The Press Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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dairy and poultry.
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INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
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How Successful fanners Operate This
Department of the Farm —A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
URKEYS will soon
be in order again,
and raisers of these
birds should be
devoting all of their
attention to the
work of making
them large, fat,
plump and juicy in
in time for Thanks-
giving. It should
be remembered, says
1 writer in the American Cul-
tivator, that the best turkeys al-
ways bring the greatest profit to
the owners, and that in times of a glut
In the market they are usually the ones
that work off. while the inferior birds
are left behind. Try to raise fancy
turkeys for Thanksgiving, and you will
get your reward. There will be plenty
of poor stock from all parts of the coun-
try, and the chances are they will sell
cheap.
The bronze turkeys usually are the
best for raising, as they can be made to
produce very tender, sweet meat, while
their carcasses when properly fattened
are very heavy. In fact, they surpass
all other breeds, both in weight and
hardiness. The young turkeys before
this time should be good-sized birds,
and those that have gathered up a liv-
ing on the farm and in the fields and
woods during the summer are in excel-
lent condition for fattening for the hol-
idays. As a rule, turkeys can find their
living in the woods and fields better
than chickens, but they should not he
kept without grain feed too long. If
they have been accustomed to the fat,
juicy worms of summer they are very
ready to make a change of diet. But
even in the summer time they should
be fed night and morning with some
good food, such as corn or wheat.
The fattening period for market
should cover several weeks. It is bet-
ter to give them all they will eat for
four weeks than to force them to eat
more than they want for two weeks.
Give them good food only, for every-
thing that they eat now goes to make
meat, and if such things as onions, bit-
ter weeds and decayed fruits and vege-
tables are given to them their meat
will have a bad odor and flavor. The
food during the fattening period really
has much to do in giving the turkeys
fine, white, well-flavored meat. Too
much exercise is also bad for them, and
they should be shut up most of the
time. Avoid anything that will bruise
the birds. If they are inclined to be
quarrelsome they should be separated.
Corn is the great fattening food, and if
one is so situated that chestnuts are
easily obtained, it is well to feed them
on these too. They certainly flavor the
meat a little and the turkeys are very
fond of them. Plenty of pure water
and milk help the turkeys at this time.
Sweet, rich milk is good for them, and
they are very fond of it.
Finally the marketing should be done
with the same care and intelligence
that the fattening has been performed
with. In many cases it pays better to
keep the turkeys until after Thanks-
giving, as the market is good then, and
there are fewer birds for sale. Some
years the glut around Thanksgiving
time is po great that very poor prices
are realized.
Kaphl Growth Desirable.
It is the chick that grows rapidly
from the start which pays. Growth is
Increase of weight, whether the bird
is fat or not, and as the large bird can
be made fat. the size is an advantage.
The breed influences rapid growth. It
is well known that a calf of the Short-
horn breed not only grows more rapid-
ly but also largely exceeds in weight a
calf that is a scrub, in the same period
of existence. This increase applies to
poultry also. A chick of some large
breed will grow rapidly from the start,
and in gaining size it will secure
weight also. It is what the scales show
that gives the value. The large chick
may eat more food than one that is
smaller, but there is a saving of time.
If a chick can be made to reach two
pounds when three months old, while
another attains but a pound and a
half, it is equal to a gain of twenty-
five per cent, equivalent to the weight
of twenty-five more chicks in a hun-
dred. In hatching early broilers this
winter the matter of selecting the large
breeds should not be overlooked.—Ex.
Poultry and Asparagus Beetle.
, It has been found that the best rem-
edy for the ravages of the asparagus
beetle is a hen with a brood of young
chicks. A diligent search is made for
the beetles by them, and instances are
known in which a hen and chicks
saved the bed from destruction. No
damage can be done by the hen, and
It is an exDeriment worthy of a trial.
Perhaps it may not be kuowii that a
block of turkeys will keep down the
tobacco worms in a tobacco field. If a
Pock is turned in on the field every
—
plant will be carefully searched, and
not a worm will escape their keen eye.
As the turkeys will not harm the .to-
bacco, and can find a full supply of
worms, it is not only an economical
mode of raising them, but puts them to
good service at the same time.—Ex.
Packing the Dairy flutter.
Packing butter in the summer time
is a common plan among most farmers
with a few cows. Good butter can be
packed and kept in a very cold room
until prices begin to advance in the
fall and winter. Poor butter packed
at this season of the year will not im-
prove any by packing. The soft but-
ter and the rancid butter will quickly
deteriorate in quality and become un-
fit for use. Those who can not make
good butter would do well not to pack
it.
In order to make butter for packing
the cream should not be kept more
than a day or two. The mistake is
made on many farms of churning only
once or twice a week, and the cream
is frequently five days old before
churned. The finest butter can not be
made from cream kept that length of
time. But skillful butter makers have
produced very good butter with cream
three days old, and probably the line
should be drawn at this. Each day
that new cream is put into the stone
pot the whole mass should be stirred
evenly, ar.d this will prevent it from
settling in layers.
First dissolve a piece of saltpetre in
water, and mix this with the first
cream put into the pot. Then by stir-
ring up the whole mass each time ad-
ditional cream is put in the saltpetre
goes into every part of the cream, and
helps to preserve it. The stone pot
for the cream naturally should be kept
in a very cool place, in the ice box if
one keeps ice, or in a cold cellar. The
night before churning take it out and
stand it in an ordinarily warm room.
In the morning get the temperature of
the cream down to 58 or CO degrees. If
handled in this way the butter ought
to come in summer in five or ten min-
utes. When the butter is in small
granules, draw off the buttermilk.
Wash the butter in the churn until the
cold water runs off clear. Work the
salt carefully into the butter, and let
it stand until next day.
Early in the forenoon of the follow-
ing day re-work the butter with the
hands until the salt is thoroughly dis-
solved and every drop of the butter-
milk is out of it. A little buttermilk
left in the butter will be sufficient to
taint the whole pot full, and eventu-
ally spoil it.
A stone crock is the best thing to
pack the butter in, and each churning
should be packed firmly into the pot.
Dissolve as much salt as possible in
water, and into this put one-half ounce
of saltpetre to each gallon of brine.
Boil this until everything is dissolved.
Strain it through a cloth, let it stand
for a few hours, then skim off the
scum on top, and pour off the liquid
carefully, leaving the sediment at the
bottom in the pail. The brine will then
be clear, and is ready to pour over the
butter in the crock. Each time a new
quantity of butter is to be packed, pour
off the brine, and put the butter down
hard, and then pour brine over again.
In this way butter can be kept sweet
and clean for a long time.—Ex.
HARD NUT TO CRACK.
The Peculiar Will That Pu«*l«d the
Pennsylvania Court.
One of the most peculiar wills ever
upheld by a court was that of Samuel
Eddinger, of Moore township, Pennsyl-
vania. It has twice been construed by
the Supreme court of Pennsylvania,
which has now held that it conveys
clearly the intentions of the testator,
Mr. Eddinger was a man of advanced
age, and died a few weeks after he made
the will. His property was valued at
only $5,000, and a large part of that
amount must have already been ex-
pended in upholding the will. The be-
ginning of the document is apparently
copied from a printed form, and the rest
of it, entirely without punctuation, is
in Mr. Eddinger's handwriting. The
Supreme court says that the purpose of
the will is to give $1,000 to the son, then
a life annuity of $125 to his daughter
and to devise the whole of his real
estate to his son. As the personal es-
tate amounted to only $400 the court
directed that the annuity be paid from
the real estate. The words written by
the testator as his last will and testa-
ment are:
"that is to say my Disire
my son John he Shall have one
thousand Dollars in Advance
before
any of the heirs shall have any
money
from my estate personal prop-
erty first my Son John [
shall setle up all
my Depts funeral Ex-
pense &c till all is paid
my Son John he Shall
Setle my personal proper-
ty as soon as it is possible
he shall pay of the money from
my personal goods the
half of
the money to my daughter
Magret and
what is left from the Balence
after
the Thousand Dollars he
tookt of for
himself my Son John Shall
pay to my
for Daughter Margret on Anually
Dowery one a
Hundred and twenty-five Dol-
lars for her
Natural Life time or as Long
She will Liv in this World
and my Son John he shall
have all my Real Estate for
his own property as soon as
my Daughter is
Dowery Deased my Son John shall not
I interest pay any
longer not to her heirs and to
no no body
it be stopped."
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
"Do you think, sir," said the girl's
mother, "that you ha ve the patience
and forbearance to bea kind husband?"
"Madam," replied the young man,
in earnest tones. "I can put a four-
teen and a half stand-up collar on a
No. fifteen shirt without saying a sin-
gle word." And she consented to the
match at once.- -Household Words.
"There are only two important
epochs in a woman's life," said the ob-
servant bachelor. "Name them," re-
plied Miss Giddy. "Before she is
married and after."—Detroit Free
l'resss.
NOT A DUDE'S BADGE.
Indian Corn for Forage.—By reason
of its large yield, great feeding value
and the many different climates and
conditions under which it can be
profitably produced, corn has been,
and always will be, the favorite en-
silage crop, as it is the great roughage
crop of the United States. While all
the other forage plants can be made
into ensilage, there is more labor and
less profit in the work. It is an ex-
cellent feed not only during winter,
but in summer, when a season of
abundance is often followed by a
drouth and the pastures are burned up.
—Ex.
Saved in the Silo.—As to the superior
value of silage over dry food, no one
can reasonably have a doubt. Beyond
the fact that the crop siloed contains
its constituents as nature arranged
them, and in that condition is most
wholesome, from an economic point of
view, there is no comparison. The
more plants are exposed to the air, the
greater is their loss of organic matter,
until, in time, they become valueless.
All this loss is saved by using the silo.
—Southern Planter.
Cano No Longer tin; Special rrlvllfffe of
the Fop or Dandy.
| "You know," said a discerning gen-
| tleman to an Atlanta Constitution rc-
j porter, "it used to be said that a man
who carries a cane every day was an
idler, a dawdler—worthless for all
I practical purposes.. If you'll let me
j see how a fellow handles a cane, I'll
| tell you whether he is worthless or
not. It's not in the fact, of carrying a
cane, but how it is carried that the sig-
nificance lies. When a man comes into
my office with a cane in his hand I
watch him closely. If he sits and
twirls it idly and aimlessly about on
his fingers, he is a worthless idler. But
if he walks in, puts it up against the
wall and proceeds to business, there is
something in him. You may hope for
him. If he holds it firmly while he is
talking to you and does not twirl it
about, he's all right. The fellow who
plays with his cane, swings it around,
marks figures on the carpet with it.
punches the furniture with the tip, isn't
fit for much else. Yes, a decent, hard-
i working fellow can carry a cane all
the time, and they do so, many of them,
and the act does not indicate that they
are idlers. But the fellow who goes
1 around swinging his cane and playing
| with it is a nuisance anywhere you put
him."
Lem Jones: "Gad Hlizer is the strong-
est man in this town." Ben Shaw: "I
doli't believe it: he can't lift as much
as Hi Lukes." Lem .Tones: "1 tell
yew he kin; didn't he go an' lift that
mortgage on his dad's ol' farm? lli
Lukes done nosech thing."—Exchange.
The rev I-I "it power, of I'Hrke r'« (linicer
Tonic rrmltT It ln(ll*|>cni.|hle In cvrry Iiohm- Mom
aeh troubles, colds and every form of distress yield
to It.
I, YY. Palmer of London, England
has one room of his house papered
with canceled one-penny stamps. It
took 70,0110 to complete the job.
Get lllnderoorn# ami u.e it
If you wuut to realize the comfort of helntc without
cora*. It takes tlietn out perfectly. 15c, atdru^'gists
The Nickel Plate road has authorized
its agents to sell tickets at greatly re-
duced rates to Albany, N. V., on oc-
casion of the meeting of the German
Catholic Societies of the t'nitod States
in that city, Sept., 15th to 18th. For
particulars address ,1. V. t'alahan, Gen'l
Agent. Ill, Adams St., Chicago.
"Nothing but leaves," said Eve, with
a twinkle in her eye. when Adam com-
plimented her on her new garment.—
ltoston Transcript.
The velocity of the earth at the
equator, due to its rotation on its axis,
is 1,000 miles per hour, or a mile in 3.6
seconds.
The famous sacred Mohammedan
Aug enshrined at Constantinople, is
said to be a portion of a silk shirt for-
merly worn by the great Mahomet
himself.
HALL'S CATARKH Cl'KK is a liquid
and is taken internally, and acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces oi the sys-
tem. Write for testimonials, free. Manu-
factured by,P.J.CHENEY & CO..Toledo, O.
"What were your husband's last
words? ' "He hadn't any," sobbed the
widow, "I was with him."—Tamma ny
Times.
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 the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Rvrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
He—"I've been watching for a chance I in the form most acceptable and pleas-
' ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax-
ative ; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
mot with the approval of the medual
profession, because it acts on 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 the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if ottered.
to kiss you for the last ten minutes.'
She—"You must be near-sighted."
Piso's Cure is the medicine to break
liidren's Coughs and
G. Blunt, Sprague, Wash
yi:
March N, 'U4.
horned
"I suppose," said the fetnal
horse, "1 am something of a gnu wo-
man myself."—Chicago Tribune.
Hobson; I hear Cholly Sappy is out
of his mind, poor fellow. Costique:
I think he is rather to be congratula-
ted. lie must have been frightfully
cramped in it.—Philadelphia Record.
GREAT BOOK FREE. ROOFING
When Dr. R. V. Pierce, of ttuflalo, N. Y.,
published the first edition of his work, The
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
he announced that after 680,000 copies liaa
been sold at the repnlar price, $1.50 per
copy, the profit on which would repay him
for the great amount of labor and money
expended in producing it, he would dis-
tribute tlie next half million free. As this
number of copies has already been sold, he
is now distributing, absolutely free, 500,000
copies of this * most com
plete, interest- COI PON
uable common | No. Ill
ical work ever
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The Kansas Citj MtUI Kooling and Corragating Company,
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Crowding the heifers.—Is it best to
crowd heifers at two years to their
full capacity? Give them what they
will eat and assimilate and keep them
at work from the first. Often they will
not do as well the second year as the
first, but do better the third year. A
study of the nature of rations is abso-
lutely necessary, because, as the cow
grows older, more carbonaceous food
is necessary.—Fanciers' Review.
Was a Hiu Johnny Cake.
At an Oakland, 111., barbecue recent-
j ly twenty sheep, ten hogs, two fat
steers, 700 loaves of bread and the us-
ual fried chickens, pickles, fried cakes
and other "fixins" were provided for the
50,000 people present. One of the old-
timers there said that the johnny cake
reminded him of one that was baked
| at a barbecue in Hamilton, Ohio, dur-
i ing the presidential campaign of 1840.
j This cake, he said, was 26 feet long and
j two feet wide. It was cut in twenty-
six pieces, one for each of the twenty-
six states, and required four men to
j turn it. A johnny cake twice as big as
j that would be required to supply the
union now.
ing and val-
sense med-
published—
the recipient only being required to mail
to him, at the above address, this little
COUPON with twenty-one (21) cents in one-
cent stamps to pay for postage and pack-
ing only, and the boo!: v. :!! be sent by
It is a veritable medical library, complete
in one volume. It contains over 1000 pages
and more than 300 illustrations. The Free
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How to Detect Oleomargarine.—Dr.
Leffman, a Philadelphia chemist, rec-
ommends the following test: Place
some of the questionable butter in a tin
cup, about the size of a teacup, heat
it, and if when hot it sputters and flies,
I as lard does when it is frying, and if
I salt eathers on the top, you can be-
j lieve it is oleomargarine. Butler, on
the other hand, will not sputter or fly,
nor will salt gather on top; butter will
foam up until it runs over.—Ex.
Wyoming Horses Sold for a Song.
In the great horse raising state of
Wyoming the lower grade of horses are
now being sold at $3 a dozen, while
sound, unbroken mustangs can be had
for ?1 each, and a thoroughly broken
horse, sound in every way, for from ?6
ir\ tvihs nrp the mighty fallen be-
fore the advance of the electric and
cable car, the horseless carriage and
the bicycle.
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