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Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
FEEDING VALUE OF ROOTS.
The Addition of Roots to Ordinary Fodder
Is Attended With Profitable Results.

The Addition of Roots to Ordinary Fodder
Is Attended With Profitable Results.
The great majority of farmers in the
northwest have yet to learn of the real
value OF roots as a factor in winter feed
ing. Many farmers have been deferred
from using roots because they do not
possess convenient and proper barns for
storing and feeding them. Others have
been misled by assuming that materi-
al made up SO largely of water, and con-
sequently so small a proportion of dry
matter. was all expensive food to han
die, and the results obtained did not
Justify the expense incurred in growing
and handling the crop. Any one convers-
ant with English agriculture knows
how important a place roots hold in the
estimation of English farmers Roots
form a very large proportion of the food
fed to all classes of live stock, and the
excellence of their animals is good in
dication of their skill in feeding. 1t is
true that our Indian corn crop in this
| country to large extent fills the place
of roots in England, but a great many
| feeders in this country have recognize
tl tlic VI ItJJtS Us Il llSt'l llI
adjunct in the winter feeding of stock.
/ L. Il. Mumford of the Michigan Agri-
cultural college writes to Prairie Farm
er that roots may be grown and placed
in the root cellar for from to cents
per bushel. The above figures are sub
mitted after several years experience,
and he believes any one who will be-
| tbnrnIlJi !, il i.,,,,i with ln hos
and most economical methods of pro-
duction can easily duplicate these esti-
mates.
Several experiments at the Michigan
station have clearly indicated that an
addition OF roots to our ordinary fod-
dcrs has invariably been attended with
satisfactory results. In bulletino4, Mich
igan Agricultural college, are recorded
the results of feeding roots to tattening
lambs. In this experiment one lot of
! lambs received a constant grain ration
of oats and bran mixed in the proportion
of two pounds of oats to one of bran
and were fed at the rate of one pound
per day and head. In addition to this
grain ration, they We're supplied with
all the clover, hay and sugar beets they
would eat. The lambs We're fed for 2
weeks and gained at the rate Of three
pounds per head a week during the ell.
tire period The average weekly con.
sumption of food was rs follows: Roots,
80 pounds; grain, I pounds, and hay
pounds. The animals We're at all times
in the best of health, and gained steadi
ly from the first. This experiment indi
Gates that by Il liberal use of sugar beets
lambs can be fattened without the use
of ii heavy grain ration.
Other experiments, under different
conditions, have seemed to point to the
conclusion that the dry matter i'll root:
was of moro value for feeding purposes
than the dry matter i'll our common
grains. These and other feeding trials
with roots make it apparent that every
farmer ought to grow some roots al
least, and by SO doing add "a cheap ant
efiiciont food to his present limited va
liety of materials.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
News and Notes.

Italian bees are now conceded to be
the best bees for this country.
The area Of the new wheat crop is re-
duced at many points, III few enlars-
ed, with some probable reduction in the
average.
A large proportion Of the cider con-
sumcd in England is of American man
ufacture.
The average apple crop Of 1894 is tho
poorest in quality of any year for the
last seven.
A bomt, on foxes is desired in many
sections OF rho country
The painting Of house and whitewaSh-
ing or painting OF outbuilNings, fences
and gates should be looNud to and re-
ncwed as often as needed for appear
ance's sake as we'll as for the sake Of
preserving the wood.
The western farmer IS beginning to
find out that successive corn and wheat
crops are 100 exhaustive Of the soil.
When he sows more clover, he will find,
after q few years, that his soil will bet
ter retain moisture, and this will sup
ply his crop in the destructive droughts
which now prevail.
The supply of evaporated apples has
been much larger this fall than usual,
but an active demand has kept the
market well cleared
Californii. growers will next try ship
ping fruit in tight cars filled with car
bonic acid gas, which, it is claimed,
will preserve the fruit without damage
to its flavor. 1t is expected to prove
cheaper than cold storage.
The returns relative to the feeding of
wheat to stock are not sufficient to JUS
tify report at this date.
At the Cincinnati garbage furnace
works, ashes are sold ut IS per tom for
fertilizer
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
GOT TWO YEARS.

George Rice Pleads Guilty to a Charge
of Burglary Yesterday.
George Rice. who pleaded not guilty
to the charge of burglarizing the house
of Hattie Shaw and stealing a seaskin
mut}. several trinkets and $50 in cash
when examined in the police court few
days ago, sent for the county attorney
Saturday and told him that he had
changed his mind and concluded to
plead guilty to the charge. The stolen
property had been found in his house on
the South side after Hattie Shaw had
pointed him out as the man whom she
suspected of the theft, and his cock and
bull story about his purchasing them
for 20 cents from strange pedar was
too thin to impose on any jury. He came
to this conclusion himself after few
days reflection in the city jail and frankly
owned his guilt. The county attorney
thereupon fled an information against
him yesterday and waving statutory
rights and asking for sentence at once
the court gave him TWO years in the
penitentary.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
CauIiiiOWpr In Winter,

How to put away caulitlower plants
that have not headed to keep for winter
until they form heads is a pcrpleXing
problem with some growers. Here is a
plan indorscd by Rural New Yorker:
Dig a pit of the required size feet
deep Commence at one end with the
plants set as closely as they can be plac-
ed and cover the roots with earth.
Cover with boards or sashcs to keep ont
the rain. If the plants show the bud in
the least, they will develop perfect
heads before spring, OF course the
frame will need to be lower on one
side than the other to carry off the rains.
and the boards should fit closely. In
case of severe cold, say where the tenn
peratllre falls below . degrees, some
mats OF straw should be thrown over
the cover They will keep and head up
through the winter Splcndidly if set III
the ground in II piece Of woods and COW
cred with leaves to the depth of six
inches Keep the leaves from blowing
away by some brush
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
Live Stock Points,

The universal verdict Oh the horse
shows of the season is most satisfactory.
1t is that such splendid gowns We're new
er before seen at horse shows.
1t is impossible now to buy a share
OF the stock of the National Horse Show
association. This is the one that displays
hackneys and high jumpers at Madison
Square Garden. The annual New York
horse show is one of the best paying en-
terprises in tho big city. Ten years ago
it was so poor that its stock was some
times offered in payment of debts it
had incurred. Its present tremendous
success is an index partly Of how the in
terest in improved horse breeding has
grown in America, partly of the increase
of wealth which enables fashionable So
ciety more and more to show off its
good clothes.
There are men and women who really
and truly have a magnetic power to
control horses. They themselves do not
know whence it comes, but a horse has
somehow instructive confidence in
them. These people are never cruel.
@1ois'S l'iloN lIItlil iiIou1Nt anu blNf
them. The gift comes by nature and
can never be wholly acquired by any
amount of effort. fnybody can learn to
manage horses fairly we'll and inteli
gently if he has sufficient pluck, but
your horse tanner is born. Perhaps one
secret of the power is the utter absence
of fear Of horse and the Inherent
lyI,,,r)nG,yc tI,,t
w. Gleason says that if you go up
to horse in a barnyard or field and
look straight into the horses eyes he
will follow you anywhere as you walk
backward, still keeping your eyes fixed
Oh those of the animal.
No ono who does not love animals
should ever undertake the care Of them.
The first pneumatic rubber tire was
made 40 years ago III England.
A man who has tried feeding crushed
wheat to hogs says they like it very
much at first, but after a time begin to
squeal for corn. Probably this stock
man fed the wheat in too heavy doses
in the beginning. Any change of food
should be made gradually to avoid a
surfoit. People and animals are alike
in this respect.
For driving horses and those that do
not work hard and constantly one
pound of linseod meal day is sufficient.
The wool sales of 1894 amount to
nearly 90, 600, 600 more pounds than
they did in 1898.
If You have not been in the habit of
feeding oilmral to your E0rs"s, try it On
them in small quantities ut iirst. 1t is
lax x,rive.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11

A Minnesota correspondent of Rural
New Orkcr writes that il is difficult in
the northwest to get men who can cut
corn mt all. Most farmhands here have
had no experience, and few can cut and
shock Il half acre per day He writes:
Farmers h,re need to grow more hood
crops, and would grow more corn but
for the bushear Of cutting and shocking,
and would welcome q machine which
would cut and bind corn we'll at ST. 25
per acre, if not too costly. The success
full corn harvester will not elevate, but
will cut, ga1her, bind and drop it in a
standing position. All schemes for ole-
waiting it are a waste of power. When a
machine is devised which will do this,
two rows can be cut and bound as we'll
as one by II two horse team, as the
power required is not great. There
seems to be no difficulty in cutting the
corn with a sliding knife such as is
used on the sled cutters. Most Of the
machines brought out to cut and bind
corn seem too complicated and costly
and are evidently an attempt to adapt
the plan Of grain harvesters to the corn
field, instead of being original inven-
tiOnS.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11

1t is to be noticed that sorghum seed
and broom corn seed are both of them
slightly richer in protein, or flesh form
ing material, than corn, and that they
have, OH the other hand, slightly less
of the carbohydrates and fat. This
would indicate that as a feed for grow
ing stock, concerning which inforlna-
tion is desired, they are at least equal
to corn, If not better But they fall con-
siderably below wheat, oats and barley
in their contents of nutrients. / should
say that sorghum and broom corn seed
can take the place Of corn in all feeding
operations on the farm, but the grains
beings mall and hard they should be
ground before they are fed, but when
compared with wheat, barley and oats
these latter grains take the lead, espe-
cially when fed to young growing stock
and poultry. Globe Democrat.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
WORK AT BELT.

The Mines viii Start Up Again Today
With Full Force.
Orders have been received by the rail
road to send seventy cars daily to Belt
hereafter, as the mines which were closed
down about ten days ago to afford an
opportunity to put in some new tipples
and complete other improvements will
start up again today with a full force,
and orders for more coal than ever be-
fore. The coke plant is also about COM
pleted and will probably be ready to
commence manufacturing coke about
the middle of this month on large
scale, thus increasing the demand for
coal and the payroll of the company.
The prospects for Belt are rosy in the
extreme.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
Land Decisions,

W. ID. Harlan, land attorney, Wash
ington, d. c., furnishes the following
digest of decisions by the land depart
ment during the past week
A preference right of entry cannot be
acquired through fraudulent and COL
luslve contest.
The purchaser of REIMBURSEMENT
does not secure preferred right to enter
the land covered thereby.
A relinquishment filed after the initia-
tion of contest does not inure to the
benefit of the contestant where it is
found that it was not FLED as the result
of the contest
stone quarry of common building
stone may not be entered as placer
claim. ASST SEC'Y SIMS.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
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HANDLING LIQUID MANURE.
How 1t L. Done ut the EIlerslie Stock
Farm-Anothcr Plan Recommended.

How 1t IL Done ut the EIlerslie Stock
Farm-Anothcr Plan Recommended.
The Importance of saving every drop
Of liquid manure is generally conceded,
but how to handle it with profit re-
mains question. Farmers who have
built tanks experience trouble because
the pumps clog with the thick sediment
Fl. M. Cottrel!, writing to Rural New
Yorker from the celebrated Elierslc
stock farm tells that he has had the
best experts in this line looking for "a
pump that will prove satisfactory for
more than two years, and they cannot
find one. Large steam pumps will do
the work, but they are too expensive.
He writes as follows: We absorb most
of the liquids What is not absorbed
passes through a thick bed of shavings
and then through brass screen before
it runs into the cistoru. We pump it
into the sprinkler with a common brass
lined pump. We use Il brass lined pump
because the other kinds soon rust and
then will not work. We use Stude-
baker sprinkler for distributing the
liquid manure. This is the only kind
we could find that would not clog.
l do not favor this method of han
ding manure, and the arrangement
have just spoken of is the only thing in
our Elldslie barn that is not satisfac,
tory. The pipes carrying the liquid
manure to tho cistern are always getting
cIogged, and it requires too much labor
to pump the manure out Of the cistern.
The plan l would recommend is this:
would make the cutters behind tho
cows with a very slight grade, not
over one inch in 100 feet run. 1 would
then keep the cutters we'll filled with q
good absorbent, shavings, sawdust,
chatf Or cut straw. Any of these viii
absorb nearly the whole of the urine anc
will retain it SO that the ammonia doe.
not escape and faint the air. Our cattle
are kept in the stable most Of the time
and we find it necessary TO remove this
material from the cutters once a week
For the small amount of urine that vii
not be absorbed in the cutters l would
continue the cutters to the outside O
the barn and have it empty into q shal
low tank. | would half fill this tanl
with absorbcnts, and as fast as they
became saturated haul them to the field
The gutter leading from the COWS t,
the outside tank should have hingot
cover so that ii may easily be cleane,
| and washed.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
Shipping Fruit In Gas.

An experiment is i'll process with ship
ping California fruit in carbonic acid
gas. An ordinary car is made airtight,
with zinc lining, When filled with
fruit, the gas is introduced. A condenser
filled with the liquctied gas will be
placed i'll the car to supply any possible
leakage. Growers who have made the
test assert that if fruit is surrounded
with this gas all decay and deterioration
arc arrested and the flavor of the fruit
not impaired Tho n'io"t Is to save the
expense OF r,'~i". II II cars.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
HURDLE JUMPER.

the mule has moro sense than the horse
when it comes to test of real intelli-
gence This is quite contrary to the
general impression.
The illustrations in Professor Shaler' S
paper are particularly fine and spirited
Here is one represented a jumper in the
act of vaulting over hurdle. A snap
shot must have captured horse and rider
At the most interesting moment.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
Bee Diseases.

A new bee disease has made its ap-
pearance i'll California and some Of the
other states. The brood dies in the cells
in all stages Of growth The black or
discOlored larvae of all sizes and the
dead pupD are found scattered, often
thicli1y, throughout the maturing brood.
Professor A. J. Cook, at q California
farmers inst titute, told that his UbScr-
vatlOns and experiments led him to
conclude that ScHEt stores, too moag5r
nourishment and consequently imperfect
nutrition caused the mortality. The OBJ
viOus suggestions are more care aid at
tention, more honey left i'll the hives at
the close of the season, and careful at
tention and if necessary feeding in year,
of honey dearth
Bee paralysis, also called namelcss
disease, is attracting attention. In this
disease the image, or immature bees,
are the ones that die. Tho dead or en-
feebled bees are carried by other bees
outside, and thus the ground i'll front
Of the hives has constantly mound Of
dead bees. Usually the colony does not
wholly succumb but it is so weakened
that it produces little or no honey Gen
orally the colony RECEIVERS after a time,
usually after the bees have replaced the
queen with a young one.
Professor Cook thinks this last dis
ease comes from some constitutional
weakness of the queen which shows
itself in debility of her progeny, tho
worker bees. He has known in several
cases the disease to soon disappear after
the queen was superseded, and in other
cases, where the bees replaced their
queen with young, healthy one, the
the disease soon vanished.
The best advice which can be given
in case the old bees die off too rapidly
is to see that the bees hnvo abundance of
food, and in case that fails to bring re-
lief try requeening of all affected colo
MES
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
A Horse Endemic.

A fatal disease has appeared among
some of the horses in the west Veteri-
nary Surgeon Gresswell diagnoses the
trouble as a sort of infectious influenza
which causes the limbs to swell, and the
animals become weak and soon die from
apparent exhaustion. The surgeon has
sent these directions to owners of aff1ict-
I'D animals: "The best course to pursue
is to lay off the affected animal when
he shows the slightest symptoms of dis.
aase, such as bad coat, stiffness or SWELL
ing and any difficulty in swallowing
water House him in we'll ventilated
sheltered barn where he can have abso-
ute rest. Keep him warm at night with
blanket and bandage the legs with
woolen cloths; feed warm bran mashes
ihree times daily with two double hand
mis- of oats III each mash Given corn,
IS barley or wheat In each mash give half
,unce powdered bicarbonate of potash,
ialf ounce bicarbonate of soda and
nnce powdered gentan root for the
irst three or four days, or until >he fe-
'er abates. Then give 2 drains, tea
III p0onful OF powdered sulphatc of iron
nd teaspoonfuls Of powdered gentian
vice a day until recovery is assured
fspinal Or brain symptoms are present,
we three timesdaily one-half ounce bro
nide of potash with tho other medicine,
md one-half ounce inter as q drench
vice day in one-uuarter pint of wa
on er If symptoms are exceptionally Sc
ere, add drops tincture aconite to the
8 Iter twice daily. Hand rub tho legs
M possibly use hot lamentations to
ne spine one hour at a time, always
noroughly drying tho skin afterward.
Althese medicines are inexpensive and
useful for influenza and distemper
enerally."
pr ordinary breeders there is still
nsmost money in high class, thorough
Hoken carriage horses. At a sale in
IN teW York lately gentleman paid $500
y an l1viiana bred carriage horse, bro
", ento drive single or double But he
- very beautiful, thoroughly sound
Hiplai, SO gentle that a child could
, q. fiSe him anywhere
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11

has not lived with him since. She states
that the property at Monarch is worth
about $500 and that he earns So per day
and wants attorneys fees and such other
provision as the court may see fit to
grant under the circumstances of the
case.
Great Falls weekly tribune., 1895-01-11
GREAT FALLS WEATHER,
Record Of the Month of December 1T the
Weather Office.

Weather Office.
Tie following record of the weather
for the month of December is taken
from the monthly report of United
States Observer C.. L. Herzog at this
station:
Mean temperature, 3l.1.
Maximum temperature. 81, on the
9TH inst.
Total precipitation. "A inches.
Greatest precipitation in any twenty
four hours, "a inches on the 13d inst.
Snowfall! daring the month. 4,6 inches.
Clear days. {; partly cloudy, II;
cloudy, II
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-14
SCRANTON'S GALA DAY.

From the Carbondale Anthracite.
Scranton fairly bubbled, seethed and
sizzled with joy last night. Every man
wore n plug hat and smile and every
maid beamed her beamingest!, One did moi
have to inquire for the cause of the ex-
uberance. 1t was thrust upon you, flaunt-
ed in flamboyant glee in your very face
Scranton's representatives upon the base
ball diamond had actually won game
and her silver-tongued representatives in
the world of music had won fame and
81, 900 In harmonious warfare with her an
cient enemy, Wilkes-Barre. Why should
there not be Joy and juleps? To achieve
one such victory means a jag of jubilation
that would freight that burg for many
moons and two means n paroxysm that
threatens paresis.
Seriously, they are achievements OF
which our sister city may well be proud
The musical victory. of course, means
most to Scranton. 1t means education, re.
finement and a revival of interest in things
harmonic. We congratulate the victors
upon their well-earned laurels.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-14

kept under lock and key after all is
probably not worth the trouble Is costs.
May 1t not be even so with the bi-
cycle? We have the pleasure of an
acquaintance with number Of es-
timable women in this city and else
where who can return from a moderate
spin on their wheels refreshed both
in body and in mind, and in every way
better fitted to assume the duties of
their positions as the queens of we'll
ordered homes. 1t would take large
showing of statistics to convince us
that the moral safety OF these women
would be greater than 1t is, If they would
abjure this pleasurable mode of exer-
else, in favor Of idle dalliance
in ill-ventllated parlors or aimless
promenading through the stores and
on the streets. No doubt bad wo-
men ride wheels. They also travel in
street and steam cars; but we have not
heard these conveyances denounced as
aids to immortality.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-14
Relating to Libel.

The International league Of press
clubs, in session at Philadelphia, unan-
imously resolved to urge the different
state legislative bodies to enact the fol-
lowing law:
That before any suit shall be brought for
the publication of libel in any newspaper
In this state the aggrieved party shall at
least three days before filing or serving the
complaint In such suit serve notice on the
publisher or publishers of said newspaper
at their principal office of publication,
specifying the statements in the said ar
ticle which he or they allege to be false
and defamatory. If it shall appear on the
trial of said action that the said article
was published in good faith, that its
falsity was due to the mistake or misap-
prehension of the facts and that full and
fair retraction of any statement therein
alleged to be erroneous was published in
the next regular issue of such newspaper
or in case of daily papers, within three
days after such mistake or misappre-
hension was brought to the knowledge of
such publisher or publishers, in as con-
spicuous place and type in such newspa-
per as was the article complained of as IL
shall recover only actual damages. Pro-
vided, however, that the provisions of this
act shall not apply to tho case Of any libel
against any candidate for a public office In
this state, unless the retraction of the
charge is made editorially in conspicu-
Gus manner at least three days before tho
election, in case such libellous article was
published in n daily paper. If published in
a weekly paper at least ten days before the
election.
This Is the law recently proposed for
enactment at Harrisburg. We do not
know what became of it there As
near as we can ascertain, 1t went to
sleep in committee. But It Is just
and an equitable proposition, which
the press Of the country ought to in
sist upon being enacted as law in every
state