The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 07, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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DAIftY AND POULTRY.
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Interesting chapters for
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Roeceiitful Farmers Operate Thl#
Department of the Farm—A Few
Hints as to the Caru of Live Stock
and Poultrjr.
F a factory that
makes 1,000 pounds
ot cheese per day
could by some con-
centrated plan of
action among its
patrons and maker
add a half cent a
pound to its quality
it would amount to
$5 a day, or more
than $750 for the
Summer. No small amount in itself
toward paying the expenses of
the concern, and leave to the
patrons just so much more with
which to pay taxes, pew rents and
claw-hammer coats. And yet this is
the experience of factories reported,
who had demanded that all milk to be
delivered shall, as soon as milked, be
aerated and cooled before being seut.
tn one factory a loss of two cents a
pound on all cheese made by inferior
quality and flavor was recovered, and
the cheese sold after with the best,
followed the rule of every patron night
and morning aerating the milk and
tooling to a certain degree before plac-
ing on the factory wagon. In quite a
number of factories this season where
this rule is being made mandatory,
there has been not only a noticeable
Improvement in the quality of the but-
ter made, but an increase in amount,
I. e., the milk creamed better, and the
churn did more perfect work. There
Is a place for the "coming" factory man-
vermin was destroyed. The hen-house
was sprayed with the same mixture,
thoroughly cleaned and emptied of ev-
erything but a block for pounding bone,
boxes for nests, and movable roosts
made of green cedar poles fastened to-
gether in pairs and set up on cedar legs
eighteen inches high. The nests are
kept clear of vermin by occasionally
inverting them over a blaze made of
their straw filling. The roosts stand out
from the wall to prevent their acquir-
ing vermin from that source, though
cedar is said to be proof against them.
The house is twenty feet square, with
a sand floor, which is cleaned every oth-
er day and freshly spaded, or coated
with a layer of road dust. The fowls
are confined In a park of 120 feet circuit.
Every morning they are fed a hot mash
of bran and potatoes, sightly salted and
stirred up with the liquor from boiled
meat scraps. Twice a week a handful
of sulphur is thrown into this mash.
Corn is given on the cob to make them
work a little for their food. Scraps
from the meat market make them a
meal every second day. For greens
they have fresh, crisp, pig weeds, turnip
tops and onions. With tomatoes and
refuse fruit they are abundantly sup-
plied.
All summer, from twenty-eight hens,
I have had an abundance of eggs, and
now that they are moulting, the egg
supply keeps up from fourteen to seven-
teen a day. Every evening the hens are
let out to eat grass and seeds. Sun-
flowers grow within easy reach, to
which they freely help themselves.
Later, I shall dip them again to destroy
all body lice that may remain, and put
them in the best of trim for winter. I
am convinced that their productiveness
is due largely to freedom from vermin;
cleanliness and care in feeding do the
rest.
I keep a daily egg record, and an ac-
count with all outlay and Income from
Feeding Rmutty Corn.
There is a diversity of opinion among
stockmen concerning the danger of
feeding smutty corn to stock. Thou-
ands of stock of different kinds have
been fed smutty corn without any ap-
parent injury; yet occasionally some
feeder reports sickness and death
among his stock, which he attributes
to this cause. It is doubtful If there is
sufficient evidence at hand to Justify
anyone in giving an opinion of any
special merit. As good authority as any
on this subject, says it is barely pos-
sible that the smut fungus at times
may become virulent and dangerous to
the health of the animal, but surely its
general prevalence shows that such a
change in character is very rare.
Professor Henry of the Wisconsin
experiment station, says he has fre-
quently recommended through the
press that smut be fed in limited quan-
tities, urging that the animals eating
such injured grain be closely watched,
and the feed changed if evil symptoms
appear. He says he always asked for
reports if anything wrong happened,
and has never yet received an unfa-
vorable report. Ho says a few years
ago he tried feeding corn smut to cows,
one of which refused to eat the smut
after it amounted to considerable in
quantity, while the other consumed a
peck daily of carefully cleaned corn
smut. This cow was gaining rapidly
in flesh, when suddenly she was taken
with some apparent brain trouble and
died. Lacking experience he made a
post mortem, but unfortunately, did
not follow it up as he should have
done. No animal, he thinks, could eat
any such quantity of smut, unless it
was a steer or cow spending most of its
time in the stalk field searching for the
smut. There is scarcely a year that
there is not more or less smutty corn,
and it would seem, therefore, that if
the limited quantities taken in ordinary
feed are very injurious, more frequent
Many a supposed giant has turned |
j out to be only a shadow.
We have all blamed Adara for fall- 1
| lug, but God never did.
Do right yourself, and you will help !
| some other man to behave himself.
| The poorest people in the world are
: those who try to keep all they get.
The devil fears no man's profession
when it is is higher than his practice.
Make home like heaven, and you j
| will make the children wont to go j
! there.
Highest of all in i^eavcaing Power.— Latest U. 6. Oov'l ivtjjou
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PSJRF
Paper bolts pain favor.
Tucson has a woman butcher.
Mother* who hare iim«*cI I'arkrr'n (liner
Tonle h r years luslst that It benefits more than
other medicines; every form of dlatrcss sud weak-
dcm yield to It.
Some men divide their lives between
trying to forget and trying- to recover
from the effects of trying to forget.
II in«Ie rcoriu In m simple remedy,
tint It take* out the cum#, ami whnt ti cotmolutlon
It is! Multc* walking n pleasure. ir.e, at tlru,'gl*t*.
Everything good lost in this world
will be found in heaven.
Love never has to be watched to sc<
that it does honest work.
SHIRE STALLION BAR NONE (2388.)
Bger, and it is possible that the grad-
uate of the dairy school with tests,
scales, aerators, starters and No. 41's
may raise the standard of excellence in
our dairy produce factories, but the
patron must also be a willing student,
end work these aerators, coolers and
double strainers and keep clean sta-
bles and cleaner cows, to enable this
fellow to make the finer cheese and
more fancy butter.—Practical Farmer.
Louse* in Creaming.
Not long ago, says the Practical
Dairyman, we made a little investiga-
tion into just what the loss was through
getting the milk in open pans. A herd
of fourteen cows was in milk and giv-
ing about 250 pounds of milk a day.
The pans were set in a cool room and al-
lowed to stand from 36 to 48 hours or
until the milk began to thicken. The
skim milk was tested with the Bab-
cock test, and it showed that nearly all
the cream rose in the first twelve hours,
no difference being shown between that
set twelve hours and that set thirty-six
hours. But the amount ot butter fat
which was lost was somewhat appall-
ing, amounting as it did to eight-
tenths of 1 per cent, or about one-sixth
of the whole amount of butter in the
milk. This loss is not surprising to
one who has opportunity to make such
tests, and it is going on every day on
hundreds and hundreds of farms in this
country. In this case, it amounted to
two pounds of butter per day which
brought 25 cents a pound to a private
trade. Fifteen per cent of the entire
production or over $175 per year; who
says that the loss does not amount to
much?
More than half this loss can be saved
by setting the milk in deep cans and
putting them in cold water, and nearly
all of it by the use of a hand separator.
Where one has the facilities a creamery
is very good, but ice or running water
below 45 degrees must be at hand and
this is not convenient on many farms.
But a creamery costs less and is less
work to wash and care for than a sepa-
rator, although, as a rule, it does not
raise quite as much of the cream.
Dipping: Toultry.
Early last spring I dipped my fowls
In a mixture of half a pint of zenoieum
and five gallons of warm water. This
killed the large gray lice with which
they were infested, writes M. A. Hoyt
in Journal of Agriculture. Later, <riien
the mites appeared, the process was re-
peated. Sitting hens were taken from
their nests and given a bath; c'Blcks, as
they hatched were dipped, and thus all
my poultry, and I know just what they
are doing.
1'olnt* About Effffs.
It is not always safe to judge an egg
by its appearance. It may be appar-
ently fresh, yet if it absorbs enough air
to permit it to float in water even a
little above the bottom of the dish it
may not be perfectly fresh.
The white of a perfectly fresh egg
cannot be beaten to a froth as easily as
the white of an egg that is a day or two
old, and if the egg is very cold the beat-
ing of the white will be accomplished
more easily.
When the shell of an egg will peel off
as if the egg had been hard boiled, it is
not fresh, as the contents of a fresh egg
adhere closely to the shell and must be
removed.
When held to a strong light, a fresh
egg is clear, and if shaken in the hand
no jarring motion of the contents must
be felt.
Many who use eggs daily are unable
to judge of their quality, and indeed it
is difficult to determine the freshness of
an egg by any one, but the above may
be of use to some who are inexperi-
enced.
l'oultry Notes.
Whole wheat is better for growing
fowls than corn.
There are few kinds of poultry that
pay better than guineas.
Lime will kill lice; it is a good disin-
fectant; it will purify the air; it will
make the poultry house clean and free
from vermin.
Oats stimulate without enervating or
fattening. They form a good ration to
reduce the fat of hens that are too fat
to lay well.
Feather pulling is largely due to
idleness It Is most liable to occur in
active breeds that are kept confined and
have little exercise.
The only hens that it will pay to keep
through the winter are those that can
be relied upon for winter layers or that
are needed for breeders.
In raising hens for market the profit
lies in hatching early, pushing the
chickens forward as much as possible
and marketing them early.
One great recommendation that the
larger breeds of fowls have over the
small ones is that the large ones have
to stay where they are put, while the
small ones go where they please.
Turkeys do not bear confinement well,
whether young or old. When shut up
they soon mope and droop their wings
and begin t« rali off in condition.
Hedging on Pork.—The pork packers
are contracting to deliver January hog
products on a very low basis, mess pork,
for instance, about $1 lower than a year
ago. They had the figures too high
last year and lost money, but there
are good judges who think they have it
too low now and are as likely to lose
money as they were last year. There
is only one thing that is favorable to
their side of the argument at present,
and that is the h-mdsome supply of
corn. Present supUies of hogs are cer-
tainly not large and there has not been
a fall for a long time when there was
so much sickness among young pigs.
There are large areas too where farm-
ers have suffered heavy losses among
old hogs. Of course hogs are very pro-
lific and on the right kind of feed
which they would surely get almost
anywhere in this year of plenty, it
takes only a few months to fit them for
market, but it looks as if the packers
and speculators were discounting the
big corn crop too heavily.—Drovers'
Journal.
Oleo Law in Wisconsin—A great many
people were very skeptical as to the
good effect of the law passed by the
Wisconsin legislature last winter
against filled cheese, and forbidding
the sale of oleomargarine in the yellow
color of butter. A very significant fact,
relative to the taking out of United
States licenses in this state since the
passage of the law may serve to estab-
lish judgment on that question. We
learn that the applications for license
have fallen off from 133 to nine. That
tells the story conclusively. Without
the permission to sell the stuff in the
color of butter, and therefore as butter,
the trade is practically worthless, thus
showing beyond cavil that the business
is built on deception, as its opponents
have always maintained. Alike effect
has been observed in all the states
where similar legislation has been had.
The great wonder is that any man or
newspaper of decent character could be
found to justify it.—Hoard's Dairyman.
"Castles in the uir are walled in by
fancy," remarked the poet. "Faith,
I'd prefer a rale fence," said Pat.
There are eleven daily newspapers
in China—nine printed in Chiuese, one
in English and one in French.
The cellar in the bank of France re-
sembles a largo warehouse. Silver
coin is stored there in 800 large bar-
rels.
Our shoe exports are booming.
Oregon has 565,000 acres in pears.
'Frisco is to have a 15-story edifice.
A man hates everybody's dog but
his own.
No man likes to order things for the
house.
A camel can work eight days with-
out drinking, and a man can drink
eight days without working.
A lloartr W.loom.
To returning jrnro by tliiy Bad tranquility at nircht
in extended by the rheumatic patient win, one#
these Meanings to llostetter's StomttoU Hitters.
Don't delay the use of this line anodyne for pain
and purifier of the blood an instant beyond the
point when the disease manifests itself. Kidney
troublo, dyspepsia, liver eomplainl. la grippe and
irregularity of the bowols are relieved and cured
by the Hitters.
Every man longs to be a woman
just long enough to show what a good
wife he would be.
The people of the United States us.
on an average 12,000,000 postage st; mp«
of all kinds each day of tho year, or a
total of 4,3SO,000,000 per annum.
Beloit college has thrown open its
doors to women. Thirty-three girls
entered with this year's freshman
class.
Selfishness is a hard snake to kill.
8100 Rtitvnrd, SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure In all Its stages, and
that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is
the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being
a constitutional disease requires a con-
ptltutlonnl treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the \
foundation of the dlse-tre and giving the !
patient strength by building up the con- j
Ftitutlon and assisting nature in doing I
Its work. The proprietors have so much '
f.'iith in its curative powers that they j
offer line Hundred Dollars for any ease |
that It falls to cure. Send for list of
testimonials. AdJress
F. J CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. j
Sold by druggists; 75c.
Hall's Family Pills, 25c.
If Satan ever laughs it must be at
the hypocrites, they are the greatest
dupes he has.
It seems appropriate enough for a
whisky firm to go into liquid-ation.
Because ji man is a dwarf is no ex-
cuse for his being short in his ac-
counts.
A Texas miser keeps everything un-
der lock and key, and he even bolts
his food.
"I'll see you later," as the boxer said
when his opponent had closed both
his peepers.
What ot hers drink distresses a tec-
tolar more than it does others, fre-
quently.
The greater the house built on the
sand, the greater will be the loss.
When our hearts refuse to pray as
Christ teaches, he is no longer our
Lord.
PTS-Mill's stopned frerhy Pr.K line's Oi-est
If estoi * r. So Kits after the Umuiu> sue.
mi cur,".. 'I'ri'iitisoiilnl $2trlal Isjtll.'fr«, t >
,-LIul loin-. ktlue.H81 Al'cbiil.,thill*., t'lk
Every trial (iod permits us to have,
is to teach us something new about
Christ.
ir tii Babv i. Cuttine viwtn
Bo siire and use that old and well-tried remoily, Mrs.
Wnisi.ow'a SooTillKU Sykm* for Children Teething.
Prove that there is no devil, and ev-
ery man in the world will be your
friend.
As soon as we 1/egin to have peace
| with tiod, we begin to have war with
complaints would be made. We would
be pleased to have the views and ex-
perience of feeders on this subject.—
Texas Live Stock Journal.
The man whose heart is set on things
perishable, loses all when they perish.
A Binghampton factory girl befriend-
ed an old man, and as a consequence
was left 845,000 when he died a few
days ago.
French horsemeat is 7 cents a pound.
If Troubled with Sore Lyes
Jackson's Indian Eye Salve will positively
cure them. at all drug stores.
Salvation Army work has penetrated
Denmark.
It is said there are no religious per-
iodicals published in Idaho.
"Hanson's Liable Cora Salve."
Warranf« <l to cii: e or money ra?undod. Atk youj
di i-t for It. l'rico 15 tents.
A handsome female photographer
outfht to do a good business with her
taking ways.
I could not got along without Piso'sCure
for Consumption It always cures.—Mrs.
E. C. Moui.to*, Need hum, Muss. Oct. 22, 'JM
It is as easy for some men to be
witty as it is difllcult for some to be
otherwise than dull.
"Never play at any game of chance. "
The man who hides four aces in his j
sleevo observes this rule.
Whereever God's will is law, nothing I
but purity can exist.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting tho world's best productst>to
the needs of physical being, will attest
tho value to health of the puin liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptuble and pleas- J
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax-
ative ; efTectii.illy cleansing tho system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
.profession, because it acts 011 the Kid-
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak-
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug-
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man-
ufactured by tho California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is pri nted on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs.,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
THI! AKRMOTOIt CO. dr.M half I do woriiri
wln£intll busings#, becHUSH it has rrduced the coat of
*"Ui(l jMiwnr to l.'Owhai Itmi It h;is rrumj branch
houses, ami hiipi Iles lts ;"oil*aml ropaira
at your door. It can ami does f uniish a
hotter ai tide for loss money than
others It makes Pumping sn<l
(foam., Steel, (liilvaiilMHl after-
Completion windmills. Tilting
and Fixed smel Tower*, Stool Btutz Saw
Frames, steel Feed Cutters amfFeed
\i(M Oriiulers. < m application it will name one
tla of those articles that It wlil furnish unlit
January 1st at l/;j tne usual price. It also inako«
Tanks and Pumps of all kinds. Send for ra'alojfne.
Factory: !2tb, Kockw.dl and Fillmore Streets, Cbicanw
!&£♦♦♦«>**♦♦♦ ♦( < <>*>,*+>
i? Loss of opportunity is life's greatest loss. Think of Buffering with |t
1 NEURALGIA vJL Y£s v£j
♦ | When tho opportunity lies iu a bottle of ST. JACOBS OIL. ]t cures.
ars z ;
jures. It
All branches of protestanism have
in Europe an estimated membership of
80,812,000.
He £«• man's Camphor Tec wish Glycerine.
Owes ' Jiap; ■ 1 Hunch and Face, Tender or Bore Feet,
Chilblain:;, Piles, &c. C. O. Clark Co., New Haven, CL
Rev. D. S. (iregory, D. D., LL. D.,
has succeeded to the editorship of The
llomilctic Review.
About two-thirds of all the Protest-
ants in the world belong to the Ang-lo-
Kaxon race; that is, 100,000,000 of the
total.
Tell Your Wife
J that you have
read that Clair-
ette Soap is
one of the
greatest labor-
saving inven-
tions of the
ti tne. Tell
her that it
will save her
strength, save
her time, save
her clothes.
The merits of
appeal at oncc to every thoughtful woman. It's the best, purest, and
most economical soap to be procured. Sold everywhere. Made only by
_ The N. K. Fairbanh Company, St. Louis.
£ nop vt? ? frs.-:: ssfrg
DRUG STOCK
& FIXTURES
FIKST FLASH.
WILL SELL CHI-AP FOR CASH.
Addresi Frank Hnshey, 159 N. Emporia Arenua,
WICHITA KANSAS.
I
Ducks never have the cholera, roup
nor gapes; hawks will not touch them;
they lay more eggs that will hatch bet-
ter than hen eggs. With good feeding
they can readily be made to weigh live
pounds in ten weeks after hatching.—
St. Louis Republic.
Any sarsaparilla is sarsaparilla. True. So any
te:l is tea. So any flour is Hour. But grades differ. Cy
You want the best. It's so with sarsaparilla. There
arc grades. You want the best. If you understood
sarsaparilla as well as you do tea and flour it
would be easy to determine. But you don't. How
should you ?
When you are going to buy a commodity cj^
whose value you don't know, you pick out an old
established house to trade with, and trust their cj>V
experience and reputation. Do so when buying
sarsaparilla.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla has been on the market
fifty years. Your grandfather used Ayer's. It is a
reputable medicine. There are many sarsaparillas.
But only one Ayer's. IT CURES. ifffv
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
OltAmpi and hecmirmi the hail.
Promotes a lnxuritnt jpuwth.
Never Fulln to Bnatore Gray
llair to its YoutUl'ul Color.
Cures «ctlp rtiien e U h*ir f&.'hiic.
ff>>,,ai>«t $ l.U) at I>ni^z', i i
VARICOCELE
Rupture and Files ho pay.
NoPstln opCnttlnar. Particular*Free. Addr«*?a
Pr.H. J.'Whlttler > tthA !>• lawarc, Kaa.CityJ<
f;*-*^ucce!?sfully Prosecutes Claims.
l| I«A<e I'rinctpal Rxani .ni*r U.S. Pension Burwau.
w .vi«iu lu.jt war, 10 adjudh-atiug claims, attv a luce.
aUdn ss 31. i . 1-.iwi.eb, box Soutbingi
02B WHtHt AIL ELSE FAILS,
Best Coi^'h c?yrup. Tauten
d. U90
In thne. Sold by
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