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Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-23
CliDDed Oats.

In reply to an inquiry c. B. Lane of
the New Jersey experiment station says
that so called clipped oats" on the
market are oats, originally of light
weight, which have been passed
through a machine that clips off the
tips, thus increasing the weight per
bushel. The process is not a new one.
but the proportion Of clipped oats on
the market has considerably increased
during the past few years. AS the
price of oats is largely determined by
the weight per bushel, the process pays
we'll. Oats that are Of good color, but
Of light weight. may. be increased in
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-23
EEPASS
HU5B4NDRY VI

While lamb feeding in Colorado has
been heavily cut down for the present
on account Of abnormal conditions, the
industry Is by no means permanently
injured. and with good prices the com.
Ing spring we will see general return
to the business. There are plenty Of
stock sheep being held throughout the
state. and the farmers and breeders
will not allow a shortage Of a crop for
a single year to affect them for any
length of time. Practically most Of
the feeders who usually handle several
thousand Mexican sheep every winter
have quit the game. and as a result
barely 25 per cent of last years num-
Der Of fed sheep are being fitted for
market this season. The shortage of
alfalfa has been the chief factor that
brought about this state of affairs, but
the recent low prices paid at the mar
kets have accumulated it to no little de.
gree. One prominent feeder recently
said that were he guaranteed IS for his
lambs and could get his feeding stock
at 81 a head he could not afford to
feed. This is exaggerating the condi-
don little perhaps. but serves to dem
onstrate why feeders have discontinued
operations this winter.-Denver Field
and Farm.
sheep on the Farm.
A small flock Of sheep can be proflta-
bly, kept on any farm where sheep
killing dogs do not too much abound.
Where few. just as where there are
many kept. they should be Of some rec
ognized breed whose proclivity is for
fine wool or fine mutton, or for both
wool and mutton. as the farmer may
choose. The dual purpose sheep will
generally prove the most satisfactory.
and there are such that will yield a
heavy fleece Of good wool and leave a
carcass that will make from IS to 100
pounds of excellent mutton, which
when properly, butchered ought to
bring from Sc to So. There is no live
stock, except goats, that can be grown
at SO little cost as sheep, and there is
no animal that exerts so good an in
duence on the farm as destroyers of
weeds and fertilizers of the soil.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-23

ley & Sons of Aroostook county. Me-,
and the past year won first at Bangor
and at Presque Isle fairs.-American
Agriculturist.
Cattle In the South.
The older states of the south are
turning their attention to cattle. Loui-
siana and Mississippi stock farmers
have found that there is money in we'll
bred cattle, and they are Kidding them
selves of scrubs and getting herds of
good stock. With alfalfa and other for
age crops they find it as easy and cheap
to raise a good beef as a thin flank
fence jumper.-Fort Worth Daily Live
Stock Reporter.
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A welcome bit Of news is that the
British government Is now prepared to
60 ahead with its scheme of exporting
100000 head Of heifers from Texas and
the southwest generally to South At
RIGA. 1t will be remembered, says
Breeders Gazette, that when the Boer
rebellion came to an end the British
government stated that it would sup
ply the stock wherewith to rehabilitate
the stock growing industry Of all South
Africa, the Beers to have good young
cows to go on with. Agents were dis.
patched to the American southwest to
look the situation over, with power to
act as they saw fit, but with instruc
tons that all contracts entered into
should be subject to experimentation.
Thereupon some 500 grade Hereford
and Shorthorn heifers were bought in
Texas at figure which seemed high at
the time, it being almost equal to what
steers of the age would have realized
All these heifers were in calf to regis
tered bulls of the breed Of which they
were grades. The 500 in calf heifers
were shipped from New Orleans to
Durham and by degrees driven up coun.
try. Then sight was here lost of them
for months. Now comes the news that
the rest of the contract is to be filed
at once and that the cattle are not only
actually being shipped from Texas
points to New Orleans. but that the
British agents say there is no saying
how many more may be taken up to
100000 or 10000 head. The heifers,
mostly two-year-olds carrying first
calves, stood the journey to South At
RIGA we'll, had their calves in good
shape and when the fat and lusty
youngsters began to career around the
authorities thought they were good
enough; hence they ordered the contract
completed. 1t is good purchase if the
Texas herd masters can reasonably
supply 100000 high grade heifers with
out scrimping themselves. The price
allowed is IS head.
Hornless Feeders.
For number of years feeders have
been paying premium of about 10
cents per hundredweight for dehorned
steers because they did that much bet
ter in the feed lot. This year feeder
buyers are making greater difference
than ever between horned and hornless
cattle. In Omaha, which is at this sea-
son the greatest feeder market, they
are paying fully 25 cents per hundred
weight more for dehorned steers than
for others Of the same quality. The
horned steer has about had his day in
the feed lot of the skillful feeder, says
National Stockman. Naturally polled
or dehorned cattle are wanted. Some
feeders prefer one kind and some the
other, but none of them wants horns.
Prize Winning Hereford Bull.
This bull, Percy 7O,397). is five years
old and weighs 2,1OO pounds in good
condition. He is owned by D. H. Ting
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-23
Ancient.

Robson found Smith engaged in Wig.
orously polishing his shoes. what are
you doing that for?" he asked. 81 al
ways thought you wore patent leath.
err"
'These used to be patent leather" re-
piled Smith, painfully bringing his spi-
nal column into it's normal position,
"but the patent on them has expired"
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-23

and to soft heseco umns
/, Ranchers. Cattle

weight several pounds per bushel by
clipping. They can thus he placed in a
higher class in the trade and command
a better price. 1t is estimated that one
third Of the oats used in New Jersey
are clipped. =,
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1mpending Trouble.

Customer-What's the matter with
that cook anyhow?
Waiter (bawling)-Aw, cook, 'ere's a
guy inquiring after that black eye yer
wife gave yer last night! - Chicago
News.
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who wishes to get rid Of it. It is a good
grass for pasture and hay. but it is
hard to get out Of the ground If you
want to use the field for some other
crop.
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24

oiiOt ~
he can lick you. I thought I'd keep
Cole guessing awhile. At least, he
would stay on his own side of the
fence
"Well, things ran along for some
time. Then Jim Stafford came up
from Boston to stay over Sunday with
me. Jim is quite a sport, you know.
When Jim understood just how Alger-
non and I were fixed, and after he
had been kept awake one night by
that rooster's colloquy, starting at
1870 a, NJ, he offered a suggestion.
"I'll send down to the city, said
he, and have them send up my yel-
low-legged, high-station, red-topped
game cock and We'll see whether that
old bald-headed bunch of gristle and
stub feathers is going to run the COM
munity here. You just wait till Fifty
gets here. He won't leave enough of
Thomas to make one plate of thin
chicken SOUP
Therefore, Fifty came up from
Boston, his head stuck up through
the bars of a crate and very evident
ly looking for trouble. Jim put him
into training right away
ION the second day after we had
seen Thomas walk up and down his
side of the fence a few times and
sass Algernon with his regular morn
ing batch of abuse, we rufled Fitzy's
head feathers and let him out. Fitzy
started right for the fence. He had
been listening to Thomas, and it was
apparent that some of the remarks
he had heard made him fussy. Cole
was sitting over side of his barn rel
ishing the conversation that Thomas
was letting out Of him.
"Fitzy certainly didn't waste any
time. He lodged under the fence,
stuck his leg out, ran his wing down
over it and then let out a yawk that
you could hear for a mile. Then
he and Thomas stood and looked at
each other. Thomas was some as
tonished. But Fitzy was good deal
more so. He stood and fairly gawped
at that bare breast and those stubby
tail feathers. Then he said some
thing like 'Ohell, I thought you were
something's and turned around dis
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
The Obedient Microbe.


OF course, you know all about mi.
2robes, or think you do, and are tired
OF hearing about them. You know, at
least, that they are very small organ
lsms, or tiny things, that are found
in great number and variety in pretty
much everything we eat and drink,
and the air we breathe, and are for
ever giving us all kinds of diseases.
Or all the countless microbes known
TO science, I don't believe there is one
that looks in the least like the mon
ster here depicted, and I am quite
sure that none of them is as big as
the hundredth part of this one.
He is made of tinfoil and is so big
because we couldn't have any fun
with him if he were too small to see
and handle. He hangs by very fine
thread from piece of goose-quill
about two inches long. The ends of
the quill are closed with wax and a
hole is made with pin in the wax at
the lower end. Put the whole combin-
alton in basin of water. If it Just
floats with the top of the quill peeping
above the surface. it is all right. If i
sinks, the microbe is too heavy for
the quill and you must either reduce
his proportions or use larger quill
On the other hand, if the quill stands
high out of water you must make the
microbe heavier.
Now fill bottle with water to the
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
letters when sorted out and put Ill
their proper positions will form a
well-known proverb
A Cricket Fight.

A Cricket Fight.
The Chinese love of gambling finds
vent in many strange ways, one Of the
most curious being combats between
crickets, on which large sums of
money are staked and won or lost.
Before entering them for fight their
owners make the crickets undergo a
regular training. When caught they
are placed in a bamboo cage and fed
with rice and green stuff. After few
days they are taught to fight by meas.
uring their strength with veteran.
After number of trials the cham
pions are selected for their appear
ance in public, and the betting begins.
The combatants are placed facing
each other, and their trainers tickle
their heads with straw until their
anger is thoroughly aroused, when
they make dash at one another.
The victory is decided in the first
round, the vanquished cricket, if still
alive, crawling away quite detected,
while the victor struts about and cele-
brates his triumph by chirruping.-
The Graphic.
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24

dainfully and started to walk away.
But Thomas was pretty mad. He
stuck his neck out and came for
Fitzy On the dead run. Fitzy turned
and bristled his back feathers and
the two stood there solid minute.
'Cole took his pipe out of his
month and hollered, Eat him up,
Thomas Jefferson. What's the matter
with you anyhow
''Thomas stopped, and when he did
Fitzy cut in at him. He nipped a
chunk out of Thomas's breast and the
blood followed. Then Fitzy flew up
and shufled and gave Thomas a dig
in the ribs that made him squawk.
"Cole stood up then. He began to
get interested. Col durn your pelt,
Thomas he yelped, what did We et
him pink ye for? Even a hawk hain't
been able to do that for this three
year,
Thomas Strengthened up and
cooked his head over to one side and
took a good long look at Fitzy. He
was interested. Fitzy was certainly
slick to look at. He had long, smooth
legs and polished spurs and every
feather lay as though it yere oiled
down. Then Thomas, after prolonged
scrutiny, canted his head the other
way and took another look. Then he
crowed.
"We never knew what he said to
Fitzy, but it must have been some
thing awful bad. Anyway, Fifty made
running jump his way and went in
to the air. He shot out his feet in
front of him and brought those spurs
together like the click of steel trap.
But Thomas wasn't where any well
regulated rooster would be if he were
| fighting fair. Any other rooster would
have been in the air shuffling, too.
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
STATUS OF THE ROOSTER
Farmer Wants Court Define the Limits of Their
Liberty-Peace of Rural Neishbortood at Stake

were beng ruined just as fast as they
could be.
And there I was! I got to swear
ing SO much every night that my wife
went around looking as mournful as
the hens. And we were both broken
OF our rest so much that we couldn't
DO justice to the work in the day
time
II arranged for an interview with
Cole across the fence. I told him all
about it. He said that I'd get used to
his rooster in time. Said that for
the first year or so the rooster kept
him awake, but that now the growing
was a regular lullaby that kept him
asleep. l offered to buy the rooster.
"'What! Me sell Thomas Jeffer-
son?' he cried. (Cole is a Democrat.)
Wal, l guess not muchy! S'pose I
want to have hat my chickens stole
by hawks? S'pose L want to have
other roosters leadin' hens in to claw
up my garding sass and runnin' riot?
Wal, l guess not. Fightin' hawks and
trespassin' roosters is what has
cleaned off Thomas Jefferson's feath-
ers and reduced him to his present
state of fussiness. And do you
reckin that now after all these years
I'm goin' to let him be took to the
chopin block? If thought ye reely
had as mean an impression of me as
that I'd swat ye once, ye stuck up
city, knittin' work farmer!'
"Of course, there was an excellent
chance to have a scrap with Cole.
He wanted to fight. He shifted end
with his hoe handle and waited for
me to come on. But I concluded that
I'd get up little more muscle and
find out bit more about Coles abili.
ty as slugger. It's bad idea to let
your neighbor find out for sure that
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
How The Birds Dress,

AS bird fashions do not change, the
lady birds of to-day wear the same
kind of dresses their grandmothers
wore and are not troubled about
styles.
Two suits year are quite enough
for most birds, but they need to take
great care Of them.
Each separate feather must be
cleaned and looked over and the use
less ones pulled out.
You have seen a canary preening
his feathers by lifting them and
smoothing them out with his bill, and
you may have thought him vain to do
this so often.
But necessity and not vanity is the
cause of his frequent dressings.
Ii you neglect to comb your hair
it will become tangled and look un.
tidy, but more serious things happen
TO a bird who does not comb his feath,
ers.
These feathers are not packed close
together, you know, but lie loose and
have places between filled with air.
When a bird wants to get warmer
he lifts his feathers so that these air
spaces may be larger, but if his feath.
ers are tangled or wet and dirty he
could not raise them and soon he
could not keep the heat in his little
body anu would die of course.
Perhaps you have noticed sparrows
or other birds in the winter time. They
always look larger, but they have only
fluffed out their feathers because the
weather is cold.
Mr.. Canary does the same thing
when he goes to bed at night A water
bird has to be even more particular
about his clothes, for if he should get
them wet he would die of cold.
It seems odd, does it not, that he
can go in the water and not get wet
1t is a fact, though, and it is only
because he oils his feathers. All
water birds have an oil can or an oil
gland, as it is called, located down
among his tail feathers, and after he
has smoothed himself carefully he
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
J i'm,

JlNs
FIVE years old-a frail little lad
VINO o can't quite fathom the worlds big
Ihoughtful eyes that seek those Of his
For half Of his tiny joys;
On the piping voice and the busy gait
And the intinitesimal hand Of him,
A!!u trust in me unShaken and great,
ana love prOfound-that's Jim.
"hen ne clings to my finger and forth
Hc talks to me frankly and comrade-
With lore more perfect than aught !
know,
And wondrous light in his eyes,
or When he fares forth to his bed at
night,
And family calls from his chamber dim,
l lie world seems filled with a sweet de-
And I think, THANK God for Jim."
TherG ar are cares to face and battles to
And serious looks ahead to take:
Troubled and wide awake.
BUT mostly l m eager of mind and feet
Cheerful of heart and steady of limb:
And l scorn the freedom I once deemed
sweet
Ereedon? Why, I've got Jim.
Louis Dodge.
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
Do You Know

That if you stroke black cat in the
dark, sparks will fly out of it's fur?
That the sea is blue in the deepest
part, because of the reflection of the
light which is blue, but it is a greenish
yellow in the shallow parts because
of the sand and seaweed which show
through the water?
That horses have no eyebrows and
fish have no eyelids?
That snakes can go for months and
months without food, and that huge
snake which recently died in the Zoo
in Paris had not eaten anything for
nearly two years and a half?
That camels are said to be the only
animals that cannot swim?
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24

"Grabbed Him by the Neck"
But Jim didn't want the remains. He
walked away, and I after him.
"I didn't engage to fight bald
headed eagles said he, not the kind
that sit on their tail feathers and
play butcher. I'm going home And
home he went.
*'That's the way the thing stands.
concluded Jefferson. *tI'm down here
to find out what the law is on a
rooster's Growing nights and spelling
my temper and breaking up my wife's
health and running my morals and
keeping my hens so stirred up that
they haven't got strength to scratch
day times. I think it's public nuis-
ance and I'm going into law and es-
tablish a precedent"
It is clear, therefore, that the fall
term Of court in at least one county
is going to be considerably enlivened.
Boston Journal.
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
Obeyinq Orders.

the quill. being as light as at first,
floats up with it's burden. The spec
tators, if at a. little distance, will not
notice the transparent quill or the
thread, especially if the bottle is a
colored one, though they will see the
bright tinfoil plainly. Nor need you
let them see that you are pressing the
cork down or working it up, so that
you can puzzle them nicely with the
motions of your trained microbe, -
which apparently rises and sinks at
the word Of command.-Boston Her.
aid.
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
Hobson's Choice,

Burn cork at one end and keep it
clean the other. You are then to be
blindfolded, and the cork is to be held
horizontally to you. You are then to
be asked three times which end you
will have. If you say fright" then
that end Of the cork must be passed
along your forehead. The cork must
then be turned several times, and
whichever end you say must next be
passed down your nose and the third
time across your cheeks or chin. You
are then to be allowed to see the sue
cess of your choice.
This will afford q good deal Of fun
and should be played fairly, to give
the person who owns the. forfeit q
chance to escape. =. ,@@ &>,~
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24

farm in Vermont and went up there
with his wife,
I looked him over with bit of in
terest as I unfolded my napkin. His
rose was peeling. He said he had
shed about fifteen coats of skin al
ready.
But he didn't seem to be down to
the end Of the wrappings.
The back Of his neck was the color
of dark russet shoe and he had
allowed the hair to grow on it. I can
rem ember when Jellison had his
hands manicured once a week. He
caught me looking at the CRIME on
them and asked with some impatience
if I thought that farming had any
relation to knitting lace edging.
"The country is all right" said he,
"but some Of the people that live
there are cussed narrow. That's the
trouble in this case. They need to be
walked up to the rights OF others.
That's what has brought me down
here to-day. I am here to see a law
yer. am going to fight a test case.
Its this way: The nearest neigh
Dor l have is man named Randall
Cole. I have not got time to go into
Coles character. But he's bow-legged
IN mind and body-warped as a
tophet. And he owns an old yaller
rooster that looks just like him even
to the red whiskers under the chin.
Blamdest looking rooster that YOU
ever did see. He has lost every feath-
er off his breast-picked clean as a
whistle. And for tail feathers he has
got <'nly few bristly spills that look
like distant view of derrick yard.
And he has got a crow on him that
is rC .gher than his tail-ratch
"rhe first night we slept in the
house On our farm l had got we'll
aslecp when I thought l heard come
o~e hc!lori2g Fire After awhile I
got hal awake and staggered over to
the window. Coles henpen Is right up
close to ny line fence. That old yal-
Ter rooster had his head stuck out of
the little window and was hooting,
"Ur-r-r, rick-ur-r-r-r, rawk-ur-r-r,
raw-w-w!'
Thinks to myself, this is a
tla-led dark morning if it's time for
the early chanticleer to get in his
work. Then I looked at the clocl. and
It was just 1: As. That Internal hiyoo-
pus kept up that hooting for half an
hour calmed myself by figuring that
it was probably simply little mis-
take in the ROSTERS judgment-that
his vittles had disagreed with him or
something had occurred to wake him
up aad he was mixed as to time. Of
course he was at it again at the first
peep O. day just when l wanted my
extra hour of sleep that had lost in
the n1ght-but it was time for roosters
to begin Growing and so didn't grum-
BILE.
"On the second night I was routed
up just the same by that old yoller
skeeugle. Worst yawp ever heard
that Of his was! At it again for an
OtEer hour. Next night just the same.
"Now, don't know rooster talk,
you understand, and I probably never
shall learn. But I am positive that
that rooster was chawing over the
worst language that he could lay his
tongue to.
"At last my rooster got swearing
Lack, and when he did that the two
kept at it nigh all night The Ian.
guage was something awful. And the
hens mO0ned around the yard Groom
ing over and over "Oh-h-h-h, oh-h-h-h-
o-o-o-h!' in that melancholy way of
theirs. They looked sorrowful and
hollow-eyed, and I could see that they
felt that the morals of the chickens
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24
Another Funeral Needed,

Representative Sib1ey Of Pennsyl-
vania went to Mexico, time ago, to
look after some interests he has
there. Being a vigorous and energet-
ic man, he was worried by the shift
less habits of the natives. One day
in the City of Mexico he saw an i'm
posing funeral procession. Whose
funeral is, that?"' he asked of man
passing. No sabe," said the man.
Good" shouted Sibley;: NOW If they
will bury manana, too, this country
will amount to something. - satur-
day Evening Post. a.5s. + ss. s=S 4. 5z$E s
The Cook County herald., 1903-10-24

His Feet"
What did Thomas do? He threw
himself right back on those tail quills
and sat on them. They stuck right
into the ground. That left Thomas
with both feet and his head free.
Fifty was so surprised when he didn't
counter that he fell down onto Tho1n-
as and Thomas grabbed him by the
neck with both claws and with his
bill yanked Fitzy's head off. It was all
over quiclzer'n you could say scat.
"Coie stood up and stretched. 'Ye
kin come over an git your hen said
he; 4 won't tax ye for trespassin'.'