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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Profitable and Proatless Stock.

AZ q Wisconsin institute A. +. Rob-
erts said: With stcrk of good blood.
there is no difficulty in making a steer
LVo years of age top the market and
bring good proEt for the feed and
care given. However, the great balk
Oh stock shipped TO our leading mar
kets is not Of the above quality. One
will readily ascertain at the stock
yards that quality counts for more
than quantity, and that fat alone is not
sufficient. Buyers will ride into pen
where good cattle are and perhaps will
raise their first bid in order to get
them. The seller easily iisposes of
them at the top price of the day.
This class are of high grade, good
beef type and conformation, with ca
pacity for producing the greatest per
centage of high-priced meat. They are
what the buyers term the smooth,
fesSy lot. This class of cattle COM
prise only about 10 per cent of the
bulk. In adjoining pens buyers will
ride in, view the stock, then ride away,
with the remark, Il will not give that
price, they are too rough" The seller
has to work to dispose of them, and
when he does the price is disappoint-
ing to the farmer, as it is only about
one-half the price offered for the best
class. A portion of this class consists
Of stock with an infusion of dairy
blood. While they make good gains
their feed goes to the production of
internal fat. A greater per cent are
common, unimproVed, inferior animals
in finish as we'll as form. This class
comprises about 80 per cent of the
stock forwarded to market. This
means that the farmer has received
about half the price for the animals
he has raised and forwarded to mar
ket that he would have gotten if they
had been properly bred, grown and
finished. 1t has taken as much of the
food of maintenance and as much feed
to grow every pound of their weight as
though they were worth twice the
money. 1t is folly to attempt to engage
in beef production with such a class of
animals, especially where stall feeding
and intensive farming are practiced.
There is no reason why such stock
should be grown, as the type and con-
formation can be improved by the use
of good beef bred sires, ard the more
grading up by pure blood animals of
approved form the better the results.
Four or five generations of pure bred
sires will establish herd of live stock
practically as good for all feeding pur-
poses as pure breeds.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Best Horse to Raise.

There is no doubt that the best
horse for the farmer to raise is the
draft horse. The farmer needs some
times to raise rOadsters and driving
horses; but in the main the draft leads
all others. There are many more
draft horse. The farmer needs some
kind. The demand is not so much for
an improved kind of horse as for
first-class animal OF the kinds we now
have. The draft horse can be raised
with little expense to the farmer, and
he begins to pay his way before the
time comes to market him. The draft
colt works in easily with the general
work of the farm. The farmer may
find it difficult to sell a light harness
horse for carriage purposes, but he
never has trouble in selling a first
class draft horse. In any event it
should be remembered that il requires
no more labor to care for q good draft
horse than for a poor one. The horse
of quality Will consume no more feed
than the other, but the margin be-
tween cost and selling price is very
much greater in the case of the good
horse than between the cost and sell,
ing price Of the inferior horse.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
FIRST DUTY OF THE SCHOOL.

From the common school Of the
country district to the highest uniyer-
sity in the land, the fundamental idea
of American education is to make
American citizens. There is no thought
of making soldiers, or Office holders,
or merchants, or traders, Or inventors;
make citizens first, then let each
young American choose for himself
the line of life he deems best suited to
mis- capacity; he does choose, and that
commonly without bias, what he shall
be; for young American has ideas of
his own and is ready to aid them, too,
on appropriate and even sometimes
or inappropriate occasions, After all,
however, the best method of judging
of any system of education is in its re-
suits and, without saying a word in
disraragement of the people of any
other nation, it may be said that in
every essential quality the American
citizen has demonstrated his efficiency
in life and action the value Of his
training-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
HIGHER EDUCATION.

1t is not the least but one Of the
greatest advantages of higher educa-
ton that the woman of to-day does
know herself much better than did her
mother or grandmother, and with that
self knowledge comes better under
standing of her relations to the world
about her. The college girl Of to-day
is healthier, stronger, saner, more in
dependent, more resolute and more
useful than were the social butterflies
or the household drudges of her
grandmother's time. In the expert
mental stages of this new develop
ment there may have been danger, but
the education Of the body as we'll as
the mind is now looked after in all our
girls colleges, indeed, much better
than in colleges for the other SEX
Boston Transcript.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Rye for Dairy Cows.

When rye is to be used for feeding
COWS in the spring it should be sown in
the latter part Of August or in the
early part of September. So sown it
will get well started and cover the
ground well before winter comes on.
If it grows too well, it is easy enough
to reduce it's thrift by turning in the
calves, sheep or COWS for few weeks
in the fall. This pasturing should not
be continued long enough to reduce
the covering to a point where the
roots will be injured later by the
seventies Of winter. In the sowing
OF the seed about three bushels should
be used per acre, as this gives a finer
stemmed rye than the ordinary amount
of seed and this fneness makes it
more agreeable 70 the COWS. The use
Of the rye crop is found in the early
spring before the pasture grasses have
had time to develop. When the grass
comes on the COWS will abandon the
rye for the grass, the taste of which
they prefer 20 that of the rye.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Breed lnteIIigentiy..

Hit-or-miss breeding is the mistake
OF the hour IN the breeding OF swine.
The practice is the one most popu.
larly followed, because ii is the cas-
lest. 1t is moving toward the point Of
least resistance. This, however, is not
the profitable way to breed. Most
men will follow it; for 10 go. In an
other direction requires too much
thought. too much study. too much in
vestigation and too much work Yet
the hard road is the one that leads to
prosperity In the hog raising business.
If a man is going into the scientific
breeding of swine he should know
what products certain matingS will
bring forth. For such there is no rule.
but there are numerous rules some Of
which have not been discovered. The
field for development in this direction
is large. To the aid of such a breeder
must be brought all the experiences of
others, incorporated in books or OBJ
tanned orally. Swine breeding is not
the narrow subject IL seems. 1t has
many phases and each feature Of
these sub-divides almost indefinitely.
To be successful a man must not ex-
haust his entire energies in mere
manual labor; but must leave himself
some energy for deep thought and
mental questioning
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
MEDICAL COLLEGES.

Medical colleges are responsible for
the horde of failures who parade as
doctors and do what they can to men,
ace the public health. Some Of the
medical schools are get-rich-quick
schemes, taking every applicant who
comes along with the requisite fees.
They spoil hundreds of good farmers,
mechanics, shoemakers and black
smiths, issue sheepskins and leave the
medical profession to struggle with
the reproach. Every decent doctor
should join him and pursue the fax
ers, grafters and moral perverters I'M
til it is made too warm for them to
continue in the profession. A med
ical diploma ought to be beyond pur-
chase by anyone not fitted in every
way for the responsibilities Of a ply
sician-Sioux City Tribune.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Good and Bad Fee Lino.

Presuming that breeder has swine
of first quality the feeding becomes q
question Of great importance. 1t is
often remarked that this and that
breeder failed because he bought ami
mails OF fancy breeding points and
then gave them scrub care. This is
always a fatal mistake. The pure
bred animals have received many
backsets in reputation from this
cause. Take any Of our best strains of
hogs and let them be turned into a
poor feed lot and be given little grass
and much corn. a few generations of
that kind Of feeding will give US a
scrub progeny with good set of pedi-
grees. That is q case where the pedi-
gree is worth less than nothing. 1t is
not enough to know that an animal
has a good line of ancestors; it is
necessary also to know how its i'm
mediate ancestors have been fed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Rice HuIIs in Stock Feed.


Mention was made in our last report
Of the experiments then being con-
Quoted of determining the digestibility
of rice bran and polish. These exper-
iments were brought to a successful
conclusion and the results embodied in
Bulletin No. II, just issued. fact
was brought out in these experiments
which was not sought, because it was
not suspected. 1t was a valuable reve-
latiOn, however, and the strong hand
of the law may be invoked to sup
press its future existence. 1t was
found that it was a common custom
of the rice mills in this state to grind
up the hulls of the rice and mix the
same with the bran. In many in
stances this adulteration reached so
per cent of the total feed. BY the new
process of milling rice it is claimed
that a small quantity of hulls neces-
sarily finds its way into the bran. but
so large a quantity as 80 per cent can
only be accounted for by mixing Of
the two with the intention of fraud.
Rice hulls are not only OF no nUtritiye
value, but absolutely injurious from
a physiological standpoint, greatly in
juring the mucous Innings of the stom-
ach.-LOuiSiana Station.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
THE cZAR'S PRIVATE FORTUNE

Many newspapers have seriously re
produced telegram which appeared
in a Paris journal announcing that
the Emperor Nicholas had presented
his private fortune, amounting tC
eighty millions sterling (S400,000,0 ,000)
to the Russian government for wa,
purposes. 1t was added that this huge
sum stands to the credit of the emper
or in bank of country not friendly
to Russia. Eighty millions would be 3
pretty sort of a sum to be held al
call by any bank; but the whole story
is romance, and so are all the other
tales about the emperor's dealings
with his civil list. The fact is that
the emperor of Russia has no civil
list, and he draws at his discretion oD
the imperial treasury, every rouble
of which is supposed to be his prop
erty and absolutely at his disposal
London World.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
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GETTING BACK TO NATURE.

Students of American life think
that they detect a distinct tendency tC
revert to nature. The first effort is
of course, to acquire a competence; i;
the second, to amass a fortune, but
the third is to own a country place,
and to be able to spend all but the
winter months out in the open, away
from the crowded, dusty city. Wheth
er this be an effect of inheritance, q
barking back to the form whence all
city dwellers at one time or another
sprang, or not, it is an interesting
fact. Health is better, life is longer
and happier, if all the time that can
be spared from the exactions of Dusi
ness be spent in the open air, where
the breathing spaces are large, the all
pure, the sunlight clear, warm and full
of comfort.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Can Press His Own Trousers.

Any man who desires to be particu
larly neat about his appearance will
not neglect to keep his trousers press
ed free from wrinkles. There is prob
ably no other seemingly trivial thing
which will so detract from the per-
sonal appearance of man as wearing
pair of wrinkled trousers. Some
men are so particular about this point
that they pay more for pressing than
the trousers cost originally, and 9th
ers take advantage of the tailor's offer
to keep their clothing pressed for a
year after purchase, visiting the store
so often that the tailor gets sick OF
his bargain. With the aid OF the in
vention shown in the picture it should
not be a difficult matter for a man to
keep his trousers in shape himself,
without the necessity of visiting the
tailor at such frequent intervals as to
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
ON HOW TO GET RICH.

Since some of our very rich mon
have taken to public discourse upon
all sort 9f matters their utterances
have 81 nat diminished their repu-
tation for infallible wisdom. 1t has
been discovered that man may pos
sess great wealth and still fail OF
complete mastery of the science OF
government or the principles of po-
liticaI economy. Nay, it is evident
that such a man may not even prove
a reliable guide to the inquirer who
seeks for the road to wealth.
One of the most didactic of our
vivacious millionaires has recently de-
clared that riches are within the
reach of every man who wishes to be
rich. He asserts that there are but
two requisites for the acquisition of
wealth-moderate intelligence and un-
limited industry. Given these, he de-
Clares that any man can get rich.
Which is, of course, entirely false
"a l misleading, even though it comes
from a gentleman who has piled up
great wealth and is now engaged in
piling up free libraries. Everyone
knows that intelligence and industry
are not the sole essentials to the ac-
quisltion of riches. Everyone knows
of men highly intelligent and thor
oughly Industrious who can scarcely
make a living.
1t is true that intelligence and in
dustry are qualities favorable to the
attainment of wealth, but it is not
true that the possession of those
qualities, even in the highest degree,
constitute any assurance of riches.
The money-making faculty is a
thing apart from other natural endoW
ments. An ignorant, illiterate man
who possesses it will get rich, and
intellectual genius without it will re-
main poor all his life. Like a gift for
music. it can be cultivated, but it can
not be acquired.
The sayings of our loquacious mil
lionaires, like the aphorisms in the
copybooks, will not always bear analy
sis. In the present instance the fall
sity of the proposition is evident to
everybody, since a vast majority of
the people, though they are intelligent
and hard working, never acquire SO
much as a modest competence, let
alone Wealth.-Chicago Record-Her-
aid,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Flat Motor Boats.

A series Of experiments is now be-
ing made with motor boats in France,
which may revolutioniZe the construc-
ton Of these greyhounds Of the river
and harbor Instead Of building the
hull of the boats like toothpicks, after
the fashion now approved, they are
constructed like shingles, the pur-
pose being to have them skim over
the surface Of the water instead of
plow through it. A broad fat-bot-
toned boat of 91a feet beam and 1915
feet long was equipped with a motor
capable Of driving an ordinary launch
eight or lime miles an hour. She at
tanned a speed of seventeen and one
half miles an hour, result which has
called forth still more experiments.
Flat-bottomed shallow boats have
proved very successful sailing craft,
and large numbers of them mag be
found on every sheet Of water fre-
quented by sailing boats, but these
experiments with them as motor boats
are unique and it is expected that
they will result in a marvellous deyel-
opment of speed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
cURBING TREE BUTCHERS.

1t is satisfactory to note that public
opinion is being aroused On the sub
ject of the wanton destruction OF
shade trees by the servants of tele-
phone, telegraph and electric light
companies, who are sent out to string
wires and who carry the implements
with which to make short work of a
tree which they deem in the way of
their operations. Such outrages are
usually committed when those able
and willing to protect trees are away
from home Protests from women
count for very little, and tears for
even less. Against subsequent suits
for damages the companies are well
fortified If a valuable tree is once
spoiled what its owner can recover by
a suit at law would not trouble any
one.-Chicago Chronicle.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Curinu Eqq-Eatinq.

Take an egg and puncture a small
hole on the side. take a small piece
of stick, about the size Of a match,
stick it into the egg and churn the
egg with it, constantly dipping the
stick into a little red pepper and mus
tard, until the egg is thoroughly in
pregnated with the pepper and mus
tard, then put it in the nest where the
hen usually lays, with the open side
up, ard let the hen get it as soon as
she wants. She will never trouble
the eggs again, and it will not injure
the hen one bit. Ehis will stop the
habit in the most inyeterate egg
eater.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
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New Electric Block Signal.

A train may throw its own dangen
signal two blocks ahead if the newly
perfected idea OF Canadian inventor
is in use. This is an electric block
signal intended for use upon railways.
BY the inventor it is intended paptfc-
ularly To insure a more reliable and
simpler device than those at present
in use, and the tests have proved en-
tirely satisfactory to critical railroad
men. 1t is claimed that the device is
so arranged that the train automatic
ally will display a danger signal on
the block upon which it stands and in
the block ahead, and that it may au-
tomatically display a safety signal in
the block to the rear. The system is
arranged for service on either single
or double tracks.
Another useful signaling device las
been recently brought into use by
electric city and suburban railways.
This is SO arranged that the motor
man may signal to the engineer at
the power house or the crew of the
following train or car when trouble
exists at his point on the line or in
case Of accident to the train under
his operation. 1t is claimed by this
that the seat of trouble may be def
nitely pointed out to the officials at
the power house and sometimes rene
died from there without the delay and
overwork Of sending man out over
the line.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

No, do not cut the small growth Of
asparagus, but let it grow until seed
is formed; then cut and allow to lie
Cn bed over winter. 1t would be bet
ter for the bed if you did not cut next
year; but as one is always anxious for
product, you could cut a few Of the
stronger sprouts, leaving the rest. II
is important that you cut down the
growths before the seed has matured,
because if the ripe seed falls on the
ground the bed will become full OF
seedlings, which will be much harder
to destroy than other weeds. Cover
the bed with a good coating of well.
rotted manure each fall and fork il
over very carefully early in the
spring After the bed is in full bear
ing, a top dressing OF nitrate of soda
each spring would be beneficial, using
about $50 pounds per acre. =
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

Provided the floor is smooth and
clean, staining is preferable to paint
ing, as the stain which soaks into the
wood wears well and is very attract
i've. A very satisfactory staining ma
terial is a weak solution of perman-
ganate of potash. This when first ap-
piled produces a wine color, but on
exposure to the air quickly OXidizes,
becoming a rich oak shade. In pre-
pairing the stain the permanganate OF
potash should be dissolved in water
and diluted, and little of it applied
with a brush to a piece of smooth
board of the same material as the
floor; this should be allowed to stand
exposed to the air for half an hour;
if the color is too dark the stain must
be further diluted with water until the
desired shade is produced. The floor
should be made very clean and dry,
soiled places being sandpapered. One
application of the stain should be
given, and when thoroughly dry, one
or two coats CT good varnish should
be given. This will protect the stain
leaving a beautiful surface in which
the natural grain of the wood may be
seen
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
Desiqned for Use in the Home

Designed for Use in the Home.
make his pocketbook suffer or cause
him to feel ashamed of himself. This
device consists of pair of fiat boards
shaped like the trouser legs, with a
set of clamping levers around the edges
which make it possible to draw the
two presser boards tightly together.
These clamps consist Of pivoted levers,
having cam faces CT such shape as to
decrease the space as they are re-
volved. To use this trouser stretcher
and presser the bottoms of the legs
are first clamped in position. Then
the waistband is pulled up until the
legs are tight and smooth, after which
the remaining clamps are tightened
and the garment allowed to remain as
long as necessary.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

Should judge that your soil has
much to do with the watery condition
of your potatoes, and should advise
that you underdrain your land. The
first cost of doing this is considerable.
but the results obtained in better and
larger crops, added to the fact that
the land is in condition to be worked
earlier and later than land not drain
ed, will, in very short time, pay
all cost of draining. A slightly higher
storing temperature might be better;
but the soil has much to do with the
moisture in the tuberS.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

The losses from lice on pigs are fre-
quently severe, especially in the case
OF young pigs. Death sometimes re-
suits directly from the attacks, but
more often comes Indirectly in the
way of cholera or other disease that
was able to fasten itself On the hogs
because CT the systems being weak
ened from the presence of lice on the
animals.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
To Save Life in Steamboat Disasters.

A device which may prove of ser
vice in steamboat disasters has been
lately patented by a German inventor,
who holds the theory that many per
sons are drowned because Of their in
ability to keep the waves from dash
ing in their faces. In order to guard
against this he has invented a life
mask, fitted with a valve which per
mits the intake of air from overhead,
but effectually keeps out the water.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15
The FESTIVE Auto.

"See the red automobile standing in
front of that house, pop?"
Yes, 1 see it, my son.
What makes it jump so, pop?"
at is restive, my boy"
What makes it restive, pop?"
ooh, suppose it sees some people
crossing the street block or two
ahead"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

Where green manures are grown
for the purpose of being turned under
it is advisable to grow them on the
distant parts of the farm, so that
the barnyard manure may be applied
on the fields nearest to the barns.
II that way labor is saved.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-07-15

pumping capacity of this mill is nearly
one thousand gallons per hour in q
fifteen mile wind. The description
and Illustration of this windmill were
taken from Bulletin No. SO of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, which is exclu-
sively devoted to homemade wind
mills.