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Amonff the inventors who received
patents last week were the following
Xebraskans: A. II. Edgren and G.
Elracn, Lincoln, improvement in bicy
cles and 15. F. Smith of Valparaiso,
Nebraska, the latter receiving a patent
for an improvement in car couplings.
Among the other noticeable inven-
tions is a candle lamp patented to a
Itoston inventor; a burglar proof safe
in the form of a revolving cylinder; an
improved method of making bicycle
tubing cloth, patented to a Cleveland,
Ohio, inventor; a color screen to enable
photographs being taken in colors is
sued to a Ilrooklyn inventor; a kitchen
implement patented to A. Schlieder of
Sioux City, Iowa; a pinless clothes
line, the creation of a Texas inventor;
a collapsible cooking utensil made in
the form of a telescope drinking cup,
patented to Miss Es telle J. Jennings of
Chicago; a combination neck and ear
warmer patented to Mary E. Wiggin of
Hartford Connecticut; a &oft tread
horse-shoe invented by James Freyne
of Philadelphia: an elevator mechanism
comprising two parallel vertical tracks
having elevator cars which pass np
one track and arc switched over and
pass downward on the other track,
these combined elevators being in the
form of an endless chain: a new fash
ion hook and ej-c for garments patent
ed to James J. Springer, of Philadel
phia; a machin efor casing and flavor
" ing tobacco patented to a North Caro
lina inventor.
The most curious invention issued
for some time, however, secures a fer
ment for ripening milk consisting of
.practically pure culture or flavor pro
ducing acid bacteria, the patent being
issued to William Storch, a Dane.
Any information relating to patents
may .be obtained from Sues & Co.,
Patent Solicitors, Bee Building, Omaha,
Nebraska.
A Itaaeball Critic.
"Spike" Brady, who was a well
known baseball player in the Missis
sippi vallej- a few years ago, once at
tended church iu Dubuque, Iowa, with
his club, which went on special invita
tion. The preacher made a special
effort, that consumed much time.
"Spike" was asked what he thought of
the preacher. "He got around the
third all right, but say, he was an ice
wagon in gettiug home,' the ball play-
r andswered. Argonaut.
Hall's Catarrh Care
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75a
The term "hand"' used in measuring
liortes means four inches.
The .luly number of Harper's Maga
zine will open with a paper on General
Washington and the period of the Rev
olution, by Woodrow Wilson. Rarely
has a historic personage been made so
real and human as Washington appears
(thanks to the art of this skilful writer)
in camp and on the battle-field no less
than in the Virginia House of Burges
ses or at his Mount Vernon plantation.
M r. Py le"s illustration of historic scenes
worthily accompany Professor Wilson's
admirable studies of colonial life and
politics.
Ago without cheerfulness is a Lapland
winter without n sun. Colton.
Mr. R M Cos-rove of the C. B. & Q. R.
U.. Bml.i, 111., writes May :Mst. 16: "I
have been sick for ciRhtj cars with kidney
nnii Ihnr trouble and malaria. Ihavcbcen
Cikiuc Patvnt Mcdieincsand Doctor'sMcd
icincr, for ei.lil tstrs and spent d.OUO and
vot no holp until I took Dr. Kay's Reno
vator 1 had p'Hir pppclitc, indigestion,
rour stomach, eotistlp.-ition, v-cl'ovr kin and
eye, tired feo'ing, pain hi back and side,
nervous ami waki fid. headache and dizzi
ness. Moating of lwiicls and limits, short
dry cousli.cliHIs and feer. Dr. Kay's Ren
ovator has removed these symtoms and I
ft el ncw-rcai t. Cod b'.es Dr. Kay's Ren
ovator." It is sold hi druggists a ttiVts. and
Sl.ttO or scat by mail by Dr. B. J. Kay
.Medical Co.. . inaha. Neb. Send stamp for
large sample ami booklet.
. Hlio c-liii m'Iioo's of Lumlcm are so
i rouiled that the prices of lesMMis have in-
creased.
I'ortune arc made in speculation: 100
ltn"-tel in one investment system will earn
you ty per d,iy. Write for particulars.
Chandler. Co. brokers, 100-102-101 Kasota
Mock, Minneapolis.
The second paper containing "Im
pressions of iouth Africa," by James
Bryce, M. P.. w:ll appear In the June
number of the century. This takes
up the race question at the bottom of
most of the complications which have
made that country the subject of inter
national dispute. Mr. Bryce describes
the differences between the Bocrfarm
ers.and the British government of the
i ape Colony, that led to the great trek
of the former into the Transvaal.
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and Gth.
The National Educational Associa
tion will hold its next annual meeting
in Buffalo, and the Michigan Central,
"The Niagara Falls Route," has made
a rate of one fare for the round trip
plus Si 00, association membership fee.
Send stamp for "Notes for Teachers,"
containing valuable information rela
tive to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, and
.10 cents for a summer note book, fully
descriptive and profusely illustrated of
the Summer Resorts of the North and
East
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FAEM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OP INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
Cp-ta-Dat Blats Aboat Caltlva
ttoa of tbe 81 sad TItU Tkerwf
nertiealtaiw, Vltlcaltar aad tleri
caUartb O early vegetable
is looked for more
eagerly than the
first dish of aspara
gus. A bed of as
paragus once estab
lished is permanent
and it is essential,
therefore, that the
work of preparing
the bed should be
I "- done thoroughly. A
well-drained sandy loam is best- T. D.
Hatfield writes to Garden and Forest
that his location is a dry one, but he
has never known the bed to suffer even
In the driest season. In heavy soils
some artificial means must be adopted
to relieve the soil of excessive moisture.
Where asparagus is grown in the low
lands it is customary to cultivate it on
ridges six feet wide, three rows to a
ridge. The intervening hollows, or
trenches, are filled during the summer
time with the litter gathered from the
manure which has lain on the ridges
all winter. When thoroughly decom
posed this is thrown up again, with an
additional dressing, and the trenches
again left open during the winter. This
plan will be a good one to follow in
all heavy soil, and in such cases there
is another advantage, that of having
earlier asparagus than could be grown
in beds on the level. Th3 beds being
permanent the ground must be deeply
trenched with good loam to take the
place of poorer soil. Six inches of good
manure should be worked in deeply, as
asparagus roots penetrate the ground
for fully two feet, and this also is a
safeguard against drought It is not,
however, recommended to make the
plantation deep. Mr. Hatfield's origi
nal bed is now 20 years old, but it is
equal in bearing and quality to planta
tions six years old. It is later, and this
may be accounted for by the fact that
crowns are yearly formed below, or he
hind the main one. so that now the
original roots, once near the surface,
are from 15 to 18 inches deep. When
the cutting season is past, which is
usually when peas come in, he has
given an additional coat of salt with
no injury to the growing plants and
with advantage in destroying millions
of small weeds. There is an excellent
artificial manure, specially prepared
for top-dressing. In city gardens this
will be preferable to barnyard manure.
Asparagus roots are sometimes lifted
in the autumn and forced under benches
in the greenhouse during the winter.
The results arc seldom satisfactory and
the shoots are at best weak stringy
and tasteless.
Road Drain a Ee
With wet or clayey roadways, sur
face drainage alone is not sufficient
Without underdrainage the crown of
such roadways will dry only by the
slow process of evaporation, during
which time the topping becomes more
and more rutted by the passing traffic.
A suhdrain in such soils will not prove
efficient for more than about twelve
feet on each side; hence, two lines ot
longitudinal subdrains are needed on
those parts of our country roads that
pass through wet places, low-lying
lands or clayey soils. They should
have an average fall of about one in
one hundred; minimum fall, one in one
thousand. At short intervals, say from
thirty-six to one hundred feet apart,
are placed cross drains to discharge the
water into the side ditches. These
cross drains receive a greater fall, say
up to one in thirty. Generally two and
one-half to three-inch pipes are suffi
cient. It is advantageous to bed these
tiles in well-rammed brick fragments
and to cover them with road metal.
Be certain that the tiles are correctly
laid and that nothing interferes with
their free discharge. As said before,
unglazed round tiles, about three inches
in diameter and, under certain condi
tions, jointed with loose collars, are
most suitable for subdrains. The bot
tom of the tiles should be laid both to
the proper grade and below the frost
line, after which the tile trench is
filled up to subgrade with clean gravel,
small field stones, road metal, or
broken bricks. The cross drains are
also made of unglazed tiles, with the
exception of their outlet sections, which
should consist of vitrified culvert pipes.
Regular branch pipes should connect
the longitudinal and cross tiles. On
level reaches the lateral loadway slopes
for surface drainage should not be less
than one in twenty-four, and side
ditches should be provided, if necessary,
as previously indicated. Finally, a
rapid discharge of the side ditches, if
required, through adjacent lands, is of
the utmost importance to roadway
preservation. Gen. Roy Stone.
A l'roperly Mam;d Forest.
Biltmore Forest is the first practical
application of forest management in
the United States. Biltmore Estate, of
which the forest is a part, lies near
Ash?ville in the western part of North
Carolina. Before its purchase by Mr.
Vanderbilt the small farmers to whom
the land belonged had pastured their
cattle in the forest, had burned '.t over
to improve the pasturage, and had cut
a large proportion of the trees which
could be used or sold for fencing, fuel
or sawlogs. At the time when its
management was undertaken compara
tively few large, sound trees of white,
black, and scarlet oak and short-leaf
pine, which are the more important
species, were still standing in the for
est, and the condition of a large part
of it was deplorable in the extreme.
The prime object of the management
at Biltmore is to pay the owner while
improving the forest. To this end "im
provement cuttings" were begun in
some parts of the forest, to remove old
treeS Whlrh harl rOnxdnJ n mn.-oV.ont-
able size and were standing over and T
injuring good young growth. In other
places the only measures required were
to exclude cattle and fire, and give the
forest absolute rest. In the process of
felling the timber the trees to fall were
first carefully selected and marked,
then sawed down and reduced at once
to cordwood or sawlogs or both. Great
care was used in selecting the place for
each tree to fall and in' throwing it so
that the top might not crush the young
trees among which it fell. The result
was a gain of probably 95 per cent in
the condition of the young growth over
that which usually follows ordinary
lumbering, while the increase in cost
was not more than 2 or 3 per cent. The
output or the forest was sold at market
prices in open competition, but most of
it was consumed by the other depart
ments of the estate simply because the
prices charged made it worth while for
them te purchase of the forest rather
tbax eiswbere. During the first year
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a great Improvement was effected te
the condition of the forest at a very
small cost Out ot a total expenditure
of nearly ten thousand dollars the net
cost of the improvement was aofetewhat
less than four hundred dollars. Dur
ing the year 1883, however, with woods
men more fully trained and the whole
force in better working order, the man
agement yielded a net profit of rather
more than twelve hundred dollars.
Enemies sf the Strawberry.
The worst enemy of the strawberry
is a dry spell. In warm wet weather
the fruit and leaf stalks are affected by
mildew and the leaves are attacked
by a rust. As this makes its appear
ance late in the season, it causes but
little injury. .Insects are more injur
ious to the strawberry than are
diseases, and among the most destruc
tive of these are the various species of
May beetles (Lachnosterna). One or
more species of these insects abound
everywhere and the larva or grubs,
commonly known as white grubs, with
out regard to species, are all destruc
tive to the roots of various plants, es
pecially those of the strawberry. The
grubs are usually more numerous in
old dry pastures or meadows. If the
ground is thoroughly cultivated for a
few years previous to planting it to
strawberries, the grubs arc not likely
to be troublesome. AH May beetles fly
in the night and may be taken by a
light placed over a tub of water. Birds
and domestic fowls are the strawberry
grower's most efficient helpers in de
stroying these insects. The strawberry
leaf-roller, the larva of a small reddish
brown moth, is a small worm which
feeds on the leaves of the strawberry
and causes them to roll up. There are
two broods during the year, the first
in June, the second in September. The
remedy is to cut and burn the vines
after harvest There are many other
insects which attack the strawberry,
but if the vines are always burned after
harvest and thorough rotation of crops
is practiced, diseases and insects will
seldom become very injurious. A M.
Ten Eyck.
nromas Insrmls.
The annual report of the Colorado
Agricultural College says:
This grass has been growing on the
station land since 1891. Spring sowings
each year have been made. One plat,
where the snow was blown away, yield
ed 211 pounds of seed and 3,000 pounds
of hay per acre; another plat, upon
which the sand drifted to a depth of
from six to eight inches, yielded 2,0C8
pounds, per acre, of excellent hay. The
latter plat is the oldest one on the
grounds. Still another plat has been
pastured two seasons. In an exposed
position, this plat has shown that bro
mus incrmis grass can be pastured
without injury to the sod. This grass
grows from four to six inches the first
year, producing cry few seed stalks.
At the end of the first season each seed
will make a stool from two to six inches
square. One seed produced a plant that
in three seasons covered between 700
and 800 square inches of surface. This
grass is of high value for cow feeding,
as but little grain is used in connection
with it
Separate Trough.
It is not a great undertaking to pro
vide a small trough in some convenient
corner where they eat their soaked
corn and milk unmolested by older
stock. They learn at an early age to
visit their sideboard and their appre
ciation of its contents increases daily.
As time goes on they will become more
dependent upon their side ration, un
til, as you go the round with the feed
buckets, you are reminded that you
have another regular lot on your feed
roll. By the time they are ten or twelve
weeks old you have them weaned with
but little ceremony. They have become
so attached to their feed trough that
they miss their mother but little, and
the sow will have reduced in the flow
of milk, making weaning a very sim
ple matter. Pacific Rural Press.
Chicago as a Wool Market Chicago
lies 1,000 miles from the seaports and
the freight on foreign wools from those
points to Chicago is c per pound.
Were it not for this our Western manu
facturers would also work largely on
foreign wool; consequently wool con
signed to this market from the central
states and western territories will net
more to the shipper than by sending
it to the far east, where it will come
in direct competition with wool from
all over the world, to be sold at very
low prices, often requiring one year,
and in some instances to our knowl
edge two years to get returns. Ex.
Field Crops ana Lime. The Mary
land experiment station found that by
an application of twenty bushels of stone
lime a gain of 5 1-3 bushels of corn, and
on the following crop of wheat 8.5 bush
els. This is 34.7 ?er cent for the first
crop and 37 per cent for the last crop.
For a subsequent season when lime was
tested on the hay crop a gain of 1,27!
pounds was secured, an unlimcd section
giving but 1,391 pounds, and the limed
section 2,662 pounds. This does not
show a difference of 1,271 pounds (a
slight mistake in the mathematics of
the station), but nevertheless a good
gain.
Loss of Calves. The loss of calves
in a herd is often due to the cows be
ing deprived of exercise, which is indis
pensable for the health of all animals.
When they are tied in the stable all
the time they have not sufficient exer
cise for health, and becoming weak are
not able to withstand the strain on
them, and thus lose the calves when
they are half grown. Tbe drinking of
ice cold water, too, is sufficient to cause
loss of the calf. Some exercise should
be given to the cows every fine day in
the winter at least Ex.
Keeping Butter. If you would keep
butter for use at a time when you are
not making any, pack it solidly down in
stone jars, put a cloth on top and one
third inch of salt, keep an inch depth
of water over all, and the cover on the
jar, and all in tbe butter cellar. I have
kei butter In this way perfectly sweet
and good from October until June. The
pans, pails and all appliances about but
ter making must be kept clean by scald
ing in boiling water after being washed
in water with soap in it as often as they
are emptied from use. Ex.
Depth of Seed Planting. Some fine
seeds if planted deep will never germin
ate, or if they do the delicate plants will
not have sufficient strength to push
their way through the mass of soil
which covers them. Even large seeds
might be planted very shallow if it were
sure timely showers would keep the soil
moist, but as there is danger of drouth
and that a hot sun may destroy the
sprouted seeds, they are planted deeper
so the soil may be a protection. Ex.
A Questionable Practice. Too many
farmers have formed the practice of
selling their calves for veal. With the
present demand for beef and dairy cat
tle would it not be more profitable to
keep the calves and sell them at ma
turity? The prospect is good for the
feeea ad Her
Win. Sallantine In interstate Poaitryr
toad: Bee men after winter are A good
deal tike an army after a battle. They
can only learn the dead aad Missing
when they call the rolL This Is the way
to ascertain the extent of their losses.
Bee men are to carefully examine every
hive and ascertain if the queens are all
right This is easily learned by open
ing the hives and looking for brood
and eggs. If these are found, although
the queen herself is not seen, she is all
right To beginners it Is somewhat
difficult for them to see the tiny eggs
at the bottom of each cell. The egg is
a small white cylinder, less than the
sixteenth of an inch long when first
laid, standing on its end at the bottom
of the cell. In a few days it will appear
as a small worm coiled in the cell, sur
rounded with liquid bee food. It will
continue to grow until it nearly fills the
cell, when it is sealed over and left to
spin its cocoon and develop into a per
fect bee. Now the bee man, on open
ing the hive, will find, if his bees are
right, brood in all stages, from the egg
recently laid to the sealed grub. If,
however, he does not discover any
brood in no stage of maturing and the
old bees few In number, he may at once
decide that the mother bee has disap
peared and his hive is destitute of a
queen. The remedy In such a case is
to go to a strong colony and take out a
frame of brood having some recently
laid eggs and place it in the center of
the hive having no queen. The bees
will immediately go to work rearing a
queen and will also go to hatching out
the brood that will be of great advant
age in keeping up the strength of the
colony. By adding additional frames
of brood from time to time such a col
ony can be kept strong and may do
well in the honey season. The above
course ought to be pursued even if a
queen is ordered from the south. It
will keep up the strength of a colony
until the queen is received. Before at
tempting to introduce a queen thus or
dered, the hive must be examined and
all Lrood frames searched for queen
cells. These are protuberances- like
peanuts on the edges and sides of the
combs. AH of these must be cnt out
and the bees then will, most likely,
welcome the strange queen, which they
would by no means do if their own
rearing were in course of development.
The method of introducing is much
simplified by the modern queen cages.
All that is to be done after the colony
is quecciess is simply to take out the
small cork, next the sugar paste and
put the cage down wire' side next the
Lees on top of the frames over the
cluster, cover up and the work Is done.
The bees will eat through the sugar
paste and liberate the queen. Should
a cold spell set in during May be care
ful not to let your bees starve. Rear
ing brood requires large quantities of
food. This will oftimes disappear as if
by magic and the bees that you thought
were safe will turn out starved to death.
This makes a man feel little and like
kicking himself, if he could, for such
sheer neglect. Much depends upon the
quantity of the fruit bloom and the
kind of weather the bees have to visit
it, for giving them a good start Such
conditions are also favorable for the
fertilization of the fruit and will amply
repay every farmer to keep a few colo
nies. Before the time for swarming
the apiarist ought to have his hives,
swarming box, supers sections, founda
tion comb and all his supplies ordered
before the rush of business sets in. Tnis
is to take time by the forelock, to save
money and to save swarms and excitement
Dlpoitinn of the florae.
There can be little doubt that the
mental qualities, and therefore the gen
eral temperament and disposition, of
the horse are as truly a matter of
heredity as his external conformation.
Vicious sires or dams very commonly
beget foals which inherit their unde
sirable propensities. It is fortunate,
however, that good qualities are inher
ited or transmitted with the same fre
quency as bad ones. Iu selecting a
sire, therefore, care should be taken
to avoid those which are ill-tempered.
Something should be known of their
temper, as well as of their pedigree.
The shape, style, and action of the
traveling stallion that enters a new
district are apparent, and therefore
readily assessed by a good judge at
their worth, while often little is known
of his temper, whether good or bad.
We have seen horses notoriously vic
ious freely patronized in rural district?
on the strength of their good looks
and grand style of moving, and with
bad results in a large-number of cases;
also horses of a most docile, tractable
nature followed by progeny of like dis
position. London Live Stock Journal.
Painting to Repel Borers. Insects
are so largely guided by the sense of
smell that anything which disguises the
odor of their favorite food or places
for depositing eggs is likely to sere
as protection by throwing them off the
track. Painting with white paint in
which a little carbolic acid has been
used to mix the paint has been found
an effectual preventative of the attacks
of.' the peach tree borer. The . trunk
should be painted to a height of two feet
or more, and the earth should be
scraped away so as to paint several in
ches below the surface. This earth
should be replaced after the paint has
dried. The odor of carbolic acid in
paint remains a leng time, and one
painting a year will probably be suffi
cient protection. It is possible, how
ever, that the borer finding the peach
trunk disguised near the ground, may
take to laying eggs up higher. It might
be even necessary to paint the trunk
in that case as far as where the limbs
branch out Ex.
Iowa Swine Breeders. The annual
meeting of the Iowa Swine Breeders'
association and natural expert judges
of swine will be held at Dcs Moines,
Iowa, June 9 and 10, 1S96. Headquar
ters will be at the Savcry hotel.
Wednesday will be devoted to scoring.
For this a large tent has been secured,
to be comfortably seated and especially
arranged for the occasion. Parties hav
ing subjects for scoring should at once
notify the secretary. Programs out in
due time. Prospects are encouraging
for reduced railroad rates. George S.
Prine, Secretary. Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Value of Drainage. Thorough drain
ing with tile will often cost as much
as the present worth of the land, but
when the work is once properly done,
it is done forever. The -Mississippi
Station fields which have been tile
drained hae increased their annual
yield fully 50 per cent as a result of
the work, and such drains will be found
a profitable investment on all soils
which remain wet until late in the
'spring on account of their compact
subsoil, or which are rendered heavy
and "sour" by continuous seepage from
surrounding bills.
Extreme Tendencies. The tendency
in recent years has been to grow beef
cattle and mutton sheep rather than
dairy and wool breeds in many parts
of the country. Those who pursue a
middle or opposite course are apt to
find an increasing demand. One ex
treme is usually followed by its op
posite. Ex.
DAIRY AND POULTRY
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Hew aacceaefal Farwera Operate This
DepertaMat ef the Farm A Few
BlnU as te the Cere ef Lira Stock aad
realtry.
DVICES from New
York cheese locali
ties Indicate a some
what discouraging
outlook for a good
opening of the
cheese market The
cows are coming
fresh and something
must be done with
the milk, vet the
t demand for cheese
is very light. Matters don't look as they
ippfl to when we were sending car
loads of cheese to England every day,
and it seemed as if they couldn't get
enough of it We have killed the goose
that laid the golden-egg. Filled cheese
to kill off the foreign demand and skim
cheese to kill off home consumption,
and here we are with our cows, cheese
factories, and farms on our hands and
no market. It is to be hoped that the
cheese-makers, factory proprietors and
particularly the patrons will build up
some solid public opinion on this ques
tion of making poor cheese. Stop it at
once. Nothing has driven cheese fac
tories out of the business more than the
making of skim cheese. Honest full
rream cheese factories could not hold
their own in profit with skim cheese
factories, so they turned into cream
eries. We have killed our foreign trade
and are acting like stupid dolts about
our only and last resort, the home
trade. There is not a factory in the
land but what ought to refuse to let a
young, tasteless, indigestible cheese go
out of its doors. Every factory should
face this question of curing cheese in
a decent, eatable shape. Don't let the
factories sell the immature cheese to
still more and more discourage the con
sumption of cheese. No cheese has any
Ir.isinoss to go onto the grocery counter
less than GO to 90 days old. By that
:imc it tastes somewhat cheesy, and if
it is a good article it provokes the de
sire for more. The only forces that can
stop this make of bad cheese and sale
of immature cheese are the factories
themselves. Let each factory do the
sensible thing fcr itself and all will
soon have good, old-fashfoned cheese,
and the people will cat double the quan
tity of it. Hoard's Dairyman.
Mill: An a Food.
Milk is a substitute that is complex
in its composition, says Prof. Robertson
of Toronto. All of the ingredients, ex
cept the fat, are in solution; the fat is
in suspension, and when the milk
stands for any length of time these
little globules of fat rise to the surface
and form what is known as cream.
A drop of milk contains 5,000,000 glob
ules of fat. Food, to be healthy, and
nutritious, must have the correct pro
portions of flesh forming and heat-producing
material. Good nature, whole
romeness, self mastery, depend on the
quality of food we eat Raise a boy on
bread and milk rather than on potatoes
and bacon. Bread and milk s cheaper
and much better food. It is a mistaken
idea that a man who works hard must
eat rich food. Three-quarters of a
pound of beef, costing 10 cents, one
quart of milk, costing 5 cents, and five
ounces of wheat, costing three-quarters
of a cent, are equal in nourishing ma
terial. One pound of cheese is equal to
two and a half pounds of beef. There is
no better diet to work hard on than
cheese and potatoes, and there is no
diet more digestible. Wheat bread is
not a well-balanced food, but bread well
buttered is very nutritious. Skim milk
and oatmeal are valuable foods.
Black I-anefthan.
In your issue of April 15 Charley
Ramsey of Hardin County, Ohio, asks
if any of the readers of the Review can
tell him anything about the BlackLang
shans. Mr. Ramsey in the latter part
of his request for information states
that he would like to know what the
writers on poultry subjects think of
thrm. As we do not pretend to be a
writer on poultry subjects perhaps any
thing we might say would have no in
fluence with the gentleman. However,
as we have been a breeder of this splen
did fowl for a number of years we will
give our opinion and let it go for what
it is worth. The Langshan is a dis
tinct breed (no make up), coming origi
nally from Chinese Tartary. The plum
age should be black, not a dull black,
but glistening black, with reflections of
green. The legs and bottom of the feet
should show a pink color no yellow.
The legs should be feathered, but not
so heavily as the cochins. Weight
should be, cocks, 8 to 9V6 lbs.; hens, 7
to 8. In disposition they are very
gentle, easily confined, and so far as
my experience has gone, the best of all
winter layers. There are two distinct
types. The low, heavily-bodied and the
tall, majestic appearing, which one can
not see without saying, "Blood will
tell." As sitters and mothers the hens
are first-class. As a table fowl I don't
think they are excelled by any other
breed. In saying this I know the con
sensus of opinion is against me. Still
we deny that the color of the skin has
anything to do with the eating qualities
of a bird.
W. A. Cbatterton.
Profit In le;horaB.
I have been keeping poultry for the
last fourteen years, both hens and tur
keys. I have quite a number of breeds,
hut think there is more profit in the
Leghorn breeeds than in any others.
My fowls have a warm house in the win
ter and free range in the yard all day.
I feed plenty of corn in winter, and
when the ground is bare I throw out
some oats and wheat as a change. We
alw.-ys sell at home and never run risk
of shipping. We do not get as many
eggs in winter as in summer, but get
quite a per cent of them during tbe
winter. We seldom lose fowls from lice
or disease, but lose more from hawks
than in any other way. We keep a
few of the large breeds for the purpose
of batching. We generally let them
tun at large after a few days as we
think they do better. I have never
tried doctering hens, but have turkeys.
I tried several remedies for dysentery,
but nothing did any good till I tried
camphor. It cured them. I think there
is no fowl I ever handled that will pro
duce more eggs than the Leghorn. They
also mature very quickly. For a heavy
fowl the Plymouth Rock matures early.
I do not make poultry raising my sole
occupation. I raise what I can in the
poultry line and attend to my other
business. I raise eighty to one hun
dred chickens in a year and thirty-five
turkeys, and besides I sell as many
eggs as my neighbors do.
Mrs. Robert Dinning.
PiC Point.
It costs at least one-third more to
produce a pound of pork after the first
year than before. If a pig does not pay
a profit by the time It is ten months old
rSQ
It will hardly do so after it passes that
age. oYung pork is not only the besi
aad cheapest, bat brings the highest
price In the market With a majority
of ear farmers the hog pays the grocer,
the physician, the taxes, the interest,
clothes the family aad practically sup
plies the table with meat With all
young stock it Is an Important item to
secure a good growth from the start
It is easier and more economical to
keep an animal growing than to allow
it to become stunted and then attempt
to feed uf into a good condition. - It
is a sure way to have diseases among
the hogs when they must rely upon slop
as drinking water. They require pure
water the same as do other animals,
and when deprived of it will not thrive.
West Lake Herald.
Chickens and Turkey
For five years I have been engaged
in raising poultry. During that time I
have handled the Barred Plymouth
Rocks, Light Brahmas, and'mixed com
mon breeds. I prefer the Barred Plym
outh Rocks to any other, as they are
early maturers, good layers, good moth
ers, and of good size for table use. My
hen-house is double boarded with
tarred paper between the boards. It is,
however, not warm enough for this
climate, and I intend to build a new
house and fill in between tbe boards
with cinders or with sawdust. In sum
mer I feed very little as the fowls have
the free run of the farm. In winter I
feed oats, scattered in chaff and cut
straw, all they will eat. I also feed
corn meal or bran mashed with boiled
potatoes at noon. We have no market
nearer than thirty miles, and prices are
very low", as we cannot get our fowls
ready for market early enough. We get
scarcely any eggs from Nov. 1 to March
1, but this year they began laying Feb.
1. They have averaged twelve eggs per
day from twenty-five hens ever since
that time. We have lost few birds from
any cause, but on one occasion a mink
got into the hen-house and killed ten
of them. I raise my chicks by setting
the hens, and have generally had good
luck. It is a poor hatch that docs not
give us 75 per cent, and from that up
to 100 per cent. I do not believe in doc
toring fowls, but when I see them sick
I cut their heads off, except when a
valuable fowl gets hurt I try to save it
I had four turkeys last year, two of
which laid between fifty and sixty eggs
each, and the other two laid very close
to seventy each. I had only six hen tur
keys together that year. This is a
splendid place in which to raise tur
keys. They can be hatched out about
the first week in June. It does not cost
much to raise them, and you can sell
them at Thangsgiving time at 1 each,
or even 10 to 12 cents a pound, if you
want to dress them. I am going to try
turkeys on a larger scale. The winters
are so long and severe here that very
few people get any eggs, hut it is all be
cause (he houses are not warm enough,
as our hens are always in splendid
health, but you cannot feed them
enough to overcome the cold, until we
build warmer houses.
Joseph Murphy.
Delta County, Michigan.
Wyandotte and Red Can.
We have been keeping poultry for
eight years. During that time we have
had the Wyandoltcs, Plymouth Rock,
Brown Leghorns, Langsbans and Black
Spanish. For general purposes the
Wyandottes are best, for laying, the
Red Caps. I feed principally corn,
wheat and oats. In disposing of our
eggs we have always sold to a peddler
who pays from 8 to 25 cents per dozen.
We obtain most of our eggs during the
winter. We have lost a good many
birds from diseases and some from
prowling animals. When we first began
raising broods we had good success but
the longer we keep in the business the
poorer success we have. We have also
tried doctoring fowls and have used
from twenty to thirty remedies, but
none of them proved of any value.
William Busching.
White Ighorna and Fly mouth Kocka.
I have bred the Plymouth Rocks,
White Leghorns, Black Spanish,
Brahma and Wyandottes, but I like the
White Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks
best For winter quarters I have
good house, well-boarded, with tarred
paper over that and over that siding
and then three coats of paint. In tbe
summer they pick up nearly their own
living, as they have the range of the
whole farm. In the winter they get
corn, cats, wheat and cooked veg
etables. We sell our eggs to parties
having a cold storage "house in Owaton
na. In this cold climate we do not get
many eggs in winter. For the farm I
like Plymouth Rocks best as they look
after themselves mostly. As for lav
ing. White Leghorns have done th
best for me. W. G. Buffum.
The Coming Butter-Maker. The
coming butter-maker is going to have
charge of a large field. He will not
only be a butter-maker, but he will he
a practical manufacturer. He will be
a teacher; his instructions will go out
on the farm, and he will he an instruct
or in the best methods of raising crops.
He will post himself on culture of the
fields and crops; the proper curing of
fodder and forage. He will become an
expert judge of the dairy products; be
will study the best methods of breed
ing, rearing and managing dairy stock,
and let me tell you that in that line there
is a greater field for the progressive
creamery man than there ever has ben
cr ever will be simply within the
creamery. When you can by proper
selection and feeding of dairy cows
teach the farmer that he can produce
one pound of butter on 4 cents' worth
of fd; whereas, under ordinary meth
ods it costs 8 cents, you see what a
wonderful opportunity for men and
what is the actual condition of farmers.
T. L. Haccker.
Dairy Form. There seems to he an
inclination to scoff at what is called
dairy form. But all experience goes
to show that dairy form is a sure in
dex of the character of a milk cow.
There are two points that stand out
prominently and that should not be
lost eight cf In selecting a dairy cow.
The first of these 13 a big paunch; the
second Is a concave thigh. The latter
denotes lack or anility to lay on flesh.
The former tells us that the cow is a
great consumer. Then the rest is plain;
is she eats a great deal and does not
turn it into flesh and fat, she must
needs turn it into milk. We doubt V,
this rule ever fails.
Pekin Ducks. There are the Pekins,
a grand breed, pure white, with a
plumage that is thick 'and heavy, but
fine in texture, a breed of ducks that is
older than the history of civilition,
that comes to us from over-populated
China, where, doubtless, they are raised
among the flags and lilies that bedeck
the floating homes cf the river-dwellers,
people that are born, live and die on
the water, with only a brief, occasional
experience on dry land; for the river
and inland lakes of China, we are told,
are populated as well as the land, and
whole villages are made up of floating
population that extend for miles on the
water. Ex.
A Leea hi Seelltof
A showman had an annoancemeBt
stating "Come and see the great sawed
fish." A learned gentleman read it
and informed the showman that he had
made a mistake in the word "sawed,"
that it ought to be "sword." "Yer'd
better come in an' see fer yourself; the
hadmission is only tuppence," said the
showman. So the learned gentleman
paid his "tuppence." . went in and was
shown a large codfish sawed in half.
"Yer ain't the fust genelman wot has
tried to teach me otr to spell," grinned
the showman Household Words.
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Dt vital energy Is easily and pleasantly ro
punishable. Hosteller's Momach Hitters la
in invigorant without a peer, and will
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The nervous derive great benetit from its
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Many a boy has turned out bad because
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ana Face. CoUSor.occ. C.O.CJrkC.J..Haea.Ci.
Fishing seems to l the luvorite form of
oanng.
Piso's Cure ior Consumi tion bes teen a
fnniilv medu ine with us since lSW. J. R.
Madison, 2410 -t-.M Ave.. Chicago, Ills.
Women like to nose around the kitchen
and eat scraps.
It the Baby Is Cattiar Xeetnw
lecure and use that oM and well-tried remedy, Xbs
Kixuxyw' Sooinno Sxsrr for Children Teething.
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding of the
transient nature of the many phys
ical ilk, which vanish before proper ef
fortsgentle efforts pleasant efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millionsof families, and is
evcrj-where esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. Its lenchcial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acts. It is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene
ficial effects, to note when ycu pur
chase, that you have the genuine arti
cle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies arc then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a Iaxatic,
one should have the lcst, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Sj-rap of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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