1900 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
153 
THE GREAT AMERICAN LIAR. 
He Is Still at Large. 
Hunting Down His Stories.— The New 
York papers recently had a sad tale from 
Oklahoma. It was said that the laws com¬ 
pelled farmers to put barbed wire fences 
around their farms and that county officers 
had become agents of the barbed-wire 
trust. These fences cost so much that 
farmers were being driven away from their 
farms. We sent this to a friend in Okla¬ 
homa and this is what he says about it:— 
It is simply a “gag” got up exclusive¬ 
ly for the simple and gullible New York¬ 
ers. It belongs to the same class as 
the cyclone-preventing story originated 
at Hennessey last Summer, and exten¬ 
sively commented upon in that correct 
and trustworthy journal, the Scientific 
American. According to this story, can¬ 
nons were placed in each corner of the 
town, loaded and ready for action, and 
relays of men were employed to stay in 
a tower and look out for cyclones. Upon 
the approach of a storm cloud the man 
on duty was supposed to mount a swift¬ 
running broncho and ride to the can¬ 
non planted on the side of the town 
from which the storm was approaching 
and to knock the supreme stuffing out 
of the twister. You can also find some 
reference to this exciting cyclone dis¬ 
covery in a recent number of the Liter¬ 
ary Digest, published in the metropolis. 
The statutes of Oklahoma provide in 
general that each man must fence in his 
own stock, and he is not called upon 
to fence anybody else’s stock out. There 
are sections of the Territory in which 
we have what are called free ranges, in 
which, for the protection of crops, it is 
necessary for the man growing the crop 
to fence around it in order to keep cattle 
which graze upon the prairies from de¬ 
stroying it. The aforesaid man, how¬ 
ever, has the same right to graze his 
cattle on the prairies that anybody else 
has under this law, and is not under 
obligation to put up a fence of any sort 
at any time. The whole story is pure 
and simple “tommy-rot,” with the pos¬ 
sible exception of the reference to the 
price of wire, which for a time did sell 
for $2.25, and now is selling for about 
$5, instead of $5.75 as the paper stated. 
A man may hold land in this glorious 
region until the taxes eat it up, and he 
will not be compelled to put a fence 
around it, or to buy barb wire, or to do 
anything else that he does not want to 
do. 
While we are on this subject, let me 
warn you against a Kansas report of 
the horrible condition of affairs caused 
by smallpox at Blackwell, in the north¬ 
ern part of the Territory. The border 
towns of Kansas and Oklahoma got into 
a little squabble over quarantine mat¬ 
ters in reference to smallpox. After the 
matter was amicably adjusted, a paper 
at Wellington printed the following, and 
I presume it will be taken as absolute 
fact when it reaches New York. Ac¬ 
cording to the story, a horrible condi¬ 
tion of affairs exists at Blackwell. The 
town has a population of 2,500 people; 
of this number 2,495 had the smallpox, 
and 2,494 of them died. The dead cov¬ 
ered the streets to a depth of three feet, 
and all attendant horrible things con¬ 
ceivable were carefully detailed by the 
newspaper. r rhe facts in this case are 
that there have been some cases in 
Blackwell and a very few deaths, and 
that the matter is no more serious than 
an epidemic of grippe. I am glad that 
you wrote me concerning this, and shall 
be glad to hear of any further wonder¬ 
ful things that happen in this country, 
so that I may add them to my collection 
of stories of curious things that occur 
in the Great West. At the head of the 
collection I place the story of the cy¬ 
clone which picked up a bunch of 47 
cattle from one pasture and lifted them 
over barbed-wire fences and placed them 
in another man’s pasture and changed 
the brands on the cattle so that they 
corresponded with that of the owner of 
the pasture in which the cyclone de¬ 
posited them. j. f. 
BOOKS FOR STOCK MEN. 
The Skim-Milk Calf. —We have had 
quite a discussion lately with regard to 
the possibility of raising a good calf 
without milk. It seems to be decided 
that it is necessary to have some milk, 
at least during the first months of the 
calf’s life. After that it seems fairly 
plain sailing if the dairyman will take 
good care of the calf. We judge from 
the letters recently received that there 
are many people so situated just now 
that they would like to sell all their 
milk. At the same time, cows are 
scarce, and they want to raise heifer 
calves from some of their best cows. 
We have just received a little book 
called The Skim-Milk Calf, by Henry 
\v allace, editor of Wallace’s Farmer. 
This little book of 140 pages tells in a 
practical and interesting way what to 
add to skim-milk in order to make up 
for the cream taken out in dairying. 
That is a problem which many butter- 
makers are anxious to learn about, and 
we feel sure that this little book will 
prove helpful to many of our readers. 
The price is 35 cents and we can supply 
it at that price. 
Feeds and Feeding. —During the 
Winter season we always receive a large 
number of questions regarding profitable 
feeding of stock. Many of these ques¬ 
tions make it evident that those who 
asis them do not understand the funda¬ 
mental principles upon which accurate 
feeding is based. Others who ask these 
questions have studied out the elements 
of the subject, but do not know just how 
to apply them. We would call the at¬ 
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that Feeds and Feeding, a book by Prof. 
W. A. Henry, of the Wisconsin Agricul¬ 
tural College, covers this subject in a 
most complete and comprehensive man¬ 
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no book in any language dealing with 
any one phase of agriculture that gets 
so close to the heart of the subject as 
this book does. It is a complete manual 
of feeding stock. It tells the whole 
story. Prof. Henry has had many years 
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problems. We all know many books 
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put together in such a way that the 
average farmer can hardly understand 
what they are driving at. Prof. Henry 
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about his meaning. That is one reason 
why we recommend Feeds and Feeding 
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feel sure that those who buy the book 
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and it is a good bargain. 
r rnE Breeds. —We wish to call atten¬ 
tion to the fact that the book by Geo. 
W. Curtis entitled Horses, Cattle, Sheep 
and Swine is the best volume on the 
origin, history and description of breeds 
now before the public. The agricultural 
colleges recognize this fact by using 
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to take care of them. It simply points 
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The Domestic Sheep. —There appears 
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demand for a new up-to-date work on 
sheep. A demand usually creates a sup¬ 
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form of a book by Dr. Henry Stewart, 
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work on sheep breeding. It tells the 
whole story and will be useful to any 
shepherd who wishes to make the most 
out of his sheep. The price is $1.50 and 
The R. N.-Y. can supply any of these 
books postpaid. 
Texas Farm and Ranch says that mud 
and sheep are not friends. They should 1 
have well-drained hilly or gravelly pasture. 1 
For A1 pork and bacon for family use, 
Texas Farm and Ranch recommends feed¬ 
ing pigs soaked wheat and oats, half and 
half, with one pound of corn per day for 
the last month, killing at seven months. 
The National Stockman and Farmer says 
that glanders is raising havoc among the 
mules in the British army in South Africa, 
and that hereafter all mules bought by that 
government will be subjected to the mal- 
leln test for glanders. 
Dairy Inspection.— Every week the bul¬ 
letin of the Michigan Dairy Department 
contains a report of the condition of vari¬ 
ous dairies. Inspectors go to these dairies, 
take notes on the food, the condition of 
the cows, the water, and similar things, 
and print the report with the full name 
and address in the bulletin. People who 
buy the milk are thus able to see just 
where their milk comes from, what the 
cows are fed, and whether the milk is 
liable to be pure or otherwise. As we have 
said before, this is the best way to purify 
the milk business. Pure sunlight will kill 
the germs of tuberculosis, and it will also 
destroy the germs of fraud. By publishing 
the names of the milk producers, and 
showing without fear or favor just how 
the milk is produced, the public is bene¬ 
fited, and those who will not produce 
cream and pure milk will soon be adver¬ 
tised out of business. Advertising works 
both ways—it helps a good thing, and de¬ 
stroys a bad thing. 
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i 
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