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Mohave County miner., 1894-01-27

The fiimsy paper called tissue paper
was originally made to place between
tissue cloth of gold or silver to prevent
its fraying or furnishing when folded.
Mohave County miner., 1894-01-27

The Los Angeles Times remarks
"Arizona has for many years Seen re.
garded AS the leading representative oi
the wild and woolly west, and eastern
writers have generally located their
stories OF lawlessness and daring in that
territory. II Mr.. Evans and his pal con-
Time 10 work AS intustriousiy as they
have done in the past Arizona will have
TO yield The palm to Fresno county as
the trne home Of the border rufiian, as
well as the raisin grape and jackrabbit." I"
Mohave County miner., 1894-01-27

An exchange tells of an adventist who
prophesied that the end of the world
wouli come at certain date, put on his
ascension robes, climbed to the top of a
straw stack and waited for the crack oi
doom. He got tired Of waiting, and for
getting himself, fell as,eep. Some boys
discovered the man and touched match
to the straw and woke him. Gazing
around on the flames, he exclaimed, "In
hell, just as expected"
Mohave County miner., 1894-01-27

Fifteen hundred saloons have closed in
New York within the past six months.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
CHIPS AND sHAvINos.

Stepladders are now made SO that
when not in use they may be folded
up and kept in small box.
Many dealers in pickles have tried
to make Of horseradish proprietary
article by resorting to the trick OF
peculiar bottles and special labels.
One New York dealer has printed
label bearing q rude efagy of a horse
and the inscription ''pure horserady."
Near Rio Bravo, Kern county, Cal. /,
. patch of ground with SO much
alkali that man would sink to his
shoe tops while walking on it, was ir-
rigatel and sowu with corn and grain.
The rankest growth followed, and
after three years OF irrigation and
cropping there is no trace OF the
alkaii except on the tops of the
checks, while just over the line, on
unimproved land, the ground is as
white as bank OF beautiful snow.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Search Light. for Canals.

A very handy little portable plant is
being used on vessels navigating the
Manchester ship canal at night. The
apparatus is practically a duplicate of
that employed for lighting vessels
through the Suez canal during the
last twelve months. 1t comprises a
small engine and dynamo combined, a
search light protector Of the admiralty
pattern, and mast arc lamp and re-
hector. The protector barrel is twenty
inches in diameter, rolled out of steel
sheet, all the Inountings being Of gun
metal finished bright. The mirror is
twenty inches in diameter, ten.inch To-
Gus, with a bayonet socket attachment
to the barrel, SO as to facilitate re-
mOvnl for cleaning, etc. The electrical
connections are carried inside the pro-
jector, and an instrument similar to n
camera is provided at one side Of the
protector for viewing the arc image
thrown on ground glass.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Tn. wretchcd Man objected.

The following story is going the
rounds about Senator Joe Blackburn,
originally told by Vice President
Stevenson at dinner: In Kentucky
town where Joe was going to speak
there was,a hanging set for the same
afternoon. Joe's arrival was heralded
abroad, and a large crowd was on
hand to hear the words OF wisdom
and of eloquence which always flow
from Kentuckian's lips. Finally the
speaker arrived. Tho hanging was
q side show, and for the moment was
forgotten in the anxiety to hear the
famous orator. But it was not for
gotten, long. The condemned man
suddenly interposed: '.Mr. Hang.
man, he said, .'if remember right
was sentenced to be hung. not to
hear Joe Blackburn speak Irequest
that you go on with the hanging. -
Washington Times.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
A Crime for the Hangman.

A REPORT from st. Paul says: State
Dairy Commissioner Anderson has Or
dered all the filed cheeses seized in the
commission Of the city shipped back
to Chicago. and instructed the commits.
sion men to produce the certificates
from the railroad companies that they
had been shipped. The commission
men are glad to do this rather than
have the cheeses destroyed, throwing
all the loss upon them. These filled
cheeses have an outer crust of the real
article ana the interior is filed with
lard and cottonseed oil. 1t looks well
for q short time, but in couple OF
weeks it turns green and is filed with
bacteria. Review.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Don't speak English.

1t is hard to be called upon tO sec the
point of joke without being given sr,f
ficient time to see 1t in. A gentleman
with a serious face said at recent
small gathering of people:
What are we coming to! Statistics
show that in Massachusetts there are
thirty thousand persons. all natives of
the United States. who cannot speak
the English languagc"'
Impossible" every one exclaimed
at is true. nevertheless" persisted
.he ai"ve-faced man.
And native Americans, YOU .ay:"
.C"t'linly-and all under two years
" age.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS.

Blood poisoning, it is said, from
lead pencil prick resulted in the death
of George S. Crofut of Norwalk, Conn.
In 1761 Glasgow paper announced
the marriage Of David Lincoln to
Catherine Crow, his fifth wife, and
continued: HE is II. His first wife
was Dutch woman, whose name he
hLs forgotten. The rest were Scotch. "
William Bruce, q Scotch railway
employe, while repairing bridge at
Ellon station, near Glasgow, noticed
as goods train was approaching that
an iron bar was lying across the
rails. He made a dash for it, but the
engine was upon him and he was in
simultaneously killed.
william Manning, q fellow from the
South of Florida, got arrested in Jack
sonville and was so indignant over it
that he began kicking the walls of
his cell Then they took his shoes
away from him, but he continued t.
kick till his feet were SO sore that ht
had to be taken to n hospital.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28

LIABILITY OF CREAMERY SrocKuoID.
ERs.-A case of some general interest
has recently been before two courts in
Indiana, and the circumstances are
that when q local creamery was built
quite number Of business ioen in
huntington subscribed money To the
enterprise, as they alleged, only for the
purpose of helping the matter along,
each one giving $50 or 800. After the
creamery association faiie an eiFort
was made to make them liza bt. pro "a ia
to the amount each IA d. Iic IcfeB-
dants crntenlcd that they were not
stoclthc.t.er, in the .clsc thas .iiev
would be thus iia-bie. i,.'iry Oh ,'se
Trial of tic ca-r in Circuit 'rrrt found
against ,hum aD-i ia l-o bailey ,us-
tainet. the verdict, Itcy appealed,
the Appellate ecHr, reversing IT,
case,-Ey.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
CrOps In Ontario.

The yearly average of the crops for
Ontario for twelve years ending 1898
are given in the United States depart
ment of agriculture report for Decem-
ber. The average per acre was for
wheat 1872, for oats BAG, for barley
25.7, for rye 16.1, for peas 1872, for
beans III, for potatoes 115 bushels.
for carrots 351, for turnips All bushels
respectively. The hay crop averaged
for hay and clover combined ITO tons
per acre. These crops excel those OF
Uncle Samuel and bid him look out
for his laurels. 1t is easy to see how
it is that Canadian hay is sold on our
markets. Can we not equal their
crops?
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
A FLORIDA PINEAPPLE FIELD-FRoM FARMERS REVIEW.

the dairy pays fn' growing the wheat,
but the owner of tine farm believes that
the wheat is the better money crop?
The butter comes in Ia small sums, but
the wheat money il a lump; the lump
makes the man feel big, but the small
sums keep him out of debt
Wheat is good crop to grow on q
dairy farm; it Is a good crop to seed
to grass with, it supplies bedding to
the cows, and if the price OF wheat is
low the COWS will eat it and turn it
into butter, which will make the wheat
net a good price.
Wheat in the COW is all right, but a
COW in the wheat is all wrong: this is
the time of the year 10 put the fences
in good order.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Is yellow J..m,a. Hone, Poisonous:

10 yellow Jasmine Honey Poisonous!
Mrs. C. L. Rice of Ramsey, La,
writes to American Bee Journal Is
follows: have seen the several arti-
cles in the Bee Journal and Gleanings,
about the poisonous yellow jasmine
honey of the south, and thought
would give our experience with it In
1883 we cut out comb from our hives,
which was filed with pollen Tor bee
bread, with few cells of honey In
terspersed. Five of our children ate
freely of this "bee- bread" as 1t is
called by old bee-keepers. In short
while they became SO weak that they
could not stand. and complained OF
blindness. In alarm we sent for
physician, who pronounced it an over
dose of yellow jasmine We were be-
ginners in those days, and had only
one story to our hives, and squeezed
the honey. Now we use two and three
stories, and extract, and SO we never
get the pollen and honey mixed. At
the time our children were poisoned,
other members of the family ate OF
the honey alone, and were not in the
least affe cted. We now use extracted
honey without fear of the result.
Is it not possible that all cases OF
honey poisoning could be traced to the
pollen? know many old bee-keepers
advise eating the "bce-bread" with the
'bee-honey," consequently some are
made sick, especially by honey taken
from the tree at the famous bee-tree
cutting picnics. The yellow jasmine
grows plentifully around US, yet we
never have had any sickness, as the
result of eating extracted honey. The
flowers open in the very early spring,
before the orange, and 1 should think
the honey would be used in rearing
brood. DIR. Brown says, in Gleanings,
that it kills the bees; but why does 1t
not kill all? rather think the disease
mentioned in Gleanings, is bee-paral-
ysis, for it is not the whole apiary that
becomes affected-only few colonies.
wherein will be found q quantity OF
sealed honey from last years harvest.
With due respect to the experience OF
others. i submit the foregoing. hoping
to see the subject sifted to the utmost
limit
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Dairy Wisdom.
National Stockman says:

National Stockman says:
1t won't pay to let the cows fall OF
in their yield for want of grim feed;
the corn meal and cottonseed meal
may be reduced somewhat, but bran,
middlings and linseed meal must be
fed as usual
Cows going to pasture in good con-
dition are all ready to increase their
milk, but if they are in poor order
they must use lot of spring pasture
to make flesh.
The rule should be never allow the
cows to go hungry.
The full fed COW is the paying one.
1t pays to seed field especially for
pasture if it can be spared from the
rotation; a mixture Of grassesis better
than the old stand-bys, timothy and
red clover.
In seeding for pasture don't sow
grain with the grass to protect it;
you might as well put a lot OF big
pigs with the little ones to protect
them.
There is nothing equal to top dress
ing of fine manure to give grass SEED
. start, cI5 the more manure the
sooner the grass will be ready for
grazing and the better the feed.
Give the yong grass rich soil and
it won't need protection from the sun.
Sometimes o loss is made by turning
out the cows too soon; the way to tell
is not to judge altogether by the size
of the field, but by the forwardness OF
the grass and the kind Of weather we
are having.
If q pound of butter sells for only
go cents wholesale, and bushel Of
wheat only sells for IS cents, which
pays the better to produce?
A good COW will make enough
pounds of butter to count up against
many acres of wheat; and the butter
crop is the surer of the two.
The butter does not take any OF the
farms fertility when it is sold, but the
wheat does
We have to feed the wheat as well
as the COWS, but the latter convert q
good per cent of their feed into wheat
feed.
! Is it not fact that on some farms
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
worn Out In Harness. i.

In the harness Of every day business work men
and women wear out premalurely. For come 2f
to get out Of harness. 1t is the infcxible yoke the
strongly forged unbreakable shackle Of impera.
tive servitude needful to ourselves and these most
dear to u.s. The weight Of 1t often bows many OF
us into the grave before our time, but 1t Is un-
doubedly true that there is means Of rendering
ailments that unrcnitting tol-especially OF a
sedentary kind-has a tendency to produce. Over
worked clerks in counting houses mill operatives.
the reviving, restorative effects of Hostetter's
Stomach Btters and its power Of renewing ply ST.
cal and mental energy when overtasked and on
the wane. Dyspepsia, falling vigor, rheumatic,
bowel and kidney, complaints yield TO this bene-
and counieracts the effects OF exposure in inclcm-
ent weather.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28

FILLED CHEEsE.-Cne of the promi-
neut cheese dealers in Minneapolis had
heard good deal of the low prices at
ing offered in town about four hum
dred miles east OF here, and ever eager
to be in line, and handle the best goods
at the lowest prices. ordered a trial
box, which was duly received, and
billed at 8 cents per pound. Now, this
commission man happened to know
something about cheese himself, and
he felt there was a Senegambian in
the wood pile somewhere. He had an
examination made by an expert, and
it proved to be the very poorest
of composition, filed rind that
ever masqueraded under title of
cheese. Every known test was used.
and as far as could be found out oleo-
margarine was purity itself beside the
conglomeration of fats sent to the
commission man. He intended to turn
it over to the state dairy board, but
changed his mind and shipped it back
to the original house, demanding his
freight that he had paid for getting 1t
here. He received his answer yester-
day, and in words more forcible than
elegant was told that he was u chump
il he expected full cream cheese at o
cents a pound, and that they did not
care to do business with any man
that wasn't sharp enough to sell
cheese at IA cents per pound that he
could buy for 0, when the public knew
no minneapolis Daily Pro
duce Bulletin.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
The farm.
Immense Loss of Butter.

An Iowa bulletin says: In studying
| the question of how to make the dairy
most profitable, two problems are pre-
sented for solution. The first OF these
problems is, how to produce the great
est amount of butter fat ut the least
cost; the second, how to save all the
fat produced and market it in the
form OF high-priced product Both OF
these problems are being studied, not
only on thousands Of dairy farms, but
at many experiment stations.
During the past nine months
we have been devoting especial
attention to q study of the loss of fat in
the buttermilk in churning, with the
hope of ascertaining the causes OF the
loss, whether it can be avoided. and II
SO the conditions necessary to secure
the best results This report gives the
results of the work we have done so
far in this line. If the value OF the
butter fat annually lost in the butter
milk IN the creameries and dairies OF
the state of Iowa alone could be ac-
curately ascertained the figures would
reach such astounding proportions as
to be almost incredible to those who
have not investigated the matter. Dur
ing the past summer we have tested q
great many samples of buttermilk
from creameries and private dairies
In only one sample did we find the
amount of fat rs low rs two-teuths of
per cent. while in a number of cases
we found the fat in the butter
milk to be above per cent, and one
sample tested as high as 7 2-1O per
cent. The loss on the farm and in
private dairies is much higher than in
the creameries, but we have found as
high as 2h per cent of fat in butter
milk from creamcries; but this we be-
lieve to be exceptional. 1t is quite
common, however, to find as much as
one-half of l per cent OF fat in the
buttermilk from creameries; and il
the amount of fat lost was carefully
determined by daily tests it would be
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28

found that the creamery that
is not suffering loss of sew
eral dollars a day from this cause
some creameries. where large guam
titles of cream are handled. the value
of the fat lost in the buttermilk would
pay for several extra men and then
leave very comfortable profit. We
have before us the report of one days
work in creamery in this state. The
amount of milk received was 10,492
pounds. In running this milk through
the separator a total of 4.3 pounds of
fat were lost in the skim milk, but in
churning the cream the next day
twenty-nine pounds of fat were lost in
the buttermilk. Considering this fat
worth 90 cents per pound, which
was about its value at that time, the
loss in the buttermilk for one day
would be $3.50. Some creameries re-
ceive many times the amount Of milk
or cream mentioned above, and in
them the loss, at the same rate, would
reach figures that would render the
owners most decidedly uncomfortable.
From the Investigations we have made
we venture the assertion that some of
the larger creameries lose from SIS to
$50 daily during the season of greatest
milk flow, from suffering fat to pass
off in the skim milk and buttermilk.
We know that these figures are start
ling, but we believe that careful inves-
tigation would show them to be close
to the truth. The important question
Is, can this loss be avoided? From our
study of the question during the past
nine months we are inclined to believe
tha. If it can not be avoided it can be
greatly reduced. During January
and February, 1893, Mr.. T. A. Leigh
ton made study of the conditions neces-
sary to the most thorough churning.
He found that the temperature of the
cream at the time of churning, the
amount of cream in the churn and the
condition of the cream as regards ripe
ness, seemed to be the controlling fac
tors in thorough churning, and on sew
eral different occasions he succeeded in
churning with practically no loss ~
fat in the buttermilk. The main diff
Guilty seemed to be in securing the
same conditions each day. 1t was, OF
cousre, an easy matter to secure the
same temperature each day, and to
place the same amount of cream in the
churn; but the difficulty lay in deter
mining when the cream was in
proper condition as regards ripeness =
Farmers Review.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Wheat Should Rise.

BRITISH authorities take very dis
couraging views Of the prospects for
wheat growing in the United King
dom. The great obstacle to success
is the competition of foreign produc-
ers. The British product supplies less
than one-fourth the home consump.
ton. while the United States and Cam
ada supply fully one-half; the remain
der coming from India, Hungary,
Russia, and in small part from Aus
tralusia, Argentine and Chill. Large
Increase in the imports from the Cam
adian Northwest and Argentina are
looked for in the nea uture.-Farm
yrs Review.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28

SowING FLAX.-The seed of this
crop is sown at the same time as oats
that is, as nearly in the spring as
the soil is in good condition and the
danger Of frosts is past. March or
April is the usual time of sowing. The
land should be plowed in the fall and
left rough until spring, when culti-
vator, or harrow, is used to level and
mellow the surface. It is best to SOW
the seed by drill in rows about eight
inches apart, so that the crop may be
hoed or weeded in some way. This
has a special Importance foz the
yield of the crop. If the seed only
is desired, one bushel to the
acre is sown, us the thin seeding
encourages the branching of the
stems and the larger production of
grain. II for the fiber, two brushes
are sown, the thicker growth making
less branchy and longer and straightcr
stems. The fiber is also liner in quality
If the crop is grown for the fiber, the
plants are pulled up by the roots when
the bottom Of the stems aopcnr OF II
yellowish color. After this period the
seed is formed at the expense Of the
fiber. which becomes coarser and
woody. If grown for the seed, the
plant is left to ripen completely. when
the stems are quite yellow and hard
The best land for this crop is grass
sod on rich, fine loan.-IsS.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
To Put Harness. on Potomac Falls.

1t is doubtful whether in q few
years hence any of the great water
powers in this country will be longer
running to waste. The next to be
harnessed in the service of man will
be the falls of the Potomac, com
pany having been Incorporated in
Virginia for the purpose OF construct
ing works to utilize this most valu'
able force. Many years ago COM
pany was organized for this same
purpose, in which the late Benjamin
F. Butler was very much interested,
but, Notwithstanding the oximity
OF the falls to the city of Washington,
nothing was accomplished because Of
tho lack OF II practicable method OF
transmitting or distributing the
power. The progress Of electrical
science has made available all OF these
waste forces of nature. re.-Philadelphia
Record
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
The telegraph Not an Unmixed
Blessing.


Blessing.
Now that we are about to celebrate
the jubilee Of the telegraph and note
all its benefits, 1t may be well not to
overlook some of its drawbacks. Bis
marck said that 1t prevented diplomacy
from being ''unctuous," and now the
British authorities in India say that
1t prevents religious animosities from
dying out. In other words, the greater
frequency of the conflicts between Hin
docs and Mohammcdans is soberly said
to be due to the fact that when such Il
racial riot takes place in one part of
India, the news is wired all over the
empire, and serves TO incite trouble
elsewhere. But II the telegraph fer
ments disturbance, 1t is none the less
n good servant in conveying intelligence
to headquarters, and In this anabln:;
the prompt suppression Of riots that
might otherwise assume the magnitude
of another horrible mutiny.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
A Notable Electric Plant for Harbor
Work.

WORK.
The harbor works at BilbOa, an iron
shipping port on the north of Spain,
have been under very successful con-
struction by means Of electric power,
aud the engineers In charge report very
favorably upon what has been accom-
plished. Electricity is used for working
all the plant required in making and
handling the concrete blocks, and tho
cost of maintenance has been practical
ly mill. Meanwhile, the government Of
Holland has invited plans and tenders
for the construction and delivery of
motive power for the new sea locks
Mt Ymuiden, the port of Amsterdam.
No fewer than four electric estimates
or bids were put in. The plant to be
operated comprises twelve lock gates,
twenty-four slrlice valves for bypasses
and twelve capstans. The operation
Of locks by electric motors is already
practiced In various places, and there
are n great many electric capstans in
use In France.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Two Commercial Roform. Needed

There secm to be two great reforms inper-
atively called for In the realm Of the world IS
commerce. First an agreement whereby five
dollars, the pound sterling. twenty-five francs,
and twenty marks, be made OF equal value,
and these coins, by whatever name called, be
adopted by all nations: second, tho free coin
age Of both gold and silver throughout the
world into these coins aud their decimal parts.
whereby all moneys, wherever coined, will
circulate throughout the world, and be Of
eounl DurchasInr power-Forunl,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
The Ladies'.

The pleasant effect and perfect safety with
which ladies may use the California liquid
laxative, Syrup of Figs, under all conditions,
makes 1t their favorite remedy. To get the
Of tho California Fig Syrup Co., printed near
the bottom of the package
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28

DENVER BEST LAUNDRY SOAP.
Unexcelled In quality. A BEAUTIFUL PIC
TURE free upon receipt of 25 wrappers.
GEYsERITE soar Co., Denver.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
Too Expennlye.

Then you conscnti" exclaimed the young
man joyously.
.'Yes,'' said her father. 'It palms mo TO
give her up, but really can't afford to keep
her any longer.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28

THERE are lots of people who mix thcie
religion with busin sss. but forge. to stir 1t
up well As a result the business trvsria,
bly rises to the top.