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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
RIDING HIS HOBBY.

The pony breeding business is profit
able to those who understand it and are
properly fixed to conduct it. There is q
demand for dwarfs and giants. These
bring the high prices, while the ordinary
sized horses, unless of very superior
quality, will bring only ordinary prices.
A hundred of the little fellows turned
out in the paddock together form a pic
ture to delight the eye. It is only in size
that these ponies are inferior to their
bigger brethren. In endurance they are
no whit behind the larger horses, in
deed it is claimed by the doctor that he
can drive more miles in six days with a
team of ponies than can be made by a
team Of horses. They are tough and
wiry, and while they cannot travel SO
fast as the horses of greater size they
can keep at it for more consecutive
hours. For intelligence and responsive
ness to training they really excel, and
in kindness and affectionate dispositions
they are far better equipped, as a rule.
A reporter of Il New York daily paper
lately described the Guernsey breed Of
cattle us ''spotted %Shorthorns, always
plump" The same young man would
probably describe IL Shire horse ns a Shet-
::and pony, always plump.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12

.ar eluugn Ill tlle matter TO sarlsry my
self that she was not of Morgan blood,
as is asserted by some. She was nearly
if not quite thoroughbred and sired by
Ballinger."
"How will the trotter of the future be
armed?"
with just enough iron to protect his
feet. My impression is that in racing he
will be compelled, in a majority of cases,
to wear boots to protect himself, al
though their weight is a disadvantage to
extreme speed. Mr.. Hamlin, the great
Buffalo breeder. illustrated to me not
long since how much Of an impeachment
they are. Prince Regent "a trotting {,
race in the mud with boots on tina.
weighed IA ounces. He was firing, and
likely to lose the race MI. Hamlin or
dered the boots off, and Regent went in
and won it."
"How much lower is the trotting rec
ord to so"
ut will probably get to two minutes
for the mile, and perhaps a little lower
v than that, but it will take time.
The bicycle sulky has proven a great
auxiliary to extreme speed. In my opin-
ion, it is from three to six seconds faster
than the high wheel sulky.-Cor. St.
Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12

A. Peg for shifting sliding frame. B. Sliding
Frame. c. Horizontal rollers. D.. Upright roll
ers.
habit of gathering should be selected.
The simplest way of making a lamb
creep is to take two strips, long enough
to reach across the corner of the pen and
strong enough to hold stiffly the narrow,
upright pieces that should be nailed to
them about one foot apart at first.
AS the lambs grow, the spaces between
the uprights must be increased. An in
genious and very useful construction
specially devised for this purpose is
shown in the picture. 1t can be readily
seen from the illustration how the size of
the opening may be easily changed by
shifting the peg at A. BY doing that the
sliding frame, B, is moved, and that
throws the upright rollers, D, closer or
farther apart. The scale Of the plan is
one inch to the foot.
The framework Of the creep is made
of light, fiat, iron strips. The upright
and horizontal rollers are made of hard
wood, about 2 inches in diameter. The
creep is 8 feet 4 inches high and 4 feet G
inches wide. The stationary, upright
rollers are a foot apart and 2 feet long.
The illustration shows the creep opened
as wide as possible. The two end strips
of iron are extended 20 that the CREEP
may be readily driven into the ground,
and by running a board partition from
either side it is easy to separate a small
apartment for the lambs. either in the
sheds or fields.
Inside the apartment for the lambs we
have q small wooden trough that is spe
cially suited for feeding lambs. It diff
.fers from an ordinary grain trough TO,
feeding grain to sheep in that a narrow
strip runs along the top of the trough
about eight inches above the center o.
the part Of the trough that holds thu
grain. This is to keep the lambs out O.
the trough. In crowding for their fec
they would getinto the trough with thei1
/ feet and spoil the food if it were no
for this arrangement.-Professor J. A
Craig, Wisconsin Experiment Station.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
Live Stock Points.

The Breeders Gazette publishes an in
teresting list of trotting sires and dams.
The stallion list includes horses that have
sired 10 or more colts able to trot in $3.50
or less. The list numbers 1870, and at its
head is the famous old Electioneer, with
1870 colts to his credit that come within
the standard figure. Electioneer is now
25 years old. Besides the stallion list.
The Gazette gives also q list of trotting
mares, with themselves a record Of 2:3O
or better, that have produced colts equal
to the standard performance at the trot.
The colts as we'll as the dam are given.
At the head of the mare table is Beauti-
full Bells with v colts whose records
range from 2:16i to 2::244. In the $3.50
list are 1877 colts whose dams were them
selves 2:30 trotters. The list Of mares
would have been still longer only that,
as The Gazette observes, mares that
could trot in less than $3.50 earned more
money on the track than they could have
done as breeding animals, and until
quite recently they have been kept on
the track till past their prime for pro-
ductiOn.
For ordinary sheep breeders the early
part of February is about the best time
to have lambs come.
Newsboy, the Kansas t%rotter, with a
record of 2:2OA, is to be run the coming
season as a PAGER.
A sheep breeder says it is his expert
ence that two February lambs are worth
as much as three May lambs.
More than half the diseases to which
poultry is subject are caused by verlnin.
Horse Judge Pritchard of Ottawa, Ills,
says Of tho proper typo of draft horse
that it is tho first business Of q draft
horse to be wide in front. wide in the
middle and wide behind.
The honey crop last year was the larg'
est in five years, but many producers did
not get the highest price, because they
dill not know how to pack it for market.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12

GUS experiments with animals and havs
found their instinct at times very poor.
"For instance, l gave a young rat a cage
with a treadwheel attachment. The tread
wheel proved so very enjoyable that the rat
simply ran itself to death, which shows
that brutes cannot Judge or limit their
pleasure. Cats love catnip. as it is called,
delight to roll in it and eat it. mixed q
moderate amount of nightshade with the
catnip plant and offered it to my home do
nestle. The cat ate Of it, never distinguish
ing between the poison and the catnip, and
consequently died. I fail to observe where
the governing instinct came in in these two
instances at least."-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
Riding His b

A Long Island man, DR.. Jackson, is
an enthusiastic breeder of ~ponies-Shet-
land, Iceland and Welsh. The Rural
New Yorker, from which our illustra-
ton is copied, has the following:
Here we see him really riding his
hobby" for he stands astride of the
smallest mature pony in the country.
This is Sugar Plum, a "skewbald" Shet-
land mare 4 years old and fully grown
and developed. You car see that the
doctor stands fiat footed on the ground
without sitting or throwing any weight
upon the little horse. This is a good
way to ''ride a hobby"-keep it under
perfect control and show it off to the
best advantage and still do not injure it
and ''ride it to DEATH"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12

After a day or two the feed is gradu-
ally increased until the pigs are old
enough to take all the milk a sow can
give, after which she is fed all she will
eat up clean of the best feed we have
for the development of the youngsters,
consisting Of wheat middlings wet up
and fed sweet. a little soaked corn or
oats, and if We had it would mix the
middlings with skinned milk. We
continue the heavy feeding of the sow
until the pigs are eight or ten weeks old,
when by this time they have long since
learned to eat and have a low shallow
trough placed where the SOW cannot
disturb them and are fed by themselves
about as the SON has been fed-with as
much variety as possible.
The feed Of the sow is nov gradually
changed to dry feed and water, and she
soon begins to gradually give less milk
until she becomes perfectly dry, and the
pigs are weaned and never know it, hav-
ing never been separated from their
dams. If at the proper season for grass,
the pigs and sows are now all turned
into the clover pasture with dry sheds to
sleep in. The sows fed dry corn are soon
in fine condition, but are not usually
bred oftener than once a year.
The pigs have a place to feed where the
sows cannot disturb them and are pushed
on wheat middlings, soaked shelled corn
and oats, and if we have it we mix the
above with sweet SKINNED milk, but this
is a luxury we seldom have for them
We have a steam cooker, and during cold
weather feed cooked food composed Of
the above. We always give all feed as
soon as mixed, while perfectly sweet
adding a little salt to every barrel OF
feed. BY the above system we have met
with good success and had no trouble
with scours, thumps OF teething.-A. j
Lovejoy & Son in Breeders Gazette.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
M. B-MAGGOT.

-cu0' C-PUPA.
The fly deposits its eggs in the freshly
cropped dung, where the maggot is
Matched out, and on which it feeds until
ready to pupate. It usually brings out
several broods in a season, the last brood
remaining in the pupa form until spring.
10 destroy them throw a shovelful of
June or Of wood ashes upon the fresh
afopplnss every day both in the yard
anu pasture. This will serve also the
purpose OF making more and richer fer
tIllzer' and thus partially repay it's cost.
another way would be to have all the
alopp'nss in the pasture spread with hoe
VI rake twice a week, which would cause
~ 10 dry up before they had reached the
Nv fupa stage, and as they feed only upon
tus moist dung they would soon die
american Cultiyator.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
Horses Teeth.

Between 2 and 8 years old our colt
S Sls.ns to change his teeth. The mid
t se PAR OF front teeth are pushed out by
n %o permanent teeth which take their
p, aee' ana the same process is taking
p p,a,e lar back in his mouth among the
IoiaF teeth. From this time until the
svlse Is 8 years old these changes of
s "e,a are taking place at short intervals,
ts u w. may consider what steps may be
n mssu II any cause interferes with the
to"th tal process. Occasionally a milk
n,on a., instead Of dropping out at the
th ~t t olne, becomes entangled between
er ~ .Wo nelghboring teeth and causes a
NIL aeal OF annoyance to the poor colt.
sohh ~ SHOWN by an unusual amount Of
II S .s tho colt eats very little, and
ma. lou cases he spits out his food after
partly chewing it.
sm OCCASIONALLY the breath has a bad
ton s,' ana there may be swelling of the
com suo or cheeks. These symptoms are
him." aul 70 any disease of the teeth or
law %ms 10 the back part Of the tongue or
sta a' anu should lead to an immedi-
ueoe% examination of the mouth, and if
Rem ''ary a visit to the veterinary sur
Ilonsae ! have seen many young and old
tons n,' 'eaucee almost to living skele-
curea VS diseases of the teeth that were
nanu ny proper means, and no doubt
tanro o 81 Gases perish through the igno-
their W. tae'r owners as to the cause Of
"'a1ady.-Nor'west Farmer.
tba A'hu OF stock should be turned on
food f %aa"w in spring. 1t can get little
and ~. ',A last years withered heritage,
whi)o oG 4ees from trampling the ground
tAawoo !. ~ soft from being recently
The ne, 1ut does an injury that damages
doubtf"l1 for many years after. It is
by tima policy pasturing meadows at
d%ronn;''' nut if pastured in the fall the
esrlv ; J." OF stock should be scattered
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
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LAMB CREEP.

Convenient Device For Feeding Lambs BE.
fovo They Are Weaned.
To feed grain to lambs it is best to
have a part of a pen or corner of a field
fitted for this purpose, so that the lambs
may have a special place to feed. In a
pen in the shed a corner may be easily
divided off and in the field a sheltered
place where the flock may be in the
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
for Infants and Children.

10 ven adaptedto children that
recommend It a. superior to any prescription
Known TO me-" n. A. AAcux1, n. D.,
III So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. 7.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-05-12
HORN FLY IN BITING ATTITUDE.

HORN FLY IN BITING ATTITUDE.
%,opular name from its habit of alighting
around the horn to rest when not biting,
as being a place where the animal cannot
easily reach to brush it off, but it does no
damage to the horn. It shows the Same
instinct in selecting its places for biting,
usually attacking the back, TANKS, under
side Of the belly and the neck or head.
It works its way beneath the hair and
gorges itself with blood as soon as it
can enter its dagger shaped proboscis.
These bites r very irritating, and as
they usually appear in great numbers
cattle are made nearly frantic by them,
and also are liable to make themselves
sore by rubbing the bitten parts against
trees.
70 prevent the biting smear the cattle
with some cheap oil, such as train oil,
fish oil, tallow or axle grease. If to a
half gallon of this is added about a ia
blespoonful of either carbolic acid or oil
Of tar, it will keep the flies away and
also reduce the irritation of bites already
made and be healing to the sores if there
are any. Kerosene emulsion also has
been used with good success when dilut-
ed with nine times its bulk of water and
used in spraying the cattle, but we pre-
fer the other prescription, as it will not
need to DO renewed as soon.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-04
FREE METHODIST CONFERENCE

Largo Attendance From Oregon and
Washin9ton Districts.
The annual conference of the Free Methodist
church for the states OF Washington and Oregon
convened yesterday afternoon at the Norwegian.
Danish church. corner OF Fourth and Pine
streets. The following ministers are in attend.
ance:
Rev. G. W. Coleman. president: Rev. J. Cripps,
pastor in charge; Rev. J. NJ. Scott, chairman
Portland district: Rev. J. c. Scott. Dayton. Or. /;
Rev c. Z. McReynolds, Tacoma: Rev. W. Bar
Rev. W. C. Mower, Arlington, Wash: Rev. l. F.
Ward, Snohomish: Rev. ]. q. Tunison. WhilOit
Or; Rev. j. La Due, Tyler, WASH: Rev. h f.
smsllsy, salem, Or: Rev, A: P: Goode, Spring.
Rev John Glen. Dayton, Or: Rev: J. H. Brown,
Falls City, Or; Rev. P. Griggs, Newburg. Or:
Rev. +. W. Achilles, Buckley, Or: Rev. F. w.
Cathy. Portland; Rev. A. West, Blaine; Rev. N
E. HUFF, Mount Vernon.
The lay delegates present are:
Peter Huddle, Buckley, Or; Jacob Burrows.
Seattle; o. Allison. Dayton. Or: L. Hanson.
snohomish; J. B. smith, Blaine: A. Zingren.
Portland: Mrs. E. Wilder, Whatcom; -
Jerome. Gardner. Or: Thomas Rose. Fremont;
william kimbrough, Mount Vernon; -
Tucker. Tacoma
Rev. G. W. Coleman, one of the general super.
intendents Of the church in the United States,
Is presiding over the conference. having come
from his home in Wisconsin for that purpose.
Yesterdays proceedings consisted OF organiza.
ton. the appointment of committees and the
election of J. F. Ward. of Snohomish, as secre.
tary and F. W. Cathy, of Portland, assistant
secretary. In the evening q special service was
held, at which Rev. John La Due, of Tyler,
preached.
Today's session couvenes at $50 a. m. The
conference will probably extend over tomorrow.
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THE SINGLE TRUST.
A Meeting of Manufacturers
Called for Next Tuesday.
THE DEALERS ARE BARRED OUT.


There II some prospect that Q genuine cedar
shingle trust may be formed as the result OF the
present anomalous condition OF the industry in
this state and Of the prevailing market prices
for the product few days ago some OF the
leading shingle manufacturers in whatcom
and skagit counties held Q conference at New
Whatcom, and the opinion tha: the mAnnfac-
turers should get together and try to remedy
the present condition of the trade was 50 preva.
lent that J. r. Mckinley. OF New Whatcom, was
sent down to this city to talk the matter over
with the manufacturers here
conference of the leading manufacturers OF
Seattle and Ballard was held Yesterday and 1t
was decided to call . meeting OF shingle manu-
facturers exclusively for next Tuesday, to be
held at the Merchants and Manufacturer Ex-
change in this city. The suspension OF the
price lists at the last meeting Of the Single
Dealers and Manufacturers, Association
has had the result Of making the in.
terests of the dealers and the manufac.
turers quite opposite. The former naturally
want to buy the product a. cheaply ~ possible,
and many OF them thought they were only an
ticipating the result OF the suspension of the
association prices by flooding the country with
quotations ridiculousy low. More conserva.
tive firms, and especially the strong manu-
facturers. declined to make any great cut in
prices, aud the result has been that the dealers
who offered to sell shingles at 81 IS have been
Hooded with orders. The manufacturers, now.
ever. realizing that the car famine would soon
cause the Eastern yards to bid up for the
product. refused to sell to the dealers at the
prices the latter quoted to Eastern buyers, and
the result has been that the middlemen have
been forced to do business at heavy loss or to
reject orders. Several have done the latter. one
firm throwing back a. many a. sixty cars in
single day. The effect has been to stifien prices
very materially. Other dealers, however, are
sndeavoring to get shingles at such price ~
will enable them to fill their orders without
loss.
The manufacturers, realizing that the situa-
ton 10 . ridiculous one, have determined that
II price is to be fixed upon the product they
are the ones who should make the price and
not the dealers, and hence the meeting has
been called for just week prior to the regular
meeting of the Dealers and Manufacturers As
socistion at Tacoma ON the 10th. Several of the
manufacturers favor the formation of an asso-
citation whose members shall be bound together
by heavy forfeit, and If the small mills can
not put up this forfeit in cash they can do 90
In shingles. II this can be done there 10 some
chance of regular trust being formed. with
selling agents of Its own in all the principal
markets. who will keep an eye on all the out
sideEs and undersell them nptil they quit the
business o, join the association. This sort OF
cutting would be done without dropping the
prices generally.
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MARINE NEW :.

1AroosH. May 5.--5 p, might rain; fresh
south wind. Passed i'll Br sh B.uk bum in tow
OF Holyoke AT = m; tug Tyee at n m.
Passed out-Ius Mogu! at a IN str san Ben.
ito at noon; ship III tow of Iyee at = D. IN
NEAH BAY, May SIS y. m.-Cloudy: light
southwest wind SIR MaDzan Ia In BAY
tLALLAs BAY, May "a D. m.-Cloudy.
light southwest wind
fYsAr, May 40 p. m.-Cioudy; light ives,
wind.
toEr CRESCENT. May S-5 .. m.-Cloudy:
NgAt southwest wind
ioRr ANGELES. May as p m.-Cloudy:
fresh northwest wini
PORT GAsB. r, May a-Iowed out Yesterday
cchr Meteor, Capt No.neT. bound Tor san Pedro.
Cal.
PORT TOWNSEND, May 3-ESpecial. Ito sail
tomorrow-sa Nacausett, Nanaimo for san
Pedro: sch Aide, Port Gamble, anu bA Lakemba,
Port b.ake.ey, for West Coast
San FRANCISCO, May S-Cleared--Str Oregon.
for Fort and. hA MeroIna, for kariuk Departed
ga Commodore, for Saaaimo.
SOUTHAMPTON, May S.--ArIived-Traye. from
New Iorx.
NV loRK. May S-Ar-ived-Hayel. from
Bremen. SPARTAN, from Rotterdam
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STEAMSHIPS COME Ann an.
One to Alaska and Others to and From
San ErancisCO

The steamship City OF Topeka sailed yester.
day morning for Alaska with forty tons of
freight from Seattle. AT Port Townsend she re.
ceved large consignment OF Alaska freight
transhpped from the Umati!la. The City of
Topeka carried the following passengers from
this city:
-. A. J. Levy. 6. W. Burston, f. E. Daggett. C. II,
Hamilton. w. ii. Keller, {. L. butcher, H. ",
uarright, Mrs.. y. c. Small, ana eighteen steerage
The steamship Walia walla sailed yesterday
afternoon for san Francisco with Ito tons OF
coal, 100 tons of merchandise and the following
passengers from this city:
George Nomle,t, A. Levy, J. A. Bigeow, Mrs
Ellen Desmond, L. K. Scanning anu wife, f. F.
Morley, W. i. iolchurt. I. II. kesten Mrs "
J. Quinn, Mrs. r. 4. Sumner ANA child NJ A
tliiot, Mrs. +. A. CFucker, ". L. smith, H. W.
James, and forty steerage passengers.
Steamship Umatiila arrived al 80 O'Clock last
evening frota san Francisco VITA i3i tons of
produce and merchandise and the following
passengers Tor Seattle:
Mrs. O. j. Hevener, ". c. Travis and wife
Mrs. A. Shepard aud iwo children, Mrs Austin
and child Mrs. Miliken and son, Mis-. sho.lard
A. foweii. A. 4. Bum aud wife, t. ; Brown II
". WicAieln, +. ID. Parson. Mrs Goodau ana
daughter, George Layton, John McQuig D. r.
Donovan, /. LarSen, Mrs NJ. schue der, h. Ii.
Christanson. ana twenty-nln steerage
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES

lsssc Pusey Grsy. al :Hd AZ. the new minis.
Ter 10 Mexico, WAS giyea a ba.elaet in the civ
OF Mexico on May l.
The esty eouaeil Of T. chnoet Va, has appro-
prla'el sioe 70 deirsy the e, e;;ses OF the rein.
ietmeni Of Jefferson Davis rcaizns on Nav q
william FurXtugion. OF Cs;GaSS. has suet
Millionaire john Fierce. q; s>acr CITY. n tor
alleged breach Of co@.racs =. csue.lltps a,
order for the erection If e $4,000 building in
Chicago.
Thomas z Proctor, Mark iIevit. jaime, uor-
ton, George W. Vail Eai More ~. schulz. arr rha
directors o. The sole al tel, losther TINS. or.
gsnixec under The h e. of lew Jersav Ard
Proctor Is OK -offic!o pF%Adsut e., the comnanx
which has capital stock OTIS - 4)o, co. Of which
half is preferred and / aI cosp la2a stock. The
soiApsns las o,assea '.s i.slhitee OF sooco,oo
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-04
A Telephone Line to south Rand.

TACOMA. May ESPECIAL THE sunset Tele-
phone Company has decided to build line to
South Bend, and in few days General Manager
Sands, OF this city. will inspect the various
routes and report upon the mos: feasible one to
be used. In the meantime an exchange will b
put in an South Bend. Mr. Sands says:
That IL a pretty hard country to get into but
am OF the opinion that il can be best reached
via CosmOpolis. We already have a line to
Aoquiam and could tap the line ut Cosmopolis.
man is now out in the employ OF the COM
pany cruising for a line north from Everett to
Bellingham bay, but there is no definite plan
for this extension. The new line from Spokane
has reached the John Day district on the Co
lumbis river and will be at Portland and
through to this city by August. Mr. Sands says
there will be no difficulty in conversing over
the telephone between this city and Seattle
with spokane and way points when the new
line ia complete.