$$g*' J* INTE3RNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. DEMOCRATIC VOTE EAVY Farm School Letter WEED OUT GRADE STALLIONS Primary Elections Are Held In the City of St. Paul. Education of Average Farmer as to Importance of Good Breeding St. Taul.—Fifty precincts out of one of Horses Is Slow. ADMINISTRATORS OFFER $135,000 hundred twenty-seven have reported Interesting Information on Minnesota Agriculture TAX IF STATE DROPS CLAIM their returns on the St. Paul primary The education of the average farmer election held for the nomination of FOR $450,000. as to the importance of good breeding by Our Special Correspondent. city officers, assemblymen and aldermen. in the production of horses makes slow LIVE STOCK NOTES. progress. The majority—and this is The returns showed that the Democratic LATEST PHASE OF LITIGATION not overstating the fact—are not yet vote was considerably heavier Tobacco In Minnesota. only unsound animals for breeding A slight change in the ration ot The Department of Agriculture at than the Republican vote. This was the team occasionally will be appreciated. stock, but advised most strongly University Farm has been experimenting attributed to the fact that in nearly against using animals of faulty conformation. with tobacco for a number of all the wards, with the exception of Estate Claims Immunity, but Offers Look after the horse's teeth frequently. years and has found that it has been the First and Seventh, there were hot In reply to a question Dr. Lipp discussed Many a serious case of This sum as Compro* successfully raised in various parts contests for the nomination. indigestion has started here. navel disease at some length. mise to Save Litigation. i: of the state. The Division of Agriculture The 50 precincts reported gave This disease is caused by the entrance A well-kept harness adds to the is prepared to co-operate with Henry G. Haas, Democratic, 3,43T of germs into the colt's body through appearance of the team but it cannot farmers in other parts of the state in while Herbert P. Keller received 2,?13 the stump of the navel cord. The make a poor team attractive. farther experimentation with this votes. Haas and Keller will be the germs causing navel disease live in If the horse's mane Is heavy and inclined So. St. Pjiul, Mrch 19.—If the state crop, and to this end is prepared to respective candidates for mayor. the stable, on the walls, in manure to work under the collar, thin of Minnesota is wiling to acsept $135,000 furnish seed and instructions relative The election day was quiet and uneventful, and filth on the floor, and sometimes It out, because it will almost certainly for its claim of something like to its culture, etc. The Division of marked by spirited contests on the skin of the dam herself. He cause a sore spot. $450,000 against the J. S. Kennedy estate Agriculture believes, that Minnesota for the minor offices. Among the Republicans, advised perfect sanitary conditions Sometimes a feed of cabbage just of New York, in the shape of inheritance the contests were for city climate is adapted to its growth as about the barn and stalls as the best before using a horse that slobbers taxes, it can have it without comptroller and city treasurer. For "Grade Percherdn." well as that of Wisconsin. Heretofore A preventative. He would thoroughly from eating clover, will prevent the further litigation. comptroller, W. H. Farnham in the the Division has supplied plants for clean the stall in which the mare is to unpleasant loss of saliva. This does not necessarly mean that prepared to pay a decent price for stal« the farmers, but cannot do so this nomination over J. J. Ermatinger by a foal, and disinfect it with whitewash to the administration of the estate acknowledges Now, while hogs are high, is a good lion service, preferring to use scrubs vote of about 2 to 1. year. It has prepared circulars on the which crude carbolic acid was added. the state right to collect time to get a start of good hogs. Getting because they are cheap. is for subject giving full instructions for Farnsworth nominated city He would cover the floor with clean on stock owned by non-residents and a start of good hogs comes quickly, Some of the states have passed stallion Athur E. Lehman care of seed bed, transplanting, cultivating, treasurer over by straw and have the mare thoroughly represented by property located within as they breed fast and mature laws containing some excellent etc., which are available for a sustantial majority. washed about the root of the tail as quickly. the state, but is merely for the purpose features. Wisconsin has a license law free distrubution to all who ask for For the positions of municipal judge, late as possible before foaling, so that of getting rid of a lot of expensive A well-matched pair of pure-bred Judge John Finehout and Judge Hugo which prevents the prevalence and distribution them. The seed supplied by the Division her parts may be free from germs, litigation, the outcome of which draft mares ought to be worth, In of grade stallions in ths is of the Connecticut-Havana variety Hanft, Democratic, are both renominated, and the possibility of germs entering some claim is doubtful. spite of the autos, $1,000 apiece, and state. grown in Wisconsin and raised in with close contests on the other the navel through contact with the properly bred stallions will bring even Cooper on Proposition. two positions. Minnesota has a law framed along Sherburn county the past two years. mare would be reduced to the minimum. more than this. This compromise was put up to Governor Major W. C. Handy, for years the the lines of the Wisconsin measure. Write at once to the Division of Agriculture, Then he would bandage the One of the largest steers ever Eberhart, State Auditor Iverson, managing editor of the St. Paul University Farm, St. Paul, for Pennsylvania and Utah have adopt* colt's body with anticeptically clean slaughtered in the west was killed at and members of the state tax commisson Pioneer Press, is nominated by a handsome both seed and instructions. They will ed similar laws and other states have swaths, using also antiseptic cotton San Francisco. On the hoof the steer by Attorney General G. T. Simpson majority on the Republican ticket be forwarded free of cost. restrictive measures under consideration. as a pad on the navel, on which a weighed 2,500 pounds and dressed on his return from the east, at a for assemblyman. five per cent solution of carbolic acid 1,500 pounds net. conference held in the attorney general's Among others nominated for assemblymen The effect of these laws is to make —one ounce of acid to nineteen of Corn For Northern Minnesota. For lice on horses, take half a pint office. on the Republican ticket are The Experiment station at St. Anthony the owner of each non-registered stallion water—is used. The bandage is also of kerosene in two gallons of water, It was some months ago that Mr. Micliaud, Hahle, Rogers, Holt, Keller, Park has developed a corn suitable declare his horse a "grade." On a support to the young animal's body, and wash the horse with this twice, Simpson startled the legal fraternity Connolly and Mills. for planting in northern Minnesota, handbills and posters the fact must be preventing undue strain on the abdomen. with an interval of two or three days with the announcement that he intended On the Democratic ticket, the following known as Minnesota No. 23. stated so that no one may be deceived between the applications. to enforce the state inheritance tax are nominated for assemblymen: as to his pedigree. law against non-residents. It had Ahren, Bowlin, Cameron, Conroy, The situation abroad i§ very much never been done before and there was Daley, Kane, Kartak, Kasmirslii POTATO CULTURE. DISTEMPER IN YOUNG HORSES better than In this country. In fact, some doubt. and powers. The estate of S. Kennedy of New J. Disease Is Infectious and Generally York, owner of Great Northern stock OWNERSHIP DEAL DRAGS. Found in Animals Under Five aggregating $14,000,000 in value, was Years of Age. selected for the test and claims against the property were immediately filed. Stillwater Council and Water Company (BY B. F. KAUPP, COLORADO AGRICULTURAL As an aid Loouis W. Weeks, assistant Fail to Agree on Terms. COLLEGE?) to Mr. Simpson, was appointed resident Distemper, or strangles, is a disease V• 1 /. administrator of the estate by principally affecting young Stillwater.—The city council postponed V\ A -VA-. Probate Judge E, W. Bazille of St. horses. It is due to a germ belonging action on the proposition to purchase Paul. This was done on petition by to the streptococcic group. the waterworks plant. The company II// /, 'Nv/V/| Mr. Simpson. fif The disease is accompanied by high will sell for $142,500 in cash or Since then a quiet investigation as fever, catarrhal inflammation of the IK •Am for §147,000 in 4 per cent bonds. There to the value of the property represented mucous membranes, especially of the was no discussion, but the council in Minnesota has been on and asfar nasal passages, and as a result of evidently wants to buy for $142,500 in as known the estimate has been in this condition, a discharge from the A "Grade Hambletonian." bonds. the neighborhood of $4,000,000. This nose. There is swelling of the lymph Consideration of the proposal to annex practically no scrub, grade nor nonregistered was ascertained by taking the Great glands under the jaw, which later results the town of Oak Park to Stillwater stallions are used for public Northern holdings and deducting the in abscess formation. was deferred indefinitely. Officers service. Minnesota mileage. A horse with distemper can communicate of the city were authorized to In the investigations of this matter Mr. Simpson, it is said, is unwilling it to a healthy one. enter into a contract with the Consumers' carried on by Dr. A. S. Alexander of to accept the amount tendered unless The germs are found in the discharge The season for spring work is rapidly approaching. Potato planting will Power company to install the Wisconsin station it was found backed by the other state officials. He from the nostrils and in the be one of the important things to be considered, and now, before the work electric motors for the operation of that of all the stallions in the state 60 even doubts his authority to make a pus from the abscess which forms becomes rushing and while there is little requiring out of door attention, it the pontoon section of the bridge over per cent, were grade stallions and only compromise when such would be taken is best to begin selecting seed for this year's crop. The Farmers' Institute under the jaw and later breaks. the St. Croix. A saving of 50 per cent 40 per cent, pure bred. as equivalent to an admission of the recommends the selection of medium sized, smooth tubers, with prominent The majority of cases of distemper is expected. state's contention that it has power to Some of the specimen horses used eyes. Select them now, place them in boxes or barrels until ready for use occurs before the age of five years. The board of education decided last reach the property even though it is for public service are remarkable exhibitions in the spring. Cut the potatoes two days before planting and spread out on The constitutional disturbances night to install domestic science in the a dry floor. Cut in good sized pieces, with one eye to a piece. One good outside the state. of wretchedly bred, run-down caused by the shedding of the teeth, schools next year. W. H. Hollands eye is better than more. The cut accompanying this item will show the and diseased animals. The pictures and cutting same, as well as impure method of cutting. was re-engaged for superintendent of herewith are faithfully drawn from TO INSPECT STATE GUARD. air in poorly ventilated stables, over-! the schools for a term of two years photographs of a "Grade Hambletonian" worked and poorly fed animals, are at an advance of salary. Four teachers and a "Grade Percheron" Two years experience with it has Colonel Wright, St. Peter, Announces Farmers' Clubs. factors that weaken the resistance! were chosen to fill vacancies. which traveled throughout the state shown good results. The Experiment The first bulletin issued under the Second Infantry Dates? and make infection possible to pro for service. One is 13.3 hands in height station is offering this corn to northern new law covering agricultural extension St. Peter.—Battalion inspections, to duce the disease. and weighs 650 pounds and he is not Minnesota farmers for 50 cents a is now out of press and can be which are attributed much of the increased BARTENDER IS INDICTED The disease is more common in the the worst in the lot, by any means. peck, and limiting the supply to each had for the asking absolutely without efficiency of the Minnesota spring and fall of the year, particularly The effect of breeding from such farmer to a single peck. This method National Guard, have been ordered by cost. Write now—write to Division the former, on account of the Chaska, Minn., Grand Jury lnvestigat stock is apparent in the very low of distribution will hold good while Colonel A. W. Wright, commanding of Agricultural Extension, University chill received at these seasons of the ing Death of Man. grade of horses produced. Water cannot the supply lasts. The variety is a the Second infantry. They are to be Farm, St. Paul, and the bulletin, year. rise above its own level, neither White Cap Yellow Dent, and in the held in preparation for the annual inspections, known as The Minnesota Farmer's The disease can also be transmitted Chaska.—The grand jury is investigating can a grade stallion raise the blood neighborhood of Crookston, Tenstrike, and the dates fixed for the Library No. 1, will be sent you by return from dam to offspring through the the charges of manslaughter level of his progeny above that of his Grand Rapids, Carleton and Wadena various companies are as follows: mail. The bulletin describes the milk. in the first degree preferred against own veins in quality. last year yielded from 25 to 30 bushels First Battalion—Major N. Nicholson organization and work of Farmers' The animal usually develops the a saloonkeeper here, now in jail, who of shelled corn per acre. Write early Company D, Northfield, Captain Clubs. The use of such sires, therefore, disease in from three days to three is alleged to have sold liquor to a man W. W. Kinne, March 24 Company H, to the Experiment station, St. Anthony means a retrogression and a great In a few days the February number weeks after being exposed to the in such quantities as to cause his Mankato, Captain George P. Rodman, Park, Minn. This corn is not recommended will be ready for distribution, and damage to the farmers of any state. contagion. death. The grand jury has been hearing April 4 Company L, Redwood Falls, for southern Minnesota. when your name is once on the list Animals affected with distemper evidence in this case for over a Captain J. W. Inglis, March 12 Company The farmers of Reynolds, near Long each number will be promptly sent as should not be sold. Young animals PLAN FOR DEHORNING CATTLE week. The victim is Julius Euntick, G, Austin Captain Charles F. Prairie, are organizing an egg selling soon as published. Just ask that your should not be brought in contact with Cook, March 28. who died February 19. dissociation. Clean, uniform-in-size name be placed on the list to receive those affected nor watered out of the Second Battalion—Major John Buschers -eggs are selling for five or six cents the Farmers' Library. The February same bucket, nor come in contact Practical Chute Arranged That Doe3 Company I, Owatonna, Captain more than the commonly marketed CRUSHED UNDER WAGON, DIES number gives a list of available agricultural with any other property until it has Away with All Unnecessary -eggs. H. F. Leurs, March 21 Company F, books and bulletins of special Struggle of Beast. been thoroughly disinfected. An animal Worthington, Captain S. S. Smith, Granite Falls, Minn., Farmer Meets interest to Minnesota farmers and should not be castrated while April 4 Company M, Madison, Captain farm home workers. End in Runaway. suffering with strangles. In constructing a dehorning chute Transmissible Diseases Amoftg Horses. M. A. Larson, March 7 Company The vitality of last year's corn ig no door at the entrance is needed. A vaccine made from the specific Granite Falls.—Arthur Frances, a One of the interesting lectures before B, Faribault, Captain F. U. Davis, sadly deficient in germinating power. When the animal enters, a stout stick germ causing this disease is prepared March 28. farmer living south of town, was killed a class of farmers recently at Samples received from different parts is thrust behind him into the cleats in the laboratory of the veterinary department by a runaway team. He was addicted University Farm was by Dr. Lipp. of Third Battalion.—Major W. T. Mollison of the state at University Farm, show one one side of chute, used to force of the Colorado Agricultural to drink, and was under the influence Company A, New Ulm, Captain the veterinary division, on the subject the germ to be black and dead, while college. him into the proper position and then Albert Pfaender Company K, St. of liquor when he left town of Transmissible. Diseases Among the exterior of the ear may look very fastened by dropping a pin into the Peter, Captain O. J. Quane, April 11 for home. He was found dead with Horses. He divided spavin and kindred good. The opinion of the Experiment nearest hole in the specially arranged 4 the wagon box lying across his neck. ZIG-ZAG TROUGH FOR HOGS Company C, Winona, Captain William bony diseases into two classes. Station experts is that any farmer who piece on the other side. Such an arrangement He leaves a wife and two children. Brandt, March 15 Company E, Fairmont, In the first class he placed those that uses such seed may find that his labor practically does away with Captain E. N. Chute, April 4. Keeps Them from Piling Upon EachOther, result from injury and in the second is lost. Moral—test your seed. Testing all body struggle. A chutei with the Finds $1,000 In A Cast-off Mattress. Thereby Wasting: Much those that result from faulty conformation. tells the story of germinating power (front as little obstructed as possible, .f.iT.- Ivanhoe, Minn., March 18.—The Mad Man Thinks He is Satan. of Their Feed. A sound horse of proper conformation, so plainly that none can misunderstand. (makes it easier to induce an animal to finding of $1,000 in currency in an old Bemidji.—Asa .Bradley, a homesteader that receives a kick and jenter. What head movement it is cast-off mattress by a boy caused who recently proved up on his .The illustration shown herewith then develops a bony disease, would (necessary to subdue after trap -r/r homestead in 134-29, Koochiching much local excitement and may result demonstrates, one way of getting ahead! clearly belong to the first class. closed is best accomplished by tying Extension Bulletin No. 2. in litigation. county, was adjudged insane and ordered There would be very little danger of Extension Bulletin No. 2 is now In |the head down to a ring. committed to the hospital at A. H. Mohler, a lawyer, left four such disease being transmitted to offspring. press and will be available for distribution Chute is 6 feet long, 6 feet high and years ago for the state of Washington, Fergus Falls. He recently ran through On the other hand, if by by March 1st. It contains & feet wide. The dimensions should the streets of Kelliher, claiming he and at. the time disposed of a reason of faulty conformation, a horse a list of a large number of books on correspond as nearly as possible te the was Satan and asking every one he hair mattress to the proprietor of the develops a spavin, when employed at agricultural and home economics subjects. average sized animal, because, the less met to kill him. No particular reason Ivanhoe hotel. In course of time the ordinary work, the offspring from such The books are recommended freedom of movement the better. The mattress was thrown out and permission is given for the unfortunate young horse would not inherit spavin, but by the college faculty and librarian floor is narrowed to 12 inches* with man's present condition. His habits given the children to make a bonfire would be predisposed to the disease as being suited to Minnesota conditions. tight, slanting sides up to a height of have been good. of it. The boys found more fun on account of an inherited faulty conformation. Prices of books and directions three feet. Each jaw of trap Is sep- in using it for play purposes than in He then applied the same for securing them are given. The Bulletin Death Preferred to Trial. burning it, and for four years it has reasoning to various other diseases contains also a list of bulletins Lyons, Nebraska.—Mrs. Mae Sabin, been common property among them. Zig-Zag Trough. and showed that the disease itself is published by the United States Department formerly Miss Mae Stipp of Windom, A few days ago the old mattress not often transmitted, but the weakness of Agriculture and by the oi a hog—which is very generally admitted Minn., committed suicide at went to pieces and a boy extracted is transmitted, which frequently State Experiment Stations, and directions to be both unusual and difficult. her husband's farm near here, through from its remnants a flat wallet containing requires but a short time to develop for securing them free. The free A zig-zag partition is nailed, or other* fear of testimony she believed would $1,000 in currency. The question into the disease under favoring conditions. bulletins alone make a rather complete wise fastened to the trough. These be brought in at an impending trial. has arisen as to who hid the To sum up, the doctor cautioned and very valuable reference boards .keep the hogs from piling upon She killed herself with her husband's money in the mattress, and has not the farmers against using not library. each other and from climbing- into the pistol. been satisfactorily answered as.yet. trough, thereby wasting slop and making feeding difficult. MR. LIND NOT A CANDIDATE. PFIFER DIES OF WOUNDS. Every farmer-should make a study Co-Operative Egg'Selling. of the methods of testing the germination Several associations have been organized Girl Victim of His Gun is Reported in Former Governor Asserts Reports for selling the produce of the Care of Lambing Barn. power of his seed, not only this Serious Condition. Are Untrue. One thing should be remembered as farm. Among these is one for disposing spring but every spring. However, Mankato, March 14.—Robert S. of great importance—the ventilation of eggs One association is at Dassel this spring the testing is more necessary Dehorning Chute. Pfifer, who shot his daughter and New Orleans, Louis.—John Lind, of the lambing barn. It should be and another at Barnum. The general than usual, since last years seed former Democratic governor of Minnesota, himself ac his home in Judson village, kept reasonably warm, bu the ventila'iou arated by a lever, and may be secured idea is to produce larger and is uncertain. University Farm will give died in a hospital. His daughter is in New Orleans, and is the must be as nearly perfect as can at any place by iron pins In holes, better eggs and market them in a any farmer information as to testing second former governor of Minnesota, Maude, while not out of danger, is doing be. Lambs are tender things and bored in the upper front cross-piece? systematic way. They would, gather with full directions. Any farmer can to be here within a week. Reports as well as could be expected. Her of the tramo. the eggs twice a day, keep them clean, quickly suffer from the effects of bad have been circulated that he might condition is grave because a bullet easily make these tests. There Is sort them, and throw out all under air. The barn must be perfectly dry again try for the governorship of his perforated the bowels in several nothing complicated about it—only a or over-sized eggs and pack them for also, as wet, moldy straw or muddy It is easy to teach a suckling colt state-and headhia party. In reply lie places. Peritonitis is feared and the: little time and patience. If any farm'? 1 market in cartons holding one dozen floors will cause disease to attack-the bow to drink milk and a quart of warm declared that he positively would not only hope lies in the fact that Mis* er is unadvised about this work he each. The white eggs and brown oaea youngsters and prevent tbeir prODWf it cow's milk In the morning will give be a candidate. Pfifei is a strong, healthy girl may write p.t once for instructions. start and developme&U are packed in separate cartons good sjart