Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 4, 1897, Page 7

j \ t Patents Issued. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Charles H. Bigelow, Litchfield, Minn, Adding register. Evalyn Caldwell, St. Paul, Minn.; Purse. Halph W. Cava- naugh, St. Paul,. Minn.; Automatic smoke preventer. Jeremiah G. Hoffken, Green Isle, Minn.; Mower. David H. Houston, Hunte! N. D. Extension stock for fi Byron B. Inman, Dututh, Mirn. Ie breaking _ boat. nteuffal, St. Paul, Minn.; liam H. Meyer, g machine Fred- lotte, Northfield, Minn.; Edwin C. Washburn, i 3 Ca wpling. Kar- St. Paul, Minn. rk} Cutle and other eut- wools “Gilt Edge.” n, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent 910, Pioneer Press Building, No one has tried ”—Chicago Post. 5 DROPS CURES RHEUMATISM. A Wonderful Remedy Which Is Attract- ing Widespread Attention. Many, who were afflicted, have ac- knowledged the curative properties of 2 new and wonderful remedy trate marked “Five Drops.” One says: “I cannot express my _ gratitude to God, also to you, for the ben- efit I am receiving from ‘Five Drops.’ I now walk about without a crutch, which I have had to use for a long time.”—Mrs, A. Spring, 630 Main street, Springfield, Mass. Another reads: ‘We think your medicine truly wonderful; it cured my husband. I recommend it to all sufferers.”—Mrs. M. S. Pike, Colville, Wash. “Five drops” taken but once a day is a dose of this great remedy, and to enable all suffergrs to make a trial of its won- cerful curative properties the manu- facturers will send out during the next thirty days 100,000 sample bottles for 25 cents each, prepaid by mail—send today. Even a sample bot- l convince you of its merits. s on Rheumatic Cure Company, 167-169 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111. They Don’t Count. “How many children have you?’ asked a constituent of his congress- Completed. ent on the Pittsburg Di- altimore and Ohio Rail- west of Cumberland at ae vill be completed by Decem- ist and trains will begin running it within ten days thereafter. Falls ing through a spur of the about 60 feet in depth given trouble by rock g down on the track. It has had braced with heavy, timber every few feet for its entire length, some 300 feet, and requiring constant care and cut i mou chfulness w therefore, very ex- to kee r to eliminate this cut it was 0 build one mile of new road- coubl three bridg 3y th ened coi inge the road was straight- ly taking out some sharp introduci i g curves of a ovement is on ern piopese of the A feet to the m The tunne: were constructed with the v! the entire Pittsburg Division 1e in the future, After Taking. “Tt is true I can’t sing well” said the cat that had just swallowed the cana- “but I have a good deal of music in me, all the same.’—Chicago ‘Trib- une. Constipation Forever. rets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25e. ‘ail to cure, druggists refund money, ‘erfectly Safe. “Do you think there is any danger in foot ball, doctor?” Yone, whatever, madam; I am sur- geon of the athletic association.” Astonished. there anything so mming the Helles- ful in Le * replied the theatrical manager. “It opportunity and threw away his id have made ng es e folder cont ind routes t ds. mplete publ: e kind Send four cents in stamps to i PL & A. Great North- |, Mi “Alaska, a beauti- t_for fifteen Northern is st line from s Paul and Minneapolis to Seattle and Portland, whence the outfitting points steamers sail for Ala, Not His Fault Altogether. “I’ve been riding on the elevated for and I’ve never offered a ou’ve never had manners.” That isn’t it. I've never yet had a .’—Harlem Life. A king in the hand is worth three in the pack. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and will put you in the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our adver- tisers are reliable; they send what they advertise. Many a man never gets on the popular side until he joins the silent majority. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. 250 It is hard for a man to support a sealskin wife on a muskrat salary. Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets Candy Cathartic, cures constipation forever. Wc. If C. © 1 druggists refund money. The wind has a great deal to do ied making the weather—vane. bf Coe’s Cough Balsa: Ie the oldest and beste Trill Breaks up © cold quicker than anything eise. [tis always reliable. Try it. Some girls get married just to let others know that they car DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. flow Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Milk Producers and Consumers. CDERN investiga- tion has shown without question that milk is a sub- stance which is easily contaminat- ed, and is not in- frequently the me- dium through which dreaded dis- eases are trans- mitted to humans. Typhoid fever, consumption, diphthe- ria and scarlet fever are all germ dis- eases and milk is a substance in which | these germs will thrive. The | wash water from a house where typhoid exists, may drain through the soil into the well and con- taminate it. This disease affected water, if used to rinse milk pans or cans, or to set cans in to cool milk, may be the means of transmitting the disease to the milk and thence to the human subject. All intelligent physi- cians and dairymen, in consequence, recognize the necessity of great clean- liness about the cow stable and dairy, having sanitary conditions of a high order. With these features enforced, with healthy cows, wholesome food and proper milk delivery, one should be able to supply the market with pure milk. The enforcement of good sani- tary conditions about cows supplying city and town consumers of milk,is mainly within the control of boards of health. No persons, however, should have a greater interest in this matter than the consumers themselves. If the patrons of persons supplying consum- ers with milk would visit the farms and stables from which their milk is derived, they would be able to ascer- tain reasonably well if the sanitary conditions are favorable or not to a healthy or wholesome milk. Persons giving milk to young children, certain- ly should examine into the source of it. If this were done by more parents the mortality each summer among young children would be far less. Every pro- gressive, intelligent, fair-minded milk producer will welcome an inspection of his cows, stables and dairy by his pat- rons. The man who does not is not a safe one to buy milk from. Consum- ers should put a premium on the char- acter of the milk supplied them, and should in every way possible encour- age the efforts of the dairyman who endeavors to place the best article on the market. Within very recent years, some dairymen have begun to sell milk which has been handled with extra care, to insure a high grade purity and wholesomeness. This is sometimes called “certified milk,” due to the fact that the producer certifies as to the feed and character of his cows and the handling of the milk. Others “pas- teurize” or heat to a certain tempera- ture their milk or cream, to destroy or injure disease germs, if any perchance occur in it, At one fine dairy in In- diana all the milk is sprayed through sterilized aid and then made very cold in an air tight chamber, after wnich it is bottled. These improved methods of preparation are bound to become more common each year, from the very fact,if for no other, that they receive the indorsement of the intelligent physician. Our consumers should en- courage this production. Progressive dairymen, selling pure, high-grade milk should be encouraged. The con- sumers should show their appreciation of their efforts. One, however, cannot over-estimate the importance of con- sumers familiarizing themselves with the source of their milk and its sur- roundings, and insisting that condi- tions be of a high sanitary character. Cc. S. Plumb, Indiana Experiment Station. They Have Indigestion. A reader in the state of Washington meets with a difficulty which is very common, and we give his letter for the benefit of others, says the Poultry Keeper. He says: “Will you kindly tell me through your paper what ailed one of my White Leghorn pullets? While letting my fowls out this morning I noticed one of this spring’s pullets sitting all humped up on the roost. I lifted it up and looked for lice, but could not see any lice which could have put her in that condition. While I had her nead down there was about half of a tea- cupful of green slimy water running from her nose and mouth, which had a very sickening odor. Her head and eyes were not swollen. My hens have free range, and all the extra food they get is a quart of wheat for fifty fowls scattered in litter on the ground. I forgot to mention that the pullet died in five minutes after I had let its head hang down. I also have a Brown Leg- horn that acts very strange. She turns around in a circle at times, seerus to be short sighted, and works her head from one side to the other. She lays regu- larly, and eats without difficulty, All the rest of the fowls are in good cot- dition.” His fowls have a free range, yet he fed wheat. The two hens mentioned have indigestion. They may have got- ten more than their share, but the fact is that no wheat at all should be given under the circumstances. Further, the- males should have been removed from the flock, as they may be the cause. The remédy is to confine such hens in a yard with no food at all for 48 hours, giving two drops of tincture of nux vomica or a bread crumb for a week, allowing, during the week, one ounce of lean cooked meat for eica hen per day. Do not feed corn during hot weather. Bacon Hogs. Now that attention to desirable bacon qualities of hogs is growing there seems to be a disposition to grow for bacon purposes an animal very differ- ent in type from the breeds to which “a streak of fat and a streak of lean” are almost unknown, says Texas Stock and Farm Journal. Of late, agricultur- al papers have discussed the Medium Yorkshire and the Tamworth, and the latter is growing in favor as a bacon hog among English breeders and seems destined to take a very important place. They are little known in this country and probably there is not one in Texas. Here they are known only by descrip- tion, and to judge from that they seem to be a reversion to the old-fashioned breed of “sandy shotes” with long snouts, such as are yet known in the mountain regions of Kentucky and West Virginia and on the poor lands of the South. Would it not be strange if the razor-back boar should become the valuable sire for the production of ani- mals that will furnish the tables of the rich with their choicest and most cost- | ly meats? Yet it is certain that no other bacon has such excellent flavor as that which is found in those parts of the country where the Poland-China and the Berkshire and other so-called “improved” breeds of swine are un- {mown. The razor-back has his merits. A recent writer has called attention to the fact that the Anglo-Saxon and Ger- man, pork eating races, are highest and strongest in the ranks of civilization. It is not intended here to assert that pork has caused their excellence, but the best pork they have was probably the razor-back of the days when their pre-eminence was established, and that they got his meat by hunting him with dogs and the weapons of the chase. The X Ray and the Hen. The Poultry Monthly says: Verily, “the world do move,” and in no direc- tion is this fact more pronounced than in the application of scientific discov- ery to the practical affairs of everyday life. An enlightened poultry culture is also feeling a quickening of its pulses along new and advanced lines, | and the result is certainly promising for a great future. Every new idea helps the race. No sooner is the X or Roentgen ray a practical demonstra- tion, than it at once finds use in a thousand different directions. It has been applied to the chicken business. Mr. Rudolph Spreckels, the millionaire Hawaiian planter of San Francisco, owns a bonanza poultry ranch in Son- oma county, on which are running some 10,000 fowls. Now out of that number there are necessarily a good many sterile or barren females—the drones of the poultry yards. If the Roentgen rays will locate a dime in a small boy’s stomach, why will it not “show up” a non-laying hen? No sooner thought than acted on. A test case was made with twelve chickens, eight of which were found with eggs and four barren. A subsequent post- mortem examination confirmed the de- duction of the X rays. What follow- ed? Bless your dear heart, an X ray plant was added to the establishment and all females put through the test. Result? There was a glut in the local poultry market, and a corresponding reduction in Mr. Spreckels’ feed bill. Is this not a practical application of sci- ence to one’s bank account? Iowa Butter in England. Of the butter shipped direct to Rng- land from New Hampton, Ia., the Ga- zette of that place had the following to say: “Some weeks ago several creameries in this part of the county made up a car load of butter which waseshipped to England direct from this city as a trial shipment. This but- ter has safely arrived and is reported in excellent condition except one lot. At the time it was shipped and during its transit the weather was the hottest it has been in two years and the com- mission men to whom it was sent de- cided it was better to put it in cold storage for two weeks in Liverpool be- fore it was offered for sale, so no re- turns have been received, but there is no doubt that it will bring a good price when put on the market. Another car load will soon be shipped from here to the same parties by the different creameries of the county. A car load of 450 butter boxes have just arrived in which to pack the butter. The boxes are a much better lot than the others were and are all put together so that the creamery people will not have to nail them together.” Access to Grain. Many farmers are in the habit of al- lowing their fowls the free run of the farm and this includes free access to the grain bins. Under such conditions it is impossible to keep the birds from eating too much grain and the result will be seen later in the season when the fowls begin to die of indigestion. In such cases, where the farmer cannot prevent his flocks from filling up on grain during the day, it would be bet- ter to keep them shut up at night and not allow them to go out in the morn- ing till they have had a hearty break- fast of scalded soft food. This may tend to prevent them eating such large quantities of grain. Fall Milk Shortage.—It is a mistake to have a falling off in milk at the time of short pasturage. The advan- tages from soiling crops are: Less land will maintain a given number of cat- tle, the food supply will be better reg- ulated, the animals will not waste en- ergy in searching for food. and the ma nure can all be saved and applied to the soil.—Ex. Separator Milk.—When you get a separator, knock to pieces every swill parrel on the farm. Feed the calves and pigs as soon as the milk is sepa- rated. The milking and feeding is soon done, and there is no after handling of the milk. The stock gets the milk sweet, warm and regularly, which is all in the line of advantage.—Ex. It takes no brains to be a grumbler, Women Sorticulturists. ‘Women are working successfully in almost every field. Vick’s Magazine states that according to the census of 1890 there were 312 commercial green- houses, or about one in fifteen, owned and managed by women. Wehave a personal acquaintance with several women who are successful retail flor- ists. Other women, to our knowledge, are making a success of raising car- nations and other flowers for tne wholesale trade. These people soon learn that the business of raising and selling flowers is beset by much care and labor that do not come under the head of poetry. And yet nearly all women florists that we have met were led into the business because they first of all loved flowers. It adds to the de- light and success of any occupation if one has a love therefor. There is no question that, as a rule, women have a greater fondness than men for flowers. Why, therefore, should they not en- gage in growing and handling them for profit? The rougher work about flower raising, such as the care of greenhouse furnaces, the handling of soil and ma- nure and the like, can easily be done by men who work for moderate wages. If women are successful as florists they are equally so as raisers of vegetables and smaller fruits, especially strawber- ries; they direct the rougher work, help to prepare the produce for customers, and perhaps take in hand the selling, thus keeping closely in touch with the state of the market. Generally speak- ing, we think that the raising of straw- berries near our best markets is further from being overdone than that of al- most any other kind of produce. The consumption is enormous and fresh fruit brought quickly from the fields, without a large distance intervening, always will sell considerably higher than fruit long from the vines that has been shipped. Much of the work of picking and handling small fruits is suited to be done by women. The Health of the Hog. In an address to swine breeders L. A. Davis said: ‘Always guard care- fully the health of your hogs. Provide fresh beds once a week, using disin- fectants each time around the sleeping troughs and adjacent grounds. Airslacked lime and carbolic acid are good disinfectants. Close study and observation has led me to believe that we can produce pork of the best quality at a great deal less cost than the average farmer has been do- ing, and at the same time greatly re- ducing the risk of loss from disease. One way to reduce the cost of pork is by reducing the time to produce. A thrifty pig that will weigh two hundred pounds gross, with meat well marked with lean, is the most desirable for the market of the world to-day; and with a good breed of hogs, mature mothers, proper care during pregnancy and care- ful treatment of pigs, this weight can be produced at six months. Keep the pigs growing from start to finish. To make the most of the sow, let her pro- duce two litters a year—I prefer March and September for farrowing times. Since some argue that fall pigs do not pay, let me give one illustration: About the 10th of last October I had a sow to farrow a litter of ten pigs; no spe- cial care was given them, as the weath- er was pleasant, and when the pigs were about seven weeks old they were turned into the artichoke field with the sow, where they were allowed to run with other hogs all winter, except when very muddy they were shut off, and when the ground was hard frozen they were fed some corn.” quarters, Selling Fresh Eggs. It is a fact that nine-tenths of the residents of cities do not know where to buy strictly fresh eggs, says Amer- ican Poultry Keeper. This is no doubt a strange assertion to make in the face of the fact that thousands of dozens of fresh eggs are sold in this country every day, and especially when the purchaser gets*them from “an old farmer.” But even the old farmer is not always any wiser than the cus- tomer, allowing for producing them himself with the aid of his hens, but some old farmers buy eggs or bring them to market for their neighbors. There is a great deal of “faith” in buy- ing eggs, and much depends on “con- fidence” and from whom they are pur- chased. A party who had a large flock supplied his brother in the city. Scon the brother’s next door neighbor re- quested that he be supplied, and soon after several other neighbors desired alike favor. All of them were willing to pay extra for the eggs, as they had confidence in the one who sold them. He was compelied to refuse some of the would-be customers, from lack of supply, which only made his eggs the more desirable. Now, the market was amply supplied with “fresh” eggs, but that fact did not alter the circum- stances so far as he was concerned. Cannot the readers learn a. valuable lesson from this experience? Potash.—Sandy soils are always de- ficient in potash. Even if they had this mineral they have usually so little vegetable matter that the potash forms an insoluble compound, by uniting with the sand. The potash in caustic ashes dissolve the silicate of potash, and also helps itself until its caustic properties are lost. But old leached ashes are often quite as beneficial to sandy soils as are unleached. They al- ways contain some potash and some phosphate, which the water used for leaching would not dissolve. But they also usually contain some ammonia, taken from the air, and which makes its potash a nitrate of potash and a very powerful fertilizer.—Ex. 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