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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

While travelling through northwest
ern Pennsylvania my attention was
called to a curiosity in the line OF
sheep 1t was a breed with four horns
writes contributor to American Sheep
Breeder.
One ram had horns the total length
Of which was thirteen feet OF course
this breed will never come into favor
as a profitable breed Too much nu-
triton is used to produce the horns.
but a curiosity and a specimen for
parks they will be sought after.
The horns vary greatly as to shape.
but the general form was two standing
straight from the top of the head and
the other two branching from just be-
low the others and in some cases max
ing a curve, while in other instances
they extended straight out.
I questioned regarding the origin of
this breed and found they all came
from one ram left by a travelling COM
finished the season and asked a farmer
to keep their ram until spring for
them In the spring they presented
the ram to the farmer.
He took Highland Blackface ewes
and crossed with the ram The ram
proved very potent and a result
there is a flock of twenty-five or thirty
sheep with four horns.
They have been crossed in and seem
to keep the original characteristics.
Where the first ram came from
have been unable to find out, but as
far as I can learn this is the only
flock in the world.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Bow Successful Farmers Operate This
Departments of the Farm-A Few
Hints to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
A Great Dafrx.

Hoard.s Dairyman gives tbs inter
esting account of an immense dairy
owned by Francis Francisco, near
Newark, New Jersey:
There are never less than 900 cows
at this establishment The number
varies from 1000 to 1000. Mr. Fran
cisco receives at least one carload OF
plump new mich COWS from his
Iowa ranch every week His inspector
.ests and examines every COW rigidiy,
and every one which is found to be out
OF condition, or that does not give milk
which. in amount or quality, equals
the standard required, is converted into
beef. Then the rest are given a place
In the dairy Every COW is killed and
sold to the meat dealer as soon as it
becomes dry" and its place filed by
a new mich COW.
These cows are kept in three large
stables. and sixty men care for their
wants. These stables are clean, dry
and well ventilated. Every COW looks
sleek enough to go to wedding. Every
COW is curried daily, and every cows
udder is thoroughly washed before
by electricity and cooled by electric
fans As every COW is MIXED the
mixer pours the fluid into an auto
matte carrier, which takes it to the
milk house and places it in watts which
are surrounded by ice. These cows are
fed either ensi1age or hay. and grain,
every day in the year They are kept
shut up every inclement day, but every
pleasant day they are let out to pas
ture. The entire establishment covers
about 800 acres. Not only is every COW
tested when she first arrives, but fire.
Quently after that time as WELL and
every cow whose milk does not test
at least 4 per cent butter fat, or in any
other way falls under the requirements
is carted away to the slaughter house,
where its neighborS are destined to go
in a few short months at the very
most.
"tThe milk from this establishment
is bottled and sealed, and shipped in
refrigerator cars to New York city and
disposed Of to the retail trade. The
price received varies from season to
season, but is never less than 10 nor
more than IA cents a quart
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

your ducks, and probably most of all
upon yourself Mr.. Rankin, when he
was a beginner. raised 1.50o market
able ducks from thirty head of layers.
OF course, he had advantages We
marketed $50 ducks from the eggs
1ayed during four weeks Of twelve
layers with no advantages other than
any farmer has
EMMA CIEARwATERS
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

If the brood SOW does not come in
heat you may know that she is not in
good condition, says the Farmer. If
litter has just been weaned. feed her
literally, and in few days she will
breed. AS a rule 1t is not best, to breed
her the first time she comes in heat
after weaving the pigs The prob
abilities are that she has not sufficient
~ recovered from the strain on her
system to do we'll. The litter from
coupling at this time would likely be
few in number. The SOW to give the
best return should be in fine condition
when bred, making improvement each
day. It is not reasonable to expect
much from a SOW running down in
flesh and in low condition; yet sows
are often bred that are but little more
than walking skeletons, and are ex-
pected to produce thrifty pigs.
Canadian Dairy Exports.-If Canada
can make money exporting butter it
would seem a profitable industry for
farmers in the United States Although
our exports are increasing somewhat
they are still woefu11y small, and this
is due to the poor reputation American
butter has acquired through the ship
ment abroad of poor butter, oleo and
process butter, offered for sale prime
American In July our exports were
something over &c, 900 packages, but in
a single week recently Montreal ex-
ported 5000 packages. The United
Kingdom imports annually about $780,
0O0, 900 pounds of butter of W hich only
about per cent comes from TIE United
States. Why should not the govern
ment inspect American butter for ex-
port the same as she does meat going
abroad The officials of the agricu1-
tural department believe the plan thor
osgh1y practicable In fact, the repu-
tation of Canadian butter and cheese
results from such an inspection Can
ada will permit no exporting of imita-
ton of butter or cheese and her Eepu-
tation on both OF these articles Is good
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

To most OF us 1T does not seem 30
very long ago since the heavy horses
imported from France were grey in
color and even the quality of grey
that turns white with age. 1t was
about this time too that Shorthorn
cattle had to be solid red in color to
be considered fashionable and worthy
of a place in the pedi greed herds OF
the country. But how the fashions do
change to be sure, Almost instantly
IN answer to the demand for black
French horses the imported Percheron
assumed a jet black coat such as had
old Brilliant and the grey horse seemed
to be back number. Just about
then, too, the red Shorthorns were en-
countered by good old fashioned col
ored Scotch Shorthorns of red roam
and white coats and routed too. and
since then the solid red color has prac-
tieally ceased to be considered an i'm
perative necessity This was a COM
mon sense move for it should always
De remembered that a good beast is
always a good color whereas a fash
lonabIe coat may and does often hide
multitude Of evils in beast and body
alike. We cannot say that a good
French horse was a better horse when
black skinned than was his grey col
ored equal. and now we are glad to
see that the ClydeSdale folk have de-
cloed to admit to registry grey col
ored Clydesdale mares, many OF which
oy the way were in every way equal
to their bay and brown sisters as
proved in pillow and wagon. We pre-
sumo that this change of policy as re-
CARDS grey C1ydes is partly due to the
fact that in Great Britain Just at pres
ent grey horses are in demand and
scarce, although it is but a few years
since a grey carriage horse was quite
vulgar in the estimation of the upper
strata or society who the de-
scendantS OF the good old-fashioned
couples who simply would not have
thought of driving to church on their
wedding day behind anything except a
pair OF four-in-hand of dapple greys.
Grey horses, too, are in demand for
cavalry purposes in the British army
and this may have had something to
do with the return of grey into favor
among breeders and dealers who are
also not SO particular now to reject a
morse because he is some shade OF
chestnut or SO-called --Sorrel.'' Prac-
teal results are after all the main OBJ
1ects of the breeder of any class of
animals and in our opinion color
should not be set up as a barrier to
progress so long one particular
color or combination of color Gas with
Aberdeen-Angus and Hereford cattle)
is not the recognized peculiar charac-
teristic of the breed.
We welcome the grey horse back to
| favor and will ever congratulate
breeders who see above and beyond
| the mere fad of color.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04


One washing is usually sufficient
The Danes, as rule, do not wash their
butter, yet it generally commands the
highest price in the English market,
says an agricultural student Butter
should not be too dry before apply
ing the salt, the moisture aids in
disSolving the salt as we'll as the work
ing does; hence, less working is re-
quired if the salt is applied at the
right time. When butter is worked
twice the result is usually more salts
factory. The first working should not
occupy more than minute or a min
ute and half; just enough to nicely
incorporate the salt. It should then
be loosely put in a tub and placed for
three or four hours in a room where
the temperature was kept from so to
55 degs-, not being cold enough to chill
and harden the butter on the outside,
as butter kept at moderate tempera-
ture will work better at the second
working than il permitted to harden
too much. The second working should
continue until the butter becomes
waxy, or when broken apart will ap-
pear stringy, like broken iron
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04
Ducks.

Ducks.
From Farmers Review: To those
contemplating raising ducks for mar
ket next year it is time they had their
breeding stock on hand. If you raised
ducks this year and intend raising
from the young ducks, you should at
least dispose Of all the brakes and Gull
ducks, buy brakes in way related
to the ducks you have, and if possible
procure old brakes. Indeed, we strong
ly advise raising from old stock alto
sethtir, for while the young Matched
may all live they not quite so
large, averaging them, and the eggs
viii not hatch we'll Build a house,
not as warm as for your hens. Indeed
1t may be entirely open on the south
1t should be dry and comparatively
comfortable. Begin now and feed a
little heavier, and let the food be large
~ bulky food, such cut clover, cut
rye or let them pasture on rye, and
BRAN Don't give much corn until
severe weather, during which we have
successfully given all the shel1ed corn
they would eat at night. During and
before the laying season make it
rule to give a warm breakfast. The
mash need not be mixed as stiff as for
chickens, and if you have milk to give
the ducks give it to them in their
mash 1t does not prove a success
when given as a drink. Once a week
place powdered charcoal in their mash
a SIll 10 q quart, and nave 1t around
their house ia stable pieces all the
time. Treat them about as you do
your hens only they do not need a dust
bath and as warm a house. They need
more to eat then hens, head for head,
but it may be made more of bulk with
advantage to the ducks and to the cost
OF feed.
During the heavy laying time they
need feed in the proportion of three
hens ration to two ducks Two ducks
will eat as much three hens, and
must have it if they do their best at
laying Their eggs are much larger
than a hens egg, and they lay more
In a given time To do their best at
laying they should have fresh lean
meat twice per week, all they want
after you have them broken into it.
Procure one drake for each five ducks,
and get nice ones even if your ducks
are rather SO SO. 1t is not generally
known that ducks grow after they are
a year old, bat they will. We have
some that were a year old last April
that have grown the past summer.
They are now as large the o1d-fash-
toned geese, nd If nothing happens
they will be in the best possible shape
for breeding from the coming season
They were never stunted either; when
they were six months old it seemed
they were large and nice as one
ought to expect Of duck. but they
have grown surprisingly since then.
Now. don't think you must keep
their craws full all the time if you are
to get many eggs. indeed, you must not
do that For ducks to lay we'll and
above all. their eggs to hatch well and
produce good. strong duckIings. they
must exercise a great DEAL and for this
there is nothing better than a pond to
swim in 1t is not necessary to have
a duck pond in order to be a success
ful duck raiser, but 1T helps lots The
eggs seem to be all fertile, and such
great strong duck1ings kick out of
them How many breeding ducks
should you have? That depends
how many you wish to market. ON
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

One of the essentials in the keeping
Of fowls healthy is to have the house
dry This is particularly the case in
the winter, when the fowls have to be-
indoors for weeks at time. A wet
house is bad enough in the summer
when the fowls have to stay in it at
night, but in the winter time it should
never be tolerated, partly for the rea-
son that the seldom has power
enough in winter time to dry up mois-
ture in the poultry house.
Science is all the time finding new
ways to take care of surplus perish
able products. Desiccating eggs prom
ises to be a favorite way of dispos-s
ing of them at times of the year when
they are too cheap to pay a reasonable
profit at retail. New machines for do
ing this work are from time to time
being invented, and perhaps the day
is not far distant when the price of
eggs will be about uniform throughout
the year If the men that are doing
this kind of work will simply be sat
lshed with what they can get for the
eggs as treated naturally, it will be ul-
t1mate1y great gain to the poultry
interests Unfortunately we may ex-
pect that the manufacturers of pre-
servatives will get after the desicca-
tors Of eggs and persuade them that
nothing will ensure the keeping
qualities of the eggs as little pre-
sentative added. The result of that
will be that the public will find 1T out
and curtail their purchases in that df-
rect1on- But the honest employment
or methods of drying might greatly re-
1teve the market at times of oversup-
ply Sooner or later the farmers wife
will learn to apply the method and the
farmers table will be cheapIy supplied
with eggs in the winter as in the sum-
mer.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

Statistics OF Cheese Factories
Cheese inquiries are now occupying
the attention of some of the force en-
p1oyed at the census Office Circulars
and letters are being sent to managers
directors and owners of cheese fac
tories and creameries of such char
acter as will aid enumerators in com
piling useful and accurate information
regarding this important branch of
dairying. Heretofore the changes In
managers at the close of a season has
rendered the making of a reliable re-
port impossible Director Merriam
suggests that as this is the season
when the factories close, those in
charge prepare a detailed statement of
the quantity of milk or cream pur-
chased and the amount paid over it;
the amount of butter or cheese pro-
duced: the amount received from the
sale of each; the amount of capital in
vested in plant and machinery; and
the amount paid in wages. The items
should be varied properly to 1T cases
where factories or creameries are CO.
operative. In an interview the direc-
tor stated This Information will not
be gathered before June L, 1900, and
as it must cover the year 1885, it Is
hoped that factory managers or own
ers will preserve the statements until
the enumerators shall arrive to USE
them next June.
Send only clean eggs to market
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-04

Send only clean eggs to market
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
THE MAN WITH A CLAIM.
A Pathetic Figure Who Is Regularly
Snubbed at Town Meetings.

The most pathetic figure at q town
meeting is the man With claim. The
man who has the claim or grievance
goes to the selectmen each spring and
has them put an article in the warrant
bringing this matter up. Some years
he goes into town meeting himself and
urges his claim. In other years for
the sake of variety he will hire some of
the local lawyers to present the matter
in the best manner possible. Usually
the man is listened to, though the
whole thing is horribly familiar to ev-
cry voter in the town.
Then, when all the oratory has been
spilled into their ears, some long cared
man from the back districts will rise
and will drawl with grin:
Move we pass over that article"
and forthwith the article is passed
over with a whoop. And the man is
around next year as usual. 1t is a curl
GUS thing, but the average town ap-
pears always ready to repudiate these
matters of long standing have heard
voters admit that certain claims
against their town were perfectly legit-
innate and perhaps ought to be paid,
but they are of the coterie that regu-
larry votes against granting the APP
peal Of the petitioners. 49,.
Why? ,ssSi
Oh, we'll, it's ian old NATTER" and
the town is irritated by the persistence
of the man who keeps coming to claim
his own. When a town gets set in that
direction. there is no reputation so
heartless and so constituencies as that
which marks its action. You see, the
blame is so equally divided Refusing
to pay honest debts is treated as a
joke. Even the man who at last with
awakened conscience gets up and urges
his fellow citizens to do the right thing
and pay the bill is smiled away as n
chap that means well, but doesn't
know what he is talking about.-Lew-
iston Journal.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
Senator Davis hit the nail ON III,

Senator Davis hit the nail on the
head when he said: 81 am amused
to see such tremendous hubbub
the Democrats are making as to
whether they ought to endorse 10
to i once or endorse it twice. The
Tree coinage of silver at the ratio
Of 10 TO was fully and emphatic
ally advocated in the Chicago plat
form. The party could not have
expressed itself more decidedly on
that issue, but now | hear that the
delegates to Kansas City are adj
vancing profound arguments pro
and con as to whether it would be
better to ieattlrm the Chicago plat
form or reafhrm that platform and
declare in addition that the Demo
cratic party is really and truly in
favor of free silver 16 to L. That
is like man saying that he favor
ed it before and that he also favors
it. The more you consider the
latest problem, the more problem
atical it appears.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06

of you heard his name before? 1t
was kellar, and kellar is what?
He is sub-chief of Tammany, on
ly this and nothing more A
cheap, subordinate, hireling, APP
pointee, and this man the Tam
many bosses of New York gravely
and seriously presented to the con-
vention as candidate for the dig
pihed office of Nice-President OF
the United States. A more self
respecting convention would have
hooted them out of the hall. The
whole Kansas City convention with
its hero worship and its subservi-
ency to the dictates of such dis
reputable leaders forms a disgrace
full chapter in the history of Amer
lean politics.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
A Lesson In Rudeness.

Women should not complain that
they have to stand in street cars and
other public conveyances' said an old
gentleman as he laboriously made his
way from the transfer man to the her
die. children learn common polite
ness at home if they learn it at ALL On
the car that | just left was a hand
somely dressed woman and her son. a
fine looking boy of 10. The car was
crowded when | got on, and the little
man and his mother sat near the door
AS soon as i entered the boy made a
motion to get up, but his mother held
him down.
Mamma, the man is lame,' l heard
him whisper.
I don't care if he is You have paid
for your seat and have right to it,
she answered him pettishly.
The little fellow blushed at his
mothers remark. Now, that woman
will probably read the riot act to the
next man who refrains from giving her
seat in crowded car but what can
she expect when she teaches her own
son to be discourteous to the lame and
the MISREPRESENTATION Star
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
Equal to the occasion.

There once stopped at a tavern a par
ty of wits. When the feast was over,
one of the members called in the
hostess.
Madam" he said. 81 am going to
give you lesson in astronomy. Have
you not heard of the great Platonic
year, when everything must return to
it's former condition? Know, then.
that in 1000 years we shall be here
again on the same day and at the same
hour. Will you give us credit till
then?"
The hostess, however, had her reply.
81 am perfectly willing" she retorted.
"but it is just 1000 years since you
We're here before, and you left without
paying then. Settle the old score now,
and l will trust you on the new
New York Tribune.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
PLENTY GOOD ENOUGH.

One Wednesday we were talking
to one of the young German-Amer-
lean voters of Denison. We said
we hoped that he would vote the
republican ticket this fall. We
knew that his father was strong
democrat and that all his surround
ings were democratic, it was a
pleasant surprise then for us to
hear him say that he voted the re-
publican ticket once and that ne
should do it again this fall, for, he
said, "these times are plenty good
enough for me, do not want a
change and.the democrats say they
will give us one. for one do not
want it." We believe there are
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
BULGE QUICKLY LOST.

Higher Cables Offset by Showers IN the
Northwest-Corn IL Shade Down.
CHICAGO, July "a higher market at Liver
poo! resulted in bulge here early TO-DAY, but
the market reacted because of the rains in
the northwest, closing steady, August shade
under Tuesday. Corn closed shade lower
and oats lsc down. Provisions closed steady
and but little changed. Closing prices:
WHEAr-July, 7slac; Aug, 1870; Sept, sO11c.
CoRN-July, 425sc; Aug, 4s1sc; Sept, 1870
1890.
oArs-Iuly. 2slIgc Aug, 23l1sc: Sept, 2ssssc.
PoRK-July, sl2.72; Sept, s129Og12. 90.
RlBs-Iuly, $7.05; Sept, s7.07.
LARD-July, S6.s2; Sept. s6.95: Oct, s6.97.
Cash quotations. No. 2 red wheat. 801S@81c;
No. spring wheat, 771a(@7s1ac; No. cash
corn, 4Sc; No. cash oats. 23A4c.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-07-06
Kansas City Live Stock.

KANSAS CITY, July 5.-Cattle-Receipts. l..
800 natives. $500 Texans; good active demand
at strong prices; native steers. $4.50(g5.6O;
stockers and feeders. s3.s5CG4.75; butchers COWS
and heifers. s3.lOtG5.0O; Gamers sg.50(g3lO
fed westerns, s4lOg5.3O; Texans. s850(@4.s5.
Hogs-Receipts, 1000: quiet market at 5910c
advance; heavy, $5.2095.30; mixed, S5.1O(D5.25;
light, s5.05(a5.20 pigs, s4.60(g5.05. Sheep-Re-
reipts, $500: improved demand. muttons
steady; lambs l0t015c higher; lambs, s4.5O@
800: muttons, s40OG5.0O; Texans, $8.75(g4.OO;
feeders S3.50(g4.50 culls. SO .50G350