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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
Small Shipper at Disadvantage.

The American Cultivator recently asked
a Boston commission merchant why it is
that even when dealing with commission
men of unquestioned business a. lily and
integrity, so many shipments are unsatisfac-
tory to producers He said that most OF
such cases were consignments from small
shippers, and the small shipper is always
at disadvantage in time of glut His
trade is worth less than that of the large
shipper, and his produce is less apt to be
packed we'll The commission merchant
will naturally make the strongest effort to
secure good prices for the shipper whose
business is worth the most to him, and the
well-packed goods are the easiest to sell.
The large shippers are also more apt than
small ones to ascertain the condition of the
market by telegraph or telephone before
Shipping. This candid statement is strong
argument in favor of cooperative organiza-
tons of fruit growers who, by organizing
secure the advantages of the large shipper.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
Consolidated Schools.

If Illinois country schools are to be as
good as the country schools in Ohio and
parts of Kansas, and some other progressive
states, it will be necessary to pass some law
as the one just now before the Illionis
senate, having passed the house of repre-
sentatives
The proposed law allows small districts,
upon the vote of the people interested, to
consolidate and have the benefits of one
large and up-to-date school instead of lot
of punv little ones, without teachers,
scholars, equipment or money enough to do
good work.
Where the consolidated school plan has
been tried it is giving great satisfaction
The children like it better, the parents
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15

like it better, the teachers can do better
work.
Therefore it is to be hoped that lllionis
readers of the Live Stock World, who feel
as we do about it, will lose no time in ask
ing their senators at Springfield to support
the measure. Then the people, after care
fully studying the plan, can vote for it in
their own districts or not as they see hit
The country people of Illinois certainly
ought to have as good chance as those in
Ohio or elsewhere. Chicago Livestock
World
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
Breed Good Horses.

On most farms there are some brood
mares. A few colts may be raised each
year, and the cost of raising these colts will
not be missed while they are growing into
horse age and horse service.
The difference between good horse and
a poor one is easily discernable and makes
an impression on everyone who sees them.
The good horse is a recommendation to the
farm the owner and the neighborhood. 1t
costs but little if any more to keep the good
than the poor one. A good, fine looking
horse instills some horse pride into even the
careless horseman he feels better, thinks
a little more of himself when driving good
horse, one that attracts the attention OF his
neighbors,
1t costs a little more to raise good horse
than a poor one, but this cost is in the start.
The breeding to good stations is the secret
of the whole matter, the after cost is as
much with the cheap, poor quality colt as
with the better bred one The common
mare NAV be bred to produce fine colt, one
that will develop into a large, valuable
horse The Importance, however, of keep
ING good mares on the farm should not be
regarded carelessly by the farmer There
is a great value in the quality and high
breeding of the mare. If the mare stock are
small and of no special breed, dispose OF them
to the best advantage possible, and get some
good, young mares of well bred parentage;
it pays to raise good quality of horse, and
the time has never been when good horses
did not pay as well as any other kind OF
stock There has been periods of depres-
sion in all lines of business, but to measure
a business properly its average for period
of years should be taken.
Breed better horses, breed the best your
circumstances and advantages will permit
of, and the brood mare on the farm will
pay good profit.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
THE RANCH.

ready closed will be of interest to the dairy
and creamery men of the country. The
butter is to be packed in tins of three
pounds each, and will be Theoretically sealed
The tins will then be wrapped in blue paper,
packed in sawdust thirty in box of special
make and iron bound The butter will un-
der refrigeration at all times and will be
sent in two train loads of ten cars each to
the Brooklyn navy yards.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
The Difference in Mixers.

Professor Otis of Kansas, in reviewing
dairying in that state, makes some sugges-
tons that hold true in every state. He says:
eve have 6I8,I82 cow machines, that
have, for their purpose, the conversion of
home grown feed into milk. Some consume
more feed than the value of the product
which they turn out. We found that over
ID per cent. of the scrub COWS purchased
by the Agricultural College run us in debt
to pay for their feed. Many other cows
scarcely pay for their feeding, and compare
lively few are yielding their owners any
profit.
eff comparison is made from another
point of view, it might be said that we have
a large number Of scrub COWS, consider
able number of high grades, and a much
smaller number of pure bloods. The two
comparisons are by no means synonymous.
the scrubs, and we have some very scrubby
amin among the pure blods."
In speaking of how cows should be kept
when not giving milk, he says:
"While milk COWS are dry they should
be kept in good condition, but not made
fat Their food should be cooling and lax
ative, but not stimulating. If they are ted
bran, roots, clover, hay, fodder, etc, make
a suitable variety. A cow should not be ted
heavy just before dropping her calf Heavy
carbonaceous food at that time is heating
and injurious"
1t is certainly true that many COWS are
injured, if not ruined by improperly feed
ing them during the dry period. Dairymen
should remember what Professor Otis says
on this subject, and take due notice and
govern themselves accordingly. 1t will be
better for them and better for the cows, if
they will do so.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15
Valuable Stable Manure.

An average ton of fresh stable manure
may be expected to contain about six
pounds of phosphoric acid and about ten
pounds each of nitrogen and potash if from
horses or about nine pounds each if from
cattle, says the Ohio experiment station.
These quantities may vary pound or two
either way, as influenced by the character of
feed When the manure is thrown into an
open yard it becomes subject to two sources
of considerable loss. Horse-manure when
thrown into heaps Immediately begins to
ferment, during which process its nitrogen
escapes in the form of ammonia-gas. If
the manure is spread over the yard and
trampled by stock, there may be less loss
of ammonia, but the rains will leach out
the more soluble, and therefore more val
liable portions of its phosphoric acid and
potash. Careful experiments made some
years ago by Director |. P. Roberts of the
Cornell University experiment station show
ed that horse-manure exposed in loose pile
during six months of summer weather lost
from forty-two to sixty-two per cent. of its
fertilizing constituents, and that cow ma
nure similarly exposed lost thirty per cent.
These experiments were limited to cheml-
cal analysis of the manure.
At the Ohio experiment station this prob
lem has been taken up at this point and
experiments are being made to test the
relative value of cattle-manure as taken
from the barnyard in the spring, after an
experience of only three or four months
of teaching during the winter weather, as
compared with manure taken from box
stalls, where it has been trampled under
foot as made. These experiments were be-
gun five years ago. The average results to
date show that each ton of yard manure has
produced increase of crop to the value of
one dollar and sixty-four cents, and each
ton of stall manure to the value Of two
dollars and thirty cents, so that not only
has there been large loss in the total guam
tity of manure which was thrown into the
barnyard, but there has been a further loss
and one not shown by the chemical
analyss-in its fertilzing value, the more
soluble, and therefore the more valuable,
part of the constituents of the manure being
the first to be leached away.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-05-15

The Continental Creamery company OF
Topeka, Kan, has again secured the con-
tract for supplying the United States navy
with butter Last year the company sup
Piled 100000 pounds to the navy. Last week
it concluded contract for 100000 pounds
at 2S cents a pound to be to the Brooklyn
navy yard The contract must be filled by
Tuly Is, during which time, of course, the
company will have to keep up its regular
trade Another big batch of butter will
be required for the naval yards at San Fran
cisco, the contract for which will soon be
let. The specifications of the contract al
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
PRAISES GEN. WOOD.
Secretary Root Reviews His Military
Record and Gives Reasons for Nom-
ination TO BE Major General.

Washington, Dec. 22-The letter OF
Secretary Root to Senator Proctor, act
ing chairman of the committee on mill
tary affairs, dated November IS last,
giving a resume of the military record
Of Gen Leonard Wood and stating the
chief considerations which led to his
nomination as a major general has
been made public. After quoting from
remarks commcndatory to Gen. Wood
made by Gems. Miles, Lawton, Graham
and Forsythe. the letter recites that
upon these and similar evidences OF
fitness President Mckinley appointed
Capt. Wood colonel OF the First Vol
untee- cavalry in May, 1898. The sec
rotary also quotes from the common
dations Of Gems. Young, Wheeler, Sum
ner and Shafter on Gen. Woods con-
duct In the Santiago campaign.
The secretary adds: Upon review
Of Gen. Woods entire military record
| think It fair to say that no officer OF
the American army below the grade
of major general has held more i'm
portant commands, rendered more dis
tingushed service, or demonstrated to
higher degree the possession Of the
qualities which fit a man TO render val
liable services to the country as ma
Tor general"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
CONGRESS ADJ0URNS.
Both Branches of the National AS
sembIy Take n Holiday Recess
untiI January 4.

Washington, Dec. 17.-By the decisive
vote of 81 to 18 the senate yesterday
passed the bill carrying into effect the
reciprocity treaty with Cuba The
treaty provides for a reduction of ~
per cent. from the rates Of duty under
the Dingley law on all Cuban articles
imported into the United States, and a
varying reduction Of from 20 to 40 per
cent. from the established Cuban duty
on articles imported into Cuba from the
United States After the passage OF the
Cuban treaty the senate agreed to the
house resolution providing for holi-
day recess from December 10 to Janu-
ary4
Washington, Dec. Glowing to an err
ror, the house on Saturday vacated Its
action in the post office matter and
passed instead n resolution requesting
the postmaster general to transmit 70
the house all papers and evidence touch
Ing alleged frauds In that department
The house at 1890 p. m. adjourned I'M
I'll January 4, 1904.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
TIN DISCOVERED IN ALASKA.
Rich Deposits Reported to Have Been
Located on the Coast Near
Teller.

Nome Is excited over the discovery OF
valuable tin deposits In the Lost River
md Cape Prince Of Wales districts.
Force is given to the reports by the con-
irmation from Arthur j. Collier, of the
United States geological survey, who re-
Gently arrived from the north Well
defined deposits of this metal have been
found about AZ miles up the coast from
Teller. The discovery was made by two
prospectors named Randi and Grim.
Eight claims were staked on Cassarite
creek, a tributary of Lost River.
The groupings are said to carry 4
much larger percentage OF metal than Is
found in the famous tin mines OF Corn
wall. England. The ore also contains
copper to considerable extent. Tho
discovery is looked upon as one of the
greatest mineral finds OF the year. At
Cape Prince OF Wales further strike Of
In Is reported, and this Ia said to be one
OF the richest deposits In the world.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
REWARDED FOR KINDNESS.
Wealth To Woman for Dcfriending
Him In His Declining Years.

When Macmillan Hershell was told
by the surgeons at New York city
hospital sometime ago that he had only
a few hours to live he called to his bed
side the one woman who befriended
him in his declining years and deliver
ed to her key. That woman was Mrs
William George, who at that time was
living in a modest little cottage at
Fordham Heights with her husband
and four children. you have been
like a daughter to me all these years."
said the dying man.
"You have always made life easy for
me and have cared for me when others
would not Now want to recompense
you for your trouble. Take this key
1t will open the safety deposit box
where all that | possess Is kept You
will find enough to keep you and those
you love in comfort" Almost with his
last breath the old man called the doc
tors and nurses to witness that he gave
the key willingly When the safety
deposit box was opened recently it was
found to contain 100000 In bonds,
mortgages and other securities.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
AN AWFUL DEED.
Roscoe Derby kiIIu His wife, Three
Children md Himself mt Their
Home In Cleveland.

Cleveland O., Dec. 2l.-Roscoe w
Derby. machinist, and about As years
old, extermlnated his family early yes.
terday by shooting his wife, his three
children and himself. The crime Is be.
lieyed TO have been due TO dependency
over the impoverished condition of the
family purse and the near approach OF
Christmas. The crimes were extraordi-
nary In their thorOughness and there
was. evidently, no mishap In their enact.
ment. The wife was killed first while
sleeping at her husbands side in bed ;
two of the children were killed rs they
ran hither and thither through the room
In the darkness of early morning en-
deayoring 10 escape their merclless par
ent. The third child was killed In It's
bed after its elder brother and sister had
been killed
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
The News Condensed.

The Wisconsin Development associa'
ton has been disorganized at Marshfeid
through lack OF cooperation by real
estate and land companies throughout
the state.
Fire at Prentice destroyed the opera
house, Nelson's saloon, the jail and
a barn. The lower floor of the opera
house was used for the village council
room. public reading room and library
and the Calumet printing office.
Marquis ID. Moore, a pioneer lumber
man, died In Fond du Lac as the result
of a stroke of apopleXy, aged rs years.
Robert Jones, of Watertown, has re-
ceiyed the appointment OF special In
tornal revenue agent, with headquar-
tiers at Milwaukee He has been assigned
TO work In Iowa. Minnesota, Wisconsin
and the Michigan peninsula.
Miss Susie Mullen, of Racine, until
recently employed at shoe factory, will
enter a convent at Sinsinawa Mound.
Gov. La Toilette has refused to par
don Joseph G. Baker, of Stoughton, who
was convicted and sentenced to 3la years
in the state. prison for highway robbery
last year.
The organization OF building and loan
association In Menominee Is assured
The object Is to supply houses for those
who wish TO move TO Menominee to edu-
cate their children. The erection Of q
$4,000 dormitory is also projected
Fred Lichtenteller, who escaped from
the Green Bay reformatory four months
ago, has been captured at Kenosha.
During the last few weeks 40 head of
fine cattle suffering with tuberculosis
near JancsylIe have been ordered
Killed and their bodies buried.
Mrs. Margaret Miller, aged sc, Of Ra-
cine. fell downstairs and sustained in
1urles that will cripple her for the re-
mainder of her life. She weighs over 20C
pounds
X, II. Bulls hotel and William Down
ing's general store and stock OF goods al
DeIteryille were burned, the entire loss
being 81 500.
Herring fishing In the Apostle islands
has closed, the schools which have been
running near the islands having dis
appeared. The catch has been large
George G. Sherman. Immigration
agent OF the Homestead Land company
Of Appleton. has returned from Norway
and Sweden, where he has organized
colonies Of several hundred scundina.
Wan families, who will come over mex,
spring TO locate on lands OF the company
In northern Wisconsin.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
PAPERMAKING IN CANADA.
Dominion Contains Great Facilities
for Manufacture of Wood Pulp
Her Extensive Spruce Forests.

In Canada the subject of water power
with various industries, says the London
Telegraph. One of these is the manu-
facture of paper from wood pulp. The
dominion contains more spruce, the best
wood for this purpose, than all the rest
of the world put together, and possesses
at the same time vastly more unused
water power.
According to the Dominion statistician,
the spruce forests cover $50 900 900 acres,
or about 1000 square miles-roughly.
eight times the area of Great Britain.
Year by year the exports of wood and of
wood pulp for the making of paper are
rising and now the Canadian protection
lists are putting forward the demand that
they should not export the pulp but the
paper; not the raw material but the
manufactured article, for the production
of which their immense water power
gives them enormous advantages. 1t
seems not improbable that ere long a
heavy export duty will be levied on wood
pulp and that Canada will become great
exporter of paper. She holds the ener-
getic position and can also make her own
terms 1t Is said that nine times as
much labor would be required to manu-
facture paper as is needed simply to ex-
port the wood. So far as the United
States is concerned Canada is becoming
more and more the one available source
of supply and for the New York newspa-
pers alone a clearance of 10000 acres
Of forest is necessary every year.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

To keep a rubber plant in condition 1t
must have plenty of earth, plenty OF
water and shower bath once a week.
When it has dried. after this bath, wipe
the leaves and sponge them with milk;
this treatment acts as food, as well as
making them rich and glossy. A rubber
plant should have plenty OF light, but
no direct sunshine. and care should be
taken to prevent the water from stand
ing in the pot; keep the ground moist,
but do not soak the roots with standing
water
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

Trenton, N. j., Dec 22-James M
Edge, the bank teller who embczzled
about $4,000 Of the funds of the
First national bank. OF Paterson. N
J.. was Monday sentenced by Judge
Kirkpatrick in the United States dis
trlct court TO an imprisonment of
seven years in the Essex county peni-
Tertiary Edge last week pleaded
guilty The embezzlement occurred "A
year ago and Edge was arrested at
Memphg. Tenn, a few weeks ago.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
Must Quit the order.

Springfield, o., Dee. 22-Grand Mas
ter Charles &. Pavey, Of the Ohio grand
lodge Of the Independent order Of odd
Fellows, has Issued a circular 10 the ef-
feet that on January 10, 1904, all saloon
keepers, bartenders or professional
gamblers shall either quit the order or
those occupations. in the event OF re-
fusal TO cease such callingS they viii be
tried and expelled.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

In order to secure a complete rec
ord of each patent case from the be-
ginning the commissioner of patents
has directed that when the full first
name of the applicant does not appear
either in his signature of in the pre-
ambe to the specification, the exam
liner will. in his first official letter. re-
quire an amendment supplying the
omission, and he will not pass the
application " issue until the omission
has been supplied, unless an affidavit
shall have been filed setting forth that
the full first name Of the applicant Is
the one originally given by him.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

The pathetic ending of a lifelong COM
radeship was brought about in the town
Of Somers by the death of Miss Phoebe
Bishop, aged 81 years, one Of the best
known residents of the village. week
previous a sister, Miss Victoria Bishop
was buried. She was 60 years old The
two spinsters had lived alone together
for the last 40 years, and the survivor
died from pneumonia, contracted while
standing at her sisters grave. She was
buried by the side of her sister.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
Emil Teitgen's


Charles Dumas, who has been hon
ored by the Society OF Men of Letters
of Paris with the Sully-Proudhomme
prize, which is equivalent to being made
poet laureate Of France, Is an exceed
ingly young man, just out of his teens.
His political works have the fire of
genius and he seems to be possessed OF
more than the average mental balance
for poet. He is the rising poetical
star, and his recognition by so impor-
tant a critical body as the society OF
which Marcel Provost is president Is as
great compliment as the bestoWal OF
the laureate wreath.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24
Stx Asphyxtatcb.

San Francisco. Dec. 2l.-Six persons
were asphyxiated by Illuminating gas
and the coroner concluded that the cases
were all accidental. In most instances
window was open In each room IN
which the gas was escaping, and the cor
oner called attention to the fact that II
is popularity supposed fatal result can.
not ensue whore fresh air also has an
entrance
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

DR.. William Osler, who is among the
leading physicians in the country, ar
rived in Milwaukee from Baltimore to
attend a consultation of the physicians
of Capt. Fred Pabst. While the captains
condition was not considered desperate,
yet his family would not be satisfied I'M
til they had consulted the highest au-
thority In the country. DR.. Osler had a
consultation with the other physicians,
saw the patient for about five minutes,
pocketed a fee Of $4,000 and returned
home.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

Chicago. Dec. 22.--Alderman John J
Brennan. Of the Eighteenth ward. has
been sentenced 10 one year In the house
Of correction by Judge Cary Charles
McCarle was sentenced TO six months
in the house Of correction Herbert Il
Kent was sentenced 10 three months In
the house OF correction. All were sen
fenced for completely in the Eighteenth
ward judicial election frauds.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

Washington, Dee 22-The secre-
tary OF the treasury gives notice that
the refunding Of United States three
per cent bonds, loan of l90S-l9l8
and four per cent bonds, funded loan
OF 1907, now proceeding under the cir
cular Of September g. viii be discon-
tinued after December 81 Bonds that
are intended for refunding must be
forwarded 50 as to be received at the
treasury department not later than
December 81
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-12-24

George Il. Hoskinson, of Grand
Rapids, died at his home from an attack
Of neuralgia of the heart, at the age OF
G7 years. Mr.. Hoskinson was pioneer
in the affairs Of Wisconsin, having
moved to the state from Akron, o., In
1856 In 8G3 he settled in Green Bay and
from that time until 1876 he published
the Green Bay State Advocate. IN 1876
he was appointed consul to Jamaica by
President Grant. This post he held I'M
Til 1886.