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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
Value of Ground Feed.

have used feed mill for more than
II years and find it the most useful
machine on the farm. says an Ohio
farmer. My main business has been
production and selling of milk, and
consider whole grain very poor feed
for milk cows. l crush all my grain
and oats and mix with grain or mid
dlingsA This is not only good feed for
cows. but is also fine for young cattle.
For fattening cattle use crushed corn
simply. l have fed ground wheat and
rye to horses with satisfactory results
and have also found these grains profit
able for hogs. The amount fed will de-
pend altogether upon the individuality
of the animals, and every feeder must
be his own judge. One thing would
suggest is to be liberal, giving the stock
all they will eat up clean.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
THE FARMERS HORSE.
For All Around Work the C1ydesdale
Is a Fine Animal.

Is Fine Animal.
The good draft horse is the one for
the farmer to raise. There is no com.
parison between the drafter and the
trotter as the farmers horse. When
the farmer can afford to keep trotters
as well as drafters, all we'll and good,
but the drafters he must have. The
Clydesdale is at home at any kind of
work on the farm-plowing or harrow
ing, seeding or gathering the grain, is
quite in his element hauling heavy
loads to market, always commands
ready sale, and if he is a few seconds
longer in running to town than his trot-
ting brother he gets there all the same.
An authority on the subject says:
at takes a much larger and better
horse to be a drafter now than it did
some years ago. Good draft horses are
all built on the same plan. They have
size, width and quality, good constitu-
ton, and so on, but they differ marvel
ously Tor all that.
REALLY high class drafters have a
certain amount of range. The little,
close to the ground chunk, the Dutch
mans horse. so called, is not the horse
to make high class drafter. No one
wants leggy horse, but if the depth Of
rib and flank are right, if width, sub
stance and quality are right, the horse
that is far enough off the ground to
move himself properly is the one to
raise. He will have a prouder, more
masculine carriage and set to the head,
and his presence will be more impress
i've than if he approaches the deformed
stage in his shortness Of limb. Chunks
sell today from SS5 to $40, drafters
from $125 to $3.50. The draft horse, the
outstanding chap, is the one to buy"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
YOUNG BEEF POPULAR.
Overfat Animals No Longer Bring
the Highest Prices.

Overfat Animals No Longer Bring
the Highest Prices.
1t is beginning to dawn upon the
minds of farmers and feeders that
there is such a thing as having ami
mails too fat for the slaughter as we'll
as for breeding purposes. Butchers
and marketmen have long known 1t,
but they made themselves safe by
weighing the meat before cutting off
the fat, a practice which they will
probably keep up until the customer
complains that he gets only II ounces
Of meat to the pound. But he would
complain quite as badly if he had the
other four ounces in fat that none Of
the family would care to eat Then
the price must be increased If the sur
plus fat is to be trimmed off before
weighing.
This is one reason for the popularity
Of the baby beef that has been we'll
fed from birth. Having been growing
while it was fattening. the fat is not
all in a layer upon the outside of the
meat or stored up around the kidneys,
but the whole flesh is tender, juicy
and just fat enough. The same thing
is true in mutton, and well fed year.
ling gives better satisfaction than the
3-year-old wether, that once used to be
called the best. Even some Of the
judges at fat stock shows are begin
ming to look little shy at animals
with great Jumps Of fat plastered along
the backbone.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
|PEDIGREED CATTLE.
PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE CARE OF
IE. IMPROVED STOCK.

Many Valuable Animals Nearly
Ruined BY Pampering or Neglect.
Feeding and Shelter In Winter.
Proper Care Of Cattle.
Two errors are commonest to begin
ners in stock raising-pampering and
neglect, says the editor Of The Breed
ers Gazette. The first is most apt to
be manifest with that class which has
been attracted to the trade chiefly as
an Investment for idle funds or money
on which they seek better returns than
they have been getting. AS good prices
have been paid, it naturally follows
that good care should be given the pur-
chases.
Probably the majority Of animals dis
posed Of at auction-certainly the most
Of those that command high prices
are stuffed" about to the last limit.
Fat sells them. This is undoubtedly
true. more's the pity.
Some men who purchase such care
fully prepared animals believe that
they must carry on the stuffing process
and arrange thus to do by building exi
pensive stables and affording every
luxury Of care and overfeed that can
be conjured up. Later this mistake
will be realized You can kill an ami.
NAL by kindness. You can feed the
usefulness out of cow. You can sap.
the vigor of a bull, and all in the effort
to treat them kindly.
Other men seemingly buy pedigreed
beef cattle under the impression that
one of their characteristics is to live
and thrive on less than scrub cattle.
The first act of such man on getting
home a valuable purchase is to turn
the animals out, root hog or die, no
matter what the conditions. If it is in
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21


the winter, no protection is offered
from the icy blasts. If summer heat
has parched the pastures, they watch
the dust kicked up by the heels Of the
tramping, hungry cattle, wholly obliv-
ious of the fields Of waving corn that
should yield up their succulence to the
corn knife to tide over the shortage of
grass. Shelterless and fairly feedless,
these valuable animals are allowed to
shift for themselves, and when they
run down to a condition in which their
former owners would scarcely recOg-
nize them there is the conclusion that
fine stock don't pay; it is too tender"
Between the man who pampers and
the man who starves hundreds of valu-
able beasts are yearly ruined. The ped
igreed animal is just like the common
kind, only improved in form. finish, d.
gestive capacity and fattening ability.
1t will not live on less feed than the
scrub. 1t was bred to make more meat
on less food. There is no more reason
for overlooking than for undertaking.
There is no necessity for fancy build
ings and an expensive equipment. A
box stall or two for COWS about to calve
and some ground feed for the calves
and younger animals should be among
the provisions made. as especial atten-
tton ought to be given to the younger
members Of the herd.
Well cured corn fodder with the I'M
husked corn supplied in ample quanti-
ties will carry breeding cattle through
the winter satisfactorily if decent shell
ter is provided. Straw and little hay
to vary the ration, few oats, little
bran, a handful of oil meal now and
then are helpful. Rational care may
be bestowed on pedigreed cattle at very
little expense.
The man who can lay by blue grass
pasture for winter feeding need not
trouble his head If he has cut up his
corn and has good barns or even sheds
open to the south for protection fro
winds and storms. The man who J
not the advantage of blue grass
winter feeding must give little
attention to his cattle. II he will W
plenty of sorghum and cut and cur it
when it comes in head, he will find it
IN admirable supplementary feed to
his corn. IN
The essential in the care Of pedigreed
breeding cattle in the winter time is
protection from winds and rain and
snow. Then, with an abundance Of
nicely cured corn fodder, either whole
or shredded, and the corn that grows
on 1t, the herd will thrive. It Is an
economy under most conditions to
shred the fodder. but the chief difficult
~ is not the form, but the lack of food.
Cattle will not make growth or fat on
winter winds and ice water. The. best
bred ones will suffer just like the scrub
from such neglect.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
Live Stock Men Oppose Grout Bill.

Live Stock Men Oppose GrOut Bill.
The National Live Stock association
at it's recent meeting at Salt Lake ad-
dressed a memorial to the United States
senate protesting against the Grout olio
bill. -
The memorial recites many reasons
for the live stock mems opposition to
the measure, among others that 1t is
class legislation calculated to build up
one industry at the expense Of another
and would destroy the demand for that
product Of beef. oil OF olio. Of which
"a, OOO, 900 pounds were used in 1899 in
the manufacture Of oleomargarine.
: The protest declares also that the bill
would injure the hog industry by kill
ing the demand for neutral lard, mill
lions Of pounds Of which are used an
'nuaiiy IN the manufacture Of the same
food product. BY the enactment Of the
bill,a the protest contends. the dairy
'business would be built up ct the en-
.psnse oesthe iivo stock industry.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
To Select q Good Brood Sow.

A good brood SOW should be large,
long and deep bodied and wide, with
plenty Of room for litter. The head
should be of medium size, neat and
clean and have an intelligent look, with
nose short and ears nicely dropping
and far apart. The legs ought to be
straight, symmetrical and long enough
to carry the udder from the ground, al
80 should they stand on the side Of the
body-that is, not to be dished inward
or stand close together. Medium sized
bone is generally the best. A large
heart girth is. very essential. being in
dicative Of well developed lungs, which
are necessary. Above all . quiet dis.
position Ii preferred. Let row be
nervous. fretful and bark ut everybody
who comes near her and the probsbili-
ties are othat the pigs win Be wild
and, hard 70 handle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21

time and thought to the planting of
crops to supply the sheep with proper
food. In some quarters there is a no
ton that sheep raising consists of turn
ing loose a flock of sheep on a large
range and letting them increase by the
natural method. OF course there must
be little watching to see that dogs do
not kill The lambs and other shepherds
do not drive off the sheep. suppose
some owners Of sheep do literally fol-
low this easy method, but unless they
are fortunately situated as regards
food and climate l do not believe they
make living. A favorable year might
enable them to make little profit, but
an adverse season would ruin them.
l have found in my experience that
the real problem in sheep raising is in
grass and crop farming. l study to
provide the sheep with nourishing food
the year round, and by arranging be-
forehand the cost is relatively small. l
do not trust to range grass nor to old
wornout pasture fields. New portions
of the farm are seeded fresh nearly ev-
cry year. l all COuStdAliy p1o"ihS,
narrowing and sowing, putting the
land in such condition that it will yield
bountifully of grass, rape, corn fodder,
roots and even grains. l make this
sort of farming pay because it prom
Uses me good returns in the shape of
good lamb and mutton and excellent
wool.
Sheep and lambs provided with good
food winter and summer rarely con-
tract disease. My losses have been
very few, and when in some winters
others are forced to sell part Of their
flocks at ruinous prices on account of
the high prices for food l have been
able not only to winter my own sheep,
but to take advantage of the conditions
and buy more at bargain prices. Sew
e,al winters ago l nearly doubled my
flock in this way, and those sheep are
worth twice as much this winter. The
food question is the secret of the whole
thing. Provided with plenty Of good
food the shepherd has control of the
situation, and every winter he can pick
up bargains in sheep from those with
insufficient food to carry them along.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
HOG SHED OF STRAW.
WARM SHELTER IN WINTER, cool
AND AIRY IN SUMNER.

Z. y
Cost Of Construetion 70 Practically
Connned to the Labor-Preferable
In Every Way to Building Of Tim-
her, -
"The best shed I ever had" said q
successful swine raiser the other day,
"was a straw shed. 1t was much warm
er in winter than one could possibly
be that was built of lumber, and by
taking out the north and south sides in
summer time it furnished a cool and
airy retreat. It was practically mex
pensive, the cost being almost confined
to the labor" He then went on to ex-
plain the building of the shed. 1t was
II feet each side the ridgepole, or "a
feet wide and 80 feet long. OF course
any desired length could be made. The
ridgepole is laid in the crotches Of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
winterine stock In England.

+ WinteF1ng Stock In England.
Stock there Is wintered mostly on hay
and straw and mangels and swedes,
though good many common white
turnips and cabbages are grown for
feeding before Christmas. Just now
kDecember) the mangel tops are being
Ted IN the ,grassfelds, the cattle not
being housed yet, though they, soon
Win be. Nobody there thinks Of hous-
lng sheep or even yarding them. They
ran on the, grass and IN the turnip
asids ail winter Of hare turnips OF
mangels hauled to the SrassAelds, and
those that are being fattened have
grain In addition.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
Worms In Horses.

Give two ounces Of turpentine in one
half pint Of raw linseed oil at a dose
three times day before feeding for
two days, then give one quart Of raw
linseed oil at dose as physic. Feed
4 quarts of oats at feed three times
q day and Is pounds Of good hay in "a
hours. Put on muzzle to keep him
from eating his bedding. ~.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21

Pigs pastured on rape are remarka-
bly, healthy. They relish the food. and
It seems to keep them In hne condition.
Hogs need exercise. especially the
breeding sows, which should have the
run Of . large dry yard Of LOT. -
!. During cold weather hsgs should
have al the clear wster tAsy want 1t
least wAresaEd4y.s~-y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
Grindinx Feed Fer Hogs.

It may not pay to grind very coarse
grains, but II wheat, rye, barley. buck
wheat and oats are used they can be
run through . feed min with profit. -
this L. not lone, the digestion 10 M
complete and a considerable percent
age Of the feeding value lost.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-02-21
To Cure Corns In Horse..

Remove the shoe and poultice the
foot with warm bran mash for three
days. Then put on a bar shoe, rasp
away the hoof over the seat Of the
corn so that the shoe will not rest on
It. When the pressure is thus removed,
the corn will soon disappear. ~,
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02
IN AsroNIsHEp H1M.
And n Must he sald That His Aston-
ishmcnt was Nothing More
Than Natural.

Standing in front of Locust street
stable the other afternoon was
man in overalls, pulling bales OF hay
up into the loft with the aid of a
rope and pulley. He looked the pie
ture of health, and the exertion was
as nothing to him, says the Philadel-
phia Record. Presently along came
another man. He was fat and pudgy-
looking, and his skin had an un-
healthy color. His general appear
ance betokened the overfed club
man. He was carefully groomed, and
was evidently man of leisure. He
stood for perhaps minute watching
the other man at work, and then
he said: would you mind letting
me take your place for awhile? I
am troubled with indigestion. and
have been suffering all day. l think
that would do me good"
The stableman's eyes seemed ready
to pop out of his head. "Sure," he
said; sure" The pudgy dyspeptic
carefully removed his gloves and
grasped the rope. 1t was hard work,
and It made him red in the face, but
he finally landed the bale where an
other man in the loft could take II
in. Then he tried another and an.
other, and kept it up for about ten
minutes. When he relinquished the
rope to the stableman he slipped a
coin into the latter's hand saying:
"Thank you, very much. That has
done me more good than all the
medicine in the world" AS he dis
appeared around the corner the la
borer was heard to mutter: "Well,
I'll be d-dl" That was as near as
his vocabulary could come to doing
justice to the occasion.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02
MUSICAL sNAILs
Strange Diarovery OF French Nat-
urniist VINO Claims Much for
the HioiIusks.

A German scientist recently pointed
out that snails were able to draw inn
mense weights, and now a French nat
uralist claims that there are few, II
any. animals which have a higher APP
probation Of music than snails, says
the New York Herald.
This naturalist is NJ. S. Jourdain, and
his views on the subject are expressed
at length in a paper which he has ad-
dressed to the French Biological So
ciety.
Place some snails on pane Of glass.
he says, and you will find that, as they
move over it, they will make musical
sounds similar to those which a per-
son can produce by wetting his finger
and then rubbing 1t around a glass
tumbler. Complete airs, he points out,
have been played on tumblers in this
way, and he expresses the opinion that
quite as good results can be obtained
by using snails instead of fingers.
1t is a curious fact that at least half
a dozen scientists are now carefully
studying snails. The reason. according
TO one of them, is because these little
animals are extraordinarily sympa-
thetic and intelligent. Indeed, so high
ly gifted are they supposed to be that
a writer did not hesitate to ascribe to
them a few months ago the honor of
being "the precursors of the wireless
telegraph system"
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02
is IT A PLEASURE TO DIEa
That II Is AgOnizing to Shuttle
on This Mortal Coil.

The popular idea that the act OF
dying is a painful process often
causes a fear of death. But death
from even the most painful mortal
diseases is usually preceded by
period of cessation from suffering
and partial or complete insensibility,
resembling falling asleep or the
pleasant gradual unconsciousness
caused by an anaesthetic, according
to a writer in the London Spectator
The common phrase death agony"
is not warranted by what occurs in
natural death, which is a complete re-
lief from all pain. When death is
owing to heart failure or syncope
it is sudden and painless-perhaps
pleasant. Death by hanging, there is
reason to believe, is attended by a
voluptuous spasm. Death by decapi-
tation or electricity is only a mo-
mentary shock, hardly felt. Death
by poisoning varies in painfulness sc-
cording to the poison employed.
Opium and other narcotics probably
give a painless, perhaps a pleasant,
dreamful death. Hemlock, as we
know from the account of the death
of Socrates, causes a gradual insen-
sibility from below upward. On the
other hand, arsenic, strychnine, car
bolie and mineral acids, corrosive sub
Innate. tartar emetic, and other me-
tallie poisons inflict slow and tortur-
ing death. Prussic acid and cyanide
of potassium cause quick and painful
death.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02
A FINE FIELD FOR WOMEN.
More Than 1000 Employed at the
Pan-American Exposition in
Various Capacities.

Upwards of 1000 women find daily
employment at the exposition in all
capacities from wedding gardens and
tending flowers and washing dishes
up to managing exhibits. They earn
wages that run from two dollars to
$3.50 a week mp to $50, with an average
that is probably considerably below
ten dollars. More are employed in the
Midway than in any other section of
the exposition. There they are ticket
sellers, ticket takers, cashiers, wait
resses, ballyhoos performers and man
ayers. Nearly 500 of them are doing
work of one sort or another in the
Midway, says a Buffalo exchange.
In the main show outside of the Mid
way they are employed in greatest
numbers as Mattresses in the restau-
rants scattered about the grounds.
These are nearly all in the low grade
as far as salary is concerned. In the
great Manufacturers and Machinery
buildings they find work to do that is
much better paid. Some of the ex-
hibits are in the sole charge of women
exhibits that depend very largely on
the skill and cleverness Of the attend
ants for their success and popu-
larity. This is especially true of all
the food exhibits.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02
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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02

President David Starr Jordan has
returned to Stanford university from
his trip to the Hawaiian islands, where
he has been for the past two months
conducting a thorough and detailed
study Of the fisheries and fishes of the
islands under the direction Of the
United States fish commission.
About 24O species Of fish have thus
far been collected and classified. so OF
which are new TO science. A complete
report of the laws and customs Of the
islanders relative TO fishing is being
made by ]. N. Cobb, the statistician OF
the party. This information, together
with the results of the scientific work
by DR.. Jordan, will be embodied IN an
extensive report to the government.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-08-02

A story is told of shrewdish
scotchwoman who tried to wean her
husband from the dram-shop by em.
ploying her brother to act the part Of
a ghost and frighten John on his way
home.
"Who are youY" asked the farmer,
as the apparition rose before him
from behind bush.
81 am Auld Nick was the reay.
"Are you, really?" exclaimed the
reprobate, with satisfaction instead
Of terror "Mon. come ava. Gie's q
shake O. your hand; am married to
a sister o. yoursl"-Tit-Bits