Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1899-06-29

| not Gaper ate or drank until every Pot
Lucker had been well served Then in
bumpers of lemonade the Gap toasted Pot
Luck, and Pot Luck toasted the Gap, and
Ike Bledsoe, In response to repeated calls,
| made a speech in acknowledgement of the
| royal welcome of the Gapers, or tried to
| make one. The event will go down in
| history as the greatest time ever enjoyed
at the Gap and the one occasion upon
which Ike's rhetoric ever failed him
Ladies' and gentlemen and feller citi-
zens of the Cap" he began, "I-I-we-
we Oh, hang it all, 1 never in all my
life had the packin so everlastin'ly knock
ed out of me as have today, and I'm GO
ing to own up to it like man. We came
down here with malice in our hearts, ev-
cry man of us, but from this day on Pot
Luck the best friend the Gaps got and
don't you fergit 10. I'm peaceable man
and don't want to harm nobody, but II
ever hear Pot Lucker say a word ag'in
the Gap I'll shoot him ON the spot. More'n
that, we want to celebrate with you every
year after this, and, on behalf of the citi-
zens of Pot Luck, / invites you, one and
all, to come up and picnic with us next
Fourth calls fer three cheers fer the
people of Dutch Bills Gap, and, as said
before, IN "a peaceable citizen, but can
lick the man that says the Gapers amt
the handsomest ladies and the best all
round good fellers in all this glorious land
of the free and home of the brave Hip,
hip, hooray San Francisco Call.
Attend to the Rams.
1t is too late to sow seed Just about
the time the harvest is expected, and
the shepherd who neglects his rams at
this time is doing this very thing, says
The American Sheep Breeder. A ram
in vigorous, active condition is not so
made in few days, nor in a few
weeks We should think how little
seed needs months ~ make its full
growth and TO gather in the plant suffi
cient nutrition and substance to form
the new germ. A whole summer is
needed thus to mature plant of corn
and prepare the seed for the next years
harvest. This applies with equal force,
but more conspicuously, as the sheep
excels the mere plant in worth to the
conduct of the flock Many shepherds
wish to have all twin lambs. Two are
better than one-sometimes, but not al
ways. A strong, vigorous lamb is bet
ter than puny twins or even than fairly
good twins, if the dam is only able to
care fully for one of them, and if one
will have strong double births he must
attend to the ram first and begin now
to put him in proper condition for the
service expected from him by and by.
He does not want to be fattened exact
ly, but he must be in prime condition.
for we cannot get any animal in such
condition without putting some fat on
his carcass. The best of grain food in
the summer for the ram is linseed oil
meal, from which the oil has been sep
arated, and the residue of protein is
left in large excess. This part of the
food is especially useful in sustaining
all the vital organs, and thus gives that
essentially needed animal vigor to the
male animal, especially such a one as
the father Of flock which has so large
a number of females demanding atten-
tion. The time to begin reinforcing
the rams is now at hand. The twin
breeding flock is greatly desired by
every shepherd. But it is made only by
years of work in building up the consti
tuition of it by the highest possible feed
ing. For the scientific principle at the
bottom of it is that animals become
more prolific as their supply of food in
creases. This is one of the examples of
the balance of nature, and the econom-
ical disposal of natural products for the
best interests of the universe, in which
naturally nothing shall go to waste.