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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-06-11

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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-06-11

Christian CHURCH
ndolph Cook, pastor
hnday school 0;45 a. m.
reaching at II a. N. and 8 p. M.
p s. G. f. 4p. m.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-06-11

Lrc--cHuRcH OF HOLY GHOST.
hther Charles, pastor.
rular seryices-On first, second
fourth Sundays in each month;
a M, High Mass and Sermon;
D. m., Rosary and Benediction.
reekdays, Low Mass al s a. N.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-06-11

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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
CORN A VERSATILE PRODUCT.
InnumerabIe Uses to Which II Can b

.
Put. ~
Probably few things that grow are
capable of so many uses or are as
completely used as corn. The grain
is used for food both for human beings
and cattle, while the stalks are used
as cattle feed. The pith of the corn
stalk is used in the manufacture OF
smokeless powder, in the manufacture
of high-grade varnish, and in the man.
ufacture of paper. The woody por-
ticns are used in the manufacture OF
a cheap quality of paper. .:r's' +.
AS food corn is supplied in many
forms. The most familiar are as meal,
hominy and grits. Practically all the
starch that is used in the United
States is made from corn. Immense
quantities are also used in the manu-
facture of glucose, which, among other
things, enters largely into the manu-
facture of beer, as substitute for
malt.
A large quantity Of corn is used an.
nually in the manufacture of whisky,
and nearly 100000 bushels are used
every year in the manufacture Of CO.
logne spirits and alcohol. Even in the
manufacture of these products nothing
is lost. The glutinous and other resi-.
dues in the manufacture of starch,
glucose, whisky and alcohol are used
as cattle feed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
The Balanced Ration.

A large plantation owner of Louis.
lana, in an address delivered before
the Louisiana Live Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION, said: 1.-THE money saving
Of scientific feeding is so great as to
scarcely be believed, unless it is
brought to our own doors. The Paris
Omnibus Company, which works TO-
900 horses, and which formerly fed
its stock solely on oats, found a saw
ing of 1926 per head year by the par
tial substitution of corn for oats. On
our plantations in Assumption it was
only in August last that we began to
look seriously into the feeding of
balanced ration. and our feed bill for
the year, for 240 head of stock,
amounted to an excess of 100000 This
year we are following to the letter
balanced ration, and by adding to our
corn molasses and cotton-seed meal,
we will have sufficient of the former
to feed to last until our new crop is
harvested. This will be with an eX-
pense Of less than $4,000 for the pur-
chase of meal and molasses. Formerly
we used to feed as high as IS pounds
of oats per day per mule. that is,
when we were out of corn, which,
without figuring the cost of the hay
given, in quantities of as much as
the mules would eat, brought our
cost of feed to 25c per head with oats,
at the present market value of 44c per
bushel. Our present feed consists of
eight pounds of corn and cob meal, two
pounds of cotton-seed meal, eleven
pounds of molasses and Is pounds of
peavine hay, which figures out quite
near to balanced ration with nu
tritive ratio of to 6. at cost of 145
cents per head, allowing sc per gallon
for the molasses and Sc per ton for
the peavine hay. Thus you can read
lily see that our feed is costing us at
present about one-half as much as it
did formerly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
In Pasturing Rape.

The time is here when the sheep
Will be turned into the new rape pas
ture. In this connection few things
should be remembered. One Of them
is that rape should not be the only
kind of feed given to any kind Of stock
Tor several reasons. In the first place
1t is very succulent, and it would be
difficult for sheep to eat enough of
rape to keep it in the best of condition,
even if there was not danger of
bloating, which there is. In all cases
there should be access to the rape and
to pasturage at the same time. The
sheep should not be turned into the
rape all at once, but should he allowed
to eat it for only half an hour the
first time, then an hour, and then the
time may be gradually increased from
day to day. When they have become
accustomed to it, there is little danger
that they will be injured by it, provid.
ed they have access to- other pastur-
age or other feed. On the first day
the sheep are allowed access to the
rape pasture, they should receive full
feed in the barn or shed or feed lot,
SO they will eat but lightly Of the
succulent rape of which they will
show themselves at once very fond.
Rape should never be pastured very
close. If the sheep are made to de-
pend on it too much they will eat it
down to the ground, and its recovery
will be slow, even under good con-
ditions of moisture. If, however, the
feeding is so regulated that the sheep
will only eat off the tops and will
leave most Of the stumps and some Of
the leaf stems the plant will continue
to grow and develop while it is being
pastured. This is one thing greatly
in favor Of the rape plant. When
properly handled it is an enormous
producer of valuable pasturage. The
man that has had rape for a number
of years will need no advice in this
regard, but many new men are now
beginning to grow rape and to feed it
extensively to sheep as well as to
other farm stock.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
"Access on Pronoun."

Two negro women boarded Penn.
sylvania avenue car at Seventh street.
One was large, dark-skinned woman,
fashily dressed; the other was small,
yellow woman, wearing a modest
gown.
The women were discussing a mu.
tual friend, Mr.. jerks. The large wo-
man spoke in loud tones and pro-
nounced the name of the man as
though it were spelled J-i-n-ll-s. 1t
was evident from the expression on
the face of the smaller woman that
she was. annoyed by the loud talking
and INSTRUMENTATION of her friend.
Finally She protested: ..~
"You speak of Mr.. jerks as though
his name were spelled with an 4
instead of an e."
"Oh, yes" the large woman Aex-
claimed, II perceives you puts the &C.
cess on the .,pronoun. "-Washington
Times. =, s..
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
Rusty Cans.

Cans rusty inside and out are too
generally used in the conveying of
milk. One does not realize how ex-
tensive this practice is till he reads
of a Chicago milk inspector getting
after the shippers of milk and smash
ing the cans with an axe. If one will
visit the different milk shipping sta
tions he will be surprised at the num-
Der of such cans in use, or he would
have been surprised if he had visited
such stations before the Chicago milk
inspectors began to get in their good
work. 1t is doubtful if these old cans
are of any use at all, even for the
hauling home of milk from the cream
cry. when said milk is to be fed to
calves and pigs. The rusting of cans
is largely due to the manner in which
they are made. The timing is so i'm
perfect that it is soon broken and the
rust begins it's work. Farmers would
save much money if they had a regu-
lar organization for the purchase OF
cans, as they would thus be in posi-
ton to secure good cans. AS it is
at the present time, man is not GER
tain of getting a good can even If he
pays a good price Tor it. The large
milk bottling companies can help out
in this matter by buying cans and re-
selling to farmers, as they have ex-
ceptional facilities for buying cans of
good quality. We believe that cheap
" made cans are really at the bottom
of much of the trouble farmers are
having In this regard.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
When Butter Is to Be Stored.

When butter is being made for
packing it can be handled differently
than when it is made for immediate
consumption. The butter that is to
be used a short time after being made
may have high flavor, and some peo-
pie like in it taste of the buttermilk.
1t is a well-known fact that some of
our butter that is the highest in flavor
at time of making is poor keeper
on account of the amount of milk it
still contains or of aromas that change
into something else. This will be Of
interest to our readers on the farms
who every year pack butter for winter
use or sale. With such butter the ad-
visable practice is to wash it so thor
oughly that all the curd, that is, all
the buttermilk, will be taken out of it.
Thorough washing, to the point even
of taking out most of the so-called
flavor will put the butter in the best
shape for keeping. This washing takes
out of it the substances in the milk
the spelling of the butter. In the
making of butter for ready sale one
washing, is frequently regarded as
enough, but in the case of butter for
packing it is best to wash the butter
three times, which should take out of
it about all the curd it contains. It
must be remembered that when we
speak of curd we mean simply the sub
stance of the milk or buttermilk that
is contained in it. Not too much salt
should be added but enough so that
the butter might be regarded as high
ly sailed. On the farm it is an easy
matter to pasteurize the cream by
heating it. This will destroy the
germs and ferments that cause the
transformations in the butter and in
crease it's keeping quality. The cream
should be permitted to become quite
sour before churning, as this also
favors it's keeping quality.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
Lay dead.

the deep shadows on the side farthest
from the mountains he had watched
so intently before he began his jour-
ney and darted suddenly under the
overhanging ledge, where the water
had worn away the softer rock, and
hid again in hollow as before.
Then followed hours of strange
toll. AT times the man lay fiat on
the hot plain and dragged himself
along, taking minutes to move his
own length, so that any one watching
would have needed keen and steady
eye to be certain that he moved at
all. Then, in a friendly gully, he
moved faster, with the crouching
posture of the morning. and even
once, where the great boulders stood
like the ruins of an ancient city, he
almost ran through the black shad-
ows of what seemed once to have
been a street, only throwing himself
down to crawl where an open place.
like cross street, let in the unwel-
come sunlight.
The perspiration had ceased to
flow, for every drop of moisture was
burned from his body The CRIME
stood on his face in dry patches; his
eyes were red and bloodshot; his
tongue hung from his mouth, and
even the hot stones had ceased to
burn his flesh, so hot had it become
in his fierce struggle under that W.
tempered sun.
In the early afternoon, he stopped
to rest in the shaded hollow of a
boulder, and suddenly, as he looked
to the ground, his; face blanched I'M
der its coating of CRIME. A broken
sage bush told where foot had
passed! This man had reached
point where signs of humanity were
more terrible than the death that
surrounded him on every hand! He
looked again, and the pallor became
moro terrible, with the set terror OF
despair. He recognized the spot
where he had rested in the morning
and from which he had crawled to
the first gully! 1t was his foot that
had broken the sage bush, and all
these hours of superhuman toll had
awaited only to bring him back to
his starting point! Then he rose
erect, no longer creeping, no longer
skulking, but upright, as God meant
man to walk, and took the direction
in which lay the mist that was
mountain.
Hours passed again! THE sun had
almost touched the top of the noun
tains, which now rose huge and dark
before the man who dragged on and
on, over the dead plain, with purple
face and swollen hands and feet.
filled with but one thought, conscious
of but one wish, to reach the shelter
of the mountains, and there to find
water, and, drinking, perchance to
die. -
Long shadows ran out to meet
him; a cooler air from the mountain
heights touched his brow. In gull
ly, high up among the ragged pines.
he caught sheen of light, where the
last sun rays struck a falling stream.
Suddenly, from behind great boul-
der. q horseman barred the way. the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
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That Siberian Butter.

nat siberian Butter.
Probably no foreign subject con,
nected with dairying has received so
much attention from the press of the
United States during the last few
years as has Siberian butter. 1t has
entered so directly into competition
with the butter of all other countries
that sell dairy products in the English
market that we have been forced to
recognize 1t as great factor. Per.
haps the matter has received more
attention than it deserves; but there
has been a feeling that this matter OF
Siberian butter is to become very
great factor in the competitive butter
markets of the world. In other coun-
tries the area for the production OF
butter for export is limited, and no
one locality is feared very much. But
with Siberia it is different There Is
there an immense stretch Of territory
that is admirably adapted to the pro-
duction of dairy articles. Labor Is
cheap and transportation, being under
the government, Is also cheap. Butter
seems to be about the only manufac-
tured product of an agricultural ma
ture that is being exported. Condi-
lions are such that it seemed that 1t
would be possible for the Siberians to
undersell every other nation and so
capture the best butter markets of
the world This thought has evidently
been in the minds of the Siberians
themselves, judging from the way
they have taken hold of the matter.
In five years the number of dairy
farms there has increased five fold.
There is, however, this protection to
the other butter-producing countries,
that the methods followed by the ST.
berians are yet crude, and much of the
butter turned out is of poor quality.
The war in the east has taken the at
tention of the government, and there
now seems no good reason to suppose
that the government will do much to
improve conditions in the Siberian but
ter factories for some years to come.
Should the Russian government take
hold of the matter as vigorously as
has the Canadian government taken
hold of the dairy business in the
Northwest Territories the quality Of
Siberian butter would be at once
raised to point that would make
that country dangerous competitor
for every butter producing country in
the world that sells it's product in the
English market.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05

the Bantam Rouen, and the White Call
duck the Bantam Pekin. The two va
rieties differ only in plumage. They
are good for pets, and are also used
as decoy ducks by duck shooters.
They are not infrequently crossed
with the Mallard duck to make them
more available as decoys. The re-
suit of such crossing are ducks that
are both tame and domestic.
One of the greatest drawbacks to
turkey raising is the loss of young
turkeys, due to wet weather.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
The Boy Specialized.

Baron Moncheur, the Belgian minis
ter, visited Baltimore last month. AT
a dinner in Baltimore he said:
1.-THE spirit of business enterprise
and speculation is what impresses me
most profoundly in America. For in,
stance, I was riding one day on the
outskirts of Washington, and at a
certain place I dismounted and got a
little boy to hold my horse. l was
gone about ten minutes, and on my
return l found the first boy gone, and
another, smaller one, standing at the
horses head.
"'How is this?" l said. You are
not the boy left my horse with
"'No, sir said the tiny urchin, 4
speckilated and bought the job off
the other fellow for dime
"Of course, after that" the minister
ended, at was impossible for me to
bear the market. kansas City Jour
nal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
POULTRY
Shall Farmers Raise BroiIers?

Shall Farmers Raise BroiIers?
The farmer frequently asks himself
If it will pay him to raise broilers.
times very high and the farm reader
can but help thinking what revenue
he would have if he had annually
few thousand pounds of broilers to
sell. But, as general thing, the
farmer that has gone into broiler pro-
duction has not made success OF it.
That is one branch of poultry raising
that seems to belong to the specialist.
The raising of birds for the broiler
market requires very different set
OF efforts than uoes the production OF
farm fowls generally. In the 1rst
place the broiler raiser must do his
Matching in the Fall, and, OF course,
for this work must have incubators
and breeders. Then comes the ques-
ton of an egg supply, which can sell
dom be answered satisfactorily with
out the farmer building up mock OF
hens that will produce hun an aUun-
dance OF eggs in the late h all and ear
ly Winter.
Our specialists have found it ad-
visable to build broOder houses that
can be heated by steam. We know Oh
one such recently build which cost
500. Whether IL will pay an interest
on the investment We 40 not know,
and neither ooes the builder. There
t1Nv "a IN
deeply as this into the poultry Dusi-
ness. Then the market Tor brOilers
is confined to the cities and to few
families and hotels III each. The broil-
ers have To be handled certain way
and be marketed through certain chan
nels ii the profits are to be preserved
for the raiser. The farmer seldom
knows the ms and outs OF the city
markets well enough to sell broilers
TO advantage.
In the raising of broilers great skill
is necessary, and the man that is put
ting most of his time on other farm
work is little likely to take time to
become skillful with his poultry. This
is the cause OF numerous failures with
raising broilers on farms. This has
led to the centralizing OF the broiler
business in the hands OF comparative
ly few persons living near the larger
cities, and these have become spe.
clalists. If a farmer wishes TO under
take the business OF broiler raising, it
would by all means be best for him to
make special investigation in person.
Let him first go to the markets in the
great cities and learn all there is TO
learn about prices, time OF market and
requirements and eXactions OF the ul-
innate customers. Then it would pay
him to visit some OF the farms on
which broilers are, being raised, and il
he can find some farms that are rails
ing broilers and producing other crops
at the same time he should visit them,
determined to get both sides OF the
story.
There is only one way for a novice
to begin the broiler business and that
is on a small scale. If he depends on
the experience of others and goes
in on large scale the chances are
that he will lose all he puts into the
enterprise. There is money in the
broiler business, but it takes eXper-
fence and skill to get it out.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
MAYOR McCIeIIan,s Smile.

Mr.. Mcclellan was accompanied by
a friend. He was smoking the last
quarter of an immense cigar and
talked earnestly. In front of the en-
trance to the Potter building half
dozen newsboys were sorting papers.
The mayor was caught there in the
crowd, and delayed a few seconds.
One of the gamins spotted" him.
"Hey, fellers," he said, in a low
tone, "dat's de mayor"
"Golly," said another. Look at de
size of de smoke. Folly him md see
where he tros de butt
LAS the mayor, smiling at what he
had overheard, pushed on, he re-
marked to his companions
"Such is fame-mestly big
smoke. New York Mail.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
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BY george DYER eLOR|DGE
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A land so desolate that magma
ton might not picture it; the surface
alternating in gray and red. where
the disintegrated line and sandstone
lay side by side without mingling; a
soil too coarse for vegetation, hard
with the baking of a burning sun.
and worn into ridges, where the
spring torrents from the melting
snow of the mountains had eaten
away the softer earth. In scattered
clumps, gray sage-seeming in its
lifeless dryness rather part OF the
dead soil than a living growth from
it. Here and there cleaned white in
the sunshine masses of bleached
bones of cattle-perhaps of men
who had wandered there and died.
The vast plain that stretched, dead
waste, to the mountains which hung
like banks of mists on the edge of the
horizon, was broken by hideous
masses of red sandstone, gigantic.
water-worn into curious shapes by
the floods of aged untold. Here, one
stood isolated, in the form of
crouching animal ready to spring;
there, they lay along the plain, as if
huge lizards mad been suddenly
turned to stone. Again, one lowered
like pillar carved with strange de-
vices of a forgotten people, and yon-
der. in masses and groups and rows.
they seemed the ruins of some vast
city, whose streets and squares must
have echoed to busy feet hundreds
thousands of years ago. Not tree
in the vast plain, but over all sky
without a cloud, and sun, not yet
at the meridian. that burned with
more than tropic heat.
Suddenly, in the very center of this
horror of desolation, appeared a man.
He was crouching in the water-worn
hollow of one of the biggest rocks.
covering in it's blacklist shadow and
gazing off across the wide plain to
the dim mist that told where the
mountains lay. There was a hag-
gard, hunted look in his face, and
by the hum of locust or the buzz
of beetle, bit of sandstone
dropped from the great boulders, he
shivered as with fear and drew deep
er into the shadow of the followed
rock.
After some minutes. he seemed to
gather courage and suddenly dropped
from his rock-shelter, fiat upon the
ground, STILL however, within the !
shadows of the great boulder. Then
he raised his head and again gazed
away toward the mountain. 1t was
as if he felt that the mountain had
eyes and was watching the great
plain, on which anything that moved |
would be seen through the clear air |
and known by its power of life to
be strange to that dead world.
After time he was crawling like
lizard, out of the shadows, across
stretch of hot sunlight, in among
the scant sage Understanding as
ii he would be part of the gray and
red earth, If only he could burrow
into it and escape sight. Even when
he reached the sage bushes he did
not rise, but instead, crept on and |
on, until he came to one of those
hideous water-worn gullies, into
which he rolled without raising his |
body from the ground.
There he lay for time, as if eK-
pecting that the dead plain would
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-08-05
bridte.fein hanging, loose, q short rifle

bridfe.fein hanging. loose, a SHORT rifle
at his shoulder, aimed at the hunted
mans heart. The fugitive stopped,
his weary head dropped, and with his
swollen hand he made the sign OF
the Cross on brow and breast. Then
came the sharp, quick ring of the
rife, and the. man fell, with arms
outspread, and with single groan
lay dead, himself making the sign
of the Gross on the dead plain. The
horsernan adjusted his rifle across his
saddle, gave one glance at the dead
body, to make sure that his aim had
been true, land rode away into the
depths of the mountains. - -.