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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25
World Is Getting Crowded.
from the London Mail.

Official figures just at hand show that
the population of every European country
goes on increasing rapidly, and that dur
ing the past 10 years this increase has
been at the rate of nearly 10 per cent.
The means of maintaining the people are
not Increasing in like ratio.
AT the beginning of the present CEN
fury the population of Europe was put
by Levasseur at It's. ,0O0 In 1896 it was
20 600. In 1860 it was 300 COO 90, and in
1890 it was 350,O0O,OOO.
1t is now $50, 00O 900. and the contirs-
ance of the present rate of increase will
make 1t SS5.e00,OOO in 1900 IL per cent. IN
crease over what it was in 1880,
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Travellers Guide
ANACONDA &c PACIFIC RY.
Union Passenger Station
TIME TABLE

Trains leave Anaconda for Butte as fol-
lows:
No. 2. Great Falls and Helena
local. via Great Northern Ry... $40 m
No. 4. Butte Express 80 m
NO. =, Butte Express ............. 800 p m
No. s. Atlantic Express. via
Great Northern Ry. for st. Paul
and all points East and West. 7:20 D m
Trains leave Butte for Anaconda as fol-
lows:
No. |, Anaconda Express 1000 m
No. 3. Anaconda Express ......... los m
No. 5, Great Northern Ry., Great
Falls and Helena local .......... 500 p m
No. T. Great Northern Ry, Pa
cine Express ...10: 40 p m
Train No. 6 connects at Silver Bow
with the Oregon Short Line for all points
East. West and South.
Northern Pacific Ry. trains leave Ana
conda as follows:
No 1902 Pacific Express for Port
land and all points West........ 4:50 m
No. 104 Atlantic Express, for st.
Paul and all points East ........ sis m
Northern Pacific trains arrive at Ana
conda follows:
No. 101, Pacific Express, from St.
Paul and all points East...... 7:55 a m
No. 1903. Atlantic Express, from
Portland and all points West. .10:05 m
All trains arrive at and depart from the
Butte. Anaconda & Pacific Union Passen-
ger Station at Anaconda.
Tickets for sale for all points, local and
through. the Great Northern Railway,
Oregon Short Line Railroad and Northern
Pacific Railway and their connections
Steamship tickets for sale to all points
in Europe via the above lines.
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Money Market.

New York, Jan. 24-Money on call. 2G6
per cent; last loans, 2la per cent. Prime
mercantile paper, 2i2d3A per cent. Ster-
ling exchange weak, with actual business
in bankers bills at s4.S12d4s4A for de-
mand and at s4.s2ls@4.S24 for 60 days.
Posted rates. $4.S31sd4.S5s. Commercial
bills, $3.50. Silver certificates, 59hm601ac.
Mexican dollars, 471sc. Government bonds
weak, state bonds strong, railroad bonds
weak
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Cash Quotations.


7'F"1F HUOEtflI'TTS NFTO dS IUIIUWS.
Flour. moderate deman. and firmer:
No. spring wheat. 691a67Oc: No 3 spring
wheat. 6sG69c No 2 red. 721am7s1 No 2
corn. SIC: No . oats, 27An271hc: No 2
white. 1893 n201$c No. white. 29h N30c:
No. 9 rye. SIC No, barley 42T54c: No. /
flax seed. $1.15: Northwest. 81 1912; prime
timothy seed. S23oG2.4o; mess pork. per
barrel, $40. 2Om1O25: lard. per 100 pounds.
$567laM5.70: short ribs sides. loose. as06
SO; dry sailed shoulders. boxed. 40
4sc: short clear sides, boxed. s51Oa5. Is:
whiskey. distillers' finished goods, per
gallon, s1.27.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25

nent and home representatives buying
freely. The eagerness for woods was IN
abated to-day ard prices showed hard
ening tendency. American buyers oper-
ated freely in crossbreds. they purchasing
$50 bales of good lines at high rates
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MINING MACHINERY AND SUPPLIES. HEAVY AND SHELF HARDWARE
Time Card===Butte
ARRIVE AT Butte.

ARRIVE AT Butte.
No H. from st. Paul, arrives at
NJ. U. depot daily at ......... $50 a m
NJ. U, No. 2, from Portland, ar
rives at NJ. U. depot daily. lO:4O p III
DEPART FROM BUTTE.
NJ. u, No. l. for Portland, leaves
NJ. U. depot daily .............4 :45 m
No. II. for st. Paul, leaves NJ u
depot daily .......... ........... 9:2Q p n
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San Francisco Wool.

San Francisco, Jan. Acknowledging
Nevada, 10dl2Rc; eastern Oregon. 10012c;
valley Oregon, 15m17c. Fall-Northern
mountain lambs, sm10c; mountain lambs.
7G9c: San Joaquin plains, 4dsc; Humboldt
and Mendoncino, 9@11c.
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Wool Auction Sales,

New York, Jan. 24.-There was a full
attendance of buyers at the wool auction
sales to-day and prices We're strong
Secured was scarce and high, the CONT
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Life of Whales.

Whales from 200 to 400 years old are
sometimes met with The age is ascer-
tanned by the size and number of layers
of the whaebone, which increases yearly.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-25

sheep brought s25oa4.25 yearlings, si101
458; ewes. s3.40aI3.75; westerns, So 50GD4 90
Receipts-Cattle, 4,0G0; hogs 10000;
sheep, 11,000.
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Boston Stocks.
Instructions in Perjury.

Boston. Jan. 24.-Boston I. Montana,
284; Butte & Boston. S6ta; Parrot, 3s.
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E|E:I;{z'|;5;'!1N E(;{l;l3;E
Montana Central Ry.

New fast time between st. Paul, Min
neapolis, Helena, Butte. Anaconda, Spo-
kane, Seattle and Portland. Close con-
nections for Kootenai country. Oregon
and California points, Alaska. Japan and
China. Connections at Twin Cities for all
points East and South.
Leaves Butte-Great Northern
Flyer, daily ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50 p m
Leaves Butte-Local for Great
Falls daily ...................... 9:45 m
Arrives Butte--Great Northern
fryer dally .......... .......... .10:S0 p m
Arrives Butte-Local from Great
FANS daily ...,..-.. ........... 1850 p m
Through sleepers going East.
City Ticket Office, No. Al North Main
ST., Butte. J. L. Dawson. General Agent
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lnterzMOuntain Line to the
East and West
TO THE EAST

Via Salt Lake, Denver. Omaha or Kan
sas City.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22

The Journal sees no reason why
seeds cannot be improved by careful
selection and cultivation Just as
horses and cattle can be improved by
judiciously selecting and mating the
parent animals and properly caring for
their offspring, says Texas Stock and
Farm Journal. The Kansas Expert
ment Station is continuing an expert
ment on the station farm for the i'm
provement of corn and have shown
that the yield can be very much in
creased by breeding and selecting the
seed. The men engaged in the test
hope, also, to improve the feeding
value of corn by making it more nitro
genous. They find that some grains
have more than the average percent
age of protein, and hope by the selec-
ton of these to produce a grain that
will have more than the average flesh
producing quality. OF urs the or
binary farmer has not the trained skill
nor the equipment to successfully or
scientifically conduct experiments on
such lines, but it seems to have passed
beyond question that yield and quail
ity can be increased very much simply
by planting the very best seed and
giving the seed crop just the kind and
amount Of cultivation that is re-
quired. Such methods might profit
ably be applied to other than corn
crops. They would give the same adj
vantage in the garden as in the field.
AS to some plants climate might have
such effect as to cause degeneracy in
spite of the best efforts, making it ad-
visable to buy each year seed that have
grown under all conditions favor
able to them, but the Journal thinks
there are few products of either field
or garden of which this is true.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22

There is no doubt that corr is one
OF the most valuable plants in the
world, but it has been too largely fed
to our hogs. The foreign market is
demanding Danish and Canadian ba-
con and hams, because the foreigners
declare that our hams and bacon are
too soft and oily, due to the feeding Of
too large a proportion Of corn. Lately
the Danes have begun to feed Ameri-
can corn to their hogs and now the
English market is complaining that
Danish pork products are deteriorat-
ing. 1t is nc use to attempt to make
people believe that hogs grown en-
tirely on corn produce as good meat
as those hogs that have a fair supply
Of clover, peas, oats and other nitrog-
enous feeds. Even our home market
discriminates quite sharply in favor Of
lean and compact meat. Yet it is diff
cult to get bacon, ham or loins that
are lean enough.
1t is perhaps unfortunate hat the
big buyers of hogs do not discrimi-
nate more sharply on the animals they
buy. The fact that a corr fattened
animal sells at the same price as an
animal fattened on other foods makes
the grower careless. But it is reason
able to suppose that this carelessness
ultimately reacts against the interests
of the hog producer. Can we suppose
that a hundred generations of hogs, all
fed and fattened on corn, will have the
vitality of a hundred generations fed
on heterogeneous foods? 1t has been stat
ed by horsemen that heterogeneous foods
increases the breeding powers of ami
mails. 1t may Or may not be true, but
it is easy for us to believe that a kind
of food that produces a strong, vigor-
Gus animal will give greater vitality
and greater breeding power than a food
that makes sluggish habits only pos
sible.
From what we know of the methods
of feeders we believe that the more
advanced swine raisers have long since
taken this view of the case. We believe
that most men that make a business
of breeding sires and sows to place at
the heads Of herds have abandoned
the practice of overlooking with corn.
If we do not figure on the production
Of a more compact meat and a harder
fat we are pretty sure to find our for
eign market begin to slip away from us
in the same manner as the cheese
market slipped away.
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Live only for to-day and you ruin to-
morrow.-Simmons.
Per ~nsylvania Dover.

An old law of PENNSYLVANIA renuired
that every girl, when about to leave
her fathers or employers home, where
she had worked until of age, should
receive, as her dover, one feather bed
and bedding, one full suit of new cloth
ing and II spinning wheel. This law
has V been %annulled, though in
the case Of girls indentured to service
1t has been merged in a money equiv
alent when the girls time is out; and
in the case Of daughters changed into
an expensive trousseau and home fur
nishing upon Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22
sprine ManurIue.

One of the old time practices In
farming is the fall applications of ma
nures, being confined almost wholly
to winter wheat. This is still a good
plan SO far as it goes, though not eco
nomical, but spring applications of
coarse manures are coming rapidly in
favor, especially for clean cultivation
crops. Coarse manures with clean
cultivation, frequent tillage, rapidly
becomes available as plant food. 1t
no longer pays to use manure mere
ly to enrich the soil, but it does pay
to use them to grow immediate crops.
Manure which stays in the soil two
or three years before becoming fully
available as plant food, is worth
much less than the same amount in
a quickly available form. Spring ma
nuring has It's disadvantages, not
withstanding. In all farm yard ma
nures the ammonia is first to become
available, and unless potash and phos-
phates have been used freely prev
iously, there is much risk that he
ready supply of ammonia will encour-
age a rank growth of leaf at the ex-
pense of the stalk and grain. An
other point is that with many crops
a rank growth of foliage at the ex-
pense of other parts of the plant is not
practicable; in this case the free am
monia is simply lost, it goes to waste
Farmers should constantly bear in
mind hat all manures, or fertilizers,
which are the same thing, are merely
just so much ammonia, potash and
phosphates; not any one nor any two,
but all three taken together. With
clean cultivation crops such as corn,
potatoes, etc., where farm yard ma
nure is used, potash and phosphates
should always be applied at the same
tlme, or eve earlier in the spring.
Ihey will not waste except on very
rolling ground where any form of ma
nur would wash away. From 100 to
ZOO pounds Of muriate of potash and
from 200 to 400 pounds of acid phos-
phate should be used per acre, broad
casted or used in the drill as may suit
Individual preference. The object is
to have the mineral fertilizer there
ready for the ammonia as fast as the
latter becomes available as plant food.
Much time and trouble is given to Sc
curing catches of clovers or other
legumes, merely for the nitrogen fer
tllizer stored up by such plants. A
somewhat wiser plan is to take good
care Of the ammonia we already have
on hand. To supply a soil with am
monia without at the same time en-
surfing the potash and phosphates to
go with it, is to invite the loss Of
the ammonia. 1t is wiser to be on
the safe side, especially as there is
very little danger of loss through
drainage.-R. Garwood.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22
A SIlo.

A silo is a convenience which every
dairy farmer should have, SAYS the
Canadian Commissioner of Agriculture
and Dairying. 1t need not be an ex-
pensive structure. 1t requires to be
strong enough to hold corn fodder
when cut into lengths of from one-half
to one inch. 1t should be fairly close,
SO as to exclude the air after the en-
silage has settled. The main features
are strength to resist the outward
pressure of it's contents, exclusion of
air by the construction of the sides,
and a fair depth of holding capacity,
in order to permit the ensilage to set
tie into a compact mass. Sufficient
strength of sides can be obtained in
most silos by the use of 2x1O inch or
2x12 inch studs, placed from IS inches
to 2 feet apart. A clay or earthen
floor is most economical, and as good
as any that can be put in. The inside
of the walls of the silo may be fin
ished by a single lining of lumber,
nailed to the studs horizontally. The
lumber should be tongued and grooved,
and dressed On the inside. If each al
ternate board be allowed to extend at
the corners, so as to make "a lock-
joint, that will give additional strength
to the structure. The corners of the
silo on the inside should be filled BY
the use of a board or plank 10 inches
wide, set ON end. The triangular space
behind it should be filled with sand or
sawdust. l consider that studs 2x1O
inch or 2X12 inch, with one ply of
sound tongued and grooved lumber,
nailed horizontally on the inside, are
sufficient for an efficient preservation
of the ensilage. Additions to that
method of construction may be ad-
vantageous in a few cases for conven-
fence. To build one with the least
outlay of cash, the farmer who has
some standing timber may get out
timbers hewn on one side. These may
be put in a NOW in the barn, and lined
on the inside with one thickness Of
lumber, tongued and grooved, and
nailed on horizontally. This big bin,
or silo, should be constructed with the
corners interlocked by every second
board passing through and being nail
ed on the corner post. That effectual-
ly prevents the spreading of the silo
at the orners. If a portion of the en-
silage around the sides becomes frozen,
that is more an inconvenience than a
loss. 1t should be mixed with the
warm ensilage, from the middle of the
silo, before it is offered or fed to the
cattle.
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now after the lapse Of more than a
quarter of a century, carefully noting
the effect of the extremes we have
says A. G. futile in Wisconsin Hor-
~ticulturist." Every cold winter when
we nave had many days in succession
OF very extreme cold, and when on
some of these days the mercury did not
rise above twenty below zero at mid
day, l have always found injury soon
to follow. In every case the extreme
cold winters have been those most de-
structive. If we place a foliage plant
in the open air with the thermometer
at zero, it is soon killed and we do
not hesitate to say it froze to death.
The Baldwin, Greening or Spitzenberg
apple kills in a dry atmosphere with
about the same degree of cold that de-
stroys the peach. That our trees freeze
but why one kills and another does
not, is something l don't understand
and probably never shall.
Prof. Budd claims that trees freeze
to death by the expansion of the sap
cells caused by severe freezing. This
is an old theory and one / could never
accept. That portion Of the tree con-
tanning the sap vessels is as easily
frozen as a potato, and I can see no
a why the sap should not be as
thoroughly frozen and expanded with
the thermometer at zero as at thirty
or forty below, and yet with the mer-
curry at zero we suffer no injury. 1t
Is not necessary for us to be able to
explain why one variety kills and an
other does not; the fact is all that is
necessary for us to know until we are
able to go back in creation to the great
first cause and explain the phenomena
Of its existence. We shall find many
mysteries in nature we cannot solve.
Science can only reveal to us a few
faint glimmerings of hat effulgent
light that shines beyond the reach of
human vision. Only in another state
OF existence, if ever, shall we be able
to comprehend the wonderful myster-
les that nature withholds from us here.
Let US accept the facts as they pre-
sent themselves rather than adopt a
theory and spend all our energies TO
make facts conform to it. / made a
thorough examination of my shrubs
and vines the first day they were thaw-
ed after the severe cold; the injury was
as apparent then as it was a month
afterwards. The evidence was as On
elusive to me that they had frozen to
death as it would have been had l
found a person who mad persisted in
a Dakota blizzard. l would as soon
have entertained the idea that the per-
O died of sunstroke or fever as that
thawing killed the trees. Vines,
shrubs and small fruits can be pro-
tected, but our ochard fruits should be
sufficiently hardy to withstand any
amount of cold we may be liable to
have.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22
what Variety of Potatoes.

Some time ago a farmer sold the
writer ten bushels of potatoes which
were contracted for before the pota-
toes were dug. They proved to be
very small, but yet not so small that
they could be refused. On investiga-
ton it was found that they were of a
variety hat is pretty well run out.
Tne farmer said that all of his neigh
bors that were growing this variety
complained that for several years they
had not been able to get more tina half
crops. Now, while we do not believe
that potatoes run out of necessity, yet
most of them are so carelessly handed
tina they do run out after a time. IL
would therefore seem that every man
should watch his variety and see that
1t is not growing less productive. For
instance, if M variety will produce
200 bushels to the acre and another
only 100 bushels, it is evident that the
grower could much better afford to
pay a good price for new seed than to
grow the old seed even if he got it
for nothing. The Michigan agricul-
SAA$o u 6ANOL AA~AJ
rteties and finds it advisable to dis
card hundreds of them, after testing
them for a number of years. Their
rule is to discard all potatoes that will
not yield 100 bushels to the acre I'M
der fair conditions.
Some of these potatoes discarded
are presumably not old varieties, but
new ones that do not do well on that
particular soil. Some of them might
be entirely suitable to other soils and
conditions. Readers of the Farmers
Review will remember the controversy
that took place a few years ago in
these columns over the Freeman po-
tato. Some farmers reported magnlh-
cent yields with it and others report
ed that it. was with them a complete
failure. The facts were that in some
localities the soil and conditions fav-
Ored it while in others the soil and
conditions were against it. There is
no general purpose potato any more
than there is a general purpose COW
or hen or horse. There are some va
rieties that are adapted to light sandy
SOAAo 1hN Ian @00S w SA
clay soil. The farmer that tries to
grow a potato IN the wrong soil must
expect financial loss. Care in select
ing varieties pays. 1t is a mistake to
be carried away by a potato fad, as
much as it is a mistake to be carried
away by any other kind of a fad.
What we call a potato fad is for a COM
munity to get the idea that there is
only n kind of potato they must
grow and hang to it through thick and
thin, even though their soil may be
very adversely formed and construct
ed. Also a man that has newly drain
ed his farm may find that the potato
he grew on undrained land may not
prove the best on land so constructed
that the moisture and air pass more
readily through it. Every farm must
to a certain extent be an experiment
station. A farmer must try a num-
Der of varieties before he can know
which n will do the best for him.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22
Cause of Winter killing.

Some thirty years ago I wrote an
article on "Orcharding in Wisconsin,"
1t was given as my opinion in that ar
ticle that the very extreme and long
continued cold of some of our winters
was the principal cause of injury, and
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TIC
AGRICULTURISTS.

SOmeUp-to-Date Hints About Gull
tivatlon of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, v%lticulture and
Horticulture.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22
Do Your Feet Acne and BurnY

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot
Ease, a powde r for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feol Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Fee ct. At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, Csc. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy. N. Y.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-06-22

Costs but 1c per Id. to grow. Sal-er b.s
the seed; German Coffee Berry, pkg. lac:
JaVa Co1ee pkg. 15c. Salzer's New Am
srlcan Chlcory l5c: Gu this out and send
u d9c Tor any 0f above packages or send
SOc ana get all 3 pkgs, and great Gaia
I0gue 1ree to JOHN A. SALZER SEED
~ Ia SHOsse' WIS. lW.n.l