Cheyenne record., September 25, 1913, Image 7

About Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??

Image provided by: History Colorado

                
REMOVE PINE STUMPS
Clearing of Land for Agricultural
Purposes Is Problem.
When Cleared and Properly Handled
80II le Rich and Valuable—Big
Coat of Work Haa Discour
aged Many Settlers.
(By E. B. FERRIS.)
Practically one-third ot the area of
Mississippi is embraced In what la
known as the Long-Leaf Pine belt
Also large portions of many of the
other states bordering on the Atlantic
ocean and Qulf of Mexico are, or once
were, covered with this long-leaf pine.
The clearing of these lands for agricul
tural purposes is quite a problem,
as so many acres have been denuded
of their timber growth and await de
velopment at the hands of the farmer.
As a rule it is quite an easy matter
to free the land from logs and tree
tops, but the removal of the stumps Is
the really serious task about clearing
pine lands, for unlike the hard woods
and many other pines, the stumps of
A .Stump Puller.
the long-leaf pine do not decay very
fast, many being almost as resistant
to decay as bronze.
The McNeill experiment station bas
removed tbe stumps from 100 acres of
land, using all known methods, and
keeping sufficient data to determine
approximately the cost by each meth
od. Fifty acres of this land was cul
tivated several years before removing
the stumps and this experience led to
the conclusion that it is far better to
remove all stumps before the land is
put into cultivation. The lands can
not be cultivated economically with
the stumps on them.
Digging and cutting is a sure meth
od of removing the stumps if persisted
In, but under our conditions has
proved the most expensive one except
for stumps ten Inches or less in diam
eter, or for lands that have been in
cultivation a long time and are par
tially decayed.
So far tbe most successful methods
of getting rid of the stumps necessi
tate the use of Are to destroy them.
The common method is to dig a hole
12 or move inches deep on one side of
the stump and as close to it as pos
sible and use this as a furnace for
firing tbe stump. In digging these
holes it is necessary that tbe soil be
removed from as much of the stump
as possible so as to allow the Are to
come in contact with at least elx
inches of It. Burning stumps by this
A Stump Borer.
nethod Is a slow process, but it ne
cessitates no outlay of money and be
sides It may be done by one Individual,
while to pull them requires several
men and a team.
The burning of stumps may be great
ly hastened by boring a hole diago
nally through the stump from the sur
face of the ground on one side Into the
furnace on the opposite side. This
serves as a flue through which the
heat and flame pass out. going through
SOME GOOD BEE ESSENTIALS
Neglect to Provide Honey Gathe.ers
With Drinking Water at Culpa
ble at Neglecting Food.
(By BESSIE U PUTNAM.)
We take pleasure Id kindness, In
various -ways, to-the higher domestic
anlmalB, well knowing that there Is
profit In this humane treatment, but
that it should extend to the bees may
come as a new thought to many.
Neglect to provide drink Is as culpa
ble as to.cut oft the food supply, and
yet the bees are in many Instances
wholly disregarded In this respect.
Yet the Insects plucklly shift for
themselves in such cases, and they
may be found congregated around the
vilest spots. If they happen to contain
moisture, not because they do not pre
fer pure water, but because It Is not
convenient to obtain.
You may notice how they Invariably
flock around the watering trough. If It
happens to stand in the neighborhood
of the hives, showing plainly that wa
ter Is necessary, and can you fall to
appreciate how many are drowned in
this effort to get a drink f
the atump and heating It up in one
fourth the time required without the
hole. A atump thua treated usually
burna out with little effort on the part
of attendants and In moat cases to
a sufficient depth beneath the surface
to be out of the way of plows and cul
tivators.
A quick and fairly satisfactory meth
od of removing stumps is by first
blasting them with dynamite and
then burning the shattered remains.
It requires from one-quarter to one
pound of dynamite to shatter the gen
eral run of pine stumps. In order to
do this with the amount of explosive
mentioned. It la necessary to place the
dynamite Into holes bored well Into
the stump and to tamp Bame thor
oughly with sand or clay. Effort should
be made to so place these holes that
the pressure from the explosion will
be exerted equally in all directions In
the stump, otherwise it will simply
blow out the weakest side and fail to
shatter the stump. A good boring ma
chine can be jsed very effectively for
boring these holes, reducing the cost
over hand boring at least 50 per cent.
There Is an element of danger In the
use of dynamite, but a very slight one
If even ordinary precautions are used.
TOAD SHOULD BE PROTECTED
Food of Little Creature Conelets of
inaects of One Kind or Anoth
er—Helpful to Farmer.
Investigations which have been
carried on by the United States de
partment of agriculture give the
common garden toad a most useful
place among the insect destroyers
which are helpful to the horticul
turist. An examination of 149 toads'
stomachs showed that 98 per cent, of
the little animals' food consists of
insects of one kind or another. Among
these were found cutworms, ants,
bugs and beetles, spiders, potato bugs,
thousand legged worms, weevils, tent
caterpillars and grasshoppers, wire
worms, and army worms, cucumber
bugs, plumb curcullos, gypsy moths,
cabbage moths and |rape caterpllars.
In the stomach of one toad seventy
seven thousand-legged worms were
Common Garden Toad.
found; in another flfty-flve army
worms. One toad In captivity snapped
eighty-six house flies ip. ten minutes;
another was given twenty-four gypsy
moths at one feeding. With bo much
required to satisfy the appetite of a
toad at a single meal, it would be dif
ficult Indeed to put an estimate on the
huge amount of Insect food consumed
In a single season.
The natural enemies of the toads
are hawks, owls, crows, snakes and
skunks, and poultry destroy many
young toads. The little animals,
which are to be found In every gar
den, should be protected with the
same care as are- the useful birds
which frequent It.
Alfalfa Hay for Cows.
Because of the high protein content,
alfalfa is especially valuable as a feed
for dairy cows for breeding animals
and for growing young stock. It Is of
considerable economlo value when
grown and fed on the farm, as It takes
the place of high-priced, protein-rich
concentrates, such as bran and cotton
seed meal. It is more economical, un
der most conditions at least, to feed
It as a part ration ettber with corn or
some carbohydrate roughage, as corn
stover or grass hay, rather than to
feed It alone.
A fountain for their special accom
modation Is so easily made that It is
wasteful to neglect It. Cover a pan or
other shallow dish with wire screen
cloth, and keep the dish filled with
water, placing It In a shady place,
where It will keep as cool as possible.
The bees can get the moisture throufh
the screen, and yet there Is no possi
bility of their drowning.
Another hardship through pure neg
lect, and one which often results dis
astrously, Is a failure to keep the grass
mowed In front of the hives.
How would you like to have such an
obstacle In your path when coming
home tired and heavy laden?
Ease and convenience applied to the
work of every helper Is not without Its
reward.
Small Farms In Demand.
The U. S. Reclamation Service an
nounces that an Increased desire on
the part of settlers on Irrigation pro
jects to take up small farms has ne
cessitated regulations facilitating the
subdivision of established farm units.
On most of the government projects
the farm unit consist!! of 40 and 80
acre tracts.
THE CHEYENNE RECORD.
MILLION ATTEND
GAYNOR FUNERAL
SOMBER SILENCE HANGS LIKE
CLOUD OF GLOOM OVER
WHOLE CITY.
TAFT AS "ALLBEARER
STREETS PACKED WITH MOURN*
ERS ALONG ROUTE TAKEN
BY PROCESSION.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New York. — Historic Greenwood
cemetery, the resting place in Brook
lyn of many famous dead, received the
body of New York’s late mayor, Wil
liam Jay Gaynor, after funeral serv
ices in his honor which were without
parallel in the history of the city.
In the presence of the family, the
hrnorary pall bearers, including Wil
liam Howard Taft and city officers,
among them Mayor Kline, the Wdg
draped coffin was committed to the
grave in tho Gaynor family plot. The
brief Episcopalian service was read
by the Kev. Frank W. Page, former.,
pastor of St. John’s, the church where
mayor worshipped.
A million people, it is estimated,
saw the funeral cortege move slowly,
first from the city hall, where thous
ands had witnessed the body lying in
state Sunday, to Trinity church, where
Bishop Greer conducted the solemn
services; then back past city hall,
across the Brooklyn bridge, through
Brooklyn’s streets past the late may
or's Eighth avenue home and on to the
cemetery.
When the church services had end
ed, the great masses of flowers that
had been in Trinity and the city hall
were sent to hospitals, the choicest
among them, orchids and chrysanthe
mums, to St. Mary’s, the Hoboken, N.
J., institution, where Mr. Gaynor lay
after being shot down by an assnssin
three years ago.
CYCLONE SWEEPS FRUIT BELT.
Rancher Killed by Lightning, Boy
Crushed—$100,000 Damage.
Grand Junction.—A terrific wind
storm at times resembling a cyclone,
swept the Grand valley, caused a loss
of $100,000 and fatally injured a boy.
The storm lasted five minutes, and
during thut time, put the electric light
and interurban plant out of commis
sion, caused a $20,000 loss to build
ings in the city and from $50,000 to
$75,000 damage to the fruit crop. At
Cedaredge, Frederick Flint was struck
by lightning and killed. Alfred Gal
lupe, the 10-year-old son of Mrs. Ella
Gallupe, was standing with half a
dozen other boys in the shelter of the
Y. M. C. A. building when the storm
broke. The wind blew the stone fa
cade from the building and a portion
fell on the boy’s head, crushing his
skull. His companions escaped. Phy.
sicians operated on the boy to remove
the pressure from the brain. His re
covery is doubtful.
Miners Begin Strike.
Trinidad., Sept. 23. —Trinidad rested
uneasily last night because of the
threatened tie-up in the coal fields in
southern Colorado today. Late last
night it was deemed certain that the
strike will be complete, at least for to
day, the first day of the walkout. Of
the 5,000 coal miners and their fam
ilies, who ordinarily live in the camps
surrounding Trinidad, fully 1,500 are
here and more are coming into town.
Representative Roddenberry III.
Tomanville, Ga. — Representative
Sanderson Roddenberry of the Second
Georgia district is critically ill at his
home here.
MADERO’S SLAYER KILLED.
Rebels Suspect President of Destroy
ing Last Witness to Murder.
Washington.—Lieut. Francisco Car
denas. accused by the Mexican Consti
tutionalists of having killed Francisco
I. Madero with a shot from behind,
has been himself assassinated, accord
ing to reports received at Carranza’s
headquarters. These say that Car
denas was murdered in Michoacan,
whither he had been sent by General
Huerta to command federal troops.
The Carranzaists suspect that Car
denas was killed by an agent of the
present administration, so that ho
would be unable to reveal the orders
he received on the night of February
22, when Madero was conveyed from
the national palace In Mexico City to
prison.
Cardenas was in charge of the auto
mobile that was carrying the deposed
president and sat directly behind Ma
dero. The latter was killed by a bul
let that entered the back of his head
and came out of his forehead.
JAM AT ITS VERY BEST
RULES FOR MAKING MOST DELI
CATE OF PRESERVES.
Essentisl Points That Are Important
to Remember—Absolute Cleanli
ness of All Things the First
Element of the Work.
Most of tbe hints and Instructions
given to the maker of Jam have for
their object the preparation of pre
serves that will keep for an almost
Indefinite length of time, but with
this aim in view delicacy of flavor
and color is to a certain extent sacri
ficed. These Instructions are for Jam
that Is not intended to be kept as
long as Jams are usually ~kept.
The fruit must be sound, dry and
not over-ripe. For absolute safety a
heavy enamel-lined pan and wooden
spoon are best used when making,
avoiding all danger of the flavor or
color of the fruit being affected by
the action of fruit acids on meals. In
no case must an Iron pan and metal
spoon be used.
The points to be remembered are:
Quick boiling all the time, with only
enough stirring to prevent burning
and to allow the scum to rise freely.
Careful skimming, though with clean,
sound fruit and sugar which Is dry,
absolutely clean, and of pure quality
-the scum will be small In quantity.
Sprinkle the fruit with a little dry
warm sugar to remain over night.
Next day put it Into the preserving
pan, bijng to a boll, and boil ten min
utes, then add the remaining bulk of
the sugar, dried In the oven, and let
it come to the boiling point again.
801 l quickly for IS minutes longer,
then put two or three drops of the
Juice In a saucer standing In cold
water, so as to test as quickly as
possible, as every unnecessary min
ute of boiling takes from the delicacy
of the preserves. As soon as Jellying
is proved in the drops cooled In the
saucer, remove from the fire and pour
Into the hot Jars. Tie down at once
with thin-paper dipped upper side In
milk, or rubbed over with white of
eggs. Press the cover well round the
edges of each Jar so that it will stick
and become air-tight, and when cool
and dry write the name and date on,
adding that the contents are not In
tended for long keeping.. By thus
covering down while the space above
the Jam Is filled with steam, the en
trance of air Is prevented, and the
keeping power of the Jam Increased.
Pour a little brandy over the Jam to
keep longer. '
Delicious raspberry preserves of
fine color are made as follows: Sprin
kle the fruit with a little dry, warm
sugar-, directly you obtain It, and
when ready to make the Jam put It
Into a pan and let ‘t get quite hot
Have ready the sugar, hot and dry
in the oven, allowing one-half pound
to each pound of raspberries. Add
to tbe fruit, let dissolve, heat to boil
ing point, then remove and treat as
directed.
The storage place for these Jams Is
as important as other details. They
will keep for many weeks In a cool
dry place, free from dust.
Meat Souffle.
Chop 1 cup of meat, melt In a
saucepan 1 teaspoon of butter, a heap
ing teaspoon of flour, pinch of salt and
pepper, 1 cup milk. Stir well until It
thickens and Is Bmooth. Add little
chopped parsley and a few drops of
onion Juice. Beat the yolks of 2 eggs
to a stiff froth and add Juat before
putting in moderately hot oven. Bake
2 minutes and serve at once.
Starching Colored Clothes.
If a glossy starch is added to the
ordinary lump starch used for dark
prints, the pieces can easily be Ironed
on the right side without mak
ing any visible change in the appear
ance of the material, which Is notice
able when Ironing dark red, blue and
black pieces especially.
How to Kill Moth Eggs.
Having discovered a good way to
get rid of moths In carpets and wool
en material, I contribute It to this
page.
Wet a towel and lay over the ar
ticle; then Iron the spots with a hot
Iron and the steam will kill the eggß.
—New York Press.
To Make Light Biscuits.
If you put your biscuits In the Ice
box for a few hours before baking
them, "they will be much lighter than
If baked at once.
Pretty Idea.
Have a flower like those used fot
the decoration of the table floating lr
each of the finger bowls. A bit of old
fashioned herbage, which eometimei
takes the place of tbe tlme-honoret
rose geranium leaf. Is a sprig of lemon
verbena.
~J
When making pastry always us«
a knife Instead of a spoon and touch
It with the hands aa little as possible
I find this very much better, as II
makes it extremely llghL
WOMAN FEELS
10 YEARS
YOUNGER
Since Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound Re
stored Her Health.
Louisville, Ky.—“I take great pleas
ore in writing to inform yon of what
■mu i :..!■.?—!» Lydia E. 'Pinkham’a
Vegetable Com
pound has done for
me. I was weak,
W . nervous, and cared
WM'Sf ; for nothing but
S J? 1 sleep. Now I can
Blk /ilf i 8° «ke®d with my
ijA - V I work daily and feel
i ten years younger
than before I started
1 \V\ taking your medl
—J—' 1 cine. I will advise
any woman to consult with you before
going to a doctor.”—Mrs. Inize WHi*
i.m, 2229 B<mk St., Louisville, Ky.
Another Sufferer Believed.
Romayor, Texas.—"I suffered terri
bly with a displacement and bladder
trouble. I was in misery all the time
and could not walk any distance. I
thought I never could be cured, but my
mother advised me to try Lydia E.Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound and I did.
"1 am cured of the displacement and
the bladder trouble is relieved. I think
the Compound is the finest medicine on
earth for suffering women. ” — Mrs.
Viola Jasper, Romayor, Texas.
If yon want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi
dential) Lynn, Mass. Yonr letter will
be opened, read aqd answered by a
woman and held In strict confidence.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief —Permanent Cure
CARTER’S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS never
fail. Purely vegeta-
ble — act surely i nrcnc
but gently on ST.Si.Fr
the liver. ■ !7,V- L r?
Stop after I1VER
dinner dis- 1
tress—cure Jw
It., jgestion, t==^^=»
improve the complexion, brighten the eyes
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICK
Genuine must bear Signature
You Can Buy
The Best Irrigated
Land
In Southern Idaho
For $50.50 an Acre
Good Soil Fine Climate
Crops Never Fail
Especially adapted to the rtlsing of alfalfa,
grains, potatoes anf 5 ; fruits. Ideal for dairy
ing and stock raising.
On main line Oregon Short Line Railroad.
Lands surround Richfield. Dietrich, Sho
shone and Gooding in Lincoln and Gooding
Counties. 20,000 acres open to entry.
THE BEST WATER RIGHT IN THE
WEST AND TERMS OF PAYMENT ARE
THE EASIEST OFFERED BY ANY IRRI
GATION Company.
Let us tell you more. Yonr letter will
have Individual attention. Address
Idaho Irrigation Co., Ltd.
Richfield Idaho
Aj, Famous
Thompson Saddles
Buy direct from the nia
(N#£CTfflS9£Ej\ ker. 8pecial designs to or-
G er * *° r complete,
n aJW (Jj A Illustrated catalog.
Br T| ft W. R. Thompson Co.
7 II /I Rifle Colorado
hair r balsam
A toilet preparation of merit.
Help, to .relict. dandruff.
For Restoring Color in]
BMuty to Gray or Fodod Hair.
Me. ood ,1.00 .t Dnnlfta,
Problem.
"There is one argument that In try
ing to put down. It is useless to set
our face against.”
“What argument is that?"
“Kissing.”
Adding Fuel.
"John, If I should die, would you
marry again?"
“I might, but not until I had had a
good long rest.” —Houston Post.
Foley Kidney Pills Succeed
because they are a good honest med
icine that cannot help but heal kid
ney and bladder ailments and urinary
irregularities, if they are once taken
into the system. Try them now
for positive and permanent help.
W. N. U., DENVER, NO. 3fr-1913.