You Alls Doins. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1901 Page: 2 of 8
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YOU ALLS DOINS.
MAKY L. STEVENS, Proprietor.
OKLAHOMA
LEXINGTON,
A flno specimen of the periophtal-
mus family, a spccies of fish that is
supposed to be confined strictly to Af-
rican waters, was recently caught near
Fernandina, Fla.
Italy's new coinage with the head of
Victor Emmanuel III. will be ready
soon. The dies have been cut by Ca-
valiere Speranza, the engraver of the
coins of King Humbert.
H. G. Wells, the novelist, has de-
signed a house for himself at Sandgate,
England, in which he prides himself
that nothing which can be done by
machinery will be done by hand.
"The Extirpation of Rabbits," "Heav-
en's Dead Letter Office" and "Revival
by Constitutional Methods," have been
recently announced in Australian
newspapers as subjects of Sunday dis-
courses. So it appears that America la
unfortunately not the only country
where sensational titles are chosen to
attract listeners to sermons.
The market for bridges is far great-
er in the United States than elsewhere.
The states have now 190,000 miles of
railways, and it has been estimated
that there is an average of one span
of metallic bridge for every three
miles of railway. This gives 63,000
bridges on existing lines, without in-
cluding those required for new lines.
To such an extent has the blackball-
ing practice grown in Paris that the
Union, which is the most fashionable,
exclusive and aristocratic club of the
French metropolis, has been obliged to
alter its method of election, and to
restrict the balloting to the governing
committee, instead of allowing the en-
tire club to take part therein, as here-
tofore.
DAIRY AND FOCI/fRY.
INTEHESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
flow FnccrKgfal Farmen Operate This
Depart ment of the huriif — A Few
Hint* at to the Care of Live block
ami Poultry.
Cattlemen in Greenwood county,
Kansas, are making hard times for
lawyers. They have established a sys-
tem of arbitrating differences. Three
men are chosen as an arbitration com-
mittee. They investigate the trouble
and make a decision, which is final.
A tuss involving $00,000 was settled at
Eureka last week by an arbitration
committee.
The daughter of Admiral Montojo,
who commanded the Spanish fleet at
the time of its destruction by Admiral
Dewey in Manila Bay, has just com-
mitted suicide by hanging at Genoa.
The admiral and her mother are now
living at Barcelona, and as she wrote
to them a long letter just before she
put an end to her days, they probably
are aware of the mysterious reasons
that prompted her to the deed.
Rather than lose his five-foot cue
Lee On, a New Y'ork Chinaman, who
jumped from a trolley car backward
lecentiy and received a fractured skull
in consequence, will return to Hong
Kong in a gaudy coffin. The surgeons
want to trephine Lee's skull and that
means a hair cut. Although a prosper-
ous Mott street merchant and well
versed in western ways, Lee thinks he
would rather die.
Courtesy for courtesy is, unfortu-
nately, not the motto of all shoppers.
During a recent month a large dry-
goods store sent out, in answer to re-
quests, thirteen hundred dollars' worth
of samples. Every package contained
a printed request to return samples af-
ter examination. The head of the de-
partment says that less than one-
tenth ever find their way back. "Where
are the nine?" is no new lament for
benefits forgot.
A mountain goat farm is a new busi-
ness in Center and Tioga counties, Pa.
A pioneer in the business opens with
cleared mountain land and 'a cosign-
ment of 1,000 white goats, costing $18
a head. The mountain cleared land
affords an ideal pasture for the hardy
animals. The New Mexican goats have
a good fur, their hides made a fine
leather, and the meat, for food, is said
to be delicious and most nutritious.
The pasture grounds of the goats are
inclosed with a wire fence.
The Revue de Paris contains some
very interesting details by Count de la
Vaulx about his projected balloon trip
across the Mediterranean. He says
"My balloon will be made of French
silk, which is much lighter than Chi-
nese pongee silk, and has quite as
much resistance. The car will be made
of rushes, and will measure two metres
eighty (.in., by three metres twenty,
and will be attached to the balloon in
the same way as is used by the mili-
tary balloonists at Chalals. The crew
of the balloon for the Mediterranean
voyage will be four in number—two
naval officers and aeronauts. The voy-
age will be made in June or July, when
the wind and sea are their calmest.
There will be preliminary trials, and
provisions for three weeks will be pre-
pared.
in some cities, is radically wrong. Milk
consumers are often informed throngh
the pubic press that certain dealers
have been prosecuted for selling adul-
terated, preserved or otherwise impure
milk and they get so much informa-
tion of this kind that they are led to
believe that milk is a dangerous article
of food and should be avoided as much
as possible. It seems to us entirely
practicable to give prominence to the
well-conducted dairies, so that the
public will also be occasionally re-
minded that it is possible to obtain
pure milk, In doing this, it is not
necessary to lessen the vigilance over
the dishonest dealers.
There is coming a decided change
in the whole character of dairy work.
Every year dairymen and butter and
cheesemakers are becoming better
posted and no cause is working to this
end with better results than the dairy
associations and schools. These agen-
cies, which are similar to influences in
other states, are helping to lift the pro-
fession to a more dignified position
^than it has held.
now to Clean Cans.
George H. Blake, in his book on
"Common Sense Ideas for Dairymen,"
says:
"The cans, pails, dippers, in short,
every utensil that comes in contact
with the milk, should not only be
thoroughly washed, but they should be
immersed in boiling water for several
minutes. The seams and joints in all
utensils should be filled with solder
plumb with the surface of the vessel,
as these small receptacles form excel-
lent breeding places for ail kinds of
germs. To many these precautions
may seem unnecessary, but they are
not, for analysis shows that milk put
into cans that have been treated in
this manner, contains a much smaller
number of bacteria per cubic centi-
meter than does milk from the same
lot put into cans washed in the usual
way; and it will remain sweet from six
to twelve hours longer. In many
communities the same cans in which
milk is taken to the factory are used
in carrying home sour milk and whey.
While this is a custom that should not
be encouraged, it cannot always be
avoided; but when practiced it is
doubly important that the cans should
be thoroughly boiled before they are
again used for milk. Milk is often
taken to the factory in cans covered
with a green coating inside of the neck
and along the seams; such cans are
alive with destructive organisms; and
to have them in such condition shows
unpardonable neglect. Milk put into
such a receptacle for a single moment;
besides, its mixing at the factory with
other milk is sure to infect the whole
lot, often resulting in much inconven-
ience and pecuniary loss. Where the
cans are taken home empty it is ad-
visable to wash them at the factory,
where steam can be used in steriliz-
ing them. It should not be necessary
for the creamery management to em-
ploy an extra man to do this work; a
wash box and steam jet can be pro-
vided, and the farmer be permitted to
The ~ el at Ion of Feed to the Flavor of
KRgi.
Farmers' Bulletin 122, U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture:—Housewives
who use many eggs and all who habit-
ually eat them boiled know that there
is much difference in the flavor of even
those which are undeniably fresh.
There is a very general belief that the
flavor is influenced by the feed which
the hens receive and that materials
possessing strong flavors, like onions,
turnips, etc., impart an injurious fla-
vor to the eggs. The truth of this be-
lief was shown by recent experiments
at the North Carolina Station.
Chopped wild onion tops and bulbs
were fed to hens and the length of
time before there was a change in the
flavor of the eggs was noted, as well as
the length of time which must elapse
after onion feeding was discontinued
before the very objectionable flavor
would disappear. At the beginning of
the trial a half ounce of chopped
onion tops per head daily was fed to
12 hens of different breeds. Repeated
tests did not show any onion flavor in
the eggs until the fifteenth day, when
it wa3 distinctly noticeable. The
amount of onion fed was doubled for
four days and then discontinued, 'ihe
eggs laid while the larger amount of
onion was fed were so strongly fla-
vored that they could not be used.
After discontinuing the feeding of
onfons the flavor became less notice-
able and in a week the eggs were of
normal flavor. The main point brought
out by the tests was that flavor can
be fed into the eggs. Therefore it ap-
pears that to insure finely flavored
eggs it is necessary to restrict runs so
that no considerable amount of food
which will produce badly flavored eggs
can be obtained.
Some years ago the New York Cor-
nell station, in studying the effect of
nitrogenous vs. carbonaceous food for
poultry, reported observations on the
effect of the different rations on the
flavor of the eggs. One lot of fowls
was fed a mixture of wheat shorts, cot-
ton-seed meal and skim milk; another
lot cracked corn and corn dough.The
former ration contained much more
nitrogen than the latter. The hens
fed corn laid fewer eggs than those fed
the nitrogenous ration, but the eggs
were larger. The eggs produced by
the nitrogenous ration were of a dis-
agreeable flavor and smell, had a
small yolk, and did not keep well. The
flesh of the poultry fed this ration,
however, was darker, more succulent
and tender than that of the fowls fed
the carbonaceous ration.
These experiments also show that
the food has a marked effect on the|wash his own cans. When this is
flavor of eggs. The general experience ^ ^ ghou]d bp dogely coy.
of poultry raisers is that nitrogenous ^ ^ & tQ keep QUt the
rations are more profitable to feed wMle returning {rom the factory.
since they produce a larger number or |
eggs. In view of the fact that such
ration, if too rich in nitrogen, may
produce eggs of unpleasant flavor, it
would seem advisable to note the ef-
fect of any ration fed upon flavor, and
modify it, if the eggs are found to be
inferior in this respect.—C. F. Lang-
worthy.
Improvement* In Dairy Method*.
R. A. Pearson of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, says:
The dairy industry has not been
backward in making changes in the
past few decades. This is a fact of
common observation, and it is plainly
shown by statistics. In 1860 the cheese
output of the country was about 100,-
000,000 pounds and only a small part
of this was made in the five factories
theii in existence. It is estimated that
the census just completed will show
that the amount of cheese made in the
United States has increased to 300,000,-
000 pounds, 85 per cent of it now being
made in factories. Thus we see that in
cheesemaking the change from farm to
factory methods has been almost com-
plete. In 1860 the butter output was
nearly 460,000,000 pounds, all of which
was made on farms. It is believed the
last census will show the annual output
of butter to have increased to 1,400,-
000,600 pounds, one-fifth of which was
made in factories. There is yet an im-
mense amount of farm dairy butter on
our markets and much of it is sold at
a low price, which means a tremendous
loss to those who make it. High grade
butter is made in some farm dairies,
but a large part of farm dairy butter,
packed in various forms is purchased
by dealers for renovation.
Every dairyman is more or less fa-
miliar with changes in apparatus and
methods which have been made in his
own line of work. The method of but-
termaking is being almost revolution-
ized by the centrifugal cream separa-
tor, the Babcock tester and new meth-
ods of ripening cream.
With a few notable exceptions, there
has recently been but little change in
the method of supplying milk for city
use. We think that the system of su-
pervising city milk supply, as followed
The VTatoT Cinpply,
Although it is true that cattle and
even horses will frequently leave pure
drinking water to imbibe the "tea"
that seeps away from manure piles one
should not argue from this that such j
drinking water is harmless or bene-
ficial. The fact of the matter is that
animals may apparently suffer no ill
effects for months from drinking con-
taminated water but there invariably
comes a time when the ill effects be-
come only too apparent to the owner.
The time alluded to is when some dis-
ease attacks the animals. On one farm
the disease will run a benign course
with few victims, but on another farm
in the district the same trouble will
take on a virulent type and sweep the
animals away in a wholesale manner.
The cause of the latter virulence is
very commonly the long continued use
of contaminated water. Its prolonged
use vitiates the system of the animal,
renders the blood impure and so ren-
ders the victim a prey to the disease.
Every seed does best in favorable soil
and so the germs of disease proliferate
most successfully in the seed bed fur-
nished by sluggish, impure blood. It
is often for the reason just assigned
that colt distemper (strangles) on one
farm takes a mild form and on an-
other kills all the colts- it attacks; and
where the latter is the case medicines
rarely do much good as it is too late
to mend matters. Where animals are
allowed to drink impure water we gen-
erally note characteristic appearances
which tell the story to the trained eye.
Horses are troubled with stocked legs,
kidney troubles, indigestion and
diarrhoea. The result of these things
is seen in a staring coat of hair, lack
of appetite, dullness and lack of vim
and vigor and above all perhaps, pro-
fuse sweating when at work and in-
ability to withstand the hot rays of
the sun in summer. Pregnant animals
are liable to abort when made to
drink contaminated water and tlieir
offspring when born alive are usually
puny, sickly, "living abortions." We
might mention many other evil effects
of impure drinking water but enough
has been said; it remains to point out
some common impurities. Of these
the most common is sewage and its
presence is always dangerous. As sew-
age is of organic nature it may be
detected in drinking water by taking
a sample of water in a clear glass bot-
tle, corking it and setting in the sun.
After a time the cork being removed
a smell is noticed and water so con-
taminated has a brownish or reddish
color. Pure water should have prac-
tically no color but if any a bluish
cast. It should have no smell and no
taste the only thing that can be tasted
in the water in such small quantities
that it is innocuous is iron. A more
delicate test for organic matters is
to color water faintly with perman-
ganate of potash and then heat it. If
organic matters are present the color
will vanish. Where contamination by
leechings of the manure pile or out-
house is suspected the matter may be
settled by pouring kerosene upon the
pile or into the other receptacle from
which it will find its way into the well
water and be easily tasted. Water is
often rendered so hard by the pres-
ence of lime as to be injurious to
stock, causing stone or gravel in the
bladder of horses .and particularly of
sheep, with other troubles such as In-
digestion, goitre, and deposits of bony
substance at the joints, such as spavin.
Water is frequently contaminated by
the large flocks of pigeons whose drop-
pings get into eave troughs and so into
cisterns, etc. Water Is a common
source of the many parasites infesting
the intestinal tract and stomachs of
animals so that drinking places used
by adult animals should not be used
for young animals that are more like-
ly to be seriously affected by worms
which do not so seriously affect fully
matured animals. In short it is of
the greatest importance to provide the
purest of drinking water not only for
man but for animals in order to main-
tain health and to enable them to
throw off disease when it does happen
to attack them.
Demand for Cavalry Hnrsef.
The horse resources of this country
are being severely taxed. We have
frequently alluded to the westward
movement to the Orient and the large
numbers going out of sight that way.
Now it is telegraphed from Wyoming
that an agent of the Mexican govern-
ment came to Cheyenne, about two
weeks ago, and since that, time has
purchased several carloads of saddle
horses, which have been shipped to the
City of Mexico. The agent will say
nothing as to his real purpose in buy-
WOBLD IS GROWING BETTER.
Facts and Figures That Ought to Stagger
the Pessimists.
There is a more general feeling now
than formerly that the world is grow-
ing better instead of worse. Optimists
certainly have a-pretty substantial bas-
is for thinking so when the financial
statistics of the church work going
on in every community are considered.
According to the latest figures obtain-
able from the religious bodies, it is
found that the annual expenditure for
Christian churches throughout the
world is a little over $1,000,000,000. It
is impossible to conceive that any con-
siderable portion of this large sum is
being wasted. The hospitals, orphan-
ages, new churches, institutions and
missions must be productive of good,
results, and therefore bettering the
religious and moral conditions of the
masses. In the United States last year
the cost of maintaining Christian in-
terests is reported as being nearly
$300,000,000, says the Boston Globe. In
round numbers the Catholics head the
list with $31,000,000, then come the
Methodists, $26,000,000; Presbyterians,
$20,000,000; Episcopalians, $14,000,000;
Baptists. $12,000,000, and so on, down
to the Salvation Army, with $750,000.
Other important items are new build-
ings, etc., $37,000,000; hospitals, $28,-
000,000; education, $21,(100,000, and
Sunday schools, $7,000,000. What \
contrast is presented between the
above amounts and the fact that in
1800 the value of the 2 340 churches
in America was $1,500,000. Today we
have in this country 187,481 churches,
with a value cf $724,971,372. Every re-
ligious denomination seems to be mak-
ing good progress in its work, and tha
world cannot help being better for it.
—Chicago News.
that the layer will be mature enough
to drop eggs by November—which
means a big difference in the money
yield of the fowl the first year.
The co-operative creamery has this
advantage over the individual cream-
ery, that it scatters the profits among
many homes. It has this disadvan-
tage, that it is many-headed and fre-
quently collapses on account of fric-
tion among its many owners. Co-op-
eration is something of an art and
frequently has to be learned by severe
lessons.
Fatten and market the old sheep;
keep those that are full of vigor.
AS TO NEftVES.
Poultry Briefs.
This is the time of the year when
the red mites are multiplying with
great rapidity. They must be looked
out for or losses are certain. Especial-
ly should the sitting hens be looked
after, as it vVill not take more than a
week for red mites to suck a sitting
hen to death after they once find the
way to the nest. Every year numerous
sitting hens are lost from this cause.
* * •
It seems to be the experience of all
breeders of all kinds of poultry that
the eggs from young fowls do not pro-
duce so strong chicks as do the eggs
from more mature birds. Therefore it
is best to select for breeders birds that
are at least in their second year of life.
A continuation of this kind of selec-
tion will most certainly give a hardier
race, which is needed in about Svery
breed we raise.
• • •
A good many farmers permit their
chicks to look out for themselves after
the first few weeks, where there is
good farm range. They say it does the
chicks good to have to hunt their food.
Doubtless this is true. But no matter
how well such chicks do or how
healthy they become, they will not de-
velop into early winter layers without
extra attention. The ordinary food a
fowl can pick up will develop the layer
about February. But if meat rneal be
fed daily in considerable quantities , j- >■ „„„ but )t"ls a signlfl.
the development will be so Hurried | ^ ^ ,ha( ,iasf.s (iIlIy the
1 " very best saddle horses and animals
that would readily be accepted by the
United States government for cavalry
service. The prices paid are in some
cases fancy, and the agent, seem* to
have plenty of money. However that
may be we see in It another indication
of the fact that fine, shapely and ac-
tive horses are good property and that
we ought to be making more of them
in this country about these days Amid
other expansions of good products let
those who know how to produce good
horses, and have conditions suiting
ueh production, give attention to this
matter.—Pacific Rural Press.
They Are a Valuable Asset When Ui-
plomacy Is Needed.
Some friends of mine live in an
apartment house—the housekeeping
apartment kind of house—down town.
The arrangements for laundry work
are limited and the occupants of tho
flats take Mondays turn about. If Mrs.
A. washes on Monday this week, she
lets Mrs. B. take that day next week
and contents herself with Tuesday.
Mrs. C., whose linen is laundered on
Wednesday this week, has washing
done on Monday week after next. Tho
arrangement is complicated, but gave
great satisfaction till Mrs. D. moved
into the top flat. On the first Monday
she took possessf"n of the laundry in
person, for she V I no maid of all
work. The second Monday she pre-
pared to do the same thing, though it
was Mrs. A.'s turn. Mrs. A.'s maid is
Irish, nearly 6 feet tall and weighs
about 200. She refused to vacate the
laundry. Mrs. 1). went upstairs in
tears. Presently Mr. D. came down to
claim the place l'or his wife. He up-
braided Mrs. A.'s maid for her con-
duct and insisted that his wife must
have her way. "Mrs. 1). is so very
nervous," he said, "that I can't have
her annoyed. You must gi\>- way i i
her. She's eo exceedingly nervous,
you see." Mrs. A.'.s maid reported the
conversation to Mrs. A. li'. .. And
what did you .say to him. Anne asked
the mistress. "Faith, mum, said tho
msid, "I told him I was th" most ner-
vous lady on the block. Indeed,' says
I, 'I'm that nervous that I can't an-
swer for the consequences if 1 bes
crossed.' And it's my clothes are out
now, mum."—Washington Post.
How He lieramc a Painter.
It is related of a former president of
the Royal Academy, Sir Francis Grant,
that, in spite of his early love of paint-
ing, he made law his first serious study.
But when his youngest brother joined
the army he painted a portrait of him
in ♦.ill uniform and on horse-back,
which was so greatly admired in the
family circle that he suddenly resolv-
ed to abandon law, for which he had
no liking, and take to art. When his
"coach" came next day Francis told
him of his change of plan. The tutor
took it as a good joke, and, sitting
down, opened the books for a course
of "cram." Grant thereupon flung
books and papers into tt>e fire, to the
astonishment of his teacher, who left
the house angry and annoyed, and was
paid off next day.
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Envy is the dyspasia of the mind
\n Ashamed City.
The Chronicle states that gold was
first found in Bendigo by an old shep-
j herd, who being pugnacious, was ehris-
1 tened by his comrades Bendigo, after
the pugilist. We believe, says Hip Ath-
enian, that the place was called Bandi-
coot creek; that, when the runti oc-
curred, the diggers, mostly Californi-
■ ans, not acquainted with the Austrn.ll-
1 an animal after which the creek was
called, corrupted the name into that
i of the well-known Nottingham pugl-
l list. The most interesting fact about
i the place, however, is that win a it
, grew respectable it became a ban r 1 of
, its name, changed It, and, lately,
i thinking that the earlier name was,
a>r all, racy of Australian life, de-
j liberately reverted to it. San Frau*
' cisto Bulletin.
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