year.

Big Horn county was formally organized July 6.

The first pot of cement was calcined at the new works at Laramie early in July. It is pronounced to be of very superior quality.

Robert Taylor, of Caspar, has a wool clip this year of 560,000 pounds. He is supposed to be the largest individual wool grower in the country.

The Rock Creek coal mine owners are trying to induce the government to purchase its supply of coal for the Pacific coast coaling stations, instead of going to British Columbia for it

Cloud-bursts, several in succession, have so damaged the Brockway ditch, near Douglas, that it may have to be abandoned for the year. A soaking rain soon afterward saved the crops from total destruction.

The largest sale of state lands yet made was at Evanston recently when lands which have been occupied several years

under lease were sold at auction to the occupants for an aggregate sum of $4,335, which goes to the state school fund.

Some mischievous or malicious person cut the locks on the headgates of the new Cody canal in the Big Horn baisin, raised the headgates and let a big head of water into the canal, which was not yet well set and ready for it. A break was the direct consequence and a great deal of damage

to farms below the canal.

One geological survey party has left Sheridan to triangulate across the Big Horn range into the basin, and another party left simultaneously from Red Lodge, Montana, carrying levels into the same basin and prepared to make a thorough topographical survey, the two parties co-operating. It will materially

assist the settlement of that great basin of rich land in Northern Wyoming.

AN ERROR.

In Mr. C. C. Hutchinsons' article on "Growing Winter Grain", in the July number there is reference to his work entitled "Resources of Kansas, or Fifteen years experience." A typographical error made this appear as though published in 1891. The correct date is 1871 which is twenty years earlier. Mr. Hutchinson was one of the very earliest of Kansas pioneers and the thriving city of Hutchinson was named in his honor.

PRACTICAL POINTS.

Clean out your granaries and destroy the vermin of every kind before putting in new grain.

Sheep and fowls are the gleaners of the modern farm; they save much that would be wasted without them.

A hen that does not work for a living never amounts to much, no more than a

man.

Motherhood in its largest development is the object sought in the profitable dairy

COW.

Because poor cows will yield no profit is no reason why good cows will not pay. Pure water is as important as pure food to any kind of live stock.

Nothing on the farm should be under so complete subjection as the weeds.

There is less danger of producing things too good than not good enough.

It is claimed that cows with thick udders usually give rich milk.

Hay is most nutritious as feed when cut before the seed begins to ripen.

Breed for heavy weights in horses, no matter if a ton.

A change of food is sometimes better than more food.

It is as unprofitable to feed too much as too little.

It is pigs that are wanted in the markets now-not hogs.

You must begin in the stable to make good butter.

Feed, as well as breed, is necessary to dairy success.

and the F. C. Austin Manufacturing Company, fully appreciating the advantages and possibilities of generating power so cheaply, have invented and placed on the market a practical current motor.

Rivers have been utilized to run machinery by damming them and using a water wheel, but this necessitated the expense of

There is almost no limit to the use to which the power generated by a current motor can be applied. For example, it may be used for generating electricity for electric lighting purposes, and for various machines used on a farm now run by steam, but its chief use will be in connection with irrigation and mining.

There are many localities in the West, and in fact all over the country, where the land adjacent to the river is too high to admit of the water being conveyed to it through ditches by means of gravity. Under such conditions the land is now generally not irrigated, particularly in the arid regions, except to a limited extent in those localities where vegetables and fruit are raised, where the value of the crop.compensates, in a measure, for the expense of pumping water by steam or gasoline engine, both of which require fuel and an engineer. The capacity of the windmill is too limited to admit of its general use for irrigation on a large scale. To such localities the Austin Current Motor will prove

a boon.

This motor has been experimented with and tested thoroughly and its practicability practically demonstrated. The only limits. to the power, and consequently to the amount of water that can be pumped by the Austin Current Motor, are the dimensions of the paddles, the number of them and the force of the current.

The machine, which is anchored in the river, consists of a pontoon carrying two endless chains, to which are pivotally attached, at suitable distances, reversible paddles having floats at their upper ends. that buoy them up in their course through the water. By an ingenious device these paddles enter and leave the water in such a way that they do not detract from the efficiency of the machinery, but on the contrary rather add to it. To the wheels put in motion by these cables is attached an elevator carrying large buckets, which, when entering the water to fill themselves, add to the generation of power, and are so arranged that when they reach the top of the elevator they discharge their contents with the least possible friction into a trough, there to be conveyed to the shore,

where a reservoir has been constructed to collect the water and distribute it through canals and lateral ditches over the land.

The first outlay for a current motor of this description is, comparatively speaking, not large, particularly when the enormous enhancement of the value of the land is considered, and the cost of running it is nominal. It works incessantly, day and night, without an attendant, and if the capacity of the reservoir is sufficient, a large volume of water is accumulated to be used at the proper season.

For full particulars, write to the manufacturers, the F. C. Austin Manufacturing Company, of Chicago, Ill., U. S. A.

LAND GRADING.

The Shuart Land Grader, the cut of which in our advertising columns has become so familiar to the readers of the AGE, is eliciting much hearty and enthusiastic praise from a widely scattered and diversified class of patrons. The accuracy and economy with which grading for irrigation can be accomplished with this machine is a happy surprise to each new purchaser.

The Shuart Grader has come to be

recognized in the East as exceedingly con

venient and useful for road and street supplement rather than to supplant the purposes. In this sphere it is designed to big road machines in general use, and so popular is it for this purpose that it is being purchased by townships in numbers varying from a single machine to one machine for each road district in the township.

In no sphere has its success been more marked, however, than in the preparation of the sub-grade of streets for pavement. Hitherto this work has been done by hand labor with picks and shovels, at great expense, as there has been no scraper made with which the sub-soil could be planed down with sufficient accuracy. The following testimonial, which is by no means an unusual one, shows the great value of this machine to street contractors:

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 6, 1896. B. F. Shuart, Oberlin, Ohio.

DEAR SIR: We beg leave to testify to the merit of your Shuart Land Grader. It has more than saved its price within the first four days' work, having used it on the finished sub-grade, in which capacity it has each day saved the expense of from ten to twenty men, with just the same or better results. We find it extremely handy and useful.

Very truly,

KINNEAR & GRAHAM. Important improvements have recently been added to the machine.

In 1895 there were eight hundred and fifty-five creameries in Iowa. Only four of the ninety-nine counties have none. The total output was $13,300,000, an average per factory of $15,555.