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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-01-21

Every person who has enough judy
ment to 60 In when 1t rains knows Ell
Their from experience or observation
that our most successful farmers OF
staples are our live stock farmers. says
Farm and Ranch. That doesn't mean
hogs alone, cattle alone or sheep alone,
but a judicious selection of different
kinds OF stock adapted to the farm and
the farmer. In some cases hogs alone
will work out all right In other cases
cattle or horses or sheep will do better
for the farmer than any one kind. But
on most farms several different kinds
will prove more profitable than any
one kind. Hogs may be kept, and In
addition SIS many sheep as IL no hogs
were kept. There is on the average
farm d place for hogs, a place for cat-
tie, ii place for sheep. ETC., and one kind
will not Interfere with another. and
properly managed all will be found
profitable. It il an easy matter with a
dozen sows to raise. feed and ship a
car load of rat hogs, worth $500 to 81
900. At the same time lot OF fat mutt
ton sheep may be sold for, say, $500 70
$500 and nearly as much for wool.
Then few fat steers for the local
butcher will easily run the total up 70
$i 800 Or $1,000 The manure from
This stock win pay for all the labor Of
feeding and marketing. and the feed,
aIl grown at home. costs less than the
same could To bought Cor By feeder.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1904-01-21
THE HORSE BREEDER

/ Z
It is a well known fact that horses
and colts that run out in the winter
thrive provided they are furnished with
comfortable shelter nights and have a
feed Of good hay and a fair ration OF
grain, says Texas Farmer. They are
animals provided by nature with q
heavy coat and are well adapted to
withstand the rigors OF winter. They
will thrive better under a common
sense regime than by petting and pam
pering. A successful eastern breeder
says: THE shelter should not be drafty,
of course, but it should not be so near
ly air tight that it will not ventilate
itself on cold nights. The foul air in
the close and warm stable liz far more
injurious to the colts and horses than
clean, pure air or almost any low tenn
perature can possibly be- Blanketing
Ia oftener overdone than UNDERGONE.
The horse standing in a blanket on a
cold night may be seriously affected
when the blanket Is thrown of in the
morning. III he stands blanketed night
and day during the cold spells he viii
get into such condition that he will
take cold easily when draft hits him.
Coddling Is one thing the horse cannot
stand Cold weather coddling In par
ticular is calculated to weaken him.
Treat him on natural lines In the win
ter. and he will respond by getting into
and by remaining In good condition"
Usefml weight.
The matter OF weight In draft horses
should be better understood. both as to
what weight really means In a draft
animal and as to wherein its usefulness
lies, says correspondent OF Stockman
and Farmer. Draft horse weight
should not be merely pounds. Fat can
be secured by generous feeding. but
true draft horse weight is not fat, but
heavy bones and muscles. And in
judging a draft horse In regard to this
important feature Of his makeup the
judge should be able to distinguish be-
tween the animal that weighs well
merely because II is loaded with fat
and the one which has the bone and
corresponding muscles to be weighty
horse without being made as fat as
prize winning steer. We might say
that the Judge should discriminate be-
tween useful weight and ornamental
| pounds Of fat Some horses that have
not the bone and muscular substance
| to be really weighty horses are made
80 BY fattening. It takes i horseman
| to Judge Of such things. and nobody
else has any business to txy II.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
FOOD AND SIZE OF COWS.
Some valuable Thoughts on an Inn
portant Subject Furnished by
British Dairyman.

Good and persistent milking produces
mixers and the development Of milking
qualities, whereas on the contrary II
irregularity and neglect is practiced the
talents which would develop: with use
will naturally disappear; even what
there is. It is . great mistake to sup
pose that dairy cows. all belong to one
breed, says Robert Pethridge. They
vary from the Small Kerry of ireland.
the Jersey and Guernsey Of the Channel
islands, the hardy Ayrshire Of Scotland.
the dual-purpose Shorthorn and Devon
of the west Of England, to the Red Polled
Of the eastof England and 9TH
ers, all of which with selection and de-
velopment produce magnificent dairy
COWS. It is the character Of the food
more than anything else that determines
the size. AS we know, in those districts
which do not produce rich and abundant
grasses you will not find large COWS. and
In those districts which do produce the
necessary constituents for growth and
milk producing, in . few years q small
bred animal will become the parent Of q
large type, and with continuous milking
will furnish many good mixers. Select
and test your cows and use bull from
1 family which has milk record, andre-
member that your. bull is half your herd.
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exhausted OF tho Noise producing ma
terial, though he insisted that twas
,''just the sport Of the thing that ap-
pealed to him, and that there va no
sentiment connected with It. EIs de-
voted the afternoon to liking up, the
fishing punt for the evening fireworks,
proposing that they be exploded from
on the water, and what 10 more, he
asked that he might be allowed to
shoot them OF while the rest Of US
sat on the shore and watched the dis
play. sr J.. y ...5 ssl$S
It was after ton o'clock that evening
when the last colored ball from tho
last Roman candle had burst In the
clear northern air, and Moore rowed
the punt back to shore. For some lit
tie time afterwards he sat on q stump
smoking. Finally he said:
Gentlemen, I'm an American. j was
born back there In the States. ana the
blood's still In my veins. This land
Of lakes and forests, this land with its
wild red deer and its moose and its
black bear and its game fish. is apara-
disc the. majority Of the year. But
gentlemen, while / should like to be
with you next year L will not % here
on the Fourth Of July. That one day
Of each year hereafter while 1--we will
be spent in my native land. twill be
spent in old Vermont, whore the sup
ply of hrecrackers, and torpedoes, and
sky rockets. and Roman candles. and
pin wheels, and niger chasers are in
exhaustible. lam going to put, new
kink in the lions tail that he will
never get untangled. At any Sother
time Of the year am at your service
at Foote'S Bay, Ontario. And now,
thanking you for the most enjoyable
day Of my life, bid you good-night."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
MILKING WITH WET HANDS.
It Il . Practice Sanctioned by Long
Usage, But It Should Be
Discontinued.

In milking, the hands do not need
to be wet. The habit of wetting them
should be abandoned, as it Is prac-
tically impossible to keep the hands
moist without using the foam on the
milk as q source Of moisture. The
mixer may imagine that by merely
touching his fingers to the top Of the
foam no injury comes to the milk, but
the habit had better be abandoned In
the interest of cleanliness. We think
however that some Of our writer's
overdraw the matter when they talk
Of mixers dipping their fingers into
the milk. The inference 10 that the
fingers Of, the mixers reach the solid
milk. The writer. has never seen .
case Of this kind. According 10 the
writer's referred to. the mixers dip
their fingers into the milk and convey
to the teats Of tho cow SO much Of the
milk that the latter drips from the
teats into the pail and oozes out from
between the fingers in milking. Who
ever saw 4 case Of this kind? But
even at its best, the habit Of noisten-
ing the teats with milk Is not one that
should be perpetuated. II the hands
were to be moistened at all, pure
water would have to be kept near for
that purpose. This is impracticable.
Therefore let us put aside the practice
Of moistening the teats at all and milk
with dry hands.-Farmers' Review.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
BUTTER THAT SELLS CHEAP
IN Mine Gases Out Of Ten It p Nade
from Cream That Has Stood 8G
\ \. Too Long. ~ 4

Men that use hand separa tiers. should
see 70 It that the cream ii taken to the
creameries beforeit gets too old to b.
made into good butter, II they are In
the habit OF taking It to the creameries
at all. Some that have been negligent
In this matter have been in the habit Of
waiting two or three days over time and
then hauling or sending their cream ia,
the place where It Ii to be made up into
butter. The creamery manager should
never take, this old cream, but many
do It because they say they, can sell all
their butter at top price anyway, The
result is that this butter goes onto the
general market and large quantities of,
such product are bought up by the cold
storage men and put away to be used
months after the time when it came into,
their hands. During this time the bad
qualities of the old cream come to the
surface, and when the butter ID taken
out Of cold storage. Il grades far below
what It graded when It went in. Then
the commission handlers of this prod
uct say that the deterioration - due to
the fact that the butter was made from
cream skinned by hand separator. A
great and useful invention ii thus,
blamed for something that would have
happened just the same II the farmerhad
raised his cream by the gravity process.
Only in that case the cream would have
been made up into butter At home rather
than been sent to the creamery and got
into the hands Of the Wholesale handlers
OF butter. This matter Of old cream 10
one of the chief causes Of the farmers
wife getting only two-thirds price for
the butter she makes Farmers Re-
view. p - ~" T3+
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~ WRIGHT A. PATTERSON
"a

pole from which Old Glory was flying.
1t was goodly sight, and our ap-
plause brought Moore to the cabin
door. When he saw the flag he an
nounced that it should not fly without
a Union Jack beside it Ito keep it
company and take the curse of" and
got no breakfast until' he had fished
out . diminutive bit of canvas and
hoisted it onto q flag pole. ...
After breakfast, in accordance with
established custom, we congregated
about the front of the cabin to discuss
plans for the day. 1t was then that we
discovered what the contents Of York.
er's box were.
Moore was sitting on an empty
cracker box that was turned sideways,
leaving the open side back of him.
He was celebrating with all the ardor
of q born fisherman the gamey quail
ties of the bass to. be caught In the
lake Just south of us, and advising an
expedition in that direction, when
Bang! Bang!! Bang!!!
The explosion was terrific. The great
forest stretching out for miles behind
and on either side of the cabin and the
granite bluffs along the shores of the
lake in front reechoed the report.
Moore went three feet or more
straight up into the air. He always in
sists that he was blown up, but it Is
my private opinion that he jumped.
"Bang!"
It was another from the back of tina
cabin, and Moore jumped again.
Bang! Bang!!"
Two more explosions, this time al
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v sv,tb teTl8lS-YOrk6r WAS luc
artist of the party-and let 1t go at
that, and thought nothing more of it
until we reached Port Huron, and the
Canadian customs offlcial visited US.
. :.N"What's in that box" he asked, AZ
ter he had examined our suit cases and
fishing tackle in a perfunctory way.
Nothing that is dutiaAle in Cana
d." said Yorker, but the answer sim
ply aroused the official's suspicious
and, even though he was from Canada,
he had to be shown.
1t was just then that a fellow pas
senger on the train called me to ask
for information regarding the fishing
In one of the Muskoka lakes, and I
left for a moment. AS I returned I
heard the customs officer say, as he
walked away:
Don't think you could sell those
things in Canada, so guess it's all
right"
That was the last said about that
box other than to condemn it as need
less baggage at times when It had to
be portrayed from one lake to another
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
Prof. TriTg on silo.

A progressive dairyman in Mime
sota built q silo five years ago and was
rated as half-daft by his old-fashioned
neighbors. He filled his silo and fed
his cows, and was thus able to so far
distance these scofdng neighbors of
his in the returns he received from
he creamery, which they all patron
ICED. that he can now count ten silos
on the ten farms adjoining his. It
has come to this that where land
s'worth $50 to 500 per acre, where corn
Is grown and stock is kept, the. silo
10 Just as absolutely Indispensable in
the economical administration Of the
farm as the handspring is to watch
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
Neat Packing Helps Sales.

" Appearances count for much in mar
keting produce. Neatness plays no lit
tie part in selling the small things OF
Of the farm. We have seen good butter,
fruit and poultry 60 begging for custom
ers, when placed on sale in a slipshod
fashion alongside Of an attractive pack
age Of the above-naned produce. A lit
tie time spent in, getting things in shape
is time saved-not lost. The grocery
man and merchant, in displaying goods.
for SALE. recognize this principle in ex-
hibiting their wares. Why should not
the farmer profit. by their expert
snoo?-Midland Farmer. 81 ~.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
AN o1D-FAsH1oNED FOURTH OF

-. ~
These new-fangled notions are giving the
A queer.kind Of Fourth-one without: any
With speeches and pi'n'c' no patience
And I pine for the old-fashioned Fourth Of
July. -
Then We rose with the dawn and the cannon
came first " se7
We packed it with powder till ready to
burst 4E -
And my! how the glass in tho windows did
When it startled the echoes Of Fourth ;of
July.
We hitched up old Dobin, and all tumbleee
The roomy old wason-the fat and the
thin %A.t b
Even grandma was there. and as clipper
As any young maiden the Fourth of July; !:
We went to the barbecue-who cared fo,'
When the feast was a-nutter with banner
and flowers; 's%.$ j>
And If down came the rain in the MIDST Of tt
why. ,ss3#t5
It was part Of an old-fash1oned Fourth OF
July. -. Ii s5%
The rockets and pinwheels and flrecrack-
ers, too, y . g
At evening all Joined In the hullabaloo.
And Washington rode on his horse in the
A figure in nam. on the Fourth of July. !
The band marching out in their uniforms
a.,
Struck up by the light Of the bonflress to
play EgsE s..
The star-spangled Banner and Sweet BY
and BY, E;S$s2' Z
And 50 ended a glorious Fourth Of july.
-Minna Irving, in Woman's Home Com
panion. EISst s;
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
oleo Law Is Constitutional

The United States supreme court has
confirmed the decision Of the lower
courts declaring constitutional the ma.
tional, oleo law which taxes oleo coll
orad like butter. The vote was deci-
sive, being six to three. This puts al,
end to the long-drawn-out fight, and
dairymen are to be congratulated. Oleo
manufacturers have made every pos
sible attempt to evade the law, carry
ing it from court to court, hoping tol
find some flaw. Farmers can now turn
their attention to other needed ma
tiona1 legislation. - Orange i Judd
Farmer. '.. stI g, :. S., ~ slf$l
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and bedfast Tor over nine Months, md
the doctor who attended me ssid unless
I submitted to m opsra tion Tor gravel,
I would never be well. J. would NOT
consent to that and % continued 10
suffer. My back was 90 weak 4 could
not stand or walk, and It ached cons
SANITY. The first day after i began
using Doan's Kidney Pills y felt relief,
ana In : short time I was up and around
the same % ever, free from backacheA. :,
"a FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Bowles will
be mailed TO any part Of the United
States. Address Foster Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Z, Sold BY al dealers;
price 80 cents per box. r., y, !. q
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-07-01
This Farmer Was Forgetful.

r This Farmer Was Forgetful.
I The Rice Rustler has the following:
"A story is going the rounds regard
Ing a farmer who Is greatly troubled
with Observation-Disclosures" On the way
home from town, SO the story goes
the thought came to him that he had
forgotten. something. :, He took out
his notebook, went, over every item
and checked it"oh. He saw that he
had made all the purchases he had in
tended. But as he drove on he could
not put the feeling aside. When he
arrived home and drove up to the
house his daughter came to meet him,
and, with q look Of surprise, asked:
.eWhy, where is map" =
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in getting into our fishing grounds that
lay few miles west of the Muskoka
chain of lakes. Once the box was
slowed away in the cabin neither my
self or any of the others of the party
who had joined us at Toronto, coming
from the east and south, thought more
about 1t.
:. We had left Chicago that year the
last of June for our annual pilgrimage
to the fishing waters of Canada, AMI
had planted our feet on the shores of
Kahpeekog on the evening Of July 1.
Personally 1 had been rather pleased
1T the idea of escaping to the kings
dominions for the Fourth of July, SO
that might escape the noise Of the
city usual on that day, and I think the
others of the party were somewhat OF
the same mind. But by the evening of
the third we were all ready to admit
that we might have missed something
by not having taken our vacation a
few days later and remaining in the
States to hear the eagle scream.
s.This," said Charley, as we were
sitting in front Of the cabin after day
of unusual good luck with the rod, "ts
as near heaven as q man can expect to
get In this world-but-"
II can finish that for you," said
Smith. but / would like to be tn
Buffalo tomorrow to hear the eagle
scream, and shoot OF few cannon
crackers in the front yard. am just
beginning to appreciate the Fourth of
July, now that 1 am away from It."
- 'That is one of the luxuries Of the
States that l can get along very we'll
without" said Moore, the guide.
"Shouldn't wonder a. bit at that" re-
turned Smith. 1.-THE screeching Of the
eagle isn't conducive to pleasant men,
cries over here, is it,"
!; "Oh, you cant hurt me that way"
returned Moore. IT amt all Canuck,
even though I do. take of my hat to
the Union Jack. was born down in
Vermont, but I am going: to tell you
/ fellows that this land is good enough
for me any day, and I'm not signing
any to hear the eagle screech." o.:
Smith, who is the most aggressNely
patriotic of the crowd, started in to
1 read Moore a lecture for having de-
serted his country, and things might
i have gotten warm enough to explode
/ had the others not have made an ef-
fort to put stop to it, and hustle
everybody OF to bed.
Yorker, was the only ono up early
( the naxt morning. which wss unusual
for Yorker, and when the rest of us
rot out We found he had erected flag
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most under the guides feet, and he
unceremoniously took to the cabin.
From that safe retreat he poked his
head out of the door to curse Yorker,
and condemn in unequivocal terms
such "unholy carrying on"
"Hurrah for the Fourth! ," shouted
Smith, who had been too much aston
ished to give vent to his feelings earl
Ter. Where did you get the crackers.
anyway"
"Out Of the box you were swearing
about at the portage the other day"
replied Yorker.
"Bang!"
That one had been set ingenfously
in the crack Of the cabin door, and the
explosion burst it open.
Observation-Disclosures crack! -
Smith had gotten hold Of bunch of
small ones, and the continuous rattle
brought Moore to the door to see what
was happening. He stood watching
the proceedings for little while, and
I could see that he was not 50 averse
to it all as he would have US believe.
After little while he came out and
took down his diminutive Union Jack.
ut don't belong in any such q din
as this" ne explained.
The box was not very large, and a
portion Of it was filed with fireworks
for a night display, SO that the supply
of Explosives was soon exhausted, and
the crowd sat around the front Of the
cabin wishing for more. Then it was
that Moore's turn came. He had found
an old coffee can with q screw top, and
putting In a goodly supply Of powder
had packed it tight with paper and ap-
piled a fuse. Lighting it he slipped up
close behind Yorker and, before that
individual had discovered the presence
Of the internal machine, it exploded
with q terrific bang that sent Yorker
into the air with 4 bound.
In his pleasure at the success Of his
retaliation Moore forgot all about his
early anger, and entered into the
spirit of the celebration with an en-
thusiasm worthy Of son Of the rev.
olution. He donated his supply of
loose powder, kept carefully against
the day when his rifle ammunition
should run short, and when that was
exhausted, thanks to his assistance, he
got out his rifle and amused himself by
firing into the air until, firing of that,
he set to work to unload shells enough.
to secure sufficient powder to fix up
another coffee can. 4
Before noon came Moore was the
most hilarious one of the crowd, and
the loudest in his lamentations at the
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EFFECTIVE CALF SHADE.

growth. If there is no natural shade at
hand, use the device shown in the cut.
Two stakes, driven on slant, support,
q square frame of wood that is covered
with burlap, or any cheap cloth. Fie
the calf 80 he can just reach the shade.
but cannot taugle the rope about tho
stakes. The stakes can be shifted to new
ground in q moment when it is neces-
sary to move the calf.-Orange Judd
Farmer .r' w.. ~"
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Geronimo. the old Apache chief. stout.
" insists that he never was captured
by Gen. Miles. rssy 81 !. 3Is.$5s y
Thomas F. McGarry. former mayor o.
louia, Mich, IL now doing duty @ !
waiter IN the penitentiary at IoaiA
Dr. j. J. Eisenhut, Of Denver. aged
l0l; has about begun to live, being CON
WINGED that he Will reach the age Of
1000. ' :' ., ~. Z, u - VI s 1$
! w. ]. H. Murat, machinist, Of Los
Angeles. Cal, claims the throne Of
Naples as direct descendant Of Joa-
chin Murat. ~. ~
Chilkoot Jack, . stanch friend Of
the whites. has been elected chief OF
tho Chilkat tribe Of Indians In Alaska,
to succeed Donowoka, the aged war
rior, who died last March.
In the little village Of Newbern. Va.
lives Mrs. Rebecca Mayo. the last sur.
viving widow of q soldier Of the revolu-
ton. She married. Stephen Mayo at
the age Of u when she was less than 20
years Of age. r, E 4
Martin 7. Burke, Of La Crosse, Wis,
for many years a well-known business
man Of that city, and by marriage; .
cousin Of Gen. Grant, is tho only sur
vivor Of the few men who were asso-;
ciated with the great soldier-statesman
in the famous old leather store ia Ga
lena. :. %'s-' = =.
In the class Of 1878 1T Yale were two
bosom friends who have done more than
any other persons to shape the political
development and. to advance the gem
eral; welfare Of Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines. They are Gov William II. /
Hunt, swhoSis itill in ONCE. and Gov.
William II. Taft. now secretary Of war.
Judge 9. w Raymond. recently ap-
pointed chief Justice of the United States
court. Of appeals in Indian territory. !;
was factory hand II IN interior town
Of Illinois IS years ago. Jossph
@. Cannon now speaker Of ! the
house Of representatives, became inter-
ested in. tho young man, induced him to /
study law, and has. remained ashelpful:
friend. Judge Raymond was appointed
10 the federal court at Muskoses b..
President Mckinley In 1901. Il ~S,%