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Show DAIRY AND POULTRY. BROWN MURDER MYSTERY. year shew a general deerease la the prevalence of this disease by counties, counties In ranging from forty-fo1887 to the number stated last year. In dealing with glanders the Board has used very effectively the mallein test, being the lymph used in examining exposed horses to ascertain If the disease has been contracted and Is in its Incipient form of development. The test Is made in a similar manner to the tuberculin test In cattle for Theory Advanced ly . I'nllce That It Wee ur INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How taeeMifil Farmers Oparata Tfcla Faria A Faw IWpartwaat Hlata aa to tba Caro of Lira Stock ad Foaltry. of tha JUra Stock DUvaaaa la Illinois, The twelfth annual report of tbs state board of live stock commlsslon-er- a of Illinois Is Just off the press. In point of volume It Is the largest report Issued by the board, and contains much Interesting Information covering a wide range of contagious diseases In domestic animals. The first section of the report deals with the board's experience with Texas fever during the year, and also with the experiments that are being conducted for the purpose of demonstrating bow Texas fever Is conveyed from southern to northern cattle, and with the process of dipping southern cattle to destroy the tick, hoping thus to render such cattle Incapable of communicating the disease. The report unequivocally Indorses the opinion expressed by the experimenters of the bureau of animal Texas fever Industry that the tick (lloophllus Bovis) Is a carrier of the disease from southern cattle, on which It grows, to northern cattle that come in contact with the ground where the mature ticks drop off, lay their eggs and hatch their young. Dut the board Is not yet entirely satisfied that the experiments in this direction have been sufficient in number and of sufficient magnitude to conclusively demonstrate that this Is the only method of transmitting the disease. The report states that during the coming year exposure tests are In contemplation by the board In this state with dipped southern cattle for tbs purpose of demonstrating whether they are capable of communicating the disease after the ticks upon them have been destroyed, and for this purpose the Fort Worth stock yards have volunteered to furnish the dipped cattle for such experiments. The experiments will be conducted on premises from which the Texas cattle can be unloaded direct from the cars. Owing to the great demand for stock cattle during the past year, the report states, cattle from dangerous territory were imported Into the state, and gave rise to ten separate outbreaks of the disease among Illinois native cattle. Some of these outbreaks proved quite serious In point of loss to the owners. A large section of the report Is devoted to the discussion of tuberculosis among the dairy cattle of the state and Its relation to the public health. The board states that there Is no question In the minds of scientists as to the Identity of the disease in animals and in man, and that the disease is contagious and readily communicated to man through the milk of affected animals and undoubtedly to some extent through meat when the heat used In cooking Is not sufficient to destroy the germ. The affectiveness and Infallibility of Kochs tuberculin as a diagnostic agent in determining the presence of tuberculosis In an animal has been thoroughly proved by its use In seven hundred head of dairy cattle during the past year. Of this head number tested seventy-seve- n showed a rise In temperature Indicating the presence of tuberculosis and were examiOn slaughtered. disnation each of the seventy-seveclosed the presence of tuberculosis in the animal. The board states its Inability to announce the extent to which this disease prevails among the dairy herds of the state owing to lack of statistical Information that could only be secured through 'conducting tuberculin tests or through supervision of slaughter houses, that while many herds are entirely free from the disease others contain affected animals ranging from one In a herd to os many os twenty-fivfifty and. In extreme cases, seventy-fivper cent. One of the most extreme cases noted In the report. Is a herd tested In McHenry county, containing thirty-fiv- e animals, of which twenty-fiv- e responded to the test, were slaughtered and found to be diseased. The history of this herd also clearly indicates the spread of the disease by contagion. The board strongly urges legislation to properly deal with this disease among dairy and breeding cattle, providing that all dairy and breeding herds In the state shall be tested with tuberculin, and that sufficient funds shall be appropriated, not only to pay tlk expensea of this work, but to In part reimburse the owners for losses Incurred In the eradication of the disease. It is of the opinion that It Is only a question of a brief space of time when the legislature will find it necessary to enact surh legislation, as many eastern slates have done so, and are by law prohibiting the shipment of cattle within their 'borders without a certificate showing that the tuberculin test has been made. During the year there were quarantined on account of the existence of aniglanders in horses seventy-sevemals diseased and two hundred and twenty-thre- e exposed. The diseased animals were destroyed and all premises disinfected. Glanders existed during the year in fifteen counties of the state. The records of the past twelve so-call-ed post-morte- m n e, e n A VIGOROUS BATTLE. Worn ths Seu Era, Grtruahurg, Ini. Tha following is a straightforward statement of facts bv a veteran of the late war. No comrade will need further proof than their fneud's own wolds, as here give. of Newpoiat, lud., ia Squire John Ca-to- r, the narrator, aud an honest, re.pavtail citi-se- n he in too. He said: 1 have been troubled with rheumatism in all my jointe, ever sine 1 went to the war. It was brought on by my exposure there. It came on ms gradually, aud kefit getting worse until 1 was unable to do auy work. 1 trie 1 hi eral but they did me no good. They physicians, said my trout Je was rheumatism resulting in disease of the heart, and that there was no core for it. Nevertheless 1 bad lived and fought tha disease for thirty years, aud did not intend to dia, simply because they said - i Ruii-lde- Salt Lake, Feb. 21. There is no clue to the murderer of L. P. Brown, If murder it .be, wlio was found shot through the heart in hla store the morning on the Ifith. At the inqueat Ray Croxall, who was aleep'ng In an adjoining room and was awakened by the shots, testified that two men drove rapidly away in a wagon directly after The theory is advanced that the officers however, by wagon noticed was probably a vehicle passing by chance. They advance the theory of suicide, claiming the dead man had been svtiudled out of aeveral hundred dollars by green goody sharks on a recent trip to New York, which preyed upon his mind to such an extent that he sought relief in death. In support of this theory they claim Brown took several hundred dollars away with him: that he told acquaintances on the way home, this side of Omaha, that he had made a big mining deal and would have plenty of money when his grip arrived, which lie had sent by express. Upon arriving home some store bills were presented him which he borrowed money to pay. A day or two later his grip came by express. After having opened it Browii became dejected and consigned some green looking paper to the stove, saying lie had no further use for It. It's further said lie gave a friend some of "the stuff, which is yet in evidence. Brown carried several thousand dollars life insurance, payment on which will probably Ije stopped pending a more rigid examination of the mystery. That so much the appearance of murder was apparent is claimed to be the result of premeditated arrangements to enable his family to get the insurance money. Friends of the dead man however, loudly protest against the assertion that he died by liis own hand. the shooting. Swollen Vdilm want to talk to H. C. W. a little, who owns a cow that will not go dry. 1 He milked her once a day and confined her to dry feed and on this treatment her udder becomes much swollen. Truth Is the cow Is about spoiled for tba next year, at least Sbe is too near calving to slacken her feed much, or stop milking her. A cow cannot La safely dried after she begins to spring udder. She should be entirely dry two or three weeks before her udder enlarges in the least which would make eight or nine weeks necessary. Before I learned this for certain I injured some of my beat cows. H. C. W. could feed his cow Just poor straw and milk her three times a day and her udder would be likely to swell for a few weeks before she drops her calf. Many of our dairy writers and some of our professors declare there are cows that persist in giving milk from calf to calf, that to atop milking them la to spoil them. Prof. llaecker, 1 believe, says so, but how does it come? They are made, not born, like kicking cows. They are from good milkers and they are stuffed with good feed and milked so near calving the first year before an attempt Is made to dry them that they are not dried at all and so no attempt Is made to dry them the next year or the next, and ever after that cow should be milked. If sbe Is milked 12 years she Is milked 2 years of the time for nuthiug. The average cow will give as much milk when milked ten months of the year as the whole year. She will have less afflictions and bring better calves. Eighty per cent of th bright dairymen of this country practice what 1 have told you. The veterinary advisor of the Orange Judd Farmer says, in case a cow won't dry, to milk her regular, but a few days before she comes in give the milk to the pigs. (Poor pigs.) Rub her udder with soap liniment and feed her grain as usual. Epsom salts In pound doses will be necessary to keep her bowels loose and cool her system, etc. I have asked near a score of the best dairymen of this county lately If they practice giving EpBom salts or other physic to their cows about the time of calving,-oany other time. Not one In twenty does. This question was discussed at our Form Institute the other day, discussed I say. The practice was condemned almost unanimously. Bro. C. P. Goodrich told us that the dairymen of Sheboygan county were too Intelligent to continue Epsom salts, milking tubes and rubber plugs. Louisians, Texas and Georgia were the places to advocate such things. Nearly all of Iowas great men agree with me that all cows can and should have a good rest between calves. Professor Wilson and Curtis, Brothers Bennett and Gabrilsen and the Wallaces all advocate about the method this writer does. I wiBh Hoard Hccker Horne and others would try the Iowa air for a- few years and then try writing about bow cows should be treated. I believe my few visits to Iowa did me good, I know I learned from Curtis some valuable things about feeding calves. I ought to write this over and boil It down, but I can't very well. r AN ' CAS-TOHI- le at the wrapper ol have always bought." and has the signatureNo CHAB H. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. name one ha. authority from mo to use my Che of which except The Centaur Company Btroug Argument-Nine-tenth- s of the area and populo Edward Island ia under Prince tlon of more drunkenprohibition, yet there ia for drunkenconvictions more ness and the city of Charness in the In the remaining nine lottetown, than A one-tent- prohibition Parniauent Organisation Effected and arem Elected. O H- rs Templar. Headache Quickly Cured. never fails, 250 Dr. Davis' Anti-Headac- Do not save the loving speeches till they are dead; For your I Want to Swear to That Do not write them on their tombstone, t must, so I hunted up some reuiediee for Speak them lather now, instead. myself, and finally happened on Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I asked soma of my neighbors about the medicine, Dyea know whether it is Taiia or not! for it had Leen used bv several persons in tha community, and thev recommended it very highly. 1 procured a Ikix. The pills helped me right away, and 1 continued inking them. I commenced taking them last fall, aud fiuisbe I taking the sixth tax a faw months ago. 1 am not bothered w itli tha rheumatism now, the medicine has cured me. Icau most certaiulv recommend j)r. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. These pills are nut only good for rbeu- nut are valuable for auy disease from iiiic verished, or bad Eiatiain, They do sot set on the bowola. Big feet and a bald head are Pf dignity. Catarrh Cannot Lie Cared tfflth LOCAL APPi.u.'ATlMNK. mb they cannot reach the t of I tic disease. is a Oluuu or ciit,iliiiuui,al and In order to cure li you must 11 nil's lid Me internal reined ee. Catarrh Cure is taken lnt mall;, at'.ii acts directly on the blood and mucous sui fitc-- s. .Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack Jt Was prescribed by one of the nest physicians In this country lor years. Both the method and remits when And is a regular prescription. It is comfii.-nd- s j ear-mar- Ca-liar- rh si-a- dis-jeas- e, OXG OTJOY0 Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the Amy Isn't that a small shoe, dear? only remedy of its kind ever proMaud Yes, dear for the foot. duced, pleasing to the taste and acConservative Ia restore can largely Increase ceptable to the stomach, prompt in their Income by placing their accounts in niy its action and beneficial in its lands.' Twenty years of Wall street experitruly ence, in addition to reliable insiiib iskokma-Irinfrom the most effects, only prepared enables me loadriti you most successWrite for particulars, which ere and agreeable substances, its fully. healthy Interesting to those having money to invest. Urr.HKS, Investment Broker, M Wall many excellent qualities commend it ('hakuNew York City. Street, to all and have made it the most posed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purdiers, acting The directly on the mucous surlacca. perfect combination of the two Ingredients la what produces such wonderful results In curing Catarrh. Send for .testimonials, free. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. 7uc. druggists, s Family I'lilsprice Hail .by are thu best. Pendleton, Ore., Feb. 21. The organization of the Northwest association has been comThe most important action pleted. covers the branding of cattle. All members pf the association are required to furnish a copy of their brand to the aecretary, which is forwarded in turn to different inspectors west of the Missouri. A large saving to owners of stray cattle it) expected to result. Auother regulation requires owners of animals in possession of the inspector.' about which there is a dispute, if ownJohn got so discouraged about himself ers are members of the assoc iation, to that he went to the doctor to know the submit the question to the executive worst. Did he get the information? Yes; committee of the association for arbi- the doctor told him his bill was 8178. Cattle-growe- ? J. Fresh Ikies a fish diet strengthen the brain? PhiJotopher Perhaps not; but going fishing Invigorate tbo imugina .lied-icln- e. CATTLEMEN. h, tenths. Is not this a fair argument foi - NORTHWEST to mothers. lettere.ru open We are asserting in the " Trade Mark. iTl H E K S CTthTi UtlA , as our Massachu-iSi- L of Hyunuis. Pitcher, -the originator of MTCHEU'S borueaud doeanow has same that the . signature of CH4A bear the This Is tbs FLETCHER on every wrapper. CASTOKIA" Mehhaa original "PITCHERS motbom of been used in the homes of the America for over thirty yearn. Look carefully and see that It Is "the kind you x, I tration. Don't Tobacco Spit and Sisoka Your Lite Awsy. popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for salo in 50 cent bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist vho may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any ono who wishes to try iL Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be weve elected as follows: full of life, nerve and vhror. take President, Grant Copeland, Walla Walr, that makes weak men the All druggists, hue. or tl. Cure guaranls; Oregon, l)r. James strong. teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Withycombe; Washington, T. P. Blythe Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or New York. of Linde; Montana, C. W. Price of Ft. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL The Prince of Wales was once obliged to. new romt; M.r. Benton; Idaho, left to appointment by pawn his watch. mrnuiE, nr. the governor. The executive committee, two memA HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO bers from each state, was elected aa SHAVE WITH. follows: Oregon George Chandler. Centerville: Alex Chalmers, Hillsboro. Washington Oliver Cornwall, Walla Walla: C. F. Klwell, Novelty. IS THE PROPER THING FOR HOUSE-CLEANINa. x. li r ATT. Montana F. A. Cummings, Ft. Benton; W. 1). Bruce, Helena. You are constipated. Selling Poultry. Lost year the United States proWe tell you what Idaho li. Shaw, Lewiston; L B. duced 15,465,000 bushels of buckwheat, Ws seldom pass through South Cascarets will do. IS we do Hutchinson, Mountainhome. Water street in Chicago that most of which was consumed st home. You buy a dollars not see many crates of mixed fowls. 4.600 are cakes about in one Thera for the Witm of Klnr. two 50c worth THIS lighting a total of 70,000,000,-0- 0 Frequently most of these are of the bushel, making two months boxes, 21. An assemWichita. Kan., Feb, scrub variety, and very scrubby at that. cakes In the whole crop. SQUARE ? treatment, and if of farmers and business men from But here and there will be seen a pure bly they don't do what Tobacco in the leading brand of we say they will bred Plymouth Rock or a Brown Leg- several cdunties along the Arkansas theStar because is it the best. world, horn, or aoine equally valuuble bird. river was held here to discuss means Ycu Git Your Dollar Back. Some of them too have bright red I'm sure your wife's knowledge of par the Rocky Ford and other whereby combs and seem to be on the point of law is limited. Oh, no; she irrigation companies in Colorado can iainentary been speaker of the house for 15 years. beginning the seasons operations In lie las cease to water compelled taking laying. Sometimes there will be a number of such birds in a crate cf twenty. from the Arkansas river for irrigation Were they by themselves they would purposes. find a ready sale at an advanced price. Several communications from places It is not always convenient for a farm- along the river from as far aa Little er to ship two small crates instead of Rock, Ark., were read. Committees GANDY one large one, but he might In such were meth-(mappointed to take different CATHARTIC cases partition off a part of the crate of and action under J. advisement, for the birds of a feather, and not mlr them up with the scrubs. It sometimes F. Houston was retained as legal CURE CONSTIPATION. Beware of " cheap " bakhappens that a South Water street man counsel. Should the action be successtakes advantage of this fact and goes ful, much land in Colorado, that has The worlds most meritorious ing powders. Alum makes up and down the street gathering up at liccii cultivated under Irrigation, will laxative. So nice to eat, so gentle of action, never gripe, always pound rates certain kinds of birds. Ha U rendered good medicine but bad food. utterly useless. It is be effective. Sold entirely on merit. puts them by themselves in a crate Ask your doctor. and sets them up at a fancy price, tiered there is some small chance for & A booklet and .ample free for tho asking, at which he often gets. As with apples Micecss and every stone will be turned you can buy a boa for 10c, ,5c, $oc, st yaur and other fruit so with chickens, mixed to bring this about. drug store. Satieiaction guaranteed. q Ths Starling Remedy Ce.,Chiciga.Montreil.NewYi'k. lots are sold at a disadvantage. : Ulchldahe Or. of (irasa.ndtTnverMeeila 5 IsLergMtgrower. ( Aiurlre. MkWacm. Oar (Ire Mixture. Bicycles and Cream. The bicycle Koine, Ida., Feb. Si. A rich strike 5 IlMm. Vwilun wn Is April will glv. which has hurt the horse Is no enemy has crop in Joljr. Frliw dirt cheap. Ham- - ( moth enMogn and it pkn. (Iran and Grains, Gordon & Flower just been made at the Cumber- pd railing of the cow. The harder cyclers wheel, ,I and th frro (or lee OUloguaio. land mine, on War Eagle mountain, e a. we. with' w.m the more Ice cream they eat. On a hot joss Halses ,ei to.. Ulw. reputation. Catalog about sixty miles south of this rity, at New Greater York alone consumes day free to ell. level. The atrek ia from JAMES J. H. GREGORY &S0N, Marblehead, Mast. How many millions of the 16,000 quarts. NEW DISCOVERY; Sira quick relief and rums won W ofI tmlimonlal quarts the people of Greater America six to ten inches in width, aim will aara. Hold fur book and lOdava A not of la set down staabout Dr. inches. the treatment dispose by average Free. "quarH.a.ssBkh'ssuss, tumak eight I L write to NATHAN I tisticians. Wheelmen are patrons of tered sample assayed $1000 iu round II Washington, D. C., they ' replies, a Mb N.RVols HI! countless roadside daises. Hence, numbers, 81200 gold aud St 00 in silver buff 10th Corps. Prosecuting Claims since IS 7 1 though the blcyclo doesn't cat hay, it per ton. The ledge is about two feet W. N. U.t Salt Lak- e- No. 9, 1898 indirectly helps Iho dairy farmer. ! iu width at that point. Exchange. Vhei Officers ! mag-'nrtl-c, wonder-worke- ts - G; is I CLOVER SEED It fr 1 p-t- 1 g. world-wid- 200-fo- ot nRflDQY DllDlUi! Assweriag Advertlsemests Motion This Taper. 4. Kindly |