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== Deceived. “Vll never trust another man,” sie cried. “Why not?’ “He promised to settle the bill at the end of the month, and it is still un- paid.” She was in the floral business. But is is what all women who go into look for.—Philadelphia an, North Ame RR SSS The World’s Supply of Wheat.. An English expert claims that the wheat producing soil of the world is equal to the strain that will be put Even now, when the food ample, thousands die because sordered stomact 1 to digest ke. Hostetter’s Stom- strengthen and tone up the ud digestive organs. upon it. supply Head hehe ? Are your nerves weakP Can’t you sleep well? Pain in your back? ack energy? Appetite poor? Digestion bad? Boils or pimples? These are sure signs of poisoning. ina From what poisons? ** From poisons that are al- ways found in constipated bowels. If the contents of the bowels are not removed from the body each day, as nature intended, these poisonous | substances are sure to be absorbed into the blood, al- ways causing suffering and frequently causing severe disease. There is a common sense They dail and natura! the bowels. al You will find thatthe use of Ager’s Sarsaparitia insure an easy movement of s with the pills will hasten recovery. It cleanses the blood from all impurities and is a great tonic to the nerves. Write the Doctor. Our Medical Department has one of the most eminent physicians in the United States. Tell the doctor just how you are suffering. You Will receivé the best medical advice without cost. Address, DR. J.C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. Nothing but wheat as far as the eye could reach on either side: what you might call a sea of wheat,” was what a lecturer speaking of Western Canada said while re- ferring to that country. 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Circular eent on request NSION SEX zorets, ‘Washington, D.C: ucesss(ully Progroutes Claims. in last war, lS adjudicating claims, atty since quick relief and cures worst gasen, rend for bro of testimonials and 10 days? @eatmenr Free. br.#. H. GREEN'S SONS, stan WANTED—Case ot pad health that R-I-P-A-N-S will not benefit. Send 5 cents to Ripans Chemical o., New York, for 10 samples and 1, testimonials. £ amfcted viet Thomoson’s Eye Water, pe Best PRN CON SUMP. TION} 1898. W. N. DU, | No. 52.— Woeo Answering “Advertisements Hindty Mention This Paper. J. loeratic e: t ims. a 1 DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Cure of Live Stock and Poultry. . Feeding and Testing. At a convention of farmers in Tas- mania, G. M. Barnard said: Cows must be fed regularly, and their rations evenly adjusted. When first starting to feed at the beginning of the wifter weigh the contents of their different measures, so one can give each cow the proper quantity. The full rations that my cows get when little or no grazing is available, are six pounds bran or pollard, 3 pounds oil cake, mixed to- gether with chaffed straw, forty pounds mangolds, and twenty-five to thirty pounds of rape or green stuff, and fed as follows: Before milking in morn- ing, bran and oil cake; after milking, mangolds; before milking in evening, oil cake and bran; after milking, man- golds; and the last thing at night, oil cake, and bran and greenstuff. The cost of this ration was 4s. 9d. per cow for each week, and if the grazing is of any consequence the proportions are reduced, and given a good season the cost can be reduced to 3s. 6d. With higher feeding I could get @ better yield, but the increased cost of the ration would not be compensated for by the value of the increased yield. To go and put good food down the scrub cow’s throat is the surest and easiest way of proving that winter dai- rying won't pay. I have done it and don’t want to do it again, as the fol- lowing incident will show. Some years ago, when first using the Babcock Tester, it was during the winter months, eight cows were being milked, and their average was five pounds per week; when the tester got to work it reveled the fact that the best cow was making eight pounds and the worst three and one-half: pounds per week; the cost of feeding was 4s. per head, and the price of butter 1s. 2d. per pound; one left 5s, 4d. profit while the other had only one penny to her credit, or, to put it another way, the best cow’s butter cost 6d. per pound to produce, and the worst 1s. 15-7 d., or very nearly what the butter sold for. At the time of writing, September 8, the week’s butter from eight cows to- taled 73% pounds, or an average of 9.2 pounds per cow. The feeding, prin- cipally grazing, came to 3s, per head, so that quantity of butter cost a frac- tion unde> 4d, per pound to produce. To show that a few good cows will yield a higher profit’than a@ lot of in- ferior or medium ones, take as an ex- ample a farmer milking twenty head with an average of five pounds per week and getting 1s. per pound for his butter; say the feeding expenses are 3s. per head. Those twenty cows pro- duce 100 pounds of butter to the value of £5, the eight head yield, say, seven- ty-two pounds, or a value of £3 12s.; but the tweaty cows cost £3 to feed, and tne eight £1 4s., so really the eight cows show 8s. more profit per week than the twenty. A great many people look upon this testing the cows as a fad or hobby, all very well to be in- dulged in if you have the time to waste, and they quite fail to see its value. Its value is that you find out what cows pay and what don’t; and another thing, it will be found that there will be a growing desire to improve when once this sort of thing is begun. I am cer- tain that there is more money to be made out of a first-class dairy herd than out of any other branch of farm-@| ing, and more to be lost if you own scrubbers. A Straw Hen Honse. From Farmers’ Review: Cold winis remind-us that cold winter is on the way, and while we are preparing for his advent in other ways, let us prepare a warm place for the biddies. They will repay us, I am sure. For two winters we had as warm and cozy a house as any hens need wish for, and that with but little outlay in cash. Poles were cut from the woods, stout ones but not very large, and these were driven into the ground some six inches apart, and in this case they were driven in the form of a square, twelve by twelve feet, and six feet high. After one course was driven another was driven one-half foot inside the other, Space was left for a door and the poles were sawed out to permit of a window being inserted. The space between the rows of poles was filled with straw, tightly packed, a rough casing made for the window and door, the window placed in position and the door hung, when the walls were ready for the roof, A large pole, rather post, was set in the center of the hen house, projecting three feet above the top of the walls, and one end of the poles were wired to this post, the other ends placed at reg- ular intervals on the walls close enough together to prevent the straw room from falling in. Straw was ‘aid in courses on these poles until it was a foot thick, then other poles or wire were used to keep the straw from plowing off. When completed it was a neat, if odd, structure, and a lady who had just returned from the world’s fair said it looked more like the cottage on the wooded isle than anything nearly so common as a hen house. It kept the piddies comfortable and happy all win- ter, and they made us happy by keep- dng the egg basket filled. I have forgotten the number of days’ work required to build it, but if made of hay they will last a long time. One made of straw will last several winters if the accidental holes are kept filled as fast as made. placed in the south and the dust box was directly beneath it, where the sun would warm the bath. The wires placed The window was : on top of the roof were used to prevent the hens. scratching the thatch off, as much as for anything else, for they seemed. determined to’ go through it if possible. If it should get vermin-infected the house could be burned and not much loss, so for a cheap, comfortable house there are few that will equal the straw house. Some- times they are built wigwam style, the hay or straw piled around and over it. Such a one, while not as lasting or 28 neat, is comfortable and requires much less time to build. If a large one is wished two or more stout posts must be used A Fighting Bantam. A gentleman relates to the Farmers’ Review a story of the destructive work done by a pet bantam. The man in question had about twenty-five hens sitting, most of which brought off nearly full broods of chicks. He felt very proud of the very large hatch and took good care of them, hoping to raise a large number. Everything went well for some time, but after a while he began to find dead chicks in the nests of the hens that had brought off new broods. For some days the mystery seemed inexplicable. But he set & watch and the mischief-maker was dis- covered, A pet bantam hen was seen to fly over the fence into the yard in which the chicks and their mothers were kept. She would immediately ap- proach some brood and make a show of attacking the chicks, The chicks would run under the wings of their mother and tne latter would give battle to the bantam. The old hen being unable to move from her position, by reason of the chicks hovering under her wings, she was not able to drive the bantam away, but in her movements succeeded in trampling to death several chicks. It was surmised that this incident Lad been repeated from day to day, the number of chicks killed being 42. The bantam was immediately killed and the losses stopped. This illustrates the necessity of using great care to prctect the broods from intrusion by quarrel- some hens. The Guinea Fowl. It would be a good plan for all poul- try raisers to have a few guinea fowls about their poultry premises, says Poultry Herald. They are hardy, good natured and beautiful. It is well to keep them as tame as possible, and always have them around the home, as they make an excellent’ “watch dog,” their shrill cry frightening away hawks and other marauders. The poul- tryman’s greatest enemy in the south is the sparrow hawk, and our neigh- bors have lost as many as a dozen chickens a day by hawks alone, while we never lost but three chicks from that source, and we believe all credit is due the guinea. They will live and prove profitable for eight or ten years, and no farm should be so crowded but that it could make room for at least one pair of guineas. They destroy a vast amount of insects and clean the fields of seeds that would otherwise go to waste, costing almost nothing to raise, and no better meat can be found in the poultry line, unless it be the turkey. Overcrowding Cattle. Cattle should never be overcrowded ‘n their winter quarters. In the sum- ger the case is not of so great import- ance, for then the windows and doors are wide open. But in the winter the stables must be kept so tightly closed that all the carbon emanating from the breath of the cattle accumulates in their sleeping quarters and poisons and weakens the systems of all. When the cattle are not overcrowded this is bad enough, but when packed in closely the inconvenience becomes positive dan- ger. Such stables, too, are rarely kept clean, and all kinds of diseases are en- abled to get a foothold. It is very in- convenient to arrange proper ventila- tion for crowded stables, as too great a circulation of air is required. Drafts, are created that are likely to prove very. detrimental to the health of all the animals in the barn. A disease once started in a crowded stable is likely to prove very expensive to the owner of the stock. Every considera- tion should lead stockmen to give their stock sufficient room. The Egg and Sex. Periodically and frequently goes around the report that eggs wrinkled at the narrow ‘ends produce cockerels, says the Country World. To the stu- dent of embryology this fallacy is at once apparent. For the first few days the chicken is sexual, and then to about the seventh day it is distinctly herma- phrodite and contains within itself the elements of both sexes. After this stage it verges in one direction, one set of organs developing and the other dimin- ishing, according as to whether the germ is going to produce a male or a female. So that if the germ had a liv- ing conscience, it would not know at the sixth day which sex it would ulti- mately be. A Poultry Show in Russia. I am instructed to inform interested parties that there will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, an international poultry exhibition under the sanction of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, by the Russian Poultry Society, from the 13th to the 28th of May, 1899. Con- ditions and particulars can be obtained by addressing this consulate. Respect- fully. Baron Schlippenbachy, Chicago, Il]. Imperial Russian Consul, Fence posts can be securely anchor- ed without driving into the ground by means of a new brace, which is formed of a cast-iron cone with a shank at the top on which a short post is placed to dive it into the ground, a strand of wire running to the top of the post te steady it. Lay in a supply of grain and vege- tables for the long winter months. A WONDERFUL CLOCK. | What Cabery’s Strange Piece of Mechan- ism Can Do. A Kankakee county man is the pos- | sessor of one of the most wonderful | clocks in the country. This clock is as near a perpetual motion machine as any piece of mechanism yet designed. The owner is not a perpetual crahk, but an exceedingly ingenious jeweler named Peter M. Ravenskilde of Cabery, a hustling town in the southwestern portion of Kankakee county. ‘he clock is the product of many years of study and labor and considerable ex- pense. It keeps accurate time and will run for a year without the least atten- tion from its owner. The clock prop- er is run with a wheel sixty inches in circumference, From the outer surface of the circumference are suspended 120 cups, each one-half inch in diameter and a third of an inch deep. Each of forty of these cups, which are succes- sive, contains steel balls three-eighths of an inch in diameter. Every minute and a half as this wheel turns by the weight of these balls, one of them falls out of its cup, rolls down an inclined plane twenty inches long, when, by its own weight, it reunites a broken cir- cuit of electricity and is again ele- vated by a little car traveling along a steeper inclined plane to the top of the wheel, where it falls into a deep cup which stands vertical for a short time. After the car discharges its cargo it returns to its original station from its own weight. From the time one of these balls is dropped into another cup it travels thirty-six inches. Thus the work done by all the balls is equiv- alent to one ball traveling over one mile a day; 400 miles in one year, and during the lifetime of a person living three score years the distance around the globe. The electricity used is gen- erated in an ordinary storage battery, which does not require any attention for fully ayear. Another clock owned by Mr. Ravenskilde is of a similar con- struction, but considerably smaller. This clock is used to attract attention in the store. A porcelain globe is placed back of the clock and at night green, red and white electric lights reflect their rays alternately on the face of the clock, the colors being changed each time the ball is discharg- ed from one of the cups on the time- piece. Mr. Ravenskilde has had many offers to exhibit his clocks, but refuses to do so, and so far he has not had the mechanism patented.—Boston Jourtial. Holder for Electric Lamps. Magnetism has been applied in an in- genious way to the automatic holding of electric lamps-in any desired posi- tion. The holder of the lamp, which is thoroughly magnetized, will adhere to any piece of iron or steel at any angle, so that by its use iron workers can se- cure light at any part of their work without the inconvenience attendant on the use of a torch. As the light can, be made to shine exactly where it is wanted, the magnetic holder is of the greatest service when the workman is employing the Jathe, planer, drill and other tools. Its use in boiler shops is | doing away with torches, as it can be carried inside the boiler. For many classes of work, especially the making of locomotives, it is highly recommend- ed, not the least of its advantages be- ing that it frequently enables an as- sistant to be dispensed with. A Chance to Make Money. Mrs. Peck—‘Henry, I’ve been talk- ing to you for twenty minutes, and T’ll bet you don’t know a word I’ve said.” Mr. Peck—“Say, go and try to get somebody outside of the family to take that bet, will you?” OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES “How many zones have we, Willie?” asked the teacher of a pupil in the junior class. ‘Four,’ was the reply. .“Well, then, name the four,” said ‘the teacher. “The frigerated, the hor- rid, the temperance and the intemper- ance,” answered the little fellow. Freddie, aged 5, had been watching his mother prepare the Thanksgiving turkey for dinner, and finally said: “Mamma, I'd rather be a wild turkey than a tame one.”” “Why so, dear?” she asked. “Because,” was the reply, “a wild one can run around on the prairie all his life and a tame one gets killed every year.” “Bessie,” said a north side mother to her four-year-old daughter, “here’s three cents; run down to the drug ‘store on the corner and get me a stamped envelope.” A few minutes ‘later Bessie entered the store and the proprietor asked: “Well, little gifl, what can I do for you?” “If you please, sir,” she replied, “my mamma wants ‘free cents worf of stamped antelope.” Harry, aged 4, while engaged in pick- ing the “‘drumstick” of a Thanksgiving turkey partly swallowed one of the tendons, which are so numerous in the legs of a-fowl, and was nearly choked. ‘The tendon was finally extracted with great difficulty from the little fellow’s throat, when he exclaimed: “Well, I don’t blame the old turkey; it’s the cook’s fault for not taking off its gar- ters.” Small Johnny had on his best clothes one Sunday and his mamma told him not to play in the dirt with them on. “Don’t they have any dirt in heaven to play in?” he asked. “No, of course ' not,” replied his mother. “Then what go little boys do up there?” queried Johnny. “Oh, they play harps and sing and sit under the beautiful trees,” was the reply. “Then,” said the lit- tle fellow, “I don’t see how they.can have trees if there ain’t no dirt.” Mrs. Gotrox—Mabel, dear, are you sure Mr. Woodby loves you for your- self alone? 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