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Show DAIRY AND POULTRY. generally bring out iU merit. the poultry with a good dust-jn- g bed of fine, clean earth road dust excellent under cover, Is one of the best mediums to keep away vermin Pests. When you see the hens eagerly trying to scratch a hole In the ground to dust in, it's a reflection on your method of caring for your flock. I'nder such conditions do not blame the hens if they seem to think there is no place on earth so enjoyable as the onion beds or melon hills in the garden. Lime in the poultry yard should be considered an Indispensable-accessory. Its use in the summer time will keep and Is a means of keeping down insect It pests. is cheap. Scatter it freely and frequentlA ypractical poultry woman recently said: "I always take a peep into the chicken houses the last thingbefore reto see tiring, that all is right. By this I am enabled to discover ifdoing of the flock is ailing, and if I find any are I attend to them at once. they Early attention in the case of sick fowls I And is about the only way to cure them. A delay of even a day or two will often cause diseases to become too firmly established to effect a speedy cure. Fowls that are sick a long time are nevei worth much afterward." Fur-ttfihl- Fhcep ti Manor Ipmdm. Before the Michigan Elate Boird ef Thr Djr Gr.r. tad INTERESTING Agriculture a member said: By the CHAPTERS FOR way some sheep are kept it would look j Th. Da trujtd. OUR RURAL READERS. as though the notion that "something morning vanloads of canine could come of nothing by the gracious outcasts stand outside the dogs home Hw Snrc.fu, n Battersea, Parlf road; and now pld of sheep is still believed in, and I Op. rat. Thll or th. r. and ania a vanload of calcined bone cannot , make ideas pluiner any my rmA than by quoting the rental ks of a prac- - and ask nut. . to th. Cor. of Uv. Stock tieal sheep breeder, who says: We xette. There is an Interval of five and Poultry. days frequently see absurd statements that betweej the stages. The law requires N an addreRs to the sheeps foot turns ail to gold, and three. Three days after a deg has been there is no steadier or surer way to hi the hands 0f the Kansas farmers A. the oripinal fertilize a barren field than to put a right of ownership inpo1(le E. Jones said: The it eeatea, and It Uotk of sheep to pasture upon th UrU mat farmer that-ld or Incinerated a conven-fir- s and weeds in it; that. In effect, lence dieute.: The from, jna;kets process is verv -stf. and is obliged to ?.. k.ul pi Ab4 j gees, London. ) ear in ot food and make the richest manure, and Jrtr barter his butter out, whether there Is' a mtti-an- d are thus the best stock a farmer sling der i force at- the store for 8 or not Every ktep on his farm. But those who morning , rove red van draws and 10 cents a b, fora have been ,here kaow boUer. each of the poMre stations in up pound jstill never the met- 1 -- ere is no that animal other domestic ropoLs. On end, side rre two rows of and get Wealthy, needs . care or food for profitable Hags, n,i the best thing he tte m, , galvanize l . hnn than gI can do Is to join with his neighbors and that out 0 lhclr jron-wa,comes to be mill bropaJr induce manure some one there try to put in a one is ' nothing that is not first put Into the tioll as creamery. The cow worth from $30 to "b ,n , pit ' u $75 and given $30 worth of feed in a hopper; that yet, with proper care and , eM vvutrels n--thp ,rn ,, fl"m W year, if judiciously handled, near a fkill, a well selected flock of the right j yard b to the Und of sheep, in the , good market, will make a profit for her right place, can he made to pay one hundred per cent owner. Sk CB should produce 6,000 lth anl'ui'!s- tht' holse 8 on their cost pounds of 4 every year. It Is true he"d per cent milk, ned towurd Bal,frscaJu,5t fhat a field flock a of sheep will clear which, sold to a creamery at the avernre not of these of weeds, briars and age price of t0 cents a hundred, would rubbish, and wiil special vans, and theenouph police, have had enrich it, but It will not live upon to rurn to $54 a year. Besides there requisition vehicles from the green 'hese. To would be the sktm-mllfrelish this rough herbage, or other local tradesmen. the calf and Arthe sheep must be fed liberally with rived Ioultrr Hodim and I.ice. the manure. Twenty dollars to $35 the dogs hotjie. the vans wait some A writer in as such Is considered a food, supplementary their turn to pass into the Poultry Keeper says: I bran, cut good profit on a am led to believe clover, grass, or green, com oooupwtts filling the air withyard, their that the life of the paying for feed and labor, saying c cries and raiser is from henceforth and fodder, or some grain food. Then with swelling. the nothing about the The greater chorus within the this on orever alloy take to cow that produces 300 the food be may one continual source of sheeps walls of the home. As one van comes pounds of but- cvfreme the golden tinge and will edge with out ter a year will do so at happiness, as between Carbo-ent-uempty another goes In full. a cost of 10 The Dead Easy, Lee Lake, and gold the fanners pocket by making dogs are taken cents a pound, if she Is well managed. out, their place of origin ambert, we have solved the question his poor lands rich; giving him, at the and description and The average coat, however, is aouut o- any marks of idenaanie time, a lamb or two and a fleece tification lice. 12 cents a on the collar entered in a pound, based on the price of our, or Paint your houses w ith the first are year. either The e'ery feeds from year to year. The cow fact of the sheep dust is, them, and book, and then in that ast over the house and hens. The manure spreaders rather than manure twenties are taken groups of tens and produces ouly 200 pounds a would Into the kennels. jear makers. of maWc feed them with the Plague do so at a cost of 15 cents a There they pass their pouitrydom is forever gone pound, and days of respite, the ISO pounds a year cow at a eobt of and we can sleep easy and dream of terial, they take their pay out of It wafting for owners that come not, and the money to be made. Lice are and give us back the remainder, trans20 cents, spending the hours In Incessant bark-- i taking it for granted that and the one thing that has formed into a substance of equal value lng and in the feed is the same in either case. reduced the profits of poultry has de- (because it ts more available) with that to visitors. pitiful and friendly appeas The pleasant feature about dairyWhen the days of grace ing is the profit. If the profit is not parted forever. I like Campbell and which they receive, and they get fat are past they are led to the lethal love to read his articles, but how about meanwhile in doing It. found, there is no pleasure in the work. chamber. Just now the home is having This is a general law, but it applies .hose lousv hens, and particularly the two clearances a day and is a getting toosters that the lice were eating up. with a special force to dairying, besecond furnace built for the incineraSore Shoulder In llnre. I think there must have been a little cause profitable dairying is a hue aa, Th best way to prevent them is to tion of the carcasses. Since the 1st of and success is won by strict attention carelessness somewhere. These remehave a good clean leather rollar that January nearly 12,000 dogs have passed dies are good, but good, fine, clean, fits to business. The man who looks upon tight. There is such a thing as through the gates the vast majority of a cow as a a collar so tight that it will them to pass out again in the form of necessary evil, can never dry dust has done the business begetting fore. and so it will do right along if the choke a be a decided success as a horse, but a large amount of calcined bone and ash, and of these dairyman, birds are any more than a slovenly farmer can supplied with it as they ought sore shoulders is caused by having the 12.000 nearly half have come in since to be. The first poultry house I ever collar too make a success at farming. The large. 1 keep in the barn the issue of the muzzling order. As the price received for butter depends chtellj built was made of rough hemlock a smooth round piece of hard wood home has accommodation for about upon the taste of the consumer. The boards, cost me eight dollars, and was about 12 inches long, and Just as soon 2.000 dogs only and is hard put to it the most butter-make- r I owned. house I ever find as to find a of expensive intelligent kennel room, patch studies the chafing or swelling notwithstanding I. like many others, tastes of those people who are willin thought corn, and I potiud the collar right over the sore the additional space It has utilized unn shed that did not leak, would shell place. If you tend to them in time der the to pay well for what suits them, and the rate of derailway then he learns how to make that kind out the eggs, but one thing it did shell thoroughly you will not be troubled struction can be arch, imagined. The process out was of butter. It is the only lice. That house was the most much with sores. You must take the of destroying the dogs is way he can absolutely get their money. It Is not the expense costly in money, for it cost a whole sea- draft of the collar off from the sore painless. The lethal chamber is the of manufacture that lixes the son's before you can heal it up. One of the Invention of Dr. thirty-tw- o for dollars work, price. Benjamin Ward RichThe consumer cares not that the but- chickens and about all the young ones I best remedies 1 have ever found for ardson, and the writer of this saw it in ter perhaps cost untold labor on tfte raised. The lice ate them all up. If 1 a sweeny or big swelling is hot water. use recently. It is constructed so as to part of some one who churned and could have sold those mites at one cent As soon as you find a lffrge swelling, dispose of 100 animals of the terrier a or thousand lameness I take I bruise, think could have bought very hot water class t a time. The animals are prepared it for market. If in'erior, it put sells for an inferior price, regardless the s,.ate of New York. I am sure I and wash it thoroughly, then wipe dry into a cage divided into two with of the cost of production, and if it is could have bought New Jersey. My and rub for all you are worth for not light iron bars at the sides.tiers,Mean-while the chamber Is filled with nar-cot- if superior, it sells at top prices, though houses now are constructed with as less than 15 minutes. Dont forget that water lots and ot elbow grease made with ease and little expense. much care as my dwelling. They are hot vapor. When the load is made up And the beauty remain that the cost lathed, plastered and hard finished. Do well applied In time will cure the worst thMloors of U cage are shyt, the of producing the best butter nfeed not not say I am too nice, for no hen house case of sweeny, or swelling. It should Of the chamber is raised and be greater than that of producing ever made can be so nice that lice will be applied not less than three times a tb fcage is run quickly on the tram-rn- $ goods of a poorer quality, in fact the not get there with all the feet they day in bad cases, then grease it to preInto the chamber. The death is bad article is generally made at the have if there 1b not the strictest care. vent white hairs from coming in. I by Inaesthesla, and such a death is greater cost. Ignorance is expensive. I fed lice on, chicken meat for one year use salt butter, lard and kerosene detth by sleep. The dogs are overcome melted I think It will make every one who and think it the most foolish waste of together. Ex. wfih drowsiness, the moment Ihey owns cows a better dairyman to sit money in all my life. Lice dont troubrezthethe noxious fumes; in a single down and compare the prices of dairy ble me much now, for I keep on the miiute they are In a Good Falla to Hrd From. deep sleep; In goods with those of other farm pro- watch for them, and success in new three minutes they are dead. Close by A writer in this department this ducts. If your cheap grains can be beginners Is made difficult by lice. thf lethal chamber Is the crematorium tells about a pullet that laid 21 -- I converted into 20 and 25 cent butter Whatever you build, build aa near vermilarge oven kept at an intense heat and 10 cent cheese or J1 to $1.15 per n-proof as possible, make your eggs by the time she was five months by a brick furnace. When the cage la hundred for milk, it will pay better houses as warm as you can, take old. The pullet should be kept by her- drawn out the carcarses of the animals than selling the raw material and rob- time to exterminate the lice, feed self and her eggs used only for breedaracast Into iL There is a momentary bing the farm of all the fertilizing enough, but avoid fatness, give plenty ing purposes, provided that some valu- smtll as the hair of ther bodies ignites material that much of the land is al- of clean, pure water, and the poultry able male could be used with her. but that is all. When tho process Is There Is little doubt that close selecbusiness will pay more money on capiready in need of. completed there Is nothing but an Intal Invested than anything else I know tion for a few years would work as odorous ash and Incinerated bone. of. the roosts require the most care, great wonders with our poultry as the BetMtlnsr Chest. same has process with me our swine. tell you how I do: I have Bartmt All The department of agriculture has and let Fin Such an should not be alIs an earthquake near Dy. Issued a very valuable circular on two sets of roosting poles six feet long, lowed to opportunity Naples some too It a slip. water 6x6 frequently box hap12 time ago a young man was tight Jeet long. "How to Select Good Cheese. In speakburied in a that pens are .exceptional al layers Inches wide and 8 inches deep; the cellar by the building in which ing of the composition of "filled roosts are he was on wires, and every lowed to go with the flock and their tumbling in placed ruins. At least fifteen cheeee," it says: Instead of the natural are with the eggs and so put others, are down and day taken they dipped day elapsed before he was fat of milk, or ctenm, which extractreached, in the box containing enough kerosene the opportunity to get a more than orwhen he was found to be ed for buttermaking, there Is substitutvaluable breed still alive, and of fowls dinary is al to emulsion cover them. I let them ed what is known as "neutral lard. subsequently recovered and la lowed to go by default. living made from the leaf fat of the hog. This lay in the box fifteen minutes, take todzy (or was a short time ago). Anout and let them dry for putting them other Instance Is related where a num-,barticle, claimed to be exceptionally Effect of Salt on Sheep. A curious morning. If there are any livof workmen were pure and good of its kind. Is used at the up next as Instance descending a pit, lice on them after will that I exemplifying the action of and a short pay rate of two or three pounds to every ing distance before they common salt Is recorded. On the table you a cent apiece tor them. 100 pounds of skim milk. The cheese lands smong the Pyrenees mountains, reached the bottom an accident hap resulting carries about 30 per cent of flocks of 3,000 to 12,000 are pened to the hoisting apparatus. As a sheep (lard) fat, which is rather less than the Contino to Kaiu Bff Cattlo driven up fronf the valleys to feed relt they were buried by the debris. whole-milk average ef (butter) fat In good Fourteen days elapsed before the market reports of down the herbage during the summer were they cheese. Tue casein and other theBy studying the soli is characterized by a total reached. wEen they were found we get but little Information press components of the two are practically as to the retail market absence of unconscious, but and a Take still sodium, the 6alt breezes prices. living, and on the same In kind and proportion. From dollar and go to the butcher stalls and from the Bay .of Biscay do not reach being brought to the top and cared for this statement of composition one can see what ail recovered. for The secret of the long at such high latitudes of nearly (wo miles. you can Judge for himself whether this filled, your steak arter get haveit Looking you bought it. It The sheep are Invariably divided Into continuance of life in this case Is supor lard cheese is a legitimate article qt will look It, you two groups, the one for fattening, the posed to be that they were early renfood, whether it Is wholesome, and, have aboutsmall, and, weighing four pounds or less of meat, other for breeding. Now, both are fed dered unconscious and remained In he desires to use it in the diet on the same land, yet odb group ie ever this condition the of himself and family. It is made of and thats all, except that you are leanand part of the bas to be maintained so foF tlmt that they weregreater pretty sure you have nearly a pound of buried, comparatively cheap materials, costing bone. In cities of from 10,000 to 20,000 productive ends, while the other from to as much as inhabitants the butchers have to buy is Invariably fat. The latter aregroup supTh Itiryet InTmtor. ' good, factory checed, and their stock of meat, generally only the plied with salt, the other not, and that its market price, wholesale or retail hind can stop the bicycle inventNothing makes the difference. Ex. from the of the or. Hi applications are should correspond. At its best, this ta4-j- t TndTacklnT received at com 'ughtering a cheap. Inferior article of cheese; it the rate of a hundred daily at WashWhere Profit Lies. The profits In Is almost devoid of flavor, oily or panles. Have to? Exactly so, because, ington, and already outnumber the toIf you sell dressed beef of your own dairying depend, first, kind of tal of greasy when warm, and never attains washing machines, churns and the companies will send you cow that we start with,ontbe killing and the next automatic-couplerthe dry, crumbly consistency of a d s for railroad cars. word that if you continue to do so they thing is the matter of feed and attencheese. It Is sold when only a He seems to be filled with the Idea set up an opposition shop, under- tion. If there Is any profit at will that .It all, is month or two from the press, in imita- sell you and break you up. They have from those cows that are well bred and a bicycle to be operated by hand Intion of mild, Immature cheeee. It is the stead of foot power li the well fed. If the demand for power to do so. and will do It rereal, origigood butclaimed that it does not keep well, eshave no con- ter and cheese continues and other nal, long felt want Such a machine for morselessly, they pecially If subjected to a temperature science as be regards business, as they farm products rule at a low figure, we might operated by the legless wonabove 60 degrees. There Is much of der or the dime, museums, but call it Now, what is to be done? must devote more time to ma1 what e dairy of ad! the farmer quit raising beef cat- - tter. Remember, It is no easy to any one else would want with it is not job lion In this "V pamphlet, which may Shall no mannerof means. Keep on pick up a herd of good cows at random. clear. Many of the Inventions are, be obtained free, by addressing the tie? By raising stock, and hold them till you The safest plan is to get a few good however, 0f merit and they relate to chief of the dairy division, department can obtain their real value. This may one and then buy a registered bull acd details ia the intricate of agriculture, Washington. portions of tho not be quite up to your idea, but it la breed up. Exchange. mach.ns. There are some new things the best you can do until the farmers in the lino of package carriers, and in Poultry Tors Potatoru. can bring to bear such pressure upon oth paved cities a year hence Population and Cows. According to the at Watch the young chicks. I i any of their representatives in congress as statistics leart 90 per cent of the light In the population United ' them appear sleepy or drowsy, look will make It a felony, entailing fine and States Increases delivery of faster than dairy cows. dry goods, millinery, hats, shoes, for vermin. Use insect powder on the. imprisonment, when such threats as Therp are Ja the state of Iowa nearly cufectionery, groceries, mother ben, and put it on in th even- above stated can be proven against an 800 creameries and her farmers "are etc. will be through the meing after the hen goes in the coop with individual or a company. Journal better off than the same number in ' any dium of vehicles operated by boyg and the brood. The Ideal floor for k poultry of Agriculture. Other Western slate. Kansas should hare young men. New York Journal. house u a cement one. Keep two to 1,000 creameries, located wherever feed three Inches of clean, dry sand on it, To set tbe color and prevent delicate can be raised; and. If managed as well and replenish as conditions may make colored cambrics and dimities from as some we now " "d -have, there would be necessary. Every man qr woman who fading when washed, dissolve S.eenta no trouble about their one that rides in a aETerjr the milk, getting la making a specially of one breed Inworth of sugar of lead In a pall of cold and the condition of the aTne itage pltchea Into them, farmers in the , dividually considers theirs the heat water and soak the garment In It two vicinity of these creameries would be nd out of them. Harlem bl, - much Improved. Exchange. Life. Special attention to Any breed hours; then rinse and wash. t, , Uprt.n B lttr--late- tot'i sim--eke- - ter , ,; g - - cow-afte- Not m Jim Dandy. young moo in llhod write us that h is going to take in th west thia summer and that thia great town ia on his list, providing we think it safe for him to show up here in a plug hat, red necktie and russet shoes. . If that! is the r,g h intends to don when he visits us, hed better not come. T his is a growing town a healthy town a1 town which is bound ter boout and .be41 comes second Chi ago, but it ria no place for Jim Danuies not yet- - Fifty Je.irs hence a man can put on link cuff! buttons and yaller kid gloves and stalk j up pd down and awing a. guidneaded.' cane, but such a thing' now well: lass our town by, young men. Don t one within fifty .ttulea of HI J. - Tb liBl A She paused "The die XIopcniMt a moment. - - -- la east, There la no retreat" Hastily gathering the most necessary part of her wardrobe into twenty-seve- n trunks, she dropped them aofuy from tbe window.- -. Then ah descended by the rop ladder and fell into th arms of her lover, who thntie gloom of the shrubbery bad patiently awaited her. Detroit Trih- - , Uilito Co It lh oldest and best.t'oagh It will brass op er UAaii tUNk XL ! TheWoman, -- ne Alan And odd cutek. alw&jk refiAbitt. Try tfc The Pill. She was a good woman. He loved her, She waa his wife. The pie waa good; hi wife made it; he ate it But the pie disagreed with him, and he disagreed with hia wife. Now he takes a pill after pie and ia happy. So ia his wife. The pill he take is AyerS. Moral : Avoid dyspepsia Educational. Attention of the reader ia called to the announcement df Noire Dame university in another column of this paper. Thia noted institut on of learning enters upon its fifth-thiryear with tiie next session, commencing Sept. 8, 18WL Barents and guardians contemplating sending their boys and youug men away from home to school would do well to write for particulars to the i Diversity of Norte Dame Indiana. before making arrangements for their education elsewhere. Nowhere in this broad land are there to be found better facilities for the mind and heart than arecultivating offered at Noire Dame I Diversity. d by using Ayers Cathartic Pills. , j Q exter-m-nat- slld-lnfjdo- or is-s- DONT FORGET for 5 as much 44 Battle Ax brands for 10 cents. DONT FORGET that cents you get almost as you do of other 44 Battle Ax is made of the best leaf grown, and the quality cannot be improved. DONT FORGET, no matter how much you are charged for a small piece of other brands, the chew is no better than Battle Ax. DONT FORGET, 44 Economy is wealth,' and you want all you can get for your money. 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