The Woods County News. (Augusta, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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n'OODS v'Ol'NTY NEWS
AUG 1ST A.
OKLAHOMA
Th«* p< rstoffice at Reno City has been |-p p^r A \T) \RDK\ ?racUcall3r a pure cuIture of the bac~
discontinued. ! ^ AltJ1 A. - • ter.a desired.
i t . „ J ' Preparation of a Home-Made Start-
Leavenworth 2nd Topeka parties
have invested in the Noble county MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Bill
CftLAaOXA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
People in town.-? in eastern Oklahoma
;at potatoes raised in Missouri.
Persimmons are ripe in Pottawatomie
county, and 'possums are ripening.
The delinquent tax list in Payne
county is abont one-third shorter than
it was last year.
Ex-State Printer Parks has just built
a new house at Beloit. in which there
is a billiard room.
The drouth in the Chickasaw nation
has been broken by heavy rains. The
cotton crop is benefitted.
The bank deposits in Oklahoma eoun-
ty are equal to $34 per eapita lor the
entire population of the county.
A vein of gray marble, seven feet
thick, is being quarried in Blaine conn-
ty. It takes a very high polish.
The question of whether South Me-
McGintr. a rough rider, was j
i thrown from his horse and had an arm
broken.
I Yukon is quarantined. A smillpox
case, coming from South McAlester, is
the cause.
Last spring the Sac and Fox Indians
numbered 526. This fall there are only
453 of them.
Panthers and wolves are causing |
trouble in the neighborhood of Lewis i
Bend, I. T.
Wagoner. I. T.. has lost an 83.000 ,
hotel by fire—The Brown hoteL It |
was partially insured.
If an Oklahoma man. these days, is
not mixed up in a townsite scheme of
some kind, he isn't in it.
Christian Science has quite a follow-
sorne Ip-to-Date Hints About Cul-
tivation of ttoe Soli nd Yields
Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and
Floriculture.
Horticultural Observations.
The California peach crop has been
fairly good this year and it has brought
a good deal of money. Some of our
readers that have heard so much about
the peach crop failure in this part of
the country may have wondered at the
fact that the market seemed to be fair-
ly well supplied by fruit said to be
raised near at home. The facts appear
to be that much of the California
product has been sold as fruit grown
near at hand, the dealers catering to
the prejudice in favor of home-grown
fruit
ing in Oklahoma. Osteopathy is also HerewiUl ve illustrate the Maple
breaking into the territory. , gJug Worm The length of this slug
A girl. Miss Minnie Wood, received i8 shown in the straight line by the
the highest grade certificate as p'nar- | side of it. It is frequently^ found in
macist at the territorial examination. |
before Judge Clayton on December 1.
At the semi-annual pay day for th
Iowa Indians at the Sac and Fox agen-
cy ninety of them received 861.1>4 each.
George Keller was run down and
{illed by the northbound "Katy"' flyer
it Big Cabin bridge, one mile south of
Vinita.
The late storm was heaviest in west-
ern Oklahoma It became so dark at
midday that lamps were lighted in
many houses.
Sid Bagwell of Lewis Bend, I. T., has
caught eleven foxes this fall and claims
to be the champion hunter in that part
of the country.
The Arapahoe Bee says that Custer
county has the largest acreage and the
best prospect for wheat she has ever
had at this season of the year.
Fifteen Cheyenne Indians who travel
with Buffalo Bill's wild west show, are
visiting their squaws. They are allow-
ed to return home once a year.
The residents of Billings, the Okla-
homa town opened on October 23, have
issued an edict that no uegroes are
wanted within the town limits.
The older Oklahoma settlers are pre-
dicting an open winter. They say that
when rains fall in late October, follow-
A bank got on the ground at Billings.
Alester shall incorporate will be heard j new town ^ eariv that a residence
had to be used as its place of business.
Frank Lowe of Catoosa, took soda in
company of a lady and physicians say
his immediate death was from poison.
Ben Weaver shot and killed his father-
in-law. J. R. Lowe, at Ireton. southeast
of Chickasaw. He is being prosecuted.
A stranger was found dead near Col-
bert, I. T. It was found that his name
was Ely Davis. He was about 35 years
of age.
Judge Frank Dale has a theory that
wherever in the west St. Louis and
Chicago ineet in competition a whole-
sale point results.
Travel through Oklahoma is now-
heavier than it has been for years.
The trains are all long and are get-
ting the "late habit."
There are no houses for rent in Oak-
land. neither residence nor business.
All are full, and the narrow alleys are
being used by the sidewalk dealers.
Bermuda grass, which was intro-
the fall of the year on the maple
leaves and even under the trees. The
body of the slug is oval, with a wide
dorsal square ridge, hollowed slightly
along the middle, where situated on
each suture is a yellowish round spot
centered with a dark green dot The
edge of the ridge is stained with yel-
low. On the outer and lower side of
the ridge is a lateral row of spots like
those in the middle of the back. The
body is pale green with yellow touches
and spots besides those described. The
head is green but the jaws and labrum
are a dark amber. Along the edge of
the body is a whitish line. The moth
is about half an Inch long, measuring
with the closed wings, and is of a pale
green color and variegated.
Every horticulturist should be. to a
considerable extent, an entomologist
He should be able to recognize any
• common insect that invades his fruit
plantation or his orchard. To accom-
plish this he should hare a small col-
! lection of the insects that are most
: common. These collections are not
! readily obtainable at this time, but
the demand for them will create a sup-
ply. In
older countries this demand
In England
has affirmed the death sentence im-
posed upon Charles Beens. colored, by
ed by warm weather, the winter has « Judge Townsend at Pauls Valley, for
always been mild.
The court of appeals holds that roy-
alty due individual mine owners prior
to the passage of the Curtis bill may be
collected and that the Curtis bill does
not apply to royalties due prior to the
oassage of said bill.
' Cherokee Advocate: There are sev-
: and supply already exist
duced into Oklahoma shortly after the ' one entomologist makes a business of
opening, is spreading generally. Its | breeding insects for the purpose of
chief delight is to gobble up a blue- ! supplying collections. He has what is
grass lawn. ! called a butterfly farm He supplies
i collections of both the butterflies and
The civil court of appeals at Ardmore j thfi larvae Some of his collections
number up i*to the thousands. It is
evident that the interest in entomology
is on the increase. In the United
| States the state universities are in
some instances authorized to make
collections for the use of the high
schools in the state. Such a law ex-
ists in Illinois, but the priviege is of
no effect for the reason that the state
entomologist never has the funds
available for doing the work necessary
to put the collections in a form where
they can be of use to the schools. Of
course these insects must be mounted
in proper arrangement and correctly
named. This work takes the time of
a man for a number of days, in the
case of each collection. e would
suggest that high school boards take
the matter up and make appropriations
to defray the expense of this work.
Certainly there should be in every high
school in the state such a collection,
for it would then be a center from
which would go out a great deal of
information on entomological subjects.
| Frequently it happens that a destruc-
tive insect appears in some neighbor-
i hood and is unrecognized for weeks.
er.—In order to prepare a home-made
starter the dairyman has to secure two
enameled pails provided with covers.
In the one he pours fresh skimmed
milk, and then sets it in a fairly warm
place, so that in about twenty-four
hours the milk will be both sour and
thick. When this has occurred he
skims off the surface, breaks up the
center of the mass and takes out half
a pint This he adds to skimmilk
which has previously been scalded
from 155 to 160 deg. F. and subse-
quently cooled to about 65 or 70 degs.
On the following morning this should
also be sour and thick, or the tempera-
ture of setting has been too low.
Again the surface is skimmed, half
a pint extracted as before, which in
turn is added to a third quantity of
scalded milk. The temperature at
which the second and all succeeding
starters are made up must be deter-
mined by each worker for himself; it
will depend upon the temperature of
the room where the pail is kept dur-
ing the night On the third day the
starter produced in this way, if of a
creamy consistence, may be used for
making the cheese—a portion, how-
ever, being retained to prepare a start-
er for the following day.
This process may be repeated day
after day, and if performed in a care-
ful and cleanly manner it will go on
throughout the season yielding good
results. As already explained, the op-
eration is one which in a very few
days eliminates undesirable bacteria.
Caper Spurge.
Bulletin 86, U. S. Department et
Agriculture says: This plant is called
also garden spurge, myrtle spurge,
mole plant, mole weed, mole tree,
gopher plant, antigopher plant, wild
caper, caper bush, wolf's milk, and
springwort.
Description and Where Found.—This
is a smooth, herbaceous, milky-juiced
perennial, two to three feet high, with
a stiff erect stem, and opposite four-
ranked leaves, the lower of which are
thick and oblong, the upper, thin,
broad and heart-shaped. The flowers
are greenish yellow and rather small.
the murder of Gus Wright.
Several farmers along the South
Canadian river are planting potatoes
and covering them over with a heavy
coat of straw. The farmers say early
potatoes will be $3.50 a bushel next
spring.
Greer Sun: We will stake our repu-
eral full blooded Cherokees from North tation as a prophet on the prediction
t arolina who attend the Haskell Insti- | that the iron horse will toot for Man-
tute at Lawrence. Ks.. and they write j gum inside of six months. The Rock
to us in Cherokee for . papers. These | island freight agent has arrived in
Cherokees are not citizens of this na- | town and is interview ing our mer- |
tion. j chants.
It has been practically settled that j a suit has been brought before
Major Woodson will retain the Cher- | United States District Judge Burford
enne and Arapahoe agency and his res- ! which will test the law passed by the
ignation, sent to Washington a few legislature two years ago prohibiting .
weeks ago. probably will be with- i Indian marriages and divorces. The i
drawn. Woodson had trouble with an < >sage tribe, having a full code of laws I
agency attorney, but the differences ! Gf their own. pay no attention to this i
have been adjusted. I territorial law.
A young man from Asia Minor has j Quanah Barker, chief of the Kiowa
been enrolled as a post-graduate stu- ;md Comanche tribes, is working hero-
□ Buckwheat as Manure for Turnips.
From Farmers' Review: It is
common opinion that turnips should
never be preceded in a crop rotation
by buckwheat Some farmers go the
length of saying that the latter has
a poisonous effect upon the land as far
as turnips are concerned, and also
when some other crops are grown. This
opinion was so general and seemed to
have so little foundation that a series
of tests were conducted to prove the
case for or against. A piece of land
that had yielded a crop of rutabagas
was sown to buckwheat and another
similar plot was allowed to 'ie fallow.
When the buckwheat was slightly past
the flowering stage it was cut, run
through a fodder cutter and then
turned under. Shortly after this a
volunteer crop of buckwheat appeared
and after growing a few inches was
turned under, the fallow plot being
prepared for seeding to turnips at the
same time. The two plots were, ex-
cept in these respects, treated exactly
alike. The crop of salable turnips upon
the buckwheat plot was more than four
times as heavy as upon the fallow plot
and they weighed more individually.
The marketable roots from the fallow
plot were more numerous but smaller
and consequently lighter. This experi-
ment seems to indicate that the idea
that buckwheat is not a good green
manure for turnips is not correct.
M. G. KAINS.
dent of the Oklahoma agricultural and !
mechanical college. He proposes to
pay particular attention to the study of
scientific agriculture, especially of
wheat and cotton, and selected the Ok-
lahoma school because in no other part
of the world are the two crops grown
side by side with such great success.
Sixteen trespassers in the Kiowa and
ieally to increase the size of the allot-
ments for his trbe. The government
proposes to give each member of the
tribe 160 acres, or an average of at
least one section of acres to each
family. Chief Quanah wants each to
have 640 acres, because theirs is a graz-
ing country.
The legislature at Tishomingo has
Comanche country have been arrested ( appropriated money to purchase furni-
by United States Deputy Marshal ! t ure for the various offices of the na-
Hickox. charged with working the j tional eapitol.
quarries and removing valuable build- | There are evidences that the Missouri.
Source of Scions.
Scions should come from fruit bear-
ing trees. We insist that the weak-
ness or disposition to form only wood
buds and runners is inherited, and
therefore no tree or plant known to
be unfruitful should ever be used for
propagation. It is a well known law
of nature that when any power or
faculty is not used for a long period
it will become dormant and finally
disappear, and when a plant through
bad propagation or otherwise becomes
an habitual wood bud maker it is not
easily persuaded by any system of till-
age to return to fruitage. I have long
felt that the practice of taking scions
from nursery rows through many gen-
erations without allowing them to bear
fruit is wrong. Such trees are not
— Caper gpiirpe lF.uf.horb'-a lathyrint
a. npper half of pLiot, out- third caiurtl
size, t, seed capsule, natural size.
The three-seeded fruit is conspicuous..
It is a common garden plant, sparing-
ly introduced into wet ground in Cal-
ifornia and Texas, and in the Atlantic
states from New Jersey and West Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
Poisonous Properties.—The fresh
milky juice is exceedingly acrid and
the fruit is highly purgative and poi-
sonous. When used as a household
remedy it often provokes serious
trouble. Women and children are not
infrequently poisoned by handling the
plant and getting the juice on the face.
Cattle are quite resistant to :ts influ-
ence, but they are sometimes orercome.
Goats will eat the plant extensively if
nothing better presents itself, and it
is said that their milk then possesses
all of the venomous properties of the
plant When applied to the skin the
juice causes redness, itching, pimp'.es
and sometimes gangrene, the effect
often lasting more than a week. The
seed taken internally in overdose will
inflame the mouth and stomach, and
cause intense diarrhoea and vomiting.
If the dose is sufficient there will be
nervous disorders, unconsciousness,
general collapse and death.
Loss of Nitrocen.
Sir J. B. Lawes of England has
measured the amount of nitrogen that
is washed out of soils by the fall rains,
says Hoard's Dairyman. In one rainy
season there were 130 pounds lost from
one acre in this way, during the month
of September alone. During the hot
weather of July and August nitrifica-
tion goes on rapidly in the soil. Thi3
means that nitrogen is changed from
organic forms so that it is soluble in
water. Most summer crops stop grow-
ing before frost. There being no living
plants to utilize this soluble nitrogen,
the rains easily wash most of it out
of the soil. September and October are
two of the worst months for leaving
the ground bare. When covered with
Crimson clover or wiuter grain, the
loss is much less, for these growing
enly late In coming into bearing, but nitrogen,
they are easily exhausted and in thi3 I f. . .. *
weakened condition readily fall a vic-
tim to insects or fungi, and I beg to
express my conviction that this has I Good and poQr Cider _Cider made
contributed more to the present de- | Wjndfans and g;een apples, which
Never let the ground remain bare dur-
ing the fall and early winter.
durin
—Mapk dug ttottd.—BridgLaa: del
which time it has obtained
Yansas and Texas is maneuvering to
secure a road running north and south
through eastern Oaklahoma. with an
idea of a terminus at Wichita.
The waters of Salt creek are deeply
imprcgnated with saline properties, and
farmers living in the valley, even with
their crude appliances, extract a barrel
of salt from three barrels of the water.
This year Jesse Witcher, who is a dis-
trict fanner of No. 10, turned his Indi-
ans loose in the white man's cotton and
ship of an animal. Ranchmen do not cornfields and thej* hare been eompli-
know what to make of it. mented very highly on the way they
W. ti. Kimberiain married an Indian performed the various tasks allotted to
and was enrolled as a citizen of the them.
itig rock.
The Choctaw girls have pure white
complexions, and most of them have
black hair and eyes, although some are
perfect blondes. Some are highly
educated, and those who are not full-
bloods do not marry Indians, so that
palefaces are in demand. They mariy
at the age of 17.
It is said that Judge Hainer. while
holding court at Bearer, ruled that a
brand is not sufficient proof of owner-
foothold that will permit it to do un-
told damage to
plants there.
the fruits and fruit |
J plorable condition of our orchards
! than any other one thing.—R. M. Kel-
| logg.
Mieratory Weeds.
i Injurious migratory weeds are usu-
! ally first introduced into cities and
i spread from them to the farms, says
! a contributor to Rural World. There
His wife died and he
woman, who applied
The second annual conference of In-
dian workers was held at Geary. O. T..
(October 28. The committee on pauper-
ism strongly recommend the discon-
tinuance of issuing rations and the es-
It is said that other similar I tablishing by the government of a
I hoc taw nation.
married a white
to be enrolled. She was refused en-
rollment and took the case to court.
The court of appeals sustained the re-
fusal
cases will be affected.
for the aged and the infirm.
"Starters" In C'heesemaking.
Prof. Campbell, before the Highland
(Scotland) Agricultural Society, said:
L First-class Cheddar cheese can
be made by using pure cultures of a
lactic organism. 2. This organism
abounds in all samples of sour milk
and sour whey. 3. The system rec-
ommended for the preparation of a
home-made starter is one which exerts
a purifying influence upon the bacte-
rial content of the starter, and results
in the elimination of bacteria which
are unnecessary if not harmful to the
production of a first-class material.
4. The use of a whey starter is at-
tended with results equal in every way
to those obtained from a milk starter.
Of these results bv far the most im-
portant is that wnich shows that a
home-made starter, if carefully pre-
jrared, comes after a few days Co be
are a dozen chances for the original I
introduction of a weed in cities to one !
upon the farm. Fine-leared sneeze- j
weed first appeared about cities in the j
south, and is now spreading to the j
grazing lands and cotton fields. The |
Canada thistle in its progress across '
the continent has been distributed by-
railways, first to the cities. Prickly j
lettuce has usually been first obserred
in cities and towns in its remarkably
rapid spread orer the country. The
Russian thistle was first introduced
into the United States on a farm, but
being taken to the cities, it now most
frequently spreads from them to the
farms. In many instances these intro-
duced species could have been easily
destroyed upon their first appearance
in the cities and towns, and millions
of dollars' damage to the farmers thus
averted.
contain a much less proportion of
sugar than ripe apples, is consequently
the poorest, being sour and watery.
Where the apples are green but well
matured, the quality of the cider made
from them will be found vastly im-
prored by the simple proces of throw-
ing them in small piles in the orchard
and allowing them to ripen. When a
first-class cider is desired it is neces-
sary to select the fruit. If you have
been in the habit of throwing in half-
matured, partially rotten and all sorts
of fruit, try by way of experiment a
press full of well-matured, solid apples,
free from dirt. Filter through a clean
muslin cloth, and the result will be a
surprise.
All nature is given over to poetry,
even the hen having her lays.
Patronize Good Stallions.—It may be
truthfully said that there is a scarcity
of good stallions in many parts of this
country, because good horses are not
patronized by those who should use
them. Owners of good sires have be-
come discouraged because they were
not profitable. It is safe to say those
who did net use thetr. lost the most
money. There is little excuse for not
patronizing first class stallions now.
Their service fee is very low. within
the reach of every farmer who h&s a
j biood mare.—Michigan Farmer.
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