A RAILROAD HORROR
FIFTY KILLED AND AS MANY
WOUNDED.
■A. Crowded Excursion Train Ran Into by
the Reading Express—The Express
Plows Clear Through the Excnrslon
Train and Victims are Strewn in Every
Direction.
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• A Horrible Collision.
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug 1—A
railroad Accident, horrible in its de
tails and sickening' in its results,
•occurred last evening just .outside of
this city, and as a result abont 100
■persons are either Killed or injured.
The Reading railroad express,which
■left Philadelphia at 5:10 o’clock for
Atlantic City, crashed into a Pennsyl
vania railroad excursion train at the
-second signal tower, about four miles
•out from here. The Pennsylvania
train was returning to Bridgeton with
a party of excursionists from that
•place, Millville and neighboring
towns. It was loaded with passen
gers, and a rough estimate of the
•killed and injured at a late hour places
the number at 100. It is hoped that
this is an exaggeration, but the num
ber is undoubtedly more than fifty.
At the second signal tower the
tracks of the two roads diagonally
cross. The Reading train was given
the signal, but it either failed to
work or the speed of the express was
too great to be checked in time. It
caught the excursion train broadside
and ploughed through, literally
cleaving it. in t-wain. The engine of
the Reading train was shattered to
pieces. Every car was jammed to its
fullest capacity.
As soon as the news reached Atlantic
-City, the utmost consternation pre
vailed, but the authorities were equal
to the emergency. Relief trains were
■dispatched to the scene, loaded with
. cots and bearing stalls of surgeons.
As quickly as the bodies were re
covered they were carried Into the
local hospitals and undertakers’ shops.
A general fire alarm .vas sounded and
the department promptly responded
and aiiled in the heart rending work
of digging for the victims. Fear grew
into despair and horror as the vigor
ous work of the relief gangs revealed
the awful extent of the disaster.
The first Reading relief train bore
into this city twenty-seven mangled
corpses, men, women and children.
The next train, not an hoar later,
■carried fifteen of the maimed and
wounded, and two of these died soon
after rerching the city. As train
after train plyed to the scene of the
wreck and came back with its ghastly
load, the sanitarium which does duty
as the city hospital quickly found
Its capacity overtaxed. Meanwhile,
■others of the dead and injured were
being carried to the private hospital
•at Ocean and Pacific avenues.
The excursion train was made up of
fifteen cars, the foremost of which
was a baggage car. This and the
next two coaches caught the full
force of the crash, and were utterly
'•demolished. What remained of the
third car was tumbled into a ditch at
the roadside.
Superintendent I. N. Sweigard of
the Philadelphia & Reading Company
places the number dead at thirty
-seven and the injured at about the
same number. He sent a telegram to
Philadelphia which said: “Thero
were thirty-s»ven persons killed, as
follows: Twelve women, twenty-one
men, two boys and two girls. About
the same number injured.”
Mrs. Edward Farr, wife of the
Reading engineer who was killed,
when informed of her husband’s
tragic end, threw up her hands with
•a frantic shriek and fell dead at the
feet of her informant.
William Thurlow, telegraph oper
ator in the tower house, was arrested
and held, pending an inquire.
It is said that the Reading signal
was displayed, and that the whistle
of the train was sounded. The Read
ing has the right of way at the cross
ing.
The excursion train bore five tribes
the Order of Red Men. the Brideton,
the Niagara, the AHwantonah and
the Cohansick, with their wives and
■children.
SIMPSON RESENTED.
Che Ex-Congressman Aronied by a Gos*
■ lper'g Tat'i or Boodllng.
Wichita, Kan., Aug 1.—Yesterday
■afternoon County Attorney John
Davis and a party of friends were com
ing into Wichita on a train when
Davis said: “1 see Jerry Simpson is
accused of receiving boodle for favor
ing the nomination of Watson at St.
Louis.”
Simpson sat a seat in front of the
\party, but his hair was cut and he
‘4Weanew straw hat, and they did
not recognize him. He jumped to his
feet and confronting the speaker, de
manded to know who made such an
accusation.
Davis said that the Globe-Democrat
■did so directly and the Wichita Bea
■con indirectly and retorted that he.
wouldn’t “put it past him.”
“If you were outside of this car you
never would say that,” was Jerry’s
■hot answer.
Attortey Pike's Bnu|a.
St. Joseph, Mo., Aug 1.—Attorney
Vinton Pike yesterday brought suit
lor 81"-,000 damages against Dr. Bar
ton Pitts. The suit grows out of the
.assault made by the doctor on Mr.
Pike la his office on July 17. Five at
torneys appear in petition as counsel
for the plaintiff. The case will be on
the docket for the September term of
•court. The criminal cases against the
•doctor, for which he is now under
bond, will come up at the November
term of the criminal court.
Preacher Kobued ot 91,500.
Topeka, Kan., Aug L—The Eev.
•John Constantine, an Armenian
preacher who is raising funds in this
country for his people, was held up
by two colored men and a woman in
tiraoky Kow, a tough quarter of this
city, at a late hour last night, and
robbed of 81,600 in gold. Constantine
had been to a missionary meeting and
was on his way to his boarding house
when the robbery was committed. He
became greatly excited and forgot his
English, and the robbers had time to
get out of the country before he could
make the police understand his pre
dicament.
CARLISLE’S OPINION.
Sajra the Government Would Not Bn
Hock of Silver Under Free Coinage.
Littlk Rock, Ark., Aug 1.—A state
ment was widely published by the
press a few days ago that President
G. L Green of the Connecticut Life
Insurance Company of Hartford, had
issued a circular letter to policy hold
ers notifying them that in tho
event that the government adopted
the free coinage of silver the com
pany would be compelled to pay all
claims in depreciated silver coin. Mr.
F. W. Alsop of this city sent a clip
ping of this statement to Secretary of
the Treasury Carlisle, with a request
for an expression on the subject. He
has received a reply from Mr. Car
lisle, which is, in part, a» follows:
“In case free coinage of silver should
be established in this country, I pre
sume Insurance companies and all
other institutions would continue to
make their payments by checks and
drafts on banks as heretofore; but in
my opinion the whole volume of our
currency would sink at once to the
silver basis, and those checks and
drafts would be paid in silver dollars
or their equivalent, instead of gold or
its equivalent, as is now the case.
“I presume no one supposes for
a moment that it would be the
duty of the government to attempt
to keep the standard silver dollar,
ooined free for private individuals
and corporations equal in value
to a gold dollar; or, in other
words, that it -would be the duty
of the government to attempt, under
a system of free coinage, to main
tain the parity of the two metals. The
dollars would bo coined on private
account and delivered to private indi
viduals and corporations as their own
property, the government having no
interest whatever in them, and being,
therefore, under no obligation to sus
tain them by guaranteeing their
value.
“under our existing system, all sil
ver dollars are coined on account of
the government and are issued by the
government in payment of its expend
itures and other obligations, and it
would be aa act of bad faith, there
fore, to nermit them to depreciate.
Very truly, John tl. Carlisle.’’
CLOUDBURST IN OHIO.
Two Hundred Persons Rendered Home
less by a Torrent of Water.
Stuebenville, Ohio, Aug i.—A
severe storm, like a cloud btirst, oc
curred west of this city yesterday
afternoon about 4 o’clock and within
a period of thirty miuutes a mighty
torrent of water had spread desola
tion along both 1’armar’s and Fisher's
runs in the lower part of this city.
No lives were lost, as there were per
sons along the creeks who saw the
wuter coming down the valley, and
ran from house to house warning the
people. Everybody fled, many wad
ing knee deep in water from their
house to the hills which line both
sides, Two hundred people are home
less as a result of the flood. The
damage will aggregate all of $200,000.
Sir. Sewnll Will Not Resign.
Bath, Me., Aug 1.—Arthur Sewall,
Democratic nominee for Vice Presi
dent, was interviewed as to the story
that he intended to resign in favor of
Mr. Watson. He said: “Any man
who for a moment eutertains such an
idea is not worthy of an answer. I do
not know whether Byran will retain
a place on the Populist ticket. He
will come to Bath with Mrs. Bryan di
rectly after the notification, which
will take place in New York. They
will make their headquarters at my
house while in Maine.”
A Burglar Shot »t Emporia. Kan.
Emporia, Kan., Aug 1.—A score of
burglaries have been committed here
the last fortnight. Tuesday night
two of the perpetrators entered the
bedroom of Captain J. D. Morris, who
shot the first. “Oh, God, Jack, I’m
shot,” said the burglar to his com
panion, and they retreated. Captain
Morris shooting at them as they went.
Yesterday morning their course was
traced several blocks by blood and
then lost.
Topeka to Have Another Dally,
Topeka, Kan., Aug 1.—It is not
nnlikely that Topeka will have an
other afternoon Kepubliean paper.
The State Journal is not supporting
the National Kepubliean ticket, and a
delegation of local Republicans,
headed by Oscar Swayze, are circulat
ing a petition to Arthur Capper, editor
of the Mail and Breeze, an orthodox
Republican weekly, to get out a daily,
the signers pledging their support.
Unetn victoria 01 ay Uctire.
London, July 31.—The rumor that
Queen Victoria intends to retire in
favor of the Prince of Wales is cur
rent again to-day and it is added that
court circles are troubled about the
queen’s health. The queen has de
cided, it is said, to spend her time
hereafter at Balmoral or Osborne and
to give the Prince . and Princess of
Wales the use of Buckingham palace
and Windsor castle.
Fired on From Ambuili.
Little Rock. Ark., July 31.—Lucas
Johnson ar.d his wife, colored, wble
on the public road near Augusta,
Ark., were fired upon from ambush,
the woman being instantly killed and
the man fatally wounded. Another
negro, with whom Johnson had had
trouble, has been arrested on sus
picion. _
A Kansas Murderer Caught.
Fort Scott, Kan., Aug 1.—John
Jackson, who deliberately murdered
John Smith at Yale, Kan., about a
year ago, was caught to-day at War
rior, Ala., and Sheriff Deets of Craw
ford county left for that place to get
him.
Oaaeral Manager Frey Bolts.
Topeka. Kan., Aug 1.—J. J. Frey,
general manager of the Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe railroad system, a
life loDg Democrat, has bolted the
Chicago ticket and will vote for the
gold standard this fall. He said to
dap: “I have no hesitancy in saying
that I am not in favor of the free sil
ver idea. I don't think it would be
best for the country. I have been a
Democrat all my life and have always
voted the Democratic ticket and I am
sorry I can’t stay with the party this
fall. This would be impossible, how
ever, holding the ideas I da”
AS TO THE REVENUE.
INCREASED RECEIPTS THE LAST
FISCAL YEAR.
Astnpla Receipt* Are 9148.830.61S,
an Increase of 83.834,857 Over Those
of the Preceding Biggest Tear—Lar
gest Item of Increase ifai In Prolt
Spirit*—Oleo Tax Is Le*«.
Internal Revenue Uccelpts.
Washington, July 31.—The com*
missionsr of internal revenue haa sub*
mitted to Secretary Carlisle a prelim
inary report of the operations of his
bureau during the fiscal year ended
June 30. It shows that the receipts
aggregated 8146,630,61.1, an increase of
$3,5s4,537 over those of the preceding
fiscal year. The expenses approx
imated 84,044,361 and the percentage
of cost of collection was about 83.70, a
reduction of eighteen cents as com
i*™1! with the preceding fiscal year.
nS01 8P‘r*ta the receipts were 880,
6(0,070, an increase of 8807,443. The
largest item of increase was from
fruit spirits, the receipts of 81,584,879
being 8489,863 in excess of last year’s.
Kettfil liquor taxes were increased
8331,106, rectifiers’ taxes, 849,458, and
the wholesale liquor dealers' snecial
taxes, 846,243. The only decreases
noted were trifling.
„„;£°bacco brought in a revenue of
830,711,639 or 81,0C6,721 more than in
the proceeding year. There was a
general increase in all the items under
this head, the largest being in cigar
ettes under three pounds per 1,000 of
which the receipts were 82,021,195 or
8357,493 more than in the proceeding
year. Chewing and smoking tobacco
brought in 815,220,038, 8323,949 more
than in the proceeding year; cigars and
cheroots over three pounds per 1,000
813,713,367, an increase of $221,800,
snuff, $752,915, an increase of $103,027.
From fermented liquors there was
derived taxes aggregating $33,784,235,
or $2, 148,617 more than during the
preceding year. Ale, beers and sim
ilar liquors brought in $33,135,141, an
increase of $2,094,826.
There was a failing oft of $189,778
in the taxes realized from oleomarg'a
rine, the revenue from which amount
ed to $1,219,432. The decrease was
general in all the items under this
head, the largest item being $112,817
in the direct tax on oleomargarine,
while retail dealers’ taxes shrunk
$57,215 and wholesale dealers’ taxes
$26,520.
The miscellaneous receipts de
creased $182,600 during the vear, the
largest item being $122,648 in the re
ceints from playing cards, which were
only $259,833.
During the past year 67.039,9lC gal
lons of spirits distilled from other
materials than fruit were withdrawn
for consumption, a decrease of 7,143,
l79»gallons as compared with the pre
ceding year. Cigarettes to the num
ber of 4,042,891,640 were drawn out,
714,937,860 more than we consumed
during the preceding year. The num
her of cigars and cheroots withdrawn
were 4,i'o7,755,943, an increase of 73,
783,533, Chewing and smoking to
bacco was taken out to the amount of
25;i,667,137 pounds, an increase of'
5,897,499 pounds.
Illinois returned more internal rev
enue taxes than any other state, the
total collections there being $31,673,
133. New York came next with $21,.
620.470, Kentucky third with $14,9o3,
1;0, Ohio and Pennsylvania close
together with $11,947,724 and $11,145,
548 respectively. Indinna had $7,693,
164. Missouri $6,959,915. Maryland
$5,968,595. and Wisconsin $£>, 122,077.
None of the remaining states reached
the 5 million me-1
WATSON VS. SEWALL.
The Populist Tice Presidential Nominee
Declares Himself In Uls Paper.
Ailahta, Ga., July 31.—The Hon.
Thomas E. Watson is out iu a strong1
editorial in his paper stating his
grounds for accepting the nomination
for vice president from the Populist
national convention. He refers to
Mr. .Scu-all as an individual of stand
ing and a free silver Democrat, but
adopts the argument elaborated on at
St, Louis, that the nomination of n
Populist for second place was neces
sary to preserve the autonomy of the
Populist organization, especially in
the South.
The editorial is accepted not only
as a letter of acceptance, but also an
official ultimatum that propositions
for withdrawal will not be considered
by Mr. Watson or the Populists, and
that the case now rests with Mr.
Bewail.
It virtually demands the withdrawal
of the Democratic candidate for Vice
President Throughout the editorial
insinuu ■ -ons are made, and where it
seems to analyze the situation it de
velops the fact that Mr. Watson is
making a strong demand for his imme
diate recognition as Urvan's ruuuin,r
mate. _'
ELOPED WI IH AN INDIAN.
Seventeen*Ye:tr-01ii Blisiouri Girl Runs
Away With a Half breed.
Warren'shuho, Mo., July 31.—Kittle
Sykes, the 17-year-old daughter of
James Sykes, a prominent farmer liv
ing north of Warrensburg, eloped last
night with Wise Ward, a half-breed
Chickasaw Indian. Some weeks ago
a family named Ward, consisting of
husband and wife, daughter and three
sons, arrived in Warrensburg and
camned just north of town. The old
lady is a full-blood Chickasavr, and
claimed to be a fortune teller and
Indian doctor. She plied her trade
successfully, but the rest of the fami
ly were worthless. Wise Ward, one
of the young men, made love to Kittie
Sykes, with such success, that he
finally induced her to leave a good
home and go with him.
Preparing for Kansas Populists.
Aiux.rne, Kan., July 31.—A large
warehouse has been remodeled as a
wigwam for the Populist State con
vention next week. It will seat 2,000
people. Sleeping arrangements have
been made for 1,800 and churches will
feed the crowds. A large number of
delegates are expected to come in
wagons and camp out in groves near
the town. T. M. Patterson of Colo
rado will be the principal orator of
the occasion. The Free Silver party
is arranging for a demonstration the
night before the convention in the in
terest of Ed Little's candidacy for
Congressman- at-large.
THE ALABAMA ELECTION.
Populist* Rrsillnf the Riot Aot to the
Democrat*.
Birmingham, Ala., July 3i.—General
James B. Weaver of Iowa was In con*
ferenoe much of yesterday with the
Populist leaders with reference to the
State election to be held next Mon*
day. It was agreed that if a fair elec*
tion is bad, the Populist-Republican
fusion State ticket will win, and it
was decided to give the Democratic
managers to understand that unless
an absolutely fair election is had the
Populists in this Slate willnotsupport
Bryan in November, but will fuse with
the Republicans and cast their
ballots for McKinley in order to
rebuke, as they say, dishonest elec
tion methods. General Weaver tele
graphed National Chairman Jones of
the Democratic committee to come here
at once and use his efforts to see fatr
play for the Goodwin ticket, in order
to hold the Alabama Populists in line
for Bryan. Populist leaders con*
fidently expect that Senator Jones
will come. They assert that while
the success of silver is greatly to oe
desired, honest elections must first be
had. In the event that the Populists
are satisfied with the result Monday,
they will then demand the removal
from the state Democratic elector
ticket of the several gold standard
electors as the further price of Popu
list support of that ticket Mean
while General Weaver says he will
also direct his efforts to directing the
election of silver men, in order to in
sure the choice of a silver senator.
Some very interesting developments
are looked for during the next few
days, and the outcome is bound to
have an important bearing upon the
Populists in the state toward the
Bryan ticket.
COLORADO REPUBLICANS.
State Central Committee Deolarea for
the Republican Nominees.
Denver, Col., July 31.—By a vote of
4S to 3S the Republican state cen
tral committee adopted the following1
resolution:
“Resolved. That it is the sense of
this meeting that this committee shall
take such steps as are necessary to
place before the people of the state of
Colorado for their suffrages in No
vember a straight Republican ticket,
headed by Republican electors who
will cast their votes, if opportunity
offers, for McKinley and Hobart.”
The meeting of the committee was
in many respects the most exciting
that body has ever held.
The committee at a night session
decided to hold the state convention
at Colorado Springs on September 30.
After the meeting of the committee,
the Bryan faction circulated a peti
tion for a call for another meeting.
They claim that a majority of the ac
tual members of the state central
committee are with them and that the
meeting was packed, alleging that of
the 8a delegates represented ifl were
by proxy in the hands of Denver and
Colorado Springs politicians. The
Bryan men further allege that it is
the plan of the McKinley men to
nominate Senator Wolcott for gov
ernor.
A BREAK FOR LIBERTY
Thirty Leavenworth Prisoners Attempt
to Escape and Three Are Shot
Leavk> worth, Ivan., July 30.—
While a gang of thirty prisoners from
the United States penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth were being worked on
the prison farm last evening, a mutiny
broke out among them. At a signal
from George East, an Indian Territory
desperado, the men broke for a corn
field. The guards commenced firing
with shotguns, and all the prisoners
but three surrendered. East was shot
six times before he gave up. He was
fatally wounded. Sam Mills and 8.
Dove were also badly, but not fatally,
wounded before they were run down.
When the bloody prisoners were run
into the pen yard, where 200 convicts
were breaking rock, there was an
ugly demonstration and a second at
tempt at mutiny. The guards were
about to fire into the convicts, when
Waij^cn French appeared, and, by
coolness and firmness, quieted every
thing down. The wounded men were
placed in the Fort Leavenworth hos
pital. _
COLONEL BURNES DEAD.
8t. Joseph's Well-Known Flusneler
Passes Away—111 for ttereral Weeks.
St. Joski'ii, Mo., July 31.—Colonel
Calvin Fletcher Burner, president of
the National Bank of St. Joseph, and
one of the leading financiers of the
state, died at his suburban home, Ayr
Lawn, at 4:10 yesterday afternoon
after an illness of three weeks. Be
was stricken with dysentery at that
time, and a few days ago was able to
be about, but a reiapso occurred which
terminated fatally.
Colonel Burnes leaves a wife and
one daughter. Prior to the death of
his brother, D. D. Burnes, he and
James N. Burnes formed a compact
whereby all property was to be held
in common and all children of the
brothers wore to bo provided for
equally. At present the Burnes es
tate, as it is known, is worth
83,COO, 000._
A Striker Must Hang.
San Francisco, JulySl.—S. D. Wor
den, the railroad striker charged with
wrecking the railway bridge near Sac
ramento two years ago and thereby
causing the death of Engineer Clark
and three United States soldiers, must
hang. The supreme court yesterday
handed down a decision in which it
affirmed the judgment of the superior
court, where Worden was convicted of
murder in the first degree and sen
tenced to hang.
Gorman Will Advise Jones Privately.
Washington, July £1.—Senator Gor
man has agreed to give to Senator
Jones the benefit of his counsel and
advice. Ue does net, however, it is
understood, desire any official con
nection with the committee, but if the
headquarters are located here he will
be constantly in close touch with the
work as it progresses.
Filibusters Again Warned.
Washington, July 31.—The Presi
dent has issued a proclamation dated
July 27 again commanding citisens to
observe neutrality towards Cuba
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL, READERS,
How Sncce.efol Furman Operate Thl.
Department of the Farm—A Few
lllnu ae to the Care of tire Stock
and roultry.
RAUD can alwa7s
find defenders, pro
vided it is a fraud
that makes money
for its manipula
tors and has a
financial standing
In the world. So
far as dairy frauds
are con cerned,
Borne of the great
daily papers are al
ways ready to defend them, going to
great lengths in their misstatements.
Here is a sample, taken from a Chicago
paper of recent date:
“The recently enacted fllled-cheese
bill has practically killed that industry
in Illinois. Yesterday Thomas G. Eng
lish, a deputy, reported to Collector
W. J. Mize of the internal-revenue of
fice the result of his months’a exam
ination and Investigation of the busi
ness, and fully confirms The Record’s
statement regarding the effect of the
legislation referred to. He was un
able to find a single one of the 130
manufacturers in the district who in
tended to manufacture under the law.
All agreed that Its terms were prohibi
tory. The fllled-cheese Industry along
the Fox river and the adjacent dairy
sections of the state had grown to
large proportions. Last year’s busi
ness aggregated 31,000,000. ‘It is prob
able,’ said Mr. English in his report,
'that some few of the manufacturers
may continue for the export trade. The
business In the United States is prac
tically killed, according to the opin
ions of the manufacturers.’ Filled
cheese is said not to be a deleterious
article. It is made principally from
the curds of skimmed and unskimmed
milk. The greater proportion is made
of unskimmed milk, and the article Is
improved by the addition of mixing
with butter, making the cheese about
half milk and half cream. The law
enumerates butter as an article of fill
ing and shuts out future mixing, plac
ing a prohibitory tax upon both manu
facturer and dealer. Last year the fac
tories made 14,000,000 pounds of filled
cheese, of which amount 3,000,000
pounds were exported.’’
From reading the above It Is evident
that the reporter that wrote It 1b sim
ply densely Ignorant of the subject he
presumes to handle. He makes filled
cheese a better article than full cream,
for a full-cream cheese, Wisconsin
standard, contains only 30 per cent of
butter fat, and this filled cheese is
made to contain 50 per cent No
writer on an agricultural paper would
have the effontery to go before tb°
public with statements disproved be
forehand by irrefutable proofs. Re
peated analyses by the government ex
periment stations demonstrate the fact
that the profit in filled cheese lies sole
iy in substituting hog fats and neutral
ails of a cheap grade for the more valu
able butter-fat. Below are two ana
lyses published by the Michigan ex
periment station under date of May 29.
1S96, and sent out in Bulletin 9 of the
Dairy and Food commission report of
Michigan:
Sample No. 90, filled cheese.
Water ...35.48
Solids not fat.35.39
Butter fat . 1.73
Other fats . 27.40
Sample 495, filled cheese.
Water .38.03
Solids, not fat. 31.43
Butter fat . 1.84 I
Other fats ...'.28.C5
The writer in the extract quoted sayu
that “the greater proportion is made
of unskimmed milk.” in other words,
the cheese is really double full cream
cheese. Perhaps the guileless youth
will explain how the manufacturer of
this fancy product can afford to put
13 cents worth of butter-fat into every
pound of cheese and sell the complete
article at less than 6 cents a pound.
Cooked Food for Poult rjr.
I am well aware of the fact that cook
ing food for poultry is considered a
waste of time. The experiment sta
tions, too, do not seem to encourage us
In that direction. They say that there
;s as much digestible matter in un
cooked food as in cooked food, and
therefore seem to Intimate that it will
not pay to cook it. I was for awhile in
clined to take that view of the matter,
but in the course of time I was driven
to cooking in self defense. I will ad
mit that the birds do not get auy more
from the same food or any quicker, but
1 will not admit that it does not pay to
cook it. My great reason for following
this course is to preserve the health of
my fowls. I used to lose a great many
birds from indigestion. Every winter,
and especially every spring, some of
them would get sick with simple indi
gestion. I could save some of them and
some of them I could not save. Most
that got sick ultimately died. Now I
do not have any getting sick from this
cause. I reasoned that the indigestion
was caused by too long a feeding of
grain, and thus an overtaxing of the
digestive organs. So for their morning
fcod I have been giving them soft food.
The way that I cook it is this, which
the readers of the Farmers’ Review
will acknowledge to be the best method
In the world. I put say half a peck of
oat meal In a four-gallon stone Jar I
have; then I put on a kettle of water
and heat it till it is boiling all over. I
do this at night for the next morning’s
feed. After the water is heated I pour
It into the meal, filling it up only so as
to make it a thick pudding when it is
cooked. I cover up the jar and let it
stand over night. In the moral og the
meal is cooked as nicely as any pud
ding could be. The hens and chicks
are very fond of It, and the lumps they
will run off with Just as they would
with so- many worms. When I began
cooking I had much trouble for t
thought I had to put It on the Are and
stir it. and you know how it will stick
down. But all of that la obviated now.
I think that it pays richly.
When fowls run wild or have the run
of the farm this course is not neces
sary, for the reason that the birds have
a greater variety of food, such as
worms, bugs and clover leaves. Then
they get it ground up In the glsard
and the tax Is not so great. But my
fowls are shut up all the time and have
to be, and the way I have stated proves
very satisfactory. Mary Ann.
Feeding the cow.
The Individuality of the cow must
be studied. One cow is inclined to
milk production, 6,000 to 8,000 pounds
of milk. Another produces 400 pounds
of butter; another Is a producer of
beef. To be successful,' we must know
what tendency the cow has, and act
accordingly. Those who want to make
butter should keep only the butter cow;
those who sell milk should not keep
butter or beef cows, etc. Don’t feed
too much corn for milk. Wheat bran
or middlings are the safest and the
best foods for the cows. I would make
either of them a principal food for cows
up to six years at least. There are no
better foods. Pea meal is excellent.
Every ton of milk sold takes off about
♦3 worth of fertility from the farm.
The butter-maker sells but little fer
tility. One or two pounds of linseed
meal a day is a good ration. Good
brewers’ grains are excellent feed.
But ensilage is better than all. The
timothy hay of commerce is a mighty
poor food, especially when late cut It
is a poor milk-producer. Clover is
much better and one of the best bal
anced of foods. For “clover sick" soils
apply wood ashes or muriate of pot
ash and ground bone.—H. F. Cooke.
A Han's Rscord.
It is a grand hen that will lay 180
eggs a year, says the Poultry Keeper.
Hens have done so, but like horses with
records, they leave aii others behind.
We have known four hens—all of a
small flock—to lay 604 eggs in a year,
or 151 each, but we have never found
100 hens to average over 100 eggs per
hen per year. The reason is that in a
large flock some hens lay none at all,,
from various causes, while others lay
more. One with large flocks, after al
lowing for sick hens, over-fat hens,
lousy hens and feeble hens, will be for
tunate if he gets nine dozen of eggs
from each hen in the flock. True, some
of the hens may lay twelve dozen eggs
in a year, but “one swallow does not
make a summer."
Hens like variety; unless starved to
It, they will reject all food not suit- |
able, and they are usually the better
judges of what they want and need.—
Indiana Farmer.
Keep grit, cracked oyster shells and
green food constantly before the hens.
Two or three times a week let them
have some meat scraps. One cent a •
pound is not too much to pay for. green '
hone as a lot of meat clings to the *
bone.—Farm Poultry.
Milk is one of the best foods that can
be supplied to young poultry, and they
can be given all they can eat or drink
of it. There is no danger of their tak
ing too much.—Inter State Poultry
man.
Sheep Sheering la Haglanit.
We have no longer sheep-shearing
festivals as in times of yore. At the
commencement of the century the
sheep-shearings of Francis, Duke ot
Bedford, and the great Coke, afterwards
Earl of Leicester, were Important rural
gatherings, which were attended by ag
riculturists from all parts of the king
dom. Moreover, at this period, and
up to the middle of the present century,.
the sheep-ehearing day on farms in
general was a red-letter one. Neighbor
ing farmers visited one another on
these occasions, and their sons did most ;
of the work of the dipping. Regular
feasts were provided and there was
much merry-making. All this has
long since changed. Bands of itin
erant laborers, well versed in the art of
shearing, go from farm to farm, and
contract for the clipping at a fixed
rate per score or per hundred, and when
this is not done the shepherd and or
dinary laborers of the farm have to
perform the work. All kinds of feast
ing in connection with sheep-shearing
have very much gone out of fashion.
The custom still lingers in populous
districts, but since agricultural depres
sion came all but the well-to-do have
avoided anything like a festival.—Mark
Lane Express.
Oar Poultry. <**
For eggs alone, the Leghorn la un
surpassed. For eggs and table quali
ties, the American class la ahead, and
is likely to stay there. This includes
Wyandottes, P. Rocks, Black Javas and
American Dominiques. The annual
production of poultry In the United
States is between $600,000,000 and $700,
000,000. We buy of other nations $12,
000,000 worth of eggs. There la no good
reason why these imports may not stop
and supply the demand at home. If
eggs can be Imported and still be fit to
use, they certainly can be shipped from
the west to New York and Boston with
a profit to the shipper and producer.
No farm, county or state iB producing
to a full extent in poultry, and there
is no good reason why we may not
make the supply equal to the demand
and keep our money at home.—Se
lected.
The Calves.—Dutch and Danish
dairymen keep their own calves and
feed them until large enough for mar
ket. They get no new milk, but this
is partly made up by adding corn meal
to the skim milk as a heating and fat
producing substance. It at least makes
veal which brings a good price and
calves at six and nine months return a
fair profit.—Ex. *
