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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
Get RICH IN
THREE YEARS
EXPERIENCES OF A BRITISH I'M
MIGRANT IN CANADA-WEST.


The following straightforward state
ment needs no comment to add to-
It's force and effect 1t appears In Q.
recent issue of the Liverpool Mer
curry.
H. Patterson, of Nutana, Saskatche-
wan, Canada, when he arrived from.
Liverpool, had six of us to support,
to use his own phraseology. and his
funds were getting low. He secured
homestead 80 miles out from Sun
durn, and started living on 1t April
10, 1907. The previous fall he put ALI
his money. $137, into shack and lot,
making sure of home. AS cook and
caterer in a local hotel he made SIS
month, and out of this had some
savings out Of which he paid his
breaking and improvements on the
homestead The shack was sold to
good advantage. Then Mr.. Patterson
tells the story after he had removedl
his family to the homestead:
For the first month life was So
strange and new that hadn't time to-
think of anything, only fixing up our
new home. was 80 green to farm,
life that / didn't know the difference.
between wheat and oats q do now
Between working out, cropping my
place, and, with my gun, we managed
to live comfortably for the three
years, which time was required to put
in my duties. l had accumulated
quite a stock of horses, cows, pigs,
fowls, and machinery in the three
years.
I'm October, 1909, l secured my pat
ent to my land, so took few days
holidays to Saskatoon to locate a
purchased homestead wiz, Us. per
acre. from the Government. Instead
of getting the purchased homestead.
secured half section 1920 acres)
on the Saskatchewan River for $25
per acre on easy terms, nine years
payments with a cash payment OF
$1,000. l mortgaged my first home
stead, obtained chattel mortgages ON
my stock, and on December Gath,
1909, took possession; on June 10,
1910, / sold out again for $40 per acre,
clearing, besides my crop (14O acres)p
$4,000. also sold my first home
stead, clearing $1,000 and two Saska-
toon town lots, which we value at
$1,000 each today. We placed all our
capital in another farm (river front
age) and some trackage lots (60), also
a purchased homestead (river front
age). l remained as Manager of the
Farm l had sold on a three years
contract at fine salary and house,
garden, and numerous privileges.
$50 by the time my three years have
expired, with my investments and the
increased value of my frontage and
lots, l am hoping to have clear
profit on my $1S7 investment of
$4,000. My land doesn't eat any
thing, and it is nearly all paid for. ]
hold good position (and secureJ''-
Adv.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

The twenty-seventh vice president OF
the United states and the only one re-
nominated was James Schoolcraft
Sherman. But, in nearly quarter Of
century of public life, Jim" Sner
man, he was to his intimates, and prob
ably half the nation referred to him
as Sunny Jim," sobriquet earned by
a never failing, all-year-round sunny
disposition.
Sherman belonged to the school Of
Republcanism nowadays popularity
called regular and he fought his po-
litical battles without compromise or
flinching. The events he helped to
shape are so comparatively recent that
history cannot assign him to his prop
er place until it also records the work
of his contemporaries.
To the house of representatives of
the fiftieth congress he came in the
winter of 1887, just passed his thirty
second birthday, with the energy and
optimism of youth, college bred from
the halls of Hamilton, which has given
to public life many more statesmen
and public figures, none without some
mark of distinction.
He had been elected mayor of Utica
two years before. Like many others
who came to lead in the naional legls-
lature, he brought with him an educa-
ton in law. He was well born and well
bred. His father, Richard w. Sher-
man, was an editor and public figure
in New York State.
Two sessions of congress found
| Sherman defeated and out of office,
but not for long.
Harry w. Bentley of Bonneville,
Oneida county. brought him by less
than a thousand votes in the race for
the fifty-second congress. In the in.
term Sherman went back to Utica,
built up his law practice and returned
to the fifty-third congress with a sig
nal victory. He remained in the house
without defeat to the sixtieth con,
gress, when he was nominated and
elected vice president on the ticket
with Mr.. Taft.
His first years in the house brough;
him into close association with lead
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
SHEEP RAISING AND WHEAT GROWING
FEASIBLE AND LUCRATIVE COMBINATION
Ability to Utilize and Turn Into Account What Would Otherwise
Be Wasted Products Is Determining FaCtor-Frst Step
Is to Provide Good Fences.

above the top of the woven wire
fence. These should be attached to
the outside of the posts. This ar
rangement makes burrowing under
and vaulting over the fence from the
outside very difficult. A woven wire
fence SO inches high with one strand
of barbed wire above it is usually suf-
ficient for inside or cross fencing.
The next step is to secure the right
kind Of sheep. When selecting these,
two things should be kept we'll in
mind. They must be of breed that
are noted for being quick to get on
their feet after being LANDED else
they will require a great deal of at
tention at Landing time, which, COM
ing as It does in the midst of seeding,
the farmer can i'll afford to give, and
they must be well wooded on. the UNI
der line, else they will spend too
much time about the shelter during
the winter months; they will require
much more hand feeding and be much
more likely to contract disease than
they would If they got out every day
on clean ground and in the clear air
and sunlight.
In managing a flock of sheep 1t
should be remembered that variety
of feed Is indispensable. When they
are on succulent feed, they should
have daily access to dry roughage;
when they are on dry feed they should
have occasional access to something
succulent. A little attention to this i'm
portant matter will prevent loss from
indigestion which has probably caused
greater losses among farmers flocks
than any other ailment. A field of ma
tive prairie or of bronze grass in which
there is pile of straw or rack of
hay to which they can go at will, in
order to get a-change Of feed while
cleaning the summer fallow, and an
other field sown to winter rye early
in August, to which they can go &C.
casionally for succulent feed during
the winter and spring months, are all
that is necessary.
A word of caution may not be out
of place in this connection. Turning
hungry sheep on wet rye is very
likely. to result in bloating. There
fore if the sheep do not have constant
access to the rye field, be sure that
their appetites are fairly well salts
fed and that all dew and raindrops
are dried off before the sheep are
turned in.
The present Is a favorable time to
secure foundation stock, because they
can still be purchased at moderate
prices. The sheep ranchers of the
western states are reducing their
herds because of scarcity of pasture,
and the large numbers going to mar
ket are keeping prices at low level;
but once this reduction of herds stops,
prices will rise. They will probably
not soar as have the prices of cattle
and horses, because the frozen NUT
ton of Australia and New Zealand
will be drawn on to prevent excessive
ly high prices, but the trade that re-
fuses to accept the frozen article ia
sufficiently large to permit of ma
terlal advance in mutton prices, and
this advance is sure to take place as
soon as the big ranges have been de-
pleted
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
CBy W. F. STEVENS. Live Stock Com
missioner OF Province Of Alber1a.l

CBy W. F. STEVENS. Live Stock Com
missioner of Province of Alberta.)
AS swine growing is the natural ad-
junct of dairying, so sheep is the ma
tural accompaniment of extensive
wheat farming. The ability to utilize
and turn to account what would other
wise be waste products is the determ-
lining factor in each case.
The by-products of the wheat farm
are weeds, volunteer grains and
grasses, weed seeds, shrlvelled grain
and straw. The first four, sheep will
utilize to better advantage than will
any other kind of live stock, and only
beef cattle and horses will surpass
sheep in turning wheat straw to &C
count.
Another reason why sheep should
appeal to the extensive wheat farmer
Is that once he has installed the pro-
per equipment such as. fences, open
sheds and watering places, they inter
fere little with his field work In fact.
It is very doubtful If the extra work
they occasion during the busy season
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
LITERALLY FAT
FOWLS IN FALL
0ver-Fed Hens Are Subject to
Serious Troublesome Rem
edy Recommended.
By MRS. c. c. THoMAs.)

Most fowls are literally fat in the
range because they pick up so much
grain, weed seeds, grasshoppers and
bugs and as the grain In the field
ripens it is a strong temptation to
over-feed the poultry.
Over.fed hens are subject to in
flammation of the egg passage, and
this is very serious trouble
Feeding ground pepper or other
stimulating poultry feeds to force the
laying is almost certain to produce
inflammation The so-called egg feeds
advertised are many of them without
value, in fact they are harmful
When the egg passage becomes
congested the hen may burst blood
vessel in her efforts to expel the egg
and few days later she will show
signs OF weakness, the comb will turn
dull. the temperature fall low and
the bird will die.
The first symptoms are the droop
ing of the wings, roughing of the
feathers and loss of energy.
1t is a good plan to keep the pullets
and the old hens separated because
the hens fatten much quicker than
the pullets on the same feed
II hen is suffering from infiam'
nation of the egg passage, the egg
must be removed soon or the bird
will die. This may be accomplished
by covering the finger with vaseline
and inserting it into the egg passage,
meanwhile pressing gently on the LEFT
side with the other hand.
Usually this will expel the egg and
then the passage should be washed
out with a weak solution of carbolic
,cid by means OF small syringe. A
tablet of homeopathic nux vomicn-
1-1OO given in the water for two or
three days will effect complete care
The hen must, of course, be fed very
lightly for some time until her flesh
has been reduced
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

The tenement mother is being rele-
gated to the background as subject
for social study. The searchllght Of
investigation is now turned upon the
man with the white collar-the sal
aired bread winner of the middle
class. parallel between the casual
laborer of the tenement districts and
the salarled middle class man was re-
Gently drawn, says the Chicago Tri-
bune. The middle class man was
worsted in the comparison. His strug-
gle to make ends meet was said to be
keener than that of the laborer who
acknowledged, by the absence Of a
starched collar, that his work was
physical and violent, not mental and
"gentlemanlike. Thus the problem
Of poverty. so long exclusively asso-
ciated with the people of the slums,
10 fast moving in the direction of the
middle class mantle married clerk
the man with the white collar He
Is struggling to keep up a superior
dignity upon an inferior income; the
pay envelope of the skilled working
man is usually bigger than his and
less of 1t goes for show. To remedy
this difficulty 1t has been suggested
that men and women of the middle
class curtail their social aspirations
But this is the wrong remedy. The
mission of the twentieth century is to
breed aspiration. The problem is to
raise the income and standard of llv-
ing of both the tenement laborer and
middle class man.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
SILO REDUCES COST
OF FEEDING cows
Huge Tank Is One of Best Means
for Producing Cheaper Feed
for Dairy Animals.

Raising cheaper feed Is one of the
ways to increase the profits on the
dairy herd. The dairyman's first con
sideraticn is to raise sufficient feed
to meet the needs of his cows, then
he will be concerned in raising it as
cheaply as possible. The question of
cheap feed or cheap production of
any kind has not entered into our
system of farm practice as much as 1t
should. That is why so many find
that farming does not pay; they are
like the merchant who pays all of his
profits to clerks that are not efficient.
The fault is with the manager in both
cases.
The clio is one of the means at
hand for producing cheaper feed 1t
enables the dairyman or farmer to
save about 40 per cent Of the corn
plant and to convert the entire plant
into palatable, nutritious, succulent
feed for his animals. Then he may
raise hay, grain, etc, to balance the
ration. utilizing every means possible
to reduce the cost of feeding animals
The silo should not be considered
as an expense. 1t is an Investment
that will pay dividends in saving the
cost of feed and in supplying succu.
lent feed keeping up the appetite Of
the animals and saving time in feed
ing The silo is one of the several
ways of reducing the cost OF keeping
animals and thus increasing the prof
its in corresponding degree.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

Hitch your wagon to a start" said
Emerson. He was too early to orig
mate the notion Of hitching a sledge
to an aeroplane. This idea has &C.
CURED to an ingenious Frenchman in
Algeria. He finds that sledge ca
pable OF carrying three passengers.
equipped with a sixty-horse-power aer-
oplane motor. will glide over sand
hills with gradient of one In Ave
with perfect safety up to a speed OF
twenty miles an hour. Now he pro-
poses the attachment of lifting plane
for clearing rough obstacles. His ex-
pectation is that his device will super
sede the camel and unite distant
points In Africa divided by hitherto
impossible wastes of sand.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

First Prize Yearline Grade Wether.
is not more than offset by the labor
they save on the summer fallow in
the way of soil packing, weed eradica-
ton and the spreading Of manure.
Another fact worth considering is
that the presence of flock of sheep
on a grain farm does not necessitate
material reduction in the area de-
voted to grain growing, but on the
other hand it never fails to insuES a
larger yield of better grain, and it
makes possible the growing of grain
for longer period of years than can
be done without them, or some other
kind of livestock.
A certain amount of technical
knowledge regarding sheep, their
habits, etc, is necessary to success,
but the same is equally true of all
classes of animals, and amateurs
should acquire this knowledge with a
email flock in order that their mis-
takes do not cost them too dearly.
The first step to be taken when
embarking in the business of sheep
raising is to enclose at least one field
with coyote-proof fence. Additional
fields similarly enclosed should be
provided as occasion requires, or ones
means permit. An effective dog and
coyote-proof fence can be made by u.s.
irg a woven wire fence four feet
high and attached to the inside of the
posts. A strand of barbed wire should
be run along the surface Of the
ground, and another about six inches
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

ers. Joseph w. Bailey, late0a senator;
Breckenridge, Bryan, Bourke Cochran,
Crisp, Dalzell, Dingley, Dolliver, Hen
derson Payne, Paynter, Raynor, Read
Wadsworth, Fighting Joe" Wheeler
and score of others whose names be-
came household words in discussion
OF the tariff and other national poll
tics were his fellows. The senate held
such men as Aldrch, Allison, Cock
rell Daniel, Frye, German, Hoar, Hill,
Teller, Vest and Wolcom All were
not Republicans, but all were Jim
Sherman's friends, and in such an en-.
vironment he worked to high place
in the councils and finally was NUM-
bered one of the Big Five" in the
house.
Cannon, Dalzell, Payne, Sherman and
Tawney were the great quintette dur
ing the comparatively recent years In
which congress was Republican. Eacl
of them invariably wore a red carna-
/ ticn for boutonniere, and when Sher-
man went to preside over the senate
and occupy the coveted marble room
in the other wing of the capitol he
took the custom with him, and 10
flower always appeared at every ses-
sion Of the upper house.
/ Any review of Sherman's life would
not be complete without a reference
to his work in the house Briefly there
is recorded no time when he moved
galleries to applause by debate from
the floor or changed any votes by
eloquence. But the statutes bear marks
Of his work in committee and caucus,
and the results of his labors on the
rules committee, the Interstate Com
merce Commission and other branches
of the machinery of the house
Vice President Sherman was born in
Utica on October "a, 1855. He was
married in 1881 to Carrie Babcock ut
East Orange. n. ]. They have three
sons, Sheriff., Richard L., and Thomas
NJ, all living and in business in Utica.
The vice president was an Elk. trus-
tee of Hamilton college, member Of
Dutch Reformed church. member of
many clubs and business man OF
wide interests.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
Alphabetically Speaking.

Among a recent batch of candidates
fer appointment to the police force Of
Washington was big darby, evident
y Of rural origin, who announced his
readiness to stand examination.
Are you native Of this city," he
was asked.
mo, sub. am from the first state
in the union?"
"a New Yorker?"
mo, sub. l am from Alabama"
Alabama is not the first state in
the union, as the saying goes" re-
sponded the examiner.
Alphabetically speaking 1t is, sub"
said the candidate with conviction.
alphabetically speaking"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
Madero viii Not Interfere.

Mexico City, Oct. 30. President
Madero will interfere no more in the
case of General Felix Diaz, who has
been condemned to death at Yer Cruz
This statement was made by the for
eign minister, Senior Lascurain at the
foreign office tonight, He said that
the entiye matter was now in the
hands of the supreme court which will
decide the question of jurisdiction. The
president, he added, is supposed to
abide entirely by the law
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
Mother seIf-sacrlflcinu.

Newton, Kan.-That her child, s
years old, may have chance to recov-
er from severe burns received a few
weeks ago when a playmate threw
lighted match inside the little fellows
waist, the mother of Melvin Norcorss
is sacrificing strips of her own skin to
be grated on the body of her boy. She
already has parted with several strips
of skin, and will continue with her
sacrifice until the unhealed wounds
of her boy have been covered.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
strinoy Milk.

Stringy milk sometimes makes its
appearance early in the summer. The
trouble is usually caused by allowing
the cows to drink from filthy pools or
to lie down in filth filed with germs
or to wade through mud that comes in
contact with the openings of the
teats. Prevention is the best remedy.
Keep the animals in clean quarters
and allow them to drink only clean
water. preferably from deep well
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

1t is predicted that money-washing
machines will be installed in banks
and in department stores like those
used by the government They may
not come into universal use. however
rs there will always be some who
have no use for clean money
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

A woman in Pennsylvania was re-
Gently fined for being a witch. 1t is
now in order for the sad experience
OF the western railroad to be repeated
in centers Of civilization, which rail-
road was fined for mutilating a val.
liable work of art in delivering a
statue Of the Venus Milo with It's arms
missing.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

A Brooklyn man has been sentenced
to kiss his wife at least twice a day
Cor seven years, but it is thought that
she may be generous enough to let
him off with one on Sundays. 80 that
he shall not have cause to regard 1t as
q seven-year plague
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14

According to an authority in such
matters. the life of dollar bill is IA
months Now will he please tell US
ho-v many microbes 1t maintains dur
Ans that timef
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-14
SUPERIOR Attraction.

One of the two women who sat near
the front of the car had been to the
theater the night before to see a GER
tain beautiful actress.
How does she hold her age?" eager
ly asked the one who had not been.
well, to tell you the truth, Mamie,
she wore such lovely pink dress that
l couldn't take my eyes off it the
whole time she was on the stage; so
l never thought of looking at her face
to see whether she held her age OF
mott should say she did. though
Its Kind.
what interest has the dog in the
case of the poor cat?"
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-12-24
TO
OPEN JAG FARM
GOPHER State Bets Quarter Million
Dollars Drunkards Can Be
Cured Without Drugs.

St Paul, Mimi, Dec. 23.--Minne-
scta bets quarter million dollars
that dlunkards can be cured without
use Of drugs. She has placed that
sum in q jag farm" at Willmar,
seventy miles west Of here, and "the
morning after" Christmas, accord
ing I'd a proclamation issued by
Governor Eberhart, the farm will be
opened tc inebriates
Not a. drug Of any sort will be adj
ministered, but the confirmed drunk
ards will be taught to believe they
have only lost self-control.
eve will be ready 10 receive fifty
patients the day following Christ
mas, said Or. H. A. Tomlinson,
superintendent "There should be
large number Of remorseful ap
plicants ready by that time"
| In the proclamation just issued by
the Governor, Judges OF Probate
Courts are advised to send along the
Village pest" mot more than five
from any one county. Persons who
have used morphine or cocaine les
than three years also viii be rc-
,eiyed, and the moral treatment adj
ministered.
The jag farm lies alongside
Lake Willmar. where pleasant
water view may be obtained any
hour. day or night. A 10000 gal
lon water tank has been erected to
supply the needs OF the institution
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-12-24
The Goose Gill

Or unusual scenic properties, we'll
acted, and Interesting, is The
Goose Gill" which viii be at attrac-
tioa at the Cairo opera house satur-
day. Dec. 2Sth, matinee and night.
Il was dramatized by George D..
Baker from Harold MacGrath's novel
"a the same name and is one Of those
playa that finds its success in its ap-
p5al 10 chose who love to read CT
fepeign ngineesses who seorn kiass
and thrones for the sake Of some
plain American The company pre-
#entins THE Goose Girr is a cap
able enc, while the scenic invest
rent is superb