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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-02-13
Briets Of the Week.

The Second Annual Military Hop of
Co. X will be held at the X p. Hall on
Monday evening, February 22nd.
Basketball this Saturday evening at
tn H. S. Gymnasium, Boyne City VS..
East Jordan, boys and girls teams.
Game at S:15, admission 25c.
South Arm Grange installed their
officers last Saturday evening. Follow
ing the installation, an oyster supper
and social hour was enjoyed. .
There were thirty-eight births and
sixteen deaths reported in Charlevoix
county the past month, making the
birth fate 21.3 and death rate 90
H.K Winters wishes to announce
that believing that four candidates for
Com'r ofSchools fromEastJo would
mean defeat for all, he has decided to
withdraw from the race.
Supt. M. c. Coyle OF the M. c. R. R.
was in our city Thursday evening in
the interest of the proposed passenger
rate increase in the state which is be-
fore our State Legislative body.
c. M. Carson Of Detroit and A. B.
Ball of the County Y. M. C. A. were in
our city, Tuesday. Mr.. Carson gave an
able address to the students of our
high school on the growing cigaret
evil.
The fine sleighing the past week has
kept the log-haulers busy and some Of
the loads being brought to the mills
here are bumpers. Frank Shepard
brought in load one day this week
that scaled 1886 feet.
The farm residence of Harlow Sweet
in Eveline township was destroyed by
fire Wednesday morning. The fire
started from tin stove pipe and gain
ed considerable Roadway before being
discovered by Mr.. Sweets daughter,
Miss Lottie. Both the dwelling and
household goods were destroyed. No
insurance was carried and the loss is
neaVy one 1Or Mr. oWeet
A desperate effort is being made by
Congressman Sam Smith to rescue the
item of 5000, 600 for rural free delivery
in villages which was dropped from the
postoffice appropriation bill. The house
passed this item which would allow
mail delivery in many villages which
are too small to have city delivery and
are not provided for in the rural deliv-
cry. The senate following the plan of
economizing in every possible way,
struck the item out of the bill. Senator
Townsend is a member of the post
office committee. Congressman Smith
appeared before the committee and
hopes with the aid of the Michigan SEN
ator to get the item put back.
Reaching to the corporation limits Of
the village of Fife Lake and the shores
Of Fife Lake, is the big Estate Timber
Reserve" of 1900 acres which was set
aside by the state about year ago for
forest experimental purposes. The re-
serve stretches down to Walton juno
ton. 100 acres of this reserve have
been set out with white pine, 40 acres
was set out last spring and 80 acres last
fall. The rest of the reserve is largely
covered with oak trees The region Of
this reserve is one of the prettiest in
northern Michigan. In the reserve are
five lakes.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-02-13
We Buy Furs And Hides

Everyone knows that the market in
FURS is low, but HARRY Killing will
buy your stock and pay in spot cash
the best prices obtainable anywhere.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-02-13
Homemade Baseball Game.

To play the game drop the ball
along the groove and push the bat for
ward. so when you let the bat go the
rubber will make it hit the ball.
II 1t goes in any of the places at the
base it is out, and when 1t rings the
bell It is a home run.
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ton says ''roared" in accepting new
monarch.
'Tis a jauntng car one must use in
Dublin, and It's not without fear and
trembling one tries to adjust ones self
to the sidewise seats, which threaten to
dislodge their occupants at every turn
ing.
The side car. with its surefooted steed
and loquacious driver. may be used for
short trips, but the comfortable modern
motor car conveys one the fifty miles
from Dublin to Glenalough, the old
Hierapolis of Ireland, one of its earliest
seats of religion and learning, now in
ruins except for its splendid specimen
of round tower and one little church
building. Ruins of the seven churches
which are the usual complement to
each of Irelands round towers are to
be seen here in various stages of dis
integration.
Glendalough, meaning the glen of
two lakes is widely picturesque
spot in the center of County Wicklow.
lying amid scenic surroundings of wild
desolation and majestic so1emnity.
Mountains inclose the place on three
glamour of scene profoundly impress
sive. To this remote and then unin-
habited vale went the young anchorite
Kelvin at some early period of the
sixth century. He was a scion of the
royal family of Leinster, who, re-
nouncing worldly ambitions, lived the
life of hermit in tiny cavern on the
face of Lugduff cliff. To this lake
whose gloomy shore sky1ark never
MARBLES GER also came Kathleen, she
of the "eyes of most unholy blue" She
loved young Kelvin and, as Moore
tells:
Fearless she had tracked his feet
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LOADING BEEF FOR EUROPE.

ter prices than the British and Ar
gentinos
* K
AS result they have had the best
animals. and the others had to pay the
price or take what was left. Since the
Americans have entered the field the
value of the live stock all over Argen-
tina has risen, and in that way the
American packers have been Of great
benefit to the country. Today the Amer
companies of the republic, and two
other companies in Uruguay are under
United States ownership. They are now
exporting more meat to Europe and to
the United States than all of the other
companies combined, and, if am right
ly informed, their shipments have al
ready amounted to the grand total Of
3,5O0.000 cattle and sheep. The new
Armour plant will be in operation early
in the summer. and when completed 1t
will have a daily capacity Of 400 cat
tie, 5000 sheep and 1900 hogs The La
Plata Cold Storage Company. belonging
to the Swifts, is being SO enlarged that
it's daily capacity will be 1900 cattle and
5000 sheep, while each company will enl-
ploy several thousand additional men. If
these two American concerns could be
run at full capacity throughout whole
year they would slaughter during that
time more than a million and a half Of
cattle, more than 100000 sheep and
about !. zoo. 900 hogs, and at the average
prices Of today the animals would be
worth somewhere about s160,000,000. In
addition to them are the other frigeri-
fcos. SO that the republic will probably
be able to handle all the beef 1t can
raise for some time to come.
The American packing firms Of Buenos
Aires are now shipping moro meat to
Europe than to the United States, and
the Argentine and British packing Arms
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this finest example of bookmaking
was executed by monk before the
eighth century. The brilliant colors of
the Examinations have remained unim-
paired through the centuries. but the
book Is carefully kept in a glass case
and concealed by silken curtains. One
may only view 1t in the custody Of the
librarian. who each day turns new
leaf for the benefit of beholders.
The Dublin museum holds among
other priceless treasures of ancient Ire
land the cross of Cong, the Tara
brooch used by the kings Of old. and
the shrine of ST. Patrick's bell, an ex-
quisite casket for the sanctuary bell
of the saint. The bell shrine is of
finely wrought gold, set with many
jewels. Cong is small village in
County Galway. and was a seat Of
learning in 1reland's days of glory. In
its magnificent abbey the cross Of
Cong was used in the professionals.
1t is of oak. covered with plates OF
bronze and silver inIaid with precious
stones and ornamented with gold f1li-
gree work In the most delicate pattern.
In the center was at one time a large
polished crystal, under which was orig
inally placed a piece of the true cross,
sent from Rome to King Turlough
OConnor. in 1923. Around it's sides are
Irish and Latin inscriptions. giving the
history of the magnificent antique. The
main writing is as follows: "In this
cross is the cross enclosed on which
the Founder of the World Suffered"
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ly all who have gone into the business
have made money. Much Of the wheat
land after being used for a short time
is now turned to alfalfa, and it is upon
this crop that depends the great meat
supply of the future
In connection with our meat short
age in the United States. l find in the
last issue of the River Plate Review, the
chief stock and financial paper of Ar
gentina, a quotation from one of the
chief meat authorities of Australia as to
the causes of our failing beef supply.
This man Is Mr.. A. W. Pearse, the
editor Of the Australian Meat Trades
journal. He says:
1.-The shortage of meat in the United
States comes from the breaking up Of
the big ranches and the increase of
grain farming and dairytns. 1t is also
caused by the demand for veal. In one
year the United States killed 5000, 900
calves, averaging seventy pounds each.
If those calves had been kept a year
longer they would have averaged 500
pounds and would have given them 4.800
000, 900 pounds Of beef. instead of $780,
600 900 pounds of veal. Another cause
of the falling off is the stock diseases,
and a third is the enormous waste of
restaurants there the guest is served
twice as much as is required, and the
result OF the whole is that the meat
demand Is becoming greater than the
supply" os,,o,
owned by the United States capitalists
in South America, and as to our inter-
ests in the meat-freezing establishments
He said that the coming In of the swifts
Argentina. and that they had already
raised the prices of cattle. He said
that Americans are buying the pasture
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here send also TO our markets. All of
the frigerificos look upon us as one of
their chief customers of the future, AMI
the stockraisers are our friends. They
realize how our meat supply is decreaS
ing, and statements are published almost
daily showing how our exports haze
dropped until we have now less meat
than we need. They know that our cattle
are fewer in number than ever before.
and they believe that Argentina must
come in to supply the deficit l see it
stated today that our meat imports are
rapidly growing. and now that there Is
no duty on beef it is believed they will
be further increased. The Herald of
in 1911 amounted to only $4.000.00o, and
that in 1912 they gained % per cent over
the year preceding, while in 1918 the
amount had jumped to sl5,o0o0oo.
-
At the same time the meat demand
of Europe is steadily growing on &C
count of the war There are now ninety
one steamships carrying chilled beef to
England, and those vessels have stor-
age capacity of about 400, 100000 pounds
There are altogether 229 vessels that
can carry frozen meat and other ships
are being equipped with refrigerating
facilities The most of the meat is
carried Dy the LdTlpoTl q HUI me
steamers and by certain other vessels
of the Nelson line, which are controlled
by the Lamport & Holt.
The freight rate on beef to New York
is now about liz cents per pound. and
this is y cent less than the freight rate
to London This will show you how
easily the Argentine Republic can conf
pete in the United States market. AS to
the quality of the meat. it all comes d.
rect from the estancias and is from
animals that have never had an ounce
of grain in their lives. Nevertheless, 1t
Is equal to or better than the average
run of meat Of the United States 1t is
not SO good as our choice corn-fed beef,
but it is of a very high grade. and it is
growing better every year. We have no
such breeding up of cattle as is now go
ing on in Argentina. I have attended
some of the stock shows here, and am
surprised at the high prices paid for
breeding animals. In the past four years
1t is estimated that Argentina has spent
$4,000, 900 for high-class bulls imported
from England. 1t has brought in 5000
Of them. During the years 1907 and 1903
5000 head Of cattle were imported. and
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RENTME REPUBLIC SENDS FRESH MEAT TO ARMIES OF EUROPE

years ago was supposed to be desert.
Then some of the italian wheat farmers
from the east moved out and broke the
land up for grain. However. the soil
was found to be so light that 1t could not
be farned. Then alfalfa was tried, and
the deep roots of that plant went down
to the water and they now have there
one of the best alfalfa lands on the globe.
l rode through great fields where hun
dreds of cattle were feeding and saw
many others where the crop had been
cut and put up in huge stacks.
The cattle Of the Argentine are al
lowed to feed out of doors all the year
round, and when the stock is taken off
the native grasses and put on alfalfa to
fatten it is turned into one of the great
fenced Enclosures and allowed to feed
at an alfalfa stack just as our cattle
are fed upon straw. In this way g.
large number of head can be cared for
by very few men. and the cost OF stock
farming is reduced to the minimum. AS
it is now the best lands are fenced with
wire. and the cattle feed in these great
fields without need of barns or sheds.
The winters are SO mild that there is
plenty of grass all the year round.
The value of alfalfa in the making of
beef has grown upon the Areentinos. and
the alfalfa area is increasing enormous
~ AS SoOH dS lHc ldnu Is III dHdita II
jumps in value. Steers raised on that
grass can be marketed a year younger
than if grown on the native grasses, and
the use of alfalfa doubles the carrying
capacity of the estancfa. In southern
Cordoba and Santa Fe three thousand
cattle are now being fed all the year
round to every square league of alfalfa.
This means about one head to every two
acres, and it is said that another thou
sand head could be added if all were
hrad
not thrive on the native grasses, and
there are many millions of acres in Ar
eentina that will have to be put into
alfalfa in order to have it yield it's full
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According to the figures given me by
the Argentine department of agriculture,
India has 119.000,000 cattle and buffaloes.
Its beef stock alone numbers SO, 00O, 900,
and 1t easily leads the world as cat
tie producer. Next in rank comes the
United States, next Russia. and then Ar
gentina. In round numbers Germany
has 2o,O00.000 bee: cattle, France 14.O0o,-
900 and the United KingdoA II, 600, 900.
Australia has about as many as Great
Britain, and Ireland and the other coun-
tries Of the world have much less rang
ing from 100000 in Uruguay down to
Chile and Holland. OF all the cattle
countries, the possibilities of increase
are chiefly with those Of South 4Ameri-
ca. The United States is close to its
maximum. and the product of Europe.
owing to the slaughter now going on to
feed the armies in the field. will be on
the decline.
The future of South America as the
great meat basket of the world is as
bright as the sun of the tropics. There.
are tens OF millions Of acres OF pastures
in Bolivia on the eastern slope OF the
Andes where cattle are now running
wild, and where fat beeves can be
bought for few dollars a head. Brazil
has highlands that VIII feed other mil
lions, and Uruguay AMI Argentina, if
their lands We're intensiveiy used could
support ten head of stock where they
now support one. Paraguay. Just north
OF here, is one vast pasture field, and al
most the whole of this Parana basin is
fitted for raising alfalfa None of the
beef here is corn fed, and until lately
most OF the cattle We're raised on the
native grasses. Now they are brought
up on grass and fattened on alfalfa The
latter crop is being sown by the tens of
thousands of acres. There are single
ields OF alfalfa in Argentina that con-
tain more than one thousa nd acres and
! know men Nho have ten thousand and
twenty thousand acres of alfalfa in one
patch. Coming across to Buenos Aires
from the foothills Of the Andes rode
through tract OF country which a Jew
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SCENE ON A GREAT ESTANCIA.

today there are more than $4,000 head
of pedigreed cattle registered III the herd
book of the Argentine Rural Society.
Among these are $1,000 Shorth"rns. 10.
Polled Angus The favorite type for
beef production IS the Durham. breed
which gives excellent results when cross
ed with the native COW. The HerefordS
are also popular and the Red ShorthornS
do especially well in the alfalfa country.
All breeds thrive on the pampas.
The bull Americua which IS w
owned near here had = rcaiGrc+
dating back for fifteen generations. He
was born on the 18th of February. 1911.
and at two years old was sold for $4,000
in gold He weighed just about ton.
and on the hoof he brought $3.50 a
addition were the auctioneers charges
of more than 81 900 in gold On the
Pereyra farm I saw 5000 cows worth
from several hundred to several thousand
dollars apiece and a bull for which the
owner was offered $4,000 not long ago
and refused it. On the same day that
Americas was sold another bull brought
$4,000, and a third one sold for $lS,eo0
These prices make ones eyes bulge. but
when it is remembered that some of the
big eStancerios here own as many as
100000 cattle and sell every wear as
many as 10000 steers 1t will be seen
that the addition of a hundred pounds
or so TO the weight of a steer means a
great profit. This increase is brought
about by good breeding
There are cattle shows held here every
year and it is not uncommon to have
1000 cattle and rom 500 TO l 900 sheep
on exhibit. A fat stock sale often brings
in great deal of money. Certain ones
have brought in much as 81 900, 900,
and net sales of 100000 are common.
The pedigrees of the famous bulls are
known everywhere and every man keeps
his stock book and stock register At
the sales the most popular cattle are
the Shorthorns, and next to them the
Herefords. At a recent sale at Palermo.
where the prices were especially low. the
best bull. known as Beautys Stamp.
brought only $500, while a number ii
other bulls brought from $4,000 to s., 900
The best Herefords brought 5000. and
the total sales of Hereford bulls netted
altogether only s6s.0O0. The prices give
some idea of the financial stringency
caused by the war. Among the bidders
were men who have bulls on their
estancias which cost $4,000 and upward.
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one was Manuel Cobo. vino imported
Rufus nj u cost OF $15. 900, and who has
sold bulls from his estate at prices OF
over $4,000. There We're present also
900. Senior Cobo owns 500 Shorthorn
pedisreed cattle and he has won 600 diff
ferent prizes at the stock shows
The importations OF foreign stock are
rapidly raising the standard OF Argen-
tine beef. Twenty years ago so per
cent of the cattle here were native bred
They were of the ella SIS known Crio1las,
the offspring OF the Spanish stock, which
was deteriorated by inbreeding. At pres
ent only about s per cent of the stock
is native bred and % per cent is more
or less foreign bred. The first Shorthorn
hull, Tarauin. was brought in more than
sixty years ago, and among the pure bred
ShorthornS, bulls and cows, imported
rom England nine years later we're the
huh Defiance and the cow Coral, which
formed the foundation OF the herd Of
Ieona rdo Pereyra Today there are good
cattle everywhere. and q great demand
has sprung up for the pare-bred Short
horns a. the United States am tolo
that American bulls which will sell Tor
not more than S3.o90 can be easily dis
posed of
As TO the future meat supply OF Ar
sentina | have had talks during my
stay here with Dr. Don Abel Bengoloea
the president oil the IluTdl SOClcIy, anu
also with its manager, Senior Adolfo
Aimerich. They are both enthusiastic as
to the prospects and have given me
some of the figures I have used In thi.
letter. | asked Senior Aimerich as TO
the number Of cattle Argentina could
feed He replied:
1--WE have about 500,0o0.0oo acres Of
good land in our country. Taking out
half to be used for grain raising, d.
versified farming. and as the sites OF
cities. towns and factories. we have
81 900 900 acres rema lining If this il
properly handled it will easily support
30 900 900 cattle, which is five times as
many as We have now. This estimate IL
not at all extravagant considering the
resources of the republic
and with intensive cultivation the num-
Der might be materially increased. This
is especially SO of the lands producing
alfalfa. We have already more than
la.o00,o 900 acres under that crop, and
there are many times as much that
might be so used
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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The Irish inscription bids us pray for
Turlough O'Connor, King of Erin. for
whom this shrine was made to hold
remnant of the true cross which he had
procured. and for Muirdach O'Duffy.
the Senior of Erin" The latter was
Archbishop of Connaught. who died in
1850. The Tara brooch dates from the
ninth century and is of gold. silver.
niello and enamels, all combined in
masterpiece of the jewelers. art. 1t
was dug out of the ground at Tara,
the palace of the Irish kings of old.
i: X
Irelands poet, Thomas Moore. is me-
lodious but sometimes inaccurate in his
descriptions and he let his fancy run
wild when he wrote:
The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed
Now bangs as mute on Tara'S walls
As if that soul We're fed.
- There are no walls at Tara on which
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to hang a harp, nor has there been for
many hundreds of years. But Tara still
represents the very heart and center of
historic Ireland. for there held sway.
from the days before history is recorded
until the sixth century. the early kings
of Ireland Many landmarks remain to
tell the tales of the different premises of
the past. and Psychologists have been
able to trace from old manuscripts and
existing remains the various chambers
of the great establishment. which was
the home of "a hundred kings of Ireland"
The immense standardization BAN
quoting hall can be stepped out on the
green hilltop. its several doorways being
yet distinctly traceable.
The glories of Ireland were waning
when S.. Patrick came to Ireland in the
fifth century, but he strove to Christianize
the pagan kings, and statue stands at
Tara to his memory. The most ancient
memorial however. is pillar set upright
on a mound which has been identified as
the stone on which the kings Of Ireland
stood to be crowned, and which trad-
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value. Lands which have been carrying
three thousand sheep to the league-that
Is, one sheep to two acres-are now car
rying double as many. 1t Is estimated
that one animal feeding on the native
grasses requires as much as eight acres.
and it will be thus seen that alfalfa
makes the land seven or eight times as
valuable. Moreover, the alfalfa keeps on
producing year after year, and it yields
hay for fattenng or piecing out the
other crops in case of drought. Alfalfa
grown for hay gives 100 per cent profit
1t is easy to raise and it enriches the
land, each ton of hay containing fifty
pounds Of nitrogen. When grown for
dry fodder it gives three or four crops
year, and yields seven or eight tons
OF hay to the acre. A ton of such Tray
is worth $40. and the land is better
after the crop is taken off than it was
before it was planted The alfalfa farm
ers are the best stock farmers, and near
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lands. and that one Chicago firm has
Paraguay and they are considering the
purchase of 1900 900 more. Mr.. Pearse
advised the Australians to prohibit the
killing of female calves and to refuse
to ship veal to the United States.
/ find great deal of jealousy in
Buenos Aires regarding the advances our
American firms are making in the pack
ing house business. Four or five years
ping was in the hands of the Argen-
tinos and the British. Now the bulk of
the shipments are sent out by the Amer
lean frigerificos. and they are steadily
increasing in capacity. Within the past
year the Armours have erected an
enormous additional plant at La Plata.
and the Swi.ts are killing more beeves
than ever before. They have u.ed
American methods in extending their
trade, and have been ready to pay be-