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.
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sr 7 m
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at I 1.
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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.
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