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&&'. J- "S v - 1 V A . ir I B - . ;i7 s-ffeT iMtt3HS8HMMMMMHIIMMMMHMIIMt J Matters in I Tiiiitiiiiiiiin"111"" i GOVERNOR NAMES FLAG DAY. Set Aside Menday, June 15, for Eicer clees Appropriate for Occasion. ' LINCOLN Governor Mickey has set apart Monday, Juae 15, as Flag day,, aad in doing bo issued this proc lamation: "The fag ia the emblem of the na tion sovereignty. Around it clusters ail that is inspiring and ennobling in national life. Under our form of gov- : ernment it guarantees civil and reM gioas' liberty, equality before the law, and -represents true progress in the world of thought and action. It stands for peace and yet is a warning to tyr anny and oppression, pledging the na tion's power in the enforcement of Justice. It waves in unstained glory over more than 70,000,000 of prosper ous -and contented people and wel comes to Its sheltering folds the op pressed of other lands those who ap preciate the blessings of liberty and are willing to subscribe to the princi ples upon which their perpetuity ia based. .It is most fitting that our at tention should occasionally be chal lenged to the significance of the flag and to the lessons of patriotism and honor which it imparts. "In harmony, therefore, with a wor thy custom which is generally preva lent among the states of the union, I hereby designate and proclaim Mon day. June 15, 1903. as Flag day, being the 126th anniversary of the birth of the flag, and enjoin upon the citizens of Nebraska that the day be observed by participation in such exercises and ceremonies as shall honor the national emblem and beget for it renewed love and veneration in the hearts of the people. I further recommend that all schools then In session commemorate the occasion with programs of a pa triotic nature and that all citizens within the borders of the state deco rcte their homes, places of business and public buildings with the Stars and Stripes." DAMAGE BY HAIL AND WIND. Bif Feeding Barn ia Wrecked Near North Loup. NORTH LOUP Particulars of the tornado that passed near here have just been obtained. The first damage reported was at the farm of Joseph Trump, fifteen miles west on Davis creek, where the cloud struck a barn, wrecking it badly. From there the Btorm passed to the northwest through the hills where few people live, until it came out into the valley of the North Loup river about four mil?s northwest of town, where it struck the barn of Harry Hughes. This was a large feeding barn with sheds at tached. It was completely demolished and carried away, together with farm ing machinery. Thirteen head of cat tle and horses were killed outright and several others suffered broken leg and other injuries which made it nec essary to kill them. Mr. Hughes was building an addition to his house on a brick foundation and had it raised and siding on. The storm removed part of the brick and left the house uninjured. No other damage has been reported. Farm Sella for $10OO. HUMBOLDT Richardson county land still commands a good figure, as was shown by the transfer of Wade Whitney's 200-acre farm several miles southeast of this city to Walter Dow ell, who paid $12,000. Land Finds Ready Sale. SIOUX CITY -jwnslte Agent Whitney of the Chicago & Northwest ern Railway-company said the rapid manner in which the country between Norfolk. Neb., and Deadwood was be ing settled could be guessed by the returns of the company's land depart ment. He said that for the first four months of the present year the sales of acreage property which had boon cut up into town lots on the Nebras ka and Wyoming division qf the North western had averaged $200,000 a month. Shot Himself. ULYSSES Jesse Moore of this place shot and instantly killed himself at the home of Larry Ramsey, about five miles southwest of here, where he was employed as a farm hand. He was found sitting in a chair in bis room with a rifle between his knees and part of his head shot away. It is not known whether the shooting was accidental or a suicide. Deehler Boom Developing. DESHLER The Deshler broom fac tory, lately incorporated for $100,000. and the building of the largest broom factory in the United States here, bids fair to make Deshler one of the live liest towns in southern Nebraska. A brick yard is now in operation, afford ing employment for laborers while the factory is being built, and after that the broom factory expects to employ 200 to 500 men. This will afford good opportunity for all kinds of business. Switchman ia Cut in Two. . HASTINGS Switchman Frank Stankey was run over by a switch en gine at the B. ft M. yards here Satur day night and Instantly killed. The engine and eleven cars passed over the body ia a line extending from the right shoulder toward the left hip, completely 'severing it. He was 20 years old, unmarried and lived with his parents, the only surviving son of five children. The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of accidental dean. Charged with Csnntsi felting. 1ST. EDWARD Dan Murney. a young man of this place, has been ar rested by a United States marshal charged with passing counterfeit mon ey: - He was detected, it Is allged. .time ago by business men here. Think twice before speaking when -angry and yon iy he able to say more aggravating than if you a depokea trtt. Nebraska. Tfntmintiift.i NEWSY STATE BRIEFS. There were twenty graduates at the St. Paul school commencement. There were four graduates at the commencement exercises at Kimball. The farm house of William Freder Icks, near Randolph, was wrecked by storm. Corn planting in many sections of the state has been greatly delayed on account of heavy rains. The West Point camp of the Wood men of the World unveiled a fine mon ument In the public cemetery in that city in memory of George Ruehl. A class of 125 young persons receiv ed the sacrament of confirmation at the hands of Rt Rev. Richard Scan nell, D. D., bishop of the diocese, at St. Mary's Catholic church. West Point, last Sunday. William Kubick, aged eighteen, was drowned in the slough, an old channel of the Blue river, at Wilber. Saying to his companions, "Boys, here goes for a flip-flop," he sped down the steep bank and was drowned. Ex-Congressman John S. Robinson died at his home in Madison on Men day from the effects of appendicitis. He was conscious to the last and pass ed away heroically. Everything pos sible was done to save his life, .iut in spite of all death claimed itsyictirc. An epidemic of measles, which in some cases proved quite serious, has for some time been going the rounds' of Exeter and the surrounding coun try. The worst cases were among the older members, some of whom suf fered severely and were not expected to live. A futile attempt to cross the N maha river on a weakened bridge in the edge of Tecumseh resulted in the death of three persons by drowning. The victims were Mrs. Ed Purlke. her six-year-old child and the woman's brother, Frank Harns, who lives on the Puhlke farm a few miles south of town. The offices of the Nebraska commis sion for the Louisiana Purchase ex position are now open in Omaha. Sec retary H. G. Shedd is in charge daily and is actively engaged in the distri bution of circulars notifying prospect ive exhibitors that their efforts look ing towards making a creditable ex hibit are desired. Emory Bishop, who lives on the old Courtright farm, about three and one half miles east of Milford, just where the public highway crosses tho rail road, found quite a lot of new goods, consisting of eight pairs of new pants, a large bolt of silk and other silk and sateen goods, hidden in a hay stack on his farm near the railroad. A man giving his name as Paul came to Falls City soliciting orders for silverware. In canvassing he en tered the home of a woman in the south part of town, and while there became so familiar that the woman summoned the police and had the man arrested as he was trying to leave town. He was fined $5 and costs. At the closing session of the State Dental society last week Omaha was selected as the next meeting place. These officers were elected: H. O. Shannon, Lincoln, president; A. Caiser. Friend, vice president: W. K. Clark, Syracuse, secretary; H. R. Hatfield, York, corresponding secretary; H. T King, Fremont, treasurer; W. R. Smith, Pawnee City, member of tne board of censors. Dr. R. F. Ross of Omaha was' chosen to supervise the clinics next year. The bill passed by the late legis lature authorizing the state treasurer to pay out of the permanent school fund money that had been paid into the fund through the erroneous col lection of taxes paid to county treas urers will likely fail of its purpose. The indications are now that the state treasurer will refuse to pay the war rants unless ordered to do so by the courts. A misapprehension seems to exist relative to the time the Grand Army reunion mill be held at Omaha. Pur suant with the action of the Grand Army encampment recently held at Fremont, the reunion which was voted to go to Omaha will not be held until September. 1904. The reunion will be held at Hastings for another year, the present year of 1903, under the contract which gave the reunion to that city for three years, in 1900. The reunions were consequently to be held in that city for the years 1901. 1902 and 1903. Hence the Omaha con tract begins with 1904. The committee selected to make a canvass of Hastings for the purpose of raising twelve hundred dollars for the organization of a base ball team report that they have been unable to obtain promise, of the necessary funds, hence the project has been abandoned. The team and buggy belonging to A. D. Snow", the-liveryman at Hum boldt, has been located at Falls City, where it is supposed the thief aban doned it when he found he could not dispose of it on account of the close watch being kept over the county. A county official who completed a tour of Otoe county says that recent storms have taken out overeighty bridges and weakened many more that may yet fall. Streams all over the county have been out of their banks and have done great damage to crops. Louis Kezor, 17 years old, is charg ed with having stolen $50 from Henry Inhelder of Cass county, with whom he was living, and skipped out Sher iff J. D. McBride arrested Kezcr at Neligh. Thirty-five county superintendents in the smaller counties of the state will have an increase in their wages after July 9. Such is the decision of Attorney General Prout to whom was referred the question of the interpreta tion of house roll 134 by Gregg, call ing for a raise in the salaries of the county superintendents in. smaller counties according to the population of their counties. Callaway is to have a public hall, an association for that purpose hav ing, been organised.. I BmnuBma. auBmm ananannnnnaannnnannnnnnnnnnni JananaaBBBM mauflflBmni BBmnvVmw anaamBmu Bmnuuuuuuuuuuuuuu BBmnTBmnw nkBjBBaanH" DflaBWjSI BBmW The Stars on the Flag., Count the stars on the flag as it passes by. And then number the stars In yon dis tant sky The number would be the brave hearts that would die t For the stars on the flax. Count the stripes on the flag we weave into one. The tears and the sighs for the livi that are done. But out of the shadows of each setting sun Shine the stars on the flag. Count the tears for the flag! Were they shed in vain? What now seemeth loss even yet will seem gain. For the nation's great heart will suffer no strain On the stars of the flag. Hats off to the flag! For its lire breathe a prayer That brave hearts and brave hands Its loved folds may bear. Till the stars in their courses, their glory shall share With the stars on the flag. How Families Were Divided. The civil war saw many divisions in families, it being no uncommon thing for members of one family to be fight ing against each other. Here is an example: Capt William A. Winder. U. S. iL, died at Omaha, Neb., last week, at the age of 80 years. Capt. Winder was a grandson of Gen. William H. Win der, who led an expedition into Can ada in the war of 1812, repelled the British attack at Stony Creek in 1813. but was himself captured. Gen. Win der's son, and the father of the soldier who died last week, was John H. Win der, a graduate of West Point in 1820, twice breveted for gallantry in the Mexican war, who resigned from the United States army on April 27, 1861, and entered the service of the Con federacy. Made a brigadier general and given command of Richmond, he had charge of the prisons at Libby and Belle Isle, and was subsequently placed in command at AndersonviUe. To what extent he was justly charge able with the cruelties practiced upon the Union soldiers imprisoned there has been disputed, his friends claim ing that he was vlllifled beyond his deserts. There is no doubt that in the North he was regarded as a mon ster of cruelty. His son, who died the other day, went into the army in 1848, remained true to the Union and served with distinction during the civil war. To Indiana Soldiers. r.,i& .!,. iw - " m MBu&useQjrTorr, tacjrv: Monuments at Chickamauga. The Chickamauga Park commission, consisting of Gen. H. Y. Boynton of Washington, who commanded the Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry in the battle and was wounded in the assault upon Missionary Ridge; Major General Alexander P. Stewart, who commanded a division in Breckinridge's corps of the confederate army, assisted by E. E. Betts, an engineer, and J. P. Smartt, a historian of Chattanooga, have been working for eleven years to ascertain the truth and fix the correct locations for each regiment engaged on either side in the conflict They have, of course, been assisted by many of the officers and soldiers engaged, but the enormous labor they have performed can scarcely be appreciated without personal observation of the seven bat tlefields in this vicinity, which are em barked in the park project, extending thirty miles from Chattanooga to Ringgold, the scene of the final battle of the campaign for the control of Chattanooga and the Tennessee river. When Lee Surrendered. The Washington correspondent of The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch wrote under date of April 8: "To-morrow is the anniversary of the surrender of Appomattox,' said Senator Daniel, in his -committee room at the Capitol. 'We who followed the fortunes of the Confederacy for four years cannot help feeling sad as we re call that day,' he continued. 'We can not forget the cause we loved, and love still, though it was lest. " 'I had been at my home in Lynch burg for some months getting well of wounds when the end came,' said the Senator. I was able to hobble around a little on that 9th of April. The old darky who woke me up when he brought in my breakfast was dread fully scared. His face was ashy and his voice trembled. "Marse John, ain't dem cannons what's boomin' down de river?" he asked. "'I listened a moment and could distinctly hear artillery firing, though it is twenty-six miles from Lynchburg to Appomattox. "They are cannon, sure enough," I told him. and he went out highly excited and scared. I dressed as quickly as I could and got outdoors, where the sound of guns could be heard with great distinctness. "'About 2 o'clock In the afternoon I went out into the street. I could not get along very well, but I managed to get to the top of the hill overlooking the river, where I met a Baptist min ister hurrying toward me. I asked him the news. He was greatly disturbed. " ' "Eminently unsatisfactory, sir; eminently so," he replied. "It is re ported that Gen. Lee has surrendered to Gen. Grant down at Appomattox Court House." And he hurried on evi dently in great distress. " 'I made my way on toward the bot tom. When not. far from the railroad I saw a group of Confederate soldiers, who evidently had a prisoner. When I drew closer I recognized thst they were guarding an old friend of mine. Lieut. John Stockton of the Monticello Guard of Albemarle county. I was astonished, and as soon as I got to the men I asked why they had arrested my friend, Lieut Stockton. " 'I got a reply at once. One of the men .said he was a deserter. "For God's sake. John, now is this?" I asked. "Well. I just told them Gee. Lee had surrendered," said Stockton, coolly, "an they thought I must be a deserter-" M The men took up the conversation ( aj. Mpvvnanj and argued that there could be no doubt that their prisoner had deserted. Of course. Gen. Lee had not quit fight ing. I asked Stockton to explain, and he f aid that while the actual ceremony of surrender had not taken place when he left the field, yet the whjte flags were out at that time. He had man aged to slip into the bushes and get away. Like a number of others who had fought under Lee, he could not witness the surrender. Of course, we saw then that the news of the surren der was true. That night we had full confirmation. " 'I determined at once to Join Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina, and began to arrange for departure,' said the Senator, with a reminiscent smile, 'but when I- found I would have to travel in a buggy, being unable to ride, I concluded that my joining any army woull be a Joke, so I gave up the idea and faced the music with the rest of the boys. "'Did you ever hear how Fits Lee surrendered? You know he managed to escape from the field at Appomat tox. He and several companions got down to Farmville, and Fitz went into the hotel, where Gen. Meade had his headquarters. Fitz said he found out the room in which Gen. Meade was,. and when he discovered that it was unguarded, he thought It would be a good thing to capture the Union 'com mander and make off with him. But he soon saw this could not be done, so he walked boldly in and Introduced himself. Of course, Gen. Meade was greatly surprised, but I Imagined he was glad to receive the surrender of a man whose cavalry had been hitting him such hard blows. Fitz sat and talked with Gen. Meade for some time, and I expect they enjoyed each other's conversation.' " Officers With Muskets. "A most unusual thing," said the Sergeant, "happened in our company in West Virginia. There had been a skirmish in the mountains across the river from camp and our company was ordered up the road. We found signs of the enemy in less than a mile and finally heard the noise of a heavy ad vancing column. The company was posted to command the mountain road and the captain with two men went forward to reconnoiter. They came, at a sharp turn of the road, not ten yards away, face to face with the enemy's advance guard, and the Cap tain, who was carrying a musket, blazed away without an instant's hesitation and killed the officer in command of the enemy. Thereupon! the rebels threw themselves bodily on the Captain and his two men and all were sent to Richmond." "I suppose," said the Corporal by brevet, "that the Captain was criti cised for carrying a musket. But in the Thirteenth Massachusetts, which saw a good deal of service in the Ar my of the Potomac (we were in over twenty engagements), the adjutant, sergeant, major, captains and lieuten ants generally came out of a fight with rifles in their hands and empty cartridge boxes. The boys were in the habit of saying that the shoulder straps picked up rifles to keep up their courage, but we knew they did it from choice. As the most of the commissioned officers had come up from the ranks they felt more at home in a fight with rifles than with swords. Chicago Inter Ocean. Collecting Confederate Records. Ex-Gov. Allen D. Candler has been appointed to compile the roster of the Confederate officers and soldiers from Georgia who served in the war, and he has appealed to all the camps of Confederate veterans in the state, and every organization of Daughters of the Confederacy to aid him in making it as nearly complete as possible. The roster is intended for the general gov ernment, which will print the lists and those of the Union armies, under the direction of Gen. F. C. Ainsworth. Gov. Candler says: "These rolls should contain not only the names, but as far as possible the military history of each officer and enlisted man. If killed, it should "tell when and where; if wounded, when and where; if promoted, when and to what grade; if discharged, when and where; if he deserted, when and where." The First Shot at Fort Sumter. It has been claimed that the first shot fired at Fort Sumter was by a South Carolina citizen named Ruffin; not long ago it was said that the shot was sent booming toward the fort by a little girl, held in the arms of Gen. Beauregard. Now there is a story that the can non was fired by Capt Jacob Ballen tine, who commanded a battery at Fort Moultrie, on the order of Briga dier General Roswell Sabine Ripley. This Ripley is said to have been born in Ohio in 1823; to have been gradu ated at West Point, and to have served in the Mexican war. When the rebellion came he was residing at Charleston, and at once offered his services to the Confederates, and they were accepted and he was made s brigadier general. The Hooker Statue. The final casting for the Hooker statue have been completed, and the statue is now being set up at the foundry in New York city. Norcross Bros, have the granite pedestal well under way. The Legislature has passed the ap propriation of $23,000 for the dedi cation ceremonies, and the bill fg now before the governor for his action. Trouble is brewing for somebody on thst inscription adopted by the council to go on the pedestal. The "boys" have no use for it Thursday, June 25, the day- fixed upon for the dedication, is the anni versary of the engagement before Richmond in ,1862, known as Oak Grove or Williamsburg Road, where Heintzleman, Hooker and Kearney advanced the Third corps lines suc cessfully, and where our First Eleventh and Sixteenth Massachu setts regiments lost heavily. Not Easy to Stop Large Vessel. Experiments show that a large ocean steamer, going at 19 knots an hour, will move over a distance of two miles after its engines are stopped and reversed, and no authority gives less than a mile or a mile and a half as the required space to stop its prog ress. A Modern Hercules. Edward Beaupre, a Canadian, at present a resident of Chicago, is so strong that be lately lifted a horse bodily oS its legs. smTiB IT Ig M 11 I Y JM j btsb. ar s is. .b II -11 Jgjl SBBBBBBBBBBBEBBBSBJBSBEjS, s The Larder Beetle. J. P. Aberll, a Kentucky reader of :he Farmers' Review forwards a little beetle and says: "Here is a bug that a neighbor brought me, asking what sould be done to destroy same. It sets through cotton sacks and eats boles In hams, with the result that small skippers appear. What can be done to exterminate them?" We forwarded the insect to the Kentucky Experiment Station and re ceived the following reply: From Farmers' Review: The in sect enclosed with the communication from Mr. Aberli is a small beetle about one-fourth inch long, black, with a gray area at the bases of the front wings. It is well known every where as the Larder Beetle (Dennes tes lardarius), and' feeds upon, dead animal matter of various sorts. It is st ttetes very destructive to preserved skins, and attacks hams as noted by jrour correspondent. The young is not a "skipper," however, but a rather hairy worm that can creep, but never leaps. These worms commonly live on the outside of preserved meat, but penetrate It when ready to become pupae. The adult beetles enter dwell ings in the spring, .and then place their eggs on anything that will afford food to their young. They may be kept out by the use of screens, such is are used for flies and mosquitoes. But once on meat they should be re moved by trimming away the infested parts, and then putting the meat where the adults cannot get to it Under some circumstances It is pos sible to rid objects of the Insects by fumigating with bisulphide of carbon, rhis Is especially good for Infested 3klns, and may be used without dan ger of Injuring dried meats. H. Gar man, Entomologist Keeping Dirt Out of Milk. The greatest of efforts should be put forth to keep dirt out of milk, in the milking; for after it is once in, removal in toto is absolutely im possible. In our sanitary milk dai ries, covered milk pails are being quite largely used. In a test at the Storm Station it was found that milk drawn into such a pail was cleaner without being strained than milk drawn Into an open pail and after wards strained. In one test the amount of 'dirt In the milk where a covered pail was used was 37 per cent of the amount, where the milk was drawn into an open pall. When the latter milk was strained less than half' of the dirt was removed, it be ing estimated that 63 per cent re mained. This was 16 per cent more than the total dirt In the other milk. When the latter was strained the amount would be still further re duced. When milk is drawn into an open pail a very large number of acid ferments get in from the air. The strainer removes few of these. In a test at the station mentioned above only 17 per cent of these acid ferment bacteria could be removed by the strainer. But acid ferments are not harmful and their exclusion is of not much moment What we do need to keep out of the milk is the whole array of disease producing germs, which so often thrive in the filth of the stables. We would advise the use of the partly covered pail in all milking, as thereby the exclusion of much undesirable matter from the milk is certain. Energy in Fighting Insects. Spraying is not something that can wait on everything else, or, in fact, anything else, says Prof. F. M. Web ster. When the time comes, it must be done promptly or good results can not be secured with the most effective insecticides. It seems, sometimes, as though there was a human aversion to spraying or, indeed, fighting in sects at all, at the proper time, and that it took a lot of stamina to pull one's self together and put forth the effort at the right time and in the right manner. I do not know whether this Is due to the fact, that they are frequently so minute, or whether it Is becauso we have insects always with us, and familiarity breeds contempt Certain it Is that the contempt and neglect are common everywhere among our people, and I do not know that they are worse in one state than in another. Plant Pears in Sod. From Fanners' Review: We have found by experience that pears should always be planted in stiff sod and not even be mulched with straw. Coal ashes may be put around them but never spade around them, as not spading will cause them to grow slow er, but not blight like those of quicker growth. We planted about 75 pear trees some eight or ten years ago. Those which we planted in cultivated land are nearly all dead, while those planted in stiff sod have given more fruit than all the rest They blight but little, grow very slowly and do not seem to need cutting the tops back. I think it is also a benefit never to trim them, except to cut out dead branches; but those set in stiff sod have scarcely any dead branches. Mrs. L. C. Axtell. Planting Roses. Best time Is after danger of frosts is past In the spring, says Geo. J. Kel logg. If your roses are budded it Is necessary to Incline them at an angle or forty-five degrees In the direction you wish to lay them down for win ter; there is danger of breaking off the top where budded set them so this connection will be four inches be low the surface. Roses on their own roots are much the best, end, too, they will be easier put down for winter if properly inclined. If budded roses are planted, watch for the sprouts that come below the bud; you will need to dig down and tear them out to pre vent their sprouting again. If allowed to grow, they will rob the bud or grafted bush, which will die. Many a bush has been broken off at the bud and the root has sprouted, and the wonder Is, "Why does not my rose bloom?" The fact is, you have nothing but the wild stock, some of which never bloom. Some dealers grow all rosea on their own roots, others bud nearly everything. In planting, be sure to place the roots in natural posi tion and press the earth firmly to the roots; water well and if the plants are In leaf, shade from the hot sun for few days. Budding consists in introducing the bud of one tree with a portion of bark and a little adhering wood, beneath the bark of another, and upon the face i I of the mewly forming wood. 1 LIVE STOCK w i Value of Pasture for Pigs. A recent bulletin of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture quotes G. W. Waters as follows: "We will now state two propositions bearing on economy of production. First, while the pig is not considered primarily a grazing animal, from the fact that he cannot be expected to make gains and grow fat If turned onto common pasture grass like cat tle, sheep or mules, yet, as a matter of fact the pig will make better re turns for the amount of grass eaten than any other farm animal. More over, the pasture will increase the efficiency and value of the grain fed in connection with it The second proposition is this: The pig is a grass feeder and will eat too much of rich feeds, as grain, more tnan he can use economically, more than he can I digest well, consequently greater gains from a given amount of corn are obtained if the pig is fed less than he can or wiii eat This statement applies with especial force in cases of a long feeding period. The two propo sitions just announced, are brought out in thj following report of tests made at the Wisconsin station, six lots of pigs being used: "Lot 1, full fed, in a dry lot, gained 1.15 pounds per day and used 537 pounds of corn in making 100 pounds of gain. "Lot 2, full fed, on clover pasture, gained 1.30 pounds per day, and used 417 pounds of corn in making 100 pounds of gain. "Lot 3, three-fourths full, on clover pasture, gained 1.20 per day and used 377 pounds of corn in making 100 pounds of gain. "Lot 4, one-half full, clover pasture, gained .87 pounds per day and requir ed 352 pounds of corn to make 100 pounds of gain. "Lot 5, one-fourth full, clover pas ture, gained .64 pounds per day, and required 243 pounds of corn to make 100 pounds of gain. "Lot 5, no gain, clover pasture, gained .36 pounds per day. "In lot 2 there is a sudden drop over lot 1 in the amount of corn required. But in lot 3 there is a still larger drop. Nearly three bushels less of corn is required to produce 100 pounds of gain over dry lot feeding. For growing hogs a still larger reduction of corn is advisable. The rate of gain Is slower, but it is vastly cheaper. It Is however wise practice to full feed for the last 30 days before market ing." Cattle in the United States. Cattle other than- milch cows. In the United States on January 1, 1901. were as follows, according to a report of the United States Department of Agriculture: Maine 123.677 New Hampshire 101,198 Vermont 225.893 Massachusetts 93,400 Rhode Island 10,875 Connecticut 88,377 New York 955.408 New Jersey 82,890 Pennsylvania 823,143 Delaware 21,606 Maryland -.. 133.992 Virginia 449,679 North Carolina 307.772 South Carolina 171.459 Georgia 023,03.. Florida 544,298 Alabama 399,319 Mississippi 4C6.219 Louisiana 421,818 Texas 8,007,910 Arkansas 455,305 Tennessee 442,405 West Virginia 359,593 Ohio 1,190.024 Kentucky 508,918 Michigan 736,441 Indiana 913,860 Illinois 1,700,716 Wisconsin 1,148,698 Minnesota 1,002,668 Iowa 3,574,012 Missouri 1,405,081 Kansas 2.741.23C Nebraska 2,403,990 South Dakota 1,456,291 North Dakota 570.95C Montana 1,048,559 Wyoming 796,060 Colorado 1,286,300 New Mexico 872,471 Arizona 551.32S Utah 254,326 Nevada 364,165 Idaho 362,082 Washington 309.90S Oregon 570,04! uaiuornla 1,11 1,767 Oklahoma 1,312,620 Indian Territory 1.187.39S Total .44.659.20C Seth Adams Memorial Building. Seth Adams was the first man to in troduce Merino sheep into the United States. His first importation was madein 1801. Mr. Adams lived r large 'part or his life in Ohio and war a great breeder and distributer ol Merinos. He died in 1852 at the ag of 84 years. Ever since his day Ohic has been the leading state in the pro duction of Merinos. Ohio sheep breed ers are now planning for the erection on the grounds of the State university of a building to be known as the "Sett Adams Memorial building." which will contain a lecture room, sheep judging auditorium, library of sheep literature and a Seth Adams Memorial room ic one part, with wool rooms, shearing room, dipping room, hospital and feed ing paddocks in another part, the lat ter to be connected with the fartr fields. This building may be used free of charge by all sheep organizations in Ohio in annual or special sessions Ohio sheep breedrs are asked to con tribute 1 cent per sheep toward the cost of erecting this building. International Live Stock Expositor Association. Last week a large number of live stock breeders met at the Record building at the Union stockyards, Chi cago, for the purpose of completing the organization of the above men tioned association. The reorganizatior committee submitted the by-laws which were adopted. Twenty-one di rectors were chosen. Prof. C. F. Cur tic was elected director at large. At a meeting of the directors, following tnt general meeting, the following officer: were chosen: President, John A Spoor, Chicago; first vice president A. H. Sanders, Chicago; second vic president, A. J. Lovejoy, Roscoe, 111. secretary, Mortimer Levering, Indian apolis, Ind.; treasurer, S. R. Flynn Chicago; general manager, W. E Skinner, Chicago. If the electric chair is an instm ment of death where does the accor dion come in? ms. m n W$mmmNEriT KVF.'tjunBBBr 'sVaraBfeWflBwaa. BusBunWaaVsi awl I A Permanent Creamery at Purdue. Beginning early la May. Pardee University will operate the creamery equipment of its Dairy Department on a commercial basis, securing milk regularly from farmers In the vicin ity. This step was prompted by the difficulty experienced in securing a temporary supply of milk at such times as It was needed for use of the students. The equipment includes the latest styles of separators, com bined churns, vats and cream ripen ers. This equipment with a supply of milk, regularly, will make possible the study of many questions not here tofore touched on by the work of the Indiana Experiment Station. Prof. H. E. Van Norman has secured H. N. Slater of Fairmount Minn., as assist ant In the creamery work of his de partment Mr. Slater is a creamery butter maker of wide experience, a graduate of the Minnesota Dairy School, and has served as Instructor in the Starter and Cream Ripening Work at Minnesota. He was also an instructor in the Creamery Course at Purdue this past winter. Indiana creamery men, butter makers and dairymen should take advantage of the establishment of a well-equipped dairy department at Purdue by calling upon them for such information and assistance as they can render, feeling sure it will be cheerfully given. Know About the Cows. It is astonishing how little most cow owners know about their ani mals. One man will have a lot of good, average and poor cows, and yet have very little conception of their real or relative value. To demonstrate this, one has but to go out to buy a cow, and Inquire as to milking capacity of any one of them at any farm. He is told that such and such a cow gives a "pailful" of milk twice a day," and that it Is very rich. Not infrequently he is told that the cow gives ten quarts of milk morning and night, with the inference that this rate of milk giving is continued the year around. But the scales and the test change all these opinions. The cow that was reported to be giving about 40 pounds per day is found to be giving about one-third of that on an average. Ihe other rate would have given over 14,000 pounds of milk per year and cows giving that amount are not too numerous. The man that buys cows to put into a dairy is com ing to demand a very complete knowl edge of them. He wants a yearly knowledge of weight of milk pro duced, as well as richness tests throughout the milking period. He will not if he is wise, trust the hired man's or any one else's guess as to how much milk a cow can give. Cow Capacity. In the selection of a milch cow for the farm some attention should be paid to her capacity to produce milk. There are on American farms alto gether too many cows that give only 3,000 or 4,000 pounds of milk per year. The 6,000 pounds of milk mark is a good one to strive for, and If a man can get together a herd of cows that can average that amount he is about sure to make money out of hem. But this milk should be above :he average in richness, say 4 per cent There are indeed numerous cows that ?ive as high as 12,000 pounds of milk per year, but they form but a small iter cent of the whole. At the pres ent time an average of even 6,000 pounds of per cent milk is some thing to look forward to. It is to be regretted that in the past there has :ot been more method in breeding up and selection. Cows have been retained in the herd without much regard for their real capabilities, and ones that have been sent to the butch mr have also been little understood. Some of our best strains as well as some of the poorest have gone to the shambles; and this process continued year after year has been to the detri ment of our herds. Probably Indigestion. From Farmers' Review: Thcro is a disease prevalent among poultry, of which the symptoms are, viz.: A very heavy breathing, they shiver as with the ague, refuse to eat. stop lay ing a couple of days and die. bowels quite loose. The poultry were fed on whole corn, soaked bread and cooked potatoes, and seemed in good condi tion all winter. Will you please tell me, through the columns of your pa per, what ails them. Many of the farmers in this vicinity have lost hens in the same way. Mrs. Leo O. Miller. The symptoms, as given above, are very meager, as ceasing to produce eggs and dying can hardly be called symptoms. The heavy breathing and looseness of the bowels would indi cate roup. If this is present the mouths of the birds should contain an abundance of colorless, stringy mucus, even u it uoes not snow itseir in the eyes. Cholera is possible, but not probable. From the data given v.e should infer that the trouble is in digestion, due to a too heavy grain ration throughout the winter. Pota toes could hardly balance the ration, as they are themselves overbalanced in the direction of the carbohydrates, as is corn. It is not probable that the fowls received a very large quantity cf -soaked bread. Every spring indi gestion carries off multitudes of fowls that have been heavily grain fed through the winter. Why the trouble does not appear earlier we cannot say. Perhaps the digestive apparatus of the fowls are able to stand a cer tain vmnunt of abuse, and the limit of their endurance is not reached till spricg. If these fowls had been fed a warm mash of bran and shorts every morning during the winter, or had re ceived daily green stuff in some form, mere would probably be no trouble among them now. During the growing seasor of a fruit tree, the sap enters at th? fibrous roots, passes up through the alburnum or sap-wood, ascends to the extremi ties of the branches, and is distributed through the leaves. Emerging - thus from th? oark and minute vessels of the wood, it is spread out and ex posed to the action of the light It now becomes essentially changed in character, enters into new combina tions, and is charged with the mate rials for the newly forming wood. It descends, not through the sap-wood, out through the inner or living bark, and deposits a new layer between the bark and the wood. The tendency is more or less com con with all plants, when successive ly nroduced from seed, to depart from tie character first stamped upon them. I IPOULTPYI Exhibit! Ducks. From Farmers' Review: I exhibit each year at our annual local show, bat I make no more effort to prepare the birds for exhibition than that made to have good breedlsg birds. If I know of anyone showing better birds than I nave I patronise him for eggs to the extent of my means. la that way I have great ly improved my stock. I always take first premium at 'our local shows, but I must say there is slender com petition. However, my stock serves well. I have free range for my duck lings and generally manage to feed them once a day after they are feath ered. Previous to that I keep them closer and feed liberally. I do not think, ducks receive half the atten tion they merit, and some of these days when I have time, I mean to start a boom, with the aid of obliging edi tors, la the Pekia duck industry. I would like to hear wm quacks from the duck row ia the show room. As a matter of fact we can sell an the good breeding ducks we raise, and eggs are much ia demand, bat no one seems particularly interested In our show record. The size of the ducks is well looked after by buyers, and there are so many questions about broilers. We do not know a thing about broilers, as all our business has been to raise and sell the nicest breeding stock we knew' how to raise. Once a year we picked out some large well-shaped ducks and took them to our exhibition and won a blue ribbon, while most of oar com petitors had their birds disqualified for black spots on beaks. It is not that we are such ignoramuses about everything that anyone showing should not now that blac spots In the beak of a Pekia duck disqualifies, but Just gross carelessness. Even the judges say ducks are just a market bird, as much as to say. not worthy of exhibiting. Now I am very proud of my big Pekins and some of these days when the children are grown up I'll b able to tell yon all about exhibiting them. In the meantime I'll have to be satisfied to show them at our local suow only, and devote all my spare time to raising aad Improving them, pending that time when I can leave to go to all the big shows. Hattie By field. Red Willow County. Nebraska. A Requisite in Poultry Raising. All classes of people may go Into the raising of poultry and do it sue- -cessfully. Sex is no bar to success. " In fact very many of our. most sue- cessful poultry raisers are women. Some are semi-invalids who have given up the great lines of business and have been told by their family ' physician to get into something where . they can be out of doors a great deal, but where the amount of manual labor will not be large. These and -others may succeed, but there Is one requisite for all and that is interest in the business. The writer has known of people intending to go into the poultry business, when they bated the sight of a live hen. Asked as to their reason for making the venture they replied that they had been told there was money In It The invaria ble advice given by the writer in u such cases Is for the would-be in- ' vestor to keep out of the business. ,. Longfellow says "the heart glveth . grace unto every art." The person that has a deep Interest in poultry -can make a success of raising any kind of fowls, for he will not be -, stopped by the obstacles that are cer tain to be discovered ia the way. The number of people tnat dislike to have poultry around is very large. T But there are those that find great pleasure in caring for fowls. Some times it is one breed that strikes their fancy and sometimes another, but whatever it be, they can see beauty in it The man that nas a real interest ia fowls will make a success of rais ing them, if conditions be at all favor able, but the fowl-hater is about sure to fail. Cream for the Creamery. There are a good many things that our creameries will have to do before they succeed in getting first-class cream for use in making butter, espe cially wben the gathered cream sys tem Is followed. One manager sug gests that every creamery should fur nish the haulers with canvas covers for their cans to keep out the dust that so often gets into the crease where the covers fit In and are after- ward rinsed out with the cream when it Is poured from the cans. He also suggests that it would be a paying investment to furnish the haulers with soap-stone stoves or some other kind of heaters in winter, so that the cream will not freeze, as It is not possible to make first-class but ter from frozen cream. In the sum mer time haulers of cream should be required to be at the creamery at a . certain time, as several hours un- , necessary exposure of cream to the sun's heat is likely to injuriously af fect its quality. Suggestions. Keep a thin knitting needle by the stove to use in piercing any vegetable which is cooking. It will not leave so unsightly a mark as a fork. The first time new iron utensils are used, such as pop-over cups, waffle irons, sad irons, griddle or frying pans, they should be heated very slowly or they may crack. To whip cream quickly, put the cream in a glass jar with an air-tight cover and after adjusting the cover firmly shake it vigorously. A tiny pinch of salt and a little lemon juice help to make it turn, but it must not be shaken too long, as when this is done the cream may develop into butter. To remove white stains caused by a hot dish from the dining table thrust a shovel into the fire until It has reached ' white heat, and then hold It over thf stains as near as possible withont running any risk of burning the table. The color is restored almost Instantly. In many cases in New England. New York and perhaps Pennsylvania, well-fixed types have been established by growing one kind of corn for a !ong period of years on the same farm without any change of seed. These varieties are frequently desig nated by the name of the family by whom tney have been grown, as "Doo little" corn aad "Warren" field, corn.. Not infrequently some particular kind of corn has been grown on the same farm for several generations of a fam ily, without new seed being Intro duced. The Book of Corn. Sig. 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