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THE CHAMPION
DODSON A STAFFORD.
OKLAHOMA CITY.
OKLAHOMA AMD INDIAN TIKB1TOSI
Wb. Saul is bury one of Guthrie's citi- 1~ an<l 18.
Perry is to have electric lights
The cotton crop is being marketed st
a fair price.
I i I
The reported Indian outbreak in i
OKLA. j Hluine county ivbh a “fake."’
The Logan County 0. A. It. Associa j
tion will hold its reunion on Sept, 10, I
rens died Monday.
Texas feier lias just broken out
among the cattle of Kay county.
The Oklahoma cotton market Is on a
boom going from (1}£ to 73* cents.
Mown in Greer county a good heathy
rattlesnake averages six pounds in
weight,
*J The recent rains throughout the
Territory lias put the ground in splen-
did shape for fall seeding.
The first batch of decisions handed
down this week by the supreme court
numbered half a hundred.
Col T. J. Palmer, has been nominated 1
for representative by the republicans of
Grant county
Many Oklahoma towns which do not
have curfew bell seem to think it would
be a good thing.
The National Guard of Oklahoma
will hold its first encampment at
Guthrie this month.
Raymond Wagy, a horse thief, was
captured at Red Hud Monday. He is
wanted in i‘latte county, Mo.
The residence J. H. Asher was de-
< n- hundred and tiveny hales of
cotton were slipped out of Guthrie
Monday.
The Freeman ranch near Ingalls,
was totally destroyed by Are fiend last
week.
A summer girl named Row has just
concluded a visit at Argonia, and very
naturally all the local girls are glad
she is gone.
Nelson fitter, a negro outlaw, was
shot in Cleveland county on the 11th
by deputy marshals. litter was a
native of the Cliiekasuw* nation and
was wanted for a dozen different
crimes.
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST
AGRICULTURISTS.
Some Fp-to-date Uinta About Cultlva
Mon of t lie boll anil Yields Thereof
—Horticulture, Viticulture aad Mori
culture.
thoroughly, failing down behind over
her tail, so that that member cannot be
switched into the face of the milker.
• e e
We cannot too severely condemn the
D«daritoBi on Unwaihod W«oL
An Ohio wool grower has been. ex-
perimenting to determine whether It
pays to wash sheep before shearing.
He sheared half the wool from each
use <,f preservatives in butter making. 0f several sheep and then washed them
The dairyman or farmer has no right and sheared the other half, says Texas
, stroyed by lightning on Sept 11 as
A young Logan county farmer says | were aifio the hliy all(i wheat hUu.k„ ot
he has sold enough butter during the j j0j,n Wilson.
Wm MeConn is held for the murder
1 of Tom Be vers, near Tishomingo—he
< is the first person held undent the new
I law, MeConn was running a gin en-
1 gine and Mcf’onn turned the water out
1 of the boiler, which exploded killing
Heaver.
Kd Bentley who attached the Bond
Brothers circus for a bill for posting.
The employees of Bond Bros, circus j posters, had no trouble in collecting
last year to feed and cloth himself and
family. 1 his lea v«s his crop whuU.it i j had quite a serious “mix-up” last week j his bill. Bond Brothers have played
it is almost clear gain.
at Edmond. Several persons were
to hard luck all
hut tv hen it
through Oklahoma,
come to attaching
OULTRY houses
are very slim af-
faire, sometimes
not that they are
built regardless of
the comfort of the
fowls, but because
the large majority
of poultrymen arc
unwilling to ex-
pend any more
money on the poul-
try house than is possible, says a
writer In Poultry Keeper. They
aim to get the most house for the
least money, and they succeed in get-
ting the least number of eggs at the
greatest outlay of food. Take the cold
days of winter under consideration,
and keep in view the fact that not one
poultry house is given a coating of
A Mr. Reece living in the northern badly hurt -......- — ------
part of Kay county has sold to Baden, . . . . , their goods the manager hastily dug . 1 and plas,er> which is alone suffi-
of Winfield Ku,L« AM J I he young Indy who goes bicycling, ......* ....... D 8 Ua“lUy Uu« cient evidence that the cold air can
of Winfield, Kansas, 411 bushels of
hard wheat testing 01 pounds. Philip
Nipe, Baden's buyer, says it it the
Wst wheat he lias seen this year.
Nelson fitter, a negro outlaw, was
arrested in Logan county by Deputy
Will Banks aud lodged in the federal
jail. He will betaken to Paris, Texas,
where he is wanted for numerous
crimes.
in bloomers, in Oklahoma dosen’t need
| a chaperon. There are plenty of peo-
ple to look after her.
Abe Smith, a Kansan City negro, was
arrested at Guthrie, while robbing a
j freight car loaded with merchandise
! <>n the Santu Fe track, Sept 11.
This promises to be a great year for
j Oklahoma University. The fourth an-
nual catalogue gives a complete course
up anil liquidated.
The Cripple Creek Star of September
3 gives a glowing account of the re-
cent discovery of rich paying ore in
the mines of K. D. Nix Oscar Halsell,
j .L H. Havigliorst and others of Logan
county. This find is said to be the
j most phenominal in the history of the
history of the Cripple Creek district,
and tlie discovery was made by George
sity course.
If every boy and girl in Cleveland
tlon to be held at South McAlester on
October 17 for the put pose of electing,
by non-partisan delegates, a represent-
ative from the Itidiau Territory to the
lower house of congress.
Thirty people were poisoned by eat-
g ice creutn at a social in Logan
county Wednesday night. All have
about recovered save Mr. Kennedy's
daughter. The cream was made in a
rusty freezer and had stood a long
time.
It is said a woman's society is being
organized in Logan county which will
be styled the “Hoolu White Cappers.”
The object of the society is to keep
tab on certain horrid married men,
whom, it is said, have l>ecn acting
“just awful.”
Judge J. H. Pitzer, of Canadian
county has been appointed by Gov.
Renfrow a delegate from Oklahoma to
the Tnter-national Irrigation Congress
at Phoenix, Arizona. As mi irrigator
Pitzer is a huge success.
A few weeks more and the dirt will
be flying on the Sapulpu extension.
With the commencement of railroad
work and the marketing of the cotton
times will be greatly enlivened in the
southern part of the Territory.
Mr. J. M. Ward, of Breckinridge,
Ky., is in Logan county looking up the
prospects for feeding steers this win-
ter. He will send in 5,000 head of
steers as soon as they can be moved
under the quarantine law. lie wants
to buy corn, and will begin ut once.
The Oklahoma Live Stock A associa-
tion should be congratulated on the
rapid strides being made in its mem-
bership. Every stockmun in Oklaho-
ma, adjoining counties and the states
should enroll with it and secure the
best protection at least possible cost.
Thereis greatexciteinen at Watonga,
over the killing of C. S. Ruckman, on
Sept 7 near Homestead. He was alone
und when found near his wagon
next morning his head hail been crush-
ed with a club. Parties starte'd in pur-
suit of the murders ami a negro
named Morris was arrested and lodged
In the Watonga jail.
The discovery of a large herd of
Texas cattle infected with splenic fev-
er on the government reservation at
the Darlington Indian agency has
caused much excitement among the
farmers whose cattle are exposed. The
territorial veterinarian is there and
says the cattle arc all in a bad condi-
tion. He has no doubt they have been
smuggled in to be fed to the Indians
on a government contract. An inves-
tigation has been started which will
doubtless create a great sensation.
Judge Tarsnoy’s decision on the
Oklahoma divorce law will make bona
fide residence necessary It is as fol-
lows: “The report which was sent out
and was printed in many newspapers
that my decision in the Beech case
overturned every divorce granted in
the territoiy, was eroneous. The de-
decision applied to no other divorce
ever granted by Oklahoma courts.
Each divorce ease stands on its own
facts and until a ease has been ap-
pealed the decision has no weight in it.
But of course the decision stands us a
precedent in deciding divorce eases
which may be appealed in the future,"
Constable ttilliain Jones arrested
John Norman at Clifton Wednesday
on a charge of larceny. On the wav
to jail Norman attempted to escape,
and was shot through the hip by the
constable and seriously wounded.
The Oklahoma Htate Fair Associa-
tion will hold its Third Annual Fair bllnd on >>undav *nd allowed the *a
come in through a hundred little, un-
seen openings, yet the first thing that
many will do is to ventilate such a
house. There is a class which are
laboring under the impression that
they must give the hens plenty of fresh
air in winter. Let them experiment by
living in an unplastered house, and
they will learn a valuable lesson on
keeping out the cold. Fresh air is In
vigorating. and also a valuable adjunct
to thrift and health, but the first thing
to learn is whether there Is already a
sufficiency or deficiency. Go into the
poultry-house on a cold, windy night,
, ... i ^Sht a candle and watch the flame. Al-
, Okarche, to leave their homes and go though the doors and windows may be
month into tin* Building and Loan Ah- | ,!h' ,mvns ^,r protection, was caused tightly closed, and to all appearances
sociation, in a few years we would by "ply Cheyennes who "eie incensed | the house may be “air-tight," yet the
at the government order that in the
A call has been issued fora ronven- 1 ........ , _ ,, . , . j Andrews, general manager of the
... ..... of preparatory, collegiate and umver- Mt ...... ...............
May bell Mining company.
The recent Indian scare,
which
county, says the Democrat, who earns i <’auM‘<* many of the settlers west of
810(H) a month would put 82.00 a
to toy with the health of the consumers
of his product. It may be that adults
Stock Journal. He found that the
washed wool weighed four-fifths as
most in danger. It is desirable that
we have some care for the welfare of
others. Every state that has a dairy
and food commission should also have
laws preventing the sale and use of
preservatives containing anything de-
leterious to the health. We do not be-
lieve that any other kind of a preserva-
tive can be made, for the said preser-
vative must needs be destructive to all
vegetable growth, and must exert a
corresponding effect on the human sys-
tem, though to a less degree.
• * •
In the report of Commissioner Board-
man. of Iowa. 525 creameries reported
52,204 patrons. This is a small army.
There is no reason why such men in
the different states should not be
brought closer together. This would
make it possible to bring about a more
just condition of affairs. The principal
cause of farmers not being able to re-
sist trusts and impostures is that the
masses are in such a disorganized con-
dition that there can be no consensus
of action. The day that the creamery-
men and dairymen form a compact or-
ganization, that day fraud in dairy pro-
ducts will cease, and commercial
two lots, of ten head in each lot, as
nearly even in size, shape and fleece as
the eye could select, and washed one
lot, and sheared the other without
washing. The washed fleeces averaged
8 pounds, and the unwashed fleeces 10
pounds—again showing a loss of only
one-flfth. From this he concludes that
there is no justice in the rule among
buyers of deducting one-third from the
unwashed fleeces. He claims that this
rule originated when the excessively
oily and dirty merinos were in vogue,
and that there is no longer any reason
or justice in it. His washed wool
brought 16 2-3 cents per pound, so that
an 8-pound fleece brought $1.331-3,
while his unwashed fleeces of 10 pounds
each, at llty cents, brought but $1.16—
a difference of 18 1-3 cents, and he
thinks this will amply pay for washing
the sheep. Points overlooked by this
Ohio man are the injury and cruelty to
the sheep, and the danger to the hewlUh
of those who wash them; also the fact
that most hired men do the work so
imperfectly that the wool seldom
passes as thoroughly washed wool.
There is no doubt that the rule of de-
houses, whether sellers of salt or buy- ducting one-third is unjust, but the
have a rich county.
Near McCloud, Ok., Joseph Wiggins
was digging a well and his wife and
children were drawing up the dirt in a
bucket. Ills wife lost her balance and
full head first into the well with the
bucket and was crushed to death.
A Lincoln county mother has a novel
plan for getting her girls to come
home early from parties and enter-
tainments. The last one out every
night has to get up first the next
morning and start the fires and get
breakfast. It works like a charm. In
the race to get in early nono are out
late.
During a storm Tuesday in Garfield
county, Elmer Stanton who slept in a
seperate house from his parents was
awakened by u feeling that they were
in danger and called tin m. Just as
they came to the door lightning struck
the house completely demolishing the
bed which they were sleeping on.
An eastern paper indulges in a fine
display of sentimentalism because the
late Bill Doolin \ as killed while on a
v, .it to his wife and baby. It should
be remembered, however, that Mr.
Doolin for several years applied his
talents almost exclusively to increas-
ing the number of widows in that sec-
tion of the couutry.
A Choctaw section hand named
Pierce, was run over by a train two
years ago. IIis leg was severed near
the thigh. Dr. Delos Walker of Okla-
homa county, pickled the leg which
was to be used as evidence in a dam-
age suit- Last week Dr. Walker threw
the leg on his barn to facilitate its de-
composition, in order to examine the
future u 11 beeves to be given out to
in rations should be butchered by the
agency butcher instead of being turned
over to them alive, to be run down and
eaten while hot aud bleeding.
Mrs. Doolin, widow of the outlaw,
has called for husband’s gun and sad-
dle and the diamond ring found on his
finger. In speaking of his death she
said they were preparing to leave
home the morning he was killed. They
were waiting for their mules to be
shod, Doolin walking nervously to and
fro before the house, when he was
shot from ambush and fell dead. She
said her husband had been betrayed
by Tom Noble, who had pretended to
Ik; her husband's friend. She also
said that Doolin acted strangely the
latter part of his life.
flame of the candle will flicker if the
wind is high, provided, as stated, that
the house is not plastered, which is evi-
dence that the air comes in from some-
where, and yet a thorough search may
not disclose any openings by which the
air can enter. A poultry-house that is
kept clean and in good condition will
offer no obstacles to the fowls in the
form of impure air. It is only when the
house becomes filthy that odors are no-
ticeable and ventilation is required. No
ventilation need be given at night. The
doors and windows may be opened dur-
ing the day, but only when the weather
is dry, as dampness is Injurious to poul-
try. Hundreds of fowls die every year
from too much cold air given for venti-
lation, and this should not happen.
There are but few poultry-houses built
that are not self-ventilating, even when
built with the best of care.
After 12 years unmolested, on the
outside of a prison wall Randolph
Ilumminbird, a convict, unexpectedly
came to South McAlester last Friday
und gave himself up to the high sher-
iff of the national prison. He was
tried and convicted for the murder of
Goingwater in Delaware district and
sen ted ced to be hung in 1881. A few
days before his execution was to take
place Chief Bnshybead commuted liis
sentence to ten years' imprisonment.
After serving three years of his time
he, in company with Blossom, another
convict, made their escape. Both be-
ing trusties they had little trouble
in getting away, finally landing in the
I’awnee country, where for several
years they made their home. Getting
dissatiefied they left the Pawnees aud
drifted further west among the Kiowas
. „ , ,. ,. , . and Cotnauehes. Shortly after their
! arrival there Blossom died and Hum-
great sensation followed.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Butt of Canadian county died a few
•lays ago. The family report the
death as having occurred Thursday
morning, but the neighbors claim that
the child died Tuesday night. The pa-
rent* are believers in Christian science
and would not allow the bain* to he
visited by a physician nor would they
give it any medicine, and though it
was dead all day Wednesday, thev
claimed it was only sleeping. Croat
indignation prevails and trouble may
follow.
niingbird settled down to farming un-
til recently, when lie decided to come
back and serve out hts remaining seven
years in prison. Hummingbird is a
fine specimen of the full blood.
Maj. R. It. Poe. special agent of the
general land office bus been out in the
Cheyenne country for the past week
and found a number of parties who
live in Missouri und Kansas trying to
hold down claims in that part of Ok-
lahoma. He has recommended to the
department that the entrees of all
such persons be cancelled as they art*
not complying with the homestead law
and Mr. I’oe does not think it justice
to the regular settlers who are con-
tending with all the difficulties of
frontier life in their efforts tj estab-
lish homes, that men living in the
states should la* permitted to prove np
on lauds on which they are not living.
It also works against the |M-rinuuent 1
settlement of the Territory.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Frazier of Logan !
county have returned from Colorado,
Mr. 1 razier is very jubilant over his
gold miuing interest*, and fully ex- I
poet* to soon realize a handsome for- j
tune
A certain Oklahoma mayor went
at Guthrie, Sept 29th to Oct. 2.
The Logan county Gun club gives
due notice wuai will happen if any
one a found violating tie- game iaw of
Oklahoma. They will be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law.
loons to keep open.
Oekarche lias recently lost
earner snop.
T he li. A 8. railroad will
completed between Manche
Pond Creek.
lie
J
The Purcel. Regulator contained a
great write-up of their big celebration
last week.
Mr. T. B. Terry a leading Indian
Territory merchant went to St. Joe,
Mo., to purchase goods and stopped at
the Baeop HoteL On retiring at night
lie blew out the gas. At seven o'clock
next morning he was called, but was
unable to answer the summons. Dr.
Charles Geiger was called and the
proper restorative* were udmiu istered.
Tlie patient's pulse was 130 at the time
lie was rescued, and for hours his life
was despaired of.
Charles F. Beach, a wealthy text-
book writer of New York City, a year
ago obtained an Oklahoma divorce
from hia wife. Anna Beach, alleging
eruehty. He has since married and is
traveling in Europe with his bride.
The divorced wife, who was from “hil-
adelphut. and very highly connected,
earned fhe divorce ease to the supreme
court. That body reversed the lower
court, annulled the divorce and dis-
! missed the ease, leaving Mr. Beach
landed high and dry as a bigamist
The supreme court has decided that
the herds of cattle in the Indian re-
servation could not be taxed, except
for general, territorial and court ex-
penses. This is a great victory for the
owners of the great cattle herds, who
thus save many thousands of dollar*.
It i* reported that W. If. Mason,mem-
ber of the lower house in the last legis-
altnre has skipped out. It is allege
that Mason tiorrowed sums of monc
and cashed several checks which ai
worthless. The cause of disappear
ance is unknown.
Improving the Smith.
An editorial In London Live Stock
Journal says: Persistent protest, for
a long series of years, by modern vet-
erinary authorities against excessive
use of the knife in preparing the horse’s
foot for the shoe has not been with-
out effect on the majority of farriers.
Indeed, in some instances the lessons
taught have been over-applied and too
wcrupulously followed. The shoelng-
smith of the day sometimes errs in
an opposite direction to that of which
his forefathers were guilty. He occa-
sionally uses the knife too little in-
stead of too much, the revolt against
the implement being carried to an ex-
treme point. There are conditions of
the foot when the knife should be freely
used in removing abnormal growth to
make a perfectly level bearing surface,
while on no account should the sole
be hollowed out or the frog be cut down,
as was the common practice of old. It
Is satisfactory to learn that the Judges
of shoeing competitions at our annual
agricultural shows are unanimously of
opinion that great improvement has
taken place of late years in the general
workmanship of the urban and rural
ohoeing-sinlths. Much of this is duo
to the advance of education amongst
the class, and doubtless also not a lit-
tle credit should be attributed to the
system of registration of competent and
skillful workmen instituted by the
Worshipful Company of Farriers. Now
the examinations are conducted in a
thorough and and satisfactory manner
The right to attach the letters “R.S.S.”
to his name is something of which the
smith has reason to be proud.
era of butter, will find it no longer to
their interests to deal otherwise than
honestly.
• • •
The Pennsylvania station has been
considering the question of spraying
corn fields to kill the army worm. It
has been asked if there is danger that
the corn thus sprayed will prove dan-
gerous to stock. There are no positive
data from which conclusions may be
drawn. But the station believes that
if the spraying is done with a weak so-
lution and a month before the corn is
cut for fodder there cannot possibly
remain on the corn enough of the poi-
son to do harm. The proportion for
spraying is one pound of paris green to
150 to 200 gallons of water.
Ohio wool growers had better erect
scouring plants, take their wools to the
scouring mills, have them sure-enough
cleaned, and then sell them on their
merits, and not on estimated shrinkage.
Mule* and Th*lr t>l«pr>«ltlon.
Small mules from broncho mares are
very apt to kick at any chance, whil*
mules from our work mares and those
with draft blood seldom kick or balk,
^ery few mules ever kick in the har-
ness. The Journal of Agriculture,which
makes the foregoing statement, also
says: A mule seldom gets hurt on a
wire. While they are very quick to see
a weak place in a fence and will get
out where a horse would not try, they
are careful not to get cut. The usual
way to break a mule Is to throw a
Caefui Poultry Boat*. I rope over his head and tie him to some-
The barrel poultry house (Fig. 1) is thing solid until he gives up. when a
largely used by cottagers in England,
and makes a capital house for a small
lot of birds, says Australasian. Any
cracks or crevices should be filled up
with clay or putty. The Inside should
have a good coating of lime, in which
some carbolic acid has been mixed, and
good, strong harness is put on him, and
he is hitched by the side of a strong,
well broken mule or horse, and both
hitched to a wagon and driven into a
large field or meadow and kept on the
run until the young mule will quit cut-
ting capers, mind the bit and drive
up. After the first round there is little
more trouble. A 2-year-oid mule will
do a large amount of work. It is very
hard to overwork a mule. If his collar
fits, he will do all that he should, but
will take care not to do more.
the outside should be well tarred or
painted. When perfectly dry It should
be placed on bricks or blocks of wood,
so as to raise it a few inches from the
ground.
The other sketch (Fig. 2) represents a
more elaborate house, which can be
made according to the number of birds
for which it is required. The illustra-
tion explains itself, and the space un-
der the floor is of great advantage, as
it gives protection from the weather
and Is much appreciated by the birds.
I’aptrd' Wnlla.
Papering the poultry-house is a meth-
od of keeping it warm in winter at
small expense. The work may be easily
done, especially If the boards on the
inside of the house are reasonably
smooth. All kinds of paper may be
used, but It would be better to employ
heavy felt or building paper, as that
would require leas work in putting on.
Newspapers would requre so much
handling and work that the job might
cost too much patience. The means
for fastening the paper to the boards
is paste. After one layer of paper is
on it will be easier to put on another,
as a smooth surface is thus furnished.
Some writers advocate whitewashing
the surface when dried, as this helps
to fill up the cracks and keep out the
cold. The great difficulty will be that
many of the houses are so irregularly
built that they are difficult to paper.
With such ones a few boards may be
nailed on in such a way that they will
give a surface for the pasting of the
paper.
Dairy Note*.
A good p’-an for keeping the flies off
the cow at milking time has been sug-
gested by an exchange. It ts said to
work to a charm, and certainly It costs
little to try it. The method is to throw
a piece of cloth over the cow's back at !
milking time. The cloth can be made
oat of olo cotton sacks and should be
large enough to cover the body Tory
The house should be removed every few
days on to fresh ground. It will be
noted that two Important points, light
and ventilation, have received atten-
tion from the designer of this house.
Strong handles placed at each end
would facilitate removal, or the house
could readily be fixed on wheels. If
corrugated iron is used for the roof it
should have a wooden lining, as the
former is/i rapid conductor of heat and
cold.
The Batter Taint.
In conversation with a dealer re-
cently he confided to us that the reason
h> could not sell a certain man's butter
was on acount of a strange and peculiar
taint. No observing dairyman need
be told from whence it comee. Filth
and filthy milkers, milkers who do nut
wash their hands before milking, who
wet the teats, who do not brush off th«
cows’ bags; filthy cows—cows that are
compelled to lie down in their own
droppings and are never cleaned off;
filthy stables—stables that are improp-
erly cleaned or not cleaned at all; all
these things tend to make the milk
taste and smell of manure. It was very
charitable of the dealer to suggest
that this taint was caused by some-
thing the cows had eaten, but bad h*
ever Been the Inside of some of the sta-
bles we had occasion to enter recently
he would soon lay the blame where it
Justly belongs. Dairymen cannot ex-
pec4 to produce clean milk -"-hen they
allow 6uch a condition to exist. Why
we have lately seen cows with their
thighs and hips caked with manure—
which will remain there until it drops
off with the shedding hair. Is It possi-
ble for such methods to long continue
with profit to the owner? Most assur-
edly not.—Ex.
Iligli-Prl. ed Ilogt.
The sale of Poland China Swine at the
Fair Grounds, Springfield, 111., Aug. 5.
Indicates that notwithstanding the hard
times and that this is a political cam-
paign year, usually dull for business,
there are men that have great faith In
the money-making power of the Ameri-
can hog. The animals sold, owned
by three central Illinois breeders,
were nearly all good individually
and In pedigree, some of them in these
regards were considered of special ex-
cellence. The day was here the hottest
of the season, but the building In which
the sale w'as held permitting access of
air from all sides, bidders were not un-
duly heated except it was at times ini
making bids. Bidding was generally
lively and little time was taken in en-
deavors to secure another dollar when
buyers were slow in answering the call
of the salesman. The animals sold were
all old enought to show their quality
and usefulness. The highest price was
for a two year old sow that went to In-
diana on the record beating bid of
$1,810. the most that was ever paid for i the suffering
a hog at public auction. The next high- | brute. This
T«tlnf Milk.
Accurate testing of skim milk by tha
Babcock method requires attention to
the following details:
1. Clean bottles.
2. About one-third more than the
usual quantity of acid.
3. Sufficient speed of the testing
machine.
4. Running the tester at full speed
for at least five minutes.
5. Close attention to the thickness of
the fat globules as well as their surface
measure.
Although obbserving the thickness of
the fat globules will aid the judgment
in estimating the smallest amounts of
fat when tests are made with the milk
test bottle, there are very few skim
milk samples that contain less than
one-tenth of one per cent fat, and it Is
impracticable to attempt to estimate
less than 0.06 of one per cent w ith these
bottles.
Barbed Wire and Stock.—We cannot
object too much to the use of barbed
wire for fences for stock. Some years
ago we were riding across the Dakota
plains in a train. A herd of cattle be-
came frightened at the train and some
of them made a break for the barbed
wire fence. None of them tried to get
over except a calf. The poor animal
got partly over the wire and was held
there by the barbs. As the train went
out of sight the creature was seen still
held fast by the steei prongs. As there
was no help in sight, we cannot know
occasioned the dumb
. -----doubtless only one case
eet price was for a two yoar old sow 0f (he thousands, but k shows the tn-
but it would seem that better bargain* | humanity of man.
were had In the abnormally high priced
ones. The Poland China breeders have
set a mark, will the Berkshire sale at
this piao* next Wednesday reach It?
J. G. S.
Let us discourage
’ '.sin. 1
The quality of peaches on :be Chi-
cago market seems better uzax in for-
mer year*.
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Hudson, C. C. Oklahoma Champion. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1896, newspaper, September 18, 1896; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941631/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.