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The Delta independent., 1899-09-01
The Fortniqhily Club.

The Fortniehtly Musical club will
commence work FOR the coming fall and
winter on the Both OF this month. The
club ia expecting to secure the use Of
one n the halls Of the city to hold their
meetings in. as the membership is get
ting SO large that but very few parlors
10 town will accommodate them. The
following is the program up to the last
o. the year. the club having isrded a
neat little souvenir to the members with
different dates OF meeting and names Of
those who will participate at each
meeting.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

The trial Of Dreyfus is hardly up tn
the standard OF the Kangaroo court in
the Asrpahoe county Jail. So far there
has been DO evidence against Dreyfus
but the Court has allowed what is
known a. the general staff" to appear
and express their opinion OF the guilt OF
the accused. 1t seems it isn't necessary
to state facts in court martial trials
in Fracpe-what they want is opinions.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

The latest information is that the
Crystal river railroad have settled on
the proposition of building into the
North Fork and inside OF another year
the business Of that country will go out
the other way. This will bs mater al
loss TO Delta. All will feel it. And the
loss will he more severe than some
imagine. The North Fork Times says:
There arc sixty five teams nov hauling
fruit to Delta and the fruit season has
hardly opened 1t u useless to deny
that this means considerable business
Tor Delta and the railroad at this point.
You won't miss this trade until it 10 gone
and then regrets will be hoard that an
effort was not made first to build read
to Hotchkiss and then put on m cleo
trio line which operating with the Rio
Grands at this point would prevent the
construction OF line over the range into
territory naturally tributary to Delta
A gentleman moved here some time ago
With the intention Of carrying this pro-
ject into effect and has done symo work
10 bold rights which we're acquired and
st the time of moving here he had the
sssusancs Of funds for the work. but
sincs that time events have transpired
which may compel him tolook elsewhere
for capital. He has made no direct
appeal to the people hero for help but
ruthsf than ses him fail . voluntary
e1sr Of sssistarcs should Be- made.
Moesy pst In can b absolutely secured
ord ths North Fork trade oan for al
tias. n Osst,soss sssssrsd 70 has
~ sapssiesss y vosk = thb kisd ed
~ sovsys nads . soeress = sssh
vsotusss ssd thoss familiar With the
sisussios 10 this county are csrtsin Of
the SUCCESS of the scheme in this county.
Dou't 20 to sleep-don't let the North
Fork trade slip away without an effort
to save Il. We have but to lsok at our
nsighboring city Of Grano Junction and
ct what sxertiou she got sugar plant.
sitter the county commissioners bsd
offered el6.O00 to the promoter. he found
b bed 70 have . bonus Of $500 acres
oe land and had to secure contracts fog
35O0 acres OF bests. Two thousand he
secured from the farmers and he asked
The business mes Of Grand Junction to
grow the rest. Seventy-dve business
men agrsed to the contract. seventy
three lived up to the terms. To grow
thsss bssts required lots Of enc gy and
lots Il cash. but what Of It! They won't
at Il snd won. Before load Of bcets
can be hauled 10 the factory the total
cost will not be less than Is per scre.
This means the business men u Grand
Junction have put up $4,000 cash TO
comply with their contracts. This kind
Il energy wins-it builds up--it holds
trsds-it makes towns into cities and
makes citjes thrive. Compared to Mess
county. Dslts county hss a. msoy. ~
varied snd - great resources. but with
out energy, without push end get up
aud git" our neishbors will forge to the
froat whiIe we allow our trade TO clip
sway. Delta can get . sugar factory
bot u won't come unless 20 60 after il.
Delta can own and operate IN electric
lips to coutrol the trade with tho North
Fort. Bvt without any effort on our
part II will % over the range and then
ws will regret il.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

Make your entries for the third an
uusl fair carly and be sure they are
correctly made.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01
Gstss 10 Oar esis.

The Denver and Rio Grands railroad
has made these very liberal rate~ To the
Delta County Fair. Sept. 2ist 10 Ihl,
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

The premium list Of the coming fair
is now being distributed. Plenty OF
time to prepare an exhibit The pre-
miums are all right.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

The selling daies TO bc Sept. 10Th and
21st, except from such territory ~
possible Of the Rio GrAnde Southern
Railway will ssII earlier to permit pas
scugers to reach Delta at the op-ning Of
the Fair. All tickets TO bs good 10
return until Sept. 9Th. no stop overs 10
allowed In either direction.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

Rsmember the Delta County Fruit
Growers Association when purchasing
fruit boxes aud supplies. They handle
the best boz produced in Delta county.
They sIso handle the California bos and
the cheaper home made boxes. Call
aud - their stock.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

Assassss = Rssssiasat = Dssa cssasy.
AsaesaOs n. n. ChiIes hes completed
the assessment roiIa aud taken the fol-
lowing abstract from. them:
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

}. D. Csspsstss rstssos,i 10 the hiIls.
Saturday.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01
C. A. MORELL.
Merchant
Tailor.

We will make you . good suit Of
ssethss from SO up, from suitings
or samPles.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01

Following 10 the sssessed valuation OF
the county by commissioners and school
districts:
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01
uew Lunch Room!

NnnRo ~ heuAs O6 LooeA Deeds eao
- 6D0oA GPesb o00 sWsrs.
pginke- -Cn0bs, Tea soh Lsmona %.
- 010lY e Loneh 0oods iane vseeivrd.
nSo1 hSSna ard ngOwn Bread. hse ~ rosd.
~ 6062Vtehes, Pies. catss a1d Doaghnnts
hone-0aAs.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01
BAKERS GOODS.

IbuA lsssA Cpskiss, Saaps asd Cfaeksfs.
1wuA etuih n ssasoa. Nuts of ALT hiafs to
uaGn ooaisettsaesy a,sd c'Eers. Call aud be
A0{0ao6 c.. " PHILLIPS. P1OP.
Now Enslassd Lunch kasan.
The Delta independent., 1899-09-01
.oxmis.,onxm plsrnscr so. :.
prss. esss,y's Elsphasis.

Grand Total - ..
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02


The manufacturers Of dried fruits in
the United States have found a good
market for their products in some of
the European countries, notably Ger
many. This trade should be fostered
and built up till it is able to take all
OF our surplus in heavy fruit years as
well as in years when we have a linn
tied supply. But an obstacle appears
in the custom Of many of our shippers
using sulOhurous acid for the improve
ment of the appearance Of their fruits.
Already the German authorities have
taken the matter up and are doing
wha they can to stop the further i'm
portation of fruit so treated.
Some of the California papers are
saying that the sulphuring is a good
thing, at least a thing that does not
make the fruit detrimental to the
health, and they claim that some ply
sicians have said so. We are in very
grave doubt on that point. We have
many kinds Of personalities in use,
n it is probable that all OF them are
more or less harmful. Yet we know
NAUb PSoolOIC ~ 6SI al ulSulCdl
opinion in favor of anything that
brings a good price OH the market. Let
us cite the case of Preservaline. Med
ical Investigations have. decided that
it is harmful to the health, especially
to the health of little children and
invalids. Nevertheless the makers and
defenders of Preservaline declare that
they have medical opinions to the eff
feet that it does not act injuriously.
We cannot help feeling that it is not
right to put any powerful chemical
into foods that are to be consumed
by all classes Of people. the weak as
we'll as the strong. We have a great
deal OF sympathy with the foreign ma
tons that have very strict anti-adul-
iteration laws, and we can but wish
that our W laws against adultera-
ton were stronger.
We desire the foreign market for our
dried fruits, and we should therefore
see to 1t that only pure articles are
sent across the water. The United
States government should take ND the
matter, but it is doubtful if it will do
so without an initial move being made
by the shippers Of fruit or other par
ties directly interested.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Creating Herds by Selection.

The Dublin Qreland) Farmers Ga
zette tells how an excellent dairy herd
was built up by a process of selection.
Only the heifer calves of the best COWS
were retained in the herd, the tribes
of the others being gradually weeded
out. These, when old enough, were
bred to bulls, the records of whose fe-
male ancestry had been closely inves-
tigated and found to show that the
dams in his line were of excellent dairy
quality. The Gazette says that the
herd now has so per cent of cows Civ
ing milk that contains over 5 per cent
of butter fat, while the milk of rs
per cent Of the herd gives over Az
per cent Of butter fat. This improve
ment in the dairy cows is practicable
on every Texas farm, though the
Journal would not advise that the
dairy breeds be used by any but the
professional dairymen in effecting the
object. The farmer can get better to-
tai results from his herds by using
cows of the beef breeds for mixers,
even though their milk yield contain
less butter fat, because of the salable
value of their male calves.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02

The average person if asked to name
the most precious metal would men
ton gold, yet there are many less
known metals that are worth far more.
Gold is worth $3.50 per pound, troy
weight. Barium, the metal which Davy
isolated from its ore, baryta. in 1903.
sells for $3.50 a pound, when it is sold
at all, and calcium is worth $1,000 a
pound. Cirium is a shade higher; its
cost is $3.50 ar ounce, or $1,920 per
pound. These begin to look like fabu-
lous prices, but they do not reach the
highest point, chromium being 5000.
Cobalt falls to about half the price OF
silver, while didymium, the metal iso-
lated by Masander, is the same price
as calcium. Then gallium,
which is worth $3.25O an ounce. With
this metal the highest price Is reached,
and it may well be called the rarest
and most precious of metals. Glucium
is worth $3.50 per ounce, idium $3.50,
iridium 1858 a pound, janthanium $175,
and lithium $3.50 per ounce. Nidium
costs 1928 per ounce, osmium, palla-
dunn, platinum, potassium and rho
dunn bring respectively $640, $500, $3.50,
$s2 and $512 per pound. Strontiuml
costs $12S an ounce, tantaum $144, IT,
lurium 90, thorium $272, vanadium
$500, yttrium $144, and zinconium
$3.50 an ounce.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Special Notice,

To The Members of the Farmers
Alliance & Industrial Union: l have
made a careful investigation from the
best sources Of reliable information
about the Swanson Rheumatic Cure
Co.'S Remedies, and found that they
were giving good satisfaction. | there
fore deem it but an act of simple justice
TO our members to say, that | believe
that the claims made by the Company
for their remedies will be fully real
lied by those who will give them a
fair and reasonable trial. Yours fra
ternally, Jno. C. Hanley, Business
Agt. F. A. & 1. U.
st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 28th, 1898.
h wonderful success hat has at
tended the introduction of "5 DROPS"
is unprecedented in the history of the
world. Think Of it! 1t has cured
more than n million and a quarter
sufferers within the last three years.
This must appeal to you! One million
and a quarter people cannot all be mis-
taken. If suffering from Rheumatism,
Sciatica, Neuralgia, Backache, Asth-
ma, Catarrh, Sleeplessness, Nervous
ness, Nervous and Neuralgia Head
aches, Heart Weakness, Earache,
Group, LaGrippe, Malaria, Creeping
Numbness, Bronchitis, and kindred
diseases, send 25c. to the Swanson
Rheumatic Cure Company, 167 Dear
born St, Chicago, Ill, and they will
send you by return mail a II al treat
ment or a large bottle, 300 doses, pre-
paid by mail or express for $L.00. No
household should be without this great
remedy "5 Drops" Agents appointed
In new territory.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Fish for the Pond.

A year ago my boy caught, in 6
little river a mile away, five little cat
fish with q hook. Being too small foi
the frying-pan he put them in the
pond. They began at once to replen-
ish and multiply. This season the
family has caught several messes of
catfish, some of which weighed fully a
pound. So we see how rapidly catfish
grow. They will reach a pound in
weight in one year. For my part I
would much rather. have my pond
stocked with catfish than with carp.
carp are hard to catch with a hook
and are much more bony than catfish,
Il then, l do not regard them as any
thing near SO hardy. 1t makes no diff
terence with a catfish whether there is
a current or not. They are at home
with either. l found a sucker in the
pond also. 1t was as healthy as ever
l saw one. 1 take it that it reached
the pond through the wasteway. 1t is
a strong-swimming fish. = y " It
is plain to me that to make a success
ful pond, trees are necessary. They
can be planted and a little forest will
o be grown. I had much rather
have a narrow and long pond than a
snort and broad pond. l have planted
calamus, cat-tails, white-hellebore,
skunk-cabbage, and lilies. The more
weeds and the like along the margin,
the better. They prevent the wash
from filling up the basin. Then, they
are pleasant to look at, adding diver
sity and beauty. Then they afford
spawning places for the fish, and
homes for all sorts Of aquatic insects.
THESE become numerous and afford
1t in the midst of plowed land. 1t is
also bad for it to have cattle and hogs
run to 1T at their pleasure. The pond
fence. a be SO built that they can
go to the water and drink, but not
tramp it's margin. When a pond Is
built and it is well stocked with fish,
1t pays by what it furnishes the table.
1t is very pleasant to sit down to a ta-
BILE furnished with fresh fish. Here in
your pond you have them without
money and without price, with the
sport of fishing thrown in. These are
briefly my views. There are other
reasons in favor of a home pond. l
think, however, that every farm of
eighty acres should have a pond like
mine, which 1 have tried to describe.
l believe hat were they thus nume~-
Gus they would materially modify our
climatic conditions. There would not
be such violent changes.-Edward B.
Heaton in Farmers Review.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Animal Odor.

A correspondent of Country Gentle
man says:
We do not hear so much now of the
characteristic odor of milk, to which
the term, animal odor'' was first APP
Piled. l had long before studied out
the matter, which was, first brought to
my attention when L used the deep
setting method in my dairy. In the
use of the deep pail l first noticed a
yellow, oily matter floating on the
water In the tank and in minute drops
On the cream. BY experimenting with
this oil. gathered carefully, I found it
had a characteristic odor. the same in
every way as that of the flesh of the
cow, and of the blood of all kinds of
animals, and also Of persons who have
not yet discovered the valuable uses
OF a bath occasionally, by which the
accumulated perspiration of the body,
with its disagreeable odor, is remov-
ed. The cleanest COW, l found, had the
anne kind Of odor, and it could be de-
tected in the cleanest stable if it were
not we'll ventilated. But always the
cows body smelled in the same way.
and in thinking Of it l came to the
conclusion that this special odor was
a natural possession of every animal.
and while not so intensely apparent to
the human senses, yet it is specially
SO TO animals, whose scent is so easily
recognized by dogs, and the young Of
the animal itself by it's dam. 1t is by
this that the COW recognizes her calf,
the eve knows her lamb, and the hunt
ing dog traces the game by it's footsteps
on the ground.
found that this oil was exceedingly
volatile, and a drop Of 1t spread On
olled paper ov~aporated in a few hours,
leaving no stain. / moreover found 1t
was not to be detected in milk, or the
cream from it hat had been standing
a few hours, and VIC. quickly discharg-
ed from milk by heating it a little in
shallow pans by setting them on a
slightly warm stove for a few minutes,
thus raising the temperature to 100
degrees. l then made conical caps of
tin to fit over my deep pals, extending
a little over the edge, so that this oil
gathering, with the vapor from the
milk, would be carried off and drop into
the tank, where, on account of the low
degree of temperature of the water, IT
remained in small drops floating on the
surface incorporated. 1t VS. a salts
factory conclusion that there was
nothing really unwholesome in this
matter, as it came from all the COWS
alike, and if the milk was drunk quite
fresh from the cow, it had no i'll effect
whatever on a person drinking it. By
cooling the milk in shallow pans this
odoriferous oil quickly passes off with
out cream, and in churnirg the fresh
milk is also passed away, leaving no
trace in the butter. For these reasons
l objected always to the process of
cooling the milk by passing it when
fresh through pipes immersed in cold
water, but favored and practiced the
~aerating Of it by pouring it from a
height of a few feet from a strainer, so
as to expose it thoroughly to the air
before it was set away. TINS device
completely removed all traces of it in
the deep pals, and thus my conical
cSp over the pals was no longer need
ed.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Poultry SUGGESTIONS.

We have observed that the best fowls
for farmers as flesh and egg producers
are Plymouth Rocks, W~yandottes,
L~angshans and Light Brahmas. says
Poultry Journal. For eggs alone, Leg
horns, Minorcas, Andalusians and
Hamburgs, These are the leading farm
breeds and may be made to do well
with good, intelligent farm manage
ment. but do not expect to rear all the
benefits from a certain breed of fowls.
Some of the flesh fowls will disappoint
you from time to time in the production
of eggs, and you may as we'll look for
disappointment. While running at
large. it should be remembered that the
hen will be supplied with egg shell
material, but when confined in winter,
they should be provided that material,
and there is no better time than right
now to begin to arrange for supplying
it. Cut raw bone is one of the hest
materials for them. Table scraps will
aid largely in egg production. The
buildings should be so constructed that
the living aud scratching room should
face the south. The roosting room
should be made as warm as possible
and the scratching should be dry
and provided with plenty of litter. 1t
is as natural for a hen to scratch as it
Is for a ~sehoolboy with the itch, and
both must have an occasion to do so.
The building can be made a great deal
warmer by employment of tar paper
and the windows may be double. The
anterior should be so arranged that it
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02

Those who have given most thought
and study TO the subject concur in the
testimony that 1t is not the work OF
brain or body that kills, but the ac-
companying worries and anxieties,
combined with unphysiological habits
of life, that undermine the sensitive
nervous system and ruin the constitu-
tion. And here an aggravating fact
comes in-in nine cases out of ten the
disquieting thoughts and carking cares
Which are harbored and brooded over
are entirely unnecessary and frequent
ly imaginary. There arc numberless
kinds of worry, and many people seem
born with a predisposition to it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
r by Proxy.

pal" inquired Freddie as he laid
down the top he had been spinning,
what is diplomacy Diplomacy
my boy" responded the old man
proudly, "is doing exactly the right
thing at exactly the right moment!'
Then l guess l used diplomacy last
night" What did you do, my boy?''
why, l heard mamma say she was
going to give me some castor oil. Now,
you know I generally sleep on the
outside of the bed, but last night when
| heard mamma coming upstairs l
pushed Johnny into my place and took
his!" What happened?" Q "Why,
Johnny had the dose Of oil, that's
ALT"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Preparation for Alfalfa Seeding.

preparation for Alfalfa Seeding.
A bulletin of the Kansas Experiment
Station says: -
Alfalfa is necessary to the cheapest
production, under Kansas conditions
of beef, milk and pork. For young
stock of all kinds it supplies the mate
rails needed to develop bone, muscie
and rapid growth. When alfalfa hay
is used as the ~roughness In fattening
steers. a large saving in grain is made,
conservative feeders estimating the
saving to be from 25 to so per cent,
At least one good crop CT alfalfa can
be harvested in the dryest year in n
part of Kansas, and in most wears.
under favorable conditions, from three
to five crops are harvested. When
once established it lives for years; it
roots deeply and withstands drouth
well. Alfalfa is weak when young and
on many soils is hard to establish =
grows best on a rich loan with a
porous clay subsoil where water is mt
over twenty feet from the surface but
we have found it growing on high IN
lands in both the eastern and western
parts Of the state where water was
from 125 to 170 feet from the surface,
and it is probable that it can be grown
on some spot on almost every section
of land in the state.
Altaita needs a fine seed-bed in
ground free from weeds. SEEDING
should be done early in April and the
ground handled so that at seeding time
1t will be moist for at least fifteen to
twenty inches. This condition can he
secured on many soils by fall blowing
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-02-02
Scaling Stock Premiums.

The Banner" Of Frankfort, Indiana,
says: On Tuesday, the directors of the
Clinton County Agricultural Associa-
ton met at their room in the court
house, and audited their accounts pre-
paratory to winding up the affairs Of
the association. The receipts from all
sources this year aggregate about
SO 500. OF this it will require 81, 600 to
defray expenses incurred, together
with 5000 purses for the speed ring,
and over 81, 400 offered in premiums.
1t was decided to pay all debts Of the
association, to pay all premiums at the
rate of so cents on the dollar.
Commenting on this, the Indiana
Farmer says: This Is not the only in
stance of the kind in the state, where
the breeder Of cattle, swine, sheep or
poultry has to wait, and take what is
left, if it is only 10 cents on the dol
lar. His fine herd of cattle, where the
bull has cost him hundreds of dol
lars, and he has labored for six months
to get his herd in shape to meet COM
petitors, uns the risk of railroad
W. SNN'J 10 Las AlOLlC W dllCliu
the fair, shows his cattle and then he
has to take what is left. But the speed
horse is king, and his money is ready
as soon as the rae is won. Why
Because the rules of the American
Trotting Association demand this,
The swine breeders, the sheep breeders
and the poultry breeders fare the same
as the cattle breeders. There is but
n way to stop such injustice, and
that is for all breeders of live stock to
join the association now being orga-
nized, to refuse to show at all fairs
that prorate premiums in 1898 in all de-
partments except speed. This meeting
will be held in Indianapolis in January
next, and q full attendance is re-
quested.