FORT SCOTT BANK ROBBED OF
950,000,
All But Tiro Thousand Dollars In Cash
Stolen bjr the Cashier—The Best Scour- !
Ities Rediscounted—The Embezzler Too j
111 at Freseut to Be Placed Coder Ar- j
rest—Depositors of the Bank Greatly j
.Excited—Hour the Honey 'Was Dost.
Wai Bobbed of *50,000.
iV>RT Scott, Kan., Oct. IS.—The ag
gregate of the embezzlement from the
closed State bank of this city of ex
Cashier J. It. Colean is declared by
Vice President J. S. Stewart to bo
felly $30,000. This has renewed the
excitement and shattered the hopes of
many of the depositors and all of the j
stockholders. The amount stolen is
two-thirds of the paid np capital stock
and more than the other third will be
required to collect on the securities.
Colean literally robbed the bank of
all the cash except $2,000 of the re
serve fund, and realized on $20,000 of
the best securities by rediscounting
them.
■The recreant cashcir has made a
statement to Vice President. Stewart,
telling from which accounts he took
the money and says that most of it
was taken- since he made his last
statement in July. He confessed hav
ing robbed the following accounts:
Kansas City banks (cash) $5,600; St.
Louis banks (cash) $4,300; New York
banks (cash) $2,500; reserve fund, $9,
■000; deposits on certificates (cash) $3,
400, rediscounted notes $11,000.
The examination has resulted in the
development that Colean, in his con
fession, did not tell all,as $20,000 of the
best notes cannot be found and some
of them are known to have been redis
counted in St. Louis.
In his last statement Colean said
that he went to St. Louis for the ex
press purpose of confessing to Presi
dent Coon, realizing that his robbery
had so crippled the bank that it cou'd
run only a few days longer and that
an exposure was inevitable. He in
sisted that he had lost all the money,
having dealt largely through the
stocks and bonds commission house of
Gaylord & Hlessing in St. Louis.
The bank officers still promise apay- •
meat in full to all depositors, but it is
admitted that the stock is literally
wiped out. The fact that the robbery
was systematically perpetrated under
the very eyes of the officers and that
the defalcation so far exceeds the sum
first announced has created conster
nation. - -
Colcan will be arrested as soon as he
recovers sufficiently to be taken to
jail. He is still helpless from nervous
prostration and is perfectly childish.
The full extent of the shortage will
not be known till outstanding drafts
and the foreign accounts are fully re
ported.
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' A DENIAL FROM DEPEW.
Vanderbilts Not Seeking to Absorb the
Union Paciftc.
New York, Oct 18. — Chauncey
M. Depcw, president of the New
York Central railway, when asked re
garding the report that the Vander
bilt interests would predominate in
the reorganization of the Union
Pacific system, and that the result
would be that the Vanderbilts would
secure control of the road and so
would satisfy a long cherished wish to
own a transcontinental line, replied:
“We saw the story printed while in
' the West, but there is not the slight
est truth in it. The report may have
grown out of the fact that Mr. Hughitt
and myself were appointed members
of the reorganization committee, but
that is the only framework on which
to build the story. We are not trying
lis to work any scheme of that kind. ”
~ It is said that among the provisions
of the Union Pacific reorganization
are these:
An assessment of $15 on stock for
which preferred stock may be given.
An issue of $100,000,000 of four per
cent bonds for the firsts and the gov
ernment debt.
An issue of $75,000,000 of preferred
stock.
Bondholders will get new bonds at
v' par and five shares of preferred stock
for each $1,000 of bonds. The com
mon stock will remain unchanged.
People who are now apptying for an
interest in the Union Pacific under
.writing syndicate are told that they
are too late, and that earlier appli
cants are getting much less than the
amonnt applied for. The plan will
probably announced at once.
Blast Extend the Tax.
Topeka, Kan., Oct 18.—The supreme
court handed down an opinion in the
case brought by the attorney general
to compel the county clerk of Franklin
county, to extend a state university
tax, holding that the order of the state
board of equalization for the exten
sion of the tax was authorized by the
legislature last winter, which set aside
$10d,000 for the university, but did not
specifically authorize an assessment.
According to custom the board of
equalization ordered the assessment.
The county clerk of Franklin county
refused to comply because the legisla
ture had not ordered it. The case
went to the supreme court with the re
sult as stated.
A Tacoma Uank Closed.
Tacoma,.Wash., Oct. 18.—The Com
mercial .National bank, of which Judge
Allyn is president, failed to open
yesterday. The cause of the failure
is the sudden demaud of the city for
$6,000 of its deposits.
EX-PRIEST WAGMER.
He Offer* to Pay *1,000 la Settlement
of Embezzlement Charge.
St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 18.—A story is
in circulation about the court house
to the effect that Dominick Wagner,
late pastor of St. Mary’s church, has
made an offer to pay over to the
church $1,C00 cash in the hope of hav
ing the charge of embezzlement pend
ing against him dismissed. liishop
liurke, so it is said, declined to discuss
the matter and pointedly refused to
have any thing to do with Wagner.
HIS GRANT NOT HOPELESS
Waller's Concession In Madagascar to Ho
Looked After.
Washixoton, Oct. 18. — Counselor
Kennedy of the Waller case is of the
opinion that the turn which the course
of military affairs has taken in Mada
gascar in favor of the French will
favorably affect the financial interests
of the ex-consul in that island. He
holds that the ownership of the land
conceded to Mr. Waller by the Ilova
government is a qnestion entirely
separate from that of his guilt or
innocence of the charge of aiding
and abetting the Hovas in their war
with the French, lie bases this
opinion upon the fact that the grant
was made previous to the French con
quest, and says that while France, at
the time, questioned the right of the
Hovas to make the concession, the
government of the United States had
not conceded France's right to inter
fere in the management of the internal
affairs of Madagascar. When France
assumes an undisputed protectorate in
the jsland, as it is presumed she will,
in view of the recent success of her
arms in that' quarter, it will find that
various grants have been made to citi
zens of other countries, not only, of
England and Germany, and it is sup
posed that the Waller grant will be
put on the same basis as these.
INSULTED A GOVERNOR.
A Negro of Greeley, Colo., Tarred and
Feathered by Indignant Citizens.
Denveb, Colo , Oct. 18.—A negro
named Marshall was tarred and feath
ered at Greeley last night for haying
insulted Governor McIntyre at the
potato day celebration.
Governor McIntyre was surprised
when informed of the incident at
Greeley. He went to the bicycle
races there _ Thursday with his
wife and Lieutenant Bruce and
wife. When they arrived at the stand
for the team they found their way
blocked by a' long wagon to which was
attached a team driven by Marshall.
General Klee requested the negro to
move his wagon so as not to take up
too much room. Thereupon Marshall
delivered a tirade of abuse, using the
most insulting language. Finally,
however, he did as requested. Gover
nor McIntyre thought so little of the
matter that he had not mentioned it
to anybody since his return to Denver.
MAHOMMEDAN UNREST.
Storm Brewing Which Will Sweep Away
the IlamUUan Dynasty.
London, Oct. 18.—The Constanti
nople correspondent of tbe Times
dwells upon the vague rumors current
there and upon the feeling of unrest
manifesting itself by a decline upon
the bourse, by long faces in the ba
zars and by mysterious whisperings
of massacres in the provinces, which
are wholly unsubstantiated. Mahom
medans declare a storm is brewing
which will sweep away the whole
dynasty and liberate Islam from the
thraldom of the hated Hamidian sys
tem, which cramps its energies and
paralyzes all its forces. The activity
at the Dardanelles continues, and
10,000 additional men are under orders
to join the garrison. New batteries
are building at Dardanos, Naraazie
and Madjidieh, armed with heavy
guns. All the flannel in town has,
been bought up for cartridge making,
and all the whitesmiths arc busy mak
ing lanterns ar.d canteens. Many
Mahoinmedans have been arrested in
different parts of Stamboul for using
seditious language.
Choctaw Council in Session*
Tuskahoma, Ind. Ter., Oct. 18.—
Choctaw council is moving off slowly,
although quite a number of bills have
been introduced. Yesterday a bill was
introduced into the house to compel
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
way company, 'the St. Louis and
San Franeisco railway, the Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Gulf railway and
the Kansas City, Pittsburg aDd Gulf
Railway company to pay 1 per cent
royalty on rolling stock, depots and
all other property within the limits of
the Choctaw nation, and also to make
express and railway companies pay
the same royalty. The bill will pass,
as members in both houses favor it and
it will add several thousand dollars to
the general fund of the Choctaw na
tion. _
Belva Ueld to the Grand .Jury.
Washington, Oct. 18.—A preliminary
hearing of a criminal libel suit brought
against Mrs. Belva Lockwood, a for
mer presidential candidate, by Rob
ert E. L. White, a lawyer, who accused
her of tacking notices derogatory to
his reputation on his office door, was
had in police couit yesterday. Mrs.
Lockwood was held for the grand jury,
although when on the witness stand
she denied every allegation.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
There is a good deal of kicking over
the work of the Dawes Indian com
mission on account of its slo.wncss.
The annual report of the quarter
master general shows that the army is
better cared for than any time since
the civil war.
Postal receipts from thirty' cities
for the first quarter of this year show
an increase of, ten per cent over tha
same period of last year.
Prom the howl that is going up
about the liability of congress to raise
the beer tax it is supposed the brewers
have cut off the funds of the lobbyists.
The National Convention of Liquor
Dealers re-elected John W. Iloward of
St. Louis treasurer.
The anti-foreign feeling in China is
growing, and the Central Government
is unable to assert its authority.
SIX HUNDRED KILLED.
Appalling Remit of an Explosion on a
Steamship at Kong llal, Chins.
Shanghai, Oct. lo;—An explosion
occurred yesterday on a steamship at
Kung, lini, near Kin Chow. The
steamer was loaded with troops, and
it is reported that 600 of them were
killed.
A Supreme Judge Dead.
Fbeepobt, I1L, Oct. 18.—Judge Jo
seph M. Bailey, of the Illinois supreme
court, died at 10 o'clock last night,
after an illness of several weeks
PRESIDENTIAL TALK
SENATORTHURSTON INDULGES
THEREIN.
Sun Francisco, Pittsburg or Chicago
l ikely to Get the Republican National
Convention—Thurston Says Harrison
Is Virtually Out of the Race—The
Money Question to be One of Absorb*
lug Interest—Too Early to Speculate
Much.
The Political Situation.
Sam Fuancisco, Oct. 10.—“The loca*
tiou of the nest Republican national
convention lies between three cities—
San Francisco,Pittsburg and Chicago,”
said National Committeeman John
M. Thurston of Nebraska, who is at
present on the Pacific coast in the
interest of the Union Pacific rail
road. He stated that Joseph Man
ley, , the national committeeman
from Maine, had expressed the
wish to him that San Francisco
might be the next convention place of
the Republican party, and that many
of the other members of the Eastern
states had expressed the same desire.
“As for myself,” he continued “1 have
not made up my mind. It is sure to
go to Cnicago, Pittsburg or San Fran
cisco, and every one of the three
places named wili suit me.
“What do I thinlc of the probable
nominee of the party?” Mr. Thurston
went on. “Well, my state is rather
inclined toward McKinley, but I hear
Allison or Reed of Maine frequently
referred to as available or safe for the
party. liurrison, did you say?
Never. He is entirely out of the
question. I believe " there was
an attempt to work him into
the fight, but it has about given up.
Don’t you recall that old line, ‘Thou
dost protest too mucin’ That ap
plies to Harrison. He will never do.
Will the Republican party give the
West a free coinage plank? Yes, i
think so. One similar to the plank of
the last campaign; but I do not think
the Republicans or the Democrats
either will ever declare for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver with
out regard to uny other country. I
think the money question will havo to
be settled in such a way that there
will never be any great disturbance in
money values. 1 have always thought
that way and cannot see it in any
other light. So far as the political
.situation is concerned as a whole it is
a little early to make any definite
statements, as they would be some
what in the nature of a conjecture.”
THE NEW WOMAN.
A Fair Sample From the Sunflower
i State. _
Kansas Citt, Mo., Oct. 10.—'The di
vorce suit of Dr. Nannie A. Stevens
against Ralph Stevens went to trial
this forenoon in Judge Scarritt’s court.
Her husband lives in Wichita, Kan.*
and she lived there with him and prac
ticed medicine there till two years
ago when she brought her children to
Kansas City and opened an office here.
On the witness stand Dr. Stevens
daid her husband called her a “she
doctor” in a tone of voice that implied
contempt. As an instance of his rough
conduct toward her she related that
once she was consulting with another
doctor down stairs, when the baby,
which was in bed with its father up
stairs, began to cry. She went up and
said to him: “Why didn’t you put that
baby to sleep?” and lie told her he
was not going to “feed her if she did
not attend to her household duties.”
At another time she had been up all
night with a typhoid fever patient and
in the morning telephoned to her hus
band to send the carriage for her.
She had to walk home, and when she
reproached him for it, he replied; “A
little walk will do yon good.”
Dr. Stevens said that when she got
home that morning he didn't even
have breakfast ready. “And more
than that, he just laid around and
didn’t help me get the dinner.”
AFTER THE UNION PACIFIC
The Vanderbilts Said to Be Figuring on
the Controlling Interest.
Chicago,Oct. 10.—Ever since the fam
ous traffic contract was made between
tbe Union'Pacific and the Chicago and
Northwestern railroads, whereby tbe
former secured the right to dictate
the through rates from the West to
Chicago, and the latter the through
rates from Chicago to points
on the Union Pacific west of
Omaha, rumors have been current
that the Vanderbilts would soon secure
full control of the Union Pacific prop
erty. A. plan for the reorganization
of the Union Pacific is now in course
of preparation, and the preliminary
steps already taken indicate beyond a
doubt that when the Union Pacific
gets out of the hands of receivers it
will be controlled and operaied by the
Chicago & Northwestern, which is one
af the Vanderbilt roads.
Spiritualist* In Convention.
■Washington, Oct. 16.—The National
Spiritualist association began its third
annual session here to-day and will
continue until Thursday. There will
be three sessions each day and it has
been arranged to hare the evening
meetings addressed by some of the
most noted speakers and best mediums
in the country.
Fort YVayno's Centennial.
Fort Wayne, Ind., Oct. 16.—The
1 celebration of ;he 100th anniversary
I if Fort Wayn >'s existence as a eity,
| which is to continue for four days, was
[ begun this morning with large crowds
i in attendance from Northern Indiana,
| Southern Michigan and Northwestern
Ohio.
Rich mil'* Rsptist Church Burned.
llicii 11 ii,I,, Mo., Oct. 16.—The First
Baptist church and parsonage were
burned to the ground here this morn
ing at 3 o’clock. The par.ionaige was
unoccupied. Trouble has exisied in
the church, and the fire is supposed to
have been incendiary.
A Railroad Builder Dead.
Fort Scott, Kan., Oct. 16.— Colonel
T. L. Wilson, who conceived the idea
of building a railroad from St. Louis
to DcnisoD, Texas, in 1806, which re
sulted in the construction of the Mis
i soun, Kansas and Texas road, died in
| this city to-day.
EPISCOPAL STATISTICS.
£!>• State of the CUarch In America
Set Forth la a Report.
Misxhapolis, Minn., Oct 10.—The
Rev. II. C. Duncan of Louisiana, in his
report on the state of the church said
that since the lust conference in 1802,
10 bishops had died and 14 had
been consecrated, 4 of whom went to
missionary districts. The clinrch now
had TO bishops, 4.544 clergymen, S07
candidates for lay orders, lUJ,82e bap
tisms in the past year and 181, i73 con
firmations. There were now 018,5C0
communicants, 5,117 church edifices
and nearly 500 institutions of a benev
olent or educational character. Con
tributions from all sources had reached
938,000,000.
Dr. Duncan showed that the body of
communicants was growing more than
the number of clergy. The increase
in the last three years had been 05,791,
while the list of priest s had grown but
157, a fact ho attributed to “insuffi
ciency and diminution of stipends.’’
The income for the three years was
935,000 less than for the preceding
period. The committee made recom
mendations for patriotic services on
the Fourth of July, for stricter re
gard for the divorce law of the church,
for better Sabbath observance and for
a more active propaganda for Chris
tian teaching.
THE DEFAULTER A WRECK.
J< B. Colean Very Sick In nia Fort Scott
Home—Ilia Wire's Sacrifices.
Fort Scott, Kan., Oct. lC.— j. R.
Colean, the defaulting cashier of the
State bank of this city, which was
compelled to close its doors yesterday,
arrived here this morning accompa
nied by his wife und little daughter
and his wife's brother, H. D. McArthur'
)f Jacksonville, 111. lie came volun
tarily from St Louis as he prom
ised President D. F. Coon he would
when sent. for. lie is a mental and
physical wreck and it was necessary
to carry him from the train to a car
riage. lie is now in bed at his hand
somely furnished home, unable to
talk. Ilis physicians say that he can
not live long..
Mrs. Colean has given up her dia
monds and paid up life insurance of
several thousand dollars and all she
has to the bank.
REFORM IN ST. LOUIS.
Police CommlMloner Lea Will Try to En
force the Sunday Closing Law.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 16.—PoliceCom
missioner Lee has sent a letter to each
of the ministers of the city asking
them if they will uphold him in an
heroie effort to enforce the Sunday
law which has been a dead letter since
1507. He says that he is anxious to
identify himself with the law loving
element and to enforce “a decent and
orderly observance of the first day of
the week.”
Nearly all of the ministers have
promised the commissioner their zeal
ous support, and a hard and bitter
fight is looked for.
To Be Tried Next Month.
St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 10.— Dominick
Wagner, the ex-priest, was arraigned
in the criminal court this morning, but
)n application of his attorneys the
jase was continued until the Novem
ber term, at which he will be tried on
the charge of embezzlement anil possi
bly of rape and kidnapping. No men
tion was made of bail, as YVagner does
not desire to be released, but will re
main in jail pending trial.
Herman Reformers Against Tammany
New York, Oct. 16.—It is said tha'
Dr. II. A. C. Anderson will resign the
presidency of the' German-American
Uefi rm union at the meeting to be
held to-night on account of the action
af the general committee In co-oper
tting with Tammany in the municipal
iampaign. The meeting is to be a pro
test against this coalition and will be
addressed by Theodore Sutro, Carl
Schurz and others.
Missouri Masons Moot.
Jefferson city, Mo„ Oct. 16.—The
Masonic grand lodge of the state con
vened here at 10 o’clock this morning
in the hall of the house of representa
tives, with some 300 lodges represented.
The deliberations will be held with
closed doors. One matter of im
portance to be considered is a move to
redistrict the state.
Many Mall Men Involved.
Washington, Oct. 16.—The mail that
left last night carried 173 letters from
the first assistant postmaster general
to letter carriers in Chicago, notifying
them ihat charges have been filed
against them sufficient to cause their
dismissal from the service, and that
ten days will bo allowed to them to
show cause why they should not be
removed.
SIlu Flagler to lie Indicted.
Washington, Oct. 1<5.—It was stated
it the city hall yesterday afternoon
that the grand jury, which had been
investigating the case of Miss Eliza*
beth Flagler, daughter of the army
•shiefof ordnance, charged with killing
i young colored hoy last August, has
voted to return an indictment charg-<
ing her with manslaughter.
Res ub mitts Ion in Iowa.
CniCAOO, Oct. 10 —A special tS> s
morning paper from lies Moines, Iowa,
says that it is stated on good Repub
lican authority that the Republican
state central committee lias completed
a poll of the preferences of the Repub
lican candidates for the legislature in
the matter of the resubmission of the
prohibition amendment, and has found
that a majority of them favor resub
mission.
Durnmt't Counsel In.
Sax Fbaxcisco, Oct 16—Another
postponement of the Durrant trial was
asked for by Attorney Dickinson im
mediately upon the convening of court
this morning because of the continued
illress from rheumatism of Attorney
Deuprcy. Judge Murphy, after some
questioning, granted the request, post
poning further action until next Mon
day. _
Mrs. Cleveland Leaves Gray Gable*
Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Oct. 10.—
Mrs. Cleveland and children left Gray
Gables on a special train at 8:05 o’clock
this morning for Washington
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
llow Cnccessful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm —A Few
Hints as to the Care of Use Stock
and Poultry. y
HERE’S many a
slip twlxt the cup
and the tip, and
many a mls-cue in
breeding up a dairy
herd. Granting the
truth of what has
been taught as to
the value of intel
ligent breeding it is
also true that the
laws of heredity do
not overpower all other laws.
The most efficient rule in improving
a breed of hogs is the “sled stake rule."
That is, use a Bled stake on all pigs
not filling the requirements, and the
others will all fill the requirements. In
a milder form this same rule sends to
the packing house all of one class and
reserves as breeders the others. This
sorting out is a positive necessity in
all kinds of farming, saving seed,
grain, raising hogs, growing a beef
herd, or growing a dairy herd. Prog
ress is possible only by selection. The
rule that “like produces like'* is not
true when cut down to absolute limits.
If it were, progress would be impos
sible. Retrogression and progression
would both be unknown were the rule
of like produces like, absolute. We
could only average things by mixing,
and could not Improve a breed nor even
make a new one.
But like produces like, with a varia
tion. Some will be better than the
parents, some poorer. The sled stake
rule will keep the herd up to the high
est excellence, or selecting the best for
keeping and discarding all the others.
Sometimes a man finds his dairy act
ually inferior after breeding for but
ter than it was before. He may have
milked a few excellent cows of mixed
ancestry and graded up with a dairy
Bire. Some of the offspring may be
better than the mothers, some poorer,
and if he keeps them all he has an in
ferior herd; if he disposes of the infer
ior ones and keeps only the best he
Bhould find the herd Improving. This
will be the result without buying any
Improved blood. Selection is the main
thing, but the number that must be
discarded from a herd not bred in dairy
lines must be greater. Therein and
only there lies the advantage of breed
ing for butter or for any other pur
pose. The number that must be re
jected is lessened by breeding in the
direction desired.
Suppose a farmer breeds to a Guern
sey or a Jersey bull. The half bloods
will almost surely please him. He goes
on "grading up" and in some instances
finds the higher he grades the poorer
his herd as a whole. This is discour
aging, but if a fact we should face it
honestly. Why may this be?
It may be for the following reason:
In grading up the breeds from all the
half bloods and a portion of the off
spring inclines toward milk giving and
a portion away from it. The law of
variation gets in its work and some of
the higher grades are inferior to the
lower grades, and the farmer is slow
er to sacrifice them. Hence his herd
may as a whole actually retrograde.
Selection stands first of all as a
means for securing a good dairy herd.
Raise many, save few, feed well, and
success is sure. But, as said before,
blood is helpful, for training in the de
sired line and selection for many gen
erations in that line measurably fixes
traits and fewer individual animals
have to be discarded.—Ex.
Poultry nod Profit.
On a farm where there is ample
range poultry should include not cnly
hens, but turkeys, geese, ducks and
even guineas. The turkeys and guin
eas are disposed to wander over large
areas, while geese and ducks will thrive
on a small pasture lot. It must not be
overlooked that the largest proportion
of meat sold off the farm, in the shape
of turkeys, geese and ducks, cost the
farmer little or nothing, and if some
knowledge could be gained of the act
ual cost, it would be shown that the
receipts are nearly all profit, and this
should encourage farmers to Increase
their stock. The hens pay best as pro*
ducers of eggs, and ducks are also ex
cellent layers, but the largest profits in
poultry are secured from turkeyq and
geese, as they ean support themselves
during the larger portion of the year
unaided.
While it must be admitted^ however,
that whatever is consumed by poultry
really comes from the farm, whether
the birds secure it or receive it, the
profit will not appear so large, but the
fact is that turkeys are insect-destroy
ing birds, and the larger share of their
food is composed of insects and seeds,
while geese are partial to young and
tender weeds, pursloine being one of
its delicacies. These different kinds of
poultry utilize materiftl that would be
of no service to the fa.tner at all, and
in that respect they serve as valuable
scavengers not only to keep down
many pests that annoy the farmer, but
also enable him to send the undesira
ble substance to the market in the form
of meat.
The most successful farmers met by
us, with poultry, were those who did
not confine themselves to one kind.
They not only had large flocks of hens,
hut also found room somewhere for
turkeys, geese, ducks and guineas, the
latter being intended for home use, as
ttey are of but little demand'in market
They look upon a variety as better
enabling them to produce the moat
at the least cost, and they were partic
ular to use good breeds as well. No
enterprising poultrym&u will attempt
to make poultry pay onion lie uses the
pure breeds. There ts a wonderful
bronze turkey, Embden goose and
kin duck as compared witn the common
breeds, as the weight Is also a very
Important matter In assisting to derive
a profit on meat.' It costs no more to
keep the best to be had than to give up
the space to those klndB which are in*
ferior. Quality brings the best prices,
but feed will not give duality unless
the breed is used to utilise the food
to the best advantage. There Is noth
ing to prevent every fanner from mak
ing a profit on poultry, and the way
to do so Is to take advantage of every
method for so doing, using all varlr
ties of poultry for that purpose.—Ex.
Winter Dairying.
The following lo from Turf, Field
and Farm: “It winter dairying ia not
practiced, a change to that, either
wholly or largely, will materially In
crease the profits. In perfecting this
change a special preparation la neces
sary. A warm, well ventilated stable.
If not already provided, will be the first,
essential. An abundance of the various
kinds of milk-producing food should
also be provided for the support and
well-being of the herd. For this pur
pose nothing Is better than a good
quality of fcay (clover being the best)
and good corn ensilage for roughage,
with bran, corn meal, oat and pen
meal, and cottonseed meal in connec
tion. With these facilities, and a fair
lot of cows and a careful man to at-:
tend to them, the dollars will come in
for all extra outlay. With winter dairy
ing the cows will remain dry during
August, while the feed is short, and
through the worst season for handling
dairy products, Instead of February and
March, and will give the dairymen ths
best portion of the year for making
butter, and fair prices. The calves
dropped In September or October will
be well started by winter, will escape
the worst part of the year for files and
heat, and will be in good shape to turn
to grass by the following spring.”
Cows Differ.—Of two horses so near
ly alike that only their constant at
tendant can tell them apart, and fed
out of the same .trough (and, it may be,
with the same sire and dam), no man
living can tell which is the speedier
of the two, by looking at them. And
when they come to be trained it will
often happon that the one develops
great speed while the other fails to take
a record. How It comes, or why it Is
so, no man knows. In the same way,
cows differ in Individual capacity. Full
sisters, fed and treated identically, de
velop the one into a three or four *
pounds a day cow the other barely
getting into the 14-poUnd list. Again,
It may happen that the smaller per
former proves the better breeder. The/
force of individuality is so great and
the laws that govern it so utterly un
known that we can only take for our
guidance St. Paul’s wise rule, “Prove
all things; hold fast that which in'
good.” Test all your cows; hold fast
to those that are good.—Hunter Nich
olson in Jersey Bulletin.
Use the Decimal System.—Ten hen*
in a house that is 10 feet square, with
yards 10 times the sise.of the house.
Is a rule to follow. Ten hens with
one male Is the correct mating, and 10
eggs under a setting-hen in winter are
enough. Ten weeks is long enough to
keep a broiler before it goes to market,
and a pair of fowls and ducks should
weigh not over 10 pounds. Ten cent*
per pound is near the average price-for
fowls in market, and 10 cents should
teed a hen one month. Ten hens in a
house that givey them plenty of room,
will lay more eggs than 20 that are
crowded; hence, one not only gets fewer
eggs when there are too many hens to
gether, but the cost of the food is great
er and the amount of work increased.
Trying to do too much on a limited
area has caused many failures, and the
proper plan Ib to keep but a few hen*
rather than too many.—Poultry Keep
er.
Shipment t of Eggs in Bulk.—A corn
sular report* tells of large quantities of
shelled eggs being sent to- England
from Russia and' Italy for the use at
pastry cooks, bakers, hotels and restau
rants. The eggs are emptied from
their shells into tin cans holding 1,000
or more, and after being hermetically
sealed are packed with straw faisr
wooded cases, the taps, through which
the contents are drawn, being added
by those using them. Great care 1*
necessary in selecting eggs, as a singl*
bad one would spoil the whole lot.
Lower price and saving of time, and
greater ease and less expense and loss
in handling are named a* the advan
tages of this system. Thus far the Rno
elan product has been uniformly good,
whereas the Italian shipments have so
frequently been spoiled that analysis
of the Russian supply has been ordered
to determine U preservatives are used.
Prospective Rise In Sheep.—A prom
inent west Texas sheepman said to us
one day last week that good stock
sheep were getting scarce and but leer
flocks were now for sale. Owners are
now asking (1.50 per head tor the same
class of sheep which were selling at
75c@$l por head a year ago. “Why,**
said he, “a year hence you will find Just
as much of a boom in sheep as there is
now in cattle, and those who go in the
business will not make a mistake."—..
San Antonio Stockman.
“Blue Beard.”—That nursery tale
which has charmed generations of chil
dren and their elders, known as “Blue
Beard,” was written by a French au
thor. " The original of the character of
Blue Beard was a marshal of France,
who lived in Brittany and who was
charged with murdering several wives
and over one hundred children. Being
convicted of sorcery, he was burned.—«
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