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The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

If you see cat twitch the end Of its
tail when it sees young chickens, You
can bet your last dollar that 1t is a
chicken eater. 1t may not touch them
In your presence. but at night or when
the coast is clear it will lie in wait and
grab one or two and feast at your ex-
pense w
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The government now has 100000
acres of the public lands set aside as
forest reserves. This is all right, and
the area should be doubled. What is
all wrong is allowing the sheep herders
of the west the range Of these forest
reserves, for 1t is not possible for young
timber to grow and develop where the
sheep are allowed to run.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The high price which turkeys are
bringing this year will make everybody
want to raise them next year. At 50 a
bird they are very profitable crop.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

We have one or two inquiries about
speltz as crop. Like other crops, this
one has its place determined largely by
the question of latitude and rainfall.
We do not think that where wheat,
oats, barley, rye and corn can be sue
cessfully grown there is any place for
1t. 1t is especially fitted for the semi
arid sections of the west and north
west, where the rainfall averages from
ten to fifteen inches. 1t withstands
drought and the hot winds better than
any of our common cereals and pro-
duces a crop of equal feeding value
with oats.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The mineral products of the United
States loom up in large figures-gold,
$7S,000,000; silver, $31,O00,000; copper,
$S7, 900, 900; lead, $23,00O,O0O; zinc, $11,-
100000; abrasive and chemical mate
rials, $3SOO0,O00; clay products and ce-
ment, $239, 100000; coal, petroleum and
natural gas, $442, ,000,O O00-making a
grand total of $949,0O0,OO0.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

There are three things about the
north pole that have never been dis
covered where it is. what It "
and why ii Is,
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

We came across one bright man the
other day who had attached the power
furnished by bis windmill to his wife's
washing machine, and the scheme
worked SO nicely that she can hardly
wait for washing day to come around.
The dirtier the clothes are the better
she likes to run them through the ma
chine.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

For some years an effort has been
made to secure corn with small cob
and a consequently small shank where
it was attached to the stalk, thus max
ing the corn easy to husk by hand. The
introduction of the corn harvester
makes bad work with this kind of corn,
the ears being so easily knocked Off by
the operation of the machine. New
things always beget new troubles.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The claim is made that the soil Of
North Dakota is SO well adapted to the
production of fax that this crop may
be grown continuously on the same
land year after year. We are inclined
to doubt this story, for in every locality
where we have known fax to be grown
fax following fax has proved almost
invariably q failure.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The American tariff on agricultural
machinery, primarily supposed to pro-
mote the upbuilding of factories for
the production Of such machinery in
this country, is having exactly an op-
posite effect, so far as Canada is con-
cerned. A vast cereal producing terri
tory is being opened up in the Cana
dian northwest, creating an enormous
demand for all kinds of improved
American farm machinery. To hold
her own with us Canada imposes a
duty of 25 per cent on all machinery
imported from this country. and nu-
merous factories are now being built
in Canada by American capital to pro-
duce the machinery needed in that
country.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
FORTY ACRES ANr

FORTY ACRES AND SIX IN FAMILY.
A reader of these notes in central
Illinois wishes to know how his forty
acre farm may be operated SO as to
support family of six and pay Off a
small mortgage which there is upon it.
The land is level and good and located
within three and a half miles of a
thrifty town of 5000 people. 1t may
be said that any of the old methods of
farming could not be made to accom-
plish the result desired. Something
new must be tried, and 1t must be in
the line of an intensive and diversified
agriculture. There should be on this
farm six cows of the strictly dairy
type, capable of producing 325 pounds
Of butter each per year; there should be
not less than 300 hens, Plymouth Rocks
recommended; there should be small
silo with a capacity of seventy or
eighty tons; there should be two or
three brood sows well bred. The farm
should be divided into four fields of
ten acres each, the boundary lines be-
ing fruit trees of varieties suited to
that latitude. Ten acres should be
kept in pasture, twenty acres In field
crops, such as corn, potatoes, clover.
millet, sorghum, oats, peas and alfalfa
If it will grow. The remaining ten
acres will include the homestead, a
small fruit garden Of five acres devoted
to blackberries, raspberries, strawber-
ries, currants, and the remaining three
acres to be devoted to pieplant, aspara-
gus, celery, beans, onions, sweet corn
and other salable vegetables. This
family of six will find all the work
they want to do, and more, too, on this
small tract of land thus operated. Thus
conducted there will not be day in
the year when some product or other
Of this farm may not be taken to town
for sale, and if intelligently operated
upon the foregoing lines, proper atten-
ton being paid to the items of crop ro-
tation and continuous and heavy fer
tilization of the soil, we would almost
guarantee a good living for the family,
an early payment of the mortgage and
the steady building up Of comforta-
BILE bank account. This not only looks
good on paper, but it is essentially
good in practice.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

In the state of Ohio the crows have
learned the bad trick from their York
state brethren Of digging up the sprout-
ing corn. An Ohio farmer adopted the
novel method Of stretching twine on
poles at intervals across his field to pro-
tect his corn from the crows, the birds
for some reason being afraid to fly un-
der the strings.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The condition of winter wheat
throughout the winter wheat growing
section has seldom been as good as it
is at the present time.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
THE FARM SEPARATOR.

The farm separator, while unques.
tionably a most practical and useful
invention, is still raising the very mis-
chief with the established creamery in
terests of many parts Of the west. 1t
goes without saying that only by unit
ed and cooperative effort of all the
dairymen Of a given community can
the success of creamery be assured.
1t Is absolutely Indispensable that all
patrons OF such a creamery shall work
along the same methods and lines. No
creamery in existence let's too much
patronage. The larger the product the
less the cost of production. Hundreds
Of creameries work at disadvantage
in not being able to command sufficient
raw material to fully employ their
capacity. In most of the creamery sec
tions, after more or less tribulation,
the creamery separator plan, wb = in
wolves the hauling of the milk the
creamery, has become the estabA.,hed
rule, and under it a very large meas
ure Of success has been attained. Now
comes the farm separator, presenting
6OAIC duSdAtdScS OfCI tLG O1Q 6ySlGu1-
viz, greatly improved quality Of
skimmilk for use on the farm and a
material saving of expense in the mat
ter of hauling the mia to the cream
cry. 1t thus happens that many dairy
men are induced to try the farm sepa-
rator, with the result that the estab-
lished order Of things is broken up,
and the success of the creamery jeop-
ardized. With the advent of this farm
separator appear the representatives
of centrally located butter making es-
tablishments offering to buy this farm
separator cream to be shipped by rail
anywhere from 100 to 300 miles. Now
we have word to say right here. We
believe it to be wholly against the
best interests of the farmers to en-
courage any proposition which will de-
stroy their successful home co-opera-
tive enterprises and that until the time
comes when it may seem proper for all
to make at one time a change to the
new plan they should let the farm
separator alone where the creamery
separator plan is in use. An organiza-
tion in this matter simply means ruin
to the dairy interests.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

It having been demonstrated that one
cause of the failure Of alfalfa to do well
in many localities is the lack Of that
bacterial life in the soil necessary to
the plants development, we incline to
the opinion that it would be good pol
icy to put the alfalfa on land which
had previously grown clover, these two
plants being relatives in the legume
family.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

A few days since we Travelled through
section of the west where scores Of
men were busily engaged in digging
out and hauling to the barns the shocks
of corn which were half buried in snow.
Laying aside the waste connected with
this process and viewing it simply from
the standpoint of convenience, surely
the silo has very much to recommend it.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The canneries of the west are now
making their contracts for the crop of
sweet corn for 1908. The price being
paid is $5 per ton, which makes it
very profitable crop to grow. The yield
in extreme cases is as much as seven
tons per acre. To this should be added
one and half tons of choice fodder
and the further fact that the crop is in
no sense exhaustive of the soil.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

One of the biggest nuisances in the
country Is the man who hunts and
fishes for a living. Almost every COM
munity has one or more such parasites.
They are always lazy and no count
degenerate offshoot of pioneers who,
compelled to hunt and fish to get the
wherewithal to live, were always true
sportsmen and killed only to the line OF
supplying their needs. These latter
day pirates and poachers are always
game hogs, having little regard for open
or close seasons on game or the law in
general. The spear, dynamite, the trap
and the pump gun are their tools. No
sort of wild life, not even our song
birds or the red squirrel, is safe when
they start out, and they literally clean
out every vestige Of our CANT birds In
every civilized community.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

A friend writes us that he has an or
chard of Wealthy apple trees fifteen
years old and that they never bear any
fruit. Same old story-got fooled by
tree peddler and did not get Wealthy
at all, but instead some worthless seed
lings. We have never known this APP
pie to refuse to bear, and bear when
young at that, usually within five years
from planting, which fact makes 1t one
Of the best varieties Of apple we have
when its excellent quality and produc-
tiveness are also taken into account.
Lots of men get fooled just as our
friend has, and it is one Of the most ex.
asperating things connected with fruit
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

The question Of what is good
cheese is almost altogether a matter Of
personal taste. 1t is not SO with but
ter, for only one standard of excellence
in butter is used, but with cheese we
have those who like the new, livery
cheese, some like it with worms In it.
some so old that 1t is decrepit, some so
loud that nothing tastes SO good as
limburger and brown bread. So when
we say what good cheese should be
it only means the sort we like. For US
the best cheese is one of early October
make, cured from the hoop in cold
storage for a period Of eight or nine
months, rich, mild. mellow, without an
air hole in it--that's cheese.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23

growing. To one familiar with this va
riety it is easy to identify it even be-
fore it fruits, but not so with the anna
teur.
The Morris County chronicle., 1903-01-23
The Boy Giant Goes
: Skating on Thin Ice
,pyright, 1901, by Caroline wetherell


All Grim longed to learn how skate,
But Jack said: "With ice in this
Now, wait till
A pond to mind,
For you terrible weight"
But Grim did heed, he should.
He made himself big skates of wood
And the pond
The just beyond,
Ger which skinned the whole neiqhborhood
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11

the unfortunate person, but the disease
is in a mild form and it is hoped that
none of the rest of the family will
have it.
The base ball season promises to be
a lively one for Gallup. as there are
several clubs in the neighborhood, and
all are getting ready for business. The
briquette plant, round house, Gibson,
Clarkville, Fort Wingate and Gallup
will have good teams for the coming
season.
Ed. Compton was in town recently
and reports his oil well down about
$50 feet, and that water stands within
thirty feet of the surface. This proves
that plenty of water for %irrigating pur-
poses can easily be had in the vicinity
of Gallup. We understand that consid-
cradle boring will be done on oil lands
in this vicinity the coming season.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
SANTA F e.

From the New Mexican.
Francisco Mallen, Mexican consul at
Ell Paso, Texas, and a very agreeable
and well informed man, is visiting the
capital of New Mexico.
Mrs. Frances Seligman and son, Hon.
Arthur Seligman. arrived from Phila-
delphia. They were accompanied by
Mrs. Fannie Briton, of Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Arthur Seligman met them at
Las Vegas and returned with them.
Alejo Ortiz, a ranchman in the south
eastern portion of the county died Sun
day afternoon at La Canada de Ala
mos, a small settlement in that sec
ton. He was about 60 years of age and
leaves a large family. The remains
were brought to this city for inter
ment. The funeral took place from
the cathedral where mass vas cele-
brated. Interment was made in Rosa
rio cemetery.
Thomas C. Hall. of Hillsboro, who
has for the past ten years served the
county of Sierra as it's probate clerk,
and who justly enjoys the reputation
VI p'lhS IiS Deol county OLltldl III llt
territory, is visiting the capital. Mr..
Hall was here in 1881 and this is his
first visit since that time. He finds
his visit very interesting and enjoya-
BILE.
C. T. Brown, mining engineer, and
who is. the manager of the Mines De,
velopment association. owning and
working extensive mineral properties
near Fairview, Sierra county, is in the
city. He will leave tomorrow morning
for Denver and Joplin, Mo. Captain
A.. B. Fitch, manager of the Graphic
and Ida Hill mines at Kelly, Socorro
county. will meet him at Lamy and
will accompany him TO Denver and
the east, at which place ores from the
Graphic mines are now being treated,
Mr.. Brown being interested with Cap
tain Fitch therein.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
LAS VEGAS.

From the Optic.
Grip. neuralgia. rheumatism and bad
colds are prevalent.
Mrs. Chas. Jones is reported to be
quite sick at Beulah. she having TAX
en- down with the grip last week.
Elliott Barker killed another lion
out at Buelah day before yesterday.
This makes the third lion killed out
there within a week. the boys having
initiated the president in the most APP
proved fashion.
S. l.. Barker. wife and small chill
dren came down from their Beulah
home recently. Mr.. Barker had the
misfortune to chop his foot with an
u last week, and although the cut
seemed slight at the time, 1t became
inflamed and has caused him so much
pain that he came to the city to have
/, attended to.
Complaint is made that there is a
gang of school boys who delight in
insulting strangers on the streets,
throwing such epithets as tenderfoot
and sometimes tones and mud. They
may think the practice smart but a
sentence of a few days in the city Gala
loose would help their manners con
siderably.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11

Try The Citizen want columns.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
Danger of Colds and Grip.

The greatest danger from colds and
grip is their resulting in pneumonia.
If reasonable care is used. however,
and C~hamberlain's Cough Remedy
taken, all danger will be avoided.
Among the tens of thousands who have
used this remedy for these diseases we
have yet to learn OF a single case re
sulting in pneumonia, which shows
conclusively that it is a certain pre-
ventative of that dangerous disease.
1t will cure a cold or an attack of the
strip in less time than any other treat
ment. 1t is pleasant and safe to take.
For sale by all druggists.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
GALLUP.
From the Republican.

From the Republican.
Mrs. ALI Goodrich has returned from
Albuquerque.
Miss Lou Bolton, of Albuquerque,
is the guest of her sister. Mrs. L. l..
Henry.
Jake Tratnick is having the front of
his saloon building painted, which
greatly improves its appearance.
w. H. Burlaghe, deputy sheriff at
Clarkville. expects to make a trip
through southern Arizona soon.
One case Of diphtheria is reported
in town, Mrs. Virgilia MasoerO being
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11

Stopovers will be allowed in Cali
fornia via Santa Fe April l to June Is,
1907. l.. Myers, agent.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
From the Record.

From the Record.
The fire boys who sleep in the city
hall complain that the dances and par
ties given in that building interfere to
large extent with their slumbers.
j. NJ. Russell. the tailor. while out
duck hunting at Kroenig's lakes sprain-
ed his foot badly and was tarveling
with difficulty as a result.
Miss Ada Hall, waitress at the Cas-
taneda, who has been i'll with pneumo-
mia for some time past, has recovered
sufficiently to resume her duties at
that hostelry.
Gene Joquel is now carrying the six
days a week horseback mail from this
city to Los Alamos. whence it Is taken
by another carrier to Sapello and Ro-
ciada.
A citizen was overheard to remark
yesterday, and he evidently meant
what he said, that he would draw his
individual check for $500 and present
1t to DR.. E. l.. Epperson of the new
electric line, so soon as the new trucks
for the street cars arrive and the first
car makes a trip to the hot springs
and return.
In the suit in chancery of Geo. w.
Stoneroad, ct al, against VIM. p. Beck,
ct al, which Is an old litigation which
involves the Preston Beck grant near
Cabra Springs. A. A. Jones has been
appointed receiver for the purpose of
leasing and letting the lands and for
making improvements thereon, so as
to make the property of more value
than it is at present.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
Grip Remedies in Great Demand.

When colds and grip are prevalent
the quickest and surest remedies are in
geat demand. Mr.. Joseph ID. Williams,
of McDuff, Va, says that he was cured
of a very deep and lasting attack of la
grippe by using Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy after trying several other pre-
parations with no effect. For sale by
all druggists.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
So Sweet and Pleasing in Taste!

Mrs. c. Peterson, G25 Lake street.
Topeka, Kan, speaking of Billiards.
Horehound Syrup, says: 1T has never
failed to give entire satisfaction, and
of all cough remedies, it is my fav
orite, and | must confess to my many
friends that it will do, and has done
what is claimed for ito speedily
sure a cough or cold; and it is so sweet
and so pleasing in taste" 25c, soc and
S1.OO bottle at Cosmopolitan Pharmacy
B. Ruppe.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11
Couch Settled on Her lunus.

""My daughter had a terrible cough
which settled on her lungs" says N.
Jackson, of Danville, Ill. we tried a
great many remedies without relief,
until we gave her Foley's Honey and
Tar which cured her" Refuse substi.
tutes.-Alvarado Pharmacy.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11

The Santa re runs tourist cars daily
from Chicago, Kansas City to Los An
gels and San Francisco. Colonist tick
cts to California points will be honored
on such airs April l to June Is, 1903.
Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-11

A fine new organ was placed in the
chapel of o. w. Strong & Sons under
taking establishment. 1t came from
Hall & Learnard, the square music
dealers.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-09-15

supplemented il need be to car
~ the hogs always on full feed
by peanuts aud sweet potatoes
IN sections, adapted to their
growth, herd of thirty or forty
hogs can be grown and fattene d
every year, needing only a few
bushels OF corn TO harden the
meat just before killing. A
prime requisite for success, how
ever, is herd of we'll bred hogs.
Razorbacks will not fill the. bill.
Get Berkshires. Essex. Jersey or
Tanworths by preference for a
hot climate. White hogs are
good but better for cooler sec.
ton than the South.-Tri-Ssate
Farmer and Garduer.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-09-15
Public Sale.

50 head registered Berashires.
I viii Eel! to the bighes, bidder
50 head registered Berkshire
Hogs at Shreveport. La. Sept.
2ish, In O'Clock ~ NJ. only tops"
from my Herd will be consigned
to sale. Descriptive Catalogue
containing pedigrees ready for
sistribu'ion shortly: Address
). .. HoLIScswoRrH.
CorsuArTA LA.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-09-15
STRAWBERRY PLANTS.

We have an Immense lot of nice
yonng plants all from new beds true
To name also Raspberry plants and
June bud peach trees. Send for cata-
iognc.
JOHN LI6HTFOOT.
SHERMAN Hrs.sTESS.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1903-09-15
Raising Bacon Cheap.

oSACu tue question now ne
could raise 5000 pounds of pork
cneaply. TIE Southern Planter
tells him how to doit It saws:
We take it that you use the
word meat" ia the sense usual
ly understood in the South-that
IS, hog meat-and hence reply as
follows: Making pork or bacon
IN the South, If it is TO be done
properly and so as to compete in
the market with Western meat,
must be conducted on quite a
different system from that adop-
ted in the West. There the hog
i merely a machine used to con-
vert 10 10 20 cent corn in 20 mar
ketable product at a profit, aud
the more corn he can eat the
mote be Is appreciated. Here
we cannot afford to feed 20 TO IS
cent corn to make n lat TO sell at
from TO 5 cents \ pound. We
must make our hog meat in some
other way. SC that only the mini.
mum of corn shall be needed to
at it for home consumption or
the market. This nature has
proved that We may and can do
If we only properly second her
efforts. The hog in the South
must be = grazing animal aud
not corn eating machine: and
the duty of each farmer is to
provide such a succession of for
age crops as shall permit OF this
grazing being carried on
nearly the whole of the year. and
for the balance of the year TO be
supplemented with rot crops.
Ia this way hog meat can be
made at the minimum OF cost and
the consumption OF corn be re-
duced TO Only that small quanti-
ty required to harden the mea;
just before killing. This system
also admits of constant improve.
ments of the land by the growth
and grazing OF these crops; and
il il also healthier for the animals.
rendering immunity from hog
cholera almost certain il only
supplemented with pure well or
spring water. The crops re-
puired 10 carry out this idea are
COW peas, So beans, Canada peas,
vetches. sorghum, corn, arti-
chokes, sweet potatoes and tur-
nips. These should be so plant
ed in rotation as to come on in
succession 10 supply the need OF