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Show WESTERN WEEKLY. old style of buying'and selling eggs was discontinued. Itisarelic of the past, barrel,or and reminds us of the time when dressed along the hogs sold for a dollar each without reFarmers should insist the bar- gard to -size. before us- upon it, then, you who raise poultry and pine shav- eggs for market, that the price of eggs A Leach Barrel for Liquid Manure, Get an oil barrel,a vinegar any barrel trat is water-tight seams between the staves. If rel has contained oil, clean it ing it by putting an armful of ings into it and setting them on fire. shall be so much per pound, and then it will be some inducement to farmers to rel will ignite and burn off, leaving a raise a better class of fowls, and all will black crust on the staves which should get their best dues.—American Rural be scraped off before filling with manure. Home. LOSS This Depariment will be devoted strictly to the interests and development of Western Farming and Stock Culture, and contributions from persons engaged in those pursuits are solicited. DEEDS THAT ARE AND MULES, CRUEL TO HORSES THAT OCCUR DAILY. To overload and overdrive them. To make them work on galled and tumefied shoulders. To.work them if they are lame. To use barbarous and painful bits. eee SE 4" To wear a tight ney higher Ry they naturally carry them. To jerk horses with the than reins to in- % i crease their speed. =: ‘To use close that are dished tw the eyes. 1 To allow the straps supporting the blinds to be torn, so that the blinds at into mise fitting blinds or blinds inward, thus irritating }| every }| motion of the horses’ head flap his eyes, causing pain. To use a worn down saddle pad, thus permitting the iron saddle-tree to press onthe backbone, bruising it. _ De To practice unreasonable Drivers can accomplish more whipping. with far less whipping than is customary, and have sounder and finer looking and better behaved teams. he eee 57 To drive a horse more than two hours ona hot day without giving him at least a half-bucket of water. The great dread. eee of giving horses water while they are fi warm and perspiring isa stupenauous error. Such diseases as colic, founder, = ye overheating and lung fever are brought on by not giving horses water enough in- Gem stead of too much. We will endeavor to explain this ina few words if you will ae cast aside your ty i é, give this matter an: unprejudiced thought. You drive your horse a hot summer day, and he continues to pour o theories and ing atmosphere transforms great quantities of perspiration into invisible gase- a ae) E a ous elements; hence it is impossible to estimate the quantity of water that is in this way eliminated from the blood; at any rate it is considerable, and to maintain the proper physical forces the water must be replenished, and this by . drinking. If this demand of the sys tem is not complied with, the blood and ) eat, = = somewhat longer than the others, so that the front will slope forward. The board of which the top of this stool is made should be larger than the bottom of the barrel, so that none of the water may drip over the edges and be wasted before it reaches the vessel placed to receive it. grooves should be cut in the gether at the center and general temperature of the body becomes so alarmingly increased that the above mentioned diseases must follow. It may be interesting to. readers to learn that this temperature may reach 110 degrees. The old adage of water, water, quench fire,is quite applicable here. . grew red With morning. ‘l'here was once a horse \ that used to in the joints to be of further was turned into a pasture use; so he and left to crop the grass without any one to disturb or bother him. But the funny thing about the old horse was that every morning, after grazing awhile, he would start ona tramp, going round and round ina circle, just as he had been accustomed to do for so many years. He would keep ser nrnnecagerr it up for hours, and people often stopped to look and wonder what had got into the head of the venerable animal to make him walk around in such a solemn way when there was no earthly need of it. But it was force of habit. And bad just as the boy who forms good or habits in his youth will be led by them when he becomes miserable or happy old, and will be accordingly. Wonderful! A pine tree on‘a mountain Or, instead of the k board, narrow y Strips can be tacked on, ,and these will- keep the water from running off, and conduct it tothe proper place in front for taking it into whatever you use to catch it in. in for Alpine county, California, was struck by lightning during athunderstorm. The fluid followed the trunk into the ground, and immediately there burst forth a brilliant fire, which has continued to burn ever since. It is believed the lightning ignited a bed of coal, which is now feeding the flame. A Rather Irregular Diet. L. E. and A. P. Self, of Dodge City, Tex., killed seven hogs in January. They were about ten months old. Six of them weighed about two hundred pounds each. andthe other 100 pounds. They were water. ‘ After a little it is well to putin all fed and fattened in the same lot, and for some unknown cause one hog would not grow as the others did. After being dressed his stomach was found to contain forty-eight ten-penny nails, thirty wire staples, a single handful of screws, the glass of one snuff-bottle, eleven sul- five or six inches of charcoal, small stones, phur balls the The barrel bottom should full of holes, through can work its way out. be bored which the water As the manure might. become packed down ‘nto the bottom and impede the free exit of the or whatever will keep it up, exactly as you prepare drainage for a pot. Then fillthe barrel with manure. That from the cow yard is bestof any.* Pound it down snugly.. Then apply water. It will be some time before any runs out at the bottom. When it appears it will be a light yellow at first, darkening in color as the strength is extracted from quantity at one time, as if you have more than you can use it soon gives off a disagreeable smell. A still more convenient plan is to put a faucet inthe barrel. In case you do this, you should not bottom, bore holes You can draw it from throw out the manure from and refill it with fresh. in the the bar- Get Acquainted With the barrel acquaintance inches long. The acid of the hog’sstom ach had eaten several of the nails, whilc the staples were as bright as new. The glass and sulphur balls were coated ove with a white substance. | > <4 > —¢ USEFUL AND INTERESTING. ANGER wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; pride, two bent knees.— Richter. mak- securing his wreath Hast was that did so But while for these I pined my well filled With or be- It is annoying to the breeder of per dozen than do the smaller ones. Also, the customer is often vexed to find that he must pay the same price today from a well-fed fowlis heavier and richer than one from a common fowl which is only half fed,so that the weight compared to size is on indication of richness. it FIG. Half broken-hearted I bewailed the end Of friendships than which none had laws of a nation.— his daughter, “Be sure, never marry a poor man; once said to my but dear, you remember success to punctuality and attention. Hig omnes depends on the taste, and not on the thing; and it’s by having what tight board prevents hay seed from falling into the wool. The troughs also allow feeding with roots and grain. And dearer. \ And thus I learned old pleasures \\ are \ better might ‘ be Until at last we find this earth exchanged For heaven. Good Words. > ~—<< >> +> + Professions Healthier Than Trades. FIG. . Much has been written of late concerning the literary 2—SHEEP RACK. Fig. 2 is a cross section. The feet A A should be thick, durable ‘plank, and notched at B B to receive the boards of the troughs. If desired, the wide board may answer as a cover. long lives of those who follow pursuits, and some interesting statistics as to the age of writers have seen the light. With the familiar in-: stances of Goethe, Voltaire, and ascoré or two more of past days, and with modern cases of the THE WESTERN WEEKLY CURRENT MARKET REPORI. laureate, Myr. Browning and Mr. Bailey, the author of “Testus’I am not inclined (saysa writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine) to concern myself. With a full sense of my own incompetency to deal scientifically: with the subject, I wish, nevertheless, to place matters on a scientific basis. All professions are healthy as compared with 2 A TN Butter, ap © 2 To 20 : oe of archeology, but let that pass—lawyers, clergymen, . physicians, actors? In some professions, notably the S bel ® None: | 95 18 99 eee: i Corn that he has no place of inanition. in the Asa ee 1 20 ce. 8b 90°). OF ia % ib Mutton ‘ maine eTg ‘ | OBER SRS Ore a5: | 544) 1 <8 Tae dried; oe 8 Tb] 7 eee ae eae ayaa sce 6 So EG Plums, os e will find great amusement in picking these to pieces, and the grass will be eaten together with roots and gravel, both of which are excellent to keep fowls in good condition. Fowlsin confinement case that the Apriots «fag are usually fed too concentrated food. Mr. Worthington G. Smith, the eminent microscopist, finds that genuine honey by the from micro- scope. The former has few or no sugar crystals and abounds with pollen grains, while the imitations have little else than these crystals, with rarely a trace come from honey-comb or beeswax manufactured of The honeyed taste of the may be- ing mashed up with the article used in the manufacture. Each class of plants has its own specific form of pollen grain, and Mr. Smith says that any one conversant with this branch of botany could tell from what part of the world the Loney came by studying grains that it might contain. the pollen pleads, the phy- sician combats, and the-parson arraigns. If, again, he is but moderately succe:sful, his earnings, though small,are pretty safe. He gets as near an approximation to security as fate ina world such asthis accords, and he may hope, barring exceptional may circumstances, be as the that past. the His Apples « ereen,. is Wool, #2 ib . Hides We RATE. THE tl> Country at 2 Address WESTERN | toa to “ he a ORE = ee dry| ee4. 66 reen fs" Ogden Report GRIFFIN, Wholesale Merchant. can Sell you the Finest SHEEP in 7 ‘ ee nae ee 8 ee ele 4 ois ake Corrected weekly by H. L. Produce and Commission + Sheep Men! DIP Pee future occupation, intelligent surroundings, and his life is fairly and pleasantly varied. Once the philosopher temperament is reached the combustion of life is very rapid:— The Statesman. ; To leas PO a dee eat meanwhile, brings him consideration and _—_>>-—~41—~<—> + | 7 Rane | 15 | roe 49 bu.| 70 |'50 |. 50 | 4 614, 41g 00) barrister eh | 85 ee a ed Se Tle aon alg y Peachés, se | aol <‘“ 7 pro- Og 1Seoe Pay |. 90 Bike : Beef, world, and rule,the 90 oes | | 95 — “ The man who goes to bed not Potatoes whether a turn in thé market | him | la 7518 00 1 OUL OO « Wheat in ruin, dies of softening of the brain; he who has made his fortune and reétived | feels, unless he has cultivated a hobby? 5 | 20 | 2 Blo « AB OO|2 75 te 1 10, 951 25 «“ Onions 20 2 all1 101 15, 80 1 00 | oe Barley ditions uuder which the classes named dies 3251 Se Oats as a rule, young, whatever their occupations. In other cases, however, the con- may elevate him to wealth or steep a 90 = Qu Apple of apparently the same size of which ten are required for a pound. Of course, with eggs at four or five cents a dozen, (and huadreds of dozens have been sold in past years at these figures), it is not price ranges from twenty-five to fifty cents per dozen,it isa matter worth looking after. Itis high time that the \ \\ v\ estranged Only that something given, of interest, and with little trouble or anxiety to himself. It is not his own thinks, the the sheep eat from side below. The in' winter, a few sods should be secured and thrown into the henhouse. Fowls he when 1 RACK. figure (Fig. 1) repre- bar, to which might be added the stage, the early training is said, in a half ser— ious banter, to kill off the weaklings. To some extent, this is true in all professions, Men without self-control die, article, size, but 1—sHEEP The accompanying sents a feeding where the troughs on each I KNEW a very wise man that believed that, if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who the by roses. ¥ 90 1 10, 70.| pollen grains. matter as to replies BiB Thus eggsof which eight will weigh a pound are better and richer than those much Gentleman |3 manufactured. egg that from hay dropthe animals are Flour, # hun’d a pound Besides, an arrangement Haas ohne honey can be readily distinguished a half. of a corre- profession for a dozen eggs that weigh a pound that he yesterday paid for a dozen weighing and query for sheep—some feeding—Country we like that we are made happy, and not fessional man of fifty has learned what by having what others consider likeable. he can de. If he is unfit for the line | —La Rochefouéauld. his nature, make him your friend and he -|he took he has slipped out of it; if will do better and safer work. Whenever the ground is thawed out he is making a fortune it isa career full blooded and fine fowls to find, when he offers for'sale eggs nearly twice as large as his neighbor’s,that they bring no more to the Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.—Quarles. make on Fed. hands monarch to the drudgery of the dustman, that does not owe half its honor and morning That Dropping I mourned because the daffodils were killed By burning skies that scorched my early posies; Horses judgea man as quick asa man does a horse. Feed and water abund-. antly at night after work and the animal has had time to rest and cool off. fore work: More horses are injured by hard driving ona full stomach than by any other process. Treat him according to response Filth Roots absence, interest. knowing |p Feed moderately in the When Hay, furnishing the following: - THpre is not a single office, profession, or vocation, from the high duties of the Whether you In and prevents seeds and filth ping on the wool while well area friend or a foe he will judge by your voice, your eye and your breath. pat him, look in his eyes. Sheep rack forced exist are the most favorable. The two things that most readily kill men who attain middle age are anxiety or loss of Goto his head, speak kindly, Sheep Arrangement an IN. spondent for some good plan for a feeding that the poorest man in the world is one that has money and nothing else.” good will. Feeding with Seeds the LIBRE trades. What men are longer lived than scientists, .archeologists—there is no. A sHrewp old gentleman Horse, Spring for Grain, Prevents — : But whilst Imurmured at her lo! "Twas summer. the more Andrew Fletcher. Your and thumb, the handle of a brass spoon,and one-half of a plow clevis one inch thick and three should Neyer ride a horse without first ing his size of a man’s the contents of the barrel. I would not advise putting on enough to make any great to go And doff the FROM EVERYDAY THE COUNTRY. Rack aud once seemed nearer; But whilst I wept I found a newer friend, <> “MERE in front, to conduct the water into the vessel. I sighed that merry A become her. An eastern exchange is nepeoe tale the following: board, Eggs by Weight. pull around asweep which lifted dirt from the depths of the earth. He was kept at this business nearly twenty years until he became old, blind and too stiff Mystic! LESSONS GAIN. adorning; But whilst I grieved, behold—the <i ee running to- rel directly as needed by turning the faucet. As long as the liquid hasa brown color it has not lost all of its out perspiration by the gallon. The | strength, butas soon as it looks but litsurface of the skin is large; and the dry- tle darker than the water you apply, s i mistaken Make a stand for the barrel something after the pattern of a milking stool, only much larger, and with two of the legs Two throat-latch, interfer- horses’heads you think the oil is all burned off turn the barrel on its side and the fire will go out before the wood is burned exsough to damage it. starting from eachside ing with respiration. To check When AND I sorrowed that the golden day was dead, Its light no more the country side The oil adhering to the sides of the bar- NI 7 THE WEEELY LOW Nephi J. W. Provo Report Corrected weeekly C. A. GLAZIER. Logan Report Corrected weekly J. A.McLaveunin, at Z. C. M. I. Salt Lake Report Corrected weekly Secretary of Produce Exchange. Hides and Wool by J. W. SanpeErs. ( Where two sets of figures by VICKERS. Report Corrected weekly by by by are quoted in same space, price ranges from one to the other. - |