fe* f ' ' Mora Borni, Leu Milk. The removal or suppression of the L horns of cows increases the supply of j milk and the animal fats, says the Boston Globe. The fact is a strange! one, but there is no doubt about it. ' The horns are not of much use, and, On the other hand, are often the cause of accidents. The removal of the horns of young animals was recom ■ mended years ago by a distinguished .^veterinary surgeon, and Neumann demonstrated that cows without horns were fatter and gave more milk than others, lie saw four Dutch cows with* out horns give from eighteen to nine teen _ quarts of milk a day, although on different pastures, whereas others of the same breed, but with horns, only gave twelve to fifteen quarts, In spite of the fact that they had the advantage of excellent grazing land. American breeders have made experi ments which amply confirm the state ment made above. Those in favor of the removal of horns do not , in the least intend to countenance any not of cruelty; the removal would be effected in a simple and easy manner, by destroying the tissue or ' foot of the horn, as soon as there was the slightest sign of hardening on the forehead of the young animal. But without entering into any discussion on this head, simply note the fact that tho removal of the horns increases the supply of milk. Although strange at first sight, it does not appear so extra ordinary upon consideration. It is known by experience that the removal -of an organ which has no utility loads to beneficial results in other ways If then, the animal is more content, if its domestication is more thorough and complete, if it gives a better return to the owner of the quantity and quality of its mllk.it is natural to suppose that it. will raise a better calf, that shall be a better feeder and have also the capacity of its sire and dam to grow faster, mature earlier and generally do better. Beet ftugar Indaactry la lUnlk The beet Industry, is one of the most important branches of agricultu-e asd manufacture in Russia, and beet sugar not only supplies the whole wants of the Russian empire, but is exported in ▼cry considerable quantities to Aus tria, Germany and other countries,says Indian Agriculturist. The United States consul-general at St. Peters burg says that the cultivation of beets took its rise in Russia at the begin ning of the present century simultan eously with its Introduction into West ern Europe. The government from the first has taken an exceedingly ac tive interest in this industry, and it has been strongly supported by the sevoral agricultural and economic so cieties of the empire. To the first or ganizers of beet plantations and sugar factories handsome prizes in money and in government concessions were awarded; in fact, this industry lias been in every way encouraged, sup ported and patronized by the govern ment, The varieties of beets grown in the empire have their origin very generally in France and Germany; of these the French appear to contain the greatest quantity of saccharine mat ter, while the German varieties will produce the largest number of bush els per acre, the difference in the lat ter respect being about 25 per cent. Great care is taken in preparing the soil for beets. The field is twice plowed, the first time from seven to eight, and the second from ten to twelve inches deep. If the beet crop follows cereals the first plowing is done immediately after harvest, and the second just before frost sets in. The implements used in working beet fields are generally of very good con struction, sometimes foreign-made, and sometimes made in Russia after foreign models. The fields are mostly sown from the first to the last day in April,, according to local conditions of climate and soil. The seed is general ly soaked in water, and then sown in rows—about twenty to twenty-five pounds of dry seed per acre. When the beet sprouts show three or four leaves the plantation is weeded, and when the milk is given when sour or when over-boiled or scalded, so that care should be taken to keep every utensil from which calves are fed as scrupulously clean as are the milk cans—on some farms! As to scalding we think that the utensil should re ceive all of it, for if the milk be pure warming is sufficient and scalding deleterious, hi ilk heated to a new milk warmness is most suitable for very young calves, and will not as a rule cause scouring; the latter com plaint is but a sign that the vessels are foul, the milk sour or tainted with contaminated water. It should be remembered that scouring is simply an aggravated symptom of indigestion, and that the latter is due to some error in the condition, quantity or quality of the f iod. It may of course be due in some bad cases to inherited tuberculosis or milk from a sick cow, but in nine cases out of ten the fault is in the condition of milk used as food, that might be kept or rendered harmless. Calves will if not watched often eat ‘‘foreign bodies” such as bedding, leaves, hair, etc., and this habit is often blamed for the diarrhea that occurs, but the depraved appetite is merely a symptom of the indigestion that led to scouring. Thinning Corn. It has been urged by some that it is best to plant about three times as many kernels of corn per acre as is wished to have mature stalks, thinning the corn when of proper size—say from six to fourteen inches high—being careful to remove the weaker stalks. In order to compare the results of this method with those of the method of planting only so many kinds as will give the desired number of stalks per acre without thinning, Mr. Franklin Stump, foreman of the Ohio Experi ment Station farm, conducted the fol lowing experiment: Four-fifths of an acre of land from which soil had been removed some years since for making brick, was divided into four equal plots A strip of uniform width across the plots, as laid out, hence involving an equal amount of each plot, grew melilotus, or sweet clover, the four f good FRIDAY, THE PRIZE SHETLAND PONY, OWNED BY SiR WALTER GILBEY OF ENGLAND. Fish Guano-- •' ThU is » material the use of which la largely Increasing, says Farmers’ Gazette. It consists of dried and powdered fish, or fish refuse. Some times it is made from whole fish sprats, herrings, menhadden, etc.— wh'ch are boiled to remove the bulk of the oil (which' is' a valuable commer cial product), the residue being then dried for manure. Sometimes—and •very largely—it consists of the residue ' -of offal from the cod fisheries, haddock and herring curing operations, market fish offal, etc., similarly treated or >simply dried. The more the oil has been extracted, the better the manure, '. Tor the more rapid is its decomposition. - Oil retards this, and is in itself useless «s a manure. In good fish guanos the nitrogen varies from 7 to 8 per cent up to 10 or 12 per cent, and the phos phates from about 6 to 16 per cent. As a rule, the higher the nitrogen the lower the phosphates. Like Peruvian guano, fish guano furnishes both 1 phosphates and nitrogen; but its nitro gen is all in the form of undecomposed animal matter, whereas in guano it is alread largely in the form of actual ammonia. Peruvian guano, therefore, acts much more rapidly than fish guano; and while the former is gen orallv best applied in the spring, fish guano is generally best applied in the ^ autumn, so that it may become well rotten by the time it is wanted. It is much valued in market gardening and as a manure for hope ;,V'- Poultry Sotos. , Feed the old hens clover and less carbonaceous food in the latter part of winter and they will give better satis w.. faction. Bn careful'about pouring out brine . or leaving pieces of salt, salt meat or salt fish lying around, you are. liable C to lose your turkeys if you do. , < Westers breeders agree that one can seldom obtain*thirty chicks from a young gobbler, and that a 3-year-old is better than one 2 years old. If a flock becomes diseased the land • which they wander over is liable to v. become contaminated and infect other docks that occupy the same ground. Corn is all right when turkeys can find their own green food and insect ration to go on with it. but when they ,*V; get little exercise they become ab normally fat. at the same time the soil is loosened with the aid of a light hand machine, called motyga, care being taken to soften only the upper layer of the. soil. The superfluous plants are afterward weeded out, so that those remaining are from ten to twelve inches apart. The weeding and loosening are re peated five or six times, until the beet leaves cover the snrface. The harvest begins generally in the last days of August, and ends about the first of October. The crop is gathered with he aid of a hand spade or a two pronged fork specially adapted for the purpose. When the beet is taken out of the ground it is cleared of earth and topped; the small portion of the root also is cut away, great care being taken not to injure the root proper. The beets are then carefully piled on the field and covered. Feeding the Calf. To the average dairy farmer this is a subject of but little interest, for he much prefers to sell at once rather than “bother" with the “hand-raising" of the calves that come almost month ly in his stables. But to the farmer's wife it is a matter of great import ance. She it is who usually has the "bother” alluded to; she it is that hand raises the calves and frequently sees not a dollar of the money that they bring ip when matured. Truly therp is a great deal of trouble involved In some methods of calf feeding, But it is as true that the work may be much simplified if thought is given to it rather than mere labor and old fashioned ideas. Is there, for in stance, any sense or necessity for feed ing each calf by itself in rotation as is so often done? We see none. Neither is it a good plan to allow all of the calves to drink out of a trough like pigs. The best plan we have ever seen or heard of—unless it be to pro vide artificial teats and udders—is to construct a calf stanchion in a lot or pen and teach the youngsters to come up and stand secured just like the cows do to receive their separate ra tions from pails set in front of them secure from the interference of the other calves. As to food we do not mean to say a great deal. Every farmer’s wife knows that nothing is so good as milk for a young calf, but too often forgets . that the milk must be in proper condition for the calves to drink. Trouble frequently occurs seasons of 1888 to 1891 inclusive The melilotus was not cut, but was allowed to go down each year and reseed the land. A crop of wheat was cut from the land in 1893. Aside from any effect which the melilotus may have had, the land was practical ly uniform in quality and condition. Two plots were planted at the rate of one grain per foot in the rows. The seed was excellent and almost abso lutely every grain grew. These plots were not thinned. Two plots were planted at the rate of three grains per foot in the rows, and were thinned to practically the same number of stalks per acre as were then on plots one and three. The thinning was done July 7, just four weeks after planting, and the corn ranged from one to two feet high. The plots which were thinned yielded 690 pounds of ear corn, while those which were not thinned yielded 813 pounds, a decrease of 14 per eeit due to the thinning process. This was an excentionally dry season. The thin ning probably caused more injury than would ordinarily result. fVAHnxA Snow Eggs.—Beat stiff the whites of six eggs; have ready on the fire a pint of milk sweetened and flavored with vanilla; as soon as it bolls drop the beaten egg into it by tablespoonfuls, and as soon as they be come set dip them out with a tin; slice and arrange them according to fancy upon a broad dish; allow the milk in the saucepan to cool a little, and then stir in the yelks of the egg very grad ually. When thick, pour around the snowed eggs, and serve cold. Bn-s Ntk's Moddl Fabm.—Bill Nyt has decided to stop lecturing. In an interview at Chicago, he said: “The fact is, I can not keep up writing and lecturing. The work is too hard; and then, my family, for whom I toil, are anxious to see more of me. I shall close my platform career in a few weeks, and go to my home in the mountains of North Carolina in time to gather my strawberry crop on my model farm. I call it a model farm because it costs me three times as much to run it as I get out of it, and I understand from competent agricul tural sources that is what constitutes a model farm.” Bowel troubles seem to be more prevalent in turkeys than any other disease, and a bird that gets sick is very apt to die. KER'BIICAN DOCPLNE. THE SUGAR BOUNTY. (t Colt Ten Hlllloni nad Gave Five Cent ■near—The Wllson-Voorhees Bill Abol hlw» the Bounty and Raises the Price Forty-One Millions—It Pots the Entire Sugar Interests In the Hands of the Trust—The People Will Pay Twice, Once to the Government and Once to the Trust. The sugar bounty clause of the Mc Kinley bill is for the benefit, not of Louisiana alone, but for all the states in the northwest engaged in or adapted to sorghum and beet root sugar. The idea is to encourage, to stimulate the | production of cane, of so.-ghum, and beet root sugar in this country and to afford occupation for our farmers and planters as well as to our manufactur ers, ine ablest European students have said that if this policy was maintained it would, in ten years, render the United States independent of Cuba and (iermany and capable of producing every pound of sugar we need. In many sections of the northwest sor ghum and beet root constitute an im portant and most profitable item of farming. Withal sugar is free and the product of the world is at the disposition of our consumers, so that the poor man gets it at a price before unknown. Home competition, stimulated by a bounty, with free imports, made a combination beneficial to farmers and to all who used sugar. Louisiana has taken a new hold on life, sorghum and beets are cultivated all through our west, and the farmer finds a new cash and profitable crop to handle. The poor, the middle class mid even the rich find sugar cheaper than they had dreamed it could be. What has this cost? Ten Million dollars a year. W hat does the senate propose to do? So near as can be learned from the intimate relations existing between the sugar trust and democratic members of the committee an import tax of some $41,000,000 is to be levied, and the bounty cut off without warning. The result will be that crops, which last year brought good money, will be unplanted this year or, if planted will be valueless. Beet roots will be fed to hogs and sorghum cane left to rot in the fields. The factories erected in so many neighborhoods to manufacture these sugars will stand idle and our product of sugar will fall off at once to a mere trifle in Louisiana and ultimate ly disappear entirely. Sugar, now from four to five cents a pound, will go higher, first of the tax and, second because once our home product is wiped out, we shall be whol ly dependent on the foreign crop. Ger man and Cuban sugar, already con trolled by the trust of New York im porters, and refiners, will be put up in price from month to month while the masses of the people will have to pay at both ends. Silver and Work. The future of these two is insepara ble. One dependson the other. A wider use of silver not only at home, but abroad, depends largely on a protec tive policy. Cleveland's free trade gold bond policy is hostile to Silver as well as to American labor. Free trade is sure to bring excessive imports of British. French and German goods to crush out competition of our own factories. W hat are we giflng to send abroad to pay for them? Silver? Oh, no! Gold is the only thing the English banker will take and he will drain our gold reserve with one hand while he crushes our industries with the other. Here at home our silver circulates freely and on an equality with gold. New England buys cotton of the south, wheat and corn from the northwest, fruits, eta, from California and Flor ida. She sends cotton fabrics to every portion of our country. Every portion of our country has one or more special articles which the rest of the country needs. This interchange is continually increasing under protection. By this, the use of silver is made greater. Stop these mills, stop this interchange, rely on foreign countries and gold must go abroad to pay for these articles The English banker will then hoard our gold while the foreign workmen will have more work, perhaps he will have better wages, and we will be in the soup business continually. Well, if the Wilson bill passes we can all go to farming. If we cannot sell our crops, we can eat them and be con tent to let the south get cheap labor. Sell at Home. There is a market in this country for considerable over 90 per cent of every thing produced within our borders. This is an uncontrovertable fact. No body disputes it, because the figures absolutely show such to be the case. Now, this being so, what reason is there in the cry that we want free trade, except it be as Mr. Mills once said: “In order that we may reach out for the markets of the world. In order that we may sell where we can sell the dear est and buy where we can buy the cheapest.’’ Every farmer, every man ufacturer, in fact every producer in all the land has for the past ten years been enabled to sell his products or wares for a good profit over and above the cost The labor employed has been paid more by a very largo percentage than labor in any other quarter of the globe. Then how can we better our selves if, instead of consuming our products at home, we send them abroad? To buy abroad closes our factories and reduces the wages paid laboring men. It would seem as though the proposi tion was perfectly plain that such a course would not benefit any class of business or labor, but, on the contrary, it would result as the republican lead ers have always predicted, widespread ~uin and disaster. Panics. How many panics producing idle ness and poverty have occurred in the United States under the operation of a high protective tariff? Every great panic which paralyzed the industrial interests of the United States has oc curred under the operation of a low tariff—the nearest approximation of free trade. Farmers Answer. If protection is oppressive to the farmers as a class, why were farmers the first to enact it into law? (The first congress was composed principally of farmers) IT WILL HURT. At Claim that Free Trade for Farmer* Will Help, I* Not Borne Oat bjr the Experience of England. It has often been urged that free trade would benefit the farmer. A les sons from England may not be inap propriate. It is a matter of public notoriety that the record of farming in England for the past thirty years has been one of disaster. Figures show that in that time 3,500,000 acres of land have been driven from cultivation, made into for ests and shooting grounds for the rich. In 1863 England raised 17,000,000 quarters of wheat and in 1893, 7,000,000. Within six months English land owners have been obliged to reduce wages to eight shillings per week. Eight shil lings is 8 3.00. How would our farmers like to work for Slot per year? The southern aristocracy would like it, the great land owners might like it, but how would it suit the people who have to earn their living by agriculture. An English Salt. We are rep’eatedly told that English clothes are so very much cheaper than our own. The following, from Mr. Urovesnor’s speech on the tariff bill will be valuable as an illustration on this point: “Let me, in this connection, read you a statement from one of the most prom inent men in the business in Massachu setts, and I am going to give the name here and his location. It is Mr. Morey Lapham of Worcester, Mass. The statement which I have, and which I stand behind and guarantee to be true, is this: One of the largest individual woolen manufacturers in the country visited scores of ready-made clothing stores.in Liverpool to buy the lowest costing wool suit of clothing he could find suit able for his use on his voyage home, and paid for it $11. Upon reaching home, he went into the one-price cloth ing store of Ware & Pratt, in Worces ter, Mass., and called for the cheapest all-wool suit of clothes suitable for his own use. To hts amaze ment they showed him a suit which was an exact duplicate of the suit which he had on. Some American manufac turer of woolen cloth had taken a sam ple of the woolen cloth in his English suit and reproduced it, pick for pick, wool for wool, weight for weight color for color, and a much more thoroughly trimmed and maid suit, and it cost him $10.50. [Applause on the republican side. ] Now, Mr. Chairman, once for all, by my personal observation and examina tion I say that the common clothing of the laboring men and the medium class of men in this country is produced and sold today in America at a rate way under the price that it is produced in England, or in any country on the Con tinent of Europe. I am able to dem onstrate the same thing in regard to boots and shoes, and every possible commodity that enters into the use of the common people of the country; and the time has come when the people of America ought to be saved from further appeals of the character which were made here yesterday. Business Confidence.. If the mere agitation of tariff reform and the imminent danger of the pass age of such a bill as the proposed meas ure now pending in congress is suffi cient to disarrange the business inter ests of the country and entail wide spread disaster throughout the land, what will be the result if we have to meet the reality and the bill is finally passed and put into active operation? It is said by those best able to make the estimate that “an accurate calcula tion would probably show that the country has lost more in that period (meaning the period of agitation) from this policy or wickedness than has been paid for protective duties levied by all tariffs since the foundation of the government ’’ This means that the efforts of the democratic party to re form the tariff have cost the business interests of the country thousands of millions of dollars. To the manufac turer, to the farmer, to the laborer, to the professional man, all of whom have suffered beyond words to express, let the question be asked, does it pay? If you are in doubt upon this point con trast the first year of Grover Cleve land’s administration with any period during the last ten or twelve years. Sugar Subsidy. The southern free traders in con gress were quick in tearing down the sugar subsidy provided by the last re publican congress for the purpose of allowing the United States an oppor tunity to raise her own sugar. It would not be amiss for these howling free trade reformers to remember that France pays annually six millions, Italy three millions, Germany one and one half millions, Spain one and one-half millions, Austria one and one-fourth millions, Russia one and one-fourth millions of subsidies, and other weaker nations than these follow in the same wise method of establishing local in dustries, commerce and trade. How these nations, who prosper by sueh methods, must laugh at the ignorance of those who attempt to change our laws 'WooL “Two years ago the farmers were as sured that their wool ' would bring higher prices without the duties, be cause the demand for it would be in creased. At the same time the con sumers were assured that removal of the duties would permit them to buy their clothing at lower prices. Now that wool has fallen to the lowest price ever known, solely because there is a promise that the duties will be with drawn, the New York Times assures the wool growers that this is the result of having been protected for thirty years. But if protection has indeed produced such a consequence, why take the duties off?" That Surplus. In 1888 Grover Cleveland declared in his letter to Tammany Hall that a sur plus in the treasury was useless and dangerous and it was a perversion of the people's intention. 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