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Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
KILLING FEVER TICKS.
Promising Experiments Undertaken by the Agricul-
tural Department.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.

To stamp out Texas cattle fever.
This is the hope of the Department of
Agriculture. The Department has been
working on the problem for some
time, and it has almost been proved
to b satisfaction of officials that the
tick which cause the fever can be
eradicated from a pasture simply by
keeping cattle out of that pasture. The
tick is not a h~erbivorous insect, and
1t will die out if the pasture is kept
free of cattle. 1t is believed that if
one pasture on a farm is always kept
r OF cattle over what might be
termed the life period of the tick, it
will furnish perfectly safe pasturage
for uninfected animals in case fever
breaks out in the rest of the herd.
OF course, the Department of Agri-
culture has no right to go into a State
and enforce the free pasturage policy,
and the matter cannot be, or at least is
not, always dealt with satisfactorily
by State officials. But in cases where
the Department is officially invited to
come into a State and take charge of
cleaning it up, it is quite ready to do
so. Tentative arrangements have al
ready been made for this work with
the authorities in some States, and it
is believed that it will be quite pos.
sfble to stamp out the fever and al
low the free interstate transportation
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
The Manure Pit.

Where is the wise farmer who would
sell to his neighbor a load of his finest
corn or a load of some green crop for
a dollar bill, Yet there are thousands
of agriculturists all over the country
who are doing practically this very
thing when they dispose Of their barn
yard for 81 a load. Others
are wasting the most valuable constitu-
ents of the manure they save. The
manure produced on the farm is its
most valuable asset.
There are in the United States, in
round numbers, 1900, 900 horses, 61,-
000, 900 cattle, $4,000, 900 hogs and 49,
00O, 900 sheep. Experiments have
shown that if these animals were kept
in stalls or pens throughout the year
and the manure, both liquid and solid,
carefully saved, the approximate value
of the manure produced by each horse
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

yards have obtained unsatisfactory re
suits, but the Department of Agricul-
ture believes that this is probably due
to the fact thai these structures have
generally been loosely put together,
allowing a free circulation of air,
which has dried out the manure. On
this account barn cellars, so common
in New England, possess decided ad.
vantages as receptacles for nur
The common practice of allowing
swine to work over" the manure in
these cellars is a wise one, since it
mixes the manure and keeps it well
packed and moist. In fact, if these
bottoms to hold the liquid manure,
this system of storage is probably the
most perfect practiced.
Manure the Best Fertilizer.
Barnyard Is the most ef-
fective means at the disposal of the
average farmer to permanently inn
prove his soil. No other fertilizer pos
sesses to SC great a degree the power
of restoring worn out soils to produc-
t~iveness and giving them lasting fer
tility. 1t provides actual fertilizing
constituents; it improves the physical
properties of the soil. increasing the
amount of humus, which is generally
deficient in worn soils, lettering its
texture and increasing it's waterfall
sorbing and water-holding power. Elk
periments have shown that the infiu-
ence OF manure may be perceptible
twenty years after application. 1t di-
rectly represents fertility drawn from
the soil and must be returned to II
IL productiveness is to be maintained
In many cases it has been demon
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
A CONVENIENT COVERED BARNARD.

front of which and facing 1t, May sat.
was just then acting as engineer
and fireman, and as | happened to
look in their direction, to my horror,
saw an immense RATHER, coiled within
g foot or less of Mays back, his body
swaying to and fro, and his angry eyes
shining like sparks of fire. l was lit
orally paralyzed with terror, for
though but twenty feet away, it seemed
as If the blow would be struck be-
fore l could take even the first step.
Motz must have seen the snake at the
same moment, for l heard his voice
clear and sharp above the oar of all
the machinery, MAY, there's a rattle
snake that will strike if you move; sit
perfectly STILL" AS he spoke he
grabbed from a beam the bull whip.
which we used for our OK team, and
with the slightest movement of his
powerful wrist snapped it at the rep
tile, as If striking at a fly. I remem-
Der I thought what a fool action that
was, why didn't he dash forward and
at least attract its attention.! But l
looked again and the body lay quiv-
ering and twisting, but with a broken
neck.
pretty close call, May" he said
cheerily, "but it's easy when you know
the trick"
May had been perfectly cool and
obedient till the danger was past, and
then, womanlike, she quietly swooned
away, and for a day or two we did our
own cooking.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

OF cattle, which is now prohibited. The
saving in money and the convenience
to shippers of this arrangement can
easily be understood.
To Introduce Cattle from India.
While this quarantine and extirpa-
ton work is going on, a similar expert
ment on different lines directed to
the same end will soon be under way.
There have been imported to some
OF the Texas ranges specimens of the
Indian sacred cattle, and it has been
found that they were immune to the
Teyas fever. Apparently there is an
oil in the skin that is repugnant to the
tick. At any rate they will not har-
Dor the parasite. The half-bloodS and
even animals containing but one-six-
teenth part Indian blood have been
found immune, and they make just as
good beef cattle as can be found.
There are very stringent laws
against the importation of foreign
stock into this country without thor
ough examination and quarantine;
therefore it is risky to import stock
from so far away as India without
especial provisions for it's examination.
Mr.. A. S. Borden of Pierce, Tex, has
arranged, however, with the Agricul-
.ural Department to make a large inn
.ortation Of the immune Indian cat
tie, and has already left for British
India to pick them out. The Depart
ment Of Agriculture will send a spe-
cial veterinary after him, and the first
shipment of about 100 head will be
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

served from unnecessary loss, as
should any other farm product, after
he has for twenty years stored the
manure under the ave upon
the slope which forms one border Of
the running brook.
Experiments made by various Gov.
eminent experiment stations show that
the construction of sheds or covered
yards for the protection of ant is
we'll worth while. The manure from
the horse and cattle stables and the
sheep and calf pens should be spread
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
RatEIeSnake Den.

We we're numbering in central Penn
sylvania during the summer of 1870,
our portable steam mill standing in
a piece of woodland, near a small
stream and within a short half mile
of a rocky ledge, known as Rattle
snake Den"
During the hot days, rattlers were
constantly met, and Harry" who
drove the daily stage through the MAR
rows" had won quite a local reputa-
ton from having killed more than a
score since the melting of the SHOWS.
The pretty young wife OF u en-
gineer had charge of the boarding
house, and after the oon meal was
served, the dishes cleared away and
the house put in order, she was &C.
customed to bring her sewing into the
shade near our Planer, which was the
cleanest and coolest part of the mill,
and sit for an hour or two before COM
mencing the preparation of the sup
per.
She was a sweet, attractive sight
that hot afternoon of which I speak,
her beautiful arms and neck rival
ling the wilderness Of her simple frock,
the only female in our camp of rough,
brawny men, but one whom any of
us would have defended from all harm
at any risk.
Some of the men were rolling up
the logs on the skid, some saving them
into boards, others carrying the boards
to the yard, while my partner, Manuel
Motz, was personally tending to the
more skillful work at the planer. In
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
THE WASTE OF BARNARD MANURE.

out evenly over these yards, covered
with coarse litter, and the whole kept
firmly packed by allowing animals to
run over it, thus preventing injurious
fermentation.
To Save All the Fertility.
A more elaborate and expensive
style of covered yard, a plan for which
is furnished by the Department Of
Agriculture, provides not only for the
required protection of both animals
and manure, but also affords an ex-
cellent grain chamber where feed can
be stored for convenient use. Under
the side roofs is also afforded a chance
for the storing of small tools and a
great variety of articles that are On
tinually in the way when lying about
the farm buildings. 1t also provides
splendid protection to animals when
housed at night during the summer,
this roof protecting them from heavy
showers in the night and affording
good chance for exercise in the win
ter, as all the sides, except that
toward the south, can be protected
against cold winds through tempo
rary boarding.
Many stables are so situated that
by adding a cheap lean-to, a manure
"pit' is easily produced. The out
side boarding of the lean-to should
be, for a part of the way at least, put
horizontally and hung in the form Of
fiat doors, so that the manure can be
easily loaded on a wagon standing on
the outside of the building.
A great number of farmers who have
adopted manure sheds and covered
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

largely, il not entirely, the profit Of
feeding. There are sound, scientific
reasons for the high esteem in which
farm manure is held. It contains all
the fertilizing elements required by
plants in quickly available forms that
insure plentiful crops and permanent
fertility. 1t supplies nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid and potash, and 1t also rem
ders the stored-up materials of the
soil more available, makes it more fri
able and warmer, and enables it to
retain more moisture.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
CATTLE INFECTED WITH TEXAS FEVER.

annually would be $27, by each head OF
cattle $19, by each hog $12 and by
each sheep So. The fertilizing value
of all the manure produced would,
therefore, be for horses, $459, 900, 900;
cattle, $1,159, 900; hogs, $564, 900, 900;
and sheep, 500, 1000, 900, or a total of
$2,272, 900, 000.
These estimates are based on the
values usually assigned to phosphoric
acid, potash and nitrogen in CONNER
cial fertilizers, and are possibly some
what too high from a practical stand
point. On the other hand, no account
is here taken of the value of manure
for improving the mechanical condi-
ton and drainage of soils which is
almost as important a consideration
as it's direct fertilizing value. 1t is
generally conceded that at least me-
third of the value Of n is lost by
present wasteful management or a
total loss to the country Of over
$750,0OO, 900.
Return Full Value to the Soil.
If a farmer desires to maintain the
productiveness of his land, it is es-
sential that the amount of potash,
p%hosphoric acid and nitrogen removed
through the selling of meat, milk,
grain, hay, fruits, vegetables, etc.,
should be restored through an intel
ligent conservation of the barnyard
manure.
1t seems to be a hard matter to in
duce the average farmer to abandon
the time-honored practice of piling
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

that they will produce a fev~er-resisting
strain that will be a valuable acquisi-
ton to the cattle men of the South
west.
These two experiments of Uncle
Sans farm department hold out a
promise of very great Importance to
the livestock industry, and onse-
quently to all meat consumers.
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
TYPICAL CROP WHERE MANURE IS WASTED.

manure in the open air, exposing it to
teaching by rains and fermentation by
hot midsummer suns, and adopt RAJ
tional scientific methods. He also hest
tates to incur the necessary expense
of building suitable receptacles for the
storage of manure, frequently assum-
ing that this expense is greater than
it really Is. Manure is considered a
waste and it is hard for him to put
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24
RYE GROWN ON WELL MANFRED LAND.

examined before they are shipped, and
then ~quarantined on n of the small
islands off the gulf coast till it is de-
termined that there is nc danger of
their bringing into this country some
strange bovine afhiction even worse
perhaps than Texas fever.
After the animals have been thor
oughly proven, they will be introduced
among the Texas herds, and 1t is hoped
Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-03-24

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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-16
ADAMS LOST AGAIN.
Langd0n Easily Won the Return
Game Played at Adams on
Monday,

Langdon again defeated Adams this
week in ball game played at the latter
place Monday. The score at the close
of the ninth inning was to q The
game was one that has been looked for
ward to for over a week by Langdon
"fans, being played in return to the one
here last week when the Adams boys
we're visitors. For Langdon Donnolly
pitched what would have been a shut
out game except for two slight errors
in helding and he had the batters of the
Adams team at his mercy throughout
the game, allowing but three hits The
features of Langdon's game was the
playing of Floyd Watson on first base;
Mark O'Brien's faultless work in center
field where he made two sensational
catches and later landed on tie ball for
the only two bagger during the game;
McGauvran gave the pitcher beau
tiful support as catcher and put stop
to all attempts made by Adams to steal
in the second inning and had them
trailing behind from the third inn ng
to the end of the game. The lead was
increased at intervals up to the eighth
when Adams received its solar plexus
with bunch of four runs made at the
time when the latter's pitcher, Granvold
cut the ropes and went skyward in his
balloon. The Langdon boys come home
with words of high praise for the enter
tainment rendered them by the Adams
team and host of friends made while
over there Langdon is now at the top
of the percentage column and is con-
sidering propositions to play eitt er the
Clyde Invincibles or the Chicago Ma
tional league team before walking off
with the pennant. The score is given
below.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-16
DIES IN POOL ROOM
Instant Death of a ThreShinq En-
gineer in Langdon Early
This Morning.
CASE OF HEART FAILURE
Jerry Arnold Falls Dead in SdIter's
Pool ROOm-Came Here to Thresh
This Fall He is Known in Grand
Forks and Thought to be a Mason.

Jerry Arnold, man of apparently
about sixty years old dropped dead in
the pool room of j. D. Salter this morn
ing at half past seven o'clock. The un-
fortunate man fell to the floor after
barely crossing the threshold. Mr..
Salter had the key in the door of his
pool room when Arnold came up and as
he opened the door the man followed
him inside, complaining of excessive
pain in the region of the heart. Arnold
was in the act of seating himself on
chair when he fell to the floor.
Death followed without struggle.
Arnold is an engineer and mechanic
and for some years has come here from
East Grand Forks to work during the
threshing season and last year had a job
with the threshing outfit of Andrew
Wenzel. east of town, He first appeared
in Langdon this season about two weeks
ago. stayed few days and returned to
the Forks. Monday he returned and
was looking for a job running thresh-
ing engine. Last night he was around
town and apparently in good health,
spending most of the time at the Ct.
Northern hotel where he stopped.
Mr.. Salter was one of those who saw
considerable of Arnold last night. and
says he had the appearance of working
man of somewhat above the ordinary
type. He revealed to MIR. Salter the fact
that for many year he had been identi-
fed with the Masonic order. He was
affably pleasant and talkative when
seen by MIR. Salter, but indicated no evil
dence of having been drinking, though
some who saw him later on say that he
showed signs of slight over indulgence
about bed time.
This morning at little after six
o'clock he entered the barn Of Kelly &
MCLAUGHLIN and asked to be allowed to
sit down, saying that the pain he was
enduring was more then he could bear.
Both Mr.. Kelly and Mr.. MCLAUGHLIN
were at the barn and say that the heavy
precipitation and actions of the man in
dicated he was suffering. Sitting there
few minutes he got better and was
not seen again until he stepped into
the pool room at Salters and fell dead.
Nothing is known regarding whether
the dead man had any relatives living
in Grand Forks, but the authorities
there were notified by telephone TO
properly investigate,--th action b in {
taken up by number VI the local
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-16
Horses for sale at Eli Fishers barn
from Iowa. D. e. Knight.

Horses for sale at Eli Fishers barn
from Iowa. D. f. Knight.
Joseph b. Deroschers has been kept
at home by quite bad spell of sickness
since the early part of the week.
Don't miss the opening chapters of
our new serial story, "The Manager of
the B. & A., this week.
Best Ever gang plows. Genuine
Mandt wagons and low down trucks.
Get them at Hunter e. Stevenson's.
Miss Marion Flumerfelt returned
Tuesday from visit of months with
friends at Grand Forks and Devils Lake.
Mrs. Mary Sullivan, of Chicago, and
her neice, Miss Maria Dyer, are visitors
this week at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
P. Mulligan.
Miss Pearl Monroe, who has spent
most of the summer visiting with friends
OF the family at Missoula, Mont, return
ed home this week.
d. E. Knight, who arrived in the
city Tuesday morning with car load of
Iowa horses is an old friend and neigh
Dor OF the Lachner Bros, of Wales at
their old home in Iowa.
Pete Ihiesen one of the we'll known
residents on the south side of the track
is spending the week seeing sights in
st. Paul and will visit his old Minnesota
home before returning.
D. Schroeder, manager of the dry
goods department of the Boyd store re-
turned yesterday from his vacation trip,
which included stay of two weeks in
New York city.
Wheatbuyer Lilly of the Armenia
Elevator Co., is having repairs and
improvements added this week that
will facilitate his handling full share
OF the crop to be marketed at Langdon
this fall.
We are told that someone ought to
have seen the smile that was hidden
beneath the whiskers of A. w. Toews of
Berlin township at the time of the ar
rival of little ''princess" at his home
on the 29th of last month.
Threshermen will find that the DEMO
Graf is headquarters again this season
for time books, ledgers, threshermen's
account books and everything in the
stationery line they may need. We
make the most useful and complete
threshers account book that you can
buy with your name printed in on the
statement of each account for 81 per
book.
Deputy Sheriff Hart brought Jack
Dallas down from Hannah last night.
1t will be recalled that Dallas managed
to get out of Jail at Hannah some time
ago while awaiting his hearing for
cruelty to animals, having poured coal
oil over dog and afterwards setting fire
to it. At the time of his dsa pearance
he skipped across the line into Canada.
His hearing it is understood will
take place tomorrow
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-08-16

For farmers handy low down trucks
go to Hunter d Stevenson.
South Langdon residents are most of
them out in the country busy having
this week.
Henry Spenst of Berlin township, is
today burying his baby boy of about
seven months old.
The genuine Mandt wagon is sold by
Hunter & Stevenson. Get one and vow
make no mistake.
The barber shop of Bert Elliott is
being made more attractive this week by
a new coat of paint.
While Drayman Vessey is away OF
his outing to the Twin Cities this week;
his draying is being looked after Jointly,
by Jas. DeBurg and j. w. Miller.
The carpenters of Loynes e. Moore
started today to put up the frame of the.
new store which A. E. HARRINGTON is
having built on the lot he bought lately
of S. E. Desrosier.
Make application to Wadsworth for
cheap money. Don't wait until your
mortgage is due and then get pinched
because your title is not perfect. Very
few of the old ones are.
The DEMOCRAT would call the atteu
ton of its readers to the professional
card of Veterinary Sylvester in this
weeks issue. DR.. Sylvester has taken
full course in veterinary surgery and
medicine and has practiced his profes
sion for number of years previous to
locating in Langdon some little time ago
We feel thoroughly able to commend his
services to all in need of same. See his
card in another column.
j. +. Ramage took Fridays train
for Barnsville, Mimi, at which point he
expected to pick up carload of horses
for use during the harvest and thresh-
ing operations on his farms here this fall.
He started up his threshing machine
last Thursday afternoon on his home
farm adjoining town. threshing out
some early cut barley which he was
needing for feed. Next week he expects
to have his machines running full time
right along.
Langdon readers found an item in the
last issue of the Horse Review which
interested them considerably 1t re-
ferred to the barring from the tracks of
the American Trotting Association of
Geo F. Barnard, formerly of this city.
The trottng association has for some
time last been tracing up the record of
Mr. Barnard's grey gelding. which has
been raced for some time under the
name of George F., and finally were sue
cessful at Duluth recently in disclosing
the fact that the horse was ringer
purchased by Mr.. Barnard in Chicago
from New York parties. 1t had mark
of less than 2:l2 on tracks in the east
and during the present season has won
some big purses in events here in the
west among horses of slower class.