Weekly Chemawa American., March 10, 1911, Page 10, Image 10

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THE
CHEMAWA
MADE FOR EATING ROUGHAGE
AMERICAN
the first appearance of the slide rest
Nature has provided the animals that dates from 1772. Complete drawings
chew the cud, as cows, sheep, deer, cam­ and details of an excellent slide rest
els, etc., with four stomachs. When these were given in that year in a French en­
animals eat grass or hay it is chewed but cyclopedia. As early as 1741 Hindley, a
little and goes into the paunch or first York clockmaker, produced a screw cut­
stomach, which in a cow has the capa­ ting lathe with change gears. This of
course was a very small machine, and in
city of a barrel. The animal then brings fact the clockmakers of that day seemed
the food up from the paunch and rechews to have a monopoly of mechanical
it and now it goes to the third stomach ingenuity. Attempts to produce machin­
often called manypiles. It is made up of ery to replace the work of human hands
folds with rough surfaces arranged so that were made early; thu®, for example, in
1732 Wvatt endeavored to make a ma­
the food must pass back and forth sever­ chine for cutting files, but was not suc­
al times and be ground still more From cessful.— Ex.
here the food passes, to the fourth stom
CHIEF IS MINISTER.
ach, where digestion takes place. ‘ This
T he following dispatch from Toppenish
fine provision for grinding the food en­
is of more than ordinary interest:
ables these animals to live on h$v and
Breaking the deadlock in their conven­
grass. The second stomach is used for tion this morning, th^ Yakima Indians
selected Rev. George Waters as the first
holding water. It has a honeycomb struc
ture. In the comb each cell is as large piesident of the Yakima Indian Associa­
as a cup and closes when full of water, tion which is to suppla .1 the old regime
of tribe rule and do away with “pow­
only giving it upas required.
wows,” the custom in Indian life since
Grain should he fed with roughage as. earliest history.
Mr. Waters is a Methodist minister, a
then it goe® into the first stomach and
resident
of Yakima Reservation since the
will be rechewed. If the grain is eaten
alone it is apt to go to the third stomach early 50s and has been chief counsellor
in the old organization, carrying a title
and miss the rechewing. To make sure as chief. Lancaster Spencer, of Toppen­
that the feed is thoroughly chewed feed ish, was the the principal candidate
it with roughage. The best way is to cut against him, both men being particular
the hay or straw, mix the grain feed with friends. Louis Mann, of the Ahtanum
it, then it will go through the whole grind­ district, was selected as corresponding
secretary and Edward Dick, of White
ing process —Ex.
Swan, as recording secretary. Selection
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of other officers was deferred, but vice-
EARLY USE OF MACHINERY
presidents and a. treasurer are to be chos­
From an early treatise by Moxon pub en and an executive committee.
This organization will transact the
lished in 1680 in England, it i® certain
Indian
business with the United States
that, at that time the lathe was develop­
Government, its organization being asked
ed to a point where it was possible to bv the Indian Service, which believes
turn out high-class ornamental wood­ the education of the Indian has advanced
work, including oval shapes, but any­ in this section so far that the old-style
thing more than this was beyond its pow­ rule should be supp anted by all the ways
er until the slide was invented. Devices of the whites.
Drainage and irrigation will be dis­
for clamping the cutting tools in a fixed cussed at a convention March 24 and 25,
position were comparatively early, but at White Swan, 18 miles from Toppenish.