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& DAIRY ANlTPOULTRY.'
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
* - OUR RURAL. READERS.
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Row Knccmifnl Farm era Opera to This
> Department of the Farm—A Few
Hints as to the Care of Lire Stock
and Poultry.
HERE Is nothing
more essential than
the careful selec
tion of birds for
breeders. This Is
forced on our at
tention by the low
averages In egg
production made by
most of our flocks.
The average yield
Is probably not
more than half what It would be were
the birds selected, even to the extent
that horses, sheep, cattle and hogs are.
In the kinds of live stock named there
Is altogether too little selection, but In
our poultry there Is none at all, ex
cept by the fanciers, and we fear that
even they do not do a great deal In
selecting Individual fowls.
^ We take a flock, and compare them
with another flock, and the flock that
does the best Is chosen. Now In the
rejected flock there may be birds thft
will outlay anything In the successful
flock*, but their good record Is obscured
hy the poor records of their companions.
,The only way to select the best
breeders Is to have a separate yard for
each fowl, keep a record of her eggs
foi: the first two years, and If she
proves excellent, mate her the third
* Ear an<1 U8e her eKRS *or hatching.
This Is a troublesome and an expen
sive method, and will require many
yspjs to select a flock of good layers,
but It Is the only correct method. A
floek thus bred would In a number of
yeafs yield 60 eggs per annum more
,than* the usual. If the number of hens
. be 100 this would mean 6,000 eggs extra
tor the year, and the value of these
would be clear profit.
■topped Egg Eating.
I have about 40 hens and they have
been doing fairly well this winter.,But
about three weeks ago the eggs began
, HOW PARISIAN BUTCHERS CUT BEEP.
i • •; FIG*,!.
• * Isi, ’civ. *«■>;» L #a*, .. . Jff * •••
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The difference In appreciation of onto
of Beat by different large markets Is
astonishing. We Illustrate the mode
followed In Paris. The animal Illus
trated Is supposed to be a Norman ox,
mjlhlng, when dressed, 457 kilograms
(l,w7.60 pounds).
No. 1 In tho cut Is the veiny piece,
wteght 44.09 founds; 2, ditch bone,
wglght 66.14 poundB; 3. thick flank, 44 09
110*» Pounds; 6.
Illlflt, 15.43 pounds; 6, buttock, 33.07
= ^ : -
pounds; total of first quality, 313.0B
pounds.
No. 7, shoulder blades, 154.32 pounds;
8, end of neck, 11.02 pounds; ribB, 99.20
pounds; total of second quality, 264.54
pounds.
No. 10, Ohuck, 35.12 pounds; 11, neck
77.10 pounds; 12, brisket, 165.34 pounds;
13, leg and shin, 66.11 pounds; 14, cheek,
22.04 pounds; 15, inner sirloin. 22.04
pounds; kidneys, 83.10 pounds; total
of third quality, 429.91 pounds.—Farm
ers' Review.
to *et scare*, and what we did get
t w#r* Partly covered by yolk of eggs
thgt'had been eaten by the hens. W*
eoon found that the hena had the habit
rei7 bad. and at flrat we decided to
kll| off a few of the worat mischief
makers. We disliked to do this, ex
cept, as a last resort So we tried an
other way. and are pleased to say that
It tea proved a success. Our hen house
ka# one large window. Wo covered this
with a carpet allowing the lower edge
to ]be raised In such a way that the
would fall on the roosts, but the
part where the neats were remained In
qutfe deep shadow. The Interior of
the neats were In still deeper gloom,
so jauch so that It would be quite Ira
Ible for the hens to strike the eggs
win sufficient accuracy to break them.
At first we got the nests too dark, and
the hens could not see to get up Into
them. We soon adjusted the shadow to
thsT' degree desired. Other readers of
thfc Farmers’ Review may have trouble
In this way. and If so, they will prob
ably find this plan of value.—Mary
Ann, In Farmers' Review.
jjT. IfioruM an Obataela.
' The greatest obstacle In the lmprove
—ment of the poultry Interests Is the
v general ignorance ot present condltiona
and results. There seem to be few
»who kgow what they are doing. Ask
■ ,>
h man how many eggs he got last year,
'now much It cost to keep the hens, an*
So forth, and it Is exceedingly rare
% that an answer can be secured. The
♦ ’truth Is he cannot tell; hence there Is
probability ot Improvement. If we
get people to keeping close
srds, we can get them to Improve
|r flecks. We are glad that some
readers of the Farmers' Review are
Vbeglnnlflg to take a deeper interest in
k knowing what results they are getting.
bub a ■ 11 *4 Permanent Put°rn.
That blue grass Is a success In Ken
f tucky Is a tact so well established that
la no longer debatable. The question
-being asked, how far north can
can (hen well afford to advocate the
passage ot a law that will sweep away
the privilege once for all. It Is true
that there would have to be a vory rad
ical change In our butler- score cards,
the points for color being nearly nr al
together eliminated.
Iccnui of Crumirln.
The continual Increase ot creameries
In every one of the states adapted to
gracing Is a sign Indicative of progress
on the part of the butter makers. It
Is estimated that there are now In the
United States more than 15,000 cream
eries. When we consider that all of
these have sprung up within one gen
eration, we can appreciate how rapid
has been the advance. The creamery
Is the most effective weapon by which
the farmer can reduce the stock of
poor and cheap butter. The home
dairy Is a very good thing and the
skillful maker of dairy butter can get
a good price for his product, even
higher sometimes than the current
price tor best creamery. But there
are myriads ot farmers that never will
learn to make outter correctly, and for
them the creamery Is a salvation.
Sowing Clover.—Clover may be sown
broadcast either In August or Septem
ber, but much better and surer earlier
In the spring, with most of the cereal
grains, or the cultivated grasses; or It
may profitably constitute a crop by lt
self. On well prepared loams 10 to 12
pounds of good seed will frequently give
a full covering to the land, while on
clay 12 to 16 pounds are necessary per
acre. When sown with the grasses,
four to aix pounds on the first and 8 to
12 pounds on the last soil will suf
fice.—Ex.
Pure Water for Hogs.—The supply ot
water for tha swine should be pure.
This Is one of the safeguards against
cholera. In all probability the germa
of the disease are often carried by the
water;' '
we grow blue grans with success as a
part of our permanent pasturage. We
wish those of our readers living in
Wisconsin, Iowa and like localities that
have blue grass pastures would report
them. Please stats also whether the
land be low or high, wet or well
drained.
The impression prevails In most of
our more northern localities that,
though blue grass may be used exclu
sively, that is, alone, for a pasturage
In Kentucky, it will not do to rely too
much on it further north, but that it
should be put in with a number of other
grasses.
Another point Is that blue grass will
often drive out other kinds of grasses.
Is that true of all latitudes, and If not,
at what latitudes does blue grass sur
render to the more widely disseminated
native grasses.—Farmers* Review.
Build Ins Up-Dairy Associations,
We heard the secretary of the Illinois
Dairymen's association ask ;he uues
tion, "How is the membership to be in
creased
The questlou Is not one that can be
answered by producing some social
panacea. It would appear that there
is no one way that will prove effective,
but that every way will have to be
worked to its fullest capacity. There
seems one method that has not been
tried at all, but that should v.eid good
returns.
Several months before the holding
of the next annual meeting, every
farmers’ club in the state should be
written to, asking them to send one
of their number to represent the dairy
Interests in their vicinity. When we
say farmers’ clubs we mean also farm
ers’ institutes, and every kind of farm
ers’ organizations that take an interest
in such matters. We need to have the
entire state represented in the dairy
convention, and there should be at
least one delegate from each county.
Coloring Batter and Oleomargarine.
The practice of coloring butter la so
universal that it Is no longer regarded
as being to any extent an attempt to
deceive. Innocent as it is, it may have
to be given up in some states for the
sake of depriving oleomargarine of the
same privilege. It is evident that the
farmers lose more ]n allowing oleomar
garine to be colored than they gain in
being permitted to color butter. They
I HIGH CLASS SERVANTS.
RdmIk Ha* a Variety That Should Ba
the Envy of All.
If the laws which a special commis
sion appointed for the purpose in Rus
sia, to regulate the dealings between
mistresses and domestice servants,
have any effect, Russia, in a short time,
will be provided with a servant class
which it will be Impossible to match
all the world over. The servant in
Russia is at the same time a jewel of
rare virtue and a troublesome vixen,
who does everything in her power to
make the life of her master and mis
tress full of anxiety. Gentlemen of
Russia are not the pleasantest masters
in the world to serve. Night after
night, for instance, they will stay out
late at their clubs or card parties, and,
since latchkeys are almost unknown,
the maid or cook is expected to sit up
and open the door the moment it shall
please them to return. Yet in the
morning she will be up as early as any
English girl, as fresh as a daisy, and
going about her duties Binging lustily.
If the cook during the day is set to mind
the children she will throw herself
heartily Into the duties of nursery
maid, will romp and dance with her
charges, will dress the dolls and play
skipping-rope as long as her mistress
may desire. The nurse Is always pre
pared to roast a duck, to clean a room,
to polish her master’s boots, to do any
thing. In fact, to make herself useful.
On the other hand, if you possess a
particularly good box of cigarettes you
will find that they will rapidly disap
pear. Who can be taking them? With
out doubt the cook. Among other priv
ileges that they claim may be men
tioned the right to drink as much vod
ka as they like (and certainly more
than is good for them) when outside
your house. If sometimes they forget
wnere they are they expect you to put
up with any temporary inconvenience
that their inability to work may cause.
They hold the right, moreover, to cele
brate all birthdays, or name-days (every
servant in Russia has two or three
such days a year), with a brilliant ball,
and to keep high revel until 4 In the
morning. A11 this, however, the special
commission which has been appointed
will put to rights; the power of the
masters will be moderated; the de
mands of the servants will be kept in
check. Since among us in the wedt the
servant question is becoming more and
more difficult, in a short time cheer
ful, faithful, well-trained servants will
probably be a stable export front Rus
sia.
An Obliging Traveler*
Prom Harper’s Round Table; There
has been a .great deal of complaint both
in London and New York of the way
a certain class of shopkeepers try to
force their wares upon passers-by. One
man, a traveler, has managed to get
the better of one of these shopmen, a
clothing dealer, who had a way of al
most dragging people into his place.
One day shortly after his arrival in
London the traveler stopped for a mo
ment to examine a coat hanging in
front of a clothing establishment, when
the shopman rushed out and asked,
"Wouldn’t you try on some coats?
"I don’t know but I would,’’ re
sponded the traveler, consulting his
watch. “I’ve got some time to spare.
Yes.” And he went in and began to
work. No matter how often he found
his fit, he called for more coats, and
after he had tried on thirty he looked
at his watch again, resumed his own
garments, and walked off, saying:
"I won’t charge anything for what
I’ve done. I believe in a man who’ll
oblige another when he can do it. If
I’m ever this way again, and you’ve
got any coats to try on, I’ll do all I can
to help you!”
What the shopkeeper said we are not
told, but it is not hard to lmaglne what
he thought
Public Schools. ' >
The public school is the inheritance
of the people, and within its walls no
word or practice should be uttered or
performed that can wound the religious
susceptibilities of any child who at
tends it. To act in any other spirit is
deceptive, unjust, un-American and
seditious, inasmuch as it tends to tyreeil
sectarian strife.—Rabbi J. L. Levy.
SCRAPS OP SCIENCE.
At Great Falls, Mont., electric power
is so cheap that all public and domes
tic work is done with its aid.
A new and wonderful substitute for
common brittle glass is announced by
a Vienna journal devoted to the glass
and porcelain trade. The substitute is
said to have all the properties of com
mon glass except that it is flexible. It
is made of cullodian wool.
It is believed that the shooting stars
are small solid bodies, revolving round
the sun. As they are traveling in a
contrary direction to the earth the
velocity with which they enter our at
mosphere is very great—on an average
about 30 miles a second.
The greatest depth, writes Prof.
Seeley in his “Story of the Earth,” at
which earthquakes are known to origi
nate is about thirty mlleB. It has also
been calculated that a heat sufficient to
melt granite might occur at about the
same depth.
It may be of Interest to learn that of
the 14 new stars discovered within the
last 300 years four were discovered by
Mrs. Fleming of the Harvard observa
tory—namely, one in the consteljatlon
of Perseus, in 1887; one in Norma, in
1893, and one each in Carina and Cen
taurus, during the present year.
M. Piltschikoff, in describing recent
photographs of lightning, names three
types of flash—band lightning, tube
lightning and water-spout lightning.
The first two he found to occur in all
storms, the third he met with once only.
From the measured width of the band
lightning on photographs and the com
puted distance he estimates the actual
widths to be from about 13 to 80 yards..
LARGER EXPORTS?
ANALYZING REPORTS OF OUR
INCREASED DEMAND.
The New York National Economist Gets
Democratic Figure* liefore the X Kaye
of Truth—now Dennett Captured the
Markets of the World,
Free traders have been very Joyful
over an increase in our exports of
American manufactured goods. As long
as this is not brought about by the
sacrifice of our home market it is, in
deed, an encouraging sign. Last year,
1895, we sold in foreign countries $23,
35J.802 more of our manufactures than
in 1891. This includes an increase of
$14,249,971 in our exports of mineral
oil, refined or manufactured, leaving
only $9,101,831 of increase for all oth
er manufactures exported. But the
larger value of our mineral oil exports
has been of no value to American labor
because it represented shipments of 42,
114,075 gallons less oil in 1895 than in
1894. The refining or manufacturing of
42,000,000 gallons less oil for export has
deprived labor of work. The increase
in value merely represents an increase
in the profits of the oil combine, which
advanced the price of oil so sharply
last year. It did mo good to American
labor. Our labor suffered through hav
ing less oil to refine or manufacture,
and our labor also suffered through
having to pay more money for oil when
earning lower wages.
Excepting the oil exports, we have
*89,101,831 worth more of American
manufactures shipped abroad last year
than in 1894. Against this we must set
the increase in our imports of foreign
manufactures, thus leaving the follow
ing exhibit:
Exports of Manufactures:
Total increase, 1895 over
1894 .$23,351,802
Mineral oil, refined or manu
factured, decrease in quan
tity. gal....42,114,075
Increase in value. 14,249,971
Increase In all other manu
* factured exports.$ 9,101,831
Increase in all manufactured
imports .I1.'.... 92,613,090
’* *' ' V. ■
‘Net loss to the United
States...$83,511,259
If it is advantageous to us to in
crease our exports by $9,101,831, it
must be correspondingly more advan
tageous to the foreign countries that
increased their exports by $92,613,090.
Deducting our small gain from their
greater gain leaves a net loss of $83,
511,259 to our manufacturers through
the capture of our markets by foreign
ers, over and above the amount of their
markets that we captured.
It should be noted that our manu
factured exports do not include such
a product as flour, wlilch is certainly,
equally as much a “manufacture” as
oil. In 1894 we exported flour worth
$58,924,706, but in 1895 only $50,292,
886, a decrease of $8,631,820. Had this
manufactured product been included in
the democratic treasury, statement, our
total excess of exports last year would
have dwindled down to $470,011, as
compared with increased Imports of
manufactures worth $92,613,090. It is
Just as well to be more thoroughly ex
planatory than the free traders are.
Senator Pritchard for Protection.
The Wilson bill had for its object the
promotion of the interest of those who
live in foreign lands. It preferred the
Vjfrig
coal of Nova Scotia to that of Kentucky,
West Virginia and Tennessee. It pre
ferred the cheap wool of Australia to
the wool of the farmers living in Illi
nois, Iowa, Ohio, Texas and the other
great wool growing states of this union.
It preferred the iron, corundum, koalin
and. marble of foregn countries to that
of Vermont, Pennsylvania, North Caro
lina, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama.
It preferred the baled hay of Canada to
| that of Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky,
! North Carolina, Ohio and the other
| great agricultural states. It interrupt
| ed the tide of immigration and capita]
; which was pouring into the South from
New England and other sections under
the beneficent Influences of the McKin.
ley law, and drove back to their re
spective homes In a great measure that
desirable class of citizens who engage
in mining iron, koalin, talo and mar
ble, which so abundantly abounds in
Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia, Ken
tucky, Georgia and North Carolina. By
its operation thousands of laboring
men were thrown out of employment.
It resulted in the withdrawal of mil
lions of dollars from the only avenue
of business by which it could be reach
ed by the laboring men of our section.
—Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard, U. S. S., of
North Carolina.
Where lie Hnught More.
—Value for year ending—
American June 30, 1894. Dec. 31,1895.
Imports Last McKinley 1st Gorman
From— year. year.
Europe.$295,077,865 $431,514,024
N. America. 166.962,559 139,012,043
S. America . 100,147,107 117,306,447
Asia . 66,186,397 87,049,476
Oceanica ... 21,457,923 18,253,341
Africa . 3,479,338 6,786,323
All other
countries . 1,683,433 - 1,741,836
Totals ....$654,994,622 $801,663,490
Free-Trade increase in im
ports ..$146,668,868
Tho End of It.
Bennett ol the New York Herald
Starts to Capture the Markets
of the World.
- . 1894.
And Meets with a Royal and Over*
whelming Reception.
Where We Sold Leu
—Value for year ending—
American June 30,1894. Dec. 31,1895.
Exports Last McKinley 1st Gorman
To— year. year.
Europe.$700,870,822 $634,503,492
N. America.. 119,693,212 114,174,471
S. America.. 33,212,310 34,131,572
Asia . 20-,872,761 19,221,535
Oceanica .... 11,914,182 13,846,401
Africa . 4,923,859 8,519,116
All .other
'Countries . 653,246 465,888
Totals ....$892,140,572 $324,862,475
Free-Trade decrease in ex
ports...$ 67,278,097
SUMMARY.
Free-Trade increase in im
ports .$146,668,868
Free-Trade decrease in ex
ports . 67,278,097
Total Gorman Tariff loss
in 1 year.$213,946,965
“If we do not buy, we cannot sell.”
How about this?
John Ball’* Balance Sheet.
—Value for year ending—
With June 30,1894. Dec. 31,1895.
United Last McKinley 1st Gorman
States. year. year.
He bought .$431,059,267 $389,789,254
He sold.... 107,372,995 184,474,336
Balance ..$323,686,272 $205,314,918
John Bull’s increased sales.$ 77,101,341
John Bull’s decreased pur- '
chases . 41,270,013
John Bull’s profit.$118,371,354
“If we do not buy, we cannot sell.”
How about this?
Senator Sherman’s Point.
During the first year of the Wilson
law the agricultural imports, all of
which are such as are produced in the
United States, the most common prod
ucts of our farms, were of the value of
$107,342,522. During the last year of
the McKinley law the imports of the
same farm products were of the value
of $51,414,844. So under the Wilson law
the imports of agricultural products,
which we produce in the greatest
abundance, were doubled in amount
as compared with the amount import.- |
ed under the McKinley law.—Hon. John j
Sherman, U. S. S. of Ohio. 1
Bank.
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