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NAL economy as do carbohydrates.
They furnish heat and energy, or may
be converted into animal fats and
stored away for future use.
From the foregoing statements the
reader should be able to gain fair
understanding of the requirements for
feeding table, or the proportion
which various feeding stuffs should
bear to each other when fed together.
The appended table of VOLTS feed
ing standards will serve as a guide
in studying the tables that come later.
1t should be carefully kept in mind
that the above rations are for 1000
Id. animals in every case. A pig
weighing only 100 lbs. should have one
tenth of the ration given in this table
for a pig of it's size. An OK weighing
1,500 lbs. should have one and. five
tenths times the ration for oxen given
in the table, and so on.
The following tables were compiled
by Prof w. ]. Spillman when he was
with the State College at Pullman.
These were given for the farmers of
the central and eastern part of the
state, where alfalfa is readily obtain
able.
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Pea and oat hay could be used in
stead of alfalfa, and roots instead OF
silage in this ration; also wheat chops
instead of shorts.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-05-01

TO some extent in all, or nearly all,
feeding stuffs. Fats appear to serve
exactly the same purpose in the AMI
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This is rich in protein, but is not
bad ration. Whether it would pay to
feed the wheat Cor barley or CORN
would depend on the cost Of the grain,
and upon the increase of appetite
which it might give in the case of a
cow
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tice. There was a lull in the prcese6s
ings and the gang gathered round "Coal
Oil Johnny" Then he was happy. Es
had attracted attention.
"Got to do it, gentlemen. Got to do
it. Can't spend my money fast enough,
so I have to burn it up he said, as he
strutted up to the main desk in the big
room.
Tries to Buy Oil Exchange.
"Say, how much will you take for
the whole place. I'll buy. want to
own the Oil Exchange for one after
noon" said Goal Oil Johnny" really
in earnest, and seemingly thinking he
could buy the place. where's the
proprietor? Tell him Johnny Steele is
here and wants to buy the place I'll
give it back to him tomorrow; make
him a present of it.
Such a proposition as buying the
Bradford Oil Exchange was impossible,
but it was about the only thing that
John Steele ever liked in those days
that he couldn't buy. Veteran oil men
in western Pennsylvania yet SILVER
when they think what might have hap
pened had such thing as that pro-
posed by Steele that day been possible.
Had Steele in his mad career of spend
ing got control of the oil market for
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remembered in Oil City. 1t was not
yet dark when young Steele borrowed
few thousands to continue the day S
spending. To Steele, with his new mil
lions, borrowing was the easiest OF
things. In his later years he would
have had trouble in borrowing any
thing, for his financial star had long
since set.
Downfall Laid to Gamblers.
One of those who early attached
himself to young Steele in the hour of
his wealth was Seth Slocum, a gam
bier, and to the work of Slocum friends
of Steele attribute his downfall. It was
not long until Goal Oil Johnny" as
he was now known, was the biggest
plunger of them all at the gaming Ia
BILE. He seldom won and when he did
he would almost invariably toss his
winnings to the dealer or some by
stander, saying:
Buy yourself a new hat and have
drink on Johnny Steele"
But the ordinary roulette wheel or
the faro deal was too slow for Goal
Oil Johnny" He wanted action, and
wanted it in punches. He seldom if
ever played poker. There's too much
time lost dealing and drawing cards, y
he used to say, when pressed to sit in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-01

Reports from Washington, where
the Society for the Promotion OF
Metric Weights and Measures is hard
at work. and from Boston, where OFF,
Gals are earnest champions of the new
system, reveal the strength of the
movement.
1t Is claimed that the principle on
which the metric system is based is so
simple that anyone may learn its es-
sential details in three-quarters of an
hour. The exposition of it set forth
with such precision by Mr.. Forster
dwells upon its uniformity and &C
curacy, and simplicity in calculation.
The metre was supposed to be the
ten-millionth part of the distance from
the equator to the pole, and it's equiv,
alent in english measure is 39.37079
inches, or, as it is commonly ex-
pressed, 1887 inches. Great care was
taken in deriving this standard. and,
although subsequent measurements
showed one two hundredth and eigh-
tieth of an inch variation, the cNlcula-
ton has remained unchanged. From
this absolute standard it is possible to
derive all the units which are required.
Its multiples, expressed by the Greek
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The tsrm metric system" is a fs-
a'lllar one and is commonly ulder-
stcod to designate the French standard
of weights and measures, but it may
not be so generally known that in 1866
the United States took the first step
towards introducing the system into
this country by legalizing its use and
since the acquisition of Porto Rico and
the Philippines has made it's use in
those islands compulsory, and further,
it may not be known that at the pres
ent time there is a movement on foot
to make its use compulsory in this
country.
Under present conditions there are
three legal systems of weight in COM
mon use in this country: Avoirdupois,
troy and apothecary. And as to meas
ures, they are of all kinds. There Is
the gallon, the imperial gallon and the
wine gallon, all different. The states
have assorted gallons for various COM
modities. A milk gallon is the stan
dard size in New York, 231 cubic
inches, in Minnesota the farmer
has to sell 2S2 cubic inches to the mill
gallon or go to Jail. Barrels come IL
all sizes. Some are 42-gallon barrels,
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others hold 80 and some half gallon
less. There is a law on the books Of
Pennsylvania which defines one of
these subtle differences of American
measure.
"Innkeepers," it runs, shall sell ale
and beer by the wine measure to all
persons as drink in their houses and
by beer measure to those who carry it
out of their houses"
Every state has a bushel or two OF
it's own devising. Vermont as recently
as 1896 enacted law that as far as
certain commodities were concerned
zone bushel and three-quarters of a
peck should be considered a bushel."
Many of the untrammelled common
wealths also prescribe how many
pounds of certain products shall be
considered a bushel. There are at least
six different bushels in the oyster
trade about Chesapeake Bay, the lar
gest one being the Washington vari-
ETY., which has to be standard size.
otherwise the container would be
smashed on sight. There are all kinds
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-02-01

Of miles: a mile which is more than a
mile is a geographical mile. Land is
still measured in 7rpents in remote To-
calities. Lumber is reclkoned in ac-
cordance with ten different scales and
drawings and castings are figured at
figures which bear little relation to
their label names.
Such absurd confusion and differ
ence is reason enough for the abolish
ment of the obsolete English system
of weights and measures and the adop-
ton of the more scientific and uniform
one of the metric system. The adyo-
Gates of the new system are to intro
duce a bill in congress this year max
ing it's adoption compulsory, and
everywhere the prediction is confident
ly made that both in the United States
and Great Britain the pilgrimage to-
ward the goal of civilized neurology
will during the year 1906 be brought
to & close.
at seems Incredible" said Mr.. T. J..
Rand recently before the Franklin In
stitute. "that a nation so far advanced
as the Ou1L6u OldLco Ou5hb " 10 -
civilization, should weigh its copper by
one standard, it's silver by another,
diamonds by third and its medicines
by a fourth-all Interchange liable only
by means of fractions"
Brazil made the change in 1875, and
other South American countries have
adopted the system, and advocates OF
substitution of scientific and accurate
weights and measures for feudaI relics
believe a tine has como for law
making the use of the metric System
compulsory in the United States. They
point out that the standard has been
a legal one since 1866, and that this
country has made its use mandatory
in Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Practically the same time elapsed be-
tween official recognition and passage
of compulsory law in France as has
intervened in this country since con-
gress accorded recognition to the
metric system.
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THE DECIM ETER RULE.

waistcoat pockets. 1t is decimetre
in length, centimetre in width and a
millimetre in thickness. It's contents
are therefore a cubic centimetre, and
if it were q cube filled with standard
lied water it would weigh gramme.
Taking the specific gravity of steel, 1t
is easy to determine that the weight of
the small scale would be 7.8 grammes.
"Scales such as these" said Prof.
Hallock, of Columbia university, "are
becoming very popular. | recently re-
ceived letter from member of the
Decimal association, in which the sec
retarv, after Gliding Americans for
not taking a greater interest in the
spread of the metric system, added
that nearly every Englishman was
now carrying such a rule. | called his
attention to the fact in my reply that
the article was Of American manufac-
ture, as name on it showed"
Prof. w. s. Stratton, chief Of the bu-
reau Of standards of the department OF
commerce and labor, is perhaps the
best informed man in the United
States as to the relations and merits
between the metric system of weights
and measures and the old English sys-
tenn, which is now generally used in
this country.
The bureau of standards is govern
ment institution for the verifcation OF
standards of measurement and weight
used by the public. 1t is now more es-
tablished on the standard of the metric
than on the standard of the yardstich
but the constant comparison OF the
two standards has caused Prof. Strait
ton to become personally strong adj
vocate of the adoption of the metric
system.
He has been especially impressed
with the fact that the metric system IN
no new thing to thousands of persons
in this country and that practically
every unprecedented person who has
studied the metric system is In favor
of its adoption in the place of the pres
ent varied and unrelated standards,
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POINTERS FOR FRUIT GROWERS

Take an inventory of last years mis-
takes.
Have a look at the cherry and plum
trees, and cut off all the black Knots.
Don't forget.
Form the compost heap. Remember,
compost is the best shape in wbich to
fertiIize the garden.
Look over your supply of tools; see
If they need attention, and whether
new ones are wanted.
One pound paris green to 15s gal
Ions water is the standard formula for
cooling moth and similar insects
There is no country in the world
SO well adapted to the growing of a
great variety of fruits as the United
States.
If the cellar Is to be used for fruit
storage see that it is properly con-
structed or arranged to remain at a
low temperature.
When a plum Seeding begins to
bear It is unsafe to judge the value OF
the fruit by the first crop. If two crops
are of no value. showing the quality
to be poor, then it is tine to graft
or destroy the tree.
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Philadelphia.-In an unpretentious
house on a little farm near Franklin,
in the northwestern part of Pennsyl-
vania, there died the other day a man
who some 40 years ago acquired a
most unique and remarkable distinc-
ton This person was John w.
Steele, better known as "Coal Oil
Johnny" king Of all the spendthrifts
the world has ever known.
1t is several years now since this
once famous character had passed out
of sight of the general public, but the
record he established in the few short
months that he was rolling in wealth
will long be remembered.
Has Wealth Untold.
Inside of IL months, beginning at
the close of 1863, John Steele did per-
haps more to advertise the wealth of
the Pennsylvania oil region than any
other ten men. He advertised it's
wealth by spending it. A beardless
boy, he woke one morning to find him.
self possessed of untold wealth in bulk
and an income from oil royalties of
$1,750 per day, Sundays included. He
did not know the value Of money, has
not to this day any idea of how much
money he had and spent, but it has
been estimated at from $1,500,000 to
100000
Be the amount the first or last
named, the fact remains that in seven
months time from his coming into
possession of this immense wealth he
went through it and was broken. In
side of year from the time he became
d Croesus, he was back at the little
railroad station at Housewife, Venan-
go county, hustling trunks at $40 a
month He has been hustling ever
since to keep up with the grocer's BILL
Never was there man who made it
rain money in such showers as did
Coal Oil Johnny" during his brief
transit across the horizon. 1t is claim
ed that the newly-rich Pittsburg mil
lionaire would look like piker in his
spendings when lined up alongside the
Housewife, Pa, wagon driver who was
in a night elevated to the millionaire
class The entire cost of the widely
heralded "Scotty" special last sum-
mer would not have furnished Goal
Oil Johnny's" cigar lighters in those
days of "a. Steele simply couldn't
spend his money fast enough until he
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| loaned him anything on his prospects,
but to his credit be it said he did not
go heavily into debt. He was content
to wait until the money came to him,
and in the meantime, through the prop
er authorities, he sold an atom of his
big interests just at the time the oil
boom reached the crest. He disposed
of the two Lone Star wells to John
Mawhinney for $4,000 cash. This went
into the common pool. which was
swelling at an enormous rate, against
the day when Johnny Steele should be-
come of age and come into his own.
Squanders 100000 in a Day.
At last the time came, and an ava
lanche of money rolled down on tire
former poor driver, who, in his child
hood days, had never had so much as
quarter to spend. The way in which
ne made the money fly caused even
the oil region, then engaged in its mad
chase for wealth, to sit up and take
notice. There never was a spender
like him before and few have initiated
and none equaled him since. His first
draw on what was considered an mex
haustihle supply of wealth was $780,
600.
Gimme it in hundred dollar bills -
he said to the cashier OF the Oil City
bank, to which he had walked from
his home up Oil creek, at Housewife.
Il want to show some OF the boys a
good time"
And ''the boys" were shown. Johnny
Steele started down the street with his
thousand $500 bills, and to every one
he met he presented one of the bills.
Those who hesitated and wanted to
know why got two of the bills. He
had not gone far until some of those
who had for months been waiting for
this windfall got Steele in tow and
stopped his indiscriminate giving
they wanted it themselves.
The history If that day viii long be
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CAREER OF YOUNG MAN WHO
SQUANDERED MILLIONS WITH
IN SEVEN MONTHS.
A RECORD THAT HAS NEVER BEEN BEATEN
John W. Steele. Who Acquired a Worldwide Reputa-
ton by Throwing Money to the Winds. Dies in
Poverty in Pennsylvania Near Scene of
the Source of His Wealth.

/ but hired out as a driver, and each
Saturday night his earnings were
brought home and given to Mrs. Nc
Clintock, who dumped them into the
common hoard at the old farmhouse
She rapidly accumulated bank stocks
and valuable properties in surrounding
towns and cities as well as in New
York and Philadelphia. But she never
changed the close, penurious style of
living to which she and her husband
had been forced when they were trying
to pay for the rocky farm on the little
run which afterwards became world
famed as Oil creek.
Explosion Brings Millions.
She never hired servant and never
moved from the little farmhouse, which
soon became hemmed in by oil wells.
houseWork, she came to her death in a
most tragic way, while performing
house duties Early in 1863 Mrs. Nc
Clintock rose one morning before day
break, as usual, to prepare breakfast
for John Steele before he went out
with his wagon. She made the last sad
mistake of trying to light the fire with
can of coal oil with the oft-repeated
result There was an explosion and
she was burned to death.
In an old and crude safe in the cor
ner of one room in the little house there
was found $4,000 in gold. Subsequent
discovery proved this was the savings
of Mrs. McClintock for only a week or
so. The exact amount of cash on hand
at the death of Mrs. McClintock was
never definitely known, but is sup
posed to have been far more than
81, 00O,O 0O There were. in addition, ex-
tremely valuable oil properties besides
the McClintock farm which was at this
time belching forth royalties at the
rate of $1,750 day for the McClintock
heir, John Steele.
John quit working at once. He never
went back to work after the tragic
death of his foster parent
Yet he couldn't enter into the full
enjoyment of this money, for he was
not of age, and the proper authorities
simply took the immense estate in hand
for the few short months which di-
vided the young wagon driver from his
millions. During this short time Steele
showed some good business judgment.
There were hundreds who would have
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prefixes, go from ten to ten thousand,
and the metre is divided into decimal
parts expressed by Latin prefixes
The tables of metric length would
therefore be as follows:
One myriametre equals 10000 mo
tres.
One kilometre equals 1000 metres.
One hectometre equals 100 metres.
One decametre equals 10 metres.
One metre.
One decimetre equals one-tenth of a
metre.
One centimetre equals one-hundredth
of a metre.
One millimetre equals one-thou-
sandth of metre.
From this table can be calculated the
measures of volume, the cubic metres,
the cubic centimeres and others, and
also the measures of capacity, begin
ming with the litre, which is vessel
containing a cubic decimetre.
The simplicity of the system is dem
onstrated by small rule which many
Americans are now carrying in their
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Adopted by a Farmer.

AQOJISQ ny q dIIuST.
John Steele was born near Waterloo,
Venango county, Pa, in the fall of
1871. He was left an orphan when but
a few years of age and when between
seven and eight years of age was
adopted by Culbertson McClintock, a
well-to-do farmer living on the out
skirts of what is now Oil City. McClin-
took owned his own farm, since famed
in oil history as "The McClintock
Farm" From it millions of dollars
worth of oil was taken years later.
1t was not for Culbertson McClin-
took, however, to reap the benefits of
the oil. He died some three years
before oil was discovered on his place,
and when his will was read it was
found that he had left the farm to his
wife during her life, and it was then
to go to John Steele, his adopted son.
There was also an adopted daughter,
named Emily Scott, but she does not
appear to have been left anything by
McClintock. Years later, when Steele
was rolling in wealth, he gave to the
young woman enough to make her in
dependent for life.
Mrs. McClintock was a shrewd bust
mes woman and when oil was discov-
cred on her farm she drove the closest
bargains possible with the producers.
The pool under the McClintock farm
bade fair TO be inexhaustible and she
had little troubel in getting an almost
fabulous sum in cash, reserving a big
royalty on all ell brought from her
farm. This was about three years
after the death of McClintock.
But John Steele was not allowed to
loaf because his foster mother then
had money. He was sent out to work
at driving wagons for the oil men. He
die rot even have team of his own.
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length of time it is a good plan to
give them something to do, says the
Prairie Farmer. There is no better
way, probably, than to supply them
with some sort of roughage to pick
over. This may consist of corn stalks,
straw or hay, but in any event it
should not be thrown on the ground
where it will be mussed over and
spoiled.
Generally speaking, the cut shows all
of the details necessary. 1t is three
feet across the bottom and six feet at
the top, and stands six feet nigh.
Rough lumber and 2x4's are about all
of the material necessary. Spikes
should be used where they are needed
SO that strength is assured.
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OUTDOOR ROUCHAGE RACK
Continuance Which Will Prove q
Great Saver of Food to the
Dairy Farmer.

While the roughage rack as n rule
is used for the feeding of fattening
cattle, there is chance for the use
of similar idea in the handling Of
dairy COWS, and particularly where the
barnyard is so protected that the cows
can be left out of doors a portion OF
the day, particularly when the weather
is good.
When COWS are left out of doors any
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evolved the idea of hiring people to
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