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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

Considerable Importance is attached
to the distance measuring field glass
invented by MI. Zeiss of Jena. It is
simply an extension of the natural
power of the eyes to estimate the dis
lance of nearby objects. This power
depends upon the fact that the space
between the eyes serve like a base
line in surveying, the Tines of sight
converging upon a selected object from
the ends of the base. In the telemeter
the effective distance between the eyes
is increased by means of prisms, and
double images of the objects looked at
are formed. The distance between the
images varies with the remoteness of
the objects, and a scale shows what
the real distance is. Up to about two
miles the results are said to be fairly
accurate.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
Type as Ammunition.

At the time of the Maori war in New
Zealand a newspaper correspondent
had a strange experience. The pub
fishing Office OF a newspaper was close
to the scene of some of the hottest
fighting. During the struggle the
Maoris ran out of ammunition for their
guns, and, raiding the newspaper Of
fees, charged their guns with type and
stereo blocks. This novel ammunition
proved very effective. One of the
white invaders was severely wounded
with a patent medicine advertisement
and another was crippled for life by a
church bazaar announcement, and the
editor, who had taken refuge with the
British troops, had a narrow escape
from being hit with one Of his OWE
poems.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

A paper on the blue fox (vulpes lago-
pus) of the Pribiloff islands, Bering
sea, by MI. Lucas, is timely now that
furs are in season. Fox farms c
ranches for breeding the animals ex-
list not only in the Aluetian islands.
but in islands off the coast of Maine.
The foxes of Pribiloff feed on sea
birds, seal pups, and dead seals, for
which they go out on the ice foes in
spring. "Dead-fall" traps have been
superseded by "box traps" which dc
not kill the animal, and the blue fe-
male is set free. White females, how
ever, are killed in order to produce a
breed which does not blanch in win
ter. Male foxes are spared if the sup
ply is likely to fail, and all foxes let
loose are marked by clipping a ring
from their tails. 1t is hoped to turn
the blue fox from a monogamus to a
polygamous animal in order to in
creas the supply of fur. This fox is
not crafty or wary of man and is taken
everywhere with bait.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
Calves that Won't Drink Milk.

We once raised a calf that never
tributor to National Stockman and
Farmer. 1t was the only case of the
sort I ever heard of and we naturally
supposed that it would die, for by no
possible means could it be taught to
drink any milk, more than just to taste
of it. 1t grew very thin, even before
we gave it up. but as nobody wanted
the job of killing it we turned it into
the field and let it take it's chances.
After that it lived somehow, on grass
and water, and it did not get any too
much of either, for we had he bad
habit of turning calves into a sort OF
clearing hat had neither water nor
feed in much quantity, expecting the
calves to live mainly on milk. The
calf that would not drink milk seemed
to fairly dry and shrivel up till it vas
a sort of walking shadow, blu it made
a great fight for life and came out in
the fall quite an animal, so that it
wintered with the other stock and be-
gan the second year about even. 1t
was a heifer and as a cow developed
the ordinary milking qualities of the
rest of the herd, none the worse, ap-
parently, for it's experience. Nobody
had any idea why it disliked milk. l
cannot remember whether it began by
sucking the mother or not, but sup
pose that it did, as it was common to
allow the calf to remain with the COW
till the milk was fit to use.
My experience is that all possible
effort to get calves to eating solid food
early is valuable. We take to late
summer or fall calves as we watch
them more. These can be taught to
eat grass early and as it does not
physic them as the over-succulent
spring growth does, they car eat as
much as they will without injury.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
Feeding Dairy Calves.

There is a discussion going on In
,ome of our esteemed contemporaries
regarding the feeding of young dairy
calves, and it is rather amusing to note
some of the extravagant statements
made by those who argue that a calf
IAN be more successfully raised with
,ut milk than it can on the good old
plan provided by the Creator. If, for
instance, we are to believe these en-
Ihusiasts, the feeding of milk is liable
% teach the calf the bad habit of lay
ing on fat instead of flesh and muscle,
and the growing of bone. Milk, then,
we must conclude, is a fat-producing
sood not fit for young growing calves,
a fallacy that requires no refuting
argument.
They proceed to prescribe a manner
Of feeding which, according to these
savants who can improve upon ma
lures methods, is better than milk for
The calf, in that it does not produce fat,
causes "pot-bellies," which say they
are a great desideratum for modern
dairy calves, and tends to the growth
Of great coats of hair in winter to take
the place of fat which they so much
fear. Having thus provided what they
consider a perfect ration, and 1t con-
sists of flour, fax-seed jelly, hay tea,
ETC., they do not tell US what is the OBJ
lection to sweet skim milk, nor figure
The cost of their ration to show wherein
it is more economical than a ration OF
dry corn meal and skim milk, which
has been found a perfectly satisfactory
ration and cheaper than one contain
ing oil meal in any form, and 1t should
be remembered that Of all it's forms
Jelly" is the most troublesome to pre-
pare.
The fact of the matter is that in the
West at least the proposed ration
would cost about as much as milk at
the prices it has been bringing when
shipped to the factory or made into
butter or cheese. In the East, where
the price of milk is higher than in the
West, there may be reason for depr1v-
ing the young calves of it even during
the first few days of their lives. We
would prefer, however, to feed the cali
sweet milk for ten days OF SO n then
utilize the sweet skim milk that can so
easily and cheaply build up, by the
addition of corr meal fed dry, to per-
fectly take the place of the whole milk
which can be more pro1tably sold.
The Farmers Review is heartily in
favor of feeding growing dairy calves
upon a highly heterogeneous ration, but
it does not believe that milk is apt to
spoil a heifer as a prospective mixer,
for mothers milk is the best-balanced
ration that can possibly be formed for
growing young animals, and 1t is alb
solute bosh to say that 1t lessons the
chances Of a dairy-bred heifer becom-
ing a profitable milking cow. Keep
the calf growing naturally and it will
not be stunted by the laying on OF fat
nor is it necessary to produce a pot
belly" which merely indicates an IN
healthy state of the digestive apparatus
and is far more likely to stunt and In
jure the calf than a ration containing {
certain proportion of fat Wltnou'
which no ration for any known pur'
pose would be complete.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

Among the as yet unexplored spots
on the earth which are to be scientifi-
cally attacked during the coming year
is Sannikoff Land, lying north of the
New Siberia Islands, about 300 miles
from the nearest point ON the Siberian
coast. A Norwegian party will try to
reach the place in 1901 from the
mouth of the Lena River, where they
propose to spend next winter. The
coming summer will be consumed i'll
fixing the camp on the Lena.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
Applying Protective incubation.

Applying Protective incubation.
Bulletin 81 of the Kansas Expert
ment Station says: One of the great
est difficulties encountered in our ex-
periments with protective incubation
is to convince farmers that it is use
less, or worse than useless, to inocu-
late sick or exposed hogs with an at
tenuated culture of swine-plague
germs. This may be illustrated thus:
Suppose an animal were poisoned by
drinking a great quantity of some
strong fermented liquor, like brandy,
which contains about fifty per cent OF
alcohol: would it not seem ridiculous
to attempt to save this animals life by
beginning now to accustom it to the et-
fects of alcohol by feeding it additional
but diluted potions of the same beV-
erage? Attempting to save an infected
animal by administering dilute or at
tenuated doses of the poisons (toxlnes)
that are the actual cause of the disease
is an analogous case. But, on the
other hand, by feeding the diluted
poisons before the full-strength pols-
ons have been administered, the anil
NAL organism will gradually accustom
itself to stronger and stronger doses
until full-strength doses can be ami
istered without harm. There are, OF
course, limits to all these assertions,
but within these limits the facts VIII
bear out the statements. On these
principles protective incubation rests
and this once fully understood, there
will be no danger of c~onfounding pro-
tective incubation with curative treat
ment. The average farmer is unWll-
ling to go to any reasonable expense
in order to protect himself against
danger not yet in sight, but when II
is too late he is too often willing &c
go to the opposite extreme and per
NIT himself to be imposed upon by
the very worst kind of pretenders. As
already stated, our great difficulty lies
in trying to induce farmers to inocu'
late their pigs in time, before they
have s~wine-plague or cholera, and De-
fore their neighbors' pigs across tne
road begin dying of this disease (ol
diseases0.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

Chicago papers are still telling what
a great failure Rev. Sheldon made in
trying to run a newspaper as Christ
probably would. The Kansas preacher
may not have ome up to the standard
but if their columns are to be judged
as a standard it would be difficult to
edit papers as the devil probably would
more perfectly than the editors of Chi
cago's aailies are doing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

Population of the four greatest cit
les of the Russian empire is given as
follows in the figures of the recent
census: st. Petersburg, 1,132,677;
Moscow, with it's two suburbs, 8 1854;
Odessa, 4O5, O41 "a great increase since
1892, and Warsaw, 626,O72. Contrary
to what is observed almost universally
throughout Europe, the men outnum-
Der the women in the three first-nam-
ed communities, while in the last,
Warsaw, the proportion of women is
but slightly superior to that of men.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

that the. feathers of hens form a con
siderable article of commerce. There
are in Chicago and New York firms
that make a business of buying and
selling feathers of all kinds of domes-
tic fowls including the hen. They
have agents that travel through the
country buying up all the feathers they
can get. The farms are not visited, but
the large shippers of poultry are, tor
the reason that they have feathers in
sufficient quantity to make the visit OF
an agent an object. Most of the feath-
ers Of the hen are used for filling
feather beds and pillows. The large
feathers of the cocks have particular
value, as they are used for trimming
ladies' hats, and most of them are sold
for eagles feathers. The feathers that
are used for stuf1ing beds and pillows
bring from 5 to 6 cents a pound, but
the "sickles," the long tail feathers of
the cock, sell as high as 80 cents per
pound. The separation takes place in
the establishments where the fowls are
dressed. A mixed lot of feathers has
little value to the buyer.
Beard" is a term used for a bunch
of feathers under the throat of some
breeds Of chickens, such as Houdans
or Polish.
Stag is a term used for a young
cock.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

1t is curious to note hat the last
three theaters burned in Paris have
all been state or, as they are called in
France, Subsidized" houses-the
Opera (1873), the Opera Comique
C887) and now the Francois. But
whereas twelve years elapsed between
the burning of the Opera Comique and
the rebuilding, the Francois will, it is
said, be reopened by the middle Of
July.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
Cows Milk for Lambs.

A contributor to the Breeders Ca
zette says: l notice that A. E. G.. Of
Pleasant Hill, Kas., said in a late
number that he tried feeding young
lambs on cows milk and the lambs
died. Four years ago last December
/ bought eighty sheep that were very
poor. They commenced having lambs
in about three weeks, many of them
having twins and some Of them trip
lets. / saved about 95 per cent of the
lambs, and all were dropped from Jan.
IL to Feb. 81. I could not have saved
80 per cent of them but for cows milk.
l think over half those lambs got their
first food from a heifer. I did not do
much else for five or six. weeks but
attend to the lambs. AS soon a. a lamb
said it wanted something to eat, If 1t
could not get it from its mother I took
it to the heifer, opened It's mouth and
put into it the little teat and squeezed
milk into it.
If a lamb gets too hungry and chilled
before it gets the milk it often dies,
but / have filed them as full as they
could hold with cows milk before they
were q half-hour old scores of times
without hurting them. After a lamb
gets a fill from a heifer it will take
hold of a sleeps little teats much bet
ter. There have been days when l
went to the young COW with a little
lamb perhaps twenty times. 1t in
jured the heifer some as to giving
~o;1l~ L,,+ +Lo4 wo n0fhino rod
to saving fifty lambs. After the lambs
were a few days old they were fed
from a bottle with a rubber nipple. /
fed every one that did not get enough
frora it's mother for awhile until they
began to eat grain and turnips. It Is
a novel sight to see forty or fifty lambs
croWding around, struggling for the
first suck from the bottle.
My lambs were all dropped last win
ter in January and February, and I
saved SO per cent of them. l did not
take more than five or six to a COW
because their mothers lacked milk.
My first lamb weighed ffty-nine and
one-half pounds at 8 weeks old. The
heifer that fed successfully SO many
lambs ate about twenty-five pounds OF
turnips every day, which no doubt
made her milk better for young lambs.
I have lost less lambs than that noted
breeder Lyman Hill (my neighbor),
and | believe it is because I feed more
turnips, though he feeds a great many
'swedes.
In a recent opinion rendered At
to~rney-General Akin of Illinois holds
that the acts of 1897 and 1899 provid-
ing for the Identification of owners
Of sheep killed by dogs are invalid,
and that the act Of June 10, 1898, ia
still in effect. This law provides that
owners must present proof Of their
loss between ten and forty days after
the sheep are killed or injured.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

A Kansas paper says: Judge My
ers pronounced Staynczstraw Baczyn-
ski a citizen last week" If the judge
pronounced Staynczstraw's name at
the same time he ought to go GU lee
turing.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

Count de Castellane says the future
Of this country is perilous. The re-
auction of the counts income has fill
ed him with an alarm hal is hardly
justified.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.

How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Parma Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14
POultrV Notes.

How old should a hen be when h
is sold off or killed for family use!
The answer is, she should be killed
after her second year. But in spite
Of this quite general answer, it is a
known fact that some poultrymen keep
their Brown Leghorns till they are
about ten years old. One Brown Leg
horn hen was kept till that age, when
she had to her credit about 1000 eggs,
a good average, we must admit. Light
Brahmas are said to be good layers
till quite old. However, we lack data,
as the domestic fowl has been sadly
neglected in this. She is such a small
piece of property that we have never
thought it advisable to keep her for
ten years and count her eggs. A sys-
tematic series of trials of this kind
might give us a good deal of light on
a dark subject.
The mar that wants to become a sue
cessful poultryman must not become
discouraged. This is the first requisite.
He is sure to have most discouraging
things happen to his flock, and, after
three or four years of such happenings,
he will feel hat poultry raising is a
delusion and that there is no success
possible in it, anyway. But that is
just the time when he should not
think of quitting. 1t would be just as
reasonable for a child, after having
had a full run of all child's diseases,
to think of giving up trying to live for
fear of a constant recurrence of meas
les, mumps, chicken pox, whooping
cough and the like. The poultryman,
in his early disasters, is getting his
child's diseases. Having once had
them he is not likely to have them
again. He has learned in the dear
school of experience and is now ready
to apply his lessons.
It Is not perhaps known generally
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

"Carunculated" is a term used when
the head and neck of q turkey cock are
covered with small fieshy p~rotuber-
ances.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

The mothers heart is the child's
school room.-H. w. Beecher.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-14

It Is not perhaps known generally
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-28
TOOK REINS FROM BRYAN
Chairman Jones Won Over to Stones
CAMPAIGN Policy

Chicago, Sept. 25.--Whether tn
fight shall be centered in New York,
Indiana, Illinois or Ohio, Maryland,
West Virginia, or whether an effort
shall be made to hold all the states
which Mr.. Bryan carried in 1896 and
pick up such others as may chance to
come his way was argued by the Dem
ocratic leaders who met Mr.. Bryan in
Chicago yesterday. AS "a result the
Democratic effort will be concentrated
in the larger states just as Vice Chair
man Payne of the Republican Ma
tional committee said it would be two
weeks or more ago. Except Bryan
this has been the opinion of Demo-
cratic leaGers formOre thantwo weeks
The Democrats have not a sufficient
campaign fund to scatter over an eN-
tensive area. They cannot pay
speakers nor can they contribute
largely to organizations who donot
promise electoral votes absolutely
necessary to elect. Bryan will keep
the New York appointment made for
him by Croker October rs. He will
return to New York October p to
attend the last meeting of the Associ-
ated Democratic clubs and he will
speak in New Jersey, Maryland and
West Virginia.
Stone of Missouri took an emphatic
position at the Democratic confer
ence. Chairman Jones and the Mis-
souri, ex-governor agreed upon where
the real battle-ground was, but with
out Stone the chairman ofthe national
committee is putty in the hands of
Bryan. The Democratic nominee for
President has been made to see that
his election depends upon New York,
Illinois and Ohio. Neither Michigan
nor Minnesota presents so alluring a
prospect as it did Il month ago. But
the Democrats have become convinced
that they can carry New York. Gov
ernor Stone also claimed New Jersey,
which had not before been seriously
taken into account.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-28
.THE strikers SUCCEED
One of the Large Operators has met
their Committee and Everything
Demanded Given to the Men

Austin, Texas, Sept. Ex-Governor
Sayers wired tonight to all points
south of here warning notices that the
most terrific food in the history of
the Colorado river, which floats by
this city, is now surging down through
the mountain gorges to the northwest
of here and is expected at this place
by midnight. The warning was sent
out by Governor Savers in response
to the following telegraphic warning;
Goldwaithe, Sept "a.
To Governor Sayers.
Notify all towns on Colorado river and have
towns notify country points that river is ten
feet higher than ever before known and is
still rapidly rising.
Very urgent. PHIL II. CLEMENTS.
State Representative
The river has been rising rapidly at
Austin since o'clock this afternoon
and reports from Goldwaithe at s p.
m. say that the water is still rapidly
rising there. The rise at that point
was reported to be ffty-e;ght feet at
dark. Along the Colorado watersheds
very heavy rains have fallen during
the past four days and the rise re-
ported coming down now is twenty
feet higher than the one that broke
the Austin dam and wrecked the city
light and power plant last April.
FLOOD CAME IN THE NIGHT,
Nv scripps- McRae Press Association.
Austin, Texas. Sept. 25--No reports
have been received from the flood
threatened district south of here and
it is feared many lives were lost as
the flood came in the night. The Colo.
RADIO river is ten feet higher than even
before ana is rising. Fears ARE enter.
tanned for the safety of the residents
of Lagrange.
CITY OF MARBLE HEAD IS SAFE.
by sw,rps-McRae Press Association.
Austin, Texas. Sept. pa. report
sent out from here at o'clock thi,
morning, that Marble Hall, with eigh
hundred population, was washed
away by the Colorado river, is bis
mistake. a telegram from there say.
the town is intact and too far abov,
the river to be touched. Every stream
in northwest central Texas continue,
to rise.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-09-28
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