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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-13
A Small Feeder,s problem.


W. II. II. writes: please tell me
the most profitable way to fatten Il
three-year-old steer with the follow
ing foods: Glover hay, mixed clover
and timothy hay, corn, bran, pump
kins, and clover and rye pasture"
AnsWer-It will not be possible TO do
more than make suggestions to our
correspondent relative TO the fatten-
ing of his three-year-old steer. If he
had given the weight and present con-
dition of the animal it would have
been better. A three-year-old steer
might weigh anywhere from 800 to
1900 pounds, depending on how he has
been handled, and his present condi-
ton will have a considerable influence
on the method of feeding to secure the
largest gains in the shortest possible
time and at the least expense. If the
animal is in good condition, a shorter
feeding period will suffice, and a COM
paratiyely heavy grain ration should
be used, and this ration should be
more fattening in nature than where
an animal is thin and poor, and must
first be brought into proper condition
for fattening.
Glover hay furnishes an excellent
roughness for beef cattle and will be
preferable to mixed hay. The steer
should have practically all Of this he
will eat, which will vary from fifteen
to twenty pounds per day in the be-
ginning, depending somewhat on his
appetite. AS the fattening progresses
the amount of clover hay consumed
will decrease and less should be placed
before him so as to prevent cloying
the appetite. 1t is also not advisable
to stuff an animal with all the rough
ness he will possibly consume. Some
judgment must be exercised in order
to keep the appetite on edge all the
time Where you feed clover hay it is
hardly necessary to feed much bran.
The corn may be fed whole unless it
is old corn, when it would be best to
grind it with the co6, making corn and
cob meal. To commence with, the
steer should probably not have more
than six to eight pounds of meal per
day with clover hay, later on the meal
should be increased at the rate of half
pound to Il pound a week until from
twelve to fifteen pounds per head per
day is being fed. If an animal is thin,
it will take $50 days to properly finish
him, if he is in good condition, $50
days will probably suffice. If you
have a pair of scales convenient, and
if you find that at the end of $50 days,
he is not making satisfactory gains,
if he is in prime condition, well and
uniformly fleshed probably it would
be better for you to dispose of him at
that time, than to hold him for a long
er period.
A pound of bran might be fed with
the corn each day, as it will tend to
keep the digestion in better condition,
and improve the quality of the hair
Give fair supply of pumpkins as long
as they last, from ten to thirty pounds |
chopped up and mixed with the hay |
and corn will not be too much. The |
steer might properly have the run of
the clover and rye until cold weather
sets in. Under these conditions he will |
not need very much hay.-Andrew |
M. Soule.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-13
"rhe sunshine Companion. !"

The work of Miss NJ. V. Townsend.
Sunshine Companion" is that OF
companion by the hour, for which she
charges such modest sums as visit
ing reader would. Suppose a conva-
leScent has dismissed her nurse, and is
struggling through the wearisome pc
Rod of weakness when her importance
as an invalid is gone, and yet she is
not equal to the interests of her own
life. The companion will come to her
at fixed hour every day, talk, listen,
read, sew, go driving, do anything that
is wanted with the simple-hearted
cheerfulness Of one who enjoys help
ing. Or take the case of a woman left
alone all day at a hotel in strange
city while her husband transacts bust
ness; the companion will go about with
her, help her to shop. pilot her to pic
lures and parks and whatever interests
her most. Or there is some crisis in a
household and some one has to keep
the young people out of its shadow;
the companion steps in and is friends
with them all in five minutes by grace
of her willing spirit. No one who had
trace of Self-consciousness or shyness
could fill such an office, for it's first
requisite is to get wholly out of oneself,
bringing to the other person fresh
interest that is never a co-partner with
egotism. An entirely natural manner.
perfect ease, is the inevitable result
of such selfessness.-Ever Mag
aZine.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-01-13
THE YOYAGING OF
n WAR FLEET.

| is easy enough to poke fun
at the elaborate prepare
tons made by the Russian
Baltic fleet, its slowness in
starting, and the dellbera-
The progress., 1905-03-04
WHEEL THAT ABSORBS HEAT
Invention of Englishman That Solves
Auto Difficulty-Cost of Tires
Reduced to Minimum.

London.-If the invention of Mr..
Robinson, of Beccles. proves, under
more extended tests. to be what he
thinks it is, it would seem that motor
lists will owe him vote of thanks. Every
motorist knows that practically two
thirds of the cost of the sport is in the
tires. and as it has SO far proven impos-
sible to use solid tires because of the
fact that in high speed cars the friction
of the wheel with the road created suf-
ficient heat to contract the wheels and
allow the tire to run off, motorists have
been at the mercy of the pneumatic tire.|
as being the only thing that would stand
the strain and meet all requirements.
Mr.. Robinson claims to have invented
a specially constructed wheel that in it,
self offers sufficient resiliency and is sol
adjusted with springs as to take up al
heat contraction due to high spee4
thus permitting the use of solid tired
either steel or rubber. Mr.. Robinsony
clsres he has special set ofthis whe{
on a nine horsepower car. ans had run ~.
a distance of more than 1000 miI,>at a
speed of so miles an hour without the
tires requiring the slightest attention
The progress., 1905-03-04
Ames Wins Judging Contest.

Iowa wins at the lnternationa. Live
Stock exposition! This announcement
has Just been received from Chicago.
where the last exposition was held.
Bronze statues of horse and steer wers
offered for hcrse, cattle, sheep and hog
Judging. Iowa agricultural college, OF
Ames. whose students were under the
direction of Prof. Curtiss, carried the
first honor in the horse judging,contest,
and thus covered their school and them
selves with glory. Canadian institu-
tion won second place with Iawa's rival,
the Michigan agricultural college, con-
tenting itself with the third ribbon. The
successful Iowa team was made up of e.
b. Thomas, James L. Cutter, j. ID. Askby,
J. A. Mclean. r. X. Bliss and c. r. Scott.
The bronze statue of horse was award
ed the victorious youths as a trophy OF
their skill.
The progress., 1905-03-04
ATMOSPHERE AS A PRISM.
Refracts the Suns Rays and Pro.
duces the Peculiar Green Color
Seen at Sunset.

A green ray at sunset is sufficiently
we'll known to make unnecessary any
mention of the beauty of the spectacle
and the ordinary conditions of it's OBJ
servation. The ray may be seen on beau
tiful evenings on the seashore and else
where, although the intensity is varia-
BILE in general it is necessary that the
state of the atmosphere be such that the
horizon may be clearly distinguished
as the solar disk sinks behind it. In
explanation of the green ray recourse
has been had to the theory of an optical
Illusion, due to the yellow-oranSe light
of the sun, which at the moment of the
disappearance of the last small portion
of the sun becomes affected by the COM
Elementary colcr, ereenblue. This has
not been satisfactory, and it has been
suggested, says writer in La Nature
that the atmosphere acts as prism, re-
fracting, the last luminous ray from the
sun at the time of its disappearance and
decomposing and spreading 1t out ac-
cording to the succession of colors OF
the spectrum. The red, orange and vel,
low rays are the less deviated and are
confused with the solar point of which
they have the color, but the eye per-
ceives clearly the green and blue rays
while the indigo and violet, which are
the most dispersed and the most lumin-
Gus. cannot be seen.
The progress., 1905-03-04
DIG DIAMONDS IN STREETS
The Unemployed in Kimberley, South
Africa, Given Privileges by Mu-
nicipal Council.

London.-Latest news from South
Africa brings a report that the munich
pal council of Kimberley. finding the
town full of unemployed because OF
strikes and the consequences of the
late war, allowed the idle inhabitants
to tear up the streets and search the
macadam for diamonds on condition
that each man should replace the space
allotted to him.
1t was known that the macadam OF
the streets had been originally taken
from the debris of the diamond mines
and talk of great jewels hidden in il
had been common.
AS it is each workman found from
$1,000 TO $1,000 in diamond dust, SONS
Jewels discovered being valued as high
as $500 each.
The progress., 1905-03-04
was never more full of determination

than I am now / have one arm left
and soon can go out again as a
strong man among strong men, to go
en- with my work. Sometimes, Con-
/ used to think that but for you
would be glad to give up the strug-
gle, it seemed SO long and dreary, the
waiting But that weakness has all
been put aside. Once II failed, at a
supreme moment, and now all the
work that God will permit me to dc
cannot-but never mind that, Con-
trying to control his voice. THE
operation has left me weak and wan
Gering. /"
There was sudden rustling OF soft
garments, subtle perfume in the
air. Both turned; then came sharp
cry from the cot.
Constance! Constance! My God!
Alive!"
"Fernald Fernaid! Fernald!"
Con looked from one to the other
wonderingly, then with sudden COM
prehension Something choled in his
throat, and he turned away. But only
for moment, then the woman's arms
closed about his neck.
The progress., 1905-03-04
Census Must Be Accurate.

Secretary Davidson, of the executive
council, has notified the county audit
ors that the census which is to be
taken soon must be accurately record
ed, and he sends with his warning
set of instructions for use of assessors.
General data of the state is TO lie taken
with the census, including live stock,
fruit. vegetables. etc Information is
to be secured, by the assessors, con-
cerning those who raise fowls, animals
or produce, but who do not come un-
der the classification of farmer" For
census purposes, farmer is any in
dividual owning and cultivating three
or more acres of land.
The progress., 1905-03-04

at the hotel this evening, "*she said.
II shall be out until then. ! only ex.
pect to remain here a>day or two, and
must utilize every moment. As soon
as the hospital is open am going to
see your father. He must be a very
brave man from what you have told
me, and / have warm feeling for
brave men, and for all who have to
do with the sea"
Ten minutes after the hospital was
open to visitors Con was sitting by
his fathers cot. The boys eyes were
blinded by tears.
"I-I didn't suppose it was any
thing like this, father" he choked.
"They didn't hint anything about
you losing an armand the right
arm. too. oh, father!"
1T might easily have been much
worse" said his father. quietly Il
was never more full of determination
The progress., 1905-03-04
Holden to Tour State.

Prof. P. G. Holden, of the Iowa State
college, at Ames, and George A. Wells,
of Des Moines, secretary of the Iowa
Grain Buyers association, have COM
pleted arrangements with the Chicago
G Northwestern Railroad company to
make tour Of the state about the
middle of March, spreading the gospel
of good seed corn. Prof. Holden, Sec
retary Wells and other noted Iowa ag-
riculturists will lecture on the subject,
and it is expected that a great amount
of interest will mark the enterprise.
Stops of 30 minutes will be made at
each station and brief speeches will be
delivered by the lecturers. A schedule
will be published and notices of the
tour spread, broadcast, SO that every
farmer in the state will have an oppor-
tunity to profit by it. Many believe
that other roads will follow the lead Of
the Northwestern, thus covering every
section of Iowa.
The progress., 1905-03-04
Lunacy on the Increase.

Insanity is on the increase in Iowa
This fact is borne out by the figures
which have just been made public by
the board of control. There are now
in the insane hospitals of the state
$3.50 persons suffering from nervous
diseases, an increase of 27S over tho
total of last year. New cottages are
being constructed at Clarinda and
Cherokee, fact which shows the fore
thought of the legislature and of the
board of control. The number of in
ebriates is falling off, the total now in
the hospitals being 81. as compared
with 107 reported last year. A net
increase CT leo is shown in the number
Of wards OF the state The total is now
1854. Following is a tabulated state
ment of the balance of cash on hand
in the funds of the Institutions:
The progress., 1905-03-04
LOVES sPRINGTIME.

My heart Was winter-bound until
] heard you sing:
o voice of Love, hush not. but fill
My life with Spring,
Ny hopes were homeless things before
/ saw your eyes;
o smile Of Love, close not the door
To paradise.
My dreams were bitter once, and then
i found them bliss;
. lips of Love, give me again
Your rose to kiss
Springtide of Lovei The secret sweet
Is ours alone:
o heart of Love. at last you beat
Against my own,
Frank Dempster Sherman, Lyrics oil
JOY"
The progress., 1905-03-04
Big Marble Find Announced.

The discovery of vast deposit of
rich marble which was made years ago
by Clement l.. Webster has recently
been made public by the awarding of
the gold medal to the company which
exhibited the stone at st. Louis. The
corporation which owns the land on
which fhe deposit was found, is locat-
ed at Charles City. This find is of ma
tional as well as state Importance, as
the Floyd county product is declared
to equal in quality the imported Ba-
varian article. A German magazine,
after one of its representatives had ex-
amined the Iowa product at the expo
sition, said that the German stone
must in time concede a place to the
Charles City marble. because of the
rare quality of the latter. The marble
as an article of commerce is used
mainly in lithographing.
The progress., 1905-03-04

Great plans are being made by the
state department of agriculture for next
years state fair, and in addition to the
swine pavilion, steel grand stand and
-l--i-;a.-otian -hnilding il to r-nnneed
to judiciously spend SIS, ,O0C from the cash
on hand in the treasury! Iowa swine
breeders have raised protest against
the treatment which they have been
accorded by the management The
breeders say that in view of the inn
mensity of the industry the prizes Of
fered should be much larger.
The progress., 1905-03-04
SEE IOWA BOND GIFT
BIG OFFERING TO HAwKEYE
STATE EXPLAINED.
HOLDEN ON LECTURE TOUR
Ames Professor Will Undertake En-
terprise in March-Insanity in
Iowa Increases-Censu TAX
ers Are Warned.
Especial Correspondence.l ]

Des Moines, Ia, Dec. 26-It Is gen.
orally believed here that the ten bonds,
representing face value Of $1,000
each, which have been offered to the
state of Iowa by Philadelphian, sign
Ing himself John James, are involved
in the scheme of a former United
States senator of another state to col
lect $20,000,000 in ancient obligations
from the southern states. The bonds
which concern Iowa bear interest
which, with the principal. make the
value of the documents about $4,000.
However, the Philadelphian points
out, these cannot be collected by an in
dividual, and if this state will UNDER
take the task, the bonds will be
turned over. 1t is said that when the
senator was in office he learned of
number of bonds which were outstand-
ing and, being uncollectable by pri-
vate individual, he engineered con-
tract under which he was guaranteed
four per cent. of all he could collect on
bonds of North Carolina. Ten thou
sand dollars in these bonds were pre-
sented to South Dakota, and suit was
begun in the supreme court against
North Carolina for collection. South
Dakota won and was given judgment
against the southern state for $50, 900.
1t is declared that the senator hunted
up the holders of extensive issues Of
southern state bonds and made con-
tracts with them for the collection Of
their claims. Judgment having been
secured for the state, 1t Is believed to
be the idea of those who represent the
collectors that they can set before the
government the fact that one class of
creditors cannot be paid without con-
sideration of another, thus bringing
about the desired result. In the South
Dakota case, Judgment will be issued
early in 1905. Meantime it is believed
that disinterested states will be asked
to accept bonds in order that suit may
be begun in their names. Iowa is the
first state to receive the offer and will,
in all probability reject it.
The progress., 1905-03-04
Death Dealing Canoe.

Abolish the canoe and Canada might
have a war eTery five years and then
lose fewer young men than the great
number that must go down to death in
ten years of summer holidays. 1t is
pitiful the mothers who weep.the fa-
theirs who mourn and the homes that are
darkened simply because the young peo-
pie wifi take chances that they have no
business to take. Death may part the
young man from his canoe. Good ad-
vice cannot. ..Ephraim is Joined to his
idols" and the victims of the canoe hab-
it will neither keep out of the canoes
nor be careful while they are in canoes.
Toronto Telegram.
The progress., 1905-03-04

here is Is cents an hour. at home it is Is
10 25 cents; but our workmen's superior
quickness evens this. Since we adopted
French designs, beginning where they
left of, we have been in fair way to
surpass them
I'VE build 400 cars>at once, on the
chance of prospective orders. while the
French build one at time, following or
ders. The present demand here and at
home is for high powered cars" <
The progress., 1905-03-04
For Soldiers Guidance.

The cotton handkerchiefs provided
for French soldiers have printed upon
them a number of sanitary precepts to
be observed on the march and during a
campaign. and are further decorated
with medallions containing pictures of
officers of all grades; the different uni
forms being SO distinctly portrayed that
a French private can tell at glance tn
what grade any officer he may see be-
longs
The progress., 1905-03-04
Bad Teeth Cause Cancer.

London.-Walter Whitehead, the well
known Manchester surgeon, believes il
possible that cancer may be due to bad
teeth. Addressing the students of the
Victoria Dental hospital the other day
he said. that to drain. trap. and ventilste
a house for a man with bad teeth was
waste of money, for he polluted the
purest air as he breathed it, and con-
tsminated the most wholesome food a.
be ate it.
The progress., 1905-03-04
A Holiday Appeal.

The youngster sighs, when Christina
comes.
For hobby-horses and for drums.
And jumping jacks and sleds and TOYS
Such as delight the hearts of boys.
He sometimes feels resentment faint,
Although he utters no complaint,
When hopes of playtime gifts take wings
And SANITY" brings him useful things
What cares he for a brand-new suit
Who has no striped horn to toot,
Or for a cap TO hide his head
Who has no wagon painted red?
All. what were life TO grown-up folk
without the piaything and the joke.
without the smile which folly brings
With just a weird OF useful things?'
Star.
The progress., 1905-03-04
FRENCH AUTOS LOSE PALM
American Built Machines Increase in
Favor Abroad-Trade Being
Revolutionized.

Paris.-"Americans will be shipping
automobiles to Paris within three
wears" declared E. r. Thomas. the auto
mobile manufacturer. Of Buffalo. in an
interview here the other day.
Undoubtedly the French were ahead
OF us at first in mechanical equipment
and methods Of construction Labor
The progress., 1905-03-04
Ioxan in Eigh Position.

Willet NJ. Hays. late Of Ames college.
has been appointed 10 the position of as
sistant secretary of ae ericulture at Wash
ington, and has left this state for the
capital. Prof. Hays now stands next to
Wilson secretary CT agriculture. who is
also an Iowa man, and has almost
reached the zenith of his career. Less
than 20 years ago Prof Hays did chores
at Ames, and his rise has been of the
meteoric variety
The progress., 1905-03-04
Not Yet Horseless Age.

Perhaps time will come when CIR
streets and avenues will be horseless,
but it cannot yet be claimed that it is
yet in sight. II will certainly not como
o. long as motor cars command pres
eDt prices-prices which manifest a
tendency to increase rather than to de-
crease. Even when the cost of good
machine is low-if such a period shall
ever arrive-doubtless we will continue
to see Dobbin and the family ctaise the
approved method of many for getting
the air-N Y Globe
The progress., 1905-03-04
Everything Here Short.

The late NJ. A. Lower. the antiquaryr
is responsible for this Lullington anec-
dote: One Sunday morning the curate,
man of diminutive stature. preached
from the shortest text in the Bible,
Jesus wept," to congregation of a
dozen people, and the offertory realized
only IS pence, whereupon stranger re-
marked that it was the smallest church.
the smallest congregation. the smallest
parson. the shortest text and the smallest
collection he had ever known.-West-
minister Gazette
The progress., 1905-03-04

II will be remembered that in the Boer
war Great Britain paid for a cargo OF
foodstuffs sent from the United States
to Portuguese port, and alleged to be
INTENDED for the Beers. BY this pay
ment Great Britain gave the best posi-.
BILE evidence of her adherence TO tht
American idea that food is not contra
band.-The Outlook.
The progress., 1905-03-04
culturn Stations Half Compiled.

Henry Albert. in charge of the state
meteorological laboratory at Iowa
City. says that the system of bacteria
culture stations throughout the state
is sbout half completed. Already 400
stations report regularly and accord
The progress., 1905-03-04
Riggs Reports on Teachers.

Advance sheets Of the state school re-
port have been given out by State SUI
perintendent Riggs, and it is shown that
there are fewer male teachers in Iowa
than last year, and that the number Of
female teachers have increased 338 dur
ing the year. The average monthly wage
of the women instructors has increased
from $32.6O to 1851 during the past
twelvemonth. 1t is pointed out that
there are 10000 more teachers than there
are rooms and the cost of supporting
the schools this year is about quarter
of a million dollars more than 1t was in
1903. Following is summary of school
rf t;nfiou Cor dnOA ..l dnnn.
The progress., 1905-03-04
Working for His Living.

Citizen-See here. why do you beg :.
Mendicant-Why. a feller can't live
by doin' nothin'.-Philadelphis BBl
letin-
The progress., 1905-03-04

Many men delight TO play the heavy
swell in a uniform that is Faudy and
cheap.
The progress., 1905-03-04


Senator Titus, author Of the Iowa BIZ
ennial amendment, sees victory In the
decisions in like cases in the supreme
court of Wisconsin. Questions have
been raised In the Badger state as to the
validity of amendments and have always
been decided in favor of the bill, he de-
clares. The senator came to Des Moines
on business recently, and when inter-
viewed on the question of testing the
amendment, said he doubted II any such
move could be made. When asked how
he would meet the criticism that his
measure was not submitted in proper
form, he cited case which was decided
in the Wisconsin court, and declared that
the language Of the Iowa and Wisconsin
constitution is identical on the ques-
tior. Mr.. Titus says he does not consid-
er the omission of the words "of Iowa"
worth the trouble which has been TO-
cused upon the deficiency.
The progress., 1905-03-04

Ing to the 1tatsmsut X ~ IowI4s 3 q
man. there Is roam for - nIany llcz! I
Dr.. Albert declares that ~ synt6
employed in Iowa 4 Tho next e -
best In the country. only on6s that ~
Vermont, surpassing IT,. AZ the nex1
legislature DR.. Albert will INTRODUCES T.
bill providing for the simpliAcation ok
requirements made upon physicians
regarding vital statistics.
The progress., 1905-03-04

Founder and Editor of Success" Maga-
zine. author Of Pushing to the Front"
Rising in the World or Architects OF
Eofo Ictnl