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Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22

Three years ago Joseph Plante was
in Carson City. While here he met a
friend who told him his mother was
dead. says the Carson News.
Naturally he accepted the statement
as afact. and from that time to this
his mother. who Is alive and living in
Los Angeles. has not heard from him.
This comes near being a domestic
tragedy. which possibly the newspape $
Of Nevada can avert by giving this no.
tIce publicity.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22
An Unpleasant Remembrance.

One Of the prisoners pardoned by
the State Board Monday was August
Cerens. who had been sent up from
Reno to anguish fifteen months In the
State bastile for selling whisky to In
dams. Gerens no sooner obtained his
liberty than he made for the railroad
office and purchased a ticket for New
Jersey. and thus he will have put about
as much distance between himself and
the scene Of his downfall as Is possible.
News.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22
Wonderful Nerve.

Is displayed by many a man enduring
pains Of accidents Cuts, Wounds.
Bruises. Burns. Scalds. Sore feet OF
stiff joints. But there is no needfor It.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve will kill the
pain and cure the trouble. It's the best
Salve on earth for Piles. too. Csc. al
Wadsworth Drug Store.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22

Bob Virgins of Empire may lose
one Of hts feet as the result Of having
II frozen.
George Uhl. a former we'll known
resident Of Empire, ormsby county,
died In Tonopah I
The Ancient Order Of Hibernians Of
Reno will celebrate St. Patrick's day
with a big parade.
Charles Wallace, wanted in Reno
and Winnemucca for obtaining money
on forged checks. a captured by
Sheriff Lamb Of Humboldt in the
Quinn river district.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22
Saved From Terrible Death.

The family Of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt Of
Bargerton. Tenn. saw her dying and
were powerless to save her. The most
skilful physicians and every remedy
used. failed. while consumption was
slowly but, surely taking her life. In
this terrible hour DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption turned despair
into Joy. The first bottle brought i'm
mediate relief and Its continued use
completely cured her. It's the most
certain cure In the world for all throat
and lung troubles. Guaranteed.
Bottles SOC and $l.oo. Trial bottles
free at Wadsworth Drug Store.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22

United States District Attorney
Summerfield received word from the
commissioners Of the general land Of
flee In Washington instructing him to
bring no further proceedings against
Miller & Lux. at present. as the firm
Is complying with the law as rapidly as
possible.
Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-22
Republican Committee to Meet.

A meeting Of the Republican State
Central Committee has been called al
the Riverside hotel in Reno on Feb
ruary 18th. for the purpose Of deter
mining the time. place and manner Of
selecting delegates to the National
Convention to be held in Chicago on
June 2ist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Georgia's Famous Resort, THE WIG w A M , INDIA,l SPRINGS. GA.

The Wigwam, at Indian Springs, hour and 50 ,-inutes from Atlanta, 10 minutes from Macon, on Southern Railway, is now open.
 Indian Spring water has been a panacea for diseases for 100 years. It's medicinal baths are obtainable at the lWiqwam only. New management esrdctly first-class.
 application OUUtILLL U1USi 6-20-24t-fri-su-mo-wed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
CONTAMINATION OF MILK.
rom the Country Gentleman.

From the Country Gentleman.
 We all known that cleanliness is ab- solutely essential to successful dairying,
 and in a general way we know why. But
 Prof Wilber J. Fraser of Illinois has
 lately stated the reasons In such cogent
 form that we are tempted to give them in his own words He says:
 Successful dairying depends largely
 upon the ability to limit the number of
 bacteria obtaining access to milk and to control those that cannot be kept out.
 Milk becomes contaminated in so many ways in the process of milking that it Is extremely difficult to secure it free from
 germs. but this has been done in an ex-
 perimenta way a sufficient number of times to prove that milk as formed in
 the milk glands of a healthy COW is
 germ-free. Since bacteria invade the
 udder to some extent. and develop there.
 milk as drawn from the udder Is not
 entirely free from germs; this is espe-
 cially true of the first milk drawn.
 When milk Is secured free from germs.
 the common phenomenon of souring does
 not take place. but it remains sweet and practically unchanged indefinitely. It is therefore of the utmost importance not
 only to the milk producer and the con sumer, but to the butter and cheese
 maker as we'll that this ideal condition Dt dS ltdiiy ItdC1ltu dS poSSibit. By OD- serving a few precautions. dairymen can prevent the contamination of milk to a
 large extent and thus produce, at but slight trouble or expense, a much better | and mere valuable. as well as a longer | keeping product.
 | Freshly-drawn milk is especially adapt | ed to the growth of nearly all species of l bacteria, as it contains all the elements
 necessary for their development. and be-
 sides affords favorable temperature. | An effort was made to determine the | difference species of bacteria that gain access to milk, but in the present state of | development of the science of bacteriol- | ogy, this Is difficult to do satisfactorily. | For the practical dairyman it is sufficient | to say that a majority of the forms found
 grow readily in milk. Many of the spe- | cies produce visible changes in milk, such as curdling or peptonizing, while others l affect the flavor
 l It should be borne in mind that a great majority of the species of bacteria that 1 gain access to milk do not possess the | power to produce disease, and are not in- | furious to healthy adults, although many | of them are likely to produce disorders
 of digestion in infants and invalids | By far the greatest source of contam- l ination In milk Is the COW herself. and | the greater part of this contamination comes from the udder. unless that is washed before milking. This emphasizes not only the great importance of wash | ing the udders before milking. but also of having the dairy rooms and all sur roundings as clean and the air as free | from dust as possible wherever dairy products arc handled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
LATE MATCHED HRooos.
n the Sonthern Agrlcnltnrist.

From the Southern Agriculturist.
 The more experienced poultrymen hatch few broods of chickens all along during the growing season of the year; and while 1t Is not expected that we should Anntinue to bring off the little chickens in ay June and July like we did earlier 3 the season. still it Is possible for us to add to our genral flock of young stock considerably during the summer months, by the matching of brood every week or so. This is advisable in order to keep up the per cent of live vigorous chick ems that we may have at the close of the regular spring matching season; for we ate airte sure to lose some of them along, from one cause or another, and if we are prudent enough to hatch occasional brood along we will get enough good, ao tive and vigorous chickens in this way to even up the loss, and so make our total for the season much more than 1t would he should we stop off as soon as real warm weather sets in.
 The summer brood is not so much of a bugbear as some people would make it. lrdeed, when 1t is properly located and cared for, 1t Is quite the easiest of all to raise In managing it, we should take a ratJral view of the situation, and place the little chickens so that they will be as much in touch with nature as possible. l nut IS We SHOulu tOOp ihtu out III tiie open. where they will have ample range. It doesn't matter so much about the hen. She might yet be yarded rather locely to advange. In fact if we should make a little pen about ten by twelve feet. of five e-foot slats. and then clip one wing so as to conf1ne her therein. putting the coop in there too, but having the sats far enough apart for the chick ems to run out and in at will. we would then have her situated about right and 1t would be no trouble to take care of Ter.
 Of course, we should also keep a sharp lookout for lice and mites about the hen and her brood during the warm season but. If we are watchful and oil the GOODS on the inside with kerosene oil, as often as once a week and have a place for the hen to dust with her little ones there will be no harm done by the pests last named.
 Pullets fatched late in the season usu ally make good summer and fall layers the following year. at a time when the earlier birds ara shedding their feathers, and not laying Indeed one of the most experienced eastern poultrymen has de- clared that his system of getting eggs all the year round consists in catching some chickens every month in the year. and putting the bullets in his laying yards; that. in this way. he has a con- tlnuous rotation in age and vitality.
 In the summer season the growing stock tha. has free range does best on a dry diet-chiefy grain-and fresh water. as they get grass and insects off the range.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Corn Stands Best.


 The corn crop seems to stand the hest of any. Potatoes in many sections are rot | ting in the ground, and can not be dug | Fruits and vegetables of all kinds are greatly damaged in many sections The 1 railroads all over the west have been badly put out, and business greatly in- l terfeared with in many sections.
 l do not know of a better plan for giv- | ing the reader a true idea of the crop damages than to take weeks travel and give a partial outline of conditions l found in the sections visited
 l left Birmingham at noon Tuesday, June '. for the north, going out over the Louisville and Nashville railroad The showers through Ala bama were timely and came about right-the crops needing the rain. l saw no damage to crops from rain or storms and all crops that had been properly cultivated were looking well and full of promise. In fact I could | not but notice the change for the better, and how the crops had improved since my last trip through this sections. Put on | reaching the state line and just after crossing the Tennessee river. into Ten | nessee we found that a heavy rain had | just fallen, washing out and destroying | crops in It's path. A little further up 1 near Pulaski. we ran into the hall storm l which had done great damage to crops | On reaching Nashville I saw in the morn- | Ing paper that this hail storm had ex- tended east to Lewisburg Tenn. where it destroyed thousands of acres of fine crops All through Tennessee. Kentucky and Southern Indiana it was the same-too much rain and all soils too wet to work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

The United States department of agri- culture has recently issued Circular No. 45 of the Bureau of Animal Industry, en- titled. Milk Fever: It's Simple and Sue- cessful Treatment. It gives complete description of the astonishingly success ful results obtained in the treatment or this heretofore extremely fatal Halaus by the injection of filtered atmospheric ar into the udder Milk fever affects we'll nourished heavy milking cows in all the large dairy districts of this country, ana Is characterized by the complete paralysls of the animal shortly after calving AS 1t attacks the best milking cows In the herd at 0 time when the milk flow is the heaviest the disease Is one which mas caused very severe losses in our dairy in- dustry It is therefore, of the greatest importance that every milk producer ac- quaint himself with the present extremely successful treatment and should provide himself with a suitable apparatus for in- jecting sterile air through each teat until the under Is well dlstended. This air treatment is by far the most simple and practicable, as well as the most effleacious and harmless one ever used. and has re- duced the mortality from the disease 10 almost nothing It is easy of manipula- ton, requires but little time, and is read- ly accomplished by means of the appara- tus suggested by the bureau. Up 10 with in recent times most stringent measures were resorted to by every careful dairy man to prevent the disease in his herd. However, since the air treatment has SO greatly reduced and even In some eases ohliterated. the mortality, prevention Is no longer such an important problem. and therefore preventive measures. such as starving, blood letting, etc, which have a severe and lasing effect upon the animals, should be abandoned. The most recent preventive treatment suggested Is in line with the favorable results obtained by the injection of air into the udder. It consists ia allowing the susceptible COW to retain in the under for twenty-four hours fol- lowing calving all the milk except the small quantity required by the calf. The distenton of the under naturally follows as in the air treatment and acts as preventive against milk fever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Rains Help Wheat.

The rains have greatly helped the wheat [ and oat crops through all the states named. and the wheat crop in all these states Is heavy the only fear now is that If the rains continue the grain will lodge badly. In fact this has common the low lands. The conditions in Kansas. especi- ally Southern Kansas, are appalling and the damage beyond reckoning at this time Kansas will suffer great loss in grain and hay crops. Arkansas, Indiana and Oklahoma Territory are all great suf- ferers. and 1t is hard to say which of the three has suffered the greatest losses to crops and property. Indian Territory re- ports the greatest loss of life-something near fifteen persons so far known to have been drowned.
 In these three sections come our heavy loss on the cotton crop Acres in each section are washed out, other acreage is under water and thousands of acres are becoming hopelessly lost in weeds and grass. I think that both the territories named have suffered a far greater damage to the soil by washing than has any of the states. In fact there is no estimate of the loss and damage done the soil by washouts. The loss to the soil Is far greater than the loss of the crops, for he crops might be replaced. but the soil is gone. l think I never saw the country 30 fearfully washed out and up in great gulles.
 Bad in Texas.
 Friday night l reached Northern Texas and put mp at Paris. where found con- ditions almost as bad as in the territories Here they are having cloudbursts or water spouts or heavy rains which are playing navoc with all crops, and washing the soil fearfully Here I found our truck growers with about five cars of potatoes In the field undug, and no chance to get on the field to dig. The potatoes are rot ting In the ground. and what is now ir the fields will be a clear loss. This is the situation over a great portion of Northern Texas.
 However the crops have been well cul- tivated generally in Texas. and the rains found them clean, so that there will be but few crops lost by weeds and era ss the great losses heinz from hail wash outs and overfiows. Of course this has no reference to the great acreage of over crops of cotton. as mentioned in my June 1 report as these crops were lost-rain CT no rain. The damage to the cotton crop over a large acreage of North Texas is very great The rains caught the farm CTS of this section with but little more than, half their great wheat. oat and hay crops harvested and now the mowers and bindersNare standing in the fields in mud and water and can not be moved for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Shelby Springs, Ala.

cultured ard enpass Where have variety Of well appointed New iio where the be Birmingham? Shelby Springs
 of thirty minutes the mus dancing etc
 For rates
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
HOT SPRINGS, ARK. 1.-THE ROCkAFELLOW,"

10. 5, PUTNAM, Proprietor.
 Homelike. Select. Bounteous table. Moderate rates. Bathhouse under same roof. We employ no drummers. We are on our merits. Write for booklets. Half rate round trip to-day tickets on sale by all railroads every Wednesday and Sat urday.
 Our porters meet all trains at depot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
HOTEL

In the "Heart of the Mountains"
 In the Celebrated Land of the Sky at an altitude of 2S50 feet Opens June 8th, under the supervision of it's new owner and proprietor,
 MIR. BENJ. J. SLOAN.
 Superior accommodations for 250 guests. Special rates for the season, month, week. with or without bath. Write for 1904 booklet. Address
 Mrs. E. J. Ring Manager,
 Waynesville, North Carolina. 6-5-3m- su- we-fri
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Worse in Illinois.

In Illinois the conditions were even worse. if such could be- Here there are acres of young corn all under water, or the soil so water soaked that no cultiva- ton can he done. Much of this country Is fiat. and the water will remain on 1t longer than 1t will in the other sections so far named Many crops will be com pletely drowned out and by the time that the soil is dry enough to work it will be too late to replant corn
 Through Missouri the conditions are about the same as in Illinois only in this state the damage and loss on stra awberry crops has been something fearful. for the rains came Just as many crops were ready for market. Plekers could not be had to work in the rain and then the rains were so heavy and continuous that the fruit soon became too soft to bear shipment The loss of the strawberry crop means much to many sections of Missouri for this was their main crop. Trains of straw berries swere shipped from points in Ar kansas, where they ripened ahead of the rains. and the same results would have been obtained in Missouri with two weeks more of good weather But the floods came in just the right time to damage the Missouri crops. Many fields will be almost an entire loss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22

Help buy the elephant by saving Grand Duke Soap wrappers. They are worth one-half cent each in cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
Cron Reeuperation.

As stated in the outset June weather is very changeable and conditions change fast in this month, and where it may seem like famine or starvation today. with week of sunshine and cultivation crops will look entirely different This is a great country, and our soil as rule Is rich. and when we'll cultivated will pro- duce immense crops There is acreage enough left yet to give us jumper crop and the thing now is to bend every en- ergy to save the acreage of crops not destroyed by the floods. The cultivators should start early and run late until the crops are assured. Work should be pushed. I heard Texas farmers say: .If the rain will only stop and the soil get dry enough so a team can get on 1t we will hang lanterns on our harvesters and work day and night until our grain is saved" This is the only kind of energy that can win now.
 Tn conclusion I want to say that tho present conditions of crops should afford the farmers valuable object lessons from which they may be greatly benefited in the future If they will but remember these lessons. shall have somethinr more to say of this. and also want to have something to say in my next letter on the acreage of the various crops this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
AgricuHural Department
CONDUCTED BY FULTON s. WHITE.
JUNE AND CROPS.

June weather Is treacherous and deeep- tive. This month has greater influence on crops than any other. June is a month of sunshine and cyclones, wind and storms. hail and excessive rainfall In June conditions of weather and crops change rapidly from good to bad or from bad to good Just as quickly. We can never tell in June what a day ahead may bring. Today all may be lovely, and everything promising. crops giving the promise of an abundant harvest; tomor- row all may be hailed out or drowned out.
 June remind me of what the old darl1y said about March. He said that he al- ways noticed that when he lived through the month of March he lived through the balance of the year. This is the way feel about June if l can get through the storms of June I feel that l can make it the balance of the year.
 Crops Are Damaged.
 When l was making my crop report on the first of this month l thought then that I had never seen brighter pros pect for big crop of almost everything. but before that report was printed storms mad begun to appear, rain and hail fell Tn great torrents over a very large por- ton or our best agricultural country, and the damage to crops in the first ten days of June amounts to millions In fact 1t is very difficult to make any thing like estimate of the damages, as thousands of acres of promising crops nave been completely destroyed. Nor Is the damage ended, for every day reports come from some sections that are com pletely destroyed.
 The damage covers a very large scope or country. Rivers all over the country are out of their banks and overflow thou sands of acres of crops. and avery little stream is full to overnowng. the soil is water-soaked so that all farm operations are suspended. Thousands of acres oi fine grain is ready for harvest-much oi 1t dead ripe-but the soil Is so soft that teams with harvesters can not get In tho heids weeds and grass are taking ad vantage of the situation and are making rapid growth; many cotton fields are now hopelessly gone. The cotton crop Is the greatest sufferer and what the damage really Is will not be fully knowI unti harvest. Yet not doubt the damagt means a loss that will run up into the millions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
BLouNT SPRINGS HOTEL,

Open all the year. Recommended by all physicians for all diseases of the stomach, liver and kidneys and power ful alteration tonic. First-class hotel ac- commodations. Own dairy and livery sta- ble, hot sulphur baths, bowling alley, ten his, eroquet, pool and billiards Rates per day. &; per week, sl0 50. except July, August and September, which are $lO. 50 to S12.50 per week.
 ROBERT McEwEN.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-06-22
MILK FEVER.

season. I think I can give an eye opener on on this subject.