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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

The Hilo Herald upbraids the people
OF its town because of their "indiffer-
enee regarding plans of county govern
ment. 1t does seem strange that
the owners of Hilo should not be en-
thusiastic for q scheme that would
double their taxes without giving them
better official service. The whole thing
is inexplicable. Usually when tax
raising committee is abroad the proper
ty owners keep open house for it and
feel offended when it does not call and
view the property it wants to mort
gage. But Hilo, contrary as ever, holds
aloof and sulks.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

Runaways are getting too common
for public comfort. Many of them are
caused by drivers leaving horses I'M
hitched at the curb while they go into
a store on an errand. There is a law
against this kind of carelessness but as
hitching facilities are few and far be-
tween in the business quarter what are
people to do? If every storekeeper
would plant one or two stout posts at
the curb the number of runaways
would be reduced.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

1t is said that the Independents have
agreed among themselves to make
Robert Parker High Sheriff in place of
Arthur Brown. This is an interesting
rumor but it lacks at least one cor
roborative detail, namely. a section of
the Organic Act which gives the Legis-
lature the power to make a new ap-
pointment
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

Regret is general in the American
press for the illness of Admiral Ger
vera, who, owing to the Sampson
Schley quarrel and Dewey's political es-
capade, is the only Admiral that came
out of the war of 1898 who has unchal-
lenged American popularity.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

Caypless for Judge. vice Silfiman, Is a
current rumor As an original WILCOX
man, Caypless is said to have been the
Delegates first choice. The President
might have done better, but II ne mas
saved the bench from Gear no goou
citizen need complain.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-29

A picture in the London Illustrated
News showing a collection OF tro-
phies'' at Picking made for Queen VIC
toria may give the French press gooo
opening for return compliments ABOUT
the "GalIic propensity for loot.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29
COUNTY FAIRS.

| The question of how to manage the
amusements which custom has ass0-
ciated with our county fairs is quite
live one and forms subject for dis
cussion at many of the farmers insti-
tutes. In many counties the horse
| Jockey, the fakir and the Midway
fend run the fair to the disgust of all
decent people who have the old fash
toned idea that the county fair is main
tanned for the purpose of advancing
the best interests of agriculture. 1t is
evident that the question of amuse-
ments cannot be ignored, for the ma
| jority of the people want entertain
ment as well as instruction when they
attend. The horse race will always be
drawing feature, and we see no
good reason why it should be aban-
doned when the business is done on
the square, the fact being that a man
has got to be a thirty-third degree dea-
con to deny himself the pleasure of
seeing a square race between two or
more good horses. Those good people
who fear they will be tempted to bet
on the race if they see it had better re-
main in the art hall while the races
are in progress The fakir-the ped
dler of useless novelties, gimcracks
and the like-does no particular harm
if he is charged enough for the privi
lege. Youth and verdancy have long
felt wants, and the fakir supplies
them. The other types-the chap with
the shell game, wheel of fortune and
the hundred and one straight gambling
devices and the Midway fakir who adj
vertises varieties Of human cussedness
for a quarter peep which he Is too
wise to give his patrons-are simply
public nuisances and if licensed by the
fair officials and permitted to operate
by the officers of the law should be
promptly "nationalized' and tumbled
unceremoniously out of the grounds
by the lovers of decency and good NOR
ais. We have long believed that fair
officials could increase the premiums
offered for the best things owned and
produced by the farmers of the county
for instance, $40 for the best proper
ly attested milk record of any COW of
any breed or for the best team of walk
ing horses of the draft breeds, $15 for
the SOW showing the largest and best
litter Of pigs, S25 for the best single
driving horse, $25 for the best trained
pair of work horses, 500 for the heav-
lest calf months old, $25 for the boy
under Is years of age who had raised
the greatest value of crops on one acre
of land $50 for an old fashioned wres-
Ting match between farmers sons, $40
to the boy who could show up the most
gopher scalps, So for the best made
calico dress and pair of overalls made
by farmers daughter under Is years
of age, $50 to the draft team which
could pull the heaviest load, good pre-
miums for the best home smoked and
cured hams and bacon, the best home
made farm cheese, the best certified
acre of corn-the good purses to go on
those lines which would best promote
interest among farmers and practically
promote the agricultural interests of
the county where such fair is held.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29
CHEAP BpTTER MAKERS.

We are prompted to speak of i'll adj
vised economy practiced by many CO.
operative creameries in selecting the
cheapest man for butter maker There
is probably no other business where
cheap and incompetent men can lose
so much money for their employers as
here. Take a big creamery making a
ton Of butter a day in June and allow
the product to be off just enough to
sell for cent under the market, and
away goes 500 into hole. The butter
maker if an expert, is cheap at 500
per month, for such man can save his
wages twice over. Brains cost money,
but brains must go into the cream vat,
the starter, the tester and the churn
and are just as important as salt We
have known cases where $40 month
saved on butter makers wages repre-
sented a dead loss of 500 each month
he made the butter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

We came across a farming communi-
ty this winter which has had during
the past ten years periodic spells of
shifting from dairying to beef raising
and back again, with the result that in
the effort to breed to meet these diver
gent specialties they have got so much
Holstein and Jersey blood into their
herds that the steers are no good for
feeders, and, crossing back to the beef
type with Polled Angus and Shorthorn,
have spoiled their dairy herds and
practically, to all intents and purposes,
have now nothing but the worst sort
of scrub stock. This is all folly and al
ways brings disappointment.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

We lately at a farmers institute at
Logan, in Harrison county, Ia, had the
pleasure of listening to a brass band
and string orchestra of 20 members,
each one the son or daughter of men
living on their farms. Under a compe
tent instructor they had semiweekly
rehearsals during the winter months
and have settled in most happy and
pleasing manner the question of social
same time they afford others a rare
musical treat Here is an example well
worth following in other localities.
Two-thirds of this organization were
Young ladies'.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

At the present prices of the staple
good cotton lands-those which will
produce from three-fourths of bale to
a bale per acre-are easily worth 500
per acre.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

The back acres on the farm-the far
away fields which cannot be reached
by the farm fertiliZers-should have
great day for the central west when all
farmers look at clover rather as fer
tilizer than as a forage plant, for,
grand forage as it is, it is still worth
far more on any farm as fertilizer
There is no single line of farm econom-
les which needs so constantly to be
kept to the front as this of the value
of the clover plant as soil fertilizer.
Not one-third of the farmers in the
west and northwest seem to know or
care anything about clover.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

The wolf bounty appropriation of the
state of South Dakota is short the sum
of $4,000. Range conditions always
favor the multiplication of wolves, who
find an easy living preying on the
young and helpless of the fiocks and
herds.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

The best remedy for lice in the hen
house seems to be to line the building
with tarred paper.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

There will always be some one to
breed the scrub COW, somebody to milk
her, somebody to lose money feeding
her steer calf, but it should not be you.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29
BRONZE GRASS AND RAPE.

We again have several inquiries as to
rape and the bronze grass. While we
have quite fully answered these in
quiries in former issues, we will do so
once more to inform new readers of
this matter. Bromus inermis is a grass
specially suited for semiarid regions
and in our opinion has no place wher-
ever the clovers and timothy will grow.
1t makes a good permanent pasture on
dry and sandy soils, the toughest sod
of any of our grasses, responds quickly
to the action of moisture and warmth
and as hay has feeding value about
equal to timothy. 1t has place in all
the territory bordering the dead line
in longitude-the line where other
ture, but not where the average rain
fall is 80 inches and over. Rape is a
new forage plant for this country,
though old as the hills in England. 1t
has much promise as late summer
and early fall forage crop for hogs and
sheep. 1t may be sown in the corn at
the time of the last blowing or with
any cereal crop and be then pastured
after the crop is removed. We think
that 1t has special value for all hog
raisers, and it is well worth trial by
all such. We regard it as the most
promising of any of the new forage
plants. Sow the Dwarf Essex variety,
one and half pounds of seed to the
acre, either in the corn or on the oat
or barley field. If sown with small
grain, 1t should be sown about ten days
after the grain sowing, brushing the
field over with light harrow.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

The colored brother needs freezing
up-putting into cold storage-for
about three months every year. He
would then get hustle on himself.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

1t may be in place to say word
about a change of seed grain at this
time. Few men realize how much
they would be benefited by doing this.
If the farm is clay soil, try some
wheat, oats and barley from sandy
one, DO matter if it is only few miles
to the sandy soil. Better yet, get the
seed from some sandy soil 100 or 200
miles to the north of you. If your farm
is sandy, get the grain grown On clay
soil. Potatoes will show more improve
ment than almost any other crop by
this changing of seed. Nature works
ON law of continual change, and it is
well to heed it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

We came across a public spirited
man lately who had set row of apple
trees in the street outside the sidewalk
for shade trees. OF course the boys
will get all the apples, but ne man has
lived in vain who has helped the boys
Of his town to have a good time.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

Manure is always injured by heating,
through which process it loses its am
monia.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

A friend wishes to know what he
can do to make his hired man content
ed. 1t depends upon the man, but if
he Jour friend will do all the milking
and get good looking hired girl the
chances are the h. m. will be reasona-
bly, contented. If not, then he should
be fired at once.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

A late experiment conducted at the
Kansas experiment station in the feed
ing of young calves showed that a
bunch of calves raised on sweet sepa-
rator sllimmilk made a daily gain of
1.54 pounds at cost of $3.42 per 100
pounds of gain; bunch fed whole
milk made gain of 1.95 pounds per
day at cost of $664 per 100 pounds,
and another bunch allowed to run with
their dams made a gain of LII pounds
per day at cost of SAL per 100
pounds.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

Neither an old boar nor an old bull is
a desirable adjunct of the stock farm.
They are very apt to be ugly and more
or less of nuisance, but just the same
any man can well afford to keep such
matured sires, Gagged up like wild
beasts, IL necessary, for the sake of
their value as sires.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

If the oatfeld is rank and black in
May and the field is level, turn the
sheep in for short time; If the field is
rolling, do not do it, as the sheep will
invariably feed on the higher portions
of the land, just where their work is
not needed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

We commend the red cedar for an
evergreen belt around the farm home.
1t will not grow so fast as the white or
Scotch pine, but is everywhere tough
and hardy, standing drought and ex-
IRENE cold better than any evergreen
we have. 1t should be planted much
more extensively than it is.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

Good seed is the first step in securing
good crops, then a proper and thorough
preparation of the seed bed. Ignoring
these things many men work and fret
and fail, it being the same sort of fool
ishness which makes a man expect to
raise good calf on sour separator
milk.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

"How many sheep can be kept on the
food required by one cow" We are
asked. That depends altogether on the
breed of the sheep. Five 200 pound
Cotswolds will consume as much food
as thousand pound cow, while eight
Shropshires and ten Merinos would re-
quire about the same amount of food.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

A prominent railway official told us
lately that it will pay to build line of
road anywhere in the west and north
west where a belt of farm land six
miles wide on each side of the road
can be depended upon for patronage.
If this statement is true, we have not
got to the end Of railway construction
by good deal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

If capitalists can make good money
buying western range sheep and your
grain and hay to fatten them for mar
should not you? These men are max
ing close to a dollar head, and you
would have an additional 10 cents
which they can't get in the matter of
fertilizing your land.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

Climatic conditions are far too often
charged up with the loss of fruit trees.
There are other things aside from
climate which ruin the orchards of
the country. One is pasturing the or
chard with stock, another is the work
of the borer, another is permitting the
trees to overbear, and another is
drought and the failure to properly
conserve the moisture in the soil. Blue
grass sod, pasturing, borers, overbear-
ing and general neglect have killed
more fruit trees ten times over than
We're ever destroyed by climatic condi-
tons.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29
TO CURE a COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take LAXATIVE RRoMo OUIN.Nr Tanners Al
druggists refund the money If 1t fails to cure
e. w. GROVES signature il on each box. 25c
III
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

One ton of commercial fertilizer,
worth SOS, is required for each acre of
farm land on Long Island in order to
insure a crop. And there are thou
sands of men in the fertile west who
grow three tons of worthless weeds in
each acre of their cornfields who would
not know what a commercial fertilizer
was if they were asked
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

Try patch of rape this year. Plant
two acres of sweet corn and SOW ~
pounds of rape seed to the acre at the
time of the last blowing. When the
corn begins to harden, fence off half of
it and turn the hogs in. Let them alone
and go and lean over the fence as the
sun goes down and just laugh to see
them grow. Give them the other half
later ON and then raise hundred bush
els of corn to the acre there next year.
This is not a long item, but it is a
mighty good one all the same.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

While an advocate of early seeding
for all our small grains, early sown
grain maturing before the excessive
heat of the midsummer we still never
did believe in ''mudding' the grain in.
but would always rather wait until the
soil became in fit condition to work.
The disking, dragging and tramping of
all clay or gumbo lands as the frost is
going out in the spring is to put such
lands in the worst possible shape for
the proper development of the crop
sought to be raised upon them.
We met poultry man lately who has
brought the egg product of large flock
of -Leghorns-up to an average
Of 200 eggs per hen per annum. We
did not ascertain how long hen would
wear worked at this rate. but should
not think she would stand it more than
one year.
One of Americas great fortunes
awaits the discoyerer of a process
which at a low cost will convert the
upper six inches of a prairie dirt high
way to width of six feet into frost
and rain proof strip. Here is a problem
for inventors and scientists to work on
with the certainty that the fortune is
theirs when the problem is solved.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

We do not know about sowing rape
in corn unless both crops can be fed
off on the ground by either sheep or
hogs. A friend sowed a part of his
cornfield with rape at the time of the
last blowing. A big storm blew the
corn crop down in early August, and
the rape started up and soon buried
the corn almost out of sight. And he
had to wait until the frost killed the
rape before he could pick his corn.
This combination would be just the
thing for hog pasture where, with
portable fence, it might be fed off in
sections.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

All the rich prairie loan soils of the
west and northwest should be stirred
with the plow once in every six or
seven years to a depth of not less than
eight or nine inches. So treated, such
soils will produce good crops if plowed
not over four inches deep in the inter
vening years. This periodical deep
blowing will further be invaluable as
a moisture conserver for the crops in n
dry season. -Four horses on a Is inch
pillow win do this special blowing in
good shape, and il should be done
Just rs early in the fail as possible,
July and August being the best months.
and it should never be done in the
spring.
1t is of interest to note the relation
which our wild animals bear to the
settlement and development of the
country. In the west the coyote was
contemporaneous with the buffalo and
disappeared with it. 1t was succeeded
by the prairie wolf, which always in
creases with settlement, the enlarged
forest covered incident to a stoppage
of the prairie fires making shelter and
the poultry and young stock of the set
tier insuring him good bill of fare
When this pest is finally routed out by
bounties, he is succeeded by the red
fox and the skunk, both entirely un-
known in the early days, the skunk
being now one of the worst pests in all
settled agricultural communities of the
west.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

Two million seven hundred thousand
Frenchwomen are reported by the last
census Of that country as employed in
outdoor work on the farms and gar
dens of France. This condition would
theoretically imply large families of
children, but the same census discloses
the fact that the nation as a whole is
barely holding its own in point of pop
ulation,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

For the average farmer who wishes
to grow supply of good fodder for his
dairy cows there is probably nothing
better than to SOW corn at the rate of
about a bushel to the acre along the
last of June and then cut it with har-
vester or corn binder if sown in drills,
cure 1t well in the shock and later put
In the barn or stack. This is better
crop than millet or sorghum, so far as
the feed is concerned, and is more cas-
lily and satisfactorily handled. Five
acres of such corn If planted on good
land will easily yield 20 tons of very
c.loice fodder.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-03-29

The dust and fine chaff from ma
chine thrashing flax We're carried by a
strong wind over ON to a piece of land
a quarter of an acre in extent which
had never grown crop of flax. This
field sowed to fax next year produced
fine crop, with the exception of this
onequarter acre, which was so poi
soned by the dust that the crop all
died off when it was two inches high.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-04-19
POPE IS PEssIMIsTIC.
Hostile Movement against Catholic Church
In Several European Countries Fills
the POntiR with Alarm.

Rome, April 16.-The pope, at Mon
days consistory, expressed great af-
Fiction at the simultaneous revival in
several parts of Europe of hostilities
against the church. de also spoke of
the sadness of the law against reli-
giOus associations in France, which
had not deserved such a calamity. The
pontiff also dwelt on the Inconsistency
of a country which Proclaims liberty
for all while refusing even the exist
ence of associations whose members
made a profession of practicing the
preeepts OF. the gospel. He spoke of
the recent tumultous demonstrations
in Spain and Portugal, which had
aroused apprehension that even worse
events were in store for Italy. The
pope then alluded to the painful posi-
ton in which the papacy was kept
in Italy and referred particularly to
the divorce bill, which probably will
be submitted to parliament.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1901-04-19
GREAT STOCK LOSSES.
Storms in Wyoming and Other Western
States Cause Death of Thousands
OF Cattle and Sheep.

Salt Lake City, April ia special
to the Tribune from Cheyenne, WyO.,
says: It is reported that the Swan
Land and Cattle company, which
ranges large herds of cattle in eastern
Wyoming and western Nebraska, has
lost upward of $500 head of cattle
during the severe storm of the past
ten days. Some of the animals were
driven by the storm over high bluffs
and others were smothered in snow
drifts. Jack Edwards, a large owner
of sheep in Wyoming and Oregon,
lost 1000 head of sheep near Kimball,
Neb., out of band of 1900. The
animals were on the lambing beds
when the storm came up.