m kr mi-, SfV'o t DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING chapters for OUR 4TURAL READERS. I Row SiAmnriil Farmers Operalu Ihli Drpartmnil •! tha Farm—A Fair Uinta ns to the , Cara of Lira Slock and PiBoUiy. - y : f' HE disease is one which calls tor skilled advice whenever this is at tainable, and one In which a fatal result may easily be pro duced by Improper treatment. Any methods and reme dies which cannot be applied with *arety ny tne iarmer nuuacii. wuu.u manifestly be out of place In this arti cle. The directions here given, how ever, it carefully followed, should be the means of saving many anlmal3 which otherwise would be lost. As a result it is found that the sooner the disease appears after calving the more likely it is to prove fatal. The suddenness and severity, or compara tive mildness, of tho onset also sup plies an indication as to iho result. In ; all cases it is important that the first symptoms should be recognised in I: order % that treatment may be commenced early. In the case of cows which have already suffered from a previous at tack, and even In the case of others which present conditions very favora ; ■ ble for the disease,, such as already described, preventive treatment should be ’ commenced before parturition. This consists In ltmiting the supply of ■ food during the time that the cow is dry, and keeping the bowels open by v one or more doses of salts. The most suitable purgative for a cow is one to one aad a half pounds of Epsom or I , Glauber’s salts with an ounce of ginger and about a pint of molasses In *> large Quantity (two quarts or more) of tepid r; water. After calving a free flow of blood to p ' the udder should be encouraged by fre quest milking even if the calf is al lowed to suck, and the animal of course , should be protected from exposure to ■ severe weather or to unusual cold or heat, although a certain amount of dally ciercise is desirable. If the first symptoms of the disease should appear the purgative medicine should be given again at once.—Bulletin of Arkansas Experiment Station. Linseed Mewl, " If yon have a little money that you p want to spend In a profitable manner, a good way to do it is to lay in a supply of linseed meal for the coming winter. It is mnch cheaper now than it will - probably be in the winter, and it Is an i excellent thing to have In the fall when 00 the fall calves are expected. I never ; knew of a case of trouble at calving when a little meal had been fed for u short time before, and while this is not ,ao necessary in summer as it is in wln ■ / ’ ter, when the feed is almost excluslvo t ly dry, still a little Is a very good thing 000 to use, at such a time. A neighbor of mine some time ago p asked me what was the best thing to give a cow that had failed to drop the V placenta, t told him that I did not : / know as I had never had any trouble in that line, but I could tell him what would prevent it, and recommended lin seed meal. The medical profession generally recommends a dose of physic as a first course in certain cases of ailments that affects animals, and while Epsom salts may have their placo, yet 00 It is much better, I think, to use lin seed meal and do away with the need of such medicines. The above men 0 tioned medlclnea are called “catliar k tics,” which is derived from a word In some ancient language which means to hick. The Idea Is that when these 0 medlclnea are taken into the stomach 0 and Intestines they irritate the linings ; to such a degree that in the efforts to expel the foreign substance a watery ■ secretion is poured out in such profu sion that the desired end Is accomplish , *d, or It la “kicked’’ out. Now, It seems to me tbat It is better to use some feed ;r log stuff that has a value as a means of giving nourishment and will at the v same time act as a cathartic docs, than to use a eatharic which only acta by irritating the system Into which it is taker.—National Stockman. ' Dorkingt. This breed of fowls Is very old, old V, «r, »ome say, than the Roman Empire. They are described by old Romeo writers, and so clearly, that there seems no doubt that they were the most to-- prominent breed of that early age. From that time to this they seem to % have held characteristics distinct from other breeds. Writing of this breed ,j Manly MUes says: “They are what would be termed at the present day s pre-eminently an English breed of £ fowls, and are, as they always will be, a general favorite wherever known. The English regard them as superior V to all other breeds as a table fowl, and they probably are unsurpassed by any and equaled by none, except, perhaps, the game. Yet It has the advantage ; when compared with the latter, pro a ducing a greater proportion of breast V ”*e*t. being so very broad, deep, full bmaate^ and plump in general contour. The average weight of the cock is from alne to ten pounds, though they oc casionally weigh over eleven pounds; thr hens weigh from seven to eight ■ pounds: “One peculiar marking of the Dork %'■" tag is tlie fifth toe, which is placed . above the fourth, distinet from the oth v ors and curves slightly upward. The ; head is rather large, though not coarse, t: beak stout and slightly curved; tbe comb of the colored varieties being either rose or single; the white variety 4‘‘. always baring the rose comb. The ear •> , , "■ • t'-l , -A’. ■ ■■' ■ ■ ' Si lobes and wattles, like tl’.o comb, arc bright red in color, the wattles being quite large and broad. The nock is large, of medium length, the back broad and long, the breast deep, broad and full, the wings; and general make up of the fowl being compact and plump. “They are quiet and docile In habits, and nod extensive foragers, though they always thrive best with a good run, such as the liberty of a farm. The principal varieties with us are the Colored. Silver Gray, White and Cuckoo, though the latter is less com mon with us than the English, being rarely seen in this country. "It is generally conceded by most poultry breeders that while the Dork ings may be called fatr layers, with good care, yet they arc Inferior In the egg-producing quality to most of our standard breeds, taking the year through. "As a table fowl the Dorking stands unsurpassed, being peculiarly delicate in flavor, tender and juicy, with an abundance of breast meat. Their large Bize, early maturity, and'rapid growth also tell much in their favor, while their beauty of form aud plumage are Tint thf» Itiflut rtf thnlr mnrita ftPIltlfi ill disposition, they make the best of pets, and seem to enjoy being petted, almost as much as a cat does, being fully equal to the Brahma In this respect. They also make the best of mothers, never leaving their chickens until they are old enough to take care of themselves In a measure, and are in this respect better than even the Cochins and Brahmas, as they remain longer with their broods than most other breeds. Their eggs are large and round, and nearly equal In size at both ends. “The Dorking breed of whatever var iety, should always have a dry soil, otherwise they will not thrive well. The breed Is valuable to cross with the Brahmas and Cochins. The result of this cross usually excels the Dorking In laying qualities.” Corn nuU I'umphln* for TIoffJl. When I feed hogs for health, as well as profit, I want I he pigs farrowed oarly In the spring—say in March or April—for early pigs will grow faster and do better than late ones. I would feed the mother liberally on kitchen slops, and wheat shorts, and corn meal, together with a moderate allowance of whole corn, and always give her ample room to range around In a lot well set In grass so *-e can have 0 good supply of green food, which I regard as es sential to health, both in mother and pigs. As soon as the pigs will eat, which will be at from two to four weeks old, I feed them separate from their mother In a pen where they can go in and out at will. I would wean the pigs at ten to twelve week's old, and keep them on good pasture during the summer and fall, and get all the growth possible from grass and clover. Mean time I would give only a moderate sup ply of corn, for heavy feeding of corn is not conducive to health; and I must always be sure they have a good sup ply of pure water, for nothing Is more injurious to the health of hogs than to be compelled to drink filthy, stagnant water. In September, as soon ns new corn Is hard enough to feed economi cally, I would commence feeding it very moderately until it is hard enough to shell. I would then increase the amount until they were nearly on full feed. By this time I would have a lot of ripe, sweet pumpkins, and feed lib erally of these once every day, and, If I have plenty of swcot apple3, I will give them a feed of these about three times every week; but never tieglect to feed liberally of ripe pumpkins. Hogs "must” have something more bulky and less concentrated than corn If the feeder expects to keep them In a healthy condition for any great length of time. I find pumpkins v the cheapest and best feed to give in connection with corn of anything I ever tried, and hogs will fatten much faster when so fed than when confined exclusively to corn, and as pumpkins are bo easily and cheaply raised, It will readily be seen that pork thus made is much cheaper than when produced . exclusively on corn, and the hogs In a much more healthy and natural condition, hence more profitable; and as profits is what we are all after I would recommend this plan for health and profit. When hogs are so ted and have the run of a grassy lot or field, they will be In fine condition for market in November or early In December, and the pork thus made Is cheaper and healthier than that made from hogs carried over win ter and marketed at eighteen to twenty months. Pigs, when fed on my plan, will be eight to nine months old when ready for market, and it of a good .breed (like the Berkshire^) will weigh from 275 to 300 pounds.—I. N. Barker. , Watch tho Sheep.—When you see a sheep biting itself lose no time in look ing for the cause and removing it. It may be ticks or fleas, or some trouble with the skin; but, whatever it is, it is taking your profit away. The sheep should be dipped in any good standard dip without loss of time. The profit from a lamb or a sheep is so small that , one may think it does not pay to do this for one sheep. But remember that our great corn crop of two hundred thousand million ears goes through the farmers* hands, one ear at a time, and if one ear 1b not worth saving, on this principle, the whole crop might be thrown away, one ear at a' time. The great ocean is made up of single drops of rain, that have, fallen one by one. And a shepherd that despises one single lamb will never have a profitable flock. —Am. Sheep Breeder. The health of your manure must be studied the same as the condition and health of your seed. It you permit it to become foul your crops will become fouL There is no shame in paying, n< shame in receiving, an honest compli ment. , WHY I HATE WOMAN. A Com** pond cut Olvw a I.ot of ftcaiom of WliU'li Not All Are Reasonable*. , From the Westminster Gazette. A correspondent, whose sex we de cline to divulge, sends us the follow ing twenty-one answers to the above question. ‘‘Why I Hate Woman:” 1. Because she stabs me in the eye with her parasol, offers no apology and looks as if I did it. 2. Because she pushes for a place in trains and omnibuses, and, being in, never makes any room for any other people. 3. Because, in public, her prattle Is audible and unceasing, and includes the biographies and characteristics of all her friends by name. L Because sha discusses frocks with her sister opposite, and describes fab rics and fixings as if at her dress m nlrAr'is 5. Because she climbs to the tops of omnibuses, to descend from which demands grace and decency. 6. Because she thinks the only way to make an omnibus stop, is to prod the driver, if she cannot reach' the con ductor, 7. Because, being of that class for which omnibuses are not, she spoils her coachman and ruins her horses by her Ignorant or inconsiderate use of them. 8. Because, being of any class, she loves a “remnant day" and dotes on bargains. 3. Because she displays her bag, loses' her handkerchief and carries her purse In her hand. 10. Because she recites, play3 vio lins and rides on bicycles. 11. Because she reads accounts of weddings and lists of presents in la dies’ newspapers. 12. Because she walks three In a row upon the pavement and expects every one else to make wav for her. 13. Because she worships prlest3 and deacons, as well as Illustrious per sons and cavalry officers. 14. Because ehe Is “fluent but not lucid,’’ and more concerned about the number of her facts than the truth of them. 15. Because, in nine cases out of ten, she can neither sew, nor read aloud nor make tea. 16. Because she is always writing letters and wanting me and others to answer them. 17. Because she is the slave of fash ion; and that not only In clothes, but in art, music, manners, religion, flow ers, Jewelry, language and furniture. 18. Because she does not value any thing simply because it is "good’’ (fol lowing a fashion set in tho days before woman existed), but because it is “worn,” or “done,” or even “talked about." 19. Because if sho is “nice,” she is sure to be conventional; and if she Is not conventional, she is generally not "nice.” 20. Because if you tell her a secret, she passes it on at once to other friends —“I don’t mind telling you, dear, but it mustn’t go any further.” 21. Because she is often careless as to food, and think3 cheapness the first requisite in wine. <%ji OIiM'iuid Notv Woman. Women who pride themselves to-day upon their all around ability and knowledge of everything must sit in humility beforo the accomplishments recorded of Mro. Hannah Woolley, who, a governess in the reign of Charles II., was moved to write “A Guide to the Fe male Sex.” In tho volume her own ed ucation wan thus summarized: “The things I pretend greatest skill in are all works wrought with a needle all transparent works, shell work, moss work, also cutting of prints, and adorn ing rooms or cabinets or stands with them, all kinds of beugle works upon wyres, all manner of pretty toys, rocks made with shells or in sweets, frames for looking glasses, feathers of ciowel for the corners of beds, preserving all kinds of sweetmeats, wet or dry, set ting out of banquets, making of salves, oyntments, waters, cordials, healing nqy wounds not desperately dangerous, knowledge In discerning the symptoms of most diseases, and giving such rem edies as are fit; all manner of cookery, writing and arithmetic, washing black or white sarsenets, making sweet pow ders for the hatr or to lay among linen.” Nor was this all. Mrs. Woolley knew French and ItAlian and Latin, which she counseled her sex to study, “since It may hence appear, ladles, that yon have no Pygmean souls, but as capable of glgantick growth as your male op ponents." »»■* iiu*c .'intijr* George Wohlatadt, an importer and dealer in birds in New York City, has Just been made tho defendant in a suit for breach of promise. The plaintiff Is Miss Etta Wagner, a member of the London Gaiety Girls company, which is now playing in the west. She asks for $20,000 damages, claiming that Woh'.ctadt’s refusal to keep his prom ise to marry her has caused her to “suffer great distress of mind and body," and has otherwise damaged her to that extent. The change in Wohl stadt’s feelings is sajd to have been brought about by his receiving a legacy of $50,000 from his father, who died in Germany. A Terrlblo Fostlblllly. The question of the expediency ol disbanding the militia company was being agitated one town-meeting day in a certain hamlet not a thousand miles from Boston. The tavern-keeper a most pompous individual, who had courteously preserved silence during several noisy harangues, threw a final terrible bomb into the camp of the Iconoclasts by the solemn interroga tory, delivered in his most impressive manner: “Gentlemen, let me ask you this What could we do without militia ii case of a resurrection?” - >! - ■ ;.Ur . w, y., 5 GRAND OLD PARTY. SLEDGE HAMMER BLOWS FOR PROTECTIVE POLICY. The People Know Whjr Prosperity I. Returning; to Thl» Country—The Party That Keeps the Old Flat; at Its Blast head. Canadian Competition Incteases. We believe that American farmers are beginning to look with a little anx iety along the Canadian border, as they find that our imports of Canadian farm products are increasing. From an official report just Issued by the State Department we have compiled the fol lowing table, showing our imports of Canadian farm products received from Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces, during the three months ending March 31, 1895. IMPORTS FROM ONTARIO, QUEBEC AND MARITIME PROVINCES. For three months fending March 31, 1895. Apples.....$ 32,731.62 Bar,e>'. 221,116.46 Beans . 190,248.27 Dried apples. 1,000.00 Eggs. 87,798.94 Grain . 9,726.93 Hay and straw. 63,301.26 Hides and skins. 181,467.77 Horses . 153,742.98 Meat. l,75i.70 Onions and turnips.. . 12,340.09 Potatoes. 86,163.39 Poultry ... 6,768.00 Seeds. 65,029.32 Sheep and lambs. 46,480.92 Tobacco leaf. 64,703.77 Wool. 359,977.71 Total for three months. .*1,564,349.13 I Yearly average. 6,267,396.52 | The total of these imports exceeds a i It appears that during the 1895 year, since the Gorman tariff went Into ef fect, we bought from European coun tries foreign goods worth 188,608,977 more than we bought in 1894. Having increased our purchases by this largo sum of money in a single year we nat urally turn to the figures of our exports, expecting to find that we have in creased our sales of American goods by about the same amount of money; but what do we find? Here are the figures: EXPORTS TO EUROPE. 1894 ••••. .$700,870,822 1895 .. 627,975,133 Decrease, 1895..$72,895,689 It seems that during 1895 we sold to European countries $72,895,689 worth less of our American products and man ufactures than we did during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. *In the 1895 year we spent over $88,600,000 more money in European countries, and they spent $72,900,000 less money in this country. We certainly bought more from them, but, instead of their return ing the compliment, they bought less from us. Our loss for the year’s deal under the Gorman tariff, which is only the first step toward free trade, exceed? ed $160,000,000. Thus another free trade theory is smashed. Homes, Cattle and Wool. Can you furnish me a statement showing the number of horses and their value imported into this country under the Gorman-Brice bill ? Also, the num ber of cattle and their value imported under the recent suspension of duties as to them when there was a little flurry in the price of beef. Would love to have statistics on wool trade since that bill went into effect. Lebanon, Ky. C. A. JOHNSON. Our imports of horses and cattle dur ing the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1895, when the Gorman tariff was in effect for ten months, were as follows; IMPORTS OF HORSES. Twelve months, ending Num June 30, 1895. ber. Free. 1,263 Dutiable . 11,833 Value. $417,664 637,527 Totals . 13,096 $1,053,191 IMPORTS OF CATTLE. Twelve months, ending Num June 30, 1893. ber. Value. Free . 14.956 $ 99,104 j FoTCjjjjfl \flool Ularkcted in tta United States _ FREE WOOL" VERS US FOREIGN WOOL. million and a half dollars for three months, or at the rate of $6,257,396.52 a year. It is clear that Canadian farm ers are coming in direct competition with the products of American farms In every principal article that our farmers can furnish for the home market. The largest imports were of wool, next coming barley, beans, hides and skins, horses, eggs, potatoes, leaf tobacco, hay and straw, seeds, sheep and lambs, apples, onions, and turnips and poultry. When the Canadian farmers begin to supply the American towns along the border line with Canadian farm prod ucts, then the American farmers who used to look to these home markets for an outlet for their produtcts must turn elsewhere and go further south, paying more freight before they can sell their goods, and also coming into competi tion with other farmers, and naturally depressing the value of farm stuffs everywhere through a glut in the mar ket. Later in the year the exports were undoubtedly larger. Give the home market to the American farmer. Baying and Selling. One of the greatest of the free-trade war cries has always been that “if we did not buy we could not sell,” meaning that if we manufactured in our own country all the goods required for our own market without importing an} from foreign countries, then foreign countries would not buy any of our farm products or domestic manufac tures. Many people have been foolish enough to believe this theory. Now let us look at the facts. Taking the statistics of our Import and export trade for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1S94 and 1895, as sup plied by the bureau of statistics of the treasury department, we find that our imports from European countries dur ing the two years were as follows: IMPORTS FROM EUROPE. 1893 .$383,686,842 1894 ... 295,077,865 1 Increase, 1S95 $38,608,977 Dutiable. 134,825 6G6.749 Totals . 149,781 $765,853 In regard to suspension of duties we inquired of the secretary of agriculture, who replied as follows: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D. C., Aug 17, 1895. You ask me to advise you of the ‘‘exact date of the recent suspension of duties on foreign cattle, when it went into effect, how long it was in effect and what countries It affected.” I am not aware that there has been any suspension of duties on foreign cat tle, except the provision which has been in the last two Tariff laws admit ting pure bred animals for breeding purposes free of duty. Very respectfully, J. Sterling Morton, Secretary. Wool statistics show, for the same fiscal year, that wo imported 206.133,906 pounds Jtehed over40 years. Phoenix Nursery Co., Box Hi4 Bloomington, 111. Patents. Trade-Marks. Examination and Advice as to Patentability oC Invention. 8end for “ inventors’ Guide, or How to Get q Patent ” FAT2ISS 0TA&B5LL. 77ACEIST3TG2?, D. C. 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