Britton Weekly Sentinel. (Britton, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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Keep the eggs dry.
Gather and burn the rubbish.
Why don't farmers raise more
ducks? i
A nervous cow Is not necessarily
u undesirable cow.
There Is no better grain feed for
young calves than whole oats.
The market poultryman was never
tn such a strong position as he Is to-
day.
It Is said that the cow, of all ani-
mals, should have good and pure
food.
It Is a mistake to let another win-
ter begin without Installing a litter
carrier.
Severe drouth has thoroughly test-
ed the profitableness of spraying po-
tatoes
Tho most money Is made upon the
farms where the best methods are
followed.
A small box or jar of lima should
be kept In the cellar to keep the air
puro and dry.
A balanced ration Is a good thing,
but a balanced Judgment is needed
just us much.
One should so plan that all the hay
nd straw will be used on the farm,
and keep stock enough to consume
It all.
Eggs may be preserved fairly well
for a few months by packing dry In
* mixture of equal parts salt and
sawdust.
Hog raising, like everything else,
In the stock line, has its many little
details that must be met as they
come up.
All shrubs that have done blooming
should be pruned at once. This in-
duces blooming buds and branches for
next year's crop.
Give tho apple orchard plenty of
fertilizer, particularly potash and
phosphoric acid. A starved orchard is
not a money maker.
Constipation In hogs, the forerun-
ner of other troubles and diseases,
is generally caused by too exces-
sive use of one kind of feed.
Anything that prevents the fat
globules from coming in contact
. w|th each other delays the churn-
ing and decreases the yield.
The honey bee annually produces a
crop of honey valued at around $20,-
000,000, and there are vast opportuni-
ties for increasing this outpui.
Until ready to ripen, the fresh
cream from each Bltimming should be
Immediately cooled down to 50 de-
grees or less, and held in cold stor-
age.
If you expect to ship any cocks this
winter to poultry show* or to custo-
mers. take the precaution of applying
glycerine liberally to the combs and
wattles.
Well dressed fowls are more at-
tractive to the hungry than well
dressed people. If you don't believe
it leave it to the hired man or the
growing boy.
To overcome the habit of cows
holding up their milk It is necessary
to refrain from exciting the natural
obstlnancy of the animal by any d
turbing inlluence.
Nut-bearing trees, owing to their
peculiar system of roots, are much
more difficult to transplant than are
fruit-bearing trees, or even those
known as seed-bearing.
The experienced cattle feeder will
say that there is no Ironclad rule for
feeding He watches his animals and
feeds them according to what they
seem to be able to stand.
The trouble with the dairy business
today, beyond a question of doubt. Is
that it is being carried on by farm-
ers. not dairymen, who know little or
nothing about the profit or loss of the
animals they are keeping.
Now is the time to secure leaves or
straw, for the fowls to scratch in,
when the weather is so bad they are
confined to the house, for It Is as
natura] fnr a chick to scratch as to
bre.nl « nnd In order to be kept In
! '' Itb and spirits they must be
Treat the cuu kindly.
Keep the vigorous chickens.
The tide is setting toward the farm
again.
Burnt lime is harmful unless It Is
very carefully used.
Lime is not a fertilizer, and should
be used only to correct acidity In a
soil.
Hogs often fall to get a sufficient
amount of water during the winter
time.
The cost of high living does not
worry the farmer; ho makes his own
living.
With present real estate prices the
expression "dirt cheap" loses much
of Its force.
The value of the manure from the
hay and straw used on the farm Is
no small item.
Tho right way to water cows In
winter is to keep the water before
them In the stable.
Hogs may be badly diseased with
tuberculosis nnd not show It In the
least before slaughter.
A well-defined system of manage-
ment for the growing of cattle needs
to be put Into operation.
Instead of experimenting with a
large planting of a new variety of tree
fruit, top-graft a few trees.
The farmer who is too far from
town to deliver milk at a profit will
find buttermaking 'lis salvation.
It pays to maintain a heavy flow of
milk, even if expensive feeds must be
given the cows at certain seasons.
In apple culture ftie first groat es-
sential In the successful culture of
the apple is the Improvement of the
soli.
If It Is winter eggs you want better
let the oldest hens go. They some-
times lay a few eggs but very few as
a rule.
When buying bran for the cows get
enough to divide with the hens. As a
hen food bran is Just as valuable as a
cow food.
It does not pay to plant crops In the
peach orchard. Some people do it,
but it is generally believed to be a
bad practise.
A balky horse Is made so by a
cranky or cruel driver, and can rarely
be cured. So be very careful
breaking the colts.
Convenient coops for marketing the
chickens will pay not only in the sat-
isfaction that they afford but In the
greater convenience.
Bordeaux mixture Is likely to cause
russeting of apples on young trees, as
it produces excessive development of
cork cells in the skin.
It hns been suggested that tho
packer who puts rotten eggs on the
market should bo sentenced to serve
time as a target for the eggs.
Have the floor of the hen house
warm and dry. The time is near
when the hens to do well must have
warmth and dryness under foot.
It Is quite true that hogs have not
such dainty appetities as sheep, yet
they will respond surprisingly to any
increased attention in this respect.
^where the'Victimsj/
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FIliN the congress of the
United States at Its last
session appropriated
money for raising the 111-
jIBL fated battleship Maine it
made an important pro-
viso In connection with
the gigantic wrecking
project. The stipulation
in question was to tho efTect that the
remains of tho members of the Maine's
crew which have never been account-
ed for shall when recovered bo
brought back to the United States and
buried with due honors. Probably it
has escaped the memory of many of
our readers that not all of the ship's
company on tho old .Maino were ac-
counted for after that vessel was
blo-vn up in Havana harbor just on
the eve of the Spanish-American war
which this tragic incident did so much
tc precipitate. However, such was the
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Yorkshire breeders will declare that
to the best breed because it has given
them the best results; so with the
Berkshire men and also the Tanworth
advocates.
Sugar beets make very good feed
for cattle, but some grain and clover
and alfalfa should go along with
them, as they contain too much water
to be fed alone. ,
On the average farm the sheep are
the most neglected animals, and it is
really astonishing to note the waste
of opportunities in conditioning and
marketing lambs.
When the nests are put In order
for the winter, sprinkle ashes into
the material and put a couple of moth
balls In as well. These tend to dis- '
courage mites and lice.
Carefully scrape away the dirt
around the base of one or two of your
trees, and you will be able to discover
whether the roots are growing too
closely to the surface or not.
Many fall with sheep because they
fail to keep the breeds that are be t
adapted to their farms and do not
rai.se the kind the market demands
and is ready to pay the highest price
for.
case. Captain fnow Rear Admiral, retired) Sigs-
bee, who was In command of the vessel on the
fated night, escaped together with a number of
Ills officers and men, but a large proportion of
the ship's company went to watery graves. Fol-
lowing the disaster there were recovered the
bodies of 103 men of the Maine's crew, but more
than three score of the men who gave up their
lives for their country on that night have never
to this day been accounted for. The officials of
tho government are all confident that the remains
of these missing men will be found in tho hold
of the wrecked vessel when she is raised to the
surfaco In accordance with the elaborate sal-
vage plans now In progress. Probably only the
skeletons of the unfortunates will remain, but the
government will provide a regulation coffin for
each and accord the full honors of tha service in
connection with interment in their final resting
place.
It is fitting that the national legislature should
designate Arlington as the resting place of this
final grim muster squad from the long-submerged
Mainn. Fcr Arlington Is probably tha most sig-
nificant of all our great national cemeteries, and
here already repose in their last dreamless sleep
those other heroes of
the Maine who gave up
their lives bccauso of
treachery. The re-
mains of tho Maine's
men that were recov-
ered immediately after
the disaster were first
Interred In a cemetery
at Havana, but arrangements were later made
to transfer them to their native land and they
were relnterred at Arlington' with solemn cere-
mony the latter part of December, 1898, about ten
months after tho Maine went to destruction.
Already plans are under way for a splendid
monument to bo erected, after tho new graves
shall have been made, to all the victims of the
Maine. R< ar Admiral Slgsbee, who was in com-
mand of the ill-starred vessel, is Interested In the
project and so are many other prominent public
spirited citizens, Including a number of the men
and women who were lustrum iital In raising tho
money for that stately monument to the Rough
Riders In connection with tho placing of which
former Pr< sldent Roosevelt delivered one of his
best addresses. Within sight of the graves of
the Maino victims at Arlington also Is the tower-
ing shaft of the monument erected by the Na-
tional Society of Colonial Dames In honor of the
memory of the heroes of the Spanish-American
war, more than one thousand of whom—victims
of the Cuban campaign of 1898—rest within tho
shadow of this lofty tribute.
Indeed the green hills of Arlington overlook-
ing the Potomac river just opposite the city of
Washington are covered with tributes in granlb
and murble ami bronze to the nation's heroes-
men who fell In three wars. There are notable
general monuments such as those above men-
tioned and the famous "monument to tho un-
known dead," erected over tho unidentified re-
mains of more than two thousand soldiers that
fell on the fields of Bull Run and other scenes
of conflict in Virginia. And there aro also monu-
ments over Individual graves which aro of the
greatest interest to all visitors to the cemetery.
Among these latter are the sculptured tributes
over the graves of Gen. Phil. Sheridan, the fa-
mous cavalry leader. General Crook, the great
Indian fighter, and tho gallant Lawton.
Arlington was, prior to tho civil war, the home
of Gen. Robert I' Lee, tho leader of tho military
forces of the Confederacy, having como to him
through his marriage with tho great-granddaugh-
ter of the Widow Custis, who marrh d George
Washington Tho federal government confiscated
tho property during the war, but. later reimbursed
the Ijee family for it. Tho old manor house,
which was tho homo In turn of several very
prominent citizens of the republic, still stands In
a perfect state of preservation—an Ideal example
of the southern manor houso of the colonial pe-
riod and not a stone's throw from this old dwell-
ing is tho amphitheater, with a capacity of 6,000
persons, which was erected In 1873 and Is the
sceno of all memorial exercises, such as those
which will be held for tho Maine victims, when
the remains of the rear guard of the battleships
martyrs hall have been recovered ami biought
home to rest with their shipmates.
,4 GREENBACK STORY
One of the great satisfactions of
keeping a dally record of the per-
formance of your cows Is that of
watching the Improved returns from
the herd and in showing what im
proved methods will do.
It Is a very good winter's training
for the young farmer to spend a few
months in the village blacksmith shop
or as helper to some capable carpen-
ter. There Is Just as truly an edu-
cation of the hands as of the head,
but Eom« people seem to forgftt tbla
fact
IE other day In the Treasury building
a heap of worn-out greenbacks lay
awaiting Nirvana by the Are route
when, in greenback lingo, of course,
a bill suggested:
"Let's kill time by autoblographlng
a bit. Wake up there, Onebuck! Sup-
pose you tell us upon what occasion
in your opinion your purchasing power was great-
est, or least?"
A lop-eared bill yawned and answered:
*Tve bought some pretty nifty things In my
day. Drinks for two boes who'd Just hit town
after 200 miles of imprisonment In an empty
freight car, a photograph a girl had taken to send
her soldier boy sick in the Philippines. Once I
paid for a ticket out of Chicago to some Indiana
town—"
"Pretty good as far as you went," cut in the
interlocutor. "Now we'll hear from Fiver."
"Well, I urged a messenger boy to walk a
block in 15 minutes—"
"Listen to the bromide!" Greek chorused tho
others. "Next!"
Another one-dollar bill responded. Judging by
appearance he had the heart of the poet, for even
In that tattered company hl3 raggedness was no-
ticeable. He spoke softly:
"I once paid for the pearl of greatest price. A
woman, whom the world had bruised, took me to
a drug storo and converted me Into a tiny vial of
rest."
The interlocutor cleared his throat suddenly
and called on Old Hundred.
"T'vn npver bought anything worth much, I
mu. > confess," responds d the hundred-dollar bill,
'and I always got a grouch when I saw myself
bring in so little of the real goods. Oftenest I've
been spent in such fool ways that I blush at the
remembrance, as for instance, when tfeggle left
me in a Broadway shop in exchange for a gilt
basketful of purple blossoms not to be named*In
the same day ▼. ith the common or garden flowers.
"At one time I thought I had fallen into quiet
quarters for good. That was the time when a
horny-handed jay of the good old homestead spe-
cies took rne in payment for his crop of 'taters
and let mo sleep out the spring and early sum-
mer In a red yarn sock, but one morning in Au-
gust, tre the dawn had flushed the faintest rose,
even before Cbantecler had flapped his wings,
I was yanked out of the sock and deep down
within me I knew that It was me for tho giddy
whirl again.
"After all, It was refreshing to be back where
things were doing and being done at the county
fair. I longed to get out of Jay's trous< rs pocket,
but Jay was foxy. The barkers barked strenu-
ously before I got out of the pocket. However,
come out I did, and—well, thinking it over dis-
passionately, 1 believe the privilege of Feeing
what was not under the walnut shell came higher
to Jay than did the fool gilt basket of flowers
to Reggie on Broadway."
Onebuck held up his hand, craving speech.
"Well, Onebuck, what is it?" asked the inter-
locutor.
"I once bought the blue chip with which a
good but erring youth staked the last dollar of
his employer's money which he had taken, mean-
ing io pay it back—tho chip with which the youth
recouped and saved honor, good name, and—"
"Shut up, Onebuck! This experience meetin'
is on the level. Two spot, what's the story of
your biggest purchase?"
The two-dollar bill spoke, deliberately, soberly:
f I-oil a certain May morning a young man
with dreams in his eyes grasped mo with trem-
bling ling, rs and took mo to the city hall. I
could feel his heart beat as ho went, and every
rod or two 1 heard him say: 'Angel! Joy of my
soul! Beautiful darling, soon to bo my own!"
Arrived at tho impressive stone building my
young man, still trembling, said something In an
inaudible voice to the party behind the desk.
Evidently the party behind tho desk was accus-
tomed to mind reading. He understood what the
young man wanted all right, and after a few pre-
liminaries tho young man handed me to the party
behind the desk and received In exchango p slly
of paper.
"You think a slip of paper an Insignificant pur-
chase? W. II, you've got several thinks coming
to you. That spring day when tho young man
carried me to the city hall, my purchasing power
was greater than It has ever been In a long life-
time. I bought more—"
"J know," butted In Onebuck. "What you
bought for your young man was Happiness with
a big HI"
Twospot looked at Onebuck sadly, pityingly.
"My boy, your Innocence Is positively refresh-
ing. What I bought for my young man Kiat May
morning In the city hall begins with a big H all
right, but it dtesn't end with s."—New York Sua.
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Fleek, H. I. Britton Weekly Sentinel. (Britton, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1911, newspaper, January 19, 1911; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc142937/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.