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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1896)
y u. y rr v :. W ff '" DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Succcifttul Farmer! Operate Thli Department of the Farm A Few Hints as to the Caro of Lire Stock and I'oultrj. Y poultry experi ence covers about eight jeara. 1 have kept tho Blnglo comb Brown Leg horns and Buff L e g h o r n d. My house Is Just an or dinary one, with windows on tho south side. In the morning I usually feed soft feed of some kind, and feed It hot. Then I feed oats, wheat or noine similar grain, hoed in the and, so they will have to dig for it. Corn If fed at night, and meat scraps once or twice a week. Wo have never grown fowls for market till last year, when I was able to dispose of our last- of Juno hatch at 15 cents per pound. We have had good success In raising chicks. Wo feed boiled eggs onco a day till the little ones are two weeks old, with bread crumbs at the other meals, with corn and oatmeal. Wo have had llttlo loss I- X. A FLEMISH from diseases. Wo keep our coops clean, with plenty of lime around them. -We have found the. Buff Leghorns very good layers, and last year we had cockerels that dressed two pounds at eleven weeks old. Having seen the experiences of many, in their success and failures in crossing, we tried two crosses last year. The first was a Buff Leghorn cock on Golden Wyan dotte hens. The chicks matured early, and the pullets are excellent lay ers. The second was a Buff Leghorn cock and Light Brahma hens. The re sult was not so favorable as in tho first case. Tho chicks matured very slowly, and, while tho full bloods and tho chicks of tho first cross had plump and very meaty breasts, these latter were all skin and bones. I am inclined to tbink that it pays best to breed from standard breeds of somo kind, and for me, nono arc so satisfactory as the Buff Leghorn. B. W. Fellows. Dliuunilnc the Cow. (Condensed from the Farmers' Re view stenographic report of the Michi gan dairymen's meeting.) Professor C. D. Smith' opened the dis cussion on the cow. He spoke first on tho selection of the cow. Where we used to select a cow on the total amount of milk she would glvo wo now pay more attention to tho relative amount of butter she will make. She is a good cow if her percentage of butter fat Is large, provided sho gives a fair amount of milk. Tile chief attention of tho experiment station during the past two years has been toward this point. Is it true that tho cows that have the typical dairy form make butter most profitably? Is It true that the Internal M nx s. r TTTwlWWlWMWlWlii TiTnni mmIImBB . .v i ' .M W - mmssmmsssaam V t SmflPiBtyHHb SErjVHuTfcanaB v"t: ?izrzvwmxBMimi 'fflp capacity of a cow Is made manliest by exterior signs? I am ready to as sert that such Is the caso. Out best cows at the station conform most close ly to the.best dairy type. However, few of us have time to become good judges of external signs of internal quality, so that most of us must buy our cows judging them by the weight of milk and by the test for butter fat. Q. Can we judge by the young ani mal what kind of a cow she will make In the future? A. When I picked out my wife, I did not do it when she was a little girl, but when she had grown up. And the same theory holds good in picking out a cow: you must wait till she Is mature before you can tell definitely what kind of a cow she will be. We cannot predict with any certainty what a heifer will make. There aro certain signs, of course, slgnB that tell whether she bos the beef type or the dairy type, but you can not depend on the details that may develop. The next point was the stabling and feeding of tho cow. A member said; It seems to me that with land at $40 per acre we cannot afford to pasture cows at tho rate of one cow for every four acres of land. We had better feed partly on the soiling plan. Mr. Gurler. Now, I live in the corn belt in Illinois, and there we have hart ' much trouble with tho corn root worm, i Ho lives on corn roots exclusively. It therefore becomes necessary for us to rotate corn, keeping It off of certalr fields for a few years that this worn may be stared out. This having tr forego tho uso of corn fully and freely would militate against the soiling sys tem with us. Mr. Monrad spoke on how to milk tho cow. Got a good dairy mnld. It would bo a blessing for Michigan if tho girls . did tho milking, for the men would then have to fix up the stables and keep them clcau. I havo seen a great many stablc3 where one had to put on long boots to go into them. Why do I be Hevo that girls should milk? Because they are gentler. My experience of six years taught mo that to milk a cow properly you havo got to bo on good terms with tho cow. I onco had a white heifer that was a beauty, but she was wild. I kept my temper for a little over two weeks, and she was kicking all tho time. Then I lost my temper and used the stool. I did not milk that cow any rore. I sent her back to my brother who had a good many cows and did not need to milk them all. In fact, he only milked ten cows to get enough milk for family use. But men may learn how to milk. If when you go homo you will induce the young men to weigh the milk right along, you will find that it will make a great difference in the Interest they take in the milking. Buy good milk- v 7r tr.T. m'r - ' ttVk MILKMAID. r ers, make friends with your cows and test them. Mr Morse-mi havo an-. old German. woman in my employ who does this. She has made friends with the cows and they like her and yield a good sup ply of milk when she milks them. Re cently she took a vacation, and I tried doing the milking. I treated them right, but the amount of milk they gave shrank at onco and did not greatly In crease. But when she came back they at once yielded their accustomed amount, of milk. I think that women are better around cow stables than men, if the stables are kept clean, as all stables should be. Q. Why will somo cows keep clean, while other cowb standing beside them and under like conditions will get dirty? Mr. Helm. Nearly every cow stable In this state Is fixed not to keep the cows clean, but to keep them dirty at least, that is the natural inference of the conditions under which they are kept. The great difficulty is that the mangers are too low and the cow has to back off to He down that compels her to He down In the filth. I build mine so that the cow can put her head under it when sho lies down, and she can thus lie down where sho stands, I nail a 2x4 in front of her two fore feet, and another 2x4 in front of her two hind feet, and fill tho space between the two joists with bedding. When she lies down, she will Ho on this bed ding and keep clean. With calves, we do not nail down the 2x4s, but merely lay them down against cleats, which can be removed to Increase tho length of the bed as tho calf grows. Q. Aro not those 2x4s In the way when you milk? A. The milk pall slta on them, so they rather help than hinder the milk ing. Natural Starter. In an address before the Ayrshire Breeders' association Prof. H. W. Cown said: "Natural starters. These arc easily made by any butter-maker. The method of preparing one Is simply tc procure a few quarts of good sweel cream from a source which Is the most reliable for being clean and pure, and allow this cream to stand in a warm place until it sours. The cream thut soured will contain many bacteria and commonly, or at least in many cases, 11 the cream is from a reliable source the species of bacteria which develop it it will be the species that pro duce pleasant flavors. Such soured cream may then be poured intc tho large vat of cream for a starter and the result will be that if the startei does have the proper kind of species the cream will ripen more rapidly and pro duce a better quality of butter than when it Is allowed Itself to ripen nat urally. Thus the natural starter slmpl allows to grow In the cream the specie which are already present, but if the cream is from a good source the result! are found In practice to be very favor- i able." ARTISTIC DECORATIONS. Some IIiiDiUnmn Dculgnii Mario by the Dranrry Clnn. Tho Drapery club originated In tho ntudlo of a "smart" Now Unglnml girl, whoso artistic designs and very unique work brought her fame and money, Bays nn exchange. -Tlfe handsome win ter studio In the big city wna filled with the summer's rnio collections from beaches, marshes nnd rocky fern lands. From Maine to Florida she hnd gath ered sholls, mosses, grasses and curios. Tho club met onco a week. After studio clnss, office and school work was done In tho lnrge dining room Of a friend's house, nnd on the big square table they laid their plana, drawings and latest designs. A specialty wns hanglngB for the new and protty bou doirs or the Moorish corners", the lovely window BcatB and corners curtnlned away from drawing-rooms and librar ies. Doslgns of old French work, as seen in palaces, relics of Louts XIV, Floren tine designs or Kensington, cloth, silk, lace and ribbon effects, all manner of artistic decoration In water color hnd oils. Many orders were filled for fash ionable homes and uptown studios, but the very latest and most unique of all was tho "golden net portiere." The first one completed and hung wns in the artist's studio. Tho device was perfect. Between the fitting nnd work rooms was a filmy golden and oriental curtain, so beautiful and delicate wo stood amazed. But it proved strong, durable and practical. The foundation was of fish net of tho finest mesh nnd best quality, upon which was fastened in rows about six inches apart each way tho golden shells of our northern sliores. Hundreds nnd hundreds were sewed to tho net with linen thread, tho exact color of the fisherman's twines. The shells aro Binnll, transparent and of many shades of gold, from pale cream to deep orange. They must bo carelessly arranged on the net, regard less of size or tint, like stare in the sky, of all magnitudes. A holo Is cnslly made in each shell for the needle, with a small awl or heated hat pin. Unlac on Color Influence. Balzac's curious speculations suggest the extent to which color influences our human life. He had noticed that a woman who had a taste for orange or green gowns was quarrelspme; one who wore a yellow or black appaiel, with out apparent cause, was not to bo trust ed; preference for white showed a co quette spirit; gentle and thoughtful women prefer pink; women who regard themselves as unfortunate prefer pearl gray; lilac is the shade particularly af fected by "over-ripe beauties"; where fore, tho great author held, lilac hats are mostly worn by mothers on their daughter's marriage day and by women more than 40 years old when they go visiting. These theories are founded upon the principles of color, as already laid down namely, that red and yellow oxclte; green, tempered by blue, is bil ious; orango Is fiery; gray is cold ond H.el.tncholy7 ilSac Is vrYrg'al shade-oJ purple, tho most retiring color of the scale. Popular Science NewB. I'alnter of llnrrlfton'c l'ortrult. J. Colin Forbes, who !s painting cx Presldent Harrison's portrait in In dianapolis, has for some years made his residence in New York, where the reputation he won with his Gladstone portrait In 1890 has gained him many Important commissions In portralt palntlng. Recently he has had a studio In the Sherwood, where he sought ref uge after the fire that completely burned him out in the Castle Hotel a year ago. In that fire Mr. Forbes lost his choicest possession, his own por trait of his father. He is a man of me dium height and rather slender physique, with black hair and beard. Winter Sunshine lu I-oiidnn. The meteorological office states in some new statistics that, taking tho past twenty-five years into considera tion, the average duration of sunshine in London for the whole of the month of January is only twenty-six hours. American Amateur Photographer. CONDENSATIONS. In Paris thero is a wine shop for every three houses. Tho queen has never set eyes on any of her colonies, nor upon any part of Asia, Africa or America. A grandniece of Gen. Israel Putnam, Mrs. Lucy L. Deckery, died at Bangor, Me., a few days ago at the age of 89 years. Massachusetts is a large shoe pro ducing state. No less than 00.500 sides of leather are weekly cut up Into soles for shoes. During the most peaceful years the' world has .3,700,000 soldiers. The-pay, equipments, food and clothing of these men cost nearly $2,500,000 a day. Max O'Rell says that It was In the streets of Buda-Pesth and In the drawing-rooms of Dublin he found tho finest and most beautiful types of woman hood. Several Egyptian harps have been recovered from tombs. In some the strings are Intact, and give forth dis tinct sounds after a silence of 3,000 years. Some workmen In a Gorbam, N. H., carpenter shop have a queer pet. It Is a handsome butterfly, which has stayed in the shop all winter and Is very tame. A California gold prospector has written a letter addresjo-l to Mayor Pratt of St. Paul, Minn., in which he advances the claim that gold can be located In eastern Minnesota. Florida lead3 the south in provision for education, having a higher ratio c' enrollment and ghing eighteen days a year more schooling t'.rnc any othtr state In that section. A Hoc of OhrluMmi I'rlnctplP. At Wetlncsbury ti Aog has been dis covered whioh its fond mistress consid ers n Christian both in principles ami conduct, ltnccoinpunlcu her regularly to church, never disturbed tho congre gation, and always loft the sacred cdl lico In a quiet and orderly manner, obviously huvlng derived much benefit from the service. During- the week it behaved ns so exemplary a dop might be vxpcclctl to do, doing tvrotif? "inten tionally" to neither man nor benst. It wns certainly ' an insult to expect so enlightened an animal to wear a collar with his owner's, name, but tho Wed nesbury authorities mulcted the priv ileged oh nor in costs. However, tho possession of such n trcasuro must bo well Worth tho money. Birmingham (Kng.) Maih Ilnll' Cuturrli Curn Is a constitutional cure. Price, 7fic Women In (lerirmny. German women havo sent a potltton to parliament protesting against somo clauses in tho new civil code. Accord ing to Uiis eode, n married woman, for instance, 1ms, if no special contract has been made, no right to dispose of her own fortune without tho permission of her husband. Moreover, the latter is solely entitled to administer and to have the usufruct of her inotidy, even of that which sho earns. Kvery finan cial transaction entered upon by u woman without the knowledge and consent of her husband can bo cancel ed. Kxccpt in n few cases, women nro unable to uct as guardinna Tlicy nro also excluded from family councils, nnd so on. A Succennf ill Doctor. We take pleasure in calling your at tention to tho advertisement of Dr. Marsh with regard to his euro for the opium and morphine habit to bo found in nuotlier column of this paper. The doctor has been engaged for twenty five yenrs in this specialty, and Is well and favorably known for tho cures ho had mndo of these habits. Wo take pleasure In commending him to any and all who need his services, hnvlng been personally acquainted with him for the past twenty-iivo yenrs. A Itoumnnliin Fleet. Roumania has upset the plans of treaty powers to havo only two fleets on the Black Sea by setting up a littlo licet of its own. It contains one fast cruiser, Kllzabeth, and fifteen bmallcr crafts. The Roumanian Hag hns been recognized by the Russians, who re turned salutes when the fleot appeared oil Sebastopol. Vh o's Cure for Consumption Is tho best of all cough cures. George W. I,otz, Knl ti dier, La., August 20, lb'J3, Funeral luouumcnts are exported from this country to Australia. The name of Crh,p!o Creek should uow be changed to Crippfe Town. FIT3 -AUFItmtcnpeil freeb) hr.Kllhe'Rfire.u Avrta Kextorcr. .SiKluurtcrUiuIiri.iil:iy' un. 1rM-lmsiMir't. Treat Ito iinilC2tr.nl tot tlpfrrftt rllciuiV, bvi.J tuDr.Kllnr.WlAicu8t.,l'lillu.,l'a. One of Maine's curios is Murlria, a town of 200 inhabitant? without n debt. A Summer Itmort Hook I'rop. Write to C S. Crane, general passen ger and ticket agent Wabash Railroad, St. Louis, Mo., for a summer resort book, telling all about tho beautiful lake region reached by tho Wabash Railroad. .XxiT States T.?.iut-- .. A curious patent hns just been issued to Frederick Lehner, a Swiss, for a process of liiuktnir Imitation silk. An ordinary cotton thread is run through several solutions of silk substances and nltro cellulous, the threads after treat ment being woven into a fabric which is much cheaper and has all the qual ities of a good grade of silk. The cheapness of this new fabric would bring it within the reach of all. Laban Everest, an Omaha inventor, has received a patent for an electria railway signal which is noticeable be cause of its cheapness and in which ho overcomes some of tho objections en countered in so many signals. Tho in ventor hns been enabled to sell his pat entata good profit to a corporation who will place the invention on tho market. Peter Smith, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has invented n bed castor which just above the wheel has nn in sect trap, the purpose of which is quite apparent. M. Forsterof Berlin, Germany, gets a patent for a smokeless gunpowder, comprising wavy Hakes, which, it is claimed, ignite more quickly than tlioso of any other conformation, and so, of course, is more valuable on that ac count. Inventors desiring information rela tive to tqe law of patents or how to se cure their inventions, should address .Sues it Co., attorneys at law and in ventors' counsellors, Bee building, Omaha, Nebraska, for free book on patents and information. A copy of any U. S. Patent, includ ing full drawings and description will be mailed on receipt of 10 cents, llalf Fare Kxcumlnni la tho Watiauli, The t-liort line to St. LouIh, and quick route Kat or South, Excursions to a.lroints Houth atone faro for the round trip with &.CU added. JUNK 10th, National Republican Convention at St I.ouls. 3ULY'fd, National Educational Association at llutfalo. JULY Uth, Christian Kndcavor Convention at Washington, JULY -".'nd, National People and Silver Convention at Kt. Lou Ik. For rates, time tab'es and further infor mation, call ut the Wabash ticket office, 1415 Karnam Ht., Puxton Hotel block, or writ Guo. N. Ci-attos. N. W. Pats. Apt , Omaha, Nob. A mil whist' o at KuTinore, Jf. Y., blows the veuther slgnuls. ( iww ! a , , RotMntr (o laaataly and completely i disables the mntcles u LUMBAGO, LAME BACK, OR STIFF NECK, 1 1 uui souuee no promptly ;;. ST. JACOBS OIL. tfteeGftl The Farmer anil Mule. An ill tempered farmer one day had a quarrel with his wife, lie was afraid to assault her, because she was n new woman nnd had studied tho nro of self defense, so ho went to the barn and started a quarrel with his mule. That poor beast did not know what it was nil about, but ho kept his eyes open. Soon tho farmer, having worked him self into a frenzy, npnronchcd tho mulo from behind with a view of kicking tho patient animal. Then tho mulo reach ed out' his left foot, and ten seconds later tho now woman was a widow. Mora). Thero Is much vlrtuo In tho first lclclt. Now York World. The Slciilllrnnc-e of n einiy Ovrrrnnt Upon tliotonpuo, yellowness ot tlionkln and oyolmltK, iiiiiifion unit uneasiness bonentli tho rltflit rllis and shoulder blade. Is that tht'Mctlm oftlu'so discomforts Is blllloUH. The "proper capor" under such circum stances Is to take Ilostottor's SMotnneh Hit lers, which also euro chills nnd fcmr. con stipation, dyspepsia, rliuumittlu and kidney complaints and nervousness. PnlitenoR Is Riioh a strnln that overy one is gimi wnen a guest poes nomo. Homo Hcrciun. women always look ready to Iletsemnn'sCmiitilinr He with Olycrrlne. ThnoricluttlnnilniiU KVmilnc (.'urcsOlinrpmlllniiOa titl I'm. e, Cola Sorrk, Ac. C. U. Clark Cu.,N.lln cti.Ct- A hen in her lifetime rarely lays more than 000 ogK. Jf the liahy 1b eTuTrinTTTeotn. Re mire ami uro that old nnd well-tried remedy, Mas. trU(m'i BCKiTinxu BTlitT for Children Tocthlng. In Arabia milk Is not measured, but is sold by weislit. ! "Judgment!!" 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But the pie disagreed with lum, and a i. .i:,...,.,.i ...:t. i.i ..-:r Ail; umujjitu witii u uiii. Now he takes n pill after pie and is happy. So is his wife The pill he takes is Aycr's. Moral : Avoid dyspepsia by using Ayer's Cathartic Pills. I JOHN W.1HOKRIK. I WiiNlilnutoii. .. Successfully ProsfjcutcB Claims. I titol'iinolpM ICinltnlnnrU B. Pension llnronu. I3yr it loot war, l6iUtidictttlusullui, oil ulntu. BUGGIES .. lOOitjrlrx. Oo.k1 vnrletjruf viH-ond-hand Carrbsmt nd Wo(fon. NatoJy eii on 180i and lUfnajr Mf Oman nDIIIIJJJal'ltC'iirca Hut. tnlMI. ThotiMimhi II T I II m 'uwl. (.'lifatpwtntid bt euro. FkksTuiai. ""mtoraw. I.H.MAMU. Qolnny, Mich. LHYOMAHARUBBERS! 'i out of 1 M HARTFORD, CONN, tHr s flu vlnMr llfir Jh '' iff Ml n 'J WW H B