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SHEEP KILLED IN FEUD. 

 Reports from Sharpsdale say that the 

 feud over the use of the range, which has 

 long existed between cattlemen and sheep 

 men, reached a climax this week when the 

 cattlemen drove three thousand sheep 

 over a high precipice. The entire coun- 

 try has taken up arms. 



Germany's trade relations with this 

 country are closely watched. Every at- 

 tempt at German regulation of commerce 

 is heralded as portending evil for Ameri- 

 can exporters to that country, notably the 

 case last summer. Some tables just com- 

 piled by the Treasury Department, how- 

 ever, show that our exports to Germany in 

 the ten months ending with October 1900, 

 were $27,000,000 greater than those in the 

 corresponding months of last year, an in- 

 crease of about 20 per cent, and that our 

 imports from Germany show an increase 

 of $8,000,000 a gain of over 10 per cent. 

 Of the forty great articles which compose 

 the bulk of our exports to Germany more 

 than two-thirds show an increase in 1900 

 as compared with 1899. 



Exports to Germany of agricultural im- 

 plements increased from $1,600,000 to 

 $2,800,000; flour from $1,700,000 to 



$2,400,000; cotton from $30,000,000 to 

 $58,000,000; fruits and nuts from $450,000 

 to $1,400,000; cotton seed oil from $810,- 

 000 to $1,000,000; salt beef from $210,000 

 to $360,000; also oil from $1,600,000 to 

 $2,000,000; tobacco from $1,700,000 to 

 $2,800,000. 



The principal agricultural articles whose 

 exportation to Germany have decreased 

 are corn, from $14,400,000 to $13,000,3005 

 wheat from $6,000,000 to $3,400,000 and 

 ham and bacon from $2,300,000, to $1,- 

 400,000. 



In spite of the report at every hand of 

 the farm population turning city wards, the 

 Census says that the farmers in the 

 United States have increased 1,400,000 

 during the last 10 years. It would be a, 

 good thing if we could believe that men 

 are going back to the land and away from 

 the congested centers. 



Humus is a term applied to the organic 

 partially decayed matter in the soil. Leaf" 

 mold, wood dirt or a green crop plowed 

 under form humus. Humus is the prin- 

 cipal source of nitrogen in earth. Its ac- 

 tion is beneficial not only in enriching but 

 mechanically improving both heavy and 

 light soils. 



