Show DAIRY AND POULTRY i INTERESTING GHAITEnS FOR OUR RURAL IIBADBFIS Ilow 5seeefet 1arrN IlprsIs This tlporlmns or lle r < rmA ls IIInli at to Ihe liare tr slr and IDUII r Jill French chamber cham-ber of deputies baa y passed a very strln gent measure with fI a view to preventing v prevent-ing fraud In the ale of butler and In the event of the V scnale Indorsing S the bill It stems ai If It will belmpo alkl to palm off oleo ot any other eompunlllan aa being the genuine article III la made Illegal for dealers In butler to keep oleo for sale or vice versa the fraudulent compositions com-positions are only sold at place especially es-pecially astlgned by the municipality of Neb town Moreover all bones flrklas or other pickets containing oleo must bear the word margarine In large characters and a full description must lie I given of the elements employed employ-ed In making the composition In the retail trade all oleo sold must be placed 1 In bags on the oitlalde ot widen Is 1 to be found a description of Ibe article l with the full name and ad drew of the vender Full authority Is given to Inspectors In enter butler foe lodes and shop and take specimens for analysis In the event ot the specimens speci-mens being found pure Ibo cost will be borne by tho state The penalties for an Infraction of the now law will vary from six days to Ihrea months Imprisonment and a fine of from UO to 11000 while In the event ot thorn tho-rn person being convicted a second time within a year the maximum fine will always bo Imposed There will also ba a heavy flue Imposed on persons per-sons who place hindrance In the way of the Inspectors1x Pure MllkU may be stated as a fact that milk aa It cornea from the healthy cow la I perfectly pure It has by nature no unpleasant taste or smell except an occasional result of peculiar food and all so objectionable get Into the milk alter It Is I drawn from the udder of the cow They come from the uncleaned body of tho cow herself or from her surroundings the air ot the stable the milk vessel or blue clothing or person ot the milker These trouble are all avoidable they are not to bo charged to tho cow but to the keeper With the exception ot some extraordinary large milker or for short perloda when the yield 1 la I the largest there la I no gain In milking cows more than twice a day Within limit It la true that It properly done nnenrnrrcFwwmim l iitii l 6r will be tho milk but the difference la I I very alight and seldom If ever enough to pay for the extra orIx I Ilrlndlea Causes for Thanksgiving A clean bed A quiet and gentle milker An abundance of good food A stall large enough for her to turnaround turn-around In A stable with no cracks or knothole to let l In wind A yard wherein there are no horses or coll to make her afraid A dry barnyard and sheltered spot where she can lie down and chow her cud Water pumped pump-ed fresh from the well and not allowed to freeze over before she can drink It An owner who looks alter her general welfare and who shows his kindly disposition dis-position by occasionally stopping to scratch her back aa he panes through Ibo barnyard Rx Straw for Teed Where straw Is I cut before It la I too ripe It la of value aa food especially for store cattle In Germany ills valued at more than half the price ot the beat hay Hut to a cure the beat results In feeding straw somas material rich In albuminoids must bo fed with the straw such aa oll cake shorts middlings or clover hay The straw alone doe not contain con-tain enough ot the albuminoids to secure se-cure tho complete digestion ot tho carbohydrates car-bohydrates which It contains If I the straw la fed with substances rich In albuminoids the manure will bo ns rich as that made of IIayIror It C Kedile IMilley lep ° rlne For the last twenty years I hnvo been actively engaged In poultry raising rais-ing During that time I huvo handled several of the raoit prominent breeds but the best fowls for all purpose I consider the while Wynndoltea They mature early and I have had five month old pullets lay nicely My 1 poultry houses nro good and warm and the window In summer have wire screen to them Tho house have wire door for summer use I have plenty of window on the south aldo ot the house for sunlight In winter A I for markets wo have found that good fresh eggs and good plump fowls paver have to look up markets Tho markets mar-kets como to them I could not raise fowls for profit unless I got a good supply sup-ply of egg In winter I never lose fowls from disease of lice Last year I raised over 200 chicks and I am sure that I did not lose over ten or twelve most of them from accident load 1 healthy stock well cared for will not die Year ngo when I had a alck fowl thougiit the only way to save It Will to dope It but now I depend on giving It the best ot care and find that generally fives It but I scarcely I ever have one 111 from any cause Hut It you have n real sick fowl the hatchet Is the best doctor For early maturity and remarkable egg production think the white Wyandotte leads and I now keep no other fowl fowlMrs 11 Mrs Mary K Hall Huron county Ohio Fourteen year ago I began to keep poultry and the breed that I bare ban I j died most and the one that I prr IIi j I the Plymouth Hack My poultry ts4t ew re I Is warm and comfortable and 10 Itrt feet I teed corn In the morning v > I scrap from the table wheat at rfot I and oat at night Wo seldom losWvl l < fowls from any cause but the ynri rh 7 r i one are lometlme taken by ltuH sloes ailment and accident J1II1 j K spring we had something like I lin hundred little chick batched and IW I look a disease similar to dlarrne t Their dropping were of a reddish ru I I Tho chick would droop their wui and soon die Wo tried various tttf I die to no avail They had ran appetite and would eat till nMrly dead Tills Is I my first experience fHb disease In my flock and I hope It M be tho last Can you give Ua aeunt the dlteaaer I have nlwaya raised its breed mentioned flout find it pod enough and so nm content to sUet If It I gel a new cock every fall untKr keeping about one to every twrtty hem I think the 1lyraouth Reeks are the MI general purpose fowl W farmer to raise They mature eirlr feather young and grow rapidly All I i rule they are good layer I and Pl mother Our hatch has been toad Wo think wo have struck It this pear r on how to break up a setting tea I Make a common hipping crate pads I I of slats and set It on an Incllii ot I I about forty degree Then put In Jour I I hen and they will keep trying to get I to the top of the crate and working thus they forget all about sitting I ft M I Slaw I IJH Orango county Indiana I originally had the Drown Leghtrai but have disposed of them and low have the barred Plymouth Wels which I like better 1 hate for or f fowl a frame house with tarred piper I to keep out the cold and n cement tkwr In Iho morning I feed warm food with chopped feed and potatoes at noun md i corn at night Wo hnvo a home market mar-ket for which we batch early nod ship while tho fowl nro young We It I egga all winter keeping early hatched pullet for that purpose We tare good luck tor pluck nl to the health ot our fowl Wo sometimes UK poke I root In Iho drinking water and spray the premises with Carbolic arid and coal oil For ralalng the chlcki we use the old 1 hen Iho belt all around brooder 1 have found We bite never tried doctoring tho fowls as 110 regard thin hatchet aa the boil remedy when any of them get sick A to layer sml early maturity we have tried the single comb Drown Leghorn flinch Bpanlsh While Leghorn Huff Cochin and some other but the heat all around fowl wo have decided to be the plymouths mouth Hock I live In the city and have one and oneeighth acres of land that I call my experimental land I Inept n correct account of all expenses for > eleven month on two pent of fowl one containing ilxtien ilngte I tomb Drown leghorns and lie other lnelien II P it Tho rtrtln1 tlmfi dmountcdto JOSD ipe tarred Plymouth I Hock laid 40S iioro egg than the Drown Ltghorna art cared for the chick which numbered They bad hatched oul 129 chick ind reared 117 and made a neat profit profitIVd IVd Fen Monroe county Indiana nllon ed steal rnr tlna Cottonseed meal Is I so rich In protein pro-tein that It Is I one ot the best foods with which to balance ritlons It has become a standard food for cattle and sheep Why not use It for horse and mules Thousands of work animals ani-mals In North Carolina can ba better and more cheaply fed If cottonseed meal la I used for part or all the grain No experiment that 1110 know ot had been made when wo began to agitate the qtieitlon though some cottonseed meal feeding to such stuck mi1 have been done Two old horses were o cured for tho purpose of ascertaining the effect ot cotlon seed meal In a ration They were fed a good ration for len days consisting of clover chaff threshed out with crimson clovsr seed corn meal and shipstuff One horse gained and ono lost wrIght on this ration ra-tion while bath were kept at usual work No l gained 11 pounds dally and No I lost 07 pound dally The ration fed during this period to both hones ho I clvin as No t below During Dur-ing the i 10 id period both hones gained gain-ed 1 well hi No I at the rata of 10 pounds per day and No S 41 pounds or If the apparent loi In weight ot No 3 during the first period were due lo reduced stomach contents consequent conse-quent on change to better than pre Slot ration and this gain distributed over Iho two period it would be equivalent to 110 pounds per day The dally weight show Irregularity and falling luck during the first period but when two pounds ot cottoniccd meal had replaced two pounds ot cornmeal corn-meal and ahlpituff of the ration In the first period there was an almost regular advance In body weight After Af-ter the first two periods the same chaff was continued two days and the grain changed by reducing corn and hlp ttuff one pound each and Increasing the cottonseed meal onehalf pound then with the grain fed regularly III thus changed llciolhy hay was ted In place of the chart Horse No 1 refused re-fused the hay and ate only what meal ho could pick off leaving hay nallva and meal In excess ot the hay fed He was discarded after four days of this kind ot feeding Horse No2 rose continued con-tinued eight days but did not eat the hay well although he nearly held bll weight Nellher hone showed any symptom to Indicate that the cottonseed cot-tonseed meal disagreed with them but both objected to latecut timothy hay after crimson clover straw and chaff North Carolina Experiment Station Cotton Seed soul Collon IIIroduet It II now lImlled that Iho cotton stat export 10 Europe cotton seed meal and cake 10 the extent or = 1000000 10 = 000000 A generation ego cotton aced wan III the way a Ulele oalll cow the export ot its produce rachs the Immense figure given above In addition to which we have the vast quantity of cotton iced meal used at borne a well as the cotton aced oil used at home and exported the total value of which exceeds that of tho cotton md meal Certainly wo must admit that n country has nit resource when the offal of one of Its staple crops trlng In a revenue of fifteen or twenty million of dollara Southern Farmer Prtntli slid Malt 1 rtll IUrr < l A lot of French cattle were on their way lo the United State being about to be shipped from the port of Havre France The United State consul there topped Iho shipment and notified noti-fied the authorities that they would not be 1 allowed lo enter this country as disease exist In Franco Like stand baa been taken In regard to Switzerland Most Americana will uphold up-hold the government In this matter The fact la I that bolls Franco and Switzerland wishing to please the agrarians formers of their countries have topped the Import ot American cattle using III n pretext the lImo plea that has been used In Kngland that there la I dlscaaa among the cattle In the United State It la I a fact that there II I more or leas disease among Ibo cattle of every country and If Amer lean cattle are to be excluded for that i obbj r reason hero la no objection lo applying apply-ing the rule around Money In Meat Packing The Im don Financial News says A rather ctirlou fact was elicited at yesterday meeting of the Chicago Packing and Provision company namely that only 11 per cent ot the share capital was held In England the balance having been acquired by Americans The ling lids company Itself carries on no buil ness but In 1890 acquired all but alx sham of tho Chicago company Since SD fo cent of thin Kngllsli company i ihareholdcri are now citizens ot the United State It II I plain that tbo American have virtually bough the I I undertaking back and the utility of n London board Is I not very clear On the other hand In view of the steady do I cline In the dividend 16 per cent In 1801 I 1214 per cent In 1892 10 per cent In 1S93 8 per cent In 1891 and only 1 per cent for last cnrIt must bo some satisfaction for Ibo remaining Kngllsh shareholder to sec that American Investor vestor evidently do not regard the company prospect aa permanently bad Litter In Poultry Houses The cheapest material for making o hens lay la I Utter What time hens require In winter moro than feed la I somewhere to scratch and something In which to scratch A largo poultry house with ample room on the floor and with a plentiful supply ot leave or cut straw will bo more acceptable to the bens then anything else Litter la valuable because It makes the hens lay and It makes them lay because It gives them an opportunity to work and thus accelerate accel-erate the circulation of tho blood promoting pro-moting warmth and Increasing the appetite ap-petite All the food that may bo given will not promote egg production If tho hens are kept In Idleness and given no opportunity to scratch and enjoy themselves them-selves Dairy Surprise One must be prepared pre-pared for surprise when he begin wing the Ilabcock IVrhap our pet cow will ba found wonting and have to bo disposed 1 of and probably that or dinarylooking cow over In the corner which we have never taken any par titular pride In will be Ibo one which mado her share ot butter and helped out on our favorite that we never suspected sus-pected for a moment was giving ua very small return for food and care It II 1 a good plan to cull rather closely and give Ito feed and attention to the ends that have come up to your standard stand-ard Mr M 8 KlngHx Correct Feeding The main principle princi-ple to be observed In feeding the milch cow Id to feed moderately No matter what you feed do It In reasonable quantities and no sudden or radical changes should be made but In changing chang-ing teed do It gradually and wllh moderation A sudden change trom dry food to succulent pasturage olten causes serlou disturbances of the dl gcstlvn organs and therefrom result a 1 serious lOll to the owner of tho COWCI Tho dairy laws I of the varloua date have accomplished far moro than many ot their friend supposed they would do The general sale of oleomargarine except us Itself has been greatly curtailed cur-tailed l This la 1 gratifying to all tho friend ot honesty Fraud doc not always al-ways keep tho upper hand though It too often gets that position for a time Da Inn Kna r Do you know that every cruelty Inflicted In-flicted on an animal In killing or Just before death poison to a greater or less extent Its meat Do you know that every cruelty Inflicted In-flicted upon a cow poliona to a creator or lea extent Its milk Do you know thai fish killed as lOon as tnken from the water by n blow will keep longer and bo better than thoso permitted to die slowly Do you know that birds destroy millions mil-lions of bug mosquitoes and harmful Insects that without the birds wo could not live on the earth and that every little insect eating bird you may kill and every egg you may take from Its nest mean one iesa bird to destroy Insects Do you know that a checkrein which will not permit a horse to put bIn head where ho want to when going up a bill II I a cruel torture to the horse Do you know that every kind act you do and every kind word you peak to a dumb animal will make not only the animal but yourself happier not only make you happier but also better aeo T Angell In Our Dumb Animals J r < d |