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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Seed Wheat.

Farmers, as a rule. understand their
own business better than other people;
but sometimes, In the matter of seed
corn and other seeds, they make mistakes
in not testing their seeds. Last year
there was much loss on account OF poor
seed corn This year, is there not danger
of loss from poor seed wheat? During
the past week. we tried a sample of what
Thomas Brisbane called a good average
for No. 2 of the last crop. We put II upon
wet cotton batten, covered with a thin'
damp cloth, surrounded with proper tenn
perature under favorable circumstances
The result was that not quite three-fourths
of the kernels sprouted. This is not
very favorable showing, and indicates
moor seed. Let every farmer look well
to his seed wheat and oats-Waseca Her
aid
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Trade Undistrrhad.

New YORK, March 5.--R. G. DUN &
Co. s Weekly Review of Trade says:
"Storics of the most reckless sort, dis
prove promptly, and many Of
them before they are told,
affected speculation in stocks
much last week and at times this
week; but they have not disturbed the
industries and the trade of the coun-
try at all There is confidence that
the authorities are doing what is
proper to provide for public defense,
and business is moving on with the
assurance that it will not be seriously
disturbed"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
$1,000, 600 for smok eless Powder.

WASHINGTON, March 3. The House
committee on naval affairs has agreed
on items of 81 900, 600 for the purchase
of smokeless powder; $685. for ting,
erections of buildings on governmeuiA
ground for the manufacture of smoke
less powder, with the necessary ma
chinery and equipment, and 100000
for arming and equipping the naval
militia The latter item is an increase
of $40, 900 over the estimates of Secre.
tary Long.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
EARNING.

Farmers are the most independent class
of people on the face Of the earth or at
least they should be, for all depends upon
them. Although they are sometimes III
nosad unon. a great deal is brought upon
them by themselves. If they shoulo lali
in farming there is no law to plnd thein
10 II. or if they should be so fortunate
as to own a farm they can sell II anu
become anything they want to become
~ thew would all give the farm the same
in+elIigent attention that the successtul
merchant or lawyer does his store OF
office thew would all be more SUCCESSFUL.
Rut MANY do not care how things turn
o,lt and therefore the crops are 1allure'
M course, the farmers think mat the laws
90, no made n little more in their favor,
hut the laws are not what causes the
trouble. We cannot help noticing thae
the farmer is mostly Responsible Ior ia d
great many instances you VIII llhu nis
bornvard the most fertile spot on tne
go. abi1e his fields are covered with
veliow spots which expand every year
And around the fields you will ma oe
oaved fences oyergrown with bushes anu
hriars through which the sun never
shines and again, while passing eldlice
around the fields and see IL there Is ilo'
farm machinery left where last USED.
And thew become discouraged ana say
farming is a failure, and tho laws oi oui
country are the cause or II.
Now, let us look around at some ol ouI
farmers and see if they are not making
farming success They make a study OF
aacb field. and what is best adapted 10
~. thew nlant, and we do not hear them
comnlain as much as the former ulu'
Tho farmer that looks after MS farming
we'll Is the man that will surely reap sue
cess for himself.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Anoth.r victory for MCCOY.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March Skid"
Mccoy knocked BurTey out in the sec,
ond round at Hot Springs at las
o'clock this afternoon. The fighting
was fast and furious. The knockout
blow was left hook on the neck,
which aoored Burley, and he was
counted ont
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Colorado Miners May Strike.

DENVER, COL, March 5.-Trouble is
brewing again in the Northern Goa
district The trust has ordered al
shut down for the mines and the men
threaten to shut down the whole dis
trict indefinitely unless some agree
ment is reached at once.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Inst Ycar's Harvest.

Tho Chicago Post directs attention 10
tho fact that over 81 200, 000C00 worth OF
nroducts was taken out of the earth IN
this country last year in wheat, corn
and oats. If hay had been included there
would have been almost SlJoO'o oo'ooV'
According to the statistics OF the ogrl-
cultural department corn led the great
grain products of our soil and industry
with 1902 967, 1888 bushels. worth $ooi'
O72. $50; wheat came second with oSo' 49, :
1GS bushels. worth $42S III, ana oats
brought up the rear with ooo 'o"ooo pusi
els, worth $141,914,1l9. .,.o
In the production of corn Nebraska,
with less acreage than Kansas. led all
the states with 241 ,26S, 400 bushels, ana
Illinois with still less acreage, was d
close second with 232, 02S,0Sj outstrfppins
both Kansas and Iowa, with their greater
acreages. -,,.,u t.,
Tn the production of wheat Illinois IS
far down the list, being only seventeenth
with only II. 57S,003 bushels. In TINS ce-
real Minnesota steps grandly to the front
with 80 S91, 152 Singular to relate ONO
occupies the third largest wheat pln.
Iowa stands at the top of the oat-pro-
ducing states with 103,12l, 100 bushels
and Illinois, with one-siXth less acredSe'
Is n close second with 92 19S. 4o6 pusheis'
Alaska and the District OF Coluiipla
are the only divisions of the Union that
produce nothing in the cereal Hhe ioi '''e
maintenance of mankind.
with ahout the same acreage the pro-
fuction of hay was worth almost as much
as that of wheat, being $4Ol, $50, 3So' nay
nroduces better value per acre than eltiler
corn or oats. This is something for the
farmers as we'll as their cattle 10 cheW
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Nails to BE Higher

MILWAUKEE, Wis, March A ma
terial advance in the price of wira%
nails goes into effect this month ~
the result of the recent consolidation
Of the wire nail 10 'arests
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
p,c1,,nus From the Papers.

He is already rich who has found that
he can be mis- best self while struggling
fer fortune.
Look over the seed potato pile carefully.
If there are scabby potatoes pres that
is disease. Don't plant them.
Cow culture has more to deal with than
COW rations If the cow is given plenty
of sound food and pure alter in clean,
warm stall, she won't ask questions about
the name of the food.
While the soil is to he cultivated care
fully and diligently we must not forget
that the soil is only incidental to human
affairs. The wise man will cultivate him
self.
Fourth of July Will come on schedule
time. and it will be hot enough to make
the man who failed to store an ice supply
engage in the wholesome exercise Of
kicking himself over the back fence.
There is nothing better TO stop the leaks
on the farm than a blank book and lead
pencil. Instead of putting the pencil in
the leak put it in the book, point down.
Protect exposed places in the wheat
field with a mulch of stable manure or
straw. The alternate freezing and thaw-
ing of this season makes such protection
especially necessary.
Do not throw dead rats where hogs
, might get at them. a hog is generally
too genteel to eat sIch a thing; but in
case of accidental eating the rat is liable
to inoculate the pig with the deadly
trichinae.
1t is not a new proposition to recon-
mend planting timber along the streams
and on all broken land. A good old thing
bears repeating, and most folks like to
be told to do the thing they know they
ought to do
The Rome, N. Y, beet sugar factory is
a cooperative concern, the farmers being
stockholders. These stockholders grew
two-thirds of the beets used In the fac
tory the past season The first year s
work is pronounced a financial success.
If on the slopes there are running
streams in rainy weather which make
ugly washouts, they can often be checked
by placing fine brush or swamp grass in
them, weighing 1t down with stones.
Manure such slopes well, that grass may
get hold and prevent further damage.
Many farms are fortunately supplied
with ponds or springs for watering stock.
Such places should now and then be
cleaned out and deepened and the fall of
the year is Just the time to do 1t. In
winter shallow water freezes. and the
pond is dry to all intents and purposes.
The wind brings US weed seeds from
lelghbors' fields and pastures, and them
upon our own, but much more common
way by which land is annually stocked
in this evil manner is in the use of barn.
yard dressing. We should be more care
full about the refuse from the cattle man.
gers, that II does net SO into the bedding.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
tn Make Hens Lay in Winter.

Rural World: About this season OF the
year an uncharitable per cent OF the ma
ture hens and pullets are eating very
heartily, but showing silent contempt
for the egg basket. Eggs are commando
ing a high price, but the farmer VINO
GUNS an air-lined henhouse with its
shivering chickens has no eggs TO SELL
and is in luck If he has enough for family
use. He has probably reconciled himself
to his pet philosophy, that hens do not
Law in winter. and has folded his arms
complacently awaiting spring, while the
shrewd poultryman is gathering eggs
with regularity day by day. he IS now
ever revealing no secrets to his unso-
phisticated neighbor. You really think.
do YOU, that hens do not lay in winter?
Wen. let me give you little prescription,
for a few weeks trial. and we Will see
II you persist in holding on to t-h
theory.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11

First your fowls require warm
quarters, not necessarily heated by arti-
hcial heat, but well lined with warm tar
paper foored with boards and PROOF
against draughts and cold air. This is q
good antidote for frozen combs, feet and
shivering bodies. Second, they must take
plenty of of healthy exerciseAnot neces-
sarily by the use of turning poles, DUMB
bells, or punching bags, but by scratch
pile OF hay, straw, stubble and manure.
into which a sprinkling Of oats and
wheat with an occasional grain OF corn
is placed, early every morning ana at
midday.
Third, they must have a warm break
fast of mash foods, heated as warm as II
can be comfortably eaten. Such mash
to consist If possible, of little meat,
potato, bread crumbs, egg, milk. some
farinaceous food, and a small quantity
of bone meal. Fourth, they should have
little green material, which is positively
essential to egg formation; such as cut
clover, lettuce, or even sprinkle OF
celery or raw cabbage. Fifth, they
should be given a small quantity of corn
Just before roosting time. Add to these
recommendations some fresh water, I'M
frozen, and occasionally little raw
meat, fat or gristle. Let the diet be
clean, free from hot soapsuds, vinegar,
coffee grounds and all such ingredients,
which are unwholesome and distasteful
even to a chickens palate.
I wish some of our estimable house
wives would learn to leave these acid,
oily and greasy ingredients out of the
mash fed TO the chickens. Just because
these domestic servants are dumb, and
cannot express in words their preference
for n good, clean. wholesome diet, we
continue to mix up their rations with
dirty dish water nasty acids and other
filthy stuffs which were never known to
increase egg production, or raise the
standard OF health. How many people we
hear boasting of their long-continued ex-
perence with domestic fowls. who never
yet have stopped the vicious habit OF
mixing compounds and authorizations in
the chickens mash. which are admirably
adapted to promote diseases and give rise
10 malarial conditions.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
Ro.d improvements.

Tho State of New Jersey is credlteu
with having the best road law OF any
state in the Union and state poaru
Improvement association that pushes
the work right along. The annual re-
mort of the road commissioner for 1891
shows that during the year there were
built sixty-siX niles of improved ROADS,
for which the state will contribute
100000 and the counties and property
owners about 100000. During lhe
last three years about 23S miles OF
macadamized or gravel roads nave
been built, for which the state spent
s4G6 800 and the counties and property
owners along the lines or roads more
than 81 ,OO0,000 The report says thar
opposition to the law has changed 10
enthusiasm in its favor, and the COM
missioner cannot keep up with the APP
plicatons for road improvements. Inc
farmers have found by experience that
the taxes for their part OF the improve
ment sit lightly upon them and are
small expense computed with the saw
ing made by the more easy transporta-
tion of their produce 10 markets ana
the inducement offered to settle IN the
country. The report says:
II costs ~ cents per bushel 10 snip
wheat from Chicago to New YORK.
distance of 900 niles 1t costs Genus
a bushel to haul wheat on level ROAD
a distance OF I'VE nun an" va - -
road II would cost 8 cents per mile 10
haul IT, The saving on bushcl OF
wheat with good roads for distance
of five miles would be equivalent 10
that of 600 miles of transportation by
steamer or canal boat OF 315 miles by
railroad. one mile of good roads would
make a saving equal to seventy-fve miles
of railroad transportation. Thus every
mile of good roads places the producer
seventy-five miles by rail nearer 10 ths
markets. 1t is estimated That the cost u
haulinr 200 OOO.o 900 tons of farm produce
IN market is 81 rer ton, or just about
81 600 600 0O0 it is also estimated that
about 60 per cent of this last amount,
or 5000 OOO,O 600 would be saved each year
II farmers were able 10 do this hauling
over good roads
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-03-11
DnirY RN-PrOdncts.

Lakefleld Standard: Buttermilk and
whey are as valuable as skim milk Tor
hogs, but for quite young animals it is
not so suitable, as it deranges their di-
gestiVe organs and causes scours and
other troubles. 1t should, therefore, be
fed with care. AS poultry food
SKINNED milk has been tried at So per
ton, side by side with meal scrap and
animal meal at $50 per ton. and
the milk has been found the cheaper. 1t
is a protein food and Will take the
place of meat scrap. and many a dairy
man who also keeps poultry can turn
his skim milk into eggs and stock and
sell it in that form at a nice proht. Last
but not least, good, sweet, skimme milk
is an article not to be despised as
human food, Notwithstanding the
Cranky laws of some of our town
and city councils and boards of
health, which won't allow daryman
to sell his SKINNED milk for what 1t is,
while the milk dealer sells watered milk
for whole milk, and the wiseacres say
they protect the people. Skinned milk
is quite nutritious substance and easy or
digestion. IL, of course does not have
the fuel of whole milk. but il is Just
as rich in blood and tissue making sub
stance, and will. all by itself, make an
excellent lunch III warm weather.
SKINNED milk cheese. OF course, is not
the best. but all dairy products are
graded ana there is a market for TIE
high and low grades. There is no
reason why people who cannot afford 10
purchase the first grade OF products
should go without. and we know there
are many people in that condition. There
fore the manufa cture OF skinned milk
cheese should not be entirely discouraged.
Furthermore, it is quite an lncolne TO
many dairyman.
The manure products by Ike dairy herd
can properly be called by-producc Oh
the dairy. Quite lately AN experiment
station issued a bulletin on fertilizer
values by practical application. Fdrn-
ward manure gave value of S250 per ton.
Tho United States department of ng"i-
culture gives the value of cow manure
at 81 per ton and Il COW will produce
thirteen tons Of manure per year. with
proper feeding ana necessary bedding.
That would place he value of the manure
produced by each COW at $2G.
We have concluded that tie value or
manure produced BY one COW per year
is $50. Many ordinary dairy farmers
keep twenty cows. That manure care
fully saved and applied would be worth
as much as 500 worth OF commercial fer
tilizer, but by little negligence ard
carelessness $3.50, o. more, is ANNUALLY
lott. some going down stream and
some escaping into the atmos-
phere. No business on earth can
stand such n loss. Time was when The
farmer could bear t, but that TIME is no
more. Only eight years ago butter was
nuoted in New York city, in August, at
25 cents per pound; last year it brought
16 cents per pound. The time has come
for us TO stop some of the largest leaks
or we will sink.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-11
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

From accounts printed in the Bakers
Journal 1t seems that 200 new members in
ten new unions have been gained by the
Bakers and Confectioners' International
union in the last two months.
The granite cutters Of Georgia, who
seeded from the national union in 1894 and
formed a southern union, have returned 70
the national body, and thereby been able
to secure agreements IN three granite
enters Of Georgia which call for the en-
ployment Of union men only.
Near Salmon City, Idaho. a gold dredging
Of building by the H. ]. Reiling company of
Chicago. This Notable plant is of the New
Zealand type, with all the heavy parts Of
annealed steel and with a daily capacity esti-
mated at $500 yards. The boat was ffoated
some time since, and the vast machinery
exhibited the most satisfactory enaciency for
the purpose, the final tests TO be made in
the near future. This plant has been worked
heretofore by hydrauhcking. at such times
as the water supply permitted. and It pro-
purest article Of gold found in Idaho, being
worth nearly $50 per ounce as II cones from
the ground. Moreover, the pay streak of
this remarkable locality is 200 to 300 feet
wide, twelve to twenty feet deep, and aver
ages go cents per cubic yard.
The total consumption Of coffee OF the
world in 1897 has been estimated at 1885,
800, 900 pounds. In a quarter Of a century
the consumption has doubled. The business
OF coffee growing in Brazil is in a very bad
condition. owing to the fall in price In 1897.
The total exports Of Brazil in 1896 amounted
to $3.50, 900. GOO, and OF this coffee made
$40. 900, 900. Everybody went into coffee
raising, and even the necessaries Of life
were imported-vegetables. meat and fruit
from the Rio Platte; onions from POI tugal.
potatoes from France. wheat and hog
products from the United States, etc. The
huge crop of last year, 1920, 900, 900 pounds.
brought only 81. 900, 900, while the COM
paratively small crop Of 1895. Of 7,0OO.0 900
bags. when coffee was worth $50 . bag. sold
for $40, 900. 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-11

Youths Companion: A drill sergeant was
unpopular among his men. They found him
too particular. One day he had on hand .
party OF recruits whom he was putting
through the funeral exercise. Opening the
ranks so as to admit the passage Of the
supposed funeral cortege among them, the
instructor. by way Of practical explanation,
llked sloWlv down the lane formed by the
two ranks. saying, as he did so: Now, I'm
the corpse. Pay attention." Having reached
the end Of the line he turned, regarded the
men with a scrutinizing eye for a minute,
and then remarked: "Your 'ands Is right
and your 'eads Is right, but you 'aven't got
that look Of regret you ought to ave-"
Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-11
woodmen of the World.

The Woodmen OF Port Huron, Mich, are
following the example Of Alpha Camp Of this
city. They have organized the Port Huron
Woodmen Guards and have acquired a
reputation throughout the state for excellent
drilling. One OF the camps Of Port Huron
suffered a great loss recently by fire. the
block in which It held its meetings being
completely destroyed with all its parapher-
MALTA.
Webster camp. No. 81, Of Webster. Neb..
held a ceremony At Glencoe cemetery. last
Sunday afternoon, unwilling the monument
of the late John Porter Of that township.
The camp and the lodge Of Odd Fellows
of which he was a member marched from
there were about 500 people assembled.
Sovereign smyth OF Omaha. with the as
s~istance OF the Officers OF camp No. 81, con-
Quoted the ceremony.
The camps of st. Louis are Just now en-
Toying quite a boom. during the presence In
that city of Deputies Croft and Towne.
There are over 5000 members there and will
soon be 1000 by the united efforts OF the
members and deputies.
Hon. G.. C. Farmer is meeting with rous-
ing success In lecturing through the state
OF Missouri. The camps receive him with
open arms, each town calling an open meet
ing. which is held In opera house or hall.
His lectures are superb.
Owl camp, with twenty-seven charter
members. was organized by Joseph Wolf at
Elba, Neb., December I. The following on
GERS have been elected and installed: c. c.,
Charles Kotik; A. L.. Joseph Tenna; b..
Moravec; c., A. R. Buda; E., j.
Krefel. sr.; W, J. Krefel. jr.; s.. John
Kotner; p. DR.. 8. F. Nickelson; managers,
]. F. Fuma, Vac Horalek, J. ]. Demeresky.
PEBBLE Creek camp was organized Novem-
Der 22 at Ridgeley. Neb. The following
officers were elected and installed last week:
G. c., william Thermes; A. L.. Thomas
Thomson; B.. Robert Hartman; c., Jacob
Ries: T.. Edward Mcclure; W., Herman
1snts: s.. A. Thomson; p. DR.. q. !. Eigler;
Omaha daily bee., 1898-12-11
COURAGE OF A COWBOY.
He Swung Himself and His HOrs
OYera YaWninG Cham by Q Rope.

He Swung Himself and His Horse
Over O YawninE Chasm by . Rope.
Speaking Of the daredevil characteristics
of western cowboys" said an old plainsman
to a New York Sun reporter, II recall an
adventure that might have proved fatal to
myself and a man named Henry but for the
great presence of mind displayed in an
emergency by my cool-headed companion.
The incident happened in Montana three
years ago last spring. We were travelling
along q narrow trail on the border OF the
Grande Ronde river when we suddenly came
to a landslide that was about twenty-five
feet across and left no trail In the smooth,
precipitous rock. The trail was 30 narrow
that our horses could not turn back and,
realizing that 1t would be folly to expect
the animals to Jump the chasm, 1t looked
as though we were trapped. But directly
above the twenty-Ave-foot break in the trail
there was a huge rock which was split in
the center. Henry saw the crack in the
rock and having a strong riata seventy feet
long on mis- saddle. he eciled 1t up. steadied
himself in his saddle, swung the rope over
his head and then hurled 1t high In the air.
Being an expert in the use of the riata, 1t
went true to the mark and was soon firmly
fixed In the crevice Of the rock.
While I was wondering what he was
going to do with the rope he took in the
slack and wound 1t around the horn of his
saddle, which was very strong and supplied
with double cinches. Then he urged his
horse to the edge Of the precipice.
1.-THE faithful beast stood firm. He would
not step over. but Henry again drew up the
slack and pulled with all his might. Inch
by inch he drew the straining horse forward
till his feet slipped and he swung over the
yawning chasm. For a moment I held my
breath and shut my eyes, expecting to hear
the slender rope snap and its burden disap-
pear into the raging river below.
When I did open my eyes he had swung
across the gap and, dismounting. ne backed
up the trail and tugged at the reins to aid
the horse in gaining his feet. He pulled
hard and the animal lunged up into the trail,
with the chasm far behind.
Safe on the other side, Henry urged me
to make the p~erilous trip in the same way
as he had done. For som time I couldn't
UP the necessary courage, but at last,
when I realized that there was no other way
Of continuing the journey. l consented to
swing myself across the chasm. After land
Ing on the other side Henry returned for
my horse and having swung the beast safely
across the gap. we rode away and left the
rope dangling for the use OF the next way
farer who CHANGED to come that way.