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FEEDING CALVES FOR BEEF. 
Would it be advisable for one who 
lias good pasturage and plenty of feed to 
buy three-months-old calves, weighing -00 
pounds, for .$10 to $18, and keep them 
until they are two years old? H. w. m. 
West Virginia. 
Yes; because such calves are ready to 
make their most profitable growth. Of 
course these calves should be of some 
beef breed and good individuals, lhiifty 
three-months-old calves are well worth 
eight or nine cents per pound and are 
much better value than poorly fed older 
cattle at six or seven cents per pound. 
Get these calves started on pasture now 
and give them grain when pasture gets 
short, with heavier feeding as they get 
larger. They should do well and develop 
into prime two-year-olds and return a 
nice profit to their owner when sold. 
Ohio. W. E. DUCKWALL. 
CATTLE BEETS FOR SALE. 
I read an article on growing beets. 
Is there any demand for such crops, 
who would be likely to purchase same? 
What would they bring by the ton? it 
they were dried what would a ton ot 
beets lose in drying? D - B. 
Roland Park, Md. 
There is some local demand for the 
cattle beets from dairymen and poultry 
keepers, but such trade would have to 
be developed. The beets are not a regu¬ 
lar article of trade like hay or grain. 
They are a bulky crop to handle and 
ought to bring $0 and upward a ton. 
It would not pay to dry them in small 
lots. The average cattle beet contains 
about 90 per cent, of water. Drying 
simply takes this water, or part of it, 
out. Our advice would be not to grow 
a large crop expecting to sell it. Plant 
enough to give you a small surplus 
over your own needs and try to sell 
that before you plunge on tne crop. 
GUINEA I’IGS AND RHEUMATISM. 
On page 702 W. L. Prizer tells “what 
funny stories” you hear about guinea pigs; 
among other things of a visitor who told 
him they were an infallible cure for 
rheumatism, his father-in-law being free 
from the disease as long as he managed 
to keep a live guinea pig in the house. 
That statement did not appear so funny 
to me, as I read in a recipe book many 
years ago that to cure rheumatism the 
best thing was to keep a guinea pig or 
two in the house. To be effective they 
should be taken to bed with the rheu¬ 
matic sufferer, when the pig seemed to 
draw the disease away from the human, 
and the pigs would show it every time 
by their swelling up to sometimes twice 
their natural size in a day or so from 
drawing the poison away from the sufferer. 
The guinea pig would right itself in a 
few days by simply being left alone. I 
think that this may be so; it may be 
a better cure than a groat many of the 
patent and also regular M. D. cures, 
as at least it will not add any more 
poison to the system, as do most medi¬ 
cines recommended for above as well as 
many other diseases. At least if I was 
suffering from it I would first try the 
pig before I would swallow the dope. 
Chenoa, Ill. c. l. b. 
A “ BOB VEAL” CASE. 
There is very little excuse for a 
farmer who sells or ships “bob” veal in 
violation of State and national laws 
and city ordinances, and I do not know 
of a case where there is any reason to 
think that farmers have been engaged 
in the traffic. There are dealers who 
are supposed to enter the business and 
who are thought to have profited by it 
considerably in a few localities. There 
is very little confidence in the average 
city inspector, however, and some of the 
most reputable commission merchants 
have stated in a public way that prime 
veal has been seized by inspectors. This 
veal was worth 12 cents a pound some¬ 
times. Recently a case of seizure has 
come to light, and it is under such 
peculiar circumstances that it ought to 
be made public, and there should be in¬ 
formation as to whether there are many 
cases of injustice practiced. It is under¬ 
stood that there are other cases, but the 
subject is of such a nature that in¬ 
formation is difficult to get. In the 
instance which I have in mind just now 
the victim was a man of the highest 
standing in the community; moreover 
circumstances happened to be such that 
he could prove his innocence, something 
that is difficult in most cases, as the 
farmer makes no attempt to keep data 
in the case of a shipment of a veal 
calf. 
The circumstances in this case are pe¬ 
culiar and not reassuring for a free 
people. Something like a year ago a 
farmer sent three veal calves to mar¬ 
ket. They were nice ones and fully 
six weeks old at the time of slaughter 
and shipment. After a time he received 
returns for one of them, but could get 
no information as to the others. Later, 
one Saturday, a deputy U. S. marshal 
arrived with a capias for the arrest of 
the farmer and proceeded to take him to 
a city some 00 miles away. After they 
had started from the farm, the family 
telephoned to an acquaintance in town, 
a lawyer of local prominence, and ap¬ 
prised him of the circumstances. The 
lawyer met the officer and the farmer at 
the* station. Country lawyers seldom 
have cases in the Federal courts, and 
therefore are not prepared on immediate 
notice to take action, but in this case 
the lawyer had correct ideas of procedure, 
lie asked the marshal to take his pris¬ 
oner before a local justice of the Su¬ 
preme Court or to a nearby court and 
let him give bail. This being refused 
the lawyer asked to take the farmer to 
the adjoining county where the Federal 
judge was and let the bail be lixed there. 
This again was refused, and the farmer 
was taken to the place of indictment. 
Court had adjourned on Friday and 
would not open until Monday afternoon, 
so it looked like a stay over Sunday in 
jail. On the way the marshal intimated 
that it might be possible to let the 
prisoner stay at a hotel in the city and 
that under similar circumstances he had 
suggested to another prisoner if he 
would pay $25 he would place him under 
the surveillance of a deputy, and let him 
stay at a hotel. Finally $15 was agreed 
upon, the farmer paid his own hotel bill 
and that of the deputy whenever he 
happened to be around at meal time, paid 
the deputy marshal $15 and thus es¬ 
caped jail. On Monday bail was fixed 
and the farmer returned home. 
There was much excitement over the 
affair, and the next thing that the attor¬ 
ney undertook was to get the names of 
the witnesses, etc., sworn in procuring 
the indictment. Nothing could be learned, 
however. In the meantime the law was 
looked up and it was found that it ex¬ 
pressly directs that in the case of an 
arrest of a prisoner for an offence such 
as charged in this case he shall be taken 
to the nearest judge, mayor or justice 
of the peace of the county. There he 
shall be allowed to give bail. Something 
must be done to prepare for trial. 
Finally the Government’s prosecutor de¬ 
termined that the indictment was faulty 
and said that an attempt would be made 
to get a new indictment at the next, term 
at which a Federal grand jury met. 
After such new grand jury met the 
farmer’s attorney applied to the U. S. 
district attorney for a copy of the new 
indictment, which was promptly fur¬ 
nished. It. now became possible to pre¬ 
pare for trial. The preparations were 
elaborate. Experts were secured and 
investigations made that cost considerable 
money, the final cost amounting to sev¬ 
eral hundred dollars. The preparations 
were finally completed and the day of 
trial awaited. Then came word that no 
indictment was found and that an at¬ 
tempt would be made to get one at 
the next sitting of the court about ten 
months later. It seems that a form 
of indictment had been made out before 
the court convened and that it was a 
copy of this form that had been sent 
to the attorney in response to his re¬ 
quest for a copy of the indictment. At 
the next term of court the case was 
dismissed without much consideration. 
Thus ended the Government’s attempt 
to imprison one of the citizens of the 
highest standing in the county where 
lives the farmer in question. It reads 
like the sort of justice dispensed in the 
time of the “Good Queen Anne,” when 
freedom from prosecution had to be 
purchased, and when the best citizens 
were hauled to court and to prison with 
little ceremony and with no justice. 
It seems that the first indictment in 
this case was genuine, but that it was 
drawn without reference to the evidence 
or the facts in the case, and that any 
trial on that indictment would have 
been a mere farce. That accounts for 
the fact that nothing was done with that 
indictment except the arrest of the 
prisoner. The failure to indict at the 
next term of the court was not met 
with fairness nor with due regard for 
the rights of the defendant. The time 
chosen to make the arrest is construed 
as an effort to embarrass the prisoner, 
and the refusal to permit him to be ad¬ 
mitted to bail as required by law looks 
like a method of extorting blackmail. 
There is no reason why these matters 
should not be looked into, and seemingly 
all that is lacking now is for some one 
to get mad enough to throw some light 
on the case and make this and similar 
matters public enough to compel a re¬ 
organization of court procedure and of 
the conduct of some branches of the 
Department of Justice. 
June 14 , 
It is strongly suspected that city in¬ 
spectors are in some cases in the habit 
of seizing prime veals, and there seems 
no reason why these may not be sold 
at a good profit. Country people have 
little confidence in some of these in¬ 
spectors, and are not surprised that it 
is openly charged that the best goods 
are taken by them. In this case they 
seem to have got with them an inspector 
of the Federal Government, and the 
others connected with the affair are not 
without blame. It may be that the prac¬ 
tices that have grown up in connection 
with these cases, or in other words the 
system, is at fault. If good court 
methods were to be introduced there 
would be less temptation for officials to 
join with the inspectors in the city 
and one cause for such outrages as this 
would be removed. H. lx. L. 
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A cow frequently has a .spell of what 
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she acts as though she had been run 
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beats fast and she froths at the mouth 
more or less all the time. She has a 
good appetite, eats and drinks with a 
relish. Her bowels and kidneys work 
normally; in flesh she doesn’t pick up 
much and has been poor all Winter. 
What is the trouble? A. L. F. 
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