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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
RANGE LAMBS
RETURN PROFITS

(By w. NJ. Kelley

The great advantage of feeding
lambs Is the fact that the home
grown forage and folders together
with the otherwise waste products OF
the farm may be turned to profit.
This may be done with a minimum
expense for the purchase of highly
concentrated by-product foods and
mill-feeds that are required to make
a satisfactory fattening ration for
other kinds of stock.
Feeding range lambs like other
branches of sheep feeding is sure to
become more popular as farmers ap-
preciate the necessity Of cutting out
the purchase of large amounts of
grain food and feeding class of live
stock that are capable of turning
their grain food and forage that is
grown on their own farms to profit.
Practically every line of feeding
that is conducted outside of the corn
belt states has been developed upon a
basis of cheap grain foods and now
that every kind of grain foods have
reached price that makes their use
almost out of the question, the aver
age feeder is finding his profits grow
ing smaller.
The men who have been feeding
sheep have not felt the rise in grain
prices as severely as other feeders
because sheep can be put in good con-
dition with smaller quantity of grain
and concentrates. In feeding range
lambs the feeder not only makes a
profit on the original cost of the
lambs, but as well on the cost of the
food which is grown on their farme,
and in addition there is large return
Of fertility to the soil, when the man.
ure is carefully handled.
In England this branch of feeding
has been conducted for many years
and 1t has been found very profit
able way to increase the fertility of
the soil as well as a profitable way to
utilize grain, grass and root crops.
There are excellent inducements to
feed range lambs, especially for the
man who does not desire to keep
live stock on his farm during the
whole of the year; and many farmers
are fixed SO they could profitably con-
duct winter stock feeding at profit,
but who have too much other labor
on their farms during the crop grow
ing season.
There is money to be made by feed
ing range lambs If man understands
the fundamental principles of the bust
ness and grows wide variety of for.
age, folders and grain crops.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
Oriental Metaphor.

The Oriental speaks naturally In
metaphor. Even the children continu-
ally use figures of speech which are
often poetical and always suggestive.
The Washington Star thus quotes
Bishop Oldham. missionary bishop
of the Methodist church. He writes
from Singapore.
II wish you could hear some of the
expressive phrases of the native boys.
A lad the other day was describing to
me the abstemiousness of his father
"'Oh. he is content with very little
he said. Such very little!' Here
he pointed to the ground. No moro
than the water in the holes made by
a chickens feet"
"He smiled and resumed:
He eats nothing. A grain or two
Of rice contents him. You should see
him at his meals. He Is like q hound
munching flies.'"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
EGGS PRODUCED
BY HEN in YEAR
About Five Dozen Per Fowl Ia
Fair Estimate, Counting
Good, Bad and
Indifferent.

According to statistics the average
number of eggs laid by each hen in
this country foots up about five dozen.
This is counting the good. bad and
Indifferent. But If the statistics were
taken from poultry farm reports ex-
clusively, the average would be ten
dozen. The average farmer is care
less with his fowls, and does not, as a
rule, gather all the eggs the hens lay
for the reason that in their free range
they have hidden nests and the eggs
in consequence are often lost. With
the improved methods of breeding, the
average with the poultry men will in a
few years run as high as $50 eggs per
hen per annum. Individual records
have been reported that are fast scor-
ing up to the 800 mark, but it is very
doubtful if they will ever get near it.,
for a hen must have sufficient num-
Der of days to mott, and the calendar
gives us but 365 days in the year.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
Nature Student.

THE bat, when winter comes" said
a nature student, folds his long ears
against his sides, shuts on his heart
and, hanging head down from some
black corner OF barn or smokehouse,
hibernates till spring. In March he
begins to wake up.
Lizards and snakes hibernate un.
foreground. Frogs hibernate in the
frozen mud at the bottom of their
ponds. It's nothing to them that they
freeze stiff A frog SO stiff frozen
in February that you could break him
like soda cracker Will thaw out in a
warm March as clipper as you
please.
Rats and mice don't hibernate
They come indoors. They leave their
cold fields and sewers and they take
up their quarters in our nice, warm
steam-heated houses. There it's jolly
plenty to eat, no snow, no elect, nc
piercing March winds. The winter
season makes no difference to the
rats and mice. save that, while always
marrying and giving In marriage, they
marry and give in marriage more than
ever in our comfortable houses, rear
ing, at our expense and on our food
filters that In their vast numbers
would content even a rat Roosevelt
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
United States Cavalry Horse.

partment of Agriculture placed them
at the command of farmers in the
vicinity Of Front Royal, Virginia, on
exactly the terms outlined in the gov.
eminent plan.
By the approval Of the war depart
ment, the price to be paid for the
resulting foals at three years Of age
was $3.50, and no difficulty whatever
was experienced in getting farmers to
breed their mares under these terms.
About so mares were bred, the stall
lions reaching Virginia somewhat late
in the season and Octagon's usefulness
being curtailed by a severe attack of
distemper.
The interest of the Virginia farm
ers is keen, and already fifty addi-
tional mares have been offered for the
season of 1912, and the services Of
more stations could easily be utilized.
Circular 17S Of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry explains the depart
ment's breeding plan and may be OBJ
tanned on application to the secretary
Of agriculture, Washington, D. G.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

The crow has been flying and flying all
day long.
He is looking for water to drink.
IF 1 could only get some water" he
says.
He flies first one way, then another
way. But he cannot find any.
o, there is a pitcherl
There is water In 1t. But 1t Is far down
in the pitcher.
He puts his head in as far as he can
But he cannot get drink.
''I1l tilt the pitcher over" he says.
See him try.
But he cannot tilt 1t over.
II must have a drink" he says. How
can l get it?"
There are some small white stones!
Look He picked up one. He drops 1t
into the pitcher.
Watch him pick up one after another
He drops them all into the pitcher.
The water rises higher and higher.
Now the crow can get drink.
Cav, cav, cav" says the wise old
crow. Where there's will there's
way"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
ouayuIe, the rubber Plant.

0ooyatSs kftO t>1bS0s btduAs
Guayule was for years overlooked
or despised; its rubber content was
considered of little or no value. and
when at last acknowledged this was
said to be inferior to other rubber be-
cause 1t did not come from the topics.
Yet in spite Of all guayule has become
an important source Of rubber supply,
millions Of dollars have been invest.
cd in the industry. factories have been
erected close to the guayule fields and
towns have grown up for the opera
tives and field laborers.
Every process OF the production OF
rubber from the plant has been devel-
oped into system; even gathering
the shrub receives more care than at
first; but the essence of the whole
problem. that is. the propagation Of
guayule SO that continuous supply
may be assured, Is as yet unsolved.
and II once the land Is completely
cleared and the chances OF renawal
lost the industry will wither and die,
and the busy areas Of today win be-
come depopulated and revert to the
wilderness.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

In Children at Play and Other
Sketches" by Rose M. Bradley, we are
introduced to the sunny little Basque
boys and girls, playing hide and seek
games late into the summer nights,
says the London Queen. 1t seems that
the Basque lads have to learn French
twice over: they are taught in school
the first time. but such is their patrio-
tic independence Tor IL 1t the line Of
least resistance?) that they lose what
they have learned, and the penalty Of
this deliberate forgetfulness" Is that
in their conecript days they have the
modification and pain of learning 1t
all over again! But pleasure seekers
as the young natives may be. there
are duties also for even babes to per-
form. 1t may seem Incredible that a
little barelegged boy Of or 9 should
be the trusted lamplighter Of the dis
trict. yet SO it is. and 1t Is far more as
founding to read of railway official"
of or 8. who may be seep "seated
upon a minute chair on tho platform
grasping a red flag. which 1t Ii his
business to wave when train APP
proaches, presumably as warning to
his brethren and the chickens who
play unconcernedly upon the rails.
He feels that the responsibility Of the
traffic of the whole line to Bayonne
rests upon his little shoulders"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
CLEVER TRICK WITH FIGURES
Enjoyable DelusIon May Be Sprung
by Boys and Girls on Their
Frlends-Result Always Six.

Boys and girls who are fond of
springing tricks upon their friends
will enjoy the following one:
Ask some one to choose any num-
Der on the clock and add 1t to the
number directly opposite. This Is to
be done to himself, not out loud.
Then tell him to imagine that these
two numbers are joined by line and
that another line is drawn at right
angles to the first line. SO that
cross Is formed.
Tell the person to add together the
two numbers at the ends of this sec
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

The public generally knows that the
government has outlined a plan to
encourage the breeding of horses for
the army whereby mare owners In
suitable sections will have the COM
mand Of service to first-class stations
free, In return for which they agree
to give the United States options on
resulting foals at a fair price. The
plan was taken up as a means to pro-
vide good supply of horses such as
the army needs, which, strange as it
may seem. is rapidly becoming more
and more limited. An appropriation
was suggested at the last session Of
congress. but no action was taken,
one objection being that the plan was
not practical-that farmers would not
enter into such agreements with the
government.
Fortunately, funds wore available to
make an experiment to determine this
point. Mr.. August Belmont, of New
York, presented to the government
two Of his best-known stations, Henry
Of Navarro and Octagon, and the De
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
HE LEFT BUsYBoDY THINKING
urchin's Line of Fun With Man Who
Needs Must Pry Into Other
Peoples Business.

The small urchin climbed up the
car steps and wormed himself into
seat beside the Busybody. The bas-
ket he was carrying the youngster
fixed carefully between his feet, with
several anxious glances in the pro.
cess.
What have you In that basket, my
boy?" asked his neighbor. bending
over confidentialIy. II noticed how
careful you were of it. 1t must be
something quite valuable. Isn't it?"
"Ye're hep. old sport. It's some.
thin that's worth a whole heap"
well, won't you tell me what 1t ISL"
mot on yer life, Thing l want to
get pinched7"
This was too much for the Busy.
body. His curiosity, heretofore mere
ly casual, grew suddenly pointed, and
he bit
well, sonny. I've a notion that II
gave you a nickel you'd tell me what
you had In that basket"
Make 1t dime. and I'll do it!"
whispered the boy. "Only we've got to
promise not to give me away to de
cop"
why, of course I'll promise"
The boy pocketed the coin. "Well.
sport, dey's a baby in dere. ! hooked
i'm, an put i'm inside when dey
wasn't nobody lookin'. Now I'll get a
reward for returnin' i'm"
why, you young villain! Do you
mean to say you have baby in that
basket? Lying in that thing will kill
It. Where did you get it,"
"Oh, picked 1t up in front o. one
o. dem big stores. 1t was all alone,
70 / JUS took It. / guess 1t won't be
missed, an wanted one. any way"
mot be missed! See here, you
young blackguard! Do you mean to
say that Its mother had deserted it?'
"Sure! It's mudder wasn't nowhere
round"
How old is it?"
ooh, a few months, guess. Big
enough to squeal-so I tied a rag
round It's mouf."
well. lift up the cover and let me
zee how It looks"
"Hol on, OF top. You promised not
to give me away"
Yes, but didn't expect" and he
lifted the cover and glanced at what
was underneath. Curled up on an old
cloth, and sleeping comfortably, was
in insignificant looking yellow puppy.
The boy Jumped up and grinned,
well, here's where get off. Thanks
for de dime. An say. I'll tell ye one
ten times as good as that for quar-
ter. Come an see me some time at
me sallong on FIT Avenooi So long!"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

pets and 30 1t all amounts to the
same thing. AS pets for children or
for people who have no desire to raise
chickens for practical purposes. the
bantams have no superior. There Is
no present that will be so dear to the
heart of boy or as useful to him as
a pen Of bantams. Without anything
to interest him at home outside of
the inanimate objects of the play
room, there are few boys, especially In
the cities, who are not roaming around
on the streets. In a pen of bantams
boy has an interest which keeps him
home and keeps him busy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30


inotner sold her mangle?" who shot
the oog?" and How are you off for
soap! survive only In the pages of
contemporary novelists. Some, how
ever' have a long life. Does your
lnotner know you're out?" has been
Traced back to 1910 and may posi-
oiy have been current before then.
others are revived, with slight altera-
.lohs. len years ago rude little boys
WOULD . shout Where did you get that
nat when their grandfathers would
e1c,alm' What! the same old hail"
ana the expression of dissent empha-
sized nowadays by Not In these trou-
sers used to be conveyed thirty
years ago by the tag Not in these
bootsi"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

a good stiff breeze. 1t is actuated NV
a substantial motor suitable for other
purposes.
Street lamps with real lights ca
and 90 operate from battery.
Complete electrically operated
street cars %, with electric head
light and any desired amount of track
are obtainable, and II desired. this
track may be protected by electric
block signals a.
The girls have also been remem
bered, and one of the things which
interests them most is complete
electric range with cooking utensils
which operates from the lighting cir.
cult, and which is capable Of doing
real cooking
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
GOT EVEN WITH NEWLYWEDs
per, and Seekers After Bar
gains Did the Rest.

Bright dreams Of welded bliss wer.
shattered by tiny want ad.
instead OF day all by themselves,
as they had planned, Mr.. and Mrs. Nell
son Joleen, newlyweds. spent eight
strenuous hours receiving strangers,
who wanted to buy the brand-new fur.
nishings OF their coy fiat at No. 1851
West Van Buren, street.
Here is the ad that wrecked their
happiness:
FOR sAI.E-Furniture. entire furnish
ings of six room fiat; everything new and
In first-class condition. including a piano
player. Call Sunday. between a. m. and
. p. m, at 4s51 West Van Buren, street.
No reasonable offer refused.
The Joleens knew nothing about It.
They were serenely happy. The groom
was showing his bride the cozy cor.
ners of their nest.
How do you like it, my darling?'
he inquired anxiously.
"Oh, Nels, it's just too
Mrs. Joleen's reply was interrupted
by hammering at the door.
Hey! What1l you take fer the
pianer?" asked man when the door
was opened.
Don't want to sell it. Good day.
said Joleen.
Again he turned to his bride. Again
knock on the door.
Il seen your ad in the paper" said
another prospective buyer.
mo, you didn't. didn't have any
ad. don't want to sell anything. I'm
busy. Good day" replied Joleen.
All day long Joleen and his wife an
swered the bell and knocks at the door
and turned away the wou.d-be buyers
Of furniture and piano-players.
About 6 o'clock In the evening II
suddenly dawned upon them that the
friends whose rice and old shoes they
had lodged by leaving the church
where they were married through a
side entrance after the ceremony, had
persevered In their Joking and had
won.
The groom grinned sheepishly, Their
called taxicab. The only quiet mo-
ments the couple had during the day
were spent at downtown hotel.-Chi
ago Record-Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

INTERESTING TO MANY BOYS
There Ia No Present That VIII Be SO
Dear to Heart Of Youth az zen
of Bantam Chickens.

Whenever you see a pen OF Dan
tams shown you always hear num-
Der of people voicing their wonder a.
to the utility of these small piros.
Strictly speaking they are OF no reai
use. The birds are altogether TOO
small to be raised for the table,
though they are far more tender than
their larger relatives. The bantam
eggs are smaller than ever the eggs
Of a Leghorn pullet and 1t takes ABOUT
three of them to equal two ordinary
eggs. Nevertheless the bantams oc-
cupy place in the chicken worid
that is far more important than most
people think.
They are bred for two reasons, for
breeding purposes and for pets. In
the former they are bred to sell for
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

weighs 1.100 pounds. His owner says
be frequently rides the animal and
finds him as easy-going as pacing
horse.
The bull is exceedingly docile and
seems to take great pleasure In speed
Ing and It requires no effort to keep
him up to the top notch whether
ridden or driven.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
JERSEY BULL A
SPEEDY RACER


A full-blooded Jersey bull, which
can pace q mile in harness attached
20 a sulky in less than 2:4O, and
which can be ridden in the saddle at
even better gaint has created quite
a sensation In Pennsylvania. The bull
is four years old, fawn in color and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

ond line; then to find the difference
between the sum and the sum of the
first two numbers. Then announce
that you can tell the result. No mat
ter what figure on the clock face has
been first chosen, If the addition is
correct, the result will be six. Try It.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
Bio kansa, Wheat Crop.

According to the report Of the
United States department Of agricul-
ture, the Kansas crop Of winter wheat
In 1911 was So per cent. greater than
that Of any other state in the Union.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

II want you to tell me plainly. doc
tor" said the man with the fat gov.
eminent position, what Il the mat.
ter with me-"
well. SIR" answered the old doc.
tor. leaning back In his chair and look.
ing at his beefy. redfaced patient
you are suffering from underwork
and overpay."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
Starting In Hoas.

The amount of capital required to
launch an energetic farmer in the hog
raising business is not great. and If
care Is exercised, fair profits will be
obtained the first year.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30

How did you get your wife to fore
go her desire for that expensive even
Ing gown"
Told her 1t was just the thing Q
uiain woman needed. "--Judga
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
London Slang.

London Slang.
II some London slang has a short
life. the street sayings current for a
time pass away even more quickly.
Most of these, such as HAS your
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-04-30
EXPERIMENTS IN BREEDING
HORSES FOR u. S. CAVALRY

Two Well Known Sta11ons Henry Navarro
Placed at Command OF Farmers in Vicinity Of
Front Royal. virginia-cots Bring $3.50
When Three Years
The Detroit times., 1912-07-17
TRAIN ROLLS OVER BANK;
MICHIGAN PEOPLE HURT

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. July H.
Three persons were injured yesterday
one perhaps fatally, when part OF
Pere Marquette train No. 5, en- route
from northern Michigan TO Chicago.
rolled down an embankment, two and
one-half miles from Chesterton, Ind
Engineer Davidson OF Grand Rap
ids. Mich, whose spine was injured
AID who was hurt internally, may
die. Fireman Frank A. Garman, Grand
Rapids, Mich, was cut and bruised
about body, and Mrs. F. A. Cooley,
Chicago. suffered cuts and bruises. A
dozen passengers were slightly cut
by flying glass.
The locomotive was derailsd by a
heavy plank. protruding from a cross
ing, and after humping over the ties
for 40 feet, took the baggage car, two
coaches and three Pullmans down the
embankment with II. The parior car
remained on the track.
The train, was crowded and was
running rapidly when the accident oc-
CURED. The engineer, fireman and
travelling engineer jumped when the
train left the track.
Engineer Davidson and Mrs. Cooley
are in hospital here.
The Detroit times., 1912-07-17
IN DETROIT

Edwin Miller. who says he halls from
Boston, was arrested by Motorcycle
officer III. @. Smith Tuesday while
he was sizing up" a washing on a
clothes line on st. Antoine-st. He
was later identified as a man who
entered the room of Miss Margaret
Kittle. No. III Adams-ave. east, and
stole some cash and trinkets.
Next time he goes 90 washington Cor
porntion Counsel Lawson VIII 40
through the formality OF having him
self admitted to practice In the
United States supreme court. He was
reminded recently that he had not
been placed on the clerks list of ac-
credited attorneys by having a legal
document that he had signed In the
street railway cases returned Until
Mr. Lawson II admitted Judge Hally
or Attorney Alfred Lucking Will ex-
ecute any OF the city's legal papers
for use In the supreme court.
George q. Tackles, chairman Of the
charter commission OF Highland
Park. says that the new charter can
not fail to be big help to the VIII
lage. Under it's provision for paving
taxation. much progress VIII be
made, he says. He points out that
the new plan provides that paving
shall hereafter be done on the front
age assessment basis, instead OF the
former scheme OF taxing property
owners 20 per cent OF. the total value
of their holdings The latter system
was unfair Mr.. Tackles explains.
because the more property man
owned on the paved street the more
the pavement cost him.
The Detroit times., 1912-07-17
BIG time is ARRANGED
FOR SOLONS IN CLEVELAND
Twenty-Five Aldermen and City
Employees Guests of the
Forest City

CLEVELAND, o.. July E.-Detroit
aldermen and city employees TO the
number OF 29Sarriyed safely this morn
ing by boat for visit with the Cleye-
land officials. The local officials have
arranged a program guaranteed 70
convince the visitors that the Sixth
City is the best aver A ball game, an
automobile tour OF the parks ard
boulevards, dinner at the Hollenden
and theater in the evening are some
OF the features. The Detroiters IN
the party are:
Aid. Knapp. Gutman. Rosenthas
Keating, Theisen. Gilman, Walsh. Ma
son, Ostrowski. Merritt. Hindle, Harp
fer, Zoeller, Keusch, Watson, Garyey,
Skrzycki, Burton. Littleheld and
Schultz. and ex,Ald. Rutter and Vie
Der.
Alvin Hicks, sergeant, common
council; John J. knight, superinten-
dent OF streets: NJ w. Andres. city
accountant; John G. McCabe. boiler
inspector: Charles Jacobs and John
Kohler, assessors ONCE: Roy MahoD,
purchasing agent, department public
works; William Dever, deputy city
clerk: William Kester, Joe Bojawaski,
Edward Bateson, Jake Goes, E. Mar
shall, |. Freund. clerks, city depart
ments: Fred Hay, superintendent city
hall; z. r. Schreiter, secretary, com
mon council committees; Capt. p.
Hogan, police department.