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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08

died calves have been astonish.d "
the rapid growth and strength dis
played by young animals several oays
after birth. The colostrum- milk Is the
best means Of providing the animal
with the requisite food for growth and
development. This matter must there I
fore receive due consideration when.
weaving calves sand raising them by
hand. It is no trouble to raise aFcalf
by hand provided artificial nipples are
used. The calf will then suck quite
as readily as from the udder Of the
COW. This prevents its gorging itself
and producing scours and other intes-3
final troubles. Should these. result:
from careless feeding they can be rem
edied by the addition of lime water
and by feeding in such a manner that
the animal will have to take the milk
slowly so that it will become thor
oughly. mixed with the saliva and
other digestive juices and properly as.
simulated. T.. ~.-.z: T,
Colostrum- milk creams as we'll as
other milk, but it has a very high
color due in part to the effete material
contained in it, This is caused by the
incomplete disintegration of the It's
sues Of the udder immediately after
parturition. It has an acrid, disagree
able taste and is not fit for human food
until from nine to ten milkings, or at
least until all the colostrum particles
have disappeared from the milk. In
a healthy animal this will generally be
accomplished in the time stated.-An-
drew M. Soule, Tenn. Experiment Sta
ton. 49,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08
Dipping.


Prof. c.. F. Curtiss: Nearly ala
range sheep are affected with scabs.
though it is frequently held in check,
SO as to be scarcely noticeable when
the sheep first arrive from the range.
Its development appears few weeks
later, however, and unless proper pre-
cautions are taken it becomes Sc
rious interference with good results
in fattening, besides a source of ia
fecting the yards and premises with
the germs of this disease. On this
account it is generally considered best
to dip all range sheep brought to the
farming sections for feeding. The dip
ping should be done Immediately or
at least very soon after arrival, and
repeated in about ten days to insure
effective work. In case this has not
been done promptly Oh arrival of the
sheep and the disease makes its apr
/ pearanee during the winter, 1t is gems
/ orally advisable to. attend to the dip
ping without further delay, even
though the weather may be quite Sc
we're, as postponement will only pro-
long the difficulty and at the same
time cause greatly diminished gains
as well as much lower value on the
market. Sheep may be dipped even
at zero temperature with less men
ace to the flock than to allow the dis
ease to go unchecked for few weeks.
When necessary to dip in severe
weather, the work should be done I'M
der shelter in a liquid slightly warmed
and the dipped animals placed imme-
dlately in dry, warm quarters and kept
in for several days until the feeces
have had time to dry. (. z..1s ~ - !: =
There are various dips on the mar
ket and in common use Lime and
sulphur and the tobacco dips are eff
fective and popular where the work
is done on a large scale. A number
of the prepared dips on the market
are equally effective, and they have
the additional advantage of promoting
a moro favorable condition of the
fleece. All farm focks should also be
dipped at least once a year for the
general good effects resulting from
dipping regardless Of the existence OF
scab. 81 II
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Sflage vs.. Nom Silage Milk.

Condensed from Farmers Review.
stenographic report of Illinois state
Dairymen's conventlon.)
Prof. w. J. Fraser spoke on silage
and non-silage milk. He told OF
tests made at the university to find II
there was any well-founded prejudice
against milk made from silage. The
first trial was made with 80 professors.
They were given both kinds of milk
and were asked to say, which they
liked better. They were not informed
of the kind of test being made and did
not even know that either milk had
could see no difference in the milk,
and one of the others that could see
a difference had no choice. OF the 70
remaining FL preferred the silage milk
and the the non-silage. :"
A second trial was made with 80 stu
dents, and of them FL preferred the
silage milk and the non-silage. linen
the test was tried on q ladies in town;
three of the ladies could see no differ
ence in the samples of milk and none
VI Lu0II udu duy OUJCCClOA w SAsAAO-
kind of milk; but 10 preferred the sill
age and IA the non-silage milk. In a
second test Is could see a difference,
and six had no choice; preferred the
silage and the non-si1age milk.
A test was then made on milk ex-
perts: M. Cheeseman, Mrs. Kedzle,
DR.. e. S. Stewart, the Palmer House,
Chicago, and the Leland Hotel, Chi
scago.# The first four preferred the sill
age milk, but the Leland hotel pre-
ferred the non-s11age milk.
Out of the entire number 60 pre-
ferred the silage milk, 3S the non-sil-
age, and Is had no choice. There were
220 tests made on Is different persons:
Of these tests 118 were in favor of
silage milk and IS in favor Of non
silage milk; 81 showed no choice.
The criticism On silage milk is there
fore seen to be unjust; but if rotten
silage is fed there will be objections.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08
-Mals Of 10 moth.-Aftsr Riley.


the south on the leaves OF Indian corn.
Isassafras, black locust. false indigo,
wild blackberry. It also feeds on
leaves Of the willow, currant, cotton,
clover, elm, hopvine, balsam poplar,
balm Of Gilead, dogwood and choke
cherry The eggs are top-shaped, at
tacbed by lhss smaller end, in patches
Fl about 80, on the underside of leaves.
i The catarpillars in the western states
begin to hatch about the end of June,
getting their growth in two months,
after moulting five times The spines
are poisonous to the fingers, and the
caterpillar cannot be handled without
causing some pain and irritation. A
government report describes this cat
lerpillar as sometimes feeding late in
summer on the maple, large green
11sh, thick caterpillar, with fascicles OF
firritant, radiating, sharp spines over
the body, spinning a thin silken CO.
coon among the leaves. and transform
ing the following May or June into a
large, stout-bodied moth; the males are
yellow with a very large eye-like spot
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08
horticultural Observations.

Reports from large buyers of fruit
are to the effect that very few fruit men
pick, pack or sort their fruit properly.
When fruit Is to be shipped long dis
tances 10 market It Is very ncUes,earry,
that only the best fruit be sent. as the
cost of transporting poor fruit is as
great as the good fruit. This becomes
a leading principle when fruit is
shipped across the Canadian border
and has to pay duty. If it is not first
class fruit the Canadian buyers do not
find profit in the transaction, and are
not likely to again seek the American
producer.
Like many other fruits, the Kieffer
pear has its fast friends and it's un-
compromising enemies. The conflicts
over it remind one of those that have
taken place over the Ben Davis apple
But the Kieffer is very valuable, pear
for several reasons. It is good in
quality when it is rightly handled;
that is, allowed to properly ripen. It
is a deceptive fruit, and looks ripe be-
fore it has attained that point I'M its
existence. It must be allowed to lie
for some time after it is picked, some
times for weeks, before it's flavor is
developed. Then it becomes a good
fruit for all purposes.
The new Fruit Growers Association
Of California is making an attempt to
do away with some of the obstacles
that have always been in the path of
the fruit producers. About 70 per cent
of the fruit grown in the state is I'M
der the control of the association. All
the growing, packing and selling are
to be done in the most approved ways.
Members are not to pack or crate their
fruit. The men that do this work are
experts. If the, association holds to-
gether, it will doubtless compel the
other fruit growers in the state to
pack their fruit better. as otherwise
the association would take the entire
feld,l at least so far as desirable mar
kets are concerned. T. +, !.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08
RnHal0 Grass

:. a Kansas report says: This is the
common o. short grass Of the uplands
throughout the central and western
regions Of Kansas and more or less in
many parts of eastern Kansas. The
leaves are short and curly, and the
=ge has characteristic gray color
rather common in plants adapted to
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08
The 10 CATERPILLAR.

The insect that we here illustrate Is
one OF those known as Maple Cater
pillars. The insect appears to be wide
~ distributed being found feeding on
the sugar naples in the north and In
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08
AlfaIfa as Sheen Pasture.

A. F. Klinkerman, Bent county, Col
orado, writing to the Colorado Expert
ment station, says: !
We have pastured sheep on alfalfa
part or all Of three seasons. One sea-
son we lost as high as 10 per. cent
by bloat, but this was due largely
to inexperience. During 1898 we let
the ewes run on alfalfa during the six
weeks of the lambing season and as
soon as that was over we sent them
to- the range. We lost about 1 per
cent during the six weeks. We had
about 500 ewes, and their lambs on
fifty acres of alfalfa. We have al
ways left the sheep on the land when
irrigating it. We expect May lambs
to weigh so pounds the first Of Oc-
tober if pastured on alfalfa. In 1898
we turned the ewes and lambs on the
range the first of June It probably
took two-thirds Of the first cutting
of alfalfa to lamb the sheep on it,
but we consider ourselves well paid
in saving of lambs and the start 1T
gave them and the old ewes before
turning them on the range. We are
satisfied that we saved at least if
teen per cent more lambs than could
be done on the range and also saved
in the expenses of herders during
lambing. TIT H.. as II ss :g.:
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08

~ Poultry Notes from Foreign Consuls.
=. Great Britain imported 100000, 900
eggs in 1899.
Denmark, exporting four times as
much butter to England as France
does, has applied to the egg trade
those principles of cooperation which
have already proved successful in the
butter trade and other industries con-
nected with agriculture. In the rural
districts of the little Baltic kingdom,
cooperative societies undertake the
expectation of fresh eggs of good
quality, and members are required to
scrupuously conform with the rules OF
the society. To ascertain, for example,
by what member of the society bad
egg has been furnished, the shell of
every egg is required to be marked
with an india-rubber stamp, so that
the person by whom the egg was sup
piled may be at once identified. De-
pots are established along the lines
Of the railway, and each producer Is
required to make delivery of eggs at
least three times a week. At each de-
pot there is an agent Of the society
who has the right to refuse any eggs
about which suspicion arises or which
are more than four. days old. The ap-
proved eggs are sorted according to
size. The inspection takes place with
lamp in a darkened chamber, and
the discovery of a single rotten egg in
London would be followed by a heavy
claim against the Danish depot which
furnished it. The Danish egg trade in
England is growing tremendously, if
reports are to be trusted. IT.. =
Geese are less in favor with the
British public than formerly; but
there is a demand in excess of the
home supply, especially at Christmas
time, and France reaps this benefit al
most exclusively, it being estimated
that 100000 to 10000 are sold in Lon
don in December, while the other cities
in England also furnish advantageous
markets for geese. @ + .2< ...z =
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Feeding the Dairy Cow.

] CONDENSED from Farmers Review Stem.
ographic Report of Wisconsin Dairyrnen'ss
%Convention.) ggs
Prof. T.. L. Hacker spoke. on feed
ing the dairy COW. He mentioned the
fact that he fed turnips, which were.
valuable to keep the cows in good con-
dition and not because of the nutrienr
value in them.
Q.---Do you prefer roots to silage?
Prof. Haecker.-No, but our silo,
Goes not hold enough to feed the cat
tie all winter; so about the middle o.
November we stop feeding silage till
April when We re-commence and feed
silage till the cows go onto grass.
q Q.-What kind of corn do you use
for si1age?
! "4 Prof. Haecker'We use a dent corn.
Q.-EoW thick do you plant it Sss
Prof. Haecker.--We prepare the soii
at the ordinary time in May, and con-
tinue to harrow the ground till the
middle of June. when we plant the
seed. We use from 54 to- So pounds
of seed per acre. After it is planted
we harrow it and then again after il
is up.
Wild onions abound in many parts oY
the West, and the COWS as vel, a.
hi i eat then. They are bound
to injure the milk Il eaten by the COWS
for the reason that onions contain an
oil that gets through the system 81
the COW and into the milk. There is !.
"a dispute as to whether ordinary food
in "a bad state can faint the milk by.
passing through the cows, but all ara
agreed that onions and garlic do. But
ter that is tainted with these oils does
not sell well. Il i. not much 81 q task
Kidding pastures OF these Objectionable
splaDts and II should 5e done.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08

s Mango in pigs is disease caused by
an animal parasite (sarcoptes suisJ
The disease is transmitted BY con-
tact. Blotches or small pustules APP
pear on diferent parts OF the body
and the hog scratches frequently. For
treatment. wash the skin and appl,
daily mixture Of one part Of SUI.
phur, one part Of carbonate Of potash
and eight parts Of oil. Sulphur may be
given ia the feed.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08

'.Openness" in Cheese. In regard to
openness of body, it is often caused by
makers having their curds too dry
early in the season. IN order not to
get curds too dry, they should not be
cooked too high in the spring eve
cook lower because we have less fat
in the milk, as the high temperature
used in cooking drives off the mois-
ture Give them time to mature in the
vat. Mature the curd evenly by tuxn-
ing it often; leaving the curd IN
turned for a long time allows the
moisture to settle to the bottom Of the
scurd; the top Of the curd gets dry and
does not cure SO fast as the bottom, in
which the moisture has remained. In
the spring keep up the temperature
and do not let the curd get chilled. %.
e. G. Publow. s# 3 s Hsss.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08

3 Does feed change the quality of the
egg? Pro bably not. Good feeding
may increase the number Of eggs drop
ped, but will not increase the so-called
richness in each egg. ), .:~$ VI
A writer on Leghorns says that a
fence fifty feet high is needed to con-
fine them. This is just a trife of an
lexaggeration, but it indicates high
flying power in the Leghorns 1t is
perfectly easy to confne them inside
four-foot wire fence, with no top rail-
provided the wings are kept clipped. !.
A man that has had experience in
poultry farming says that the kind of
soil most adapted to poultry farming
Is sandy soil. Where clayey soil is
used, the droppings remain on the top
and the ground soon becomes sticky
and filthy. On sandy soil the rain
washes the manure into the ground,
and the latter, becomes pure after each
rain. This is a great advantage when
one has not the time to often turn up
the soil. <
One poultry writer asserts that the
ammoniacal gases arising from the
droppings of poultry kill lice, and he
advocates permitting the droppings to
accumulate to point where they will
emit ammonia. We do not. believe
this is advisable as a practice, for the
ammonia in the form of vapor would
be- detrimental to the health of the
fowls. But if ammoniacal fumes are
destructive to lice, it might be possible
to use the fumes to destroy them, by
other emeans than depending on the
droppings.
From the standpoint of the absolute
there is no best breed of poultry. The
circumstances in which each man is
placed must decide the question as to
what breed is the best for him. Much
depends on the inclination of the poui-
try raiser. A. man will naturally do
the best with the breed in which he
Is most interested. AS they receive
the best of care, they are very likely
to do better than fowls in, which the
owner is not Interested. Then, too,
the matter of choice must be governed
to some extent by the range that can
be given the fowls. If a man have
but limited range and wishes to build
no fence except such as is needed
around his orchard or garden a fowl
like the Light Brahma will be found
very serviceable.z But if he has an
abundance of range and inclines to-
ward the production of eggs, a lighter
fowl of the egg producing specialist
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-09-08

q Condensed from Farmers' Review STEM
ographic Report OF Wisconsin Roundup
JnStitlite 80 49,.
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DAIRY !! AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department Of tho Farm---A Few
Hints Ei',1 as as to the Care OF Live stock
and Poultry. 3s& . s. &
Poultry Briefs.


& Does feed change the quality of. the
egg? Probably not. Good feeding
may increase the number Of eggs drop
ped, but will not increase the so-called
richness in each egg. LID
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03
Forty Years Among Cannibals.

The French adventurer who was a
captive among cannibals in Central
Africa for forty years, has decided to
write a book, which will no doubt
prove interesting. We can sympathize
with his release from his terrible cap
tivity, which must have been as joyous
as that of man who finds himself sud-
denly released from the captivity of
refractory stomach, by that peerless
remedy, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which has done more to promote health
than any other in existence. This is
the medicine to take, if you are a suf-
ferer from dyspepsia, constipation, in
digestion, biliousness, nervousness or
insomnia. Don't fail to give it trial.
Ask for Hostetter's, and do not accept
a substitute. The genuine has Private
Revenue Stamp over the neck of bottle.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03
Troops for China.

1t is the ambition now of every
young American, of martial instincts,
to go to China. The strong preference
OF every good soldier is for active SER
vice rather than for garrison duty.
China, as field of warlike operations,
is attractive because of its mystery and
its singular civilization. There is no
other country on the face of the globe
like it, and the regulars and the volun-
teers are alike anxious to see it.
The Government would have no
trouble in recruiting, within a few
weeks, 100000 men for China if they
should be needed. The soldier con-
siders himself in great good luck who
is ordered to China instead of to Cuba
or Porto Rico or the Philippines.
The United States has in China or on
the way there about 10000 men.
Whether more will be needed is at
present matter of conjecture. Public
opinion is divided between the proba-
bility of a short and decisive campaign
in China and an irrepressible struggle
lasting for some years.--Kdnsds city
Star.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03

From all appearances the coming
convention of the Silver Party in Vir-
ginia City, will be the last one the
party will ever hold, and after its ad-
journment there will be no more Silver
Party in Nevada. The cause of this Is
bad management in the party and the
greed of few office seekers. No
party in this State ever had so many
men of principle in its ranks as did the
Silver Party when it was organized,
but the scramble for patronage by the
members of both old parties, who had
not been formerly recognized, began
at once; manipulators saw their chance
to do business, and they did it, to the
ruination of the party, and the end is
at hand. Although to-day is set as a
date for holding primaries to elect del
egates to the State Convention, there
seems to be very little interest taken in
any county in this State as to who goes
to the Convention, and nobody seems
to care to go. With the end so near
in sight, it seems to us that the best
thing the Silver Party can do when it
meets in Convention in September
next is to pass all nominations, draw
up resolutions of coincidence on the
death of the party, order the publica-
tion of an obituary notice and adjourn
sine die Dayton Times.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03
Process of Pocket Mining.

Pocket mining is assiduously prose-
cuted in Southern Oregon The largest
pocket found there was on Rouge
river, two miles east of Gold Hill, in
1872. The pocket contained $3.50, 900 in
gold, or rather that amount was ex
tracted from it. Jackass Hill, near
jamestown, Tuolumne county, Cal,
has produced more gold from pockets
than any other locality on the Pacific
slope.
The process of pocket hunting re-
quires unlimited patience and is very
simple. When a prospect of wire or
coarse gold is found on hill or noun
tain slope by panning, the pocket
hunter pans to the right and left of the
place where he found the prospect
until he fails to get "colorsn He then
continues panning at short intervals
up the slope, the area over which the
gold is scattered in the form of spray,
resembling the stream from the nozzle
of a hose sprinkler, gradually narrow
ing and the paintings showing larger
quantity of gold until the point where
the pocket from which the gold drifted
is located.
Should the paintings show no gold
before the pocket is located an open
cut is run from the point where the
gold disappeared and the ''blindn
pocket or vein from which it drifted
will be found short distance above
where gold failed to show in the pam
nings. Months are frequently con-
sumed in tracing a prospect to the
pocket or source above where the first
paintings showed gold.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03

On the new locomotives of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railway nozzles have
been placed on the roofs of the cabs,
pointing at the rear of the tender and
the platform of the front and end OF
the baggage car. These connect to the
hot water of the boiler through a cock
convenient to the engine-driver or the
fireman, who can instantly send a jet
of mixed steam and boiling water, at
200 pounds pressure, that would effect
ually kill anybody happening to be in
its range. The jet is for protection
against train robbers.
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03

The sequel of the inspection of the
Southern Pacific just made by General
Manager Krutschnitt and other high
officials is a decision to Immediately
equip all locomotives on the road be-
tween San Francisco and Ogden with
oil burners. About two years ago oil
burners were placed in the engines of
the company running on its lines in
southern California. The experiment
proved successful, oil proving much
cheaper than coal and superior in other
respects as fuel
The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-08-03
Romance.

He was walking with schoolma'a am.
He is poet, dreamer.
She is a practical miss, given to
mathematics.
The night was serene.
The leafy silences were still as star
The night was jewel of July.
Suddenly he halted beneath the lam
bent ray of street light, and asked:
tWhat is a kiss?''
''Nothing, divided by two," replied
the mealy, mathematical maiden.
And then in a little while nothing
was divided between them.