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THE RO&RESSIVB FARMER DECEMBER 6 18G2
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WITHOUT ANIMOSITY
A Brother Who is Willing for all to Vote
as They Please,
f Aurora, N. C.
Mr Editor: Having seen nothing
in your valuable paper from this sec
tion lately, I write to let you know
how we are progressing In the first
place we have just passed through the
most trying ordeal that ever an organi
zntion was subjected to. I don't see
how any brother could fall out or even
grow cold toward another brother for
differing with him in his political opin
ion. As far as I am concerned my Al
lianceism is head and shoulder above
my political party. I have never seen
the time since I took the obligation
that I would not willingly abide the
decision of the majority and put my
shoulder to the wheel with all my
might in any ciuse that was brought
up. Some of the brethren seem to mis
construe the obligation, either ignor
antly or viciously, and I don't propose
to place the construction. If a brother
honestly differs with me in opinion and
has manhood enough to stand back of
his opinion and has the argument to
back his opinion, I respect and honor
him; bus if he has no argument and
flies in a rage and wants to throw stale
eggs or ridicule, abuse and slander at
a brother who has the afgument and
principles, which if carried into effect
would make the farmers and laborers
of this great Nation free and indepen
dent instead of mere tool 3, as at pres
ent, to the great organized combines
and trusts of the country. We. the
organized laborers of this country,
have toiled and our labor has been ap
propriated to build up the greatest
country on earth. Let U3 stop and ask
ourselves what have we got left for all
this work we have done? Ignorance,
desolation, mortgages and tramps.
This is not idle talk. Ask all lovers
of liberty to go to the records and post
themselves and act like men. You
need not expect the men who are get
ting rich off your sweat to make it any
better for you, for if the change is
made our sweat would be more profit
able to us and less profitable to them.
I feel that we of this neighborhood
are extremely bles3fd in many in
stances. We have rich land, good
health, good neighbors and lots of
other natural advantages, yet with all
these advantages some of our hardest
workers who own their land are not,
under present conditions, able to buy
the necessary books for their children
to go to the public schools.
Calamity Howler.
THE FARMER'S WORKSHOP AND
TOOLS.
for nails, f crews and all the other ar
ticle s, label the drawers, and, with
these things so arranged a child can be
sent after what you want from the far
field if necessary, ana mate no mis
take
This arrangement will also prevent
your being out or just; tne tning you
need, as a glance into the drawer when
going to town will show you just what
particular things are running low and
need renewing
Does any careless man say this won't
pay ? Then I don't understand his way
of working, as I have often seen the
momentary use of a little inexpensive
cool, or pressnce or a particular size or
bolt, sa ve me a trip to the blacksmith
several miles away. The want of a
little machine bolt once cost my father
half a day's idleness in harvest, and
that is how I learned my les on.
Let us remember the old saying, "It
is a wiso man mat pronts Dy nn mis
fortunes." Jacob Wyckoff.
Somerset county, N. J.
GOLD A BENEFICENT DEMON.
The farmer who has no workshop,
no place in which to employ his stormy
days or odd minute3 in necessary re
pairs, or the construction of necessary
things, no place in which to keep tools
and articles for repair for every ordi
nary emergency, is not f ullj awake to
his own interests.
The man who has few or no repair
ing tools lessens his powers, and, con
sequently, his usefulness, as the arts
of neatnes3 and dispaxh in work often
lie more in the possession of the proper
instruments than in the man himself.
Every farmer saould have a workshop,
a place for the business if possible, if
not possible at present then some easily
accet-sible corner in a large building
where tools may be kept for repairs of
buildings, machinery, wagons, harness,
fences, etc., and with room by the
bench for the greater part of these re-
Eairs to be made where the tools are at
and, as a small piece of work will
often call quite a variety of tools into
play.
Every farmer should have light and
heavy riveting hammers and a claw
hammer, cross-cut saw, rip, compass,
and hack saws; plane, spoke shave, for
circular planing, an assortment of
chisels, brace and bits for iron and
wood, steel square; files, flit, square, i
triangular, round, and knife blade ;
saw set, compass or dividers, calipers,
pincers, harness needles and awls,
paint brushes, and also, if possible,
anvil and vise, especially the latter,
and this should be a mechanic's vise
to meet the farmer's greatest needs.
And to back these up to their full
measure of usefulness the farmer should
keep himself supplied with the various
little things that go into the construc
tion of everything he handles, viz.,
boards and scantlings in useful sizes,
bolts, nuts, and washers, a half dozen
or so of each in all their common sizes
and forms; nails, cut and wire, all
necessary sizes from the small carpe;
tack up to the six or eight-inch spike,
enough for an emergencv; screws
from the little 3 8 inch up to2d 2 inch;
copper rivets and washers, several
sizes ; thread and wax for harness,
white lead, oil, . lamp black and Vene
tian red for paints, and other items
added as the need of them prese its it
self. These articles of repair without
the tools will call for a five dollar bill
and possibly a ten all told, but a farmer
cannot srend any money on his farm
to much better advantage.
Provide for their safe and separate
keeDinc a eood sized box with drawers
and erive each its DTODer "place. Give
one thickness of bolts a drawer by
itself and divide the drawer into as
many sections as are necessary to hold
the various lengtns or that size oi uoiu.
Do the same with all the bolts, mark
ing each section with the dimensions
of the bolts it contains, and on the
f rnnt side of drawer mark a measure
- in inches by which to get length of any
hlts to be returned to the drawer.
Provide th same accommodations
You are right. The silver dollar as
sassinated by the conspiracy of 73 will
not'down any more than the ghost of
Banquo. The silver dollar was the cre
ation of law, the same as the gold dol
lar before it was outlawed, and was on
a parity with gold. It is still a solar
sun of which all the great products are
the satellites. Silver measured by any
other product than gold will buy as
much now as it would before it was de
monetized and reduced to bullion as a
commodity Gold, however, I am ready
to admit with you, is now the imperial
master, and it 'will be till you bind the
restraining authority of law. Never
was there a wiser conception than
when the fathers of the Republic united
it indissolubly with silver in the Con
stitution of the United States. Gold is
now the beneficent "demon and it will
not let anything live within the realm
of its sweep and sway that it doe3 not
control silver, diamonds, iron, corn,
wheat and even labor, which is now
stimulated and protected to some ex
tent by the tariff. The recent cj clone
was one of general popular discontent.
The people are restless. They see the
"scramble for gold" in Europe and
know they are its victims. Balfour
tells them that England is suffering
from the increased purchasing power
of gold. The silver advocates have
been preaching this doctrine for years.
Eugene Bloodgood Beebe, in New
York Herald.
SHEDS FOR STOCK.
When a farmer, not skilled with
tools, desires a good building erected,
he is under the necessity of employing
a carpenter; but because he is not able
to have what he desires, his stock need
not be made to suff er'thereby. A shed
may be built by anyone who can use a
hammer and saw, so as to not be un
sightly, and afford good protection
from the storm. On one side of the
yard make a tight board fence, five or
six feet high, then in the yard ten or
twelve feet from fence, set posts eight
feet high, directly in front of fence
posts. Put on a plate at the tops of
the long posts to run parallel with the
fence. Put another plate through the
center parallel with the other, suppor
ted by post, then put on a board roof.
The ends may be boarded or not, as
you may choose. As this shed is
chiefly for affording shelter from rain
and sun in the Summer it may be left
open at the ends. Sheds of this kind
also afford a protection from cold
storms later in the season, before hor
ned cattle are put in the stable, or for
those that are left out during Winter.
The same structure as described bo
fore, with the ends boarded down to
within two and a half feet of the ground,
will shut out cattle and afford a good
shed for sheep. On the same plan a
larger shed may be built in any loca
tion desired. Make two parallel side
walls- after the manner of the tight
fence, twenty feet apart, and as long
as desired ; then set high posts in the
center and roof down each way. Where
it is desired to make a more sightly
piece of work, a frame may be made
of scantling of any size desired. A
good sized stone with an upper flat
surface, should be used for the scant
ling posts to rest upon.
WHAT ARE YOUR HOGS DOING?
RECORD IN DEHORNING.
Thirty-one Cows Deprived of Horns in
Forty Minutes.
I recently dehorned my herd of
thirty-one head in about forty minutes.
There was no perceptible loss of appe
tite or shrinkage of milk in any case.
Before dehorning, my cows were al
ways inclined to fight more or less, and
occasionally I have lost cows from the
effects of this. Now thev are Deaceable
as sheep.
My method was as follows: I first
bought a spring back bone saw, which,
witn a rope aoout ten teet long, is all
the implement necessary to peform the
operation. Leaving the cows in the
stanchions, I fastened the rope with a
halter-hitch around the neck and a half
hitch over the nose, then I slipped the
rope up near the eyes. I then put the
rope over the stanchion occupied by the
next cow, a distance of about three feet,
and drew the head firmlv to one side.
having a man to hold the rope. I took
the horn in the left hand and sawed as
cioseiy as possible to the head. After
tasmg on one or the horns I drew the
nead to the other side and proceeded in
the same way, turning each cow out as
soon as l nnished with imr tKq lnoo
ot blood was slight with a few excep
tions. The annlirat.i nn nf tar ohnut; n.
week later aids in healing the wound.
13 ueSb LO rtn thia hpfnrfl warm
weather, when the flies become trouble
some. Bv this method there is no
uanger to man or hpast T am now a
strong advocate of dehorning, for my
experience has civpn sunh satisfactory
results. B. J .Tpnk in Farm and
Home, -
Does the following story meet your
case?
"A hotel man kept a wild 'rustler'
of a hog that did nothing but sleep,
eat, and squeal. It did not grow, but
squealed off all the fat it put on while
eating. Still the man kept the hog year
after year, and whenasxed why he did
so he said, 'Ain't he jest as good to eat
up my swill as any other hog ' "
We are afraid from the breed of hogs
we see running around sadly too often
in our trips through the State, that far
too many of our farmers are keeping
animals like that of the hotel propri
etor. They eat and root, and do little
else. To make meat of them they must
be kept until they are two or three
years old. and tben the meaiis of such
a texture that the difficulty is to keep
it in the pan whilst it cooks. If not
weighted down it will curl up and
jump out into the fire. Hogs of this
kind are not worth the room they oc
cupy and the food they waste. The
effort should be to keep a breed that
will make 150 to 200 pounds weight at
ten mouths old. If kept beyond this
age, too much of the food eaten goes to
the mere sustenance of the animal,
without any increase of weight to
make the feeding profitable. Now is
the time to push the eight or ten
mouths hogs to this maturity, so that
they may be marketed before Christ
mas. What the market wants now is
lean meat, not fat hogs, fit only for the
lard kettle. The former are always in
demand, the latter are valueless at lard
prices. Hogs that have been on clover
and grass ought now with a month's
feeding on corn, soja bean3, or peas, to
be just the meat required. When
taken up to finish off, keep them in a
clean dry shed with plenty of fresh
water, and feed them in a clean trough
or on a clean board floor. Don't let
them have to pick the corn out of the
filth and dirt of the pen, wasting much
of it and injuring the meat. The hog
is t ot naturally a dirty animal. He is
frequently made into one by his sur
roundings and housing. Let them
have hard wood ashes and sulphur,
mixed in equal parts, in a trough under
cover, to which they can have access
at all times. This, though not a cure
for hog cholera there is no such thing
yet discovered seems to largely tend
to prevent it. This is the experience
of many who have tried it.
HOW TO BEGIN BEE-KEEPING.
If ciiYosiiTf r-r ta rkftlfl UD tO
date, send us four ne subscribers and
four dollars, before January 1, i-o
and we will credit you up another year
iree.
First, you should get some bees, says
tbe American Bee Journal, then by
subscribing for a bee paper and getting
a bee book, begin the practice with the
theory, and you will succeed faster and
surer. Some of us might read agricul
tural papers all our lives or for years,
then put us in the field to secure a crop,
and we would most likely fail; so we
need the practical part as well as the
theoretical.
It depends altogether upon what kind
of a person you are, as to how many
colonies you should start with; one col
ony would be a plenty for some, while
others might run fifty profitably from
the start. Be a little bit your own judge
about that.
It will be a nice little experiment to
buy your start in box hives, and try
your hand at transferring, going by
the direction in your book. After you
transfer, and find you have been suc
cessful, you might venture again, etc.
But, by all means, do not get excited,
and upset the whole thing. Should
you fail on the first experiment, try
again. And, by the way, if you do not
at the beginning make up your mind
to promptly meet all failures with a re
newed determination to succeed any
how, you had better quit before you
begin, as bee-keeping is as apt to give
its disappointments as other branches
of our rural industries.
Some will tell you to start with frame
hives, by all means; but, if I had to
start again, I would gi t the cheapest
bees I could find, and transfer, as that
is a bit of experience the beginner first
needs, and my instructions are for the
beginners with limited means, and I
would have you start right, so as to have
as few disappointments as possible, as
those with plenty of means may make
a failure, and not hurt them much, but
when one puts his all into an invest
ment, he would like to be sure of some
thing back.
So, get some bees in some box hives,
transfer them, and after you get started,
and think you can afford it, get some
Italian queens from some reliable
breeder, and Italianize your apiary.
Move step by step, and be quick to
"catch on" to everything you hear
about bees at conventions and other
places, and especially from those you
know to have made the pursuit a suc
cess, and you will soon learn what it
used to take bee keepers years and
years to learn.
HOW MILLIONAIRES ARE MADE.
During ICO years of African slavery
in America, no slave owner was able
to amass a fortune valued at $1.000,000 ;
but in twenty-eight years of financial
slavery we have made over 4,500 mil
lionaires, some of whom are worth
from $80,000,000 to $250.000 000."
The Century.
In a great hardware store m this
iity, owned and run by millionaires,
one man puts handles in axes. When
you consider the price of axes and
handles as they are sold by the same
house, the man earns for the establish
ment just $12 per day ; of this sum he
receives and millionaire masters
po-'ket $10. The best hand in the pack
ing ueptinmenioi ine same store, while
in the performance of his work, stepped
on a nail and run it into his foot The
injury incapacitated him for labor for
a few days, during which tim hi
wages were stopped, the firm assigning
as a reason that they could not afford
thbe0vPhiiCl1 id S
nf!hfc' plaVeoSlL nt?ant0
workmen to io to Sfoth8L?K ther
he was.unable to donSuchg is th
ment o? hnnU
Under euch a labor system, what
wonder is it that the number of mil
lionaires is daily increasing and a much
larger number of pauper and tramps
is being turned out? But these are not
all the ways in which millionaires are
made. The enormous amount of stock
watering and swindling by means of
the gambling operations of banks and
boards of trade, and various forms of
usury, rents, profits and dividends
make millionaires by the thousand,
and paupers and tramps by the mil
lion. Mr. P. J. Shulte has issued an
"Economic Chart." illustrated in col
ors, in which he shows that 21 cents'
worth of meat to the farmer, after it
has passed through the hands of the
monopolist, becomes worth, to the con
sumer, $1; vegetables that bring to the
producer 33 cents, cost the consumer,
after the monopolist has taken his toll
just three times that amount; 36
cents' worth of coal at the mines, after
it has crossed the monopolist's bridge,
requires the expenditure of $i by the
consumer.
Of the business of the country, 95
per cent, is done on credit and but 5
percent, in cash, "Oir population in
1866 was 37 000 000; $2,000,000,000 were
then in circulation. Our population
to dav 63 000. (00. and the money in
circulation is $1,600,000,000. With all
the money in the land, the banks could
pay their depositors but 10 cents on the
dollar, or in gold only 2 cents on the
dollar, or in gold and silver only 3
ceuts on the dollar." The worst phase
of the whole business is not given in
the above. In 1866 our industrial peo
ple were mostly out of debt, and such
as were not had constant; employment
at high wages, received high prices for
what they produced, and of course were
able to pay their debts ; whereas now
the vast amount of the indebtedness
into which the producer has been
forced must be increased yearly be
cause of the low price of his products.
The large amount of money at that
time was mostly in the hands of the
people, hence they were mostly exempt
from the vast amount of usury which
the use of money now implies, since
the most of the money supply is con
trolled by banks and private usurers.
But a still more oppressive and de
structive power wielded by these
usurers is the power they always hold
to make the available money supply
large or small at their sovereign pleas
ure, thus putting up or putthig down
prices, legally robbing and ruining
thousands.
Every nation in the past and there
is no reason to expect a different re
suit now that hi8 permitted its pro
ducing classes to ba thus robbed by its
idlers, has gone to the wall.
THE ROAD.
Every traveler has experienced light
ness of pocket-book after one round
with the Pullman car monopoly.
Hence the following is likely to be
"his sentiments:" "When it took
three days and four nights to make
the trip from Chicago to Denver the
Pullman company charged $7.50 for a
berth for the trip. To-day the trip is
made over the Burlington in two days
and one night, and Sir George M. Full
man still charges $7 50. It used to
take two nights and a day to run from
Omaha to Denver, and $3.50 was the
price of a sleeper in those days. Now
the Union Pacific runs the trip in one
night, but Pully nails the public for
$3 50, just the sanae. This sort of thing
exists all over the country, and has
called for a bit of calculation from a
student of Poor's Railway Manual. He
estimates that in sixteen years, at the
present rates Sir George charges the
railway companies for the use ot his
cars, he can own all the railroads m
the country if he so desires. This
being the case (and we have no doubts
about it), it would seem tnat tne ques
tion to day is: Shall Sir George M.
Pullman own the railroads (and the
people to boot), or shall the people own
Sir George and the railroads?"
PROFIT-SHARING IN RAILROADS.
President M. E. IngalR of the Chesa
peake and Ohio and Big Four Railroads,
in his annual report just issued, says
that a corporative plan of profit shar
ing by the men is the best method of
meeting the growing diffi mlties of the
labor problem. He explains:
The problem of the future in railway
management seems to be how to make
a fair return to investors while rates
are continually going down and wages
are increasing, A large portion of the
time of your officers and managers is
taken up meeting and consulting and
discussing with the organized bodies
of labor on the road, the question of
wages, etc Your directors would
recommend to the stockholders to con
sider the plan establishing a com
munity of interest with the employees.
If the company has arrived at a finan
cial position, as your directors think
it has, when it can safely be expected
to earn its fixed charges and a surplus,
they would recommend that the sur
plus be equally divided with the em
ployees. For instance, if your capital is $60,
000 000 and the wages of the employe s
in the year amount to $5,000,000, let
that be the rate of division. If your
surplus earnings are $650,000 a year, it
would be 1 per cent, for the stockhold
ers and 1 per cent, to the employees.
An employee, then, who had served
for the entire year without accident
caused by hi own negligence would
receive his 1 per cent, on the amount
of his pay. .
As the earnings of the company in
crease the percentage will be still
larger. In any event, the employees
would still receive regular compensa
tion and would also ' share to some ex
tent in whatever prosperity the com
pany had. Wherever this has been
tried in manufacturing companies it
has worked well and has also been suc
cessfully adopted on one of the French
railways.
Mr. Ingalla recommendeds that the
stockholders appoint a committee to
consider the matter and to take such
measures as will realize anv action of
the directors in that line. N. Y. Post.
THE ALLIANCE AND POLITICS.
Many people innocently get a wrong
idea of ihe mission of the Alliance.
That its principles are political it ia
true, but that its aims are partisan is
not true. The mission of the Alliance
is education. It believes in the divine
ioiunction to go out into all the world
and preach the gospel unto all men and
unto all nations and tnen snail tne end
come. Tne Alliance aoes not worry
about what the end will be when the
people shall become educated. It fur
nishes the opportunity for free and full
discussion. It builds from the bottom,
teaching men to be honest, independent
citizens, work together for their mu
tual interests, and vote for just givers
instead of boodle dispensers.
The Alliance is no dress parade atiair
in politics. It does not stop with re
solves nor with demands made on pa
per. It educ ites the voter that to get
principles and demands into la v men
true to them must be elected. Any man
can vote for Jay Gould or Carnegie if
he chooses and not forfeit his member
ship, but no true Allianceman will shout
reform and vote for monopoly. The
reason why the Alliance has often been
confounded with the now party is be
cause the new party has received the
support of Alliancemen generally for
having endorsed its principles almost
literally.
No political party 13 the Alliance nor
can take its place. The Alliance is non
partisan, a school, a literary society
and business circle in which men ano
women learn to know themselves, each
other and matters relating to the gen
eral welfare. Its organization should
be pushed into every township in trie
nation. It furnishes opportunity for
investigation that cannot be found else
where. Jwery farmer should ioin it.
The advantages are too numerous to
enumerate at this time A candi i in
vestigation will convince the most skep
ticai that the Order is both socially
and financially a wonderfully benefi
cial organization. DesMoine Tribune
HORSE NOTES.
A little extra care of the colt3 and
brood mares right now will be of great
benefit to having them winter well.
Protect them from the first cold winds
and storms, especially at night.
The most profitable way to toughen
a colt for future usefulness is to give it
good shelter and an abundance of nour
ishing food, tsuch food as will develop
the system properly. Only such an
amount of fat is necessary as will add
warmth to the body and round out the
form.
Since we began to make the manure
supply of the farm a study we have
fallen into the habit of keeping our
horses bedded with an abundance of
straw. This plan helps to keep the
horses clean, a point that is appreci
ated by the farmer that dislikes to use
the curry comb and bruih.
We enjoy seeing a good horse and
buggy in good hands. But where we
see a young man spending his money
for this luxury when ho needs to culti
vate his brains, in other words when
he had better put his money into his
head, we conclude the horse and buggy
enjoyment is carried to excess.
While colts winter well on a good blue
grass or timothy aftermath pasture,
with hay stacks to run to, we doubt
the advisability of such management.
The tramping is injurious to the soil,
the animals grow up unaccustomed to
the presence and handling of their
owners. We know by experience what
an unpleasant undertaking it is to
break colts brought up in this way.
At present prices the common scrub
or even grade horse scarcely pays for
raising. Prices are so very low that
very little breeding was done this year
and less will be done next. Yet really
choice horses of any type are scarce
and bring good prices. History teaches
us that a good time to go into any
business is when everybody else is go
ing out of it. Isn't this a good time to
start into producing first class horses?
Usually it is advised that corn is not
a proper food for young growing colts,
that oats are far preferable as a grain
ration. In many sections oats are the
most unprofitable crop the farmer can
grow. Taking into consideration this
fact, is it not possible to give the colt
a proper growing ration consisting of
clover hay, corn fodder, and a limited
amount of corn? We believe it is. and
we know good horses are grown under
this treatment. The trouble we believe
in a corn ratio a lies in the fact that too
little or too much is fed ; that the ra
tion is not properly adjusted.
There is more prejudice against clo
ver hay as food for horses than any
other food used for this purpose. We
believe this comes from over feeding
oftener than from dust. The evil
effect of the dust is easily guarded
against by sprinkling with a little wa-
ter wnenever tne nay is dusty, jb arm-
ers having experience know-that it is
very hard to have clover hay so well
made as to be entirely free from dust.
As to over eating, when horses have
free access to it in unlimited quantities
there is no doubt but they will do it,
. . . t , . -
wnich must necessarily resuic in in
jury. Jsationai stocKman.
CUTTING AND GRINDING FEED.
FAit.nr Farmers' Voice: On the
small farm where the most must be
made out of everything, it will nearly
nl wavs nav to cut and errind tho f frl
for the stock and especially when the
plan of keeping a sumcient number of
stock to consume all of the products is
followed. In addition in very many
cases it will further pay to purchase a
sufficient amount of bran and oil meal
tn iis all of the rouzhness to th hpf:
advantage. In this way a larger num-
Der oi 8sock iu prupuruuu to ine acre
fle'f nan be keDt. and if rjronprlir man
aged more manure can be made and
. . m -i j 1 ;u 1
tne ienuuy ue, mure easily Kept Up. A
more perfect ration can be made up
when the food is all prepared in this
way, wnue ine waste is r duced to a
minimum Then the straw and fodder
can be converted into a mnnh hotter
ration than if fed alone or eyen with no
ground grain. Corn fodder or wheat
straw with
very good winter meal aV 1
horses or shppr J ,ration i'
the roughness is fir
cutter. One of th V?? thf5S
horses or sheep in wLt?t
for cattle a chom nS a,i,H vfe
turn can be
Parts of straw and dove?
euuinffb0xa-
added a better ration wmt1
than if either is fed k101, ?t?
only m their eating whit 1 13
them more cleanlf th v 8U2
cutting and frr;r,rj., ' V 5a'-ned 0
is less loss in digesting
mg. It is some work t Jrin? ltr'
all of the feed, but onth Av!
the principal work to b, don?
feedms- and mrin f uone 13 tM
13 quite an item to do this in tK ndi
ner bes calculated to si
results and oQwou.. r.e
will reduce the cost will pZ?
able with lor prices ifPa
realized theory nf .i,. ..: PrStg'
made as low as possible, mut th3
farmers with only a email nSS
stock must get them re ulv ft 3
at the lowest possible co'and Si
nn u ha ( rn a I
as to secure the largest po-sible v
nronortion tn tha
xr x vw uiiiuu 1 r;w . 1
plied, and in doing this on item
avoid waste If! 1 1 n rf n .1 i. ,.11 . M
gesUng. and id m 111 this tint uW
lit m cuttincrnnd
. 0 G, iwi 13 0,
lv secured
miner jo.t mo
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FARM ITEMS.
You can never grade up the ra
unless you use better animals for W
ing.
A boar that is selected for br
buuuiu uo out niue servn e until he s1
There is more profit in raisin w'
that will sell than in those that
win nave to trade.
nine nao guuv uy ior Keepicft!
oii uuiu id iuji turs 01a txtjn
eeuuiiag lo marKet.
f7Stock that is continually temptfdtr
weak fences should not be blamed fi
becoming "breachy." -
A box six inches hich and twofe
square kept filled with clean, dry dir
makes a good dust bath.
Don't buy a cow with hiirh head s--
eyes starting from sockets. She is f
in disposition, and you will be a less!
If ducks can have a free ranseduri.'
the day and comfortable quartern!
night they can readily be kept health;!
Milking should be done with tv
greatest regularity. An hour's tici
out of the way ia harmful to the m
every time.
rsext to the Jersey R"d, tbePolaL
China breed is considered torankhii
est in regard to hardina andabiikr
to resist disease.
The calf is not so stupid as be lo)h
When his mother fails to answer b
demands he gives her a " milk punch,
and the old lady comes down.
Light hogs prepared for early my
ket often being far more profit than:'
kept until later when prices are lc
because of the rush 01 Iresh porn,
The wheels of the mowing maAiE
are made Use of for constructing lo
down wagons with wide rimms:
wheels, that prove to be j'ist thethnj
Provide plenty of bedding for tbf
sheep during the winter so as tohjj
the wool out of the dirt, and attij
same time it will aid, to keep the shee
dry. j
A well known Australian wool grofE j
raises 200 acres of rape for his than
and he speaks in the highest termfS
its value. He has fattened tweJ
sheep per acre on his rape field.
If you have barb wire ff nee aroiE:
your pasture it may pay to tiesoflj
of tin or some other substance BW
wires to prevent the animals fro
rimnincr natnftt ir, without Spfin?
Scaly legs are eyesores.
Withsci
simple remedies as applying vaJ
or lard, to which a few drops of ca.
bolic acid has been added, there b
excuse for their presence in a wefl-r
flock of poultry. v
The chaff from wheat is oneof V
best materials for uee on them
the poultry house. Keep the chifl w
and under cover. It not only pr
of easy cleaning of the house,
as an absorbent and also
litter in whnhthe hens may
for food. rfZ
A large crop"of apples may Wfjr
when a hive of bees is frtatwnw 1
orchard. The pollen is ruStW
their bodies against the PVse
sands of flowers, which ,
fertilized. Many of theei
. - AfO I 1 UV w
V- "Jf V AV Arf -w "
agency of bees,
A writer in sneaking 01 . ,rPjni-
fho tlhtVinrn aav mat "
proved the herds of cattle 01 .
more than all otner ry itfj
that were ever brought C d
have raised the aver age ti
thf usands of our beef ca .
to 500 pounds per head, 8,
the selling ageawb.
greatly increasing the - duckl
It is not necessary
should have either a tl inr cart
as many suppose; w w $ throJ
their especial feeding ctf UBkicf
of
the ground it would be aj
them so far as health orc0DCl
and general vigor ar- f0r
Swimming is not ff3
&u&L.-Maryl
Convict labor hltffS
form of slavery, "plac fjrfeiJ
of greed workers who tf
the good will of aociety, pUb;
therefore unable to aPQrn
sentiment for redress.-
ance Farmer.
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