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Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07

on the Produce exchange today the but
ter market was firm; creameries, 23qS0c
diaries, 22q27c. Cheese, steady, 12@l2c
Eggs, firm; fresh, 14l1c.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
New York Mining Quotations.
NEW YORK, April 5.-The following are
the closing prices on mining stocks;
hank ~CIearInEs.

OMAHA. April 5.-Bank clearings for the
week ending today show an increase OF
81. POS 49, SO over those for the correspond
ing week OF 1901. The daily figures read;
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07

ST. JOSEPH, April 5.-CATTLE-Receipts.
so head, including Texans; market steady:
b beef CTS steers; A.OOa7 10; stockers and feeders.
HOGS-Receipts. ION head" ~ rio,
steady to strong; pigs and lights, Sc. i0d6. 10:
packers. S6.50G6.9 80: butchers, Sc IS,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
Duluth Grain Market

DULUTH, April 5.-WHEAT-Cash, No. 1
hard, 13lac; No. 2 northern, 6Sc; No. / north
ern, 1O1l2c; May, Tic; July, nae.
CORN-5Sc.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07

AVIaI9 'Fs''s'sss'ssFIl V3ffU-WV 90 iJ0,AAI0
BOSTON, April 5.-Clearings, 3.S5.2e5
balances, 81, 72 on.
CHICAGO, April B-Clearings. 81. O97 $40;
balances. a2.sll. Gas; posted exchange, Sass
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
HOGS GENERALLY STEADY SATURDAY
sheep and NeRrIinRs May he quoted
Ten to Fifteen Cents Higher for
the week and wooded
Lambs Fully steady.

RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR TO DATE.
The following table shows the receipts OF
cattle, hogs and sheep at South Omaha LOT
the year to uate, and comparisons WIN
asst year:
1902. 1901. Inc. Dec.
Cattle ............. 2l2, 742 172, as 4O,Uc7 ......
Hogs ..............7 Ill, +2 $50, 252 1929 80.
Sheep ............. 1850 ISS, 49, ....... 800
The following tabte SHOWS the average
price OF hogs sold on the South Omaha
market the past several days with COM
parsons with former years:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
Stock In sight.

The following table shows the receipts of
cattle, hogs and sheep at the five principal
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
ROpy Milk.

"After milking OF night the
milk pals and strainer cloth
should be washed and scalded
before using in the morning, or a
second set, thoroughly clean and
scalded, should be used in the
morning. The practice of mere
ly rinsing pals and strainers in
cold water at the barn at night
offers an opportunity for the in
PRODUCTION of the bacteria which
cause the trouble into milk d.
rectly from the water.
eff the cows wade in mud and
smear the udders with dirt and
filth, put stop to it. By this
means many Objectionable bac-
terra get into the milk by falling
into the milk pail.
"The floors of all rooms where
ropy milk has been kept should
be disenfected with mixture of
five parts OF crude sulphuric acid
to ninety-five parts of water.
"All milk utinsils should be
scalded most thoroughly daily
Never let cold water come in con-
tact with utinsils unless they
are scalded before using for milk
again.
Exercise the greatest care to
prevent even a drop of water
from the cooling tank getting in
to the milk. That occurance is
proba bly, the most common cause
of trouble from ropy milk. If
water must splatter about, the
cans standing in ice water should
be covered.
"Utinsils after washing and
scalding should stand upside
down to prevent the accumula-
ton of dust on the inside Prof.
A. B. Ward, Cornell Experiment
Station.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
Pecan Culture a Success.

Last Saturday Mr.. Dick Will
liams wasin town selling some
soft shell pecans raised On his
place, some 31z miles west of
Ellisville.
About ten years ago, Mr.. Will
liams invested ten dollars in soft
shell pecans and planted about
fifteen hundred hills, fourteen
hundred thr ived and did we'll and
now has about one thousand trees
that are bearing from one to TWEEN
ty pounds per tree. The new
south said when he was planting
his orchard that it would bea sue
cess and.words uttered then are
proving true. In five years from
now Mr.. Williams will have an In.
dependent fortune in his grasp.
His whole output in scotland pre-
pairing the land did not exceed
$40 and madegood crops on same
all these many years. We would
advise all young married people
who have a place of their own to
plant a pecan orchard and in ten
or fifteen years it will, give them
an independent living.-Ellisville
New South.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01

A German rsavant has expires.
sed a favorable opinion in regard
10 the fertilizing value of volcanic
elections as a result of a scientific
visit through the volcanic region
of Central America. He found
that the land in the vicinity OF
volcanoes was one of great fertili-
ty and drew to these regions large
accretions of population on that
account, who dwelt there despite
the danger of subterranean con-
WILSON'S. The best coffees OF
of Costa RIGA and Guatemala pro-
coed from this belt of land.-Ex
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
SOUTHERN T RIM GAZETTE. Starkvile Miss Dec. l. 1902

can be said about the compo. n !
ers o. continental stock foods
Selfshness is their inspiration,
gain their object and deceit their
method. They know neither
science nor experience, except
that of getting som ething for
nothing. In the statements of
the first there is neither profit
nor loss TO those making them,
the statements and claims of the
others have no object but money
getting without thought of re-
turning aud equivalent. Now, in
all candor, which are entitled to
belief in whose.statements should
confidence be placed?-Larm
Stock and Home.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
Live Stock.

"The claims that by the use fo
condiments and spices the.dig es.
tihility of food can be increased,
and in this way saving OF feed
can be effected, have no basis in
fact. No experiments have de.
monstrated or made even prob
able such an effect. Stock feed.
ers will be very slow to believe
that cotton seed meal, linseed
meal. wheat feeds, or corn pro.
ducts can be made more easily
digestible or even more accept
Bile to healthy cattle by mixing
with them EPSON salts, charcoal,
ginger or fenugreek."
This is an opinion of expert.
enced and scientific feeders and
chemists in an ably differed
State experiment station, that of
Connecticut. 1t is entirely un.
prejudiced, and has no object ex.
cept to serve the people whose
taxes sustain the institution the
verdict was rendered in. The
men who have reached the con.
clusion quoted are we'll known,
they have regulations to pre-.
serve, and dare not, if they would
make statements that would not
stand the test of the closest
scrutiny They are scientific
men, and would soon lose their
place ia the estimation and circles
of their class, and their present
positions, if convicted of reckless
or selfish declarations regarding
matters connected with their
profession. None of these things
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
Restored an Abandoned
Farm.

Mr.. r. S. Seeds, Birmingham,
Pa, states that when he bought
his farm it had been abandoned
for seven years, and he had no
stable manure, being compelled
to depend upon fertilizers. He
states, in the followinS his ex-
perience:
"My soil is sandy flint, with
some limestone. l grow corn,
oats, wheat, grass and potatoes.
my farm, when, I bought it,
eight years ago, had been aban-
doned seven years on account of
it's poverty. l had no stable ma
nure, hence used complete fer
tilizer.
II have used fertilizer running
as high as S, 6 and 8, costing me
$27 per ton, and will use a COM
plete fertilizer until my crops
grow too rank. ! always used
the rcady-mixed articles. lam
a vegetable matter crank, and if
1 should go somewhere to preach
the gospel l would go to talking
vegetable matter before they
could take up a collection in the
church.
II have had good results COM
pared with no fertilizer. If l
had all the stable manure I wan
ted, l would use no fertilizer. l
keep my manure in covered barn.
yard, and it counts when l put it
on the land. have never tried
fertilizer and manure side by side.
l have meyer used them together.
l use fertilizer on oats and wheat
using manure on grass, as it pro-
duces stalks, stems aud leaves,
which means vegetable matter;
vegetable matter means humus,
and humus means mechanical
condition of the soil.
II have received a profit from
the use of fertilizers, and they
have paid me, but as my farm in
creases in fertility and the me-
chanical condition improves, I
reduce the quantity per acre.
-"My farm has increased in fer
tility. Fertilizer helped me to
raise a crop and get a set of grass.
This meant feed and manure at
the barn. Iplow undervegetable
matter also, and this means hu-
mus and mechanical condition of
the soil.
"The cost with me is about s.
to So per acre. Commercial fer
tilizer is a godsend to the farmer
who has to use it, but every far
mer ought not to be in a position
where he is compelled to use it.
Even with the excellent results
obtained by Mr.. Seeds we con-
slider his expenditure for ferti-
lizers (not exceeding SO per acre)
rather low, and that if farmers
will invest more largely they will
bewell remunerated. Mr.. Seeds,
in our opinion, makes the mistake
of reducing the amount of ferti-
liz,r as his farm increasesin pro-
ductive capacity. He should aim
to derive the largest profit pos
sible by using more fertilizers
American Fertilizer.
Live Stock.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01

NOT A POISON, but a remarkable discovery
which il very effective in causing stupefacton
and DE- ath to all kinds of Insects injecting Poultry
Animals. Plants, and Houses. Put up in a box
ingenous1y arranged for conveniently busting or
Lowing the powder where wanted.
Send 2Sc to MAGIC FOOD CO., Chattanooga,
Tenn and get box by mail. A beautiful pic
ture in lors suitable for framing given FREE
with each order during the next 80 days. Rid
your chickens of Lice, Pet animals of Fleas, etc,
your house If Bed Bugs, Flies and Mosquitoes "
the use of MAGIC DEATH POWDER.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
Angus Cattle

Acclimated Registered Herd of ABB
ERDEEN ANGUS CATTLE at Helm
Station, Miss. Apply to Geo. M.
Helm. Greenville, Miss, also for half
al : Aotrlccn-Augus Bulls from
weanlings to yearlings.
GEO. M. HELM, Greenville, Miss.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
FOR SALE.

An Oktibbeha Stud, l8 months old,
weighs $50 lbs, solid sorrel with star
in forehead, a model at $4,000 f. O. b.
Starkville. Address j. H., Care
G Gazette, Starkville, Miss.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1902-12-01
Poultry Hints.
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better than one large one.
The best way to cure sickness
among hens is to prevent it.
The best breed of fowls de-
ponds considerably upon who is
behind it
Economy and good manage
mentgo hand in hand in poultry
kee ping.
The smaller and more crowded
the poultry quarters. the cleaner
they must be kept.
In all flocks, even the most
carefully bred, poor specimens
will most frequently appear.
One of the objections to feed
ing sloppy food is that it too often
makes conditions which invite
disease.
Do not expect too much. Leave
a margin Tor disappointment.
Watch for the causes and correct
then i. the future.
Sunshine and pleasant weather
are very fine for the stock, but
you ough. not to expect them to
thrive on that alone.
Crowding and improper ventll-
alton are the source of many
losses in otherwise we'll regula-
ted and managed flocks.
II is important in the manage
ment of poultry that cleanliness
and regularity be observed.
Do not fall into the common
error of thinking that the poultry
business can be mastered in
day.
Roup may be generally traced
to want of cleanliness, lice, damp
ness or undue exposure to wet
and cold weather.
If the hens are confined, over
fed and have but little exercise,
they are apt to get in the habit of
feather pulling.
The turf made by pasture
land of native grasses makes an
ideal grass run for all kinds of
poultry, old and young.
There is mighty little sickness
among fowls which are properly
housed and given the right kind
of feed and attention.
Keep the poultry, as we'll as all
other living things on the farm,
on good terms with you by keep.
ing on good terms with them.
There is but little money in
hens that are always kept hun
CRY, but there is also difference
in we'll fed and over-fed hens.
Do not neglect getting the
poultry house in order any longer.
A war m house is better than ex-
ira feed to bring winter eggs.
A lazy hen is never a laying
hen. To have your hens lay
well. you must make them work
or scratch for their food. There
fore scatter the grain we'll.
The easiest way to make
poultry pay is to sit down and
thearize while figuring out a
TOT tuue. ne pest way is 10 take
off ones coat ane go to work.
Hens, for two years of their
lives, pay more for their k. ep-
ing than any other live stock that
is kept on the farm for the same
length of time.
Hens can be .yarded safely if
given plenty of green food. Cows
are not the only live stock that do
we'll on soiling. You can soil
hens just as we'll as cows.
The fall is the best time to
make start for a flock of pure
bred poultry. This is also true
of winter, spring and summer.
Nov is always the best time.
Some poultry growers success
fully fight poultry parasites BY
treating their matured fowls to a
bath in .''sheep dip" twice year,
but they do not use the sickening
tobacco dips.
When hens have a warm place
to sleep and scratching room
where they are protected from
the wind, they have all that is
needed in the way of housing.
Proper feed does the rest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13

better classes of the English people to public or private debauchery and through the teaching and example of the clergy of all denominations. English men and English women have been led up to sobriety and temperance and not driven to 1t by legal enactment. Drunkenness is no longer fashionable and hence it is no longer desirable.
 The changes in this respect which have taken place in England conclusively show how powerful is good example and how a shameful habit may be driven out by the .frowns and opposition of good people. The same methods will produce like ef- fects everywhere. Intemperance in drink ing will cease to be common or frequent when it is no longer looked on with favor by those who are expected to set good examples. Men may be led upward but 1t is hard to drive them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
The Old American Stock.
Houston Post.


 The Boston Transcript in a recent an- alysis ot the annual report of the Reg istry Department of that city arrives at a result that Is exceedingly discomfort ing.
 While the birth rate in Boston is larger than that of any other large city in the country. it has reached its size by an alarming increase of the foreigners resi- dent in Boston who are carrying out the Biblical injunction multiply and re- plenish the earth with a vengeance.
 The New Englander is not prolific. The descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers do not seem to become fathers in their turn, or at any rate fathers of large families. The result will be that if the Tank e does not produce more progeny, posterity will be without any Yankees. Here are the figures: Of the whole number of fathers in the Hub who had children born to them in the past year only + per cent. were Boston born, while 62 per cent. were fo~"i"n born. The whole number of mothers shows similar percentages. The number of Russian and Italian fath- CTS alone equals the fathers who claim Boston as their native place. In the SIX.n N ard. Wnere Intre is the greatest number of foreigners, there was one In the Eleventh Ward, where there is the greatest number of Americans, there was but one birth for every eighty-one of population. That Is. the foreigners are increasing about four times as fast as the Americans. In the opinion of The Transcript. which Is a very conservative paper, these facts indicate .Nhe relative disappearance of the, old American stock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Interesting Notes of Some of Those in the Public Eve.

Henrik Ibsen, it is likely. will write no more dramas. What strength he has Is devoted to his autobiography.
 Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. who cele- brated his 66th birthday recently, is the third artist from Holland to be honore d by an English knighthood. the others be- ing Rubens and Van Dyck.
 General Oliver O. Howard, in a remin- iscent mood, says that of the twenty seven commanders of Union armies dur ing the Civil War only two survive, General Scofield and himself.
 Hiram Cronk, the last surviving pen soner of the war of 1872, is passing the last years of his life at the home of his daughter at Dunn Brook, about fifteen miles north of Rome, N. Y.
 Sir Noel Paton's will, recently recorded in Edinburgh. Scotland, asks that his sons and daughters keep together his works, finished and unfinished. and also the collection of armor and arms which he has brought together.
 Dr. Seward Webb of the Vanderbilt family was supposed to have gone to Yer mont for his health. but he has developed into full grown candidate for Governor. He has also engineered one or two suc- cessful and important railroad deals in the Green Mountain State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
A WONDERFUL CHANGE.

None but those who have investigated the matter have any idea of the change for the better which has taken place among the people of England during the last two or three centuries in the way of temperance. As a matter of informa- tion we copy from contemporary the following brief details taken from the recent book of John Richard Green, an eminent English historian, who tells of the hard drinking carried on at Oxford University as late as the Eighteenth Century. The writer says:
 The clerical faculty drank as hard and were carried to bed as often as the theologian's way of writing was to have bottle of ale. brandy or wine stand by him, and every three or four lines of his writing he would drink thereof. ' Lord Eldon records how he saw a doc tor of divinity so drunk that he could not support himself except by keeping one hand on the library building. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Andrew Crosse writes that he often saw his tutor carried off perfectly intoXl- cated. and Byron records the gross in- temperance of famous professor of Greek in his day at Cambridge. Lord Lovelace, at Oxford. drank a quart of brandy every morning or its equiva- lent. Deaths of students from hard drinking were not uncommon. The Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford died after drinking late on Saturday night at his own house. where he enter tained with wine and punch the vice chancellor of the college Sir Thomas Clifford, and some others.
 This Is a condition of affairs which can hardly be realized now. and which would not be tolerated in England or any other civilized country. And it was condition which prevailed little more than a cen tury ago, but 1t no longer exists. There may still bbe some hard drinkers in Eng land, but no such scandalous habits as we have mentioned are now fashionable, to the disgrace of both Church and State.
 It is worth noticing that this great reformation has come about entirely through the operation of moral suasion and good example. No prohibitory liauor laws have been enacted in Great legal restraints have been put on the people of that country to prevent them from drinking. The great and welcome change has come about through the in- crease in refinement among the people. through the growing opposition of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
SALARIES OF CoNaREssMEN.

The Kansas City Journal went OH nail- cooked the other day with this state- ment:
 The present pay of members of Con- gross was fixed in the early history of the government and there is no special reason why it should be increased at the present time.
 Since that was printed The Journal has evidently been studying history and finds as we knew. and as 1t should have known, that the salary now drawn by members of Congress was not fixed in the early history of the government" by any means. It thus sets out the changes in salaries. which will be of interest to Advertiser readers just at this time when Congress is debating on a bill to increase the salary list. The Journal says:
 The salary of Congressmen. and Sena- tors has been repeatedly changed. At the outset, under the original articles of confederation, each State had to pro- vide for the payment of its own mem bers of Congress. However, the conven- ton of 17S7 thought best to make the members independent of the States in this respect. and so the constitution was made to provide that the nation should pay such salaries as should be establish ed by law. The First Congress voted that it's members should be paid $6 a day and s6 for each twenty miles of travel going and coming. The scale stood until 1915 when the pay was fixed at s1,500 per an- mum, and remained at this figure until 1877. Then the per diem method was restored and until 1855. or nearly forty years the pay of Senators and Congress- men was reckoned at s day-changing in the latter year to 5000 a year, and in 1865 to $5,0O0 year, at which figure 1t has remained ever since, save during the salary-grab period which we have just described.
 The salary grab" to which The Jour nal refers was the act of March 3, 1873, which raised the salary of the President to $50.OOO a year and of Senators and Congressman to s7,50O a year. as well as raising other salaries, which bill was approved by President Grant and took effect at once. The people of the coun- try had seen much reckless and discre- ditable legislation during the few years succeeding the war, and had submitted to much that was almost unbearable. but they refuesd to stand for this thing and such protest went up from all parts of the Union that the bill was repealed as soon as the next Congress met and the pay of Congressman and Senators went back to 5000 year, at which it has since remained. The repeating act. however, did not affect the salary of the President and the Federal Judges.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-13
A GOOD BILL.

Speaking of wha, is known as the Mo- Cleary oieomargarine bill. which Is now before Congress, The Portland Oregonian says:
 The reasonable objection to the manu- facture of oieomargarine Is that 1t is a fraudulent thing. In spite of all the laws which have been enacted with re- spect to 1t. 1t Is still sold as butter and is largely consumed by persons who presume themselves to be using butter. It is because they wish to deceive the consumer that the oleomargarine men always make their product to initiate butter in every possible detail. Incolor. in, taste. in smell, in the form of each ''roll' or pat" in the package in which 1t finds it's way to market-in all of these points oleomargarine masquerades as but ter. No wonder there is angry protest from the dairymen, who find the markets filled with a fraudulent and initiated product, manufactured on a cheap basis and urged in competition with their own genuine product.
 The dairymen are right in objecting to the imitation product being put on the market and sold as genuine butter, but when some of them go further and de- mand that the manufacture of the arti- ficial product shall be prohibited by federal law they weaken their case. It has been satisfactorily proven that certain brands of what has come to be generally known as oleomargerine is as wholesome as pure butter and can be manufactured and sold considerably cheaper than dairymen can afford to sell the genuine product of the COW. Many persons who cannot afford to use real butter would use the imitation article and should be allowed to do so provided it is not imposed on them as the genuine article.