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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
c VS.. Hogs.

NC AAO6os
1t has frequently been stated that we
are raising too many sheep lin this
country, and, therefore, that which
ought to be a source of wealth to us
Is frequently a PURGE of depression,
the overlooking of the market with
hogs and hog products not leaving a
lair margin, either to the farmers or to
tne packers, says National Provisioner.
IL is easy to state the source Of the
trouble but it is more difficult to sug-
eest a remedy. In this instance, how
ever, we are not entirely beyond the
possipflt1es of a remedy and relief. We
nave Tor many years advised the culti-
walton CT mutton as a desirable meat,
ana the raising of more sheep and less
nogs. The farming papers Of the coun-
Try nave taken sides with us, and have
supported our views, and there is no
reason why the farmers should not do
what is in their interest and what will
hclp their bank accounts. A large part
OF the wealth of England and Australia
IS derlvcdsfrom sheep raising. An in
crease In the number of sheep in this
country would add considerably to the
wealth. OF the nation, especially of the
farmers and Of the packers, the more so
now when wool is amply protected and
ought to bring a good price. Our con-
temporary, Wallace's Farmer, urges the
m in the same manner as we do,
ana speaks especially for the state of
iowa, which is now a very large
HO0-f11CInO ctntn I-t xlafoynr
relates to Iowa relates to a
great extent to other Western
states, n also to the South. Of
course, 1t will not do to raise sheep
on ground which is too Nat or wet. But
IN the bluegrass section of this country
sheep would mature as well, if not bet
ter, than they do in the British islands.
We have hotter summers. it is true, but
our winters are more even than they
are in England. The packers and com
mission men. ought to educate the farm
ers to understand more the value Of
the sheep as an investment and of NUT
ton as a desirable food. Sheep need
some care, but if it is bestowed upon
them there is no better investment to
the farmer. Five acres of lane will
taxi care Of twenty-five sheep and
their lambs during the summer, and in
winter no farmer will miss what they
eat. Their fleeces will pay about 81
apiece and their lambs a year old, if
properly cared for, are good for So. If
fattened to 100 pounds weight and put
on the present market they are good
for SIS by the carload. 1t has been fig
ured out by ar authority that with oats
and corn at 80 cents a bushel and oil
meal at $1.25 per hundred, a lamb from
the time that it is two weeks old until
it reaches 100 pounds, which is in the
eleventh month, will not onsum more
than $1.35 worth of grain. In our opin-
ion, the time is not very far distant
when, with the scarcity of beef and
with the high price which cattle COM
mand, we will have to resort to eating
mutton. There will also be a great ex-
port demand for the article. We have
too much corn, too many hogs, too few
sheep.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
Growing Black Walnut for Timber.

owi Black Walnut Tor Timber.
There has come to be a widespread
notion that fortunes can be made in a
very few years by growing black wal
nut for timber, writes Chas. A.. Keffer
In American Gardening. If the idea,
as it is, were to result In
the extensive planting Of this valuable
species it would result in great ulti-
mate good, though it is doubtful II n
OF the planters would live to harvest
their crop. The black walnut is a rapid
orable conditions, but it does not de-
velop the rich dark color that gives to
the wood its peculiar value until it APP
proaches maturity, or at an age beyond
one hundred years. I know of trees only
80 years old that are over sixty feet in
height and ten inches in diameter at
breast high. But the wood of these
trees is sappy and light colored, show
ing none of the richness that makes
the timber sought for furniture and
nnlshing purposes. 1t is the color that
gives value to the wood, and young
trees cannot be sold at a price much
beyond that of any other species. And
ye,, given a deep, fresh, loamy soil,
such as that of river and creek bot
tom and Second bench" lands, and l
doubt If a better crop could be grown
In odd corners, or where land is cheap.
The nuts should be planted where the
tree is to stand, shortly after they
drop from the tree. 1t is unnecessary
TO hull them. They should be covered
about one inch deep. and will ordinar-
lily grow a foot high the first year.
They are easily transplanted when one
year old, but as a heavy tap root Is
formed they are difficult to reset after
the first year. For timber they should
be grown among other trees that make
a denser shade. These are called nurse
trees, and their purpose is to prevent
the walnut from branching low, and
forcing its stem straight and tall. Red
and Silver Maple, Russian and native
Mulberry, and Box Elder are all good
nurses for black walnut. Suppose all
the trees stand AKA feet apart, then each
walnut should be surrounded by nurse
trees. This would place the walnuts
at least SKIS feet apart. l would prefer
to make the entire plantation 3x3 feet,
placing walnuts at 9x9 feet; this would
require SGT walnut trees per acre, and
a total of 4,S40 trees per acre. The rate
of thinning would depend entirely upon
the development, and this in turn de-
ponds on many things; soil, exposure,
rain, humidity, winds and all the con-
ditions Of a locality that can influence
tree growth. AS to the number of trees
that should stand on an acre at a given
age and the value of a walnut planta-
ton at any given time, such subjects
are too speculative for discussion, and
any attempt at a didactic statement
would be absurd. Fashions change in
woods as well as in %bonnets, and be-
aus black walnut is a priced tree to-
day, it does not, Of course, follow thai
it will be so a hundred years hence.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

: The length of the indian frontier
which is threatened by the attacks OF
the t~ribesmen, from the Chitral distr.ct
to Baluchistan, is about five hundred
miles. The Swat. Momand, Ozarkzai.
Afridi and other tribes which are fight
ing against the English are hardy
m~ountaineers, living on the slopes OF
the Hindu Kush range. Most of them
occupy debatable ground between At
CHAN and British territory, and they
acknowledge no allegiance to either au-
thority. Some of them have been sub
sidized by the Indian government, and
the Afridis, the most warlike of them,
have furnished recruits for the Indian
army.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

'We have come" said the chairman
of the committee, ito ask you to take
the nomination. The city needs n man
ike you-stf0ng, brave, Self-lnadc, self
reliant, owning nc master, fearing no
man.
The great MAJ was visibly touched.
"Ill not deny" said he. that your
kind words have shaken my resOlu-
ton. | trust that if elected, | may
justify your confidence and prove that
| am. indeed, strong, brave, self-reli-
ant; that | OWn no master and fear no
nan. Suppose you wait Il minute till
you see if my wife will let me run."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

The labor leader. who says that low
wages from the competition of
women, and that this is why male
workmen cannot afford to marry, is
more or less right; but unfortunately
women have. to live somehow, and they
must have money to do it. The diff
Guilty with labor. leaders is that they
look at things as they ought to be and
;. not as they are; but capital as well as
labor is subjected to conditions most OF
which are inevitable. For. of course,
the women can't be assassinated; and,
after all, affection rules to some extent,
and there are proportionately moro
marriages among the very poor than
the very rich.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Rev. DR.. R~ylance, rector CT s..
Marks chuIcl, New York, who has
just returned from abroad, declares
1T he is an enemy of "blue laws" He
ays England and France would not
stand for such a measure as the Ra.nes
wv, and that the Sunday Of Euro
pean countries is more conducive to
the happiness Of the people than our
so-called Cry Sunday.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
AcnuIttch by the Junge.

IGNORANCE Of the law excuses no
man. said the court, sternly.
and you just said" replied the pris-
onCr, that | was no man, or | would
never have struck Il woman"
Being Il logician as well as Il iurist,
the judge reasoned instantauc0nSly
from the premises to the conclusion,
and suspended sentence.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Wet weather or dry, it is all n to
oil, which, having served a proud ap-
premiership at soothing troubled wat
ers, is now equally eficacious in laying
dust along railway tracks. Unctuous
and a~mbidextrous, oil is king.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

You will enjoy this publication much
better if you will get into the habit OF
reading the advertisements; they will
afford 4 most interesting study and
will put you in the way of getting
some excellent bargains. Our adver.
tisers are reliable: they send what they
advertise.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Argentine Live Stock.-The numbers
of live stock the Argentine Republic
possesses amount (says an English ex-
change) to about 25, 000,O 600 head of
horned cattle, $4,000, 900 sheep, 5000, 900
horses, SOC, 900 asses and mules, 2,OOO,-
900 goats and 100000 pigs, whereas he
whole population of the country only
amounts to 5000, 900 inhabitants. The
majority of the cattle belong to the old
creole race.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
Everybody Says So.

Cascarcts Candy Cathartic, the most wonder
full medical discovery Of the age, pleasant and
refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively
on the kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the
entire system, dispcl colds, cure headache,
fever, habitual constipation and biliousnCSs.
Please buy and try u box of C. G.. G. to-day; 10,
25, so cent. Sold and guaranteed to cure by al
DRUGGISTS.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

\ laxative barber was trimming up
the hair of King .Archelaus.
ANY special way you want it trim
med, o. king?' he asked.
Yes said the king; with the scis-
sors., If | wanted it trimmed with pas
samenterie and jet | should have gone
to Il Observation-Disclosures.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Visitor seeking board)-Say. young
man, where is the landlord who runs
this summer retreat?
Young Man tchurning,-Ef yer look
in fer dad, ycrll find him daoWn ter
the barn with the rest of the cattle.
He's got chin wliskers and suffers
Judge.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
The Arabian Horse.

The Arabian horse has been used in
developing the military horses of all
the European countries, and is the
foundation, even the thoroughbred
horse, which has deteriorated to a mere
shadow, while the Arab has remained
the same in size, color, stamina and
wonderful prepotency for a thousand
years. The Arab is increasing in popu-
larity in England, and an Importation
of the richest blood has been made to
England, direct from royal studs in
Arabia. There are able champions of
the breed in England and in America
Western Agriculturist. The able
champions of the breed in both conn
tries have never been able to produce
an Arab with the size, substance, speed
and lasting qualities Of the English
thoroughbred. Even the progen of
the Arabian stations and thoroughbred
mares have never been able to accom-
plish anything on the track or in the
breeding stud, and hence all attempts
to improve the thoroughbred by the in
fusion of fresh Arabian was long since
abandoned. If the thoroughbred has
deteriorated to a mere shadow. the
shadow seems to be able to beat the
substance very easily. if the Arabian
represents the latter.-EX.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Water in Milk.-The less frequently
the milk is taken from the udder the
greater is its proportion of water, the
last portions removed being generally
the richest in butter. Evening milk is
much richer in butter and casein
than the morning milk, the salts
remaining about the same. When
the animal is given abundance of
food it increases both the amount
of casein and fat, while a les
sened diet diminishes the total solids.
Rest seems to encourage the formation
of butter, exercise impoverishing the
milk in butter, but increasing it's rich
ness in casein.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Mr.. H.. w. Sutton, Of Derby, Iowa,
asks:
will cattle eat buckeyes and are
they injurious? People tell me they
will kill cattle. Is it SO? l have a pas
ture in which there are quite a number
of buckeyes and would like to under
stand If the buckeyes are dangerous to
cattle before turning on the pasture"
Prof. ]. L.. Budd answers in Iowa
State Register as follows: This is an
severed publicly, as it has public inter-
est. The nuts of all the buckeye fam
lily are not poisonous, in the ordinary
sense, but they are loaded with an in
tensely bitter narcotic principle that
may destroy life if eaten in consider
able quantity. For some reason cattle
seem fond of them, and no fact is better
established than the one that cattle
have frequently been killed by eating
nuts of the Ohio buckeye and the one
native to this state. 1t Will be safest to
cut down the tree in the pasture, and
We know from experience that the wild
crab apples in the pasture should share
the same fate, if mich COWS have &C.
cess to the fruit, as they will decrease
the flow of milk as long as the apples
last"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

AS the pocket OF Pinkerton himself
has just been picked, it is of little use
to further employ detectives or police
men. Plnky was gaping at a parade
in Denver. like any other Chicago jay,
when he lost his wad,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Tow Successful rme Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
= Care of Poultry.

f you want your
Chicks to h a v e
bright yellow legs,
never allow them
to run or wallOW
w h ere ~unleached
wood ashes have
been thrown, they
will bleach them
white. Use sulphur
sparingly or it will
kill more chicks
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
A New Egg Preservative.

M. Bournouf recommends in a
French journal the following method
of preserving eggs: Dissolve in two
thirds of warm olive oil, one-third of
beeswax and ove each egg complete
ly with a thin layer Of this pomade
with the end of the finger. The egg
she'll by degrees absorbs the oil and
each of the pores becomes filled with
wax, which Theoretically seals them.
NJ. Bournouf afirms that he has eaten
eggs kept two years in this manner in
a place not exposed to too great ex-
tremes of temperature. He thinks also
that the germ may in this manner bo
preserved for a considerable time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Danger in Filthy Water.-Doubtless
thousands of children die annually. in
city and country, from the effects of
milk from COWS obliged to drink water
contaminated with the germs of disease
and the disease is often traced to this
source. Any standing water exposed
to the rays of the sun is dangerous.
Let your cows have no water not fit for
YOU yourself to drink.-Ex.
The paths of glory lead but to the
grave.-Gray,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Judge Foster of Kansas thinks there
is something wrong in the gambling
that enables a man to make several
million dollars a day through an ad-
vance in the price of wheat, especially
as the man does lot raise, import. ex-
port, or so much as see the grain that
brings him that great fortune. They
will never cease to have queer ideas in
Kansas, remarks Judge. and at the
same time this millionaire, living by
his wits, is totally non-productive, and
when he drops out of life the world
has lost not a dollar of any kind Of
value.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURlSTS.
ONO Up-to-Date Hints About Culttva-
tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof
Horticulture, Viticulture and Flori-
culture.
Winter Protection of the Peach.

e n in protecting
the peach against
winter killing have
been carried on at
the Missouri Expe-
riment Station dur
ing the past two
years. The results
of these trials are
reported by Prof. ].
C. Written in bull
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
Frozen Root Grafts.-This is not new

Frozen Root Grafts.-This is not new
in our experience. Twenty-four years
ago a neighbor drove up with a box of
root gratis frozen solid. He said that
he shut up the house for a winter yisit
and on coming home found the cellar
was frozen solid. On examination no
signs of uniting of root and graft was
found. He offered to sell the lot ~
10000 CRAFTS for $40. We did not know
then that they were worth 10 cents, but
we took them and planted them beside
our own gratis kept in a warm cellar
The result was a perfect stand of tho
frozen CRAFTS and a poor one of those
kept as we supposed just right. Since
that time we have not been afraid ~
a very cold root cellar for gratis pack-
ed in sandy earth.-Ex.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Washes for Breakfast.-A writer III
the Iowa Homestead offers the follow
ing very practical advice: Washes are
a quick breakfast. The crops of the
fowls in the morning are empty, and it
is necessary that they should have
something for quick assimilation. 1t
takes a number Of hours for whole
grain to digest. This ground grain
very quickly does its work. Into the
mashes meat or condition powder or
any tonic can be readily put, and the
results are more satisfactory. We feed
mashes The entire year. During the
winter We mix ground grain with boil
ing hot water; during the summer we
use cold water. In the winter we give
the mash in the morning, and grain at
noon and night. During the summer
we give but two meals a day-morning
and evening. In the mashes, too. we
are able to give more of a variety than
with whole grain.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

1t really seems to be the exception
nowadays to take up a daily paper
Without finding the account of a suicide
Of a man or woman by means or car
bolic acid. The latest case is that OF
a man who poisoned himself at his
wife's grave. and it appears in evidence
that he had pawned his coat to buy
the carbol.c acid with which he effect
cd his purpose. Now, carbolic acid is a
virulent poison; a few drops will kill
a dog, and plants expire ina dilute
aqueous solution of it, and yet 1T can
be obtained easily and without restric-
ton by any nj who desires to obtain
it for legitimate or illegitimate pur-
poses. Even a child may purchase at
n shop without any difficulty for a few
cents as much of this virulent poison
as will kill half a dozen persons. Sure
ly the time has arrived when some
thing should be done to restrict the
sale of this acid, the more particularly
when it is considered that by far the
largest number of deaths by poisoning
is caused by its agency, and it seems
to be the favorite means of self-de-
struction by women. 1t Is nothing less
than a scandal that this article should
rot be included among the scheduled
poisons. If the legislature has decreeo
tie prussic acid, by which painless
death is produced, shall not be avail
able to the public except under med
ical supervision, then why in the name
of reason should carbolic acid, which
causes the most frightful suffering, be
within the reach of all? An alteration
in the existing legislation in this mat
ter is urgently called for.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

The want columns of the daily papers
prove that man wants a great deal here
below.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

The lower the gas is turned the brighter
it seem SfOr lovers
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Il can't DO bothered with attending
caucuses!' snapped Mr.. Swallow.
But" he added, proudly, Il never ne
elect to vote!" Il wonder why you
have screens at your windows?" Mr..
Wright said, softly. why don't you
let the mosquitoes come in, and try to
kill them afterward?"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13
NG-TO-Huc for Fifty Cents.

The protigate rake is never able TO hoo
his own row.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

1t is also a sign of good luck to give
plenty of good sound food and clean
water,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

George. do you know that you came
home at 3 o'clock this morning and
acted drcadfully silly?
what did | say"
well, for one thing, you called me Il
winglcss angel"
did I say that"
Yes
"Ill have to own up, my dear. l was
drunk.'-CleyCland Plain Dealer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

The majority of ME believe in pla-
tonic %loye-atter death.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Guaranteed tobacco habit cure. makes weak
men strong, blood pure. Doc. 81. All druggists.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Cure for Feather ating.-I have
experienced considerable difficulty in
effectually curing fowls of the bad habit
of feather-eating, and found the fol-
lowing a certain cure, after failing with
parafin, pairing the bills, etc.: Take a
piece of wire of the thickness of an
ordinary hairpin, bind it round the top
portion of the bill near the end. suf-
fciently tight as not to allow it to slip
off. This will not prevent the bird from,
eating or drinking, but will prevent it's
closing its bill sufficiently tight to draw
feathers, and the bad habit is soon for
gotten.-California Poultry Keeper.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

A great many orators mix the oil Of
eloquence with the water of weak argu-
ments.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

China has a war god with 5000 names.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Smoke Sledge Cigarettes, 20 for 5 cts.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

Smiles are merely little noiseless laughs.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-19
MARSHALL SPRING PIKE.
....,,b-e composer and Author is serl-
W." ously III.

n Dec. 1S.-Marshall Spring
ooa of Irptons best known citi-
f'.' lies seriously i'll at his home on
E', Main street, and the announce
w." If his death is now only a mat
D' time. Mr. Pixies health has
" ,,,llv failed for a couple of years
a' and ailments incidental to old age
Y" .ro cause Of his sickness.
,.rsbglI Spring Pike was author of
rof the best among old-time songs
' .,,b have been placed upon the mar
i.Nas he who wrote the world
oIonc starry hours" and an
.s ,., of his successful efforts was the
gus entitled Home again. ~
W. pike is a Worcester county boy,
ta was born in Westboro 70 years
a.' His service was given to the
If Uncle Sam when President
aaat,rn called for volunteers, and MIR.
~. Mas prisoner at Andersonville.
nm the venerable author and com
has lived alone in his apartments
Vorh Main street. But for an I'M
...,mate deal in which Mr.. Pike fig
W with music publishers, he would
a.5,uhfeIlv be a rich man.
'rsornous results came from his
.ao starry hours" and his song,
g.n- again" also netted quite a
The composer never realized
-,ob beside the name it gave him from
~, of his efforts, and today he is a
.rnaratively poor man.
Tha venerable man is receiving good
AZ and While death may not come
I, some time, it is expected any day.