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P O Brownlee Neb
Rtgat or left side
Horses same on
left shoulder
Earmark Swal
low tall clip right
or lelt ear
Range Big Creek
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John H Hainan
Brownleo Neb
Also AE and b0
Horses on left
shoulder
Jtange Goose Creek
and North Loud
Marshall Wolfenden
Kennedy Neb
Some 5 on the left
Horses s ou leu
shoulder
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Earmark Quarter
clip behind half cir
cle forward on lei t ear
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Loui F Richards
Meirinian Neb
Charles Richards
iieiilniaii Neb
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Brownlee Neb
Also some below
lelt hin
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Merrlman Neb
John DeCory
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ltange Kissels
Ranch
Thomas Farren
Rosebud S D
ID 1183 either left
ilde or hip
Horses sll0Uidpr
Range head of
Antelope
7 of 1
Wheeler Bros
Cody Neb
Range on the Snake
River and Chamber
lain Hat
Charles H Faulhaber
iT3rT JUEsss
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Paul Didier
Rosebud S D
Horses
Cattle hole In
each ear
Range Big and
Little White Rivers
Brownlee Nebr
Either right or left
side on cattle
Horses samu on
IcCt shoulder
Left ear cut off of
cattle
Range Loup river
Some branded ID
417 on left side
Horses JD on left
bin
Range in Meyer Co
on Anieiope trees
S H Kimmel
Rosebud S D
Also B4U on left
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Cattle undercut on
both ears
Horses branded
on left shoulder
Range on Antelope
bud Spring Creeks
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Charles C Tackett
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Rosebud 3 D
Range head of An
telope near it Marys
mission
Horses brandpa
on left thigh
William FSchmidt
Rosebud S D
On left side
Horses branded
same on left hip or
shoulder
Range on Horse
Creek
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Cheap Shelter for Stock
A framework of heavy poles with
poles or rails over it and entirely cov
ered with straw or corn fodder is sug
gested by the New England Fanner as
a very good warm shelter at a slight
expense The satisfaction of having
stock comfortable will alone amply re
pay the cost of it Such a shelter will
answer for poultry pigs or any kind of
farm stock Years ago it was thought
the proper tiling to winter stock around
the straw stack to harden them but
opinions have changed and every one
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is forced to admit that it pays well to
stable all kinds of stock
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To Lighten Spring Work
Winter work cannot always be done
to suit the convenience of the farmer
as severely cold weather continued
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rains and other obstacles are to be met
but there is much work put off until
spring that could be done in winter In
the spring as soon as plowing and
planting must be performed dozens of
jobs come up to be done in a hurry and
all seem to need attention at once It
is then that the farmer finds that he
has been neglectful and -failed to pre
pare for spring Wagons are to iron
repairs are required for implements
seed Is to be procured and fertilizer
must be purchased At the same time
every other farmer is busy and can
render no assistance while merchants
who have many orders on hand cannot
supply the needed articles promptly
The way to make the spring operations
easier and save time is to do as much
to lighten the spring work as possible
Creamery Shark
The creamery shark is again at
work in New York State What is a
creamery shark lie looks like a man
on the outside and he can talk like a
phonograph He goes about trying to
interest farmers in building co-opera-
tive creameries His favorite plan is
to interest some prominent citizen
13 offering him a number of shares of
the stock Then the two worthies go
about getting farmers to sign a con
tract agreeing to buy a certain num
ber of shares The contract usually
calls for an expensive plant and in the
end the farmers find themselves sad
dled with an outfit costing from 25 to
40 per cent more than reputable deal
ers would charge for it The creamerv
i shark thrives on deception an1 fraud
His chief argument is that by saving
advertising aud other expenses he is
able to give farmers cheaper rates for
Our advice is never to buy without
j corresponding with manufacturer of
his farm long staiicling ttural New Yorker
The man who haworu out j
will have his mind somewhat worn
and it will need overhauling before
success will be fully readied in reno
vating the soil The farmers mind
must be fed first the food for the mind
is education When the farmer has a
longing for more knowledge than he
gains each week from these columns
then we have awakened in him a spirit
of investigation to find out how to re
store to his soil its lost crop capacity
He will begin to invest in stock and he
will become more of a flesh growing
farmer and seller instead of a grain
seller Instead of selling his capital
soil fertility with the grain he manu
factures the grain into flesh builds up
his farm and gets on in the world
more contented The young farmers
are becoming our reading farmers
They consider as a part of their equip
ment the knowledge of soils the value
and blending of feeds and the scientific
rotation of crops The farm is his
bank the soil his working capital and
with well fed mind and soil he will be
prosperous and contented Farmer
Guide
A Wood Sawinjj Device
Sawing wood is hard work at the
best No small part of its irksomeness
is the necessity of holding down the
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IMPROVED SAW BUCK
stick with ones knee while the stick Is
being sawed The sketch which or
iginally appeared in the American Ag
riculturist shows a mechanical holder
whose construction is seen at a glance
The rod is of steel so that it can be
bent tightly over the wood The pegs
and the ratchet permit its use with
either large or small sticks
Ashes with Stable Manure
It may seem strangp to advise ap
plying wood ashes unleached to stable
manure just before it is plowed under
Yet this is often a good thing to do
While exposed to the air especially
if die manure be wet so as to leach the
ashes there will be some loss ot am
monia But so fast as the manure and
ashes are turned under this waste of
ammonia ceases The ashes cause the
manure to ferment rapidly and in con
tact with the soil none of the ammonia
will be lost In fact much qf it will
combine with the potash in the ashes
forming a nitrate of potash which is
the most effective manure known
Pigs Stunted in Winter
Until a pig gets to weighing fully 100
pounds it requires warm sleeping
apartments and a considerable variety
of food to prevent it f pom being stunt
ed A youmj growing pig should never
be fed on corn exclusively at any sea
son In cold weather it may have
skim milk with wheat middlings fed
warm and with a little cornmeal mix
ed with it On such a ration ad -with
a warm bed to sleep in the pig will
thrive nearly as well as jn summer
New Clothes Post
It is believed that this clothes post
will fill a long felt want It is fitted
up with a double line running over a
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support on which
to set the clothes
basket and a small
rainproof box for
hold iug clothes
pins One can thus
set the basket of
clothes dowu and
proceed to pin
them upon the
lower line moving
the line along as
fast as the clothes
clothes post are put upon it
and thus hang out the whole wash
without moving a step or once lifting
the basket If the ground be wet or
covered with snow this is an import
ant point This plan also saves much
labor if one end one wheel can be
attached to a post on the back veranda
or porch using the basket support and
the pin 1kx as on the regular post This
will obviate the necessity of stepping
out upon the ground at all either In
hanging out or taking in the clothes
Dispose of Unprofitable Cows
The Toronto Globe says a Canadian
farmer who kept twenty four cows and
two hired men tested his cows with
the Babcock test and found that eight
were unprofitable He disposed of
them and let one hired man go and at
the end of the year found that he had
made as much money from the sixteen
as from the twenty four Now he has
got down to twelve good cows and ex
pects as much from them as he made
from twice that number Now he can
increase up to his qriginal number as
fast as he can find or grow good cows
and increase his profits
Value of the 3ayin
Waldo F Brown in the Cincinnati
Gezette says for ten years past he has
estimated what his farm was worth
to his family and finds that at fair val
uation the farm was paying over 8 per
cent on the investment if only enough
were sold to pay taxes insurance and
hired help In other words Avith a
family of eight persons to be fed the
farm valued at 5000 was furnishing
what would cost if bought in market
from 400 to 500 namely fruit veg
etables poultry and dairy products
breadstuffs and meats all of best qual
ity and furnished in abundanc
Peed Fowls Slowly
The great trflubje with most fowl
fanciers is thai in their zeal to promote
egg production they feed too heavily
and the fowls fatten instead of laving
Corn also is a bad feed for fowls es
pecially if shelled and thrown whero
the fowls can eat it as rapidly as they
can pick it up it one person shells by
hand an ear of corn and throws ii
among tkirty qr fifty fowls the nctiye
ones will gap It fully ns fast as they
should The better way is to mix the
grain and small grain as well among
cut straw and let the fowls earn their
living by scratching for it
Ripening of Ovojim
Jn winter cream rises slowly and
much of it fails to ripen as it should
The ripening is known by its turning
slightly acid without becoming bitter
Qr in any way ill flavpred Not all the
pream should be put into the churning
TJnit taken frpin the pans latest wfl
not be ripened and Ifg butte fati will
all be wasted unless tier fire saved by
churning the buttermilk The loss from
this cause is much greater in many
small dairies tlian those operating them
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PUZZLES THE UNINITIATED
Terms Used in Designating the CifTer
ent Classed of Puuilinta
Pugilistic titles continue to mystify
those who tike an interest in boxing
Weight is the question which causes
all the argument Formerly when a
match was made the conditions were
provided that the contestants would
give or take two pounds as that was
not considered an undue advantage for
either man Noadays when two box
ers arrange a match they stipulate
that each shall weigh a certain num
ber of pounds at a certain hour and
the man who exceeds the weight
agreed on usually forfeits a snug sum
Frequently the man who is at weight
declines to go on with one who ex
ceeds the stipulated and Shyloek
never haggled more over a pound of
flesh than two modern boxers trying to
make a match At times when a
boxer thinks he has an easy propor
tion he will concede pounds without a
murmur but when his prospective op
ponent is a dangerous man the scales
are scrutinized for unauthorized
ounces
Some years ago the divisions be
tween the boxers were marked by the
terms bantam feather weight light
weight welter weight middle weight
and heavy weight Heavy weights
were men at 158 pounds or over mid
dle 142 to 158 welter 133 to 142 light
122 to 133 feather not exceeding 122
bantams 105 to 115 Those limits are
now unrecognized Every boxer in
sists on sparring at the particular
weight at which he can do his best
work and the managers scheme to
secure weight conditions calculated to
embarrass an opponent There are
men who style themselves champions
at nearly every weight from 105 to 158
pounds In the heavy weight division
weight cuts no figure as any man
weighing 15S pounds or over is in that
class Fitzsimmons conceded a dozen
pounds to Corbett and the latter gave
that much to Sullivan Caspar Leon s
claim to the Iio pound championship
of America is a case in point Leon
has been twice defeated by Barry the
Chicago boy who is undobutedly the
bantam champion of America How
ever Parson Davis admits that
Baixv cannot box much below 108
pounds although at one time he got
down to 102 pounds Therefore as
Leon can get into the ring at 105
pounds and Barry cannot the former
has a technical claim to the 105 pound
championship At th same time
Barry says he will not contest the
point relying on the more general title
of bantam champion New York Tele
gram
A WILD STEER
He Effected a General Demoralization
of Industry for the Time Being
The performance of the proverbial
bull in the china shop is -well known
but the other day in St Louis one of
the bovine kind got loose on the levee
and before it was finally coralled it
severely injured Charles Tanary and
stopped all work at the Belt railway
shops The animal became detached
from a drove which was being driven
to the National stock yards by way of
the upper ferry The cowboys did all
in their power to lasso the steer but
did not do so It ran down among the
cars and afterward headed for the
Douglas school where the children
yelled and screamed for assistance It
was then in a fairly open roadway and
three first class drivers with two train
ed dogs attempted to head the animal
off and drive it back to the herd This
resulted in a chase down the levee
front and all the teamsters pulled out
and gave the steer as much of the road
as it wanted
In passing the Belt line shops the
animal suddenly darted through an
opening and into the place Several
men are employed there and consterna
tion became general at the sudden ap
pearance of the unwelcome visitor A
cqupje of workmen ran at the steer
with hot bars of iron and soon retreat
ed in the best order possible uader the
circumstances The steer had absolute
possession of the place for several
minutes and jumped and sported about
a though it was delighted with the
surroundings A workman finally
jumped down from a window and bold
ly started after the infuriated beast
but was caught before he could reach
another place of safety and bAWled high
in the air by the steers brns He was
thrown Into such ft position however
that the beast could not again attack
him The animal had stopped all work
in the shop and apparently he was not
yet satisfied with his achievements
but a minute later by accident suc
ceeded in stopping the machinery In
passing the big flywheel he slipped in
to ttoe pit in which the -wheel was re
volving His body acted as a brake
and brought all the inaehinery to a
standstill The anirnal was then in a
trap and the drivers and shop workmen
lost not time i securing it with strong
ropes Ohicago Chronielei
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