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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
SOlLlNG DAIRY CATTLE.
Results Of Experiments at the New
Jersey Station Farm.

Results Of Experiments at the New
Jersey Station Farm.
This was the topic of DR.. Voorhees,
Of New Jersey at the Pennsylvania
dairy meeting. He said in part that
comparing forage crops on the ton ba-
sis is erroneous, as frequently crop
Of medium tonnage will show more &C.
tual feeding value than one of much
heavier tonnage. At the New Jersey
station farm their first soiling crop in
spring is rye sown thickly to get more
stalks and leaves. They begin cutting
rye just before it shows heads and
feed for eight to ten days. The rye
season can be somewhat extended by
making early, medium and late SOW
ings, they having fed rye for twenty
one days by this plan. Rye and wheat
for soiling are top dressed with ma
nure or heterogeneous fertilizer.
Next after rye they begin to feed al
falfa, starting on it from May 20 to the
end of the month. This they regard as
one Of their best forage crops, furnish
ing nutrients most cheaply. When SOW
ing alfalfa, they use plenty of seed,
have land rich and we'll prepared and
NOW off weeds till alfalfa is we'll estab-
lished. They have cut twenty-six and
one-half tons green alfalfa an acre in a
year.
When wheat is used for soiling. it is
cut just before the blossoms are falling,
as wheat hardens even more rapidly
than rye. Wheat for soiling is seeding
thickly also, making more and better
feed than as sown for grain.
Their next soiling crop is crimson
clover, the cheapest they grow. as it is
usually grown as a catch crop with
corn, and it's long feeding season makes
it especially desirable, they having used
it for eighteen or twenty days. Fol-
lowing crimson clover, they use red
clover and mixed grasses. These are
susceptible of great improvement by
thick seeding. increasing the proportion
of leaf to stem.
Corn follows grass. By early plant.
ing Of thoroughbred white flint they
the one season. 1t is their practice in
soiling to do no summer blowing. AS
rapidly as one crop is removed the
ground is prepared with disk or cuta-
way harrow and given over to the next
crop. Cowpeas are valuable soiling
crop, requiring no hurried harvesting,
; as they keep green and growing. Soy
I beans have produced more dry matter
an acre than cowpeas.
OF the millets they esteem most high
~ the common barnyard, on account OF
it's quick growth. Sown after wheat
they have cut eleven tons an acre in fif.
ty days. For best feeding value ii
should be cut just before heading.
Kaff1r corn is sown with cowpeas or
soy beans. and of this mixture they
have cut twelve and three-tifths tons an
acre after having cut ten tons of Can.
ada peas and oats. The great secret of
successful practical soiling is to give
the COW enough. Never allow her to sc
hungry.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Peace Rumors in the Air.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, May 26.-Peace
rumOrs are again in the air. Around
strike headquarters President Mitch
ell was busy with personal affairs and
his movements did not give the slight
est indication that he was considering
any proposition from the other side or
that he was looking for anything that
could lead to a settlement of the
strike The morning developed moth
ing. Reports from the entire coal field
showed that every locality was quiet.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Her Con isolation.

At a confirmation at Strassburg the
bishop asked of pretty soubrette the
usual question of the Heidelberg cate
chism:
what is your only consolation in
life and death?"
The neophyte blushed and hesitated.
The first question was repeated, and
then she stammered out:
1.-THE young shoemaker in the next
street."-London Tit-Bits.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18

Kindness In the Treatment of Cows.
Cattle, like human beings, are as a
rule very appreciative Of any kindness
bestowed upon them. Their suscepti-
bility in this connection is one that is
deserving of more general recognition
and Of more careful cultivation. espe-
cially in the case Of the milk cows. 1t
is we'll known that some COWS will
milk much more freely for some oper-
ators than for others. Cows have their
likes and dislikes in this matter, and
the farmer or dairyman will be well
advised who makes it a point of hav-
ing his cows treated with all the con-
sideration possible by those who have
to do with them, either as regards their
feeding, their milking or general treat
ment.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Hangs Himself in an Asylum.

Flint, Mich, May 26.-Herbert S
Brice, a patient at Oak Grove hospital,
committed suicide shortly after noon
by hanging himself in room con-
nected with the Turkish bathroom ia
Noyes hall. Brice was 81 years Old
He was half brother of the late Unit
ed States Senator Calvin S. Brice OF
Ohio The remains will be sent to the
late home of the decedent at Lima, @.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
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We notice that Dairy Commissioner
Mcconnell Of Minnesota is active in
protecting the farmers against "cream-
cry sharks" says New York Produce
Review. This is to be highly appreci-
ated, but nevertheless it seems to us
that there is reason to make some dis
tinctiOn between creamery promoters,
often unjustly called indiscriminately
creamery sharks. A creamery promot-
er who does his work honestly and
only urges the establishment of
creamery after having satisfied him
self that there are cows enough to sup
port it is benefactor to the districts
in which he works and is justly enti-
tied to Il higher price for the creamery
outfit to pay him for his trouble when
compared with one sold to a communi-
ty that has done it's own promotion"
work OF been assisted by the dairy
commissioner The fraud of charging
two prices for creamery outfit is but
small one when compared with that Of
inducing community to build Il cream
cry, no matter how cheap. where there
are not enough cows to support it. The
real creamery shark commits both
these frauds. 1t is question in our
mind whether-if the COWS are there
and the people are willing to milk
them-it is not poor policy to put up
cheap creamery anyway. With the
above proviso there can be no doubt
that the creamery. or cheese factory. is
bound to be a permanent success. and
there is no reason why cheap tempo
rary building and outfit should be put
in. Poor management may for time
make the issue doubtful. but if the
milk is there the ultimate success is
assured, and there is no earthly rea-
son for not putting up the best sani-
tary plant possible.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
BRYAN Thinks Well of the Cubans.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 26-W j.
Bryan passed through this city Ell
from Havana, Cuba, where he wit
messed the ceremonies attendant upon
the Inauguration of the Cuban repub-
lie. In an interview here he stated
that the natives exhibited superior
patriotism during the ceremonies.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Topeka at POrt-au-PrinCe.

Port-au-Prince, Hayti, May 23.-The
United States cruiser Topeka has az
rived here from Port Royal. S. c.. to
protect American interests. The pres
ence of the warship in these waters
has had an excellent effect. The STU
alton Of affairs is Improving
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Wise Mt Last,

Stockson 5onds-Poor Lambley. He
never could get on the right side of the
market.
Cutten Kewpons-Oh, but he has
been for the last three months or so.
Stockson Bonds-Really? What
Cutten Kewpons-The outside He's
Philadelphia Press.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Negro Burned at the stake.

Dallas, Tex, May 23.-At 1912
O'Clock negro, Nudley Morgan, who is
alleged to have criminally assaulted
Mrs. McKy. wife Of Section Foreman
Mckay at aLnsing, Tex, was burned
ut the stake at aLnSinG.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Dead at Coal Creek Includes Morgan.

Coal Creek, Tenn, May 26.-Satur-
day morning at 1870 O'Clock William
Morgan, the only man in the mine who
escaped alive at the time Of the explo-
sion, died, making the total fatalities
ZIG.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
Location of the Barn.

Choose a dry location on which to
build your barn and arrange so that
bars and gates need not be opened to
get to or away from it. Let your cows
have free access to the pasture, so that
they can browse when they feel so in
clined
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09
General Lee on Cuba.

N THE opinion Of General Fitz-
hugh Lee the Cubans are in a
Il bad way, and unless confidence
is restored in the stability of their
government and the financial situation
is improved, the result will be Tan
archy and annexation" for he thinks
that one involves the other. He takes
very gloomy view of the situation in
Cuba, and believes that the two monu-
ments which the American military oc-
cupation left behind it-a public school
system and a sanitary system-are des-
tined soon to perish. He also looks for
trouble from the negro soldiers of the
revolutionary army, from the bacl-pay
claimants, and from those who are gen.
orally dissatisfied with the Palma ad-
ministration, as we'll as from dis
charged laborers who will lose their
positions as result of the commercial
stagnation.
IF Cuba fails to find a market for
her"two great products, tobacco, and
more especially sugar. it means" he
says, that no remunerative results win
ensps from the sale Of the sugar now
on band, and it will act also in prevent
ingsmany, persons from planting an
other crop for another year. As under
the Plat amendment we have practlc-
ally guided the hetpolicy OF the island, it
seems to me that it is fair and proper
to giye to the Cubans reciprocity if, as
Is claimed, it will enable the sugar pro-
ducaEs to plant and sell at profitable
figures. In my humble opinion, if this
is not done, the number of unemployed
laborers in Cuba will be greatly in
creased, and that means a mass of dis
contentedr workmen who can easily be
mohed INTO mobs and give much
trouble. The papers report that the
Wafd Line. of steamships, which is the
largest and heaviest transporter, has
already taken off of the route three OF
its biggest vessels on the ground that
theyecarrgo nothing to- Cuba and bring
nothing back. In view of these facts,
1t will be readily perceived that Presi-
dent Estrada Palma Is going to have
his hands full in the next few months"
Aparchy in Cuba, IL any degree trace
able to American neglect of duty or
reasonable generosity, would be an
American disgrace, not to speak of the
trouble in which 1t would involve us.
Annexation, II selfishly forced through
American commercial pressure. would
be little less shameful, notwithstand-
ing the Widespread recognition that in
the long run tits inevitable. Our start
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

= NDER law recently passed
in Maryland, known as the
~ employers and employees CO.
operative insurance and LA
bility law, employers are permitted to
insure the lives of their employees and
deduct from the employees pay an
amount not to exceed one-half of the
premium.
1t Is announced that the corporation
controlling the surface railroads in Bal
timore and suburbs has arranged un-
der this law to insure the lives of the
5000 motormen and conductors In its
employ, to the extent of 1000 to the
estate of each victim of fatal accident
transpiring in it's service, but the COM
pany will itself pay the whole amount
Of the premium in consideration Of the
ance as a waiver of any other claims
against the company arising from the
accident The cost to the company for
this insurance based on 5000 employees
is $1,S00 a year, or 60 cents for each
employe.
Undoubtedly this idea is good but
the amount of insurance carried Is far
too small. Not less than $4,000 should
be provided on the life of each employe,
and the cost, $4,000, or, say, $4,000
year, would by no means prove an in
supportable burden to a large trolley
system doing a profitable business on
an honest capitalization.
TI,a i,,,n IN, ittlt
to come when the cost of insurance of
employees against death, outworn use
fulness or incapacity through accident
not involving contributory negligence
on the part of the victim will be gen.
orally recognized in the American busi-
ness field as proper and expedient
fixed charge upon productive industry,
to be charged against the consumer just
as depreciation of plant is now charged.
The trend is clearly in this direction.
The number of large American cor
porations which have recently intro
duced old-age retirement pensions is
noteworthy sign Of the times. This
movement is in it's infancy. So is the
insurance movement as applied to the
protection Of victims of casualties oc-
curing in the ordinary course of indus
try. Protection to American labor COW
ers more than wages and tariffs. The
administrative obligations Of our cap
tains of industry must extend with gen.
erous sympathy and busness-like CO.
operation into the needs of employees
and of employees families where these
come through sacrifice incurred in the
line of loyal service.
Anyhow, Treasurer Scranton can go
on cnlleezinr intnrnst out of withheld |
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

II IT r. FARR made an ener-
getc canvass and his
a y Il showing is not to his dis
credit as a vote-getter.
The great disadvantage under which
he labored was that there was not any
substantial and well-founded public
demand for q change in congressional
representation at this time. He was
also unavoidably handicapped by the
use of his candidacy made by personal
and factional enemies of Mr.. Connel
men swayed by disappointment, envy
Or inability to appreciate and recpro-
cate past faVors.
A large part of the credit for Mr.
Fairs defeat is undoubtedly owing to
the jackal tactics of County Treasurer
Scranton, who, after enjoying a Sc
quence of gifts from the so-called Con-
nell machine-the last an office equal in
value to probably 100000 in three
years, bestowed, it turns out unwisely
with a view to harmony, and grossly
misused, as his treatment of license
money signities-could not resist his
tendency to wolfshness, and therefore
exploited his meanness at Fairs en-
pense. No cause could survive such
vicious and disgusting handicap.
But aside from personal elements,
most Of them natural to all political
campaigns and not to be held vindic-
lively in memory, the simple truth was
that no occasion existed for a change
in the congressional office. Mr.. Connell
had filled it adequately and with
marked success. His ability for con-
tinued usefulness was increasing with
experience. The people renominated
him yesterday as an evidence of their
common sense, and by the same token
they will elect him in November.
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In Cuba was fair. Our ending should
be no less fair. How much better 1t
would be to have the Cubans come to
us for annexation as did the Hawaii
ans, eagerly, than to have them forced
in through want and made sullen and
YindictiYe.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

a N INTERESTING statistical
~ abstract of the work of the re-
A Gently ended session of the
present congress has appeared
through the enterprise and public spirit
of the accomplished clerk of the house,
Major Mcdowell.
In the first session of the Fifty-sev-
enth congress 1858 bills were intro
duced in the house, While in the two
years of the Fifty-siXth congress only
1889 bills We're introduced. Yet the
number of bills introduced in the Fif-
ty-siXth congress was greater than in
any prior congress. In comparing the
first session of the Fifty-seventh con-
gress with the first session of prior
congresses it appears that the house
was in session $50 days, and adjourned
thirty-three days, while in the Fifty
sixth congress the house was in session
139 days, and adjourned over only eight
days of the Fifty-seventh congress
more than kept up with the average
amount of work per day. During the
first session of the Fifty-seventh con-
gress 1850 reports We're made, as
against 2,105 in the first session Of the
Fifty-siXth congress, the greatest
amount ever made in the long session
of any prior congress, and 1,4S4 bills be-
came laws, as against 1859 in the first
session of the Fifty-siXth congress,
which far exceeded any Of its predeces-
sors in this respect.
OF the 1860 bills and resolutions in
troduced in the house 1900 We're re-
ferred to four commttees-6,5 544 to the
invalid pensions committee, 2,503 to
war claims, o,S49 to military affairs,
and 9O4 to claims. OF the $3.50 reports
made five committees made 2,O73 re-
ports, apportoned as follows: Invalid
pension, 1,349; pension, 22S; military
affairs, 1873; claims, 16S, and war claims,
145 A detailed statement of house
work follows:
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OF the bills reported, e,044 We're house
bills and resolutions, and the FOG We're
senate acts and resolutions. OF the
bills left undisposed of (6l6), there
We're 452 which originated in the house
and 1G4 of senate origin. Carried on
the calendar of the house as disposed
of, the allotment is as folows House
bills, los; senate, As, on the Union cal
endar; house, As; senate, 6, on the
house calendar, and house, 290, and sem
ate, 10, on the private calendar. There
were 2O3 reports which passed without
reaching the calendar.
All told, the house disposed of 1884
house and senate bills and resolutions;
1,767 OF the house and 567 of the sem
ate. OF the 1857 house bills, adverse
reports We're made on "a; the enacting
clause was stricken out of 6, 26 We're
laid on the table, 1876 became public
acts, 775 became private acts. 72 were
simple resolutions, We're vetoed by the
president, 3S2 We're private bills, 3S1
pension bills and S4 other private bills
We're passed by the house and not act
ed on by the senate, and 81 We're pub
lie bills passed by the house and not
acted on by the senate.
The senate passed and sent to the
house for its concurrence 1856 bills
and resolutions. The house passed %
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

Though Joseph unbuckled his bolo,
AS fierce as the Sultan of Jolo,
He retains not a vestiSe
OF power or prestige,
For very few votes could he poll, oh!
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

John n. Farr has many good points,
but he should be more careful of his
political associations.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

For that matter, sore-toe politics
never did appeal strongly to men Of
sense,
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| by taking them from the speakers
table without reference to committee;
| 1,133 were referred to committees, 706
| or which were reported back to the
house by the committees, leaving 427
senate bills in the committees of the
| house unacted upon, as against a total
of 443 bills unacted upon by the sem
ate.
The 706 senate bills reported by the
house committees and the 90 senate
bills taken from the speakers table
were disposed of by the house as fol-
lows: Killed by adverse reports, Z; laid
upon the table, 4; became public acts,
143; became private acts, 410; vetoed by
the president, 2; passed by the house
but left in conference, 4; left on the cal
endars of the house undisposed of, 1854.
OF the 1,4S4 laws passed at the first
session Of the Fifty-seventh congress
which were approved by the president,
913 originated in the house and 553 In
the senate; Of these 1,4S4 laws, 200 were
public and 1,1S5 private. OF the 300 pub
lie laws, 1856 originated in the house
and 143 in the senate. OF the 1,1S5 pri-
vate laws, 775 originated in the house
and 410 in the senate.
The total number of bills and joint
resolutions offered in the two houses
up to the time Of adjournment was 22,
022, of which 1,503 were sent to the
president. OF those introduced, 1859
were offered in the house of representa-
tives and 6,450 in the senate. The sem
ate has passed of its own bills 1000,
but 543 of them having failed to get
through the house. On the other hand,
the house has passed 1885 of its own
measures, but of these 430 have failed
to secure favorable action in the sem
ate. The greatest record in the way
Of legislation made by any previous
congress was made by the Fifty-first
congress. Then, during the entire con-
gress, only 1850 bills and joint reso-
lutions were introduced. OF these,
2,240 became laws.
Congress, in these days Of expansion,
is a busy body.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

A little more of Migrate Joe's maudlin
venom would probably have made it
unanimous
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TEN PAGES.
SCRANTON, JULY Q, 1902.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
State,

state.
Governors. w. PENNYPACKER.
Lieutenant Governor--W. NJ. BROWN.
secretary of Internal Affairs-ISAAC B
BROWN.
Legislative.
First District-JOSEPH OLIVER.
Second District--JOHN SCHEUER, JR.
Third District-EDWARD JAMES.
Fourth District-P. A. PHlLBIN.
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Aguinaldo accepts amnesty, but the
members of the United States junta
are still a trifle sullky.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

Anyhow, Treasurer Scranton can go
on squeezing interest out of withheld
license money.
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For cards of thanks, resolutions OF con
tolence, and similar contributions In the
nature of advertising The Tribune makes
charge of 5 cents Il line.
Rates of Classified Advertising fur-
nished on application.
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Prominent Democratic papers are
now endeavoring to decide whether Mr..
Cleveland deserted the Democracy or
whether the party deserted Mr.. Cleve-
land. To outsiders it has looked more
like mutual dissolution of partner
Ship
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-09

Alaska cost the United States $1,000, O10
In 1861, by the then Republican admins
tcation, and since that time has pro-
duced furs, fish and gold to the amount
of $I5o,0Oo,c00 in about equal sums. There
is $25 600 CT American capital invested
10000 as against about $4,000 at the time
of the purchase.
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$50 Trusts and the Tariff are to be
the Democratic slogan In the next cam
paisn. That has familiar sound. But
II will puzzle the Democratic stump
speakers to mention anything Which
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Labor Insurance.

II WIDER law recently passed
in Maryland, known as the
~ employers and employees CO.
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A Busy Body.

a N INTERESTING statistical
~ abstract of the work of the re-
4. u Gently ended session of the
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Legislative
After all, the people can be trusted.
Result of the Primaries.

II T r. FARR made an ener-
getic canvass and his
4 Il showing is not to his dis