Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — Page 7

FARM AND GARDEN

Much labor and expense may be saved by planning ahead. Usually all a good thrifty pig wants to develop into a good healthy porker is a fair chance. Under present conditions to make breeding and feeding a success only the strong and fully developed should be allowed to breed. Air the poultry house once a day, no matter how cold it is. Don't neglect to clean out the house every morning because "it is so cold.” No one who has not tried raising and feeding turnips to sheep can have a full appreciation of the benefits derived from this cheap food and in the increased thrift of their stock. There can be no doubt of the advantage of the English method of feeding compared with ours, if we compare their immense fat muttons with ours, and in all the feeding districts of the English provinces turnips are fed in immense quantities. If a hen is healthy and has a good appetite, nostrums cannot improve her. Eggs are not produced from powders, pills or solutions, but from the food. A healthy hen is no subject for medicines or tonics. If she is sick or drooping it is not out of place to endeavor to assist her to recover her health with a tonic, but while her comb is bright red and she scratches and works vigorously, enjoying her food and laying eggs as fast ns nature permits, the use of stimulants or tonics will not benefit her or enable her to lay another egg morV than she wotild without their use, even if they do not injure her. The home of the daffodil is in the grass; in fact, some of the prettiest species refuse to llqn more than a year or two in cultivated ground, yet in the same garden planted in the grass continue frorpjyear to year with proportionate increase. All that you require is a, grassy spot that need not be mown until midsummer. The smallest nook can be prettily adorned, and if you have an acre or two to devote to the purpose, the possibilities are immense. Planting is a simple matter of lifting the sod and underlying soil, dropping in the bulbs and replacing the sod. taking care to plant the groups in a natural or irregular way. Special Cheese Making. The fancy cheeses are in growing demand, and the industry should receive more attention. The cheese Is made in kettles now manufactured .with steam connection. The curd Is cooked at a high temperature, and a largo waste of fat takes place, which Is saved in the better equipped factories, by passing the whey through a separator, or is hand skimmed. The cheese requires from 75 to 100 days for curing* First it is put In a cellar, wltli a temperature of 05 to 70 degrees, next in n temperature of 00 to 05, and finally in a temperature not above GO. It Is a sweet-milk production, yet there are certain ferments, apparently demanded, for developing Its flavor, and especially the “eyes” for which It is noted. There Is a group of German cheeses that have as a basis of manufacture the same general principles. Tike cheeses when cured take on a peculiar flavor, for which taste must be acquired, and they are highly prized by our foreign population. The curds are dipped at a temperature of 80 degrees and placed in a draining table, the temperature being held at about 80 degrees • during the draining process.—H. E. Cook, Denmark, N. Y. The Breeding Stock. If the hens and the males to bo used for breeding purpose this spring have been properly wintered there ought to be no trouble In hatching chicks which will thrive; on the other hand, If the males have been kept half starved!' or have been so placed that they have spent the winter In fighting each other, they are not In Condition for mating. If the hens and pullets have been short on exorcise, have been overfed or underfed, have occupied damp, dark houses, they are not In condition to produce eggs which ■re lit for hatching. Turn attention to the breeding stock now and first of all see that the feeding and care of the femajo Is what It should be. Have the house comfortable, but also have plenty of ventilation and find some way to force her to take needed exercise; cut off on the corn feed and Increase the wheat and other muscle-making grains. As for the males, place them where they too may be well cared for and fed, so as to get up the greatest amount of energy and vitality before they are turned In with the hens. No work In the poultry business Is more Important than thle now, for the future of the flock may depend upon how well the breeding stock is brought up to the highest perfection. 1 Keeping Milk Records. 1 1 With feeding grains very high In price one is tempted to feed more ronghsge and less grain and unless there Is a decided falling off la the quantity of milk received la apt to Rscslts himself with tha idea (hat he

is saving money. It Is a good plan to try different combinations of rations and note results. To try them, without keeping a record of the milk, a| least by weight, is of little use. Taka a ration of, say, gluten feed, wheal bran gild oil meal. Try these ii> vary- ( Ing proportions of each, keeping tha record carefully and thus determine which Is the most profitable. Tha same-plan may be readily carried out with any other combinations of grains. Then, too, experiment with tha roughage as with the grains and sea what difference, if any, is in the results when the corn stover is cut of crushed before feeding. Also note the, difference which may result from giving rather warm water. There la more lu obtaining ( a balanced ration than simply feeding a combination 1 which some one says Is good. It may be good for his herd, bnfe by experimenting, you mrfy be able to hit on a combination which will be better for your cows, and, perhaps, at less cost A German’* Poultry Farm. The writer recently saw a successful poultry farm on which there was not a aipgle regulation poultry house. The buildings for the poultry were constructed entirely from dry goods boxes bought at a neighboring town for small sums. The larger boxes were joined together in sufficient numbers to make the main houses and the smaller boxes were' taken apart to obtain the short pieces needed, or else made up into coops for the chicks or in smaller houses for the range, op the colony plan. Each of the larger houses designed for winter occupancy was lined inside with newspapers and outside with one of the waterproof papers on the market. This is a farm where never less than 400 fowls are kept and where the poultry is raised both for the carcass market and for eggs. This shows not only what may be done without elaborate buildings, but the advantages the average farmer has over other people in his ability to grow the feed needed and with more or less in the way of buildings whtoh may be utilized at no expense. Dehorning of Cattle. Those who have had the pleasure of raising calves to the cow period without horns know how much more sensible it is to have a herd of cows without horns than a lot of animals whose horns endanger both man and beast To have a herd of cows without horns i 3 easy for the man who raises his own calves, for the work of kUling the embryo horn is simple and easy. Buy a stick of caiistlc potash at the drug store, wrap a bit of cloth around the end you are to bold in the hand, moisten the other end thoroughly and then rub It briskly on tbe spot where the embryo born may be felt. Cover all the surface, butl>e careful and not go beyond the horn or you will burn the skin of the crilf. For calves, when the horns are already through, the clipper made for the purpose is the best thing to use. Place the blades as close to the head as possible, and one cut will pare the horn off smoothly. For grown cows, either the clipper or a saw is usedt and, of course, the head of the animal must be fastened so that slip cannot move it. The operation in a sensible manner is hpmane, and only fanatics who know nothing about tbe operation claim it to be cruel. Like all operations among animals, It may be .done In a hurried, careless manner, and so become cruelty. Hen’* Teeth. “As scarce as hens’ teeth” Is a common saying, from which comes the Idea that hens have no teeth. This Is true only so far as teeth In the mouth are concerned. Hens have false teeth, and the owner of the fowls is called upon In the winter to act as dentist, says Farmers’ Review. The hen has the advantage of the human being in this. When her teeth get old slie digests them and gets a new lot. Her teeth are really very numerous and may be made out of bone, crockery, flint, quartz, and even glass. The principal thing Is to give her enough of the size she can best use. Mnny of the ailments among fowls are caused by the lack of grit In the winter time. When the ground is uncovered and not frozen, it Is comparatively easy for the fowls to find enough largesized gravel to supply the gizzard with material for tbs grinding of food that comes to It. When fowls are killed nnd the gizzards are found to be filled with a very fine, gritty material, or none at all, It may be known that there is great and imperative need for the supply of grit at once. The worst feature about it Is that the fowls begin to droop and get sick, and the farmer never mistrusts that tbe real cause of the trouble Is the lack of grit That hens’ teeth ara false, and that, In the winter, man must supply them ■bould not be lost sight of, and every person that reads this article should ask himself the question if his fowla have been fully supplied with grinding materia). 1 When toe ground fa covered with a now it may be necessary to porchaea commercial grits In the market. ->

HISTORIC GROUND.

THE CROW INDIAN RESERVATION IN MONTANA. I ' ! Great Tract Which Is to Be Thrown Open to Settlement by the Whites, Contains the Battlefield Upon Which —Custer Kell - A Rich Region. Notwithstanding the fact that there are 473,000,000 acres of vacant unappropriated land, excluding Alaska, open for settlement, pressure is constantly being brought to bear upon Congress for the opening of lands hitherto set aside for the Indians. Oue reservation after another is being thrown up to settlement, the aboriginal occupants being giverr farms in severalty if they desire to live the lives of white meq, or being compelled to take circumscribed quarters if they wish to live tbe tribal or blanket life. Last year the greatest resorvatiou opening was that of the Rosebud, In South Dakota. This summer two reservations will be thrown open to a certainty—the Crow, in Southern Mon-' tana, and the Uintah, in Eastern Utah. To. these will probably be added the Wind River or Sboshon.fe reservation, in Wyoming. All these reservations* offer.vast opportunities to the' white man. The Uintah and Wind River reservations are filch in minerals, but to

BATTLEFIELD OF THE LITTLE BIG HORN.

lhe gen nine ho mes oe !•: e r—tli e man who wishes to carve his fortune with no other instrument than the plow—the Crow reservation will make the most effective appeal. A Rich Region. The Crow reservation is just over the northern boundary of Wyoming, in Montana. It is one of the greatest reservations in the country, and has long been coveted by the white man. The Brush-Alliance branch of the Burlington Railroad, connecting with the Northern Pacific, extends entirely through the reservation. ere is a southward branch of the Arlington, at Toluca, extending to Cody, from which one can make a delightful journey through the reservation by the new “side door route” to Yellowstone Park. Travelers who journey through the reservation by trail a at the fertility of the scene tftrPljipets their eyes. Under the magic touch of irrigation, rich farms dot the landscape of bare, brown hills. But for the tepees that raise their smoke-browned tops on either side of the,track, and the Indians who are seen riding or

MASSACRE MONUMENT.

driving along the roads, one might imagine he was pursuing Ills way through a peaceful and prosperous Western agricultural community. Most of'the farms are leased by white men, as the Indian owners are not yet sufficiently skilled in the white man’s methods to tie a success ns agriculturists. But these farms in the valley of the Big Horn show that the Crow reservation can be made to blossom as the rose when once it is dominated by the white man's touch. Uor over a year the government has had surveyors at work in the northern hulf of the Crow reservation, making surveys. Not all of the reservation will he thrown open. The Crows have ceded 1,150,000 acres to the government, and this is the portion to be taken up by thV white men. The hind lies along the valley of the Big Horn, and It is estimated that about 300,000 acres can be cultivated. The remainder will be used for grazing purposes. Thus the individual who draws a homestead will be doubly lucky, for not only will he have 1(50 acres of ns fine agricultural laud as there is In the West, but ho will also-have the privilege of using a vast acreage of grazing ground which cannot l»e Irrigated, but which. Is rich In succulent grassejs and which lias been used ns a pony range by the Crows for generations. The main canal to Irrigate the homesteads will he taken from the Big Horn, and the supply of water is Inexhaustible. The proceeds of the sale of the land

will be used by the Crows to benefit their own lands and'berds. On Historic Ground-. The homesteader who settles in the Crow reservation will find himself in historic ground. The chief place of interest on the reservation is Custer battlefield, at Crow Agency. Tbe Custer monument can be seen from the railroad trains, on top of a knoll, about six miles from the station. It was befe that the redoubtable Raln-in-tbe* Face and other Sioux ehieftnlus overwhelmed Custer's detachment of 270 brave men, leaving not one to tell tbe story. White headstones are scattered about the monument on both slopes of the hill, showing exactly where the men lay when their bodies were found. Near at hand are many other headstones, ns Custer field has been turned into a national cemetery, and here are buried the victims of the Fetterman massacre and many others who lost their lives on the plains fighting for the flag. The field will always remain one of the most interesting spots in America. Only four miles away la Reno’s battlefield, where one may yet see the bones of the horses used as breastworks by the troopers' who, according to many military critics, should have come to Custer’s aid. For generations the Crows clung to the lands on which they are now located. Occasionally they were* driven off by the warlike Sioux or Cheyennes, but always they came back. In the days of the fur traders

they were friendly to the white men, and have been so in the years that have followed, In fact, there lias been no Indian tribe so consistently at friendship with the white people as the Crows. They might have progressed more had they not' been so friendly, for it is a lamentable fact that the white men who have come most in ■contact with tbe Indian have not always been the ones fitted to do the red man the most good. To-day there are only about 1,500 members this once mighty tribe. They are struggling to learn the white man’s ways as best they can. Earnest, sincere white men are working among them, and good results will certainly follow.

Women Dance for Mouse.

At exactly 9:45 o'clock Thursday morning a little brown mouse stole out from the main corridor of the Missou-ri-Lkicoln Trust building at Seventh and Olive streets and took a short constitutional of about twenty-five feet west In Olive, says the St. Louis PostDispatch. In the course of that innocent jaunt he frightened so many women that a feminine panic ensued and so much screaming and scampering about was done that the mouse started buck for the more masculine calm of the Missouri-Bincoln Trust building. As he gained the entrance, however, a large and formisjable-looking woman espied him, and with a wild shriek and a frenzied grasping of the skirts, began executing such a remarkable dance on the sill of the big skyscraper that the mouse lost his head and scurried clear across Olive stret. Arriving nt the curb on the south side, he passed under a carriage from which two women were alighting and emerged on the sidewalk simultaneously with them. At once they set up an outcry and circled around on the pavement in a dismayed minuet such as has never before been seen in St. Louis. By this time a big crowd had gathered, and the laughter of men and boys mingled with the shrieking nnd screaming of women and girls. The uproar became so appalling to the mouse that finally, reckless of consequences, lie precipitated himself through an open grating into a cellar and has not been seen since. Ills unusual and uncommon experience while in quest of a little fresh air lasted just five minutes.

They Got the “Glassy Eye.”

A certain confectioner in New York, who caters chiefly to the little folks of the neighborhood, lately arranged Ilia shop window with great care in preparation for a local festivity. The crowning attraction of the whole was a large chocolate tiger with most realistic green eyes, made of glass marbles, which had cost the designer 20 cents apiece. In the tiger's mouth was a card bearing the inscription: “Nothing In this window over 5 cents a quarter-pound.” A crowd of youngsters quickly assembled on the sidewalk, and presently, after much spelling over pf tbe'placard, two of them Invaded the shop and deposited a nicked upou the counter. , ‘‘Say. mister,” began the smaller boy, earnestly, “gimme a quarter o’ a pound o’ tiger—the piece with the eyes in!" If some people would work hard and earn SIO,OOO, some one would walk up, and, taking it away from them, tell them they bad no business with that much money.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PART WEEK. Child’s Letter Reunite* Hi* Separated Parent*— Quarreling; Brctbem Take to Gun Play Sprong Convicted of —Addington Murder. Jerry Davis, a member of the Marion police department, who was suspended about a year ago after charges of intoxication had been tiled against him, has been united with his family through a letter written by his 5-year-old son. Davis left Marion nnd his wife and two sons to escape a police board trial. He failed to write home, but early last December the younger son, Jerry, Jr., aged 5 years, wrote a letter to the editor of the Commoner and Glass worker, a trade journal that his father had always taken. The letter was published, but the father failed to learn of it until recently.. He immediately sent his wife sufficient money to care for her for some time and enough to pay the expenses of the two boys, Lawrence, aged 8, and Jerry, to Port Allegheny, Pa., where lie is employed at his trade of a glassworker. Mrs. Davis and the two boys have gone to Port Allegheny. Shooting in Church Feud. The feud in the Blue River Christian church near Shelbyville was the cause of an attempted assassination, when two shots were fired from ambusli at George Wicker, a member of one of the opposing factions. Wicker was superintendr ing some repair work on the church and it was while going from his house to the church, crossing a field owned by one of the opposing faction, that two shots were fired, but only one took effect. He is not dangerously injured. The church huS long been divided and there has been a prolonged litigation iri the courts as to who were regulars and who were dissenter c The church is composed of wcaltl farmers and lately matters had assumed a more friendly shape, but tbe attempted assassination of Wicker has engendered more bitter feeling. Smiles ut Life Sentence. The jury in, the Sprong murder case at Wabash, after being out five ho#rs ami forty minutes, returned a verdict of murder in the first degree and imposed a life sentence. A smile passed over the face of the prisoner for an instant as the verdict was read and he seemed perceptibly relieved, lie was tried for the murder of Wilson Addington, a former clerk of Grant county and a councilman of Marion, whom lie shot Jan. 17 in cold blood. Firebug Is Interrupted. In Fort Wayne Walter Detnrk was aroused by a noise in his barn. He rushed to the rear of his lot in his night clothes and found his horse with its throat cut and fire just started in a bale of hay 1 in an adjoining-stall. He put the fire out with a bucket of water and chased the miscreant two blocks up an alley. The firebug escaped. Withiu Our Borders. William , Kitsehnan, a retired Nickel Plate conductor, was crushed to death between freight cars in the yards at Fort Wayne. Geraldine, the 3-year-ohl daughter of 8. Allen, piano dealer of Washington, died from poisoning, the result of rating Easter eggs which had been brightly colored. Fire destroyed the poultry house of Railsbaek & Iladley, at Bedford, containing 450 cases of eggs, 500 chickens. 150 geese and fifty barrels of produce. The loss is estimated at $30,000. M iss Harriette E. Crawford, a*cousin of the late Vice President Schuyler Colfax and for forty-three years keeper of the Michigan City lighthouse on Lake Michigan, is dead, aged 81 years. While working in a rainstorm at his farm residence north of Boonville, Edward Young was struck by lightning and may not recover. He is prominent in Republican politics of Farriek county. John M. Welker, aged 21, a business man of Fort Wayne, in a fit of jealousy shot his sweetheart, Minnie Melching. aged 24, and, after putting a bullet into himself, cut his throat and died in half an hour. Katie Bodkins, aged 13, escaped a hard lesson in arithmetic by marrying. After an absence of three days from school in Marion the principal sent the truant officer to the girl's home,-where the ceremony had just been performed. Robert F, Denny's jewelry store at I’lainville was burglarized the other morning, the robbers securing fourteen clocks, eight watches and a large amount of silverware. The booty was taken away in a wagon. The Republicans of the First Congregational district have nominated Judge John 11. Foster of Evansville to (ill the vacancy in Congress caused by the resignation of James A. Hemenway, elected to the United States Senate. ( . D. Billmau, sculptor, kidnaped one of his statues, erected to the memory of William McKinley at Logansport, because he had not been paid for it. The image was taken while the city officials were holding a Municipal League meeting. Robert Davis, manager of the Adams brick plant In Martinsville, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. He drank tbe poison at his office and then walked to his home near by. where he died immediately. Business trouble was the cause. Walter Karpf, a Big Four engineer aged ;ys, dropped dead from fatty degeneration of the heart on the arrival of his train in Terre Haute, where his father and brother, also engineers, met death in railroad accidents in the past twelve rears. William llardshaw, a heavy cigarette * pinker, committed suicide: John Suhirst *>f Napa nee died ns a result of overindtilgenee in “pipes” just before the antieigarette law came into effect, and Jim McN’ierney of New Albany quit Indiana to escape the cigarette regulation. Mrs. Noah Runyan, 7Jj years of age. was fatally burned, her jiuaband in attempting to save her was fatuity injured, and their granddaughter. Mis* lllaneb Lamb, painfully injured in a tire Ss tbe result of Mrs. Runyan’s apron catching Gre from a gas stove while at her home near Muncle.

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

From a stenographer to a millionaire in ten years Is the story of tha romantic rise of Miss Motile O’Brien,

MISS O’BRIEN.

she went to the young mining camp of Cripple Creek and soon her quick insight and exceptional ability drew a good trade among mining men. She was quick to grasp details and her retentive mind absorbed the rudiments of mining usage that later proved of Inestimable value to her. Her foresight told her that possibilities in the incipient gold district were great and she bought stocks. These rapidly rose in value and soon she had a bank account of sufficient size to enable her to buy property. Then she organized stock companies. To-day she Is the principal owner of some of the most valuable mining properties in the district and her wealth is conservatively estimated at over $1,000,000. Like his predecessor, Carrbll B. Wright, the new labor commissioner, Charles P. Neill, Is an expert in eco-

jiomics. He began his academic career at Notre Dame University at South Bend, Ind., arid completed it at Georgetown University, near Washington. He took postgraduate courses at Chicago University and at Johns Hopkins and since 1895

had been a professor of economics at the Catholic University at Washington. He was assistant recorder of the anthracite coal strike commission; having been chosen at the recommendation of President John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers. Mrs. Donald McLean, of New York, the new president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, probably has

MRS. M’LEAN.

the D. A. R. Her campaign for the presidency was made on an “American” platform. Mrs. McLean was born in Maryland. Nansen, the arctic explorer, though not a politician, Is frequently mentioned for prime minister of Norway in case, that country breaks with Sweden. Senator Orivlle H. Flatt, who died at his home In Washington, Conn., recently, was a lawmaker of the okl school.

and had served for twenty - six years consecutively i n the United States Senate. His death was the outcome of a second attack of pneumonia. II c was 78 years old and a hard winter's work a t Washington had so weakened his otherwise robust physique that he could

not withstand the disease. A memorial to Edward Rowland Sill, a poet of some repute, has been unveiled at Oakland, Cal. Miss Anna Boecker was the only woman saved from the wreck of the steamship Elbe, which was lost sev-

MISS A. BOECKER.

The real name of Maarten Maartens, a well-known novelist, is Van tie I’oor* ten-Kt lnvnrtz. The Bellgnian family of New York U to erect a free home for children at Iht lersdorf. Bavaria, in memory of the father and us the first Seligmaus’ who came to the United Kingdom. (’apt. Robert Marshall, popular English writer of plays, is tall, soldierly, athletic, ami 40. *(.’apt. Leonard of tKe marine corps will sail for his new post as attache of the United States legation at Uekin April L '"V .

of Cripple Creek, Colo. Ten years ago Miss O'Brien lived in Lake City, Colo. She began the study of stenography and thought that whatever slice she carved out of fortune's wheel must be made with! her fingers. On the advice of a friend

CHARLES P. NEILL.

made more speeches on the subject of patriotism Ijian any living woman. Slie has spoken in schools and at celebrations in half the States of the Union, and has been active in other ways in patriotic educational work. She is a charter member of

SENATOR PLATT.

oral years ago with 300 souls on board. She displayed great heroism at the time. Her solicitor has gone bankrupt, and sit the age of 29 she is penniless’ am] broken in health owing to her wreck sufferlngs.