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Nov. 17, 1896.
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man Reviews the Campaign.
THE CAUSE OF BRYAN'S DEFEAT
What We may Expect Daring the
Next Four Tears of McKinley 's
Rule.
Populist w ' .ays Loyal.
"To the people of the United States:
n In the remarkable campaign just
closed the People's party was the only
party that supported solidly and
unitedly the great and vital issues rep
resented in the . candidacy of Mr.
Bryan. This was natural, for the Peo-
pie's party came into existence to bring
to the front and to press to victory the
. principles of Lincoln and Jefferson,
already long discarded by the twq old
1 : parties. .-' ; ' .'
The money power, feeling reasona
bly sure of its control and domination
of the leaders and the controlling In
. fluenees of the Republican party, in
1892 gave its support to the candidacy
of (Jrover Cleveland for the especial
purpose of having him, through the use
of patronage and otherwise, crush out
the silver sentiment in the south and
make the leaders in that party as com
pletely subservent as those in the Re
publican party. To accomplish this
. ) 1 purpose four cabinet ministers were se
Ju!, lected from the south and an un-
fW usually large amount of ' patron
age used - on political leaders to
' the same end. It will be remembered
that Mr. Cleveland demanded that the
' Democratic senators and congressmen
give a decisive vote in the interests of
the gold standard before he would
deign to give out the postoffices. , This
deep laid plan might have succeeded
had not the People's party at this
juncture sprung into existence, ex
posed the plot, stood in the breach and
appealed to the patriotic hosts of both
parties to check the scheme of the
people's despoilers and rally to the
common defense.
PREJVDICK AGAINST DBMOCRACT. 1
"Thus the People's party forced the
Democratic, organization to repudiate
Clevelandism and return to correct
fundamental principles. Not only
thin, the People's party then forced the
Republican party to cease hedging
and straddling for the purpose of de
' ceiving the people and drove them to
take a stand on one side or the other,
of the vital issues at stake. The issue
now being squarely joined, it was
evident that those influences in the
Democratic party which had dom
inated and debauched the party for
a quarter of a century would be
driven to the' support of the party that
' took a position on the side of trusts,
monopolies and money ' gamblers.
While on the other hand, it is evident
that a larger percentage of the Repub
lican party favored the principles now
squarely forced to the front, yet only
a small per cent would" in this cam
paign support them because they found
them tinder the Democratic banner.
'lHad it not been for the prejudice
against the Democratic name, as well
as a want of confidence in Democratic
promises for which it must be fre
. quently admitted past experience fur
nishes ample ground, a majority of the
voters of the country, in spite of tre
mendous and unparalleled forces put
forward by the Republican managers
would have cast their vote for a finan
cial reform and American independ
ence. ' -
' "The People's party with a high
patriotism and an unselfish devotion to
Erinciple, greater than ever before ex
ibited by any other party, stepped
outside of its organization to throw its
3,000,000 votes solidly for Bryan.
REPUBLICAN AID I,OOKItn FOB,
"Had not more than this number
of those who called themselves Demo
. crats in 1892 given their support to Mr.
McKinley, the cause of the people and
American principles would have tri
umphed this year. This class will
surely support the party of monopolies
and trusts in the future. Their places
in the ranks of the reform hosts must
be taken by patriotic Republicans. In
fact, Bryan would have been elected in
this contest had even 25,000 more sil
ver Republicans come to the rescue.
"The election of McKinley and the
triumph of the gold standard does not
express the desires and sentiments of
the people. The majority opposes the
policy for which he stands and will so
vote whenever an opportunity is pre
sented for a proper alignment. The
remarkable ana brilliant campaign of
' niiliaiA J. Bryan would hare aligned
these forces and marched them to a
triumphant victory if any candidate or
leader in America could have done so
under the Democratic banner.
"The administration of McKinley,
cannot bring prosperity to the Ameri
can people. The mills cannot be kept
open, idle labor given employment and
general prosperity restored and main
tained until the wealth producers re
ceive fair returns for their labor and
thus are enabled to purchase. The
gold standard and monopoly rule, to a
continuation of which Mr. McKinley
stands pledged, means four more years
of falling prices, rfour more years of
lockouts and strikes, four mora
fears of reduced wages and idle
abor. This will cause the patriotio
rank and file of the Republican party
to condemn and repudiate McKinley
ism as the patriotic rank and file of
the Democratic party has condemned
and repudiated Clevelandism. I can
not believe otherwise, lor 1 have not
'less confidence in the patriotism of
this class of Rcpuclicans than the
'rank and file of the Democratic party
t has already demonstrated
THE PEOPLE'S PABTY LAUDED.
"Therefore, a large per cent who,
though not fooled by the specious pleas
of 'honest money' and promised pros
perity, yet who would not in this cam
paign fight under the Democratic ban
ner, will surely join hands with the
majority of the American, voters out
aide of the old parties to overthrow &
government of trusts and monopolies
, run in the interest of forcigu capital-
lata.
"Tbe People's party has made this
LETTER
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possible In fact Inevitable, 'l'ne posi
tion of the People's party in thl tfreat
contest has convinced every patriotio
American that the party can be truisted
to stand for the principles of good gov
ernment and the interests of the peo
ple nnder any and all circumstances.
Therefore, the People's party wiil be
the nucleus around which the patriotic
hosts must and will gather to redeem
a betrayed republic and to restore
prosperity to an oppressed and out
raged people. Marion Butler, chair
man People's party national ' com
mittee." - ' - -
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
Tba Independents and Democrats Com
bined Have Majority of Two.'
Washtngtoh, Nov. 9. The next Sen
ate, it is believed, will stand:
Republicans, 44.
Democrats, 33.
Populists and independents, 13.
This takes all states out of the doubt
ful column, placing Kentucky and
North Carolina in the Republican col
umn, as Senator Butler said to-day
that a free silver Republican would
probably be returned by the f usionists.
Delaware is put in the Democratic
column, and Kansas and South Dakota
in the independent and Populist
column. ,
This will prevent the Republicans
from taking c6ntrolof the senate un
less some of those who bolted the Re
publican platform at St. Louis should
return. It is difficult to estimate the
exacratanding of the next senate on
the money question, owing to the new
alignment of parties in the recent
campaign. Men who have been pro
nounced silver men have been support
ing the Republican platform and can
didates, and pronounced gold men
have supported the Democratic plat
form and candidates. Perkins of Cali
fornia, Wolcott of Colorado, Shoup
of Idaho, Carter of Montana,
Mitchell of Oregon, Wilson of Wash
ington, and Clark and Warren of Wy
oming have all voted for and sup
ported silver -legislation, and what
course thev will now take in the Sen
ate is altogether problematical Among
the Democrats Gorman of Maryland,
Smith of New Jersey, Murphy of New
York, Faulkner cf West Virginia and
Mitchell of Wisconsin all have voted
against silver, and yet supported the
Democratic party in this campaign.
As no silver bill possible could pass
the House, this fact would influence
voting m the Senate on the silver
question, especially in the shape of a
rider to a tariff bilL The probability
is that on a free coinage amendment
to a tariff bill all of the forty-four Re
publicans would vote against- it, and
possibly some Democrats, such as
Caffery of Louisiana, Gray of
Delaware and Lindsay of Ken
tucky, who bolted the Chicago plat
form, and perhaps even some of those
who supported Bryan; during the
campaign. It also is not unlikely that
some of the Republican senators who
bolted the Republican platform might
take a position which would permit a
tariff bill in which their constituents
are largely interested, because of wool
and lumber and lead ores, to become a
law. ..:y'
Senator Faulkner, Democrat, of West
Virginia, said to-day that the silver
men, by standing solidly with , the
Democrats, eonld prevent tariff legis
lation. Senator Butler, on the other
hand, said that be and others of the
Populists would support the 'ight
kind of a tariff bill, but not a measure
like the McKinley bill. Mr. Butldr
wants adequate protection on ratv
material. '
TOWNE WILL RETURN.
The Latest Revisions of Returns Justify
Their Claim.
Duluth, Minn., Nov. 9, Chairman T.
T. Hudson of the democratic congres
sional committee now claims the re
election of Congressman Charles A
Towne by about 100 majority. Mr.
Hudson says that the latest revision in
the returns justifies the elaim, and be be
lieves that when the official canvass is
over, that this majority will be increased.
QThe revisions of the estimates as they
were first made have steadily decreased
tbe supposed majority of Judge Page
Morris, until now the silver men feel con
fident of proving Mr. Towne's election
on the face of the returns, in spite of the
gross frauds enacted by the republicans
on the Vermillion iron range. Mr. Towne
had left the city for Colorado Springs,
Colo., where he will meet C ongrecsman
Dolliver in joint debate, before this claim
was made, i ,
Before leaving Mr. Towne gave out
an address to tbe voters of the Sixth
district, which in part, is a follows:
When I took the stand, many months
ago, in behalf of the welfare of the peo
ple, as I understood it, and against tbe
trusts and gold standard powers, I then
underwent all the bitterness of self-re-nnnoiation.
I was prepared for personal
failure. 1 was not consulting my own
selfish interests. Had I done so I should
have been compliant to tbe will of the
reigning powers of the republican party.
I took my political life in my hand with
full knowledge of the contingencies and
prepared for either fortune. Thencefor
ward it was the people's fight more
than mine. The defeat, if it should prove
that I am defeated, also is more tbe peo
ple's defeat than mine. I chose the risk
myself in the hope of serving them. I
should do tbe same thing again.
I do not deny feeling a deep personal
regret as to my small lot in the general
fall, bat it is as nothing compared
with that I feel for the temporary re
pulse of the cause, and the consequent
loss and suffering that must be borne by
the people. But justice only sleeps. God
is not dead. By and by, whether partly
through any further aid of mine or not,
for that is unimportant, the cause will
triumph, and - then I shall know the in
finite happiness of having contributed,
in some small degree in my day and gen
eration, to the coming of the light.
I desire to thank all my friends, here
and elsewhere, for the splendid support
they have given me, and the valiant ser
vice they have done for humanity. I arn
especially glad to have received from the
city I have tried to serve the magnificent
indorsement of more than 2,000 major
ity. It gires tbe lie to tbs claim so per
sistently made, that I have been mis
representing the sentiment of my home,
and it shows that tbe intelligence ami .
real citizenship of St. Loui county are I
overwhelmingly for bimetallism, I glad
ly accept the unbought support of this 1
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great cuiuiiiuuitjr, wiuie iraviuK lUaiuugB
' Morris tbe enforced pronouncement of
the unfortunate men on tbe Vermillion
iron range, St Louis county, over whom
the Minnesota Iron company claims and
exercises more th an a feudal lordship.
The election in this district is very
close and the ultimate outcome is un
certain. What I bare said applies to
the situation as it appears on the face
of the returns.
As to tbe cause itself, for which we
have fonght so vigorously, we shall not
despair of it. We believe that events
will justify oar contention that no per
manent prosperity is possible nr.der tbe
gold Btandard. When that demonstra
tion is made we shall come forward
again, and reinforced by the "Unanswer
able argument of experience, we shall, re
store the money of tbe constitution and
the reign of the people. Our noble leader,
Mr. Bryan, is young, vigorous and un
dismayed. In 1900 I expect him to lead
us to victory in the greatest popular up
rising; the American ballot has ever evi
denced. Meantime, we believe in tbe rule
of the majority and will submit with
good grace to the laws and policies that
tbe successful party may inaugural e.
Charles A. Towne.
Duluth, November 7.
SILVER FORCES RECOGNIZED.
The Patronage to be Properly Divided
o Among All.
Tbe populist state central committee
has accepted the advice contained in Mr.
Bryan's recent address to tbe bimetall-
lists of the United States, and has de
termined to keep up the fight so success
fully begun in this Mate. To that end it
wiil establish permanent headquarters
and keep a corps of officers in charge to
keep up tbe organization and prepare to
maintain in the next campaign tbe ad
vantages secured in tbe late election.
The headquarters will remain at the Lin
coln hotel, but will be removed from the
fourth floor to a room on the ground
floor.
There is to be a community of inter
ests hereaftergmaintained between the
elements that contributed to tbe recent
victory of the silver forces in this state,
This was the conclusion reached at a
meeting of the state officers-elect in this
city Saturday evening. All of the suc
cessful candidates on . the state ticket
were present, and the sentiment was de
cidedly in favor of recognizing all of the
three political elements that bad con
tributed to the victory, so that popu
lists, democrats and free silver republi
cans will be recognized in tbe distribu
tion of state patronage. ,
The Norfolk beet sugar factory au
thorities today applied to the supreme
court for a writ of mandamus to compel
Auditor Moore to issue a warrant on
tbe general fund for some $800 as boun
ty on sugar produced during the first
two days of this year. The legislature
made no appropriation for the payment
of the sugar bounty it created, and
some. $52,000 warrants have already
been allowed against the general fund.
which will run $250,000 short for the
fiscal period.
Doctors Do Kot Always Differ.
What the Leading; Homopathlc Phy-
alclan of the Htate of Iowa says
of Dr. Williams' Pink PI1U.
' From the Gaiettr, New Hampton, lows.
Dr. D. S. Byers, who is the head and
manager of the New Hampton Sanitar
ium, and tbe leading homeopathic phy
sician of Iowa, if not of the broad and
breezy west, was recently interviewed by
a reporter of the Saturday Gazette at
his office in the Sanitarium, as to his
opinion of the merits of Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills, and for auy comment he
might wish to make on tbe extraordi
nary cures, published far and wide in the
press of the country, said to have been
effected by them. .
Dr. Byers declared that he frequently
used Pink Pills in his practice, at tbe
Sanitarium, in paralytic, catarrhal,
scrofulous and neuralgic troubles, while
in diseases of females, of which be makes
a specialty, he has found them invalu
able. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a
condensed form, all tbe elements neces
sary to give new life and richness to tbe
blood and restore shattered nerves.
They are an unfailing specific for such
diseases as iocomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, St. Vitus dance, sciatica, neu
ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache,
tbe alter efiectofla grippe, palpitation
of the heart, pale and sallow complex
ions, all formsof weakness either in male
or female. Pink Pills are sold by all
dealers, or will be sent postpaid on re
ceipt of price, 50 cents a box, of six
boxes for $2.50 (they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr.
Williams' Medicine Company, Schenec
tady, N. T.
EASTERN BIMETALLI8TS.
Mr. Bryan Thinks no Words of Praise
Can Fully Commend Them.
Hon. W. J. Bryan gave to the press
Saturday evening the following telegram
addressed to the biinetallists of the
eastern states:
"In the hour of defeat I send you greet
ing. No words of praise can sufficiently
commend you. When it is remembered
that the eastern states sent gold dele
gates to both conventions and that
nearly all the eastern papeis were
against bimetallism, your fight appears
remarkably creditable. Yon have shown
yourselves heroic and events will vindi
cate the position you have taken. Con
tinue the fight. W. J. Bryan."
Stephen' Majority Growing.
St. Loctis, Nov. 9. There are yet ten
counties in Missonri to hear from, but
the indications are . that Bryan will
have from 60,000 to 65,000 plurality and
Stephens, Democrat, for Governor,
from 48.POO to so.ooo. .
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Imp). Awarded
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DAIRY AND POULTRY.
Interesting chapters for
our rural readers.
How Saeaaeefal Farmers Operate This
" Department of th Farm A Few
- Bint urn to the Car af Lite Stack
ad Poultry.
late circular from
the department of
agriculture gives
the following on
filled cheese:
"It may b8 well
to state in passing
that filled ' cheese
differi from the
genuine, old fash
ioned article in
but one essential
particular, so far as its composition
la concerned. Instead of the natural
fat of milk, or cream, which Is extrac
ted for butter making, there as neutral
lard, made from the leaf fat of the hog.
This article, claimed to he exception
ally pure and good of its kind, ii
jused at the rate of two or three pounds
to every 100 pounds of ekim milk. The
cheese resulting carries about 30 per
cent of (lard) fat, which 1b rather less
than the average of (butter) tat in good
whole milk cheese. Tbe casein and
other components of the two are prac
tically the same In kind and propor
tions. From this statement of com
position one can judge for himself
whether this filled or lard cheese is a
legitimate article of food, whether it
is wholesome, and' whether he desires
jto use it in the diet of himself and
family. It Is made of comparatively
cheap materials, costing from one-half
to two-thirds as much as good, full
'cream, factory cheese, and its market
price, wholesale or retail, should cor
respond. At its best, this is cheap, in
ferior cheese; it is almost devoid of
flavor, oily or greasy when warm, and
never attains the dry, crumbly consis
tency of a well cured cheese. It is sold
when only a month or two from the
press in Imitation of mild, immature
cheese. It is claimed that it does not
keep well, especially if subjected to
temperature above 60 degrees. No one
acquainted with first class full cream
5heese would ever accept the filled pro
uct as a substitute, but it may be suc
cessfully passed as a genuine article
of second grade. There Is plenty of
good cheese still made in the United
States, and It can be secured if buyers
will but make a little effort to find It
The states of New York and Wisconsin
together produce two-thirds of all the
cheese made in the country, and the
reputation of the factories of these
states for high quality, full cream
oheese has been long established. The
product of these factories of the stand
ard or Cheddar form of large cheese
stands second to none in the markets
of Great Britain as well as in America.
The two states named, as well as oth
ers, absolutely prohibit the manufac
ture and- sale of filled cheese within
their borders and the marking of skim
cheese to Imitate full cream goods.
These laws are well enforced."
Continuous Income from Poaltry,
F. A. Homann, of Effingham county,
111., read the following paper before a
farmers' institute in that county:
Eggs are all the year round crop,
differing greatly in this respect from
hay, corn and vegetables, which are all
harvest time crops; and if not marketed
at once, expensive buildings have to be
prepared to store them ln,and not a few
'crops such as potatoes, cabbage and
fruit, shrink in value by decaying
while stored. Not so with our poultry
Eoduct, which has an all the ., year
ady market, and with eggs as the
, sis of a poultry business a steady all
the year round income can be com
manded. It is the winter eggs that pay
the greater profit and bring up the
average price for the year. If the
greater part of the eggs are received for
spring and summer, when prices are
brought down by a large supply, the
average will be lower, but If fowls lay
In December, January and February
when eggs are 20 to 30 cents a dozen
the average price for the whole year
will be satisfactory. The whole story of
getting eggs in winter can be resolved
into three 'simple rules. First, batch
the chicken early; second, keep them
growing so the pullet will come to lay
ing maturity in October or by Novem
ber; third, keep fhem laying by good
food and care. When I say batch the
chickens early I do not mean too early,
because if hatched too early and go to
laying in August and September they
will usually moult in December just as
the weather is becoming very cold, and
good-by eggs from then till spring.
For the heavier varieties, such as
Brahma and Cochins, the middle of
March is none too early. Plymouth
roek and Wyandottes we would hatch
the first half of April if possible. If not,
April will do. The Spanish, Mlnorcas,
Leghorns and Hamburgs should be
hatched in May for best results. Set
three or more hens at a time and once
a week dust them well with insect pow
der, and when the chicks hatch give
them to two or more mothers. I gave
as our first rule for getting a good profit
from poultry to hatch your chickens
early. Equally important Is the sec
ond, keep them growing so they will
coma to laying maturity by November
first. The food and care has much to
do with the chicken growing.
Now for the first 24 hours do not feed
the chicks, for they need no food dur
ing this time, nature has provided for
that by absorbtion of .egg-yolk into
their little abdomens, and it is neces-
Cry this absorbed egg-yolk be digested,
uch damage is done and many chicks'
lives are lost by disregarding this rule;
some people in their haste to get the
ohlcks growing hurry food into their
Brops before the system has toned up to
lake care of it, and the consequence is
fee bowels are congested and the chick
goes over to the majority. Feed often
but little at a time, every 2 hours say
five times a day, until the chicks are
five weeks old, and see that no food is
left standing in the sun to sour after
they have eaten. Remove it all, noth
ing causes more bowel looseness, and
dysentery, than sour food. The best
food for the first five weeks is composed
of one-third oat meal, one third corn
meal and one-third wheat bran; add a
pinch of salt, moisten with sweet milk
or water, warm it in cold weather and
twice a week add some bone meal.
Keep coarse sand by the coop at all
times, don't think the chick can find
this themselves, that is one of the
commonest mistakes in rearing chick
ens; after they are fivw weeks old yvti
can leave out tbe oat meal and feed
three or four times a day. When ten
weeks old, at noon scatter wheat and
cracked corn in litter such as leaves
and cut straw, so they will have to
work for it, hut not too much corn as it
makes them too fat Green food must
be supplied. If the chicks are -cooped
up on fresh grass this problem Is solved
and they will help themselves to what
they need. If, however, they are con
fined in a small yard, finely cut grass,
lettuce, or onion tops will make a good
substitute. Fresh cool water must be
kept accessible so a drink can be taken
when wanted. Sell the cockerells
when they weigh two or two and a half
pounds each, and don't forget to dust
the pullets well with insect powder, -for
you do not want to raise chicken lice,
but if you are not careful you will.
Now with this food and proper care
they will begin to lay along in Septem
ber and October. Then sell off your old
fowls, clean the houses and whitewash
them and tbe pullets moved in, and
then on feed for eggs as follows: For
four days in the week feed early in the
morning a warm mash composed of one
part shorts, one part bran, one part
corn meal, and add cooked potatoes or
turnips and apple parings. , Feed on
boards or in troughs, only enough to
supply part of their hunger; give water
all round, then scatter wheat or oats
in the litter and let the aim be to keep
the hens busy every moment from
morning until night scratching for
wheat and oats, which should be buried
in the litter. Let the noon ration be
green rye or a cabbage hung In the
pens just high enough to compel the
hens to jump to peck it About 3 p. m.
feed the whole grain, full feed, oats or
wheat, and in the very coldest weather
a little corn. Keep grit or granulated
bones so they can get at it all the win
ter, and charcoal, don't forget to give
them Borne. Clean pen, fresh water,
pure air and a system of feeding such
as is here outlined will bring money
to the fanner every month in the year,
try it
Southdown WooL '
The wool of the English breeds is
thua referred to by the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England,
"Lastly, there is the pure Down, a
wool which is still unequaled for
hosiery purposes, and which will al
ways find a market of its own, some
times quite independent of the general
course of prices. Of this wool I should
like to say keep to the old-fashioned
style; keep It as short and as fine as
possible; let no suspicion of a long
wool strain get into it; and if I am not
mistaken, pure Down wool will take a
respectable place in the future as re
garde comparative prices. With such
ends in view, breeders of Southdowns
may well abstain from trying to Imi
tate in length of staple and
superfluous covering of the face .with
coarse wool any other breeds of sheep,
and be content to let the Southdown re
main what Its best friends have always
tried to make it A. e., a producer of
quality before quantity.
Sheep Less Numerous. -The east
ern farmers seem to be going out of
the sheep business. They are, as a
rule, very small holders, and when
their small herds seem to be a losing
proposition they do not hesitate long
before letting them go. It is the sum
of these small holdings that make up
the great aggregate, and when the
farmers begin selling their small flocks
the number of sheep in the country
speedily decreases. There is no branch
of the live stock business that can be
bo readily adapted to changed condi
tions as the sheep business. Since
1893 the number of sheep in the United
States has been constantly decreasing
until now the total number is lees than
at any time during the past twenty
years. Meanwhile the range of prices
has been very lew. It will sot bs long
before there will be a change and sheep
will be in demand again at good prices.
Ex.
Butter. Butter ia a condensed pro
duct Nothing can be made or grown
on the farm which brings as much per
pound. Farms remote from the market
and communities far from railroads,
can send butter from the farm or
creamery with the least possible ex
pense. The dairyman can condense
tons of fodder and crops grown on the
farm into dairy products and send
them to market In compact and port
able form. Ex.
Income from Dairying. Dairying
brings in a constant income. The man
who sells crops of any kind has to
wait until he can market his product
once a year. There is little satisfaction
in this. It is unbuslness-like to go
without cash fifty-one weeks and then
have a lot of money come in at one
time. The dairyman has an income
nearly or quite fifty-two weeks fh the
year. Ex.
Marks made by hot dishes set on ta
bles may be removed by the use of
kerosene oil well rubbed in, and then
polished with a fresh cloth.
It is hard to believe that a sin will
bite if it has gold in its teeth.
(therp Hnabendry.
In the opinion of some of the t: 1
authorities off the numbers of Uv
stock Ir the country the recently tub
llshed official estimate of she number cf
sheep in the country Is largely ia ex
cess of the actual number, and till
notwithstanding the fact that the SS3
ber is lesa than for a great number z
years. The official figure la clvea s
8 000.000. This is a fact prtara
with meaning for every farmer. I.o
country has made permanent rrr:?ti
In agricultural prosperity witic-t
sheep. Even on the high pricea uz.J
rf England and France It la tzl
profitable to keep large flocks, Inizil
more profitable than the keeptzi cf
any other kind of live stock Grsat
Britain has today over SO.000.OS9 sier?
on her small area, whilst France has
over 20,000,000. These two countriea.
with an area together of less than one
tenth of the United 8tatee hava one-
third more sheep and better ones. The
consumption of good mutton la increas
ing rapidly all over the country, and
this increased consumnuon la here to
stay and grow.. Wool also must In
crease In value. The clip in Australia
will be very largely decreased tals yeif
as she has lost over 9.000.000 s&eep
from drouth, and this will undoubtedly
affect the markets, as Australia tra
duces more wool than any other crsn
try. Buy a few eheep and troy t-'j3'
gcod ones, and put a good buek wlti
them. The lambs alone will pay H
on the outlay if the eheep ara prcp
erly cared for, and the wool and mut
ton will add to the profltBouuiern
Plar.ter.
Site aarl Beauty.
Says "Hark Comstock" in Rider ano
Driver: "I have not had as good ciancs
to study the results of crossing tie
hackney on trotting mares, but see no
reason why they should not be success
ful where the latter are large enourX
for the hackney ia not so likely as tls
French coacher to contribute ft: ts
the combination. Like our old-styls
Morgans and Black Hawks of tZf
years ago, the handsomest tpeeicts '
are apt to be undersized. : Borne cf Cs
attempts to breed up the sise of M
style Black Hawks were aecompasll
by partial success, and their beauty ax J
action In a degree preserved, but gener
ally as the Bize went up the prouJ
style and fairly sparkling beauty cf
the strain lost their finest glosa. A
most amazingly beautiful horse ru
Vermont Black Hawk, 'the ktxtra
cock of the Green Mountains," sni t
bred so true to his own likeness' tlct
breeding became a certainty. Two
thirds of his get were black, and ax?
two of them were mates, and auca
mates! But the strain held to its am&ll
size with great tenacity, or else lot
something of its beauty. This depar
ture of beauty with increased size in-"
dicated that the characteristic style cf
the Btraln was derived from some
source that was inherently small. I
do not know where the hackney bras J
secured its 'strut and swell and great
est pomp,' but it seems to me that la
too many cases the criticism that tU
little uns are its prettiest una poteU
to : like , conclusions. The hac&n?7
strains back to thoroughbred f amo
tions, but along with many crotxea o
accounted for."
Sealing Fvleee foe Gowe.
, The North Carolina experiment ct
tlon has evolved an Idea that Is wcr
thy of adoption. It is that cows
should be bought and sold at a prii
based upon their milk production.
Many a northener has thougSt that
far, but how to apply In fixing a seals
of prices tallying with the Idea has
been farther than they , have gone.
This is what the tar state professors
have undertaken, however, and the
scale formulated is as follows: Pay'
for the cow 112 for each : gallon , of :
three and a half per cent milk tint
she gives a day. To this add or sub
tract a dollar for every fourth of cs
per cent fat which It tests above or
below three and a half per cent.
Suppose the cow gives two gallons
a day of three and a half per eext
milk. She would be worth $24. If it
tested three and three-fourths, si
would be worth one dollar more tor
each gallon, or two dollars more. II
she tested four per cent, she would t
worth two dollars more "for each gal
lon, or four dollars more, making Tact
value 928. If she gave three gallons
a day of three per cent milk she) worilj
be worth $36, less the deduction, for
being below standard. The deduction
would be two dollars per gallon, or
$6, and subtracting this from 136 fWOu!$
fix her value at 330, of 32 more th&
the cow giving two gallons of four per 1
cent milk. This rule recognises tl
correct idea, but whether it la Jx:t
rigbt is more than we can say. It cer
tainly is in the right line, for the valzs
of t&e cow depenHs upon the amount cf
butter-fat furnished. Waverly Repi j
llcan. I
Watering the Cows. In watering set i
that each cow has a liberal supply, art
if she does not drink enough, look after j
her and ascertain the reason. If thi
rlnoa nnf rlrfnlr fraalv t ha tnnnl aI
milk will soon begin to fail. As f;r J
her winter rations of food, one can sot
do better than to feed her night Uki
morning fifteen pounds of ensilage and
three of shorts, with five of clovei
hay at noon. Ex. t
Pure Water. An abundant supply ot f'
pure water within reach of the hoci i
at all times is indispensable, but t& '
water can be In the yard to whlca
the hogs have access. Shade Is alia
essential In the summer, and nothlr
excels a tree for this purpose. But 1 3
the absence of trees a building !,;
some kind should be providod and c
floor Is just as essential as a roof. ?
consider a bed among fine dust t'c" '
injurious to swine, for, unlike c.
animals, the hog, when he sleeps, I
with his nostrils close to the g?r
or floor, and it becomes all in:;:
that In breathing there is no
cap be inhaled. kt.
