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THE NEWS.
FAY L. CROSSETT, Publisher.
DAVIS, :::::: I. T.
Japanese florists have succeeded in
cultivating a rose which looks red in
the sunlight and white in the shade.
During the last century Belgium
added an average of 3.000 acres a year
to her area simply by careful drain-
age.
There are three varieties of the dog
that never bark—the Australian dingo,
the Egyptian shepherd dog, and the
"lion-headed" dog of Tibet.
About 300,000 geese are annually
brought, from Russia to Saxony. A car-
load consists of 1,700, and they have
no food or drink during the journey.
ONLY TO
HEARHER
VOICE
AGAIN
At the request of the consistory of
tap Alexander University at Helsing-
?orfi. the czar has decreed that women
shall be granted the same rights as
men as regards admission to that uni-
Tersity.
The main staircase in William C.
"Whitney's New York residence. Fifth
avenue and Sixty-eighth street, is of
white marble, and is carved after a
staircase in the Doge's palace in
Venice. Mr. Whitney brought the de-
sign to this country and the work took
six months for completion.
A machine that will do the work oT
thirty expert mathematicians is being
constructed by the governm-nt in its
scientific instrument shop on Capitol
Hill in Washington. It is to be an im-
provement on an instrument in use in
the bureau of the coast survey, which
has charge of calculating the tides.
The council of the University of Bir-
mingham. recently founded, with Jo-
seph Chamberlain as its chancellor,
appointed William James Ashley, pro-
fessor of economics at Harvard Uni-
versity, to the first organized chair of
the faculty of commerce, which is to
be one of the chief features of the uni-
versity.
The convention of colored bankers
held at Buffalo will be the first of its
kind in America. John Clinton, Jr.,
who is organizing it, is the president
of the First Colored Bank. North of
Philadelphia Mr. Clinton in 1890
published the first negro daily paper.
Later he became a lawyer, and invest-
ed his large savings in the insurance
business.
William Jerome, the song writer, is
negotiating for the lease of the
Comique theater, on Broadway, New
York, and if he secures It will estab-
lish th^re a permanent company, com-
posed entirely of negroes. The best
colored actors and actresses obtain-
able will be engaged, and Jerome ex-
pects the enterprise to prove a big
money maker, catering wholly to col-
ored people.
Many fish can produce musical
sounds. The trigla can produce long-
drawn notes ranging over nearly an
«ctave. Others, notably two species of
©phidium, have sound-producing ap-
paratus. consisting of small movable
bones, which can be made to produce
a sharp rattle. The curious "drum-
ming" made by the species called um-
brinas can be heard from a depth of
thirty fathoms.
Only to hear her voice again,
Its sweet tones soft and low!
It charmed me when I heard It then
A little while ago.
And still I feel It o'er me steal-
It will not let me go.
'Tis but the echo of her song,
The shadow of the sound
Of that dear voice for which I long
That follows me around,
Yet find it well in that sweet spell
To know my heart is bound.
Only to hear her voice again,
Beside me fondly near.
In tones of tenderness as when
She held my love as dear.
When Joys have left the heart bereft
How precious they appear!
Folly's Fire.
There are now in London and its im-
mediate neighborhood 360 public recre-
ation grounds, varying in size from
Epping Forst. which, with Wanstead
Flats, is over 5,000 acres in extent, to
little city gardens and playgrounds
measuring an eighth or a tenth of an
acre. These include 100 plots of
ground which have been used for in-
terment, parish churchyards, and other
disused burial grounds, of which the
largest is eleven acres and the small-
est a few yards square.
Vacation does not mean vacancy,
and is ever the more effective for a
thin stratum of work running through
it. A notable example of vacation
courses and summer classes is the free
normal school at Manila, which held
its preliminary term last May. Its
purpose is to teach modern methods of
instruction to the native school teach-
ers. who without exception, wish to
prepare themselves to educate their
race. Forty-five resident American
teachers, under the direction of Dr.
David Barrows of California, consti-
tuted the faculty, and by the middle
of the first week over six hundred Fil-
ipino men and women teachers, mostly
of mature age, had gathered from the
various islands. One American, in
charge of Zambales Province, Captain
O'Neill, learning that twenty teachers
of his district could not reach Manila
for lack of funds, generously sent them
thither at his own expense. For the
month in whicn the school was open,
thirty-three classes were held daily, in
which the attendance averaged ninety-
eight per cent. Surely the American
occupation of the Philippine Islands
presents, even to the warmest oppon-
ent of the movement, some bright
sides.
BY ELIZABETH CHERRY WALTZ.
(Copyright, 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
The old grandmother was dead and
the baby, Angela, had followed her, as
if the loving creature had beckoned to
her from heaven. The winter had been
long; the debts heavy and work scarce.
Aurelia, with feverish eyes and scar-
let lips, had sewed and toiled. Law-
rence, her husband, was sullen and
discouraged. His tasks were irksome
and to him there seemed little com-
fort at home. His trembling hands
and shifting glances begged pitifully
for a change, a relief of mind and
body.
In the spring news came to Aurelia
of the death of her grandmother's
brother, a wealthy bachelor. He had
willed the grandmother some money,
and it fell to Aurelia as her heir.
When she heard of it she went to
Lawrence at the forge and sat down
on the bench near him. It was a long
time since she had sat there—almost a
year.
"That money is coming to me, Law-
rence."
"Well?"
"I have been counting on what I'd
do. I'm going to give you five hun-
dred dollars for granny's keep."
"I grudged her nothing," he said
doggedly.
"Oh, I know, but you felt the bur-
den. I'm going to raise it a little. I
want you to rent the shop and get
away. I want you to be free and to see
life 'thout so much hardness. That's
what I'm going to do."
"Oh, but it's your money!"
"I'm going away, too—and see how
it is to be free. You go your way
and I'll go mine. If you want to come
back, maybe you will find me here,
patching, sewing, tailoring, mending;
then maybe you will not."
He glanced up and down the road
with a relief on his face that did not
escape her scornful eyes.
"It might do us both a deal o' good
to get away," he said, cautiously, "but
I did not like to propose It. Since you
say so, I'll be ofT as soon as I can find
a man to take the shop. We can come
back in a year."
"In a year and a day," she said more
lightly; "if I am not here, I will send
a letter and so must. you. Now you
are free."
In a year and a day he was at the
forge again. He was stalwart and
merry. Life bad gone well with him.
] another sum of money. If you would
roam farther go for another year and
a day."
Adversity came upon him in the
next year, adversity and sickness. His
bold and gay friends fell away and he
was near to beggary. But he would
not return until the time was up lest
he not be able to hear from Aurelia
and not be bidden home as he now
desired. He went to and fro over the
county selling nostrums and wonder-
ing what had become of Aurelia.
On the day set he came into the
village. A great coach and four block-
Most extraordinary children exist in
Porto Rico, if a letter from San Juan
may be accepteu as authority. On the
last day of the spring term the pupils
In the public schools departed with the
greatest reluctance, and such a de-
mand was made for summer schools
that arrangements have been made to
open them in several towns on the
Island. This is pleasant in every way.
It indicates grateful appreciation of
the new educational system in Porto
Rico, and speaks well for the efforts of
the government and the temper of the
people.
The total amount of land in the
Philippine Isalnds is approximately
73.345,415 acres. Of this amount it is
estimated that about 4,910,000 acres
are owned by individuals, leaving in
public lands 68,405,415. The religious
orders own about 400,000 arret.
By comparing the statistics of En-
lish and Scotch universities in a given
year it was found that Scotland, with
a population of 3,725,000, had 6,500 uni-
versity students, while England had
only 6,000 students out of a population
about six times as great.
"That money is comin' to me."
The old postmistress shook her head
as she handed him a letter.
"So the times have gone good with
you, Lawrence?"
"And gayly," he replied. "1 am yet
in my youth and can enjoy. The
towns are full of sport for a man who
loves a light heart and good company.
But I promised Aurelia. She is,
doubtless, well amused somewhere. Au-
relia was handsome and can take care
of herself."
The old woman scowled at him while
be read:
"I am indeed well off, content, but
will come if I am called. I enclose
There she was in the doorway,
ed the street and at his old shop door
he met Aurelia in gorgeous array and
with the scorn of a princess in her
bearing.
"You see I keep my promises," she
said, gayly, "and how goes the world
with you?"
She was so splendid that his heart
beat madly.
"Aurelia! What luck has come to
you?"
"The favors of the rich. And I am
beautiful, they tell me. I do not be-
lieve you knew it in those old days.
Now here is money and you shall have
another year's freedom. Go and be
merry, also."
"But, Aurelia, I " he stammered.
She mounted into the coach laugh-
ing gayly and was soon away. Only
the old postmistress was left to cackle
at him as he stood like a man in a
dream.
"Burned by Folly's Fire—always the
wages of the foolish."
The year went by slowly enough.
Now Lawrence was not content witih
the inns and taverns or cottages, but
haunted the houses and castles of the
rich. He saw wealth and splendor,
but he nowhere saw Aurelia—nor any
one who was so lovely. The old life
came back to him with its industry,
its simplicity, its stern duties. He
saw It in a new light. How pure, how
innocent, how lovely was his child
wife! How long she had gone about
her duty uncomplainingly, while he re-
belled! Now that he had seen the
world he knew all that other life
meant. But what of Aurelia?
A year and a day! It seemed an
eternity. Once more he walked into
the hamlet. The cottage looked fami-
liar, its dooryard bright with the gay
flowers the traveler admired, the win-
dows open and white-curtained. And—
could he believe his eyes?—Aurelia in
her old print gown, there she was in
the doorway!
He could not speak from excess of
emotion. He leaned against the great
tree in front of the gate and waited for
her to come out to him.
"I see you have discarded your fine
array," he said coldly.
She smiled rather sadly.
"I left it all at the castle of my
godmother."
"And now?"
"Here is money for your wanderings
again."
"I do not want it"
"What will you, then?"
"The old life, If—I can, the old
thought, the old work—uoJ the old
love."
Bhe smiled brightly.
"So you have roamed enough. Well,
It is a good thing to come home after
being long away."
"And you—where have you been and
how long since your return? What
of the coach and the splendid gowns?"
"They were my godmother's loan for
a short time."
He looked at her perplexed.
"A short time? How long were you
away?"
"Foolish one! Not at all. Why
should I go? I have spun and brewed
and baked. I have seen the world
from my window and door "here. Wom-
en are not so varying, lawrence. I
did not care to follow fool's fire—not
I, sir."
"And now?"
"Your place is ready. I fancy you
will rove no more—at least, not soon.
Is it not so ?"
FARM GARDEN.
MATTERS C> INTEREST TO AGRI-
CULTURISTS.
RECORD OF EARLY BOOKS.
First English Hook Wan Not 1'rlnletl in
The first book printed in the Eng-
lish language was not printed in Eng-
land. William Caxton, the English mer-
cer, carried on business in Bruges. In
1469, he began to translate into English
the "Recueil des Histoires de Troye,"
and to supply the great demand for
copies of the book he set himself to
learn the art of printing. The "Re-
cueil," the first printed English book,
probably appeared in 1474, and may
have been printed either at Cologne or
in Bruges. In 1475 Caxton printed an-
other work translated from the French.
Its title was "The Game and the Playe
of the Chesse." This was the second
printed English book. Caxton left
Bruges in 1476 and set up his press in
Westminster, England. Such is one ac-
count but other authorities hold that
the book on chess was printed at West-
minster and was the first book printed
in England. The Encyclopaedia Brlt-
annica says: "At what date Caxton
brought his press to England and set it
up at Westminster is quite uncertain.
It was probably between 1471 and 1477:
1474 is the date of the Game and Playe
of Chesse; but the tradition that this
work was printed in England may not
be correct." However that may be, it
was the second boo'.c printed in the
English language.—Montreal Herald
and Star.
THE ENGLISH OF THE ENGLISH.
itritnns Cull Common Things by Deffcr.
ent Names From Those We Use.
Tf you ask a guest at your home in
England whether he likes his meat
rare he asks what you said, because
he does not understand you; writes
Julian Ralph in Harppr's Magizine.
He calls meat underdone when it is
not thoroughly cooked. If you tell
him you fear the asparagus is (aimed
he is at a loss again, because he
would have said it was tinned. To a?k
him to pass the powdered sugar will
again set him to wondering, /or he
calls it icing sugar. And if you have
candy on the table you may not call
it so without betraying your foreign
origin, for he calls candy "sweets," ab-
breviated from "sweetmeats," and used
to designate all preserves, puddings,
pies, candies and jams. To go farther
along the eccentricities of English at
the dining table, most persons know, I
suppose, that the beet is called beet
root, cornstarch is cornflour, corned
beef (or a particular cut of it) is call-
ed "silversides of beef." and napkins
are serviettes.
A Remarkable Story.
An article in La Science pour Tout,
informs us that a Chilian botanist has
discovered a plant that coughs when
the slightest particle of dust alights on
the surface of one of its leaves.
Strange as this may seem, it is not at
all, for upon sufficient provocation it
appears the leaf of this same plant
turns red and spasmodic tremors pass
over it in sucession, while it gives out
a sound precisely like sneezing. The
so-called respiration of plants is well
known to botanists, but when it comes
to coughing, blushing and sneezing it
would seem that a special examination
should be made both of the plant and
the botanist reporting the phenomena.
From Standing (irain to Loaf.
A Great Bend (Kan.) correspondent
of the Kansas City Journal writes:
"Standing wheat in the field at noon
today, harvested, threshed, ground into
flour, baked into bread in large quanti-
ties by a bakery and sold around town
for 6 o'clock supper was a record-
breaker in this county this afternoon,
in quickness of conversion of standing
wheat in the field to the bread plate.
A combined harvester and thresher is
doing work in California style near
town. Several bushels were taken to the
Moses Mill and Elevator company,
ground into flour, thence the flour went
to the Moore bakery, was made into
bread, baked and offered for sale in
quantities.
Perceived More Than Was Meant.
The following story, if no more au-
thentic, is possibly as amusing as most
of the others which attach themselves
to the name of Jowett. An under-
graduate in Balliol had been nursed by
his sister through a severe illness, and
Jowett, by his kindness, had won the
young lady's warm admiration. The
date of her wedding wp s not far off,
and on the day she left she determined
to ask him a favor. "Will you many
me, master?" she asked, but the reply
was disconcerting: "We should both
be miserable." piped Jowett. pacing
the room in agitation. "We should
both be miserable!" A parallel In-
stance occurs in the Sorcerer.—Lon-
don Globe.
Tanning Leather.
The slownens of the process of tan-
ning is largely due to the difficulty
with which the tannin penetrates into
the hide. As the penetration pro-
gresses the outer part of the hide "be-
comes converted Into leather and is
thereby made impervious, consequent-
ly the rate of penetration decreases.
Months of soaking in the tanpit are
therefore necessary for thick hides.
Up-to
vattou
-Date Hints About Cultl-
the Soil and Yields
Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and
Floriculture.
This is the season of the year when
the careful man diets and is no sicker
than the man who eats what he
pleases—Boston Transcript.
An tli rti.
The recent outbreak of anthrax or
charbon near Palatine, 111., has di-
rected wide attention to the disease,
seeing that it proved not only fatal to
cattle attacked, but to at least one man
iu attendance upon the bovine vic-
tims. Some particulars about the dis-
ease will prove of interest to our read-
ers, as there is quite a misunderstand-
ing of the difference between anthrax
and the more common disease of
young cattle known as "black leg." In
this department of the paper we have
taken pains to impress upon the minds
of stockmen the necessity of keeping
cattle away from stagnant water in
ponds or sloughs and even from run-
ning livers or creeks. The import-
ance of this precaution will be the bet-
ter understood when it is stated that
most cases of anthrax are found where
cattle have been so exposed to the rod-
like, microscopic organism to which
the disease is due. The "bacillus." as
It Is called. Is found In such places. It
either originates there or Is brought
there by water coming from a place
where a dead anthrax animal has been
cast. For the latter reason it should
be made a misdemeanor punishable by
fine or imprisonment for anyone to
throw a dead animal into a running
stream or drinking ph:ce. In Iowa a
bad outbreak of the disease was traced
at once to a pond inlo which a dead
anthrax animal had been cast and at
which a large herd of cattle took
drinking water daily. The disease
properly called anthrax occurs in dif-
ferent forms. In some cases there are
diffuse swellings seen about the head
and neck and when pressed these
swellings are found to be solid and do
not contain gas. On cutting into them
there Is found a yellowish, jelly-like
mass, more or less stained with blood.
In other cases the animal dies almost
immediately from a form of apoplexy
and discharges stained with blood
come away from the natural orifices of
the body. The body bloats and decom-
poses at once. This form is not so I
common as the other. In a third form
the disease is subacute and the victim
may- live for five to seven days. In
the form characterized by external
swellings the animal dies in from one
to two days. In man the disease usu-
ally takes the form of "malignant pus-
tule" or carbuncle and is contracted
through a wound or abrasure of the
skin when a person skins an animal
dead of anthrax. The disease may also
be carried in the same form to man by
insects and it is probable that flies are
the means of spreading the disease to
other animals when dead bodies a;e
left to decompose in the open air. In i
this way anthax may be spread to !
heep and horses. Swine and dogs are j
largely immune from the disease.
From what hat been said it will be
seen that it is very Important to de-
stroy the carcase of an anthrax victim
so that the disease may not be spread
by this means. The best way to get
rid of the carcase is to totally destroy
it by Are. but if this cannot be done
it should be buried deeply in quick
lime. It is not enough to bury it deep-
ly, for Darwin has shown that earth
worms may bring the spores of the dis-
ease to the surface, where they may be
taken into the systems of cattle pas-
turing over the graves and again
cause the disease. When an anthrax
victim Is opened the spleen is always
found to be greatly enlarged and filled
with tar-llke matter; the blood Is dark
and does not coagulate; the mucous
membranes of the chest and abdominal
cavities are covered with dark red
spots and blood-stained discharges is-
sue from the natural orifices of the
body. When an animal is attacked
with black leg the disease is character-
ized by external swellings, which are
found to be filled with gas. which
makes the swellings give out a crack-
ling sound when handled. After death
the spleen is found to be unchanged
and the blood coagulates and turns red
on exposure to the air. Blackleg does
not attack animals other than young
cattle. Cattle may be safely inocu-
lated against blackleg and with some
degree of success against anthrax. In
case of an outbreak of anthrax cattle
should be changed to a fresh pasture
away from stagnant water. Disinfect-
ants (such as the tar product disin-
fectants advertised In this paper)
should be freely used around the
buildings and for washing the hands.
Dead animals should be destroyed and
not skinned. Cases should not be
treated.
tie, but some dry tied must be given
with it to prevent scouring. It takes
a heavy frost to kill rape, so that It
furnishes late pasture, and Kansas
farmers should sow a large acreage to
this crop.
Turnips should also be sown largely
as the seed is cheap, and if a crop is>
secured the turnips will save a great
deal of other feed needed for the cat-
tle, young stock and hogs.
We have not had success with late
sown millet, but if the fall should be
damp and cool, millet would make a
fair crop.
Wheat, oats and rye will furnish a
large amount of pasture if the season
is favorable, and while these crops are
in good condition cattle will do well
on them without any other food than
straw. A farmer pastured his dairy
cows on oats and sold during the fall
$7.00 worth of milk for each acre of
oats pastured, the cows having no oth-
er feed.
Outlook for Tree Fruits.
Scott Remington, Lenawee County,
Michigan: We have no pears and no
plums. Apples will be a light crop;
but peaches promise well.
H. R. Kelsay, Miller County, Indi-
ana: The outlook is for 75 per cent of
crops of tree fruits. My own trees
promise good crops.
Geo. J. Kellogg & Sons, Rock Coun-
ty, Wisconsin: In this section the pros-
pects for fruit are very poor. What few
apples there were have mostly dropped
because of continued dry weather.
There will be a light crop of plums.
L. E. Hartwigs, Benton County,
Missouri: In the spring we had a splen-
did prospect for a big crop of fruit.
But the long continued drought has
completely ruined the peach crop, it
has caused the apples to drop badly,
and on the south side they are sun
scalded. The hot sun and .wind togeth-
er have caused a great many of the
young trees to die. A great many forest
trees have also perished. Should we
have an abundance of rain from now
on we would have enough fruit for
home use and perhaps some to sell.
C. P. Masking, Cuyahoga County,
Oliio: Apples will give 10 per cent of
a crop; pears 25. Peaches will be a
fair crop, but there are but few or-
chards here, and there will not be
enough fruit for home consumption.
C. M. Jonnson, Fulton County, Illi-
nois: The tree fruits in my locality will
not make one-half average crop, and
the quality will be very inferior.
L. G. Hubbard, Champaign County,
Illinois: Apples are very scarce, but are
smooth and fair. Peaches will be plenti-
ful, but the hry weather is checking
their growth. Only a few pears have
set and the trees are blighting badly.
Wild goose plum trees are loaded with
fruit; others are stung badly.
Exercising llor«es and Colt*
An English writer says: All exer-
cise causes an increased consumption
of animal material. This consumption
or waste must be repaired by good
feeding, if the wear and tear of the
body is not sufficiently replaced by
new supplies introduced in the shape
of food, the horse will obviously lose
flesh: and under such circumstances
additional exercise, far from produc-
ing strength or giving muscle, will
cause greater debility. Having laid
down the general principles on which
we think that amount of exercise ought
to be regulated, we shall not endeavor
to apply those principles to the vari-
ous classes of horses.
All exercise for a young horse must
at flrst be gentle, and the increase
must be gradual. For horses of three
or four years old just taken up from
grass half an hour's walking exercise
is sufficient. In the second month the
time may be Increased to an hour, and
the horse may carry a saddle, and dur-
ing one-fourth of the time he may be
quietly lounged. From the beginning
of the third month most young horses
may be ridden quietly for an hour, and
perhaps trotted with a light weight on
them during half that time. From the
fourth to the sixth month one hour
and a half's ordinary work in the ma-
nege may not be too much. By the
end of six months the great majority
of young horses, thus gradually and
systematically got into condition,
should be lit for ordinary work. A few
of the weaker and those reduced by
strangles or other sickness will re-
quire further time and care.
Fall Fa«turlug Stock.
Press Bulletin 98. of the Kansas Ex-
periment Station, says: Where It is
possible to keep the stock off dried-up
pastures and put them on sorghum or
other pasture, it should be done. If
the stock are kept entirely off the
grass it will make a slight growth, no
matter how dry and hot the weather
may be, and then when we get fall
rains the pastures kept free from
stock now will furnish much more feed
and feed later in the season than if
tramped while dry.
Sorghum, Kaffir corn, cow peas and
alfalfa make pasture after cattle be-
come accustomed to them, but great
care must be used In starting stock
on such pastures. At the College we
fill the cattle with straw or hay In the
morning and then turn them on the
sorghum or other green crops only fif-
teen minutes the first day, the next
day thirty minutes, and then increase
the time fifteen minutes each day un-
til we reach an hour and a half, when
It is safe to let them stay on all the
time and not give them other feed.
Cattle turned on such pastures at flrst,
if hungry, will often eat a few mouth-
fuls and die in a few minutes or hours.
Rape sown as late as September 1
will furnish pasture for hogs. Sow
Dwarf Essex rape, five pounds per acre
broadcast, or three pounds per acre ]
drilled. It will do to feed in six weeks j
after seeding. An acre will pasture ten |
to twenty hogs and as seed costs only I
ten 1o fifteen cents per pound the cost
It light. Rape is a fair pasture for c**- !
Agriculture In Mlosouri Normal Schools.
The study of agriculture has al-
ready been introduced into two of the
State Normal schools of Missouri, by
the election of separate teachers of
this subject. The Normal at Cape
Girardeau recently elected Prof. R. W.
Clothier, a graduate of the Kansas
Agricultural College to this work. The
Normal at Kirksville, Mo., was so well
pleased with the work of Miss C. R.
.Jackson for the past year, that she was
re-elected teacher of agriculture, but
she was granted a year's leave of ab-
sence for graduate work in the agricul-
tural college, and Mr. Luther Winches-
ter, one of the senior students from the
college at Columbia, was elected to fill
her place for the coming year.
An abstract of railroad statistics,
prepared by the Interstate Commerce
commission for the year ending June
30, 1900, shows that the total casual-
ties on railroals in the United States
during the last thirteen years comprise
86,277 killed and 469,027 injured. Dur-
ing the last year covered there were
7,865 killed and 60,320 injured.
Stem Rot of Sweet Potatoes.—Dark
lines appear on the stem just at the
surface of the ground. Vine turns yel-
low, then black throughout, unless
rooted at some node, beyond which it
remains green. Disease extends down-
ward, and causes upperpart of tuber
to decay. Short shoots from partly
decayed tubers. Remedy—Rotate
crops. Use only vigorous sets.
A very successful New York poultry-
man says that It pays better to feed
the farm grain to poultry than to any
other farm stock, so far as that can be
done. Of course there Is much produce
on the farm that cannot be eaten by
fowls and this must be taken into con-
sideration. A few cows would seem
to be the natural adjunct to a poultry
farm.
It is within epch one of us—this Zv
ner Temple
Fake Horse Dealers.
The increased demand for good
horses and the improvement in prices
for choice horse stock has seemed to
inspire the fake dealers in this vicinity
with renewed courage, says American
Horse Breeder. They are patronizing
such of the dally and Sunday papers as
will take their advertisements more
liberally of late than they have for
several years past.
Following is a copy of an advertise-
ment which appeared in a Boston Sun-
day paper a few weeks since:
.FOR SALE.
PRIVATE FAMILY wishes to soil their
family road and trotting horse. 7 year.",
old, 15.2 hands high, weighs 1,050 pounds,
road 9 miles an hour and trots a mile
better than 3 minutes, safe for lady to
drive with perfect safety; also rubber-
tired Goddard buggy, collar and liameH
harness, fur robes, street and stable blan-
kets, all for $125; sell horse alone for 565;
worth J150 for family use; 2 weeks' trial
given; also would like to board my daugh-
ter's pony team 4 or 5 months with re-
sponsible parties; will pay $2® month. Call
at the Cedars estate. 2 Guild street, sec-
ond big house on left hand side, Roxbury.
Mass.; take any Forest Hills car at Sub-
way, 10 minutes' ride. Boston. Mass.
aud5t*my5
A farmer living some distance from
Boston sent us the clipping and inti-
mated that he would like to board the
pony at the price named. This called
to mind an incident that came under
our observation a few years ago. Wo
went down to the wharf to ship a
horse to the provinces and there saw
an elderly gentleman holding a mare
by the halter. We walked around the
animal carelessly and the man who
held her queried, "How much is she
worth?"
"Oh, somewhere from $2.50 to $2,f 00.
Been buying?"
"Well, you see It was this way. My
son-in-law, who Is a clergyman in the
provinces, recently buried his wife.
He has a daughter who is fond of
ponies. Coming to Boston on the
boat he picked up a paper in which
was an advertisement of a very valu-
able mare that would be sold cheap to
go into the country, but .the party of-
fering the mare had a pony outfit
which he wished to send to be kept
with the mare. The pony could be
used for driving and $20 per month
would be paid for his board.
"My son-in-law thought the pony
might help divert his daughter's mind
from her bereavement, so called at the
place mentioned in the advertisement.
He did not want to buy this mar?, as
he has no use for her, but In order to
get the pony he did buy her and paid
for her. They sent the mare here by
a negro sometime ago, but the pony
has not come, and the boat is about
ready to start. We don't know what
to do."
"Well, my friends, your son-in-law
has evidently bought a horse. Now I
would not worry about that pony team.
It is probably safe. The man who
sold the horse will look out for the
pony. Put your mare on board the
boat, and tell your son-in-law to sell
the mare as she is for what he can
just as soon as possible after getting
her to her destination."
It was a very shrewd way of getting
a few dollars from an honest, unsus-
pecting, well-meaning man for an
animal that looked fairly well, but
was probably worth more to convert
into fertilizer than for any other pur-
pose. Men who advertise to pay from
$20 upwards per month for having
ponies and horses boarded in the coun-
try have very strong strings hitched
to those animals. They use them as
enticing bait for hooks thrown out to
catch country suckers. They find plen-
ty of suckers who eagerly swallow the
bait and part with their hard-earned
dollars. The countrymen generally
pay from four to ten times as much as
a horse is worth, and invariably fail to
secure the pony or horse as boarders,
for which the party advertising offers
to pay so liberally.
Poultry Drier*.
Ground or cut bone is so useful to
poultry raisers that It is something of
a marvel that more bone cutters and
grinders are not in use. The attempt
to use commercial meals for freshly
prepared bone can hardly be called a
success; for the very obvious reason
that the more useful of the products
do not keep well in anything but the
coldest weather. At some seasons of
the year it is impossible to get beef
meal, as the dealers will not handle It
when it is likely to spoil on their
hands. But the man that has a ma-
chine for reducing bone to edible size
is independent. He can nearly always
obtain bones that have on them much
meat and these furni^ki a bone for sup-
plying a little nitrogen and a good deal
of lime and phosphorus. Around most
homes bones have no use. Yet they
can be made a source of valuable food
supply.
The question is now being raised as
to whether richness can be fed into
eggs, and the amateurs are trying to
demonstrate that it can be done. One
man asserts very positively that hig
eggs are richer when he feeds very rich
foods than when he feds foods not so
rich. The trouble with this kind of
evidence is that it is not exact. A man
reports a thing as being so because he
believes It is so, relying on hlB sense
of taste. But, as with the question of
feeding fat into milk, so here, appear-
ances are not to be relied on.
Harvey Johnson of Iowa says: When
our litters are of sufficient age to turn
out we usually put two and sometimes
three litters together in a papture
where there is a good warm and dry
building and plenty of good grass.
Near where the sows feed is a small
enclosure with a low trough in it, and
by a little persuasion and some tempt-
ing bits of food we expect to have
the pigs feeding nicely at three to four
weeks of age. The feed is increased
as their capacity for handling it is in-
creased, but we are careful to under-%
feed rather than ovelfeed—feeding no
more at any time than they will eat
clean. We allow them to run with the
dams till they wean them, unless we
wish to breed the sows again.
Weather reports from Idaho state
that on the high mountain ranges the
grass is more abundant than usual,
but on low ranges it is exceptionally
scarce. The condition of stock varies
with the grass on the range. On the
high ranges the stock is fat and ready
for shipment direct to market, but on
low ranges its condition is poor. In
some southeastern sections the scarcity
of water has contrllulled to the poor
anodition of stock.
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