Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1897-11-09
From Rippon.
RrppoN. W. VA. Nov. s. lsq7,

%NN's
DEAR Mr.. HAisEs.-I suppose you visited
the Worlds Fair at Chicago in ,95, and if you
did you must have visited the great stock
yards at that place, where tweniy-three great
railroads concentrate cattle, and You must
have said to yourself or companion "surelY
there is no place on earth like this. but il you
had been at Nippon one day last week you
would have recalled this assertion as Mr..
Luther Slifer. veterinarian, and uncle Dan
Heflebow err caused one of the liveliest scenes
around our qnict village that has been wit
messed in many years
MIR Hefebower has invented an apparatus
for dehorning cattle, and carly in The morning
cattle began to pour in from all parts of this
vacinity, among them valuable herd from
Mr.. Rob. Smith, who is an up-to-date young
man. We are told that Mr.. Sitter dehorned
six of these cattle in five minutes. and but for
some slight interruptions cattle horns would
have fallen like nails from nail machine
The "do which" machine which Nj. H. has
invented works as nice as q saucer OF ice
cream on an August day Eighty head were
dehorncd in short time. Would like the
opinion of the Agricultural Station as to de-
horniug cattle.
MT. ". W. COuItu sOlu tSoIS. 1lOuhCl "
Brenneman twenty three head of cattle aver
aging 1 200 lbs Mr.. B. 4 Langdon has also
handled some very anc cattle.
Mr.. II. is good, clever gentleman, but he
will not let us hunt in his new ground, where
we are told there are Jack Rabbits so large
that they somewhat resemble the father OF the
mule, but we are looking forward 10 the day
when remorse shall have overtaken him and
he will say "boys get Your guns and beadle
hounds and 90 to the new ground and have a
little fun"
What has become of Charlie Grasshopper
! have not heard word from him since the
editor of the Free Press got after me about
the Wall Street Pot Metal. 1t nearly fright
ened Charlie to death. He is great friend OF
mine and he thought the Free Press was go
ing to snuff my candle, sure enoug and
suppose he went to the Klondike. or join ed
Tammany, where he has buried the POT SC
deep that it will take old Grover and the Bal
timore Sun until 1900 to resurrcct it.
And now word abo ut wheat and corn.
see no reason why our farmers should despair
about getting dollar or more for their
wheat, us the situation grows stronger cacl
day and they have nothing to do but to STOP
selling to get more than dollar. We carried
over from last year twenty million bushels
and we claim to have grown 500, 600, COO in '97
all told. Now take 275, 0O0. coo for seed and
| 100, O00, COO for bread, and 294 900, 0C0 that
foreigners are compelled to have from thii
| country, aud you will find that it makes $780,
600 900. Deduct the $40 600, 900 required and
you will find that we have deficiency OF 90,
600, 600. In addition to this the Orange Judd
Farmer says we are going into the winter
with the poorest prospect on winter wheat
| ever known.
| Now let us see how it is with corn. We viii
admit that the crop of '96 was the largest ever
| grown, and that we carried over a heavy re-
serve. This year the government makes the
average three points lower than the average
for ten years. This. with the failure of tho
potato and apple crop, and wheat one-third
higher, certainly should make corn sell very
much higher soon as the old reserve, which
is flooding the markets to-day. is worked off
Mrs. Myers has moved to her handsome res
idence on Long street.
Mr.. X. G. Brown, our popular butcher, has
moved back to this place, and we served
with some luscious beef on Saturday.
Rev. "A. p. Neal visited our public schools
last w ecls, and reports them progr, ssing nicely
Please excuse this short letter
remain yours, &c,
jim SKIMMERHoRN.