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OF COMMERCE.
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thentcrs, so often Tdiu urnt it hns come
lo lmvo a familiar sound to the enTS of
patrons, concerning a remnrk mnde by a
city man who heard that eggs had gone
flown to a cent apiece: "I don't see how
the hens can do it for the price." Not
withstanding the rvduction in tho price
of eggs, and the almost unlimited sup
ply of them in almost all countries that
have developed their agricultural re
sources, it is n fact that the trade in
eggs, their exportation from one coun
try to another, hns become a large item
of international commerce, as sorao
recent figures show. The case of Den
mark is in point. Denmark's trade in
eggs with foreign countries, chiefly
with England and Scotlnnd, has grown
enormously. Twenty years ago the an
nual Danish export of eggs was C00,
000; now it is reckoned at 110,000,000. In
the same period the Importation of eggs
into England has increased tenfold, but
only a part of the whole number came
from Denmark, the two other egg ex
porting countries from which England
draws its supplies being Holland nnd
France. France exports to other coun
tries 000,000,000 eggs in a year, and Italy
exports 500,000,000 eggs in ayenr, chiefly
to Austria nnd Germany.
The dairymen of the United States
depend chiefly on the enormous home
market, and they have rivals in the ex
port of American eggs in the Canadians,
Canada ranking next to France and
Italy and ahead of Denmark and Hol
land ns an egg-exporting country.
Canada exports to other countries 300',
000.000 etrtrs in a year. For the fiscal
year of 1895 the treasury figures give
the total exports of American eggs to
foreign countries 151,000 dozen, which
is equivalent to 1,812,000 eggs'. In the
fiscal year 180G, however, the total ex
portation of American eggs increased to
328,000 dozen, or 3,930,000 eggs, a little
anore than twice as much. The export
figures for this year indicate a still fur
ther incrense, and a market for Amer
ican eggs is likelj', therefore, to be se
cured in what the political campaign
orators are accustomed to call, some
what vaguely, the near future.
It is a somewhat cairious fact that the
weight of eggs is materially larger in
northern than in southern climates.
Canadian eggs, for instance, are heavier
than those shipped from the United
States, .nnd eggs in the northern states
of this country nre heavier than those
from the south. N. Y. Sun.
fCESSFUL RACK.
Owner atgr ,
I in f Sheep Would Do Well to
JtcJdV vcMUjjnto Km Merita.
...... 1 give n description of n sheep
rack of my own construction, which
may bu called a combination stationary
rack. Eighty feet of lumber will build
a rack 12 feet long. Tho cut gives both
end and sido view of rack when com
pleted. The rack is built as follows: Frame
stuft for posts should bo 2x2 inches. A
rock 12 feet long should havo three
frames andono 10 feet long four frames.
I'osts should bo 34 inches long. Width
of frame ot top 8 or 30 inches, nnd 23
inches at top edge of piece 5. This is
whero the bonrds rest on for bottom of
rrnin troucrh: two boards 10 inches
wide for bottom, and board C nailed se
curely to the out edge of bottom form
tho grnln trough, which should be not
less than 5 inches wide. Hoard A is 13
inches' wide nnd is nailed on tho top
sido of slnnting pieces 3, which form
bottom of hay rack. These pieces
should bo 1x4 inches. They arc nailed
to top of frame and rest on top edge of
board 11, which sets on the center of
BEES BY EXPRESS.
Some
Vnlnnlile IIIntN Iteenrdlne
I'nukliiK nnd Shliiiilnj;.
An exchange gives the following di
rections for packing and shipping bees:
The manner of packing depends some
what upon the kind of hive, and to some
extent on the season of the year. They
can be shipped any time of the year
when bees are flying. If the weather is
comparatively cool, as in the spring and
fall, they do not need so much ventila
tion as through the warm months.
There is little clanger, however, of giv
ing too much ventilation at any time.
Just how the ventilation enn best be
given depends upon the hive, but with
almost any hive you can have the en
tire top covered with wire cloth, and
that makes the colony safe against
smotherfng. If the weather is hot the
bees need a supply of water on their
journey, which may be given by means
of a sponge or a roll of rags saturated
with water and placed on the top of the
frames. If the hive coutains loose
hanging frames, these must in some
way be made fast. This mny be done
by driving nails through the ends of
the top bars down into the ends of the
hive, but the nails should not be
driven in their entire depth, leaving
their ends projecting sot they can be
drawn with a claw hammer. -When
placed on the enrs, let the frames run
parallel with the track; on a wagon
rthey should run crosswise.
FOR SITTING HENS.
A Device That In IOiikUj- .Mnde mitt
Siivcm hotH of Trouble1.
A labor-saving device for use in set
ting hens is shown herewith. A shoe
or grocery box of sufficient size is taken,
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LABOR SAVINQ DEVICH.
nnd a nest Is made in one end, as shown
in the engraving, the top and front hav
ing been removed to show the interior.
The bottom of the box is covered with
road dust, or coal nshes and u shelf for
Retting in water and cracked corn
the best feed for sitting hens. Open
ings for air are mnde in each end. A
lien can be plnccd on the nest, the cover
of the box put on, and biddy left to her
own devices until she brings off her
brood. This plan takes nway much of
the en re usually experienced in setting
Jiuns in spring. Orange Judd Furmer.
EXCELLENT SHEEP RACK.
bottom, hence makes two troughs and
makes a solid base or bottom of hay
rock. This board may vary from G to 8
inches in width or height. D are strips
3 or 4 inches wide nailed to lower side
and edge of board A,and on top edge of
board D strips one-half inch thick nnd
3 or 4 inches apart. This completes the
rack.
When sheep have access to the hay or
rough feed no hayseed can get in the
wool if hay and grain nre fed at the
same time. The grain should be put in
first and can be poured into the top of
rack, and it will divide itself equally in
both troughs.
Foot piece 6 is made of inch lumber,
and should be securely nailed to bottom
of frame. This makes the rack stand
firm. Piece 4 is 5 inches wide and keeps
the rack from spreading.
This sheep rack is easj' to make. Any
one who enn use a square, saw and ham
mer can make one. It is all put together
with nnils. I know of no better rack.
I have used this rack for stock sheep
for over eight years. Small lambs will
not get in the troughs to soil the grain.
E. L. Horner, in Nntionnl Stockman.
KEEP MORE SHEEP.
ninny Hciihoiim Wliy Every Farmer
Should Ilnve a Flock.
There are a number of reasons why
sheep should be kept on every farm,
whatever the price may be for wool or
mutton, snys a writer in the Rural Ca
nadian. Sheep should be kept in time
of low prices because the low prices will
not always exist, but nre likely at any
time to take nn upward trend. When
that time comes the people will be found
clamoring for mutton, which they
learned to ent in a time of low prices.
When the rise comes the number ol
sheep being marketed will suddenly
fall oil, as will also the number to be
had for breeders. You will then be
glnd that you kept enough of the old
flock to pro Ida for the expansion of the
new flock.
Sheep should be kept because there
arc many wild grnsses on nearly every
farm that will be eaten to the best ad
vantage by sheep. They hne no butter
or milk to be tainted and rejected by
the market for that reason. A lot ol
sheep running in the cow pasture might
reduce the weeds to such nn extent that
much of the bad effect on the butter
would be nvoided.
Sheep cannct he dispensed with for
the reason thnt they provide meat in
small parcels, each one of which mny
be disposed of before it suffers from tho
effects of decay. Every farmer can thus
provide himself a constant, supply ol
meat that can be equaled only by his
poultry. The two make nn agreeable
addition to the larder.
Sheep should be kept in large quanti
ties for the public good. If the present
rnte of depletion be allowed to go on,
there will come a time when we must
import a considerable amount of our
mutton, and the money thus going out
annually will tend, by so much, to keep
the balance of the trnde against us.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Clover improves the soil and makes
the best "hay" in the world.
No soil was ever so rich that it could
not profitably utilize the manure made
on the farm.
Patronize your home people. Sell
your grain to the local buyer unless you
know he is swindling you.
We take little stock in the direct ship
ment of grain to cities. As a rule it
doc's not pa j', in our , -judgment.
Look before you leap, and if you do
you will not get swindled by slick
tongucd imposters from the city.
The horse should be put to hard work
in the spring gradunlly. The animal Is
not in the best condition in early spring.
Try peas for stock. Sow broadcast
or drill. They are at the top as green
forage for hogs, cows or any other
stock.
Sit down and cultivate a bitter enmi
ty to every weed that grows this senton.
Try to feel toward it as a dog does
toward a cut. Western Plowman.
A COLONEL'S AVERSION.
What Wnn the Due of Tnlklnjf ol
Water, Anyivnyf
"If theuh'a anything I dislike," re
.marked Col. Stihvell, "it's supereroga
tion. Theuh nhe too many people In
this world who Insist on telling you in
tho most solemn mannuh things which
nny puhson of nwdinary intelligence
could rendily tako fob granted. I
was recently at a city on the coast,
where I met n young friend of mtne.
He was very courteous. One of tho
first things ho did was to ask mu if I
would not like to go down the beach n
short distance and get acquainted with
their life-saving nrrnngcmcntB."
"You went, of co'sc," suggested Maj.
Molt.
"No. I told him thnt the journey
was quite unnecessary, as I had n flask
in my pocket. He refused to join mo
nnd if it had not been fob his extreme
politeness I should have sought society
elsewhere fo'thwith.
"The conversation went rather slow
ly. Finally, howevuh, he mnde an ef
fort and entered on a dlsco'so about
the ocean. He dwelt upon the mnjes
tic waves thnt kept rolling in to tho
sho' and said thnt it filled him with awo
to gaze across that stretch of water
into the infinity of space."
"That was a remarkably iraprcssivo
thought."
"To be sure. That obsuhvntion had
some reason in it. Hut his next remark
roused my indignation. With the nir
of n mnn who proposes to astonish you
with cleverness, he proceeded to sny
that it was fine to look at, but that it
was mighty poor comfort when it enma
to a pinch, as it wasn't fit to drink.
What do you think, sub, of a full-grown
man's wasting words to construct a sen
tence like that?"
"But," expostulated the major, "ho
meant that it waB salty."
The colonel glared at him.
"Puh-hnps he meant thnt the ocean
was salty and puh-hnps he did not; but
will you be kind enough to tell me, sub,
what the deuc that has to do with tho
question, suit?" Washington Star.
HOW ENGLISH IS TAUGHT.
Collcfrcit Scored for Their McthodM of
I'rcnentiiii? Our Literature.
Probably no educational problem has
ever been attacked with so light a heart
or hns accomplished more harm to real
cultivation than what is known as "Eng
lish" in our college departments. Un
der this compendiu3 heading is gath
ered an attempt to teach students how
to use English as n tool, how to know
English as a, tongue nnd how to up
preciato English literature. The prac
tical result, as the study is carried on
in a large number of institutions, is
that tho student is disgusted with tho
greater monuments of the tongue, ac
quires conceptions of fantastic preci
sion in it, and learns just enough of its
philology to leave him with thcimpres
lion thnt he knows something.
Scarcely any of our colleges hnvo
rcully grasped the necessity of making
vivid to students the great monuments
sf literature and treating the rest as
subordinate. Instead, we have our uni
versities studying and often giving
prizes for the study of second, third and
fourth-rate authors, which are dug up
and written about and treated as of
consequence. They are, as n part of
the textual study of the history of
literature; they are not ns soul dis
jlplinc. Life is short and a collega
:ourse is shorter. It is more necessary
In it to discipline a man into admiration
3f the great men than to give him a
minute acquaintance with the fncts
ibout small men or the details of lan
guage. Neither is there any path to
ityle so sure, so subtle or so easy as that
unknown path which the lion lui3 tjod
jlnne. Philadelphia Press.
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
Kansas City, Mo., April 27.
CATTLE Ilcst beeves. 8 a 85 4 05
Stackers 4 10 4 4')
Native cows. SI!) G il 75
IIOGS-Cholcc to heavy 3 0U a 65
SHEEP 3!i5 1L'5
WHEAT No. 2 red 08 1 00
No. Shard b3 81
CORN-rNo. 2 mixed 21 'M S3
OATS No. 2 mixed 10 tf 20
UVE-No.2 SO 31
FLOUK Patent, per suck 2 40 2 J0
Fancy 1 R' 2 00
HAY Choice, timothy 1)00 l) to
Fancy prairie 0 60 7 00
HIIAN (sacked) 63 61
I1UTTEU Choice-creamery.... 10 10,
CHEESE Full cream 10, 11
EGGS Choice 7H 75
POTATOES 22 25
ST. LOUIS.
CATTLE Native and shlpplni; 3 85 4 00
Texuns 3 00 4 30
HOGS Heavy 3 00 4 00
SHEEP Fair to choleo 3 50 4 47tf
FLOUIl Cholco 3 20 3 30
WHE AT-No. 2 red 1 00 1 02
CORN No. 2 mixed 22 22 K
OATS No. 2 mixed 16 lOtf
RYE No. 2 30 37
UUTTEK Crcumcry 13 18tf
LARIJ Western mess 4 00 4 07tf
PORK 8 15 8 75
CHICAGO.
CATTLE Common to prlmo... U'i 5 35
HOGS Packing and shipping.. 3 05 4 15
SHEEP Fnlr to cholco 3 53 5 05
FLOUR Winter wheat 4 30 4 50
WHEAT No. 2 red 02 00
CORN No.2 25i 25
OATS No. S. 18 1HU
RYE :i(!?4 37
HUTTER Creamery. 12 10
LARD 4 10 4 17H
PORK 8 55 8 60
NEW YORK.
CATTLE Natlvo Steers. 4 35 5 00
HOGS-Good to Choice 4 25 4 50
WHEAT-No. 2 red 8I 85
CORN No. 2 3'J 30K
OATS-No.2. 22 28
HUTTER-Cicamery 13 17
PORK Mcs 8 75 0 50
IIott's ThUT
We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard
for nny case of Cntnrrh that can not bo
cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure.
1 J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, 0.
Wc, the undersigned, have known 1 J.
Cheney for the Inst 15 years, nnd bclicvo
him perfectly honorable in nil business
transactions nnd financially able to carry
out any obligations mnde by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To
ledo, 0.
Wnlding, Kinnnn & Marvin, Wholesale
Drugcist8. Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Cntnrrh Cure is taken intcrnnlly,
acting directly upon the blood nnd mucous
surfaces of the Bystcm. Price 7Cc. per bot
tle. Sold by all DruggUts. Testimonials
'cc.
Hall's Family Pills nre the best.
The young mnn who nlwnys tells whnt
high wages ho g6ts, need never expect a
promotion. Washington Democrat.
"Stttr Tolmeco."
As you chew tobneco for pleasure, uso
Stnr. It Ih not only tho best, hut tho most
lasting, nnd therefore tho cheapest.
Courtesy nnd etiquette are flowers; tho
ono hns its roots in the heart; the other, in
tho intellect. Itnm'it ITnrn.
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Pains nnd aches brenk down. SI. Jacobs
Ou builds up and finishes with a cure.
Act without thought, and you nre a fool ;
think without act, and you nre a visionary.
Ham's Horn.
When bilious or costive ent n Cnscnrct,
candy cathnrtic, cure gunrnntecd. 10c, 25c.
We enn sec ono wny with a little thought,
but it usunlly tnfees a second or third
thought lo see tho best way. Ram's Horn.
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Look out! Shiver, then soreness and
fittilncss. Use St. Jacobs Oil then n erne.
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For the
Kidneys,
Liver
and
Urinary
Organs.
flTHnRB li enly ona way by which
11. any disease can ba cured, and that
la by removlnjr the cause, what
ever It may be. The creat medical
authorities of the day declare that near
ly every disease is causes oy
deransred Kidneys or Liver.
To restore these, therefore, la
the only way by which health
caa be secured, Hera Is where
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has achieved Its great repu.
Utlon. It
ACTS DIREOTLY
UPON THE
KIDNEYS and LIVER
and by placing them In m.
healthy condition, drives
disease and pain from tha
system.
Iiivrao bottls or new stylo
ranllur ono, at your drueRlsta.
Its reputation a Tw onty yoara
of buccohs," In four continents.
Warnor's Bivfo Ouro Co., Lon
don, lioohnstor, Krunkiort, Mot
bo orno. Toronto.
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strong claims.
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That's
When I Saw
your advertisement
I thought that it was probably like the announce
ments of many other makers of harvesting machinery
big blow and little show; but I'm ready to surren
der; go ahead, gentlemen, you're all right; I bought
one of your binders last season and it is equal to any
claim you ever made for it."
This is the condensed essence of what Mr. Thomas
Carney, of Washington Court House. Ohio, has to
say about the McCormidc Right Hand Open Elevator
The claims made for McCormkk Machines aro
because
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crime you want will cost you more than the other kind, for the simple reason that
it is worm more; mat's all there's no other reason and in the end you'll be
' glad you paid the difference, because there's nothing cheaper than the best.
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, Chicago,
The Light-Running McCormick Open IHevntor Harvester,
The I.fKlit-Kunnliifr McCorinlcie New 4 Steel Mower,
The r.lRht-Kuuiiiiig RtcCormick Vertical Corn Hinder nnd
The Ught'llunuluK McCormick Daisy Kenncr, for sale everywhere.
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Indianapolis, Ind.
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wheel at a popular price.
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Wo have also producedn now
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