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EN AT LEAST one section of
the United States at the pres
ent time a large family of
small children means wealth
and the more kiddies a man
happens to have the more for
tunate is he considered. This is on
the Navajo Indian reservation, in
northern Arizona and northwestern
New Mexico, where the government Is
now making individual land allot
ments to the tribespeople on the basis
of 160 acres to each and every In
dian, irrespective of age, sex or con
dition. So it happens that the bach
elor is condemned to land poverty,
with a beggarly quarter section, while
the married man with a large swarm
of little papooses at once comes Into
control of a landed estate limited only
by the number of his offspring.
Now It happens that polygamy has
always been practiced by the Nava-
Jos, and If a brave happens to have
several wives he ia in luck Indeed.
Each 'vlfe is good for a quarter sec
tion, as well as each youngster. So,
inasmuch as the process of allotment
is slow and is bound to consume sev
eral years before all the wandering
Bedouins of the desert can be round
ed up and corralled upon Individual
farms, Dan Cupid has been boosted
into amazing popular-
ity and the most ar
dent Rooseveltian
would search in vain
in that particular sec
tion of the desert for
indication of race sui-
cide. With wives and children worth
ICO-acre farms (and their value guar
anteed by the government.. Just like
sliver certificates and banknotes),
these commodities are worth having
and the Navajo buck who has neither
is hustling for both, while he who has
one or both is hustling for more.
But the fact that a wife is worth
160 acres of land has boosted the
price of wives to such an extent that
a poor man can hardly, if at all, raise
the wherewithal for the purchase of
one. For the Navajos have bought
their wives since the beginning of im
memorial tradition paying the
squaw's father in ponies, sheep, goats,
cattle, hides, wool, silver or any other
commodity acceptable to both buyer
and seller. Naturally the father of a
marriageable girl feels that she is
worth 160 acres of land to him. If
some brawny brave wants her he
must raise the ante. So it happens
that Uncle Sam has been a real bull
on the squaw market, giving her a
higher valuation than was ever be
fore dreamed of by the warriors of
the southwest.
So the poor but ambitious buck
finds it difficult to better his condi
tion by entering the state of matri
mony as an investment. The price of
wives is too high for any but the
wealthy to afford such a luxury.
As might be anticipated, neither the
rich nor the poor of the Navajoes are
at all pleased with the rumors that
have reached them of the govern
ment's ultimate intentions. They are
well satisfied to take their land allot
ments, but if any attempt is made to
compel them to live upon their lands
there will be trouble. They have been
accustomed to wandering wherever
the spirit moved them —driving their
flocks and herds before them and
stopping wherever water was abun
dant and pasturage good. To be cor
ralled in, fenced-in farms and com
pelled to live year after year in the
same place will prove intolerable. To
confine a Navajo on a 160-acre farm
will work as great a hardship on him
as to shut a white man up in a 6ix
by ten prison cell.
The Navajo reservation comprises
an area of perhaps 15,000,000 acres
and estimates of the number of
tribespeople vary all the way from
18,000 to 28,000. It might appear,
then, that their reservation was big
enough to give them all elbow room.
The Navajos have never thought so
and pay not the slightest heed to res
ervation limits. Without so much as
saying "by your leave," they have ta
ken possession of the major part of
the reservations of the Hopls of Ari
zona and the Zunis of New Mexico.
Then they are scattered all over
southern Utah, southwestern Colorado
and the public lands of northern New
Mexico and Arizona. They occupy
an area larger than the entire state of
Pennsylvania and will do a lot of
grumbling at any attempt to curtail
their liberty of movement. Of course
they do not need more than a small
fraction of this land for the pasturing
of their sh«?p, goats, cattle and
horses; but they have always been
semi-nomadic in their habits, moving
to a new location whenever they felt
like it.
In many ways the Navajo Is not a
bad fellow. His peculiarities are
faults when judged by the white man's
standards. But why should Tve pre
sume to measure the red man's oats
in our half-bushel basket? For one
thing, he knows no distinction of
meum and tuum • and would rather
steal than buy from any person or at
any time. Again, the truth is not in
him; or, if it is, it is so deeply buried
that it never reaches the surface; and\
Ingratitude is So universal „that its'
opposite is inconceivable in the con
duct of a Navajo. Then Ills weakness
for many wives may be counted
against him; but perhaps this should
be I, Considered lack' of wisdom r'htfter
than a moral lapse. Two wives is the
common allotment, but some have
been known to have 12. Sometimes it
happens that a man's wives quarrel.
Then he separates them, building for
each a hogan, separated, if possible,
by a rock, a hillock or a convenient
butte, which neither is supposed to
pass.
The mother-in-law joke of the news
paper paragraphers Is as old as civili
zation, but among the Navajos it is a
grim and ever-present tragedy. For a
man to look In the face of his mother
in-law is believed to be a certain pre
cursor of a long train of incalculable
evils. As his wife's mother frequent
ly makes her home in his hogan (aft
er the custom of mothers-in-law), It
requires some lively dodging to avert
a catastrophe. When he returns home,
after marketing his wool, or visiting
the nearest trading store for a supply
of tobacco, or giving chase to the
nimble jackrabbit, or sojourning for a
time with another wife, he gives warn
ing of his approach by a loud "ki-yi,"
and the old lady scurries to cover, re
maining out of sight as long as he Is
in the neighborhood.
Physically, morally and intellectual
ly the Navajo is superior to other no
madic tribes, such as the Utes,
Apaches, Comanches, Sioux and Chey
ennes. He has always been self-sup
porting, receiving no rations or other
THE PRIMER
BY OCHWARTZ
THE PICTURE LADY
An-i-mal. Shape. Tall.
Look at the Tall An-i-mal, Children. Is she not Tall? Oh, yes,
she is very Tall—and Skin-ny; but then she has a very Up-to-date
Shape. Why do you think she works in a Dime Mu-seum? Be-cause
she is on-ly 18 feet Tall. Wronj?, Myr-tle! We must learn not to
jump to Con-clit-sions. This E-lon-gat-ed Guin Twist-er is on-ly a
Fash-ion Pic-ture of the La-dy's Fone-y Journ-al come to Life.
Relaxation Needed.
The household cat 18 an excellent
model for the average woman to keep
before her eyes, says a writer. Let
women learn her secret of relaxation
and they may keep the flexibility and
grace of youth almost indefinitely.
They can also keep their faces uulined
for years''after the woman who,ls al
ways in a £tate of tension has begun
to mourn oyer crow's feet. Pussy has
muscles of iron and terrible claws,
which she can use to excellent effect
when she Wants to, but when she does
not want to use them the muscles are
in a state of absolute relaxation and
.the claws are sheathed in softest vel
vet. The average woman never re
|\ea either her mind or her body,
fcnaLeven in sleep she is all tied up in
> ioimal mid physical knots. She be
< .irioft so acctlstomed to weariness
that !«■' does not recognl/e It as such,
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1910.
grudging assistance from the govern
ment. When there is work to be had,
within their capacity, the men labor
willingly and efficiently, grading on
the railroads, constructing irrigation
reservoirs and ditches and weeding or
harvesting sugar beets in the beet
fields of Colorado. They cultivate
their scanty patches of corn and beans
on thousands of places in the desert,
having been real "dry farmers" cen
turies before the "Campbell system"
was born of the brain of the Nebras
ka experimenter, or the "dry farming
congress" that meets in October In
Hillings, Mont., conceived of. They
build their humble hogans of stones
or of timber banked up with clay,
wherever there happens to be water
for their flocks and herds. They are
neither nomads, like the wandering
tribes of the plains, nor settled agri
culturists, like the Pueblos, but rather
Bedouins of the American desert,
moving when necessary to secure bet
ter pasturage or a more abundant sup
ply of water for their live stock. Their
blankets, woven exclusively by their
squaws, have made their tribal name a
household word wherever barbaric
beauty or next to everlasting durabil
ity is prized. In their own field they
stand alone —as far beyond the reach
of rivalry as are the silken rugs of
Bokhara in their sphere.
and as long as she is able to stand
It does not occur to her that she is
tired. Society, which has heaped so
many petty cares on her shoulders, is
more to blame for this characteristic
than she is herself, but it isn't always
necessary to carry the cares about
all the time nor to continue the ten
sion habit after the reason for it is
gone.
Why?
"Ridgeway boasts that he has never
taken a drop of liquor in his life."
"Why does he boast? I know a
man who never blew out his brains,
and he doesn't brag about it."
The young man who has no bad
habits stands the best chance of mar
rying a rich man's daughter. He is
less expensive to maintain as a KOB
in-law than the other kind.
PRACTICAL PLAN FOR
CONVENIENT SHEEP RACK
Device Described and Illustrated Is Such as Used bv
Michigan Breeders—ls Ninety Feet Long.
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Plan of a Convenient Sheep Rack.
The sheep rack described below is
fuch as is used by most of the large
sheep feeders of Eckford township.
Calhoun county, the one mentioned
being on the farm of Herman Malirle,
says a writer in Michigan Farmer.
The racks in this barn are 90 feet
long, there being a row down each
side about midway from the side to
the center, leaving space enough be
tween to drive through with the
spreader in cleaning the barn. The
ends of the mangers are open to a
feed alley at each end, and the feed
ing is done by walking through the
mangers and scattering the grain, and
from hay chutes which open to the
mangers. The feeder never steps into
the part where the sheep are con
fined, so there is no contamination
from walking in the manger. The
sides of the mangers are dropped
while the grain is being fed, then
raised while the lambs eat it. dropped
again while the hay is being placed,
and raised again to allow the lambs
to eat it.
1 presume the plan by which a
stretch of 90 feet of gates is raised
in an instant from end of manger is
MODERN FARMER
KEEPS POSTED
Traveler Notes Interest In Pros
perous and Up-to-Dute Agri
cultural Community
Taken in Bulletins.
(By W. MILTON KELLET.)
I have noted one thing in particular
while traveling In several of our best
agricultural states, and that is, when
I see a number of well dressed farm
ers discussing beef and milk rations
feeding young animals for a healthy
development, nitrogen, potassium and
phosphorus and protein, carbohy
drates and their uses and functions in
plant and animal growth, I am invari
ably in a prosperous and up-to-date
agricultural community.
Now, the question is this: Do the
best and most intelligent farmers
read these bulletins and keep in touch
with their station workers, or does
the reading of these bulletins and
keeping in touch with these station
workers make better and more intel
ligent farmers?
It is one or the other considered
from either standpoint, for these bul
letins are not read by the uneducated
and unprogressive farmers, nor do
they circulate in poor farming sec
tions as freely as they do in the bet
ter agricultural communities.
The difficulty is that we do not fully
realize or appreciate the magnificent
work that many of our station work
ers are accomplishing toward eleva
ting the agriculture of our country.
The successful station worker must
be a searcher after truth and the suc
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There is a difference of opinion
among ranchers regarding the pulling
ability of each horse in a team. Some
are of the opinion that the horse ahead
is pulling the most and vice versa.
The draft on each horse depends
entirely on the relative lengths of the
lever arms and the lengths of the
lever arms depend on the position of
the clevis pins with respect to the
draw pin. In upper diagram (1) the
clevis pins and the draw pin are in a
straight line hence the lever, arm is
the perpendicular distance from the
draw pjn A to the line of, draft.of
horse. The lever arms in thip case
are A, I! aad A, C, %hiJ5}J. .are .fecjijai,
no matter how much' one' horse is
the principal thing desired. I think
the illustration will make this plan.
It is done by means of an iron lever,
fh), and sash cord, (112), fastened to
the sliding board, (c). A pull on the
lever raises the board, fc), to a posi
tion by the side of the sationary
hoard, fd), and a catch holds the lever
in position, thus holding the sliding
board up until the lever is released
and the board drops down. Strap
iron guides, (1), hold the boards in
position, and as will be seen from
the illustration the boards, (c), work
independently of each other and are
separated a little at the ends to pre
vent binding. Should any do so and
not drop down to place, a little work
ing of the lever will start them.
1 do not remember the exact con
struction of the rack, but it is some
what like the illustration. Fig. 1
showing a side view and Fig. 2 the
end view of one-half of the manger.
The other half is similar, (a) is a
post, fb) a slanting board which forms
the side of the grain bottom, and (e)
the slanting top to facilitate putting
in the hay and help to keep chaff
from falling on the necks of the lambs.
cessful farmer must have a disposi
tion to learn this truth and practice
it in ills every day management.
Efforts are just as essential on the
part of the individual himself as they
are upon the part of the station work
ers. I suggest, therefore, that while
we hold the station workers to prac
tical and vigorous w.ork we farmers
ourselves must consult our own Inter
ests by giving careful and thoughtful
consideration to all the facts that
these learned men lay before us, eith
er to approve and utilize or to form a
basis of criticism or inquiry.
Selection of the Boar.
No matter how many sows are kept
on the farm the selection of the boar
is of great importance. There are
many pure bred hogs in all parts of
the country, so there is no reason for
the use of a scrub boar by anyone,
says the Swineherd.
The character of the get of a scrub
boar is guesswork, whereas with the
pure bred boar there is some assur
ance that his get will be uniform and
of a quality indicated by his ances
tors. When possible the board should
be selected on the place where he waa
raised.
Best Pasture Grass.
Among the permanent pastures
composed largely of a single grass are
blue, grass, Russian brome grass, Ber
muda grass, buffalo grass and bunch
grass. Of these Kentucky blue grass
is now the most widely distributed.
11l palatability and sustaining power it
stands first. It ought to be crowned
king among the grasses. In favorable
localities three acres of Kentucky
blue grass will properly maintain a
steer approaching maturity for sev
en months in the year.
ahead of the other. One horse al
ways pulls the same amount as the
other.
In diagram (2) the clevis pins are
behind the draw pin and when one
horse pulls ahead of the other his
lover arm A, C, becomes longer, and A,
B, the lever arm of the one behind be
comes shorter. In this case the horse
ahead having a large lever arm has
the advantage and pulls less than the
one behind.
In diagram (3) the clevis pins are
ahead of the draw pin and when one
horse pulls ahead his lever arm short
ens and ,the ,lever arm of the.one
1 hind The. horpe ahead, hav
iiljg the 'over arm shorter pulls mar*
i than the horse behind. H
HINDUS ALARMED AND ASTIR
Spread of Christianity Threaten*
Whole Structure of Hinduism
With Overthrow.
Hinduism Is awakening to the fact
that if the great sub-stiata of Hindu
society known as the depressed classes
be raised by Christianity, the whole
structure of Hinduism is theatened
with overthrow. This awakening is
being followed by efforts in various
parts for the improvement of thesu
poor people. The latest is a move
ment in Ahrnedabad. In that city, on
August 29, a meeting was held at
which the attendance of the depressed
classes was encouraged and in which
they were allowed to sit beside caste
people. Resolutions were passed for
the formation of a Central Hindu asso
ciation, which should have for its ob
jects the raising of the depressed
classes and their readmission into
Hinduism after being converts to for
eign faiths. As to the means to bo
adopted for realizing these objects,
the following suggestions were made:
(a) Starting schools, clubs and asso
ciations; (b) establishing preaching
missions; (c) publishing papers,
periodicals, magazines and leaflets;
(d) adopting such other means as may
be conducive to the above objects.
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Futile Dissension.
"So you and your husband are al
ways quarreling?" said the family
lawyer.
"Yes," answered the young woman.
"What do you quarrel about?"
"I forget the subject of the first
quarrel. But we have been quarreling
ever since over who was to blame
for it."
An Ungentlemanly Reply.
"Once you called me the light ol
your existence."
"Yes, I know it. That was before 1
had any idea you were going to be
come the dead weight of it."
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