Thursday, September 22 137 THE RIGBY STAR, RIGBY, IDAHO t Kit Carson Speaks ""K'TftePONTINe s DAIRY WAY TO PREVENT BUTTER MAKING For Himself SWINE PARALYSIS o\ DURING WINTER There is at present considerable in A number of important' clumges In terest in the feeding of mineral mat the production of dairy products dur. ter to swine to prevent '"paralysis in ing the period from 1917 to 1U25 hav« ! brood sows and fattening hogs. A been noted by T. R. Pirtle, dalrj mar- ! Dumber of complaints ire coming in ket specialist of the United Statej I from breeders regarding sows break- Department of Agriculture. One oi | Ing down In the back after suckling these changes of Importance to the . litters. The following quotation from milk producer is the increase lo j the forty-first annual report of the , Ohio experiment station will be of in- creamery-butter piudueUon of 79,2 per I terest to hog men who have had thL« cent during the period. Only 17.8 per ! trouble: cent of the total milk production of the United States was used in the "Lameness, rickets, or partial pnral manufacture of creamery butter ID ysis is a common trouble with hogs In 1917. whereas, the amount was ID. winter and early spring. This trouble can be prevented by feeding bright, creased to '25.54 per cent in 1925. leafy alfalfa or other legume hay' In this connection it is interesting j Brood sows ordinarily consume enoug to note that the seasonal trend of of such hay when It Is kept befon creamery-butter production has varied j them In suitable racks. For fattening; during the period. If the year Is di I hogs It may be preferable to Include vided Into two parts, namely the feed 3 to 5 per cent of ground or chopped ing season (November to April, |D. | alfalfa or other legume hay in their elusive), and the grass season (May i feed mixture. The addition of a min to October. Inclusive). It appears that eral mixture containing steamed bone the trend has been toward an ID- meal, ground limestone, acid phos creased production of butter during pbate and common salt is likewise the winter feeding season. In 1917 i conducive to health and thrift. From the proportion of creamery butter 2 to 3 per cent of a similar mixture in made in the feeding season was 3(1,1 even a poor ration, has prevented per cent and In the grass season 635 View of the Appien Way paralysis in our swine under experi per cent. In K>2." the production ID ment."—Charles I. Bray. Associate (Prepared by the National Geographic Pompeii of the Middle ages, as Greg- the feeding season had it: .-reused to Professor, Animal Husbandry. Colo Society. Washing-ton, D. C.) orovius called it, covered with ivy 39.9 per cent of the total output, leav. rado Agricultural College. HE Pontine marshes, close to and brambles. This Is one of the roost ing 90.1 per cent for the gr: Rome yet little known, form one poetic spots of the world. These figures indicate that winter Horns on Cattle Cost Tof the strangest corners of Italy. A little farther along the range is dairying for butter production is in It Is paradoxical that this region Sermoneta, with the Thirteenth cen creasing. There was a sound n Too Much to Breeders Is not better known, for one of the tury castle of the Caetnnl towering for this change, says Mr. Pirtl. world's most famous roads, the Appian In flip fighting days when bulls and on a high mountain spur and dominat Minnesota, for example the average Way, leads straight to it. survive and be fit ing the vast plain of the Pontine price of a balanced ration suffii physically and fight, horns may have The Via Appia, built by Applus marshes. Then follow Sezze, Piper- to produce a pound of butter in 1017, been of some use. This was extremely Claudius about 300 years B. C-, starts no, and other towns. was nts, and in l!i2.">. 21.6 from Porta San Sebastiano, the south far-fetched when bulls for barbarous These are the inhabited places to cents. The average price of R2 .- ern gate of Rome, and leads toward bull fights were In demand by men and day; but in olden times the whole land butler in New York ID 1917 wa* For the first 65 miles it runs women who loved bloody thrills. Any was densely populated and highly pro cents per pound In !92o It w;is as straight as a taut string, until it careful observer may look at the ductive. Twenty-three towns are sup cents The feed cost had decreased reaches the town of Terracina, where By ELMO SCOTT WATSON horned cattle as they come out of posed to have existed where now one 13.5 per cent while the price of butter It passes under the cliff of Monte | EXT to his grandfather, stock cars at the stockyards and see sees not the trace of a single build increased 6.1 per cent for these two Saint Angelo that overhangs the sea. Daniel Boone, Kit Carson 50 to 90 per cent of the cattle injured ing. The most famous of these cities years. i I was iii; her died, by horns. All the beef cattle horn The Romans had to chisel off part is perhaps the most wide f Klllrrt by a fallinpr limbs which have disappeared was Pometia, ly known and best beloved tier's friend— marks injure the hides and the meat. of the rock to make space for the conquered and sacked by the Roman Maybe you've heard of him. of American pioneers. Then, horned cattle require more space roadbed. After passing this point It king, Tarquinlus the Superb, in the Young Bulls Need Feed • He and his kind were my teachers, for shipping. Again, horns injure and makes a first bend and then goes to There has probably never ^7M then- Sixth century before Christ. Trapper, hunter and guide: often kill cattle, horses, mules and Naples. for Proper Development been written a book of They tautrht me to shoot and to speak The lagoons of the marshes have YOUHK bulls need to be liberally fed men. The horns when polished and When you leave the Eternal City on sketches of frontiers the truth: formed between the great prehistoric from birth until matured if they are I taught myself to ride. curved and balanced may appear orna this classic road you pass at first along men, pioneers or scouts dune covered with oak forest and the •• the best results. Bulls that which does not include Woodsman I was till I saw the plains mental. The polled head is safe and a wonderful array of old Roman And I saddled and rode away just as ornamental. more recent one thrown up by the are stunted will not reach pr*i Carson in the roll of these [ To the little old Injun town of Taos sepulchral monuments; then you climb sea. There is no natural communica And the city of Santa Fe. up the Alban hills, extinct volcanoes velopment and therefore will not be a early American heroes, In some places the horned animal is tion between the lagoons and the sea. good advertisement for people to look | Plainsman I was till I saw the hills surgically dehorned. The operation of prehistoric times, and from there and many more volumes have been When these lakes swell, during the at when selectiny breeding stock. In And the trails that westward ran ^^_ causes loss of blood and in fly time you gradually descend upon a great written about Carson alone. As has f To the farther hills atd the farthest T rainy season, the fishermen cut a small addition the bull will not give good ^B hills— the wound or opening in the head may plain, some 30 miles from Rome, been the case with so many other fig And I am a mountain man. ditch across the dune, and the waters, results if be is lacking in vl become infested with fly larvae and known to history as the Pontine ures prominent In taming the Ameri C&RSOIT'J GftAJ&JTT TAOJ rushing out to the sea, In a few hours comes through proper development. can wilderness, a great mass of legend Mine were the days of the mountain i infected with germs. It costs some marshes. men. widen to a broad river. The fish taste For the first six months the ration has been added to the known facts The days that are now a dream; how thrilling the affair nor how hair thing to surgically dehorn cattle. On the left, as you travel toward As once we followed the buffalo track this lukewarm, brackish water and which is given to bulls need not differ about his life and the dime novelists breadth the escape, which Carson de Horns on cattle cost too much. They Terracina, are the olive-covered Le- We followed the beaver stream. swim by the thousands and millions from the ration fed heifers. Prom that have contributed their share to make scribes, the simple, straightforward are not worth the price paid for them. pine mountains, of gray limestone, Trapping the beaver on lake and creek into the lagoon, where they are time bulls will usually need l tlie truth about Kit Carson obscure. In woods till then unknown manner in which It is told shows They are no^ required to make beef that at sunset are veiled by that beau caught We ranged from the Platte to the San or milk. The best thing for all breed grain ration than females as rhey Too often this quiet, modest little man Joaquin. plainly why Carson was beloved for tiful purple haze one sees so often This locality Is also a wonderful From the Salt to the Yellowstone. his modesty, which was equaled only ers and for all breeds of cattle Is to spend more time looking around and has been included In the general cate reproduced on the background of the shooting resort There the ducks come by his courage and his daring. One breed off the horns. May the time less time eating. Unless bulls get a gory of Indian-killing, buckskin-clad Old Jim Bridger. Rohldoux. Meek. early Renaissance paintings. To the from the sea, seeking shelter and food Young from the Rio Grande. Instance will suffice. Almost without speedily come when there are no more fairly liberal grain ration in swashbucklers and the sensational Cut-face Sub.ette. Pf-gleg Smith right Is the Tyrrhenian sea, along the In that maze of ponds and canals dis And Fitz of the Broken Hand— exception those who have written of horned cattle. border of which runs a large sand tion with good roughages V aspects of his career have been so tributed throughout the dense growth Carson have made much of his famous dune covered by a wonderful oak for probably become stun) played up as to cause most Americans None knew the roads through the desert f of reeds. dust, ^^ duel with the French bully, Captain est some 30 miles In length. Between The time to save feed used for bulls to lose sight of his historic Impor The trails of cliff and glen. Lice Easily Controlled tance. None know the paths to the Western Shunan for Shunar) and the dime the dune and the sea Is a series of How the Marshes Were Created. is when they are matured. I; Sea novel type of writer especially has bulls are fed a heavy grain rat Fortunately for th» memory of Car But we that were mountain men! by Proper Sanitation lagoons. At the time of the Roman republic, told It with much sensational detail. will become heavy, sluggish and Inac son, the latest addition to the biograph The two most expensive parasites At the extreme end a solitary moun in the Fourth and Fifth centuries B. Young Fremont came over the pass Here is the way Carson tells of the tive. Mature bulls should nevt ical material about him has been the With a hard and weathered fi for hogmen to raise are lice and tain rises, to all appearances from C, the Pontine region seems to have I Krarney jingled across the waste affair: lowed to bi :ae hulls will plain, unvarnished story of his life * With his troopers, two-and-two. worms. Both can be controlled by the sea. It is Mount Circeo, the cor been free of waters, healthful and as given by Carson himself to one of proper sanitary methods and simple nerstone of the Pontine marshes. This densely populated. Then, a little be require more grain than 1 They won the California land. There was Sn the party of Captain a rule the grain feed will need to be his closest friends some seventy years For each may claim his share. •Drips a large Frenchman, one of those treatments. Now Is the time to con mount was an island in bygone ages, fore 300 B. C, near the time the Ap But the mountain men and the plains- limited to .its. ago. This Is "Kit Carson's Own Story know overbearing kind and very strong. He trol hog lice. as geologists have proved, and Homer, pian road was built, something hap of His Life" as it was dictated to Col. That Carson brought them there. made a practice of whipping every man Winter sleeping quarters are the eight centuries before Christ, speaks pened that has not been fully under that he was displeased with—and that of It in the "Odyssey" as an island, stood. and Mrs. D. C. Peters about 18 Well. I helped to hold these hills of ours was nearly all. One day, after he had very best places for the propagation Dehorning Young Calves For the Vnlcn, cliff and crag. though probably it was not so any and never before published until it When we fought our fight, both Red beaten two or three men, he said, that and spread of lice. If lousy hogs go The natural outlet of the waters in was brought to light by Miss Blanche and Wr for the Frenchmen he had DO trouble into winter quarters and nothing Is longer. the depression between the city of by Using Caustic Pot Under the starry flag: to flog and. as for the Americans, he C. Grant of Taos, N. M., who recently done to control the parasites, one may Terracina and Mount Circeo was ob A safe way to handle eaustb And that's why I'm General Carson, now would take a switch and switch them. Water of the Marshes Confined. edited It and published It at hof* own In my grand a>l I did not like such talk from any be assured that the lice will have a structed, probably through some seis when dehorning s expense. With Injuns there at the fipf-n door. man so I told him I was the v lively time all winter. The large quadrangle formed by the mic movement ; a raising of the ground method is to insert tl." pencil In 8 In the little old town of Taos. foothills of the Alban volcanoes, by The story of the manuscript, as American In camp. . . . He said The right thing to do Is to rid the was quite sufficient to stop small rubber tube. The six-foot braves come striding in nothing but started for his rifle, the Lepine mountains, by the \\< the outflow of the waters; and the given In the book which Miss Grant With scalping knife and gun mounted his horse, and made his ap« of lice before real cold we The usil; To tell their troubles to Father Klt- comes. Tlie sleeping quarters, like sand dunes of the coast, and by Mount sea ii; he obstruction by piling ftp of the horn buttons with a stick of has published, is an interesting one in And I not ne! nee In front of the carop. As Circeo, measuring some 150.000 acres itself. The story is as follows: as I - I mounted my horse and wise, should be cleaned thoroughly up sand dfl nioi- "ttinjr They rnlt me friend, nnd their friend I arms I could get hold and new bedding supplied. of extraordinary fertile land, is known In this way the great plain of Po Col. DeWitt C. Peters, surgeon, am of. which was a pistol, galloped up to to history as the Pontine mai metia became hemmed in on all sides U. S. A., was a close friend and ad Thouth I fought them hard an him find demanded of hi; a the Crude oil ts one of the best treat Tlii*- mirer of Kit Carson, the great For tl; Injun's way. The water, hemmed in on all • And the white is mostly wrong. one he in' I Our horses ments for hog en! crank lands and converted into a scout. He finally Induced him to dic : cannot flow out. (wen d no, but at >d. If one has only a large basin, into which the waters worth oi tate his life story. Thte v. But the Injun's get to learn our way. the s. Ms rrun so he In winter the mountain si reams down, aci linton Pe So I'll h lp him while I can, may he elns- naturally converged from everywhere, •••ii or tin- For the Injun's way t end. could have a fair Bhot at me t pour their foaming, muddy" torrents but from which they could not flow ters, during Carson's frequent visits Like the way of the mountain man. prepared and allowed him to draw his ly confined and sprayed. If the herd It should not liquid to the F< :iy, who were sta upon this lowland, flooding thousands except through the narrow channels "We both fired at the same time: Is large, dipping is advised, using n runs ;ls ibis will burn tin* skin '>f lb« tioned at "some fort near Taos," prob Williams, Beckwourth. the tall Crow all p' but one report was of acres; the rich mud slowly settles, dug near Terracina to connect the ably Fort Union, and In the town of ard creosote dip. Dipping should calf. With the rubber tubing for tlif Gant with the Eastern band, heard. I shot him through the arm and coating the fields with a silt which Is Taos as well. In all probability most be done only when the day is warm. marshes with the sea. protection of il.lette, Pegleg Smith his ball rnssed rny herd, cutting my , the finest of fertilizers; then the wa of It was written down In the old adobe And Fits of the Broken liar, ' hair and the powder burning rny eye. j The ground became water-soaked. will be no burns. house In Taos, now owned by the Ma- ters gradually flow out through nar Whether you're up and away once more the muzzle of his gun being near my The great Appian road, not a long eons and called the "Kit Carson house," On the last uncharted trail, head when he fired. During our stay | Certain Minerals Help row channels until, in summer, only time after being built, began to sink on the street leading e.istward from »er you're waiting here like me In camp we had no more bother with the lowest portion of the land, that :;o*o -o—o »o:'o* o*o-*-o-» <>•> the Plaxa toward, the mountains. With the rifle on the nail. Hog Rations of Grain in places and had to be raised by this bully (of a> Frenchman. which lies practically at sea-level, re The original manuscript is for the I Light one flare to the mountain men Swine rations composed of grains Trajan and other Roman emperors. most part In the handwriting of Mrs mains In a swampy condition. I Dairy Squibs And the joy of our reck! Thus does Carson dismiss this Inci and high protein supplements from During the Eighth century it went Peters, though at times the colonel T When we probed the heart of the wllder- dent, winch many w pand Into A dense, luxuriant growth of water completely under water and the road helped with the writing, probably In * ii ess plant sources are made more efficient Ahead of the ploneors. plants springs up with the approach the year 1S57. Colonel Peters then of thrilling detail, nor does he by adding certain minerals. Corn and from Rome to Naples had to be shift Continue to feed grain to milking of the warmer the stagnant. f wrote his long "Life and Adventures Reaching the heights with the Cimarron. I say anything about the -ded soy bean oil meal or soy beans Is ed to the foothills, passing near Ninfa when turned out - of Kit Carson," which was pub] The Hits with tlie g, j lukewarm waters teem with life of ? Trapping 18 to live. J by reliable historians that Shunar such a ration. and Sermoneta. From that time to In 1858. Carsrn never read the book Living aa free as sir. every description, and toward the the present this waste but fertile re • * • as a whole, but read enough so he Is r< for his life after his first shot I The Ohio station found that the month of July the treacherous Aud gion became the playground of un- j Since water 'o have remarttf ' Peters Doing the work we were meant to do. * and that C his ; addition of salt and ground limestona' "laid It on a leetle too then- ita filmy h ruly waters. ii we tho rifts in tl wall t ham! when he had his enemy a! brought about some Improvement A This early manus ovlo>nt1y ' rises out of and. nol 1% march of a •• . mixture of salt, limestone and 16 per In winter over large; tracts of land •I by the poet's sun, Theodore Pe- ] _AI: ITERMAN. j Not the least of i t of this It? ters. who took it to Parts, Fr cent add phosphate brought about ters of)en rise as high* death anon humanity. 'th. about book, ns the one authoritative lif' ter Improvement hut not as much as the the fen< • • * or Clinton found the p ny centuries ago n e in gUliS e make It th All dairy hor 1 as one of suit, limestone and amo?i trier's effects, while rutn- Calif., as well as the t from to the mountains, built by Miss Grant and the nu- meal. A mixture of salt 1 part, diving in the shallow water for *o the pi mngi tar on A i the their towns on some si and tfonttnarl story. This In turn passed to the which supplement ground limestone 2 parts and bone • the waters subside and from ige points made broiv ctlons of meal 2 parts the fi. me cover. , i„x- I and hart The old i bs never before' pub- | dashes into the plain to work the vih of grass and original he sold ti ; und roek pht 'iitlv the •>unt and tend the eat He. Such n where Hie sheep and the loi for his I rry library In 1 In mineral IfH hav per day r that th on May 23, 1888, at Fori place was ancient Oorl. founded by cattle of the Roman Campagna find 11I Tlie copies can mlXidre for hogs, proved detrimental she and hum o matter the Trojan Ihirdanos. with its city hands ot Char' Iteley, Lyon, l rather pful, of huge polygonal : Italy intends now to tackle of hr blocks and with Its beautifully oblem of draining the mai » * • woul no progress. In Praise of Youth Dog Parasite Control Fifty Miles on a Gallon Week On aarlea A With e Ancient Towns of the Hills. tl for m..re | control is n N - ;. milk pi II "' Lindbergh «t r in Daj A little farther on rose Norma, 00 \vi autotni "Grew" This Armchair plications which have only r< ing It with all the
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