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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-26
BURGLARS WORKING AT BRANDON
Crack a Safe and Secure the Muni-
ficent Sum OF One and O
Half Dollars.

Sioux Falls, S. D., June 12.-Robbers
broke into the store of Martin Brus-
vine at Brandon, eight miles from here.
last night They cracked the safe and
got q dollar and a half for their trou-
bic. They were frightened off before
doing their work. The same party is
suspicioned of stealing four horses from
a farmer in the same vicinity.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-26

Preserved fruits, in a state fit to be
eaten, have been taken from the ruins
Of Herculaneum.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-26

Plague In Jeudnh.
Jeddah. June 11.--It is officially de-
elared that the bubou;c Plnene exists
hare
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-06-26

Hats made OF bark are said to b cool
theySmtght DO considered bud
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
POULTRY NOTES.

Overlooking will spoil any flock.
Do not use fat, clumsy males In
breeding.
In breeding fowls, select for frame
and bone substance.
One secret of breeds for profit is the
feed and care given them.
In nearly all cases hens learn to eat
eggs from having them broken in the
nest.
One objection to small poultry
house is the difficulty in keeping the
nests clean.
If you are breeding fancy fowls buy
standard of excellence.
Keep a large number of hens after
you have learned to keep small num-
Der profitably.
II fowls have sore feet or humble
foot it means that the roosts are too
high.
Leaves, cut straw or dry dirt are
good to scatter grain in, to compel the
hens to scratch.
Lime will kill lice; it is good dis
infectant; it will purify the air. 1t
will make the poultry house clean and
free from vermin of all kinds.
When oats are fed to fowls they
neither enervate nor fatten. They
make good ration to feed to over fat
hens-too fat to lay well.
In raising poultry for market the
IT.. ~ botcbipo aarlv nIIehi N q
the chickens forward as fast as posi-
BILE and marketing early.
II egg shells are fed to fowls they
should be crushed very fine, otherwise
the egg eating vice may be introduced
into the poultry yard.
Half breed chickens, where Ply
mouth males are used, will grow
faster and reach the broiler size sooner
than dunghills. They will also be
larger and finer fowls at maturity.
II your fowls be pure bred do not
cross them; whatever may be gained
in the first cross will be lost in the
second. and they will soon be mongrels.
Aim for constant improvement along
all lines.
Geese cost very little IL allowed the
liberty of the fields, with access to a
pond or stream with its usual vegeta-
ton. To attempt to make them prof
table otherwise, the result will be
questionable.
Cholera never bothers ducks. neither
do roup nor gapes. Hawks do not
modest them. They lay more eggs and
will hatch better than hens. With
good feeding they can be made tn
weigh five pounds in ten weeks after
Matching.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
LITTLE SEWING BIRDS.

In far-off India there live little vel
low birds about as large as your
fathers thumb. They are called tailor
birds, because they sew. Monkeys
and snakes also live in this PARKWAY
land, and they eat birds.
But the tailor birds are very wise.
They build their nests where they
cannot be seen by the hungry mon
keys. They pick up dead leaf and
fly up into high tree, and, with a
fiber for thread and their bills for
needles, sew the leaf onto green one
hanging from the tree. They sew up
the sides and leave the top open.
After laying some of their soft feathers
and down in it their home is finish d.
And the frisky monkeys never know
the nest is swinging there in the
breeze, with two little white eggs in
it, and the mamma bird safe in the
nest, too, while papa bird sings near
by.
Some day out of the little white eggs
will come two yellow baby birds,
which will fly away with papa and
mamma birds, and the leaf will blow
down and no one will know about the
pretty nest but you and me.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

% mothers. so weary. discouraged.
Worn out with the cares OF the day.
Rou often grow cross and impatient.
Complain of the noise and the play;
For the day brings so many vexations,
So many things going amiss;
But. mothers. whatever may vex you,
Send the children to bed with kiss.
The dear little feet wander often,
Perhaps. from the pathway of right.
The dear little hands find new mischief
To try you from morning till night.
But think of the desolate mothers
Who'd give all the world for your
bliss,
And, as thanks for your infinite
blessings.
Send the children to bed with kiss.
For some day their noise will not vex
you,
The silence will hurt you far more;
You will long for the sweet children
voices,
For sweet childish face at the door
And to press child's face to your
bosom,
You'd give all the world just for this:
For the comfort twill bring you in
sorrow,
Send the children to bed with a kiss,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
interesting Medical Cases.

Miss Matilda Anderson, young
woman who had been kept alive at the
st. Paul (Minn.) hospital for six weeks
by artificial respiration, died of con-
gestion of the lungs. For forty-two
days the nurses and house physicians
of the hospital had been filling Miss
Anderson's lungs with air by artificial
means, first by raising and lowering the
arms, and when that became painful
by operating on the chest. BY this
method, however, the lungs were but
partially filled at best, and had the
nurses stopped even for five minutes
Miss Anderson would have strangled
and died. The young woman had be-
come so used to the manipulation that
she ate and slept almost naturally and
could carry on a conversation. The
young girl was victim of form of
paralysis when received at the hospi-
tal and when that disease was COM
plica.ed with congestion of the lungs
1t was impossible to save her. The
case has attracted the attention of
many eminent physicians.-NewY York
Commercial Advertiser.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
CROPS IN YOUNG ORCHARDS.

There is no injury to young trees
from cultivating around them provided
care is taken not to let plows or har-
rows bark the trunks. The cutting
away of roots by blowing is mostly
done when the tree is dormant, and
root injury is repaired so quickly that
the tree is apt to be more vigorous
than before. 1t used to be thought
that cropping the orchard was injur.-
Gus, because it was believed that the
crop would take away what the tree
required for growing and fruiting.
Grain crops may do so, as they require
phosphate. Corn and potatoes also
require large amounts of potash, which
should be supplied wherever they are
grown in orchards. But If this treat
ment finds the tree growing too rapidly
and not bearing at all, SOW it with
some grain crop and seed it down with
grass and clover. The grain crop
draws moisture from the land about
midsummer, and will so check the
growth of the trees as to set them to
bearing. A clover sod will also do the
same, and after the clover dies out it's
roots will supply much of the mineral
and heterogeneous plant food that the
bearing orchard needs.-American Gull
tivator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
THE BUTTER DAIRY BUSINESS.


Every man who contemplates going
into the butter dairy business has got
problem before him that must be set
tied one way or another; that is, what
shall he do with the skim milk and
butter milk. This new man is gener-
ally the son of farmer, and has all
his life been accustomed to big pigs
and little pigs around him. He knows
what an absolute reliance the farmer
puts upon the hog for his supply of
meat, and farmer of any kind would
simply be no farmer at all without hogs
Here, then, is his first and easiest So
luton of the skim and buttermilk
question.
have seen hogs on thousand dairy
farms with every precaution known TO
man for preventing them from making
a nuisance of themselves. Havemeyer
does it, but you would think they
were on another farm; they are so far
from the dairy. or course, he keeps a
team to haul supplies to those high
bred hogs. My advice to you is, don't
you do 1t. There is neither rhyme nor
reason in it. Only young growing
hogs pay a profit for the milk they
drink, and it is nearly impossible to
keep a supply of that kind of hogs on
hand. Calves properly handled will
pay quite as well for the milk as any
kind of hogs, and they do not carry
around with them that most villain
nous compound of disagreeable smells
that ever offended nostrils." The
natural smell that a hog gets about
him is bad enough, but when you add
decaying milk in the hot sun the limit
of endurance is passed. i never want
to see a hog on a farm where butter is
made. If you have not discrimination
enough to avoid the hog, my opinion
is that you had better not attempt 20
make fine butter.
So far as making money out of skirn
and buttermilk is concerned, the
shortest road to profit is through the
cow-feed it back to her. She Will
give you at least 100 per cent. more
profit for it than any hog could afford
to pay. But here again you must be
scrupulously careful not to let her
trough or the buckets she drinks from,
or the milk is carried in, get the least
bit foul. If you do, the faint of that
milk will get right into the center or
every pound of butter you make, and
rise up in judgment against YOU The
profit of your dairy will depend very
largely upon the use to which you put
the skim milk and other by-products
of the dairy, so be careful not to start
off with a mistake You think you
know all about the hog, but If you are
going to run butter dairy. take my
word for it, you don't.-Home and
Farm.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
Dangerous Cleanser.

1t is surprising, says physician,
how many people persist in cleaning
bottles with shot after the frequent
cautions that have been given. Moth
ing cleans bottles so easily as a hand
full of shot. which can be shaken in
to every corner until the glass fairly
shines with cleanliness, but the dan
ger Of lead poisoning is great, even
when the bottle is rinsed out with
clean water, and it is doubly danger
Gus when there is no rinsing out at
all, as is usually the case. Clean sand
is a convenient and thorough bottle
cleanser, especially as the particles of
sand which adhere must be after
ward washed out, to complete the pro-
cess. When time is not an object, a
bottle can be well cleansed by the aid
OF potato parings.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

ten or q dozen years. for these oiled
Jackets will easily last dozen winters
IL cared for during the summers.
When an animal Is yielding any pro-
duct, an equivalent addition is to be
made to the standard ration of three
pounds of dry food for 100 pounds live
weight. The in-lamb eve or the sheep
whose fleece Is expected to be record
breaker must have corresponding ad-
dition to this, and this addition should
be of the most nutritious grain. Aud
to select the best kind OF food We
should make study of the nutritive
value of goods.-American Sheep
Breeder.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
FOR Tne YOUNG FOLKS
A WIND SONG.

WIND SONG.
What does the North Wind say
When he swings in the pine-tree to
and fro
Oh, he signs all day,
Little flowers there below,
Cuddle down in your beds,
And cover your heads,
For I'm bringing the snow,
The cold, cold snow;
Oh, no y
What does the North Wind say
When he whistles and roars down the
chimney SO?
Oh, he sings all day,
''Little folks there below,
Little Nell, little Ned,
Hurry out with your sled,
For I'm bringing the snow,
The merry, merry snow;
Oh, hol"
-[Helen L. Eliot.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
CURIOUS.

Oysters have wonderful knowledge
of the times of tide, and if they are
taken away from the sea they will
open their shells as the tide begins to
flow, although they may be miles
away. This is the more wonderful,
because the tidetime changes by an
hour every day. Also the long-legged
wading- birds, such as redshank and
curlew, that haunt salt marches, dart
inland, as rule, when the tide covers
their feeding grounds, but always
turn up to time when the ebb bares
the saltings once more.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
Caring for Wet Shoes.

When. without overshoes, you are
caught in the rain. carefully remove all
surface water and mud from the shoes
as soon as they are taken off. Then,
while still wet, rub them with kero-
sene oil on the furry side of Canton
flannel
Set them aside until partially dry,
and again apply the kerosene. They
may then be placed in a moderately
warm room and left to dry gradually
and thoroughly.
Before applying French kid dressing
or any polish give them a final rub
bling with the flannel. still slightly
dampened with the kerosene, and the
shoes will be as soft and flexible as
when new, and will be very little af-
fected by their bath In the rain.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
ITEMS or INTEREST ON AcRicuLT.
uRAL TOPICS.
ManurIng Winter Craln--.The Pork Barrel
---sparows Destroying crapss.-.crops
in Young Orchards.--Etc.. Etc.
MANURING WINTER GRAIN.

There is no better time to topdress
winter grain than late fall. II 1t is
done after the ground Is frozen 1t will
be all the better. The loose soil will
not only poach less but the manure
lying over its frozen surface will pre-
vent the alternate freezing and thaw-
ing which is more trying to winter
grain than is continued cold weather.
Besides, IL the winter grain field Is
seeded with clover in the spring, as II
always should be, the topdressing will
be just what the young clover needs 70
give 1t protection early, and make 1t
grow vigorously, later In the season.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

Mrs. Mackay, wife of the Bonanza
King, spends more on floral decora-
lions when giving dinner party
or reception than any other member
OF the fashionable world. She has
been known to have chariots, drawn
by swans, filed with roses, from which
her guests could help themselves. Her
dinner tables are wealth of flowers.
When the blossoms are expensive and
out of season, the bill for flowers at a
reception often amounts to $500.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
KEEP UP THE MILK FLOW.

An extensive dairy farmer near
Kankakee, ILL.,, says that it requires as
much grain to produce milk this time
of year, when the pastures are so dried
up, as it will in the middle of winter.
With slight modification, the state
ment is true. Yet there are a vast lot
of farmers who show, by their prac-
tice, that they think differently. Given
warm stable. good ensilage, good
ventilation, go the health of the cows
shall be up to standard, and we will
guarantee to make the same milk on
less grain than in the hot, dray, fly
tormenting days. But no dairyman
who understands his business will re-
fuse to feed grain profusely just now
He must do it, not for the preent profit
but to prevent them from so shrink
ing their milk as that they will come
to full. natural flow in the late fall
and winter months. The COW is es-
sentially creature Of habit. good
manager of cows sees to it that she
does not contract shrinking habit
He knows II she does, she will never
get over it until she comes fresh again.
Milk Is going to be worth money next
winter, therefore keep the cows up
now, so they can give paying quality
OF milk in the winter.
PRACTICAL SHEEP HUSBANDRY.
1t Is not advisable to begin winter
feeding on full rations too suddenly.
,all Al.
as the digestive organs become accus-
toned to the change.
Wheat screenings makes an excel
lent and cheap food for the flock, but 1t
is advisable to examine this food
closely to detect any smut that may
exist in 1t. Smut is productive of abor-
ton, and the wastes of the wheat grain
of any kind are to be used with due
caution.
For each hundred pounds Of live
weight of a sheep three pounds of dry
fodder will be full feeding. II this is
of the best well-made clover hay II
will sustain the animal in good condi-
ton, providing nothing else is de-
manded than the mere sustenance of
the animal.
A total change of feed must of
course be of considerable Importance
to- any animal. From succulent food
to dry stuff, and often this is of very
poor quality. cannot help but disturb
the whole system. much more that OF
sheep born to trouble, many times
more than men are.
A bit of canvas painted on one side
with linseed oil costs only few cents.
1t may save sheep which cost few
dollars. Here Is hundred times the
cost returned each year for each cent
expended. and profit may run on for
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
SEA ANEMONEs.

Anemones are beautiful animals that
abound on the shores of the sea.
They are polypes of soft, gelatinous
texture, and have great many tent
acles arranged in circles and extend
ing like rays around the mouth. The
baby anemones have only one row of
tentacles, but they increase gradually
outside.
Each tentacle is provided with a
number OF coiled threads, called
"lasso- cells, which when thrown out
entangle and poison the prey upon
which the anemones feed. When
food is taken, they at once fold up
their tentacles and appear to be in
dreamland. After thus mapping,
they slowly expand by filing with
water, and when fully expanded they
resemble brilliantly hued polypetalous
flowers. Indeed, the ancients thought
them flowers, and accordingly gave
them the name ''roses of the sea-"
Usually the anemones are attached
to rocks, stones or shells, but they
have some power of locomotion, being
able to move themselves slowly by a
successive contraction and loosening
of the base, thus stretching forwfrd
one side and gradually drawing the
other along. They are very voracious
animals, yet they are so constituted
that it is possible for them to live for
months without food.
Anemones have but little intelli-
gence; apparently they are not even
conscious of prey until it comes in
contact with their extremely sensitive
tentacles. 1t is singular fact that
they are reproduced in four ways:
First, from eggs, which are formed
and developed on the parent anemone;
when developed, the eggs drop into
the water and produce young ane-
mones. They also increase by bud
ding like shrubs; oftentimes several
buds grow upon one parent and drop
off when perfect in form. division
is another way by which these strange
animals may be increased in number;
when cut into sections with knife
each section produces perfect ane-
none.
The fourth method of reproduction
is, perhaps, the strangest. In tear
ing away from the rocks or shells to
which they have been clinging the
parent anemones often leave small
pieces Of themselves. which, in a short
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
Qualities Of Porpoise Leather.

Concerning porpoise leather, the
Shoe and Leather Reporter says that it
Is peculiar in this that instead of
stretching 1t shrinks when 1t has been
worn. 1t is practically waterproof,
and Is, therefore, as hard on the feet
as rubbers would be when worn con-
stantly. II is made up into shoes for
winter wear, and shoe laces. it's
strength and other qualities fitting it
particularly well for this purpose.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
THE wASPS.

Let us honor the wasps as the first
papermakers, for of that material is
their nest composed. The paper is
rough and coarse, certainly, but it is
still paper. The wasp, in order to
make this paper, rasps off tibers OF
decayed wood, which it afterwards
mashes with its teeth into a pulp, and
then spreads the pulp in layers, when
it hardens and forms coarse paper.
The dreaded hornet is usually
found in woods, where it builds its
nest in the hollows of trees.
1t feeds upon other insects. and
even attacks and devours the formid-
able wasp.
The common wasp builds its nest
in the ground, usually in banks. The
comb is laid horizontally, and not
vertically like that of the bee. As
the cells are made of paper they will
not hold honey, nor does the wasp
endeavor to collect honey, although
it is very fond of it, and never loses
an opportunity of robbing bee hive,
although its natural food is flies or
other animal substances. Nor does
it despise sugar, as every grocer s
window testifies.
Very few wasps survive the winter,
and those who do Immediately set
about forming new nest. Only a
few cells are made at first, but the
number rapidly increases, until the
nest is furnished with about sixteen
thousand cells.
Some wasps build nests upon the
branches of the trees and others sus-
pend them from the branches.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
THE PORK BARREL.

When the time for hog killing APP
proaches, the pork barrel should be put
In condition for the new crop. Every
particle of last years pork and brine
should be removed, but the brine after
boiling should have it's impurities re
moved. Then after thoroughly wash
ing out the inside with some antisep-
tic, the barrel should be filled with
boiling water and have this repeated
at least once. But even with these
precautions barrel that has once
held beef should not be used for pork.
We have scalded out beef barrels 50
thoroughly that it was supposed no
faint could remain. Yet before the
pork was used up more or less of it
would be tainted.-Boston Cultivator.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

An Oroville (Cal.) dog which fell
into well kept himself afloat until a
basket was lowered to him. lie then
jumped coolly inside and was hauled
to the top. thirty feet away.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30
sPARRows DESTROYING GRAPES.

1t is becoming exceedingly difficult
near cities to grow and ripen grapes,
because of the attacks of sparrows on
this fruit so soon as it begins to color.
Fortunately this pest does not go ia:
from cities and large villages, where
1t finds plenty of feed scattered in the
streets, and where the warmth from
city houses affords it partial shelter
But we have learned enough about the
habits of the sparrow to know that it
is pest that should be destroyed
wherever seen. In England thousands
of boys are employed to watch grain
fields and drive the sparrows away.
But after all this care millions of dol
lars worth of grain is destroyed by
them every year.-American Cultiva-
tor.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

time. assume life and form, become
perfect anemones, and move on
leisurely in search Of new abiding
places.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-12-30

Since 1897 Great Britain has gone to
war Al times.