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Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05

farm to farm making quick work of
it at each place. Some of these
men own buzz-saw, and in early
spring go around and saw up farmers
wood-piles.
Ihave mentioned the necessary i'm
plements that should be on the farm
of the wide-awake farmer; but there
are a number of special machines
that he can buy to expedite business,
such as potato-planter and potato
digger. A good fodder cutter, too,
SO the farm team can have a variety
of feed, is necessity, and so per-
haps are many other things that |
might speak of, but with the array
of tools | have mentioned, with the
addition of a grain drill which / came
near forgetting, a farmer will find
himself pretty we'll equipped for a
seasons work. M. H. G.. GARDNER
in Rural New Yorker.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05
NO. 80

straight common stock, have sold,
ages for ages, for SO to s5 per head
higher.
The good grass of former days,
the cheap and free grass of former
years, the high prices of few fortu-
nate years, all conspired to help the
common cattle, by bringing the ele-
ment of luck behind stock having
few merits of their own, but the re-
action has quickly shown that the
only chance for legitimate profit in
cattle raising is in the combination
consisting of blood and feed-one be-
ing as essential as the other. 1t is
now fully recognized, first, that it
does pay to feed improved stock,
and second, that it does not pay to
either feed or starve scrub stock
Texas Live Stock Journal.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05
Blood and the Scrub.

49, She scrub Aaust go,u is now
shouted from every farm and every
ranch, but the scrub had many
friends and it required long time
to convince all the friends of the
scrub what fraud he was. In Tex
as the scrub had a quality denied to
better cattle. The scrub WAS a
ssrustler.n = He could live on wind
and scenery and required but mimi
mum grass. The scrub would and
did make money, until there was so
many scrubs that, while wind and
scenery were found in abundance,
the free grass played out. Then the
discovery was made that the straight
out-and-out would not pay his board
bill; that is to say, scrub cattle would
not pay interest in Texas on two
dollar land. 1t was discovered, also,
that the amount of grass required to
sustain scrub yearling would pref
ty nearly sustain a better animal.
The thoroughbred cattle interest
and the raising of grade cattle have
undergone very unfortunate period,
and prices have gone down very low;
SO low, indeed, that very few men
have made any money in the cattle
business during the two years just
past; but during that time the one
item of blood in cattle has made
decided march to the front.
In Texas we are beginning to un-
derstand that the promise breeders
made, that good graded cattle would
make beef at less cost than scrub
cattle, is being realized, and it is
demonstrated again and again that
blooded cattle are the only ones that
can be fed for anything but bonan-
ga market.
The market for feeding cattle du-
ring the past four months has shown
that younger cattle have been pur-
chased than ever before; also, that
the blooded cattle as compared with
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05
Farm Machinery.

Farm Machinery.
The aged farmer of to-day will tell
how he cut all the grain with a sickle,
a tool that dates back to ancient
times. When the grain cradle was
invented tremendous stride was
made. When man could cut and
lay in neat swath, heads all one
way, two to FIVE acres fgrain day,
1t seemed as though perfection had
been attained, and as if nothing bet
ter or more expeditions could be
hoped or wished for. But the hand
scythe has been displaced by the
moving machine which cuts, with
one man and team, five to eight
acres in half day, to be drawn in
during the afternoon; and the hand
rake, too has gone, so painful to the
memory of the boy on the farm
when he had to "rake after" the
wagon while two pitchers We're load
ing. That and spreading hay in the
forenoon, gave the boy of dozen
years plenty to do, and made him
dread the approach of haying. The
boy OF to-day, as he rides the. tedder
and horse-rake, thinks spreading
and raking hay ''just fun. +"
The busy housewife of those old
years sat up late in the night by the
dim flicker of tallow dip, while
she piled her needle industriously
to prepare raiment for her family
out of material that she has spun
and woven herself, that had been
grown upon the farm. To-day the
merry clatter of the sewing machine
is heard, and the making of gar
menti is the matter Of an hour or SO.
The stride that has been made in
the perfecting of agricultural tools is,
as we look back, simply bewildering.
To-day the farmer is not satisfied
with the reaper, considering it slow;
he sits upon his binder that takes in
a swath six or eight feet wide, and
cuts and binds 80 to 100 acres of
wheat ready to be cleaned with an
immense steam thrasher, that thrash
es 1000 or 1920 bushels of wheat
In day. When blowing, he rides
on a sulky. When he plants his
corn, instead of gang of men and
boys with hoes and baskets to do
irregular and uneven work, he rides
his planter, which marks, drops and
covers his corn with evenness and
precision many acres in day, and
the cultivation of the crop is done
with approved machinery so that
the hand-hoe is tool unknown in
the corn-field. While such rapid
advancement in the preparation of
the soil, and the cultivation and
gathering ofthe crops has been made.
there has been no change, | am sor-
lry to say, no machine yet invented
that will milk COW. Could ma
chine be made that will successfully
do the work of three or four milka"e
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05
Extremely Amusing.

1t is queer about girls-very.
A grave, studious, scientific man
lately was showing kittenish miss
of some 30-odd years a great print
ing press in operation in the machin-
cry department of an exposition.
"Now," he said, "you see here
one of the greatest triumphs of the
age. This press takes a sheet of
blank paper, and, in the twinkling
of an eye, prints, cuts, pastes and
folds it up for you."
Chow funny!" she said.
sSNow, you see that boy feeding
the paper in there?"
"Doing what?''
Feeding the press"
Feeding the pressp Oh, how
funny that sounds!"
"Well, that is what he is called,
press FEEDER
"How awfully funny.n
"You see him putting the plain
white sheets in between those great
rollers?"
tS-uOW FUNNY!
IF you stoop down and peep in
here | can show you something of
the process. =
ooh, DO; want to see it ALL"
"Now, the paper comes down here,
and"
"Oh, SEE it! Well, if it ISN'T
funny"
''Then it passes along like flash
up there, and"
II see it, | see it, Oh, how
funny!"
"Then it is carried on over that
roller, printed on both sides, and"
'sOn BOTH sides?"
"Yes, and"
"How AwFULLY fu-"- It'd Bits.
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05
STARKVILLE, MISS, APR. 5, 1888.

when operated by one person, it
would seem that the dairy farmer
had just caught a glimpse of the
millennium. But such device,
judging from the many flat failures
in this direction, will, l fear, never
be invented.
Well as the thrifty farmer who
OWNS 100 or 100 acres must have
machinery to do his work expedi-
tiously and well, first of all, in the
spring he will need a plow. If he
can afford the luxury, let it be one
on wheels; but, anyway, it should
be chilled plow. Then he doesn't
have to worry half a day or SO and
perhaps use some big words, because
his pillow doesn't scour. AS for har-
rows, he can ride or not; | cannot
advise what to buy, there are so
many good ones, each having some
special good point over its rivals.
A land roller | wouldn't want to be
without. 1t puts the land in splen-
did condition for reaper to pick Up
down grain and for the moving ma
chine. Many farmers are putting
the corn pillow aside and using culti-
vators. These are also built on
wheels and with two horses do rap
i'd and effective work.
Farmers are also learning that
farm wagons with broad tires four to
six inches wide, are far superior to
those with the ordinary wheels; that
in them a heavy load can be drawn
over the farm on the yielding soil
with much greater ease. In plant
ing corn marker is used at least
one way, and the corn is dropped
with a planter. For sowing grass
seed in the spring, one should have
a hand broadcast seeder or wheel
barrow seeder. This enables one
man to do effectually the uncertain
work oftwo or three. He, of course,
wishes to get his hay in early ana
do it quickly. Well, he will need
a self-dumping horse rake and a
good moving machine. Those that
cut five feet or over are coming into
favor, as they enable one to cut all
that is necessary in the early part Of
the forenoon and get more sun. A
tedder is also indispensable, as hay
cures very rapidly when stirred by it.
Hay-loaders don't take, at least not
in this section yet; but large barn
and a horse-fork are positive necee-
sites. A grapple-fork that will
pitch long or street, sbav~gell is used
in this county. In tfs grain field
the farmer who owns light reaper
makes quick work of harvesting his
grain if the weather is pleasant,
with but little waste of grain.
When it comes to thrashing. it
does not pay the ordinary farmer to
invest in a machine, as thrashing is
usually done by men who purchase
- expensive machine and go from
Southern live-stock journal. (Starkville, Miss.) 1876-1891, 1888-04-05

"Papa, why do they always call a
railroad train 'she?'" Because it
takes three or four men to manage
her, my son. replied Mr.. Dawdle,
glaring toward his Chicago
News.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
The Prospects.

CEDAR RAPIDS, April 10.-The fourteenth
annual encampment of the Iowa department
of the Grand Army of the Republic meets in
this city tomorrow morning. All the depart
ment officers and many old soldiers are al
ready in the city. Cedar Rapids business
blocks, stores and many private houses are
handsomely decorated, great preparations
have been made to entertain the large crowd,
and the prospects are that the crowd will be
here to entertain.
Today the department council of the
Woman's Relief corps and the department
council of the Iowa department Of the Grand
Army held business sessions.
The day was mostly occupied by the old
soldiers in renewing army friendships. This
evening the ex-prlsoners of war held rous-
ing campfire in the opera-house, which was
thronged. Addresses were made by Capt.
John Hood, Of Cedar Rapids; Capt Russell,
Rev. A. L. Frisbie, and T. S. Wright of Des
Moines; ex-Gov. Walden, Of Centerville, and
others.
The Iowa commandery of the Loyal Legion
held business meeting this afternoon and
elected the following members: Senator
Hutchins, ottunwa; Capt. Us. Alexander
and c. H. Kurtz, Marion; Capt c. w. Kepler,
Mt. Vernon, and John s. Ely, Cedar Rapids.
The commandery held banquet at the Grand
hotel. Following the banquet, Capt. Russell,
of. Des Moines, read his "reminiscences Of
prison life, written shortly after the war.
Other speeches were made. Everything is en-
thusiasm here.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
Kate spencer.

CHICAGO, April 6.-That was sad
tale told by Kate Spencer who last night
languished in cell at the Desplaines
street station. She is the wife of Claude
Spencer who up to month ago held an
important position in MaxwelPs book
store. He was arrested for embezzlement
and is now in Jail awaiting trial. Al
though in receipt of large income he
lived up to his income and within week
after his arrest his young wife, who was
stranger in the city, was without dol
lar. Money was needed, not only to give
her bread but to procure legal assistance
for her husband. In her despair she re-
solved that temporary life of shame
was her only resort, but the first night
that she went upon the streets the police
of the Desplaines street station made q
raid and she was among the forty women
who were gathered in. Both husband
and wife are this morning under one Roof
and that prison.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
The Iowa Races.

CEDAR RAPIDS, April 9.-The programme
for the Iowa circuit mas been published. &C.
dar Rapids opens the ball on June 10, 20, 81
and 20; Marshe lltown follows on June 26, 27,
% and 20, and Council Bluffs gives the con-
Guiding meeting on July 3, 4, 5 and 6. The
purse aggregate of the circuit is 200. The
programmes are identical and the purses 5000
each. The card for the opening day consists
of the 2:43 and 2:45 trotting classes and the
2:25 pacing class. The 2:20 trotting class
and the 2:25 pacing class will provide the en-
tertainment for the second day. On the third
day the card calls for the 2:3s and 2:33 tro.-
ting classes and the free-for-all pacing class.
The ESQ and 2 20 trotting classes will consti-
tute the bill of fare for the last day of the
meeting. The entry list for each meeting
will close on June II.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
Not Guilty.

WATERLOO. April 8.-Shortly after 10
o'clock Saturday night the jury in
the Buhman murder trial, at Vinton,
returned verdict of acquittal
The public feeling is one Of satisfaction
at the result. William d. Buhman shot
and killed John Brown at Gladbrook on
Oct. 1, 1887. Buhman was q liquor deal
er, and in a case resulting from his arrest
for violation of the prohibition law Brown
testified against him. Buhman and his
brother John had publicly threatened
Browns life, and on the evening of the
murder the three quarrelled in front of
Buhman's store, and William Buhman,
drawing revolver, shot and instantly
killed Brown. He was arrested, and on
being tried was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life, but after hard-fought le-
gal battle succeeded in obtainidg new
trial, which has just resulted in his &C
quittal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
Winter Wood-Lore.

OF all the feats common to hunting
life and woodcraft, none seems 10 me
half SO wonderful rs tracking or trail
ing. As practced by man tracking is
wonderful enough; but far more mar
velous is the power by which dog or
fox can follow its prey at full speed,
guided only by scent, without erring
OF being led astray.
To us, the word scent has but little
meaning; it is the name of power
with which man is, comparatively, al
most unendowel. We go into the
woods and see nothing but I'll leaf
strewn ground, tninly scattered over
with herbs and thickly planted with
trees; we see no quadrupcd, and find
nosign Of any, perhaps, save the far
away chatter of squirrel. But our
dog, merrily carcering about, is pos
sessed of u superior power. At every
moment of his course he is gathering
facts, and reading wonderful record
of the past, the present, and even of
the future. Here" says his unseen
guide, sis where deer passed min
ute ago" or ian hour ago." "this was
the course of fox week ago;' "that
was the direction in which a rabbit
few by few minutes ago, and, Ohio!
there was a weasel after hint"
Sucli~is the curious record of scent,
revealed to the dog but hidden from
the man, and even inexplicablc to him.
for though we have theor6tcaI
knowledge of the subject, it is too inn
perfect to make us fully understand
that not only has every kind of ami
NAL, but each individual animal, its
own peculiar scent. Thus. the dog
can distinguish not only the. bucks,
does, and fawns of the deer tribe, but
can pick out of a dozen the track of
the particular buck that he is follow
ing, and never leave it or lose it.
Moreover, lie can tell by the scent
which way the animal is going, and
Il trail. Now, when we compare this
wonderful power with our own feeble
sense of smell, we will be ready to adj
nit taat it is faculty of which man,
comparatively, has little.
Let us suppose that you were to
awake some fine morning and find
that, as in the old fairy tales, mighty
genius had conferred on you u new
and wonderful facnliy. that enabled
you to 60 forth and read the running
records with even greater accuracy
and ease than can the hound-w what IL
marvel it would be. and how Intensely
interesting its exercise to a lover of
Nature! And yet this very miracle is
what actually takes place every year
in our northern country. The great
oeniuS ia old Roraas and the maaus
by which he confers the new power is
the first fall of snow.-Eraest 81.
Thompson in st. Nicholas.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
One q DaY.

CHICAGO, April 10.--It will be asserted by
the Daily News tomorrow that dozen serious
accidents have recently occurred to the new
men who are handling Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy rolling stock, but that in every
case these occurrences have been suppressed
An investigation made tonight by the News
shows that today a swtchman was killed at
Sixteenth and Wood streets and another one
fatally injured. Yesterday another man was
killed In the lumber districts and a
fourth one at Hawthorne, Of which the au-
thorities received no information. On Mon
dav there were eleven men in the roundhouse
who had received severe injuries. Ten of
these were removed to the hospital today
The News claims that no one was allowed to
enter the roundhouse while the men were
there. General Passenger Agent Morton,
when seen by a reporter, disclaimed all
knowledge of such facts.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
THE MOROCCO QUESTION

Commander Gala Says American
Rights Are Not Properly Re-
spected.
LONDON, April 12.-The United States
steamer Enterprise left Gibraltar today for
Algiers.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April PC Commander
B. A. MeCalla, commanding the Enterprise,
in the course Of q long report to the secretary
Of the navy on the situation In Morocco says
$50 far as can learn our consul has, In the
interest Of Cancellation and from the highest
motives, yielded at times when he was clearly
supported by existing treaties and might with
propriety have insisted upon the rights they
accorded. These same rights, 1t would ap-
pear, very often have been questioned when
the proteges Of other nations have been under
consideration. In short, may say that the
rights of the United States, established by the
convention proclaimed December 81, 1881, and
by the convention of 1883, have been denied
to US, while the same rights under the same
conventions have been freely accorded to the
other powers represented in the conven-
ttons.n
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
The New Catholic University.

WASHINGTON, April 12-There was issued
at the office of the district government today
permit for the erection Of the first building
of the Catholic university that is to be estab-
lished here. Although the Georgetown uni
versity, venerable institution which has
graduated many famous men, is still power
full and popular as an educational institution
of the Romish church it has been thought
best by the holy see to establish another
school here, and the nucleus of the endow-
ment was gift Of $500, 900 by Miss Caldwell,
very pretty young heiress who has been
prominent in Washington society for couple
of years. Five hundred thousand more has
been raised by subscription and it is intended
to increase the fund to s2OO0,Oo The first
building, for which permitwas issued today,
is to cost $175. 600 and will be completed dur
ing the summer. Bishop Keane is to lie the
dean of the faculty.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
The Centennial.

MARIETTA, o., April 6.-The State
Archaeological and Historical society this
morning resumed at the city hall its cele-
bration of the centennial of the settlement
of the northwest. At the opening of. the
meeting, which was provided over by
Hon. f. B. Sessions, of Columbus, sew
eral reports of committees were present
ed. An address was then delivered by
Hon. VIM. M. Farrar, of Cambridge, on
"Why is Ohio known as the Buckeye
State" On the conclusion of the address
the delegates took carriages and visited
under escort of the Marietta members the
ancient earth-works and other places of
historical interest in the city. Tonight
there will be an Grafton by Hon. William
Henry Smith.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
the same position It occupied when Mr..
Taylor submitted his first motion on Wednes-

the same position 1t occupied when Mr..
Taylor submitted his first motion on Wednes-
day.
WASHINGTON, April s.--The dead lock still
goes on in the house over the direct tax bin,
this being the sixth day of flibustering. It Is
difficult now to predict the final result of their
action.
WAsHINaToN, April AT 1890 while .
motion that the committee rise was pending,
Mr.. Boatelle moved that Messrs. Breckenridge
of Kentucky, Breckenridge Of Arkansas,
Weaver and Oats be excused from voting.
These gentlemen declared that they
could take care of themselves. Mr..
Boutelle insisted 1t was requisite that a
member give his consent to motion to be ex-
cused. Thereupon Mr.. Taulbee moved as an
amendment that Mr.. Boutelle himself be ex-
cused from voting, which motion the speaker
pro tenn (McMillen, Of Tennessee) declared
| to be carried.
| Mr.. Cannon, Of Illinois, then moved that he
himself be excused from voting, and further
moved that Mr.. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, be
excused. This was supplemented by motion
that MIR. Reed. Of Maine, be excused from
| voting. Several other Republicans we're upon
their feet, but the speaker pro tenn refused
to recognize any motion except that of Mr..
| Cannon to excuse himself which he declared
to be carried against any protest Of the
Republicans. At this monument a motion
came from the Democratic side that the
house adjourn and after chorus OF
yeas from the Democratic side and shout OF
nays from the Republicans the gavel OF the
speaker hung in mid-air. The Republicans,
fearful that the house would be declared ad
journed, rose and rushed to the front shout
ing for the yeas and nays. The confusion was
SO great that the services Of the sergeant-at-
arms and his mace of office were called in,
and order was finally restored.
/ Mr.. Reed reiterated his demand for the yeas
and nays, and when quiet had been obtained
| he speaker pro tenn. recognized his demand
and the yeas and nays were ordered.
A>motion to adjourn was defeated-yeas
65; nays, 121.
A motion to suspend further proceedings
under call of the house has just been lost
yeas, 50; 49,
WASHINGTON, April 11.-After an an night
session without anything being done, the
house took a recess for one day.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-04-18
Not Yet.

New YORK, April 10.-The judgment re-
Gently obtained by default in favor of George
Wilson against Gusman Blanco, ex-president
minister plenipotentiary to France from Vene-
zuela, for 81, 194, $50, was today set aside by
Judge O'Gorman, of the superior court. The
summons was served on Blanco while in the
city ready to take steamer for France to
discharge his duties as minister, and Judge
O'Gorman held that he was entitled to i'm
munity from civil suits in a country to which
he vas an accredited minister as well as in
those friendly countries through which he
passes on his way to the scene of his diplo-
matte labors.