THE PEOPLES VOICE'
NORMAN,
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN VIKKITORT
Ofrrni (fin at Chandler recently turn-
ed out 736 bales of cotton.
About $: ,000 worth of cotton waa
bought at Chandler Saturday.
Catoosa ib to have a first claaa flour-
ing mill and cotton gin in tho near
future.
Dengue fever and la grippe are re-
ported as raging in the southern part
of the Choctaw nution.
The sum of $216,560 was paid to
tearhers in Oklahoma last year. This
was money well spent.
The cotton crop throughout the ter-
tory is going to waste tor the lack of
lack of lal>orers to pick it
Assistant Fish Commissioner (iraves
is planting black bass and croppies in
lakes and streams of the Five Tribes.
There is going to be a row over the
way things have been conducted in
the Osage country and a thorough
cleaning out.
Charles O. Frve, ex-president of the
board of education of the Cherokee
nation, has been appointed United
States commissioner at Sallisaw.
Many farmers in the Indian terri-
tory are sinking their wells deeper
and making new ones to supply their
stock with the nectssary demand of
water.
Deputy marshals hereafter will be
paid federal fees in cases of misde-
meanor. It will now enable ut least
some of the deputies to do better
work.
The Oklahoma exhibit car was rob-
bed at Kansas City during the rush of
visitors. The thieves took a coat, a
gold watch anil some of the goods ou
display.
The wave of prosperity seems to
have taken it into its head that Cloud
Chief is a tine town to take. Three
photograph galleries have been estab-
lished there.
The Woodward Bulletin in lament-
ing the condition of the Indian says:
•'His silent vigils are disturbed by the
stealthy prowl of the white, would
swipe even his bloomers."'
Some miscreant, whose place in be-
hind prison walls instead of in a de-
cent, intelligent community, burned
the school house at Waterloo, Oklaho.
ma county, last week.
There is considerable complaint
nbout the running of the electric light
plant at Shawnee. The lights are
shut down at 10 o'clock and this acts
on some people like a curfew ordi-
nance.
The El Keno Star says: Oeo. Knapp
raised 750 bushels of seed onions on
two acres of Canadian river bottom
land, the past season, has marketed
enough garden truck to place him in
the front rank financially with the
bonanza wheat growers who cultivate
twenly acres to his one.
The Indian territory is to be accord-
ed recognition at the Wood's exposi-
tion at Paris in 1900. Already corre-
spondence relative to securing some
Choctaw and Creek ball players is be-
ing exchanged.
Oklahoma contains 12,031 Indians
and the greater part of them are be-
coming used to the ways of civiliza-
tion. The Oklahoma Indian is im-
proving as he learns the commercial
ways of the white man. lie sees the
benefits of education and of iutelli*
gently applied industry.
While .Joseph Hohannon, a farmer
living near Keokuk Falls, was return-
ing from Shawnee, where he had sold
his cotton, he was held up by three
masked highwaymen and robbed of
8125. This is the fourth farmer robbed
in this section within a week and it is
believed to be the work of tramps.
Judge lJrown has instituted a special
detective agency to ferret out the crim-
inals.
The El Ileno Hell says: The Indian
is surely developing into a farmer.
Saturday evening thirty-three Iudians
from Seger colony came into town in
string, loaded with wheat, cotton and
wool of their own raising, which they
sold in El Reno. The head of the pro-
cession reached the mills before the
rear end had crossed Russei street
The outfit was under the charge of J.
H. Seger, the founder of the colony.
In the evening the caravan started on
their homeward journey laden with
lumber and provisions. By the way,
Mr. Seger is one of the few men who
can get an Indian to do the work of a
white man.
Reliable information has been re-
ceived at Guthrie that the Jennings-
O'Malley-Dunn gang are at present lo-
cated in the hilly country east of
Cleveland and are planning to raid the
banks in the eastern part of the terri-
tory.
Cattle in the vicinity of Beaver. Ok.,
arc bringing prices beyond the expec-
tations of everyone, are still going
higher. In fact, a man can get almost
any price for his cattle, and lucky is
the man who has held his stock mtil
fall before selling.
Il It reported cattle hieres are nu-
merous in the vicinity of Claremore.
Hog cholera is reported playing hav-
oc willi swine in the neighborhood of
Tulsa.
Children of the Oseges are entitled
to draw money, says the secretary of
the interior.
The Chickasaw National school has
been leased for s term of six years to
Prof. Skeen.
It is said the wheat acreage will be
largely increased the coming season in
the territory.
It is said that the Sac and Fox In-
dians eat polecat flesh for the purpose
of curing chills.
A rich vein of gold is reported hav-
ing l>een discovered north of Lebanon
in the Chickasaw nation.
The new jail in Tecumseh has l een
| completed and the town claims it has
j the best cooler in the territory.
! Till United States jail at Muskogee
has confined within its Avails at the
present time 225 prisoners. ^
'I he cotton gin located atTirantham
and owned by the Chickasaw Trading
company was entirely destroyed by
fire.
A big prairie fire swept a portion of
the pasture fields of the Ponca country
last Avcek during the prevailing high
j wind.
! David Blessing, a Logan county
farmer, who was sent to the peniten-
tiary for ten years for murder, was 04
years old.
j The treaty has been ratified by the
; Chickasaw legislature after a tedious
debate. It will now be submitted to a
| vote of the people.
I Yukon has a strike in the public
schools and a majority of the pupils
refuse to attend. The cause of the
strike has not developed.
As soon as the judges are all ap-
pointed Oklahoma should get together
in a big statehiiod convention and have
j one of those old royal good times.
The commissioner of the general
land office, iu his unnual report to the
j secretary of the interior, says that Ok-
lahoma contains 8,105,238 acres of
j \acant public land.
I The Ryan Record says: The mem.
hers of the Dawes commission have
drawn $20,000 apiece salary for finding
out in four years that poor Lo wont
; treat. It's a big take off for rubber-
j necking and wind jamming.
From Denison, Texas, comes this re
port: There is a heavy frost in this
section and the Indian territory. It will
help the cotton crop. It will kill the
bolls and open them and facilitate
picking. The cotton crop in this sec-
tion and the Indian territory is not
more than half harvested.
Tho Arapahoe Argus says that at
least twenty-five homestead filings
were made in that county by new set-
tlers last Aveek. The great wonder is
that every claim in Custer and the oth-
er Avestern counties Avas not filed on
years ago. There are hundreds of the
best claims in the United States yet
| vacant in those counties, inviting peo-
ple to make their home thers.
An interesting experiment Avill be
tried next season by John Conrad, the
avcII known Tilden township farmer
and threshing machine man, residing
near Downs. He proposes hitching
his 14-horse power engine to a gang of
six big plows and tearing up the bos-
om of mother earth at something like
18 acres per day. According to his tig-
! ures, such plowing will be much cheap-
er that that done by horse power.
Among the superstitions of the Sen-
eca Indians was this most beautiful
' one: When a young nrniden died they
imprisoned a young bird until it first
began to try its powers of sor.g, and
then, loading it with caresses and
messages, they loosened its bonds over
her grave, in the belief that it would
not fold its Avings or close its eye until
it had flown to the spirit land and de-
livered its precious burden of affection
to the loved and lost one.
An experiment in transporting pris-
oners Avas made by Sheriff Rhinehart
of Logan county when he took nine
convicts to the Lansing penitentiary
several days ago. Usually, he has se-
cured his prisoners by shackling their
egs or wrists. This often Avas painful
and interfered with moving them easi-
ly. This time the men were fastened
together in pairs with a chain attach-
ed to a steel collar around their necks,
leaving free their hands and feet.
Sheriff Rhinehart said the collars were
far superior to the methods.
The "female ward'' which the coun-
ty commissioners some time since or-
dered provided at the Lincoln county
jail has been completed. It is 10x10
; feet in size and will enable the sheriff
i to confine female prisoners at the jail,
in place of keeping them under guard
at the hotel.
Arrangements have been perfected
i by Avhich a band of Creek and Choctaw
Indian ball players are to be taken to
the Paris exhibition to exiiibit the
manner in which they play the game
of toli, a prevalent sport among all
Indians.
A prominent stockraiser in Ilenrv
township, Payne county, has eight
Angora goats that keep the Avolves
from his 200 sheep. It is said that the
peculiar goatish aroma is the thing
that keeps the Avolves at a safe dis-
tance from the flock
The Jennings hoys have itcen sear Ll
the three D pasture in the Osage na-
tion.
Carpenters in Miami are crowded
with work. Evidence of prosperity in
that town.
Watie Fish, a member of the Creek
Hoiuy of Warriors, died last week from
a congestive chilL
The l'ho.nix says that recently aL
South McAlister two persons died from
drinking wood alcohol.
A rich vein of gold is reported hav-
ing been discovered nortli of Lebauon
iii the Chickasaw nation.
J. T. Crawford, of Chelsea, and Miss
Bessie Crawford, of Choteau, were
joined in wedlock recently.
A St. Louis grocery firm contem-
plates opening a wholesale establish-
ment at Vinita in the future.
The United States jail at Muskogee
has confined Avithin its walls at the
present time 225 prisoners.
There has been shipped from Eufau-
la this season up to Inst Thursday
night, 2,530 bales of cotton.
Professor W. H. Jackson has been
aAvarded the contract of running Col*
lin's Institute for five years.
Tfce Hennessey people are preparing
to entertain the Oklahoma editors on
the 15 and 10 of November.
Thirty-eight deaths have occurred in
the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache
j tribes during the past year.
I Business at El Reno has become so
heavy that the Rock Island has placed
a switch engine in its yards there.
! The cotton gin loeated at Grantham
' and owned by the Chickasaw Trading
; company Avas destroyed by fire.
J. W. Vail, who lives near Atoka,
j was kicked in the face by a mule and
j had his lip split and nose broken.
j* Pat Murphy was arrested at Ard-
1 more for handling something more
j than Jamaica ginger in the territory.
< The government will lose no money
in the Creek Indiun steal. It Avas dis-
covered soon enough to j^retent
David Blessing, a Logan county far.
raer, Avho Avas sent to the penitentiary
for ten years for murder, was 04 years
old.
The territories stock is advancing
owing to the prosperous year just
drawing to a close. Long may she
i Avave.
1 Wewoka is to have a commissioner's
i ourt Eufaula's commission Avill di-
vide his time betAveen there and We-
! wok a.
! The South McAlester chamber of
1 commerce bus affected a deal by which
that place secures a foundry and ma-
; chine shop.
j The people of the Indian territory in
joining Oklahoma in statehood would
not have to help pay the present debt
of Oklahoma.
Arthur L. Crougli and Miss Lilly
Waters, of Bailey, I. T., eloped and
were married at Erin Springs. They
were forgiven.
The treaty has been ratified by the
Chickasaw legislature after a tedious
debate. It Avill now be submitted to a
vote ot the people.
The Tahlequah board of trade is
moving in the matter of organizing a
stock company to build a United Stales
jail at that place.
Among the superstitions of the Sen-
eca Indians was this most beautiful
one: When a young maiden died they
imprisoned a young bird until it first
began to try its powers of song: and
then, loading it with caresses and mes-
sages, they loosed its bonds over her
grave, in the belief that it would not
fold its wings nor close its eye until it
had flown to the spirit land and deliv-
ered its precious burden of affection to
the loved and lost one.
There is a story told on a brakeman
on a certain road running into El
Reno. lie sound a Wandering Willie
asleep in a box car, and ordered him
out. The "tourist'' sloAvly raised his
head and in a weak voice said: "My
friend, I am dying of yellow fever.
For God,s sake let me die in peace."
The brakeman turned a double somer-
sault in making a "get away," but lie
shouted to the "sick man'1 as the
freight moved off: "Don't tell thcin
that I saw you."
An experiment in transporting pris-
oners was made by Sheriff Rinehart of
Logan county Avhen he took nine con-
victs to the Lonsing penitentiary sev-
eral days ago. Usually, he has secured
his prisoners by shackling their legs or
wrists. This often was painful and
interfered with moving them easily.
This time the men were fastened to
getlier in pairs with a chain attached
to a steel collar around their necks,
leaving free their hands and feet.
Sheriff Rinehart said the collars wero
far superior to the methods.
The Choctaw council is at woik in
good earnest Many bills have been
introduced but few have possed. Good
results are looked for.
The report sent out from Fort Smith
that the Indians were buying guns and
ammunition with which to slay the in-
truders, has been declared erroneous
and misleading.
With the Presbyterian synod last
week and the Masonic meeting this
Aveek and with the court in session.
Parcel', is right in the entertaining
busineus.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL RbADERS*
flow snrptiifoi Parmer* Oprrata This
Drpartaiciit of tha Farm A few
Hint* as to tho Car* of Llva Stock
and Poultry.
Notes oo Dairy Inf.
N dairying, as In
nearly all other
kinds of business,
success is often due
very largely to ad-
vertising. The Can-
adians know this
and make the most
of It at every op-
portunity, and with
them advertising
has brought In a
golden harvest. Note their activity at
the time of the Columbian Exposition.
They made at that time a mammoth
cheese, weighing 22,000 pounds. Their
only Idea iu making a cheese of such
proportions was to get themselves
talked about in the papers and else-
where. They showed wisdom In that,
and we all know that everyone heard
about that mammoth Canadian cheese.
Thousands climbed the ladder that was
placed against the Bide of the cheese
and got a look at its immense top.
Thousands did this for the mere sake
of saying they bad seen the great
Canadian cheese. The whole world
was impressed with the fact that Can-
ada makes cheese. The men at the
head of the enterprise did not stop
here. They sold the cheesc, and a part
of the terms of sale was that the buyer
Bhould take that cheese and exhibit it
In every city of Great Britain and Ire-
land. We all know that in a few
years Canada has become famous,
across the water, as a maker of cheese,
and to such an extent that American
cheese has been largely displaced.
What is true on a large scale applies
also in a small way. Nations profit
by advertisement. Individual dairy-
men also profit by advertisement. The
best advertisement Is a show of one's
goods. But one must first learn how
to make good products before advertis-
ing them. The sample should not be
better than the maker Is able to fur-
nish right along, for if the body of the
goods fall below the sample the effects
of the advertising will quickly wear
away.
...
An old trick of the trade is to brand
butter and cheese according to its
quality and not according to Its origin.
Thus in England cheese has been found
by Prof. Robertson of Canada selling
at 22 cents per pound as "best Eng-
lish," while other cheese labeled Can-
adian was being sold at 14 cents per
pound. On investigation the fact was
brought to light that much of the
cheese sold as "best English" had been
made in Canada. The branders had
Bimply picked out the best and la-
beled it "best English," while the more
common was labeled otherwise. Some-
times English cheese of poor quality is
labeled Canadian or American. Thus
it Is that the efforts of the makers are
often frustrated, and they are even
made to bear the sins of others. But
this is an old scheme that has been
followed not only in England, but in
the United States. It used to be a com-
mon trick to brand all good cheese
"New York," and all poor cheese
"western" or "Illinois," or "Wiscon-
sin." That was in the days when New
York was the greatest maker of good
cheese in the Union. Today large
quantities of butter are branded "El-
gin" that never saw Elgin.
To show that some people will buy
anything that is sufficiently advertised,
a Canadian tells the story that the
Daily Telegraph of London one day
spoke of some butter In a certain win-
dow that was covered with salt. The
compositor made the sentence read that
the butter was covered with suet. The
next day not less than a dozen people
called at that shop and wanted to buy
some of the butter that was covered
with suet.
• • a
Enforce honesty in dairy products
and in the handling and sale of the
Bame. Whenever a law is passed that
tries to eliminate some of the cheating
methods from our intercourse there
are always ready people who make a
great fuss about their liberties being
trampled on. But the fact remains that
wherever fraud exists, laws should be
made to bring that fraud out into the
light. The people as a whole will sup-
port such laws If they understand their
tenor and aim.
...
Traveling dairies seem to be doing
much good in the countries where they
have been tried. In the French por-
tions of Canada it is reported that the
work in this line has been so effective
that the finest of cheeses are made,
England and Australia have also been
carrying on the work for some time
with good results. The dairies go to
the people and instruct them in the
requisites of good butter and good
eheesemaking. Education is the
greatest lever to lift the weights that
have been crushing humanity in the
past.
Wlnttr Care of Laying Hens.
The season of high prices for eggs
is now with us, and the owners of hens
that are filling the egg baskets are
correspondingly happy. Th*t the right
kind of care does more to produce eggs
than any other thing is universally
known, but there must be something
besides care, or it will be almost as
bad as no care. The foundation is
good healthy hens from an early lay-
ing stock. There are more advocate?
ot early hatched pullets for winter lay-
ing than of hens, but I think one-year-
old vigorous hens, properly fed through
their moulting season, will give as
many or more eggs to the farmer, and
theu their eggs are belt* to set la thn
•prlnc I mean they will give a larger
per cent of vigorous chicks than pul-
let*, other things being equal. They
will require a warm house, not neces-
sarily expensive, plenty of wholesome
food and pure water regularly given,
and a variety of food, to lay well
through the winter. Give a warm
breakfast of bran, one-third cooked
vegetables and table BcrapB, one-third
and clover, either cut line, or the
shatteringa from clover hay one-third,
ml* with hot water, milk if you have
it, and feed warm. One can't tell the
amount required, as some hens will
eat more than others, but give just
what they will eat greedily, not all
they want. Twice a week salt as if
for table use, and once in ten days add
pepper, 18 boughten pepper or tea
made from peppers grown at home; al-
so add what table scraps you have.
Tack heads of cabbage, secure by the
wall or a post In pleasant weather, so
they can pick and eat of it. Have a
scratching slied open to the south.and
keep them at work in these hunting for
wheat, millet and sorghum or Kaffir
corn that has been scattered In a lit-
ter of leaves or straw. Hide it extra
well, so they will have to hunt for it.
Feed corn at night, all tlrey need to
fill their crops. Whenever possible get
scraps from a butcher shop, and if you
do not have a bone mill, cut and pound
them with an ax. If you are near a
butcher shop that will furnish you
scraps It will be economy to buy a bone
mill, as your egg sales will be much
larger, your hens healthier and your
feed bill smaller. If, however, you
live, as we do, too far from the
shops to get your scraps, buy prepared
bone meal of any reliable brand adver-
tised, and feed according to directions.
Have charcoal, gravel, and grit before
them all the time. I manufacture grit
with an old clock weight, a hammer
and pieces of crockery. Keep the dust
box filled and dry, and a little sulphur
mixed in the dust. In cold weather
give warm water or milk; use milk if
you have it all the time. Of course
they will want water, too. If you keep
hens they will want extra attention
through their moulting period. Meat
of some kind is needful just now for
them, and seed with oil in it. as sun-
flower seed. Kaffir corn is excellent for
them, cheap, too, for it yields so won-
derfully. Make companions of your
hens; don't scare them, but keep them
gentle. Prepare clean nests and plen-
ty of them. Keep free of lice. Be on
the lookout constantly, for this is the
only way to be free of them. When
the children crack nuts have the hulls
taken to the scratching shed; the bid-
die will find several morsels. When
corn is popped take the hard grains
to the hens; they will like them for a
change.
Scotland, 111. Mrs. W. A. C.
Mother Nature's Carp.
One of the most wonderful things in
this world is the care that the dear
Mother Nature takes of all her chil-
dren. She makes whatever changes are
necessary in the structure, even, to
adapt them to their surroundings. A
curious thing has happened in the cold-
storage warehouse of a Western city,
which shows how well Mother Nature
takes care of her world, human or ani-
mal, if she has the chance. In the great
rooms of these establishments, where
the temperature is kept below the freez-
ing polnt.it was not supposed that rats
would thrive, or even live. But after a
while it was discovered that there were
rats in the storage rooms and that, be-
ing born and brought up in such a cold
place, nature had prepared them for
their existence by giving them a very
heavy coat of fur. Two rats were
caught and killed, and were found to
be covered with long and thick fur,
even their tails having a thick growth
of hair. It was then decided to see if
cats would not get on as well as the
rats in the cold and act as their de-
stroyers. The first pussies that were
shut in the cold rooms did not fare
very well. They pined and died one
after another, and the experiment was
about to be given up, when a cat was
put in that thrived and grew fat. She
had unusually thick fur, which was
probably the reason, and when she be-
came the mother of seven kittens, the
manager of the warehouse had them
very carefully nursed and looked after.
They grew fat and seemed to feel no
discomfort in their cold quarters. Their
fur was unusually long and thick.
When they were grown they were di-
vided among the different cold-storage
warehouses of the city, and from them
has grown a peculiar breed of cats,
fitted naturally for the cold places in
which they live. These cats arc short-
tailed, chubby pussies, with very thick
hair and under fur. So used are thoy
to their cold homes that if one ot them
is taken outside, particularly in hot
weather, it will die.—New York Times.
Aeration vs. Cooling.—In speaking of
milk these two terms are often con-
founded. says the Rural World, while
really the benefits derived from cool-
ing milk are quite distinct from those
accomplished by its aeration. Thor-
ough aeration drives from the milk all
odors derived from strong or acid
foods, such as cabbage, turnip or silage.
Aeration also removes any stable odors
which may have been absorbed during
the milking. Cooling, on the other
hand, puts the milk in a condition least
favorable to the growth of the milk-
souring bacteria. Of these, hundreds
exist, in even the most earefuily
handled milt. Their multiplication is
most rapid in milk at animal tempera-
ture, and the lower the temperature
the slower their growth; hence the
value of a thorough cooling.
*• W.ll llr.d Stock. *>•«.
If there be any one proposition In re-
lation to which well-informed opinion
Is at one, It is that well bred stock
will afford a profit when no other kind
will, and that when prices are so
good that the growing ot almost any
kind Is remunerative, well bred animals
1 are so much more profitable as to make
j It very unwise to grow any other kind,
| says Northwestern Farmer. This fact
is well recognized in the swine indus-
try and very few animals go to market
now from the swine belt that do not
have a god proportion of good blood
which gives them form and early ma-
turing quality, in the cattle business,
however, the principle, although al-
most unanimously admitted, is not so
unanimously observed. A great many
cattle are produced from matlngs that
should never have been made, and
especially is it true that sires are used
that should have been shipped to the
fat steer market. This is very unwise.
It is a waste of feed, of care, of the use
of land, and of the labor that must be
expended in the growing of cattle of
any kind. With well bred cattle, calves
intended for beef can be liberally fed
from birth, whether they be steers or
heifer calves, and they should never
know the stunting that is occasioned
by roughing it through on insufficient
feed and with insufficient care. Such
cattle attain a marketable age early
and when they reach it will have both
the size and finish to Insure the best
prices that are going. If, however,
they are stunted at any time, no fu-
ture care can fully regain for them
what they have lost. In this respect,
however, they are no different from
scrubs, for a stunted scrub cannot re-
gain its best estate either. With steers
of little or no breeding, a good deal
longer maintenance is required, for
they will not fatten until they have
matured, and they do not mature until
they have attained considerable age.
There was good reason in the old days
why steers were kept until four or five
years of age; they did not mature until
then, and until they did mature no-
smoothness or finish could be given,
and at an earlier age they would go
forward coarse and rawboned, and only
command the inferior prices which Btuff
of that kind brought. The market now
demands younger cattle, but tho young-
er cattle that it wants is of the kind
that matures when young. The demand
does not mean scrubs crowded and
shipped at an early age. With cattle
In which the breeding has received at-
tention and which has been liberally
fed from calfhood, the weights of 1,400
or 1,500 can be made at an early age
and the style and finish will sell the
animal for a good price, as compared
with the top of the market, but scrub
cattle can be neither fattened nor fin-
ished early, and hence they cannot be
turned quick, and must be maintained
if they are to receive any fattening and
finish worth speaking of for nearly
twice as long as well-bred animals.
Ilahltn of the House Fly.
That we may know the least about
what we commonly see Is well Illus-
trated in the life history of the house
fly. They are always with us, but we
know very little of their comings in
and goings out. The University of Min-
nesota has recently issued a paper on
the subject—not telling us all we would
like to know, but still adding consider-
ably to the little we have. It is not
certain that it is a real native of Amer-
ica, or whether it came as a stow-away
in some early vessel from the old
world. They were very active in Min-
nesota during the month of August.
Between 6 p. m. and 8 a. m. next day
one fly had laid 120 eggs. This was
August 12; on August 14 the eggs were
hatched, and minute fly maggots were
crawling about. The ^ggs usually
hatch in about twenty-four hours after
being laid. The fly usually deposits its
eggs in manure. The maggots moult
twice. The larva is full grown in six
days, when it becomes a pupa, and, in
five or six days, emerges from its case
a full grown fly. Each female fly is
capable of laying 1,000 eggs iu a sea-
son; a few of the stronger live through
the winter as flies, and start the brood?
next season. Many die in the fall from
parasite fungus, and may be seen fast
to the wi-.jow glass.—Meehan's Month-
ly.  
Animals la Japan.
Holstein-Friesian breeders who have
sold cattle for export to Japan will be
interested to learn that Japan is a land
without the domestic animals, says the
Holstein-Friesian Register. It is this
lack which strikes the stranger so for
cibly in looking upon Japanese land-
scapes. There are no cows; the Japan-
ese neither drink milk nor eat meat.
There are but a few horses, and thes«
are imported mainly for the use of the
foreigners. The freight cars in the city
streets arc pulled and pushed by cool-
ies, and the pleasure carriages are
drawn by men. There are but few dogs,
and these are neither used as watch
dogs, beasts of burden, nor in hunting
except by foreigners. There are no
sheep in Japan, and wool is not used in
clothing, silk and cotton being the sta-
ples. There are no pigs; pork is an un-
known article of diet and lard is not
used in cooking. There are no goats
or mules or donkeys. Wild animal!
there are, however, and in particular,
bears of an enormous siio.
Baron von Stumm's organ, the Post,
publishes an article calling attention
to the fact that 3,303 horses wers im-
ported from America during the first
seven months of 1S97 and insisting
that this new import ought to be ex-
cluded.
Venture is a slippery road.
Small Flocks.—No matter how mony
fowls are kept they should not be la
flocks of more than ten or twelve, and
about forty is a very convenient num-
ber for one to take good care of. The
health of the fowls and the profits of
the owner depend on the drvness and
cleanliness of the premises as well as
on the quality and quantity of the food
given to the fowls. The cleanliness
does not apply simply to tile droppings
under the roosts, but to the sides of
the rooms, which should be white-
washed; to the glass of the windows,
which should be bright and clean to
admit the sun. and the floors, which
should be raked over often and kept
frc? from feathers and other foul nat-
ter which may accumulate if left.- Ex.