LET OUB FLAG FLY. 1 EFFORT TO PROTECT AMERICAN . MERCHANT MARINE. Old Discriminating Duty to Be Revived Against Foreign Imports—Policy That Covered Oceans with the Stars an** Stripes. _' 'Senator Elkins, or West Virginia, 'Who, by the way, is one among the real friends of Protection in the Senate who has repeatedly expressed a desire to see some legislation enacted by the present Congress in the interests of the falling industries of the country, is also mak ing a good fight for the enactment of a shipping law that shall discriminate in favor of the shipping interests of the United States. Senator Elkins is a Stalwart Protectionist, anil he- is ready 'to support. any measure that will be - beneficial to American interests, whether of the factory, the farm or of commerce. In reply to the question re cently propounded by us to the Senators respecting their duty toward the Ding ley Revenue bill, Senator Elkins replied promptly, and with great earn estness, that he favored pressing the bill to a vote at every opportunity, and that he had been of that opinion from the beginning. The West Virginia Senator is equally in earnest with respect to the bill which he introduced early in the session, the object of which was to restore the dis criminating policy as enacted by former legislation of Congress, by which Amer ican ships carrying goods imported from foreign ports are to be given an advantage over ships owned and sailed for foreigners. This policy is in line with the best Protection to American shipping, which is certainly entitled to -every fair advantage that can be given by the laws of an American Congress. 1 Senator Elkins’ bill is still quietly sleeping in the pigeon-holes of the •Committee on Commerce, and although that committee is presided over by so good a friend of American shipping as is Senator Frye, of Maine, there does not appear to be any prospect of the bill being reported and favorably con sidered during the remaining few days of this session. Like the Revenue bill, •and similar measures that are designed to give more and better Protection to American interests from the tre mendous competition to which they are IT subjected by the cheap labor and low standard of living in the old world, the Shipping-bill must wait until the Sena tors become awakened to a realizing sense of the duty of the hour. It is creditable to Senator Elkins, however, that in the face of the dis couragements of the times he con tinues bis fight for all Protective meas ures, aud that h,e promises to stir up the Senate before the present session is ■ended with some vigorous talk and work for the Shipping bill and dis criminating duties in favor of our ship ping. The history of such discriminating duties, the levying of a 10 per cent, •additional duty on goods imported from foreign countries when they are brought in here in foreign ships, gives so much evidence of the beneficial ef fects of that policy upon our shipping that it would seem that a mere refer ence to it should arouse even the Re publican members of the United States senate. Every time that policy was tried it resulted in splendidly stimu lating the American merchant marine. During the periods when the discrimi . nating duties were enforced our ship ping interests were materially revived, and the abandonment of the policy was promptly followed by a corresponding deciine in our shipping interests. A ftor mtli on n 1V n ^ ^_ . » _i _ nothing policy, and the competition of the heavily subsidized shipping lines of foreign countries that are aggres sive in their contests for trade, the re sult has been that American ships are carrying only11 per cent of our foreign trade. Under the policy of Protection to our manufacturing industries, and in spite of the vicious and unrelenting op position of the Free Trade party, our Industries have thrived and. prospered until the present blight of the Free Trade administration. But, even dur ing those years of- continuous Protec tion to domestic industries, the Ameri can shipping interests were denied one of the simplest and safest means of se curing to it Protective advantages by the adoption of a policy that would also afford additional Protection to Ameri can industries, and put more money in the Treasury, where it is now so great ly needed. We wish Senator Elkin3 success in his battle for more Protection to Ameri can shipping. He is so true a triend to Protection to all our industries that his laborE in behalf of our shipping inter ests cannot but result in good fruits at no distant day. And the sooner the better. The policy he advocates is distinctly American in Idea and spirit, j In results, also, it would be distinctly of American advantage. Therefore we need it. And the more legislation of a similar character that we can place upon our statute books the better it will be for the United States. Try to give pleasure and you will re ceive more than vou give. ARTISTS ARE IDLE, “Tariff Reform" Increases Import* Cheap Foreign Reproductions. of Art Works—Imports, —Calendar years— 1894. 1895 Free .$2,411,053 $4,580,010 Dutiable . 730,887 . Total .$3,141,940 From 1894. United Kingdom.. $788,178 France . 1,135,231 Germany. 98,129 Italy . 128,584 Other European countries. 72,912 British North America . 184,051 Other countries... 3,968 $4,580,010 -Free. 1895. $1,199,643 2,613,376 266,334 274,650 173,788 130,396 21,823 Total .$2,411,053 $4,580,010 1893.—Protection. _ n 1800—“Tariff Reform." Fiscal Dutiable years. imports. 1890 _$1,796,372 1891 _2,014,510 1892 _ 2,030,599 1893 _ 2,366,765 1894 _ 1,484,184 Calendar years: 1894 .... 730,887 1895 . Free 1 imports. Duties, . $ 91,550 . 287,807 . 241,612 . 339,265 . 162,918 $2,411,053 . 4,580,010 *12,140 ■"Fiscal year It is mostly the cheap reproductions that are now imported for publication in American magazines. These can b« secured at a trifling cost. Considering that the imports of foreign art works have so largely increased during the business depression in this country, it is evident that the quantity of foreign art works must have seriously inter fered with the business of American artists. Art Work*—Exports. Fiscal year. Value. 1887 .$221,372 1888 . 271,010 1889 . 694,413 1890 . 228,082 1891 . 406,374 Fiscal year. Value. 1892 . $422,238 1893 . 210,892 1894 . 391,763 1895 . 471,104 1895*. 554,175 ♦Calendar year. This is what England predicted when the Gorman law was awaiting the president’s pleasure: Painters and sculptors may fairly rejoice, since oil paintings and water color drawings, and statuary, which are at present subject to a duty of fif teen per cent., will in future be ad mitted into the United States free of duty. We cannot doubt that the with drawal of the duty will tend to bright en the prospects of English and French artists in their relations with the States.—The Builder, London, August 25, 1894. Senator Mitchell's Opposition. This bill (the Wilson bill), In so far as it deals with the sheep and wool industry is arbitrary, invidious, and unjust. It places this great Industry cn the sacrificial altar and offers its ashes as a sacrifice to the avarice of the foreign wool grower and to some extent the greed of the eastern manu facturer, and transfers finally by oper ation of law to their coffers the great bulk of the $500,000,000 invested in it, and turns out of employment the 500, 000 men employed in carrying it on. A bill which vouchsafes protection to the manufacturer and refuses to ex tend it to those engaged in the other industry, which favors the foreign pro ducer, is one which discriminates un justly, unnecessarily, mercilessly and cruelly against the agriculturist and in favor of the manufacturer, against the American and in favor of the for eigner.—Hon. J. H. Mitchell, United States Senator, of Oregon. Study til. Difference. Under protection we derive a large revenue upon a comparatively small volume of imports of wool. Under Democratic tariff we derive no revenue from a very large volume. Under pro tection the farmer commanded a good price for his wool, and consequently was a large buyer of goods; under Democratic tariff he gets a low price. ' and therefore is a small purchaser.— Chicago Inter Ocean. i DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Bow Screenful Farmer* Operate Thl* Department of the Farm—A Few Hint* a* to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. _ ON. Jonathan F. Dollivcr, of Iowa, delivered a ringing address in behalf of the filled , cheese bill In the house of r e p r e sentatlres. Below are some ex tracts from it: I support the bill because it offers an appropriate legal protection against the adulteration ot the people’s food. In the process ot taxation it Identifies a fraud and es corts a notorious swindle into the light of day. You have read the pre cept of Scripture which exhorts you to take no thought of what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink or where withal ye shall be clothed. That Scrip ture will need a new Interpretation un less we can in some way manage to rescue the food and drink and clothing of the people of the United States from the hands of the counterfeiters. As the cas » now stands, neither the clothes 'on our backs nor the food on our tables nor the common weapons for fighting thirst between meals have escaped sus picion. In this carnival of deceit the rich and the poor alike suffer. I under take to say that this world in which we live will not go on permanently under a system like that. It will not go on forever buying coffee grains delicately molded out of blue mud. It will not go on buying tea that has been generously commingled with the dried leaves of the forest. It will not go on drinking wine that has been manufactured in a cellar without the intervention of grapes, nor those other and more pene trating beverages that have entered into partnership with such a fatal as sortment of explosive chemicals as to greatly facilitate the descent of our fellow-citizens, as the old negro preach er expressed it, do-wn the lubricated steeps to the opaque profundity of dam nation. * * * I do not say that all the manufac turers in the present stage of the in dustry are guilty of fraud. I will not even go so far as to say that all the wholesalers habitually perpetrate a fraud. But I do say that the evidence is sufficient to show that the business itself is a fraud, and for one I am here for the purpose of looking a little to the rights of the man who orders “Iowa full cream cheese” and is furnished by the wholesale dealer with a spurious and inferior article. I am here looking to the rights of the citizens of this country who go into a store for the pur pose of buying cheese and take home with them an objectionable admixture of skimmed milk and soap grease. I am speaking here for the victims of the American boarding-house system who eat cheese for the purpose of promoting the digestion of pie, and then have to take another pie in order to secure the digestion of the cheese. The American dairymen understand this question ! thoroughly. Every profound student of human affairs teaches us that agricul ture is the basis of civilization itself, and that.no possible prosperity can ex ist in this world under conditions that do not yield to the cultivators of the soil a fair return. So that if a new business, begotten in the laboratory of the chemist, by false pretenses, threat ens to narrow the opportunities of the American farm by occupying its mar ket place at home or by destroying its reputation abroad, as my friend from Minnesota indicated, and the law comes in and levies a tax on that new busi ness, it does not alarm, me that the tax may operate in some measure, at least, to promote the welfare of the most ancient and honorable occupation of the human race. * • • • One-half the American people llvo on the farm; and nearly all the rest of them that are worth mentioning were born there. The general welfare, to provide for which our Institutions were established, requires that the food-pro ducing millions should be secure in their pursuits; nor should any adroit imposition, however backed by money, be allowed to take from the farm any portion of its legitimate earnings. Give the American cow a fair chance. She has been the faithful servant of man. She landed with our ancestors at Ply mouth Rock; and, tied behind the old weather-beaten emigrant wagon, she has marched, with the household goods of the pioneers who have taken posses sion of this country, from ocean to ocean. She has increased and multi plied and replenished the earth, until today the industries which she has made possible contribute annually to the wealth of the world more money than the great combinations of modern capital—more than iron and steel, more than lumber and coal, more than cot ton and wheat, more than all the looms of New England, more than all the mys terious riches of gold and of silver. Black I.angdmns. I notice in the Farmers’ Review some inquiry as to the value of Black Lang shans, and conclude to give my views of them. 1 have been raising them for eleven years, and for the last seven years have not kept any other breed. They are all-round good fowls, being of good size and hardy, and most excel lent winter layers. They make good mothers, and are quick to mature. Their fldfeh is nicely marbled, and hence they make a good table fowl. For the month of December I sold from a flock of eighty hens fifty-four dozen of eggs, and did not keep account of the eggs used in a family of nine. For the month of January I sold sixty-two dozen. As the two months named are not very good months tor egg production, I think the record a good one. Mrs. Jennie Roberts. Johnson County, Nebraska. Competitive Laying. I see you asking for the egg records, and. as I have not sent you a letter for a long time I thought I would send you a few lines now. I do not know your object in asking for these records, whether to compare this year with last or to see what we are doing this sea son. At any rate, I will give you the straight of it as it Is with me. My ben parks are fifty feet square, that Is, fifty feet each way. Each park contains a cockerel and six or eight pullets. I have always stuck up for the Leghorns and Hamburgs, still, I must say that this spring my White Wyandottes have kept in the lead, at least until they wanted to sit. Yet there may be a reason for them doing so well, for my Wyandottes are all pullets, while my Leghorns and Hamburgs are mostly old hens. I keep the old hens because I think they give better and stronger chicks, even it they do not lay so many eggs. I had to use pullets in my Wy andotte pens, as I had no old Wyan dottes. I have averaged in these pens four or five eggs a day, and that, too, all the spring. For about two weeks straight every pullet of my Wyandottes laid six eggs for eight hens. My Brown Leghorns did about the same. My Ham burgs are a little behind, laying about 50 per cent of a possible hundred, that is, three or four eggs for a pen of six hens. For some reason unknown, poultry are not laying so well this sea son as for some years back. ThlB is true of other poultry as well as of chickens. Also the new chicks are not showing up very fast. What -are hatched out seem very strong and healthy. The old hens are not so in clined to sit as formerly. Perhaps they have been reading Foster’s weather reports, and are putting off business for settled weather. But there is plenty* of time yet, especially with the small breeds. I raised my best chicks last year in June, and some were even hatched in September. They were hachted in an Incubator, and are now laying just as well as the chicks hatched earlier. The best laying my birds ever did for me was three years ago. Six pullets in April of that year gave me 152 eggs, and then one of the pullets was out seven days. H. C. Hunt Tazewell County, Illinois. Dlhlnfacting Turkey Quarters. The Bureau of Animal Industry has been investigating “black-head” in tur keys. Incidentally it gives the follow ing instructions as to disinfection: From our present knowledge of the transmission of this disease it is sug gested that farmers and poultry raisers who have recently had this disease in their flocks should dispose of their old turkeys and start by hatching turkey eggs under hens or with turkeys ob tained from non-infected districts, preferably from the south, as this dis ease is not known to exist there. As a precautionary measure, the turkey roosts, especially the accumulated droppings, should be disinfected early in the spring before the young turkeys are hatched or old ones Introduced. The liberal use of slacked lime in the yards most frequently occupied by the dis eased turkeys is recommended. A ser viceable disinfectant for buildings and places containing the feces of diseased turkeys is the following: Crude carbolic acid_one-half gallon Crude sulphuric acid.. .one-half gallon These two substances should be mixed in tubs or glass vessels. The sulphuric acid is very slowly added to the carbolic acid. During the mixing a large amount of heat is developed. The disinfecting power of the mixture is heightened if the amount of heat is kept down by placing the tub or glass demijohn containing the carbolic acid in Cold water while the sulphuric acid is being added. The resulting mixture is added to water in the ratio of 1 to 20. One gallon of mixed acids will thus furnish twenty gallons of a strong disinfecting solution, having a slightly milky appearrjice. It is quite corro sive, and care should be taken to pro tect the eyes from accidental splashing. Requires Experience. Stock raising is not a business that can be engaged in without experience as all those who have ventured can testify to. It requires time to grade up a herd to a high standard, such as every ambitious breeder should aspire to. But even if it does re quire time, that should not be a stumbling block. It is far better to take a little more time and have t' high grade than economize time and raise inferior stock. The time has gone by when scrub production is tolerated; every progressive farmer has his eyes opened to the advantage of thoroughbreds, and those who get out of the old rust first will be bene fited. Where one is able to invest suf ficient capital to secure superior ani mals at the start there will be a saving of time, and profit will come in sooner, but ordinary stock can only be lm proved by allowing a sufficient period of time for so doing. Moreover, stock breeding is not much more than in its infancy, and an opening on the ground floor yet remains.—Among Live Stock. llrowrn Leghorn Krz Record. The following is my record for March. The report is of the eggs laid by nineteen Brown Leghorn hens. To tal eggs received 407, an average of about twenty-one and a half eggs per hen. My chickens keep in good health, and eggs are hatching well. E. Scott Hatch. Rock County, Wisconsin, The soberest one—Well, let’s have just one more, and then we’ll both go home. The other one—Shorry, ol’ man, devilish shorry, but—c-a-n’t do both, dou’t y’ shee?—Detroit News. The Smioh'i Gloves. With evening gowns the suede gloves are worn. They come in all the deli cate shades and match the costume In color, or form a pretty contrast. As to length, they are marvels. A novelty for holding them in place is the new glove fastener. It is a tiny jeweled butterfly, concealing a convenient little clasp, which is attached to the glove l'rom this is a ribbon, the same shade as the glove, arranged that it may be sewed to the sleeve and thus hold the glove securely in place. Gloves for calling are in glace kid, and are given a distinguished air by an embroidery in silver or gold. Pearl gray gloves have silver stitching and silver buttons, and canary colored gloves are embroidered with gold threads. Hall’s Catarrh Cara la a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. Rhubarb and Orange Jam. As soon as rhubarb is a little lower in price and before oranges are rone, every housewife who is fond of either fruit should make a few pots of the delicious jam that combines them both. Wipe the rhubarb until clean and dry, and cut it into tine pieces without peeling. Peel half a dozen oranges, cut away all the white undersUin, take out the seeds, and divide the oranges into quartern. Open each carpel that holds the pulp and take that out, be ing careful to save all the juice. Put the rhubarb, orange pulp and juice with a pound and a half of granulated sugar, stir until the sugar is melted, then cook slowly until a fine mass. When it begins to thicken cool a little in a saucer. Put away in tumblers and cover with waxed or oiled paper. A very good jam of the rhubarb is also made without the oranges. Use one pound of sugar to each pound of the fruit, and flavor each pound with the grated yellow rind of half a large lemon. Stir and skim frequently while cooking.—New York Post. Rutabaga* for Fodder. It is gratifying to Bee so many Amer ican farmers putting their waste places or spare pieces of land into rutabagas and turnips for early fall or long win ter feeding. They are getting the Eu ropean idea of root crops. Thete the tur nips and rutabagas are sown broadcast as are almost all grains, and If not de sired as roots, the foliage then Is used for green food. Just imagine the results of a twenty-acre oatpatch treated in this way! Think of the tremendous amount of green fodder, magnificent fodder too, coming Into full play dur ing hot August and September. Why, a field of rutabagas and turnips, there, for cattle food Is worth almost as much as the oats gathered therefrom! An other good plan is to sow rutabaga seed, especially the variety known aa Saizer’s LaCrosse, WIs„ Mammoth Rus sian variety, or his Milk Qlobe turnip sort, at the rate of one-half pound per acre, into the cornfield, just before the last cultivation. This will give you two good crops—one of corn, the ither of roots from the same land! One ad vantage of the rutabaga Is that It can be sown at any time of the summer for green food, while a sowing the latter part of July Is the best In northern states for big, sweet, juicy roots for winter storage and use. 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