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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
HuntIna Polar eears Is Tame.

The animal par excellence, which
the hunter, the amateur Arctic trav-
eler and the young explorer hopes and
dreams of killing is the polar bear
The reason for this is the magnificent
trophy which the great white skin
makes. This feeling was no less
strong centuries ago than it is now,
for we read that one of the early Ice
landic sea rovers to Greenland quar-
relied with and killed his bosom COM
panion because he had claim a large
bear instead of leaving that honor to
his chief.
With the modern repeating rife the
bear stands no chance against the
hunter, no matter under what circum-
stances they may meet, and if he is
hunted in the native way, with the
assistance of dogs, there is hardly
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04


From The Farmers Review: curing
the past year there has been much diff
ference of opinion among stoekmen
concerning the feedings value OF soft
corn caused by the early September
frost of 1902. Early last October
Professors Kennedy and Holden of
the Iowa Agricultural College issued
a report showing the chemical analy-
sis Of soft corn and discussing the
feeding value of the same. They claim
ed that ON dry matter basis II was
equal to mature corn for feeding pur-
poses. On account Of the large
amount of moisture present more
would have to be fed to get good re-
suits. At that time the Animal In
dustry department commenced q prac.
tical feeding experiment to test the
same. Sixteen steers Of uniform breed
ing and quality were divided into two
lots Of eight each. One was fed on
mature corn grown in 1900, and the
other on the soft corn Of 1902. These
steers were fed six months and mar
keted on April 18th IA Chicago Each
lot was sold separately. but the buyers
could not see any difference, thus
they both brought the same price,
1925 per hundred, within Is cents Of
the top of dull, slow market The
results Of the slaughter test showed
the soft corn lot TO kin out co.'s per
cent dressed meat The mature corn
lot 60 per cent dressed meat. The
gains made by the lots were practical.
y tbs same ard the number Of pounds
OF corn required to produce one pound
Of gain was almost the same, being
slightly in favor Of the mature corn.
Valueiug the mature corn at 90 cents
per bushel and the soft corn AZ 30
cents per busheI, there was diMeT-
ence Of almost cents per pound in
the cost OF producing one pound Of
gain ~ favor Of the cattle TED on soft
corn. Full details OF this experiment
VIII be issued ia bulletin form at an
early date.-W J. Kennedy, Iowa Ag.
ricultural College
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

(Fla.) beach, March 2S, 1903, he drove
the Winton bullet" a mile in So 1-5s.,
the fastest mile ever made by an
American automobile. The same day
he scored 1926 1-5 for ten miles, in.
Guiding complete turn.
Louis p. Mooers was born in Mas
sachusetts and is 80 years old. He is
the daredevil par excellence of the
trio. He looks the part, too, with his
freckled face, sandy hair and scrappy
visage of the Terry McGovern cast.
And this same pugnacious face bears
more than one scar, betokening the
risks he has taken in driving.
Percy Owen is the Adonis of the
team. He has blue eyes, blond hair
and a well-put-up figure of medium
height. His manner is snappy, his
conversation witty and his style alto
gether typical of the up-to-date New
York boy. owen was born at Oswe-
go, N. Y, in 1875.
Owen has been racing automobiles
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Gated upon certificates Of registry and
thus pass from owner to owner, as
constant means of Identification. AS
in this system the marks, in case Of
error, cannot be rubbed out, care is
required to secure accuracy. The op-
orator requires a rubber stamp show
ing the ears unnotched. With these
he can stamp first series Of impress
slons of the head and ears upon the
pages Of a record book and also upon
a sheet Of paper, notching and number
ing the impression in the book just as
he proposes to notch the ears Of the
animals to be marked, making the
impression and marks also on the
sheet Of paper to correspond. Then,
with this duplicate sheet in hand,
when doing the work, he can be sure
to mark the animals exactly as shown
in his REGARD book. For numbering
polled cattle SO that the markings
shall be reliable and permanent, the
plan indicated by the accompanying
illustration is presented.
The explanation is as follows:
A notch in bottom of left ear equals
1; two notches equal 2.
A notch in top of left ear equals g.;
two potches, 6; three notches, 9.
A notch in bottom Of right ear
equals 10; two potches equal 20.
A notch in top Of right ear equals
80; two notches so; three nOtches 80.
A notch in end Of left ear equals
100.
A notch in end of right ear equals
200.
A hole in end Of left ear equals 400.
A hole in end of right ear equals 500,
A hole in bottom Of left ear equals
1000.
Numbers can thus be made from /
to 1000. The following is an exam
pie:
One notch in bottom Of left ear....
Two notches in top. Of left ear. 9
One notch in bottom Of right ear. IL
One notch in end Of right ear. .... 200
Total ..........'s.'''''' 'z4I
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
Build srIos.

There are several very good reasons
why men should build silos, If they
have large numbers of cattle to feed.
There is less waste Of fodder when II
is preserved in the silo than when
taken care Of in any other way. II
requires very much less room TO store
in silos than in any other way. It is
claimed that when the fodder is dried
and stored In the barn it requires
three times the room 1t does when
stored in the silos. Silage is also more
valuable than the dry fodder for milk
production, just as June pasturage
gives more milk than dry hay. Silage
is az succulent and far more valuable
that roots. Silage keeps the digestive
organs Of the cows in excellent con-
dition, and thus disastrous outbreaks
Of disease are prevented. Snage can
be put up when it would be impos-
sible to cure the crop, on account OF
wet weather. It is less trouble to
set silage made right than It is to get
a crop Of corn in the glazing stage
cured properly. If silage is left over
IN the spring It may be used for help
ing out the pasturage with the best
results, for Il is even superior TO good
pasturage. With silage there is no
sudden change from green to dry food.
which always means a shrinkage Of
the milk dow
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

for three years and is the possessor
of many trophies won at the Provf-
dence, Cleveland and other meets. The
proudest feathers in his racing cap,
however, are the American mile
straightaway record of Ill 3-5 for
gasoline vehicles from 1000 to 1000
pounds, and also the kilometer record
of AZ seconds for the same class. Both
were scored at Staten Island May 81,
1902. Most Of the track records and
victories of the famous Winton pup"
we're made under his guiding hand
The Irish race will be largely con-
test of drivers. No more capable and
courageous ones could be found among
American automobilists than have
been chosen.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
Typhoid Spread BY MIX.

The water supply is almost always
connected with outbreaks of typhoid
fever. Sometimes the connection is
indirect, as through milk, which has
been contaminated by a contaminated
water supply. Could we but know the
facts, it would doubtless appear that
there are hundreds Of local epidemics
each year that have been started by a
contaminated milk supply. Only last
fall we reported an epidemic in a
small village in northern Illinois,
which was due entirely to milk from
a small dairy in the outskirts of the
village. About thirty cases resulted
and at least two deaths. Just now
typhoid is raging at Stanford Uni
versity in California and dispatches
say that 1t is due to milk from local
dairy. About 100 students are down
with the disease. The dairy that was
known to have been the cause for the
outbreak has been closed down, while
some other dairies under suspicion
have had to go out OF business tenn
porarily. The fever has also appeared
in the university town Of Palo Alto,
due probably to the use of the same
milk that started the disease in the
university. one-third Of the pupils are
out Of school. This Is but another
costly lesson Of the danger Of using
unclean milk. If there were no other
reason for waging war on dirty sur
roundings of the diaries, the readiness
with which milk conveys disease
should be. sufficient
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

perience at the European racing game
and that on only one occasion. Mooers
and Owen are familiar only with track
racing, a far less perilous form Of ma
chine speed contest
Fighting for the blue ribbon Of auto
mobling on the European teams will
be such noted chauffeuTs as Henri
Fournier, winner of the Paris-Madrid
race and holder Of the American mile
record of 81 As seconds; Rene de
Kuyff, victor of the Bordeaux
contest of 1895, and leader of the first
day in the Paris-Vienna contest of
last year; S. F. Edge, who captured
this SINE Gordon-Bennett cup for Eng
land last year; Charles Parrot,
achiever of a straightaway mile in 46
seconds and Baron de Katers and Herr
de Grass, champion drivers of the pom
derous German speed cars.
The result of the race will not only
determine the champion chauffeur of
the world, but will do much to settle
the mooted question of national SUI
periority in automobile building.
Broken limbs, bruised bodies and
even death have previously marked
the course Of these great international
contests. A mile-a-minute pace on a
clear, broad, straightaway road is a
rate few drivers have the courage to
dare. Shift the race, however, to a
| narrow and by no means smooth Irish
road, with sharp turns to be negotiated
mil 1,nr no
| the pace most of the way will be
close to a mile a minute; that to pass
a rival a racer must do so with one
wheel in the ditch that corners must
be rounded at full speed, at times
with outer wheels in the air, and the
danger of traction failing and the luck
less driver being dashed into a wall
or a tree by the road side, and that
at any moment the racing cars may
become punched and wrecked in an
awful tangle of men and machinery.
Such are the possibilities of the
Irish race and such the perils the
daredevil drivers of Europe and
America have undertaken to face with.
out flinching.
Alexander Winton was the first to
volunteer to build and drive a ma.
chine in the race, and so make an
American team possible. He was &C
cordingly chosen by the contest com
mittee as the nucleus of the team. The
selection of Mooers and owen as the
other two members followed the recent
speed tests in Long Island.
Alexander Winton is designer Of the
racers to be driven by owen and him
self. A small, wiry, nervous man OF
fOrty-three is this champion of Amer
lean racers and prince among Amer
lean builders. Born in Scotland, he
came to this country twenty years ago
His mechanical cleverness soon PLACED
him in charge of a marine engine
shop in this city. Later he took VI
his residence in Cleveland and became
prominent as a bicycle maker. II
1895 he designed and built vertica
gas motor for automobiles.
In 1900 Winton represented the Au
tomobile Club of America in the Cor
don Bennett cup race, which that yea
was run from Paris to Bordeaux. Al
ter 1875 miles of racing he ripped
tire OF in rounding a corner, but con
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
canadlan cheese Exporta.

The Canadian foreign cheese trade
continues 70 grow. That country long
ago passed the United States in the
matter Of exports Of cheese, and has
been ever since increasing its lead
A report from Montreal says that this
year that port was virtually cleared
Of old cheese by April first, whereas,
that does not usually occur till the
first Of May. The cheese export sea-
son of 1902-O3 is therefore closed.
There had been exported from that
port up to the first Of April 2,4S2,6S2
boxes of cheese, as compared with
2,235,561 boxes the previous season,
which means an increase Of 191,12l
boxes for this year. The value OF
cheese exported from Canada in the
last twelve months is estimated at
S21, 100000. The Canadians are plan
ming great things for the future, and
are expecting a great run of cheese
making this coming season on &C
count Of the fine way in which the
pastures are starting out. None of the
meadows are reported to have winter
killed and the recent seedlings are COM
ing through the winter in good shape.
At the present time large hay crop
is looked for. In England the cheese
market is said to be demanding large
supplies, which cannot be filled before
the beginning Of summer. 1t is believ-
ed that cheese making in England il
on the decline, which would be fur
Their factor in favor of the Canadian
cheese makers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

tinued for twenty-five miles further
on the run before stopping. At Olean,
Charron, who was second, led him by
an hour, but was forced to lay up two
hours for repairs. This would have
made Winton second had HIS wheel
been intact and permitted his going
further.
Winton is the holder of the worlds
mile track record of 1.02H, made at
Cleveland Sept. 16, 1902, and of all
track records up to ten miles in 1880
as were scored the same day. In a
straightway trial in the ormond
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The most curious shapes were seen
at the moment the sun appeared 20
touch the crest of the waves, On one
occasion its orb seemed to be sucked
into the water and its light fickered
like a dying lamp. The last rays Of
the sun we're at times Of beautiful
green color. Once the green light
lasted 1854 seconds.
This effect is now ascribed to the
decomposition of the sunlight by water
vapor acting as a prism. In the order
of decomposition appear first the red,
then the orange, yellow green and
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Three intrepid Americans win on
July next, over 300 miles OF Irish
road, match their daring and skill
and the strength and swiftness Of their
road locomotives against the best that
Europe can muster in men and ma
chimes for the automobile champion
ship of the world.
Against Alexander Winton and Louis
P. Mooers, of Cleveland. and Percy
Owen. of New York, Germany, France
and Great Britain will pit veterans Of
many famous road battle. OF the
Americans, Winton alone has had ex-
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
Some Maine Epltaphs.

She lived with her husband fifty
years and died in the confident hope
OF better life.
John X. (killed in the battle of Shi-
loh) was born in the state of New
York, where the wicked cease from
troubling, and the weary are at rest.
Here lies Barnard Lightfoot, who
was accidentally killed in the forty
fifth year of his age. The monument
was erected by his grateful family.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
Mankind PolIed cattIe.

Thomas McFarlane, secretary OF the
American Aberdeen.Angus Breeders'
association, has the following to say
regarding the marking Of polled ami
mails; Cattle uniform in color and
without horns need permanent and
ready means OF Identification. The
use OF ear tags, marked halters, tat
tooing. branding of body or hoof, etc,
have not proved permanent nor en-
tirely satisfactory. Notchipg the ears
OF young animal marks 1t for life.
The hair grows over the marking, but
marks remain and can be readily dis
tinguished. The objection to this
method are not serious when COM
pared to the advantages resulting
from certain Identification of the an
imal. Such ear marks can be dupli-
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
Green snnnnt LlneA.

Lucien Lbert of Sainte-Adresse,
near the mouth of the Seine, has been
observing the sunsets over the sea
and has found many instances of the
green ray" as well as apparent de-
formations of the solar disc, says
Pearson's Weekly.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

It appears that large percentage
OF the American people are still inter
ested in professional baseball The
great beauty of baseball is that a lazy
man can thoroughly enjoy it without
exercising a bit.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

1t was an old maid, of course, who
said that marriage is the Siberia of
womanhOod. And very likely she
would be glad to go to Siberia if she
could.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The suburban backyard farmer may
be personally interested to know that
a man turns 10000 spadefuls of earth
in digging an acre, and moves in all
weight of $50 tons.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The paragraph now in circulation
declaring that eating large quantities
Of common salt will cure or prevent
cancer may have been originated by
the salt trust.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

more excitement than in killing musk
oxen, except for the wild, helter-skel-
ter dash over the ice to overtake the
animal after the dogs strike the hot
SCENT Commander Robert E. Peary,
in Leslie's Monthly.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

We are glad to see that the Amalga-
mated Poultry association has de-
cided that one egg per day per hen is
enough. A hen that would lay two
eggs per day is simply throwing some
other hen out OF a Job.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Terry McGovern is still talking
about clicking" Young Corbett. But
Terry should be convinced by this
time that the Denver boy is not post
age stamp.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Diaz is nearly seventy-tbree, and
has begun to feel the weight of his
years. 1t will be a sorry day for Next
co when he lets go.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Count Speck Won Sternberg and his
wife will spend the summer at Dub.
lin, N. H . Is the count after the Irish
vote?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The formation Of q large tree from
minute seed Is one Of the most 50.
tersstipg and wonderful occurrences
Ia nature L Is important that the
fruit culturist should 80 understand
ts6 process az TO know what win has
ten 4 90 one hand Or rctard 4 on the
plbsr
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
sneeeh ~ the Aversoe Man

The normal man, who strikes an
average between Indifferent silence
and meaningless verbosity, will talk
probably one hour, all told, each
day, which would allow him 2,4OO
words.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

A Chicago man Travelled $4,000 miles
and spent $4,000 for the purpose of
winning a $40 bet. Some people are
very hard losers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

1t cannot be denied that the Russian
policy of taking what you want and
asking for 1t afterward has its own
peculiar advantages.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Denmark has positively refused to
sell the West Indian islands. This
will give Uncle Sam 100000 more
to spend on the canal.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

A New York young man, Alexander
Smith Coehrane, who inherited $14,.
100000 from his uncle, is going to
study sociology and try to benefit man.
kind. How Mr.. Harry Lehr and Reg,
gle Vanderbilt must pity boy like
that.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Mrs. Burdick has her $4,000, but
even that will hardly make her forget
that some Of the papers were mean
enough to say at the time of the in
quest that she was hOmely and looked
her years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

II Is stated that $500 companies
have been chartered IN Mississippi
within the past Is months having an
aggregate capital OF s9O,0O0,O00. New
Jersey tshall not steal the title Of
''fathej Of waters II the Nisslssirpis
nam5Sake knows itself
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Gen. Sierra, ex-president of Hondu-
ras, was killed by a detachment Of
troops sent in pursuit of him by Gen
BOrilla. Ungrateful as this republic
is, it doesn't treat its ex.presidents like
that.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Reggie Vanderbilt succeeded in cor
nering the market on lilies, but under
the law he can only claim one Ameri-
can beauty.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The example of ]. B. Ford of Penn
sylvania, penniless at 20 and million
aire at 81, shows that nobody is too old
TO earn.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The people of Somaliland may not
have read the papers. Somebody
ought to tell them what happened to
the Beers.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Pat Grove is circulating through
Missouri. Perhaps he is responsible
for the food of $1,000 bills that is
causing the legislature so much I'M
easiness.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Prosperity has been good to the In
dams. 1t has given them money faster
than their white brothers can steal it.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The fashionable sleeves this year
look like those little girl cuts for her
first doll.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

why" asks an exchange, does a
tree on a hillside grow straight up?"
Never mind that. Why does a pigeon
bob its head when it walks.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Thirty circus elephants marched in
single file over the Brooklyn bridge.
And the bridge is still there.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Good clothes and impudence often
pass for riches and education.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Mr. Carnegie gave away S2,1OO,0OO
and then went to Europe Few Of us
could do that.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

The New York Ledger was sold
for a sum less than it used to pay
Sylvanus Cobb for a single story.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

In former days school teachers occa-
sionally struck; now it is the school
children who strike.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04

Sir Henry Irving has appeared in
London as Dante. 1t must have been
4 cheerful performance.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-04
Feeding Grain to Mich Cows on
Pastures.


From the Farmers Review. nv ex-
perience Is limited in the limo referred
TO and am governed By circum-
stances, IL pastures cOntain large
per cent Of protein. as alfalfa ana
some Of the cloYers, and are suficiept.
" iuxuriant that a COW WIN nj ID
IN an hour do not believe grain
ration is best. With grasses low ia
protein, or where It requires constant
grazing to satisfy, It would justify Is
supplement with grain containing q
good per cent OF protein provided
wheat bran could be bought at S12
per ton and butter tat was worth ~
cents. The above basis win do Ia
ngure upon, IT you figure for immedi-
ate profit; If you consider the future
welfare Of the COW go slow with con.
centrated feeds containing large
per cent OF protein. The last obserya.
tion opens up another question NOT
well understood nor appreciated ana
could not be properly discussed here.
"A. A. Adams, Shawnee county. Kan.