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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
PRESERVE FARM FENCE
POSTS FROM ROTTlNG
Labor of Replacing Them and How to Secure New and
durable Ores Are Sources of Constant
ANNOYANCE and Expense.

of merely coating the outside. If the
brush" method, or painting, is used,
the creosote should be applied at a
temperature of about $50 degrees F.
Two coats should be given at least "a
hours apart. If the posts are dipped
directly into the preventative. the
%creosote should be heated to about
the same temperature. The best re-
suits of all can be obtained by first
heating the posts in a bath of hot
creosote and then either transferring
them quickly to a bath of %creosote at
a lower temperature, or else shutting
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
Alfalfa on Sheen Farno.

have been much interested In the
use OF Alfalfa on sheep farms, both as
9 pasture crop and as hay. Last sum.
mer, while In France, I saw many
iocks hurdled on rape and sainfoin
fields, this being their. only food dur.
Ing the season. The Frenchman is
q very light feeder Of grain at best
to any kind Of stock. In fact; sheep.
get very little as concentrates In
France. Yet, oyer there, alfalfa is a.
universal and popular crop.-Ex.
change.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
Money for the Women.

Bees. poultry and a canning outfit
are means OF making a nice little In
come for the girl or woman who Is.
situated to handle them, It does not
require much capital to begin with
allsthree Of these industries, which are
SO eminently suited to the farm gtrs.
The price of q good typewriter and a
course of study at q business college
will be considerably more than 1t
would require to; start in this business
Eat home.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
DRY FARM NOTES.

In. high attitudes, with 10 to IA
inches precipitation utilized under
alternate or biennial systems, every
crop possible of production under ir.
rigation is pro1tably grown without IL
rigation.
With precipitation of Is to "a
inches, many farmers in high alti-
tudes are cropping annually.
Then again, many farmers under all
of the above named conditions are
failing continually.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Messina has had another earth.
quake visitation. Comparatively lit.
tie damage was done, for the grim
reason that the destruction wrought
last December was so complete. But
80 severe were the shocks that, had
the city, been In the former condition,
the disaster might have been on q
,frightfnl scale. The circumstances
would seem to discourage the idea OF
rebuilding In 80 dangerous locality.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
Feedina Hoes.

It Is a waste of feed to give an
the hogs ON the farm the same Kind
Of food. when there are In the herd
f~attening hogs. bropd sows, stockers
and sucking pigs.
In nearly all cases with hogs care
should be taken to feed according to
age, condition and time Of marketing.
There ID no profit In stinting the
hogs In their supply OF feed In the
fall In order that there may be nain
10 The bins next spring.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Every farmer is familiar with the
rotting of his fence posts at the sur
face of the ground. The labor OF re-
placing them and how to secure new
and durable posts are sources OF con-
slant annoyance and expense. Even
the more durable woods such as
chestnut, white oak and cedar, decay
in eight or ten years. 1t is true n
there are a few kinds OF woods in the
United States, such as locust and
osage-orange, which give much longer
service, but their supply, never very
large, is rapidly becoming exhausted,
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

II III said that the best residents OF
Newport are to organize a revolt
against freak entertainments, monkey
dinners and the like. They are join.
ing the safe and sane procession. so
far as the summer season is con.
cerned. And the monkeys will be quite
~ well pleased as the best residents.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

And now comes the d%isillusioner to
remark that man-eating lions are the
old, decrepit fellows with bad teeth.
It isitoo bad. Next they will be tell
ing is that gorillas do not twist gun
barrels around their necks.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

The season is at hand for the an.
nual Sunday drownings. Every sum-
mer the warning for prudence and
care is given, and Just as regularly
the warning is disregarded. This sea-
Q will probably have its due share
OF water pleasure tragedies.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

al New Orleans inventor claims
that he has a wireless device by which
warshipsmay be blown up at a dis.
lance OF four or Ave hundred miles.
The beat that can be said about such
inventions 40 that they make people
careful about giving proyocation to use
them: Otherwise, they do not tend to.
sshow9th progress Of the humane id
humanity.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

into hay. The winter feed of the
cows 1s aslittle lock Of hay night and
morning, possibly four or six pounds,
and q bushel OF Of cut mangles.
It Is safe to say that as pei cent. or
nor OF q Jersey cows feed in winter
is roots.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
: Movable Farm Schools.

The United States department Of ap-
-riculture recommends the establish.
ment Of movable schools. Of agricul-
ture by the state experiment stations
Where 10 farmers can be secured as
students the schools may be conducted
for agar OF longer. The kind ofsin-
.struction will depend o. the needs of
the section.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Great Indignation is being expressed
In Chicago over. high poker playing by
fashionable women and homes are
being disrupted. There must be some
stop put to this continual encroach.
ing by women on masculine privil-
eyes.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

All the world loves a lover, no mat.
ter what his salary; but when he ,as,
sumes the responsibilities of matri.
mony at So per week society's sym.
pathy justly becomes a desire to
spank.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

After having been caught in sudden
showers two or three times the intel
ligent mar learns to carry an umbrel.
la and thus bring on a protracted
drought.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

The Chicago University professor
who says that woman is to blame for
everything ought to be ashamed at
this late date to be falling in line with
the generations of %plagiarists of Adam.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
tees ana sutter..

With = dozen fresh eggs selling at
about tho same price asa pound OF
good butter, there 10 asine chance for
renewal OF the old .argnmept,sthe hen
against the COW, as a source Of farm
profit
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
World ls interested.

What dry farming means to the
United States It means to every coun-
Try in the world where there Is semi
arid land possible Of agricultural de-
velopment. It means ultimate recla-
nation OF hundreds Of millions Of val.
liable acres, billions added to the
wealth of nations and possible solu-
tionso many Of the perplexing socio-
logical questions
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Radium will not soon become a
household necessity. 1t is quoted at
100000 a pound.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

The north pole seems to have few
er chances of remaining undiscovered
now than ever before since the world
began.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

The fine growing weather of the
last few weeks will tell on the cost of
food before long, and the story will
be of the right kind.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
pry EarminQ.

Dry FaFFhth0.
A question frequently asked:
What Is dry farming?
And which may be most easily. vet
enigmatically answered with:
at la not dry farming at an,
Dry MISUNDERSTANDING farm
districts where irrigation water can
mot be obtained = where the supply
Of irrigation water u inadequate to
meet the requirements Of the acreage.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

:" -.
1t Is said that the Cubans have 40
love for Americans, which was to be-
expected after we have done so many
fayors for them.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

It is all right to sing and talk and
rave over the scent of the new-mown
hay, but take a thought of the chaps
who have to harvest 1T.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
Means Hard Work.

Dry farming demands anceasing la.
Dor. There Is no mystic spell to pro
Once plant life In 4 seuni.arid district.
hegprice sof success is work-work-
SWork-an6 the expenditnre Of energy
enough % meet the Immediate re-
Sa~piratnents of each section Of land
anlss6chscrops
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Soon areoplane accidents will be as
fashionable as appendicitis operations
were a few years ago.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

This is the best month in the year
In which to get statistics about the
kissing germs.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Cuba has four times too many star
boarders in public office. They are
eating up all the revenues.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03
Touch the picnic lemonade lightly

Long columns Of hot weather ad-
vice + not needed. The best is the
shortest-"Keep cool"
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-09-03

Until the earth gets softer aero
planning is hardly likely to become as
safe a sport as croquet.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03
HE VISITS A COMPA TRIOT

stick right in front of where the cow
boy always sits, and l heard Pa whis-
per to the cowboy that he would head
the ship direct to the coast, and when
we got away from the camp a few
miles, Pa would give the signal and
the cowboy was to cut the rawhide
rope and let the king take a fall out
of himself.
Pa steered the airship south, and
occasionally the negro king would yell
and point to the east, where the tribe
was located whose wives we had de-
signs on, but Pa kept his direction,
and after running an hour or so we
came to a beautiful lake of blue wa
ter, and Pa told the cowboy to get
ready to throw off about 200 pounds
of dead weight. The cowboy said {:
AYE, aye, sir" and got his knife
ready. Pa let the airship down about
80 feet above the water of the lake so
the fall would not kill the negro king,
and when We got nearly across
the lake, Pa said: Cut the rope" and
the cowboy reached over with his
knife and cut it, and down went Mr.
McGinty, hanging on to the rope, and
turning over in the air dozen times
and striking the surface of the lake
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

but is this Mr.. Roosevelt ?" and Pa
said: Not on your life, but just as
good man, all right"
The man said he was expecting Mr..
Roosevelt, but not until after March
4, but he didn't know but what he
had come little ahead of schedule
time. Pa said he was Roosevelt man
all right, though he had always been
Democrat, and that he was an Amer
lean.
But what are you doing in Africa ?"
said the man, who seemed to be the
leading citizen. oh" said Pa, as he
lighted a cigarette, Il have been taking
in a large part of Africa, and just
dropped down to see if you had any
news of the election in the United
States"
The man said he was an American,
/ too, and lived in Michigan when at
home, but he came out here for his
wifes health, and opened up little
ranch. He said Taft was elected all
right, and Pa said he thought it would
come out that way, and then the man
asked us into the house, and the 9TH
ers crowded around our airship, and
before long the cowboy was riding a
polo pony, and l was playing tennis
with some boys about as big as me,
and Pa was drinking high balls and
club soda, and, as the rum went down
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

whom they are to select as his success
sor in office: see robust constitutions
following the flag into cannibal islands,
even as red liquor and millinery fol-
low the missionary into darkest At
RIGA and other places on the rural free
delivery routes; l see childless women
who are proud of it, carrying poodles
and Teddybears with goggles on in
strange vehicles that leave a wake of
smell; I see people with enough mon
ey to feed the people of whole state
for ten years, struggling and deceiv-
ing and crushing others to get more
money, though they do not intend to
feed more people with it; l see men
of literary aspiration telling other
folks how to acquire wealth and merit
and wisdom, while some of those same
writer men are themselves half-fed,
erratic and personally worthless;
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03
THE WEALTH OF FRANCE.
Better Distributed There Than in Any
Other Country.

eve never tire of telling the. world
that we are a great financial democ.
racy, possessing immense wealth."
said Frederic F. Flahaut, a banker of
Paris, France, who is making a pleas
ure tour of this country.
Frances wealth belongs to a ma
jority, and not to a minority of her
people. The rich and the excessively
opulent, possessing millions, are hard
ly to be counted by units; they may
be designated by name. The large for
tunes are limited tC few people-pos-
sibly ten persons possess each some
thing like $20,00O,OO0 and over; 100
may have between 100000 and s10,-
100000; 600 may have between 81 ,00O,-
600 and 100000: 1000 have from
$500, 900 to S1,000,000 end $4,000 have
from 100000 to S40O, 900 each. Out of
10,00C,00 voters we have from 7.OOO,-
600 to 100000 who are capitalists
and owners of interest-bearing stock.
landed properties, holders of Partisan
bonds, credit foncier bonds, railroad
bonds. national bonds; members of CO.
operative bodies, people who put by
for the rainy day small sums in the
banks, that serve to assure life or in
sure against death 1t is not the rich
who resort to the cooperative COM
panies or TO the savings banks. The
manner of distribution of property.
real and personal, constitutes the for
tune of France
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

with a splash that shot the water up
nearly to the airship. so long, you
Senegambian cannibal," said Pa, as
the king struck the water, and the
airship shot up about so feet higher
Give my love to 40 or so of your
wives" said the cowboy, as hs
sheathed his knife. Take that from
your little Hennery," says I, as lit a
giant firecracker and threw it down
near him, where it exploded like a
bomb. And then as we went along
through the air we watched him
loosen himself from the chair .and
strike out for the shore, swearing in
negro dialect that he would eat us yet,
without salt, and then we got out of
sight of the lake, laughing at our es-
cape and wondering where we would
land.
We sailed along for a couple of
hours, and passed over villages of ma
tives, but Pa said he would not take
chances on another niger king, but
would run the ship toward the coast
as long as the gas held out, and on
we went until after midday, when the
gas bag began to flap as though the
gas was escaping, and Pa acted nearly
crazy, because we were over a dense
jungle, filled with wild animals, and
not thing to eat.
After 2 o'clock p. m. we sighted a
clearing ahead, with nice modern
houses, and as we got nearer we could
Of
and horses and elephants, and the
queerest mixture of wild life and civ
ilization, and the nearer we got the
more it looked like a Yankee settle
ment, and when Pa saw some auto
mobiles and tennis court, with men,
women and children playing tennis.
and riding around in gasoline and
steam autos, and a creamery and a
windmill and an ice house. he said
that was the place he was looking for,
| and he pointed the airship for the
clearing, and told the cowboy to get
the anchor ready.
The people on the plantation saw
the airship and quit playing tennis,
the autos pointed toward where we
we're going to land, and when we
threw out the anchor and came down
to the ground and made a landing
right on the golf links near the tennis
court, we were soon surrounded by 20
or 80 men, women and children, and
Pa got out and took of his hat and
made bow that would have captured
any people of any nationality.
Pa was going to speak to the people
in French or German, but a man in
riding breeches came up and in the
purest English. said: Il beg pardon,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

The drummer placed his hand on his
bald spot and caressed it reminis-
Gently.
Florida and California may be all
right for raising vegetables in hur-
ry, but if you want to see crops get
right up and hump themselves go to
Kansas. Trains runnin' through Kan
sas have big signs up in the cars
warnin' passengers not to throw any
thing off the car. Why? Because
they've found it amt safe. Cook on
diner threw off a hunk of bologna
one hot day last June and next day
the train went through a pack of a
hundred and fifty-two mongrel dogs at
the identical spot.
Il was travelling through there last
July and was standin' on the rear
paw Junction, Tennessee. When he
thought nobody was looking the old
fellow peeled off a big squash seed
poultice from his shoulder blade and
tossed it overheard. Just then the
conductor came out and saw it.
Hi, there, what was that?" says
the conductor.
Nothing but squash seed poul-
tice,'' says the old gent.
Great Scott" yells the conductor.
"a squash seed poultice! Don't you
know that is penitentiary offence?
The law says distinctly that any man,
woman or child who throws, heaves,
casts, hurls or otherwise dumps a
squash seed poultice upon, into, under
or about the right of way of any rail
road in this state stands liable to con-
viction and sentence to five years in
the pen. Did you know that, sir?"
The old gent said he hadn't thought
to post up on Kansas law of late and
couldn't say positive.
That's the law, SIR" said the con;
''but We'll say nothing this time
providing you lay low and sneak out
of the state inside of three days
Well, next day went back over the
same route. They had snowplow on
the engine.
What's that for? Had blizzard
east?" says /.
"Worse." says the conductor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03
His BiNiken
BY Judd Mortimer Lewis.

II have got to get me a Billiken,"
said Jinx, as he stopped to kiss his
wife good-by before starting for his
Office last Monday morning.
So far as Jinx' remark went 1t
landed properly, but as Mrs. Jinx at
the moment of the aiming. of the kiss
took sudden notion to turn and as
certain if it was possible to see her
self in the mantel mirror across the
hall, the kiss drew a moist line across
her starboard cheek, lodged beneath
her ear, and exploded innocuously in
her back hair.
"And what in the world is Bill
ken?'" queried she, turning in a light
ming effort to catch the already un-
puckered pucker of Jinx' lips.
you don't mean to say that you
don't know what a Billiken is? A
Billiken is a sort of a good luck idol
carved out of ivory or celluloid or
soap or something never examined
one closely-and it perches on your
desk and grins perpetually with so
contagious a grin that everyone near
its perch grins in sympathy. 1t is an
insurance against fool woman turn
ing her head just as her husband is
about to kiss her If a Billiken had
been perched on my desk yesterday
when we went to visit our folks in the
country 1 would not have been butted
into the hog lot by the goat, chased
beneath the barn by the old boar, nor
would 1 have played a hole in the
ground for cotton-tail and drawn a
polecat; and you would not have pur-
chased another merry widow last
week when you already had pillbox
and sun-kissed that you had scarce
ly worn. l certainly need Billiken
if any man ever did! Clemens has
one and his mother-in-law is as tame
and gentle as a sucking dove; Tips
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

to be hereafter In the language Ten
nyson has not yet used:
ct have dipped into the future far as
human eyes could stand.
Seen the folly of the world and other
things to beat the band.
81 have glimpsed a finish for old
Aunt Grundy that is a fright. OF
course, looking through the pages of
future history, 1 have found myself
an immortal"
What's her name?" asked Xanthip-
pc, reaching around for a stove lid.
81 mean 1 have found myself to be
an immortal. But don't choose to be
one. l don't want to live forever in
this ravine of snivels. There'll be too
much to try a sane mans patience
along about 1900 Ami Domino. 1
see and here he forgot entirely his
delicate task of sole-paring, and his
eyes became clairyoyant. Il see di-
rectoire gowns and wireless telegraph
and affinities: 1 see everybody dodg-
ing automobiles and occasionally a
poor dodger that doesn't make it; /
see monkey dinners and thumb-print
signatures; I see great fortunes won
by some men because the others were
too dense to see how to keep them
from it; l see the autocratic ruler OF
an empire told by his popularly-elect-
ed parliament to keep still except I'M
der proper surveillance, while the
head OF certain republic dictates to
his popularity elected lawmakers such
laws as they are permitted-nay. COM
pelledi-to make, and tells his people
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-03-03

see spinsters and bachelors writing
learned treatises on the care and dis
cipline of children and those same
childless ones changing their resi-
dences because a family with young
progeny has moved into the same fiat;
l see fashions running their eccentric
course-beauty one year depending on
the narrowness of ones headgear and
the next upon getting a top-piece too
large to go into a cab door; l see
jests that we have snapped around
Miltiades' grocery store for 20 years
dressed up and making a big hit on
Broadway and giving men regulations
as humorists-Say, Kan, is there any
thing to drink about the house?''
Nothing but some old hemlock, ex-
ira dry"
Bring me the bottle. Thanks. Now
get me that vial of prussic acid as a
chaser. After seeing all those things
in the future, l want to make sure
job of it, Ia, ia, Kan. l want you
to marry again. so somebody will be
sorry I'm dead"
Copyright. 1909, by w. G. Chapman)