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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-10
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POROUS RLASTERS
Have No Equal.

They have stood the test of over
forty years use by the public; their
virtues have never been equalled by
the INSCRIPTIONS imitators who have
sought to trade upon their reputation
by making plasters with holes in them
Allcock's stand to-day endorsed by not
only the highest medical authorities, but
by millions of grateful patients who
have proved their worth
Make sure you get Allcock's Never
accept a substitute Allcock's are
aseptic
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
BREEDING POULTRY.

Indiana Farmer.
Let the farmer breed his hers just as
carefully as. his horses, cattle and hogs.
Blood tells just as surely and certainly
In this case as the other Do not be
guilty of keeping mongrel hens in COM
pany with fine, pure bred horses and
cattle. Let the farm have uniform,
blooded appearance from the farmer and
his family to the pigs and hers.
The time for mating breeding fowls for
spring Matching will soon be at hand.
Spare a moment for careful considera-
ton of the very important subject.
In the first place don't breed from any
but healthy stock. The breeding birds
must be pure, otherwise they will not
produce themselves iE: the offspring with
any degree of certainty. They must be
healthy and free from blem1sh, for with
out health no life Is of value. Fowls
that have any constitutional faint ac>
quired by inbreeding, roup or other dis
cases, never should find place In the
breeding pen, for all these weaknesses
are sure to show up III the offspring.
Be sure, also, that the breeding birds
take plenty of exercise. 1t Is impossl-
BILE to produce fertile eggs, except the
birds are very active. Keep them
scratching and working for food. Feed
a light breakfast and then scatter some
small seeds in some cut straw, or chafe,
and they will busy themselves the whole
day Give no drugs of any kind. Stimu-
lants will be detrimental to the fertility
of the eggs. Green bone fed moderately,
as well as meat, will be excellent for
breeding stock. Up to the time for
breeding, the cocks should be kept by
themselves. Remember eggs from fat
hens seldom hatch. p. w. H.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
A PROBLEM.
Denver Stockman.

Denver StOckman.
The rangemen of the West in many sec
lions are being confronted by a serious
problem. The strong advance In the
price of stock cattle has made the old
plan Of letting the cattle rustic for them
gerous not to say expensive one. When
steers are worth $40 or SIS head they
could lose few without counting the
loss serious. But when they are worth
$50 or $40 each, 1t is a horse of another
color Cattle are too valuable to turn
out on an already depleted range, and it
Is a difficult matter to find hay enough
to keep them going, and on the top Of all
this the sheep are getting more numer-
Gus and encrOach more and more on the
cattle territory. This fall many stock
men have found the problem too much
for them to solve and have closed out
everything, and will look for q new. OPEN
ing. About the only men in the West
who are holding on to beef cattle with a
grip that means business are those who
have only a small bunch and are pre-
pared to winter and summer feed, too, il
necessary. These men are breeding high
grade cattle. and figure that they can af-
ford to take care of them right.
The problem Is not new one. 1t has
been gradually coming for several years,
but now the stockmen are right up.
against 1t. and it must be solved. About
the only large herds left are on the
leased lands of Texas and what few there
are in the Northwest are simply looking
for a way to let go. The only apparent
solution now is small punches and in
closed pastures. This means scarcity of
cattle for several years to come, as it
takes time to make such a great change
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
HOG CHOLERA.

Subscriber, Beaver Dam, Wis: "O Is
there a preventive for hog cholera? (2)
A cure for scratches? 90 Also remedy for
impure blood In horses?" Reply-O There
Is no known specific for the prevention Of
hog cholera. Experiments are being made
by the government with incubation as
preventive and some progress has been
made, but the work is not yet complete.
Before long, however, we expect that the
disease may be successfully prevented in
this way. At present every possible
means should be taken to keep the hogs
away from contagion by strict home quar-
antine, pure drinking water, cleanliness
ana disinfection with chloro-naphtholeum
ca Do not wash horses legs from No
vember to May. Dry them thoroughly aft
er work, rubbing with sawdust If neces-
sary Exercise freely keep In well ven
tilated barn and do not feed in excess.
Apply an ointment twice daily composed
of flowers of sulphur, one-half ounce;
spirits of camphor two drams lard, four
ounces. (3) Medicine is unnecessary If
you properly groom, feed and exercise
horses daily and keep them In perfectly
clean and well ventilated barn.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
FIELD, farm IND HOUSEHOLD.

week. This reflects the active feeding Of
corn this year.
Eagle Roller Mill company. New Ulm,
Minn:-"Domestic trade Is not very act
i've, but we are getting enough orders
to keep the mill running. Export prices
on clear are all right, but on patent they
are too low. There is no change in feed;
it holds at good prices and we can sell
more than we make. Farmers are haul
ing very little wheat, as the sentiment
still prevails that prices will be higher.
A friend writes me that good way to
keep smoked meat is to pack the hams
In charcoal in a box. He says it will
keep until December, after 1t has been
packed in March, as sweet as the day 1t
was put there. This is worth a trial
good wood fire and after it has gotten
well under way smother with ashes or
dirt
Minnesota paid $4,000 last month as
bounty on tree culture at the rate Of
$2.40 per acre. Farmers with land too
rough for crops should keep the tree
bounty law In mind and plant trees.
Speaking of conditions, some of the Min
neapolis feeders of grain are actually
hauling oats from nearby country ele.
vators, so low is country produce. Such
were paying IS cents at points below
Mendoza on the Milwaukee. Eighteen
cent oats and 50-cent wheat for the farm
ers, lou to 300 Ter cent increase on all
that they purchase Of trust controlled
articlesi
A committee appointed at a former
creamery meeting at Chaska made re-
port on jar. Is, and there is much en-
thusiasm there among the farmers over
the project.
A writer at st. Cloud says: Frank
Enderle proposes to build a creamery
at st. Nicholas if the farmers of that
locality will contribute a bonus of $500.
Already $500 of this amount has been
subscribed and the enterprise will doubt
less be launched in the near future. The
total cost of putting in into operation Is
to be $500.
Report of Riceland creamery for 1899:
Pounds of milk received, 4,1SIS4O; pounds
of butter made, 1S6,O36; received from
butter sold, $90,S19.52; from patrons for
butter, $4,9O71S; total receipts, $35, S29 SO;
test 1856; yield, 4.44; average price, 772
cents; paid patrons for milk, cash. ST.
4l016; by 24,912 pounds butter, $4,9O71S:
by sundries. $24.50; running expenses, ST.
994.01; improvements. $30529; salary of
secretary, $1O5; salary of directors, $99.3l.
AT the dhnual meeting OF the Glencoe
Creamery association the following Of
ficers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, A. G. WEIGH; treasurer, E. c.
Buck; secretary, Joseph Loblich; direc~
tors, Patrick Rodgers III. Beneke and J.
PodraSky. The report of the secretary
for the year just closing shows that there
were 3.678,S16 pounds of milk received,
from which 155,9S7 pounds Of butter were
made at an average price of Is cents
per pound, which Melted the sum of $751;
774.S1. s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29

Elevator building is unusually active
for this time of the year.
An elevator is being built at Truman.
MINI. "r
The Great Western elevator at st.
James, Mimi, was completed last month
The annex to the Cargill elevator at
Green Bay, Wis, Is nearing compile
ton.
Wilkinson Bros. new modern elevator
at Albert Lea, Mimi, is now taking In
grain.
The Farmers Elevator company, OF
Beardsley, Mimi, has increased it's cap
ital stock to $10,000
The Peavey elevator at Morris Mimi.
was compelled to shut down for a few
days last month owing to the engine Civ
ing out.
The farmers elevator at Waseca, Mimi,
under the management of Bob Keene-
han, Is said to be proving satisfactory to
it's patrons.
Christensen & Henderson, millers Of
Madelia, Mimi. have leased and will OPP
crate the farmers elevator there for
merly conducted by Gregory, Jennison &
Co, of Minneapolis.
1t. Is reported that two new elevators
will be built at Faribault, Mimi, in the
spring. one of $4,000 bushels capacity,
by the Sheffield Milling company. and
the other of $4,000 bushels capacity by
the Fa.ribault Roller Mill company.
The working house of the Peavey ele-
vator plant at Rice Point, Duluth, is ex-
pected to be completed about Feb /.
1t will have a storage capacity of 1,2OO,-
900 bushels. The foundation for the
main storage elevator will be put in this
winter. The material of which this house
will be constructed has not been decid-
ed upon yet; it is stated that concrete
construction is being Investigated and
considered in this connection. 1t Is ex-
pected that the Omaha elevator at this
point. will be completed by April l.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29

contribute by planting sunfiowers with
out much cultivation. The heads may
be harvested and fed to fowls when nee
essary by letting them pick the seeds
from the heads. or they may be threshed
and the seed be fed to them in litter.
Millet seed Is splendid feed for fowls.
1t is small but full of good things for
hens, and a hen will have to exert her.
self to a great deal of activity in order
to get a meal Of millet seed. 1t is bet
ter to have the seed threshed out and
fed to fowls in litter, as all grain should
be fed. More sur.fowers and millet and
less corn will be beneficial to fowls. Corn
Is all right when it is fed with care and
judgment, but 1t Is a positive injury to
laying hens when fed in the same man
ner that 1t is fed to swine.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
A GOOD WORD FOR HEREFoRDs

John Fields, director Oklahoma agricul-
tural experiment station, Saltwater,
writes: 1.-The three Herefords. lately pur-
chased by the Oklahoma agricultural col
lege, are good representatives Of the
breed and are not far removed from such
noted sires as Lord Wilton, The Grove
Sd. Anxiety. Success, Garfield and Cherry
Boy. The bull was only year old Oct
Is, and is a fine lusty fellow weighing
close to 1000 pounds The heifers are in
calf to the noted Hesiod 50th, the prize
bull at the Omaha exposition. In addi-
ton to these the college has purchased
trio of Shorthorns and representatives of
at least two other breeds will be added
very shortly. They will be kept for stu
dent study and instruction, general ex-
animation and information, and with a
view of encouraging the Introduction of a
better class of stock over the territory
The experiment station Is feeding twenty
steers, comparing corn, Kafir, and alfalfa
for the production of beef. The study Of
the <digestibility Of forage crops Is being
continued !"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
CURE FOR THE HEAvEs.

Editors Indiana Farmer see in the
Farmer an inquiry for a cure for the
heaves in horses. I will give you posi-
tive cure, If given as I direct it. Give
pine tar. Open a can of tar, take
swab as large as an egg shell made with
rag tied on stick dip 1t In the tar,
open the horses mouth and put tar all
around his mouth and In his teeth. Do
this twice day for sixty days. then
once day for sixty days. Don't feed
bad hay. if. you want to get rid of the
heaves This treatment with tar alone
will cure any case of heaves. Do not
neglect the tar regularly. Don't put 1t
up in a place where you will not see
the can once month and Their complain
that the heave doctor has got tar to
sell, but give it, stick to it, and you,
or any other man, can cure heaves.
james T. Mccormack.
Madison county.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
LINsEED MEAL AS A FOOD.

First Premium = Cottonseed meal is q
good food for both dairy and beef cattle,
but much care must be used In feeding 1t.
1t may be fed with cut slower or clover
hay in quantities ranging from one pint
to three pints at feed. 1t Is somewhat
binding in its nature and is valuable to
stock when running on green pasture or
to beef cattle when feeding green corn.
1t may be fed heavier to beef cattle than
to milk cows. Some feed 1t to make the
butter stand better in hot weather. But
too much will make the butter taste bad
ly. Millet hay. If fed in large quantities,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
WATCH DOGS.

Mr.. Editor would like to ask some
questions in regard to dogs. Which are
the best watch dogs on farm, and
where are they to be had? How would a
Newfoundland do? Are they watchful
around the house and yard, or are the
ST. Bernard dogs better than the New
foundland? I would like to have one that
would keep tramps from the yard and
be watchful
The best watch dog Of today is the
Great Dane. We do not know where they
can be had, but such persons as have
them would do well to advertise them
in our columns. The bull terrier Is a
formidable looking animal and thieves
and tramps do not like to go where one
of them Is kept, but they have some I'M
pleasant habits and often have to be
kept chained.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
about $1,000 in improvements during the

about $4,000 in improvements during the
past year.
Havana creamery shipped LAOS pounds
of butter last week to New York.
Big Stone Is. d. creamery received a.
900 pounds more milk in 1899 than in 1888.
The Oak Glen creamery receives 1900
pounds of milk every other day. Shipped
2,O6S pounds of butter last week.
Belview creamery made 29,667 pounds of
butter last year and sold it for S4,f6O. Oh
which patrons received $3.50
The Brookville Creamery company
handled 2,170,S56 pounds of milk last year
and made butter worth $1S,057 Patrons
received $12,350.
The Amboy creamery handled 1881, 5S7
pounds ofsmilk last year and received $780,
SO for butter sold. Patrons received
$7308
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
MIX FLAX AND WHEAT.

A. K. Bush advocates the plan Of rails
ing flax and wheat mixed. He argues
that the flax prevents the wheat from
becoming lodged, on heavy ground, and
that it keeps out chiheh bugs and partly
prevents rust. The grade of both grains
is improved Mix two bushels Of wheat
with one of flax and sow four or five
pecks to the acre. Harvest as usual, and
haul the mixture to elevators. where pay
will be given according to the test OF
the proportion Of fax In the mixture.
The two grains are easily separated.
This is not an experiment, but has been
tried in Southern Minnesota and proved
poplar. Mr.. Bush practices it. on his
farm in Olmstead county, and he has
been farming for forty-ive years In Min
nesOta
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
Dry Goods e.: ::::; e: - ;; :;
Powers Dry Goods Co.,
9Th and Wacouta

will do the same thing. Some say that
when cottonseed meal is fed In large
quantities it will cause a kind of oil to
rise on the milk while still warm
While it is somewhat eonstipa ting in
its effects 1t Is good feed to mix with
wheat bran or watery-green feeds. 1t
seems as though linseed meal works to
the contrary and has loosening tenden-
cy. Cottonseed meal ranks high as a fer
tilizer and as there Is no better feed for
beef cattle we can prepare to save all
the manure and still save it's fertilizing
qualities to great extent. B. w.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
Origin of Pew Rents.

Accounts which date back to 1888 show
that the principle of allotting sittings to
particular people and charging for the
same was then in force. At st. Law
rence,s church. Reading. there Is an en-
try under date 1047 for reforming the
mayors seat. and at Rye the church war
dens expended five shillings for making
new pew for the magistrates wives.
In 1876 the church wardens decreed that
women occupying seats in certain favor
ed positions should pay four pence each
For still better positions near the pulpit
the charge was six pence. At Dorchester.
in 1926 Robert Poldens wife is noticed as
paying l shilling 8 pence for a seat In
the "women's square" So there is rea-
son for believing that originally pew rents
were charges made every time particular
seats were occupied.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
BIG DEAL IN RANCH PROPERTY.

Adispatch from Cheyenne, Wyo., said:
1.-THE Warren Live Stock company, of
which United States Senator Warren of
Wyoming, is president has just closed
deal whereby the company gains control
of thousands of acres of the finest graz
ing and ranch lands In the West. The
company has bought up twelve Of the big
gest ranches In this state and Colorado,
including the famous Willow Springs
ranch. near Carr, Col, formerly the prop
erty of N. e. Wheeler & Co. The amount
of the purchase price is not given. The
Warren company now has control of that
ranch and grazing property The deal
includes all live stock on the ranches
bought
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29

One often sees shrubs done up in straw
or in burlap or dressed in some other
comical costume for the Writer. This
course may be justifiable in a few cases
where one has some pet plant which Is
not quite hardy enough for the latitude,
but in general plants which are not hardy
enough ought not to be planted. Tender
exotics are always of doubtful utility on
the lawn. The best landscape garden
ers are the ores who use the most or
the hardy native shrubs and trees. 1t Is
best, where the snowfall is apt to be
heavy, to tie shrubs up in punches with
strong Irvine. This prevents their be-
ing broken down with the snow. But
wrapping up plant to keep 1t from
freezing is another thing.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
BIG CORN.

Editor Indiana Farmer
read in the Farmer about big corn.
NV seed corn is in room where there Is
a gas jet, so it is drya 1 got fourteen
ears that averaged liz inches long and
8 inches round, and seven ears weighed
pounds ten ounces, The other seven
averaged over one pound. The first seven
weighing pounds 10, ounces, fifty such
ears would make a bushel. So pounds.
At the first fair held at sPendleton took
some stalks of corn that measured over
twenty feet from the ground to the top
of the tassel. One stalk had six ears on
If a. Edward Roberts.
Madison County.
This Is immense corn, and up to this
date YOU are ahead.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
STATE FARMERS INSTITUTES.

Montevideo, Chippewa county, Friday
and Saturday, Feb. and 8.
Willmar, Kandiyohi county. Tuesday
and Wednesday, Feb. and T..
Litchfield Meeker county, Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10.
Faribault, Rice county. Tuesday and
Wednesday, Feb. 19 and H.
Red Wing, Goodhue county. Thursday
and Friday, Feb Is and Is.
Shakopee, Scott county, Tuesday and
Wednesday, Feb. 20 and Il.
st. Peter, Nicollet county, Thursday and
Friday, Feb. % and %.
Redwood Falls, Redwood county, Mon
day and Tuesday, Feb 26 and q.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
ENCOURAGE IRRIGATION.

Irrigation development means inestima-
BILE increase In wealth alike to state and
Individual; it means anTincrease of tax
able property, lower rate of taxation
and the building upfof communities with
the increased demand which immigration
naturally creates for merchandise and
other supplies. A steady, healthy agri-
cultural growth adds the greatest posi-
BILE wealth and stability to community.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
APPLE TREES.

Most Of my apple trees live the first
year. but die the second year. Can you
tell me why? e. o.
Waubay s. D.
We cannot, but think it likely you have
not set varieties which are suitable to
our rigorous winters, or perhaps you
procured your trees too far South. Try
the Duchess Patterns and Wealthy If
they are purchased Of Northern growers
we think you will succeed by giving them
proper care.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
A BIG STORY.

A letter from Cleveland, O.. says a Pc
culiar condition exists in the egg supply
of the United States, a result of storing
eggs in an attempt to control the mar
ket, which started last summer among
Chicago packers. There was no call for
the stored eggs and then the scheme
fell through. Now, with fresh eggs be-
ginning to come to market the situation
Is worse There are said to be 7,0OO,0O0
cases of eggs, or 2l0,oo0,OoO dozen, stored
through the country, bought up at 10
cents a dozen, while present average
price is cents less-a loss of IS. 400, 900 to
Al
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
sUNFLOWERs AND MILLET.

Sunfiowers and millet afford very good
feed for poultry and to grow some of each
will require very little attention and
time. Sunfiowers can be planted in the
corners of the garden, and in waste
places near the barn or poultry houses.
The heads will grow larger and will be
better where the ground is cultivated,
but many waste places may be made to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
and bring the production back to the de-
mands Of the country.
Through Tourist Sleeping Car sery-
ice to Texas, Old Mexico and Cal

Via Chicago Great Western Railway to
Kansas City and Missouri, Kansas &
Texas San Antonio e. Arkansas Pass and
Southern Pacific Railways through Dallas
San Antonio. Ell Paso and Los Angeles
to San Francisco. Only through car line
from the Northwest to Texas points, and
connecting at Spofford Junction for ali
points in Old Mexico. These cars are in
charge Of an experienced official and leave
St. Paul every Friday at 11:2O D. m
reaching Dallas the following Sunday,
Tuesday. Los Angeles at noon Wednes-
day and San Francisco early Thursday
morning. These are Pullman Tourist
Cars similar to those run on all trans
continental lines and the charges for
berths are about half those regularly
charged. To persons who have made the
trip to California via other routes, this
Southern route will prove a most de-
ightful change. and to persons contem-
plating trip to Texas or Mexican points
1t furnishes facilities heretofore unoffered
Full information furnished by ]. p.
Elmer, G.. A. P. D.. Fifth and Robert
streets. st. Paul.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
H0MEsTEADING.

to get reliable information about the law
governing demonstrating in South Da-
kota. Could you advise me on the
point?
Write to the secretary of the interior,
Washington, D. c., telling him what is
wanted, and he will send a leafiet con-
tanning the laws governing the sub
ject
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
LUMP JAW.

have fine feed steer that has lump
Jaw. Please state in your next paper
what l must do for him. I. r. l..
Give the steer ninety grains Of potash
in a pint Of water every day until he
shows improvement, which will be in
week or ten days, then the iodide Of
potash can be reduced one-half and keep
up week or two longer. There is little
benefit from local treatment of the lump,
which will partially, if not entirely, dis
appear under the iodide treatment.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-29
SENSIBLE JAPANESE.

Japan seems to have taken hold of the
forestry question more intelligently and
vigorously than ourselves. A definite
plan is being followed in the perpetual
ton Of her forest areas their Importance
in relation to agriculture and water sup
ply being recognized. Under imperial
edict every natural, tree. cut down must
be replaced by the. planting Of young