The National tribune., 1910-08-25

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Of the Agricultural Experiment Station
and Professor of Agriculture at the
Iowa Agricultural College. He was ap-
pointed Secretary of Agriculture by
President Mckinley in 1897, and was
reappointed to that office by President
Roosevelt and President Taft.
1t is stated that the forest fires up in
the Northwest are costing the United
States Government $1,000 day to fight.
1t is thought at the present time that
the fires in Washington and Oregon
are under control, but the lack of rain
up to the present writing and dry con-
dition of the forests makes the danger
of further fires require vigilance. AS
sistant Forester Potter hopes with the
aid of the troops which are helping TO
fight the fire to get it under control and
keep it there. 1t is stated that the fires
now surpass anything in the history of
the country, and there never was such
a large force engaged in fighting them.
The troops that are doing the fighting
have given splendid satisfaction. and it
will no doubt be due to them that our
great forests in the Northwest are
saved.
Maybe before long the Potomac Will
be noted for its seal fisheries. Fur seals
from Bering Sea are to be brought here
some time in the Fall and turned over
to the Fish Commission. The object OF
the importation is to secure seals TOT
experiments in breeding. 1t is not
known whether they will thrive In
Southern waters or not They have
done very we'll in captivity IN various
American cities, especially in the Tenn
perate Zone, and it is thought possibly
that breeding grounds may be estab-
lished where they can be better taken
care of.
In a recent speech at a dinner given
in his honor at Eagle Ridge, Ore. Sec
retary of the Interior Baliinser salu
that in his opinion fidelity and economy
in the conduct of business and common
sense in the handling of the country's
resources constituted conservation, ano
then he added:
Every acre of agricultural land in
the United States will be needed to
raise food products for our own people
The time is past in this country when
we can skim the cream and ignore a
system for making the best use of
everything we have.
While in the past we may have
seemed wasteful, We have also been
progressive. The time has now come
when we have to be economical, and
we must use common sense in the ham
Oling OF our reSOuTCeS. iHdI IL dil tileiS
is in conservation
II believe it is safe to say that only
a small portion of the Western people
are public land criminals and disposed
to take advantage of the Federal Gov
ernment Whoever they are, I believe
in the rigid enforcement of the law
They are telling a story on Repre-
sentative VIM. A Rodenberg, Of Illi-
nois, which, however, has been told on
about thousand members of Congress
since the franking privilege was given
members of the United States Congress.
The story is to the effect that Represen-
tative Rodenberg sent to one of his
farmer constituents quantity of flower
and vegetable seeds in wrappers, which
bore on one corner the legend: Pen
atty for private use, $500" In a very
short time, so the story goes on Rep
resentative Rodenberg, he got the seeds
back, postage carefully prepaid, and
letter from the farmer, saying that he
returned the seeds because he would
have used them for private purposes.
and this would have made him liable
TO such a tremendous sum that he
thought it wiser to send it back.
At an Idaho Republican Convention
at Wallace Idaho. Senator W. 3. Hey
burn, of Idaho. again proved himself
true to his patriotic principles. The
band started out to play Dixie" and
Senator Hepburn very quietly ordered
them to stop. Senator Hepburn has
lived long enough south of Mason and
Dixon's line to learn that Dixie" is pre-
eminently the song of the Southern
Confederacy; that it does not matter If
it was written by a Northern man and
a Union soldier for Northern minstrel
troupe. He knows that the song has
been adopted and taken to the hearts
of the people who adore the rebel flag
and Wirz, the fiend keeper of Anderson
vile. and that the Daughters of the
Confederacy and the Veterans of the
Southern Confederacy have been in
structed that whenever Dixie" is
played they are all to rise and stand
/ until il is concluded, and he knows that
il is a piece of music that represents
sectional lines and sectional feeling.
] hence ought never to enter into the
repertoire of a musical program for
people who love the whole Union and
! the Flag The Star Spangled Ban
ner" has been designated as the Ma
( tional air, and 1t is 50 used by the Army
and Navy, which represent US abroad
as well as at home, and it is we'll
known fact that there can be but one
National air. The reiteration of the
people of the South and the newspapers
tionaT' air shows that they are trying
TO make a distinction. so if they want
the rebel air with filthy words for their
own, Senator Hepburn is willing to let
them have them and keep them.
Some Chicken Knowledge.
! DR.. Harvey w. Wiley the guardian Of
4 the Nations health, has gotten out a
new report on shipping poultry. DR..
/ Wiley considers shipping poultry real
problem. One OF the most important
/ items has to do with the way that fouls
should be killed. He says, in the first
place, that the chicken should be bred
and fed so as to make it good eating,
but that the first step in the preserva-
tton of its good qualities is to starve it
for - hours before killing. 1t should,
however, all this time have a liberal
supply Of fresh, clean water. He says
this method will practically empty the
intcstines of the foul, and improves its
keeping qualities When il comes tO
the killing, he says that very few peo-
pie properly bleed the foul, and that
badly-bled fouls cause a loss OF from
two to five cents a pound as compared
with the corresponding poultry which
Is well bled, and that aside from the
bad appearance of incompletely bled
chickens, their keeping qualities art
very inferior, as the flesh loses its firm,
ness sooner, its flavor is not so good
; the odOr of stale flesh and finally o.
putrifactiOn comes sooner Then h,
} tells you how to bleed your chickens
as follows:
: vessels of the head and neck of tn,
, H oh ha2n I'M HaI in, h.