THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. JKEMU'AKr L8. 1000.
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LARGE FARMS IN INDIANA
and Lafayette line through their lands.
.Mm r tli- Cmintj- .Sent.
Fowler caused the comity sent to be moved
mil built the present town of Kowlcr on the
eastern border of bis farm by making land
'ik nations and Rlvlrif? 1(0,000 toward the ercc
tlon of a court houfo. After nwlillo Fowler
GIFF0RD HOLDS 3?.fim ACRFS OF I Ann and Uarl dissolved partnership and the
' " ' V .,
Qreat Farming Enteipritea Are Conducted"
on Basinets Principles.
terests caused thera to push tho Indianapolis) receiving skim milk In addition gained 1,313
Alfalfa pasture hag also given splendid
mulls, both for growing pigs nnd hogs on
full feed during tho fattening period. Pips
pastured through the summer, on alfalfa
pasture, after deducting tho probable galos
duo to tho light feed of corn which they
received, left a gain of T66 pounds of pork
per ncre for tho alfalfa pasture.
Snntuji I. ii ml Muilo Mi). I Prniliii't 1 ,
In tin; Mlnlc Ii;- llrttliilnu Suc
ci'unfill U ii in ii n I'liriuvr
Utlicr l.uruc Triu'tN.
An Indianapolis correspondent of the Chi
cago ltecord says: Tho larm. farms lti
lLdlona ono of them tho largest of lu
klml In the world are strung along through
tho northern part of Jasper nnd Nowtoii
ccuntliti ntid tho southern part or l.ako
county. Tho largrut of thwo farms is tlio
II. 1'. Olrford tract, which by recent addl
tlotih now consists of 32M acr'H. It In
doubtless the largest body of land ever held
by ono Individual In Indiana. There have
bten larger farms, but thev huvo been held
by firms or men representing the central
ized Interests of others, from tho view
point of tho" largo farms of tho west thu
Clifford farm In not so notably lnrgc. Uut in
Indiana, whero a farmer that ha from
eighty to ltiO acres is considered In good cir
cumstances, tho slzo of this largo holding Is
enormous. In ono respect tho Clifford farm
la a notablo ono compurcd to any tract. It
la tho largest cultivate! swamp farm In the
world. It was only ten yoars ago that tho
auction which Mr. Clifford Is now converting
Into pasturm and vegetable and grain pro
ducing land was a series of marshes, pools
and lakes a part of tho Kankakee Hwntups.
Mr. Ulfford had previously developed a groat
tract similar to this near Champaign, III.
Itei'liilniK I. ii ml I))' Driilniiuv.
When Mr. Olfford llrat conceived tho Idea
of converting a portion of tho Kunkakco
lands In Indiana to agricultural purposes ho
acquired at a nominal prlco about 10,000
Acros. Ho then bought two dredgea similar
to thoho used by tho government In Its
river dredging. Tho dredges wtro put to
cutting largo ditches, almost tho size or
mail rlvcra. This work has been going on
night and day for yturu and now there nro
8,000 acres In a high stato of cultivation.
Tho last year tho tallest corn and probably
tho best in Indiana watt rained on this
tract. Instead of fences Mr. Olfford ban
waterways between pastures. Ho has sov-cnty-ftvo
miles of largo dltchcu through the
farni und has thousands of nil lot of e mil II or
dltchcH. In addition to this ho In now put
ting In drain tile. Tho soil taken from tho
river nnd ditch beds has been shoveled
back over the Holds, and tlnirt tho Ileitis
havo been raised littlo by Httlii as th
ditching work went on. Tho work is still
going on, but It will tako years to put all
tho tract Into cultivation.
Mr. Olonl haa between 300 and 400 tene
ment houscn on tho farm nnd tho popula
tion Is probably 2,000 people. Ho has n
spur to tho farm from tho nearest railway
and ships his products direct to tho markets.
Tho land, when In n stato of cultivation, Irt
oa productive as any In Indiana and Is worth
from $50 to $7C an acre. It cost Mr. Clifford
from $1 to $1.50 an acre. Mr. Gilford Uvea
at Kankakee,
ItuliM'M I. a r Kent Corn Crop.
Lcroy Tomplcton, a few years ago tho pop
ulist candidate for governor, owns a farm of
C.OOO acres In Nowtoti county and Is said to
raleo more corn and cattlo every year than
any other man In tho state. Less than ton
years ago tho stato sold tbo land for 17 ccntB
an acre. Tho only crop then was bull
frosts and malaria. A drain thirty feet wide
and eight foot deep was constructed and tbo
land soon becarao productive. Mr. Temple-
ton paid $lfi an aero for It nnd would not
tako 1cm than $50 an ncro now.
Year boforo last Mr. Tcninleton raised
100,000 bushels of corn on his farm. Ho
cleared $16,000 on tho year's crop. During
tho year Just ended ho raised SO.000 bushels
of corn, lie has moro than 1,000 cattle on
tho farm. Ho employs fifty men to look
after tho work.
The Allen Oregory farm, which Is now
being divided among tho heirs, Includes 8,000
acres. Tho William Kent farm, southwest
of Fair Oaks, consists of 7,500' ncrea. The
Otis farm comprlarn nearly 10,000 ncrcs and
lies parallel along tho Motion Tallway from
Fair Oaks to Tloso Lawn. The farm of II
W. Cooloy, who recently fell dead In his
odlco In Chicago, Iiiib almost 9,000 ncrcs and
Inst year It produced n airly 100,000 bushels
of corn. Drown Wren, of Crown Point have
furm of about 8,000 acres. Tho Hnnile
Hay company has nlniut 10,000 acres near
Hamlet. Nelson Morris has 10,000 ncres nn
W. I. Shelby of Crond Kaplds has nearly
15,000 ncres. Tortious of nil these farms nre
In a stato of cultivation. Tho tenants are
largely l'olandcra, Swedes, Germans nnd
Hollanders.
One AVoiiiiin 1'n finer.
Ono of theso largo farms Is owned nnd
manufiixl by a woman. Sho Is Mrs. Jennie
Conrnd, and owns. 7,000 ncrcs In Newton
county. Sho farms ovory ncro of It, conduct
a big cattle Imslnebs, breeds horses for tho
Chicago market and Is making a great deal
of money. Sho Is a woman of about 15 and
lias all tho graces of her sex. Hut she looks
after hor farm nnd vast lmshiess personally,
not trusting nny one to attend to It for
her. Tho land Is worth ftom $10 to $50 nn
ncre.
Many years ngo Adam Karl and Moses
Kowlcr owned the largest farm thero ever
wns In lndlunu. Uoforo tho war they ac
quired n stretch of 11.000 acres In Jasper
niid Honton counties. Tho farm took In nl
noHt all tho vast prairie lying from the
former begati to sell off his land.
Kowlcr had In view the perpetuation of
hi? great estate and In his will made proUslon
tint It should not bo cut up for twenty
years. The will was broken nnd the farm
divided and largo parts of It sold.
Kowlcr and Karl got some of this land by
government entry, but most of It was bought
at $3, $t and $u an acre. It Is today In the
bert corn-producing section of the state nnd
Is worth from $50 to $70 nn acre. Kowlcr
Tw"o lots of twenty hogs each, averaging
12S pounds at the beginning of the tllal,
wero fed Kaffir corn, and In nddltlon one
lot was given nn alfalfa pasture to run In.
Tho hogh were fed forty-two days nnd sold:
The lot receiving Kalllr alone gave a return
of 30 cents per bushel for the Kaffir corn
consumed. Allowing 30 cents for the Kaffir
corn tho othor lot consumed, we havo left
$1.40 for tho use of the nlfalfa pasture for
died a mllllonatro and Karl was worth about ! forty-two days, and a quarter of nn ncro
$500,000 when he died two years ago
i Tho Sumner farm, north of the Karl hold
ings, was even larger than the Kowtcr trac
, It comprised about 27.000 acres. Tho lai
' has been divided hImoc Sumner's death. He
I was reputed to bo as wealthy na Kowlcr and
dlod leaving his estate to three children.
They nro Jesso Sumner of Mllford, 111., and
Mrs. Jano Hawkins and Mrs. Jennie Cald
well of Karl Park, Ilenton county.
would undoubtedly havo furnished nil the
RESERVE FOOD OF THE WORLD
Eome Bptculation as to How Long the
Supply Will Hold Out.
INTERESTING AND STARTLING FACTS
Xnt Trees Alotir Could I'ecil Three
'I I m e tin I'oiiiiliillon of tlir World
I'IiiiiIIiiic Xnt Orohnriln
In ." KiiKlniul,
"How long will the world's food supply
held out?" Is a tiroblcm which faces tho.
alarmist every tlmo ho runs up ngalnst a
freeh batch of statistics proving tao rapiu
m:w I'oi.vrs i phi i'i:i:ini.
I'n-tiT He ii (I lli-furr Kiiiimiin Iniiiru, ril
IiicU I'Vt'ilprm' Anxoelii t loll.
Wallace's Knrmer: Over 275 bead of hogs
have contributed to the data now on hand,
und have loft us somo very satlsfactoryy re
sults. The feeds fed wcro those adapted
to tho grentcr part of Kansas namely,
Knlllr corn, soy 'beans nud alfalfa bay, with
corn as a comparison.
Wo Unit that Kalllr corn Is practically as
good a feed for pigs ns corn. In actual
feeding valuo corn has about 20 per cent
tlesldes the fact that alfalfa hay or
jture, soy beans nnd skim milk produced
oeltcr gains In every case, It must not be
overlooked thnt tho hogs not receiving these.
In nddltlon to Kalllr torn were cither In n
poor marketable condition or not market
ablo at all, whllo the others were In good
shnpe. And when tho hogs were put on
tho" market, tho lots on their own merits,
thoso which had received alfalfa hay or
pasture, nklm milk or soy boans, brought
from 7 to 10 cents moro per hundred.
And wo did not stop nt tho eale pen with
these hogs; they were slaughtered, cooled
and cut up out In the packing houses of St.
Joseph nnd Kansas City and the packers
havo added their testimonies In favor of the
alfalfa, soy bean and sklm-mllk fed hog.
A good avcrngo dally gain, to put It In
round numbers, for a hog weighing from 125
to 225 pounds, fed corn or Kalllr alone, Ih a
pound a dav. When alfalfa Is added one
tho advantage, but when the yield Is tnken
Into consideration the balance Is strongly
In favor of tho Kaffir corn. A record for the
last eleven years on tho College farm at
Manhattan (upland) shows the following:
Corn during this period nvcrnged 31.5 bush
els per ncro, which If fed to hogs would
produco ordinarily 401 pounds of pork.
Kaftlr corn during the sawn period has
averaged forty-six bushels per ncre, which
It fed to hogs would produco 1C0 pounds of
pork.
Wo find that a combination of feeds Is bet
ter than a single feed, though the feeds bo
practically tho same. Corn and Kafllr fed
together, equal parts of each, gavo much
better results than either alone. Soaking
of corn Is of doubtful advantage, whllo with
Kalllr It Is an absolute detriment to apply
water to It except Just to moisten It as It is
fed. Grinding, to our surprise, gives results
similar to soaking. If corn Is old, dry and
hard and tho facilities for grinding are
very convenient nud Inexpensive it may pay
to grind, but It surely will not pay to haul
any distance or pay tho ordlnury
toll for grinding. With Kafllr corn
crlndinc is an nbsoluto detriment. A
bushel of wholo Kalllr corn will proiluco
moro pounds of pork than a bushel of
ground Kalllr corn.
Alfalfa hay fed to hogs on full feed gnvo
nBtonlshlng results. Tho hogs fed In this
trial were bought of farmers near tho sta
tion nnd averaged 125 pounds each at the
beginning of tho experiment. The hogs
weio fed all tho Kalllr corn meal they would
eat cleanly In nn hour or so after feeding,
nnd In addition were fed alfalfa hay In
forkfuls In flat troughf.. The hay was In
splendid shape, had been cut In the early
bloom und perfectly cured. Tho bogs wcro
fed no moro than they would cat closely, the
nnrth nf itnsuell. to tho Sumner holdings, i marsnr stems beliur rejected. The lot fod
Kowlor held ntxiut 25,000 ncres In his own , tho alfalfa hay In nddltlon to tho Kalllr corn,
name, nnd Karl 'had tho remainder, which ' mndo an averago dally galil during tho fecd
contcrcd In and around Karl Park. They I Ing period of nlno weeks of 1.11 pounds per
farmed together. During tho war they j hciid and wero In splendid condition ut the
asturc tho lot used nnd not been damaged, jincicaso of population throughout tha earth,
tujs a writer in tho St. Louis itepuoiic.
The alarmist, ns well ns the nun who
regards three square racals a day as neces
sary to his comfort, will llnd reassuring
r.ewo In tho fact that the reserve food sup
ply of the world has been declared Inex
haustible. The Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington Is authority for this comforting plec
of Information. Kor somo time past It has
been carefully nnd systematically Investi
gating the food stock In trade of nearly
every country on the globe.
Agents who nro food students have been
sent out to China, Vct Persia, Mexico,
everywhere to the romotnst ends of tho
earth for the purpose of finding out what
the new or neglected fool products are,
i tbclr value as a nutritious diet, nnd tho ex-
! tent to which they can bo used to lengthen
tho menu of the civilized cook.
Some very Interesting and startling facts
re being handed in tnrougn tno rcporm
that cover tho food question from New
Ktigland to the Philippines, from Mexico to
tho heart of tho Mongolian empire.
It has been discovered.
That tho nut trees alone of tho world
could at a pinch feed a population threo
times as great as tho present number or
Inhabitants.
Whllo a dozen vegetables cover the limit
f variety on the nverago table, the earth
growing hundreds of kinds that r
nutritious, delicious and easy to cultivate.
That a single wild tribe of western Indians
Is uidng forty-ono kinds of vegetables which
ro absolutely unknown, even to the chef
ho draws a salary as large as that of
United States senator.
Dimyii t rodiW-n Werils Arc Killhlc.
An endless variety of downtrodden weeds
can he converted Into wholesome, succulent
garden truck." Kvcn the much maligned
nettle has tho latent qualities oi a delicious
entremet.
Especially Interesting nro the facts fur-
ished by the nut specialists. Thero Is no
product that requires so littlo cultivation ns
tho nut, nnd none Is more wholetomc ns a
food stnple. An orchard of 2,000 trees In
California yields every year over 2,400
pounds of bulled nuts.
Already tho commercial mind has seized
pon tho enormous profits to accrue from
tho salo of various preparations of nuts, and
least ten large companies manufacture
nothing but nut foods.
Tho government Is making a special point
f recommending nut culture. In Now Eng
land tho abandoned farms arc being planted
with nut trees, nnd the worked-out ground
is found to furnish nourishment enough to
cause tho walnut, butternut nnd chestnut to
flourish abundantly. Farms In nearly every
northeastern stnto aro planting nut treos
along with their peaches nnd pears, and aro
utilizing tho hillsides where nothing olse
will grow for nut orchards.
In the past tho objection o nuts as a food
has been that they aro deemed hard to
digest, but, with the new methods of pre
paring and cooking them, they aro rcn.
dcred as healthful as they aro palatablo
even In America, where good digestion does
not Invariably wait on appetite.
The Introduction of new foods Is an ex
cellcnt plan for both tho health and com
mercial prosperity of a nation. Nearly all
of what aro now regarded as indigenous
fruits and vegetables havo been importea
to us from other lauds. Of tho food plants
now in use, only pumpkins and a few
grapes, plums and berries wcro originally
found on the soil.
Oats, barley and rye originated In wild
forms along tho Mediterranean. Tho first
ncted species of wheat were brought from
Persia. Tho common garden bean traces
its ancestry bnck to the landing of tho Pll
grlms to an early aboriginal state In tho
Andes. Tho Orient furnished ub with mel
ons, cucumbers and onions. Egg plant and
tomatoes wero discovered In Peru; quinces
ptnrs, currants and large whlto grapes In
Europe; while tho most common of our
vegetables celery, lettuce, cabbage an,1
bplnnch wore transplanted from the shores
of tho Mediterranean.
ino taming or wild fruits Is anothob
branch of the food agents business. Mr,
oiiBusiun nciii, wiiu is nutnoritv on
CMncso flora, states that there aro at least
loo varieties of fruits growing wild In th
uiieriur oi nina, mat. ir tranan anted In
nnothcr soil and properly cultivated, would
prove as important a food supply as our
lirttsuin. necessary appio and pear. Tho I,
conto pear, which has revolutionized near
growing in soimicrn callforu a. wa nrln..
Inally tho Chinese sand pear, grown solely
iur ui utiwcuiai purposes.
N'ettlo Ncwlywcd Papa, dearest, won't you let Augustus aud me have $15,000?
Papa What do you want all thnt money for?
Nettle Wo want to build ono of those houses that cost $3,000 In the advertisements,
grazed nnd stocked It with tins of thou
sands of head ct cattle and filled largo gov
ernment contracts. Their Uetiion county In-
HEARTY EXPRESSION
Hundreds Tell of the Change
Which They Have felt.
The Time Comes for Omiilin People
to Tell What Has Hecu
i)one for Them.
nud one-half pounds per day Is a fair gain,
or two to two and one-hulf pounds nro put
on very readily when soy beans or sklm-
mllk Is fed In addition to Kaftlr corn.
Those facts nro appreciated by thoso who
know that such feeds ns alfalfa, soy beans,
etc., tend to produco more lean meat, Insuro
a rapid growth In young pigs that would
not do well on corn alone, and thnt thesp
nro tho cries of the hog market young hogs
nnd less lard. Tho American hog takes a
bnck seat In tho English market when th
Danish und Canadian hog Is there. Tho Dane
feeds his pigs skim-milk and barley. Tho
Canadian feeds corn to somo extent, but
largely peas nnd beans. The Dane gets
third moro for his bacon than wo do nnd tho
Canadian receives from 60 cents to $2 per
hundred moro live wolght for bis pen and
bean fed hogs than wo do for our corn fed
stuff. However, wo may make moro money
In tho transaction than either the Dano or
tho Canadian, but our experiments show
that it will pay to imitate tnem to somo
extent.
We AmerlcatiH should appreciate good,
lean bacon as well ns tho Englishmen, but
ns long as wo continue to feed corn alone
no will not solve tho problem "Pat" was
after when feeding his pig for his own use,
He fed tho pig well one week and the next
ho did not feed it at nil, aud when asked
why ho did so responded: "Sure, and
want a streak of lean and a streak of fat
nil tho way through." The leau-produclng
element Is not In corn."
I might bo nuked iibout cooking feed for
hogs. 1 hopn I need only to sny that many
other stations ns well as tho Kansas station
havo tried, and tried faithfully, to provo that
It pays to cook feed for hogs, but It has not
been done. Krom my own observation It
appears to mo thnt the reason some fecdoro
seem to llnd that It pays to grind nnd cook
feed Is that whon thoy aro feeding ground
or cooked feed they take a great deal moro
pains In feeding. They feed regular am!
keep tho feeding places In good shnpe. And
tho dllferenco enmo from this, not from tho
grinding or cooking.
Wo aro also oblo to sco tho meaning o
tho phraso "blood tells," for In buying up
shnnts of vnrlouo parties It was necessary
nt times to tnko somo that wero very much
below tho avcrngo In quality, whllo others
in a lew cases, wero auove ttie average,
hllo same or tho nest would make a gnln
of practically two pounds per day per head
The time has como when people In Omaha
reel the change. Many people In this city
have given voluntary endorsement of tha
great chango they havo felt after uslna
Morrow's Kld-ne-olds.
Kld-noolds will euro a lamn back, kidney
backache, urinary and kidney disorders,
steeplessnrfs, rcotlefuness and nervousness.
Wo always llko to glvo referenco ns to tho
morlts of Morrow's Kld-no-olds, nnd this
tlmo refer you to Mr. II. E. Murphy, Conch
man, of 21S South 3Sth street, who says:
"After trying nearly all tho romcdlc I
hoard of or read about, said to bo good for ,
kldnsy backacho, rheumatism, neuralgia, ,
urinary troubles, nervousness nnd resting
nosa of which I havo been mulcted for some
tlmo, and from which I got hut little relief
1 decided to trv Morrow's Kld-ue-oil. They
relieved mo of all my former troubles In a
yery short tlmo. I will contlnuo to use Kid- I
ne-olds for their tonic encci, ana recom
mend them to othcts."
Morrow'ii Kld-uo-olds are not pills, but
Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty cents a box
at all drugg!at nnd by tbo Myers Dillon
Drug Co. '
Mailed on receipt of prlco. Manufactured
by John Morrow Co., Cbetnlats, Spring
AtlO. Ohio.
close.
A lot of exactly tho samo clni?s of hogs,
ond receiving exactly tho samo treatment In
every respect, except they were not fed the
alfalfa hay In nddltlon to tho Kalllr meal,
tnado an averago dnlly gain per hend of only
.83 pound, nnd wcro not In a marketable
condition at tho close of tho trial. Tho lot
fed nlfnlfn liny In addition to the Kalllr meal
showed an nctunl gain duo to the Intlucncrt
of the hay of S6S pounds of pork per ton of
ninir. l.iiv Willi iwirli nt .Ml nor hundred
this elves us $30.3S per ton for nlfalfa hay. i ol"orH. lai' n' i'oor orcouing. nut np
nrldo from tho fact the hogs fed Kalllr alone , pnrcntiy tlio samo ngo. gained but n half t
i, ..i ,n iin -ivm, nn mldttlnnal nerlod of feed- tnreo-iouiuis oi a pound per uay per head.
inc before they wero marketable. i Tho hog also rcspondn very appreciatively
We find the soy bean to be a remarkable
feed for hogs. Under exnetly the hamo con
ditions as nbovo mentioned ono lot of ten
hogs wns fed four-fifths Kafllr mcnl and one
llfth eoy bean meal, nnd In a period of fifty
days mado a gain of S66 pounds, whllo a
similar lot receiving Knlllr mcnl nlnno made
a gnln of but 441 pounds und nte only 463
pounds less feed than the other lot. Tho
lots weighed exactly tho same at the begin
ning, were tho samo class of hogs, and ro
eelved exactly tho same care In feeding.
Skim milk Is also n very valuable nddltlon
to Kaffir corn. Hogs that had been fed
' on Knlllr corn alone In a previous experl
1 mcnt nndvnot being marketable, wero fed
nlout twelvo prunds of skim milk per dny
In addition to Kalllr corn and made an avcr
ngo daily gala of 2.43 pounds per head for
thrco weeks. Klgurlng the Kafllr com at
v, hat It ordinarily returnf when fed to tim
liar 1-ojs, gnvo us 10 cents per hundred for
th fklm milk.
' In another cojo where two lots nf twenty
hogs each received Kafllr co-n, nnd In ad
dltlcn ono lot received five pounds of skim
milk per day per head, tho ga)n attributed
to tho milk gave It a valuo of 21 cents per
hundred. The lot receiving hntllr corn nlono 1 rcn, Albany, Wis,
is
i carciui iinmuiug, Kinu treatment an
regular feeding. Tho hog In Us habits
very much superior to what It gets credit
for being. When fed t,o that they know
they will get all they want ovory time thoy
nro fed, nnd nro fod regularly, they seem to
loso mnny of tho so-called hoggish qualltl
and hecomo quite mannerly. They aro gen
orally the last to rocelvo attention and are
often expected to eat what Is refused by a
other anlmalo on tho farm.
Little attention Is usually given to the
feeding or sleeping quarters and when
thought of nt all tho thought usually
"only a hog, nnyhew," nnd In goes the
water or swill In n dirty trough, or tho corn
in the mud. At one tlmo the hog Is burne
up on corn and at another expected to dc
volop two or three extrn stomachs, neces
sary to suhl.u entirely on a forage diet
With such treatment it Is no wonder tha
tho littlo bacillus-cholera finds them an easy
victim
"I had dyspepsia for years. No mcdlcln
wns so effectlvo ns Kodol Dyspepsia Cure,
It gave Immediate relief, Two bottles pro
iiuccu niurreiDiin renins, writes u. n. war
ren. Albany. Wis. It dlceits what vou eat
made a gain of 831 pounds, wbllo the one and pnnot fall to cur.
Olrnniiiruiirlii). will Xot llimn,
Hacino (Wis.) Journal: It Is nlwnys In
order to take a whack at oleomargarine, tho
greatest food fraud of tho nineteenth ccn
tury. Tho business of Icgltlmato dairying
u business winch uos nt the very founda
tlon of a permanent agricultural prosperity
lor tins country, id imperiled by this fraud
to a greater extent than the dairymen of th
country themselves realize They should rise
as ono mnn and demand of the government
such leglelntlon ns will absolutely proven
tills frnuu being sold undor tho name of
butter.
Tho kidney fnt of a fat steer, such fat na
It is claimed Is used for tho production of
better grades of oleomargarine, will welgl
about forty iounds. Assuming that th
averago cow will produco 100 pounds of but
ter In a yenr, It will take four steers to off
set ono cow ns a butter producer. Enough
oleomargarine was mtulo last year to otTset
tho product of over 100,000 cows, so if this
cholco fat was used ulono in its production
1,600,000 steers wcro drawn upon, but there
was not any such number of steers killed
anil so it proves that oleo Is not mado o
that tort of fat.
CODD
or Colored
Ul Splotches.
Mr. H. h. Mjers. 100
.Mtuuerry Street, Newnrk, H. J.,
says: "I contracted a terrible blood
diseaso which broko out into sores
all over mv nod v. I snent a nun
dred dollars with doctors but Rrew
worse uihtenu of iietter. Many
blood remedies wore also used with
iioeflect, tintlll decided to try S.S.S
Tills remedy seemed to net at tho
seat of the disease nnd cured mo
completely and permanently."
C C Cfor
The
Blood
(Swift's Specific) i? the only cure for
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1 1.058,910
T
hat Was the Population of Nebraska
According to the Census of 1890.
What Will it Be in 1900?
Figure it Out aud Share the
$15,000 in Premiums
The Premiums
1st 10 room house and lot in Omaha, value $3-500
2nd Cash.... $1,000
3rd One Chickering Piano $600
4th Cash...., ; $500
5th One Kimball Piano $450
6th Cash : $200
7th Cash $200
8th Cash $100
9th to 19th 10 Sewing Machines, , $500
19th to 24th 5 Defiance Sewing Machines, $40 each.... $200
24th to 29th 5 High Grade 1900 Bicycles, $50 each $250
30th 1 Omaha Commercial College full scholarship.... $60
31st 1 Omaha Commercial College mail scholarship.... $15
50 Cash Premiums, $10 each , $500
100 Cash Premiums, $5 each $500
Farm Implements, wagons, buggies, musical instruments,
guns, household furniture, books, pictures, etc $6,425
Grand Total
$15,000
You Can Figure It Out Yourself.
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Rules of the Contest.
The publishers of The Weekly Ilee will give awny Uu-hc premiums, valued In iikk regit te $15,000. lo
tibscrlbers who make the clonest estimates of the census population of Hie state In which they live. Tho
awards will be made on the olllcial figures of the United Slates census for 11)00. The subscriber nuikliiK
the closest estlmnto of the total population of his own state will receive the Hist premium, the subscriber
making the next closest estimate will receive tin second premium, and so on.
Under the plan of award each subscriber will tlnure out the populntlon of his own stule nnd send the
same with bis suscrlptlou, which will be stamped with the date and hour of receipt at this olllce and lllcd. In
case of a tie, tho estimate first received will be awarded the premium.
For example: Suppose a Nebraska subscriber makes the closest estimate on Nebraska within .10,000 of
the Nebraska census returns, while an Iowa subscriber makes the closest estimate on Iowa within ,'iO,(K)l of
the Iowa census returns then the Nebraska subscriber would receive lirst premium and the Iowa Hub
Bcrlber second premium.
All territories, Nevada nnd the District of Columbia are barred as the basis of calculation. Subscribers
living in those states will make their estimates on the population of Nebraska.
As the time when the census llRures will be made public Is not yet Used, the close of the coutest will
be announced three weeks In advance throimh The Weekly lice.
Every estimate competing for these premiums must be accompanied by $1.7.ri ns n subscription to The
Weekly Heo for one year, nnd The Illustrated lice for one yenr.
Every subscriber now tnklng The Weekly Hue may register bis estimate by sending $1.00 for The
Illustrated Hee for oue year.
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You Get the Two Best Nebraska Papers With It.
The Census Takers Begin Their Rounds in June.
Nebraska Official Statistics.
Goneua Population
1860 28,841
1870 122,993
1880 452,402
1890 1,058,910
Increase Per 10 Years
1860 to 1870 94,152
1870 to 1880 329,409
1880 to 1890 600,508
Rank In
List of
btntos
9tli
.36th
.'iOth
26th
. Per Cent
or ir
ncroQBo
326.45
267.83
134.06
Total
1890...
1891...
1892...
1893...
1894...
1895...
1896...
1897...
1898...
1899...
Voto
.213,262
.156,080
.197,473
.181,600
.203,852
.182,916
.223,988
.193,190
.197,657
.231,229
School Consiis
5 to u Yonra
1890 316,805
1891.... 332, 243
1892 333,115
1893.... 343, 629
1894, . ..352, 175
1895.... 362, 7 29
1896.... 352, 101
1897.... 348. 528
1898 354,929
1899.... 366, 069
Its a Problem in Arithmetic.
You Can Solve It.
A ddriss Census Dept.
The Weekly
Omaha, Nebraska.
Bee