FOR THE FARMER.
The Farmers' j Alliance.
j The farmers are deriving
great benefit from the Alliance.
It has saved them,5 in Georgia
alone, $200,000 in a single year
on the purchase of fertilizers.
It has lowered the cost of al
most every article they use as
food, clothing, ! farm imple
ments, wagons, buggies, and
even the few luxuries that
Georgia farmers have been able
to enjoy. ! N
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use of the most powerful weap
on in the struggles of peace or
war co-operation: i Divided,
they were thej easy prey of the
monopolists and trusts ; but
united in a phalanx 4,000,000
strong, with one wing resting
on the shores of Maine, the
er on the Pacific coast,
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farmers have become a power.
They are the people and they
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Eeports from Alliance meet
insrs in Georgia and other South
ern States, show the order is
wonderfully successful
The membership, is steadily
increasing and its field of use
fulness steadily broadening.
Our reports from the South
Carolina Alliance are particu
larly encouraging, j The order
is making: rapid proen-ess in
that State and has, as the Geor
gia Alliance, a settled policy of
uplifting the people, and pro
tecting them from j the designs
of monopolies and trusts
The Alliance has a good work
before it. It has accomplished
much, but it has much more to
accomplish. Fortunately for
the people it has courasre and
the ability to wage war success
fully and to fulfill its mission.
Atlanta Journal, i
Farm Notes.
The farmer who moves into a
new country should attend to
setting out fruit trees just as
quickly as possible.;
During the winter make up
your mind just what kind! of a
garden you will have next sum
mer, and how you will lay it
out. i
I JNever prop a fruit tree, says
the New England iHomestead.
If the load is too heavy thin the
fruit, and make what is left bet
ter than it could possibly
overcrowded.
be if
to cold air, just as hands do in
cold weather. The best cure is
to keep dry, and rub on a little
vaseline to exclude tne air.
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! The present low price of bar
ley, especially that which is
light weight or off color, has in
duced many iarmers to ieea it
to their hogs. It makes a firm,
sweet pork with more lean in it
than when corn is fed. In Eng
land, refuse barley is staple pig
feed. It is better if mixed with
peas and the two ground to
gether. The husks of the bar
ley help to prevent clogging or
the stomach, to whicn young
pigs are. especially liable if
given too: concentrated tood.
The advantage of crossing
with thoroughbreds is only
maintained by using thorough
bred males always, and not
crossing i from one breed to
another. jThe prepotency of the
thoroughbred makes its char
acteristics felt on the native
stock, which is a mixture of va
rious breeds. Thus a Jersey and
Short-horn cross, both being
well established breeds, would
not at first give as good results
as: grading up native stock.
The second cross, if a thorough
bred male is used, would be
three-auarters full blood, and
pretty apt to show the charac
teristics of the dominant strain.
As a rule a common cow goes
dry from six weeks to two
months of the year. Conversing
with an owner of such stock the
other day I asked, " How long
do your I cows tnve milk?"
" Nine months in the year,"
was the reply. "And how much
do they average ?" was my next
question. He answered,
have one that gives . six gallons
a i day when fresh." "Ah I
said I, " but you are evading
my question. What I am trying
to! get at is the average of your
herd." He was forced to admit
that the general average was
about three gallons per day,
If wire is placed about the
limbs of trees orj the trunks of
trees for any reason and it is
used to fasten on labels dp not
let it remain so long as that the
tree outgrows it. I j
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j Rubber bands are now used
for celery. It is a wonder that
they were not always used, be
cause of their convenience and
their "ability to conform with
the shrinkage of the celery.
We reckon that a good deal
of the advice to raise the stand
ard of the herd is beginning at
the wrong end. There are cases
where the dairymen must be
lifted before anything can be
accomplished. ;
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The cow may work well.
churn may work well, and
conditions may be perfect
the
the
but
active brain
it
if there is not an
behind the whole
be like an engine without an
fire, under the boiler. !
At the present price of feed
stuffs, Professor ! Goessman
reaches' the conclusion that it
pays to grow and prepare corn
fodder, clover or corn ensilage.
This conclusion is confirmed by
the Ohio and Iowa experiment
stations.
Wood or coal ashes are among
the best materials that can be
used to loosen up a stiff, hard
soil, says the Live Stock Indi
cator, ;and should be applied
freely whenever they! can be se
cured, while wood ashes are a
valuable fertilizer. !
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I There is great scarcity of rye
in Germany, Russia and other
countries of Europe where this
grain forms the staple food of
working people. The Russian
rye crop last year j was very
short, and what comes from
there is of the crop of 1888.
j A farmer in Texas gives his
hogs one good feed each year of
corn boiled in poke" root,
three parts of corn to one of the
root. He considers the root a
preventative of cholera. In
twenty-two years experience he
has never lost a hog with this
disease.
and this only tor about ! six
months : ! the balance of I the
time they were " strippers.
Now a Jersey cow rarely goes
dry more than four weeks,
while hundreds milk from calf
to calf , so completely is the milk
function I established in the
breed. Here, then, is a clear
gain of two months an item of
no small j moment, especially if
your cow calves in the winter
when you can get thirty cents a
pound for your butter. Kate
Mi Busick.
The silo is no longer an ex
periment, but is proved to be of
great practical value by a large
number of farmers all over the
country, I The chief value of
the silo is in the facility which
it i anords to store one or our
most difficult crops to keep, and
in! such condition that it can be
preserved in a greener state,
and fed out at a season when
succulent food is very difficult
to be had, and at a season when
stock is greatly benefitted by
such food. The corn crop is the
best, or most valuable crop to
put m the silo, for the present
and to get the greenest feeding
value from it we must drop out
of i all consideration the idea of
sowed corn, as that j has for
many years been grown. If the
dairymen; will iook Dacic over
their experience, they will re
call the fact that when they be
gan to cut and feed green corn,
sown thickly, they did not ma
terially increase the j flow of
milk. Why ? Because there
was a large amount of water
land but little nutrition in it.
This, then, is the important part
to keep in mind in silo manage-
silo corn
full ma-
What to Eat.
A physician, writting on the
food necessary to give strength
and sustenance, says that if a
person uses up his brain faster
than Ihe makes it he soon be
comes nervous and irritable. If
he does not assimilate enough
food to supply its demand his
mind! is sure to become weak.
The healthiest and strongest in
dividuals even should eat a far
greater proportion of meat than
of vegetable food. .Beef should
be taken as the standard meat.
It answers every purpose of the
system. Veal and pork are not
as easily digested. Pork, so far
as itsi composition goes, is an
excellent food for j nervous per
sons, but it is not readily diges
ted. Yet, in the army, we used
to think nothing better for the
wounded men than bacon. I As
a rule, salt meat is not adapted
to the requirements of the ner
vous individual, as nutritious
juices to a great extent go into
the brine. The flesh of wild
birds is more tender and more
readily digested than that of
domestic ones. 1 1 his is account
ed for byr greater amount of ex
ercise v they take, thereby re
newing their flesh more rapidly
and making it younger than
that of birds which lead a more !
quiet life. This is a suggestion
that might be of benefit to
women of sedentary habits, who
are desirous of prolonging an
appearance of youth. Fish of
all kinds is a good food for the
nervously inclined. Raw eggs,
contrary to the general opinion,
are not as digestible as those
have been cooked.
A notion has been prevalent j
that many persons injure their
digestion by eating too much.
The facts is that most people
don, t ; eat enough. There are
more people killed every year j
from insufficiency of nourish
ment than by overloading their
stomachs. Many of those who
do eat a sufficient quantitiy are
prevented from disease by j di
gesting enough for the economy
of their systems;. The very first
thing for any bite to -do who has
exhausted himself by mental
work or who has been born
weak and irritable, is to fur
nish his brain !j with sufficient
nourishment either to repair the
damage it has jj sustained or to
build it into a strong, healthy
condition. People m this con
dition usually suffer from ner-
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vous dyspepsia.
Their stomachs
ment to nut into the
that shall be grown to
turitv : then there is the largest
nutritive j value in it as j food.
The silo is indispensable in win
ter dairying, as in the fattening
of stock. George T. Powell j
A cow's teats should never be
wet in milking, especially in
cold weather. Cleanliness does
riot demand wetting the teats,
as they can be'rjibbed dry until
all offensive matter is removed.
A wet teat cracks by exposure
, Recent investigation concern
ing the assessment of million
aires show that these wealthy
people evade nearly all taxation.
Senator Stanfordwho is said to
be worth! $100,000, pays taxes
oil only $62,175 personal' prop
erty, much of that being house
hold furniture. Mr. Crocker,
his partner, worth nearly as
much, is! assessed for $6400,
$45,000 of which is furniture.
Claus Spreckles is taxed on but
$8,425 personal, and James ! G.
Fair on $4,425. The late W.iH.
Vanderbilt, worth $200,000,000,
was assessed on his" household
goods and houses, j Russel Sage
ig down for less than $50,000,
arid Cyrus Field less than that.
In fact, the money of the coun
try pays but little, tax, while the
farmer is compelled; to. even it
up. Taxation, if at all, should
be- ejqualj and when once taken
a correct accQunting should he
made.ot its., expenditure. Na
tional Economist, i i
are unable to perform the labor j
of assimilation. :i Owing to I the
deficient nerve power of the in
dividual the food lies m the
stomach unacted upon by the
gastric juice, Decause tnere is
none, or the quantity is ihsuffi
cient to have any power. Food,
instead of helping to renew the
body, iand the nervous system
with the rest, undergoes fermen
tatipn, and the body and brain
it should nourish may starve.
The person is in a worse "state
than if the food had not been
taken, for the fermentation gen
erates acid and gas. Nervous
individuals may derive all the
fat they need from sugar and
starch. It is better, however,
for those with weak digestive
organs, or whose nerves are in
a highly sensitive state, to I get
it from the i animal kingdom
than compel their enfeebled
stomacns, intestines and pan
creas to create it out of these
articles. - jj i
Good bread, sweet butter and
meat are the best food for the
nerves. People J troubled with
insomnia, nervous starting from
sleep and sensations of falling,
can often be cured by limiting
themselves to a diet of milk
alone for a time. An adult
should take a pint for a meal,
and take four j meals daily.
People with weakened nerves
require, usually, a larger quan
tity of water than! those whose
brains and nerved are strong. It
aids in the digestion of food by
making it soluble j and seems to
have a, direct tonic effect. With
proper eating and drinking we
should have fewerj broken down,
nervous wrecks, and far more
vigorous intellects. The present
numan species cannot eliminate
flesh from its food and amount
to a row of pins. - The fancy
that nothing but vegetables
should be eaten is apt to over
take everyone somewhere in life.
It is due to some disorganiza
tion, and usually passes away
with the disturbance that creat
ed it. -The Analyst.
laosiey wicKwire, we
have f just been discussing the
question .whether married wo
men really dp go through 'their
husbands' pockets. Does
yours ?" 4 Wick wire " Of course
I can only give; you my own
experience, and that is she
don't; When she gets to the
bottom of them; she stops."
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