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Y0L;X VI. PLYMOUTH, JH, C. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1906. NO, 4(5.
THE BREAKING PLOW.
t m the p7ow that turns the sod
That has lain for a thousand years:
Where the prairie's wind tossed flowera
nod
And the wolf her wild cub rears.
I come, and in my wake, like rain,
Is scattered the golden eeed;
I change the leagues of lonely plain
To fruitful gardens and fields of grain
For men and their hungry breed.
I greet the earth in its rosy morn,
I am first to stir the soil,
I bring the glory of wheat and corn
For the crowning of those who toil;
I am civilization's seal and sign,
Yea, I am the mighty pen
That writes the sod with a pledge divine,
A promise to pay with bread and wine
1 or the sweat of honest men.
I am the? end of things that were.
And the birth of things to be:
I.v coning makes the earth to'stir
With a new and strange decree;
COB P.O.
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BABILLA
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HE Market Street Ferry
k , Station is to San Francisco
0 I O what Brooklyn Bridge is to
A New York, the great artery
VwO of. its life tides, morning
ju id evening- Of the thousands -who
foregather hero," not a few must know
Babilla laughing-eyed little Babilla,
ho sells flowers. She has been there
lor a year or more, but her home was
far down the coast of Central America,
n ml the story of her coming to San
Francisco is a strange one.
San ."lose de Gautemala is the seaport
on the west coast of the sadly misgov
erned little republic of that name. San
-lose itself consists merely of a rusty
iron pier, a few warehouses, the con
sulate, and a ramshackle railway sta
tion. There is ' no ' harbor. merely a
hug. straight shore-line of disintegrat
ing sandstone,, with the whole Pacific
yean outside. Harbors are few and
far between along that dreary coast.
Behind, thirty miles inland, rise the
grand cones of Agua and Atitlan, the
twin volcanoes of Guatemala, 12,000
feet in height, descending in a mag
nificent sweep to where Old Guatemala
lies in ruins.
A little narrow guage railroad ex
tends from San Jose up into the coun
try to New Guatemala, the capital,
fthc .business of the. line is -chiefly to
bring down coffee for shipment by
ssjoamer to Panama and Snn Francisco.
!;The steamers those of the German
Cosmos line and of the Pacific Mail
': line-have "to anchor three-quarters of
n mile offshore, and when the weather
permits, tak.e in or discharge cargo by
moans of lighters of from twenty to
forty Ions burden.
.These craft are rigged for stepping
n mast, and carry a sheaf of long oars,
bVt are usually towed back and forth
from the steamers to the pier by a
small tug the only steam vessel owned
by Guatemala. Each lighter has its
s..'. JU-U-ie-painted at the bows.
When there are no steamers In port
they lie at anchor, or tied to buoys,
.iust offshore. Great care must be
taken in securing them, for if they go
adrift a refluent undercurrent of the
vast, hcavfgg,- restless expanse draws
them away. In a few hours they dis
appear to seaward, and in some cases
have sever been seen or heard of after
ward.U The Pacific has taken them.
Kitherf they are swamped at sea in
stormf,-or dpift to the shores of distant
islands or continents.
It Was here at San Jose-on-the-Coast
ihat iittje Babilla Mais lived and
gained a'ijivelihood by coming off to
steamers to sell to the passengers green
Mexican parrots with yellow heads,
also frijoles and sea-shells, but chiefly
parrots.
Down at La Union, on the Gulf of
Fonseea, and at La Libertad the par
rot girls come off in canoes. But here
t San Jose the sea is too rough for
ranoes, and the jefe of the port al
lowed Babilla a nook in the stern of
the lighter Amiga for her poie of par
rots and her rush basket of shells and
frijoles.
When a steamer came down the
' 'coast, and the Amigo had gone off to it
with a-thousand sacks of coffee, then
Jbibillu's mellow little voice might be
hoard raised entreatingly, and her
''small brown face be seen upturned to
the high rail, her black hair, bound
Lack with" a rod fillet, as she "cried:
" "Loros! Loros bonitos! Habladores!
Trrs pesos solamente! Loritos dulces!"
Parrots! Pretty parrots! Such talk
ers! Only, three dollars apece! Such
sweet little dears!) '
Then' she would add; iu most endear
ing, low accents, "Do buy a bird of
nie!''
Tin? parrots, climbing clumsily on
1 heir pokVi-Vynild reach forward and
take orange. seeds from Babilla's small
luyuihy oiMicstle up to her cheek. But
they would- bite the nose off any one
else quickly -enough; '
Tenia's "'brotljrr, Pedrillo, caught
'fife parrots in the forests op the'mopn
t a Inside, and' it was a joyful day when
1es.childrcu could sell one for three
silver dollars or it would have been
but for Fablo Mais, their father, who
was a lnzy follow with a thirst for
liicstal, and moreover a. gambler and
After its slumbers, deep and long,
I waken the drowsy sod,
And sow my furrow with lifts of song
To glad the heart of the mighty throng
Slow feeling the way to God.
'A thousand summers the prairie rose
Has gladdened the hermit bee,
A thousand winters the drifting snows
Have whitened the grassy sea:
Before me curls the wavering smoke
Of the Indian's smouldering fire,
Behind me rise was it God who spoke?
At the toil enchanted hammer's stroke.
The town and the glittering spire.
I give the soil to the one wri does,
For the joy of him and bis,
I rouse the slumbering world that was
To the diligent world that is;
Oh, Seer with vision that looks away
A thousand years from now,
The marvelous nation your eyes survey
"Was born of the purpose that here to-day
Is guiding the breaking plow!
. Nixon Waterman, in Success.
" " 1.22
STEPHENS
a scamp. Tablo laid heavy tribute on
all the parrot money.
On March 13, last year. Babilla had
been off all day alongside the Pacific
Mail steamer City of Sydney, and had
sold two parrots. The lighter did not
get its cargo out until after dark.
When finally it was towed back empty
to its buoy, Babilla did not wish to go
ashore. The Werra of the Cosmos
line was looked for early the next
morning.
The real reason, perhaps, was that
she and Pedrillo did not wish their
father to take the money from them.
They wanted to buy food and clothes
with it, and they had planned that if
Babilla had sold more than one parrot
she was to remain on the lighter until
after dark, and that Pedrillo was to
come off in a boat and get the money
to buy tbe things they needed.
Not later than S o'clock that evening
Pedrillo went off to the lighter and got
the money from Babilla. He carried
her a tortilla and some oranges for her
parrots, of which she still had five left.
When be had gone Babilla fed her
parrots, and settled herself comforta
bly on some coffee sacks in the deep
lighter - to pass the night March
nights are warm at San Jose, where the
pole-star shows but a hand's breadth
above, the-northern horizon. The great
swell of the -Pacific' slowly rocked the
lighter, heaving it ponderously at its
anchorage; but Babilla was used to
the Pacific swell. She felt quite safe
out there, and. fell-asleep as she lay
giving little 'conversation lessons to her
green birds,
And that was the last seen of Ba
billa or the lighter Amigo at San Jose
de Guatemala! -.
What happened was something like
this:
The Amigo slipped its cable and
drifted out to sea, probably as early
as 10 or 11 o'clock that night. But as
it rose cn the swells, much as when
at anchor, Babilla slept tili 4 or 5
o'clock the nexc morning.
A flying-fish, falling into the lighter
with a sputter of water on her face,
wakened her. Opening her eyes, she
saw the white-finned little creature
flopping about, and that seemed strange
to Babilla, for flying-fish are. usually
met with out at sea. Hastily she
climbed up the inside cleats of the
lighter and looked over the rail.
The great volcanoes looming against
the already brightening east were what
she first saw. San Jose, with its pier
and warehouses, was already below
the horizon. All round her heaved the
open ocean, with two sea-gulls hover
ing "over, their bright eyes turned in
quisitively down upon her.
.. Barilla knew instantly what had hap
pened: she had often heard of lighters
going adrift. Terrible fear fell on her.
The great oars, the mast and sail, all
were beyond her strength. There was
nothing that she could do in that huge,
clumsy lighter but feed her parrots
and husband her little stack of frijoles.
And that was the beginning of Ba
balla's voyage of nearly live days. The
vagrant ocean current was bearing the
lighter' northward instead of the south,
as was conjectured at San Jose; and
for this reason, probably, the tug failed
to fall in with it.
About noon that day Babilla saw a
sail at a great distance. It may have
been one of the fishing boats.
Toward night the mountains locked
misty and farther off. The next morn
ing they were still in sight, but more
to the southeast. The weather was
calm; the Amigo rose and fell lazily on
the great swells.
Babilla had four of the six oranges
which Pedrillo had brought her. The
tortilla she had eaten, but her little
tstack of five or six round frijoles was
still iu her rush basket, and out astern
there was a bucket containing three
or four quarts cf not very clean, fresh
water, from which the lightermen had
drunk the previous day. Such wore
Babilla's "provisions" for her voyage!
When I asked her whether she, had
felt very much alarmed or very lonely,
Babilla turned silent, as if it "wore
paiifful to talk of it. As yet she does
not speak English fluently.
"I did a tiburon see!" she exclaimed,
after a pause; and that I found was
iW BsSA
m mmmmmmmi
a shark, which swam round the lighter
with its back tin out of water.
Babilla thought that this shark heard
her parrots screaming, for she attempt
ed to husband her oranges giving them
but one that day, with the result that
they squalled constantly, and evinced
so strong a disposition to fly out of
the lighter that she tied each by the
leg to the pole.
With the five parrots screeching in
side the heaving lighter and a shark
coursing round outside it. life on the
Amigo was not exactly jolly.
The night following was quite une
ventful, the parrots being more quiet
after it grew dark, even on short ra
tions. They began again at daybreak,
however, and were but slightly ap
peased by an orange. When Babilla
essayed to break her own fast on a
frijole, they squalled frightful remon
strances, bit the pole, and tugged at
their strings.
The uproar they made called down
an unlooked-for response. With a
whistling scream, a large, tierce-looking
bird suddenly made its appearance,
and alighted on the rail above Babilla's
head. She cried out to frighten it
away, but the big bird dashed at her
parrots, and then rose with a mighty
flap of its broad wings, clutching a
wildly shrieking parrot in the talons of
each foot the strings snapping like
threads! The bird was perhaps an
eagle at sea, and hungry from long
fasting.
After a flight round the lighter, the
eagle again settled near the bows, to
tear the parrots in pieces and eat them.
With a fragment of a boat pole that
lay in the bottom, Babilla attacked and
drove the savage bird away. But it
constantly returned- to alight on the
rail probably because it had no other
place to go. In the end the girl was
obliged to witness the progress of its
gory meal off her pets.
Not until it had finished did the eagle
soar away and leave her in peace.
Pole in hand, she watched for its re
turn during much of the remainder of
the day.
As an evidence that parrots possess
considerable intelligence. I record Ba
billa's statement that the three sur
vivors afterward remained very quiet
and subdued, scarcely venturing to
squall.
That night the sea was rougher for
several hours, with wind from the
southeast. The lighter rocked and
plunged violently. At daylight Babilla
could barely distinguish the two vol
canoes, now low in the dim blue dis
tance. The lighter was drifting farther
and farther to sea.
' One of the parrots died that forenoon.
Babilla had fallen asleep, for during
the night Hie sea had boon too rough
to sleep. When she waked, the parrot
was hanging head downward, by his
string, quite dead, having fallen off the
pole.
Toward afternoon the sea became
unusually smooth, and Babilla again
fell asleep. A dash of water into the
lighter waked her, and she heard a
moaning sound that seemed to come
from the water beneath. Climbing up
to the rail, she was greatly alarmed to
see the back of a huge creature roil up
out of the sea close at bund. It was
larger than the lighter.
This one had no more than gone
down when another rose near by, and
with a soft, whistling sound sent a
white jet of water high in the air. It
was a whale blowing. The lighter was
in the midst of a school of whales.
They were rising and spouting on ail
sides. .
One of them seemed curious, and
poked the lighter with his big head re
peatedly. Then it sounded, and in do
ing so hurled up torrents of water,
most of which came in over the rail
in one huge douche! Babilla's terror
can hardly be described. But the
whales did not long accompany the
lighter, and did it no injury."
Early in the morning of the fifth
day Babilla was asleep when the Cos
mos line steamer Alene. bound from
Mazatlan to San Francisco, sighted
the lighter, and coming alongside, took
it in tow. The German sailors were
astonished at finding Babilla aboard,
and made a great deal of her and her
parrots. She had the best the ship
afforded.
Six days later Babilla reached San
Francisco. Naturally she wished to gti
home, and the captain promised ta
take her back to San Jose on his next
trip south.
But this was before she had been
ashore. When the Alene was in port
Babilla went and came as she pleased,
and the Sisters of a convent induced
her to go home with them. She sold
her "talker" parrot for twenty dollars
and the other for ten; and, strange to
say, she entirely changed her mind
about going back!
Babilla found San Francisco a very
satisfactory place in which to liv:-;.
Now she is saving her money to send
for Pedrillo. Youth's Companion
Weird Muscovito Humor.
The Russian high admiral was vexed.
"Why," he asked of the naval secre
tary, -"have you drawn on the sinking
fund for these battleship expanses':" -
"Well.'1 'answered the oltk-ial. evas
ively, "I did it for divers reasons."
But the explanation didn't go down
with the admiral, and the functionary
was soaked. Cleveland Leader,
In Greenland wornon vv.iu1; tlielrfacs3
blue and yellow.
A silver solution, called collangol, has
been used successfully in Germany in
the treatment of appendicitis.
An Englishman in Paris named
Crabbe has invented a paper waist
coat, which is designed as a protection
against chills. The garment weighs
only an ounce and a half, and can be
folded so as to go into an ordinary en
velope. A device has been patented in Aus
tralia whereby a number of radial or
curved V-scctioned vanes of blades are
disposed between the hub and rim of
the wheel of a cycle for the purpose
of assisting the propulsion of the ve
hicle by means of the air currents in
duced by the vanes.
The Paris Journal offers prizes to
makers of automobiles for (1) a field
gun mounted on an automobile car
riage; (2) an automobile wagon for the
rapid transport of field pieces mounted
on the carriage at present in use, and
(3) an automobile wagon for bringing
up provisions and ammunition.
Tinfoil as a wrapping material for
fatty matters and other articles is
being largely replaced iu Germany by a
kind of parchment paper coated with
aluminum. The aluminum is made to
adhere by spirit varnish and pressing
by rollers, and the so-called aluminum
paper is cheaper than tinfoil.
An inventive genius has patented a
detachable fur collar for overcoats, and
some local clothing manufacturers
think highly of it. It fastens over the
permanent collar with flaps, and when
adjusted it would puzzle an expert to
detect its on and off feature. The
economy herein presented is obvious.
He Was Patient.
Bishop Ellison Capers, in an address
at Columbus, S. C, praised the virtue
of patience.
"We may have industry." he said,
"sobriety, ambition all the virtues
that make for success, and yet without
patience we will accomplish nothing.
"A young man was overheard on a
street corner the other right reproach
ing a young girl. That young man was
patient. He had so highly developed
this excellent quality that I shall not
be surprised some day to see him a mil
lionaire, a college president or even a
bishon.
"The young man said, as the young
girl drew near him, on the corner:
" 'What a time you have kept me
waiting.'
"The girl tossed her head.
" 'It is only 7 o'clock,' she said, 'and
I didn't promise to be here till a quar
ter of.'
"The young man smiled a calm and
patient smile.
" 'Ah, yes,' he said, 'but you have
mistaken the day. I have been waiting
for you since last evening.' ''Cleve
land Leader.
Faith in God's Promise.
When Koine was closely invested by
Hannibal's victorious army, nothing so
encouraged the despondent Romans,
nothing struck such terror to the
hearts of the Carthaginians, as the
news which was brought to Hannibal
that the land upon which his camp
was pitched had been sold that day in
the Forum for a good price. So great
a confide nee had some public-spirited
Roman in the ultimate triumph of
Rome.
There is a similar story in the thirty
second chapter of Jeremiah. While the
army of the King of Babylon was be
sieging Jerusalem, Jeremiah bought the
field that was in Anathoth in the land
of Benjamin, and weighed out the
money, oven seventeen shekels of sil
ver. He dclievered the deed of the
purchase unto Baruch before all the
Jews that sat in the court of the guard.
"For thus saith the. Lord of hosts, the
God of Israel: Houses and fields and
vineyards shall yet again bo bought in
this land." Ram's Horn.
He Understood.
He was unshaven and unclean seedy
and very shabbily dressed. He stood
disconsolately on a street corner. He
had had a bad day of it and was won
dering where there was a corner where
the nickels 'and dimes would flow
more plentifully. As he was about to
cross the street he noticed a kindly,
motherly looking woman approaching.
Assuming a most woebegone, destitute
expression he took his stand on the
curb and tentatively proffered his
greasy palm. She produced a nickel
and said: ' '
"Now. I want you to understand that
I am giving you this not because I
think you may be starving or from any
foolish notions of charity, 'bat simply
because it gives me pleasure to do so."
"Well, niu in," he replied,1 "if you
look at it that way, why not make it a
dime and have a real jolly good time."
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Alsatian city of Maul:nu?h not
only provides free baths for its school
children, but free medical inspection
and Cental treatment.
SOUTHERN FARM.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER. STOCKMAN ANO TRUCK GROWER,
The Onion Crop. I
Since there are many . buyers of
onions in this Piedmont country the
crop is increasing in importance. There
have been some wonderful yields re
ported, especially in Texas, in which
State an acre has been made to pro
duce $1000 worth. This Is a good cli
mate for onions. With a little pains
they can be kept well during the warm
summer. The usual way to raise them
is from small sets. The red and yel
low varieties are generally considered
best. The sets may be put out Octo
ber 1 to December l,or in open wea
ther in February. The way to raise
sets with least trouble is to select a
thin piece of land that will not pro
duce grass and weeds. Poor lands
make the best sets. Plant the seed in
rows about a foot apart, putting a
little fertilizer or finely pulverized
manure in the hill. Cultivate them
several times. They will be ready to
gather as soon a the tops die. . Solid
sets, a half inch in diameter, are best
size. The intensive system of culture
should be used for onions. That is.
they should be planted thick and high
ly manured. If the rows are a foot
apart and the sets twelve inches apart,
5133 may be raised on one-eighth of
an acre, or a plat G0x91 feet. The
potato onion is the heaviest yielder,
and will make about three times as
many as the sets. The best plan to
get sets is to plant the seed thick under
cover, p.nd then transplant them. That
plan is not practiced in the South.
The onion demands nearly equal quan
tities of nitrogen and phosphoric acid,
and twice as much potash as nitrogen.
Wood ashes worked into the soil will
furnish the, potash and lime necessary
for onions. If commercial fertilizers
are used, the phosphoric acid and nitro
gen should be about equal and twice
the quantity of potash. For one
eighth of an acre about 200 to 230
pounds of a fertilizer that would show
five per cent, each of phosphoric acid
and ammonia and eight per cent, of
potash would be about right.
Lessons For Southern Farmers.
1. The South should never buy
Western corn. To do so is an acr
knowledgement of a dismal failure to
make use of the abundant bestow
nients of nature upon the Southern
States in the way of soils and cli
mates. 2. Too much money is expended for
commercial fertilizers. This could be
greatly reduced by using home-made
manures and by plowing under green
crops, which would add humus to the
soil and benefit its physical condition.
3. The failure to produce ,meat
enough to supply the population should
be utterly condemned by every sensible
man. Some of the finest grazing lands
in America are in the Southern States,
and the capacity of the soil to produce
corn, cowpeas, peanuts and other for
age and green crops suitable for fat
tening cattle and hogr, not to mention
the indigenous grasses, renders the
present practices unwise and fatal to
continued prosperity among the plant
ers. 4. The cropping system is most de
moralizing, both to land-owner and la
borer, destroying the habits of system
atic industry in th- Istter, and a most
effectual preventive to the carrying
out of a proper rotation of crops, fer
tilization of the land and a judicious
supervision of the land-owner. The
practice of tenant farming is the fre
quent cause of agricultural depression.
The country store becomes the creditor
of master and tenant, supplying food
and raiment and all other necessities
at a rate of interest or profit so great
as-to consume all the profits which
should be derived from the crops. A
cash basis should be established and
the. credit system destroyed. It would
bring about a golden era for the cot
ton States, as it is now doing for the
corn-growing States. Col. J. B. Kille
brew. . Indigestion.
Almost every week we are called on
to give remedies for. fowls troubled
with liver disease in some form or
other.
Liver - disease or, more properly
speaking, indigestion, is the result,
direct or indirect, of improperly feed
ing fowls.
It may be that the food is not whole
some, or perhaps the fowls are per
mitted to eat decaying animal or veg
etable matter, or oftener still the food
given the fowls is not of the kind that
they need,' and is not given at the
proper time and way.
, By degrees the digestion of fowls
i impaired, .and by degress the system
gives way, untii final breakdown, and
then it is that we begin to search for
the cause and the cure.
During the warm months fowls need
but little food other than that which
they gather.
Bugs, worms and insects swarm ovor
the. fields, and. the fowls enjoy them.
11nv!nc thfir nil rjiii f thrv not- nnlT
1 get ecrcis?, but they obtain the very
mm 3,1
kind of food that gives thetn health,
and vigor.
Fowls that show symptoms of indi
gestion, that droop or decline, to eat,
should be driven to a shaded field or
pasture and left to seek their food as
best they may. A few weeks of such
outdoor living will restore them to
health. Home and Farm.
A Need of the South.
Fertilizers are more - often abused
than used to advantage, though South
ern farmersi pay out by far the larger
part of the $34,000,000 annually spent
for this purpose in the United States.
In spite of this tremendous drain ou
their resources, there is an abundance
of plant, food in Southern soils if prop
erly handled to insure maximum crops
for many years to come. Thus the
greatest difficulty arises from the fact
that our people do not fully appreciate
the great fundamental truths on which
agricultural progress and crop growing
rest. To increase the yield of corn
ten bushels in the South would be to
add millions to the revenue of South
ern farmers, and bring happiness and
contentment into many a Southern
home where it is now a difficult prob
lem to' make ends meet. What a de
sirable consummation this would be,
and could there be a more inviting
field for the employment of trained
and skilful agriculturist? The chief
need at the present time to bring about
some of the changes which are most
desirable is the return ito the farm of a
large number of boys who take courses
in agricultural colleges that they may;
become leaders, indeed and in truth, to
the people of their respective communi
ties, blazing out, as it were, a trail
that shall lead to newer and better
things, and place within the reach of
hundreds of farmers whose oppor
tunities have been limited in the past
that inspiring information about their
profession which will change their
condition from that of stolid indiffer
ence to one of optimism and unbound
ed faith in the future. Knoxvillo
Journal) and Tribune.
Feed ot Suggestions.
The success of a young sow with'
her first litter has much to do with
her future value.
Good, clean, wholesome food will
never hurt a hog.
Linseed meal is especially useful to
the pregnant and suckling sows. .
A stunted fall pig is exceedingly
poor property. He never gets over it
if he does live through the winter.
A hog with a short nose and thick
head, short legs and plenty of heart
and lung room is generally a quiet and
good grower.
Large hog houses are, as a rule, un
satisfactory. They bring too many
hogs together, increasing the' liability
to disease.
When the sows are all bred there
is no special objection to allowing the
boar to run with them and the growl
ing pigs.
With good grass, plenty of water,
shade and full feeding grain, hogs
should make a rapid growth at this
time,
The manipulations of the meat?urer
will not make choice meat from .an
animal grown on filthy food and fed
in filthy quarters.
Distance an Item.
In an article that we have Just react
the statement is made that it, is cheap
er to pay $100 per acre for land near
to a railroad station, or other shipping
point, than to take land fire miles
away at $10 an acre. That depends
upon what you intend- to do with the
land. If you expect to grow oranges
or bulky vegetables, such as tomatoes,
potatoes, etc., then by all means locate
as near your shipping station as pos
sible. The added cost of hauliqg suck
crops one extra mile would soon make
up for any saving in first cost.
But, on the other hand, If you are
going into the stock business, it does
not make so much difference. Cattle
can be driven on their own feet for sev
eral miles at very little cost.
. Even In the stock business, a loca
tion near to transportation Is to be
preferred. Fat hogs," either dead or
alive, are not easily transported for a
long distance. The Florida Agricul
turist. Kaw Potntoe For Fowls.
A Mississippi reader asks us if raw
Irish potatoes will kill chickens, saying
that he gave some to his chickens and
they died.
Irish potatoes are not poison, and will
not kill any fowl or animals unless
it be that they had been deprived-of
all kinds of vegetable product for some
time and they ate tOi much.
Man or beast can tat enough of the
; simplest foods to cause death, but suck
cass are far beyond reason, and in
I stlnct alone will forbid such foolish
.acts except in the case of those ani
mals that have not touched green food
for months.
Raw potatoes may be thrown to fowl
; with perfect safety. Home and Farm,