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Show DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS POR OUR RURAL READERS. How liwfMfal iMHrtKit Hint as to th ul Foollrj. Firam ( Operate This I bo Fora A row Coro of Lifo Stock Pirkt(M for I bo I'ortlfi Market. N eastern mer- chant who ships a great deal of butter to the Uindon described market at the recent Iowa convention dairy the kind of package that give the beat HutUfactlon to foreign dealers and buyers, and urged of ttje Importance proiier attention to this matter, says Dairy Kvorld. In the first place, dalry-jme- n supto foreign catering ply need one ounce of salt to one pound of butter, with parchment paper on top Instead of a cloth. Then, too, the tubs should be well soaked and a coat of Salt rubbed on the Inside before packing the butter. This will prevent the butter from moulding. This is a very Important part of the work of preparing butter for market There have been several thousand boxes of butter shipped from our market, which have been received there with great favor. These boxes hold fifty-si- x pounds of butter net They are made of white wood and lined with parchment paper. .This butter sells for better prices than when packed In tubs, and we would all creameries to give the matter of packing butter for foreign shipment careful attention, and be ready to use them at any time the foreign market Is In shape to pay us as much as our own market, so that we can dispose of our surplus butter. If our surplus butter had been packed In boxes this season, It would have sold in the foreign market for more money than It will ever odll for here, after losing the storage and Interest, and, at the same time, we should have gained some favor with the foreign market by letting them hnow that we have fine butter here as well as Australia. It has been our practice to ship the poorest butter. In this way we have hurt our credit as a butter producing country. Now that we have established so many creameries there Is less of the low grades of butter and more of the high grades lhan we can consume at home. It Is Very plain to be seen that it U our fluty to cater to the wishes of the people upon whom we are dependent to se our surplus butter, and In order to do this we must give them the style pf package they require, as well as sailing and coloring to their wants. One pf our neighbors has Just returned from Liverpool, and he tells me be has seen the retailer try to sell tub butter and ;he buyer would not look at it, but Must have his butter from the square box. The same butter would sell at retail for two cents a pound more cut from the box than from tho tub. Now, with these facts in view, is It not worth our careful attention to try and build up a trade for our surplus butter, which the writer Is satisfied is going to be increased year by year, as the dairy buslneaa la still In its iniuncy in tbis country. ad-jvl- se SUnrinril Yarlrtv of IblrkriK. The Barred Plymouth Rock la of a grayish-whit- e color, regularly crossed runwith parallel bars of lines ning In straight, distinct throughout the entire length of Ihe on and tho feather, showing down or the of under color feathers. The barring Is somewhat smaller on the hackle and saddle feathers than on other portions of the The bird is of medium size, txidy. with broad neck, fiat at the shoulders, the breast Is full, and the body broad and compact; medium-size- d wings, that fold gracefully, the points being well covered with breast and saddi feathers. A medium-sizehead, ornacornu mented with upright, bright-re- d and wattles; a large, bright eye, and yellow beak, legs, and toes, places the picture before us In Its entirety. The difference between the Earrcd and the b Barred Is that the latter has ina small, firm, and even stead of a single comb. For the farmer or market poultry-ma- n tbey are favorites, being a medium size, well proportioned, with a deep, full breast, making a must admirable bird for market purposes. They are hardy, mature cariy, and make excellent broilers from eight to twelve weeks old. They are good layers the year round, and In winter they Their eggs lay exceptionally well. ars brown in color and average right to a pound. They are good sillers anl excellent mothers. . The Barred Plymouth, Rock, besides boiug a practical fowl, is also one of the most sought after by fanciers. No class Is better filled at the average poultry show of tho country than Is theirs. Their graceful figure, upright carriage, and active natures endear thorn to all as a farmer's fowl. Thero is a fascination In breeding thorn for plumage, tbe more regular and even their barring Ihe better. It requires much skill to breed them for blue-bla- ck d Pea-com- pea-com- b, eolor, and two matings are generally An established used for breeding. rule for mating for cockerels Is to usq a standard color male with medium dark females, and for pullets, use light male and dark females. The double mating is resorted to by many, yet the writer has seen rare specimens produced from single matings. The characteristics of the Barred Plymouth Rock are noticeable In the other ' Plymouth Rock classes, excepting that of color. The size, shape, general outlines, and qualities are the same In tbe other varieties as In tbe Barred. Tbe White Plymouth Rock Is pure white in plumage throughout, and the buff variety la a clear buff, uniform in hade except tbe tall, which la deep buff or copperlsh-yellubrown. The buff color should extend to the undercolor as much as possible; the deeper the better. The standard weight of cocks Is 9 pounds; hens, 7 pounds; cockerels, 8 pounds; and pullets, 6V4 pounds. w Tapeworm of Poultry. has been known for years It that Pit asd As Hklm Milk. spring Is here it might be well to remind ourselves of tbe value of klm milk as a feed for growing pigs. Much as has been said in its praise. I till think that few of us really appreciate bow always indispensable it is s a factor In a ration that is going to make pigs grow most rapidly, or Dave ever calculated bow much per hundred the skim milk is worth, says Prof.. Smith In Country Gentleman. The record of some experiments tried t this station during the past three years may be of interest to your read-r- o on this and related topics. Having an abundance of milk and relatively few pigs, we approached the subject from a somewhat different point of view from the average farmer's; still were enabled to ask questions of the porkers and obtain answere from them that are of Interest to every dairyman at least The first question asked of the pigs was how much they would give for sweet skim milk If no other feed were mixed with it One pen of seven pigs, averaging 103 pounds In weight, gained 279 pounds in five weeks, drinking In that time 6,225 pounds of skim milk and receiving no other food. They give us therefore one pound of live pork for 22.31 pounds of skim milk. Reckoning tnese pigs as worth 4 cents per pound on Toot, the skim milk was worth close to IS cents per hundred. Tbe same thing was then tried with eight smaller pigs, weighing but 31.75 pounds each. They made a pound of gain for each 19.23 pounds of skim milk, or at 4 cents a pound for live pigs the skim milk was worth almost 21 cents per hundred. Now, no one would think for a moment of feeding skimmed milk to pigs without putting some sort of solid food with It, and naturally cornmeal comes first on the list as the most common grain feed for this class of animals. Two pens of pigs were therefore selected to try what cornmeal and Bklm milk were worth as pig feed. One pen of seven pigs averaged 88.7 pounds, and the other 66.1 pounds when the feeding began. The milk was fed warm from the separator, and a pound of cornmeal added to each 79b pounds of milk. At the end of live weeks the heavier pigs had gained sixty pounds each, or twelve pounds per week, and had made that gain at an expense of ten pounds of skim milk and one and pounds of cornmeal per pound. The gains of the smaller plga were not quite us large in the aggregate, but were made with almost exactly the same outlay of milk and meal. Valuing the cornmeal at $15 pew ton, and the pork again at 4 cents, the skim milk was worth with these fourteen pigs, In five weeks feeding, almost 40 cents a hundred. This sounds preposterous, but these are the facts a pound of pork returned by the pigs for every ten pounds of milk and r one and pounds of cornmeal. We have been able in but two eases out of many to get our pigs to return us less than 20 cents per hundred for skim milk. In these days of low prices, therefore, it behooves the factory patron and the dairy farmer generally to husband well his skim milk, feed it mixed with cornmeal to d pigs weighing less than 300 pounds, keep them comfortably housed and expect to get from this source a return for a good share of tho cost of tbe labor on his dairy herd. tapeworms infest domesticated poultry, and that In aome cases they cause serious epizootics among fowls. The outbreaks thus far recorded have occurred chiefly la Europe, and as a natural outcome almost the entire work which has been published on these parasites la the result of European Investigations. Tbe literature upon the subject is accordingly In Latin, German, Frencb.Danish, Italian, etc., while In the English language we have only a few short notices concerning these worms. Generic and specific diagnoses of the parasites of this group are almost unknown articles In tho English language, while as yet we Lave absolutely no reliable data as to how many species of tapeworms are found in American poultry. Several outbreaks of tapeworm disease have been noticed lu fowls in different parts of the country, and upon various occasions specimens have been sent to the bureau for Identification. From a table showing 33 recorded species it was noted that 0 different tapeworms have been recorded from pigeons, 2 from turkeys, 11 from chickens, 2 from swans, 7 from geese, 16 from ducks and 1 from ua ostrich. One form has been recorded as common to pigeons, chickens and ducks, 5 forms as common to ducks aud geese, 1 form ae common to geese and swans, 1 as common to pigeons und ducks, and 1 as common to pigeons and chickens. The treatment of tapeworm disease In the domesticated fowls must for the present be more or less experimental, as the records in tbis line are extremely limited. The first rule to be carried out In all cases of diseased animals, whether chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks or oihcrs, Is to isolate them from the rest of tbe fleck and keep them confined until they have recovered. The aecond rule Is to destroy the droppings of all animals known to be infected with parasites, or if the manure Is needed as a fertiliser ll should be treated in such a manner as to kill the ova. These two rules cuu be easily carried jut, and If a poultry raiser or a stock raiser Is not willing to set aside a imall yard for the isolation of the sick inimala, where their droppings can be easily collected and takea care of every day, it is almost useless for him to administer anthelmintics to his fowls jr other animals. The chief drug' sued against tapeworms are: Extract Profitable Cows. Which is the most jf male fern, turpentine, powdered kaniala. areca nut, pomegranate root profitable cow to keep? It la the cow bark, pumpkin scuds aud .sulphate of that produces the most at the least cost In the ninety days' test at the copper (blUkStonej. world's fair the best cow cleared a profit of over $73 and the poorest a Ilrnnllng Dairy Cow. A writer In Dakota Farmer gives this profit of only $24. Turning now to the food account, we find that the cost of advice: 1. Select the beat cows in your herd, food In both coses was practically ths or that you can buy, to keep, aud dis- same, yet one cow had the ability to make three times the profit upon pracpose of the others. 2. The best cow for the dairy la the tically the same food. There are cows one that produces the greatest amount In every herd that have this ability; ut butter fat In a year (lor food con- find them out. lu these days of keen competition we must reduce tbe cost sumed) when being rightly fed. 3. To renew or Increase your herd of production, and this aspect of th raise the belter calves from your best question should always be takes Into consideration. Ex. rows. 4. Test your cows by weighing the Oats and Peas for Soiling. As tbs milk of each cow for a year and testing It occasionally with the Babcock milk earliest crop to be used for soiling, tester, and know how muck butter tat there is nothing belter than oats and peas mixed and sown at the rate of two each one does produce. lf to three bushels per acre. 5. Use the best dairy bred sire you and can get; one, if possible, that ha a They will not yield so much weight as loug line of ancestors that have been fodder corn, but that rannot be grown Urge enough to cut before wall into dairy animals. G. Keep a record of the time when August As for peas and oats, by that cows tbe are bred and have no guess time they will have been entirely used up. From the earliest cutting, about work about the time of calving. the last of May, a second light crop 7. It is neither profitable nor necescow a more to for sary than will sprout, which may be cut a month go dry later. Ex. four to six weeks. 8. Tho udder should receive prompt Fruit Draft on Soli. The average attention. An obstacle may be removed from the teat the first hour, that farmer may he surprised that a crop of apples, say 24 trees, makes a heavmight bailie science later. 9. After separating the calf from its ier draft on the soil for manures than mother, feed the natural milk as soon an average wheat crop. The leaves alone account for a great deal of ama drawn, for a week or ten days. 10. Don't milk the udder out clean monia. potash and phosphoric acid, and until the fourth day after calving. these come every year, even if there is This will often prevent a chill, which little fruit. Tho uew wood and primoften produces milk fever. ings must also be considered. Ex. one-quart- er ont'-quarte- well-bre- Living without it in this age is almost an fmportiliility twenty years ago the question of harvesting the immense grain crop of the world, proved n incentive to inventive genius, snd the Wire Binder was the result. A few years snd serious ohjeetious that were raised against use of wire for this purpose, brought iuto existence Binding Twine, made from various fibres of which stall times since its production, Sisal lius been the base; and while different factories produce as trade seems to demand. Twine made from Hemp, Manilla, .lute and Grass, there is really only one fibre, "SIS A L," that meets the popular demand, and the best brand of Twine known as Ifecl Tag Plymouth Sisal is the kind we have purchased ami sold almost exclusively for the past ten years; and during that period more than one hundred carloads have been brought into Utah and Idaho. Wc now haveen route a consignment of this superior Twine and we offer it to the public under the following guar- DR. G. W. SHORES, Weet. MINI SpmUIIiI I MENSSI DOLLAR NEED BE PAID UNTIL YOU E od LOST antee: For every ball of lMyinotli Rcil Tag Twine bearing our brand retnrn-eto our premises i,f ree of charge). Salt cu Lake City, and proving defective, we will give two balls of new Twine in return.Will others? Supply depots Idaho Falls and Montpelier. Idaho. Logan, Ogden. American Fork, Spanish Fork, Neplii and Manti, Utah. u WAGON A MACHINE CO. GEO. T. ODELL, General Manager, pion Machinery. Lake Citr. A. Wood and MAN HOOD nominal Weakness, Vaiiaocela, HydroeelSL Uotiorrhoea, Slrictur. small SyphUI or shrunkaa organs, prermturo old ajro and all othsr private dlaaiass. whetfcar caused by Ignorance, stores or onto-rio- s. no matter how severs, you consult DR. U. W. ft IIOKES. tho ntwai-da- a who has given hi Ilfs to curtns chronio dikes, and be examined, advised, treated and cured without paying him one dollar until th curt 1 effected. Th doctor reserves the right, however, to refuse any incurable case If ho can't cur you ho don't want your oacy. Such an offer never before mad by a responsible and Dr. O. W. phveisian. Shores 1 only abl to make It becausa ho positively cures these disease. Dnt warn another rent on queeliooablo doe-tor- s. but consult th "Old Doctor" and be cured. BUSINESS BACREDUT d Utah and Idaho. Agents Walter CURED DR. O. W. HMOREfl, always mklaf to help miff Ming mankind, always trylnp to eon vine paople itiat be give value lor every dollar paid him, has decided to give quackery, fraud and Imposition Its death blow, and protact tho Buffering classes from tho dospteaMo ueiboda of quacks and charlatan. Every auffsrsr from Dr. G. W. SHORES, Lock Box 1585, Salt Lake City, Utah. Cham- General offices Salt THINK WHO SUK O 08 Bn SKuut tl Uuvrrnmwul I 1 51 1 111 & will wm In Aalha Th Aathor Appear. BB RlrkfarS, Prii.iun ail Pslenl Au'y, Old F will nwrlvcs piompt reply. Crlsslp I hear that Scrawl had to Ot., Washington. H.U., make a speech at ths first presentation of his play last night. What did iTXZirTZijStfSZi Men be say? Dale He said if the audience would N.U., Salt Lake No. 24, 1807 not tear up the seats they could have W. Whs Answering Advertisements Kindly their money back. Mention This Paper. P iIh-- Dr. McCrew Only : i Fire Works and Flags ! The moat complete Hue In llir West. Base Ball Goods list Fishing Tackle That Catches Of evesy description always in slock. We Semi for eprclul cnlaloguc and pries Fish -- The Season Juno Opens Uth. are Headquarters for sporting Coodsof all Kinds. Big Catalogus- -, Just out for the Asking. -- BROWNING BROS., SALT LAKE CIXV AND OGDEN, UTAH, Elias Morris ana Sons Company, Z M0HUMEHTS and HSADSTOHS . IN, Marble and Granite, Mantles, etc. G-rate-s, B tSalt Lake CiK 9SS2F. WRITE FOR PRICES AND . DESIGNS. one-ha- first-cla- ss CEO. M. SCOTT, President. JAR. (ir.KNDlNNINd. nt and Treaa H. S. KUMFIELD. Secretary Geo. M. Scott & Co tlXCOi: 1011 ATED.) Importers and Dealers In Bor and Sheet Iron, Steel-RipAtir.NTS FOK Buffalo Scale Company, Atlas Eugine Works. Doilire Wornlen Pulley. Detroit Move Cu.. John Vail A Home Steel llangcs, Coles' Air Tight Heater, Worthinirlon Steam 1nmp.i, California lWilrr Works. Celebrated Anchor Brand Cylinder anil Revere Uubber Co., Dodge Injectors. Engine Oil. fooS or wllh a any proEnsilage, Home Butchering. Many farmers Brown A Co., Drill A Tool Steel, Leviathan Belting. Howe, be fed Just are so situated that they ran kill and nounced odor, should not dress lambs and also calves and pigs, before milking. Milk readily absorbs Aiiners Tools, Stoves, Tinware, etc to sell them to private ciiKtomere. ae odors. And a General Assortment of Mill Findings. they now sell eggs snd chickens. Remember that not all cows pay, While he takes less than butcher's is a limit of poor producprices his net results will often be and there which no farmer should tion beyond him offered the double for his price WAREHOUSE 125 W SECOND SOUTH SI. 1ft : w. SAL1 stock on foot. Ex. lid M e . JKE CUT. OIIB |