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The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16
Tankage vs.. Buttermilk For Hogs.

Tankage vs.. Buttermilk For Hogs.
A Minnesota correspondent writes:
Which is cheaper. GO per cent pro-
tein tankage ut $50 per ton or butter
milk at twenty five cents per fifty gal
lon barrel? Will have to haul the but
termiik about two miles.
Butermilk Mt twenty-five cents per
fifty gallon barrel or about six cents
per hundred, makes, ut the present
market prices, one of the cheapest
and best feeds to give hogs in connec-
ton with corn. Even when rs high
rs twenty or twenty five cents per
hundred. buttermilk. provided that it
is Of good quality and not watered too
heavily at the creamery is one of the
most economical sources Of protein.
According to the chemists analysis.
butterinilk contains in every 100
pounds 3 8 pounds of muscle building
material and ga pounds of heat and
fat formers while tankage contains SO. l
pounds of muscle building material and
p pounds Of the heat and fat formers.
We would figure from this, that If
tankage WAS worth $50. 90 per ton
buttermlk should be worth twenty cents
hundred. Actual experiments in
dicate, however, that buttermilk is
worth even more than this in cOmpar-
ison with the tankage For pig feed
ing purpose buttermilk has been found
to have almost identically the same
value rs skim milk and in an Indiana
experiment with pigs from 100 to 200
pounds in weight fed in u dry lot it WAS
found that with tankage at $50. 90 a
ton skim milk had value Of about
2S 6 cents hundred This is when
the tankage is fed in the proportion Of
one part tankage to fifteen parts corn
and the skim milk in the proportion
of one and one half parts to one part
of corn
We are not acquainted with our cor
respondent > local conditions and do
not know Just how incOnvenient it is
for him to make the two mile haul,
but Judging from the knowledge which
the chemists analysis, feeding eX-
periments and experience give Us We
would think that he could pay ut least
seventy-five cents for fifty gallon
barrel before buying tankage at $50. 90
per ton.
In the foregoing We have considered
only the nutritive value Of the two
foods. There is another phase of the
question which must be- reckoned with.
namely. the danger Of Introducing tn
berculosis through the buttermilk. In
sections where tuberculosis is prevalent
among COWS We would not like to USE
buttermilk from the creamery except
for hogs that are to be marketed within
a month or two. Wallaces' Farmer.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16

Nebraska is destined to become one
of the successful and prosperous
sheep and wool growing states Of the
western corn belt country. The soil.
climate. drainage and surface water
supply are exceptionally we'll suited
to the health of the flock. Few sec
tiOns Of country are so we'll provided
with native pasture and hay grasses
that are SO admirably suited to the
needs Of the grazing animal. and no
district has SO many varieties Of high
nutritive value for the growing and
fattening of stock. Besides these
natural advantages. the tame grass
pastures and the alfalfa and clover
meadows are to be found everywhere.
enjoying the most luXurisnt and sue
cessful growth possible for feed and
grazing purposes. 1t is only mat
ter Of = few more years when there
will be thousands Of sheep in this state
where there are now only hundreds.
The farmer. who starts in now with the
little purebred flock. and carefully
guards its interests in care and breed
ing. will have reason to rejoice that
he entered the lists in the years of
the beginning.
Nebraska farmers and feeders have
generally been content to enjoy the
profits from the feed yard. where
hundreds of thousands of the western
range sheep are yearly brought to be-
come the medium Of profitable mark
citing large crops Of alfalfa and corn.
Nebraska was the first state to take
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16
Thirty Years AgO-And Now.

The Homestead believes it has no
reeader 50 busy but he can afford to
take a few minutes time to consider
how the political condition of the
farmer has changed within the last
three decades Thirty years ago 20
htical power was conferred in the county
seat. Opinions and votes We're manu-
featured and manipulated there with
equal facility. The farmer WAS not
10 blame because, rs convention time
rolled around, he reserved expressions
rs 70 his candidates until he could get
to the county seat and to see Just
what the editor or the postr: aster
thought and wanted The farmer
lived an isolated life. Roads We're
often impossible half of the Year.
Rural telephones We're unknown
Rural mail delivery was not dreamed
Of. An automobile would have thrown
every horse and chicken and most Of
the humans into the provrebial CON
niption fit. Trolley cars had not yet
made their appearance in the city.
and even the widest dreamer did not
think Of them traversing the country.
Not one farmer in a hundred received
daily newspaper regularly. And SO,
when convention time came around. it
Was only natural that the farmers
mind WAS not made up as to candid
ates and issues. He was not aware
Of what was TRANSPORTING at Washington
or At the state capital. He had heard
but little of who We're the candidates.
He clambered out Of the railway coach
or his wagon on the morning of the
county convention as he arrived Mt the
county seat. and lost little time in get
ting around to the candidate factories.
which Were usually the postoffice, the
leading store or the local newspaper
office. There was not time to inquire
Is to the truth Of commendation or
condemnation. He was obliged to
take someone else's word for men and
measures. There was hardly county
In all the grain belt in which less
than q dozen men at the county seat
did not make and unmake public Off
Gals and determine just who and what
policies the public should vote for.
Today political power is centered in
the individual, and the farmer holds
the balance of power. He is within
speaking distance not only of the
county seat, but the state capital.
The trolley cars make it easier for
him to travel fifty miles than he could
have tr2n1ed Eve in the old days.
The rdLW mail carrier makes daily
trips past his home, leaving at the
farmers gate the printed news of the |
world Thousands upon thousands of
farmers in every state of the grain
belt receive their moping paper fresh
from the presses before noon, papers
printed possibly 800 miles distant. I'll
is . fset that b many localities one
farmer h t1sss NV subscribes for 81
daily -papsR, cd rsods it in its entir-
sty-ts3aGngA Iseal happenings, mar-
ket repueD - s6tsgial commssG
Coagrss - eosasss in the AFTER
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16

up the sheep feeding industry on q
large scale. As early rs 1897 the
feeding yards of Nebraska in a single
season turned out over one million fat
sheep for the mutton markets of the
country. Its support to this feature
Of the feeding industry has been vari-
ously represented in the years follow
ing. depending upon the corn and hay
crops and the advantages that the
range sheep supply offered in filling up
the feed yards.
1t has been true of all prairie and
treeless districts Of the country, in
their early history. that the matter of
fencing seemed to be the greatest i'm
pediment to progress. This was true
likewise in Nebraska's beginning
years, and the matter of hog tight,
or sheep-tight, fence was not even
thought possible. 1t is only in recent
years that the hog has been taken out
of its muddy yard and been given .
pasture to roam over. The hog is al.
most rs much of pioneer rs the
homesteader who first ventured onto
the open prairie. and. Of course. was
entitled to the best first. The sheep
has been waiting for its fenced pas
ture and on many farms will wait for
years to come. However, the woven
wire fenced pasture is solving many
needs on the farm. and rs result the
farm flock is coming quite rapidly.
where once introduced.
/ In considering the introduction of
the sheep onto the Nebraska farm
there are not many serious questions
to be considered. Where there is
much wet and low bottom land to be
used as pasture it is not advisable to
introduce the farm flock. Dry lands.
upland. table. hill or valley are util-
.ized by the sheep to excellent advantage.
The small farm flock can be used as q
sort Of u scavenger band. to be turned
any place. after the farm is tight
fenced. They serve a good purpose rs
cleaners in the stubble fields: they
clean up the weeds and volunteer
growth Of vegetation of one kind or
another about the place; along the
fences, in the feed lots. orchard. in
fact they are always ready to come
from their regular pasture to do any
little odd jobs of cropping. trimming
and pruning up the undesirable growths
about the farm.
The pleasing feature Of the whole
Of the farm flock is that it
pays u good profit above the many ad-
vantages that it is incidental in cover
ing. The sheep yields two crops per
year. q crop Of wool and crop Of
lambs. A little bunch Of eight good
young ewes on the farm will cost in
pasture. feed. hay. etc. about equal
to one COW. This pretty closely rep
their consuming capacity.
The old sheep men Of the eastern states
put the estimate q little higher than
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16

Our readers have heard . good deal
Of late about the farmers free list.
or the list Of articles which can be
brought into the United States free.
They may be interested in the text
of the bill a amended, which has been
passed by the senate and referred to
the hOnse. II the house does not
agree to the amendments. it is sent to
q conference committee of members
Of both house and senate. IL this
committee agrees on the bill q it is.
or with such amendments a. they may
suggest, it is then referred to both
houses; and if the report of the con-
ference committee is adopted, it will
then be sent to the president for his
signature. Whether the president
signs it CT not. our readers may be in
terested in the bill, which is as follows
BE it enacted by the senate and
house Of representatives Of the United
State Of America in congress assem-
bled, that on and after the day follow
ing the passage of this act the follow
ing articles shall be exempt from duty
when imported into the United States !:
Flows, tooth and disk harrows. head
ers, harvesters and binders. reapers.
agricultural drills and planters, now
ers. horse rakes. cultivatOrs. thresh-
ing machines and cotton gins. farm
wagons and farm carts. and all other
agricultural implements of any kind
and description. whether specifically
mentioned herein or not, whether in
whole or in parts including repair parts.
Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth and
all similar fabrics. materials or COW
erings suitable for covering and bail
ing cotton composed in whole or in
part of jute. jute butts, hemp. flax,
seq. Russian seq, New Zealand tow.
Norwegian tow. aloe. mill waste.
cotton tares or any materials or fab
RIGS suitable for covering cotton: and
bags or sacks composed wholly or in
bart of jute or burlaps or other mater
ial suitable for bagging or sacking
agricultural products,
Hoop or band iron or hoop or band
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16

Kidney trouble and the ills it breeds
means lost time and lost pay to many
a working man. NJ. Balent. 1914
Little Penna. ST., Streator. Illinois.
was so bad from kidney and bladder
trouble that he could not work. but
he says II took Foley Kidney Pills
for only a short time and got entirely
well and was soon able to go back to
work. and am feeling we'll and health
Ter than before Foley Kidney Pills
are tonic in action, quick in results
a good friend to the man or woman
who suffers from kidney ills. Fer
sale by all druggists.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16
steel, cut to length, punched or not
u

steel, cut to length, punched or not
punched, or wholly or partly manufac-
tured into hoops or ties. coated or not
coated with paint or any other prepar-
alton, with or without buckles or fast
enings for bailing cotton or any other
commodity; and wire for battling hay,
straw and other agricultural products.
Grain, buff, split, rough and sole
leather; band, bend or betting leath-
er; boots and shoes; harness, saddles
and saddlery. in sets or in parts, fin
ished or unfinished. composed wholly
or in chief value Of leather; and
leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps
or other forms suitable for conversion
into manufactured articles.
Barbed wire, fence wire, wire rods,
wire strands or wire rope. wire woven
or manufactured for wire fencing. and
other kinds of wire suitable for fenc-
ing. including wire staples.
Beef. veal. mutton. lamb. pork and
meats of all kinds: fresh, sailed,
picked. dried. smoked. dressed or I'M
dressed. prepared or preserved in any
manner: bacon. hams, shoulders, lard.
lard compounds. lard substitutes,
sausage and sausage meats coming
from any foreign country with which
the United States has q reciprocal
trade agreement and which shall ad-
nit from the United States free of
duty. cotton. corn. wheat. oats, horses.
cattle and hogs.
Buckwheat flour. corn meal, wheat
flour and semOlina, rye flour. bran
middlings and other Offals of grain. Oat
meal and rolled oats, and all prepared
cereal foods: and biscuits, bread. wa
fers and similar articles not sweeten-
ed, coming from any foreign country
with which the United States has
reciprocal trade agreement and which
shall admit from the United States
free of duty cotton. corn. wheat, oats.
horses. cattle and hogs.
Timber. hewn. sided Or squared,
round timber used for spars or in build
ing wharves. shingles, laths. fencing
Posts. sawed boards. planks. deals.
and other lumber rough or dressed. ex-
eept boards. planks. deals and other
lnmber of lignum vitae. Lakewood,
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16

t0lS. leu S0eep eq08I 70 JUG COWs
was the usual figuring. However, the
basis Of this estimate was always fig
ured on the little Merino, or fine
wooded sheep . somewhat smaller con-
sumer than the present day western
sheep. or Of any mutton breeds or
their crosses.
The range sheep Of the western
country. the sheep Of which We usual
ly refer in speking Of sheep. unless
special designation Is made. is mainly
made up Of the French Merino. or RAM
bouillet Aerino. . large. hardy fine
wooded sheep, often crossed by intro
ducing some mutton breeds. by coarse
wooded rams. These Merino sheep
have proven very hardy, and stand
erowding into large flocks, both for
grazing and for feed yard purposes.
These sheep are bred for both wool and
mutton. They will reduce. when CIV
en- good farm care. 8 to 10 pounds of
wool per head. of good quality. and
should sell on IN average Of past wool
conditions, ut 20 cents per pound,
which means approximately 81 peri
head for the fleece. A fair estimate
is 100 per cent of lambs per year,
with farm care; these lambs are caps-
BILE Of almost any estimate when raised
for the early mutton lamb market. If
raised only for flock increase they can
safely be estimated at s. to 81 per
head to BE- sold ut FIVE months old at
weaving time in the autumn season,
September or October.
The sheep while a dependent animal,
is easily handled 50 as to require little
attention. Every thing in the way
Of farm stock is an enemy to the
sheep. The cattle will gore them
and trample on them; the colts and
horses will kick. run over them and
otherwise inflict injury; the hogs will
readily become dcstroyers of the lambs
and develope taste for mutton that
necessitates separate enclosures. The
dog and the wolf are the natural enc
mics of the flock and demand close
watching ut all times in order that
damage from these sources are not ex-
p.rienced. An observance of all these
liabilities is necessary by the sheep
owner in order to get the best results.
Outside Of these precautions. which
We regard rs necessities, there is no
class or kind of farm animal SD easily
handled. 50 easily provided for in feed
and attention. The sheep. for guild
ance and direction about the farm, re-
lies almots entirely upon its shepherd.
No animal is Sd gentle or 50 conffiding
in the attendant.
In breed there is practically no
best kind Of sheep. There are many
breeds representing the standard
sorts that are bred by the leading
sheep men of the country. The fancy
is humored by q little different type
Of animal. but all produce wool and
mutton. What are the standard
breeds! Practically all the breeds
that are to be seen ut our fairs. This
Is a good place to so to make q choice |
Of the breed of sheep you are to take |
up in the establishing of the farm flock. |
At most Of our fairs specially state |
fairs, Shropshires. Hamshires, Oxfords,
South Downs. COttswOlds, LincOlns.
Dorsets. and three types
IF Merinos. Rambouillets. Delaines
and Americans will be represented.
The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-08-16

There Is no advertisement 50 good
as we'll designed and we'll printed Sta
tionery. Some letters are filed and
kept for months -others years. Each
time they are referred to they give the
reader either q good or q bad impression
Of the writer.
We are ialists.-''Producers of
the Better Than Ordinary. Our exper.
fence in designing, our exceptional
mechanical facilities, our high grade
wori<men- ARE all at your disposal. Call
up l23, either phone, and the Tribune
man will call.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-09
Automobile Notes

Manager O'Neil, of the O'Neil Motor
Car Company, delivered this week a
Paterson roadster to DR.. L. C. Schnei-
der, of Clinton avenue, Newark, and
a Krit runabout to DR.. Charles Ben
nett, of this city.
Dean B. Gregg. of the st. Paul Auto
mobile Club, was a visitor this week
at the New Jersey Automobile and
Motor Club. Mr.. Gregg is touring the
country in a Packard.
Clarence H. Bissell, former president
OF the New Jersey Automobile and
Motor Club, is spending his vacation
at Cooperstown, N. Y. Mr.. Bissel
has his Cadillac car with him.
Barney Oldheld, who was SGT Town
some time ago by the contest board Of
the Manufacturers Association for
riding at an unsanctioned meet, it is
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-09

month at Brighton Beach. Promoter
tries for this event, but has not
selected the dates for the race.
j. A. Holm announced yesterday that
the e. NJ. F. and Flanders Newark
sales company would take complete
charge of the handling of the Stude,
baker product on the 18th of this
month.
The house committee of the New Jer-
sey Automobile and Motor Club will
go to Pompton Lake this afternoon to
look at prospective sites for the pro-
posed new country club building.
Preparations for the 1911 national re-
liability tour for the Glidden trophy
Is going on merrily n 1t is expected
that the run will be successful in
every way. The tourists viii start
from New York and finish at Jackson
Vile, Fla, passing through the states
of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Georgia.
The touring information bureau of
the New Jersey Automobile and Mo-
tor Club is becoming more popular
every day, and there seems to be no
signs of falling off of tourists as yet.
A very handsome White motor-truck
that showed power n serviceability
in every line was on exhibition last
week at the local salesrooms of the
White Motor Car Company, in Broad
street, prior to its delivery to the New
Jersey Tobacco Company. Many users
of trucks in his vicinity visited the
White ~showrooms, and were favorably
impressed with the truck.
The new concrete bridge across the
Connecticut river between Saybrook
and Lyme IL now open for traffic, and
the old, i~nconvenient and slow-moving
ferryboat is no longer a necessity. This
improvement is a great boon to motor
lists using the shore road to Boston.
Because of the new road construction
now under way on the east side of
Lebanon mountain, in the Berkshires.
on the main route between Albany and
Pittsfield, the Massachusetts Highway
Commission has decided to close the
road for several weeks.
In announcing a one and one-half-ton
truck as an addition to. it's line, the
Packard Motor Car Company, of De-
troit, is responding to a demand for a
motor vehicle that is lighter and faster
than the well-established Packard
three-ton truck.
France has adopted the English
rules of the road, which is to keep to
the left instead of the right.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-09

1t is expected that a twenty-four-
hour race will be held some time this
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-09

predicted, will be reinstated shortly.
Barney has declared he will go after
several of Bob Burman's newly-made
records.
The bureau of tours of the Auto
mobile Club of America sends out the
following notice: zone of the pro-
visions of the new Connecticut State
law which will probably not be noticed
by h majority of automobiles is
that of having the number-plate hung
eighteen inches from the ground. In
Torrington this law is being rigidly
enforced, and automobiles should be
sure to comply with h same while in
this township"
The board of trustees of the New
Jersey Automobile and Motor Club
will meet next Tuesday.
1t is expected that a twenty-four-
hour race will b. held some time this
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-23
Only SQuaNyS.

They were ONLY squaws-those
women concerning whom so interest
ing and pathetic a story of marty
dom comes out from the blizzard
stricken Dakota prairies. Two blank
eted women, of the red mems race,
each carrying a papoose, were max
ing their way across a prairie far
from any human habitation. One
OF those awful storms which sweep
over that section rushed down on
the travellers. No words have ever
been written or spoken that would
describe adequately such a blizzard
as is known to the people of the
far West. Blinded, chilled to the
heart, each redskinned mother
struggled to continue the march to-
ward home. But strength failed.
More than that, the babes we're
sure to be frozen to death. unless
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-23
Unable TO Read, But He Made q
Million.

unable TO Read. But He Made a
John Leahy. who made more than
$1,O00,0O0, although he could
neither read nor write, is dead at
his home in Lakeville, r. |. His
shrewdness and Judgment seeming
ly compensated for his lack of edu-
cation.
Leahy who was seventy, came to
the United States from Ireland
many years ago. He bought a farm
at New Lots for a small sum and
made a good living as a farmer
and truck gardener. Soon after
consolidation he sold his New Lots
farm at profit OF $3OO,0O0, after
which he bought land adjoining
Deepdale, the estate of William X.
Vanderbilt, Jr., at Lakeville. Many
times overtures were made by Van
derbilt and his agents to induce
Leahy to sell, but he had no furth-
er need of money and always de-
clfned. He felt that, having ac-
cumulated a million himself, he was
entitled to residence in the Million
aire colony.
William d. Llewellyn, cashier of
the Bank of Long Island, at jana
lea, transacted most of Leahy's bu-
siness affairs. The 100000 made
by the sale of the New Lots farm
was more than trebled in the past
ten years, notwithstanding Leahy's
inability to read the hundreds of
legal documents to which he affixed
his mark. All his checks were
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-02-23
Is IL n Bargain You Want"

We have it; farm containing
80 acres of the best improved and
productive land in the Pee Dee sec
tion. Fields wired, good pastures,
fair timber, and the land itself
drained. We have this listed for
quick sale and a low price to quick
buyer. Don't get the idea in your
head that there's time enough. Be
quick and write us now for terms
Puckette & Richardson, Real Es-
tate Brokers, Lake City, S. c.
2-9-4t