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THE WEDDING OF GLORY ANN The old red farmhouse. "Carter' Place," was unusually astir on a cer tain bright October morning. There were no absolute sounds of unwonted occurrences, only a vague air of ex pectancy seemed to brood over It On the opposite side of the road lived Fhllury Corwln. She was busily en gaged In watching the Carter house and washing the breakfast dishes, while he talked with her invalid sister, IU10 dy Ann. "'Pears to me," said Phllury, paus ing In her work and gesticulating with her dishcloth in her hand, " "pears to me as If sutbln' unusual like was ago ln' on to them Carterses. I seen the greatest lot o' flxln's goln' on there these last two days, an' I bearn that they got Mis' Darney up from King's Holler a-sewin' up in the spare cham ber a-sewin' all day an' on even by candlelight. Then I seen they been ahavln' them parlor blinds open, an' that means suthin'. An' Mis' Carter bought two silver plated napkin rings down to Colinses. I think I'll Jest run across and Inquire, If you will watch them pies, I am that fierce to know if Glory Ann be really a goln' to marry that Phlletus Antrim." With a parting admonition concern ing the pies, Phllury started upon her tour of Investigation. "How be ye, Mia' Carter?" she In quired, as she paused before the kitch en door and looked at that lady, who was busy making sweet smelling cakes. Mrs. Carter looked up, and waving her flour covered arm toward a chair, aid: "Set, Phllury. I be feelln' fair to mld dlln'. How's Rhody Ann an' yerself?" "Rhody Ann ain't feelln' very smart. Her back's atroublln' her, an' her head U sort o' fuddled with the achln'. but Pm feelin' very nice. I Jest run over today to fetch ye the drawln of tea I borrowed of a Monday and to see If I couldn't do nothln' to help ye. I eoen ye was havln' quite a lot agoln' on. Be it that Glory Ann Is really agoln' to git marrjed? I heard some talk of It when I was last down to the Holler. Be she, Mrs. Carter?" ' And Phllury repeated her question In an Insinuating manner, as she put the teacupful of tea on the table. "She be, Phllury," said Mrs. Carter, laconically. "About when, Mis' Carter?" "About Sunday, Phllury, it nothln' don't prevent an' these cakea are pleas In'." "Well, I Jest said to Rhody Ann, as I came out, 1 says, sothln' Is certainly comln' off to Carterses, though I wa'n't ure. Rumor Is now and agin de eelvln'." "It be, Phllury, though this time 'tain t. I 'lowed to go 'cross an' bid ye to the weddin' this arternon, all of ye, Rhody Ann, Rastus, Limy, Polly, Martar, your hired help an' Nervy Ann; but now, as ye are here, perhaps ye won't mind adoln' my errent for me, an' ask them as I have named to come o' Sunday at 4, so as we'll get through In time for mtlkln'." "I'll tell 'em,' said Phllury. as she turned to go; "I'll tell 'em, an' It's like as not they'll come." And they did, and the neighborhood with them. A wedding In the community was an vent of no small occurrence. It was second only In Importance to a funeral, and no right-minded person would so much as think of missing "Glory Ann's weddin'," for she hod friends In the city, and It was expected that she would have a very styl!nh affair, with plenty tf "new fongled notions." , By 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon the road In front of the red farmhouse was full of carr!nr-s, hitched to every avail able tree and fence post The bride elect was proud In the pos session of a tableful of presents, which wer displayed under the kitchen win dow, outside of which was hitched to one of the shutters a yearling caJf, the gift of her father. There was a "fly catcher" of straw from a cousin In King's Hollow, and an album from an aunt In the same place, a dozen flat Irons from Mr. Bangs, the storekeeper, and six cans of preserved lilpckbeir.es from his wife. Phllury brnu jht a lamp shade of green paper and muslin and a tidy from Rhody Ann. It was decorated with decalcomanles and trimmed with pur ple ribbon. Phllury had made this her self and was proud of It. Mrs. Slimmer, from over the hill, be ing a poor widow, brought a yeast cake, which she said was "like to be useful when they kept their own house, an' yeast, too, was better nor salt rlaln's." The groom gave a salt cellar; Mr. Carter a half dozen yards of rag car pet and a copy of "Grant's Tour of the World." ' The other gifts were varied In style, extending all the way from a brass lamp, sent by a city lady, to a paper of gold halrplus, given by Carter's hired Hit "Olorr Ann's hair, beln' red. will sort o' set off them pins," she explained to Phllury. , "But, what." Phllury asked, "be that thing ahangln' by the parlor organ? It looks for all the world like a bucket turned upside down an' stuck all over with White hollyhocks." "And It Is," replied the hired girl. "Glory Ann's city friend writ her about them weddin' bells what they have a h an gin' over them as Is to b married. We didn't have no bell, so w took a bucket I think It's very sightly ap pearln', don't your' "Io do. It certainly la lively," said Phllury, sincerely. "But I don't set no store by bis (oiks," whlsp-rd the hired help. "Why?" attk'd Phllury, eagerly. "Waft, they ain't got no style about them, nor they don't wsar no mitts al least, his ma don't They staid to Salry Holms es last night at the Holler, an' they walked up. I think they was too mean to ride. An', too, they gave such a present Why, his pa gave Glory Ann six dollars, an' his ma a blazln' star bed quilt which would blind ye, 'tis so fierce colored." "Dew tell!" murmured Phllury, In terestedly. "Fact," whispered her companion, as she slipped away In the gathering crowd to help the bride. The ceremony progressed well. Ev erything went smoothly until the sup per was about half over, when Mrs. Carter asked: "Where be ye goln" for your tower, Phlletus?" "Wall," he said, slowly, "I 'lowed that me an' Glory Ann would tower to Glenham an' back. My sister's hus band's child, Alphonso, lives there. I 'lowed 'twould be as good a place as any to tower to." Then Glory Ann looked up quickly, and her cheeks glowed so that her hair seemed pale In comparison as she said, with withering emphasis: "I "lowed to tower to King's Holler an' see Uncle Elbcrtus. I 'lowed I should tower there an' to no other place else, I did." "Seems to me," said Mr. Carter, speaking up quickly, "that Glory Ann's tower Is the best. It only seems to me to be Jest proper In you to go an' tower to your Uncle Blbertus', for I hear Ml randy ain't very welL" "An' It 'pears to me," said the groom, "as If I was the one to decide this tower, It 'pears to me, it does." "I can't set quiet an' see my darter's opinion set aside an' sort o' flounced at," Interposed Mrs. Carter. "Why, ain't you decided on your tower yet?" asked Phllury. "Why, my sister Dorlcsky knew wher her tower was agoln' to be before she knew 'bout her weddin'. She says to me, says she, 'Phllury, Jerry has promised to fetch me to Nlagary Falls on a tower If I marry him. If he Is really meanln' It I will; If he ain't, I won't' And he was, and she did." Phllury paused an glanced Inquir ingly at the bride. "An'," (Glory Ann shook her head em phatically) "an", Phllury, Dorlesky was right. She didn't Intend to be cast down or trod upon by any of them bul lies known as men. Nor I don't, neith er. I'm agoln' to tower to King's Hol ler, or I ain't agoln" to tower at all, so I ain't" "Wall, ye are," Interposed Phlletus. "Well, ye set and dally till I git ready to go on any other tower," said the bride, complacently, as she passed her plate up, saying casually: "Please gim me some more o' them cakes, pa." Hereupon Phlletus grew very angry. Rising, he said, fiercely: "Glory Ann, I'll take back that salt cellar, an' you don't come to Glen ham." "An" you, Phlletus, kin take your salt cellar, an" yourself both too fresh for me an' go to Glenham, or where ye will, for I'll tower to the Holler or 1 11 tower none." And Glory Ann arose and passed ma jestically upstairs to her room, carry ing a glass of cider and "them cakes" with her. After supper Mr. Carter said, turn ing to his new son-in-law: "Seems to me. Phlle, that If ye ain't goln' to tower none, 'twould be as well to onhetch them horses an get ready for mllkln'; It's arter f." "I 'low I'll tower to Glenham yet" said the groom, as he arose and van ished up the steps In the direction the bride had disappeared. Slowly the time passed. It was al most dark when Phllury, who had out stayed all the guests In order to help Mrs. Carter, returned home to Impa tient Rhody Ann, who sat In the kitch en waiting for her. "Well," she exclaimed, '"Phllury, where did they tower to, or ain't they towered?" "They towered," said Phllury; then added: "Ye see, It was this way 'long 'bout half pat 5, after Phlle had been 'most a half hour with her, a-coaxln', the parson went up, an' he prayed with her; an Phlle's ma went up and ex horted her, an' I quoted from the bible to her, an' at last she said she'd go, as obey In' seemed to be the heftiest part o' the marryln". Then we all went down to let her put on her new brown uu'ky. Well, In about ten minutes she came down, with the salt cellar In her hand, leanl' on Phlle's arm, a-smll-ln' like a basket o'chlps; an' he was agrtnnln' too. Jest as she passed out, very majestic like, her purple feather a-strvnmln' out behind her, she paused an' said 'It's King's Holler.' "An' It was, too," added Phllury. "Well, I guess Olory Ann will set off thorn gilt hairpins, If she ain't so ever lasting fiery that they'll melt," mur mured Rhody Ann. "Well, she be skalrful." said Phllury. "She be," echoed Rhody Ann. During the siege of Paris, Dr. W. H. Russell, unpleasantly familiar to Amer icans as "Bull Run Russell," was act ing as war correspondent for the Lon don Times, says the Argonaut, and was very much In Bismarck's society. One evening, when Bismarck had been denouncing the other English papers with his usual violence and pungency of phrase, Dr. Russell took occasion to observe, In a self-complacent way; "Well, you must admit, Count Bis marck, that I, at least, have been very discreet In everything that I have writ ten to the Times. You have always conversed before me with the utmost frankness upon all sorts of subjects, and I have been most careful never to repeat a word of anything that you have said." Bismarck turned upon him with a look of mingled anger and contempt. "The mors fool you I" h roared; "do you suppose that I ever said a word before you that I didn't want yon to print V FARM FACTS. - (Iowa Homestead.) , Nothing has a better influence In a lelghborhood that a live, up-to-date !armer. Good farming Is as catching is the measles and the influence for food that one man can exert Is incal culable. Have you a man of this sort n your neighborhood? If not can't you e that man. It Is now about the time of year the ear gets In his work on the wheat narket When the bulk of farmers are busiest getting their wheat ready for Jie market, then are the bears at work n the market pulling down prices. Does It occur to farmers that they ihould take a rest? I don't mean a rest n a plow beam, on the fence or in the tammock under the trees. I mean a rest iway from home and daily labor on .he farm. If such a vacation can be ar ranged for. No better time or place ian be selected for this than a week it the Iowa state fair. Picturesque md shady grounds are furnished for tampers free on the fair grounds, with plenty of water, and tents can be rent ed for about 12 per week and, for a tittle extra, cots may be obtained on the grounds, and should one day be ad another can be taken, and when fired you can go to yoiy tent and rest. No better or more genuine enjoyment an be found than one week's camping lit the fair. I know, for I have tried t several times, and I propose to try It this year, If I live. Hitch up to J.he big wagon, equipped with bows, and plenty of feed for the team, and drive :hrough with the whole family and ipend one week camping. What Is the use of a man trying to M "the whole thing" when he has a 'better half?" There Is a good deal of work of va rious kinds necessary to making the farm and farm home run smoothly. Friction Is reduced and smoother run alng produced If all the family play !air and all are played fair with. What the duty of all members of the family is with regard to the farm work Is one jf the subjects for discussion In the September lBsue of the Farmers' Insti tute series. I for one, would be glad ;o see It very fully discussed. The methods of conserving soil mois ture do not concern the people of a lo cality much where there has been plenty of rain, neither does tile drain age bother them much during a year f drouth. What Is needed moet Is to ae prepared to meet both conditions as they occur. Locking the stable after ;he horse has been stolen Is a very com mon practice, and there seems to be fery few men who wjll learn from the experience of others. That "all flesh is grass" may not be literally true, but It Is true that all fish profitable to Its producer Is made of trass, and that grass In Its broadest ense Is the best and most profitable Seeh-formlng food known. Not enough Importance Is attached to grass on the arm. Far too many farmers grow the wrong kind of grass and grow that In '.he wrong place. They seem to be con tent to grow foxtail gross In the corn (leld, rather than that kind of grass, with Us well balanced proportions ff protein, carbohydrates, fat, salts and water, which has been ordained as the pest food for domestic animals. The "hog lot" is fast giving way to the hog pasture, while pastures and meadows are playing an important part of mod em agriculture. There are a whole lot of things that i man does not like to think about in ot weather. It Is usually very "hot" weather when a man has discovered that the hens have been roosting on lis harvester. The man who usually kas to face such conditions Is the man who keeps scrub stock and winters the calves around the straw stack and trades stale butter for groceries which, tor convenience, may be brought home In a Jug or a plug. The onion had such a bad breath thaiJ .t made the beet turn red, gave the sabbage a bad headache, and brought tears to the eyes of the potato. A boy In this neighborhood, who rides the bicycle, wears his pants guards on 'jls pantaloons when he is cultivating In the field, and be now leaves in the field a lot of soli that he before carried jff on his sweaty legs. A Kansas man thinks he has a Joke on the twine trust. Twine has advanc ed in price, but there Is no wheat to olnd. This may be a Joke on the twine trust, but I am rather of the opinion the Joke Is on the farmer who failed to raise the wheat I have been In this mill and I always felt that the Joke was an me when I had gone to the work and expense of putting In a crop of wheat (usually spring wheat) when the weath er became such as to render binding twine unnecessary. If a man Is angry and can't swear he generally kicks something; a woman will say mean things to herself. The man who Is wearing out harvester every four or Ave years gaged In a losing buslnesa The prod In growing almost any kind of ami grain are not large enough to pay for new harvester every four or five yeal Far too many harvesters are not wi out, they simply go out of style. K4 a close tab on this. The hay crop In this vicinity Is not heavy but what It can be easily teJ care of with the usual force. AM very so often we have a (mail crop, to make It possible to use up ,Mil. tk.f h hAn In thA miwl some time, and to teach lessons out of the ordinary. Corn la sown, t cut up and many schemes adopti tide over the feeding season. If ways had plenty of hay and grain would (all Into a rut of feeding hay and grain, but, fortunately for out best welfare, we are taught a lesson occasionally by means of a change o the program. The steer roping contest which Is go. Ing to be one of the special features ot the Iowa state fair this year will t4 one of the rare sights of the century. The feats performed by the Texas cow-j erly managed. While there are apeolal boys are such as to win the admiration , lgts here there in the business, of all who see them. What they do can there are several million farmers who scarcely be believed until one has seen make poultry keeping only Incidental, it Seeing is believing, and a friend of and who suppose that with less care mine who saw it at the Farmers' Con- In feeding and breeding, and letting gress last year says It Is worth going a thousand miles to see. Take all he family to the state fair and let them have a week off taking In the sights. As farmers we are prone to get fixed ideas Into our heads and follow them whether they are right or wrong. Fol lowing them long we forget they are wrong and one-sided, and we seldom see the difficulty until it Is too late to mend. If we could lay prejudice and early teachings aside long enough td look Into some problems we would soon know where we are at. and might find it necessarv to turn ritrht about face from what we are now doing. For a number of years I planted potatoes on Good Friday and raised but few pota toes. I once used a chain tongue wa gon, butt-chain harness and opened up the wheat fields with a cradle, but I have quit all of these things now. In getting an Idea fixed, if you have the right Idea, you are fixed. A friend of mine who Is In the swine breeding business on a large scale is pursuing the plan of wrapping small trees, posts and different kinds of pro jections where the hogs go, with gunny sacks saturated with kerosene, and the bogs rub against them and no lice oan get a foothold. He also puts a little kerosene In the wallowing places. Lice and kerosene have never been able to make friends. The druggist who anticipated a large potato bug crop and a prospective large trade In Paris green has missed his cal culations, and he may be seen to put an extra pall or two of rain water In his beverage barrel, hoping to recoup for his failure In selling one poison by selling another. There will be a shortage in the for elgn wheat crop this year. The crop in farmerB buy these tender breeds, and this country will be the largest for j then wonaer wny in cold, open hen many years, save the crops of 1891 and ' hou9eg tney aid not get as many eggs 1898. The Russian wheat crop Is the j ta they use(J to frora their hardier na most Important In Europe and that of 1 tlve gtfe before they made the France next. The wheat crop In Rus- ! change. The old domlnlque and door sla la almost a failure, and were It not ng fowia were hardy and also good for tke millions of acres coming under j egg proaucrB and good for the table, cultivation In the newly opened portion 1 UnIegB a farmer Is prepared to give his of Siberia the condition would be de- ! fow,g tne care require he need plorabl . In Hungary the acreage has ! ftot trouble nimReif to change the breed. been Increased, but the weather has been unfavorable. Other European countries complain of the backward season sind unfavorable weatner, ex- . . ; rpt fcPnin, wnicn, sirange to say. - perienclrg the most prosperous agricul- tural yr in Us history. It ought to have be whipped by Uncle Sam long i! 1 I outlook U discourage the American farmer. It is really too bad that our own crops are not up to the recently es- who has a good wheat crop this year is to be congratulated, and I am sorry more farmers who lost their whiter wheat did not put in a spring crop to take Its place. Ben Davirj told Jonathan to go and him an Early Harvest apple out of the orchard. He came back and said old I tnat woui,j have made one less, which Grimes was there with his Golden and i ,g much than to lose them, wanted to bt a Haas he couldn't see I Aftgr wormB once get a hold in a col a Maiden Blush nor ever get Wealthy. I Qny ,t ,g of no ue whatever to try to Whereupon old Ben took a Willow Twig aoctor It wunln Itself. In the first and got after him and made him Rc- I place tne oolony Is nearly always manlte or two before the sheriff took ' queenieBBj or weak. The fact that you him In. I t0OK; no honey from either one that A good many superstitions die hard. ' you lost Is proof enough that they were There Is an old one In Maryland that j wftak, and perhaps queenlesa, or at a piece of bread buttered by the moth er of twins given a child with the whooping cough will cure the disease. A great many people In that state be lieve this, and as the disease Is pre vailing there the wife of the governor, who Is the mother of twins, is often callad upon to perform this simple task. Your own ailments will Interest no one outside of the family except the doctor. Tell him of your ailments and don't burden other people with them, for they buVe trouble enough of their own to bear. The early pple is no worse for catching the worm than later ones, but I have known of too many of them making the eattr squirm. Potato bugs manage to take the Starch out of th"j by getting the po- tato before It tarch. This beetle seems to get a , of pleasure out of life, and It ts a great deal of the potato pleasure. n Crop. July crop circular of agriculture, the planted show Mi, 000 acres as reage harvested enty-one states ires or more elgh- and three a argest apparent here It Is placed ka coming next Increase. Texas, pl have an In- ,000 and 100,001 MO, Bouth Caro- ana, Arkansas, Missouri and BOO.OOO and 200,- kylvanla, North the Increase U w total Increase larger had II bason and other which restrict- kr of the states. brop July 1st li r,.1:..""'.'" i m lowesi Bvarasi i th last fourteer, 1 and 1897. 1U - vtar sr 7 m 7 Accof' I from' I rety Vg at I 1. Ve I POULTRY FAYS. We have in this country a great many people who make a specialty ot poultry and look to it altogether for a liellhood, but It seems to us that It I. ' does not pay as much clear profit any where as on the farm when It is propj their fowls have as wide a range as possible, the poultry will every year more than pay Its way, which is all they expect. They rely on their general farming for the money to make their farms pay. If they make anything out of the poultry, It Is usually so little that It Is to their wives as "pin money." We have known some farmers' wives who put their husbands to shame when this chance was offered them, by mak ing such Improvements In the care of poultry that this port of the farm man- ! a-gement became more profitable than any otner- Maty a farmer would farm better If he would listen to and heed bis wife's advice about business af fair If she be a true wife, she must be Interested In her husband's success and If he tells her all as every husband should,' her counsel will be better than any other he can get The children also should be taken Into the partner ship so soon as they are old enough to be Interested. They may not know enough to give the best advice, but the habit of talking with them about your business matters will be the best edu cation for them. The truth about moet farmers' poul try is that it Is neglected as altogether a aide issue, or, when the farmer is spurred up to do better, his efforts at improement are so inconsistent that they often neutralize each other and make matters worse rather than bet ter. Because his flock is small, he thinks If he gets an improved egg-producing breed, that even If he neglects It, the eggs will come Just the same. Many of the best layers, such as the Leghorn and Houdan, are natives of ' warm climates and need careful shel 'ter. If not artificial heat, during our coldest weather. Yet we have seen Moths In Hives. It is a bad sign to find wax cuttings ' about the entrance In summer of fall, , g u ,8 no mdteltln As soon as this trouble ta , take , y eftpe. 1 dally in weak colonies. Worms are the y have to , caUy if black bees are , gfiem to overcome them to a certain extent. ' but no kind is absolutely worm proof that I know of. Had you pushed your Investigation far enough, and applied the proper means, you could have saved ' the bees and comb but not the colony. You would have had to unite them with some strong colony, and of course least had a very poor queen. When I find a colony lu the spring that seeme to be doing no good I at once break up their home, or give them a new queen and more bees. When I find a colony In my apiary that Is In fested with worms, I Invariably find a weak colony, and one that is of no account whatever, within itself. I al ways unite them with some strong colony, not fearing in the leant about the worms getting the better of the strong colony, unless they are very badly lnfesteu, in wnicn ia i umw the bees and subject the combs to the fumes of burning sulphur, or Immerse them In water for a few days. If I desire Increase rather than hon ey, and the colony Is not badly lBfeet ed, I first kill all the worms I can find, then give them a new queen and some bees, and watch them closely, and even then it Is risky, especially if I have to buy the queen; and the probabilities are that It will not be a eucoess after all my expense and care. A poor queen Is the foundation of worms among bees. So to be successful In keeping them out of your bees, you must begin with the queens, by keeping the poor and Infertile ones weeded out Then your colonies will be strong and there will be no danger whatever so far as worms or anything else Is concerned. If you see signs of worms In your bees this summer the best and cheap est plan Is to unite them, by ftrst killing the queen (If there Is one) In the Infested colony, and giving the bees or bees and comb both (If the comb Is not badly Infested) to some strong col ony. If the colony Is a good one and the queen all right, and you twid a few worms In places In the hlvwa where the bees can't reach them, kill What you can and 1st them alone, and they will be all right. I pay no attention what ever to worm under the quilt or la the crevices where the bcea can't got at them, if the colony Is a strong one. nut If It la weak and the worms hava gained a foothold In one or two combs, than look out,--E. a Mead. THE BACON HOQ9. The hogs demanded by dlscrtmfoat big markets at the present time an those weighing 160 to 225 lbs., with long and deep sides, light head and ' Jowl, light shoulders with great depth 1 of chest and wide between the for ward legs, and with great heart-girth, the testimony of power to purify and. propel and of great vitality. Tha ' modern bacon hog is wide behind with strong back and great depth through ' the flanks, hams full and wide and of such conformation will be more pre potent, will have the functions of 'motherhood more pronounced, hava greater precocity than any breed or , form of hog at present in efllistence. Seldom does a true bacon sow farrow less than twelve pigs, and this la j worth considering when other nreeda seldom average more than seven. I think modern swine-raistng can ba made one of the most profitable indua- ' tries of the day. I believe there la a 1 better opening Just now for awlne-i growing than for any other branch of 1 live stock raising. There has been ' fully 40 per cent more bacon con sumed in 1898 than there has been la ' any previous year of the world's his tory. People had no idea what aj ' choice morsel could be elaborated from the ubiquitous hog until modern pack ing appliances took the ouring in handj : There is as much difference between at ' roll of modern bacon and tha dd-tima1 ' pickled bunk as between the porter bouse and shank, and, as a result, tha 1 mild-cured bacon of the packing house ' Is fast displacing beef as a meat for the great mass of the world's middle1 ' class. The change wrought In tha bacon trade of late years Is truly mar. 1 veloua. Some ten or fifteen years ago bacon or otherwise salted pork waa 1 mainly eaten by the lower classes. Now, even these don't want to eat salt- ' ed pork any more. The most common ' breakfast dish on the table of the well- 1 to-do Is that of fried bacon, while a email, long and lean ham of 13 to IS I pounds is almost invariably found on ' the sideboard and receives frequent at ' tentlon. This unique change in tha taste and fashion has been brought 1 tbout chiefly by two causes by the ' mild cure and by the evolution of that particular type of bacon hog of which jthe red Tamworth is the best repre sentative. j It is not remarkable then that the Ideal bacon hogs fetch a much higher! price than the thick, fat chunky hogj ' which has been described by some one 'as "animated lard bladders." Thia will, no doubt be an incentive to the farmer to breed and feed the hog con ' torably to the demands of the pack- era. The Chicago packers are prob- ibly the most enterprising men In this 1 particular line in the world. In the last year or two some of them have ' suggested to the swine raisers of tha ' great middle west to breed bacon hogs, but with little success. One f leading ' Chicago packer keeps a buyer In Can 'ada who purchases bacon hoga right along, paying the Canadian swlna raiser about 1 cent per pound above 1 the price paid in Chicago. From facta before us the majority of hog breeders then either do not understand what the ' market demands or else stubbornly 1 continue to raise a class of heavy, fat hogs, which are salable only at much lower prices. I The demand for heavy pork is limited compared to what Is was some years ago. Cleanliness Necessary; Filth Is the prime cause of disease and failure in the poultry yard. Filth Is the result of neglect. Neglectful farmers dig their own graves, finan cially. Farmers neglect poultry mora than any other live stock. Poultry an-' noyed by vermin cannot thrive, and are never profitable. Don't keep poul try at all unless you can keep them clean and healthy. Vermin propagata with wonderful rapidity. Insect pow- der, etc, may keep them somewhat In' check, but the root of the trouble Ilea In the filth that is allowed to acoumu-! late In the house, about the neeta and' roosting places, the litter, etc. The cleaning should begin with a thorough scrubbing of the walls and of all woodwork with kerosene, or, better yet, with a weak solution of sulphuric acid (about one pound of the acid to 20 pounds of water, the solution being1 made by pouring the acid Into the water), care being taken to penetrate Into all Assures and corners where tha vermin may find strongholds. The floor. If made of wood, should ba scraped and afterward washed with hot water. In all cases the litter must be renewed, and the scrapings, old lit ter, etc, burned. It Is advisable to make some holes In the floor, digging out the soil underneath, and filling into the opening a mixture of line, dry ashes and powdered sulphur an excellent dust bath for fowlB of all klnda. A dried, and powdered mixture of lime and gravel strewed on the floor of tha chicken house Is another good means of keeping the chickens free from Insect pests. It also Increases the hardness of the egg shells. In the spring the water supply for live stock needs little attention. II there la any provision for water there1 la usually enough of It Later In tha season when the sources of supply fall In part there is danger of a shortage, 1 and there Is a scarcity frequently where the water supply Is abundant, or would be were It In such shape as to be available. The trouble In many Instances Is that the spring, trough Of tank from which the animals drlnb I 4na nnt hnM onnnrh A score Of Cat tle drlmk a great deal of water, and all may want It at the same time. Fof beat results they all should have II whan they want It. The brute doesn't reason that there will be enough when the thing Alia up It only knowa tnat N lan't there and freta about It. rretUag cattle are not the most profitable. Thi la something that everybody know but it la nevertheless overlooked. -Ifa UooeJ Stockman. f
