The Dickinson press., 1897-04-03

rustic a little every day. We had to
pillow snow and that vas pretty slow
work but it paid. People who kept
their sheep close during the bad
weather will find they will have loss
es all through the spring. The lamb
crop, on the whole, will be light this
year as also the wool clip. A good
many people started in to feed their
hay in a reckless way and the first
thing they knew they were entirely
out of feed and their sheep were in
no condition to rustic, consequently
they grew thin. In these bands the
increase will lie very small and the
loss before they get through the
spring will be u great deal more
than the owners now think.
Following are some of the methods
practiced in killing wolves: Whole
families of the animals are sometimes
asphyxiated in their dens. A woolf
of the gray variety generally makes
its home by getting on the side of a
drift gulch and burrowing straight
inward until a safe distance from the
surface is reached. There her young
are born and raised to sturdy cub es-
tate. When a cowboy locates a den
in which he believes the entire fami-
ly to be gathered. a composite mass
Of cotton, saturated with damp -four
sulphur and other noxious smelling
substances. is thrust into the den and
set on fire. The mouth of the hole
is then filled with clay tamped down
solidly, and the imprisoned wolves
are speedily suffocated within. In
this way from 6 to 10 and II wolves,
young and old. r wiped out at one
stroke. Another effective method is
to bore four or more holes in a fiat
piece of board and plug them up them
up with beef fat soaked in strychnine.
The odor of the fat attracts any
wolves that may be in the vicinity,
and they lick the fat voraciously UNI
til the leaven of poison does its work
upon them and they drop dead. Very
often as many as a dozen wolves are
killed off by this process before the
fat in the holes is exhausted. Strych-
nine inclosed in capsules is also used.
The capsule is thrust into a slit cut
in a chunk of beef, and the wolf, bolt
ing the meat whole, falls an easy VIC
tim. Steel traps, baited with raw
beef, are also tried with fair success.
Denver Republican.
Stock Journal: At the meeting of
the Texas Cattle Raisers' association
at San Antonio recently, vigorous
and timely resolutions were adopted
demanding more reasonable stock
yards charges. The association de-
mands the removal, within thirty
days, of the terminal charge of two
dollars per a imposed by the Chica-
cago company, and announces that it
has filed charges against that com.
panY with the Interstate Commerce
commission. 1t also declares that
yardage charges above fifteen cents
per head flor %cattle) are excessive,
and likewise grain charges of more
than one hundred per cent. advance
over market price. They further em-
phasized their resolutions by notice
that unless the injustices complained
Of are not corrected the members of
the Texas association will:patronize
other yards. The shippers Of the
whole west have had these matters
of complaint for several years. The
matter, of terminal charge particu.
larly, has been alluded to at the meet
ings of the Montana Stock Growers
association, but the commission men
invariably replied that they had no
control over the matter and that it
was in the hands of the railroads, and
that the roads declined to do anything
when the Exchange called attention
to the exorbitant charge. Then the
railroad men would remark that the
roads individually had nothing to do
with making the charge, that it was
q soulless corporation that had con-
troll of the terminal facilities and tho
motive power. There the matter
dropped. AS the shippers have not
been able to locate the responsible
party, probably the commission men
who are we'll acquainted with Chica.
60 can find the "%individual In the
woodpile'' If their own interests are
concerned and if other markets get
the cattle which should be consigned
to Chicago. It will do 10 harm to
press them a little and it may do
much good. The stock yards people
do get eighty cents of the two dollars
charged to shippers and there ought
to be some way Of finding the authori-
ty that exacts the charge.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, AZ they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only n way to Ire deaf.
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infamed condition of the mucous lin.
ing of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets infamed you have a
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when it is entirely closed deaf.
ness is the result, and unless the in
6amation a be taken out and this