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The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

ports from the United States are ad-
vancing yearly, in spite of trade de-
preston.
In Guatemala our machinery is
highly appreciated, though it's deli
cacy will not admit of the ignorant
handling of the Indian laborer uni
versal to the country.
Three-fourths of the imports of
Honduras come from the United
States.
In Jamaica, the United States has
supplanted England in many lines of
sale. An increasing quantity of
American goods is being consumed in
the Dutch West Indies. Our machin-
cry has firm foothold in Guadalupe,
and our trade is good in Hayti,
though it would be improved, it is
said, if United States merchants were
willing to extend the credits granted
by Europeans. Three years ago it
was hardly possible to find shoe or
hat of American make in Santo Do
mingo. Now these articles are
handled by a number of houses, and
trade in other lines is advancing.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
CONVENIENT TRUCK

wheeled cart, Similar trucks are often
employed in storehouses and about de-
pots for moving heavy articles of bulk.
1t is useful on the farm, and if the rims
of the wheels are wide, as they ought
to be, so that they will not cut into
the ground, it is great labor saving
device in garden work. Loads of corn
stalks, branches from pruning and
such like may be conveyed on it with
dispatch, the rods at the front keeping
the load off the wheels, but permitting
boxes and baskets of fruit to be set in
between them. Side boards as well as
the front one can be easily provided if
needed.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
PRIZE TAKER ONION.

are to mature, or they may be sown in
greenhouses or hotbeds and the young
plantlets transplanted to the rows lin
the open ground. In sowing out of
doors seeds should be put in as early
as possible in shallow drills three to
three and half feet apart and cover
ed with half inch of fine moist earth.
They need to be very carefully weeded
at first, but if the ground is clean and
mellow and the rows straight the
wheel hoe will be able to take fun
charge of the work early in the sea-
son. 1t has been repeatedly shown
that cheaper, better and earlier onions
can be grown by transplanting the
plants from greenhouses or hotbeds.
where the seeds are sown very early.
When the plantlets are as large as a
lead pencil, they are set four inches
apart in rows three feet asunder. and
cultivation is Immediately begun with
the wheel hoe. In growing from sets
| the planting is made in much the same
way. Multiplier or potato onions are
similarly managed.
Prize Taker is probably the most
popular variety of the present day.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

half feet for large COW, and so long
that the animal need not habitually
stand with feet in the gutter.
The stable yard shall be well drained
so as to be usually dry and no pools al
lowed to form.
A suitable place, at least 200 feet dis
tant from the stable building, shall be
provided for cows not approved by the
veterinarian and those separated from
the herd for any cause except calving.
A special room, conveniently located
shall be provided for the mixers to
wash in before and during milking.
The interior walls shall be kept clean
and light colored. If whitewash is
used, fresh coat shall be applied at
least three times year, and oftener If
necessary, to keep the walls clean and
white. Mold spots shall not be permit
ted.
The accumulation of dirt, cobwebs,
rubbish and materials not needed for
stable work shall not be permitted.
At least half an hour before milking
time stables shall be thoroughly clean
ed and ventilated and manure removed
from the building.
The stable floors shall be sprinkled
when necessary TO keep down the dust.
When cows are kept in the stable
continuously, as in stormy weather, it
shall be cleaned often enough to be
kept as free as possible from the ma
nurial odors. If necessary, land plaster
shall be used fOI*absorbing liquids and
odorS.
At least once every two months the
managers shall be scrubbed with a
brush and water and soap, I've or wash
ing powder.
Animals of other species shall not be
kept in the same room with milk cows
No strong smelling material shall bt
allowed in or near the stable. If ma
nure is on the premises, it shall be a
least 100 feet distant from the stable.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
AMERICAN GOODS SELL.
In Mexico, Central America and the
West Indies.

Washington, April 24.-Frederick
Emory, chief of the bureau of for
elgn commerce, made public today an
interesting extract from that portion
of the Commercial Relations of the
United States" (now in press), which
deals with our trade with Mexico,
Central America and the West Indies.
Our goods are favorably known in
Mexico, it is stated, but in certain
lines, such as dry goods, hats, shoes,
notions and mems and women's furn-
ishings, our exporters seem to have
made practically no attempt to gain
the Mexican trade. Americans are
more fully realizing that they must
accommodate themselves to the wants
and peculiarities of the Mexicans,
and as a result trade is growing.
Many United States houses have
adopted the plan of sending young
Mexicans or Cubans as travelling
statesmen. These men are acquainted
with the wants of the Latin American
trade, and excellent results have been
|
in Mexico. Commercial travellers
who come to mexico, it is stated
will find a conservative class of mer
chants who take pride in paying theil
debts promptly.
Attention is called to an interest
ing experiment which American firms
are trying, in the shape of a floating
sample store. A vessel is to leave the
United States for the western coas
of Mexico, Central America anC
South America. having for sale sam
pies of merchandise of all kinds suit
able for tropical trade, each line o
goods being in charge of an exper
salesman. American enterprise hai
figured conspicuously in the develop
ment of the large city of Monterey
its water works, sewers gas plants
railways and foundries being for thu
most part American.
In the Danish West Indies the i'm
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
Growing Bananas.

Bananas are as rule planted out
Systematically in rows, the suckers"
being placed at an average of ten feet
apart. The banana plant bears only
one bunch at time, but it is quick
grower, yielding it's fruit in twelve to
fourteen months. When the plant is
about six months old. a second suck
er" or shoot is allowed to spring from
the root, third after the ninth month,
and so on. SO that after the first year
there is a continuous crop being reaped.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

then these years have been wasted.
If we have not managed to grow with
the passing years, to be wiser men,
to be broader men, to be better men,
then our time mas been wasted. We
have not put it to the very best use
though we may have gathered to-
gether a fortune. What profiteth a
man though he gain the whole world
if he lose his own soul, his own life,
his own appiness? He has wasted
his opportunity, an opportunity that
he can not have again.-Great Falls
tribune
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
FINN, AAas@,
tAa 3E sE:EDIf G
gSSasssea SGAKPEN
A MODEL DAIRY.

The Arrangement, Ventilation and
Care ca StabIe-MiIkers' Room.
Here are some of the requirements of
a model dairy as set forth by R. A.
Pearson of the bureau of animal indus
Try in a plan for the improvement of
market milk:
The stable shall be arranged with a
view to the comfort of the animals and
so as to facilitate the work OF cleaning,
milking, etc.
The floor shall be smooth and incapa-
BILE of absorbing liquids and sloping
sufficiently to cause good drainage.
The cutters behind the cows shall be
open and with sufficient incline to
cause good drainage.
The side walls and ceiling shall be so
tight as to prevent dust sitting through,
and they shall be so constructed as to
prevent cobwebs and dust from col
lecting and easily to be cleaned.
There shall be windows in at least
two sides of the stable, providing not
less than three square feet of unob-
structed window glass to each animal.
Each animal shall be allowed at
least as many cubic feet of air space
as the number of pounds of its live
weight.
The ventilation shall be so efficient
that one will not notice a stale, dis
agreeable or strong animal odor on en-
tering the building.
The stalls shall be comfortable, at
least three feet wide, or three and Il
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
Montana Under Irritation.

Montana is the third largest state
147,O61 square miles, and only Texas
and California have a greater terri
tory. Yet our population by the last
census was only 243,329 that is, not
quite two to the square mile; and of
that population 100,129 live in incor-
porated cities and towns. Including
the smaller villages, not incorporated,
it will be found that at least half the
people of this state live in towns and
villages these in large measure
get their support from mining and it's
allied industries.
Thus, it is seen that considerably
less than one person per square mile
is supported directly from the soil of
this state.
Much of that soil is impossible of
cultivation, to be sure, but it has been
conservatively estimated that one.
quarter of the whole surface of this
state is arabic and irrigable. Using
that estimate, and conservatively fig
uring one family to each 160 acres
and five persons to a family, would
give us a farming population alone
of 100000 people. That number OF
people on the farms of Montana
would support in the varied indus
| tries which would naturally be at
tracted by such population, at least
as many more, giving us population
of million and a half as direct re-
suit of irrigation.
The state Oh Massachusetts sup
ports 348 persons to the square mile
and the same density in Montana
would mean something over fifty mil
| lions in this state, so that it will be
seen we are not estimating extrava
gantly in the above figures. We car
not hope to be Massachusetts in the
density of population for centuries
perhaps, but there is no reason why
with irrigation development, Mon
tana should not look forward, within
the life time of the younger men O.
! today, to a population of two or three
millions.
That is the stake Montana has il
the proposition of national irrigation
No state in the union has greater ma
tural resources than has our own
but these will never be developed
with only a few people scattered here
and there upon the state surface. Ou
coal, our iron, our water power are
but waiting sufficient demand to cal
them forth in ever increasing meas
ure, and that demand can only come
by greater population. That popula
ton can be secured with absolut,
certainty by the development of ou
agricultural resources, and it can b.
secured in no other way so certainly
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
Wheat Rotation.

The North Dakota station has taken
up the study CT suitable rotation for
the wheat farm. Experiments carried
on for six years show that continuous
wheat culture is Improbable. while
wheat in rotation increases in yield
and improves in quality. Three crops
of wheat and one of clover gave in
four years almost as much wheat
and more profitable returns than four
crops of wheat in succession. Little
was gained in rotating wheat with
other cereals, as spring rye, barley and
oats. but wheat after a cultivated crop
gave a larger percentage of increase
than wheat after summer following,
millet. timothy and clover, fax, field
peas or millet and clover. The in
crease in the wheat crop over wheat
after wheat was as follows: After cul-
tivated crops, rs per cent; after fallow,
63 per cent; after millet. Al per cent;
after timothy and clover, S3 per cent.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
DURABLE LAND ROLLER.

by frost and in the preparation of oats
and corn ground. A good roller will
nearly if not altogether pay for itself
in one years work.
The one shown in the illustration is
very cheaply and easily constructed
and durable because of the plan of
building. A good sound log seven feet
long and about two feet in diameter is
drawn to the sawmill, and after being
squared the miller arranges it on
the carriage in such a manner as to
shape it into an octagonal form. By
the use of an adj it is then very easily
turned" into complete cylinder. This
method secures rollers that run very
true and evenly and do much better
work than a log from natures own
working. and it will not check and
crack to pieces, but last doubly as long
as one made from log. A two foot
log will make roller sixteen to eight
cen inches in diameter. which is plenty
large enough, as our experience teaches
us that one of this size will do better
work, crushing clods into the ground
instead of bouncing over the tops and
leaving them uncrushed, as the large
rollers are wont to do.
This log Is then sawed into two equal
parts which when built will make an
eight foot roller. The construction is
shown in the illustration plainly, by
stuff being used for the frame. The
iron braces shown on rear of tongue
are quite practical. They may also he
made of wood with good results. The
boxing shown at A is very durable
and is bolted to underside of frame
The iron axles are made of one and q
quarter inch gas pipe, and ends OF
roller are painted well to avoid check
ing. An old mower seat may be at
.tached to tongue in center OF roller
The accompanying cut shows sort
of a cross-a half breed, as it werr- te
tween a wheelbarrow and -four
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26


DR.. Henry Stewart atfirms in Farm
and Home that, having given study to
the matter of sheep, cattle and horses
being killed by eating sorghum or so
called cane fodder. he is able to state
the cause:
"Once | was making an examination
of the plant at strip mill and happened
to carelessly draw blade of it through
my hand, feeling it rough. Some of my
fingers were cut to the bone by the
leaves, and this. of course, led me to
make microscopical examination of
the leaves. l found the edges of the
leaves were fringed by almost trans
parent teeth visible and apparent to the
enlarged view as clear, glasslike hooks.
/ at once recognized the cause of the
trouble with the plant. Animals fed on
sorghum of course pass the pulpy mat
ter through the bowels, and in cases
when much of the fodder has been
eaten the compact mass, having myri-
ads of these sharp, CLASSY, hooked
points, cuts the bowels and produces
fatal inflammation. Examination of
the bowels of animals killed in this
way has confirmed this diagnosis, and
1 am satisfied of it's entire correctness
Every i'll has its remedy, and so has
this, in prevention of this injury by
avoiding feeding of mature, or nearly
mature, sorghum and by mixing it, un
der any circumstances, with other fod
der. In its early stage of growth, OIL
when Ghickly grown, the forage is less
hard and sharp"
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
The Waste of Time.
Through labor to rest, through com
bat to victory.
Thomas a Kempis.

Thomas a Kempis.
Have you ever thought how much
time, you waste each day? By waste
recreation or health bringing exer-
else. We mean the time that is ac-
tually wasted, or worse than wasted.
The time that brings no profit to
mind or body. The time that is dis
sipated.
There are men who spend more
than half their lives bordering over
business or seeking to add another
dollar to an already overstocked
horde. These men we are apt to con-
slider diligent. We say of them that
they work hard. Yet many of them
are in reality wasting their. time to
very large extent. Wasting it be-
cause they do not get the most and
the best out of it.
The slothful man is generally de-
spised. He accomplishes nothing for
himself or others. He passes through
| life in idleness. He sees insurmount-
able barriers in every obstacle. He
| never IIl6S W get ONSI lu0 UdIIl6IS.
If some one else does not remove
them for him they are not removed.
But it is not of the time wasted by
such men that we would speak. Any
thing said has little effect on the
slothful. They amount to little in the
world anyhow. They merely fill a
place that would be better untitled as
far as humanity is concerned.
1t is of the men who are wasting
their time by devoting their energy
in the wrong direction. Who are dis
sipating their time and their strength
in manner that will do humanity nc
good. They are running the health Of
mind and body and cutting off years
of usefulness which it was intended
that they should employ.
Wealth is very desirable; we al
want it and we all work for it and
hope for it. But wealth is not all. I
we have no other thought in life, theI
life for us is wasted. If during oul
years on earth we have not managed
to make ourselves and others happ!
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
Fans In shakespeare,s Time.

Fans in Shakespeare's time seem to
have been composed of ostrich and 9TH
ar feathers fastened to handles. Gen
tlemen carried fans in those days, and
in one of the later figures of the ger
man they now carry fans. According
to an old manuscript in the Ashmolean
museum, Sir Edward Cole rode the cir
cult with prodigous fan, which had a
long stick, with which he corrected his
daughters.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

"Get my name right" said the proud
owner of the 1.175 pound hog. Its
Judson X. Bimm. My father was Colo
mel Hiram Hotchkiss Bimm of Lexing-
ton, Ky. He came to Illinois in the
year.
"Never mind that" interrupted the
secretary of the fat stock show. Give
us the pedigree of the hog Chicago
Tribune.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

DR.. III. w. Wiley draws some conclu-
ment upon the sugar beet. These are
from a study of graphic charts based
upon observations made in different
parts of the country:
High sugar and high latitude run
very evenly together. The actual hours
of sunshine do not appear to have
much influence upon the sugar content,
or perhaps it would be better to say
that the curves do not coincide even
approximately.
1t is evident that the elements of
sunlight, which are active in promot-
ing the action of the chlorophyll cells
in the formation Of sugar, do not de-
pend upon the direct rays of the sun.
The ditfused light coming through the
clouds is apparently quite as effective
as the direct light.
The curve showing the average length
of day from sunrise to sunset has a di-
rect relation also to the content of sug.
ar in the beet. The shorter the day
the lower the content of sugar. and the
longer the day the higher the content
of sugar.
An important relation to sugar con.
tent is shown by the rainfall, especial.
~ in its distribution. The total amount
of rainfall, it is evident, has less influ.
ence on the sugar content than its even
distribution during the growing months
providing the rain is sufficient for the
growing crop.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

Visitor to the Prison. suppose this
life of yours in here is continual
torture.
Conviction. no! Not so bad as that.
We don't have visitors every day, you
know. Boston Transcript.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

Wing Wa Chung has purchased the
interest of Wong Chung and Wong
Fong in the Plume vegetable farm,
including wagons, horses, etc. Wing
Wa Chung will pay all debts and col
lect all the accounts of the old firm.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
THE ONION UP TO DATE
A Popular Crop and Its Culture by
the Modern Method.

CTUU NTIW NY
the Modern Method.
The onion is having sort of boom
in various sections just now as good
money crop. Onions, it is hardly nee
essary to state, may be grown from
seeds or sets. Bailey has described up
lows:
If seeds are used, they may he sown
in the open ground where the bulbs
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

I will be in my Office rooms, Fourth
avenue east, north of railroad, from
10 a. m. to A p. m. T. D. Duncan,
Magnetic Healer.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26

Wanted-Every farmer in the val
ley to sign petition for free county
delivery. Petitions at the Bee office.
The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-26
Transplanting Cabbage and Kale.

1t is best to transplant the young
plantlets of cabbage, kale and cauli-
flower twice, first from the seedbed to
boxes or frames about the time the
second set of true leaves appears, plac-
ing the plants twenty-four inches apart
each way and transplanting again to
the open ground in rows four to five
feet apart, with plants two to four feet
apart in the row. If the plants are
started under cover, they should be
hardened off by exposure to light and
air during the warmer hours of several
days preceding the final transplanting
Bailey.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-10
Judge Story Cornered.
From the Atlantic Monthly.

Judge Story's lectures at the school car
ried away his listeners with the pure en-
thusiasm of the speaker. His extraordinary
memory, copious learning and long prac-
teal experience, combined with his ready
invention of illustration and wonderful
f1uency of expression, often caused him to
wander widely from the starting topic and
sweep with amazing facility over far dis
tant regions of theory or practice, or even
personal "reminiscences. Alas! that vera
cious chronicler must set down that in
those bygone times the young Idea in pro-
cess of being taught was no more scrupu-
lous in evading that process than are the
earnest disciples of the present. 1T was
easy says student of that day, ito draw
the old Judge from the point under con-
sideration to a lengthy account of Chief
Justice Marshall and his fellows, - = and
this was apt to be done every day." Pro-
fessor Ashmun apparently tried to restrain
and even counteract this tendency of the
Judge, and there is tale to the effect that
Story once remarked. somewhat testify.
"Now Ashmun, don't you contradict what
I say. believe you would try to correct
me IL told you that two and two make
four" "Of course. should" retorted Ash
mum Instantly; "they make twenty-five"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-10
BELL ON WOLF FOOLED SHEEP.
So It Did the Farmer, Who Found His
Flock Disappearing.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
A settler on the upper Mattawa river, in
Quebec, who caught a wolf last winter. had
read that ships were sometimes cleared OF
rats by fastening a bell around the neck of
one of them. And the bright idea occurred
to him that in a similar manner he might
clear the adjacent woods of wolves. He fas-
tened bell on his VOLTS neck and released
him.
After the snow had melted he allowed his
flock of sheep to exercise their ambs in the
fields near the house. His children were
with their father looking a the gambols OF
the lambs, when the sheep were noticed to
prick up their ears as if intently listening.
Then, with much bleating, the whole flock
raced to the woods.
Wondering at the Vagaries of the animals
the farmer went about his work. About an
hour later the children came up to him wit h
the news that the sheep had returned, but
had left one Of the lambs behind them. The
next day the same thing occurred again,
and another lamb disappeared. The chill
dren tried to keep the sheep in the fields,
but, failing. followed them into the bush.
They reported that they had distinctly
heard bell tinkling in the distance. Then
1t began to dawn on the farmer that the
bell which had been fastened TO the neck
of his gray wolf visitor was the same which
was borne by the father of the flock in the
previous summer. The quick-eared sheep
had recognized the sound of the bell and,
true to their instinct, had FASTENED to join
their last years cOmpa MON.
That they found not exactly a wolf IN
Sleeps clothing, but wolf attached to a
Sleeps bell, and ready to take advantage
of his condition to dine on spring lamb was
no fault of theirs, though certainly their
misfortune. The settler does not appear to
think very much of the bell plan of dispos-
ing Of wolves