soap Most Soothing to Sen
sitive Skins. Trial Free.
Especially when preceded by little
touches of Cuticura Ointment to red,
rough, itching and pimply surfaces.
Nothing better for the skin, scalp,
hair and hands than these super
creamy emollients. Why not look your
best as to your hair and skin?
Sample each free by mail with book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY,
Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv.
Just as Good.
"I wonder women don't want to play
football.”
"Why should they when they have
bargain-counter rushes?’
There are nearly 14,000,000 Jews in
the world.
Telephones transmit sounds at a
rate of 56.000 miles a second.
A Valuable
“First Aid”
in sickness of the
Stomach, in liver and
bowel disorders and
in general" weakness
can be found in
HOSTETTER’S
Stomach Bitters
It helps Nature pro
vide the necessary
digestive properties
required for the per
fect assimilation of
food, thus creating
and maintaining bet
ter health at all times.
You should try it
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/<C4c/h44 Allow no one to deceive you in this*
All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good ” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment*
What is CASTOR IA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor OH, Pare
Boric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor ether Narcotto
Substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation.
Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles «M
Diarrhoea. It rcgnlates the Stomach and Boweb,
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Chopping Hirr Off.
While Sandstorm Smith, the promi
nent Oklahoma cattle baron, who was
recently in Kansas City, was saunter
ing through the lobby of his hotel,
he was accosted by a suave and gim
let-eyed stranger.
“Pardon me, sir,” said the latter,
“but you look very much like a man
I used to know.”
“I do, har?” returned Sandstorm.
“Well, you look a heck of a sight more
like a mar. I don't know and never
want to!"
To Keep Mosquitoes Away.
For keeping the mosquitoes away, a
mixture of one ounce of cedar oil,
two ounces of citronella, and two
ounces spirits of camphor is recom
mended, and it is said that a few
drops of this mixture on a cloth on
the bed will keep mosquitoes in the
distance and will be effective for a
long time. If you don’t like the fra
grance you might put a clothespin on
your nose.
Truly Bustonese.
Contrary to her custom, a Boston
w >man strayed far enough from home
to encounter a mile post, on which
she saw inscribed, ”1 M. from Boston.”
Thinking it a gravestone, she read
softly. “I'm from Boston," and then
commented thoughtfully, “How sim
ple and sufficient."—Lippincott's.
Nautical.
"Father.” wired the young yachts
man. “please advance me some money.
My boat is entered in tomorrow’s race
and I'm sure she will win.”
And father replied: "Not with a
time allowance worn me.”
Had Had the Experience.
“Yes, we pay spot cash for every
thing.”
“Ah! 1 often speak to my husband
about the time when he bad to.”—
Puck.
The census bureau has estimated
that the population of the United
States passed the 100,000,000 mark on
April 2.
Reason Enough.
"Been on your vacation yet?”
“No, the people next door haven’t
returned from their’s yet.”
“Well, what in the world does that
have to do with it?”
“Oh. nothing much, only they bor
rowed our trunk before they started
and sent for our golf sticks and ten
nis rackets afterward.”
For a really fine coffee at a mod
erate price, drink Denison’s Seminola
Brand, 35c the lb., in sealed cans.
Only one merchant in each town,
sells Seminole. If your grocer isn’t
the one, write the Denison Coffee Co,
Chicago, for a souvenir and the name
of your Seminole dealer.
Buy the 3 lb. Canister Can for $1.0®.
—Adv.
Still, you doubtless have noticed
that most of those who claim to be "a*
good as anybody” aren’t.
Always sure to please, Red Cross Bad
Blue. All grocers sell it. Adv.
A popular minister avoids touching
the sore spots of his congregation.
Certain-teed
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