FEBKUABV T5. 1894
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Oentlemen I have been a victim oi rheumatism
nr several vears Dast. 1 have suffered intensely at
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THE FAKJI AND HOME.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMER
ICAN MERINO.
Keep Them and Improve Them VaJua-
ble Facts About Fertillaera Granular
Batter Soft-Shelled Kggs l'srm Notes
and Home Hint. -
Thoughts oa tha Merino.
At the annual meeting: of the New
York state merino sheep breeders'
association, the president, S. B.
lusk, made, among otnurs, the fol
lswing" remarks:
I have little apprehension that
the American Merino will be aban
doned by those who have heretofore
stayed by them in times of depres
sion, and know their value a sheep
that has constantly improved with us
in our climate, and with our manage
ment from Its first introduction, now
well nigh one hundred years.. And they
will also find new friends. The com
ing generation will want a sheep that
does not require foreign importations
to keep up. to say nothing of making
an improvement If the inhabitants
of the United States ever become
consumers of mutton to anything
like the extent that it is consumed
in England, I believe a lutton sheep
will be evolved from the American
Merino that will be adapted to the
wants of the country; and as it is
already acclimated will be susceptible
of any needed improvement And
that all of , the so-called mutton
breeds have so far failed to do.
But that which concerns us most
is what to do with the American
Merino as we find them to-day? What
in my judgment we should do is to
keep them and improve them, and
in looking about us for chances for
improvement, it w.ll be well to first
look and see that wo have mude no
mistakes.
Some breeders years ago raised the
question as to the good or bad effect
of our public shearings as they have
been managed. The announcement
goes out that a certain sheep sheared,
a given number of pounds of wool,
and the carcass weighed so much.
And that is about all there is of it.
unless one is there to see for himself.
I was present at a shearing, where a
ram so inferior that no good breeder
would think of using him, sheared
(not of wool but of stutl that grew on
him with a little wool to hold it to
gether.) more pounds than any other
ram shorn at tuat annual shearing.
And , this worthless ram was
proclaimed the heaviest shearer
at the New York state American
Merino sheep shearing, and he
was not worth a two dollar
note. This, of course, was an
extreme case; but in looking forim
provement in the future, it may be
well to see if some of us have-not
grown more neece than tne ;;ncep
can well carry, although perhaps of
good quality and only about the nee
essary amount of oil to lubricate
suchafli ece. A ram weighing 150
pounds, fleece off, and shearing 30
pounds, carries before being shora
one pound of fleece to five pounds f
carcass. Is not that about all he can
well carry and be used for breeding
purposes, and keep up his constitu
tion? 1 have known rams to shear
forty pounds, and weigh little more
than 100 pounds with fleece off
about one pound of fleece to two
pounds of carcass. But I havo
nuver known such a sheep to
live io be an old sheep. 1'erhaps,
under existing circumstances, it may
be well to improve the carcass, in
crease the size, and not pay quit3 so
much attention to piling on the wool,
I think no one will disagree with me
in the importance of looking after
the quality.
One word more and I am done
Not even tho American Merino can
improve if neglected. If compelled
to fall back upon their constitution
to sustain themselves, they will sure
ly deteriorate. Our lamented friend
and' associate, the Hon. E. Townsend.
once bought some of our favorite
sheep, and got a well written pod I
gree'from a successful breeder. At
the bottom, written in a bold hand,
were these, words: "Care is the secret
of success." He at the time was
scarcely out of his teens; but le often
said that it was the most valuable
pedigree he ever received.
If the business is dull don't neglect
the flock. Care for It well, breed it
in aocord with your best judgment.
and the American Merino, the best
sheep in the known world, will in
the future, as In tho past respond to
any reasonable draft the brooder
may make upon tho flock.
rVrtllUere.
Tho re are certain facts concerning
the three valuable ingredients of
plant food nltrogon.phosphorlo acid
and potash which, should be under
stood by all farmers who expect to
succeed with fortlll.ors:
Nitrogen is the most cotly ela
nient of tilant food and lo"e from
furtlllors are often duo to trxtrava
gant and Injudicious uo of nitrogen.
I jt-n.o for tiitrojfert may be re
duced by practicing gron manuring;
that t. by plitiitliu t'lover, jh us or
Vetcho. which have th prowrly of
auoriln,f nltro.n'it from tho air.
Ureen tuunuritig Ut on litfhl
aotU, but I of no IxsnotU oa (x-aty
soil
'hodiorio aotd and potash,
though prcannt In nearly all soil,
ar fwr the inol purl I r-sol u bin, and
therefore) In ttnAvallabU condition.
hmal quautlU of ttitt mineral
(dant food art annually dWudvad
by soil wtr and plant acids, but
no. enough to ip)dy th plant roots
titttieientiy will) nuurUlnoenl tor
this rtmn, hihorta acid and
j oUih. in unt U ad4d W soil If a fall
crop is dasirvd
Nltrees raual b applied during
tha fro In avaeoo at tit lime tua
Beaded by tha plants, and It U wall
Vo spj.ly It a a K dressing, Mtro
gen is apt to leach out with the soil
water.
Phosphoric acid and potash are
best applied some weeks before
planting a crop and should be plowed
under. There is little danger of
leaching from these mineral fertil
izers. Kalnit is the proper form of potash
for sandy soils, as it makes them
more compact; for stiff soils muriate
and sulphate of potash are best
Potash u especially valuable for
fruits, tobacco, potatoes and vegeta
bles of al. kinds.
Sandy and lime stone soils nearly
always need potash. Clay s.iiU
sometimes contain sufficient potash
and again thjy do not; this should
be ascertained by experiments.
Colman's Rural World.
Granular Butter. -
How many boys and girls on tho
farm have had an old apron tied
around their waists and been told to
churn until tho butter will hold up
the dusherP" Such instructions are
fatal to good butter. In the first
place, says Hoinostead, tho dah
churn is ten years bohln 3 tho times
and ought to be thrown out of every
farm house, even If no more butter
is made than to supply the family
tablo. The box or barrel churn is
cheap and it is so much more con
venient and so much better butter
can bo made with it that there
should be no hesitation in discarding
tbe old da-h churn in its favor. But
no matter what kind of a churn is
used, nover churn until tho butter is
gathered in chunks large enough to
hold up the dasher. There are sev
eral reasons why this should not be
done. One ot them is that the grain
is destroyed. Good butter has a
fine distinct grain and when broken
shows a distinct fracture like cast
iron. If this grain is destroyed by
over-churning or over-working, the
butter becomes a greasy mixture,
like lard, and has a greay taste.
Again it is necessary that the buttor
milk bo well washed out or the but
ter will become strong and rancid
in a short time. This cannot be
done when tho butter is churned into
lumps, so in the latter case the grain,
flavor and keeping quality are all
Injured. The churn should , always
be stopped when the butter is in the
form of small granules, ranging in
size from a red clover seed to a grain
of wheat; then the butter milk can
be well washed out and the grain will
bo uninjured if the working is proper
ly done. There is no reason why tho
farmer should not make just as fl e
butter as anyone, providing he 11
take the trouble to do it right
r.gg With Hott KhMla.
Hens that have plenty of exercise
and free access to the ground or to
deposits of gravel will not lay soft
eggs. Such hens are not only too
fat, but their digestion has been Im
paired by a life of inactivity. If we
keep them on starvation diet we do
not necessarily help their digestion.
The best course with hens that lay
soft egg shells is to kill them for the
table. They are always fat and
ready to kill. If allowed to live such
fowls will get in the habit of eating
their eggs, and this habit soon af
fects the entire flock. Keep fowls at
work for what grain they get and
they will find material for egg shells
of sufficient hardness. The hard
shelled eggs produce the most vigor
ous chicks, though they may some
times need help to break their
shells. American Cultivator.
Farm Notes.
Do not manure against the roots in
planting.
Jrao and wood ashes make a good
fertilizer for old orchards.
Newly planted grapevines should
be allowed to grow only one shoot
The best pruning is that whica
rarely if ever calls for the removal
of a largo branch.
The fruit of old aes is usually
richer and more highly flavored than
that from young ones.
If properly stored, seed of cucum
bers and squash two or three years
old are better than fresh ones.
Sheep allowed to rem iin out in the
cold storms become unthrifty, and it
is cluimed a rotten fleece is tho re
sult It is better to save a pound of
flesh than to produce it Or, in
other words, it is a losing game to
neelect stock and let them lose flesh.
Itesoiva to disnonaa with ,crub
stock as soon as practicable and
keep nothing but tho best reeding
out the crops to scrub stock will
make and keep any man poor.
II nine llUita.
Muslin, ginghams, and calicoes
should be starched with starch in
which a pieco of alum as big at a
hickory nut has been dissolved
A small bottle of camphor or a
llttlo slum and water will aid io dry
iX up pimple that have boea tam
pered with.
(hen door should not bo slain
mod nor any jarring noise rnado
when cttka aud bnud are rooking.
Heat Wit) U almost invariably the
result of jarring.
Tea I in in' It lott.r wtion brewed In
a pot that ha boon huitUd thorough
ly than in a cold one. A cup of boll
Ing water ud to rin the put I
tho U tt niathud of heating it
Um-u a month the wiok of lamps
should bo r moved and tlia bu-oei
unarrewod and boltod In a l tllo wa
ter In h!rh common sod has Wen
dissolved, Till will rtiruovs the"
coaling of grva and dust which
font' mi the ht a )
When It l rthiutrt'd to uao car bolls
acid a a d slulwUut it shoal I b
mUtd with botlinr wsWr, This
(rt-mptly imrcouu' th usual aa i
Uf unl ui btMti th atdd and th
watar, and converts thr-m Into a
prru-ao-ut loUMjft, which Ut koa)
Io veska '
THE SEICNIOPACE DEBATE.
Remarks by Meaera. Stone of Pennsylva
nia, Ilarter and K II it ore.
Washington, Feb. 13. In the ailver
debate yesterday in the house
Mr. C. W. Stone, of Pennsylvania,
who is at the head oi tbe minority
committee on coinage, weights and
measures, replied to Mr. ItlanJ. He
agreed, he said, with Mr. Bland, that
if the llrst section of tha bill was to bo
passed the second section should be.
'II we are prepared to agree to tne
practical embezzlement of a trust
fund in the first section, we should
not hesitate at the irregularity con
tained in the second section."
He contended that there was no ex
isting seigniorage; that it was purely
imaginary as yet
If 855,000,000 of additional treasury
notes were issued, as required by tho
provision of this bill, without a dol
lar for which certificates were issued
being deposited in the treasury, each
certificate would bo on its face a lieu.
It was, in effect, "watering" the
treasury notes to the extent of $55,
000,000 when the face value of these
notes already exceed the market
value of the bullion security behind
them by over 156,000.000.
Mr. McKeighan, Populist, Nebraska,
made a free silver argument. A gold
basis and a high tariff, he said, was
discriminating against the West in the
interest of the East
At the end of Mr. McKeiirhan's
speech, which consumed an hour and
a half. Mr. Ilarter, Democrat Ohio,
took the floor in opposition to the MIL
There were three means ol reliev
ing tbe treasury, according to Mr.
Ilarter, any of which would snffloe.
The first was to reduce salaries twenty-five
per cent, including members of
congress.
Tbe second method proposed by Mr.
Ilarter was a duty on sugar, which
would provide 135,000,000; a further
increase of the whisky tax to 11.20 a
gallon, which would furnish 9-0,000,.
000; an increase of the tax on beer to
S3, and a duty on tea and coffee. A
tax of one-tenth of a cent per cup on
tea and coffee, he aald, would yield a
revenue of 820,000.000.
Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, who made
the concluding argument of the after
noon, contended that if the govern
ment was in need of money, it was
better to coin the seigniorage than to
borrow money and pay Interest upon
the loan. Without completing his
speech Mr. Kilgore yielded to a mo
tion that the committee rise. Then at
5 o'clock the house adjourned.
Well Fargo Messenger Held Up. 1
Cahhon, Nev., Feb. 12. Last night
when a passenger train on the Union
Pacific was about half a mile from the
city it was boarded by one masked
man who broke in the doors of Wells,
Fargo & Co's. car with a sledge ham
mer, and held up the express messen
ger, taking a box of coin which the
paymaster was sending to lleno to
.pay employes. The box contained
nearly 8J.0O0. After robbing the car
he started off in the dark, the messen
ger losing sight of him before he could
give an alarm.
Cyclone Sweeps Over an Indiana Town.
Michigan Citt, Ind., Feb. 12. A
cyclone struck this city at 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. It swept
through a lumber yard, carrying
everything before it, and then
passed over the Monon and Michigan
Central freight yards, where it
carried five cars from the tracks
and wrecked them. The funnel then
disappeared over the lake,
A Heavy Business Failure.
Bonne Tkrke, Mo., Feb. 12. Eleven
executions, sued out by creditors,
were levied yesterday upon the stock
of general merchandise of L. Schnit
zer & Co., who have been doin? a
heavy supply business in this section.
The assets and liabilities will be large,
but are not now known.
Indian Mission Destroyed.
Guthrie, O. T., Feb. 12. News
reaches here of the destruction of the
Presbyterian mission house and
schools at Anadarko, in the Cheyenne
reservation. The teachers and Indian
scholars barely escaped with their
lives, but all clothing, furniture,
books, etc, were destroyed.
Mrs. Lease Going East.
Topeka, Kan., Feb. 12. Mrs. Mary
E. Lease will deliver an address under
the auspices of the New York Knights
of Labor at the Cooper Institute,
February 28, for the benefit of the
starving poor of that city.
For Eiubeaaltng 15,000.
Nebraska Citt, Neb., Feb. 12.
Henry Renken was arrested on the
charge of embezzling $15,000 from the
I Farmers and Merchants' bank of Tal-
mage, a small village near hsre,
Steel has been used for shipbuilding
only fourteen years, yet it is estimated
that ninety-six per cent of the vessels
built at the present day are of steeL
THE MARKETS.
Kansas City Grain.
Rale br sample as 'eais a, lab track.
Renins City: llsuo Witir-No. t bard 10
ears ibolea, Mo air W No 4 hr l, i o im
SH& Scars 4a No, 4 hud I ears ite. horr
WmtNji tired. I ear (holes. U'te. I car
a.io, t tar I tar i No. il red, t esr chow
ale, I ir Mo, I ear V No 4 re t J ear tout
Hetevted. I vara Uo, I lar 4 e No U aprta,
I est W i
CoHS-Wia ta for demand and soma
ale hi f bar lhaa ylaritay deapit
the rku. ta II ipevulaMv nr
kst. Itceelpbt. ef aura la-da 1
tare: a year 1V m cars Na I
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DUN REPORTS THAT IT 13 VEWT
SLOW.
IS SCARCE! DP TO EXPECTATIO.
Tha A een initiation of rnensployed Twd
Still Continues The Bood Issue Baa
Sot Helped Things Wheat tha
Lowest Uver Known The Vol
ume of Trade Doea No la
ereaae Bank Clear in a,
New York, Feb. 12 It . Bum A,
Co. 'a Weekly Review of Trade ssjec
"Improvement In business still ap
pears iu many directions, but it sees
to bo in part balanced by lass aa
others. The gradual gaia, which be
gan some time ago and was strength
ened little by the success of the treas
ury loan, has scarcely answered e
pectations. Reports of resumptions!
work continue to indicate that the 1mr
dustries are doing more thaa in De
cember, and yet the record of their
actual gain is disappointingly smalL
"The marked increase which ap
pears in offerings of commercial paper
has almost wholly ccaaed, aad Om
accumulation of unemployed fuada
continues, so that indorsed mill paper
is taken at 2 per cent The boast
operation has not advanced stocks aar
stimulated speculation, and the lowest
price ever known for wheat has beesi
recorded. Doubtless tbe ancertaiaty
which remains with the tariff bill yet
in the senate and currency measures
of importance pending in tho house
has some hindering influence, beat
there is still seen an increase in the
demand for many kinds of goods.
Crop reports were expected is
cause a great advance in wheat bat
tbe price bas dropped to V4 eeaai
cash, the lowest point ever knows ist
this market and both hers and at
Chicago May wheat bas beea 1wf
than ever. ,
"Textile manufacturers are galniasr
a little. Inquiry discloses larger
stocks of cotton goods held by dealers
than was supposed, and quite a large
prop rtioa of mills are likely ta close
before long unless orders inereass, the
number reported starting is severs!
times the number reported closing.
Many mills have opened in an experi
mental way, and have made ap roods
enough to try the market, with re
sults not as yet as largely aurp
ing. "The volume of domestic trade does
not materially Increase, sxchasree
Indicating a decline compared with
last year of 10.5 per cent elsewsesa
and 34.0 per cent at New York. The
earnings of railways in January were
12 per cent smaller than last yeac
Clearing House Bataraa. ' '
New York, Feb. 12. The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet's shaves
the total clearings at the cities ntea
tioned for the past week w th increase
or decrease, as compared with tbe
corresponding week of last year.
Cities. Clearings Ina Des
ffainiw City.,... It M8-,fti1l.... ITS
Omaha i,9H,tf . , . It
Denver 8,Wi,r WI
ISt Joseph 1,8 ,I9 .... .. SI
Lincoln 4'32 Ms
Wichita h&Ml 1.1
Topuka Mi
FARMERS' ALLIANCE ADJOURNS
Marlon Roller of North Carelhse Kleatad
President Other Officer Cheaea.
Torr.KA, Kan,, Feb. 12. The
national convention of the Farmers
Alliance and Industr al union finishes
its labors at 6 o'clock last evening anal
adjourned. The lat work of the eosr
vention was the election of the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year;
President Marion Butler of North
Carolina; vice president J. L. Gilbert
j of California; secretary and treas
urer. D. P. Duncan ef South
Carolina; executive committee,
Mann Page of Virginia, H. &
Demming of Pennsylvania, I. E. Deaat
of New York and IL L. Lousks of
South Dakota.
A few changes were mads in the
constitution, the principal change be
ing in regard to the election of the aav
tional lecturer. This matter was takes
out of the hands of the convention Sb4
turned over to the executive Mmnait
tee. The time and place of holding the
next convention were left te the exec
utive committee.
CONGRESSMAN HOUCK DEAfV.
Th Ohio Repreaeatattv Kxpire sanV
denly WhU Visit big rrleada.
Washington, Feb, 13. George W.
Houk, representative from the Thir4
district of Ohio, dropped dead at4:M
o'clock yesterday afternoon wklht
visiting at 1937 Connecticut avenea,
in this city.
tireal Taraout al a Ftaagtag.
RAtamii.N. G, Feb. IJ.-Near Wks
.ou yesterday Peter IVIJraff, whlfcs,
vy hanged in the preavnes of !t,Wt
person for murdering Ellen Nmith, 1st
July, H'.'J. Putdte Interest was latsaaa,
a the crime n a not-r u one, laa
(iraff had ien a bartender tVinta
and killml LI leu by shoatiaf bat
through the body in th woeds naare
fashionable subarbsn hoUL
Triple l-yaatag ta Arhaaaaa,
foMWAr, Ark., Feb. U. Meager ee
tails of a triple lynthlog reaolied ke
from Van Huron county, wblsk teuii
placo a day or two la what hi
koowu a th OnK-h. Henry lire seat
Bob ait I Qarty I'litnltoti, were th
victim of tha nteit's ventre". tH
aid th thre ate a hai kllld 4
pititMd an old couple who j
not given,
Sfhacfvf Itefeala Ivea,
IWtaftis, ten, lJ.-K-tifr dsfashat
Iveaat billiard last siht lf I
Ot 600 to VXt