DONE BY DEMOCRACY^ .BUM AND DESOLATION ALL ». f OVER THE LAND. * ' J ‘ ' . . . - •* . V V' , . »- - , Cnfruinu tiroufnnr of Ohio Arraign* the AdmluUtratloa for lt« Aliu» of ; Poe*r Daring the I.stt Three Teen —Roshlnc Lite Debt. . ! ; - Vs AJ^you /the democratic party) have goBp tt)qir stomachs. Irary, the Democratic party not only ^ehled the reciprocity laws but it con ferred upon the wool-growing countries the benefit? of free access to the mar khttofthi* country for their wool.wlth ontlfxa'cfing a reciprocal benefit of any kind in return. Free wool was a free glff to the foreigners, without gaining frdn then: the benefit of an additional market1 among them for ,a single pound of American pork or a bushel of Amer tcaicwheat. The next President must be a Demo tt The worse th&hiirarMaxep'' th&t down.—N. Y. World, June 2f. 1892. : msaafi «Mm cmibmhih. ’ • Mr. McKinley's nomination seems to '■‘he practically sesured, said. Cornelius N. iBttes, and it is in the highest degree iro ue, as well as discourteous, for Re have been made upon him, especially in ifjvyv &• , Mora Chinese Wool. It is safe to say that whatever ex tension of the woolen industry has oc curred in this country in the l&st year has been in the view of developing the use of fine wools in the place of Turkish, Russian and Chinese wools.—New York Evening Post. We have not -the figures of the im ports of Turkish or Russian wools for 1895. but those relating to Chinese wools shoiv that we imported 10,633,599pounds in 1891, and iS.889.95t pounds in 1892. Rut Under Free Trade in wool, our 1895 imports amounted to 089,418 pounds of Chiheee wool, more than dbiible the average of the two McKinley Tariff yeare. God kip's abllltjr as a Free-Trade liar 'must' be deserting him -when he tells such a commonplace llo as that. Wh*» "If War !«•»». J It (the Democratic party) has become in a true sense the party of the people, the exponent of equal rights and It has planted itself upon a principle which is impregnable.—Edward Atkinson at Boston, dune 28, 189$. ^ i About air “lmpre«igbie” as the posi tion of a Spanish general before the Cuban republicans. “It" is about “planted” in its grave. i i 1 •’#t i ' ; Carter far Fair Flay, M We do not credit the rumors that any unfairness will be practiced in seating delegates to the St Louis oonventton. «on. Thpmae H,: Carter, United States Senator, who'is chairman Of the Repub lican Rational Committee, would not be W party toaSysuch schemes. Dan or ratio Trade Mtaatlea. ■ The general trade situation throughout the country may be re garded as less satisfactory at the mid dle of March, 1896, than had been an ticipated. Even prices of staples have refused, to make and maintain ad vances.—Bradst.reet’s. DAIRY AND POULTRY INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Row Successful Farmers Operate ThU Department of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of Lire Stock and Fouitrj. HAVE BEEN En gaged in raising poultry ever since the spring of 1890. I then purchased an incubator, and from that time I have given my entire at tention to poultry raising. I started in perfectly ignor ant of the buisness, and at the bottom of the ladder. Through many experiments and losses, successes and failures, 1 am gradually rising to the top. During the first three years my main object was to find out what breed would give me the largest profit per fowl. In this test I had twen ty-one different breeds, giving them the same care and attention, and keeping a strict book account of each breed. The breeds in this test were: Light Brahma, Dark Brahma, Black Cochins, White Cochins, Partridge Cochins, Buff Cochins, American Dominique, Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Houdans, Black Javas, Black Langshans, Single Comb Brown Leghorns, Single Comb White Leghorns, Rose Comb Brown Leghorns, Rose Comb White Leghorns, Black Minorcas, Barred Plymouth Rocks. White Plymouth Rocks, Red Caps, Sil ver Laced Wyandottes, and White Wy andottes. The balance sheet would In variably fall in favor of the Single Comb Brown Leghorns. This breed Is now my choice, and I breed them exclusively for three purposes: First, the selling of thoroughbred eggs; then the raising of early broilers, and last for eggs in the winter. There is in my opinion no other breed that excels them for either of these three purposes. I have at present a fine flock of birds. These birds have free range during the sum mer months, with convenient place for roosting at night. They are housed during the winter months in the main building, which is 20x80 feet, two stories high, containing eighteen pens 8x16 feet. In each pen are placed from fif teen to twenty fowls, with no outdoor runs. The feeding consists principally of vegetables and grain, such as can be raised during the summer, namely: cabbages, turnips, sugar beets, potatoes, apples, corn, wheat, rye, oats, buck wheat and millet. I keep pounded oys ter shells before them all the time for grit and feed green ground bone three times a week. I consider these essential for the productiqn of eggs. The mar keting is of very great importance, as I do not give my time to the business for the fun there is in it but for the money alone. I market principally in the city of New York. By feeding the variety of food above mentioned and grain fed in a litter of cut corn fodder I keep the egg basket full of eggs and the incubators full to their utmost capacity of eggs laid by my own hens, when the thermometer outside ranges from 10 to 12 degrees below zero. Dur ing the first few years of my experi ence I had some difficulty with dis eases, lice and predatory animals. But after finding the secret of cleanliness and of disinfectants and the value of a good gunshot, I have often raised from 95 to 98 per cent of the chicks hatched. In my earlier years I tried doctoring fowls and found It simply time thrown away, for if the same time were used in cleaslng the coops and applying dis infectants, diseases would rarely oc cur. By careful breeding and always selecting the best laying birds and earliest matured pullets and cockerels. I have at present remarkable egg pro ducers and early maturers, the pullets' often laying at four months old. If’ any further knowledge of my experience is desired it will be cheerfully given. John Smoker. Cow Faaria and Feeding. (Condensed from Farmers’ Review stenographic report of Wisconsin Round-Up Institute.) Thomas Convey spoke on feeds and feeding. In substance he said: Most of us by this time realize the necessity of having the right kind of an animal to feed. In feeding ourselves we use a variety of food, and we do it by in stinct. Our animals cannot select their food for themselves as we can, but have to depend on us for the variety of food they do get Some foods, like whole milk, are nearly perfect stock food, for they con tain all of the elements necessary to de velop the animal. But in many of the foods fed there is a deficiency of cer tain elements. The balancing of the elements of the food is necessary it we are to get the best results. At one of the experiment stations it took nearly 50 per cent more food to produce a cer tain amount of gain when the food was unbalanced than it did when the ele ments were properly balanced. An excess of concentrated food should not be fed alone to any animal. Con densed foods should be mixed with bulky foods. Bulk is a necessity in the food of the cud chewing animal. The condition of the hay and fodder affects the feeding value of those foods to a very great extent. While the loss of dry matter may be small on account of the deterioration in quality, the loss in digestibility and palatabllity is very great Q-—Will you give us a good balanced ration for milk? Mr. Convey.—For the grain ration you can make up a variety of formulas each of which will give good results. In Wisconsin we can profitably feed ground peas and oats and wheat bran, com meal and com in the silage. The ground peas and oats are mixed half and halt, and that compound fed with an equal amount of bran. We might make one good formula aa follows: Two and a half pounds of corn, two and and a half pounds of the mixed peas and oats, and five pounds of bran. Q.—Will type of cow control the ra tion to some extent? A.—Well, if you have a cow that will not profitably use this ration, that Is, that will turn it into beef instead of into milk, you had better fatten her and send her to the butcher. Q.—How often do you feed per day? A.—We feed coarse feed three times a day and ground feed twice a day. The coarse feed is fed morning, noon and night. Mr. Burchard said he believed that cows should be fed but twice a day, and that there was no more reason for feed ing them at noon than at midnight. Langihans Plymouth Bock Croat. About 25 years ago I began raising poultry on a small scale and have been at it ever since that time. For the last ten years I have been paying more at* tention to the business. I commenced with Black Spanish, found them to be good layers but poor table fowl. Then 1 took the Brown Leghorns and kept them twenty years. I found them to be good layers and good table fowls. Then I tried the Black Langshan3 and the Plymouth Rocks separately. Their cross (Barred Plymouth Rock) I had bad luck with. I shall keep the Lang shans and the White Plymouth Rocks, their cross being the nearest to what 1 want for marketing. Their cross suits my customers as well as the white Ply mouth Rocks, and they are much more hardy. I have a comfortable place for them In winter, though it is not on the fancy order. I have separate houses and yards for the breeds I wish to breed from. I feed the chicks on wheat bran, middlings and cornmeal, equal parts with a little bone meal mixed in with milk, soon to follow with millet, wheat and cracked corn. The laying hens are fed soft food in the morning, wheat or oats at noon, and wheat or corn at night. I have a very fair market for both poultry and eggs, most of mine going to private families. In the winter I do not get many eggs before February. One year I lost a good many fowls by Borne disease, though very few any year by lice. I have lost none with lice since I kept them well supplied with coal ashes. Last year I lost twenty per cent from hawks and skunks, more than I have lost from the same causes in all other years put togethe>. I have had good success raising broods and have al ways had a large per cent hatch. When I see a fowl sick I at once separate her from the rest and doctor, generally successfully. Wm, M. Smith. Cream Trade Increasing. Bulletin 23 of Maine Experiment Sta tion says: It is an important feature of our dairy business that there is a growing demand for fresh, sweet cream, not only for domestic use. but for exporting to the large cities. Dur ing the past year this cream trade from Maine has considerably exceeded $150, 000 and each year finds the demand in creasing. It has come to be an impor tant question how best to foster this branch of our dairy business, and dur ing that season when butter is most abundant and cheapest—for there is the greatest demand for cream during the summer months—to find a profit able market for this commodity and so reduce the butter supply and at the same time increase the profit from the dairy. One important reason for foster ing the cream trade is that cream sold to be consumed as cream is in no large degree a rival of either milk or butter, but enlarges the demand for dairy products at a time when such products are most abundant and most cheaply produced. Inflammation of Udder in Ewe.—In flammation of the ydder is even more common in the ewe than in the cow and that fact considering that the lat’ ter animal is used principally as a milk ing machine, is testimony to its fre quency. It is, perhaps, the more re markable since the ewe is not in this country an animal in which the secre tion is artificially maintained beyond its natural duration. The function of lactation is essentially intermittent be ing active only during the parturient period, and ceasing when the lamb no longer requires milk, except, of course in those countries where ewe’s milk cheese is a staple article of manufac ture. There is another peculiar fea ture in mammltis in the ewe as com pared with the same disease in the cow—viz., the frequency with which it takes on the gangrenous form and ends in Bloughing of the section of the gland attacked and death of the animal._Ex. High Priced Stock Abroad.—We are just now in the midst of great depres sions in beef cattle, draft and road ster horses, and sheep breeding indus tries, and since America is not now Importing all these lines of stock from the old world, it would be expected as a result, that this class of stock would be “flat” on the market there as well. Not so. The reports through the stock journals of the old world show that the best specimens of the different lines of stock command as high figures us when we were importing millions of dollars worth annually.—Ex. Progress of the Plow.—The plow U not a perfect implement, and a reward of the entire globe might safely be of fered for any work of art that is perfect in all its relations. Now the plow, in cluding the first picked stick that was used for seeding operations, is the old est Implement used in agriculture, and in every advanced step of the industry it has not only kept pace but has really led in its march. Step by step in his growth may be read the relative condi tion of man from beyond the period of the pyramids down to the latest elec trical plow, which is still leading in ths van of the world's onward march.—Ex. KICKING TREES. Lumbermen Mast Know Them and Knou How to Keep from Heine Kicked. Very few who have ever witnessed the method of lumbering in the Maine forests realize the danger, with its ac companying fascination, the hard, rug ged work with its health-giving results or the enjoyments to be found in camp life in the solitary woods, miles from civilization. The danger from flying limbs or a "kicking” tree as It falls, lodges, oi strikes upon a stump or across a log, and swings around or flies back with terrific force, is not noticed by the lum bermen if they are lucky enough to dodge successfully. Another danger that people little realize is that of the teamsters who haul the logs from the stump to the main road. Much of the timber is cut on the mountain sides, which are so steep that a horse team can scarcely climb up. At the top, logs measuring from 30 to 50 feet In length are loaded upon one sled and are dragged down the mountain. In places the road goes down so steep that the ends of the logs are above the horses hips. The logs with the sled tip down, and away they go down the mountain as fast as the horses can go, with the teamster hanging to the reins and keeping his balance upon the logs as they thrash and roll around beneath his feet. Occasionally the teamster emits a terrific yell that would put a Coman che Indian to shame, to warn his' brother teamsters that he is coming, so they can get out of the way. They drive into a turnout, and the loaded team spins past them. It 1b seldom a horse loses his footing; if he does the team is sluiced down the mountain. Occasionally they go against a tree, and sometimes both of the horses are killed, but they generally come out all right, with a few scratches. OVER THE RAPIDS. A Mighty Perilous Trip Made by a Boat man at Xlaagra. Niagara Falls special to a Chicago paper: “There he goes," cried hun dreds of people in one accord along the bank of the upper river as Fred C. Heine, a German boatman, shot out into the river just above the American rapids and falls to make the perilous trip across the swiftly-running stream to the head of Goat Island. The river was full of ice, which threatened to swamp the daring navigator. The bow of the boat at one time ran into a large cake and it took Heine some time to break loose. He drifted dbwn rather dangerously near the upper breakers in the rapids and the thousands of spectators who had assembled held their breath expecting the man would not be able to keep out of them. He used his paddle very effectively and shot his boat across and into the quiet water above Goat Island. He did not dare land, as the restoration police warned him to keep oft the state prop erty or they would arrest him. He hoisted two American flags in the bow and stern of the boat and made the trip back very easily. This feat was a common one with the Indians. How ever, a mishap or accident means death. Heine had a canoe-like boat, which was very easily handled. “Mnatard and CreM.'* A charming young hostess, whose residence is on 81st street, has started a pleasant little fad that is growing rapidly in favor among the younger housekeepers of the uptown set. The fad is nothing less than to have fresh and crisp "mustard and cress” served In purls naturallbus, as it grows, on the breakfast table. Mustard and cress is a favorite addition to the thin bread and butter of English breakfasts and teas, and the young hostess has hit up on the design of growing it in her own dining room. The process is simplicity itself. A piece of clean white flannel is placed in the bottom of a soup plate and saturated with water. It is then sprinkled with mustard seed and a tablespoonful of water night and morn ing does the rest. In three days the seed sprouts; in a week the plate is a mass of pretty green seed leaves. In ten days it is a forest of crisp and suc culent cress, which can be placed upon the table and eaten just as it grows. It seems to freshen up the breakfast table wonderfully and, besides, it is “so English, you know.”—New York Journ al. Warning from the Grava. On an ancient gravestone In the Georgetown, Md., cemetery Is found the following admonitory epitaph: Stop, traveler: one moment wait, While I my solmen tale relate. With strong ambition, youth and health The world I followed, grasped at wealth. Madly despised my Maker’s frown And broke my constitution down. At length incurable disease Brought death to me by sure degrees. My sins around me wound a chain To drag me down to endless pain. I cried for mercy, but I cried. Perhaps, too late, for when I died My friends had nothing left to prove I ever felt a Savior’s love. As then, with my expiring breath So now from the cold house of death I \rarn you, sinner, turn, beware, Forsake your sins, or meet despair. Tho Colonel's Definition. “The horn of plenty?’’ repeated the Colonel, pressing his hand to hia brow. "That would be difficult to deOne for any and all circumstances but I should say that five Angers was a good, aver* age Agure.” With which he didn't care if he did.— Detroit Tribune. Darkness cannot be made black onough to destroy light. | New Inventions, j Among1 the Inventors who received patents last week were the following Nebraskans: A. H. Edgren and 6. Elmen, Lincoln, improvement in bicy cles and B. F. Smith of Valparaiso, | Nebraska, the latter receiving a patent I for an improvement in car couplings. Among the other noticeable inven tions is a candle lamp patented to a Boston inventor; a burglar proof safe in the form of a revolving cylinder; an improved method of making bicycle tubing cloth, patented to a Cleveland, Ohio, inventor; a, color screen to enable photographs being taken in colors is sued to a Brooklyn inventor; a kitchen implement patented to A. Schlieder of Sioux City. Iowa; a pinless clothes line, the creation of a Texas inventor; , a collapsible cooking utensil made in [ the form of a telescope drinking cup, patented to Miss Estelle J. Jennings of Chicago; a combination neck and ear warmer patented to Mary E. Wiggin of Hartford Connecticut; a soft tread horse-shoe invented by James Freyne of Philadelphia; an elevator mechanism comprising two parallel vertical tracks having elevator cars which pass up one track and are switched over and pass downward on the other track,, these combined elevators being in the form of an endless chain; a new fash ion hook and eye for garments patent ed to James J. Springer, of Philadel phia; a machin ofor casing and flavor ing tobacco patented to a North Caro lina inventor. The most curious invention issned for some time, however, secures a fer ment for ripening milk consisting of practically pure culture or flavor pro ducing acid bacteria, the patent being issued to William Storch, a Dane. Any information relating to patents may be obtained from Sues & Co., Patent Solicitors, Bee Building, Omaha, Nebraska. Grand Excursion to Buffalo July 5th and 6th. 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