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Show I DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Smcad If it is possible io produce polls by dehorning in this way? it is against s ientific teaching if I mistake not, et I had a heifer, a thoroughbred Shorthorn as I thtmght. having raised d her. that had been dehorned at and breeding her to our St. Lambert bull, also dehorned when a calf, the result is a peifect poll. I am Eure of the.-fad?, et they upset my theories of heredity somew hat. Joseph E Wing. I can dehorn 1 DO calves for 10 cents. That sounEds big.' but It 1 take Is true. the calf from three, to five old snd .use concentrated Ije, a I take a pair of shears,' box calf-hoo- fcurrcufui Farmer Oprrate Till Farm A Few Department ol th Mow Hint a to tbe Car of I.lv Stork and I'oultrj. RS. A. L. SMITH, Gibson county, Indiana I base had considerable expewith ' the rience mentioned aboe. I hake tried ,a number of remebut hae dies, found nothing" so effective as changing them to new quarters, and watching them closelk for a few daks, getting each egg as it is laid. Several years ago I broke a fine lot of Black Lang-shtru- s of this habit. This year I had a lot of White Javas that got the habit and 1 bioke them in the same way. The cause is chiefly confinement in close runs. I had to shut up my fowls for several days in the house and that is where they learned the habit. 1 put them into a new run and gathered the eggs as fast as they were laid for a few days and the habit was soon broken up. When I hare a hen that is sitting and brings off an egg every time she comes from the nest I cover up her Bitting place and take her out and feed and water her every morning, giving her meat scraps If I have any. I do this for several mornings and after that I have no trouble. I practice taking ofT my hens, feeding them, and putting them back on the nest, covering the eggs with a warm cloth while the hens are off. I use incubators but usually have some hens sitting toward the end of the season. I had one egg eater this seasonf but soon broke her as above. Hens will not eat eggs if they have proper animal food. A morbid appetite is the cause. If I should find one that could not be broken by the treatment that I have mentioned I would take her off the eggs for a few days and put another hen on them (as I generally have supernumeraries) and give the egg eater a few china eggs to practice on. She would forget her old habit in a few days. One way that hens learn to eat eggs is by having too many hens laying in the same nest. Some of the eggs are broken, and in this way the habit is begun. . Whole eggs or half egg shells thrown to them will teach them to break eggs; that was the way my Langshans learned the trick and my Javas learned it by being kept shut up where they were idle. Now when I feed egg shells I always crush them. I now have about 400 chicks. Of the older broods there will weigh eight pounds. The next brood are three weeks younger, and I have two other broods (Incubator) at intervals of three weeks in age. The four broods consist of White Javas, White Cochins, White Langshans, and White Plymouth Rocks with a few d Javas with tbe latter birds. fruit J half-bree- Ruben O. Porter, Emmet county, Michigan. I have had some trouble with hens eating their eggs in the nests where they were laid, but none eating them when they were sitting on them. Make tbe nests in kegs and the hens cannot get at them and will soon stop the habit F. J. Marshall, Butler county, Ohio. Yes, I have had some experience with the egg eaters. It Is a pernicious habit and hard to break up It several get at it at the same time. The best way then is to make a nest slanting so that the egg will roll out of the reach and sight of the hen as soon as it is laid. Care should be taken that the construction of the nest is such that the eggs will not be broken as they roll away. Confined hens are most apt to contract this habit I have also bad hens that were sitting eat thelf eggs. They would bring off an egg with them every time they came off to eat and keep up the habit till the eggs were all gone. Such hens usually break an egg when getting on the nest and then take it out with them next time they go to feed. I never could remedy this to my satisfaction. Nests for sitters should not be deep at point of entrance as that condition Is most likely to result in broken eggs, I think that if they did not get an egg broken at first they would not carry them off, but the smeared eggs make them worse. Whenever an egg has been broken and the other eggs smeared they should be at once washed in lukewarm water and the nests made dark, if possible. Otbernlnf CiIvn. Cattle ought not to have horn. We It is best to all believe that today. There are as good breed them off. animals of the beef breeds that are It Is time polled as that have horns. that horns .were bred off the milk Next best is to prevent the breeds. horn starting on tbe calf. It is not five minutes time, nor one cent's exI have dehorned pense, to do it. many and never failed or made a sore head. After using patented fluids and caustic potash, I now use common concentrated lye, such as the, women use for bi'faking water and making soap. When the calf is less than ten days old is the right time. Simply wet the buffip where you expect the horn and rub-o- n aa much. powdered lye as will Do not equal three grains of corn. Let the calf alone wet elsewhere. The scabs will come off thereafter. ' apd the hair will grow out as nicely " as on a natural poll. I do not see that the fighting or butting habit is devel- A oped in these dehorned calves. have would old bull four years Jersey killed mV brother had he had horns, Hq got him down In the pasture" and no one was near to help. A shepherd I ask Dr. dog. came to the rescue. ? das clip the hair over the nub about the size of a nickel, dampen, but not enough to run down the side of tbe head, put slut will lay on point of Knife on nub and rub a little with AuIt will form ger and the job Is done. a scab, which will come off itself. I have never had a miss et. I think it Viy cruel to cut off the horns. 1 saw one cow faint away after cutting off her horns. A. P. J. in National Stock-ma- not stand until too ripe before cutting. When fed to milch cows the flow of milk and per cent of butter fat was maintained throughout the test, which extended over a period of 45 days. As cheap substitute for clover hay the vetch seems to answer the demand very satisfactorily. It is an annual, consequently must be sown every year, in this rtspeot it can not be compared with clover. As a fertilizing crop. It is not as good as clover for it d not toot as deeply, nor loose n the soil H. T. French, as completely as clover. Oiegun Experiment Station. Hd had some hens eat their eggs where laid, but find that it almost alor early ways occurs in midwinter spring wbenThe birds are short of grit. It' generally commences by laying soft shelled eggs or laying off the roosts at night, when they have an opportunity to roll the eggs around and petk at them. When the spring Is fairly on andjjie laying season in full swing, I have never been bothered except by an occasional case, and if I can detect that hen off goes her head. Olco Id franc. My sitting hens never bother me by The French chamber of deputies has eating the eggs set under them, unless passed a very stringent measure by I happen to put in an egg that baa a which It is made illegal for dealers In soft shell and it gets broken in very vice butter to keep oleo for sale, or or in some case where the the nest, versa; the fraudulent compositions are nest Is made in such a manner that debe sold to at only places especially the hen has to drop into it from too of each signed by the municipality great height, and thus accidentally town. Moreover, all boxes, firkins, or break an egg. But those accidents I must other packages containing oleo, after one experiIn large usually guard against bear the word margarine ence. As to treatment, if it la an isochararters, and a full description must lated case of egg eating and I can find be given of the elements employed In the hen I chop her head off. But if in making the composition. In the retail early spring or in the winter a mania trade all oleo must be placed In hags, seems to seize them for egg eating I on the outside ofw hieh are to Tie found scatter china nest eggs on the floor a description of the article with the and in the and keep all eggs nests, name and address of the vendor. Full picked up as fast as they are laid for authority is given to the Inspectors to a few days and find no difficulty in enter butter factories and shops, and stopping' tbe habit in this way. take specimens for analysis; in the Joseph Murphy. event of the specimens being found Delta County, Michigan. pure the cost y ill be borne by tbe state. The penalties for an Infraction of the Medium Hogs for Market. Drovers new law will vary from six days to and a Journal: Big corn means big hogs. three months' imprisonment, fine of $20 to $1,000, while In the event Big hogs means lots of lard, big hams of the same person being convicted a and big pork, which is now, and is liable to remain a heavy drug on the second time within a year, the maximum fine will also be Imposed. There market. The January flurry in the will also be a heavy fine imposed on prices of hogs and provisions made evpersons who place hinderance in the erybody feel bullish, and the consequence was farmers and feeders held way of the inspectors. their hogs long after they ought to have been shipped. While cellars and Judicious Feeding of Celtic storehouses have been crowded with In an address, E. P. Lee said; "If heavy, fat stuff that nobody seemed to we would be successful breeders of catwant, packers say they cannot possibly tle, we should give to our cows an the demand for bacon and cuts supply abundant supply of healthful food, of pork made from light hogs at prices proper shelter and exercise; then select considerably above board of trade quothe best bull we can afford to purchase, tations. There is nothing like supplyfor crossing with them; and when this ing the demand with what it wants, is accomplished, we have employed and holding already heavy hogs to more or less Imperfectly all the prostore more cheap corn into simply cesses under which the domestic anithem is folly. Better sell the hogs mals of the same species develop into when they are at the most desirable breeds. Good food, or the lack of it, weights and save the corn, which wlQ exercise in moderation or excess, shelcome in handy. ter or exposure, and selection or careI lessness in crossing, these make up the Prof. Silos. at Kanthe Georgeson sum total of the influences which modisas Dairy association convention said: fy constantly, for better or for worse, I would like to indorse tbe questloi our horses and cattle, hogs and sheep. of silos. We have had fifty-si- x head U The form, constitution, and temper of which we wintered last year, cattle, every domestic antmal is, aside from and were wintered for six monthi the characteristics of the species, the on theycorn the that was raised on twenty effect of the Interplay of these eauses. acres or $ little less; all put in the sila Judicious feeding, careful treatment In They were fed an average of forty shelter and exercise, and skilful selecof per day. We begas tion for coupling, kre the key notes to pounds it ensilage the latter part of October feeding the breederss art. If one of these be and It lasted until the middle of May. lacking, breeding Is nearly a failure. They got nothing else except a little If all are defective, tbe animals that corn stalks fed in the daytime. It result are well night worthless.- - Wq them in good condition. The must be careful in regard to mating. kept Shorthorns and those cows which we The breeder should notice the defects did not care to feed for milk did not of the female he wishes to breed, and get a grain of anything else. couple her with a male as nearly per feet as possible; and especially strong New York Milk. Mr. Van Valken-burg- , in the point where she is weak, and by assistant commissioner of agriso doing for a few generations, we shall culture for New York, said to a rehave arrived at nearly perfection. porter for The World, in relation to milk as tbe farmers send it in: About four cans In one hundred show aduSheep. The history of sh-eThey show an, average of husbandry dates lteration. back to almost as remote a period as about 10 per cent of adulteration bjr This reprethat of man, and from that time to the watering or skimming. present, has justly occupied s preem- sents only about sixteen quarts of inent position In the commerce of mil water added to 4,000 quarts of milk. I civilized nations of the world, being a claim that there are no two cities io source of luxury, ornament and profit, the United States that are supplied and when John Randolph of Roanoke with milk so nearly up to tbe standpublicly proclaimed that he would at ard made by the state legislature of any time go a mile out of his way to New York as in New York and Brookkick a sheep, he virtually asserted that lyn. It would be a luxury to abuse his best - Farm Horses. Any friend. I do not propose in this brief essay to give the origin or history of gooff breed of trotting horses, or any the various families or kinds of sheep, horse which has thoroughbred blood in but will view the subject as It exists in itn veins, can by practice be made to animal our country at the present time, as a walk fast. No common-bre- d can be made a fast walker. A fast branch of mixed husbandry. That flock of sheep is a necessity on the walker is made by careful exercise in farm I unhesitatingly assert As la- that gait and it is a delightful one for borers in the field they are industrious a traveler if hie steed walks four or an hour. It Is also very imand thorough, feeding upon briars and five miles to the farmer to have a fast many other species of vegetable ver- portant team; but It depends much min, consuming mneh of all kinds of walkingrider or driver whether a bone on the forage, both in summer and winter, that ever attains this highly esteemed is rejected by other stock and convertFarm and Home. quality. over the and distributing ing it into field a more valuable fertilizer than It Stocli.-Tb- s Danger in Holding would be in a crude state. C. C. Morwho holds a for does not rise farmer ton. always get II He loses a double interest. for the farmer who has money Feeding Tstsh Hajr. in hand can save twice the legal interest by buying alt his needed winter As a preliminary report for the pur pose of answering some questions re- supplies in bulk add by paying cash garding the feeding of vetch hay, I for them. After stock is ready for present a brief summary of results of market there 4a a probability that the our experience In feeding this mate- added cost of feeding will offset any rial We have fecj the vetch hay to Increase In value. fattening steers, and to cows giving for Cows. The departAir milk, and in both cases tbs results ment ofSpace considers that havebeenveif satisfactory irwas each cowinlmiLlndustry should have at least 600 cubic inboth in clover with hay compared of stances.' The steers made good gains ieet air space. when receiving vetch hay as the only A diet of fruit and milk, It is said, dry food, except the grain. Two steers will reduce flesh at the rate of five on vetch the were fed 42 days hay, pounds a week. . and gained , 2.07 - pounds and 2.07 It has been found impossible to build pounds respectively, per day. Those fed on clorer hay gained 2.1$ pounds a lighthouse on Diamond Sboal, off and 2.5$ pounds respectively. Hatteras, but tbe government will put ' The vetch when, properly cured is in a lightship at once, and the will I relisfaed brill kinds of stock. It must the strongest ever made. I hae p Fast-Walki- ' J . A Child EbJof I.tfe. ' bether Suburb you know n or not that secThe flavor, geuile action, and pleasant ond tear ,u tn suburban house is a of Syrup of Figs, when effect crisis ttui a ii r ti i txj toothing in your' life, for it rrii i,i it e uf juunt In need a of and it the father a laxative, e.ther you City manor M.imlan and it will surely or mother be costive or bilious, the moat savejou , m for all the rest of gratifying results follow Us ue; so that your8dlS, ti it hiiieous betwixt and is the best family remedy known aud between , tli.il uu uniiy creation have a bottle. every family of moe'ern. s of - - should rapid tiaus.t, who flacTQiTtrs lu Tl Favorite sleeve. between one town s and soiitiiei , triwrcn town and The favorite sleeve of the season city and town and city again, combine's a short puff with a mousque-tair- e seeKmL. a fullhess of the wrist Although impossible unattainable pyrferituu j.iul nl e r ; ,i reiuunslraut the severe oal xleexaia predicted for Beautys bane ise semnt muK a,ul msputed bilia for early fall, it'ha so far been seen only the fading or falling oif repairs alo, g h.s cheerless track in conjunction' with a few plain taiior the hair. Luxuriant gotvua tresses are far .more to the ' matron than to the maid whose casket . TW Curator Consumption ft otlr on rrrtii Ordeal for trr.tUrnt. aud colds Mrs. C. for medicine louh of ltrit.ng tue Pardoning Power Belt. 4JU Mh Ave , Denver, Col., Nov 1',tiu. of charms is yet un rifled by time. (inreste.i tR. President) lion. Ben.Beautiful women will be glad to bo A girl can talk for an hour of what tbe jamin Barn-o- n says in June Ladies reminded that falling or fading bail of if Own. sbe ber Id would bad in these is unknown to those who use murder cases are usuallypajiers volumnious -I Tseta. If the Haby Ctttg rsnudy. Kaa a fall rein'd or un abstract of the evi- te sere snd sae that eld sad dence making part. If the trial seems W dispow's aoovnum Svsvr far ChUdrta Ts stringto have been fuirly conducted, and no Some men are never content uh'esa ennew exculpatory evidence is produced, and tne sentence does not seem to gaged In e conspiracy of some Uud. x DaSprings, bar lee, unduly severe, the presi- Irrigated Farms la ths Milk Hirer Valley. dent refuses to interfere, lie cannot Room for many farmers on ditches weigh the evidence as well as the yudge already constructed in the Milk River and jury They saw and heard the Valley of Montana and plenty of whose climate witnesses and he has only a writing chances for colonies to locate on free before him It happens sometimes land and establish ditches of their own. second that the wife or mother of the con- Ditches ean be made at little expense possess qualities demned man comes in person to plead other than labor with , and scrap-eraplows for mercy, and know of no more tryResolution, Missouri VslL and there is no stony ground, just none ing ordeal than to hear their tearful pure soil. Groves along the river and and sobbing uUeran.es, and to feel coal in the adjoining pasture bench ley Medical Society. that a public duty requirea that they lands Finest opening for irrigation free it you write be denied their farmers in th Noriuwesk All the to Book about Hot Springs prayer." J Francis, Cenl Pass r Agent, Burling--t- on Markets in the produced. crops staple The asked---Ware pu- mines and Route, Omaha, Neb. question often good shipping facilities east pil of the New l Inc and fonservatory so and west, via Great Northern Railway. as teaihers or snLortnly Trade-Mar- ks is readily answered by those Write to Thomas O'iianlon, Chinook, who bare teen lortunate enough to beMonk, foe farther information. to fsuetsbttlty sg come acquainted BsstnlnsUoa a4 A4vtcs with the How to 00 I often m1 foe Inv.Btor OuM.or The man who has tbe hi V ith an e luipinent superior to that of any wears a smal WAflSK8 A 0. reveal.- - tmia OTHBik hat other schoo', with loth Amernao and Iorti;n teachers of the highest rank, w ith boston, the art center of Anierha, to furFrom Usds Sin. nish the i est opera, and concerts, it is easy to see why oue year ot study there is better than two e e where, its prosiectus is sent i 1 Home-Journ- al well-trie- - Ayers Hair Vigor. South Hot kota A health resort and waters to 1 hy s' suix-esslu- Patents. FREE HOMES iree Nearly 2,000,000 Acres of Government Land Make a lleaatlful Gown. Now Open to Settlement Nothing could b more simple yet more beautiful than a gown made of the line French organdise muslin, M presses prstes, S vssetekts V. They srv f.rtll.. grtmm, frwtts Xks smeele W S.lisktfal, vlilm HIM ea4 skulk. TS.se epplss ei Bute figured in shadowy designs of trailing ehmulenc XorthI Arkseaes Senseless eulrjr st Ms eels seek. See U Tss TIBS V KT A MOSS rur firther ln Uud. IS sullied rosea and shaded green vines. The leraietlva sSOrsee newest patterns are line a breath of trissias m seeks is tas E. V. M. POWELL, Imaigraiies Agent, Harrison, Ark. early June, snd one of these dainty UT Haters te Beak ot BsrHsse s4 Bases Coant, Beak, fUsvtsea, Ark, gowns is made with a plain aklrt finished with a deep hem, the bodice gathered into the neck and belt, and trimmed with braces of green velvet ribbon over the shoulders, with small pearl buckles half way down the front. IN NORTHERN ARKANSAS. kMvHy-Unb- Lac and velvet ribbon from the neckhat a buckled bow ut the back, and velvet loops and ends fall on tbe skirt from the left side of the belL band, which An Appeal for Assistance. The man who Is charitable to himself will listen to the mute appeal for made ly his stomach, or Ids liver, in the thape of divers dyspept h iiultnt and uneasy venvation in the regions ox the glands that tecretes his hlle liostelter't blouutrh Kit-- t r, my near sir, or madam as the ca-- e may be -- la what you require. Hasten, go use It you are troubled with heartburn, wind in the stomach, or notdthat your skin or the whites of jour eyes are ow hue. A t iking a sall- Reminder. Down tbe postofllee step! the Rev. hr, Fylvhly earetully picked bis wsy then iiis feet suddenly shot out, and be went down right in the midst of a group of slock brokers Ah, good morning, doctor, laughed the stock brokers, recognizing the minister, you remind us of tbe wicked man, whose foot Hlippeth. Nay, retorted the good minister, "but rather do I seem like the man who went down to Jericho." "How is that? chorused the brokers. Because he also fell among the thieves, murmured the doctor, as he got up and moved decoriously away. New York Recorder. The North Pole made use of at last. 4k it Halls Catarrh Cere Is taken internally. Trice, 75c. Doat Drift late th Critical Habit. Do not drift into the critical habit, writes Rath Ashmore in discussing The Critical Girl, in June Ladies Home Journal. Have an opinion, and a sensible one, above everything, tot when you com to judge people remem ber that you sea very little of u hat they really are, unless you winter and summer with them. Find th kindly, lovable nature of the man who knows little of hooka Look for the beautiful made daily by some woman who knows nothing about pictures, and teach yourself day in and day out to look for tbe best in everything. It is the every-da- y joys and sorrow, my dear girl, that go to moke up life. It is not the one great sorrow, nor the oue intense joy, it is the accumulation of the little ones that constitute living, so do not be critieal of tbe little faultsend do be quick to find the little virtues and to praise them. So much that is good in people dice for want of encouragement. Ail said before, have an opinion, and a one, ana above every thing that eomea into your life, but do not have too many opinions about People Their hearts are not open nooks, and as you must be judged yourself some day, give them the iimd-es- t ce Always at the front and wherever BATTLE AX goes it is the biggest thing in sight It is as re-markable for its fine flavor and quality J as for its low price A 5 cent piece 2 of BATTLE AX is almost as large as a JO cent piece of any other equally good tobacco. & g S g g g g S ut judgment now. j Kn saassrea. fry) Ils.Xu,lCl Arvkta r t J irv FUl..pl.r Hot the Whisk jr. The eoronera jury in the case of Bill Wilcox, who droppeddead Thursday evening after taking's drink at. tbe Last Chance saloon, decided that it was not th whisky which brought about the aad end. Bill had been drinking th same brand for fourteen years, and although ths vitriol in it would eat up a hairpin in ten minute the coating of hi stomach was supposed to be proof against BDy action of any sort of acid, lie probably had aome heart trouble. We thmu it must be so, because he asked for a drink to be chalked down, and to his great amazement it was handed ont The surprise must- have .brought about fatal shock to the nervous system.! Tbe deceased was a harmeiess critter, who never even kicked about the weather, and we hope he brought np In a temM. tji'Aix perate climate - Th spot we see on others are nearly always on our own glasses. Biting Into a teach reminds a man of kissing girl with whiskers. 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