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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
EARN Nntas.

A. G. HOfsumer has invented an i'm.
proved water-tight bed for cowboys
and others whose occupation compels
them to sleep out of doors in ali sorts
of weather. The continuance is boat
shaped, covered with strong water
proof material, and cOllapsible so that
it may be readily packed on a horse.
The entire bed, which is called "The
Cowboy Sleeper" weighs only twenty
two pounds.-Range News.
The quail is a good friend the farm
er. ana when Henry Lee sent to Cali
fornia twenty-Odd years ago for a Gov
ey of the quail to be turned loose al
his farm on Wheat Ridge, near Den.
yer. he did a wise thing. Last sum.
mer a quail that had miscalculated its
course and killed itself by flying
against a house and was picked up
and its distended crop examined. II
was found to contain 101 potato bugs
which the bird had taken for its morn
ing meal. Perhaps no other bird thai
freouents the farm pays a higher price
for the grain it consumes than the
email. Living above the hedge rows
Groves and ravines, where insect enc
mics gather and Turk during a greater
mart of the year, the quail not only
seizes large numbers of these enemies
daily during the summer months
when they are abroad in the land, bu
all winter through it scratches among
fine fallen leaves and other rubbish fol
alternating insects of various kinds
Bejng a timid creature the quail sci
dom leaves cover to feed in opel
fields. and, therefore, does little actua
harm in the way of destroying grain
In fact, only the stray kernels tina
would otherwise be lost are taken. N,
farmer should kill a single quail; no
should he allow them to be hunted Of
his premises.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
ono KInd OF COunterfeItIne.

The Minnesota law which requires
oleomargarine, butterine, etc., to be
eolored a bright pink, in order that
people who wish to use it may know
it at sight, and not have butter palmed
OF on them as a substitute, has again
been decided constitutional. this time
by Judge Lochren Of the United States
District Court, says Texas Stock and
Farm Journal. If this decision holds
it may lead to further legislation thor
ough enough to gradually force out OF
the market all limitations of food prod
ucts, or limit their sales to the demand
o. those who know just what they are
buying. Every farmer and dairyman
In Texas is interested in having such
a law as the Minnesota enactment
adopted and vigorously enforced in our
own state. A good deal has been said
to the discredit Of Texas because so
much food stuff that ought to be pro-
duced here is brought in from other
states, and butter, so-calIed, is one OF
the articles largely brought from else
where, though a large proportion OF
the Northern butter" is one or other
of the limitations, so cheaply made as
ture the pure article. The Journal has
not word to say condemnatOry Of
any legitimate competition with any
industry of our people. AS against
such competition we can either hold
our own, or we can surrender the po-
sition and occupy another. But these
mixtures in imitation of butter and
lard and pure syrup and score Of 9TH
eF food articles are frauds, pure and
simple, and the government does not
fulfill its duty to the citizen when 1t
gives license to such frauds to meet the
honest products of our industry, so dis
guised that only experts can tell the
true from the false by the appearances
of each. The man who adulterateE
food or manufactures limitations OF
pure food and fraudulently palms them
OF for commercial gain is on the same
plane as the man who raises the fg-
ures on a note or counterfeits coin
and the community ought to have tbs
same protection against him.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
Farm Department.


IF pruning is done properly, no tools
VIII ever be necessary except sharp
pruning knife; but If neglected, or too
many main limbs are allowed to grow,
the saw will have to be used in a few
years. 1t is desirable to make nice,
smooth, even cut, and to do this the
knife should follow the shoulder that is
noticeable at the junction of the limb
to another, or to the main stem, and
the surface of the cut should be no
larger than the base of the branch re-
moved. Draw the blade inward lit
tie at the upper side. Avoid leaving a
sharp stub, from which a new shoot
may start. Do not make the cut too
close. When the saw must be used on
heavy limb, saw little on the un-
der side first, so that the weight of the
limb as it falls will not split or peel
the bark. 1t is necessary to paint the
wounds made by pruning with white
lead and linseed oil, to which may be
added little lampblack, if desired, to
give a darker effect"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
WINTER ON THE FRUIT FARM.
Things That should BE Done During the
Quiet Months.

Things That Should BE Done During the
Quiet Months.
This period of the year has been
quite appropriately called "our ground
hog days" by some, but with me it
means time for preparation" as
arrange and prepare material for an
other seasons labOrs so that when the
rush of fruiting season comes l have
many of the small as well as large de-
tails arranged.
This need not apply only to the fruit
growers, but to the farmer as well.
Every farm should be equipped with
work shop, having a small stove there
in to heat it on cold or damp days, A
few of the most common tools OF the
various trades should be kept in con-
venient places so that most any sim
pie repair upon the farm can be made,
and if ones tastes and ingenuity are
so inclined, some of the finer tools for
doing cabinet work, etc.
1t is not so much the cost of a repair
as the time required in going to and
from some distant repair shop, which
is saved by having tools conveniently
at hand for repairing, though the old
saying that "a penny saved Is penny
earned applies also. AS l have a
make many useful articles for the
home, besides preparing material for
another season. make most Of my
crates, berry stands, stepladders, push
carts, ETC., which / need, but my fruit
packages / can buy at local factory
| for about what l would have to pay
! for the material in the "knOck-down."
The crates and stands are different
from those in general use, besides are
| cheaper and stronger and are but a
little heavier than the factory make.
use common lath for sides and bottom
of crate and one-half inch lumber for
ends. 1t takes four and one-half laths,
which, at 10 cents per bunch, OF fifty
costs in exact figures 9-10 of cent
but allowing for waste, say cent; fol
the ends, One-inch lumber, ten inches
wide, ripped into one-half inch stuff
will cost about SIC per thousand. The
end pieces are S15xS11a square, so thai
board ten feet long will make just
| twenty-eight end pieces, which cost
about 1 cent per crate. So that the
whole cost of material for a crate IL
not far from 2 cents; and as l canno
estimate my time worth much, during
the winter, do not figure it In.
Each strip of lath is smoothed of
with a jack-plane, which gives TIN
crate a heater and cleaner appearance
and cleanliness is profit in the frui
business, as l have learned by expe
rience. .,.....
For my picking stands I make ;
frame 915 inches square of 5-SX1112-incl
strips, with four strips of lath for tn
bottom. For handles procure bale
from old pals, or else. make then
, from No. 8 wire, which are fastenet
rigidly to stands. These will hold fou
boxes or quarts, and I find them a
serviceable as any 1 have seen.-Ep
, tomist.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
K AePOult1y Talk.

vs. ~ --sss5sg .AsPOultry Talk.
=, 7CCondensed from Farmers Review Stem
ographic Report of Illinois Round up In
stitution, held at Champaign Feb. s1-8s.)
The poultry interests of Illinois were
set forth by Hon, H. IS. Griffith. who
said In part, - p0ge's .s'fs ,g.,pst
a cUniformity OF. size and color OF
meat As highly preferred in, shipments
for market. Let your flock of poultry
be uniform for the same reasons that
you seek uniformity In yourA herd of
cattle or swine. Do, not condemn a, va
riety because some INSCRIPTIONS fell
low succeeded in getting of on you
some unrepresentative specimens at
high prices Buy your breeding stock
Of a fancier, real live, wide-awake
chicken crank. do not mean that sort
of fancier who fancies fowls because
they bring fancy prices, but real low
err of fowls, a man who observes the
good qualities of certain strain, and
goes to work to develop that strain.
| After breed has been chosen, the
stock secured and the farmer has fully
decided to go into poultry raising, q
few observations will not be out of
place. First, as to shelter and ground.
From my observations at the different
farms upon which have seen poultry
1 believe this is the essential thing in
starting; fowls must have shelter from
rain and storm. They cannot stand the
winter. The shelter should be made so
tight that they are free from drafts.
They are tender in the matter Of con-
tracing colds. In regard to sanitary
conditions, think the cause OF more
failures than anything else, and all the
diseases we have among our fowls may
be traced back to lack of good sani-
tary conditions. Filth breeds vermin,
and vermin is the source of nine
tenths of the disease that carries on
our poultry. The keeping clean OF
poultry houses is a very important
thing. Many times the young chickf
are kept in the same coops until they
are weaned and put into the trees. They
will acquire vermin and come out
weak.
elm the matter Of feeding on the farm
many times the poultry are allowed Ia
forage. and they find plenty Of food
but it does not come in the proper way
nor is it Of the proper kind. They
should be fed what suits them at thai
age. 1 think young chicks on a farm
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07

Arguments which have been used
against the tuberculin test are mem
toned and refuted, and it is shown
that where there is a possibility OF
danger there is danger, says a cOntem-
porary. An apparently sound udder
does not guarantee non-tuberculous
milk. The preponderance Of tubercu-
losis with poor ventilation, but good
stables and ventilation do not neces-
sarily prevent infection. The tuber-
culin test is both accurate and practi-
cal, and it is not injurious to the health
Of sound animal. With those that
are tuberculosis it may have a Gura-
tive effect when the infection has
been recent or is of limited extent, and
it may aid a tendency to recover in
other cases. The author is of the opin-
ion that the tubereulin test should be
made a condition of the granting OF
licenses to sell, and should be made
twice a year Only tested bulls should
be used, and calves from tuberculous
mothers should be reared upon milk
from Neutrality-suspicious. cows or upon
sterilized milk. Relative to the SUBJ
| ject OF tuberculous attendants for cat
/ tie the author thinks that the danger
from this source has been over-esti-
mated.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
THE GROWING OF FRUIT.
The Ninth Annual Report OF the STATE
Board of Horticulture.

The Ninth Annual Report of the State
Board of Horticulture.
The ninth annual report of the State
Board of Horticulture has been issued.
The report deals extensively with the
horticultural industry of the state, and
embraces recommendations and data
of considerable interest to fruit grow
ers. 1t is a generous contribution to
the state reports, and is furnished with
a copious index. The volume was edit
ed and compiled by Mrs. Martha
Shute, secretary to the board.
The proceedings of the annual State
horticultural convention held in Den
yer last November are given in detail,
with the addresses of the horticultural
inspectors of different counties. These
addresses contain valuable statistics
concerning the growth of fruit in the
state. 1t may not be generally known,
but Arapahoe county is one of the most
profitable fruit-growing sections of the
state.
'There are a number of large or
chards here" says the report, varying
from eighty to 100 acres each. In
March, 1897, two carloads of Ben Da.
Wis apples grown near LittletOn, packed
in barrels, were shipped to California,
and orders came at once for twenty
carloads more. At the last three State
Horticultural Fairs, Arapahoe county
fruit growers received premiums tt
prove the excellence of her products
During the past season one dealer in
Denver disposed of 100000 crates OF
strawberries grown here.
The business of growing a second
crop of strawberries has proved re
munerative branch of horticulture. Ac
cording to the report, "some grown
near Denver were picked after the frs
slight snow storm in October and solo
for $3.50 a crate. A second crop Of
strawberries raised around Canon City
and picked September Goth, brough
$142 to one gardener from fraction o.
an acre"
The following recommendations con
corning pruning are given and are o.
much interest to horticulturists:
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
A Faulty Diagnosis.

The students of a certain big medical
college of this city are enjoying good
joke at the expense of one of their pro-
fessors. The professor in question is
a physician of experience and acknowl-
edged ability, but he made a diagnosis
which was decidedly faulty in the case
of a young man, sufferer from nerv-
GUS trouble, who was introduced to the
clinic. In some diseases of the ner-
vous system there is an interference of
the blood supply to the smaller blood
vessels of the skin, which show a con-
gestion of the venous blood. A COM
mon symptom, for instance, is blue
color in the fingers. The subject be-
fore the clinic on this occasion seemed
to the physician to afford an excellent
illustration of this condition. Look
at this mans hands," said he; "do
you notice anything strange about
them?" A number of the students
gathered round to investigate, but they
declared that they saw nothing unusu-
al. "What?" declared the professor.
''Can't you see the condition of the
subjects blood indicated there in the
blue color of his hands. That
proves" But here the patients
mother, who was sitting near by, in
terrupted, why, DOCTOR" said she,
that blue is dye He works in tan
merry" The students laughed heartily
and the professor promptly dismissed
the patient.-Philadelp Record.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING cHAPTERs FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm "A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live stock
and Poultry.
Quality, Not Quantity.

A mistake In mating means great
deal. It ID like farmer planting poor
seed corn and in the fall being re-
warded for his seasons work by nub-
bings, writes T. F. Rigg in American
Poultry Journal. The most common
mistake In mating pens is putting in
too many females. This is especially
true of the beginner who has but one
pen. He has raised 18 to 20 pullets
from two or three sittings Of eggs pur-
chased Of reliable breeder. The birds
are an even lot in appearance, and he
takes it for granted all will make good
breeders. Here is where he, makes a
great mistake. He should critically
examine each female, after selecting
the male bird. He should take only
the very best of these, and if he finds
but three or four which fulfill the re-
quirements, these and these alone
should be used in the breeding pens.
By so doing he will raise stock supe-
rior to that he would secure by sim
ply putting in the pen as many fe-
males as the male can care for regard
less of fitness. In the fall he will
have uniform and valuable lot OF
chicks, with but few culls. He can
give these chicks better care during
the summer than he could give three
or four times the number. / like to
breed from nature birds, but as all our
birds must be pullets or cockerels be-
fore they are matrons and sires we
must use them very often the first
| m
or three year old cock. In such male
bird we have known quality, for most
defects In a bird come out at the time
Of the first moulting and surely at the
second moulting. Two-year-old heni
mated to a cockerel is a most satisfac
tory and successful mating. We al
learn by experience that chicks from
hens are more vigorous than chick
from pullets. Remember that In
marked degree like produces like.
Do not put fowl into your breeding
pen that is seriously defective in an.
point. Do not make mistake fl
supposing that an extra fine male vii
overcome serious defects in his mates
1t takes a strong point in either paren
to overcome even a weak one in tn
other parent. The male bird may b
half the pen, but he is not, and ca
not be more. AS stated, keep the fe
males down in number, looking t
quality only. Select the very best NAL
bird you have and choose the female
as nearly like him as possible, instea
of balancing defects and merit an
putting in any large number Of fl
males. This thing of balancing d.
fects and merit and expecting pc
containing a large number Of female
Of only ordinary quality to give us
lot Of extra fine stock is delusion an
! fraud. @'a
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07
THE sToRY OF AMBER.
A Rove Filter and Charm Against sisk-
ness and vVltohcraft.

4 Rove Filter and Charm Against @iak-
ness and WItOhcraft.
Men Of science say that ages ago
long before the time when children
were baptized with the cross Of the
hammer Of Thor; long before King
Olaf carried the gospel Of the White
Christ into the Norseland and Earl
Eric carried at his side the mighty
sword with the hilt of amber in which
stirred the worm which gave him
warning OF storm and fight; long be-
fore the destruction Of the frost bridge
and the coming Of Ragnarock-there
stood on the Samland mighty forest
Of cOnifers, the representatives OF
which today are found in California
and Oregon, says an exchange, In
those days this land was called ''Nihe-
him, the land Of eternal winter"
These trees piled up around their roots
the golden gum until the drift period
wiped out the surface Of nature as the
surf breaks down a child's castle of
sand and rolling over the fragrant
forest converted 1t into a gray and
restless sea. The Greeks, ever poetic
al, had legend that when Phaeton
drove the horses of the chariot Of the
sun and was hurled thence by Zeus,
he plunged into the Eridanus and was
killed and that his sisters, bewailing
him, were turned into trees, their tears
congealing around their feet as they
fell. Cuneiform inscriptions show that
centuries before the Christian era
caravans from Asia journeyed to the
Baltic for amber. To the barter Of this
| gum with Thrace is due the introduce
ton of bronze into Scandinavia and in
the museum at Copenhagen may be
seen Etruscan vases which were ex-
changed for amber at a prehistoric
period. Amber may be traced through
the world as love philter, charm
against sickness, contagion, blindness
deafness, sorcery, witchcraft, poison
It was used as an incense to the an
cient gods; it's fumes have rolled above
the suffice Of the Hindostani widow
through the grotesque temples Of
Brahma and even through that tenn
pie of the sun at Heliopolis in front o.
which stood the obelisk now in Contra
park, New York; back as far as tradi
ton runs stretches the story of amber
and it's protective and healing powers
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07

are usually starved. They have plenty
Of food IL q general way. but OF food
suiting them they do not get enough,
and they come up starved until they
get whole corn, and then they get more
than they need. In conclusion, want
to say that II the Illinois farm is to
be preserved In all its fertility. more
fowls should be raised, and the pro-
ducts should be more varied. More
land should be devoted to vegetables.
and the delicious berries and larger
fruits; more honey should be produced
and more fowls, as well as the heavier
products. for which our state is known.
Make the farm home SO sweet that he
who leaves 1t in aspiring youth will
have none but pleasant recollections. +"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07

French Butter Losing the English
Market,-From report recently is
sued by the French government, a re-
markable decline in the expectation
Of French butter to the United King
dom is noticed. The falling OF has
been general with regard to this class
of exports, but it is as far as the Eng
lish market is concerned that the de-
cline has been most marked. The value
Of salt butter sent to the United King
dom in 1890 was 93,04O,O 900, in 1891 it
fell to e2,82O.OOO in 1892 to s2,2sO, 900,
in 1893 to Ell, 92O, 200, in 1894 it rose
to s1,920,0OO, to fall again in 1895 to
91,56O,OO0; and in 1896 it amounted to
92,360,000. The English market for
fresh butter from France is in a worse
state still. The average value Of the
export from 1872 to 1881 was a154,-
I'll, and from 1882 to 1891 only a115,-
6O2. In 1892 the value decreased to
91O4,O 900, in 1893 to e34, 1000, in 1894
to Eli, ESQ, in 1896, to $4,000, and in
1896 it amounted to only e1,92O.-Ex.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07

A uniform temperature is needed IL
we would develop the proper ferments
in the cheese. A higher or lower tenn
perature seems to have the effect Of
stimulating the development of other
bacteria than those desired.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-07

Plenty of light keeps the poultry
house dry. A sunbeam is medicine.
The Forrest City times., 1898-02-18
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FIFTY-flFTH CONGRESS.

IN the senate on the 10th, almost the entire
session was devoted TO consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill The reading OF the
bill was completed and all Of the committee
amendments were adopted Subsequently sew
eral amendments offered on the floor were
also adopted. 80. In the house the day was fritz
tered away in flibustering against couple OF
unimportant bills. Roll call followed roll call
and partisan feeling ran high. FINALLY, "a call OF
the house disclosing the want OF quorum ad-
iournment was taken until the iith.
In the senate on the lith consideration OF the
Indian appropriation bill was resumed which
after amendment in some particulars, was
passed The most impairment amendment to
the bill was that offered by Mr. Pettigrew
Is D. restoring the free homestead law so far
a. 1t relates TO Indian lands coded to the
United States and for which settlers have been
obliged TO pay the purchase price received by
the Indians. The bill carries an Appropriation
aggregating ss000.Oo0 The senate adjourned
until the lith The house was not in ses-
sion
In the senate on the iith the amendment OF
NJ. Allen tNeb.) to the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill recognizing the belligerency
OF the Cuban insurgents was reported adverse
ly. Mr. Morgans resolution calling upon the
president for reports of United States consuls
in Cuba and for Information as to whether any
agent OF the autonomous government in Cuba
had been accredited to this government and
recognized by it, was adopted without dissent
......ln the house resolution of inquiry. pre-
viously reported by the foreign affairs commit
tee.as to the concentrates in Cuba, was adopted
without division. Much OF the session was de-
voted to District of Columbia business.
IN the senate, on the 18th. the resolution
calling on the attorney for the reasons
which induced him to abandon his plan of re-
deeming the first mortgage bonds of the Kan
sas Pacific branch OF the Union Pacific, and
hANrf tafr
cpitated lively discussion OF the Pa ifc rail-
road question, which occupied much OF the ses-
sion The resolution was finally passed in an
amended form In the house the day was
devoted to consideration of bills and joint res
olutions, under call of committees is of
which were passed. March 1. . and was set
apart for discussion of the Loud bill relating to
seconded mail matter