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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-04-05
Business propertn 60 Gel

M BEEKMAN-ST. near Nassau, large store and base
~ ment TO let rutland WHITING Bechnan-st
& TORE with power; FIankfor,st., Gold 5000
~ rent rutland WHITING. Bcekman-st
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Points of Interest.

Have the floor of your chicken house
raked and scraped clean several times a
week.
Eggs for incubators bring good prices.
The best are claimed to be produced
when both hens and cockerels are about
2 years old.
Besides his horse sale from Oct. 10 to
IS, W. T. Woodward, of Lexington.
KY, will have a later one in February.
1891. At the sales he will include ION
standard and business horses as well as
standards. s. H. x 1
If you are short Of fodder, desire to
economize it and yet not curtail the
wants Of your cattle, you will chop up
the hay and straw-in q cutting box. and
with d little ground feed to sprinkle over
it, m~oistening the whole, the. stock will
lick up every atom. Especially IS this a
great way to feed straw TO advantage,
When you handle bees, whether to
put them into winter quarters or to take
them out. or to do anything else with
them, always have your bee veil on and
your smoker in condition to use quickly
if occasion calls for it. Much depends
on the mood the bees are in. The cool.
steady person who is not afraid Of bees
is less apt to be stung than a nervous
person.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Swine Raising in Texas.

The current year will be known as the
beginning of the ''hog era" in Texas.
We do not speak facetiously of the AN
didate for governor who bears that
name. but the widespread interest that
our stockmen and farmers are taking in
the raising of hogs. The practice of the
stock raiser has been to depend on Mis-
souri, and Illinois for bacon, and their
course was probably justified by the fact
that our winters are frequently too mild
to save the meat by the cold weather
process. Now we do not have to de-
pend on cold weather, but packeries and
refrigerators make US independent Of
cold and heat. The packeries at Fort
Worth and Dallas. with a capacity of
1000 to 1900 hogs a day, can take all the
hogs that are offered for sale in Texas.
The raiser sells the live hogs at any
and all seasons of the year to the pack
cries, and the packeries do the saving.
Now there is nothing in the way of hog
raising in this state, and Jul stock should
be increased a million this year. Not
only should it be increased a million in
number, but it should be increased a
million in value by the Introduction Of
better blood. We a pigs that will
be ready for the market at eight months,
that a be finished with little feed. and
that can be produced at the least cost.
Now is the time to begin. Texas Live
Stock Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Binders for the Bull at Large,

Work tile bulls" is all right, but all
farmers who have got bulls cannot work
them, and to keep them in the barn all
summer is expensive and makes them
savage. Where one has a winter dairy
the bull must be sold or summoned. AS
the COWS are all in calf no damage can
result if the bull runs in the pasture
with them, if he can be prevented from
worrying them or freeing the man who
drives up the cows. For several years l
have "blinded' my bull by tying a light,
tough board, 16 inches long and 10
wide, across the face.
Before putting it on | AXE a common
two bushel bag, double it in the middle
and nail the folded edge to the middle
Of the board next the bulls face. so that
the bottom of the canvas comes down
well on to the nose. Thissmakes a sort
Of half blind at the end Of the board,
and then when the bull raises his head
the I've still lays on the nose, and he
does not see out from under. This blind
is complete, and with it on the bull is
subdued. He walks, but with care;
feeds without hindrance, stays in the
lot, and never chases his owner over the
fence or up Il tree.-John Gould in Phil
adelphia Press.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
STOCK HORSES.
Best Time to Start in the Horse Breed
Z ing Industry.

Best Time to Start in the Horse Breed
Z ing Industry.
The stallion owner who begins his
campaign in the fall certainly has an
advantage over the one who does not be-
gin until spring. This fact is its own
commentary to those who contemplate
purchasing stations for the next season.
Now is the time to buy. During the
next few months the owner a become
thoroughly familiar with his new horse,
and the horse, if purchased east OF re-
Gently imported, can become thoroughly
acclimated. The keeping of a horse a
month or two before he is actually
needed for service is a small matter in
this land of abundant feed, and it will
more than pay in knowledge acquired of
the animal and his peculiar personal
needs. There are other advantages.
The stables Of importers and dealers
now contain a better variety from which
to select than they will later on. Where
the stock Oh hand is large there are often
bargains worth looking for. Every breed
is offered by reliable dealers. There is
no surer revenue of wealth opened to
our farmers and stock growers than that
of horse production, and especially draft
horses. There is room in every neigh
borhood of the state for a good, pure
bred stallion, and such an animal will
create Il demand for his services as soon
as it is known they can be procured
Nebraska Farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Green Food for Poultry in Winter.

Green Food for Poultry in Winter.
We are reminded to suggest before an
other season of Jack Frost comes on the
necessity of storing potatoes, cabbage.
onions or turnips for your fowls. Dur
ing warm weather they do not need
them. Grass, vegetables and insects
abound, and the freedom of range gives
them many little delicacies that they
were strangers to during confinement.
In winter the whole face of nature is
changed. All their discomforts come on
them at one time. They are restricted
in liberty, their green food is cut off, and
their insect diet is gone where the
''woodbine twineth," and low they look
on the four bleak walls and then out
nothing before them but cherries win
ter s%upplanted with hard knocks and
harder fare.
The poulterer should not forget nor
neglect to provide for his fowls suitable
food for winter use, nor suffer them to
be neglected when they are not able to
help themselves. We are sorry to say
there are hundreds of p%oultrymen who
never feed their fowls vegetable food in
winter. This is wrong. Fowls lay bet
ter, feel better and are in better health
when they get a liberal supply Of vege-
tables with their other rations.-E. B.
Weaver in Dakota Farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
L,OG5 For BACON.
A Virginia gentleman Tells How "a
I.ais. the Best Bacon.

a Virginia Gentleman Tells How 20
I.i,is= the Best Bacon.
Hogs that lre never wintered-spring
pigs that so into pork at 8 or 10 months
of age-are the cheapest and best for
good bacon. 1t is even better to convert
6 months pigs-those narrowed in June
Or July-into bacon in December than to
keep them over another year.
If farmers would have rye and clover
for the pigs in early spring and summer,
and have orchards or nut tree ranges
where they could run when the fruit is
falling, and sow field peas, OF plant pea
nuts where the animals could CLEAN in
autumn, they would be enabled to raise
pork at very small cost. and with corn
or meal to finish them off would get
meat that would be firm of flesh. mar
bled and fit for the best of bacon. By
this course such Stops as from time to
time accumulate in the kitchen and
dairy house, with vegetables from the
garden and truck patches. may be safe
ly given them without detriment to the
character of the pork or the lard. The
point in growing pork is to avoid too
much fat at the expense Of muscle and
flesh. By the above method the pig will
be making muscle and bone the first six
months of it's life, and laying a good
foundation for the formation of fat at
the proper time.
Let pigs be narrowed in March or
April, or far north in April or May. Let
them have free range on the rye and
clover OF in the grass pasture during
May and June. be fed vegetables in July
and put into an orchard as soon as the
falling fruit is fit for them. During all
this time let them have just a little corn
"a nubbin or socially, and then in
September let them have a run on peas,
and be permitted to CLEAN the grain
fields after the crops are removed. They
will, other things being favorable. keep
in sound health and condition. and be
ready for an increase of fat in Novem-
Der, preparatory to pork making in De-
cember. During the latter weeks of the
hogs life the creature should have lib
eral though not excessive rations of
good sound corn or meal, which. of all
things else. is the best food in the world
for solid pork, savory ham and bacon
B. W. Jones in American Agriculturist.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
i of Interest.

1t is seldom that a cool, quiet man
n who can govern his temper-ever
has a fractions or nervous horse.
Later in the season, near Thanksgiving
and Christmas. there is always a glut in
the poultry market. The time when
everybody wants to sell is a poor time to
get good prices. The wise man markets
early and does not have the expense of
feeding his poultry. ~sg
In the colder parts of the country bees
keep well in dry cellars. Remove them
thither on the first really severe weather.
Horses are sometimes, infested with
ticks that are very troublesome. A good
remedy is to sponge them thoroughly
with kerosene and then put them in the
stable till they get dry, SO that they will
not take cold. Rub them well with the
sponge.
In the fall is the time to begin work
with the chicken incubator. At the be-
ginning of winter the incubator begins
to hatch its young brood. BY March
and April the young broilers are ready
for the market.
Hens will never eat their eggs if you
give them plenty Of broken bone and
oyster and clam shells. Get several bar
rels of these shells, crack them fine with
heavy rollers or stones and let your hens
devour their fill.
The real live stock breeder reads the
papers and keeps up with the times.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Ducks or Hens.

In salt meadows and creeks, and by
the seashore, bays and inlets, lakes and
ponds, wherever they can pick up part
of their food-and in some places they
will find most of it-ducks are more
profitable than hens under ordinary Cir
cumstances. In the absence of these
natural facilities ducks are not profit
able to the average poultry breeder, al
though there are well known cases
on a large scale without such water IA
%cilitles, but to do so requires much ex-
perience, energy and good markets.
When engagements are made to supply
good customers with first rate early
ducklings almost double as much is
realized as when they are sent to casual
dealers in our large cities.
There is a great difference between
the profit of ducks and hens in autumn
and early winter. The ducks eat enor-
mously, and lay but few eggs at that
season, while the hens lay enough to pay
for their food in the least profitable
times, and commence to lay heavily long
before the ducks start. The latter do
lay some eggs in autumn when we'll fed,
but not enough for profit. There is a
notable diversity in the habits of ducks.
Some become quite attached to home
and are easily managed, while others
ramble away and are very trouble
some. Nor is this especially the case
with any particular breed. When a
breeder finds his stock ia reliable he
should not change, but he should raise
his own breeding birds. -Henry Hales in
Rural New Yorker.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28

They will do best when crossed with our
native American breeds, for this gives
them hardness. Our climate is far more
trying on animals than that of England,
and for this reason the pure bred import
ed British sheep prove delicate, and fire.
quently degenerate after a time. There
is another reason, too, why imported
sheep do not maintain the standard ex-
pected Of them. That is, they get less
careful feeding and treatment in Amer
lea than they did in England. where
sheep keeping has been reduced to a sci
ence.
The Shropshire sheep has also a strain
Of Cotswold blood. The kind of sheep
at present most profitable in America is
one that will make, first of all, good
mutton, with a fleece as good as may be
with due consideration for meat. The
Shropshire's fleece is medium in length
and ~ineness and heavier than that of
the Southdown. The Shropshire sheep
is also harder than the Southdown
and will pick his living very well. He
is hardy Of constitution, fattens quickly
and will make from 80 to 1870 pounds of
excellent mutton at 2 years old. On
the whole no better sheep than this can
at present be bred in the west and north
west.
The Shropshire has a dark face and
dark legs and is hornless. If you want
to raise mutton, with an eye also to
wool. here is your animal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28

The Popular Science monthly will
make a 9 departure in 1891 by pub
fishing a series of comprehensive and
fully illustrated articles on the Develop
ment of American Industries since
Columbus. It has been announced that
one of the features of the coming Worlds
Fair is to be a comparison of the great,
manufactures of to-day with the condi-
ton of the same Industries at the discov-
cry of America, and it is the design OF
these papers to describe the successive
steps by which the distance between
those two stages has been passed over.
The series begins in the issue for De-
cember, 1890 Ghe second number of
volume thirty-eight), with an account of
the First Steps in formulating in the
colonies, written by Mr.. w. F. Durfee, of
Pennsylvania. The full prospectus of
the Monthly for the coming year will be
printed in the same number.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
LIVE STOCK HINTS.
BEWARE THE TRICKS OF THE SLIP
perry HORSE DEALER.

How He Makes Old Plugs Look Like
Young Observation-Disclosures, AGO.
mite. Anthony and Belladonna--"Mak-
ing a Horse &C Level"
To add to the appearance of q poor
horse ''bearing reins and 'bur bits" are
frequently used. The latter have very
fine, sharp pointed tacks in the bit bar
and at the sides of the mouth, which
irritate the animal and make him ap-
pear spirited. Stimulating drugs and
spirits are also given. Oil is mixed with
the food, and o~leaginous matter mixed
with arsenic, anthony and other drugs
is fed to the animal to add to the glossi-
ness of the coat. This makes a jaded
horse appear fat and well fed for a few
days, after which he falls away to a
skeleton and is utterly useless. In old
horses the hollow cavity over the eye
balls is inflated by mean of IN aspirat-
ing needle or blowpipe. This frequently
causes impregnation of gases in the It's
sues. from which the horse is relieved by
death in a few days, the buyer having
bee.l relieved of his cash a few days pre-
viously.
A horses step can be changed by add
ing OF decreasing the weight in the
shoes in certain regions of the foot, ac-
cording to requirements. Lameness in
one foot is frequently concealed by pro-
ducing the same defect in the other.
This is called making the horse go
level" Sand and quarter cracks in the
hoofs are filled up with soap, wax, gutta
percha and various cements, and one of
the oldest tricks known to conceal age is
to pare down the soles of the feet to give
the foot a younger appearance. This
invariably vitiates the inner structures
of the foot and ruins the horse after he
has been driven a few days.
When the ears of the old horses lie
back they are made t o stand up by the
insertion of very fine wire through their
edge down to the base. Paralysis of
the contracting muscles Of the lips, from
which they hang down, is remedied by
picking the opposite muscle under the
lower jaw and by the external applica-
ton Of aconite and belladonna.
Total and milky white blindness,
which is shown by the formation Of a
whitish opacity Of the lens, is hidden by
painting the eyeball or cornea with a
solution of nitrate of silver, which
blackens the skin and conceals the de-
feet. Horses suffering from miopia or
shortsightedness. which are generally
known as jibbers, owing to their habit of
shying at real or imaginary objects, are
frequently made totally blind to conceal
the fault.-Montana Live Stock Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Value of a Road Mare,

A mare OF strong individuality will
exert an influence on the style. form.
disposition and hair of her descendants
for many generations. Hence it is clearly
necessary that to produce horses of at
tractive appearance the mare must be
carefully selected, and be of good color
and fine hair, with a clean head and
neck, well rounded and graceful form,
smoothly turned hips and smooth, well
shaped limbs, and the more breeding
and speed she has the better.-Nor'
West Farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
Salt Water in the Stable.

Almost excellent preventive of gall is
to battle the shoulders each evening with
strong salt water, commencing six weeks
before active spring work begins, and
continuing the bathing during the sum-
mer. An English veterinary surgeon
who has tested the above for ten years
says: "
In the stable l keep an old fruit can,
into which | throw a small handful of
salt and then add the necessary water.
This is stirred until the salt is dissolved,
and the solution is applied to the shout
ders with a cloth tied around the end of
a corn cob. The roughness of the cob
holds the cloth well in place. Using this
avoid getting the salt water on the
hands-an agreeable precaution, espe-
cially if the skin on your hand is broken.
When the horses are at work l wash
their shoulders clean with clear water
as soon as the harness is removed in the
evening, and then apply the salt water.
It cools and eases the shoulders. and the
horses like it.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-11-28
A Handsome SHROPSHIRE Sheep.

The Shropshire Down sheep, of which
we give a splendid specimen in the illus
t%ration, belongs to what MI. Crozier calls
"a class Of remarkably useful sheep"
They are the Shropshire. Hampshire and
Oxford Downs, all having more or less
Southdown blood in them. These are
the sheep undoubtedly best adapted to
our dry, uneven American country.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-03-29

''THAT IS JUDGE -, MY HUSBAND"
The wives and daughters Of few OF
the Members visit the Capitol nearly
every day. Others 60 there only when
some exceedingly interesting debate Is
anticipated.
The exciting scenes preceding the
fights over the rules attracted many
visitors to the Members gallery. The
wives. daughters and guests OF both
De emocratic and Republican Represen-
tatives were there, and the political ex.
citement on the floor spread to the
gallery. 1t was intensified by the
presence of many strangers who had
cards to the Visitors gallery but who
had been admitted to the Memb bers gal
lery. They gave vent to their feelings,
apparently unaware that they were on
neutral ground.
The debate below was long and bitter.
One day the discussion lasted over eight
hours Some OF the families OF the Rep
resentativss remained in the gallery all
this time, witnessing the scenes OF con-
fusion on the floor. Little lunches were
sent to them, which they shared with
their friends. All enjoyed the excite
ment, the eloquent outbursts and cut
ting repartee that marked the contest.
Individual pleasure, however, was at
times marred by remarks from those OF
opposite political belief. Strangers
used their tongues quite freely. The
wives OF prominent Members heard com
ments upon their husbands that brought
the flush OF Indignation to their cheeks.
1t was certainly not pleasant for the
daught ter of an eminent Kentuckian to
hear her father termed "the worst old
rebel on the floor" A stranger TUNED
TO lady at her side and said:
who's that funny little man down
there with bald head ?" pointing to a
Member.
That" replied the lady addressed,
with freezing dignity, lis Judge -,
my husband. "
Her auestoner blushed, but made no
apology.
When Mr.. Bvnum was protesting
against the rulings OF Speaker Reed in
terms Of burning eloquence young
man in the gallery audibly expressed
his disapprobation.
Speaker Reed" said he, 'ought to
descend from his chair and knock that
fellow down.
At this the wife OF a prominent Dem
ocratic Member of the Committee on
Appropriations was aroused She
turned and looked the censor full in the
face. He recognized her and tried to
soften the effect OF his words.
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-03-29
BISMARCK IN TEARS.
The "Man of Iron" Weeps Over .
Display of Popular Affection.
his FORMAL FAREWELL TO WILLIAM.
The Ex-Chanceilor Lays Aside Forever
His Many Decorations-The Iron Cross
Only Retained A Queer Remark
Credited to Caprivi.
DEEPLY MOVED.

BERLIN, March 26.-The farewell audi.
ence between the Emperor and Prince
Bismarck was held this morning. The In
terview lasted three-quarters Of an hour
The retiYing Chancellor was heartily
eheered on his way to the palace by
crowds which had gathered along tho
route. As the Prince was driving past the
bridge between the Lustgarten and
Unter den Linden, his horses SHE'D and
one OF them became entangled In the
traces. 1t was necessary to stop the
carriage until the harness was rear
ranged. A crowd quickly gathered about
the ex-Chancellor and ladies threw
him bouquets and kissed their hands to
him. Prince Bismarck was so greatly
affected that he shed tears. lie shook
hands with a number of those about his
carriage, and his voice faltered as he
thanked the people for their demon
strations of affection.
Prince Bismarck has deposited all
his stars, crosses and medals in
the Reichbank. The jewelers. esti-
mate Of their value is 5000. The Prince
only retains the orders of the Golden
Fleece and that of the Black Eagle.
"No more uniforms or medals for me-"
the veteran statesman is reported to
have said; 'you have forced me into re-
tirement, where | shall wear frock
coat and only need my iron cross"
BERLIN. March 26.-General Won Cap
rivi on entering the abandoned resi-
dence Of the ex-Chancellor is reported
to have said: 81 shall not probably re-
main long here; it would be impossible
for me to sacrifice my hon est opinion at
the caprice of the crown"
Emperor William recently gave sep
arate audiences to the Austrian, British,
Italian and Russian ambassadors. He
informed them as to Germany's future
domestic and foreign policy, and con-
vinced them of his firm resolve to main
tain peace and his belief that his ef-
forts would be successful.
1t is reported that the Kaiser is great
ly annoyed at the newspaper polemic
which is being carried on anent Prince
Bismarck's resignation. He threatens
that if the discussion is continued In
the public prints he will publish full
and detailed account Of the whole pro-
ceeding in the Reichsanzeiger. That is
precisely what every one would like.
PARIS, March 28.-The Univers says
that General Won Caprivi the new Ger
man Chancellor, has intimated his de.
sire for more friendly relations with the
vatican
The Ottawa free trader., 1890-03-29
A Fatal DrauyhI.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 26-At New
Harmony Prof. Richard Owen, well
known as soldier and scientist, and A.
II. Fretageot, a prominent merchant
drank embalming fluid by mistake in
stead OF mineral water. Prof. Owen
lived only about five hours and Mr.
Fretageot is not expected to live. Prof.
Owen was one of the best-known chem
lists and geologists in the country and
had written extensively for magazines.
He was born in Scotland in 1910 and was
the Youngest son of Robert Owen.