i. DAIRY AND POULTRY. s'.,' ' L;?,. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR 1 OUR RURAL READERS. N*" gurrcMful Furnini Operate The f , Department of the Fur 111 —A Few Mint* m to th* Cnr* of Live Stock v. And Poultry. ROF H. L. KtTS ibpII of the Wiscon sin experiment sta , tlon. writing on the I subject of pasturix atlon, says: Under ordinary conditions, milk in evitably suffers a change In its phys ical composition that soon renders it unfit for human tuuu. nun it'iuiuuuiuuu in '-*'**• W monly called souring, iiUhotigh L there are masked under this general name a number of other , ehanges. The souring of milk Is due to the action of numerous living or t gauisms that break down the sugar in the milk, forming lactic acid, and the ! change In the chemical reaction of the milk results in the formation of a hard, firm curd. If tlio entrance of these organisms | that come from the dust of the air, the dirt and filth that Is dislodged from’ the animal, the Impurities that rc main In the cracks and Joints of the vessels that are used to hold tho milk could be entirely prevented, milk would f remain sweet for an indefinite period w of time. Scrupulous cleanliness in se curing and handling such a perishable article as milk does much to keep it ' In a normal condition, but even with the best of care, much loss is occasioned pt; by the presence of these growing bac terla that are.capable of exerting such a profound influence on this food prod ‘ net. S;> ®7- .. . 1 1 - her arrival, gives her a matter to look forward to and even long for, and In the afternoon the cowa have a home longing and start for the "bars," and getting up the cowa with boy, horse and dog Is an obsolete custom on such a fnrm. In this summer care of the cows their comfort should be looked after In the lot, seeing that there is plenty of good water, and shade of some kind. In the west, on tho prairies, this la a feature to bo looked after, where tho man in the east, with his wood lot part of the pasture and springs by the score on the hill sides, Is provided for in the bestowal of nature's gifts. Where the pasture Is about destitute of shade, there should bo an open bnr rack provided, and water pumped handy by. Of course these things cost not a little, but they pay, and where shade is limited It will also pay to ! stable tho cows In the middle of the day, if good testimony Is to be relied upon. If the cow Is to be fresh in Sep tember or October she should be kept in good heart by Borne kind of grain, with a generous percentage of albumin ous matter in it, to sustain her and de velop tho milking function. Years ago It was thought the thing to starve the fall milker; now the danger Is from tho opposite direction, overfeeding. Keep this summer dry cow In thrift, not fat ten her, nnd sho will pay It all back in extra milk. The summer milker may not seem to need extra feed, but some grain will be profitable. One profit is to liiro her to come home at night, and avoid tlie expense of keeping a dog to worry her and kill sheep tho rest of the time, and when the pastures fall this cow will not shrink like a grass fed cow. Along these lines there Is no end of things to learn, and to advan tage, and the chief of these are plenty and a variety of feed, good and abund ant water, both at yard and pasture, quiet and comfortablo quarters, and regularity of attention. — Practical Farmer. Times will never get too hard for tho faithful hen to earn her living. any other kind of vegetables, with bits of meat, pieces of dry bread (scalded), and on this enough bran, crunhed bone and fine grit to make all amount to two and one-half quarts. This is al ways fed warm and early. , Water also Is served warm and renewed at noon dally. At noon, three or four handfuls of oats, millet, small feeds among lit ter. In evening, about one quart of corn or oats, alternately. They start ed to lay iu November and continued till winter, when they stopped for want of 8u(llclont warmth. We then pro cured a small stove and by running the pipe through both coops warmed both. Since then a magic change has come over them. The stove was In service but a week when they began business again and are now keeping it up, hav ing In Februnry produced 330 eggs. At present (March) they average fifteen eggs a day, sometimes yielding seven teen or eighteen. Do you think they are doing as well as they should, and Is labor sufficiently repaid? Would be thankful for an opinion. Another query: A friend of mine is anxious to cross Black Minorca cockerel on Brown Leghorn hens. Would there be a gain as to number and size of eggs or any other advantage ns layers by uniting the qualities of both? There is no doubt that warmth is the main factor In securing eggs in winter—changing the season into sum mer conditions. The objection In the above fs a probability that should the house be made too warm the hens may become tender and easily take cold. In regard to the cross mentioned, it Is probable that tho Black Minorca would increase the size of the eggs, but not the number. We see no advantage In crossing, as It soon leads to mon grels. If size Is wanted In eggs why not use the pure Minorca without cross ing? A cross destroys many good qual ities of both breeds.—American Poultry Keeper. I’oiiltry Industry In England. The royal commission on agriculture finds that poultry raising Is a very >> The fowls shown In the Illustration “i on this page are Sultans, so called be | cause they were Imported Into Europe from Constantinople, where they are known as "Sultan’s Fowls.” They some what resemble White Polish, but have more abundant feathers and shorter legs. They are good layers, their eggs being large and white. s Not only does the consuming public demand that Its milk supply should be as tree as possible from foreign im purities, so that it will retalu its keep ing qualities for the longest possible time, but the relations of milk to the public health, especially to the welfare t>-. of infants and children, is a question | of paramount Importance. The recogni tion of the fact that consumption In its many phases is a common disease of dairy cattle and that the possibility of Infection exists through the use of milk - of tuberculous animals has done much to awaken the public Interest in a closer examination of milk supplies. The various epidemics of typhoid and scarlet fevers as well as diphtheria that r have been traced directly to an infected N Bilk supply show conclusively that the C possibility of infection being transmlt | ted by means of milk is not to be lg |' nored. In considering the ways iu which : It Is possible to render our milk sup plies purer and more wholesome, the |: hygienic side of the question must be considered as well as the economic phaso. p: In order to accomplish the above pur . poses, wholly or in part, many meth v ods of treatment have been suggested ■ that are based upon the action of dlf : ferent physical and chemical forces. . All of these attempt to accomplish their i purpose by either inhibiting the growth v of or actually destroying the bacterial c life that Inevitably gains access to milk under ordinary condiions. jj? One of the most successful methods ‘ of treatment has been in the use of heat i applied in different ways. • The importance of the above relation ? p is demonstrated in a recent epidemic of typhoid fever in Stamford, Conn. V; d»rof. C. A. Lindsley, secretary of state P board of health, in a letter to the writer under date of May 20, 1S95. says: “In the town of Stamford, of about IS,000 , population, the cases now number over goo. All these cases are the customers of one milk peddler." In several in ' ■ stances where persons contracted the i disease, they drank the milk while visit ing at the house of the milkman. It had been the habit to wash the cans with water from a well, and it is thought that the contamination of the i Bilk occurred in this way. Where do You Milk? ' ■ In Bany instances the cows are ’ / Bilked in the open yard in the summer, and in fly time the movement of the ’ tows reminds one of an animal show, L and that milking is often attended with [: damage is not to be gainsaid. Cows, to make the most of their opportuni ties, need to he milked in quiet, and ,t a larger part of the hot months some \ sort of a soiling crop must be fed to ‘1 obtain the best results, which means I prolonging the milk flow, and nowhere , con this bo so well done and each cow i receive her due proportion, as In the 1 stable. It has been a matter of observa tion with us, that a cow soon comes to , 2>ave a home place in the stable, and to be tied there twice a day and have ipome provender, grain or forage on Poultry of To-day. "The magnificent hen Been today, weighing eight to ten pounds and pro ducing twelve to fourteen dozen of eggs yearly, is not an accident,” said Dr. G. M. Twitchsll before the Massa chusetts board of agriculture some years ago. "She has been evolved out of the brain and hand of man through centuries of breeding and feeding. Left to its native state the product would be only what is necessary to perpetuate the species.” The poultry man of today has learned that the matter of feed is far more Important, commercially, than breed True, we have varieties that are better adapted to extensive egg production than others, yet the laying of eggs depends altogether upon the quality of ration the hens of any breed get. Scientific men tell us that an egg Is an ounce and a half of concentrated food made up of lime, soda, sulphur, iron, phos phorus, magnesia', oil, and albumen. The hen is the mill to grind, says one, the crop the hopper, and tho egg the grist. Every particle of the egg, yolk, albumen, and shell, must come from the assimilated' food through the blood cells. If we give a fat.ty or heating ration we check egg produc tion, becauso tho proper material Is missing. Coin contains 86 per cent fat and heat elements, hence is no egg food. We must not guage economy by cheapness. Corn may be the cheap est ration as far as dollars and cents are concerned, in Us market value, but it undoubtedly is a dear egg food, for it cannot produce what is wanted. Farmers have the idea that corn will make eggs and for proof refer to the fact that their hens get nothing else, but they forget to note that their stock are allowed perfect freedom, that they gather much in their foraging trips. Worms, bugs, grass, wheat, oats, and what not are to be found on the daily trips of the feathered tribe. So it Is not the corn, but the variety of other feed the hens collect that make the eggs, and the former gets the credit. The cheapest egg food, then, is that which gives the most eggs: such a quantity of food, too, as will be thor oughly digested and assimilated. All this science and knowledge the poultry man of today has gleaned and he is keeping on learning.—Ex. The Store Made Them Ijlj. A reader at Pittsburg, Pa., sends us an interesting letter and states how he secured eggs In winter from thirty hens by the use of a stove. He says: We have thirty brown Leghorn hens, eight of which are in their second or third year, the others poultry from last May. They are inclosed in two coops, each 9x12 feet, with plenty of light, clean quarters (being cleaned twice a week and daily in summer), and floors covered with cut straw to the depth of three or four inches. Also, a free range of two or three acres in fair weather. Our method of feeding is as follows: Morning meal, potatoes or profitable business in England, not withstanding the general depression, but it Is conducted on somewhat differ ent lines from here. They say: The industry is divided into two branches, those of rearing and fatter - ing, carried on, as a rule, by different persons, but combined In a compara tively few instances. The rearers breed and keep chickens till the birds arc three or four months old, when the fatteners purchase them at Is Sd to 3s Gd each, according to the season of the year. Occasionally early birds fetch as much as 3s 9d or even 4s. In spite of losses from disease, rooks, and vermin, rearing must be a very protable indus try, as it is estimated that the average cost of a bird when fit for the fattener is only Is. But this branch of the in dustry is profitable because it is under done, the fatteners being rarely able to obtain as many chickens as they re quire. Dairy farming is usually combined with poultry breeding and rearing, the skim milk being given to ! the fowls and butter being made. The ! largest rearing farm mentioned by Mr. j Rew is one of 200 acres, on which about j 8,000 chickens are reared annually, ten dairy cows, other, cattle, and some sheep and pigs being also kept. Government Crop Report. The July returns to the statistician of the department of agriculture by the 1 correspondents thereof make the fol lowing averages of conditions: Corn, 99.3: winter wheat, 65.8; spring wheat, 102.2: oats, 83.2; winter rye, 82.2; spring rye, 77; all rye, 80.7: barley, S1.9; rice 84.4; potatoes, 91.5; tobacco, 85.9. Acreage of potatoes compared with 1894, 107.9, and of tobacco 84.8 per cent. The report on acreage of eorn, which is preliminary, shows 107.S as compared with the area planted in 1894, which was a little over 76,000.000, being an increase of 6,000,000 acres, and .aggre gating in round numbers 82,000,000 acres. The averages for the principal corn states are: Ohio, 104; Michigan, 104; Indiana, 104; Illinois, 105; Wisconsin, 105; Minnesota, 112: Iowa. 106; Mis souri, 107; Kansas, 117; Nebraska, 107; Texas, 112; Tennessee, 107; Kentucky! 102. The average condition of corn is 99.3, against 95 in July last year and 93.2 in 1893. The ayerage of condition of winter wheat is 65.8, against 71.1 in Juno and 83.2 last July. The percentages of principal states *re: New York, 78; Pennsylvania, 88; Kentucky, 85; Ohio, 60; Michigan, 69; Indiana, 52; Illinois, 50; Missouri, 68; j Kansas, 42; California, 82; Oregon, 95; i Washington, 93. The condition of the spring wheat is 102.2, against 97.8 in June and 68.4 in July, 1S94. State averages are: Min nesota, 112; Wisconsin, 98; Iowa, 109; Kansas, 46; Nebraska, 80; South Dakota, 112; North Dakota, 102; Washington, | 94; Oregon, 90. i The average condition of all wheat | for the country la 76.1. GRAND OLD PARTY. LIVING TRUTHS OF THE PRAC TICAL POLICY. Selections from Various Authorities Which Servo to Prove the Wisdom of tho People in Calling the Party Back to Power. Democracy foe Protection. In March, 1832, Senator Benton, in speaking on Clay’s tariff resolution, called attention to the fact that our do mestic manufacturers, having a high tariff on their fabrics, were producing many from the raw material of foreign countries, to which- he objected. He showed that our flax fabrics were from foreign flax, and he cited wool, hemp, indigo, hides, and furs, of which five articles we had imported in six years to the value of more than $25,000,000. He noted that “this immense sum had been paid to foreigners instead of American citizens,” and said he trusted that, in the modification of the tariff: The farmers and planters of the United States would bo admitted into the bene fits of the American system and secured in the domestic supply of the raw mate rials to our manufacturers. I hope for this much for the farmers and for the honor of the system. For nothing can be more absurd than to erect domestic manufactures upon foreign (raw) mate rial; nothing more contradictory than to predicate independence for goods upon dependence for materials to make them of; nothing more iniquitous than to give to the manufacturers the home market of goods, and not to give the farmers the home market of raw mate rials. I am a friend of domestic in dustry and intend to give it a fair pro tection under regular exercise of the revenue raising power. Above all I am a friend of the cultivators of the earth. (Cong. Debates. 22d, 1st (1831-2), Vol. 8, Part 1, page 587-590.) This is not quoted to show that Mr. Benton was a protectionist, beyond what was known as a “discriminating” or “incidental” protection, but to prove that he stood with Silas Wright, James Buchanan and all the great lights of the earlier democracy on the agricul tural question of home-grown raw ma terial and not free or foreign raw ma terial. Mr. Clay in February, 1832, said: It has been alleged that bar iron, being a raw material, ought to be ad mitted free, or with low duties, for the sake of the manufacturers themselves. But I take this to be the true princi ple: That if our country is producing a raw material of prime necessity, and if with reasonable protection we can produce it in sufficient quantity to sup ply our wants', that raw material ought to be protected, although it may be proper to protect the article also out of which it is manufactured. In Mr. David Wells’ special report as commissioner of revenue of January 3, 1867, he recommends the recognition and adoption, as the basis of present and future legislation, of the princi ples of “abating the duty on raw ma terials to the lowest point consistent with the requirements of revenue, and of placing on the free list such raw materials—the product mainly of tropi cal countries—as are essential elements in great leading branches of manufac turing industry, and which do not come in competition with any domestic pro duct.” (Senate Doe. 39, 2d, No. 1, page 34.) These sentiments apply to sugar, to cotton, rice, hemp, tobbaco, flax, barley, and to coal, lumber and iron ore. The theory of free raw material is as de lusive, unsound and erroneous in con ception as it would be disastrous to our country. It finds no warrant in the political history of this country worthy of indorsement. It would be especially harmful to agriculture if allowed to run its course, and once adopted as a policy, at what point or product would it stop? It is true that leading men in both parties, at an earlier period In the his tory of the country, endeavored to dis cover some way in which our manu facturers might be given the raw ma terial grown on our own soil without the duty. They desired to do this in order to build up our manufacturing industry, but it was never proposed to do so at the expense of our farmers. Mr. Hamilton proposed to take the duty off of cotton—make it “free” and then give the planters a bounty on it. Louis McLane of Delaware (dem.) second secretary of the treasury under Jack son, in his report dated Dec. 7, 1831, said: ... Any amount of duty on a raw material Is, to its extent, an injury to the manufacturer, requiring further countervailing protection against our | own rather than foreign regulations, [ and it is only to be justified by the j j paramount interests of agriculture. In I I that case it would deserve considera- j tion whether the encouragement of an object of agriculture might not be more properly reconciled with the encourage ment of the manufacture, and with greater equality as regards other in terests, by bounties rather than by a duty on the raw material. j Desirable as it was thought j to be to give our manufacturers free riw ma- j ♦ ■ ? terJal, It was never proposed to stride at our farmers in order to secure th at result. **A Lnson to Labor." Under this caption the American Economist prints a brief paragraph calling attention to the fact that the exchange of goods made in this country for those produced abroad is not neces sarily and in all-cases precisely what it is cracked up to be by those who cheerfully look forward to the time when the Yankees shall control the markets of the world through the oper ation of free trade. “In order that the pride of the free traders may be grati fied, in some degree,” it says, “by the capture of the foreign markets, the En glish manufacturer and the American manufacturer should now proceed to exchange some of their productions, which amounts, in effect, to a swapping of dollars.” If this barter could be, in all re spects, and in regard to all parties, an even exchange no harm would be done and t' - ie would be points of mutual ad van. age, but as the Economist points out, American workingmen would be likely to find that there was a big balance against them in the transac tion. “On the one side is a well paid labor—on the other a poorly paid labor —these two must be equalized in order that the manufacturers’ chances shall be equal.” It would be in this process of equalization that the workingmen in this country would find that their interests were seriously affected. The markets of the world afford a fine and inviting field to contemplate—there is no doubt whatever about that—-but they must not be acquired at the ex pense of American labor. That point was established with the establishment of protection, and the present temper of the American people makes it seein highly improbable that it will be over thrown.—Springfield (Mass.) Morning Union. Favorable to American Velvet*. A significant phase of the growth and development of American textile manu factures is the production by the Salts Manufacturing company of New York of black silk velvets, which the domes tic trade is ordering for fall delivery in preference to the German or French made article. The plant of the Salts Manufacturing company is located in Connecticut, and is understood to have been established by the Salts of England and afterward given up by them. Then the plant was taken in hand by the present Now York house, with the result as stated, that its American made black velvets of medium grades are manifestly su perior to the foreign made article. A large number of samples of both foreign a#d American made black vel vets haw been received by the A. S. Lowell company of this city, one of the largest millinery houses in the state, and in the selections made of the differ ent weights the preference has been in each instance for the home product, not for the reason of a difference in price, for that was the same in all cases, but because of the superiority of the Ameri can article.—Worcester Evening Ga zette. Custom* Receipts. The customs receipts have been $21, 000,000 greater this year than last, while the receipts from internal revenue were $3,500,000 less. Thus, where there was reduction of taxation there was increase of revenue, and tfhere there was increase of taxation there was reduction of revenue.—Even ing Post, N. Y„ July 2,1895. Mr. Godkin says: “Where there was reduction there was increase of reve nue.” We presume he means “reduc tion of taxation” to the American peo ple. Hence the foreigner must havo paid “the tariff tax” in order to supply the “increase of revenue.” Again Mr. Godkin says: “Where there was in crease of taxation there was reduction of revenue.” Who got it, then? Have Tammany methods extended to the ad ministration of national governmental affairs? Is this the result of tariff re form and Godkinism? A Dead Failure. The Wilson free-trade tariff bill proving, contray to democratic expec tations, a dead failure as a revenue get ter, the democracy are now looking about for some American industry to tax for revenue. They are talking an increased tax of a dollar on beer. The McKinley bill lowered the tax on tobac co from 8 to 6 cents per pound. The burgullians want to restore the tax to 8 cents. But unfortunately for.the free traders, the republicans have a majori ty in the lower house of congress, who are in favor of levying a tax for revenue, not on Americans, but upon foreign manufacturers. See?—Blade, Portsmouth, Ohio. VTllsou Was Not Profe-sor. Even the colleges have caught the ground swell. Yale this year will graduate 104 republicans, 40 democrats and 6 prohibitionists. Formerly most college graduates were free-traders and therefore naturally inclined toward the democratic party, though they were quite likely to drift into the republican camp after a little practical experience. But free-trade doesn’t “go” now, even with college boys.—Times, Troy, N. Y. Of Course Not. There is no more talk of the “army of the unemployed."—The World, New York, Jupe 87. Of course there is not. The congress ional free-traders have been consigned to oblivion. There never would have been any talk of the “army of the un employed” had they always remained there. 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