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"WEDNESDAY, MAHCti 12, 1902
SEEDS!
All Kinds of Seeds,
Alfalfa,
Timothy,
Broome
Grass,
Blue
Grass
and
White
Clover.
Orders for any kind
of Seed Solicited
TAYLOR,
THE HARDWARE MAN.
Who Sells Field hence In all heights,
as well as every variety of HARD
WARE, Barbed Wire, &c
WOOD! COAL!
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Xemerer Coal. First Class Vood
Orders Promptly Filled.
Telephone, Red 401, or call on
W. C. MINNIS,
Office Main Street, just opposite Hans
ford & Thompson's hardware store.
LaFontaine & Garrison
Proprietors
Old Dutch Henry
Fed Yard.
Cavalry Horses for Sale.
BEST OF CARE TAKEN OF
TEAMS OVER NIGHT
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SEALS!
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$3.50 to $5 Delivered
Order of us and save money.
Orders for Rubber Stamps
also solicited.
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Stnte Veterinarian Knowles of Mon
tana says that not one ease of anthrax
has been known in that state (hiring
the past year, but that he had to order
101 horses killed on account of sland
ers. At that, however, he points out
that out of 12,000 horses bought during
the season by the British government
In Montana only three, or one in 4,000,
was found suffering with this fell dis
ease. The total shipments of horses
were S4.000 head, marketed In St. Paul,
Chicago, Sioux City and Omaha. About
1,000 well bred and pure bred breeding
horses were shipped into the state.
A Chnmiilon nt tlio Internntlnnnl.
The handsome Clydesdale stallion,
Prince William, Jr., S70S, champion
it the 1001 International Live Stock
miNCE TVTTiLTAM, trti, 8703.
ssposltion, is the property of Alexan
der Gnlbraith of .Tanesville, Wis. The
picture is reproduced from The Breed
er's Gazette.
Doctor DUagree on Bran.
Just at present there is considerable
controversy over the feeding of bran
to horses, some -writers taking the
ground that when brau is fed at about
one-fourth of the entire grain ration it
causes colic and inflammation of the
bowels. Others claim that bran mny
safely compose one-half the grain ra
tion without bad effects.
It would seem ns if this was one of
the questions Oun.t each man who keeps
horses mit'3t decide for himself in the
light of results of both plans. In the
experience of the writer it has been
; f"jund that certain horses, predisposed
I to colic, should not be fed a great deal
of bran when oats form the main grain
ration, but the quantity may be in
creased without apparent harm when
corn takes the place of oats largely.
It is presumed that, with some horses,
the combination of oats and bran in
the stomach forms a gas which is not
present when bran and corn are fed
together. With other horses, as stated,
it is possible to feed oats and bran or
bran and corn in equal quantities with
out bad results.
IlnlibinR Us on Shetland.
American judges of Shetland ponies
appear to possess very different opin
ions upon the points of the breed to
( those of their British confreres, as it is
1 Btated that a famous specimen of the
breed was passed unnoticed at n New
York show in the class in which her i
stable companion wou upon the j
grounds that she was too small. Uu- i
der any circumstances, bearing In minu
the fact that this pair of Shetlands
have been constantly beating each oth
er at the leading shows of Scotland
and England for the past season or
two, the fact that one was the winner
of first prize while the other got no
mention at all must excite some sur
prise. At the same time, there is con-
cnlntfnn frr liriuiilnra hi tlit rnflnptlnn
tl.nf If tl.o Mfrtnr Sliof lnmla nrp wnntpfl
In America there will not be very much
difficulty In supplying nny reasonable
demand which may arise, while there
.will always be a ready sale for the lit
tle ones In their native country and
Eugland. London Live Stock Journal.
When to IlcRln.
One reason why more good horses
are not produced In this country Is
thnt the dams are not well fed when
carrying their foals, if a mare Is not
working, she is not fed enough
strengthening feed to keep her vitality
high and produce a husky colt. It
takes feed to mnke good animals, and
It takes feed before they are born to
make them. No use feeding heavily
after the foal comes if It is a born
weakling, with knuckling or weak
Joints and flabby muscles. The time
to make foals strong is before they
come; then their dams will have plenty
of milk and the foal will have the nbll-
Ity to get aud use It National Stock-
SELECTINGBREEDINQ STOCK
It la
Safer to TJ Kama aaa
Kwm
That Are Acclimate.
Not more than 20 to 80 per cent of
the flock of sheep are really it to re
tain for breeders, and yet If they are
selected with care each year they will
prove satisfactory In every way, es
pecially If good raras are obtalMa to
keep up tue strain. Selecting" hraetfla
ewes straight from the farm er rang
and mating them to rams -that bare
seen some life In the same plaee will
produce better all arouad results than
by importing either ewes or rami freaa
some other; state.
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wnen we go away to Bciect breeding
animals, we always run the rislf of
not finding animals well adapted to
the farm or range. While such rams or
iwcs may do well enough In their nn
tlve state, they may bo unequal to the
task of readily adapting themselves to
their new home. We must go nileld
to get new blood we cannot risk too
close Inbreeding but nt the same time
the most serviceable animals for
breeding purposes are those which
have become adapted to the soil, cli
mate and environments of the farm
where they are to live, writes C. S.
Stuart in The American CultiVator. A
good many ranchmen in the west have
found that range reared rams give
Miein better service simply because they
have become acclimated and nccustom
ed to find a living off the pastures fur
nished tliem. They have become good
rustlers aud are not dependent upon
such careful feeding methods that they
grow thin and Bickly If not daily at
tended by experts. The fact is, we
need more rams accustomed to the or
dinary wild conditions of the range
and yet of such good breeding points
that they cau mark their progeny.
, It is not well to relax present ineth
j ods of careful breeding and selection.
but we do need to adopt some system j
' which will make the animals at home
I where sheep breeding and rearing are i
I carried on successfully on a large scale,
The average sheep farmer cannot de- j
. vote his time to breeding pure blooded, '
j fancy rams to register, nor can he uf
! ford to pay the price of these animals
I every yenr to keep up the standard of
! the herd, but he should be able to se
' lect from his flock every year good.
serviceable rams and ewes which, nc-
I customed to the pastures, will at the
same time perpetuate fine blooded
qualities iuto their descendants. This
is what every sheepman should aim at,
and it can be accomplished with study
and effort Just as the successful fruit
grower must have his owu nursery, so
must the sheep raiser have his breed
ing yard, where careful methods of se
lection nnd feeding will produce re
sults which will prevent any degenera
tion in the flock.
Kunfana CIty'a Record.
Kansas City enjoyed another record
breaking year In 1901 in all her special
live stock lines save that of horses.
She received 2,000.105 cattle, 120.410
calves. 3,710.404 hogs, 0S0.O78 sheep,
93,057 horses and mules and a total of
134.95S cars. These footings together
form a total of 0,919,714 head of ani
mals, valued at 5130,377,084, which is
over .$4,000,000 more than her highest
previous total to wit, that for 1900.
ller cattle were valued at $37 per head,
cal-es $9, hogs $11.50, sheep $3.75 and
horses $91.25 in 1901 against $41 for
cattle. $12 for calves, $10.50 for swine,
$4.50 for sheep and $70.25 for horses In
1900. In 1898 cattle in Kansns City
were worth $44 each and horses $-11.50
and in the year before that $42 and j
$41.50, respectively.
The Angoras are more prolific, more
hardy and can be kept with less cost
than sheep. They are essentially
browsers, cleaning the farm or ranch
of all brush and weeds and depositing
the same on the highest nnd poorest
spots, as those are the places where
they camp at night. They are not
grazers unless forced to it, aud hence
nre not In the way of other stock,
which do not take the brush and weeds
on the high land. Some think the An
goras are hard to fence in, but that Is
! a mistake.
They are as easily restrain-
edT "s sheeP-
T. Mclntire in
Kansas Farmer, in Baying that it will
not be regretted by the farmers of
Kansas if they turn their attention to
the Angora goats, especially those
1 fanners having brushy, hilly and
i weedy land. In two years' time the
i Angoras will kill out the thickest un
; derbrush, thereby greatly enhancing
the value of the land. Angora meat,
called Angora venison, 1b now in great
demand nt prices remunerative to those
who may have a surplus, which are not
suitable for breeding. The breeding
demand will continue for many years
and will not be overdone for a genera
tion to come.
Prodnetlon of Mohair.
According to statistics gathered by
the department of agriculture, the to
tal amount of mohair produced in the
United 8tntes annually 1b upward of a
i million pounds and la Just about equal
i. 11.. ill t i .1 T",-. I
to me (juuuuiy imponeu. runner-
more, the mohair industry Is looking
up and seems to offer a field for profit
able investment
A great many people wbo are famil
iar with the word mohair and even
with the article Itself would be pus
sled to find an answer If they were
asked to tell jest wbat mohair Is.
"The word 'mohair " explains the ag
riculture department's bulletin, "la the
technical name for tbe tbac ( tbe An
gora goat which la at4 la the mmu
facture of fsbriea."
To be eoaalantly pulling up the seeds
of life to see if the have sproutei la a
aerioai menace to the health of the
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GOOD ROAD LESSONS.
HOW THE SOUTH IS BEING TAUGHT
TO BUILD HIGHWAYS.
Special Trulnn Completely Equipped
TVItli Modern KondiimklnB Machin
ery Tourlnjr the Sonthcrn StntcB
and Glvlnc Instruction.
There Las been a larger expenditure
of piiblic funds for the betterment of
public highways during the yenr just
ended than in any previous live years
of American history, says the Philadel
phia North American. The aggregate
nmount of expenditures mounted Into
the millions. Public sentiment favor
ing better highways hns developed so
rapidly thnt it has been dllllcult to keep
track "of the various International, na
tional nnd stnte conventions which
have been called to promote the cause.
This Interest hns shown Itself not only
among farmers, good roads enthusi-
ltOAt ROLLEK AT WOltK.
asts and public officials, but also among
Rovprnl of the creat trunk line rail
ways. 1
The tout b a "good roads speclnl," I
which concluded recoeitly its first run
over the Southern railway system !
through the south, making ten stops nt
important centers, Including Birming
ham, Montgomery, Atlanta, Greenville,
Charleston and other points, was the
outgrowth of the first International
good roads congress which was held at
Port Huron, Mich., late last year. This
Important congress of good roads peo
ple was called together at the sugges
tion of the "good roads" senator of
Michigan, H. S. Earle of Detroit Del
egates from a score of states and nenr
ly every province of Canada were pres
ent. Here is where the "good ronds
train" had its birth, and soon after
President W. H. Moore of the National
Good Roads association of Chicago be
gan his arrangements for the opera
tions of the special. This train start
ed from New Orleans early last spring
and worked Its way north to Chicago,
making a dozen stops by the way for
the purpose of constructing a snmple
of good rouds and showing how essen
tial to their building is the use of mod
ern roadmaking machinery, with Tvhicb
the train was completely equipped.
One of the most remarkable pieces of
apparatus was the earth excavator
and elevator. This machine was drawn
by eight pairs of mules and would take
dirt from the side of the roud and
move it and spread it in the middle of
the proposed road at the, rate of four
cubic yards per minute under favora
ble conditions. By means of this ma
chine and several gangs of men, to
gether with road rollers, stone crushers
and other apparatus, the expert road
builders on this trip at one point made
a half a mile of good road in ten hours.
The work of this first good roads
special was bo successful and the Illi
nois Central railroad was bo well
pleased with the results that President
Moore had several opportunities to take
charge of good rondo trains to be run
over other large railroad systems In
different parts of the country nnd final
ly accepted the invitation of the South
ern railroad to take a train through the
south. The success of the train was
more than assured from the beginning,
for before it started from Washington
on Nov. 1 requests had been received
from more than 200 cities and towns
to build n sample of road within their
limits, but only ten stops were made on
the trip.
The train, with its load of modern
roadmaking machinery and corps of
expert roadbuilders, was received with
the greatest enthusiasm, and no less
than seven state good roads associa
tions, as many county organizations
and ten samples of good roads have re
sulted. The value of the instruction
given and the Interest awakened will
be felt In this section of the country
for twenty years to come. Another
trip was planned nnder the same man
agement The train will pass through
a different part of the southland.
Tbe local soil conditions met with
during the two good roads tours varied
to such an extent that It waa impossi
ble to follow any specified rule for tbe
construction of .tbe roadbed. Where
material were to be found tbe founda
tion was Boade of five Inches of coarse
crushed atone, which -waa thoroughly
relied before the aeoend course waa ap
plied. Nest Muno a two orthree finch
course of atone about eae and 'a half
Inches in thlrkataa, which was careful
ly spread, sprinkled and thoroughly
rolled. On top was placed a fine dress
ing of much smaller atone in a thin
lajrer. Thk waa also sprinkled aai
rolled. The final layer acted as n
"binder" and made the road hard,
smooth nnd even In surface. The road
bed was given about a twelve Inch
crown, nnd the ditches were as care
fully mnde as the roadbed Itself.
A CLEVER PLAN.
Hotv liny Townnhlp Got Itn OonA
ttriiTol Honl.
Probablv Ray township, in Macomb
count v, Mich., hns the best graver
ronds of any township in thnt state,
says n. S. Earle In Good Roads Maga
zine. This is the result of the efforts
of Gil R. I.ovejoy, who Is such a strong
advocate of good roads that ho wouldn't
he contented until the highways were
what they should be.
Mr. Lovejoy prevailed upon the board
to. buy a gravel pit; then he urged ev
ery farmer to haul a loan oi gnm-i
home every time he passed the pit and
put it on the road in front of his own
farm.
Once begun, the farmers saw what
an improvement gravel is over the an
mini scraped back, wornout earth. The
board then purchased two more pits In
different parts of the township aud, at
the suggestion or Mr. Lovejoy. offered
$1 a day to farmers with teams to haul
gravel In the winter nnd place it on
one side of the road one winter and on
the other side the next.
The first winter the farmers turned
out strong, and the town had to pay
for 2.700 dnys' work, which was a big
starter.
Each year for severnlycars the town
ship has made an appropriation of from
$1,000 to $1,S00, and today practically
nil of the ronds of the township are
graveled.
This is h cheap but a sure way to get
better highways, not, of course, equnl
to those scientifically built by the use
of road machines, but a big improve
ment over scraping the dust and mud
from the ditches into the roadway ev
ery year.
BITUMINOUS MACADAM.
It rromiteii to Mulie the Bent I'nvc
in e nt Ever Invented.
During the past year a new kind of
road improvement has been inaugurat
ed whicli promises to turn out the best
and cheapest permanent roadway ei
ther for highway or pavement for cities
ever yet Invented. It hns been used in
Cnuada for several years, and with
large" success at Hamilton, where it is
known as "tar macadam." Here it is
called "bituminous macadam" and has
been improved and given a very dura
ble form.
During the past season well on to
100.000 square yards have been lnid in
different New England cities and in
some cities of the middle states and
middle west. Just recently,)! contract
was awarded an Ohio pavement com
pany for Inying three miles of this
bituminous pavement on' the Htate road
In Cuyahoga county, lending out of
Cleveland, at an expense of $09,000.
Wherever it has been laid, either in
this country or In Canada. It is said to
have given unvarying satisfaction. The
manner iu which it has been lnid in the
New England cities has given it a per
manent form which is likely to make it
one of the strong competitors of the
asphalt trust, for It is as smooth as
asphalt, more elastic, less noisy and
promises to be more durable and more
easily kept in repair, although costing
about half the price per cubic yard of
sheet asphalt. In New Bedford, Low
ell, Somerville, Cambridge, Holyoke
and other places where it has been laid
It has given the utmost satisfaction.
State Commiiialoner Needed.
What is needed by our people in the
matter of public roads nre education
nnd agitation, with n view to securing
the appointment by the next legislature
of a commissioner of public roads, says
the Goldsboro (N. C.) Argus. Such a
man must be a competent man. He
must not only know a good road when
he sees it, but he must be able to build
a good road. He must also be a man
who can talk to the people, who can
tell county commissioners how to place
bonds an educator. In fnct He must
visit every county in the state at least
twice a year. In order to secure a
competent man he must be paid a liv
ing salary say $2,500 a yenr, or about
528 a county. Aud such a man will be
well worth to any county mauy times
that sum each and every year.
fVkat Good Honda Will Urine;.
We need good schools in our country
districts, but we cannot have them
without good roads; we need better
church privileges in the country, but
we cannot have them without good
roads; we need better mall facilities in
the country, but we cannot have them
without good roads; we need better so
cial advantages In the country, but we
cannot have them without good roads;
we need -more accessible markets for
country produce, but we cannot have
them without good roads. General Roy
8 tone.
Caaaeetlcat'a Hlsawar ComIhIm,
Connecticut has a highway commis
sion which co-operates with the towns
and counties In the construction of fiae
roads. This commission his spout an
nually over S400.000 since 1806 la the
building and maintaining of new reads.
The funds for constructing the public
roads are famished by the state, count
and town, tbe first supplying ene-hahf
bow, aiwoBga roraaerly it was reeyea
sU4s far eslr a tUHL
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