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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
GOOD Breeding stock Pays

In Australasia and America we
have to record fairly fabulous prices
for high class breeding animals.
While the low prices of wool and
pork have been discouraging to the
average woolgrower and swine feed
or, the breeders Of sheep and swine
have not lost faith in the value of
we'll bred animals from families of
proved excellence. Late public and
private sales of Poland -Chinas and
Berkshires show that animals of the
right sort are eagerly sought for by
intelligent and enterprising breed
ers. They are alive to the fact that
in periods of depression comes the
golden time for selection that LAYS
Il 0 foundation for the best breed
ing. They have read Alright the
history of the stock business, which
teaches that when the scrub" grow
ers and feeders lose heart the breed
ers of the best take courage and
push farther to the front. They
have faith in the best and believe it
to be the cheapest at any price.
High prices for well bred breed
ing stock do not seem to be limited
to the sales or stock we have men
toned. Bulls and rams of high ex-
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
Butter and Cream as Medicine.

One of the favorite remedies of
physicians is cod-liver oil, and why
is one of the mysteries of the world
of medicine, when all there is about
it is, an oil or fatty substance is
wanted that is easily digested and
quite as easily assimilated, fish oil
being appropriated with a small
outlay of digestive power. Why
cod-liver oil, product of the de-
composition of fish refuse, should
ever have been CHANGED upon, when
butter and cream are natures sup
ply, and at once the most readily
obtainable, is unexplainable. While
any one can take cream or butter,
the consuming of fish oil requires
the fortitude of saint and the
heroism of martyr; and as we
know, the oil does not agree with
many, and is hard of digestion in
others. Now, it has heen demon
strated that fresh, unsalted butter
is rather more digestible than oil,
and is pleasant to take, on thinly-
cut slices of bread, and as high as
four ounces day of this butter can
be eaten with impunity by even
delicate persons and cream can be
taken to the full desire of the pa
tient. Where one is recovering from
prostrating sickness and the body
needs nourishunent this fresh butter,
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
Meat Market.

Following are the rates for whole
carcasses from slaughterers to deal
ers in the San Francisco market:
BEEF-First quality, 5@54c. R
ID; second quality, 4@43c.; third
quality, 34@4c. 70 tb.
PoRK-Live hogs, large, 34@34c.
70 b., and 33@35c. % 10. for small.
Dressed pork, 44@4ac. ~ fb.
MUTToN-Wethers, 5@54c. % ID;
ewes, 43@5c. $ ID.
LAMB-5@6c. $ ID.
VEAL-Large, 44@5c.; small, 5
@7c. S fb.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
FOR THE FARMER.


While there is no great manuTlaI
value in stalks, dead grass, weeds
or other trash of this kind, yet in
all land, especially that which has
been cropped for number of years,
the mechanical effect is such that
the blowing of them under is al
ways beneficial. If the plan of
gathering up and burning all the
trash instead Of blowing it under is
followed the land will soon get hard,
will pack easily after a rain, will
require more work to get it into con-
dition to receive seed and be more
difficult to cultivate.
One of the principal reasons for
blowing in the Fall or early Winter
is that the trash can be plowed un-
der and will be more fully out of
the way when it is time to prepare
the land for seeding. About the
only objection to turning any con-
siderable quantity of trash under
is that with corn, potatoes and such
other crops as require cultivation if
the blowing is delayed until just
previous to planting the trash will
not have time to rot and will inter-
fere with the work of cultivating.
But this objection can be largely
avoided by blowing in the Fall or
early Winter.
Better results will be secured if
the land is left just as it is plowed.
In this condition it will let in the
air, the rain and the snow, and this
will help to rot whatever is plowed
under.
One of the benefits secured by
blowing under green crops is the
humus that is added to the soil. If
the fertility is to be kept up, every
thing that will add to the fertility
must be used. It requires the best
of management, when variety of
crops is grown and fed out to stock
on the farm, to make and save
enough fertilizer to keep up the land.
Still greater care is necessary when
it is desired to build up land that
has been run down by continuous
growing. In fact, not only must
all that is grown be fed and the
manure be put back on the land
but it will be necessary to grow
green crops, like clover, buckw heat,
rye, and pillow them under at every
opportunity.
Farm profits at best are not large
and all reasonable care must be ia
ken to increase the yield as much
as possible in order to reduce the
cost One of the essentials in doing
this is rich soil, and if the soil is
made or kept rich, everything on
the farm that will be of benefit and
that can be spared, should be added
to it. Plow under the stalks, weeds
and everything of this kind left on
the land and secure all of the bene-
fit possible.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
cellence have been taken at large
prices for shipment to South Amer
lea. breeders Gazette.
Concerning Geese.

CUTFeSpO1u0ub T0qu6StS SOuIC
information concerning geese. What
the turkey is in America, that is
the goose in all Scandinavia, Ger
many and Ireland. 1t is the Christ
mas fowl. Perhaps when it is
stated here that roast goose ac-
cording to the orthodoxy of the
countries named, when prepared
for roasting is stuffed with prunes
or apple or onions and bread, it
will cause a smile or some faces,
the same as it does on the face of
the German when told that Yam
kee is fond of pork and molasses.
You ask a German if he has ever
eaten it, and he will answer: Seer
tainly not" Well, now, this is all
in training, or bringing up. | know
from experience that roast goose
stuffed with prunes or apples is not
bad to take, and SO | say griddle
cakes with strip and pork sausage
when served on my plate for break
fast never go begging.
The time of feather beds has
been overtaken by the hair and
spring mattress, and on beds, ex-
cept for pillows, feathers are not to
be endured. And yet, when the
thermometer marks zero or below
it is not uncomfortable to rest in a
feather bed.
Our correspondent asks many
questions on the use of quilts from
the goose at the present day, the
value of geese, breeds, etc. There
was a time even in St. Louis when
such questions were answered in
the general market reports, but that
time is past, also perhaps never to
return.
In fancy poultry yard the Bre-
men and the Embden geese are the
most highly priced. think both
sexes are alike as to color of feath-
ers, if white may be called color.
AS a rule, they have but one brood.
They mate, it is said, on the last
day of February. Possibly if the
first litter of eggs is taken away the
lady goose may try another litter,
but | am not sure. But when she
wants to sit no Asiatic "biddy" is
more persistent than she. There is
story--I do not vouch for it's
truth-that a certain goose in her
stress adopted a grindstone for her
nest.
No farmer likes to have geese in
his pasture or meadow, because
they poison the grass, viz: make it
entirely unpalatable for the horses,
cows or sheep. Embden or Bremen
geese bring high prices, but the or
binary kind can be had at reason
able price from the foreigners who
raise them in St. Louis and vicinity.
st. Louis Republic.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
Tickled Nearly to Death

You will be by taking bath in
Shaw's Hot Springs, near Carson.
When you drive over from here
take the branch road at Empire.
Charlie Slingerland is the genial
boniface at the resort, and he will
treat you just right. Go and wash
your sins away.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19

it is now asserted, has no equal in
building up the wasted tissues of
the body, and as stimulant, very
hot, fresh milk is without a rival,
outside Of the use of alcohol, which
last is better left alone when posi-
BILE. Growing children may be
greatly benefited by indulging in
generous amounts Of butter, though
it may seem expensive, but it may
prove the cheapest in the end.
Either of these remedies can be
taken without DOCTORS prescrip-
ton, and is outside of the kill or
cure" warrant. Practical Farmer.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
Among the Poultry.


Keep the quarters dry.
A hen with frozen comb will
not lay
Have troughs in which to feed
all soft feed.
Do not feed musty grain to the
laying hens.
After hen passes her third year
she declines in value.
Boiled milk is one of the best
remedies for diarrhoea.
Most cases of gapes come from
feeding in filthy places.
The early Matched chicken is gen.
orally the most profitable.
Hens that moulted late will rare
ly begin laying before Spring.
A warm feed for breakfast goes
long way in inducing hens to lay
now.
There is no profit in marketing
poorly fattened and poorly dressed
poultry of any kind.
Eggs from fully matured fowls
will not only hatch better but will
produce stronger chickens.
If any considerable number of
geese are kept it will pay to provide
a special pasture for them.
If ducks are kept be sure to ar
range so that they can be kept away
from the well and the kitchen door.
On the average farm it is usually
best to have only one breed of
chickens, and give them the run of
the farm.
A fowl that is properly housed
and cared for never gets the roup
unless it is in contact with fowls
that have it.
Poultry pay best when kept in
small fiocks about the farm, get
ting their living from what would
otherwise go to waste.
The cause of chickens dying in
the shell may be due to too much
moisture, too high temperature, too
low temperature or lack of vigor.
Fowls of any kind should not be
confined any more than is absolute
ly necessary unless they are being
fattened for market. To keep
healthy, fowls need exercise.
When first Matched the chicks of
all breeds make about the same
growth, but in few weeks the
larger breeds begin to distance the
smaller ones in growth.
While the laying hens require
grain, they also require something
else. They should not be overfed
with one thing and stinted of others.
There must be variety to secure the
best results.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19
This Is Your Opportunity.

TMAB - AUUA VPPVAVWHAIys
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
o generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great merits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren ST., New York City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, 1T is posi-
tive cure for catarrh if used rs directed. -
Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1896-12-19

FOB WORK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Elk.
y ecuted with neatness and dispatch atithe
IIMEs,office. at prices to suit the times. Send
for estimates. 'e~
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

proves either his ignorance of the ques-
ton or his knowledge of the correct
ness of the silver side.
AT the Peoples party headquarters l
am informed that there are good hopes
of yet affecting fusion in nearly all, if
not all, OF the states, and it is to be
hoped that this Will be done. In ILL.,
nois it Is an accomplished fact. and be-
fore the end of this month should be so
in every other state. Without fusion
there is probability of the defeat of
the people. All of the national COM
mittees are eager for fusion and should
it not occur in any one state it will be
the fault of the people of that state and
not OF the national leaders.
This may seem more of homlly than
news letter, but there is comparative
ly little news in Washington at present
and what occurs throughout the coun-
try at large the country newspapers are
able to learn from their daily exchanges
before my letter reaches them.
Advices from New York state are
good, and from various sources l learn
that there is strong probability of
overcoming the republican majority in
the rural districts. If this be done,
then New York state will be counted
for Bryan. All my letters are sent to
Western and Southern newspapers, and
[ ask all friends of reform in those Sec
tions of the country to harmonic as
much as possible, to work energetically
and if they need any campaign litera.
ture to address the Peoples Party Ma
tional Committee, Wormley Hotel,
Washington, d. G..
BRABSTER WEST.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

lie republicans of the county have
started report to the effect that w. b.
Rackley is man better qualified for
the office ofcounty superintendent than
+. NJ. Shell. This is false and if it be-
comes necessary We Will offer the rec
ords to prove what we say in connec.
ton with the matter. If it is possible
we will avoid everything during this
campaign to embarrass Mr.. Rackley
but If he allows his friends to misrepre.
sent him he cannot take exception to
our publishing what appears on record
In the superintendent office. Mr..
Rackley and most of his political ad-
vlsers know what we refer to and it
would be better for them to state ALL
the facts when they speak about a
first grade certificate" We say again
that Mr.. Rackley's educational quaIifi
cations are not above those of Mr.. Shell
and, lacking the two years experience
which Mr. Shell has, it is self evident
that the republican candidate is not as
well qualified to fill that important of
flee as is the present incumbent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07


w. S.. BALLARD has never
held an Office in the court
house, neither as a deputy
nor otherwise. He became a
member of the Peoples party
because he believed the prin.
ciples of the party to be right
and not because he thought
there was an Office in it for
him. He didn't play Popu-
list part of the time and re-
publican part of the time to
get employment from the diff
ferent county officers. He
did not seek the nomination
for the Office for which he is
now a candidate but the NOM
ination sought him. With
these facts under considera-
ton, Mr.. Ballard deserves
your support.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

Friday, September Is, was the day
set for the great Ellis Martin debate at
the Elm Mills grove. Mr.. Ellis being
called away on business. Hon. Chas. Ell.
Apt OF this city kindly consented to fill
the vacancy. The question was: RE
solved, That the United States shall
adhere to the present existing gold
standard until the commercial nations
of the world by international agreement
establishes the ratio for coming silver. -
Hon. G. nj. Martin, of Medicine Lodge,
affirmed and Hon. G. III. Apt, of Pratt,
handled tie negative side of the propo-
sition, affirming that the United States
should coin silver and gold at the pres
ent ratio of l6 to without waiting for
| the consent of any other nation. Mr..
Martin devoted his time largely to the
foolish ridiculing Of the Seven Finan-
| cial Conspiracies and Coins Financial
School, and made many assertions
which he did not nor could not prove,
while MIR. Apt at every point, in his
earnest, logical discussion, produced
the records which furnished abundant
proof, clear and decisive for every as
sertion he made. and those who heard
and are competent to give unbiased
Judgment claim that hs (Apt) simply
'threshed the very earth" with his op.
Donent. III. F. Williamson, p. Smith,
Judge Simpson, G. M. Kridler and G
Ralston. of this city, attended the de-
bate. Chas. A. Apt Is one of the mos,
brilliant young orators in the south
west and is making fine record.-l'rat,
/ Union
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

neither he nor anyone else referred to
it again, nor did anyone contend that
the answer was not good one and one
that could not be contradicted. In this
way Mr.. Simpson answered all OF the
numerous questions. We cannot no.
tice many of them, but one that we
cannot pass was why do you demand
the ratio of Is to II" Simpson answer
ed that it was the universal ratio, with
only a slight variation, for 400 years
and that the present public and private
Indebtedness was contracted when the
ratio was 16 to l and it was only justice
that coinage should he resumed at that
ratio, thus giving the debtor an equal
chance with the creditor. Everybody
was we'll satisfied that this question
like the preceding ones. was well an
swered, and Long and his fellows did
not refer to it again. When Jerry
closed he was cheered yociferously and
oyer halt of the audience left.
Long tried to answer but accomplish
ed nothing, The republicans tried to
equal the reception and repeated ap.
plause given Simpson but their mum
bers were too small. His answers were
weak and could have been blown into
atoms by the average school boy and he
realized this fact as well as the audi
ence.
The republicans who came determln-
ed that Long would come out victori.
Gus were sorely disappointed and d
great many were provoked while others
were what we usually call mad. The
Populists and free silver men vera in
the best of spirits and felt that the
cause was strengthened. Simpson had
the audience, AS was demonstrated
| when he asked all those who would vote
for the gold standard to raise then
hands, after which he asked for those
who would vote for free silver to raise
theirs. The result was fully 2 to l il
favor of silver. Then Simpson had thu
argument and the wit which had the
tendency TO confuse Chester l., though
he did not faint this time.
If the demonstration at Harper is &
criterion, Simpsons majority in No
vember will exceed the expectation O.
his most enthusiastic friends.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

SINCE it has become fash
ionable to PROFOUND ques-
tions in a political campaign,
we last week submitted a list
to Oscar Haberlein, the re-
publican candidate for repre-.
sentative, but as yet they
have not been answered. By
his silence Haberlien admits
that he is going to ignore all
interests except those of Os-
car Haberlein. But the peo-
pie of Barber county will get
even with him by electing
him to stay at home.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

ABOUT the silliest story that ever was
started in political campaign is the
one lately brought out to the effect that
r. L. Patton, the Peoples party candi-
date for representative. is opposed to
public schools. The fellow who started
1t, OF course, is common street cor;,e1
liar, besotted bum, and hardly de
serves notice. We only mention it that
Mr.. Patton and his friends may know
what kind of rot is being used against
him. We can expect that our enemies
Will use anything but the truth during
this campaign.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

THE democrats of this di-
vision and department have
met and nominated Judge
Denllison, the Populist can
didate, for judge of the ap-
pellate court. In this nomi-
nation our democratic friends
have honore1 an honest, COM
petent judge and a worthy
man. His election is one of
the most certain results of the
campaign.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

If the people Of Kansas re-
turn that besotted dema-
gogue, Dick Blue,to congress,
after having experienced him
for two years, then decency
will indeed have no place in
the political domain of the
state. Contrasted with Hon.
j. D. Botkin, the Populist
candidate for Congressman
at-large, Blue is nothing but
an inflated gas bag. Botkin
is honest, sober and intelli.
gent. He ought to be elected
unanimously.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

If Oscar Haberlein betray.
ed his brethren when a mem.
Der of the Farmers Alliance,
is he a safe man to trust with
the responsible position of a
legislator? Beware of the
man whose whole effort has
been for political honors and
advancement.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07
SHERIFF,S SALE.

State of Kansas. Barber County. IS:
K. a. Dowell VS.. W. J. Dow
pY virtue of an execution issued ont
u OF the district court sitting i'm and for the
county of ktowa, state of Kansas in the
above entitled action, and to me directed, I
will on
Saturday the 18th day of October. 1896,
at o'clock in the afternoon of said day at
Mingona. In said county, offer for sale AT pub
lie auction and sell with appraiscment 10 the
highest and best bidder for cash in nand TO
satlsty said execution. all the right, title and
interest whatsoever of The above named de-
Tenant IN the following described personal
property, to-wit: The undivided interest of Is
mead OF cows and heifers, bull and ii calves
not exempt by law, TO be divided according TO
a certain written contract between Joseph r.
McCarty and w. J. Dow. The said W. J. Dow n
one hundred dollars
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT saidcounty, this 9Th day
OF Oct., 1876 y. MILLS.
Sheriff
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

WHEN republican speaker wants to
make point he always refers to the
amount of silver coinage under The
Bland Allison and Sherman laws. IF
those laws were the proper thing WHY
did the republican party repeal them?
The question is what law do we have
now providing for silver coinage. We
are not providing for the past. it is the
present and the future In which we are
interested. Why don't our republican
friends tell US why the Bland Allison
and Sherman acts were passed after the
demoHetlzation of silver in 1873. and
why they were both repealed later.
was John Sherman right when he said
that they were passed because the eff
rect or demonstration was felt through
out the whole country and the people
clamorlng for the restoration of silver
mad TO be given compromise measure
10 quiet them. and that they were only
make-shifls to prevent free coipapep
was ne rlgft when he said that the
work OF banishing silver as part of orr
primary money had to be done gradual.
ly and the way to do it was to coin a
limited amount for stated length of
time after which to suspend COINAGE
altogether? Yes, Sherman was RIGHT
and history proves that his plan was
adopted. Five years after demonetiza-
ton the Bland-Allison act which pro-
vlded for the purchase and coinage of y
certain amount of silver. was passed
That law was in force several years and
IL is 4 fact worthy of notice that the
smallest possible amount of silver was
coined under its provisions. Then
came the repeal of the Bland Allison
act and the substitution of The Sherman
law which provided for still less silver
coinage and this law was repealed in
1888. Thus it will be seen that absolute
destruction of silver was what Sherman
and the republican party were striving
for and what they finally achieved.
And now the republican politician
would excuse the infamous work nv
laudlng the compromise measures and
gloryIng over their effect. Nobody will
be fooled, however, as the people see
through the whole game and the renuh-
lIcan party will be held responsible for
the degradation of silver.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-07

The election of Hon. John
w. Leedy for governor of
Kansas is a sure thing. He
will be a governor of whom
the state can well be proud.
His executive ability, his
honesty and his determine.
ton will make of him a mod.
ell governor.