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YOU ALLS DOINS. DAIRY AND POULTRY.
MARV L. '.STEVENS, Proprietor.
/NTE RESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
LEXINGTON,
OKLAHOMA
The Juinnesota senate has passed,
"With amendments, Senator Chllton'a
bill prohibiting the marriage of in-
sane, epileptic and idiotic persons, and
requiring a medical certificate of all
applicants for marriage licenses.
Miss Ella Ewing, the Missouri giant-
ess, who is 8 feet 4 inches in height,
recently built a house for herself. Hsr
new home has doors 10 feet high, ceil-
ings 15 feet high and is equipped with
chairs, tables, beds and everything in
proportion.
Recent experiments in wireless teleg-
raphy, in connection with the French
fleet, have been so satisfactory that it
has been decided to provide the whole
Mediterranean squadron with wireless
apparatus, which will be subjected to
decisive tests during the coming cruise
of the squadron.
Some remarkable relics of the early
civilization in Egypt have recently
been unearthed and deposited in the
British Museum. Among them is a
beautiful impression of a royal seal
which represents the king wrestling
with a hippopotamus and spearing a
crocodile. That must have been the
king's busy day.
How PorrMnful Farmer* Operate
Department of III® Farm — A
Hint* as to the Car* of
and l'oultry.
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This
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block
That the art of cooking ranks high in
the estimation of British army officials
is shown by the recent grant of $2,500
to the widow of the late staff Sergt.-
Maj. Thompson, in recognition of the
valuable services rendered by her hus-
band who was for many years the
chief instructor of the army school of
cocking at Aldershot.
A mammoth black walnut tree on
the farm of E. P. Gaus in Williams
county, Ohio, has just been sold for
$4,000. Sevei'al lumber dealers have
examined chips from this tree, and all
have declared it to be the finest speci-
men of that kind of wood they ever
saw. The tree was eight feet In di-
ameter, forty feet above the stump, and
extended seventy-three feat from the
butt to the first limb.
Bavaria has resumed relations with
Greece for the first time since the
Athenians drove out the late King
Otto. As one result Prof. Furt .vangler,
director of the Munich Glyptothek,
wlil go to Aegina next summer to ex-
cavate the site where the Aeginetan
statues of the Munich museum were
found, in tlie hope of discovering evi-
dence that may decide what is the
relative position of the groups to each
other.
Andrew Carnegie's last speech to his
workmen at Homestead contained a
passage well worth remembering. "La-
bor, capital and business ability," he
said, "are the three legs of a three-
legged stool. Neither is first, neither is
second, neither is third. There is no
precedence, all being equally neces-
sary." All efforts to make the stool
stand on one leg or on two have been
failures, but when it rests upon all
three it is hard to upset.
In expectation of an heir, the King
and Queen of Italy have had brought
to Rome the tortoiseshell and gold
c radle which was used for King Victor
Emmanuel when a baby. There is
a very curious "family cradle" in the
possession of the Errolls. It has a
carved wooden serpent at one end and
.a dove at the other; the idea being
that the child who uses the cradle will
possess the wisdom of the serpent and
tile harmlessness of the dove!
For eight crops—corn, wheat, oats,
barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes and
hay covered by the reports to the de-
partment of agriculture, the farmers
of the United States received almost
$200,000,000 more in 1900 than they ob-
tained for the same products in 1899.
Buckwheat and barley were the only
crops in the list which showed a de-
crease in value, and the advances, in
corn and hay especially, made this de-
ficit seem slight. We quote the statis-
tics mainly as a matter of record. The
contented smile on the American farm-
er's face is proof enough of itself that
he is doing very well Indeed.
The poet records that he shot an
arrow into the air, but could not see
where it fell to earth. Long afterward
he found it in the heart of an oak. It
is for protection against reckless use
of firearms, possibly in the hands of
other heedless poets, that the Adiron-
dack guides have recently appealed to
the legislature. The modern small-
bore rifle sends bullets far beyond the
necessary hunting range, and fre-
quently kills persons whom the gun-
ner cannot see. A true aim, a steady
arm, a square hit are in all the walks
of life justly commended. But what
about the so-called "spent" bullet, with
its lingering power to wound? Must
not society as well as law hold the
sportsman responsible?
Due to Had Diet.
From the Farmers' Review: I had a
thicken die on me last week. It seemed
to be in good health right along. 1
found it dead lying on its back and
blood had been flowing from its rec-
tum, so I decided to open it, and found
a lump shape and size of an egg in it,
which 1 thought to be a tumor as it
was covered with dark blood. I cut it
open; It was like a large flsh cut open.
I don't know if fat or what. I don't
know the breed of the hen; she laid
well and never got hatchy all last sum-
mer. She laid none this year, nor
was there any sign of an egg in her.
Please tell me the cause of it. I see in
your paper of others that have such
good luck in getting eggs. I must state
that I have twenty-four chickens, near-
ly all Plymouth Rocks. Have four
roosters sometimes, but generally one;
as I must pen the other three up, as
the other, a large one, whips them; so
I don't think that could be cause of
them not laying more. Feb. 20 1 re-
ceived the first egg of this year; they
have not averaged two eggs per day.
We give them soft feed twice a week
with condition powder and an egg pro-
ducer, salt and pepper; the rest of the
time mostly corn, sometimes oats and
wheat. Actually 1 had chickens for
two years but wasn't able to get
enough eggs from them to pay for
their feed. I have them in an old
street car. The north side I have a
canvas covering the glass to keep the
north wind out. When weather is tine
they have plenty of prairie.—John
Bruns.
From a written description It Is im-
possible to say whether the lump was
a tumor or not, and the fact could be
determined only by an actual investi-
gation. As to the cause of poor re-
sults In getting eggs there is no doubt;
it is the excessive feeding of corn,
which is the poorest possible food for
egg production, except when combined
with other things. Then it should
form only a minor part of the ration
Let the condition powders and so-
called "egg-producers" alone, as they
are of no value. A healthy fowl needs
neither egg producers nor condition
powderS. These nostrums are sold for
the purpose of getting money for the
manufacturers and not because they
have any particular value for the pro-
duction of eggs. The corn feed has
made it impossible for the flock to pro-
duce many eggs, and even though the
feed be changed at once, little need be
hoped for this year from the change.
The corn has produced too much fat,
and this condition will be retained for
some time to come. The best food for
laying or growing hens is oats, for it
is composed of about six parts of fat-
forming elements to one of flesh-form-
ing elements, about the proportions
that are needed by the animal economy.
Corn is composed of an excessively
large proportion of fat-forming ele-
ments and a very small portion of
fiesh-forming element, and the result is
that when it is made the main relianfce
of the flock little results are seen ex-
cept a very great increase of the worth-
less fat of the hens. The fact that no
eggs were received previous to Feb-
ruary 20 shows that the hens had been
ruined for egg production by the ra-
tion they had received. Fat must al-
ways be avoided in laying hens, as it
always has a tendency to check egg
production. Oats, wheat screenings
and the like should be at once sub-
stituted, and the mash should be fed
once a day. This may be made from
chopped feed, and the hens will in
this way get all the corn that will be
profitable to them. But do not feed too
heavily of even wheat screenings, as
they err somewhat in the direction of
corn. As the hens are too fat the feed
should be of a kind tending to cure
that condition. Oats may be left with
them all the time, as, if they have
other kinds of food they will not over-
eat with oats.
impossible, in the feeding of dry corn
fodder, or stalks, to induce the ani-
mals tn eat the whole of it. It may
be that where some people claim that
there is as much waste with silage as
there is with the dry stalks, cut and
shredded, they have reference to the
losses that occur from the time the
corn is cut in the field until it is fed.
Now, these losses have been found to
be practically the same in the one case
as in the other. That is, the mechan-
ical losses and the changes that take,
place in the field with the fodder corn,
are practically counterbalanced by the
losses due to fermentation and waste
in the si'lo. Naturally, this will vary
according to the methods of handling,
and will range from 10 to 20 per cent.
We have kept an accurate record of
the actual wastes that occur in the
silo, that is, that rotted at the top or
sides, and have found that it amount-
ed to less than five per cent, but the
'osses due to fermentation in the silo,
other than that wasted, have not been
ibsolutely determined with us. As-
suming that the losses are the same
with the one as with the other up
to the time of feeding, there Is an ad-
ditional loss pf 30 per cent of the dry
matter in the feeding of the dry fod-
Jer; besides, the gain in milk flow
from the succulent character of the
jilage has been shown to be 12.5 per
cent.
Soi'shnm and Cow I'fiftS for Hogs.
A communication from the Oklaho-
ma experiment station says: Sorghum
is the most reliable and largest pro-
ducer of pasture for summer. While
it furnishes a large amount of green
feed per acre, it is highly carbonace-
ous, and should be pastured along
with cow peas for best results. Its
culture is well understood. Seedings
may be made from spring to late sum-
mer. It will always be found a stand-
by during drouths. While broadcast-
ing is the common way of seeding for
hog pasture it is always advisable to
drill and cultivate some as this will
make better feed in a case of a severe
drouth. And when grown this way
the sugar content is much greater and
any stalks left will make good winter
feed for hogs. In selecting the seed,
the sugar-bearing varieties should be
chosen and seeded thinner on the
ground than when the crop is grown
for hay. Sorghum may be seeded with
oats in the spring with good results.
The sorghum continues after the oats
are gone. Cow peas make a good
twin brother to sorghum for hog pas-
ture. The peas furnish the nitrogen-
ous material that the sorghum lacks.
Cow peas are great drouth resisters
and admit of many ways of planting
and over a large season. Seeded on
ground from which a crop of oats or
wheat have been removed, they will
produce from 1V> to 2 feet of growth
by the first of September. For earlier
feed than this they should be seeded
the last of April or the first of May.
While broadcasting is a very success-
ful method of seeding them, it is very
desirable to drill and #cultivate some
this will aid them to withstand
drouth, and more feed will be pro-
duced at a critical time. For broad-
casting about lVi bushel of seed is
required per acre; for drilling in rows
30 inches apart, three pecks.—Farmers'
Review.
The Waste or Sllar*.
When corn is cut for silage, how do
the wastes compare with feeding
shredded or whole corn fodder dry? It
has been claimed that the silo wastes
are as great as those of the dry fod
der.
There is no waste with us, nor do
I think that there is any waste with
anyone when the silage has been prop-
erly made, writes Prof. E. B. Voorhees
to Rural New Yorker. That is, the
animals eat it up clean—there Is not
a mouthful left in the mangers. In
the case of corn stalks or fodder, I
have to say that, in an experiment
reported last y*ar, where all the con-
ditions were observed as carefully as
possible, it was found that the waste
amounted to 30 per cent of the dry
matter, though the dry matter wasted
was nst as rich In protein and car
bohy*rates, but richer in crude fiber
than ?%e whole product. It i§ almost j home.
Variable Quality of Milk.
Prof. F. G. Short, writing in the
Country Gentleman, says: Roughly
speaking, the changes in the quality
of the milk during the year are shown
by the following: In November, De-
cember and January the milk is rich
in fat and solids not fat. In February,
March and April the fat is less in
quantity. In May, June, July and Au-
gust the fat is low, beginning to rise
toward the end of the period. In Sep-
tember and October the quality of the
milk improves, both in fat and in
total solids. Of course this will change
somewhat, according to the time of
lactation; but as the majority of cows
come in in the spring, it may be said
fairly to represent the quality of milk
during the year. There are slight va-
riations, according to the day of the
week, and it has been noted that Mon-
day's milk is usually lower than that
of the other days, probably owing to
the later milking Monday morning.
Again, there are the well-known dif-
ferences between night's and morn-
ing's milk, the night's milk being us-
ually richer, although this depends
somewhat on the intervals between
milkings. As the result of a large
number of observations, extending
over a year, it was shown that the
average morning's milk contained 3.63
and the night's milk 3.99 per cent of
fat.
An example of patient industry Is
the sorting of hogs' bristles as it is
carried on at Tien-tsin, China. Each
bristle of the 600,000 kilograms ex-
ported from that place in 1898 had to
be picked out, measured and placed in
the bundle of hairs of corresponding
length; and the different lengths by
which the hairs are sorted are numer-
ous.
Education begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and reflection
must finish him.—Locke.
I don't object so much to a young
man playing soldier, as I do to his
playing jackass after he comes
Palatability.
In the successful feeding of swine
there is a requisite that is not given
the attention it deserves and that is
palatability. By this term we allude
to the state in which food is offered
to the pig and the appetizing quality <
of the food itself. People are apt
to think that any kind or quality
of food is sufficiently good for swine
but that is wrong tor even where the
food is nutritious it should at the
same time be palatable. If it be not
palatable the pigs will not eat it with
relish, and we are inclined to be-
lieve that food not eaten with
relish is not eaten to the best advan-
tage. Food may be eaten as a mat-
ter of necessity but such eating does
not of necessity mean that the animals
fed will derive any great benefit from
the food consumed other than the
maintenance of life. Ideal feeding of
animals contemplates the supplying of
nutritious food in adequate quantity
at regular intervals of time; but that is
not enough; the good and nutritious
food should also be tempting to the
appetite so that a large quantity is
consumed and then assimilated to ad-
vantage. To illustrate it may be stated
that cows will eat flax straw when
hungry and will sometimes leave other
apparently sound food for such fodder
which is almost pure cellulose and
practically indigestible and innutri-
tious. They eat the flax straw be-
cause, first, they are supplied an in-
sufficient ration and secondly, even
when well fed, nature seeks a change;
any change is sometimes palatable.
With pigs we find the same thing ex-
actly. People will very wisely and
sagely advise the feeding of nitrogen-
ous foods to young pigs from weaning
time and naturally include in the
category of nitrogenous foods, bran,
gluten meal, oat chop and similar sub-
stances, all of which are good foods if
the pig would take them or relish
them. If, however, they should prove
to be unpalatable they will only be
eaten as a matter of necessity and the
pig is hungry before it takes them.
This is not the correct idea in feeding
and the foods have therefore to be
made palatable or left out of the ra-
tion. In Great Britain, this idea is
closely followed and generally under-
stood as of importance and for this
reason we find a market for all of the
molasses we can spare. The coarse
molasses is in itself a food but is
mostly used for the reason that it will
tempt pigs or other animals to take
food that is good for them but not
as palatable as might be desired.
Molasses or sugar would doubtless
tend to make pigs appreciate bran and
some other valuable nitrogenous foods
of an unpalatable character but it
would seem to be (inprofitable when
other foods are at hand that are pal-
atable without the addition of a con-
diment. Corn and cornmeal are al-
ways palatable and for this reason it
is perhaps that corn has been so large-
ly used for hog feeding in addition
to the fact that it is the greatest fat-
tener we have. Among the palatable
nitrogenous foods are to be placed bar-
ley meal and middlings so that if pigs
do not like to eat bran there is no ex-
cuse for feeding corn too freely upon
the score of palatability. The corn
diet must be supplemented with ni-
trogenous food, hence a mixture of
cornmeal and the two other foods
mentioned will fill the bill and at the
same time be palatable and digestible.
When this kind of food is mixed with
milk or water to add the necessary
bulk the pig may be expected to eat
heartily and at the same time derive
ill of the requirements of a growing
animal from the food furnished. If
in addition to this complete food clov-
er pasture and abundance of exercise
be made Imperative the pig cannot
fail to grow into an adult animal that
can be safely finished upon corn and it
is to be expected that pigs fed in this
way and so furnished with robust, per-
fect frames and constitutions will
breed propensity being present—be
the kind of swine to make 15 pounds or
more of gain from every bushel of
corn fed.
Oenerons to CJaWeston.
Mrs. J. C. League of Galveston has
given $5,000, one-half the cost of re-
naiHmr the damage done the Ball
pairing the damage
high school in that city by the storm
of last September. She is a daughter
of George Ball, who gave the school
to the city.
If You Have Rheumatism
fiend no money, l>"t write l)r. Shuop. Radne. Wis.,
box 143 six buttles of Dr. Sboop'a HheamatU
6urc,express paid. If cured pay 5.50; If not ti Is Ires.
When
catau.
Too many ancestors have spoiled
many a good man.
cycling, take a bar of White's To-
You can ride further and easier.
The favorite llower of the fortune
hunter is marigold.
Mrs Wlnslow's Soothing Syrnp.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In-
Qaimuailuu, allays pain.cures wind colic. WeabuHIo
The shoe dealer is always on the
lookout for slipper3r customers.
Carter"* Ink.
Good Ink Is a necessity for good writing far-
ter's is the best. Costs co-more than poor lnlt
\
Doctors never disagree as to the size
of their bills.
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES pro
duce the fastest and brightest colors
of any known dye stuff.
Talk is cheap until you want to use
a long distance telephone.
Fiso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of ns
a cough cure.-J. W. OBaiEN, 322 Third Ave.,
N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900.
Life is too short to be wasted in
hatred and petty worries.
If everyone knew how good a remedy
was Hamlin's Wizard Oil its sales
would double In a day.
Memory is the tax-gatherer of the
past.
Red Cross Ball Blue Is better than
bottle or box blue and also much
cheaper. Large 2-oz. package 5 cents.
The educated pig did not acquire hie
knowledge in a day.
Take Garfield Tea for constipation;
it has this to recommend it: it is made
from health-giving herbs and it surely
cures. •'
It doesn't sharpen a man's wits to
keep his nose down to the grindstone.
Are Yon ITslug Allen's Fool Ease?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen s
Foot-Ease, a powder to be Ehaken into
the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoo
Stores 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y
The man who lives on top of a moun
tain shouldn't object to climate.
Spring Cleaning Made Easy.
Much of the terror of Spring Cleaning may
be avoidjd by good management. Settled
weather should be selected for the work, and
every thing necessary provided beforehand.
Ivory Soap will bo found best for washing
paints, floors and Windows; it is harmless
and very effective in making the house clean
and fresh.
ELIZA R. I'AUKEli
Loneliness of the Ocean*
Crowded though the ocean may M,
the iron four-masted sailing ship
Afghanistan managed to make a sev-
en months' voyage from San Francisco
to Liverpool without being spoken by
another vessel. Not a word was heard
irom her departure till she sailed up
the Mersey a few days ago.
Great Engineering Problem.
The plan of the Central Pacific rail-
road to cut off 107 miles by crossing
Great Salt lake involves a great en-
gineering problem. The lake has to be
crossed at a point where it is thirty-
two miles wide, trestle-work being
necessitated for the whole of the dis-
tance, excepting two miles across the
rocky Promontory point. The view
afforded passengers over the new route
will be novel and picturesque.
The farmer is in a position to make
more money out of fowls than any
other man. He has on his farm a vast
amount of food that would go to waste
were it not for the fowls he keeps.
In the summer time the forays of in-
sects often provides a valuable ration.
One man says that during the recent
incursion of grasshoppers his fowls
refused almost all other food. The
grain thrown out to them in the morn-
ing was left mostly untouched, and the
birds seemed anxious to get out of the
yards. As soon as free they ran and
flew to the fields in which the grass-
hoppers were numerous and began the
hunt for fresh meat. Not till they were
surfeited with the insect food did they
care to touch the grain they
have at will. Fowls so kept have a
food that is natural to them and that
will give them renewed vigor in the
digestive system. The fowls are also
good gleaners in the grain fields, and
know how to use the wlnnowings from
the threshing machines. As swine are
profitable to run after corn fed steers,
so poultry fowls are good to manu-
facture the waste products of the farm
into something that can be marketed
at a good price.—Farmers' Review.
Man's greed for gold was probably
the original germ of yellow fever.
Piano Keys*
Did you clean your ivory piano keys
and knife handles with alcohol. A so-
lution of two-thirds of alcohol and
one-third of sweet oil will take ink
stains from wood. But if they are
fresh stains and not large, before try-
ing that take a soft cloth, breathe up-
on the stain, then rub gently while the
spot is damp and soft from the breath,
and there are ten chances to one that
the spot will rub nut without trouble.
GoTsrnmsnt Will i'urulia.e Building,
The old Corcoran art gallery, at
Penn avenue and Seventh street, now
i rented for use by the United States
as the court of claims, is to be bought
by the government for $3,000,000. The
owners have been getting $10,000 a
year rental for it. The amount obtain-
ed from the sale will not be used to
buy pictures for the new Corcoran gal-
lery, but will be Invested. The lncomt
could ! only will be exoended.
World'* Fair Forestry Kililbltloae
The forestry department of the St
Louis fair intends to have an exhibi-
tion that will be an object Iesaion to all
who see It of the practical aide of wood
working in all its phases and branches.
It will show the woods of the country,
and the usee to which they are adapt-
ed; It will endeavor to show where
they grow, at what price the standing
timber can be bought, the size of the
tract, accessibility and everything that'
a prospective purotuder wotkld wfcat to
know.
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