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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-12-13

liability Of outbreaks between Indie
and whites would be lessened tbo ~
lie domain would be more sinoaroIo
guarded, and better progress be made ~
the instruction of the young. Alaska :
still without any form of civil oovorn
ment. 1fmeans were provided for ad,-
eating its people and protecting thair
lives and property, the immense 70
sources Of that region would invite NOV
manent settlements and open new fola.
for industry and enterprise.
AGRICULTURAL P o
The report of the Commissioners &c
Agriculture presents an account ~ 49,
labors of that department durino Tho
past year and includes infornation -
much interest to the general n7b1io
The condition of the forests Of the oorn
try and the wasteful manner in vbioh
their destruction is taking place. oivo
cause for serious apprehension. Thoir
action in protecting the earth's surface
modifying the extremes of climate ond
retaining and sustaining the flow of
springs and streams, is not well under
stood, and their importance in relation
to the growth of the country cannot ha
safely disregarded. They are fast dis
appearing before destructive fires. and
the legitimate requirements of orr in
creasing population, and their total ex-
tinction cannot be long delayed unless
better methods than now prevail shall
be adopted for their protection and cul-
tivation.
The attention of Congress is invited to
the necessity of additional legislation
to secure the preservation of the yalu-
able forests still remaining on the public
domain, especially in the extreme west
ern states and territories, where the ne
cessity for their preservation is greater
than in less mountainous regions. and
where the prevailing dryness of the
climate renders their restoration, when
once destroyed, well nigh impossible.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
Corn VS.. Potatoes.
Ger. Western (Wis.) Farmer.

ttF, Western kNE) FARMER.
The present outlook for corn il not
promising at the best, without favor
able weather this month and exemp-
ton from early irOsts, there must be g
great deficiency for fattening pork and
beef; and the time may be near ut hand
when our farmers must suffer dlsap-
pointment or look about for some sub
stitute to tide over the coming winter.
We have the foundation for large
amount of pork, and the prospect OF
an unlimited demand, with most salts
factory prices.
In potatoes we have the very re-
verse of corn, viz: the promise of an
abundant crop, and predictions
of prices too low TO pay the
cost Of production. That our potatoes
can be made available as substitute
in producing pork is not an open
question, but how to associate them
with such grain as we have, and turn
them into pork with the best profit, is
a matter that should be fully discussed
among our agricultural friends, and
the best plans adopted for feeding out
lHt tllbTIHouS crop loDhtu l'I'
Cooking and mixing with ground feed,
as barley, peas, corn, etc, would only be
following the fattening process Of our
transatlantic farmers, and We hope TO
hear from our numerour patrons such
suggestions from their theory and prac-
tice that will be useful to our readers,
so that the best system may be adopted,
and our industry as pork producers
may not suffer, thus equalizing our
crops to meet our present emergency.
Visiting a well.ordered farm a few
days since, we found in the neighbor-
hood of 100 porkers, reveling in its
richest pasture. and in admirable con
dition. Said our host, "My corn crib is
very low, and although shall get a new
cror i anybody does land its condition
sustained his assertion) ! don't intend
to fail in pork this year-there are
about four acres of peas that will be
ripe IN three weeks, and the pigs have
got to harvest them for me. When this
is exhausted, if my corn will not do ii
alone, the pigs will lid more than %
cts. for my potatoes, and with know
ing wink think we shall have pork
enough to get through the winter.
Let us hear from our friends in this
connection and not let our potatoes 90
begging for a market.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
Making a Farm.

The fact that a man has only one
life to i've makes it worth his while, as
far as possible, for him to spend it as
please ntly as possible. If man sets
out to be farmer it makes all the diff
ference in the world whether he farms
it with convenient and pleasant sur
ronndings, and amid the comforts OF
civilization, or roughs it on the frontier,
beginning to enjoy the comforts Of this
world only when he is about to leave it.
This is the strong argument for making
homes in the older states. The same
reason is, however. quite as conclusive
in any locality for purchasing the most
highly improved land, which, for some
purposes, is always most valuable IN
proportion TO its cost.
Whenever Improvements have been
made on a given farm. still a good
farmer will always find room for more.
Usually the improvements made after
the first clearing of land pays better
than those through necessity everybody
is forced to make. No farmer viii
leave his land III an unchanged condi
ton after occupying it for few years
while good farmer will always leave it
in better shape. How it shall be i'm
proved must depend somewhat on his
available capital, as well as on his nat
ural skill and aptitude. With good
management, the improvements that
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
The Coach Whip Snake and the Rabbit
Madison Madisonian.

Mr.. J. w. Stovall says that very
large coach-whip, measuring eight feet
in length, and as large as an ordinary
mans leg below the knee, had visited
the burrow of rabbit and taken there
from one Of the young, which was
nearly half grown. The old rabbit,
seeing the condition of her young,
would Jump on the snake, and then
take hold Of the young rabbit and try
to rescue it as the snake ran oil, Mr..
Stoyall's attention was attracted by a
noise similar to that wild .og would
make running through a canebrake,
and looked around 70 see the snake
coming, with its head about three feet
in the air to keep the young rabbit
from being rescued by It's mother. He
gave his snakeship all the road he
wanted. and said that he would run
over the tops of bushes several feet
high. Mr.. Stovall says this was the
first time he ever heard Of rabbit
showing fight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17

the hive and wait fifteen or twenty
minutes, then open the hive gently
and look up the queen. If the bees
are not ready to accept her, you will
find her imprisoned in ball of bees,
genera ly on the bottom board. This
we call "balling the queen" Dou't
be nervous or in too big n hurry, just
take 4 large spoon and dip up the
ball of bees and turn them out into "A
pan of water. This will cause them to
release her, and set them to swimming
for life Pick out the queen by catch
ing her wings between the thumb and
finger. She positively lciH not sting.
Never take hold of the queen by the
abdomen, as you may injnre her.
Now. return her to the cage and
place it back just as before, and leave
1t twenty-four hours anS try them
again, and so on till she is accepted.
She will generally be accepted without
all this trouble, but not always. The
queen will generally begin to lay in
one or two days after she is accepted
10y the bees, and after she begins to lay
she is rs safe as if she had been raised
in the hive. For this reason | keep n
watch over her till she has deposited
her first eggs.
The other method is to cage the
queen on comb taken from the brood
nest. The comb is taken out and all
the bees brushed off of it. The queen
is then placed on the surface Of the
comb, and an open cage with thin,
sharp edges placed over her and
pressed slightly into the comb, thus
imprisonilg the queen. The comb is
then hung back in Its place. The bees
viii generally cut her out and accept
her while all is undistnrbed and quiet
III the hive. If they fail, however,
to hberate her in forty. eight hours, the
comb shonld toe lifted out and u partial
opening made with the point of knife
under the edge OF the cage. The inquisi-
tive little subjects will see the point,
and will proceed TO liberate the queen.
As modification of the above
methods, make the sliding door of my
cage so that they will project above
the bottom, or, rather, the top, when
the cage sets wire-cloth down, and let
this projecting sliding door pass up
through slit made with the point of
a knife in the quilt, so that | can draw
in out and thus liber ate the queen with
out the bees knowing it.--G. W.
Demdree, an The Farmers Home journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
Horticultural Clippings.

We often see plants on low, mois;
grounds killed by an early frost, when
on adjacent dry ground, only few feet
distant, they escaped. Vegetable phys
iologists have adopted as an axiom
THAT the power of plants to resist cold
is in the inverse ratio of the rapidity
with which the fluids circulate" and
''that the liability of the fluids of plants
to freeze is greater in proportion to the
size of the cells" That is. the less
water there is in the fluids of plants,
and the smaller the cells, the greater is
their power to resist cold. This is in
harmony with all our experience.
| have seen orchards at the West, on
low, rich land, frozen while in tull leaf,
SO that they looked perfectly black and
dead. They were full CT watery fluids
when overtaken by frost The chair
man OF the Wisconsin State Fruit
Committee reports that ''the exposed
crowns of many of the highest lime
stone bluffs in that state, from 100 to
400 feet above the adjacent valley, pro
duce rs perfect orchards as can be de-
sired, up to AN, where Il large variety
of our eastern pears and apples are
permanently successful while in the
valley below, nothing but the Siberians
or Duchess will stand. This is the ex-
psrience all over the west, and it is
ours, only that in our milder climate
it is not so marked.
Trees or plants that are linderfed,
become stunted and are neither useful
nor beautiful. The sooner they die the
better. Those that are overfed make
q rank, watery growth, which does not
ripen, and is not in a condition to re-
sist cold.
"A tree overloaded with fruit can
neither perfect the fruit nor ripen its
wood properly, and in severe climate
is quite likely to succumb to degree
of cold which under proper treatment
it could have resisted perfectly. 1t is
safe to say that millions of trees are
annually ruined in this country by
over crops. The grape is very sensa-
tive in this respect, if overloaded the
fruit viii not color nor ripen, nor will
the wood ripen.
DR.. Haskins, of Vermont, says of
rat Mtnnlng: Il have found 1t abSo-
lutely necessary with most of the va
we grow here-mainly Russians and
Siberian hybrida, With a few of I'M
known ancestry, but having the same
habits. They not only blossom full,
but set so full that by the time the fruit
is half grown the branches begin to
break down. There is comparatively
little dropping with these varieties. As
10 the labor of removing, although
there is more fruit, there is, of course
not half the work of picking after ma
turity, as they are removed rapidly,
and no care is taken in handling what
are removed. An of our varieties are
the same habit as the r ed Astrachan,
which an" admits ought to be thinned
His suggestion as to sheep and SWIM
in the orchard is good, but only practi.
cable where the trees are branch ed
high. We find it advantageous here
to branch low, which also makes thin
ming easier
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17

We were sitting on the postoflioe
steps at RiBggold, Ga, when Judge
Hallan winked at me around the cor
ner and whispered;
"That old chap on that cracker box
is Colonel Slasher, the biggest liar in
the state of Georgia. Ask him for a
snake story"
| slid back, locking innocent and
unconcened, and at the first oppor-
tunity inquired;
Colonel, are there any moccasin
snakes in this statew
Billions of en-" he replied.
"Any very big opes''
Well reckon Yum Don't talk
to- me about snakes
Colonel, how long II snake did you
ever see 2"
He rolled his quid over and over and
got both hands over his left knee before
replying; "I'm afraid you wouldn't be-
lieve me"
"Yes, THAT is--yes, ! would"
"You know that snakes grow mighty
fast down here ?"
"Of course"
"And that our swamps offer them a
secure retrea.2'
Certainly"
81 wouldn't have you doubt my
word" he remarked after pause As
he squnted his left eye at spotted
dog across the street.
Glow could |, Colonei?'
He rose up slowly, stepped down
over the sand and paced of about
forty feet going over the ground
twice, and counting his steps. When
he had returned and taken his seat |
asked:
'Do you mean to tell me, Colonel,
that you have seen snake forty feet
long' p
ooh, no, nor he quickly replied. Il
was only pacing oil to zee if there
was room for three hitching posts in
there. The longest snake that ever |
see measured exactly ten inches by the
rule, and he had been dead three days
to boot"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
Comparative Prices of Farm Products.

During .he present enormous high
prices for all farm products, it
may be of interest to compare the
present with former prices, and the
average for the past nineteen years
with the fluctuations. 1t will be seen
that in ''war times" 1S64) oats and
corn value highest, while wheat, barley
and rye attained the best rates three
and four years after. The poor years"
were 1873 and 1879. Mess pork then
getting below the present price of live
hogs in the Chicago market, whose quo
tations here given, can readily he I'M
pared with market rates now:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
How Introduce OnpeuS

70 introduce queens there are but
two methods employed that differ ma.
terlally. One OF these methods Is to
cage the queen to be introduced, and
to place the cage twire-cloth) down
right on the frames over the cluster of
bees, and cover the bees, cage and all,
with the bee quilt, and let them alone
forty-eight hours, then turn up the
qnilt till the cage is exposed to view;
now draw out the sliding door and let
the queen run out among the bees.
Keep your eye on her, and if she is
permitted to run down among the
bees without being molested, close up
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
So the farmers are prosperous; and

~ liC picSpSiONSJ CIV
the prosperity of the farmers insures
good business for the merchants. There
was decline in many kinds of bust
ness last spring, and some timid people
began to predict another panic, but the
most sagacious business man said,
"Wait. Let us see what the crops will
be like. If they are good, business
will brighten up again" The crops are
good and business is Frightening up, SO
that no more talk Of a panic is heard.
1t appears, then, that the farmer is the
main stay Of the country, after all; but
probably few people realize how much
of the actual wealth and consequent
importance of the country come from
him. Not only do the merchants of
America depend on him for prosperous
business, but they and their emp Dyes,
the manufacturers and their leg ons of
workingmen, the working forces Of the
railroads, and the vast army of food
consumers of every kind must be sup
ported by him; and only after they are
fed is he at liberty to send his crops
abroad. philadelphia Bulletin.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17

plete understanding between the prin-
cipals, for it is announced that at the
close of the season wedding will take
place at certain church in New York,
followed by bridal tour to Europe.
Speaking of the little occurrence at
party that evening gentleman re-
marked that he had never heard the
Bohemian Girl" sang with such effect
rs then
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17

add most to the value OF farm need
not be very expensive. Granting that
the farm win pay its own expense and
provide support for the farmer and his
family, he can do much of the work OF
Improvement himself Culttuotor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17

Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and he
daughter, Miss Harriet Stanton, and
also Mr.. Theodore Stanton, are living
in France, where they are All doing lit
erary work.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23
How the Girl Of the Period Got
Ahead Of the Drummer.

Autdu vi tuo DIummcIs
els this seat engaged?" he asked of
the prettiest girl in the car, and find
ing it wasn't, he put his sample-box in
the rack and braced himself for solid
enjoyment.
Pleasant day." said the girl, COM
ing for him before he could get his
tongue unkinked. "Most bewildering
day, isn't it?'
"Ye-yes, miss" stammered the
drummer. He wasn't in the habit Of
playing pitcherin this kindof a match,
and the position of catcher didn't fit
him as tightly as his pantaloons.
"Nice weather for travelling" con-
tinued the girl, "much nicer than when
it was cold. Are you perfectly COM
fortable?"
"Oh, yes; thanks v' murmured the
drummer.
"Glad of it," resumed the girl,
cheerfully. "You don't look so. Let
me put my shawl under your head
won't you? Hadn't you rather sit next
to the window and have me describe
the landscape to your"
"No, please" he muttered. 1-Tm
doing well enough"
Cant 1 buy some peanuts, or
book? Let me do something to make
the trip happy! Suppose | slip my
arm around your waistl just lean for
ward trife so l can~
"You'll-you'll have to excuse me!'
gasped the wretched drummer. "I-
I don't think you really mean it."
"You look so tired" she pleaded
"Wouldn't you like to rest your head
OH my shoulder? No one will notice
Just lay your head right down and
III tell you stOrles.
"No-no, thanks! Iwon't to-day
I'm very comfortable, thank youv
and the poor drummer looked around
helplessly.
"Your scarfpin is coming out. Let
me fix it. There" and she arrayed
it deity. "At the next station I'll
get:you cup of tea, and when we ar
rive at our destination you'll let me
call on your" and she smiled an anx.
ious prayer right up into his pallid
countenance.
II think I'll 60 away and smoke
said the drummer, and, hauling down
his grip-sack, he made for the door
knee deep in the grins showered around
him by his fellow passengers.
"Strange!" murmured the girl to
the lady in front of her. 81 only did
with him just what he was making
ready to do with me, and big and
strong as he is he couldn't stand it.
/ really think women have stronger
stomachs than men, and besides that
there isn't any smoking-car for them
to fly to for refuge. l don't under
stand this thing"
But she settled back contentedly all
the same; and at convention oi
drummers, held in the smoker that
morning, it was unanimously resolved
that her seat was engaged, so far as
they were concerned, for the balance
Of the season.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

What makes us like new acquain-
tances is not so much any WEAKNESS
of our old ones, or the pleasure of
change, as disgust at not being suffi-
ciently admired by those who know
us too we'll, and the hope of being
more so by those who do not know so
much of us.-La Rochefoucauld.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

81 never knew 10 Murphy's horse
was fast, did your" inquired Barnaby
Wells of companion. EAST, no,
he can't 60 mile inside day and a
half" "He's got pretty fast, though
just before he died." pursued Barney,
chewing a rye straw. Dead! is he
How did he get fast before he died?''
"Got fast in the manger and choked
to death. ."-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

The bilious p. 1. man of the New
York Herald says that owners of long
legs with No. II boots at the ends Of
them should remember that the aisles
in the elevated road cars are not ten
acre lots.-Chicago Cheek. AT the
same time if the owner of said boots
is well provided with corns, the boots
are liable to hold ten achers.-Rome
Sentinel.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

"When a pyrotechnist's wife wants
to put the badly to sleep" says the Bal
timore Every Saturday, "she has to
rocket" And when the little one
gets old. enough to stay out of the
house, she has to chaser, and perhaps
give her cracker two.-Norristown
Herald.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

A telegraph head in one of our ex-
changes reads: "a Circus Man Kill
cd and Injured" 1t may be that a
circus man has no rights that news
paper is bound to respect, but when
he is killed and then injured, it looks
like taking an unfair advantage of a
dead man.-Boomerang.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

She was Cleveland lady, and she
stood watching boat loaded with
ice. "What is that boat loaded with p
"Ice," was the reply. "Oh, myp'
she exclaimed, in surprise, "if the
horrid stuff should melt, the water
would sink the boat" ."-Ex.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

eyes," said the Indiana farmer,
81 had to sell or kill all my dogs.
You see, / wanted to get credit for
$4,000, and as long as l kept the dogs
folks would think was poof and
untrustworthy." Boston Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

The army contractors small pleas
antry: "Of course these breeches
are going to give way; but what care
our gallant soldiers? They can cover
themselves with glory."-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

Gas for Mrs. So-and-So," remarks
one of the guests in salon where
they are passing their friends under
review, "her worst fault is that she is
bored wherever she goes" "Her
lack of selfshness is still greater
defect" says another, "for she in
sists on not being the only bored per.
son in the company."-French Wit.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

of mind to run around the corner and
yell "Dog fight" and in ten seconds
there wasn't man in the crowd who
wasn't hustling around to find the
dogs.-Boston Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

When a selfish man marries a
women who weighs fifty pounds more
than he does, he gets the biggest half,
as usual.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

The policeman saw that the mob
was bound to wreck the building, and
his own unaided efforts could not beat
them of. But he had the presence
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

"No," he said, as they congratulate
ed him on his engagement. "I'm
not so particularly charmed with the
girl, but expect to be very happy.
Her mother is about the best temper
ed woman | know
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

A German paper calls the toy pis-
tol "the nursing bottle of incipient
Guiteaus. Then keep it going, for it
nurses 'em into being little angels in a
mighty brief space of time.-Boston
Post.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

The spectacle of a lot of bald-headed
men in bathing is said to resemble an
animated game of billiards.
adelphia Chronicle Herald.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

"Does your wife take much exer-
else ?" asked Henderson of Fogg,
whose family is at the seaside. "Ex-
ercise !" exclaimed Fogg; 81 should
say so. She changes her dress six
times every day."-Boston Trans
cript.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

The maiden who dropped from a
rope ladder into the arms of her eager
lover was like a bankrupt insurance
company. Why? Because she was
in the hands of a receiver.-Portland
Transcript.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

Arab Bey has been confscating
all the horses he can lay his hands
on. This is the first intimation we
have had that Arab was trying to
establish stable government.-Tex-
as Siftings.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-08-23

II is the nature Of the human dis
position to hate him whom you have
red.-Tacitus.