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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
INFARMAND GARDEN.
Points of Interest to Large and
Small CultivatOrs.
THE NEW METHOD OF FARMING
Hereford Cattle-A Slated Potato BOx-POints
From Men of Wide Experience-Ihe
Prize Bull Figaro.

The Hereford breed has always been
held in high estimation as a grazing ami
NAL by British stockmen, and has fore
most place among the English beef
breeds. The present popularity in Eng
land of the Hereford cattle is due in part,
at least, to the improvements brought
about in this breed by the Royal Agri-
cultural society. This organization of
late years has, by virtue Of prizes offered
and the high sale prices accruing from
these, brought about some magnificent
displays of Herefords, notably in 1884.
While the Herefords have been known
in this country for the last half century,
it is only of late years that they have
been recognized among the foremost of
beef breeds in the United States and
been bred pure. A great if<s )etus was
given to the Herefords in 1888 by the
winning of the Sweepstake premium for
the best dressed. carcass, at the Chicago
fat stock show, by a Hereford steer. AT
the present time prize cattle from the
best English herds are grazing on Ameri,
can pastures.
In fact, so well known have the Here
fords become to our active breeders and
leading stockmen that we give only a
brief mention of their general character
istics for the benefit of amateurs. First
come the massive form and great weight
of beef produced; the comparative ease
with which the cattle are supported, and
the readiness with which they fatten in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29

There is so much interest i'll irrigation,
now that the surveys of Maj. Powell and
the department reports prove that it is
necessary in third Of our territory,
that Colorado items are timely Field
and Farm, OF that state, is enthusiastic
over the increased product of corn and
alfalfa. These two leading products
must necessarily be utiliZed-reduceG to
money--and the farmer can find no bet
ter way than by feeding them to steers.
Those who have not the cattle can buy
them cheaply Of those who have. and
hazard but little risk of making it pay.
At the present outlook there Will be no
fortunes i'll feeding, but if the farmer
gets fair price for his hay ard grain
product, with trifle added for his time
in feeding, he should be content. This
can be done cheaply by good selection
and judicious management.
Let us see for moment: y well bred
twelve hundred pound steer can be
bought these times for two and half
cents per pound, which will be $50. Now
if this steer is put to feeding by the mid
die of the present month and kept feed
ing until he has consumed ton and a
half or two tons of alfalfa and thirty
bushels OF corn, he will have increased
his weight 200 pounds, when he should
bring in the market at home or abroad
from $40 to $50. This would give the
farmer thirty-five cents bushel for his
corn and s. ton for his hay. To OBJ
tain this increased weight in the steer
he must be sheltered though, and fed
with an abundance-must never be al
lowed to go hungry or shiver with cold.
A few years ago we were jeered at for
saying that Colorado would yet become
grand feeding and beef producing state.
Those who doubted then do not doubt
now. They have become the advocates
of it. 1t is patent that we have the abil-
ity to feed and fatten large numbers of
cattle-can do it as cheaply as any and
at as good profit as any of the western
states. 1t is being done. In fact our
farmers will soon be forced to feed or
have no market for their leading prod
ucts They have the best feed in the
world and the best climate in which to
feed. 1t only needs the knowledge how
to feed, when to feed and the determine
ton to do, when success will reward the
undertaking.
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THE GENTLER SEX.

Sarah Bernhardt has magnificent
tomb in the cemetery of Pere La Chaise.
Mrs. Shawbogozie, wife of the chief of
the Chippewa Indians, is over 100 years
old.
Kate Field says women are absolutely
unfit for the management of public af-
fairs.
Nine. Modjeslla drinks tea, smokes
cigarettes and keeps a scrap book Of crit
icisms.
Mrs Ormiston Chant was lately in
vited by Sturgeon to preach from his
pulpit.
Miss Vida Latham has been appointed
assistant in the pathological laboratory
of Michigan university.
Prince Hatzfeldts bride was married
as CLARA Elizabeth Prentice, otherwise
Clara Elizabeth Huntington.
Miss Clara Barton. the philanthropist,
is the only person in America entitled to
wear the Iron Cross of Prussia.
Miss Maud, the eldest daughter of Sir
Julian Pauncefote. is skilled in sketch
ing and painting, and is fine equestri-
enne.
Miss Hammersley steers a ladies'
eight" manned entirely by her sisters
and cousins, who have been rowing o
good deal this year on the Thames.
Nine. Patti is said 10 be the only per-
son in the world who can draw a full
house to Albert hall. She receives So, 500
night, and the average receipts are
Sc, 500.
Mrs. Clements, wife of Mark Twain, is
sweet, lovely, refined woman, but a
serious drawback to her husbands hap
piness is the fact that she cannot appre-
ciate his jokes.
Miss Gertrude Miller, the little daugh-
ter of the attorney general, is quoted as
expressing dislike for Washington, be-
cause "the people go out in the streets
with their babies
Mrs. Catherine Donovan, of Baltimore,
has given 100000 to Johns Hopkins uni
versity, expressly STIMULATING that no por-
ton of the money shall be used to give
instruction in the dead languages.
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Notes and Comments.

A prejudice has been created against
the Arab horse, says an English writer,
simply because with very few exceptions
inferior specimens reach this country.
Really good ones worthy of the name are
almost as scarce here as feathers on a
frogs back The Russians, Italians and
French buyers will give prices in the
desert such as our people never dream of.
Leadville consumes more milk per
capita of its people than does any other
city in America. The tactical fluid is
considered an antidote for the arsenic
poison in the atmosphere.
The first car load of figs ever raised
and shipped to market in the United
States left Fresno, Cal, recently for Chi
cago. The figs are of the White Smyrna
variety, were shipped by Maj. NJ.
Denicke, and were the product of his
ranch, about twelve miles east of Fresno.
The only reliable way to get pure hogs
lard for domestic use is to buy it in leaf
and have it rendered in ones own
kitchen.
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we have been puzzling our brains to find
some use for these refuse pieces of bass
wood, but nothing has come up to indi-
cate a use for more than very small
part of them until just now. A few
days ago Mr.. Warner, the foreman of
our woodworking machinery, submitted
potato box, made entirely of these
refuse strips of Eastwood, with the ex-
ception of the end pieces. We give you
picture of it below.
Perhaps might explain that the refuse
sticks are put on to the buzz saw and
sliced up inch thick. This gives the
stats. The ends of the box are also made
of f-inch lumber. With our specially
made saws, we cut the stuff almost as
smooth as it can be made with plane;
and, as the ends are always planed, we
have a box that is nice enough to be
painted if desirable. By using long
barbed wire nails, and putting two in the
end of each strip, we get box strong
enough so that the galvanized iron bind
ing can, think, be safely omitted; and
we can make the price, all nailed up,
complete, only 90 cents, instead of %,
the price of our former potato box; 10
boxes, nailed up, will be sold for S1.65;
100, nailed up, for SIG. Material in the
fat, including nails, will be S12 per 100.
We shall crate them in packages of 10
boxes each at $3.50 a package, and of
the u will be nailed up.
The more l use the potato boxes the
more am convinced there should be a
good deal of ventilation through them.
Keeping our seed potatoes over winter
last year, we found a few rotten ones,
but they were invariably in the center Of
the boxes. The boxes were raised from
the ground by blocks, and separated from
each other by blocks also, SO as to allow
full circulation of air. Now, these
Slated boxes will give better circula-
ton than the old kind, even if they are
simply piled one over the other, without
any blocks between them at all.-From
"Gleanings in Bee Culture"
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MEN YOU HEAR OF.

The Duke of Edinburgh is a postage
stamp collector.
F1ippant Washington calls Secretary
Rusk "Old Seedlets.'
Prince Bismarck considers Sir Charles
Dixie the greatest English statesman.
Elk. Governor Hoadly's income from
his legal practice is said to be 100000 a
year.
Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian play
wright, pronounces his last name Eye
bsen."
President Carnot has repeated a for
mer gift of $4,000 francs which he be-
slowed on the poor of Paris.
The late James Dupre, the famous
French artist, always carried in his
pocket copy of Montaignes essays.
Col. Swope, who was killed by Col.
Goodloe at Lexington, KY, bore a strik-
ing resemblance to Col Robert G. Inger-
soil.
Buffalo Bill contemplates taking his
Wild West show to India. Certain In
dian potentates who visited Paris last
summer advised him to do SO.
Sir George Grove, the musician, was
educated to be civil engineer, and de-
signed the first two modern lighthouses
erected by the British government in the
West Indies.
Geronimo, the treacherous and blood
Ii old A,ooIa ol,iaf &c ,-ayor+a1 n,
have embraced Christianity, and is now
actively engaged in Sunday school work
among his fellow red men.
Drs. Schweinfurth and Junker, the At
rican travellers, express doubts whether
Emin Pasha will enter the English serv-
ice. They believe that he will settle
down at Massowah, in accordance with
an old wish.
1t is believed that the Oldest clergy
man now in the church of England is
Archdeacon Jones, late archdeacon of
Liverpool, who has attained his 9Sth
year, and has been in holy orders for
seventy-four years.
The late John F. Smith, the great Phil
adelphia typefounder, gave to various
charities more than 100000 year dur
ing the closing years of his long and use
full life. Everything l have to give
away" he said, II shall give away be-
fore I die"
Tippoo lib, the great African slave
dealer, is getting tired of his wandering
and dangerous existence, and proposes
to settle down as a solid citizen on his
estate at Casingo, 800 miles above Stan
ley Falls, where he has built for himself
large, fine stone mansion.
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sense as wen, nave been pleasrngly Em.


sense as well, nave been pleasmgIy EN-
ersonian.
"But you have taken advantage of a
moment of perhaps unwonted soulful
ness to endeavor to extort from me 6
pledge of earthly affinity. You seek to
degraded / may use so strong a term
our essential psychomachy to the ulti-
mate level of mere intersocial volition."
"Waldonia," exclaimed the youth,
"you misapprehend me. p
Clear me out, Harold" she persisted.
81 have confessed that feel drawn to
you by many psychocentric influences.
But there are other considerations.
When two earthly lives assimilatc. there
must be no clashing vagaries, no hygienic
polemics Harold" she continued, in a
trembling voice, pardon the question
there is so much at stake-but do you
ever defile your immortal nature by eat
ing pie?"
The young man rose slowly to his feet,
and felt around in vague way for his
hat.
"Waldonia," he said, in a voice of
tragic misery, "the bitterest hour of my
life has come, but / cannot hesitate a
moment. wouldn't give up pumpkin
pie for the soulfullest woman that ever
squawked! Good evening, Miss Ticklo-
WELL"
The pale moon rose with the timid,
abashed demeanor with which she al
ways rises over Boston harbor, and her
rays shone mildly and pityingly on a
young man with his hat pulled down
over his eyes, who was striding down
the street, going out of his way to kick
savagely at every lone and friendless
dog in sight, and talking volubly and
recklessly to himself in the dialect of
New York.-Yankee Blade.
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etc.. in such quanuUy unaU we sell, our
ing the busy season, from three to four
wagon loads of this kind of wood for
kindling almost every day. For years
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
A Scientific Piggery.

Country Gentleman, in reply to a cor
respondent, gives the annexed plan for a
large piggery. Its capacity may be in
creased to any extent by adding to the
length at each end, with the same in
ternal arrangements. The feeding pens
are placed on a sloping plank floor, and
they are readily cleaned by pushing the
manure through the horizontal Sits ex-
tending along each side. CCC are pas
sages for the attendant in feeding the
animals; F F F are feeding apartments;
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
EE Tr.F n EI+ A B
E: ltE:H5]32 I::+i!5]:.;F[:]
PIGCgRY PLAN,

G G G are sleeping apartments; B B,
the central passage. The troughs ex-
tend part way across the feeding
rooms, with a board partition be-
tween them. The divisions between
the feeding rooms and the sleeping
apartments are a single board, 6 in. high,
which holds the clean straw from be-
coming mixed with the manure. D D
D are doors, through which the animals
may enter; and sliding doors may be
made for all the apartments, and be-
tween them, for throwing two together
when desired. The space A contains
the cooking apparatus, to which may be
added any additional heater when neces-
sary. Each window affords light to two
apartments, and which will aid in keep
ing them perfectly clean. The floor
has n uniform surface, with no break,
the central portion being level, while
the side floors for the eating pens
have slope to aid in cleaning
and drainage, being about 4 in. in 6
#. To assist in cleaning, an open
ing is made 6 in. wide along the
whole length of the outside of the Stop
ing floors, and a board in. wide is hung
on hinges at the upper edge, so that it
may be hooked up for cleaning, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
FIGARO.

response to liberal feeding. Their white
faces are a conspicuous feature, and
along with their bright red bodies
marked with white beneath and sup
POI ted by short legs, present a combina.
ton worthy of admiration.
The subject of the illustration, origin
ally photographed for The Mark Lane
Express, is the fine bull Figaro that
found his way to the front of the late
Windsor Royal show, in a class of some
thirty yearlings, with general consent
He is described as a deep, massive, well
heshed animal. His destination is Aus
tralia.
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Winter Feeding.

A subject upon which great deal of
advice is annually given, but one which
can never be worn out, is that of winter
feeding. 1t is now generally conceded
that no one article can be fed the winter
through with entirely satisfactory re-
suits. Fowls must have a varied diet, as
no single element can supply all the
needs of the system. Provision must be
made for feeding vegetables cccasic nally
in addition to the allowance = gr;,in or
meal, -Farmer's Review.
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HIS CHOICE.

She Asked Too Much for Him to Grant.
A Bostonian Episode.
Harold" murmured the gentle girl,
a tear dimming the luster of the specta-
cles that rested lightly on her Greco-
Bostonian nose, 81 will not deny that
our soul communion, our interchange of
impressions, our mental symposia, not
only specifically archaeological, but Co.'S
mical and metraphrastic in a general
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
A SLATED POTATO BOX.

Something Little Cheaper and Perhaps
a Little Better.
In the manufacture of the one piece
sections we have pieces of Eastwood left
that will not make sections on account
Of bad color, unsightly knots, checks,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29

Sybil-So Jessie married an Italian
count, didn't she?
Florence-No; an Italian no account.
Lawrence American.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
Hal Never Seen One.

Mrs. Jones (before, the leopard's cage
-Jerushy. Ezry. amt lie an elegant
critter?
Mr.. Jones (critically)-Yes, but hain't
he dreffully acknowledgements Amer
lean.
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PERsPEcTIvE VIEW OF PIGGERY

PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF PIGGERY.
lowered for excluding cold air in cold
weather, or opened for the admission of
fresh air in warm weather. The ground
should slope away from the building on
both sides. Pigs are naturally clearly
animals if their owners will only give
them chance, and with supply of
clean straw for bedding, they will keep
itclean
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-29
Hooked.
Furnisher.

First Suit-Where have you been?
Second Suit-Laid up.-Clothier aud
Furnisher.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13
sfIanea Coincidence.

A chapter of strange condolences
occurred at Toledo, o. Two years ago
to the day there occurred the terrible
wreck OF a passenger train on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at Re
public, neal that city. By a strange
happening, proceedings were begun
on Friday against the Baltimore and
Ohio in the United States court for
SIS, 900 damages. The plaintiff was
w. +. Gates, the baggage master, who
was injured in the wreck. He claimed
in the petition that the wreck was
caused by the c~arelessness Of L. +.
Fletcher, conductor Of the train. The
petition had scarcely been filed when
a dispatch was received that Fletcher
had just been killed by a railroad
accident in indiana. -Philadelphia
Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13

to him, pushed HIM, aided him intothe
legislature and presented him with a
house for his services there in his be-
half--especially in defeating Sharp's
Broadway railroad scheme, to which
Stewart was always bitterly opposed.
Creamer grew rich and prosperous as
a legislator and office holder, but fin
ally prosperity IA too much for him,
and he went under, though he was at
one time thought to be a millionaire.
He lost everything, became an inmate
of the Christian home, signed the
pledge and experienced religion"
and came out to edit a weekly news.
paper, Now he has blossomed out as
an assemblyman and Tammany leader,
with the prospect Of a second run Of
luck. This time, he says, he means to
hold on to his money if he makes any.
New York Cor. Philadelphia Record.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13
Embalmed BY the Air.

There are on exhibition in the rooms
of the state mining bureau at San
Francisco four ~''desiccated human
bodies" that were found by Signor S.
Marghier in a sealed cavern at an ele-
walton of 1000 feet on the eastern side
of the Sierra Madre mountains in
Mexico. The bodies Were found in a
sitting posture, with the hands crossed
on the breasts, the heads inclined for
ward and facing the east. The adults,
male and female, were side by side,
and by the side of the man was a boy
and a girl by the side Of the woman.
The bodies were apparently dried up
by the air, no embalming process
being used. They are not like any
known Indians Of today, the hands
and feet being particularly small, and
the womana hair brown and silken.
The womanS forehead is large, and
the reasoning powers were apparently
well developed. In the lobe Of each
ear is a piece Of hollow reed. The
burial garments are of cotton, hide,
grasses and the bark Of willows. In
addition, the little girl is covered with
the skin OF. some animal. st. Paul
Pioneer Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13
Survivor. Of Tweed's Time.

A few of Boss" Tweed's old lieu
terauts still survive, but they may be
counted on the fingers OF q hand.
Harry Genet, Prince Hal" OF inn
perial. days, wanden like a ghost
among his old haunts, but a new gen.
GRAFTON Of politicians gaze at him
curiously when he is pointed out 10
them. Mike" Norton, the Thunder.
err Of the Eighth ward, got out OF
the wreck in the beginning Of the
storm, and is now civil justice and a
subordinate Tammany leader. The
most remarkable resurrection OF all is
that OF genial, eloquent Tom Creamer,
who M a state senator with Tweed,
Genet and Norton. He has had a
checkered career. His start In life was
rs q cash boy in A. 7. Stewards store.
The dry goods magnate took a liking
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13
WHERE HIS THOUGHTS WE'RE.
A Lightly Clad -somnambulist Visits His
Sweetheart at Midnight.

A Lightly Clad s~omnambulIst Visits HIS
Sweetheart at Midnight.
The strangest somnambulistic feat
we ever heard OF occurred in the woods
near Interlachen the other night.
A young man. whom we will call
Tom Jeffreys, by way Of illustration,
was very much infatuated with a young
lady who lived on the public road,
three miles from his home. Every
body who has Travelled that part of the
country knows'that the neighborhood
is thickly settled, and for miles you
60 without getting out Of sight Of
some ones house. The road is travelled
about as much as some Of our back
streets.
One night, about 8 o'clock, he re-
tired early. 1t was bright moonlight.
In his sleep he got up out of bed, and,
In his night clothes, walked undis-
turbed to the house of his lady love.
As is generally the case in this coun-
try, stairways run up TO the second
floor on the outside of the buildings,
and this one in particular leads from
the ground 10 the young lady's room
door. Young Jeffreys walked up
those stairs and sat down unconscious
ly near the lady's door. How long he
remained there he does not know, but
when he awoke his head WA resting
on his knees, and it was 10 o'clock.
Imagine his surprise. There, at his
afianced's home, in his night clothes.
three miles from home. As easily as
possible he crept down the stairway.
He could hear the old man down in
the field attending TO his horses and
cattle. Everything was still. The peo-
pie in the house were quietly chatting.
An open space Of about twenty feet
separated the kitchen from the main
building. The young NAN went around
TO the corner Of the house, and saw
the younglady and her mother going
TO and fro in discharge Of household
duties. He couldn't speak TO them,
because he wasn't dressed that way.
His trouble was TO get back home
without being discovered or noticed.
When he was quietly stealing his
way out Of the yard into the road two
ferocious dogs awoke from their slum-
bers, and with grinning teeth took
after the flying night shirt which was
making its way 70 the thicket on the
side of the road. The animals over
took the object, and what part Of the
white garment they did not tear off
the briars and brush did, and that
young nan found himself in a Aost
unpleasant fix with half his skirts torn
off. The night was cold and he felt
it. On getting into the thicket be got
out OF the way Of the dogs, but for two
hours he was vending his way home,
lodging passers by in the public road
and shivering like a leaf in the Arctic
regions. -Palatka Fla.) Enterprise.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13

CONGRESS, by special appropriation
on Monday placed S250,OOO at the dis
posal Of the President to enable him
to protect the interests Of the United
States and provide for the security Of
life and property Of our citizens at the
Isthmus of Panama, In such manner
as he may deem expedient. This lie
q Of many indications that the old
bird is waking up and taking notice
of current eveLts.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-02-13

ACCORDING 10 Madame Gossip, II
Boulsnger secures his dovorce, he will
endow an American lady with his
heart and hand, his fortune and his
future. The lady 10 Mrs. Joseph ID.
Lucas, Of st. Louis, herself = divorce,
well connected and handsome. She Is
now in italy awaiting the march OF
avanta