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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02

on her before I could check myself.
But 1 lodged back before she saw me,
and stood peeping at her AROUND he
edge of the tree, with my feet braee1
TO start again at a moc.ent's notice.
After painting awhile she turned her
head lazily around and looked back
over her shoulder. The instant abe
saw me she whirled around and came
at me again, and We had a second neat
in the opposite direction. 1t lasted
about as long and ended precisely as
the first had done. When it was over
l felt pretty confident that she could
not catch up with me. and l resolved
that l would assume the aggressive my.
self. So when she stopped again, at
the end of the third heat, and was sit
ting at an angle with the circumference
drew my pistol and put a ball behind
her left shoulder. 1t was the signal
for another fast and furious race. But
although her rage and pain seemed to
put new energy into her, l still kept
out Of her reach, and the heat ended
as the others had done.
To make a long story short, this al
ternate racing, resting and shooting
was kept up until l had emptied into
her body all the balls in one of my
pistols. In her rage she was foaming
at the mouth, and ! was encouraged
and delighted when l saw the froth on
her lips colored a deep red. 1t showed
that she had been shot in the lungs,
and l knew that this would soon tell
on her wind. Moreover, at the end Of
the last race we had run she locked
back and growled at me a good while
before coming at ME again. 1t was
plain that she was giving out, and l
now felt sure that she would not over
take me and that my life was safe.
This of course gave me new strength
and courage, and l began to force mat
tiers. The next time she halted l did
not give her a moment to rest, but sent
In another ball as soon as she stopped.
l kept this up until she had in her
eight out Of the ten balls in my pistols.
This, with a broken shoulder, was
about all she could stand. When | shot
ueT Lu6 last Time she ulu not DeSlu IuS
chase again, as she had done before,
but merely lifted her lip with an angry
snarl, and shook her head from side to
side. l thought it best to keep the two
remaining balls in reserve. In a few
moments she dropped down and turned
yer on her side. | still had a whole
some fear of her re~cuperative powers,
and did not care to stay to see the end,
l was only too glad to part company
with her on any terms. AS soon as ]
was sure she would not follow me, ]
left the tree and ran for the camp
reaching it in safety. But my horse die
not put in his appearance until s
o'clock the next morning when he
sauntered quietly in, browsing the
| grass as he came along.
The next day l went back with two
companions to see what had become Of
the bear. We found it dead, and while
skinning the body | discovered that in
reality l owed my life to my horse; the
blow he had given the bear had com
pletely shattered her shouldered blade
But for this handicap she would in al
probability have overtaken and killed
me before l reached the shelter of the
tree.
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| and her udder would be likely to swell
! for q few weeks before she drops heI
| calf. Many of u dairy writer's and
some of our professors declare there
| are cows that persist in giving milk
| from calf to calf, that to stop milking
them Is to spoil them. Prof. Hacker,
l believe, says so, but how does IL
come? They are made, not born, like
kicking cows. They are from good
mixers and they are stuffed with good
feed and MIXED so near calving the
first year before an attempt is made to
dry them that they are not dried al
all and SO no attempt is made to dry
them the next year or the next, and
ever after that COW should be MIXED
If she is MIXED II years she is milked
2 years of the time for nothing. The
average cow will give as much milk
when MIXED ten months of the year
as the whole year. She will have less
Affections and bring better calves.
Eighty per cent of the bright dairy
men of this country practice what !
have told you. The veterinary advisor
of the Orange Judd Farmer says, in
case a COW won't dry, to milk her reg
ular, but a few days before she comes
in give the milk to the pigs. poor
pigs.) Rub her udder with soap lini.
ment and feed her grain as usual
EPSON salts in pound doses will be
necessary to keep her bowels loose
and cool her system, etc. l have asked
near a score of the best dairymen OF
this county lately if they practice Civ
ing EPSON salts or other physic -
their cows about the time of calving
or any other time. Not one in twenty
does. This question was discussed at
our Farm Institute the other day, dis
cussed l say. The practice was con-
demned almost unanimously. Bro. G
P. Goodrich told us that the dairymer
of Sheboygan county were too intelli'
gent to continue EPSON salts, milking
tubes and rubber plugs. Louisiana.
Texas and Georgia were the places to
advocate such things. Nearly all oil
Iowa's great men agree with me that
all cows can and should have a good
rest between calves. Professor Will.
son and Curtis, Brothers Bennett and
Gabrilsen and the Wallaces all advo-
cate about the method this writer does
l wish Hoard Hecker Horne and
others would try the Iowa air for a few
years and then try writing about how
COWS should be treated. l believe my
few visits to Iowa did me good, ]
know 1 learned from Curtis some valu.
able things about feeding calves.
/ ought to write this over and boi,
it down, but can't very well.
A. X. HYATT.
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with a pair Of Colts ive-shooters,
which l carried in holsters attached to
a belt around my waist. 1 started on
one of these trips at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon of a hot August day, and at
the end of five or six miles l began to
suffer a good deal from thirst. After
awhile l came to a piece of dry bot
tom land, across which ran a sluggish
little stream, not more than four or
nVe inches wide. / dismounted to
drink from it, but it was so shallow
that / could not do so without getting
the sane and sediment on its bottom
into my mouth. So 1 followed it up
for some distance, and found that it's
source was a small pool at the foot of
a long, narrow ridge of rock rising a
few feet above the surface of the
ground.
To the right of the spring ] noticed
the upturned roots of a gigantic tree
that had been blown down. Between
Its trunk and the ridges of rock the
wind had heaped up the dead leaves
of the preceding summer.
There vas a fiat stone lying lear at
hand, and l knelt upon it to drink.
Before doing so 1 ran my arm through
the bride reins and held them in the
crook OF my elbow. AS 1 raised my
head from drinking l heard a rustling
In the leaves behind the trunk of the
tree. Looking up 1 saw two little griz-
Ely cubs, about the size of large cats.
coming from behind the roots. The
moment they saw me they scampered
back out of sight. At the same in
slant, and before l had time to get
UP, there vas a sudden backward pull
Upon the bride reins, which first
slipped them up under my armpit, then
terked me over on my back. CHANGING
up at my horse, 1 saw him with his
head lowered, his ears pointed for
ward and his nostrils distended, gaZ-
ing intently before him. I was on my
feet in an instant. 1 saw a long, slab
sided female grizzly coming along the
trunk of the tree from its top toward
the roots. Just as 1 caught sight of
her she left the tree and swung herself
down on the ground. I had kept my
hold upon the reins, and started at
once to mount my horse. But when he
saw the bear on the ground, he began
to rear and plunge, and nothing pre-
vented him from pulling away from me
altogether but the fact that the bride
had a powerful curb bit, which was
buckled tightly to his lower jaw.
Before I had time to think, the bear
was upon us. The horse never had
taken his eyes off her for a moment,
and just as she came in reach he
vhirled around on his forelegs, as on
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02
How Far VIII Bee. GO for Honeys

How Far VIII Bees GO for Honey?
Kansas Farmer: l am situated about
three miles from good alfalfa fields, and
some alfalfa is as near as two miles
from my place. Now, can l keep bees
successfully that distance away? Or
how far will bees go for honey and Sc
cure a good crop? How many colonies
OF bees would 1000 acres Of alfalfa sup
port, or how many car l safely keep
that distance from the clover?
Subscriber.
A. H. Duff answers The matter of
how far bees fly in search of honey has
been thoroughly investigated and
discussed by leading apiarists. Some
OF u best apiarists claim that bees
ny In search Of honey and gather it
from three to six miles away, from
choice. Others that are more reserved
say they prefer to gather and do gather
the bulk of the honey crop within
three miles of the apiary. AS for my
self, l like to be as close to good bee
pasturage as l can get, and If possible
get right beside it, or right in it. But
1t frequently occurs that, as in your
case, this cannot be done, and the next
best thing to do is proper. l believe
the locality and climate has something
to do with this matter. l believe thai
bees will not succeed as well In going
long distances in a prairie country
where winds are prevalent as they
would otherwise. 1t may be to some
extent imagination with me, as / have
not thoroughly experimental in that
line where l am now located, but it
seems to me that my bees, here in Cen
trail Kansas, do not go as far in search
OF honey as they did in Ohio, where l
formerly kept them. In this I shall
have to say Gin general" for I know
OF an exception. During last spring
my bees visited a peach orchard, when
the trees were in full bloom, eight
miles from the apiary. But of course
this was a very fine, calm day, and I
do not hesitate to say that IL 1t were
not for the prevailing winds Of this
country bees would go farther, and
make O success of gathering honey
much farther away than in billy coun-
tries. | am firmly of the opinion that
bees will secure a much greater crop
OF money If they can get 1t within a
mile OF two from the apiary; at the
same time they will get a good paying
crop within three miles. Being sit
uated three miles from alfalfa fields,
the advantages would depend some
upon the direction you are To-
Gated from the same. If the frequent
WINDS come from the direction Of the
alfalfa, so that the loaded bees would
come with the wind, it would be much
better than if it were the other way. 1t
takes a pretty strong wind to check
the flight of honey bees If not laden
with honey or pollen, but, on the other
hand, when they are heavily loaded
with honey or pollen they cannot make
much Roadway in the wind. One
thousand acres of alfalfa might sup
port two or three hundred colonies OF
bees, but 1t would depend upon the
manner in which the clover is handled.
II harvested before or just at the time
it m into bloom, it would not be
safe to risk any great number Of col
onies, unless there be other forage fol
the bees to live on outside of alfalfa.
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II PUT A BALL BEHIND HER LEFT
SHOULDER"

a pivot, and dashed out with his hin6
legs with all the strength he had. He
had been shod only a day or two be-
fore, and his rough new iron heels
landed squarely on the bears left
shoulder as she was aiming to pass
him to get at me. The force Of the
blow sent her sprawling over on her
right side. But unfortunately just as
he delivered 1t, he threw his head sud
denly downwards, as a horse always
does in making a vicious kick with
both legs, and. my hold upon the reins
being m~omentarily relaxed in tie ex-
element of the bears rush at lae, he
pulled them out Of my hand, aud the
next moment he was off at full speed.
Before 1 could get my pistol out Of
my belt the bear rallied from THY
k~nock-down blow she had been give:t
and came at me on three legs with q,
vicious growl. There was nothing for
me to do but to run for my life. (
did not have more than ten or fiftee1.
feet the start Of her, but luckily 1 wat
a good Splinter with plenty OF speed
and bottom. But for all OF that.
when 1 looked back over my saouldGs
1 saw that the old grizzly was sainirg
on me. Crippled as she was, che still
had one more good leg than bad, ara
this advantage was tellingg agaimat
me. So I made straight for a trle
some distance ahead.
1t was a giant in size, being some
eight feet through at the height of rly
head. Below that height it's frank was
conical in shape and spread ont at To e
roots to a diameter of at least twelve
feet. This gave us a circular rece
course thirty-six feet long, and I had
to m sprinting around it The
moment I reached it.
The shape of the course was decYd-
eddy in my favor, for in running IN
such a small circle she had to lean IN
toward the tree and dig her claws iaio
the ground to keep from flying off at
a tangent. This she evidently founl it
hard to do, with her shoulder Grip
pied and one foreleg too lame for Der
to put it on the ground at all. Ctn-
s~eouently she did not run by any
means as fast after reaching the Tree
as she had done in her straight course
towards 1t. So l found it comparative
ly easy to keep out of her reach as she
chased me around it. In Fact, l soon
found myself behind instead of before
her. But in her blind rage she did not
notice this change in our relative posi-
eions, especially as I took good care not
to get too close to her, but to keep only
her launches in sight as she galloped
around the tree in front of me.
After our race had lasted some two
or three minutes she began to slacken
her pace. and finally stopped and sat
down 70 suddenly that ! almost ran up
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02
Swollen Udder.

! want to talk to H. c. w. a little,
who owns a COW that will not go dry.
He MIXED her once a day and con-
fined her to dry feed and on this treat
ment her udder becomes much swollen.
Truth is the COW is about spoiled for
the next year, at least. She is too near
calving to slacken her feed much, or
stop milking her. A cow cannot be
safely dried after she begins to spring
udder. She should be entirely dry two
or three weeks before her udder en-
larges in the least, which would make
eight or nine weeks necessary. Before
some of my best COWS.
ii. c. W. could feed his COW just poor
1traw and milk her three times 2 da=
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02
In the Matrimo on iaI Department..

Ella-Did you hear about Miss Shop
leigh's marriage? Hattie-Why, no;
when did it occur? Ella-Last week.
She married a floor walker in one of the
big department stores. Hattie-Had she
known him long? Ella-No; he showed
her to the counter where she wanted to
make a small purchase, and while she
was waiting for her change he wooed
and won her. and so they were mar
riad
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02

Young Mani am to be married in
a out a month, and Pm looking for a
home. What is the rent of these
f1ats?" Janitor-"Hum! Did the girl
you intend to marry ever have a
mother?" "a mother? Certainly"
"a grandmother" "Of course. - Hem!
Let me see. Did that grandmother
have a daughter" why, yes" "And
did the daughter have a daughter"
Great snakes! OF course Very
sorry, sir; but l can't rent one of these
fine flats to people like that. I'm afraid
having children runs in the family
New York Weekly.
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Another new vocation" for women
has been started by a New York widow,
who proposes to make a business of
furnishing bachelor apartments. But
is any business to be encouraged which
will make thiags easier for bachelors?
Is not the only furniture with which
a widow should furnish a bachelors
apartments a widow?- Louisville
Courier-Journal,
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Universal Solder Invented.

Joseph A. Wiegert of Philadelphia
has recently succeeded in making a
solder which will join aluminium as
well as any other metal. 1t is applied
without the use of any acid, and in 9TH
er respects is used the same as ordin-
ary solder.
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Different Points of View.

can old bachelor" said the sweet
girl, sis a man who confesses
that he does not think he is
smart enough to take care of any one
but himself" ITO my mind" said
the mean man, "he shows that he is
too smart to take care of any one but
himself. Enquirer.
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An Old StaRer.

Uncle-But you are too young, my
boy, to think of getting married. Neph-
ew-Oh, I don't know about that. Next
session will make the third time I've
been q co-respondent.-Punch.
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Not only farmers wives, but farmers
also, would be pleased if the hen would
lay during the winter months, as many
a bill" that could be used p%rofitably
in improving the farm is broken to buy
groceries, writes Mrs. H. G. Parker in
Journal of Agriculture. The majority
do not realize the care it requires to
have the hens produce eggs during the
winter. There was a time when we
wondered why our hens did not lay
through the winter, as they had warm
quarters, all the cold water they could
drink, and plenty of corn. We found
that this was not all they required; a
change of diet was necessary, and hav-
ing tried a mixed ration of all that is
usually raised on a farm, some of the
hens would lay, but not all by any
means. We tried giving them grit,
meat, and bones regularly with good
results. If there are others whose near
est marketing place is small, and green
bone cannot always be gotten we will
for their benefit tell how we manage.
After butchering we cook all scraps; to
be more explicit, the lungs, kidneys.
snout, hoofs, ETC., until perfectly ten
der; after making cheese of the hogs
heads, we save all of the bones, also
the spare ribs, back bones, and so on
these are fed every other day. we
cook rabbits for them and after boil
ing these scraps, rabbits, and so on
there will be a greasy broth; by stirring
bran into this one will have another
meal of reproducing food. Hens will
refuse corn any time for green bone or
grit. At this time the ashes have to
be removed from the stoves so often,
we sift these occasionally, about twice
a week, and give the hens the charcoal
A close observer will find that there
are several hens in every flock thai
will not produce eggs during the win
ter under any conditions. These hac
better be disposed of by marketing OF
prepared for food, as they are unproit'
able and occupy room that Is needed
for hens that will produce eggs. 1t Ii
we'll not to crowd hens, as a number
comfortably housed will produce NOR
eggs. Our hennery is inexpensive, blu
Is comfortable. When our first snow
storm began, we did not wait until
night for our hens to come to the roost
but got them all in as soo as 1t begar
to snow, and at the present writing
the thermometer indicating II degree
above zero at noon, we do not ALLOW
them outside of the hennery, but opel
the door in the laying room. and re
place it with a screen door so tina
they have air, and sunshine. The car
of poultry Is not hard work, but thei
wants must be attended to regularly
the greater the experience the NOR
knowledge you gain in regard to them
l think where one has the time to de
vote to the rearing and marketing o
poultry and eggs, that there is an in
dependence in it. Our hens, bein
large, suit us in regard to shape, siZ
and plumage, but we find that being
nearly pure breed that they do not la,
so often, OIL so young-it requires NOR
time for them to mature; but as egg
are what we are working for, we Wi
cross with the Brown Leghorns tn
coming spring.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02
RACE WITHAGR GRIZZLY

FEW years ago
while engaged in
cutting timber in
California I b a d
frequently occasion
to ride back and
forth between w
lumber C a m p 8,
about ten miles
apart. l went on
horseback, a n d
was always armed
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-04-02
Why She Married Him.

Judge-Why did you marry him il
you want a separation so soon? She
Because the loafer owed me 80 cents,
and ! couldn't get it any other way.
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READY FOR A FAST.
DIR, HENRY S. TANNER SAYS
HE MAY TRY AGAIN.

Talks of the Forty Days-A Small Boy
with a Peach Figured Largely at tho
Moment That He Broke His Long
Abstinence.
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my wife made an awful fuss last
night because l was out late" why.
it wasn't unusual, was it?" ooh. mo
But she happened to be in when I got
home"
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Barley as a Stock Food.-To deter.
mine the value of barley as a stock food
in a practical way, tests were recently
made by feeding it in comparison with
corn and with wheat. In the feeding
tests with pigs, ground barley did ne
half better than u%nground, and ground
corr did one-ffth better than u%nground.
Whole barley gave better results than
whole corn. Ground corn required one
half more food to make a pound OF
growth than ground barley. Ground
barley made one pound of growth
for every 3h pounds of grain
fed, at a cost of but a shade over two
cents per pound, which was better than
any other feed did. In steer feeding
tests both corn and wheat surpassed
the barley. In lamb feeding tests there
was scarcely any perceptible difference
in results from corn, wheat and bar
ley. Corn and barley mixed gave bet
ter results than either alone. In every
feeding test bald barley gave better re-
suits than common barley.-Farmer
and Stockbreeder Uondon).
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Having bought an abandoned Massa-
chusetts farm, l went there last winter
with my boys on the Berkshire hills,
writes s. E. Hatch in Farm and Home.
I found if you buy a place with good
buildings and good location, you will
have to pay for it. There are some
very cheap places if you know where to
look for them. To renew New England
farming lands and make them look
like prosperous farms and homes they
must have protection, not in tariff, but
protection from the meat packers
trusts of the west. There are thou
sands of acres Of as good grazing lands
as stock needs that thirty years ago
were covered with cattle and sheep,
that are now growing up to bushes and
weeds, because the owners cannot COM
pete with Chicago butchers. / asked,
Cannot you sell beef cattle 80 the
meats can be sold at the prices we
have to pay?" The reply always was,
Eyes, and for less, but Chicago butch
ers won't let us, for they put their men
in and run prices way down and we
have to quit" In a discussion in the
United States senate last spring be-
tween Senators Hoar of Massachusetts,
and Tillman of South Carolina, in
speaking of the trusts and monopolies,
Senator Hoar claimed the national gov
eminent cannot restrict them in the
states, but the states have the power
individually to enact laws controlling
them. In that case the New England
states should combine, pass the same
laws in each state, and farmers can
again cover their hills and valleys with
cattle and sheep, working men can get
meats for less than they have to pay
now, and the western men can sell their
meats at a fair profit If they will. Put
a stop to their conspiring to beat the
farmers and the local butchers out of
their legitimate business for a living;
that is the protection we want.
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DAIRY N POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.

How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hats az to the Care of Live stock
and Poultry.