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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1896)
w I. fcV DAIKY AND POULTEY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. 4lr How Siiccomful Farmer Opnrato This Department of the Farm A Few Hint n to the Cure or Live Stock anil 1'ouUry. HE French cham ber of deputies haa passed a very strin gent measure with a view to prevent ing fraud In the sale of butter, and, In tho event of the senate Indorsing the bill, It seems as If It will bo Impos sible to palm off oleo or any other composition as being tho "genuine article." It Is made Illegal for dealers In butter to keep oleo for sale, or vice versa; the fraudulent com positions are only sold at places es pecially assigned by the municipality of each town. 'Moreover, all boxes, firkins or other packets containing oleo must bear tho word "margarine" In .large characters, and a full description must bo given of the elements employ ed In making the composition. In tho retail trade all oleo sold must bo placed In bags, on the outside of which is to bo found a description of the article, with, tho full name and ad dress of tho vender. Full authority Is given to Inspectors to enter butter fac tories and shops, and tako specimens for analysis; In the event of tho speci mens being found pure the cost will bo borne by tho state. The penalties for an Infraction of tho new law will vary from bIx days to three months' Imprisonment, and a fine of from $20 to $1,000, while, In the event of the same person being convicted a second time within a year, the maximum fine will always bo imposed. There will also be a heavy fine Imposed on per sons who place hindrance In the way of tho Inspectors. Ex. Pure Milk. It may bo stated a3 a fact that milk as it comes from the healthy cow Is perfectly pure. It has by nature no unpleasant taste or smell except an occasional result of peculiar food, and all so objectionable get Into the milk after It is drawn from the udder of tho cow. They come from tho uncleaned body of the cow herself, or from her surroundings, the air of tho stable, the milk vessel, or tho clothing or person of the milker. These troubles aro all avoidable; they are not to bo charged to the cow, but to the keeper. With tho exception of some extraordinary largo milkers, or for short periods when the yield Is the largest, there Is no gain in milking cows more than twice a day. Within limits it is true that if properly done, the oftener a cow Is milked the richer will bo tho milk, but tho difference is very slight, and seldom. If ever, enough to pay for the extra labor. Ex. Brlndlo's Causes for Thanksgiving. A clean bed. A quiet and gentle milker. An abundance of good food. A stall largo enough for her to turn around In. A stable with no cracks or knot-holes to let in wind. A yard wherein there are no horses or colts to make her afraid. A dry barnyard and sheltered spot where she can He down and chew her cud. Water pump ed fresh from the well and not allowed to freeze over before sho can drink it. An owner who looks after her general welfare and who shows his kindly dis position by occasionally stopping to scratch her back a3 ho passes through the barnyard. Ex. died most and tho ono that I prefer ia tho Plymouth Itock. My poultry houso Is warm and comfortablo and 10 by 40 feot. I feed corn In tho morning with scraps from tho table, wheat at noon and oats at night. Wo seldom lose old fowlB from any cause, but tho young ones aro sometimes taken by tho va rious atlmcntB and accidents. This spring we had something Uko three hundred llttlo chicks hatched and they took a diseaso similar to diarrhoea. Their droppings were of a reddish cast Tho chicks would droop their wlnga and soon die. Wo tried various roino dlcs to no avail. They had ravenous appetites and would cat till nearly dead. This is my first cxperienco with diseaso In my flock and I hopo It will bo tho last. Can you give us a cure for tho disease? I have always raised the breed mentioned nnd find It good enough and so am content to stick to it. I got a new cock every fall, usually keeping about ono to every twenty hens. I think the Plymouth Hocks aro tho best general purpose fowl for farmers to raise. They mature early, feather young and grow rapidly. As a rule they aro good layers and good mothers. Our hatch has been good. Wo think we havo struck It this year on how to break up a setting hen. Make a common shipping crato made of slats and sot it on an Incline of about forty degrees. Then put In your hens and they will keep trying to get to the top of tho crato and working thus they forgot all about sitting. R. M. Slater. La Orange county, Indiana. I originally had the Brown Leghorns, but have disposed of them, nnd now have the barred Plymouth Rocks, which I like better. I havo for my fowls a frame houso with tarred paper to keep out the cold and a cement floor. In tho morning I feed warm food, with chopped feed and potatoes at noon and corn at night. Wo havo a homo mar ket, for which we hatch early and ship while the fowls aro young. Wo get eggs all winter, keeping early hatched pullets for that purpose. We have good luck (or pluck) as to tho health of our fowls. We sometimes use poke root In.the drinking water and spray the premises with carbolic acid and coal oil. For raising the chicks we use the old hen, the best all around brooder I have found. We havo never tried doctoring the fowls, as we regard tho hatchet as tho best remedy when any of them get sick. As to layers and early maturity we have tried tho single comb Brown Leghorn, Black Spanish, White Leghorn, Buff Cochin and some others, but the best all around fowl we have decided to be the Ply mouth Rock. I live In tho city and have one and one-eighth acres of land that I call my experimental land. I kept a correct account of all expenses for eleven months on two pens of fowls, one containing sixteen single comb Brown Leghorns and the other nineteen B. P. R.'s. Tho eggs in that time amounted to 2,080. Tho Barred Plymouth Rocks laid -10S more eggs than the Brown Leghorns and cared for the chicks, which numbered 117. They had hatched out 129 chicks and reared 117 and made a neat profit. Fred Fess. Monroe county, Indiana. now tho exports of its produce reaches tho Immense figures given above, in addition to which wo havo tho vast quantity of cotton seed meal used at home, as well as tho cotton seed oil used at homo and exported, tho total vnluo of which exceeds that of tho cotton seed meal. Certainly, wo muBt admit that a country has vast resources when tho offal of ono of Its staple crops brings In a revenue of fifteen or twenty millions of dollars. Southern Farmer. French nnd SwIiii Cnttlo Ilitrrccl. A lot of French cattlo were on their way to tho United States, being about to be shipped from tho port of Havre, France. Tho United States consul thero stopped tho shipment and noti fied tho authorities that they would not bo nllowed to enter this country, as diseaso exists in France. Like Btand haB been taken In regard to Switzerland. Most Americans will up hold tho government In this matter. Tho fact Is that both Franco nnd Switzerland, wishing to plcaso tho agrarians (farmers) of their countries, havo stopped tho import of American cattlo, using as a. pretext tho snmo plea that has been used in Englnnd that there Is disease among the cattlo In tho United States. It is a fact that thero is more or less disease among tho cattlo of every country, nnd If Amer ican cattlo aro to bo excluded for that reason there Is no objection to apply ing the rule around. THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Monoy in Meat Packing. Tho Lon don Financial News says: "A rather curious fact was elicited at yesterday's meeting of the Chicago Packing nnd Provision company nnmely, thnt only 11 per cent of the share capital waB held in England, tho balance having been acquired by Americans. The Eng lish company Itself carries on no busi ness, but In 1S90 acquired all but six shares of the Chicago company. Since 89 per cent of the English company's shareholders nro now citizens of tho United States, it is plain that tho Americans have virtually bought tho undertaking back, and the utility of a London board Is not very clear. On tho other hand, In view of tho steady de cline In the dividends 15 per cent In 1891, 12Va per cent In 1892, 10 per cent lu 1893, 8 per cent In 1S94, nnd only 4 per cent for last year It must be some satisfaction for the remaining English shareholders to see that American in vestors evidently do not regard tho company's prospects as permanently bad." Straw for Feed. Where straw Is cut before It Is too ripe it is of value as food, especially for store cattle. In Germany It Is valued at more than half the price of tho best hay. But to se cure the best results in feeding straw some material rich in albuminoids must be fed with the straw, such ns oil-cake, shorts, middlings or clover hay. Tho straw alone does not con tain enough of the albuminoids to se cure the complete digestion of the car bohydrates which it contains. If the straw is fed with substances rich in albuminoids the manure will be as rich aB that made of hay. Prof. R. C. Kedzie. 1'otiltry Experience. For tho last twenty years I have been actively engaged In poultry rais ing. During that tlmo I havo handled several of tho most prominent breeds, but tho best fowls for all nurposes I consider tho white Wyandottes. They mature early, and I have had five month old pullets lay nicely. My poultry houses are good and warm and tho windows In summer have wire screens to them. The houses have wire doors for summer use. I have plenty of windows on the south side of the houso for sunlight In winter. As for markets, we have found that good fresh eggs and good plump fowls never havo to look up markets. Tho mar kets come to them. I could not raise fowls for profit unless I got a good sup ply of eggB in winter. I never lose fowls from disease or lice. Last year I raised over 200 chicks, and I am sure that I did not lose over ten or twelve, most of them from accident. Good, healthy stock, well cared for, will not die. Years rgo when I had a sick fowl I thought tho only way to save it was to dope it, but now I depend on glWng It the beBt of care and find that generally saves It, but I scarcely ever have ono ill from any cause. But if you have a real sick fowl, the hatchet is the best doctor. For early maturity itnd remarkable egg production I think the whito Wyandotte leads and I now keep no other fowl. Mrs. Mary E. Hall. Huron county, Ohio. Fourteen years ago I began to keep ooultry and the breed that I have hau- Cotton-Seed Meal for IInre. Cotton-seed meal is so rich in pro tein that It Js ono of tho best foods with which to "balance" rations. It has become a standard food for cattle and sheep. Why not use It for horses and mules? Thousands of work ani mals Jn North Carolina can be better and more cheaply fed If cottonseed meal Is used for part or all tho grain. No experiments that wo know of had been made when we began to agitate tho question, though some cotton-seed meal feeding to such stock may have been done. Two old horses were se cured for the purpose of ascertaining the effect of cotton-seed meal in a ration. They were fed a good ration for ten days, consisting of clover chaff threshed out with crimson clover seed, corn meal and ship-stuff. One horse gained and one lost weight on this ra tion, while both were kept at usual wort. No. 1 gained 1.7 pounds dally, and No. 2 lost .97 pound dally. Tho ration fed during this period to both horses Is glvan as No. I below. Dur ing the second period both horses gain ed weight No. 1 nt the rate of 1.0 pounds per day and No. 2, 4.1 pounds; or, If the apparent loss In weight of No. 2 during the first period were due to reduced stomach contents, conse quent on change to better than pre vious ration, and this gain distributed over the two periods, It would be equivalent to l.GG pounds per day. The dally weights show Irregularity and falling back during the first period; but when two pounds of cottonseed meal had replaced two pounds of corn meal and shipstuff of the ration In the first period, there was an almost regular advance In body weight. Af ter tho first two periods tho same chaff was continued two days and the grain changed by reducing corn and ship stuff one pound each and Increasing the cottonseed meal one-halt pound. Then, with the grain fed regularly as thus changed, timothy hay was fed In place of the chaff. Horse No. 1 re fused the hay and ate only what meal he could pick off, leaving hay, saliva and meal in excess of the bay fed. He was discarded after four days of this kind of feeding. Horse No. 2 was con tinued eight days, but did not eat the hay well, although he nearly held his weight. Neither horse showed any symptoms to Indicate that the cot tonseed meal disagreed with them, but both objected to late-cut timothy hay after crimson clover straw and chaff. North Carolina Experlnent Station. Litter In Poultry Houses. Tho cheapest material for making the hons lay is litter. What tho hens require in winter more than feed is somewhere to scratch and something in which to scratch. A large poultry houso with ample room on the floor, and with a plentiful supply of leaves or cut straw, will bo more acceptable to the hens than anything else. Litter Is valuable because It makes tho hens lay, antLJ.t makes them lay because It gives them an opportunity to work, and thus accel erate tho circulation of the blood, pro moting warmth and increasing tho ap petite. All the food that may bo given will not promote egg production If tho hens aro kept in idleness and given no opportunity to scratch and enjoy them selves. ' Two Old nentletucu (let Together nnd MtI Htnrlrn. "Oh, yes, I played In thoso dayn. Baseball was baseball then," and tho old gentleman sighed over what ho re garded ns the decadenco of tho great national game, Bays tho Detroit Free Press. "Now they get nlno men to gother nnd mako a machine of them. Tho wholo thing la nothing moro nor less than nn animated mechanism. Then we had a live ball and I used to swing n hickory bat pretty nearly ns long as a rako handle. You can Imag ine what camo off when I mado a hit. The crowd would hear something like tho shriek of a shell and then tho um pire would toss out a new ball while I chased two or threo runs In ahead of mo. Now, Just to Illustrate," nnd tho retired veteran o tho diamond begun making a diagram while his hearers grouped about him. "Here's where wd played at New Castle, Po., with tho old Neshannocks. Chnrlcy Bennett was catching. Hero runs tho Ohio river, way up In tho rear of the grounds, which lay open to the high bluff which marks the bank. Now, Bennett was doing some mighty bat ting and a fellow from a collego nlno was giving him n tight race. Each ono of them rolled a ball over tho bluff nnd I began to fenr for my laurels. But tho third tlmo up I saw ono com ing thnt Just suited. I settled well on my feet, concentrated all my Btrength for one supremo effort, swung old hickory, and when tho ball quit going It struck water half way across tho river. Why, they stopped tho game to try and tako measurements, while pro fessional mnnngers wore offering mo nil kinds of money. I was tho hero of the hour, the king of batters, tho hello, there, Judkin; delighted to sec you. It's more than twenty yenrs " "Yes, the last time we met was at tho game you JiiBt described." Tho old gentlemnn turned a llttlo white about the mouth but rallied with Infinite generalship. "Ycb, of course, you were there, and it wbb n day of miracles, for you went down to tho river and caught a ten-pound bass that was served that night at tho hotel." What fisherman could resist such a temptation with tho beautiful Ho all framed for him? Judkin flushed nnd inflated with pride. Tho two Jolly rogueB went out together. Before tho evening was over thnt ball had been knocked nearly a quarter of a mllo Into the country beyond the river and that bas was fif teen pounds strong. Not nn n .11 in Dtimlr, A young man in Khodo liiluhd writes ub that ho Is going to tako in tho ureal west this hummer nnd that this town is on his list, providing wo think it safe lor mm to nliow up Hero in a plug nat, Tho Klnpement. Sho paused n moment "Tho die Is east," sho murmured. Therolsnorotrent." Hastily gathering' tho most necessa ry part or nor wururoiio into twenty- red necktie nnd russet bIioos. If thnt! seven trunks, sho dropped them softly is the rig hu intends to don when ho ! from tho window. visits us, he'd better not come. This is! Then sho descended by tho rope lnd a growing town n hpnlthy town a der and foil into tho arms of her lover, town which is bound to boom and be- j who in tho gloom of the shrubbery lind como a second Chicago, but It 1b no' patiently awaited her. Detroit Trlb- tunco for .Urn Dandles not yet Hity uno. yours henco a man can put on link cuff buttons and ynllcr kid glovoB and stalk up and down nnd swing1 a goldhcadcd cane, but such n thing now well! Pass our town by, younp man. Don't como within fifty miles of It! Con' CouaH llntfnni li ttia olclrnt nmt twit. It will break up n Cold oulek. It I always reliable. Try it. ertb.ni a to thine eko. lMuciitloniil. Attention of tho render is called to tho announcement of Notro Dame uni versity in another column of thlB pa per. This noted Institution of lonru ing enters upon lis fifth-third year with tlio next session, commencing Sept 9, iSUrt. Parents and guiirdiuns contemplating sending their boys and young men away from homo to bcIioo! would do well to write for particulars to thu University of Norto lJninu Indi ana, before making arrangements for their education olso where. Nowhere in this bro:id land nro thero to bo found better facilities for cultivating tho mind and heart than are offered tit Notro Damo University. tiic Woman, The Man, Ami The PilL C1iA wirt r. sw1 nin TT loved her. She was hlfl wife. The pto was good; hulwffo mnAo it! lit n!f U. Tllil 1ir pie disagreed with hiui, and j lie disagreed with Ids wife. 3 Now he takes a pill after pie a i i . i . e? j. i.i.. ...:r il uuu is uupjij'. vJU J "" mm The pill he takes is Aycr's. Moral 5 Avoid dyspepsia by using Aver's I Cathartic Pills. Dairy Surprises. Ono must be pro pared for surprises when he begins using the Babcock. Perhaps our pet cow will be found wanting and have to be disposed of, and probably that ordinary-looking cow over In the corner, which we have never taken any par ticular prldo In, will bo the ono which made her share of butter and helped out on our favorite that we never sus pected for a moment was giving us very small returns for food and care. It Is a good plan to cull rather closely and give tho feed and attention to the ones that havo come up to your stand ard. Mrs. M. S. King. Ex. Correct Feeding. The main princi ple to bo observed In feeding the milch cow is to feed moderately. No matter what you feed, do It In reasonable quantities, and no sudden or radical changes should be made, but in chang ing feeds do it gradually and with moderation. A sudden change from dry food to succulent pasturage otten cates serious disturbances of the di gestive organs, and therefrom results a serious loss to tho owner of the cow. Ex. Tho dairy laws of the various states have accomplished far more than many of their friends supposed they would do. The general sale of oleomargarine, except as Itself, has been greatly cur tailed. This Is gratifying to all the friends of honesty. Fraud does not al ways keep the upper hand, though It too often gets that position for a time. Cotton Seed and Cotton By-Producta. It Is now estimated that the cotton states export to Europe cotton seed, meal and cake to the extent of $7,000,000 to $8,000,000.-, A generation ago cotton I seed was In the way, a useless offal; Do Yon Know ? Do you know that every cruelty In flicted on an animal in killing or Just before death poisons to a greater or less extent Its meat? Do you know that every cruelty In flicted upon a cow poisons to a greater or less extent Ub milk? Do you know that fish killed as soon as taken from the water by a blow will keep longer and be better than those permitted to die slowly? Do you know that birds destroy mil lions of bugs, mosquitoes and harmful Insects; that without the birds we could not live on the earth, and that every little lnsect-eatlng bird you may kill and every egg you may take from its nest means one less bird to destroy insects? Do you know that a check-rein which will not permit a horse to put his head where he wants to when going up a hill 1b a cruel torture to the horse? Do you know that every kind act you do and every kind word you speak to a dumb animal will make not only the animal but yourself happier not only make you happier but also better? Ceo. T, Angell In Our Dumb Animals. Krtraorrtlnury Drink. Of the many extraordinary drinks regularly consumed tho blood of live horse3 may be considered the most so. Marco Polo and Carplnl were the first to tell tho world of the practice of tho Tartars and Mongols opening tho vein In their horses' necks, taking a drink nnd closing thr wound again. As far as can bo eeen this has been tho prac tice from time immemorial. There Is a wine habitually consumed In China which Is made from the flesh of lambs i educed to pasto with milk or bruised Into pulp with rice and then fermented. It Is extremely strong nnd nutritious and powerfully stimulating to the physical organism. Tho Laplanders drink a great deal of smoked snow water and one of tho national drinks of the Tonqulnese is arrack flavored with chickens' blood. The list would scarcely be complete without the men tion of absinthe, which may be called the national spirituous drink of France. It is a horrible compound of alcohol, anise, coriander, fennel, worm wood, indigo and sulphate of copper. It is strong, nasty and a moral and physical poison. Tito Kind of Courtny. He was immaculate as to externals, and he was coming down Fifth avenue. She was a charming bit of feminin ity as New York can offer which Is saying a great deal. Delicate, dainty, trim. He was smoking a cigarette that, Judging by the smoke of It, had come from Russia. When they met he took his hat off lazily. Talking to her In a tone of condescension, ho puffed tho blue smoke out constantly, tho cigar ette never leaving his lips. He was standing on the corner of Bleecker street, where tho Italians live. He had on the coarsest clothes, his face was grimy. In his mouth was a dirty clay pipe. An old woman, shabby and shaky, came up and asked him how to get to Canal street. The minuto the man becamo awaro the old lady was addressing him he whipped the pipe out of his mouth. As long as he spoke to her he held tho clay behind him, his hand closed over it. New York Journal. An Acl Cunsrr. Mrs. L. A. McGrath, of South Wood stock, Vt., Is the owner of a singing canary 21 years old, which has sung all Its lifo and now, though so infirm from age that it cannot reach its perch or sit on it when placed there, it sits on tho floor of the cage and pours out the clear, sweet strains of song from morning until night. ilvre'n n Iteiuarkable Alan. A horse denier In West Woodstock, Vt., has owned 425 horses during his life and has never told a lie about a horse. One man who dealt with him j was so Impressed with this remarka- hie fact that he recently gave him a hatchet. About ln" Airruc Ac of It. Mr. O. S. Gray, of Hampden, Geauga county, Ohio, has a cako of Maple sugar made In tho spring of 185G Just forty years ago. It is as sweet and good as ever. 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