_ “BESTOKATION.” HOW ‘’BUSINESS PROSPERITY” IS "RESTORED” BY DEMOCRACY. “Trade Retlral” of 1800 AfTnrda an y Unp.'cccdented Record of Failures— Great Results of Tariff Reform— Lawyers and Sheriffs Overworked. The total number of business failures In the United States during the past thfC'e months Is 4,512, by coincidence exactly 700 more than in the like quar ter last year, an increase of almost one fVftli. The only preceding quarter In w.bltf) the total number of failures was as ’large as 4,000 was In 18S5, imme diately following the panic of 18S4, when the total was 4,050. In no like darter before or since has the num ber ,of failures been as large as in the past tjiree months, although in the first quarter of 1894 there were nearly four thousand business failures reported— 3,909—compared with which the in crease during the past quarter is about qpe-ninth. After a year of extreme depression, following the panic of 1893, and par falling behind the work of the Mc Kinley law, which they denounced as inefficient. Even in Its closing months, when Importations had fallen oft by reason of the expectation of reduced tariff rates, the McKinley law produced more revenue than has the Gormar. law. Its receipts in the last nineteen months of its operation were forty mil lion dollars greater than those of the first nineteen months of the Gorman law, while as for its first nineteen months, the McKinley exceeded the Gorman law by eighty million dollars in its receipts. Here is a statement which shows, in three lines, the com paratve revenue producing qualities of the two laws, whether In the beginning or closing periods of the McKinley act: McKinley law receipts first 19 months.$566,919,004 McKinley law receipts last 19 months. 521,819,675 Gorman law receipts first 19 months. 481,423,509 In every particular, the new law has been a failure, whether In customs re ceipts or internal revenue receipts. McKinley the Protection I a t« “The year 1890 found him at the head of the Ways and Means Committee and ; leader of the house. In that position It fell to his lot to frame and secure, the j enactment of the McKinley law. (Ap plause.) That measure has made his name familiar In all the world and has made him exceedingly unpopular In almost all the world outside of the United States. (Great Applause.) But it has correspondingly endeared him to his countrymen. Time has vindi cated his labor. The last three years have been years of trial. They have been years of Democratic rule: they have been years of education for the American people in the school of practl American Grownf (&3,8W,232 Foreign Countries t during the livo fiscal_v)eoirS, 1694 and 1895 •fieularly after a year In which there 7w«s a moderate boom in leading com' ■mcrcial and industrial lines and a gcn , ‘Ihdyance in prices, as in 1895, it >JWuid have been natural to expect a r year with conditions looking to im provement, the outcome of which could, of bourse, hardly help lowering the cCnmerctal death rate. tie most unfavorable feature of tho rffort concerning the quarter's fail ures is the relatively heavy Increase of ■labilities compared with gain in num of embarrassments. Thus, while th| increase in the latter is 18 per cent, as compared with the first quarter of and about 11 per cent, compared the first quarter of 1894, total 11a litlcs aggregating $62,513,000, are put 30 per cent, larger than in the spondlhg period.one year ago, and per cent, larger than In the' like . &rlod two years ago. No correspond ing period during the previous fifteen years has presented so large a toftl of liabilities as that the statistics for Wglch arc now made public. In the «ftt quarter of 1895, when there wore Opy 4,050 failures, total liabilities amounted to $41,464,000, nearly one tnlrd less. ifli is when we come to records from Western and the middle states that in $f£ases, not only in number of embar rassments, but in aggregates of Indebt edness, becomes striking. The western athtes show an Increase of the num ber of failures of more than 45 per «ent., 1,205 compared with 830 a year ago, but with respect to liabilities the increase there is more than 200 per •*' M’.V set Foiii^n . grow)' Barley during the two /iseoljjcon ending dune 30 1899.^1695 189$ . 3.116,616 Mi *-rj—a,tt |llcl6wfaj1ffij} I Gorwon Tariff1 | forge and workshop — everywhere throughout alt this broad land where capital Is Invested or labor Is em ployed, William McKinley Is the ideal American statesman, the typical Amer ican leader and the veritable American Idol. (Great Applause and Cheers.) Ah. Thml With Mr. Cleveland as President there will be a feeling of security for every honest industry In this great re public.—Col. John McAnerney, presi dent of the Seventh National bank, la the New York Times, Sept. 80, 1893. Indeed, colonel. DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How lictnifgl Farmer* Operate This Department of the Farm—A Few Hint* a* to the Care of Lire Stock •nd Poultry. HE BABCOCK test has come into extensive use with in the past few years and is likely to be used still more in determin ing the value of dairy cows and of the many different milks and creams brought to factor ies for the manufacture of both butter and cheese. As so much depends upon the accu racy of this test where thousands of dollars are to be divided among patrons annually, it Is of the utmost import ance that, inasmuch as the sample tested is necessarily small, all meas urements should be made with the greatest possible accuracy in order to secure uniformly reliable results. It has been found that many of the I3abcock bottles and pipettes now in use are inaccurately graduated. In view of this fact and of the tflfflculty in securing bottles and pipettes which can be relied upon, the Pennsylvania Experiment station has undertaken to supply as standards to any resident of the state desiring them, a tested Bab cock bottle and pipette at a price suffi cient to cover the original cost and the expense of testing and postage. In this connection, owing to the wide varia tion found in cheap dairy thermome ters, the station will also undertake to supply to residents of the state desire their spring and summer pasture. Then when your pasture “plays out” rin the toll, or .about, September, 15 tqj October 1, you will have fine food la your lots for your hogs, where they will root at Intervals whenever the ground Is not frozen too hard until the following May, when they will have received as much real benefit from one acre of artichokes as from five of corn, at a very conservative estimate—some say ten acres. The hogs will also leave enough tubers in the ground to serve as seed for tho next crop. It is a hog’s nature to root. In fact, his hogship is never happier than when he is root ing. An artichoke patch can truly be called a hog’s drug store. A hog’s ob ject in rooting being to obtain roots, which his appetite craves, and which serve the same purpose for him as a blood cleaner or spring medicine does for the human being. Ayer, of sarsa parilla fame, can fully explain this. After a hog has eaten artichokes to his heart’s content, the rooting notion will have been put entirely out of his head and he will not root up his spring or summer pasture. A wealthy hog raiser (Mr. Booher) of the writer’s ac quaintance, and who has made 480 acres of $100' land from hog raising for the pork market, says he would not bo without a big annual patch of„ the tame artichoke, and that he has had no hog diseases in his herds since he has allowed them to root In his artichoke patch to their heart’s content. He claimed that a sow will never eat her pigs if she has been previously given a good feed of artichokes. The artichoke (tame sorts) is a wonderful soil enricher, fully as good as red clover. Tho writer cuts the tubers to two eyes per piece and plants precisely same .as potatoes, and cultivates pre cisely same as corn. They grow about eight feet high and grow so. dense that weeds have a hard time in an artichoke patch. The artichoke stands RESULT OF CROSSINGS ENGLISH AND EAST INDIAN CATTLE. Our Illustration shows a" cross' be tween some English cattle (presum ably shorthorns), and some Indian breeds. The United States, consul In Ceylon says that these crosses are an Improvement over . either, of t^e ■ -parent breeds, so far as use In India Is concerned. They will stand the pe culiarities of feed and climate better , than the imported cattle, and have ., more useful qualities than the native Nellore cattle. tag ii a tested thermometer as a stand ard, under the above conditions. The station has also prepared a bul letin containing lull and explicit direc tions for the use of the Babcock tes: which it will mail free to all who may desire it. E. Hayward. Pennsylvania Experiment Station. Artlobokm for Ruga. Hitherto the growing of this valu able tuberous rooted perennial has been almost wholly neglected, and greatly misunderstood. During the past few years the “tame" or domes ticated sorts of the artichoke have been imported from Europe, and are grad ually making their way to an exten sive cultivation in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is In place in this connection to mention that there is a deep-seated, long-standing preju dice against tho artichoke among the farmers of the United States. But there Is "wild’’ rye and “tame" rye, “wild” onions and “tame” onions. “Wild” barley and "tame” barley. “Wild” lettuce and “tame” lettuce, etc. Almost every grata and vegetable cultivated and used as food by man has ItB namesake In a noxious and often times dangerous weed. The artichoke Is no exception to the general rule. The wild artichoke being Indigenous to most localities (wherever the soil Is suitable) In North and South Amer ica. It is merely a bad weed—a dan gerous peat, which produces few and small tubers and spreads its long fibrous roots out a long distance and deep down into the soil, making Its extermination a difficult task. Many farmers who have seen it growing un derstand It fully. But the same farm- 1 era do not understand that there Is a difference—a vast difference In the wild artichoke and the “tame” arti choke. In fact they are as different as is wild and “tame" lettuce, or is wild and “tame” rye. VUt iUQ vuo )/uov tv FI J VU1 D er domesticated aorta of artichoke' have been Imported from Europe and are to a great extent becoming known and, cultivated on this continent, as a cheap, healthy stock food. The “tame” ar tichoke can be aa easily grown as born or potatoes, and on land that will pro duce 50 bushels per acre of Indian .corn, 500 bushels per acre of artichokes can be easily grown. The writer fre quently does this and has grown over 90 bushels per acre on ground that had never been manured. Their great value aa a cheap, handy, healthy hog food has been so thoroughly aired in the press of the country the past few years that an enormous demand has been created for them. As a pork producer they cannot be excelled. A good plan is to plant all your lots to artichokes about May 1, or as soon as your stock la put on drought much better than the potato, and there is no insect that infests them to the writer’s knowledge, of sever alyears In growing three kinds of them. The "tame” or domesticated artichoke should be replanted every three years as they run out, or in other words, the —ground needs a rotation of crops. They are very easily and entirely ex terminated if the young tops are plowed under when about one foot high. Artichokes are valuable, not alone as a hog food, but for any kind of stock and poultry, and also for horses. Poultry Just about live in an artichoke patch in warm weather, where they hide from hawks In the shade, and scratch out the young tubers. The tubers are highly prized for milch cows as valuable milk pro ducers. The writer feeds the tubers to his horses every spring. Horses pre fer them to any other food after they have become accustomed to them. They completely take the place of oil cake and condition powders, making horses shed nicely and clearing them of worms. The writer has tried sev eral varieties but has finally settleu on the White Jerusalem, Red Jerusa lem and Mammoth White French as the most valuable sort to grow in the central west Illinois. B-rr«