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The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07

expected following the holiday sea
son there has been steady gain, more
business than ever apparently being
i'm order
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07
WHEAT MARKET.

CHICAGO. Jan G-May wheat
closed at s1.075s
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07
ACCIDENT CONTINUES WONDER

The accident continues the wonder
~ the camp. None can conceive how
two thoroughly experienced mill men
could have undertaken the risk which
was taken by Barrett and Fitzgerald
when they entered the mill without
taking the precaution of either shut
ting off the motor or chain locking
the mill. as is the usual custom when
work of the sort they were perform
Ing Monday is undertaken, The
chain lock makes the starting of the
mill by slipping of the clutch, which
is not uncommon with new mills of
this type. or from any other cause.
utterly impossible. Fitzgerald's es-
cape looks no less marvellous as time
passes. How he withstood the buff
feting of the heavy chain which
pounded him about the head and re-
tanned consciousness and his grip on
the rim of the mill are things that
none can comprehend after viewing
one of the big mills in their rapid
motion.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07
EAST E[Y,NEVADA

Invites the consideration of all who may wish
thoroughly good real estate or business invest
ments in city served with excellent water,
electric light and power, telegraph, telephone
and all other modern convenienCes, including
the best hotel between Denver and San
Francisco.
East Ely is so situated that it is the pres
ent terminal of railroad lines operating in the
Ely mining district and must be the terminal
of other lines which will be built in future to
southern and western connections At the
present time above 40 trains including main
line passenger, suburban passenger, ore trains
and main line freight trains arrive and de-
part daily from the East Ely yards.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07
GOES TO KIMBERLY.

Manager Fred West of the Graham
Mercantile will go TO Kimberly to
morrow TO take charge of the mer
camille store there temporarily
While he is absent from here III
store at this point will be under III
management of J. II. Wilson.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07
BANK Il BUSY.

The branch of the Bank of Ely has
had the usual heavy pay day rush
of business during the last TWO days
and has handled very large amount
of money. Probably in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 has been trans
ferred. During the rush Manager
McGin is having the assistance OF
Cashier Malta of the main bank
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-01-07

j. p. RUMBAUGH.
Express and Transferring.
Leave orders ut Antler Bar.
list Door So. of Depot.

j. r. & Fl. Il. SCHRAVEN.
contractors and builders.
Phone 117-Z.
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BISFoRp A HuIsE LETTER.

Money, Sl4 per cent.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06
FENCE RAIL PHILOSOPHY

The men who are always seeing the
faults Of their neighbors seldom turn
their eyes inward.
The farmer who uses the haymow or
cellar as a bank these days is as far
behind the procession as. the one who
tries to get along without a telephone
, There are probably not more than
1000 stockholders In express companies
In this country, yet these monopoles
are more powerful in national legisla-
ton when 1t comes to parcels post than
100000 farmers.
The signs are that the productivity
of the farm area increases as the
farm area decreases.
One swallow does not make sum-
mer, but too often one swallow makes
a fool of a man.
The time killer is never a weed
killer.
The idle rich in the cities are almost
as many as the unemployed poor
and they are greater menace to the
peace of the world.
| We buy an animal because he can
trace an unbroken line of good an
cestry back for generations, but we
do not employ man for the same
reason.
The farmer who does not rotate his
crops will sooner or later be rotated
out of business.
Too many of us are content to 'ge
lit blind" without trying to seek the
light.
The .price OF good crops is eternal
vigilance.
The harvest of the fields is now
safely in the granaries, but what about
the harvest Of our hearts?
Success is generally hard work com
bined with optimism plus.
When the auto craze strikes the
farming districts-as 1t surely will
then the good roads movement will re-
ceive big boost.
Watering stock on the farm is a more
honorable calling than watering stocl
In Wall street.
Too often we overlook the fact thai
the farm boy will be the farm mar
and that he should be trained will
this end in view.-John Winter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06
THE new DAIRY FARMING
Growing Soiling Crops for Dairy
Cattle Essential if Best Re-
suits Are to Be Obtained.
BY g, MILLER,

Few questions connected with the
management of dairy farm have been
more widely discussed than that of
growing green forage crops for the
dairy herd and practicing a system
of soiling during the summer and fall
months. Some writer's have become
so enthusiastic over this soiling prac-
tice that they have termed it 1.-THE New
Dairy Farming" Many dairymen have
made a failure of practicing the ex-
elusive system OF soiling dairy cattle
while very few have made a success,
unless they were in a position to sell
their products for extremely high
prices, thus enabling them to purchase
large amounts of grain and CONNER
cial by-products to feed in connection
with the green forage.
I have always been in favor Of grow
ing soiling crops for dairy cattle, and
believe that they are essential to the
successful management of dairy
farm; however, to my mind the most
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06
THE FARM ICE CROP

For securing the farm supply of ice
. common crosscut saw will answer
In place OF regular ice saw. The IL
Illustration shows the farm pond after
marking for cutting.
A marker may be quickly made
with q frame of 2X6 stuff and put to-
gether in the shape Of a sled, but with
a piece of old saw instead Of runners
on one side. On the other side fasten
piece Of smooth iron to run in the
last groove to act as a guide.
Fasten wooden handle like a push
cart. Start the first line with the aid
of boards laid on the ice as guide.
The marker should be about two feet
wide. Marking both ways will meas
ure off cakes two feet square.
Then saw along the lines, following
the marks carefully and cutting the
cakes square, SO that they will store
and pack WELL For pushing the cakes
about fasten a piece of sharp iron to 9
long pole.
Usually regular ice pole can BIZ
borrowed from some local iceman, like
wise a couple Of ice tongs to help ir
loading the cakes into the wagon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06

When packing into the icehouse take
special pains to secure good drainage
at the bottom, using rails and saw
dust or some other plan to keep the
contents about foot above the sur
face. Lay the first course of ice on
edge to assist further in drainage. Lay
the other courses side by side. ChInl
up the top course with pounded ice
and fill ice and sawdust around the
outside. packing tight. Cover the top
with two feet Of sawdust Care should
be taken to see that there is good cir
culation of air at the top of, the ice
house Almost any house will keep ice
If drainage and air circulation are all
right.
Sixty tons of ice will be more than
enough for any farm, even If there is
a great deal used for milk and fruit
storage and some sold to neighbors. A
house that will hold this amount OF ice
can be built for not over $40, simply
putting up a framework tight enough
to hold sawdust and roof that vii
keen out the water.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06
GOOD FOR MAN AND BEAST

A cheap cure for collie in horses is the
following: Keep small bottle. of tur-
pentine always on hand. Feel for
the jugular vein back Of the jaw
on the right side and rub it gently
five or ten inches with flannel rag
wet with turpentine. If the animal
has collie it will cure him in ten min
utes.
If a COW or horse gets choked with
an apple or potato hold up it's head
and break an egg in it's mouth
To dose pig halter him and tie
the rope to a stake. When ne has
ceased his uproar approach him and
between the back part of his jaws in
sert an old shoe from which you have
cut the toe leather. This he will at
once begin to suck and chew. Through
:. pour your medicine and he will
swallow any quantity you please.
To cure a bone felon, as soon as II is
felt put directly over the spot a f1y
blister about the size of your thumb
nail and let it remain for six hours al
the expiration of which time directly
under the surface of the blister NAV
be seen the felon, which can then
be taken out with the point of needle
or lancet.
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face it is too warm. Use hot or cold

face it is too warm. Use hot or cold
water as the case may require.
1t Is seldom, however that cream
will be too warm unless it has been
"ripened" in warm room or unless
too much hot water has been added.
We always add about gallon of wa
ter for each gallon of cream, but of
course some Judgment is used.
Sometimes in extremely hot weather
it is not necessary to even remove the
chill from the water before adding.
the butter is churned the buttermilk
is drawn out and cold water poured In
to wash the butter.
The butter Is then taken from the
churn. sailed and thoroughly mixed,
but not enough to spoil the grain
Butter always looks greasy when the
grain is broken.
can have good butter even in dog
days" when cream and butter are apt
to take on a peculiar taste.
Just a word about the care of the
churn: AS soon as the butter is cared
for empty the churn and scald it, using
plenty Of boiling water.
When this Is done each time as soor
as the butter is removed and before
the inside of the churn dries it is easy
to keep it clean.
Dry in the open air, but not in the
sun, unless the churn is so well con-
structed that it cannot leak.
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practical way to utilize the forage is to
feed it in connection with pastures and
a small amount Of grain food Writers
and lecturers may write and talk about
the amount of milk that can be made
from clover, alfalfa and other soiling
plants, but when we get right down to
solid facts we will find that there is
no plant that grows which will afford
as much nutriment as short. tender
pasture grasses.
This problem was nicely worked out
at the Pan-American at Buffalo, where
the dairy cows were being tested. At
this test they were being fed the very
best soiling crops that could be OBJ
tanned, and still it required six pounds
of grain a day to keep up suitable
flow of milk.
Now every practical dairyman knows
that it would not have required such
an amount of grain to maintain suit
able flow had the cows been running
on good pasture and been fed some
green feed in their managers at night
This would have meant large saving
of grain and labor.
The scarcity and increased cost of
labor during the past ten years has
risen to my knowledge from 20 to 40
per cent. and the increased cost OF
grain foods and commercial by-prod-
ucts has compelled many dairy farm
ers to modify their systems of man
agement. Grasses. clovers and alfalfa
have appealed to many dairymen on
these grounds. 1t costs less for COW
to gather her food than to hire man
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06

NuBBlNs OF NEWS

A Moscow man his invented a COM
bined harvester, which Is operated with
six horses and two persons, and cuts
six feet wide. The farmer is enabled
to put the grain in the sack just az
fast and as cheaply as he could ordi-
narily bind it with a Binder.
After months of experimenting Ro.
land Peterson Of the Nevada expert.
ment station has reported that he has
found nothing which could live or ba
cultivated in a large stretch of land
near. Las Vegas, N. M, with the ono
exception of common scrub mesquite,
and that only with much care and eff
fort Sometimes the temperature In
this stretch of land reaches 1870 de-
grees and remains there for several
days at a time.
The American Tobacco company has
withdrawn thirty-two country buying
agents from Kentucky. The company
intends to open headquarters in Gin
cinnati 1t is generally accepted that
the numerous might rider" troubles
and the intense feeling which exists
against the company have caused this
change.
Louisville has for years been tho
largest leaf tobacco market in the
world, thousands more hogsheaus OF
tobacco being handled on the local
breaks" than at any other point.
Professor w. G. Chambers OF the
Colorado experiment station is raising
poultry in his back yard. He says It
! costs 81 per hen for one years feed
and louise killer. He keeps no hen that
does not lay 100 eggs a year. The av-
erage of his flock is a little more than
twelve dozen eggs hen per annum.
With an average of 25 cents dozen
each hen clears him 80.
Minnesota's hens last year produced
eggs which sold for the amount of
Is15,975,606, and other hens by, giving
up their lives brought their yowners
$11, 900 as dressed poultry
Farmers in some parts of South Da-
kota have artesian wells from which
they get power to run feed mills. cleo
/ trio dynamos and other machinery.
Many of the farmhouses are lighted by
electricity.
i Hundreds of the orange trees planted
within the last few years in Texas are
now bearing fruit. One tree belonging
to DR. r. Walter Smith of Galveston
lis n-finoated tn have 1-nnn aran0es-
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the back yard is convenient place
to set milk pans and pals.
Remember that the sunshine helps
to purify them after they are washed
as nothing else will. The sun finishes
the work started by the washing and
scalding process.
To induce all the cream to rise in
the shortest possible time use plenty of
cold water.
Fill the pans or crooks only half
full Of new milk each time, and then
fill UP with cold water.
Needless to say, the SKINNED milk
is rather thin, but our object is good
butter, is it not?
However, we consider the milk thus
treated nearly, II not quite, as valua-
BILE for pigs and calves as separator
milk. Both require the addition Of
ground grain, oilmeal etc. to replace
the elements which are lacking In the
milk
Skim the milk regularly and churn
the cream as soon as it begins to get
thick, and don't use any hot water IL
1t can be avoided.
| Some people have habit OF churn-
ing cream at too high temperature
and the result Is white, tasteless but
ter. Instead have the cream so cool
that the butter will not begin to come
for at least fifteen minutes after the
churning Is begun.
One can easily tell whether 1t is right
! or not without using churn Their
mometer. If the cream foams 1t Ia
too cold: If the cream looks thin and
little white specks show on the sur.
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at hand to use in c. sc any OF the en-
trails are cut.
After removing the entrails, liver
and he rrt, spread the carcass apart
with stick and rinse it down with
cold water. When cooled sufficiently
remove the leaf fat and kidneys and
cut 1t up.
! usually salt down on a bench or in
box as soon as 1t has cooled enough
to trim, but I never put any salt on
the ribs and backbones If the weather
is cool.
The amount Of salt 1 use is ten
pounds to every 100 pounds of meat.
In addition to the salt ! also use two
pounds Of granulated sugar and two
ounces of saltpeter mixed.
Rub the meat once every three days
with one-third Of the mixture. While
it Is curing pack it in a box In a cool
room, where it will neither become
warm or freeze.
Two barrels may be used, changing
the meat from ane to the other each
time it is rubbed. After the last rub
bling let the meat lie in a box for &
week or ten days, then take it out te
smoke. When taken out of the DO,
dip each piece in kettle Of boiling
water and let it remain half a min.
| ute after which sprinkle little pow
dered borax on the meat side ane
hang.
Smoke it four or five days with hick
DRY chips or corn cobs, then dip ant
sprinkle it with borax again and pu
it down in clean hay.
Meat treated in this manner may b.
left hanging all summer and will re
main in the best condition.-W. Han
son. Illinois.
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BUTTER MAKING A fine ART
To Produce 1t All Year Round
of Uniform Excellence Re-
nuires Much Skill.
BY ANNA GALIGHER.

How many housekeepers do you
know who make good, sweet butter the
year round? We know very few.
This Is not always their fault. Some
are obliged to keep their milk and
cream in cellars, for want Of better
place.
No matter how good a cellar may
be 1t is not a suitable place to keep
milk and butter, especially in the sum-
mer,
But if one must use the cellar, it
should be kept as clean and well-venti-
lated as possible, and the milk should
never be allowed to stand more than
thirty six hours before being skinned.
This article. understand, is for the
benefit of those who do not keep a
sufficient number of cows to warrant
them in the purchase of a separator
All vessels used for milk should be
washed and scalded after they are used
and then summed. A bench OF table in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06

In order to do neat and rapid work
at hog killing time it is necessary to
have good scraper, sticking knife. a
hog hook and place that Is conven-
lent for working.
For scalding a barrel is commonly
used, and it Is all that is needed unless
the hogs are very large If very large
hogs are killed, a scalding tub will
answer the purpose for scalding much
better than barrel.
1 have one which is made of two
inch planks for the sides and ends and
sheet iron for the bottom. 1t is six
feet long and three and one-half feet
wide, with depth of two and one
half feet
Two hooks are fastened near the top
on one side, with a pair of trace chains
to run under the hog to facilitate the
turning and withdrawing from the tub.
1t is placed over a furnace, which is
made by digging a trench in the
ground, and when in use I place pieces
of wood across the bottom, in order to
keep the hog from coming in contact
with the iron bottom and getting too
hot.
| I find that the proper temperature
for good scalding is from 100 to 100
degrees, and If barrel is to be used
the water should be boiling when
dipped out of the kettle, as the barrel
will cool it some
If scalding tub is used the water
should be cooled by adding a bucket
of cold water before the hog is put in
To insure a correct heat Of the water
use a thermometer. Small quantities
of lye. ashes or lime will have no effect
in removing the hair, but will cause
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the scurf TO come loose more readily.
A hog hook Is almost Indispensable
and if one is to be made it should be
made in the form of hay or bale
hook. In fact, find that a hay hook
answers the purpose very we'll.
In handling the hog, stick the hook
in the flesh of the lower jaw, just be-
hind the fork of the jaw bone. How
ever the hook may be stuck under the
tendons of the hind legs.
Keep the hog in constant motion
while being scalded. and draw it out to
air occasionally. When the hair and
scurf slip easily from the body the
scalding is completed.
In scraping and cleaning the hog, !
clean the feet and head first. then the
legs, and last. but not least. the body.
hang the hog with rope and pull
ley, as it Is more easily hung in this
way than any other. But it may be
hung wit. the ordinary gambrel, a
stick which is sharpened at each end
and inserted under the tendon strings
Of the hind legs.
A short singletree will be found to
answer for a gambrel stick If there is
sufficient help at hand the hog may be
hung on a pole put up for the purpose.
| After the hog is hung UP, rinse 1t
down with scalding water, remove the
entrails by running sharp knife light
ly down, marking the belly straight
cutting to the bone between the thighs
and in front Of the ribs, which bones
I split with an ak. being careful not
to cut beyond them.
Open the abdomen, and after a lit.
tie use of the knife one will seldom cut
| the entrails in removing them
However, 1 have few short strings
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GOOD FOR THE FARMERS

In order that the State bank at Rush
vile, Mo-, would not have to shut down
after being broken into by robbers
who got nothing, but who succeeded in
blowing the door of the safe into such
a fix that it could not be opened, the
farmers of the vicinity brought in all
their cash, and the supply was ample
to keep business going until the safe
could be opened.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-06
STORMS AFFECT COWS

Ever know that COW is pretty
good barometer? Well, she Is Cows
always check up on their milk flow
just before decided change from fine
weather to storms. They also become
nervous Just before a storm, and by
watching them closely one can tell
every time when bad weather is com
ing. AS soon as the storm breaks the
cows again become normal, their nerv-
BUSINESS disappears and the milk flow
returns
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store in the silo, and then grow a crop
Of turnips on the land from which they
took the fodder The same system can
be practiced in this country, but our
farmers are too often content with one
crop, and thus do not derive as much
from the land as is possible to be OBJ
tanned. The land in England is high
and farmers pay high rents. but they
do not hesitate to apply manures and
fertilizers literally, because In that way
only can they get large crops in re-
turn.
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ADVANTAGES OF THE slLo

The silo has opened advantages to
dairymen in other countries where
corn does not mature. In England,
where the conditions are unfavorable
for production Of matured crops of
corn, the farmers SOW corn for fodder,
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SOME PUMPKINS IN COLORADO

The usual lot of stories about big
corn, pumpkins and other crops is sur
passed this year, as is everything else
produced on the farm. One Of the best
stories we have received comes from
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to do the work for her, hence the area
under pasture has been increased.
At the same time 1t is important that
the pasture lands be improved so that
the COW shall not be compelled to
waste too much energy in gathering
her food and numerous farmers are
trying to improve the character of their
pastures so that they may obtain max
inum yields both in quantity and
quality.
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A GOOD CARGO

The steamer Gold carried 1,46o cases
Of eggs valued at $4,000 to Alaska on
one, trit. These eggs We're all fresh
and wers the product of over a quarter
of million hens in the immediate vi
cinity of Petaluma, Cal.
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Arapahoe county, Colorado, from a i
farmer who declares that he raised a |
pumpkin so big that when it was cut
in two his twins each used half for a
cradle.