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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

A1NLiNS1i I1oLAoEI'
long quarters, head well set on long,
arched neck, and carried in a style not
seen in any other breed. He has good
action, and in some instances consider
able speed"
The handsome Cleveland bay mare in
the illustration above belongs in Colo
RADIO. The superb French coaching stall
liol of our second illustration, on the
other hand, is owned in the east, in
Massachusetts.
The origin of the French coach horse
can be traced back to a strain Of Arabian
blood. The leading features of the breed
can be readily seen in the picture. A
writer in The American Cultivator says:
The French coach horse is large sized,
compactly formed, round barreled, OBJ
lique shouldered animal, with a strong
back, powerful loin, smooth coupling,
roundly turned hips, strong quarters,
clean hooks, smooth, clean limbs, short,
strong pasterns and good feet. As a
rule they are remarkably intelligent and
docile. They are %upheaded, free, spirit
ed drivers and capital roadsters, being
able to pull two men in a heavy buggy
from eight to ten miles an hour with
ease. They are also fast walkers. Those
acquainted with both pronounce the
French coach horse very similar in char
acter to the old fashioned Morgan, the
chief difference being a large increase in
size.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
Buying Breeding Chickens.

New breeds will be purchased by many
this fall. and late in the autumn is a
good time to buy them. If the matter
is put off until spring the prices will be
higher. and the yards will not be so full,
so that you cannot have your pick. The
first buyers as a rule get the best speci-
mems. for they have a pick from large
hocks. Cockerels for crossing are cheap.
In buying, however, one should not go
in for the new breeds, but stick to the
old reliable kinds. Many Of the widely
advertised new breeds are only novelties,
and they last generally for only a season
or two. An old breed is a guarantee
that it possesses many good qualities. If
pure breeds are not used it is better to
use a cross than to let them breed pro-
m~iscuously without regard to SYSTEM
Annie g. Webster in American Guilt
yatOr.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
HOMELESS CATTLE.
Would It BE Possible to Breed Familie
3D. of Them? ~ 1% sF

Would It Be Possible to Breed Families
" of Them? : T'+ S"f-
Of late there has been less said on the
subject of dehorning cattle than was
written and said q year or two ago. So
far as we understand the sentiment Of
the cattle handling community it has
resolved itself to remove the horns on
bulls, vicious cows and steers that are to
be fatted for the shambles. Good, well
behaved COWS will not as a rule be dis
mantled of their horn appendages. It is
the Jersey breeders will never consent to
a removal of the horns. On the con-
trary they will devote much time, skill
and expense in filing, scraping, coloring
and polishing the headgear of their pet
animals.
The average cattle handlers, though,
would prefer cattle without horns,
though many of them doubt the proprie-
ty of dehorning. MI. Morse, of the
Windsor farm, has given the subject of
horns OF no horns much study, and has
some confidence that he IAN produce a
family Of Holsteins that will be born
without horns. He argues that a curb
back is apt to be transmitted by a horse.
and why not a hornless head in cattle!
Defects are reproduced, whether natural
or artificial, with considerable certain
ty, and the transmission becomes more
certain with each generation until the
popularity is fixed. There is some
logic in the g~entleman's reasoning, and
we shall not be surprised to see hornless
heads, made hornless by breeding,
among the Windsor Holsteins.
It is altogether probable that a breed
of cattle could be produced in time with
only one horn or without tails. Patience
and perseverance in one direction would
accomplish almost any marvel of that
kind. These results are scarcely more
remarkable than the popularity of the
Poland China hogs, for instance, which
have become ixed-the tip forward Of
the top of the fine ear, the heavy hams
and the color, which differs from all
other breeds, or the dished face of the
small Yorkshires; or to go backt to cattle,
the short and comparatively small horns
of the Jerseys, shorthorns. Guernseys
and Holstein- Friesians. 1t is worth
while to try to build families Of hornless
cattle in all the good breeds .-Field and
Farm.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
cLEvELANp BAY MARE AND FoAL.

CLEVELAND BAY MARE N FoAL.
pages in the Champs Elysee and exclaims
with surprise and admiration: "The
most beautiful horses in the world are
in Paris!"
Many of the French carriage horses
are Cleveland bays, imported from York
shire and the coach horse breeding dis
tricts of England. But apart from
these the French coach horse is a dis
tinct breed whose fine points appear at
first sight.
Both the Cleveland bay and the French
coach horse are now bred to a consider
able extent in this country, and both
have their ardent admirers, who would
have no other kind under any considera-
ton.
We lay before our readers this week
pictures of both these admirable types
Of the carriage horse.
The first illustration. represents a
Cleveland bay and her colt, taken while
in rapid motion. Field and Farm says:
"The breeding of coach horses in this
country is receiving much attention, and
is proving very remunerative for a GER
tain class of farmers. There are several
breeds of horses we'll fitted for this pur-
pose, but non fully equal to the Cleve-
land bay. They are powerful, active
and good looking, of a beautiful bay
color, with dark points, always trans
hitting their color with unerring cer-
tainty. They not only make superb
coach horses, but for light draft and
road work they are excellent, and al
though we do not believe in the "gen-
eral purpose" horse they "fll the eye" Of
such farmers as do advocate such an an
imal. and this class of farmers look upon
them with great favor.
1.-THE main characteristics of the Cleve-
land bay are it's adaptability to almost
all kinds of work, wonderful uniformity
of size and color, good disposition, great
endurance, bold, free action and fine
style, making it a very desirable animal
to breed to for getting either a fine car
riage or general purpose horse. They
should stand at maturity from sixteen
hands to sixteen hands two and a half
inches high, and weigh from 1 200 pounds
to 1,450 pounds, have good sloping shout
ders, short backs, powerful loins and
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
OLD ROAM CAN'T JUMP NOW.

L ROAM CAN'T JUMP NOW.
nine or ten feet long. One end is tied
around the horses neck, as shown. The
other is drawn between his fore legs and
Topped around the surcingle in the man.
ner shown. Then it is brought around
outside of one of his forelegs, and again
taken back to his neck, where it is tied
to the other end Of the rope. The science
of it is that if a horse cannot raise his
head he cannot jump, and the rope is
tied just tight enough to prevent his rails
ing his head higher than the top of his
shoulder; at the same time he can eat
and drink freely.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
DUCKS AND OTHER LIVE STOCK.
How an Ingenious Farmer Gets Plenty OF
Etf Water, Ducks and Fish.

How an Ingenious Farmer Gets Plenty OF
E&f Water, Ducks and Fish.
| will endeavor to tell my readers as
briefly as possible how l have plenty Of
stock water convenient to my lots. plenty
Of fish for my table and plenty of fine
Pekin ducks for the table, and also for
their fine feathers. Some five or six
years ago, not having water convenient.
l built a tank, say thirty steps from my
lots and a little above them, by building
a large dam across a ravine, and just
here l will say to prevent leaking plow
a land the width of the base of the dam
across the ravine or wherever the dam
is to be made, then build on top of
plowed land. ,
My tank is in black land with yellow
clay subsoil and will hold water from
January till the late fall rains. In it we
put a few small perch and yellow and
speckled or blue catfish: they multiplied
very rapidly and we now have all the
fish we want for table use both of perch
and catfish. the former l think the finest
l ever saw. For a while after the tank
was built I was fearful of it being ruined
by crawfish, they being very numerous
in it. l noticed, however, that the ducks
Toasted upon them. So l went to work
to raise more ducks; procured a trio of
Pekins. and at this time have forty-one
of them and no crawfish to be seen.
The ducks are a very superior fowl. be-
ing entirely free from disease, and un-
surpassed for the table, besides nearly
equaling the goose for feathers, of a very
fine quality. So you see I have plenty
of water for stock, fish for the table, and
the white beauties for the table and also
for their feathers, besides the pleasure
afforded my wife by showing them to
her friends. Now perhaps some one
will want to know how to raise them.
Our best success has been in the follow
ing way:
We hatch them under a chicken hen.
Then put in a pen made by placing three
or four planks a foot wide edgewise on a
dry spot Of ground, with cover at one
side to house them in bad weather.
Keep them in pen until they are at least
amonth old, with all the feed they want,
and just enough water to drink. as they
are injured by having water to dabble
in when young. They will then do we'll
in the yard with just enough water to
drink, but much better if they have a
pond or plenty of water. Ours spend
nearly all their time on the water. COM
ing out to eat two or three times a day.
e. V. Taylor in Southern Farm.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
How to Get Eggs In Winter.

Any theory that fails to result in eggs
in the winter is a failure, however nice
ly advanced. Any theory that suggests
impracticable things for the locality for
which it is written is also useless. For
instance, the advice to feed oyster shells
to chickens in Dakota and wheat to them
in the New England states is not practi-
cal. Reverse the conditions or reverse
the feed, and the task becomes an easy
n Oyster shells are plenty in New
England and wheat in Dakota. The adj
vice so often given ogive "green food"
is very good, and yet many people will
have but little to give during the win
ter.
"Fresh meat" is recommended. Few
will have it to spare, and yet nearly
every one has milk. It is good either
sweet OF sour, and will largely replace
fresh meat. We know Of nothing better
or more accessible to the majority OF
farmers than milk. 1t should be warmed
so that it is pretty hot. Once o. twice a
week put in a 't%easpoonful of cayenne
pepper. This fed in the morning with
some scalded chopped feed will put hens
in good condition for business. They
must have q little pure water once a day,
a box Of ashes in one corner Of the hen
house, and some old plaster or lime MGR
tar, a pile of coarse sand, gravel or broken
crockery. Glass is recommended by
some. We have not tried it.
The hen house must be warm enough,
so there will be no frozen combs or wat.
ties. It should have Il large south win.
dow, and the hens should not be let out
when the weather is cold enough te
freeze their combs. A few hours in the
middle of the day gives them needed
exercise. Get them in early in the after.
noon and give them all the whole grain
they will eat-wheat, oats, corn, bar
ley or buckwheat-no sloppy feed fol-
supper. Change the feed occasionally
A dish Of parched corn furnishes agree
able variety .-Dakota Farmer.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

The pullets for next season should now
be selected. Those Matched early in
spring that do not begin to lay by De-
cember, at the latest, should be killed
off. Those that do lay should be kept i'll
proper condition for laying all through
the winter, and it is best not to feed
them so as to make them fat. Keep
them growing, and bring them to an
early maturity. If they are of good
breed and good chickens they should be-
gin to lay by November. The Leghorn
pullets lay before s months old, and a
cross of one Of these with any other
breed will give an MISUNDERSTANDING c.
Webster in American Cultivator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
LIVE STOCK COLUMN.
WHAT THE SHEEP HusBANDRY OF
THE FUTURE WILL BE.

Important Changes in the Ideas and
Methods of Sheep Raisers in Recent
Years-The Sheep That Pays Must Pro-
duce Both Wool and Mutton.
Sheep raisers are abandoning the ideas
they held in, the past, which have so
poorly served during the last five years,
and are gaining in a sound knowledge of
breeding, feeding and marketing prin-
ciples. They are establishing themselves
in wiser business practices, more in
practical harmony with the facts that
must prevail in this country. There is
a disposition to compete. if we must
compete with outsiders, in the most
efficient and effectual manner There
is a willingness to eliminate the weak
points in our sheep husbandry, and work
only for that which has proved itself
substantial. They leave theories and
pursue facts. They intend to profit by
the past weaknesses and errors that
formerly deluded them. They have con-
fdence in themselves, in their abilities
and capacities, and in the national in.
tegrity and legislation.
If aperiod of unprecedented prosperity
for sheep and wool has not we'll begun
in this country the writer fails to read
the signs of the times. If a sheep COM
bining mutton and wool in a higher de-
gree than has hitherto been recognized
by some Of us old fogies cannot be the
basis Of a permanent prosperity then the
experience of the last few years has been
a business delusion. Such, however, it
has not been; it has surpassed all reason
able expectations and silenced all oppo-
sition and cant; it has been demonstrated
in financial prosperity at a time when a
wool bearing sheep proper has been dis
carded, save under the restricted circum-
stances to which 1T must specially belong.
Circumstances unlocked for and unex-
pected have freed the more progressive
sheep raisers from the theories and bond
age of the past, set up truth and bust
ness methods that will not fail to secure
prosperity in hard times, and which will
not have to be abandoned in good times.
Sheep raising is as practicable on the
western and southern ranges as in the
grass lands of Virginia and West Virgin
ia, or as on the grain farms of Kentucky
or Illinois. It promises to be a relief to the
western ranchmen and the farmers of
Ohio. It has saved the sheep h%usbandry
of New York and Massachusetts, as well
as the ranchmen of Texas. It has sue
ceeded wherever tried, and where it has
not been tried there have been com
plants and distress.-Cor. Rural New
Yorker,
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
PROFITABLE ANIMALS.
WHICH is THE BEST COACH HORSE
FOR THE BREEDER?

His Choice-Illustrations of the Two
Coach Families Now Most Fashion
able-French and English Horses.
Which is the best breed of coach
horse2
After the American tourist in Europe
has Travelled through the principal
cities there and watched the carriage
parades of the rich in the parks if he
comes to Paris last he looks at the equi.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
Cracked HOOfs in Oxen.

In answer to a request for something
to prevent cracked hoofs The Dakota
Farmer says: TX. .
An ointment composed of equal parts
Of pine tar, fish oil and beef brine heated
gently together and well stirred until
cold will often prevent the hoofs of ami
mails from cracking if applied daily with
smart friction. You might have your
oxen shod, the loose hoof cut away and
the interstices stuffed with tar and tow,
while a judicious use Of leather with the
shoe will he found beneficial. Keep the
parts clean, and should much lameness
be present poultice with bran for a day
or two before applying the shoes.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02

When scurf or organisations appear
on the back of cattle, as they sometimes
do, and the hair drops out, paint the
spot every other day with tincture Of
iodine. To prevent the spot from be-
coming too sore rub it occasionally with
vaseline on the off days.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
for Infants and Children.

,'Castoria is 50 well adapted to children that
RECOMMEND it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
III So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-02
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The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-27
THE TWO Ig IN SECTIONS.
TIC Coke strike Viewed From valley
Standpoint. The valley Shutdown.
IRON the Iron Agc.l

from the Iron AscJ
A correspondent of the PittsDurg DIS
patch. who may or may not be q valley
furnace owner himself, writing from
Youngstown, few days ago, says:
"The situation among the blast furnaces
in the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys
instead of clearing up seems to grow more
complicated from day to day, and from
week TO week, so that no living man can
forecast with any reasonable degree OF GER
tainty the outcome of these disturbances
which combined to unsettle all activity IN
the iron line, or to kill what the Immediate
future has in store for the iron markets,
the pig iron manufacturers and the KIN
dred interests. One fact, however, stands
out most boldly, and that is, that the IN
dustry in these Valleys has never before
undergone such continued period OF oe-
preston, nor have the results that>have
followed in the wake Of this commercial
calamity before been equalcd Tor the
number Of industries affected, the number
of workers thrown idle, and the money
loss to the various interests affected.
"Probablv the first and greatest loss is
to the pig iron industry itself. OF a total
of 81 stacks in the two Valleys fully 81
are inactive, and the estimated daily Ca
pacity of these idle furnaces is 5000 tons,
add the loss in tonnage since the shut
down was inaugurated, January 10th, is
estimated at nearly 100000 tons. The
mean price Of Bessemer and mill irons for
the period is $l3, so the money loss BY the
stoppage of the production Of pig is fully
(. 4 .lOO mn
The correspondent estimates the num-
Der of workmen thrown idle to be 5000,
but saws that 5000 of these are still at
work making repairs. He declares that
the railroads have suffered loss of from
30 to 80 per cent of their traffic The
Lake Superior orc interests will suffer
loss of from 10 TO 26 per cent Of this years
business and the shipping will be cor
rcspondingly reduced.
''The last, but by no means the least
affected industry" says the correspondent,
''is the Connellsville coke trade. The
peculiar situation now prevailing through
out the coke regions, and havin:: the form
both Of strike and lock out, has no
doubt been aggravated by the shutdown
of the furnaces. Many iron men here
think that it is blow at the furnacemen
over the shoulders Of the workingmen;
that the strike was much desired meas
urc by the syndicate, giving it welcome
weapon with which to strike the furnace
interests; that it is purely a war measure,
an act Of retaliation that was contem-
plated, and the demands of the men gave
the coke people the very opportunity for
which thpV were crnEi ~
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-27

of American citizens, decree the robbery
Of the one or the death of the other with
out the forms Of trial, and sends their
armed cut-throats forth to execute their
DEGREES. By one form Of money getting
or another--by appealing TO the charita-
BILE sympathies of our people, by mid
night robbery or otherwise-they accumu-
late large fund with which to corrupt
our juries and suborn witnesses, and to
keep in their service regular and discip-
lined band Of assassins to murder those
who may attempt to expose their crimes
and enforce the law. 1t is said that the
New Orleans jury were actually afraid to
bring in verdict of guilty, so in cases
which corruption fund will not reach,
the stiletto is substituted.
Then when the people Of a city, realiz-
ing that they must either abandon their
homes and surrender their local govern
mcnt TO these wrctchcs or destroy them,
determine to maintain their righte and
preserve their property and their lives by
shooting down the assassins, an appeal is
made to foreign power to ayenge the ex-
ecution, and the city Of New Orleans is
threatened with an army of soldiers and
feet of iron cIads.
Is it not time to revise our immigra-
ton and naturalization laws? How long
arc ship loads Of criminals to be permit
ted to enter our harbors, organize into
secret bands, shoot down officers of the
law and intimidatc or corrupt our courts
and iuries, and when an outraged COM
munity rises against them, openly appeal
to foreign power and threaten to over
whelm the population with wholesale
massacre.
Can not enough courageous, honest and
patriotic men he elected to Congress to
revise laws which render such an outrage
not only possible but of repeated occur
renee?
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-27
The European Trouble.

The colonial question is coming to a
head in England. The British Govern
mcnt entered into an agreement with
France to adjust the New Foundland
fishery controversy upon certain basis.
The attempt was made by British officials
to carry out this agreement, but the courts
of New Foundland decided against the
home government, and Lord Salisbury
has found it necessary to appeal to Par
lament for power to fulfill his treaty obi-
cations. If the power is granted the ac-
ton of the home government will ALLEVIATE
the COLONY and a storm will be raised
that can not be easily quelled. If Par
lament refuse, France will still have a
right to demand a compliance with the
agreement and greater difficulty may
arise.
The situation is serious and interesting.
Mr.. Gladstone has arrayed the liberal
party on the side Of the colonists and
he may yet play the part in Parliament
in 1891, with reference to New Foundland,
which the Earl of Chatham played with
reference to the American colonists in l776.
The discussion has already reached a
feverish heat, and there is no telling what
may he the outcome.
England has one advantage in the stu
alton, and that is that France viii not be
inclined to war with her neighbor, if it
can possibly lie avoided, her resources
being reserved and nursed for the newt
able conflict which she must ultimately
have with Germany over Alsace and Lor-
raine.
1t is said Emperor William is watching
the trouble with the keenest interest; and
meantime there is great activity in all
the arsenals Of Europe, the sagest states
men being unable to foretell what Il day
may bring forth.