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Show DAIRY AND 101111' V ' j INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Saeeoufal Formers Opr rats This prport meat of (ho Form A Few Hints os to th Coro of uva stork end Foultrr- HE BABCOCK test has come Into extensive use within the past few years and is likely to be used still more in determining the value of dairy cows and of the many different milks and creams brought to factories for the manufacture of both butter And cheese. As so much depends upon the accuracy of this test where thousands of dollars are to be divided among patrons annually, It is of the utmoBt importance that, Inasmuch as the sample tested is necessarily small, all measurements should be made with the greatest possible accuracy in oraer to secure uniformly reliable results. It has been found that many of the Babcock bottles and pipettes now in use are inaccurately graduated. In view of this fact and of the difficulty in securing bottles and pipettes which can be relied upon, the Pennsylvania Experiment station has undertaken to supply as standards to any resident of the state desiring them, a tested Babcock bottle and pipette at a price sufficient to cover the original cost and the expense of testing and postage. In this connection, owing to the wide variation found in cheap dairy thermometers, the station will also undertake to supply to residents of the state deslr- - llchoke ran be as easily grown as corn or potatoes, and on land that will pro- duce 50 bushels per acre of Indian corn, 500 bushels per acre of artichokes can be easily grown. The writer frequently does this and has grown over 90 bushels per acre on grouid that had never ben manured. Their great value as a cheap, handy, healthy bog food has been so thoroughly aired in the press of the country the past few years that an enormous demand bas been created for them. As a pork producer they cannot be excelled. A good plan is to plant all your lots to artichokes about May 1, or as soon as your stock is put their spring and summer pasture. Then when your pasture plays out" in the fall, or about September 15 to Octolr 1, you will have fine food in your lota for your hogs, where they will root at intervals whenever the ground is not frozen too hard until the following May, when they will have received as much real benefit from one acre of artichokes as from five of corn, at a very conservative estimate some say ten acres. The hogs will also leave enough tubers in the ground to serve as seed for the next crop. It is a hogs nature to root. In fact, his hogship is never happier than when he is rooting. An artichoke patch can truly be called a hog's drug store. A bog's object in rooting being to obtain roots, which his appetite craves, and which serve the Bame purpose for him as a blood cleaner or spring medicine does for the human being. Ayer, of, fame, can fully explain this. After a hog has eaten artichokes to his heart's content, the rooting notlau will have been put entirely out of his head and he will uot root up his spring or A wealthy hog summer pasture. raiser (Mr. Booher) of the writer's acquaintance, and who has made 480 of acres 5100 land from hog pork market, raising for the Bays he would not be without a big annual patch of the tame artichoke. RESULT OF CROSSING ENCLISH rsa-paril- la AND EAST INDIAN CATTLE. Soma Good Kusgootlona. I have beep engaged in poultry raising but a few years. 1 have kept the White Brahmas, White Leghorns and the Buff Cochins. Now I have only the Plymouth Rocks, and this breed suits me best. My hen house is only a common one, but it Is comfortable. I have fed ground wheat and oats and scraps from the table, with plenty of sweet milk snd pure water. I think that sweet skim milk is much better than sour milk for chickens. Our markets have been rather low during the past year. In the winter we give warm feed in the morning, and we never fall to get eggs. In raising broods I have good success when I watch the broods closely. It does not pay to neglect them. As to early maturity, I think that there are no birds that mature earlier than the Plymouth Rocks. I live on a farm, and, like all farmers' wives, have to raise the poultry. I have had in my poultry raising the three kinds of fowls I have mentioned above. I like the Plymouth Rocks very much. Their eggs hatch well, and the little chicks try to take care of themselves early. They mature early, and when young are very deceiving in their weight The hens are good layers if they have any care at all. I kept sixty hens last year, and during that time I sold of chickens and eggs and had some die. My greatest trouble been the little mites, and I have never found anything that would rid the roosts of them entirely. The only method that seems to have any effect as clean as is to keep the possible, and when the hen has set about ten days take out the neBt and clean it and replace it. Then, on wash days we throw all the suds into the and onto the roosts. I use lime in the same way. For chicken cholera I use condensed lye, putting a little in the food. I use about two tablespoonfuls to three gallons of feed, using enough water to Bwell the feed well. Wheat, oats and corn will do to be fed in this manner. We find this also a good thing to keep off hog cholera. In the years 1894 and 1895 we had hog cholera all around us, but by giving them feed impregnated with lye and changing the hogs from one field to another about once in two weeks, . we kept them from getting the cholera. In feeding this to chickens, of course it will not do to feed it often, and it should not be placed where they can get it at will. Once a month or once in six weel s is often enough. Mrs. J. L. Ierrine in Farmers' Review. $140-wort- Kukb hen-hou- se Kitnlly ItaUed. URY weil-kuow- OF Ituck-ledg- CURES THE RECORD OP Ayers Sarsaparilla. Denver Directory. The Ituck of Gibraltar la not steadier than a aytem liter ted from billons rethe THE DENVER TENT 1 and Awning Co. shackle of chills ami fever, mittent or dumb ague by Hostetler's Stomach lllttera. a terrcct antidote to malarial poison In air or water. It la also an unci atupled remedy for lilllon. rheumatic or kidney complaints, dyspepsia and nervousness. It Improves appetite snd sleep and hastens PESTER convalescence. rucTuiHTmmucu Lawatwcc ST 172 CKIlVl.F. (KF.KK lioi.lt Hindi. Marva oaa luvhlend payaiaonly; proipectu free. Va John Burns proposes to bars a law passed profit: Bantu Inv.Co. Banker A brokers W ICth, Itaavar by parliament making It compulsory for employers to give domestic servauts " a charAOHIKlSr Its pair of MINING, PRINTING acter" on dismissal. Laws to that effect w Machinery, eta. PipeA threading and eaitlefr1. have long been In force In France and slur. Noel tiareUo. ItlvlT M.l Uer-man- and Mood Working Machinery (eenond Land ) of allkini-- loughtann toW, S. x 1K.V lewrenre. Mnrfcsdd Mrkel A Machinal MINING Stockman' Saddle and Ilarneea, Manufactured by the old, responsible firm of Mamm A lismlla PIANOS AND ORGANS X'Bnlrh A Bach. HERMANN II. IIEISER. h, se Leghorn I .ii:lirru iiorilon t :. iliuc die rubof Florida are a wan of t.ie f.ni ber tree la ImJtKfiiuuM licit- - aul (trow la boili on amiili of a Hue Sreat prufualnu Meat frmii New Sui.miiu. Many large trcea grow on I be eual rnal, there being two uioiin rcli. one ai lr. Winfield's place, alHiul ala mill aoiuli of and another on Will l.anehart'a place at lmke Worth. To the r native riiuiiile number of luiiuemie ruliU-- tree are known, but, aa tbelr uaefuluc lot not yet developed here, they are very little noticed. On the went com at the trees are uhnndantly prominent, and are an open liid for the people of our alate to Investigate tbelr value. At this time, when the people are looking for new avenues in natural products of the eoll to replace the orange culture. It would be reasonable to suppose that they would utilise the wild rubber tree. In any of tha keys along the mast one rnuld find a rubber plautatlou or estate In aa advanced ataga of growth. Florida Citizen. hs hen-hou- . '1 Tlioe familiar with (.'UlnriM tree, knight Mimic Cu, UUS-1- 0 Arapahoe and 80 Risks Street, Denver, Colo. Hire. A tmny flDC Sampling Are unsurpassed In quality. Parties la need CTATC lienvor. Pnrket Unt lintel tnBlock, 01 ore of Saddles and Harness goods, will find the rtilnmrs, malied froa vlnld above firm prompt and reliable In every reDecora Futwral niCD0 ilmuL etc,Imelgne, spect. Prices are the lowest In tba state, Ci rrcepond non . quality of goods considered. Send for their It. B. kiltie, riorlm, uew Catalogue. A Material. Tin Boot Friends of Fltzbugh I.ee, the new consul-generFainted ana keisdred. to Cnbn, declare that ho com- Henry killer to., ik Aiepehoe HI. Tab IMA pounded the first real mint Julep that President Cleveland ever drank. STENCILS, 1528 Alt mri wdk-ltrd- al orke Hall'a Catarrh C'nra Is taken internally. Prlt'e, 75c. , M TRUSSES, Sl. Janie. two. Nov'ly lmwreura lit. KUst'c Blocking CRUTCHES tg. Co., ihUf r.uBoia 1MN Ul'KBlN.aear j KalabliidieA ikT4 t'urii Uriel. Mountaineer. You won't eatch anything Stork Bozo in tlmt brook: there are no fish there! PAPER BOXES Knvrlnpe etc.Tho Westers Preacher. Why, then, la this notice put up Enveloin and Bus Mfg. Civ, cur. Hth and Antpalum here, Fishing forbidden?" DENVER MUSIC free Mr ;r. K line's Great FITS II Fb Krrns It n ore r.slopitnl TntiMitiiIS2irialUi(tk-frt, A nil bL.,i'LU., Pa. lllt'iiwt. bauii tu kr. klnu-Ju- Good. CsUloguo fee. Chain pa Streak HmT-BS- Ii . SECOND HAND MACHINERY mnlm ENGINES. Roll, KllS, IlolSTKKS. 8TAMF l Ef roh nrglflc wlf rr nuinht man." said 1111 il1 mu frit ile wut ol Uncle Ebon, It, an If yoh urgii wlf er fuel you dona was's time" ynli ir the Baby Be iun mill u that WimuAiW'a tiuuTWMi MILLS. HUNTINGTONS, IM'Ml'S. KTU THIS DENYKlt MINIMI MAUIIIMCUI 1723 WAZKK HTUKKT. DIINVKIL CO., I tltllai Teeth, ant remedy. wril-trlv- kmr fur Children E. E. BURLINGAME'S Ill, Twining. ASSAY OFFICE (.'riiii&uilii'iik -- Do fun kimw Iuckertnn, the ciiruellKt? Ye, si e, lie lire within uuii-slnf ii'C. Well, you must be a frightfully bud shut." UBOUTOSY Sample by mall m expreu will receive prompt and careful attention - ExtHbllthcd In Colorado, IMS. GOLD AND SILVER BULLION Refined, Melted led Amyed er Parrhaied. Addim. I7M ted I7JI Lawrtace 5L. DENVER, COLO, I believe my prumiii use of 1'lno'a Cure Mrs. I.iicjr prevented quirk Wallace, Marquette, Ivans.. lee. 12, 18H.V 1 SURE CURE Y'nunss HiilT- -I never talk ulxiiit tiling licit I hi nut understand, old Kiiff -I- teally, you must be the must reticent young uiau lu FOR PILES tM h Ihhunc Mil Klimt, Hlntlinfi m I'rnriMttig Ml, Rr. n fl PILE REMEDY. mw lick- - uiuwjt,. a pH.iipeeiir., i ii. iii.i , mi Irrr. Prlne ItruMiM nr IiU. ItUnA.NkO, 11,1 le., I'b. I have been keeping poultry for three tbe city. Mh mil years. During that time 1 have kept the Barred and White Plymouth Rocks, gpccOOGOSJCOCCCCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOCOC Pali id ge Cochin, Golden Wyandottes 64 S and Brown Leghorns. The Wyandottes, Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks QT TArnPX HIT D0ES K0T r00L ROUND" are favorites with me. Their house UILjt goes STRAIGHT has been a frame building lined with WORK ON PAIN AND DRIVES IT OUT AND SHUTS and tarred paper, packed with sawdust, IT OFF' FROM RETURNING. HUT'S MlSTWFgq with a wooden roof. We give them a OOOQ3CCCOOC OOOOO 000 OOGOOOCOOOCCCOOOOOOOQC warm mash for their morning meal, wuedt or rye for noon, scattered in straw so they will scratch for It, and at night we feed corn. Our markets are generally good, except at holidaytime. Under this management, we get eggs every day the year round. We have lost very few hens from any cause. We find that Persian Insect powder Is Just the thing for the lice. We have had little experience with 11 disease among our fowls. We have a few cases of roup now and then, but we find that spongia cures It, if the disease be taken in time. Camomile Is alBO good. In severe cases of roup we find the hatchet is the best remedy. We find that the White Plymouth RockB and Brown Leghorns are fine WALTER BAKER & CO., Limited, Dorchester, Mass. !nyers and also good foragerB; you can raise two Leghorns to one of any of the larger breed. Mrs. W. C. Jack-so-n In Farmers' Review. Primary, Secondary ornTrrllnry15Iffooq IS PoIhoh prrniiuriiilr i red In ltirreil VI) month Itoek. You run In) triiilcd nthumofiirllii'wiuta do). price under sinnc uuarunl) . If ymi fin.fi r to For tf-- years I have been raising m a coma here wu will coinriu-- to pu rail ruin fan uml Imlcl bill, I have time that kept I anil do churgn. If wnfuil to cun:. IfK,i11ymi hiivi- Ium-i- niriur)'. poultry. During Iodide potaoli, and i lie White and Drown leghorns, White OIIIOFfl V mouth, Sore nml mlii, lie. In Is Pule .Huron Of Tliroat, all the Rocks. and Rarroil Plymouth ( leer on uriy "l of flu lrf.lv. klir orto Copper Colored Pimple, 1 NO InSpot, o that u KoePs. Iht It It Inillim out. 111,00 the iiarntilee I 10 Plymouth ICyohrotv broods, prefer smil cure. We .licit the moM. obstinate eliiillnise My poultry house is nn ordinary frame Ct I HTMe? ziSJ elite. Tl- i!'iiie we cannot lor r (he world bullied I r'ltlO.lluo soft Hie cufiiud bus akill llie comfortable. of eminent fed but mot always liyielMiii. building, behind our uncumlitional guurauty. Abeoluto prvola Kent xealed mi food iu the morningd and whole gra.iiH in tho evening. I do uot confine myself Address COOK 1 1 K.VI CD Y 0 807 Manonle Temple, CHICAGO, ILL to one grain hut try to give a variety. An to the market, I can sell all the THE COMPANY PAYS THE FRKlCHr Will i nnw mwl boras breeding fowls I want to dispose of In On their nafc ttloriH of ruckivufmt boili rlihilu the home market. I have never failed it i'll ii lm ckiu miywheraor Whatl Not rUljHRiuinKiiifii ciifi bo Rbwli ruff jSL jRck in the to get eggs in winter, though rluivliM (oTirfiHik. r rnL U vmuiitii iron mid atwl juid will lirnd very severest weather they of course hmikmif. Over KdOln uo hfir onto ruunuijK d Mn without out fall off some. One year I lost almost du'lur1 Ho niNkt liorno an entire flock from cholera. I was Imumo ot pricos f'JS, tti, W away from home when they took it, llnvt-n'you liennl almut , and In five days nearly all of them died. Hu luiv rnti t I lost hut two chicks after I got home St. I.uiil. I'.ulT.ilii. N. Y., and could attend to them. I find lice WHliliiKtii, 1. C., mid a it ii.r CD Hter n hiiiiiliiHl the greatest enemy of young chicks. ondon op Hud fornn illiiRtrafod H mil nr to THE cl lie offered by tba W. H. Reid In Farmers' Review. WHIM COm lluriiibUiNHiw. Uolo AfX.sif to mi r' - . Uur illustration shows a cross between some English cattle (presumably shorthorns), and some Indian breeds. The United States consul In Ceylon says that these crosses are an Improvement over either of the parent breeds, so far as use in India log it a tested thermometer as a standard, under the above conditions. The station has also prepared a bulletin containing full and explicit directions for the use of the Babcock test which it will mail free to all who may desire it E. Hayward. Pennsylvania Experiment Station. a;id that he has had no hog diseases ip his herds since he has allowed them tc root In his artichoke patch to their Artichoke for Hog. Hitherto the growing of this valuable tuberous rooted perennial has been almust wholly neglected, and During the greatly misunderstood. d past few years the tame" or sorts of the artichoke have been Imported from Europe, and are gradually making their way to an extensive cultivation in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is in place in this connection to mention that thpre prejuIs a dice against the artichoke among the farmers of the United States. But there Is wild" rye and "tame" t ye, wild onions and "tame" onionn. "Wild" barley and "tame" barley. tame" lettuce, Wild" lettuce and etc. Almost every grain and vegetable cultivated and used as food by man has its namesake In a noxious and oftentimes dangerous weed. The artichoke is no exception to the general rule. The wild artichoke being indigenous to most localities (wherever the soil is suitable) in North and South America. It is merely a bad weed a dangerous pest, which produces few and small tubers and spreads its long fibrous roots out a long distance and deep down Into the soil, making Its extermination a difficult task. Many farmers who have seen It growing understand it fully. But the same farmers do not understand that there is a difference a vast difference In the wild artichoke anti the "tame" artichoke. In fact they are as different as is wild and tame" lettuce, or Is wild and tame" rye. During the past few years the tame )r domesticated sorts of artichoke have seen Imported from Europe and are to great extent becoming known and jultivated on this continent, as a cheap,Wealthy stock food. The tame" ardomcn-ticate- deep-seate- d, t long-stan-li- is concerned. They will stand the peculiarities of feed and climate better than the imported cattle, and have more useful qualities than the native Nellore cattle. heart's content He claimed that a sow will never eat her pigs if she has been previously given a good feed of artichokes. The artichoke (tame sorts) is a wonderful soli enricher, fully as good as red leal The test of clover. The writer cuts the tubers to two eyes per piece and plants precisely same as potatoes, and cultivates precisely same as corn. They grow about eight feet high and grow so dense that weeds have a hard time in an artichoke patch. The artichoke stands drought much better than the potato, and there is no insect that infests of sevet them to the writers knowle-.lgealycars in growing three kinds of them 1 he "tame" or domesticated artichoke should be replanted every three years a i they run out, or In other words, the - ground needs a rotation of crop;. They are very easily and entirely exterminated if the young tops are plowed under when ahont one foot high. ArtichokcH are valuable, not aione as a hog food, but for any kind of stock and poultry, and also for horses. Foultry just about lire in an artichoke patch in warm weather, where they hide from hawks in the shade, and scratch out the young tubers. The tubers are highly prized for milch cows as valuable milk producers. The writer feeds the tubers to his horses every spring. Horses prefer them to any other food after they have become accustomed to them. They completely take 'the place of oil Milk In New York. The milk supply cake and condition powders, making of New York Increases at a fair pace. horses shed nicely and clearing them The dally consumption by the city Is of worms. The writer has tried sev in the neighborhood of 100,000 gallons. eral varieties but has finally settled The consumption of cream is about on the White Jerusalem, Red Jerusa 3,500 gallons per day, and of condensed lem and Mammoth White French as milk In excess of 12,000 gallons for the the most valuable sort to grow in the same time. central west Illinois. A Privileged Visitor. Care for the Crown. When setting Mrs. Keedick Did I understand you strawberries, be sure that the crown to say that you saw Queen Victoria is not covered with dirt A litttle ateven it in with when the tention you were in England, Mrs. Trotsetting do much see Also will ter? good. ground Mrs. Trotter Yes; I saw the queen that it is so set that the water will not wash the mud over it and the Judyi. ! 5 years proves the parity of Walter Baker k Co.s Cocoa aid Chocolate. n , Cocoa uniiilUUvy l I - iy in Id yUlltzL I i s piincn ny vUHtl - iii.r'.ii'-ip.iii- . eornmnn-wnM- going east this summer? 3UU t Clili-ngo- i Thompsons Eye LINDSEYjHQMAHA Water. genuine article proves WrN. L Th it R. Hire ft., nnMripMa. nuln t Uw. WIIWJ.kcL I.nv.r. ' Vol. Ierliapa after you've got our letter you'll changg your mind and go eaat af- RUBBERS! The many imitations of HIRES Rootbcer simply point to its excellence the VUr nit by A It. pnk Hotter writs to ua about tliem. XIII. Me. ter all. On the Veidlbuled COURSE. Knrllngton'g Flyer" - OF O. W. VALLERY, General Agent, Denver. PATENTS, TRADE MARKS (O-- When writing to adrertiiier. pleasa uy that you m the ailvrrtlseuirnt la this paper. Knmlnatlo nail AiMrt m tn rtntahlllty of Bond far "InvMitnnT Galilo, or Haw to Uot a Fatoot. FATHIUK CFAkKCLL, Wwklogtoa, V, tt .rss3a.ra V, |