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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
TEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICUL. |
TURAL TOPICS.
Sheen's Loss In Weight—Removing Honey
From the Hives A Little Feeding In-
formation Seed Potatoes How to Fat
ten Mules—Etc., Etc
Sheep's Loss In Weight.
Farmers who keep common
and depend upon wool do not
how specimens of some breeds may
be made reach great weights, A
two-year-old grade Lincoln wether in
England was slaughtered, live |
fat 34 pounds, the skin, bleod and en
trails 90 pounds, and the
pounds, Sheep weighing S00 pounds
live weight pumerous in the |
United States.
sheep
know
to
its
6
waste
are
Removing Honey From the Hives.
To have honey in the best shape
sell it should be removed from
hives as soon as it is well capped over.
The eappings are then white and very
inviting. If allowed to remain long
in the hives after being capped,
cappings become stained by the
and the appearance Is injured.
to!
the |
i
the i
hoes
A Little Feeding Information. |
In Fall feeding cattle it seems, |
by taking the at that
the method ¢ wed is feed |
grain il or r good i
pasture, twenty
pounds of corn
feeders
orn crop
nences to
sidered a
the most
calculated that it
fifteen to twenty d chang
steers from to diet. |
Great care should be exercised to pre
vent the losing any Hesh
n the transfer.
ol
country
le to
best mp
steers are sti
while the
feeding from ten 10
meal Nome
to ysoe their
commence
just goon As it com
dent, 1
geod practice
ful
Success!
as
con
of
and it is
ut tin is not
hy many
feeders
should require from
ays to
grass their corn
steers from
Seed Potatoes.
important to guard
They
are fully
should
are prone
5 ia
iL IN
vour seed be |
fine and large,
to retrograde
allowed to
must broken off. To h
plan
gol su
potatoes,
for
T he
start. iu
Matoes
sprouts should not
he they do, they
the Dest
We
ex
be ave
"
sed you
read a
change:
ne
must
gestion
wan
sprouting
away in
sane ut
then when
GOD f
wl
ng s¢
A go
few sed
barrels
rels as has
Sun
necessary; vy wi
often. Ti
but jus:
Fhe potatoes will he
when
pour
changed
reasonable,
the spring
fall. -Farn
ans
How to Fatten Mules.
Put them
ean be up vxeept
and Hang :
burlap fastened at the te at it
will blow in and out
snd when quiet it will
turned loose in barn, put in
trough. If the tron
hoopiron band on the edge, as
are great to gnaw. Have a snu
adjoining in which you
at night to roll
If the;
well greasea w
hed or barn whieh |
into a =
closed the windows
doors these
Lie
with wind,
keep the place
igh is of pine,
put a
mules
ill lot
can turn them
have collar
ith axle
do not like the smell and will
upon the
Have
sorner
drink I up
that ) rink out of i
not get any | rin it
of salt
an at
comin
HOT ON {hese
Flies
Hight
1. *
REPL
gregae
not
well greased
sora if i 8
118 :
11f- in
£0
witer One
can and
so hig}
gai
i" | Lhe LE box
nals
Now
ence in
creasing until
will eat.
ground or
tle ollmeal
iy or ninety
fit for
right
Orang:
Me
soaked om
and brov
days tl
market fy
HIATR s Dros
tiles
Judd Farm
Fatal Effects From Green Fodder,
ecause they havi
young first-growthand
sorghum and Ka
instances pretty
them without apparent
persons are ready to
these green growths
ous. Yet, under ¢
reasons which
seen cattle
ont
second-growth
fir-corn. and In
nearly subsist
harm, many
maintain that
are never danger
cumstances and for
is yet able
01
no ons to
stances find to their sorrow
plants are almost immediately fatal
This suggests that uo one is justified
in taking any chances by
efittle to have access to such “groens.”
Among others, Secretary Coburn of the
Kansas Board of Agriculture
three examples of thelr fatal effects,
occuring recently. Thomas Feakes,
Lincoln County, turned his cows Into
an unused corral where a few scatters
ing bunches of Kafir-corn were grow
ing. In less than thirty minutes seven
of the cows that had nipped the grow-
were made very sick, but recovered,
John Kaser, of Covert, Osborne
County, was driving a lot of young
cattle throngh a pasture where there
were stools of green Kafir-corn and
sorghum, Within thirty minutes ten
out of eleven heifers that had eaten
of these vats were dead. OC. F.
game time, lost six steers In
Losses such as these are of annual
occurrence, and a list of them would be
very long. The fact that results are
always fatal should not farnish an
for taking risks likely to
extremely expensive, Certain
is only assured absolutely
preventing cattle from within
of the named, even for
excuse NO
prove
by
getting
reach plants
The Season's Lessons From Dairymen,
The season ended has many lessons
for the thoughtful man, One of them
is that general farming is in the long
reliable. In many parts of
dry weather has very ma
terially shortened the hay crop. Where
men did not foresee the coming troi-
ble and put In liberal pieces of corn
to supplement the shortage of hay,
winter stares them in the face with
and an abundance of
stock on hand. This stock must either
ried] through cold weather on
turned off at The re
cattle vers in
in a lifetime do
cheaply at the present
jons which were most
run most
HIOWSs
be
loss,
sult is, low price.
Not
se elling
1 In
hot id | iously a
ure
once
as as
reer
those
oct the drouth. Good
the
by
cows coming into milk In spring
worth only
And
to-<iay from $15 to $20
per hecd many are selling for
Calves, sheep and
in price
that
% Lan
lambs ro along COWS
had t little more caut
Ked w
The pendulum
we Merl
ersto ith cows,
ster off.
dng toward dairying
hack, and
1st get out
should
after
for
HOW We are
We nt
But
resolve that
tie
not firmly
vill not run
farming?
the wt, Again,
om the experience of
is wise to be prepared
that
that
an
we
Veer
«0 largely to branch of
Mixed
we shi les
this
for
une
' ¢
» suf
i i Al
nin
farmin
il
that it
of a
It
enough
year
any kind SeASOU
is said any
to
It
when
foretold
would
if we
surely
But wi
ince {oo come,
knows CRITY ui
a when it rains. is a wise
along
have
sky Is
last
Pree
who takes one the
ir Who could
that the hay
19007
would
Cron #4
rr a fall
a faliure In
known that we have
ntl a wil plece of oft
KNOW
Short and Useful Pointees,
fins
sultry w
wd meal Is excellent
silt y
Mouth
hile u
Damp stables are to
Don't
injurious
tock have them
Select vour f dairy cows |
eu t
Pop corn is better ti
hens, as it contains more nitrogen,
Iry churning
if
changing the
fire of
tempera
the cream ihe butter
long in coming.
Fhe
COMmes
fut
largoes
the
up in
! rofl always
anim: that has been
good Sap
of the
the
eld is 1
OWE Are Dat
If your «
ere
only
it more
way io Ne Be Ss
feeding
to
eh
pied
aud better
Poultry not
amount of ireonl, do ned
gninterr
the
re dle
that of featln
well
impietients
old
Keep hens
ha
r pulling
bad
wially
might as farm with
sh
irm
aed
Ww ith fie
(00d beef ont only those tha
tak
and
any
Hrs
re able to flouh fin
fat
s On
stand 1
rapidly.
ure early dwdy to be
dd at
f80
Don't & it hirine where the
BLY The
get it. The Im
unupleasant
JES Can
well
#4 to he in
is a very as as
profitable busine
The way some people
deprive them of
it that
quired instead of common road dust,
think was gold dust was re
who
between
The farmer hens
tnke his lice or eggs.
If he persists in allowing the
he must do without the eggs.
that the hog's
apparatns is of the very best,
to forty-five minutes
has eaten, his food will be
v #
gested,
keeps
choice
we fotsy
It appears
after he
fully di
If the hens receive better care, bet
housing, and more comfort, it is
equivalent to “pushing the button”
The hens may be depended upon to “do
A farmer should not satisfy his owe
Find out what the
purchaser wants and try to comply
with his ldeas of what constitutes a
If an cow can’t make at least 150
pounds of butter in a year she Isn't
worth her keep. But before discard
ing her make sure that the fault Is
with the cow aud not the owner,
A new educational plan is being tried
in Copenhagen. No books are used
but the boys are instructed orally wher
they perform at the same time some
at | ight manual work,
«TWO STRIKE,” THE SIOUX.
EP SODES IN THE CAREER OF THE
UNCONSTRUCTED SAVACE,
|
i i"
An Old Chieftain of the Dacotahs About
Whom Much interest Centers Strate- |
gem by Which the Tribe of Pawnees |
Was Exterminated Custer Massacre.
chieftain,
savage, lying
thundering hoof.
tho plains that |
yrites EE, B, |
go Thmes-Herald,
I'wo Strike, the Sloux
uureconstructed
bed of skins hears the
falls of the buffalo on
skirt the eternal hills,
Clark in the Chliea
'wo Strike, the wily, the bitter enemy
of the whites, is dying in his wigwam |
firm in the faith of his fathers that he |
will but close his eyes on earth to open
them in happy hunting ground, |
About none other of the elders of the |
tribe of the Dacotahs does there centre |
80 much interest as about this old
brave, heart holds “a nobility |
of hatred” for the enemies of his peo
The chieftain took part in the last
uprising of the Sioux against the whites
with
the |
on his |
the
of
LY) hose
ple.
and when foreed
up the
body
Years HEo,
unequal com
is given up, but
There
Tw 0
others to give
bat he “The
never
said
iri ’
api ders.
surrel
being on earth
holds in g
and that is t
hom
ed than the
hereditary
Is only one »
Stein
pan hie
% tribe iw Pawnee warrior,
ke bears
between
nen
Indians
wnt
Sioux
thnt
No prisoner,
Wir
pappoose was taken
ix uj
jron sleeping ¥ il
Knife
in the
1
:
iid
were put to the
tomahawk ln one of Cooper's
Hea
taunting thn
+
the Pawnee chiefs
ince
Soux has fy
ahd trees §
Pawnee ar path.’
Ol
which Two Strike
Rioux
battie in
hosts of the against
Hess Wi
Known
thrashed
which
of
that they caine
About
fon Wit
y Tinos
with the
iiddie of the century
the it
children and stalwart
arts inlity. The
but
ney In
thawks ever
in Pawnee.
thie n nineteenth
disen ravaged Pawnee nation
off little
ith
of the
was
a
carried
warriors w equal imp
nas sapped
The Sioux
ir weak
to
before
wire tribe
ngth
spirit unbroken
its
Sit victories over the
and forced them
eser
had
with the
won frequ
CRemes a
which they
1. au alliance whites,
id killed scores of whites
had the
nd esiablish
w
the
Sol
pun
courage o ery tf
homes,
to
burn
white
doerness a
sont them
and
pEninst
the Pawnees,
the
ts Ti Xioux w
Two Strike bided his
chiefs he finally
peace with
were
ftoem, ing
witn unl
eo Arriors
punished
With the
i reed people
the whites. It
ol hner
time
his to make
was the only time that
words of peace had ever been Known 10
the chieftain’s lips, It wi
of hating white
Pawnee more, With the
f the acti campaign the white
from their Pawnee
to their hunting
illages Adabel
who knew better, Bap=, than
the fullness of the Sioux plot
and the circumstances of the Pawnee
annihilation, has told the story. Two
Strike and his Sioux watched for
opportunity. They would not
battle in which
warriors should be killed off, but
they were after a chauce for extermi
pation. They wished to root the tribe
out from its place in the land.
Early August, 1874, the Pawnees
gtarted from thelr bomes on a great
hunting expedition. They were led by
Sky Chief, once noted for his prowess
in ¢he Pawnee tribe. Sioux runners
come from 1
not a8 caw the in
jess but
end o
goldier OW
allies, returned
ground
Ellis,
others
itd their
[er
an
be con
tent with a mere wy
many
#
:
it
Two Strike. Then the Bioux took the
war path, They cut down into the
heart of (he buffalo country, and final
Iy found the Pawnecs
comparatively narrow canyon.
floux wtarted a small herd of buffalo,
and, driving them into the upper end
of the canyon, started them down
toward the camp of the Pawnees, The
Sloux goaded the animals from the
rear, but took themselves out of sight
just before coming within vision of the
Pawneer, The buffalo went headlong
through the canyon and the Pawnee
wirriors, hastily mounting, followed
them out on the broad plain, leaving
the women and children behind. Then
the Rioux swept forward and began
the work of extermination. They
spared peither youth nor age, and had
almost completed the slaughter When
the Pawnee braves returned. Then
lawed a conflict in which the twa: ot
the howstring was heard oitener thin
the erack of the rifle. The Fawaess
fought as they had always fought, to
but the Bioux,
pot for the hunt and with
numbers, won the day,
and of the great nation of the Pawnees
only a vestige remained. Two Strike
vith his own hand slew Sky Chief, The
conflict served to whet the Bloux ap
for that other conflict less than
two years inter, when the same war
ked Custer and his band aod
not one living
Two Strike's is not
troubling him as he lies in his wigwam,
With him the slaying of the enemies of
and about this
feeling there 18 something that is not
solely characteristic of the savage
the
war
death,
and
riors nttac
left
congelence
FRIENDLY SNAKES OF KLAMATIL
Tons of Them at $500 z Ton.
The snake Industry at Klamath Falls,
Ore, fair to become important,
A few weeks ago Postmaster Castel re
ceived a letter from a concern in Min
making inquiries as to the price
reptiles, and if a shipment could
mde toa M Although
letter was written on printed let
bids
nesola
of the
bes 1 innesota farm
terhends, the postmaster thought some
ns trying to perpetuate a joke
He replied, however, and
stated that it would all the
a pound.
Ww
Ole
upon
supply
25 cents
ich to b
$M) pound de
nearest station,
in wer { tate that
rither or
wanted at By
BliReOs
turn mail, mn I% surprise, came
an order for of snakes,
livered
he Mi
VEE
at the iiiroad
Hnesou
would make
io
wounds
n he
sted, bi hie
this fall
order of the
iness, as
capture in a
at least fifty
Ar. 4 it
would
more
Sake ning i OW Liu
day her # paying bus
one man can easily 100
and th
day, eprescits
pounds
The Kla i!
worldw i
have
town
Falls
utation,
a
is
EON KON
The
he foot of Klamath F
Klamath Lake
through a narrow, rocky
the jake.
and the falls
than = mountain
dred vards or more wide,
lakes. This
Oar elbow,
the
le rep
alls,
at Upper
and continue
gule bh
The
nothing n
gireain, »
a mile, to lower
t is gradual,
rapid
for
descen
ore
hs
wiween the two place
and
ndians,
forms
abitant doesn
er
HOaTs ones
ckots, T
erally
CArry
hey are
and
come down
walk
d
are
into
here gel
as
eldom harmed Ley
fiir WH town nd while
the
ry
t of en bu
They
rawl between
% a couple may
girew
scorn In going a block
wriggle out of the
the cracks of the plank sidewalks,
off side, The snakes are
regarded benefactors by
munity, th SOME
at parting witli
M
way
Hove {io one
3
ns fhe
5 pad re is complaint
7 rE Th
the few requ
the nnescis Nan s order.
The reptiles live
cliffs
i that th
rattlesnakes from
destroyit
ud other pests that
hey sttack a rattlesnake and
alone has been known to kill
. a number will wind
the venomous reptile
short time,
slong the falls,
ey have completely
the
rocks and
it Is assert
routed t en
he
tire section, besides
mice
place
while one
the largest rattler
themselves about
strangle it in a
clatmed that before these snakes made
the rattlers infested
now seldom
and
their app
the
arance
Rion, are
clon is said to be a water
iis
hey will take to the water
there is no ot
crowded about in that
ment with the es and skill of a fish,
They are of a dark color about three
feet long when full grown and have a
Jittle lighter than the general
their back. All sizes may
them, from the three or
id move
1 84
stripe a
color do Ww
ale
bw soe nd wig
On a warm day they are visible
by the thousands, and In many cases
they coll up by the dozens in hugh rolls,
oles
inquiry, all over the world. A
living in the guich by the banks
river has great difficulty in using
The
farmer
low he finds great masses of the be
reptiles rolled together all
through the hay.
it is believed that tons of the snakes
nually without materially decreasing
the supply. and the industry may prove
a paying one. Snake oll commands an
enormous price for medicinal purposes
and it js known that a superior quality
of the ofl can be manufactured from
the Klamath Falls species.
Sheep Guarding Birds.
The yakamik, a species of crane, Is
said to be one of the most intelligent
birds known. The bird is used by the
natives of Venewuela, South America,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
There is such
emperor. But he has evidently learned
that discretion which is the better part
of valor,
Generally the woman who thorough
ly understands men may able
to write poetry, but sne
pretiy good cook.
not be
i apt to be a
Chinese laundrymen are sald to
leaving America in large numbers for
the purpose of returning home to do up
the present dynasty.
An English earl wants the American
jockeys barred from the Kaoglish race
courses. This seems to be a sad con
fesslon of inferiority,
In the estimation of his heirs the late
Marquis of Bute was in every way
worthy of his name, He left an estate
valued at $25,000,000,
The students of Amherst
what
a vote of 2006 against 33. Now,
students will down the college
Belgium was
ita products
Half a century a
scarcely known. To-day
and manufactures are in
of every corner of ithe
ranks the
try of Wi
or
BO
the markets
globe, and it
seventh industrial coun
rid.
as
the
Great Brita would seem
rather on tir
as the United
for within tha
about
in
short nber, at
Kingdom ix
t particular domain ther
SEK) (XM) fnoTes
remains only that
can be classed even as wood]
A Chicago ser
tress arrested for
egES as an alarm up in
the srning. The the (
Union do not permit employers
thelr hymen
girl
using a showel
clock to ge
of
vant
ner
me rules wrk
Ladles
to turn
| omeleties
pervants into
Manchester, England, fo be pro
vided with new sewage purification
works, which will cost $2.371.000 io
construct. Nince the ship canal Joining
the city with the sea was constructed,
municipal improvement has been pros
| scuted three with the
1B
sre
greatest vige
i It has
{ the dikes of the
more than
i of all other
transp
enerally
Netherlands had
front
pnbined
been g supposed tha
water pros
it
greater amoun
dikenge
Netherlands
the
Lie
eu
been expen
Japan
Children
91
} ge
the 1
and cigaretts
caused fires In
inst ye
912: ele
ors
tric es and lights, 700;
and ines, 387 incendiarism
6.544; light
were
eng
SPONtaANCOuR « sinnbust ion
23h: 6 te the
gun s
t discos
nos
doe
f 19% 10°
The causes of 13.12
FAY=
were
! ered.
y . *
ped uvenile
A Western
fo a lit
retur 3
story book rary with this «
| ment: “1 don't want any more of them
books. The giris is all boly.” A
young lady, fond of quiet stories, once
requested a librarian, a laboriously
written note, to send her
light in the way of friction.”
boy un
OT
$658
100
in
ia
Russia is primarily an agricultural
| country, and must always be such
Grain, vegetables, timber and cattle
raising, with their closely allied pro
| ducts, are the mainstay of the Russian
workman. But manufactures have
creased of late years to an almost ma
vellous degree
During last year the National Tele
phone Company, of Kogland,
{ished no less than 615,000,000 talking
connections amongst its subscribers, or
about 2,000,000 per working day. It is
remarkable that this figure exceeds
that of the telegrams received and dis
patched by the Gene ral Postoffice dur
ing the same year by vive times,
esis D
Turkey has been taking a
{slam and finds that the number
Mohammedans in the world 196
SO0.000, Of these 15000,000 are in
Turkey in Europe, 99,000,000 in wes
orn Asia and Hindostan, 20.000.000 in
China, 36.5000) In northern sind
northeastern Africa, and 23,000,005 are
scattered in other parts of the world.
census of
is
turkeys from the farm of the late Hor
France, in which country the Marquise
fowls for the market,
has not done well heretofore on the
European Continent.
Railway Congress at Paris, M. Bandin,
the French Minister of Public Works,
commented on the fact that all the
later improvements adopted on Kuro
pean railways had come from America.
European countries ought to realize, he
sald, that in the construction and man.
agement of rallways they are belynd
the United States,
A society has been organized in Wis-
consin for the suppression of the man
that rocks the boat and the fool who
can’t tell a deer from a man while
hunting. This society might be multi-
plied indefinitely throughout the
{ United States with infinite benefit to
the paople, and it might be added to
by including the kliot who “didn't
know it Was Toaded”
-
apart as forest re-
goeves the island of Panay, and also
{he island of Pantaul, which is one of
the extreme gre of the Jolo Islands.
Thee islands been found to be
rich rubber frees, and
with a view to
and care of these
suggested by the
such trees, while
ubber increasing.
jan order setting
ape
have
in
the
frees, a
preservation
alk
of
precant
arcity
growing
the demand for is
Farm lobor in
gearce, and
bringing together
semablage in the harvest field The
| other day there were working on a
Surrey farm a couple of clerks, a com
positor, who had been un
able to scrape up the money to take
his certificate; a medical man
“down his luck” a pawnbroker's
and of course a “journalist.”
The journailst explained that he was
{ there for the purpose of “copy He
intends to write an article and call it
Eminent Hands.”
Fuogland seems lo be
result has been
sirange as
the t he
of a
a solicitor
on
asxistant,
sible to
It is
Bometimes
New York ©
for the
neavy
quite be too
nessenger
ilied
Ff in a suit
damages
“How
ing round the
POS
A little
ity was
smart
boy in
as witness
involving
gireet Car
the car go
the
asked
Cross
was
pretty
ie CArs
to-day
fast
when
eh?
“Na
now,”
people
nad to
plaint
Company
time
plaintl savs
counsel f
or the
examina
the ans
IPPose
fall as they d las pring
¢ plaintiff says
Tlie
sir,
a
DO
they don
t run
fast
many
£in as
he sald; kille
round
: +
sIOW up
they
Eoing tant
The
Loudon would
if some
read a paper on
in the
volved or
recent
Woman's
not have
of the
in
been complets
delegates nad not
the decline of manners
This duty de
Farnell, who told the
vas 2 marked de
good manners among the wom
Great Britain; that mere rough
8 prized as an exce ce, and
grace arer than in the past
nmand sssent, on
body says
Cougress
one
present
8 Mrx
congress that
of
of
day
there
eS
en
ness lie
that
This
on
i
theirs
Levers
author
noers
but
the
: same
asserfod
XR, Dow
ting
man
and
sey of
assured
going
history.
rll
population of Lhe
States containing
tapis have been com
{ Bice. Those
, have 2 popu
as ¢ whokii with
same cities of
of 8983927 in
that the
jon showed a smaller ab
in the decade just
in the preceding one
while the percentage of in-
cent. for the
as compared
un the preceding de
referred to, nine
inhabitants,
100.000 and
htween
inhabitants and
between 25,000
As compared
having
present,
1860
cities of
aver 2H AK ind
pleted by the Census
ber 154
wg a2,
a population in the
14.800,480 in 1800 and
S80. It Is worthy of
cities in quest
citie
tion ©
nots
§
| solute Increase
ended than
R2.420 less,
was only 32.5 per
in 1500,
Cen se
{ decade ending
% #3 46 ~ per
with cent
Of the citi
ix
have NXL(RE) Or more
between
forty have
106 (0
een
i nineteen
SEMIN Ly
and
have
pulation,
PSL 000
eighty
cities have
14 tu
nianis,
One
SOLON
the
rr 1x0
and
with
inhat
thirty-eight cities
inhabitants st
twenty-eight in
1850,
IVE
there were only
and twenty in
humors of the
aign in Eagland
ontrit hy Captain Oliver
{ Young, who participated in the bom
' bardment of Alexandria and the con-
of the Soudan, Despite these
ex perio or perhaps because of
them, Captain Young is an opponent
of the Government, and his admira-
tion of the War Office is not profound.
| At a recent political meeting he told a
| story to illustrate the amazing oom
volutions of red tape. He was wounded
| gt Suakim. he sald, and sent to the
hospital. By some mistake he was re-
ported dead, and a tombstone to bis
memory —which still ornaments the
battlefield was erected, When the
error was discovered, the War Office
bat josisted, that he
notable
amentary camp
One of the
Parli
has been ited
| quest
1068,
Well, somebody had to pay for it, and
evidently the departmental mind, ap
palled st the ides of an inaccurate
entry in the mecounts, could think of
no other expedient than the imposition
of a mortuary expense upon the living
man for whose benefit it would have
been pald if be bad been dead.
A Gloamy Tragedy.
1t is 8 dark night. 11 is also a dark
kitchen, The kind-hearted man in his
stocking feet Is after a drink of wa-
tor for his fretful youngest. He
thinks be can find his way in the inky
darkness. He ls mistaken. He turns
10 the left instead of to the right and