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Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05

Receipts ..... ........ ....................3S3 S33
Shipments ......... ........ ................ 24O
DIlNe-OulS ..;. ........ .-.....--......... 5,OS4
A quick and firm market was again had
yesterday. There was quite a drop in the
receipts, and the markets east of us were
strong to a little higher. hence buyers were
encouraged to take without hesitancy
Killers and feeder buyers both wanted sup
plies, and the pens were cleared without
trouble.
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05

New York, June 4-The following table,
compiled by Bradstreet's. shows the total
clearances at the principal cities and the
percentage of increase or decrease, as COM
pared with the corresponding week last
wear:
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05

contract, none. Spring wheat, Is cars; con-
tract, cars. Corn, S57 cars; contract GIG
cars. Oats, 421 cars: contract, II cars.
Estimated for to-day-Wheat. 10 cars;
corn; S35 cars; oats, 400 cars; hogs 17.OO0.
WHEAT-Cash-NO. 2 red. 75I7Sc; No. 8
red. 6SG72c; No. hard, 67d67l5c; No. hard,
63d65c.
CoRN-Cash-No. mixed. 23Ga28%c; No.
white, 24Isd25c.
oATs-Cash--No. mixed, 1S15d1SAc: No.
white. 2O1hG21c.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
Silver.

New York, June 4.-Bar silver. soc per
ounce; Mexican dollars, 474c.
London, June 4.-Bar silver, q 9-I6d per
ounce,
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
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t. f. GILLESPIE,
&C w. j. F. GILLESPIE
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Kansas CITY stock Yards.

Liberal advances made to parties feeding
stock Buying feeding cattle on orders a
speciality. Correspondence solicited Tele-
phone No. 1873.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
French Cabinet Trouble.

London, June A special dispatch from
Paris says rumors are current at the
French capital of serious dissension in the
is probable.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
Geo.R.Barse. Pres. J.H.waite, Sec. &Treas.
BARSE yHF56ckC C8EBaS{ C88EHBBIS{IoH I

Rooms 159-l60 Live Stock Exchange bldg
Capital Stock, $3.50. 600. Paid Up
Buying Stockers and Feeders given special
attention.
Reasonable Advances to Feeders. Tel. 1919.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
Imperial Council

Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine will hold their
annual meeting at Detroit, Mich, June 40
next. $500 for the round trip, via the Chi
cago Great Western Railway. For partic-
ulars apply to G. NJ. Jordan, agent, West
Ninth street
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
LOCAL GRAIN MARKET.
whent Selling More Freely-Corn SLOW
Sale and LOwer-ORts
Weak.

In store-wheat. 155.S57 bushels; corn.
I55.7Il bushels; oats, 1922 bushels. and
rye. ass bushels.
WHEAT-Receipts past "a hours. 1850
Same time last year ...... .............. 5000
shipments .-.-.- 80. -...--...-.-. a,bJ0
The fresh arrivals yesterday dropped
very low and there was more life to the
market than for some days. but while buy
ers were disposed TO take hold more freely
prices showed little change, though they
were generally firm. BY sample on track
here at Kansas City; No. hard. ! car
at &C l car at CSC; No. spring 67G70c
car fancy at 70c; No. hard. l car at &c
] car choice at &c; No. spring. nominal
at 60d65c; No. 4 hard. 2 cars at SOC. 1 car
at 53c; rejected, S5a42c. 4 cars at 42c; No.
2 red, 79NS0c, 1 car choice at soc; No. 3
red. 74G1c. 1 car poor at 74c; No. red,
65H6Sc.
CORN-Receipts past % hours..... 80. 100
Same time last year .................... 81. 500
shipments .s..-....--.....s....-. -. 700
There was more in yesterday and the
speculative market was bearish. Trade in
consequence was slow and prices lower all
round, white being especially weak. BY
sample on track here at Kansas City: No.
. mixed. l car early at 201sc, cars at
2oikc, later ! car at 20l4c. l car yellow at
20ifc: September. 5000 bushels at 2li1c: No
3 mixed. 1 car at 1SI5c, car yellow with
special billing at 19stc No. mixed, cars
~ He; no grade I car at 14lzc, car at
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05

There was very little doing in this class
of stock yesterday. Nice smooth horses for
the city trade and the best Southern mares
and geldlngs were in fair request but all
else dull. Little doing In mules. We quote:
HORSES Draft hnrsns rnnd
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
"st. Louis Limited.-
Arrives
200 a. m.

Leaves Arrives
S:45 p. m. via 200 a. m.
CHICAGO & ALTON r. r.
The finest compartment sleeping cars
and chair cars ever run out OF Kansas
City The whole train IS q ''bute.p
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
June 9th and 9Th.

sl2.5O-CHICAGO AND RETURN-S2.5o
via
CHICAGO & ALTON RAILROAD.
Good to return June 30th, 1897.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
Yesterdays Chicago Market.
High. Open. Low. Close. TThur

Furnished by the French Bros. Commits
sion Company, room p, Board of Trade
building:
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
Government Rond.

As reported yesterday by Houston, Fibls
& Co., over their private New York wire:
nY1a Int Uls5
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.

HORSES AND MULES-Movements the
past "A hours:
Stock Grand Ave
Yards. Stables.
RecelptS b4 -
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05

Only $3.50 Kansas City to Chicago and
return via Santa Fe route to-day. Two
fast trains.
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05
LOCAL PRODUCE MARKET.

Quotations below are for job lots. On
small lots higher prices are asked and OBJ
tanned enough being asked to cover extra
cost of caring for and filling them
Kansas City journal., 1897-06-05

Ir store-Wheat. 155. .S57 bushels; corn.
I5S.7II bushels; oats, 166,127 bushels. and
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03

that she needs assistance, which she
often does, especially if she is young
COW. We do not remove the calf imme-
diately after birth, as some people do,
but leave it to suck two or three times
at least. If its mother is an old COW
we let it suck five or six times, taking
great care that the youngster does not
get too much milk and therefore get the
scours. We then put the calf in a pen
in the barn where the mother can see
1t and not worry over it, and teach il
TO drink its mothers milk as soon as
drawn for week or ten days; then be-
gin feeding skinned milk with about
a tablespoonful of ground flaxseed
sealded by pouring a little boiling
water over it and letting it stand a few
minutes before mixing it with the milk.
After about three or four weeks the
ration is composed entirely of skinned
milk and ground tlaXseed.
Being placed in the pen with the older
calves it soon learns to eat clover hay
and grain composed of equal parts of
shelled corn, oats and wheat bran,
which are fed literally. We feed the
ground tiaXseed in preference to oil
meal because it contains more fat and
is the best substitute for the cream
taken from the milk that we have ever
tried. After the calf gets to be about
ten or twelve weeks old we substitute
oil-meal for the faXseed, until the calf
is weaned from milk entirely at the
age of five or six months and then add
the oil-meal to the grain in a dry state.
calf needs its grain ration twice a day
for year at least before it is turned
out to grass alone. BY following this
plan we have never failed to raise calves
that would weigh from 500 to HOO
pounds at one year old.
From this time on they need the at
tention of some one to see that they are
bred at the right time. Fifteen to
eighteen months is our rule, so as to
have them drop their first calf soon
after they are two years old. Having
most of our heifers come in fresh IN the
spring they are put in the barn the fall
before and handled during the winter
and fed little grain TO keep them in
good condition and the udders devel-
oped as much as possible by hand rub
bing This, we think, is an excellent
plan, because the COW is invariably
gentle after this kind of treatment and
1t is no trouble to break her.-Dakota
Field and Farm.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03

mass of stones and dirt and almost
impossible for man or BEAST" also,
that outside of Wilmington there is
scarcely a stretch of one mile of road
that is as it should be. Gullies and ruts
and holes and stones are the features
of our roads, and riding is a burden
instead of a pleasure. Even the turn
pixies are only in a fair condition"
Appeals to the Legislature to provide
for system of road-making have been
in vain. The state division, however,
is now about to take up the matter and
renew the agitation, and will present
a bill to the Legislature this winter
The hearty cooperation of every mem
Der of the division is important. In
emergencies of this kind large member
ship is a great assistance. The division
has grown considerably during the year
and ought to continue to increase.
Numbers, which mean votes, are very
effective arguments with our legisla-
tors.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03

and year by year grows more attenuated
In us branches and weaker in leaf
growth and power, we watch it as we
watch friend attacked by slow. but
incurable malady. But remedies are
now being discovered for almost every
i'll of the body. and successful tree
surgery is or may be as common as the
higher form of that science. A recent
number of Garden and Forest discusses
the reJuvenescence of old trees. and
gives practical directions for effecting
it. Directly to the point are two illus.
trations of the same tree. a venerable
oak in the Arnold Arboretum. The first
is of tree with far-reaching branches
but marked by infallible signs of de-
crepitude, the LEAKAGE scanty and the
general prospect of life discouraging.
The second illustration shows the
same tree ~ years later, shorter of limb.
it is true, but displaying vigor in every
leaf and fiber, and exhibiting every
characteristic of youth and strength
and hopeful promise of longevity. No
miracle, not even one of natures. has
been performed. The result is simly
one OF skillful tree surgery, of intelli-
gent pruning according to the De Car
system, which, instead of sending the
tree blood long distances through col
lapsed and withered arteries. contracts
the area and applies the nourisbinp
forces in such a way that they can be
assimilated and made to promote the
growth Of all the members.
The process is one which almost anv
intelligent farmer or tree owner should
be able to apply. "Vigor can be re-
stored to tree in this condition by
shortening all its branches by one-third
or one-half their entire length. The
only care needed in this operation is to
cut back each main branch to a healthy
lateral branch, which will serve to at
tract and elaborate by means of its
leaves a sufficient flow of sap to insure
the growth of the branch" These di-
rections must be carefully observed to
prevent further decay and care must
also be taken to leave the lowest limbs
the longest. so that the greatest possible
leaf surface shall be exposed to the
light. So if some old tree, near roadside
or dwelling, that has been the landmark
OF century. shows alarming symptoms,
the owner should not despair before he
has treated it according to the gem
cral plan here laid down.-Boston Tran
script.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
SELE.IMPOSED LAKES.
Good Roads Tax, Once Paid, Would
Remove Them All.

A Good Roads Tax, Once Paid, Would
Remove Them All.
The Hill tax is produced by running
roads in straight lines over hills and
mountains with grades of 10 to Is feet
in 100, instead of following valleys,
skirting hills and making gradual wind
ing ascents, keeping as close as possible
to four per cent. grade.
The Square Corner tax is common on
the prairies and in level districts. 1t
consists in travelling, for instance, seven
miles north, and then seven miles east
to reach a point that is but ten miles
northeast in a straight line. In such
a case 40 per cent. Of the actual dis
lance is added. The average distance
added in this way between any two
points throughout the country is 20
per cent.
The Mud tax is due TO having soft
roads insufficiently drained, and gen.
orally "repaired"' by having the sod,
stones and earth from the cutters
thrown on them once year when road
taxes are being worked out.
The Fence tax arises from the time,
material and expense of erecting and
maintaining unnecessary fences.
The Snowdrift tax follows on the
heels of the fence tax, fences serving as
Instructions to cause the formation of
drifts.
The Waste Land tax comes from the
less of good, unused land left on the
roadside outside the fences.
The Wagon Wheel tax is caused by
the use of vehicles having narrow tires,
with rear wheels following in the track
of the front pair, and thereby always
tending to cut up the road surface.
The Good Roads tax" is the profit
accruing to the farmers and all other
persons using the roads from the re-
moval of the above self-imposed taxes.
L. A. w. Bulletin.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
1t Is One of the Most Practical Potato
Duggcrs Yet Described.

II Is OHe Oh tne MOST BracticQI Potato
Buggcrs Yet Described.
When what is now known as the DO
tato beetle was first introduced, or
very probably introduced itself about
80 years ago, most people imagined
that it would stay a few years and
leave; but as it has been much more
numerous and destructive this season
than common, it has become recog-
nlzed as a permanent fixture when-
ever an attempt is made to grow pota-
toes. Many fields of potatoes have
been entirely ruined by it, or by an ex-
cessive dose of poison administered
by the owner in a desperate attempt to
Kill it or cut off the food supply.
This summer. after using several
tons of plaster and paris-green with
very little apparent effect, we com
menced using with good results the ar
semitic of lime from a formula by DR..
X. c. kedzie, of the Michigan agricul-
tural college, but used it stronger than
he commends, and much stronger than
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
DEVICE FOR SPRAYING VINES.

would be safe on peach trees. We also
made the machine shown in the cut,
which does good work We made q cart
to track ten feet wide las our rows are
three feet four inches apart, with
three rows between the wheels. which
comes in good form for working two
horses; we used front wagon wheels
and pair of old skeins found at
a wagon shop. On this, we made plat
form five feet long and six feet wide.
we'll bolted on. A common spray pump
and barrel were secured to this, and
two hose connected to the pump: each
hose is connected to two spray nozzles
by galvanized iron pipe three feet four
inches long, with stop-cock where the
hose joins the pipe. These were Sc
cured to light strip of wood so that
the MOBILES were three feet four inches
apart. BY spraying the three rows be-
tween the wheels and one outside. the
four rows are easily reached. This is
readily manipulated by the person sit
ting at the back end of the platform,
and much better on hilly land than if
fastened to the cart.
1t is important to secure good noz-
zles. Great care should be taken to
strain all material before it enters the
pump. We str6n everything into the
barrel, using a large funnel with a
common brass milk strainer inserted,
and also a strainer at the lower end
OF the pump. The following formula
Will not injure potato vines if fine
spray be used: Two pounds white ar
senic, four pounds salsoda and two gal
Ions rain water. Boil in an iron kettle
for Is minutes, or until the solution
becomes clear, being careful not to let
II boil over Put this solution in a
jug and label poison" When ready
to use take one pint of the solution in
the jug to 30 gallons of water. and add
two pounds of good quick lime which
has been previously slaked mot air
slakeO. If large amount is to be
used, Stake quantity of lime, using
gallon of water to two pounds of lime.
When wanted, stir well and use a gal
Ion for two pounds.-L. J. Post, in Ru-
raj New Yorker.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
Ashes Make n Good Mulch.

An exchange says that coal ashes
from both hard and soft coal have been
tried as mulch for gooseberries and
currnnts with excellent results. We
have used them around peach and pear
trees, and thought it considerable
benefit to the fruit and the tree, re-
tanning moisture as well as adding to
the fertility. But we selected the
ashes made in summer, when about as
much wood was burned as coal, the lat
ter being used during the times when
there was washing, ironing or baking
to be done, and only wood used for pre-
pairing the light meals of the day. Per-
haps that was better than the ashes
made in winter. when no wood was
used, as the fires did not go out for
weeks at time.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
IMPROVE THE ROADS.
1t Is High Time for the Farmers to
Act Theoretically.


Act EnerEeticalIy.
It's dust, dust, now; it will be mud,
mud, after winter sets in. 1t is of the
first importance to the farmers that the
common roads are in good condition. to
haul the produce to market and the
formation of good roads has proved so
successful that it is no longer an ex-
cuse for those beds of mire that the
earlier settlers had to contend with.
Gravel banks are to be found in near
ly every county and it requires no
skill to apply it. When the road is
put in good shape by the ordinary
road grader, the gravel can be put on
the road at any time, even midwinter.
Wehadan experiment of winter applica-
ton. One of the principal approaches to
the city was down long l,on the sides
OF the cut number of springs kept the
track always a bed of mire that rem
dered the track nearly impossible. At
last the city undertook to cover it with
gravel. This was done in midwinter
when the road was frozen hard and
some of the gravel was dumped in
frozen Jumps, yet that street is the best
in the city to-day. 1t is full time for
the farmers To act-Farmers Union .
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
APPLE TREE TROUBLES.
How to Fight the Pest known rs TIL
ElnfAHendeh Rnrer

hOW ~ ~ nj the rest hnOWn rs the
Flat-Headed BOrer.
A correspondent tells the Mort Invest
ern Agricultur1st that many are in
quiring as to the cause of their orchard
trees failing, by being girdled under
the bark and bored through the trunk,
and in small trees causing them to
break off at that point. This is done
bJ the fat-headed borer. The eggs are
laid by the beetle early in June. Are
Matched in a few days and the slug
commences operations at once by Dor
ing through the bark and then cutting
his way around the tree in the sap
wood till about time to change, when
he turns and strikes for the center and
makes his change to the beetle form
and the following June is ready for his
next annual job. It is said that the
trees whose sap has become partially
soured by sun-scald, or any other
cause, or their vigor checked in any
way, that the odor arising from the
changed condition of the sap attracts
the beetle, who is looking for just such
conditions as the suitable place to de-
post her eggs. Thus, newly planted
trees are especially susceptible to the
attacks of the beetle.
First Remedy-One quart of soft
soap ITO two gallons of water heated to
the boiling point when one pint of
crude carbolic acid is added, stirring
TIE solution well at the same time.
This should be applied early in June
and again some weeks later. with a
cloth or scrubbng brush, to the trunk
and base of large limbs being careful
not to sprinkle the foliage.
Remedy Second-Paint the trunk and
base of large branches with coal tar.
Apply with brush after warming it
little, not hot. 1t will not hurt the
tree, but is specially disagreeable to-
Mrs. Beetle from its odor. These two
recipes are to prevent egg laying. After
you find the borer has started his work
cut him out with knife or punch him
out with small wire. Every one you
destroy nips stock of eggs in the bud,
and II every one who has tree would
spend few minutes to each tree in
hunting up this pest, it would be very
soon exterminated. 1t is nothing be-
side the fire blight
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
SOUND OF THUNDER.
Distance at Which II May Be Heard
RnrnIr ErnnnLs Ter, NIiIns

Distance at Which II May Be Heard
Rarely Exceeds Ten Miles.
In connection with the proposal to
establish a number of government sta
tons for reporting the phenomena of
thunderstorms it is stated that while
lightning may be seen and its illumina-
ton of clouds and mist may be recog-
nized when it is even 200 miles distant,
thunder is rarely audible ten miles.
The thunder from very distant storms,
therefore, seldom reaches the ear.
Hence, if every thunderstorm has to be
recorded a large number of stations
will be needed; probably one for every
25 square miles would not be too many.
A few stations would suffice, at least
for the night time, for the reporting of
the direction and movement of every
case of distant lightning.
The reason of the great uncertainty
in the audibility of thunder is not hard
to understand. 1t depends not merely
on the initial intensity of the crash, but
quite as much on the surroundings of
the observer, even as in the quiet coun-
try one will observe feeble sounds that
escape the ear in a noisy city. Perhaps
the most curious and important condi-
ton of audibility is that the thunder
wave of sound shall not be refracted or
reflected by the layers of warm or cold
air between the observer and the light
ming or by the layers of wind, swift
above and slow below, so as to entirely
pass over or around the observer.
Sound in its wavelike progress OBJ
liquely through layers of air of differ
ent densities is subject to refraction,
and this refractioL may occur at any
time and place. Thus observers at the
topmast of ship frequently hear fog
whistles that are inaudible at sea level;
those on hilltops hear thunder that
cannot be heard in the valley; those in
front of an obstacle hear sounds in
audible to those behind it.
The rolling of thunder, like that of a
distant cannonade, may be largely due
to special reflections and refractions Of
sound. Again, the greater velocity of
the air at considerable attitudes above
the ground distorts the sound wave and
shortens the limit of audibility to the
leeward while increasing it to the wind
ward.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
Why the Bell Rang.

The citizens of Georgia town were
greatly annoyed by the incessant ring
ing of the bell of schoolhouse where
colored children were taught. A com
mittee waited on the principal and en-
tered vigorous protest.
as it absolutely necessary that you
should ring that bell all day long?"
asked the spokesman of the committee.
Oats what it is, SIR" replied the
principal; hits one er de regulations
er de school,"
"Will you please eXplain?"
Certainly, sir. You see, when new
pupil comes in we rings de bell accord
In ter age. Eff he's nine years old we
rings her nine times; eff he's 20, she
rings 20, en- so on up ter 60. Den, when
a scholar gifts up to spell his lesson we
rings his age for to encourage him, en- eff
he doan make miss we rings her twice
de number of his age for to celebrate
him. Yes, sir, hits one er de regulations
Of de school, en-, as you say, hits abso-
lutely necessary. Good mawnini"-
Atlanta Constitution.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-03
Packages of standard size.

All baskets or boxes used for ship
ping produce to market should be of
standard size and shape, and should
also be made to hold quarts, pccks and
bushels, There is no reason why small
fruit should not be sold in boxes hold
ing pints and quarts, and the hamper
baskets made to hold pecks and bushels
Such a system would also permit the
buyer to measure the goods, if delivered
to him in a loose manner from boxes.
and would avoid many unpleasant re-
suits due to deficiency in quantities
purchased.