Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-19

stalk is cut. the outer hark removed. and the balance roasted. The pithy ! portion is succuleut and most eX- | celient but the outer portion is not so good and is stringy. The taste | is mach the same as that Of the sweet potato, only bit sweeter ! The mescaI plant has z years growth. 1 The bushy portion about the root natures in z years. and the last | year the stalk grows up. blossoms, and then the entire plant dies.
 The bear grass never dies. lt l comes in punches of from 90 blades | to many hundred. The blades die ! singly, and in their place others ! come, so that when a field is once | in bear grass it always is unless killed cut. The new blade Of grass does not come the year the old one dies, but the next season.
 During drouths cattle eat a weed whose name could not learn. II is indieestible, and cattle die by 1 the hundreds. There is an antldote at hand, however. i1 the pricklY ! pear cactus. Cattlemen who know gather this cactus and throw into fire long enough for the spines or ''priokeTs to burn off, when the :. rest is fed to ihe animals. This soon straightens then out, and they are as good as new again. The cattle are eager for this cactus, and after having eaten it once or twice ! they will run lowing toward the ire the r2nchman or herder is l building about a bunch Of it, and ! will even try to eat~~it while it is yet hot. Sometimes, in extremely i dry seasons. they will eat it without | it having first been burned, while the spines are on. They slobber over it for a while till they can get the stuff down and then swallow | it. Practically always. however, in , this case it kills the animal. as the spines work through the tissues and into the flesh of the animal, and cause it's death in great agony ! Kidney Specific.
 Way back wonder on our trail a rancher invited us to his ranch ' for a day, and said-"We have plen ! ty to eat now the juniper berries are ripe" The man didn't know what a good thing the juniper berry is and thought, as almost everyone does, that only deer and bear eat l ! best kidney regulator known. ard the regular use of them will cure the most forloru cases of kidney trouble ! When ripe the juniper berry is of a light-red color, and is of the ! sweetest taste. not at all disagree able. The Indians have always used ! these berries for medicinal purposes and for "duices'. For myself, ! be lieye that a tea made of these 1 berries would be the finest kind of ! dope for bad kidneys. The animals ] eating the Juniper berry thrive. and deer fatten quickly. By the way, the Juniper is one Of the longest lived of the trees of the world. Ii puts out berries only once in 2 ] years, the intervening year the tree standing barren. The seed dc not begin growing til years after planting, though at this time the :, department of agriculture IS expert H-enting to bring about a quicker growth.
 The "black American" walnut grows in profUsion here. The trees are the handsomest in the forest, the branches and green leaves mak- ing abundant shade. The nut Is not
 so large as those on the trees ot the north and east. but the meat is delicious.
 The black jack pine, despised in the north, here grows the delicious
 nut called pinon. The nut grows l in the cone, and is little larger than the ordinary frijole bean. The electric cactus is the mean
 est thing found in this section. It usually grows from to G feet high and is about inches in cir conference. The parent s-alk puts
 out many short limbs about the size Of the plant itself; and all is covered with myriads of spiues
 When riding along the trail your
 horse will sWerye away from the plant, because it actually does sud, denly incline an inch or more to ward a passing person or animal
 and if 1t hits it sure hurts. In fact
 the stickers of this variety Of cac. tus. are the hardest Of all to get rid of, and can best be gotten out
 by taking a sharp-pointed knife and
 digging them out-a tedious and painful job.
 Ready Pipe Stem.
 IF you happen to lose your pipe stem and are several thousand miles
 from nOwhere, just get of the horse
 whena you reach the first walnut
 tree, cut a branch the size of the | pipe stem wanted, push a piece ot
 baling wire or something like that
 through, taking out the pith and you've the sweetest pipestem you ever owned. By the way, the walnut
 is the only growth here having a pith.
 When camping. if you take a can Of ashes saturated with kero- sene. you will be able to build a fire anywhere and at any time, no matter if the ground be wet and the wood wetter. This is a good thing to know
 The just before sun" routine in camp is: Get your clothes on pronto;
 tooth your teeth; take a brisk walk in the fresh air for a few minutes-and then hang around and grind your teeth and hold your temper til breakfast is ready-for you are ready for whatever the
 cook puts out for you and in whatever shape The other day we