Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 10, 1914 Page: 3 of 9
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THE SENTINEL. GARBER. OKLAHOMA.
■+ REASONS FOR A SILO. w
+ *
++++*++**++++*+♦+
First—Cows fed on silage in winter
give milk in quantity and quality
equal to June pastures.
Second—One acre of corn in a silo
fee s as far as three acres outside
Therefore, a silo enables the same
farm to carry three times the number
of cattle.
Third—A good silo will pay for it
self in one year.
Fourth—The cornstalks con'ain 40
per cent of the corn value. Save them
-with a silo.
Fifth—Silage is the feed during a
drouth in summer.
Sixth—Cows give 20 per cent more
milk on silage feed.
Sevfenth—Silage is a cheap feed,
everything taken into consideration.
Eighth—Silage keeps the herd in
good condition all winter.
Ninth—Silage furnishes a warn
and succulent feed in winter.
DD
ITf
IRKUTSK
AN AMOROUS DILEMMA
By GILBERT HINK
A GROWING BUNCH
OKLAHOMA A. & M. COLLEGE AN-
NOUNCES A NEW
SYSTEM.
FOR GUIDENCE OF COUNTY FAIRS
Use of the New Card Will Secure Uni-
Formity In the Judging of Sim-
ilar Grains In Different
Parts of the State.
In order to establish uniformity In
exhibits of kafir, milo and other grain
sorghums and also to assist the ex-
hibitor in preparing material and to
aid judged in rendering the best pos-
sible service, the Agronomy Depart-
ment of the A. and M. College has
prepared a new grain sorghum score
card, including full explanations of all
points considered.
Considerable work has been done
in the last three years preparing score
cards for kafir and other grain sor-
ghums, much has been written also
in the leading farm papers upon this
subject. In the preparation of this
score card all available sources of In-
formation have been freely drawn
upon and an attempt has been made
to present a score card that will rep-
resent as fully as possible all the reli-
able information obtainable on the
subject.
Harold Robinson of Sumner, Noble
county, has one of the finest strains
of Poland Chinas in Oklahoma. The
above shows part of his 1904 crop.
THE STOCK LAWS OF OKLAHOMA
Si
"Principal Street, Irkutsk.
A
A. &. M. College Score Card for Kafir,
Milo and Other Grain Sorghums.
■Rules That are Important to Every
Breeder and Shipper.
Every state in the Union has cer-
tain sanitary requirements governing
the admission of live stock. In Ok-
lahoma the following laws must be
complied with before live stock will
be permitted to cross the state line:
Horses, Mules and Asses.—Health
certificates, stating particularly that
stock is free from ticks.
Cattle.—Health certificates, Includ-
ing tuberculin test for dairy or breed-
ing cattle.
t Hogs.—For purposes other than im-
mediate slaughter, certificate show-
ing that they have not been exposed
to hog cholera for at least six months
previous to the time of shipment, and
that cars containing them were clean
and disinfected; that they were not
loaded or unloaded en route into pub-
lic stock yards or stock pens; on ar-
rival at destination they shall not be
unloaded in railroad stock yards or
stock pens.
Sheep.—None, other than compli-
ance with Federal regulations when
shipped from areas under quarantine
lor scabies.
Only qualified veterinarians are al-
lowed to test animals or pass upon
fitness for interstate shipments. A
qualified veterinarian is a person hold-
ing a certificate in a state giving him
the lawful right to practice veteri-
nary medicine in accordance with
rules of the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry.
Railroad companies will not accept
stock for transportation unless offi-
cial health certificate accompanies
•waybill. A duplicate of this certifi-
cate must be sent to the State offi-
cial at destination. Another copy
must also be sent to the Oklahoma
State Board of Agriculture, Live-stock
Department, Oklahoma City, Oklaho-
ma.
Head Samples.
Points. Value. Score.
Uniformity of heads and
kernels 20
Shape of heads 10
Size of heads 5
Arrangement of spikelets 20
Shape of kernels 5
Sizg of kernels 5
Color of kernels and t
glumes 5
Freedom from shattering 5
Exsertion 10
Market condition 15
Total 100
Grain Samples.
Points. Value. Score.
Uniformity in size and
color .. 20
Shape and size of kernels 20
Market condition ....... 35
Weight per bushel 25
Total 100
Explanation of Points.
Uniformity in size and Color.—The
kernels should be uniform In size and
color, for such a condition indicates
good breeding, careful selection, even-
ness of maturity, and to a considerable
extent desirable conditions of storage.
Shape and Size of Kernels.—The
kernels should be full sized for the
type represented, neither shrivele1!
nor otherwise misshaped. The shape
of kernels in the different types of
grain sorghums should comply with
the description given in the explana-
tion of this point under "Head Sam-
ples."
Market Condition.—The grfiin should
be sound and be free from dirt, rust
and other foreign material.
Weight per Bushel.—The weight per
bushel varies slightly with the dif-
ferent types—no standard weights
have been adopted for any of the grain
sorghums. Kafir weights approxi-
mately fifty-six pounds per measured
bushel, and this weight is almost uni-
versally established. The weight used
for kafir is adopted in practically all
local markets for all grain sorghums.
THOUSAND miles after you
have left Russia, Journeying
across a flat, featureless
ocean of steppe toward the
rising sun, you will enter a
wood.
Light-heartedly you plunge through
a crevice of that dark wall of ever-
green foliage. The cool gloom is
pleasing after the shadeless steppe.
Towering masts of pine and fir and
cedar. Infrequent glimpses of sky
through chance vents In the roof. A
faint dank stench of rotting logs and
waterlogged moss. Not a bird or a
beast to see or hear; clusters of r.os-
quitoes wreathing in spirals up a
glancing shaft of twilight. The silence
of the grave, writes Bassett Dlgby In
the New York Tribune.
Yes; pleasant after the shadeless
steppe. ... It must be a deep
wood though. Miles have drawn Into
leagues. Suddenly n.ght falls.
If you find a track In the next three
days, which Is improbable, you will
live to celebrate. In some turf-roofed
log hut, your first week's passage
through this forest—yeB, you begin to
call it a forest now.
Well, to summarize, If jpu are a
pretty good walker and have lack you
will be getting near the eastern fringe
of that forest about seventeen weeks
later. Long before that you will cease
to wonder at a certain moroseness, a
certain long-faced silence, in your
woodmen hosts. And not Improbably
you will have vowed to pause for a
day at the frontier of this forest—If
frontier it should have, indeed—to lie
on your back on the steppe and gaze
at clouds. You have almost forgotten
what a big, spacious cloud looks like.
Out of the Cedars.
Comes a morning when the cedars
and firs thin out and birch coppice en-
sues. Presently the birches thin and
thin, trickling away into a broad down-
ward sweep of treeless prairie. A
few leagues ahead glints of gold and
silver flash lncomprehensively out of
tha far distance. Then splashes of
dazzling white, spires and towers and
domes, and a city appears, swept on
contained, In addition to a stove and
a bathroom, "une chanrbre sans fumee
ou en se tier.t en famllle," which is
more than' one can say nowadays. In
1803 the whole of Siberia was placed
under the administration of a gover-
nor general, with a residence at Irk-
utsk. Today the city has a cathe-
dral—Our Lady of Kazan—thirty-two
Orthodox Greek churches, sixteen par-
ish churches, thirty-five private chap-
els attached to residences, some Rom-
an Catholic churches, a German Lu-
theran church, forty-nine schools, eigh-
teen charitable Institutions, an opera
house with nothing going on most of
the time, a government gold labora-
tory, barracks by the score, several
banks and breweries and monasteries
and jails, a fine museum with an alert
educational programme of lectures,
and so forth, a very few factories, sev-
eral tanneries and a major In a caval-
ry regiment who weighs 31 stone,
which is just short of a quarter of a
ton—a blithesome boy who can prob-
ably ride a gun carriage with the most
reckless of 'em.
Of the irkutsklans Gmelln wrote;
"lis alment I'exces I'olsivlte, le vln et
les femmes"—not till tie got out of
town, though. I'm still In Irkutsk, at
the mercy of the mob, so wait awhile.
Lata Dinner Hour.
An odd city, this. At 6 o'clock this
morning frost gripped the ground. At
2 o'clock in the afternoon the sunny
sides of the street were deserted for
the shade, where It was only 81 de
grees Fahrenheit! A lie-abed town.
No one appears on the streets till af-
ter 10 o'clock in the morning. Early
lunchers begin to drop Into the res-
taurants about 2 o'clock. The dinner
hour is from 10 at night till 1 o'clock
in the morning, and you linger over
your drinks and Crimean cigarettes
till 3 or 4 o'clock, listening to the or-
chestra or moving from table to table
to chat with your friends.
The chief restaurant In town, the
resort of the creme de la creme of
wealth and smartness, offers not un-
interesting glimpses. It Is quite good
form for instance, to enter the crowd-
J a J) Jl^ui d , u vyv vm ' , ,
three sides by a river of foam-flecked j room vigorously scrap ng your a r
and mustachios and whiskers and
(Copyright.)
Harold Stout was an anemic youth
with great aspirations.
His physical appearance and his
Christian name—the latter hitched
to him before he had passed the bald
and ruddy stage of early cradlehood
led people who knew him to remark
that he would probably never amount
to much.
The people were, In a sense, correct
fn their inferences; but Harold was a
fair hand with a tennis racket and
thought well of himself.
Anyway, in the absence of some one
more herculean, he is hereby assigned
to duty as the hero of this particular
story.
Kindly overlook his shortcomings.
From early childhood he always kept
his hair parted at the proper angle
and smoothed correctly over his fore-
head. This practice of boyhood led
inevitably to the proper thing in neck-
ties, trousers properly creased and
furled above shoes that could be de-
pended upon to be somewhere near
the prevailing style, although a little
too large, perhaps, to be called nifty.
Harold was a prime favorite with
the young suffragists in the town
where he boarded with his folks. He
was fairly at home on the blandishing
line, and his work never interfered
with his social duties.
He spent his evenings away from
home, if the social elect of the town
had anything in the way of appropri-
ate diversion scheduled. Being a good
waltzer, and also able to turn the
leaves of the latest popular song for
the lady at the piano without spiking
the harmony with an ill-advised re-
versal, he had a chance to meet all of
the nice girls of the town, and was
often seen escorting one or more of
them home after the hostess had been
thanked for the lc« cream.
Sooner or later, Harold had walked
home with every young woman in the
town, and the rougher boys, who
couldn't go to a party without wilting
down a collar, began to hate him.
With all of his social appearances,
Harold was not in love. The young
women probably considered him very
nice in the capacity of an attendant,
but demurred at taking him to sup-
port.
There came a time, though, when
Harold slipped ofT into the abyss of
love, and having never been in the
abysB before, he felt strange.
Two sisters—twin sisters—consti-
tuted the stumbling block over which
PRACTICAL WORK FOR BOYS
emerald, the Siberian metropolis.
If you are looking for Occidental
grandeurs (ale), comforts and culture,
approaching this outpost of empire
with the Berlin or the Boston point of
vicv/, you will find Irkutsk crude. To
appreciate her you should come upon
hnr, mentally If not in actuality, out of
the awful solitudes of forest that
hedge her about; then you will not cry
ne upon her for being the capital city
of Northern Asia and having neither
street-cars nor skyscrapers, few drains
and fewer street lamps, hotels a rlre,
tn actorlesB opera house and roads
that are lakes of mud or drifts of
stifling dUBt.
Facts? Facts? You can't find a
guide book dealing with Siberia, and
you champ your hungry Jaws for
facts? No; there are no guide books.
Facts? Oh, well then—Irkutsk, the
Capital city of a largish slab of the
beard with a large and greasy comb.
None of the lunchers through whom
you thus thread your way are squeam-
ish enough to push away their soup
plates from your scurf strewn wake.
Wanting a waiter, you bang your plate
with a knife, clamorously and with
application, till he appears. Mold
and manure stained earthenpots.
standing in water-logged saucers, hold
the rooted once-we-were-flowers on
your table. Argumentative canaries
and vainly shrill linnets trilling from
a dozen cages drive you nearly silly.
Yet the food Is excellent and the wait-
ers models of their genus, apart from
a lamentable'tendency to snatch the
fork from your plate wherewith to
pry the cork from a bottle of wine.
Few men care to saunter about Irk-
utsk after dark without a Browning
world's dry land, about three times I in a handy pocket. The first time I
T. A. Milstead, Hughes county agent for U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Dem-
onstration work, explaining the root system of cotton to some club members.
The stalk of cotton he is holding was 18 iaobes tall and had soma roots three
teat lwur
the size of all Europe, exclusive of
Russia, has 80,000 inhabitants who
labor under the delusion that they are
Europeans, though 70 per cent of the
hairiest are honeBt enough not to gi^e
the matter muoh thought, wearing
their shirts outside their trousers and
dwelling in small log huts and bovine
tranquility.
In 1652 Ivan Pakhobov, leader of a
filibustering gang of Cossacks and ex-
ceeding tough, built a stockaded tim-
ber fort at the Junction of the rivers
Angara and Irkut. Altruistic patriot-
ism was less of a motive of his than
legitimatized plunder of the Boorlat
Mongol fur trappers. He levied trib-
ute on them—extorted loot to the ac-
companiment of flag wagglngs. Some
of It may eventually have reached the
treasury at Moscow. Who knows?
When Professor Gmelln came out.
In 1734, on the pioneer scientific ex-
ploration of Northern Asia, he found
M9 log huts at Irkutsk, of which most
came to this town I was assured that
there was at least a murder on the
streets every four-and-twenty hours,
with considerably more some nice,
warm nights, when it was a-pity-to-be-
lndoors-don't-you-know. I doubted the
fact till 1 came back subsequently and
verified it. And now, this spring, af-
ter an absence of three years, i find
vesperal murders more popular thaa
ever. Nasty, uncomfortable murders,
quiet murders in the dark by gentle-
men who haven't a thing against you,
but need a spare shirt, or merely want
to keep In good training. There are
no street lamps half a mile from the
heart of this metropolis. That helps,
too.
The lazy and inartistic spirits mere-
ly sidle up in felt slippers and sand-
bag or club you. The real union mur-
derers are garroters. Even as Tomsk
!s the educational and cultural centre
of Siberia, Irkutsk 1b every ambitious
young provincial garroter'a goal-
he lost his equilibrium. He met them,
one pleasant evening, at an informal
affair at the home of Miss Spotts. The
affair was Informal becauBe Miss
Spotts' father, a blacksmith, desired
to live an unpretentious 11 *e.
The twins were named Louise and
Elolse, respectively and respectfully.
They looked very much the same. It
waB easy to tell them apart when
they were tagged. Otherwise not.
When Harold was introduced, he
told thom they looked very much alike.
?'hey replied that they had been told
he same thing before, which was
probably-true, as they had resembled
each other all along.
The remark, however Inane, was the
wedge which broke up the conversa-
tion Into convenient blocks. They
learned that he liked tennis, because
It was an outdoor game, but disliked
football, because the players became
too dusty. He learned that they were
practicing a duet and liked banana
cream, but couldn't row.
After the party adjourned Harold
found himself walking home with the
twins. He supplied one-third of the
conversation, but didn't presume to
distinguish between Louise and El
olse. He avoided any mistake by
saying "Miss Stone." which was the
last name of either of the twins on
their father's side.
They walked slowly on the way
home, and were mucll better acquaint-
ed when they arrived, which shows
that Harold was alive to the situation
Before leaving for his own home he
decapitated a rose In the front lawn
at the home of the Misses Stone, and
In the quiet of bis room kissed its
petals, afterward putting It carefully
away In a mall-order catalogue to
press
There were other symptoms of love
noticeable before Harold retired, and
when he awoke the next morning be
was broken out with it
He was a youth who came to con-
clusions and mealB quickly. He devel-
oped a case of mumps In four days
after being exposed, which shows that
h3 was, In a way, quite precocious.
Being thus constituted, he knew
right off that he was In love with one
of the twins. Not being able to distin-
guish between them, he was unable to
say which one he loved, but be was
certain he could tell In two guesses.
The conviction that he was uncer-
tain which Miss Stone he loved trou-
bled him greatly at his work the day
following his introduction, and one
guatomer complained that he put
strawberry flavor In (h<4 ice cream,
soda when she had specifically request-
ed pineapple flavor.
This Is put In to emphasize that Har-
old was disconcerted, and not as a re-
flection on his ability to draw soda.
He saw the twins frequently after
the first meeting, and did his best to
monopolize both of them until he could
learn to distinguish between them, but
finally gave It up with the decision
that he would never know them apart
until he bought the solitaire for one of
them. But which one? And the more
Harold puzzled over this perplexing
question the more difficult It seemed
of solution.
He finally decided that he was not
In love with either of the twins, but
with both of them, collectively and In
the plural. This was an unusual pre-
dicament, he thought, and he lost
three pounds In a week worrying
about It
His mother became alarmed and put
a plaster on his chest. Harold, like a
dutiful son, submitted, although he
knew that a plaster on his chest
would not palliate his peculiar malady.
Every time he saw the twins—they
were always together—his affection,
and his affliction grew deeper. At last.
In pure self-defense, he determined to
end the uncertainty by proposing to
either Louise or Elolse.
He didn't care which he married, tot
they would move away after marriage,
perhaps, and be happy.
The very next evening he called on
the MUses Stone.
He had done so very frequently, so
they had no reason to suspect the Im-
port of his visit. They greeted him
with unusual warmth, It seemed to
Harold, and his flagging determination,
crystallzed. Shortly after he arrived
on his amorous errand, one of the
twins withdrew from the little parlor,
and Harold took a flying leap at hla
opportunity.
Rushing to the side of the remaining
twin, he blurted out his confession of
deep-seated love and asked her, minc-
ing his words somewhat, to become his
beautiful, blushing bride, the details to
be arranged later. She had started to
reply when the sister suddenly re-
turned, after which the evening waned
Blowly.
No other opportunity of settling the
dilemma arising, Harold prepared to
leave, thinking meanwhile of another
night of tossing In Indecision.
One of the twins walked with him
to the curb when he departed, and.
having every reason to suspect aha
was the one to whom he had tried to
propose In the parlor, he reiterated hla
proclamation of deep devotion as well
as his suggestion of wedding bells at
an early date.
The twin asked him for time to
think it over. She would reply to the
momentous question on the following
day.
Early the following morning a mes-
senger came to the drug store with a
note for Harold. It was inclosed in a
pale blue envelope and was delicately
Bcented with violet. It ran:
Dear Boy:
I was surprised last night by your pro-
posal and take this means of accepting.
Come up tonight, and let us break the
glad news to sister and mother.
Devotedly,
LOUISE
Harold's heart gave a flutter with
the glad emotion of ownership. The
sun seemed very bright, and the flzs
of the soda had a more pleasant gur-
gle.
Another messenger arrived with a
note for Harold. It was Inclosed in a
pale pink envelope and was delicately
scented with heliotrope.
Probably a note of congratulation
from Elolse. thought Harold.
He was not mistaken. It was from
Elolse, all right, and ran:
Harold:
How did you truess that I love you?
Of course I accept your love, and will
marry you In June. Devotedly,
ELuIsiS.
The world grew black, and Harold
went home feeling 111.
That night, without bidding adieu to
anyone, he flagged a train a mile west
of town and went farther west, where
he decided to remain.
Years later, after he had married a
farmer's daughter, his wife became the .
mother of twin daughters. U
Harold thought it would be nice to
call one of them Louise and the other
Elolse, because they looked so much
alike.
Cutest Thing In Creation Is Lightning.
"In a northern city," writes a cor-
respondent of the Los Angeles Times,
a man told me that during a very vio-
lent thunderstorm all the windows of
hla club were thrown wide open. "TO
let the lightning In!" I remarked. "Not
exactly," he replied, "but to let it out
again if It did get in." Ab a fact, it
accepted the Invitation to enter tha
club with alacrity, and though It
magnanimously spared the foolhardy
people responsible for the Invitation
It wrecked a large safe In an adjoin-
ing room. The person who related
this said he would ever after look up*
on lightning as the " 'cutest thing In
creation." It is the flash that mur<
ders; the poor thunder never harm'4
head." ;
in one basket. Sometimes early plaut-
ing is the b '3t and Bometiuias th e lute ^
Theilreaga balng gown is again very j
* u*nt> .. ^ ' X .(a I
telligenee to spend them. The county put up nud had it not been lor the
treasurer does that for them, livery j Class B league pitcher, tha
voter who disapproves of these laws ;
should vu'e lor a mail-who is one of
the cnumon people tfauds for I
game*
would have looked different, and Enid
knows it. In fact, sutne of the Enid
*« mnutTCI*
DUBUime in iy gvuu III uaroer II11S 1
tali is the report of every line of busi-1
ness. The merchants here enjoy an !
extensive trade and there must be a ' • j-v
reason. fn a few words it is toh,:' 1^,1 1 M* (' V (J|* 15 ll <0!l,e |j ® jS IX'VTfl
Garber merchants seil eood eoods l'or 1 --'at
Phone No. 40. Night or Day.
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