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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

@. F. Curtiss: A flock of sheep can
not be handled or fattened successfully
without a close observance of their
habits and peculiarities. There are a
great many little things that enter into
the attention and management by a
successful shepherd that may seem
trivial, yet they have much to do with
he comfort, thrift, and profit of the
flock. The axiom that THE eve Of
he master fattens. is nowhere more
applicable than in the sheepfold. The
competent feeder acquires a trained
eye, that detects at a glance any EVIL
dence of disorder that will be mani
fest IL a single animal is off of feed
or out of condition. To the unobserv-
ing or inexperienced feeder sheep all
look alike, but when rightly studied 70
class of stock presents more marked
individual ~peculiarities or SO clearly
manifests evidence of thrift and we'll
doing or the reverse. Attention to
these little details, accompanied, by
regular habits and a quiet manner,
constitutes the keynote of successful
sheep feeding. Nothing contributes
more to good results than contentment
and quiet surroundings. The feeder
q disturbs the quiet and comfort Of
the flock every time he goes about it
should quit the sheep business at once
Rough manners and harsh treatment
absolutely d~isqualify any man for sue
cess in this work. The natural timid-
lty and nervous temperament of the
sheep necessitate gentle treatment.
Their dainty habits about eating and
drinking must also be INDUCED as
fully as practicable. No animal nat
urally selects a wider variety of feed.
particularly of rough forage and veg
citation: but two essentials are always
exacted, Wis cleanliness and palatabil-
ity. Never give a sheep any stale or
undesirable feed, nor expect it to eat
any feed left over from a previous
meal. The ration should he always
wholesome and tempting to the APP
petite. The barn or stabl:ng quarters
shoul never be without a fresh, pure
atmosphere and an ample supply Of dry
bedding. Sheep rarely suffer from cold
If kept dry and protected from direct
drafts. The open air is better than a
poorly kept shed or barn.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

A writer in a medical publication of
the Johns Hopkins University de-
scribes a case which, he says, sis in
teresting because it suggests a new OPP
cy-
stenterostomy, or hepatieocholecystos-
tenterostomy." Every one will be re-
lieved to know that the treatment so
eloquently described is only an adj
vanced method Of dealing with collie,
by which it will be seer that science
in its march is encountered by the bag
gage it carries. Caesar called it i'm
pedimenta, which has taken a modern
sense that seems appropriate in this
case.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

There is visible in the night sky, I'M
der favorable circumstances, a faint
light, rounded in outline, and situated
always exactly opposite to the place of
the sun. 1t is called "gegenschein,"
and is one of the most inexplicable
objects known to astronomers. Re-
Gently Prof. w. H. Pickering has sug-
gested a new explanation of the gegen-
schein. According to him it may be
"a sort of cometary or meteoric
satellite" attending the earth. He sup
poses it to be composed of a cloud of
meteors, situated about LOCO, 900 miles
from the earth, and revolving round it
in a period of just one year, so that
the sun and the meteors are always
on opposite sides of the earth. He es-
Inmates that the size Of this ghostly
satellite may be nearly the same as
that Of the planet Jupiter, VIZ, about
$4,000 miles in diameter.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

The average loss by fire in the United
States has been reduced in ten years
from $6,922 to $1,860. The insurance
loss in the same period was reduced
from 1898 to $1,O56. The prevailing
use of electricity has unexpectedly
brought about a large increase in fires,
owing to crossed wires. Ten years ago
there were only sixty-six such fires and
last year there was 958. Defective
fues are responsible for over II per
cent of the fires and incendiarism is
next as a cause. Last year 6,891 in
cendiary fires occurred. Lightning
caused 3,479, spontaneous combustion,
1,179, friction in machinery 295, nat
ural gas "a, dust explosions IA, and five
were caused by the suns rays passing
through window glass. There was no
assignable cause for 12,2O4 fires of last
year.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Weather terms are elastic. Havana
was full of ~shivering people, and the
visitation was called a cold wave, when
the temperature lately fell to So de-
grees. The Cuban style of wintry
blasts would be popular in regions
where boreal gales have no inclination
to mercy. The West Indian cold wave
is almost matched by the London hot
wave, reported each summer, when
the mercury has risen only to a point
indicative to Americans of seasonable
warmth.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Some of the experiments with wire
less telegraph apparatus for the use
of the British army in South Africa
are said to indicate that the operation
of the instruments Is interrupted by
veins of iron ore in the hills. This
recalls the recent report of the United
States Naval Board on Marconi's sys-
tenn, to the effect that communication
might be entirely interrupted when
tall buildings with an iron framework
interviewed between the transmitting
and receiving stations.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
Proportions Of straw and Grain.

Proportions of Straw and Grain.
There is no fixed relation between
the proportions of straw and grain in
the cereals. In some years the pro-
portion of straw is greater than others;
the weather has something to do with
this condition. In wet years and with
not enough sunshine to fully ripen the
grain early, or, rather, to stop the de-
velopment of the straw, the proportion
of the latter is great. Various efforts
have been made to ascertain what eff
feet different kinds of and
fertilizers would have ON the proper
tions of straw and grain. The results
have not been definite enough to make
it advisable to attempt to control the
proportions by different methods OF
enriching the soil. heterogeneous ma
nures seem to stimulate the straw de-
velopment, but not excessively. The
largest yields of grain are generally
accompanied by large yields of straw.
1t is probably impossible to get a good
grain without a good stalk. In the
years when grain heads out low" the
yield of grain is generally short.
The aim should be to develop both
grain and straw in the same proper
ton. This is done the most certainly
by following a rotation. The grain
should come after corn, or roots or
potatoes, and these crops should re-
ceive the fertilizers rather than the
cereals.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
AS to Fertilizers.

In general it is best to try to grow
nitrogen gathering crops in rotation
WITH cereals when cereals are grown
at all. The roots of the clover crop
remaining in the ground enrich the
soil with nitrogen in such a form that
it can be used by the succeeding crop
of cereals. Experiments seem to show
that all this nitrogen produced from
a single crop of clover, the roots only
being left in the ground, but the plant
not turned under, is sufficient only to
supply the needs of the first grain crop
coming after it. Potash and phos-
phoric acid should be in the soil in
good quantities to ensure the proper
and economical use of the nitrogen in
the soil. 1t does not pay to attempt
to use any one class of fertility with
out the presence of the others. Thus,
it is found that what is called a COM
plete fertilizer-nitrogen, potash, and
ph%osphoric acid combined-giYes the
best results in all cases.
If, however, a single grain is to be
grown on the land for an indefinite
period and without rotation the appIi-
cation of fertilizers to the land should
be governed as far as possible by the
constituents of the whole grain plant.
This can be found easily from any
book giving a list of grains and their
analyses. In the case Of barnyard
manure this rule cannot be followed
unless the farmer be ultra scientific,
for it will require a good deal of fine
figuring to determine about what are
the constituents of a manure pile, the
problem being based on the foods that
have been fed out in the making of the
said manure pile.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
Fertility In Potatoes.

Bulletin 81 of the Maine Experiment
Station giving some figures of the
chemical contents of a potato crop
says: Assuming these figures to fairly
represent potatoes as grown in Maine,
a crop of 200 bushels, weighing six
tons, would remove thirty-seven
pounds Of nitrogen, sixteen pounds of
phosphoric acid and fifty-eight pounds
of potash. If the amounts and pro-
portions of fertilizing elements re-
moved by a crop could be taken as a
guide in preparing a field for that crop,
the problem of supplying the roper
amount and kind of plant food to the
soil would be much simplified. To
manure a field for a crop of potatoes,
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash
would have to be added in about the
proportions given above and in suf-
tcient quantity to supply the vines
and tubers the land was expected to
yield. A formula made up on this
basis would be very materially differ
emit from any mixed fertilizer on the
market and would contain the fertiliz-
ing elements in about the following
proportions: Nitrogen, 5 parts; phos-
phoric acid, 2 parts; and potash, &
parts.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
varieties Of strawberries.

From Farmers Review: 1t seems
to me now, after twenty years of ex-
perience, that there is nothing more
important to the strawberry grower
than choice of variety. In the raising
of grain, or vegetables or fruit of any
kind, much depends on h proper Sc
lection of varieties, but in strawberry
culture almost everything depends on
1t. With a pretty general knowledge
of the we'll tested varieties o grown,
gained both by observation and read
ing, / do not hesitate to say emphatic
| ally that for this latitude and for a
number of degrees north and south of
the latitude of Chicago, the one great
berry, worth more han all the Others
together, is the Warfield.
Speaking of strawberry culture in
the past | think it is true that there
have been just three great berries,
each of which had its day and gave
way to the next, and these are the Will
SON, the Crescent, and the Warfeld.
Growers who raised the Wilson in It's
day and who at the proper time sub
stituted the Crescent, and then after
the Warfield was well Introduced
planted it and gave up the Crescent
have done the best for themselves ana
for their customers that could be done.
/ think most practical growers Will
agree with me when / speak OF the
expense and disappointment Whlch
have attended our efforts to secure the
best varieties. What a time indeed we
have had with the highly praised new
corners, the Bidwells, Manchesters,
Jewels, Lady Rusks, Chas. Downeys,
Big Bobs, Mt. Vernons, Bubachs, Jes-
sizes, Parker Earles, and a host OF
others whose names / will not men
ton, all introduced with a great -four
ish and often having some good quail
ties but as practical, business berries.
utterly worthless. 1t seems strange TO
me that SO many writer's and even ex-
pertinent stations speak of some good
point in very many of these varieties,
without adding that i'll the summing
up they have no value at all.
I know that some growers will pro-
test against my judgment of some OF
these berries, but / believe he best
conclusions of practical. men are in line
with my own. Some would probably
defend the Bubach and Haverland,
which are of good size and productive,
but l never ate one Of the first without
regretting it, and the second l would
net permit my pickers to gather, so
wretchedly soft and tasteless it is.
Parker Earle is solid and productive,
but of bad color and unreliable. Beder
Wood is productive and has been high
ly praised, but l have always felt guilty
for picking it at all, SO soft and in
sipid and colorless it is and I am glad
to see in our latest station reports that
it is not recommended as 1t a
Doubtless some of the new berries
will prove to have value, and some,
like the Marshall, are certain to be OF
use for fancy market, but / repeat in
conclusion that for the climate i have
mentioned, for real value both to pro-
Queer and consumer, there Is no we'll
tested berry which is worthy of COM
parlson with Warfield. In my view
the most important problem for prac-
teal growers now Is to find the best
and most reliable fertilizer tor the
Warfield.
S. W. GIBSON.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
The Value Of weeds.

Weeds have a value. The writer
once heard Professor Bailey say that
the weed is the friend of the farmer,
and no man should want to get rid of
a farm because it is weedy. He him
self had purchased a good farm at a
low price, because it had all run to
weeds and the former owner believed
that they were so numerous as to
greatly reduce the value of the land.
But these same weeds had been keep
ing the fertility of the soil from leach
ing out, and had kept the ground in a
condition where it would not bake,
but would readily yield to the. plow.
He simply turned all the weeds under
and got back the fertility they had
taken from the ground. Then he
planted to other crops and had a re-
gained farm.
Were it not for weeds, say after a
cioy crop, the nitrogen in the soil in
readiness for plant use would disap-
pear. AS it is, the weeds take it up
and hold it for subsequent crops. The
cultivation that is necessary to keep
down weeds is not time and effort lost.
Inc benefit to the crop cultivated is
more than enough to pay for the out
lay. The additional effect of conserva-
ton of moisture is not to be forgot
ten.
Weeds are also valuable for the work
they do in keeping the land in the
hands of the many. Were there no
weeds the cultivation of the land could
be undertaken on an immense scale by
men Of wealth and a monopoly in land
vol be possible. If such a monopoly
were attempted at this time, the cost
OF keeping the land clean would make
it impossible to keep it under control.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

There are forty George Washingtons
in Baltimore, of whom thirty-nine are
colored and one is white. This recalls
the story of the aged eolored man who
remarked, on hearing his son read
from ancient history of Pompey and
Caesar, that all the great men of an
tiquity must have been negroes, as
those anne were not commonly borne
by white people.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

velopment. The old saying that it is
hard work to teach an old dog new
tricks applies here. When a plant has
been allowed to grow to suit itself
until 1t has reached it's prime, it is too
late to do very much for it. Take it
in hand, then, while growing, and
make it understand that it must come
to your terms. Plants are tractable
things. They will do as you tell them
to If they see you mean business"
EBEN E. REXFORD.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Gov. Roosevelt expressed a great
truth and urged a much-needed lesson
when he said, in a recent speech, thai
while the commandment, Thou shalt
not steal" should be enforced upon
politicians, another commandment,
"Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy n%eighbor," should in equal
Measure be enforced Upon the critics
of politicians.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
Cleanse
Your Blood

The thing most desired of a Spring
Medicine is thorough publication Of
the blood. With this work of
cleansing going on there is COM
plete renovation of every part of
your system. Not only is the cor
rupt blood made fresh, bright and
lively, but the stomach also re-
spends in better digestion, it's
readiness for food at proper times
gives sharp appetite, the kidneys
and liver properly perform their
allotted functions, and there is, in
short, new brain, nerve, mental and
digestive strength.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
A N1ear. Man.

The Mean Man was looking happy.
"Whose feelings have you hurt now?"
he was asked.
my nephew's," ne said. 81 have just
SEN him a letter asking him to accept
the inclosed $500 check as a little birth.
day gift"
But where does your speciality come
in on such a proposition as thatf"
81 didn't put in any check. Indian
apolis News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

If there's a right thing to be done,
and we seem to pass through a wrong
thing on our way to it, depend upon
it there's another way to it, and a
better one, and it is our own fault, and
not Gods, that we do not find it.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
Another nennrtment.

Agent (of philanthropic societyl-My
dear young woman, the pronrietors of
this store assured us they had provid-
ed seats fer their clerks. l don't see
any.
Sales Girl-They'r call in the furni-
tnre department, ma'am.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
PATENTS.

List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
jones o. Bane, Waseca, Mimi,
spring attachment for pump rods; Mi.
chael Beck and e. Ferrant, M~inneapo-
lis. Mimi. automatic magazine gun;
Harvey l.. Marlett, Warner, s. d., and
@. Marlett. Fargo, N. D., se%lf-heating
dinner pail; Will S. Metcalf, Fandreau,
s. D., plow coulter; William Newton,
Minneapolis, Mimi, starching machine:
Caesar Wilson, Litchfeld, Mimi, pillow
attachment.
Merwin. Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor.
neys, 011 g. 912 Pioneer Press Bldg. st. Paul
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
The British Farm Outlook,

An English correspondent of the
Farmers Review, writing under date
OF March 5, says: The rainfall Of Feb
ruary, including melted snow, was
more than double the average, and the
land la still saturated with water, SO
that the sowing of spring grain crops
has not yet begun. We like to put IN
beans and some barley before the end
OF February; but this season, even If
fine weather prevails after this date,
very little sowing will be done before
the middle of March, and even then,
unless we have frost to d~isintegrate
The soil, the work will be arduous and
~protracted. The wheat has been -four
ishing until within the last few DAYS.
but 1t is To- showing signs of suffer-
Ing from the wet state of the land and
he northeast wind. The Landing sea-
son, now more than half over, has been
a prosperous one, SO far, but succulent
feed is scarce. Therefore the rearing
of the lambs will be expensive.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
Englnnd,s Armored trains.

The magnificent armored trains used
by England in her war with the Beers
will protect her troops in about the
same way that H~ostetter's Stomach
Bitters drives dyspepsia from the hui
man stomach, and then mounts guard
that it does not return. The Bitters
have won in every case of indigestion,
constipation, liver and kidney trouble
for fifty years.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

At the Missouri Experiment Station
Prof. Schweitzer measured the leaf
surface of a vigorous corr plant of ay-
erage development. The total surface
of the II leaves and sheaths was found
to be 3,48o square inches, or about "a
square feet.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
HOODS
SaE-SapaFEEa

Possesses the peculiar qualities
Peculiar to Itself which accom-
plish these good things for all
who take it. An unlimited list Of
wonderful cures prove its merit.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Prof. Won der COLI, of Germany,
states that Investigations have shown
that a farmer that buys a farm can
not afford to pay interest on mort
cages that exceed two-thirds of it's
purchase price.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

A Book of Choice Recipes
Sent free by Walter Baker u Co. Ltd, Dorchester:
Mass. Mention this paper.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

The worlds noblest work is in re-
claiming the fallen, in strengthening
the weak, in gaining victory over
temptation and in creating virtue.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Kept Awake listening.
What makes Mrs. Henpeck look SO
worried these days, I wonderg"
Her husband has developed a habit
or talking in his sleep, and it's driving
her craZy.'-Philadelphia Press.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Power sometimes forgets itself SO
far as to imagine that it exists for it
self, and not for the service of hui
mainly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

The latest hiding place for microbes.
Is in noustaches.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21
AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.

Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
tivation of the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures, viticulture and
Horticulture.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Destroying Mustard.-Prof. Shepard
of the Dakota Experiment Station saws
that a 2 per cent solution of bluestone
Or copper sulphate will destroy mus
tard without injuring the grain.
Wheatields in the Northwest are
largely infested with mustard, and if
some scheme for applying the blue
Vitriol cheaply can be devised it will
undoubtedly prove helpful to wheat
farmers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

II the government wants any armor
plate Carnegie and Prick are once
more in the field.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-06-21

Breeding inside established lines can
alone offset the tendency of animals to
atavism.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-24

essm q cold ara % through the entire list a
remedies. At all druggists. rs cent? a vial
II you need medical advice write Prof Munyaa.
aSsO Arch st., PhilA. 1t Ia absolutely Tree.