Cisco Apert (Cisco, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1904 Page: 3 of 8
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NEW RAILWAY BUILDING
TEXAS HOLDS FIRST PUCE
Dallas, July 5.—Taking into con-
sideration the fact that there has
l>een a heavy falling off in railway
traffic in general, that money ha-
.been close and that unusually severe
weather has made handling of'both
freighr and passenger traffic'.costly,
it is surprising to find, from *v col-
lation of official reports received by
the Kailway Age. that no lo-- than
1.937 tnilis of track has been com-
pleted during the first six months of
the year on 134 line^in thirty-three
Srates and Territorie?, as indrcatcrl
in the following table:
State3. Lines. Miles.
(town on fortv-seven lines, making
a total of 1,623 miles of track laid
ou 108 lirn- in the States west of
the Mississippi and south of the
Ohio. There will be little building
n the New England States this year,
and thus far no track is reported
Alaska......... ..
8
Alabama.........
... 8
71.43
Arizona..........
... 8
35.90
Arkansas '
.... 8
7224
California . ..
.... 5
81,32
Colorado ..........
.... 5
59.
Florida . ........•>
.7.. t;
57.50
Georgia ..........
29.
Illinois ..........
151.30
Indiana ..........
2
14.
Indian Territory ..
.... 2
53.40
Iowa .............
7.00
Louisiana .....
4
139.
Maryland
.... 2
7.
Michigan .........
I
4.50
Minnesota .......
.... «
41.21
Mississippi ... ...
.... 7
84.80
Montana .....77. .
25.
Missouri ....... ..
.... 5
249.40
Nevada ..........
137.
ROGS FOR THE SOUTH. ~ profitable lines dFTuisbaadry to en- -tuff?. The fact that The largest
-. i gage in. The returns from the cap- profit was made by lot 3, shows that
Tennessee’s Experiment Station Di-! ital invested ,come quickly and the the addition of wheat meal and
rector Enthuses ;per cent of gain under good man- whey to the ration was very effect-
agement is very large. ive. It is evident that by the use
Prof. Andrew M. Soule, director ]n the winter of 1901 an expert- of skim milk, which is practically a
...... .... , of the Tehuessee Experiment Sta- ment was conducted at the Tennes- j by-product bn the farm, the amount
while onlv two of the Middle States t*on’ wr‘?es thus ®f hog raising in iPe Experiment station with twelve cf corn-meal required to produce a
_Pennsylvania and Maryland— the South. Condition her# deocrib-1 high-grade Chester White hogs to good gain can be greatly reduced
slmw apy additions for the first half I do n°t prevail all over lexas, .determine the value of the four ra- and a large saving effected thereby,
of the year. jV*f most of them do. |lions shown below * jet that where skim-tnilk. whev and
---——- J Some of the more important rea- Lot 1.—Water 10 pounds, corn-j other dairy products are available,
LOOKS LIKE PARKER. sons why swine husbandi» should meal 6 pounds, at the beginning of a much larger number of hoga'
- • prove especially attractive to our feeding period,. Water, 16 pounds,! could be fattened on a given eup-
Boyj Want to Break into the Baud farTOPrs iirc wmmysd up in the fol- corn-meal 8 pounds, at the end of ply of corn, a factor of the utmost
Wsoon | lowing pa ^graphs: feeding period. importance to the fanner.
' . . First, there is a mildTlimato, so Lot 2.-—‘Skim milk, 18 pounds,! By the use of 1.3 poumla of ekin>
,r1; , j that the ho^ Tequire but ‘ little ‘eura-meal rpounds, for first If* milk and 8.3 pounds of whev,
July 4, the >|**un correspondent of 1 _ ® 1 1 f |
the Dallas News from St. Louis
-tv-: l n!< — micthing occurs which-
i-an demand a place among the li?’.
North Carolina .......7“ 2
Ohio ............. 3
Oklahoma........... 3
Oregon ............. 2
Pennsylvania ..... .... 10
South Dakota ..... 1
Tennessee ........... 8
Texas ........ ________ 7
Virginia ...... ...... 2
Washington ______ .... 2
West Virginia......... 8
Wisconsin ......_____ . .2
Wyoming ------- M ... 1
Total in 33 States and _■
Territories........ 134 1.937,53
The track laid during the first six'
months of 1903 amounted to 2.221
miles, whiio for the entire- year it
aggregated 5,786 miles. If the same
ratio is maintained during the pres-
ent year the new mileage for 1 DO t
will approximate 5,tarn milks. How-
ever, present conditions do not uar-
ranf the definite prediction, that this
ratio will he maintained, for a largt
percentage of the track laid during
the past six .month* has been mi
lines which were graded last year
and on which track-faying was Tics'
gun before the close of 1903. The
work of grading since January 1 has
proceeded on a much smaller scale
than during the first half of 1903.
Five States and one Territory
show additions of over 100 mils
each for the first half of the year.
In Missouri the track laid aggre-
gates 249 miles, which is six miles
more Than were completed in that
Siat<* (Hiring the entire year .1903.
and Texas" shows 231 miles of track
for the first half of 1901, again-t 357
miles for the twelve months of 1903.
Illinois is third with UJ mile-. Ne-
vada fourth with 137 miles. Penn-
sylvania fifth with 107 miles, and
Oklahoma sixth with 101 1-2 nail's.
■ The development of the great
Southwest, seven States and Terri-
tories in that secoion of the country
showing 809 miles of track laid on
twenty-six lines. 1 it the' States w< st
of the Mississippi llivcr 1,234 miles
of track have been.. In id on sixty-one
lines, and in the States east of the
Mississippi and south of the Ohio
380 miles of track have been put
Waco: Dillard Wallace, the eight
year old son of George \\ allaco, who
travels for the Tom l’adgitt mm-
pany, was instantly killed at 1
o’clock Monday afternoon. The
boy was riding in rfwnittm* wagon
and got out suddenly in front of a
negro hack driver named Vi ill
Brooks. It is thought'the tongue
of Brook’s hack struck him on the
head. The boy never spoke. Brooks
vas placed under, arrest.,
Yinita, I. T.7 Daniel Red Bird,
one of the pioneer leaders of the
Cherokee Indians, is dead' at Hi
home near Tahlequah, 1. T., at the
age of 71 years. Hi.+death was sud-
den., and was caused by heart tail
lire, lie stooped to pick up some-
thing on the floor of his cabin, and
fell dead instantly. Deceased has
been a member of life Cherokee
Legislature, delegate to Washing*
of remarkable things of the world, it
i> all ov r hut the -hunting. In other
words. Judge Alton B. Parker, of
the Skiti* 0t New York, i- HOW the
Deiuoeratic candidate for the Presi-
dency, and the proceedings of the
convention now assembling in St.
l.ouis will henceforth l*o devoted to
the mere i'mriualittes uf properly and
officially announcing this fact to the
peo|4,*,wf the l uitcd Siati-s. When
the sun wont down yesterday after-
noon Judge Parker was stronger
than when it arose yesterday morn-
ing. and when that same sun peeped
over tin* hills to-day he had gathered
an additional strength which pre-
saged a race for the opposition to
him before the stars cam© .out to-
night. The strength which he was
securing all the time may be said to
have not come to him by votes flock-
ing, to him, hut from the realization
of the different elements of the oppo-
sition that they could not get togeth-
er and that time was fleeting. Fur-
ther than this it realized that as it
tied the chances for nice seats in tho
band wagon were getting more slim.
The stentorian voice of Mr. Bryan
could not give the.opposing elements
any courage. It had a tremor of
lvn-kine-s about it that was not pleas-
ing. In it was a sort of tone that
called on them to die in the ditch
rather than that tlfey would win.
Soldi* r* gain iaumr iiv dying .in the
Iasi ditch: politicians never do. Bo-
thies. thi* elements^ mentioned hi
looking around began to won (hr why
Mr. Hr van should call oh them to
sacrifice thelnsclve- when he had no
delegates except a lima My half doz-
on. p. rheps. from Nebraska to a?-
,j-t -them in the perhaps honorable
bsi-vertainiy painful act of ‘lying.
housing throughout The year. There days. Whey 40 pounds, corn-rncai coupled with 0.3 pounds of wheat
jige springs and ruuning streams of 5.3 pounds, wheat meul 1.5 pounds meal, the amount of com required
water everywhere, a splendid natur- second 15 days. Whev 40 pounds, (for a pound of gain was reduced to
al range and an abundance of mast corn-mcal 6.25 pouuds, wheat meal 1.7 pounds. From the large in-
in the large forest areas still exist- 1-75 pounds at the end. ‘crease in the weight and profit made
jng in the State. Corn and other Lot 4.—Skim-milk S-pounds, pea by this lot, it is evident that better
cereals so commoiilv and successful-; hay 4 pounds, corn-meal 2.GG results will be obtained by substi-
ly used in the-production of pork pounds, at the beginning. Skim- tilting whcut-mcal for a portion oj
arc easily and cheaply produced, milk 26,73 pounds, pea hay'1.5 the corn-mcal contained in the av-
and a Variety of forage crops, in-; pounds, corn meal 5.5 pounds at cragc farm ration. Corn is exceed*
eluding the'clovers and many other the end: , ingly rich in carbonates and pro*
legumes thrives remarkably - well. The food stuffs used-in the exper- duces fat very rapidly, hut the ad-
Sorghum, soja bean a, hairy vetch, iments were valued as follows: j dition of a small quantity ol wheat
artichokes, The- velvet - bean, 4h» -t'm-mmcatr/frHr- a ton; pea hey. amaVricli in protein,, sceme to have,
cow-pea and Spanish permits all $i 3.50"; wheat-meal, 22.50"; skua-1
thrive well singly and some ol them milk, 22 cents per 100 pounds;
in combinations, producing as rich whey, 11 cents per 100.pounds.
.Lot 1 made a gain of 12G pounds
in GO days, or 1 pound per-
and fine mixtures fwr hog pasture
as can be produced anywhere'.
The soja bean and cow-pea are
worthy of special mention, as they
will both grow on, poor soil, and
besides producing vines that arc
much relished by the hog. ftie fruit
is abundant and the grain highly
nutritious, producing a fine admix-
ture of fat and lean in, the pork,
while the quality and flavor impart-
ed are unsurpassed. Owing to the
Three Were Killed.
Texarkana: While Mrs. William
lx. Pugh and several relatives were
mit driving late Monday afternoon
(heir horse took fright, and ran
madly way, finally overturning the
siirrey with tlit* occupants still in it
on West Broad street on the.street
car track, and directly in front of a
rapidly moving electric car. In a
second or two the ear was plowing
throqgh the vehicle and its orcu-
pan'ts with fearful effect. The car
was heavily laden with pa-angers,
rendering its force that much great-
er. Miss Sybil- Pugh, aged 15. had
chest and abdomen crushed and
died instantly. Little Birdie Bell
pillow, aged t. had skull crushed
and brains scattered along the track
for twenty or thirty yards, Mi.-s
Maude Pillow, aged I I. had both
legs cut off above the . knees. She
was taken, to a sanitarium and died
in an hour. Tim other fo'ui* occu-
pants of the surrey were badly
bruised, hut none of them seriously
hurt.
these crops may he pastured off and
the grain gathered by the fattening
hogs.
The question of lfow to harvest
the cow-pea crop is frequently rais-
day; lot 2, 413.5 pounds, or 2.3
pouuds per head per day; lot 3,
401.5 pounds, or 2,2 pounds per
head per day; and lot 4, 245.5
pounds, or 2 pounds per head per
day. The cost of the feed of Lot
1 was $7,39, or 3.9 cents per
pounds of gain-; $17.00 with Jot 2,
or 4.2 cents per pound of gain;
$13.84 with lot 3, or 3.4 cents per
mild and open weather of autumn, pounds of gain; and $12.91 with lot
4, or 5.2 cents per pound of gain.
The profit of feeding with lot 1
was $2,84; lot 2, $5.13; lot 3, $7.74,
and lot 4. 54 cents. Farmers often
say that there is but little profit in
ed. Why should it remain such a '■ feeding hogs as the food consumed
vexed problem, ' considering the so frequently just about equals the
present remunerative prices of pork icost of the gain obtained, but they
and tho fact that the hog? will bar- J overlook the fact that the whole
vest the peas, growing, fattening carcass is improved and made more
and enriching tho soils at the same [valuable by reason of the feeding,
time. Surely, nature has made gen- If they consider the mntter from
erous provision? for the develop- this standpoint, they could afford to
ment of swine husbandry on a phe- feed hogs without profit on the food
nomcnal scale in the South. ‘ Why consumed by reason of the sntisfao-
should not qur people avail them- jtcry profit they would make on the
selves of those natural advantages? ; whole animal. In figuring out the
It must be due'to a failure to fully profits -it should he borne in mind
comprehend the splendid opportun-; that skim-milk is more or less of a
ities which environment has placed waste product on. the average farm.
at their disposal.
According to the census of 1900,
there are G3,287,249 hogs in the
United States. Of this number
885,000 are found in Tennessee.
The population of Tennessee is
about 2,000,000, so that there
less than one hog owned for each ne^s fpd to hogs
t 'nfoTtunatety, it is riot ordinarily
fed to hogs for two reasons: First,
because its full value is not often
appreciated, and secqml, because it
i? not available. More cows ought
to lie kept on the average farm and
all the skim-milk and waste prod-
citizen. Tennessee leads all the
South Atlantic and south central
It took 1.0 pounds of c,orn-aiul-
cob-meal to make a pound of gain
long
Shot It Out.
Batson: A difficulty of
standing between hr Best, a white
man, and Joe Miineo, a Mexican,
terminated Monday morning about
5 o’clock in a pistol duel, which re-
sulted in the death of both men. The
shooting occurred in the saloon in
the negro quarter of this town. Sev-
en shot? were tired, by the two men.
Best died almost instantly, hut Mu-
nee lived about two'hours.
-—-----
Arriving at Vw York after near-
Iv a year'.- absence, on his way to
y.upHii.hi«. Lou
Sylvester Donohue, sixty years old,
tell dead <»n the Gunard line pi>*r
within an hour aftcrUeaving the.'
steamer.
At Vancouver, W, H. Quinn, a
bookmaker, while driving in a hack
with three others was held up at the
point of a revolver by a highway-
nml ftSGOO in hills and silver
States in the number of liogs held with lot 1; 2.1 pounds of corn-and-
ou farms, with the exception of ,cob-meal and 11.2 pounds of skim-'
Kentucky. At the present time the j milk per pound of gain with lot.2;
South is paying a heavy tribute to 1.7 pounds of corn-uml-eob meal,
the farmers of the Central West for 10.8 pounds of wheat- ineitl and 1 3
hog products, and this in the face : pounds of skim-milk and 8.5 pounds
of the best natural environments “of wheal with lot IT per pound" of
for pork production, in spite of the gain; and wi-th lot 4, 2.3 pounds of
possession of a splendid home mar- j corn-and-colomeal, 0.7 pounds of
ket and the ability to produce the cdiopped pea hay and,,12,5 poundg .of
highest quality of pork at a very j skim-jnilk to tp'nkii a*pound of gain,
low cost. Surely Ihe outlook fur A measure V>f c'orn-and-cob-mcal
the development of swine husband- ; weighing 56 pourttls would thus pro-
ry in the South is very bright. The (lute 12.1 pounds of gain, which at
population of tho United .States in the selling price of the hogs, 5.5
round numbers is 76.500,000 and cents" a pounds, would make it
rapidly increasing. The market, for worth 66.7 cents per weighed bush-
pork products at home and abroad [cl. Farmers ordinarily sell their
never was better than it is to-day. hern in the ear for 40 cents a lmsh-
There is less than one hog held on el. According to those results they
the farm for each citizen, and es- are losing about 25 cents per bush-
peeially is this true of tho South. el hv not feeding it to hogs. By
There are many good reason? the addition of 11.2 pounds of skitn-
Whv our farmers should develop milk per day to the ration of lot 2,
swino husbandry, . It is easier for! the amount of corn-aml-cob-meal
the poor farmer or the small farmer ! consumed was reduced to 2.1
a very favorable effect on the rate
and cost of gain in these experi-
ments. . Whey, which is ordinarily
believed to have a very low feeding*
value, will probably give better re-
sults with pork than anything else,
because of its high sugar content
which makes it a good fat former!'
The addition of the small amount
of protein contained in the wheat
meal aud in 1.3 pounds of skim-
milk seems to have been very ef-
fective.
It is evident from the foregoing
statements that the small and im-
perfect grains of wheat and tho
waste from cleaning the grain for
market should be ground and might
then be very profitably used in hog
feeding, thereby reducing the
amount of corn needed for a pound
of gain. It also appears that kitch-
en slops, which are often overlooked
and which will often have as high
feeding value as whev, can be utiliz-
ed to advantage with a small quan-
tity of skim-milk. Thus, by-the
use of the waste - wheat and the
kitchen slops tho amount of corn
receded may ho considerably reduced
and a given amount of corn and
skim-milk made to' go much further
in. pork production. , *
As hogs have made , such fine,
gains on pea vines in the field andi
as pea vine hay is rich in protein,
besides containingtr considerable
amount of grain, it was thought
that by the addition of some chop-
ped vine hay to the ration the
amount of corn fed would be lessen-
ed and the cost of producing a
pound of gain reduced. The hogs
ronld not be induced to eat the
chopped hay satisfactorily and this
may account for the poor showing
of the ration. Unless better results
can be obtained in the future, iti
must remain an unsatisfactory food
fur fattening swine.
to get a start in the hog business
than in any other line of animal
husbandry. His breeding stork to
commence with costs him compara-
tively little and he can siart on a
small scale and develop a greater
busirfess in less time than with any
other elnss of farm stork. Hogs arc
pounds or considerably less than
one-half the amount required for a
pound of gain in lot 1. Figured on
the Basis of the gain shown in lot
1. where fed meal, corn was shown
to be worth 66.7 cents per bushel,
the substitution of 11.2 pounds of
skim-milk effected a saving of 3.17
Well, Who’d a Thought It.
Col. George T. Angell says in the
last issue of OurTiumh Animals!
“‘If you caress your horse it will;
make him feel as happy as a woman
experiencing the same sensation.”'
The sly old rascal! Who would have
suspected it of George? Wo had
beefl led to believe flint the Boston,
editor had spent his life in hand-
ing out Band of Mercy badges and
gently stroking the mussed-up hail
of orplian cats the right way of the
leather, never suspecting that ho
was given to the habit of caressing
women as a diversion. This places
George in an entirely new light,
and we are to an extent disappoint-
ed in him. \Vre didn’t think it pos-
sible.—Grand Saline Sun.
made
£4—
remarkably prolific if well treated. ' emts worth of corri-and-eob-meal,
<* the skim-milk :ui
They Are Finding Out
Mark our prediction,
through these columns for more
than eight years, that the fruit and
vegetable lands in this county will
soon demand from $50 to $75 per
acre. Why not? Wc write know-
ingly and state with emphasis that;
the fruit .growers imam] p,car .M.yr4-
the skim milk, buttermilk, and the
fruits from the orchard. It is safe
to sav that the.rq i? enough hog'food
year. Then why not say that such
rwn; and af -ttw *4- -m* «U.wih maa .mu, ae,|tlv 114, ■
the highest office in the gift of the taken from hum 1 he highwayman lCft|wijtfraliAnt
Is"et*to6wah organization, , <:-* ai*< *l.
wa-ted on the a scrag' farm to suc-
cessfully fatten a large numlmr of
liog- every year. Swim* breeding
etid .foKtltW'en )>4'111'F'tHf".* lake*'
whev can not Ik* worked out, hut it
K* quite evident from the result*'j
that it had njtiglur feeding value j
m these experiment's than was n<
The State penitentiary has just
I consummated a aale of 2.000 tons of
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f the mm mg tin: (.stimuli J vahm of-tlm foodjtnoj.it waterwork*.
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