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Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12
Fire at Buffalo Gap.

A frame barn, the property of A. T.
Van Devort, Of this city, was destroyed
by fire at Buffalo Gap on Wednesday.
There were three horses and one mule
in the barn at the time of the fire, all of
which perished in the flames. Two of
the horses and one mule were owned by
Mr.. Van Devort, the other horse, a
handsome gray, for which one hundred
and fifty dollars has been refused, was
owned by Chris Hendrickson, late of
this place, who also lost by the fire set
of double harness.
The origin of the fire is not definitely
known, but it is supposed to have been
accidentally set on fire by children who
were seen playing at the barn a short
time before the discovery of the fire,
and who, it is supposed, were amusing
themselves by igniting matches, a
dangerous habit too frequently indnlged
in by the average urchin of the period.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12

1t begins to look like Custer was being
regarded by railroad companies as a
very desirable objective point. Two
companies surveying into the city limits
in the past month would certainly seem
to warrant such conclusion, but it does
not create ripple ofexcitement in staid
Custer, whose expectant and confiding
citizens would doubtless express little il
any surprise il a score of railroad CON-
panies would manifest similar inten-
tons. Custer is notably peculiar in
this, that she quiescently reposes upon
bed of hope, and confidently expects
that greatness will be thrust upon her.
The CHRoSIcLE would mildly suggest
that the representative citizens of Gus
ter arise, rub their eyes, brush off the
flies, and at least get themselves in
readiness to open the door and receive
our deliverers when the bell rings.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12

Sioux Falls is fine city. She stands
at the head of the front rank, and caps
the column of Dakota cities. She has
pre-eminent push, unfaltering energy,
and lofty and well warranted aspira-
tions. We are proud of her, and only
regret her remote location from the
geographical center OF the state, and her
more remote location from the great
mineral region of the Black Hills. which
must ever stand in the way of her being
chosen as the capital of the great state
of South Dakota. Sioux Falls does not
require the capital to make her a great
city; her resources and material ad-
vantages are illimitable, and there will
be many extremely cold days in South
Dakota before there is city within her
limits that can cope with her in popula-
ton. wealth and Importance.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12

Prairie and timber fires have been of
frequent occurrence in this locality
during the past ten days. On Friday
of last week fire, of supp osed incen-
diary origin broke out upon the ranch OF
w. w. 0lds, six miles South of this city,
which required the combined efforts of
about sixty men to subdue. 1t burned
over a considerable area with damaging
effect to grass and timber. Two miles
further south another fire broke out
very mysterlously which resulted in the
burning of fifteen acres of wheat and a
wagon, the property of a rancher named
Hodge. On Sunday fire again broke
out at the 0lds ranch, which with some
difficulty was extinguished without
serious damage. and at the same
time a dense volume of smoke in
the north west Indicated another
fire, the location of which was
afterwards ascertained to be near the
Atlantic mine, five miles from this city,
on the old Deadwood road. 1t was with
considerable difficulty that this fire was
controlled, which had the wind been
blowing with any degree of force, would
have completely devastated that section.
The frequency of these fires has caused
feeling of alarm in the minds of many
as to the safety of this place, and the
question of burning fire break around
the place is being earnestly agitated.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12
y. q M. Surveyors.

A party Of b. & VI. surveyors, com.
prising seventeen men. arrived in this
city on Sunday. They proceeded al
once to the mouth of Ruby gulch, mile
and half west of this place, where
they pitched their tents and establised a
camp. Their attention has since been
directed to the correction of the Gillette
survey between Ruby gulch and point
three miles north of this city. The
route. as surveyed, enters this place at
the west end of Custer avenue and bears
north, crossing Fifth street near the
north line of the town, thence on, via
Laughing Water and Tenderfoot, to
Hill City and on north.
1t would seem evident to less credul-
Gus journal than the CHRONICLE that the
B. & NJ. company were seriously consid-
ering the matter of building road into
this city and on to Lead City over the
route surveyed last winter from the
Cheyenne river. There are many cir
cumstances pointing in very palpable
manner to such a conclusion, and it
would not be surprising, if very soon
after the meeting of the b. & NJ. direc-
tors at Boston on next "Wednesday,
active operations in the direction indi-
Gated should be inaugurated.
The CHRONICLE hopes to be able to
impart some very acceptable informa-
tion upon railroad matters 70 its local
readers in the near future.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12
B. II. Pioneer Association.

AT meeting of the board ofdirectors,
Association of Black Hills Pioneers, yes
terday, it was decided to postpone the
reunion and banquet, set for Oct. 6, to
the second Tuesday in January. date OF
annual meeting and election of ofiic-
ers Such proceeding was deemed
advisable in view of unusual sickness
among children of this and other camps;
absence at the legislature of several
members, and other circumstances. ID /:
Times.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12

The Sioux Falls Press sums up the
capital situation as follows: Peerless
Pierre" presides proudly, probably
permanently, pending prearranged pos
sibilities. Sioux Falls slides serenely
soupward. Huron hangs her humble
head. Watertown wonders what went
wrong. Mitchell musingly murmers,
my! Myw Chamberlain calmly con-
siders coming contingencies.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-12

The Sundance Coal company will at
once open up their mines on the east
side Of the table land which will bring
the coal within easy range Of town. The
road is good and the distance is about
five miles. There Is no reason why
coal should not be hauled from these
mines within the next thirty days.
Wyoming Republican.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
WHY DO BEES SWARM?

Why do bees swarm? is very simple
question to answer. In the first place,
they are built on that plan, and, next,
when the honeytlow is good, they com
mence to rear queens, and a.few days be-
fore queen is ready to |'brcak her she'll
and come out, she makes piping noise,
resembling the peeping of young chick
The old queen makes for the young
queen-cell, and will destroy the queen if
the "bee-guards" do not prevent her
But, if they prevent it, the old queen
kicks up a muss in the hive, and the
workers catch the excitement and begin
to fill up with honey-not "brood food"
the old queen leaves, and the filled
bees follow.
To prevent swarming, persons who use
the framc-hive can do so by raising out
the frames and finding the queen cells
Cut them out, and there will be no
swarming, if they are kept cut out
This is the only preventive. I've kept
bees eighteen years, and can control the
swarming every time.-Prairie Farmer
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
CHANGE OF PASTURE.

1t IS too common practice for land
devoted to the pasture to be given to
the stock in a body, over which they
have continuous and unrestricted range
That this is not good policy is apparent.
The whole pasture surface is kept con-
stantly fouled and tread down. No por-
ton of it is allowed to freshen up during
the grazing season Actual test has
proven that two fve-acre pastures, fed
alternately, are worth much more than
one ten-acre field fed continuously The
grass roots have much better chance to
in the former, especially in the dry time
They are not then constantly trampled
and the protecting growth above fed
down. One-half the pasture is allowed
an uninterrupted growth of several DAYS
while the other is being fed. This in
turn will offer fresh feed while the first
is getting rest, and so, alternately
through the growing season.
The expense of thus separating the
pasture into parts is slight indeed com
pared with the benefits realized. Tt is
supposed that the pasture is already sur
rounded with fence. All that is required
to make the division is to run fence
across the pasture. This fence may US
ually be of a rather light, temporary
character, as there is nothing on either
side to tempt stock to make breach, and
no great damage to be done If they do.
Movable panels may be staked in place,
or three wires strung to form the divis-
ion. The cost of this Improvement in a
ten-acre pasture would not be over eight
dollars or ten dollars, while the gain IN a
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
THE ROPE CURE FOR KICKERs.

During the last thirty-fve years a
neighbor has cured over twenty horses of
the kicking habit, without failing in any
case attempted. Following is his method
Take a half-incK rope that has been
stretched until it cannot stretch any
more, tie it around the horse six inches
back of the pad and bellyband of the
harness; insert a short stick and twist it
up nearly as tight as the rope will bear
without breaking, and tie the stick so
that it will stay. Fasten the horse in a
stall where there is room behind him to
WELD long lash whip, then strike him
around the hind legs quite severely; at
the second or third blow he will generally
kick with both feet with all his might,
but only for two or three times If he
has been in the habit of kicking in har-
ness, drive him with the rope on two
weeks, or until he quits making any
threats. Some will kick once or twice
with one foot, and bob up and threaten
for several days. They should be tickled
or leased or have a basket Or pail thrown
under them or tied to hind foot several
times day to make them try to kick,
and until they cease to make any effort
in that direction. The remedy is then
cffectual. After driving the animal half
an hour the rope should be frightened.
This will also cure bucking horses or any
which try to throw their rider.-Ne1o
York Tribune.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
THE MOUTH OF THE HORSE.

Be careful of the horses mouth. Men
who jerk the reins because they are too
mad to be sensible and humane, should
have bit placed in their own mouth 5
and have it jerked by some brutal fellow
who would enjoy giving pain. In break
ing colts be very careful about the mouth :;
and never bit an animal that has a sore
mouth while it continues so. The mouth
of the horse should be more frequently
examined than it usually is. Sometimes
there is inflammation that needs attention,
and occasionallyit may even be necessary
to draw a tooth. 1t is by no means I'M
common that the poor condition of a
horse can be traced to some ailment of
the mouth which prevents the proper
mastication of the food. 1t is not much
trouble to open the mouth and look into
1t, and it will often prevent trou ole.-
Net0 OTIe0ns Times Democrat.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES,

Gather up the eggs regularly.
Don't neglect the incoming COWS.
If your COWS are not paying for their
board, turn them off.
What kind of bull have you at the
head of your dairy herd
Spinach may be sown this month for
early cutting in the spring.
Good pasture will keep the swine in
best condition at this season.
Sweet corn may be had until frost by
successive sowings of early varieties.
Cutting and burning the bushes and
weeds in pastures represents important
work.
Give poultry milk all summer. It is a
healthy food and drink for them com.
bined.
The american Dairyu1an recommends 8
law requiring each owner of bull to saw
it's horns off.
Give fancy fowl the go by and devote
your attention to those which ''pay fol
their keeping"
In hot weather the churning should be
done about the time some butter makers
set the cream away to sour.
The Secretary of Agriculture furnishes
information by the several divisions of
the department gratuitously to all appli-
cants.
The introduction of fresh and limpid
cream from separatOrs into towns and such
markets has created a growing demand
for the article.
If you have heifers that are milking
from their first calves, let them be fresh
mixers again year from September to
October. 1t will pay you.
To remedy sun-scald, c.. Fl. English
advises to head the tree southwest, plant
sunfowers on the south side of the tree
and give good cultivation.
Cut away the old canes from rasp-
berry and blackberry bushes as soon as
fruit gathering is over, leaving only
those desired for fruiting next season.
Young hogs will do no damage in the
orchard, and will pick up all the wormy
apples and keep the clover from killing
out and the weeds from taking posses
sion of the orchard.
Too much corn is very generally as
signed as a cause ofhog cholera, and now
farmer advances the opinion that too
much corn has been the cause of cholera
among his poultry.
The best of COWS, the richest of cream,
the newest of machinery, and the hand.
soonest of packages will not insure good
butter, if the ''knack" of combining all
these has not been learned.
The first year after the orchard is
planted out the young trees make a
large growth, and this is the time ad-
vised by practical orchardist to prune
and shape the trees. If you wait few
years you will have to cut off big limbs
to shape the tree. Attend to trees while
small. It is light job then and does
not iniure them.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
single season will treble this amount
american Aariculturist.
MOrITISG.

Some of the young hens have already
shed feathers and the process will go or
until late In the fall. The Poultry Monthly
says: With healthy fowls the change
passes over easily and quickly, while with
others it is slow and irregular. Nature
never intended that it should be pro.
tracted and injurious to their future use.
fulness. We know it is a severe drain OF
the fowls, still if they are healthy and gel
plenty of nutritious food of the proper
quality for feather making, and are KEEP,
away from chilly rains, there is no dan.
ger.
During noulting the best hens usually
decline to lay eggs, and they lose thei
vivacity. When they moult early, there
is probability that they will begin te
lay early in winter; for this reason alone
young hens are preferred as the main
stock; they will lay more eggs, and theil
flesh is fit for the table when needed. A
few old hens for sitting may be advisable,
but the one who says that old hens are to
be preferred to young ones, must have a
warped and senseless judgment.
1t is good plan to separate the males
from the females during moulting; there
is no necessity for companionship, as the
season of breeding is over and it is bet
ter that the breeders should have rest tc
recuperate after a seasons work, SO
they will be in good condition when their
services will be needed. The young,
too, should be separated, for when they
reach a certain age, the males are apt to
become troublesome. When there is q
judicious separation, and each run having
birds about the same size and age, more
systematic course of feeding, care and
management can be given; each lot comes
more directly under the breeders super,
vision, and he can detect their ills and
faults much sooner and quicker than il
they were promiscuously running to.
ether.-Farna, Field and .StOckmaan.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20


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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.


Ordinarily in this country bananas are
eaten raw, says the AHsericaa 4nalyst, but
in tropicaI countries, while the natives
eat them in like fashion, more delicate
and, it is said, more healthy mode of
eating them is in vogue The soft, ripe
fruit, eaten to d cream with d sufficiency
of Amontillado sherry, forms o delight
full appetizer, and is the favorite way of
eating the banana in certain parts of the
West Indies and of the African coast.
Taken in moderation at first rising in the
morning, bananas are said to be preser-
vative of health, and in this respect are
in marked contrast with other tropical
fruits, which are detrimental, rather than
otherwise, to continued good health. An
intoxicating drink is made from the ba-
mana. and on account of its astringent
qualities is of considerable medical value.
In Africa, and probably in other places
also, the banana and the kindred tree,
the plantain, are in very large measure
the sole dependence for the food sup
ply of natives The banana, when
ripe, contains ~ per cent. water; OF
the 26 remaining parts, 20 are sugar and
two gluten or tlesh-forming substance.
1t is not in itself perfect food but re-
quires the addition of some other nitro
genOus material, as lean meat. The pulp
of the banana, but more often of the plan
tain, is ofttimes squeezed through a sieve
and formed into loaves, which, when ripe,
will keep q very long time. In dried
state it has the resemblance of bread,
both in taste and composition, but the
ripened pulp is saccharine, and not farm
aceous. At Panama the rarest and most
delicious of the banana species has its
home. Small and ruddy in color, it
is popularity known as the thumb banana,
and on account of its delicate flavor it is
priced even there. It does not bear
transportation we'll, although it may often
be found in the markets of Chicago and
New York. Crossing the isthmus by the
line that connects Panama with Aspin-
wall, the natives of the villages along the
route make habit of coming to the train,
decked in primitive fashion, with gar
lands of flowers around their necks and
flowers in their hair, and disposing of the
fruit Here the thumb banana may be
eaten in its perfection.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
FARMERS SHOULD GROW CELERY

The liking for celery is an acquired
one, like that for tomatoes. But no plant
grown is more heafthful, and it should
be more generally on farmers tables dur
ing fall and winter. 1t costs a good
deal to buy celery, as it requires extra
rich ground and good deal of labor to
grow it fit for market When the con-
dltlons are night the market gardener
finds celery one of the most reliable and
most profitable crops. If farmers more
generally grew celery, what they did not
need for their own use could be most
profltably sold.-Bosto7e CultiUat0r.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
Summer Scenes From Snowy Peak

The Signal Service officer on Pixies
Peak, Col, said to a correspondent the
other day: 'sometimes I stand at the
window with MY telescope. I can see
the houses of Colorado Springs, twenty
miles away, the men sitting in their
shirt sleeves, slipping iced drinks to keep
cool, the ladies walking about in white
summer robes. I lower the glass. The
summer scene is gone. Green trees,
animal life, men and women fade away
like creatures in a dream, and I am the
only living thing in world Of eternal
snow and ice and silence"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
RECIPES.

Sweet Pudding - One cup of suet
chopped fine, one cup each of currants
and raisins, three cups of flour, one cup
of molasses, one cup of sugar, two and
one-half teaspoonfuls of baking powder,
one-half cup of sour milk; boil one and
one-half hours.
Vienna Cake-One cup each of sugar
and flour one tablespoonful of melted
butter, four eggs, three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder; bake in layers; spread
with a cream made of one cup of sour
cream, one cup each Of sugar and walnut
meats rolled fine, boiled five minutes :;
ice the top with the white of one egg,
thickened with powdered sugar.
Ginger Cookies - One-fourth of a
pound of butter, one cup of sugar, one
half cup of sour cream, two cups Of
molasses, one egg, a pinch of salt, a
spoonful each of ginger and cinnamon,
one heaping teaspoonful of saleratus dis
solved in spoonful of warm water; flour
to form dough as soft as can be rolled.
Cream of Celery-Clean and cut in
small pieces six stalks of celery and put
to boil with three pints of good stock,
cover and boil for two hours, then strain
and rub through fine seive, keep hos;
put in saucepan six ounces Of butter, mix
with it one-half cupful Of flour, dilute
with the strained celery stock and let
boil, and one pint of hot cream, season
to taste, finish with liasion of four egg
yolks, a little milk, and three ounces of
butter; do not boil again, strain in tureen
and serve.
Doughnuts-One heaping cup of SUI
gar, one and one half cup Of buttermilk,
four tablespoonful of melted shortening,
one scant teaspoonful of saleratus dis
solved in tablespoonful or so of warm
water; nutmeg; -four to make middling
but not too stiff dough; roll. about one
half inch thick and cut into strips half
an inch or so wide and six or eight
inches long; double and twist to form a
sort of half double figure eight and fry
in hot lard.
Cream Chicken-Cut the remains of
cold boiled or roasted chicken in small
pieces. Make a sauce of one pint Of
cream, two ounces of butter, the yolk of
one egg beaten and a tablespoonful Of
cornstarch or -four, seasoning with salt
and pepper, little sugar and teaspoon
full of anchovy sauce and, one bay leaf or
sprig of parsley. Let the pieces of chicken
simmer in this sauce for half an hour.
Stew some rice in milk, seasoning with
salt and pepper. Put the chicken in the
centre of the dish and surround it with
rice.
Peach Gelatine-Press half a can of
peaches through a colander; whip pint
of cream stiff; take quarter of box of
geIatine that has been soaking in two
tablespoonful of cold water and stir it
over boiling water until it is dissolved;
strain it into the puree of fruit mix well
and stand the basin-which should be
tin one-on the ice or in the snow, and
stir from the bottom and sides until 1t be-
gins to set and thicken, then add half OF
the whipped cream, mix thoroughly and
set away in a mold to harden. If you
dine at evening, do this in the morning,
but not over night. Turn out on pretty
dish and pour the remainder Of the
whipped cream, which you have kept in
a cool place, around the base.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20

There are /, 17s, 600 Protestants in Ire.
land.
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