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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
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The farmers of the southwest are
becoming fully aroused to the posi-
bilities Of diversifcation in the way of
fruit and truck growing. but they have
not yet taken up the breeding of beef
cattle and hogs to the extent that eX-
listing conditions warrant, says Farm
and Ranch. The range for beef cattle
is becoming each year more restricted.
The prices of finished beef cattle are
comparatively high and are likely to
remain at high figure for some years
records that have been made at some
periods during the present year will be
maintained is not to be expected, but If
available statistics are correct the pro-
duction Of beef cattle has not Kept
pace with the growth of population
throughout the country.
The average record for years does
not show any very great variation
from one year to another OF the
amount of meat consumed per capita,
though the prosperity Of the country
may naturally be expected to affect to
some extent the demand for high
priced meats.
Texas and the territories have been
great breeding grounds for many
years; but, owing to the increasing de-
mand for land and the enactment Of
new land laws, the COW men who have
4 4
looking to northern states for pastur-
age, and the beef production of the
southwest, if it is to be maintained in
the years to come. must be largely con-
fined to the farming sections. The high
price of cOttonseed meal and hullS is
causing the men who usually feed
thousands of head of cattle for market
to hesitate about making contracts for
big lunches of feeders this year, and
in the course of time, when farmers
fully understand and practice the prin-
ciples of feeding cattle on the farms, it
is probable that feeding ut the oil mills
will be almost if not entirely done
away with. The farmer who feeds on
his own ground not only secures
market as high priced meat for corn
and forage he produces. but the ma
nurial return to his land is of such
great value that he has an advantage
that cannot be overcome by the man
who finishes cattle at the oil mills.
An Angus Champion.
The yearlng heifor Hibiscus of Gla-
mis-, first at Royal and at Highland So
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
THE MUTTON SHEEP.
Some of the Numerous Points Judges
Invariably Look For.

Some of the Numerous Points judges
Invariably Look For.
AS with beef cattle there is a certain
parallelogrSm for shape that one looks
for in the mutton sheep The judge
will probably take this into considera-
ton by sizing the sheep in his eye be
fore any handling whatever.
An ideal mutton sheep is never with
out good legs that come to the ground
squarely and give every indication of
possessing power and strength to sup
port the body. The sheep with legs
short, stoeky and set we'll apart wiz in
variably attract the attention of the
judge of good mutton sheep. says the
Drovers' Journal.
The mutton sheep with fine bone sci.
dom finds favor with the judge, He is
inclined to interpret such indications rs
lack of vigOr and hardness and indif
ferent response to good feeding.
The long, narrow face is never con-
Sidered anything but weakness among
the mutton types. Instead one desires
to see the short nose and broad face,
indicating heavy conformation.
a mutton sheep with "ewe neck" is
about as much out of place us a dairy
COW without the pronounced wedge
shape formation. The drop in the neck
in front Of the shoulders called "ewe
neck" is invariably avoided almost in
stinctively by both judge and expert
enced feeder.
A mutton sheep is never without
good depth from the top of the shout
der and a point midway between the
fore legs. An equally essential feature
and which follows chest depth in close
correlation is girth of heart. 1t is hard
to find a mutton sheep too strong In Ell
Their of these two points.
a prominent backbone or spine is
avoided, as it is a sure indication of a
deficiency of flesh along the back and
lOin. 1t is of some considerable impor-
lance that Il good mutton sheep be
close coupled-that is, the distance be-
tween the last rib and the hip joints be
comparatively short.
Among mutton sheep the wool is Of
minor consequence, though it must be
considered in connection with the other
points of the carcass.
The judge Of a mutton sheep never
fails to pay little attention at least to
the thigh. There is a certain law of CO.
relation of parts existing throughout
the whole conformation. One never
sees a poor thigh on a first class NUT
ton body.
There are numerous other points that
the judges will invariably run over in
judging good mutton carcass, and
these are but a few of the most dis
tinct, but will give a glimpse of some
of the more prominent features.
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So far the horse shows at the various
both number and quality of exhibits,
says Breeders Gazette. Competition
has not been keen in many of the rings
judged, and in several, indeed most, in
stances entries in the classes have been
confined to one or two men. AS stated,
there seems to be general desire on
the part of many of the importers to
wait for the international, but is there
any good reason for any such course?
We are satisfied that it has paid all
those who have exhibited this year at
the state fairs handsomely, even though
most of the victories won have been of
bloOdless character. A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush, and horse
show made when horses are fit and
well is worth u hundred not made ow-
ing to attacks of sickness, accidents or
any of the thousand ills to which
horsetesh is heir. 1t is a long time to
the international from the opening of
the state fair circuit, and between the
two many good horse will go wrong
and never get a chance to win a prize,
whereas had he been shown when in
shape he might have won fame and
honor for his owners and himself be-
sides doing his part in the education of
the people whe went to see.
Inhumnnity to Horses.
A vehicle drawn by two stylish cobs
broke down in a shady street of a great
city, says an exchange The spirited
horses were led a short distance away
to await repairs or another vehicle.
The flies were bad, and they had no
protection. Their little stumps of tails
wagged continually, they became rest
less and tortured almost beyond endur-
ance and danced on the pavement
The groom jerked and hauled at them,
inficting still more pain; all because
they were for fashions sake deprived
of their natural protection against the
fly pest. No humane man win ever
dock a horse and leave him to the mer-
cy of flies, and no other man should be
allowed to do so.
Iowa Horse Sales.
At the big sale of range horses at
Sioux City good prices were obtained.
The top figure was $60.50, which was
paid for load of good, heavy, blocky
geldings and mares of all colors. The
draft horses ranged from $50 to $50,
general purpose horses from $35 to
$3.50, yearlings and two-year-olds
from $3.50 to $28 and sucking colts
from SO to $11.-National Stockman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
VlNDICTlVE INDUSTRY.
How One suIky Wife Worked off Her
Stored Up Wrath.


Xantippe ragged at Socrates, who
remained serene and philosophical,
and Anne 9fSaxony threw plates at
the head of her illustrious husband,
William the Silent, who lodged
them silently. From the earliest
history there have been shrews and
viragoes, mated often by some per-
versity of fate with men too gentle
or too abject to afford them the sat-
isfaction of quarreling.
In the traditions and tales of old
New England the termagant holds
frequent place despite the terrors Of
the scolds' bride and the ducking
stool, although indeed, considering
the many cares and hardships of
our overburdened foremothers, it is
only surprising that so few of them
soured or grew irritable under the
strain.
There was one shrew Of old time
Sanbornton who displayed an in
genious variation on the usual meth
DDS of her kind. When things went
wrong and she felt herself injured
or aggrieved, she did not storm or
scold; she stored up her wrath un-
til the next rainy day and then
started out to weed the vegetable
patch with suicidal intent, declaring
tragically to her husband that she
would catch her death of cold, and
then he'd see
Out she would go in the down
pour arrayed in clinging cotton
skirts and "squdging" wet shoes,
and, kneeling down in the mud be-
tween rows of corn or cabbages, she
would give herself up to fury of
vindictiye industry.
Her poor, meek husband, having
first vainly entreated and then
fdgeted indoors at the window till
he could bear it no longer, would
finally sally out with the big green
family umbrella and pursue her with
melancholy fidelity up and down the
rows, trying to keep it over her head
as she struggled obstinately with
pigweed, purslane and puddles, an
edifying sight to the neighborhood.
Her exploits may have had their
uses in working off temper, but they
were not successful as suicide. In
due course of nature she died, but
in modest and commonplace way,
not from catching her death Of cold
wedding in the rain.-Youth's Com
Danion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19

clety'S show at Aberdeen and reserve
to the champion bull Elate at both
shows as the best Aberdeen Angus in
divdual. was bred and is owned by
the Earl of Strathmore
BuYalO-Angus Cross.
A man in Maine who owns some buff
faloeS has bought few pure bred An
gus COWS to breed to the buffalo bulls.
1t is net recorded that this cross has
been tried before, but many half bred
Galloway bison animals are in exist
ence or at least were a short time ago
A half bred Hereford bison was illus
trated in the Breeders Gazette some
months ago, the picture showing a calf
with much of the form and coat of the
buffalo and the white face of the Here
ford.
Spaying Heifers.
The West Texas Stockman, taking
up the line of argument advanced in
Farm and Ranch relative to spaying to
prevent Overstocking of the ranges,
says: "A spayed heifer makes just
about as good beef as her brother. 1t
is an easy matter to convert the sur
plus heifers on every ranch into good
beef animals at a moderate cost and
with trivial danger of loss. Bearing
this fact in mind, the ranchmen in
much of the territory above the line
have already taken steps to convert q
large per cent of their crop of heifers
this year into beef animals, and those
1Onn tod hollow fba linn chn1lH a1nnf
the same procedure. Among the num-
Der of leading ranchmen in this Sec
ton who have either spayed their heif-
ers or arranged to do SO are: The Spur
Cattle company, about 1900 head; the
Llano Land and Cattle company, all
the heifers dropped on the ranch this
season; Hudson 4 Schultz, 500 head;
W. Ii. Brennand, 400 hepd; A. B. Rob
ertson, a big string on the Ii ranch
and numbers of others. 1t is probable
that the number SPACED in this section
Of the state will reach the steer and
sell right alongside Of him I'm all the
markets Of the country. close on to 25,-
900 head, and that the number taken
off the range as stock cattle and sent
to the block lessons the danger Of over
stocking just that much"
Decrease In Mexican Cattle.
There has been a great decrease in
the imports of Mexican cattle this year
as compared with those of last year
says Texas Live Stock Journal. In the
seven months ending July 81, 1902,
there were brought in 32,431 head as
against 71,099 head for the same time
in 1901. In the month of July only 245
head were imported, while in the same
month last year 1886 head crossed the
line. The falling of has been in the
importations Of grazing cattle. There
has been a considerable increase in the
shipments for slaughter. The drought
and the quarantine regulations Of the
United States, which shut out the tick
infected cattle from the Mexican states,
are held mainly responsible for the de-
cline In imports.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
Key to the PuzzIer.

No. 1894 Pod of Peas: Peat. Pace.
Prim. Plover. Prank.
No. iS1-Arithmetical Problem: Nine
ty dollars.
No. lS2.-Novel Trick With Stick
No answer required.
No. 1S3-Charade: Poetry.
No. discharged Words: 1. Book,
rock, rood, road, read. 2. Weed, reed,
rode, rose. 3. Wood, wool, cool, coal.
No. 1S5.-Blanks: Grow, grow, hoe,
NOW, show.
No. diamond; /. II. .. Top. 3.
Gales. 4, Holland s. Frank. 6. And.
Z. ID.
No. 1S1.-Word Square: 1. Meet. 2.
Emma. 3. Emir. 4. Tare.
No. 1SS.-Additions: Steam, master,
Frost, forest. Rust, trust.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
Sheep Manure.

1t has been common experience that
sheep kept during the night in a well
ventilated shed with a floor space Of
ten square feet per head, if duly lit
tered with forest leaves or short litter
in which there is no risk of entangle-
ment, will leave a solid mass of the
richest manure in the very best condi-
ton for use in the spring, and at the
same time, by the use of plaster liber-
ally scattered on the floor there will
be no disagreeable odor from it, while
the sheep will be in perfect health.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19

WILL PRESENTED.

State of Vermont District of Lamoil!e. S. In
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park within and
for said District, on The 9th day of October,
A. u. 1902.
An instrument, purpOrting to he the last
will and testament of Isaac Patch. late of
presented by r. E. Billiard for Probate, it is
ordered by said Court. that all persons con-
cerned therein be notified to appear at a SEES
sion thereof, 10 be held at the Probate Office
day of n vember, A. d. 1902. at ten o'clock, in
the forenoon, and show cause, if any they have
against the probate Of said will; for which pur
pose it is further ordered, that this order b
published three weeks successfully in the New.
and Citizen, newspaper printed at MorriSville
and Hyde Park in this State, previous to SAID
time of hearing. By the Court. Attest.
3 EDWIN G. WHIrk. fudge
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
No. 1OO.-Double Behead,ncs,

l. Doubly behead to wear away and
leave part of the body. 2. Doubly be-
head cargo and leave a number. 3.
Doubly behead GOODNESS and leave to
attend. 4. Doubly behead hymn of
praise and leave pronoun. 5. Doubly
behead Il forced smile and leave a
proposition. 6. Doubly behead to de.
wise and leave a small aperture. 7,
Doubly behead to broil and leave sick.
S. Doubly behead place for offerings
and leave product of the pine tree.
o. Doubly behead to unite and leave
pronoun. 10. Doubly behead to satisfy
and leave comfort. II. Doubly behead
a flag and leave a token.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
No. 102.-DoubIe Diagonal.

Each word contains five letters:
CrosswOrds: l.. Small flies. 2. To
originate, 3. \ common piece of furni-
ture. 4. A Scriptural name. 5. An &c.
clesiastical superior.
From the upper left hand letter to
the lower right hand letter and from
the lower left hand letter to the upper
right hand letter each names a famous
American.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19

From the letters of word meaning
well soaped, without transposing any
letters, make the following: \ musical
note. A thin strip of wood. A turn
ing machine. A soapy mass. A prep
osition. An article in daily use. An
adverb of place. A masculine pronoun.
A feminine pronoun. In this place.
Before Another musical note. A col
or. A boys name.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
No. 101.-Rhymed Puzzle.

TIL all the blanks with words that
rhyme.
One day was visiting -
And | saw, lying on the -,
A message that had come by -
Asking her father if he was -
To build large and handsome -
With slanting roof and pointed -.
This tales not true; it is a -.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
In Case of Fire.

Suburbs-Why do you always go into
your fiat backward?
observation-disclosures always like to
face the street in case of fire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
No. 195.--Charade.

If you are hungry as a bear
And love the hermits simple fare,
My SECOND in my FIRST prepare;
That tbs my WHOLE you will declare.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19

Begin with the left side star and
read upward
Ii. a large collection of houses. 2.
A river in Africa. 8. Level. 4. Very
clean.
Ill. Uniform. 2. Middle of the
day. 3. A number. 4. Facility.
I'LL. A knot. . A point of the
compass. 3. A tax for some privilege.
4. A kind of bird.
Across the top: /. The middle of the
day. 2. Not any.
Across the bottom: l. A token. ..
Not good.
No. 194.-A Well known Saying.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
No. 19T,-A Few Cans.

l. The cap that overturns.
9. The cap that is a government
house.
3. The cap that is a statute.
4. The cap that surrenders on condi-
tiOnS
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19

Mrs. G. f. Goodnow, living at 143 Wash
ington street, New Britain, Conn, says:
81 gave a testimonial in December, 1896
touching the merits of Doan's Kidney, PMS,
and in the statement said that | had been
bothered with my back and kidneys for
over thirteen years, not constantly but
when 1 caught cold it generally settled in
my back, making it lame and sore. Often
the pain through the small of my back was
so severe as to make me cry out. | read
about Doan's Kidney Pills, and procured
some from e. W. Thompson & Co.'S, drug
store, on Main street. They helped my
back Immediately, and in a short time re-
lieved me of the trouble. have taken
Doan's Kidney Pills at intervals, during
the last five years, when felt an attack OF
backache coming on, and they always
brought instant relief. l am never without
them in the house."
Doan's Kidney Pills sold at all drug
stores: so cents. Foster-Milburr Co., Buff
falo, N. Y.
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No. 1S0.-COnceaIed Word Square.
l. The milkman's team has run away;
2. pint or so I'll take today.
3. The rector said,
4. "A Scotchman led
5. McDermot to the fray"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19
No. 193.-COnnected Hollow Dia-
mOnds.

|. II. III.
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-19

No. 104.-A Well known Saying.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15
Nuts for BOYS to Crack.

Here is a list of questions Tor
the wideawake boy. Can you an
swer all of them! You ran see
any day white horse, but did you
ever see white coltl How many
different kinds of trees grow in
your neighborhood and what are
they good forl Why does horse
eat grass backward and II cow for
wards Why does a hop vine wind
one way and bean vine the other!
Where should chimney he the
larger, ut the top OF bottom, and
whyl Can you tell why II horse,
when tethered with rope, always
unravels it, while cow always
twists it into kinky knot! How
old must u grapevine he before it
begins to bear. Can you tell why
leaves turn upside down just be-
fore rainl What wood will bear
the greatest weight before break
ing.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15
Let Us Have Meat.

The proposition to eat bananas
and other garden truck of various
kinds in order to play even with
the meat trust, is about as silly a
proposition as we have run across
in long time, says the Colorado
Springs Gazette.
The Great American citizen is II
meat eater, and therein lies his
strength.
The peasant of southern Europe
is in luck if he gets meat once a
week, and the result is in evidence
along the north coast of the Mel
itterranean in decadence from
Greece to Spain.
The roast beef of old England
won the victories of Waterloo and
Trafalgar, but the modern British
workman lives on pea soup, and
look at him.
The farther west you go in this
country the more meat the people
eat and the better they are. Pie
is the source of n Thousand ills.
fruit thins the blood, but in Colo
RADIO the average man has meat
three times day. and if he goes
to the restaurant for lunch in
the evening his likeliest order is n
ham sandwich.
That is one reason why Colorado
is great.
The meat eater lives more in a
month than the vegetarian does in
a year, aud, with the Colorado
climate to help him, he lives more
years.
When the trust gets between
the American citizen and his beef
steak, the thing that is going to
happen IL the trust. The propo-
sition to give up the steak to spite
the trust comes from the fruitful
brain of some vegetarian, whose
idea of Il square meal is limited to
nuttose, or protose, or something
of that sort.
The Montrose Cattle Growers
association has exposed the folly
of that proposition.
Instead of eating less meat, the
people of Colorado should eat
more of it; but they should make
certain that what they eat is made
in Colorado. and that the Colorado
ranchman gets fair sLare of the
price OF it.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15


Colorado leads all states of the
Union in the production of gold
aud silver, yet the agricultural
products of the state exceed the
mineral in value. The state is
richer in farm, live stock and or
'chard products than in mines,
whose names are known in all
pnlts Of the civilized world. The
success of agriculture in Colorado
is largely due tn irrigation and The
demand for farm products at the
mines. The diversified industries
add interest to II trip through the
state. and while the state probably
has moi more than 6OO.0Uu popu-
lation, it could sustain pnpuln-
tIon ten or twenty times as great.
The advantages are such that
many visitors become permanent
residents.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15


The postal authorities at Wash
ington, recognizing the inbility of
postmasters to mike mistakes in
getting letters in wrong boxes,
have fixed penalty of 5000 on
persons taking mail out the office
other than their own and not re-
turning il. The law is to have
people look at their mail before
taking ii out of the office, and if
they have mail other than their
own, they must return it at once.
This also includes newspapers.
The excuse that it is the postmas-
ter's fault ''cu,s no ice." If you
have been getting other people $
mail, better take warning or you
may get yourself in trouble
Exchange.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15

Here is what Brains says about
continuous and persistent adver-
tising; SThere is only one way
to advertise, and that is 10 hummer
your name, your location, your
business so constantly, so thor
oughly into the peoples heads that
if they walked in their sleep they
will constantly turn their steps to-
wards your store. The newspaper
is your friend in spite of your
criticism. 1t helps to build mp
the community that supports you.
When the day comes that the
newspapers are dead the people
are near the edge of the grave
with nobody to write the epitaph." ="
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15

Professor IL. w. Wiley, chief
chemist of the Agricultural De-
partment, urges everyone to eat
more cereals than they do, whether
they want to spite the beef trust
or not. He says they contain
more actual nourishmcnt than beef,
leaving out all question of price.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15

Maryland has new law which
prohibits the use of the American
flag or any representation of it for
advertising purposes. There are
similar laws in Massachusetts and
other states. 1t is law which
every state should adopt.
The Elbert County tribune., 1902-05-15

United States Consul Williams
at Singapore proposes recon-
struction of the political map OF
the world, through nm exchange
of the Philippines to Great Britain
for Newfoundland, the British
West Indies and the Bahamas.
Incidentally he would have France.
Holland and England surrender
Guiana to he made separate M
ton under our protection and
have England turn Honduras over
to Mexico. The Philippines would
be transferred to a power that
wants them, while the United States
would gam in power and prestige
by coniining itself to its own side
Of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.