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o 500,000 FAMILIES, RELY ON PE-RU-NA, W. H. B.-Williams, publisher of The Farmers’ Industrial Union, in a recent letter to Dr. Hartman says: “I have used Pe-ri-na as a family medicine for several years. I find it of especial use for myself. I have had several tedious spells with systemic catarrh and before using Pe-ru-na I had tried severah Mr. W. H. B. Williams, Columbus, O. other remedies with little or no suc- cess. But in Pe-ru-na I found a prompt and sure cure. I always keep the remedy which promptly relieves any attack of the same malady. “My wife also uses Pe-ru-na. She finds it of especial use for severe spells, to which she is subject. We always keep it in the house as a family medi- cine. We think it an excellent remedy for the various ills to which children are subject, especially climatic dis- eases. Address Dr. Hartman, Colum- bus, Ohio, for a free book on family medicine. A Peep Into the Future. © two weary American travelerp approached each other from different points of the compass. Neither had the faintest notion where he was. ‘Pon jaw, jer swee encharntay de voo vwar, d the first “Ow do you do, sare? ply was the re- “Voo parlay Onglais see bang que jer wee sure voos ait Frongsay.” “You speak the French so much good, you ¢ English, mister.” And both were right! They had sat and complimented each other up- reat advantage they had de- from coming to an understanding about the Hinterland —London Punch. What “Kalsomines” Are. ~ “Kalsomines” are cheap temporary preparations manufactured from chalks, clays, whiting, etc, and are stuck on the wall with decaying ani- mal glue. They bear no comparison with Alabastine, which is a cement that goes through a process of setting, and hardens with age. Consumers, in buying Alabastine, should see that the goods are in packages and properly labeled. Nothing else is “just as good” as Alabastine. The claims of new imitations are absurd on their face. They cannot offer the test of time for durability. A Wonderfal New Violet. r Emilio Borgiotti, an enthusi- of flowe near Pistoja, succeeded in producing a new species of violet six centimeters in diameter and having from seventy to woe hundred petals. He has presented some of his precious violets to Queen ita and to the Duchess of Aos- s weli_as to many women of. the aristoc but in spite of the entreat- ies of many florists, he still refuses to place them on the market or to reveal he cress by which he has obtained this marvelously beautiful flow PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors John T. ar, Rapid City, 8S. D., tire for whee red C. Genge, Minne- . Minn., combined sofa bed; Au- . Heine, Wahpeton, N. D., band or and feeder; Walter C, Cunning- Minn., tobacco pipe n;) Haldor K. Solberg, n., medal of similar arti- cle (design;) Charles F. Whaley, St. Paul, Minn., bicycle stirrup upper (de- Lothrop & Johnson, Patent At- 10 Pioneer Press Bldg., St.Paul. Another Resemblance. sgusting creature!” exclaimed the pink-and-white young woman, who met him the door. “You are as re- cabbage worm!” bbage worm, into the in- deal I'm Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c. Sample sent FREB, Address Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. ¥. Charges Accordingly. ‘Tommy Jones—Don’'t yer hate to take Bobby Brown—I makes by it. The :stier it is the more pennies I get for > it—Ohio State Journal. Not Wholly Disinterested. “How carefully your wife does watch your health.” ary she knows that if I get up a \ big doctor's bill she won't get a sum- duc r trip.”—Chicago Record. Never Labored. First Tramp—They y pore old Bill is dyin’. "Is breathin’ labored. Second Tramp—Then ’e’s Sone Bill could never live if any part of” im was laborin’.—Judy. Beware of Fraud. Every success breeds imitators and counter- feiters. Look out for substitutes when you ask for Cascarets Candy Cathartic. all druggists. 10c, 2c, 50c. : If you go one mile on the wrong road you are two miles further from your destination. The coat ofttimes proclaims the man’s indebtedness to his tailor, Baseball should be played on the square as well as on the diamond. DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How Successful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm—A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock and Poultry. Will Poultry Thrive on Grain Alone? F. H. Hall, giving results of experi- ments in feeding poultry at the New York Agricultural College, says: Cheap Protein—In feeding poul- try, as in feeding other animals and all plants, the nitrogenous compounds are the most expen- Sive. We can economize in fer- tilizer-buying by selecting the brand or chemical whose composition proves it best and cheapest; in cattle-feeding the shifting prices of the various by- Products allow us to discriminate to our advantage in the purchase of pro- tein; and a still wider difference sep- arates the cost of nitrogenous mate- rials in the many poultry foods. Fow!s and ducks naturally eat considerable animal matter as well as vegetable food. Can we economize here? Is the cheap protein of peameal, oatmeal, wheat bran or linseed meal as efficient as that in the more expensive animal meal, dried blood or fresh bone; or must we include some form of animal nitrogen in our rations to replace the grasshoppers and earthworms of nat- ural poultry life? Animal Nitrogen Best.—‘Experi- ments made at the station with chicks, pullets, cockerels and duck- lings seem to indicate conclusive- ly that part of the protein must be drawn from animal sources if we are to get the best results; and, with duck- lings in particular, some form of ani- mal food in addition to skim-milk or curd, seems essential for the mainte- nance of health and vigor. Tests with Chicks.—Two sets of trials were made with chicks. One lot in the first trial was carried from one- half week of age until twenty-five weeks old upon a grain mixture of corn meal (12), wheat flour (4), ground oats (2), wheat bran (1), wheat mid- dlings (1), peameal (1) and old process linseed meal (1), with wheat, corn, an- imal meal and fresh bone, The corre- sponding lot upon vegetable food re- ceived a grain mixture of pea meal (6), old process linseed meal (4), wheat bran (2), ground oats (2), high grade gluten meal (2), wheat middlings (1) and cornmeal (1), with wheat, corn and skim-milk or curd. These two rations were practically equivalent, so far as amounts of protein are con- cerned, although the “animal meal” feed had a little wider nutritive ratio than the grain feed. The distinctive difference was that in the first ration about two-fifths of the protein came from animal sources, while in the other ration all came from grain ex- cept a little from skim-milk. In the second trial the chicks were started at six weeks and carried for fourteen weeks, the contrasted rations being as in the first trial. Results with Chicks—In each trial more food was eaten by the lot receiv- ing animal protein, the gain in weight was more rapid and maturity was reached earlier, less food was required for each pound of gain, and the cost of gain was less. During the first twelve weeks of the first trial the chicks on animal meal gained 56 per cent more than those on the vegetable diet, although they ate only 36 per cent more; they required half a pound less of dry matter to gain one pound, and each pound of gain cost only 4% cents, as compared with 51-5 cents for the grain-fed biras. During tne next eight weeks the cost of gain was 7% cents and 11 1-5 cents, respectively. The animal-meal chicks reached two pounds in weight more than five weeks before the others; they reached three pounds more than eight weeks sooner; and three pullets of the lot began lay- ing four weeks earlier than any among the grain-fed birds. With the second lot of chicks, starting at six weeks of age, the differences were in the same direction, though not quite so strik- ing; thus showing that the great ad- vantage of the animal nitrogen is in promoting quick, healthy growth and early maturity, rather than increasing the tendency to fatten. Dairy Notes. Illinois has at last a law that will give some protection to the makers ~ynd consumers of dairy produce. Un- fortunately the law is so worded that the fines for violation of all trespassing can not be collected prior to July 1, 1900.. Thus the manufacturers are to have more than a year to work off their manufactured stuff on the pub- lic. However, we will not grumble very much if we can have the law en- forced, according to its letter. Illinois is charged with being the state in which the greatest number of adulter- ated articles are manufactured, and perhaps she will be able to get rid of this kind of fame. There should now be no delay in appointing commission- ers that will impartially enforce the law. se A paper of Pecatonica, Illinois, re- parts the breaking of the shaft to a cream separator and a general shake- up in consequence. One man was knocked senseless by being struck by a part of the casing to the separator yowl. The revolution of the bowl was at the speed of 6,000 times per min- ute, and the centrifugal force was con- sequently great. The broken pieces flew like bullets and it is regarded as marvelous that some one was not kill- ed. This is a kind of acvident not at all peculiar to separator machinery. All kinds of machines that require fast revolution are subject to it. Even grindstones in our large factories and | navy yards have been known to fly to pieces and do great damage to prop- .| when mated with good hens. erty and persons. For this reason machines like the Babcock tester are encased in metal, and should not be operated except when the metal cover is closed. ete Minnesota has taken up the question of renovated butter and has passed a law that prevents the placing of reno- vated and process butter on the mar- ket, except under proper restrictions. The restrictions are mostly in the line of having these goods sold for what they are. There are said to be three large factories of these goods in Min- nesota and a number of small cop cerns. A Dirty Dairy. When is a dairy clean? The safest answer to this question lies in describ- ing when a dairy is dirty, and dan- gerously dirty, too, says the New York Farmer. When woodwork in the dairy gives off a smutty, musty, fusty, acid, rank, and spoiled buttery smell, it is dirty. When tin vessels—such as pails, cans, dippers, cups and skimmers— after being “thoroughly washed,” give off a sourish smell, or show dark lines of matter in the folds and seams of the tin, they are dirty, and the dirt of just such a sort and in just such places as to encourage the bacteria in the air to drop down upon it, to crawl into it, to feed upon it and to multiply in it until they swarm in it and are ready to launch themselves into the milk put into those vessels. When the win- dows, walls, floors and fixtures in the dairy are unpleasant to the smell when the room is warmed up, there is dirt present—enough dirt to have an effect upon the flavor and other qualities of the milk and of the butter made from it. When a vessel, from which milk is removed, shows a layer of black sediment in the bottom, smelling with unpleasant suggestiveness of the barn- yard, there is dirt, plain, straight, un- mistakable dirt there—dirt that is un- pleasant to think of as a componert part of milk that is to be used by humans as food. No dairy showing these things in any degree can really be called “clean,” or decently clean, or healthfully clean. Hardly any other occupation on earth makes such de- mands for cleanliness and offers such difficulties in the work of securing cleanliness, as the milk and butter and cheese industry. 2S Parentage in Poultry Breeding. Long experience has ascertained thal the male bird has most influence upon the color of the progeny, and also upon the comb, and what may be called the “fancy points” of any breed generally; whilst the form, size and useful qual- ities are principally derived from the hen, says Wright’s Practical Poultry Keeper. Now it cannot be denied that Tit is-desirable to secure absolutely per- feet birds in all respects of both sexes if possible; but, alas, every amateuw) knows too well the scarcity of such and the above fact. therefore becomes of great importance in selecting ¢ breeding pen. For instance, a cock may have been hatched late in the year, and therefore be decidedly unde! the proper standard in point of size and inferior for a show pen; but if his color, plumage, comb, and other points —whatever they may be—are perfect and he be active and lively, he may make a first-class bird for breeding A hen again, if of large size and good shape, is not to be hastily condemned for a faulty feather or two, or even for a defective comb, if not too glaringls apparent—though the last fault is a serious one in either sex; but a very bad colored or faulty combed cock, however excellent in point of size, o1 a very small or ill-shaped hen, how- ever exquisite in regard to color, wil invariably produce chickens of very in- different -order. It is also to be ob- served, with regard to the crossing o! a breed that the cockerels in the progeny will more or less resemble the father, whilst the pullets follow the mother. A knowledge of this fact will save much time in “breeding back” te the original strain, and much disap- pointment in the effect of the cross. Too Much Oleo.—Recently the writer made a shipment of butter to Tampa. Fla., to a reliable commission mer- chant. While the butter netted a fair price, the merchant wrote as follows: “There is so much oleo here, and it is so low, that it’s a hard matter to sell good butter.” What is true of Tampa is true of almost every large town in the South. There are no effective laws to keep the stuff out of our markets, or to compel the sellers to dispose of it under its true name. Thus it is that the Southern dairyman is operating all the time under disadvantages, com- peting in price with a counterfeit ar- ticle. Something surely must be done to protect the legitimate dairy inter- ests of this country from the injury done by the sale of oleomargarife un- der,the name and in the semblance of genuine butter.—Southern Dairyman. For Better Curing Rooms.—A curing room properly constructed, not sub- ject to sudden changes, with facilities for heating so that a uniform tempéra- ture is maintained in every portion of the room and when excessive outdoor heat prevails that. some form of re- frigeration is at hand, is a building not cheaply constructed. Most factory own- ers are unable to meet this demand; buildings are cheaply constructed, com- petition is keen and sharp, two, three or four factories are often found where one would suffice and the whole busi- ness is a job lot usually growing poorer each year. If the actual cost of the three or four plants could be merged into one a well-built institution would result.—Ex. Sheep and Peaches.—A Maryland peach grower useS scarlet clover to fertilize his orchard, and lets sheep have the run of it. He says they will keep the sprouts down around the trees, and also eat the wormy peaches which drop.—Ez. Evolution in Horsebreeding. F. J. Berry says: “Notwithstanding the great depression of 1893 to 1897, while prices ruled so low that it drove farmers and breeders nearly out of the business, within the last year great changes have come and breeding has commenced in earnest, every one be- ginning to feel and realize the neces- sity of breeding and raising the best quality of horses for the market. Car- riage and coach horses are as high as they ever were; also the best grades of heavy draft sell for as much money as they did in high-priced times, with a strong demand and good prices for blocky, smooth horses from 1,100 up. While these great changes have been going on during the last ten years, the horse-breeding industry has been enitirely revolutionized. Since 1893 the great export demand has been intro- duced for ‘the best classes and quality of American horses, and this demand which has been the life of our trade and has been a great outlet for our horse markets, has at the same time fixed a specific type and defined the different classes that are in demand for export horses, and as the Ameri- can demand has so changed through the evolutions of the last ten years, or since the early 90’s, the same classes that are in demand for export are the only kinds that are profitable to raise for American as well as export mar- kets. Thus the great evolution of the last ten years has changed the whole horse-breeding problem, and although a costly object lesson to farmers and breeders of horses, it has not been altogether without its benefits—it has taught us a lesson. While in former times breeding was done promiscu- ously, without proper consideration or forethought of the kinds of horses the market demanded, and in this way all kinds of horses were produced, from the best down to the most worthless, the small and ordinary horses com- prised the larger per cent of the num- bers produced. The American horse breeders have had a severe lesson. It has taught them that every horse should be bred for a certain purpose and of a certain type and of a specific class, with all the size, shape and quality that the market demands. The small horse is a thing of the past. It has proven a failure and an unsatis- factory investment. The grade has been raised every year during the last few .years, and each successive year requires a larger horse and one of bet- ter quality to meet the demands of the market, and he must be a horse of his sown class and be an up-to-date market horse. ® ot — Too Well-Dipped Fowls. The following appears in Farm Poultry: .A correspondent writes: “My old and young fowls became very lousy, and I ordered them wiped with the Kerosene and naphthaline solution. It was done too thoroughly and careless- ly. Result—six breeders, two cocks, twenty-seven pullets and cockerels all dead next day. The remaining one hundred and forty were blistered, and some unable to walk for a week; but not a louse can be fou Combs of flock shriveled up. Survivors are com- ing out all right.” This is the first case that has come to our notice where birds were given a bath in the naphthaline and kero- sere solution. It was the lamentable result of carelessness and ignorance. An experience like the above will per- haps teach the owner not to trust an- other job of lice killing to the hired man, until he has made sure that the man has sufficient intelligence to use the lice liquid according to directions. Plain kerosene would have produced a like result, used in such a manner, One experience of this sort, though costly, is liable to leave a lasting impression. We think this member will personally oversee the lice killing business next time. The Profitable Feeder.—The charac- teristics that make the profitable feed- er are naturally more difficult to detect in animals in stock condition than when fattened, but notwithstanding this there are a number of indications that are fairly reliable. Though the young steer may be comparatively thin in flesh and temporarily lacking the thick, even covering of the back and ribs so essential in the finished car- cass, he must nevertheless present thai blocky frame and stoutness of build, accompanied by short, straight legs, wide back and loin, well-sprung ribs, fullness back of shoulders and in flanks, prominent brisket, full neck vein, wide chest and well-rounded bar- rel, together with a good, soft, mellow handling skin and fine, silky hair, giv- ing what is termed the thick, mossy coat, without coarseness, and with it all a good, strong, vigorous head, clear, full eye, and quiet temperament. The importance of an even covering of flesh and good handling quality can hardly be overestimated.—Prof. C. F. Curtis. Too Many Males.—The farmer is in- clined to keep too many males with his free range flock of ‘poultry. There was once a theory that one must use so many males with so many females. This has long been exploded. The average farmer should no longer think that he must proportion his stock to from six to ten hens to one male. There is scarcely a farmer who does not keep from twice to five times as many males every year as is good for his stock or even necessary. What the average farmer wants is fewer and bet- ter males.—Ex. Fattening a Sow.—A two-year-old Jersey Duroc sow at. the Oklahoma Experiment Station made gain of 135 lb. in six weeks, an average of 3.2 Ib. daily. During this time she was fed 708 lb. Kafir meal, making gain of one pound for each 5.24 Ib. fed. In 21 days following she made gain of 62 ib, reaching weight of 550 Ib, Brush the udder and surrounding ans and wipe them with a clean, damp cloth or sponge. i Lid | Were are assailed at every turn by troubles peculic> : symptom. ‘These distressing sensations will keep on coming unless properly treated. " The history of neglect is written in the worn faces and wasted figures of nine- every one of whom may VW OMEN WHG teceive the invaluable ad- vice of Mrs. Pinkham, toherat Lynn, ace | PINKHAM’S AID Miss Luta Evans, of Parkersburg, Iowa, writes of her recovery as follows: «DEAR Mrs. PinkKHAM—I had been a constant sufferer for nearly three years. Had inflammation of the ;womb, headache, ached all over, and at times could hardly stand on my feet. My heart trouble was so bad that some nights up in bed or get up and walk the floor, for it seemed as though I should than once I have been obliged to have the doctor visit me in the night. I was also very nervous and fretful. I was ut- terly discouraged. would write and see if you could do any- thing forme. I followed your advice and now I feel those dreadful troubles I have no more, and I have found Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash a sure cure for leucorrhoea, I am very thankful for your good advice to their sex. Every mysterious ache or pain is a tenths of our women, NEED MRS. to her at Lynn, Mass. leucorrhoea, heart trouble, bearing-down pains, backache, I was compelled to sit smother. More middle of the One day I thought I like a new woman. All and medicine.” YOU CAN’T KEEP IT IN. = A An old proverb says: “He receives ‘ i most favors who knows how to return \ them.” This is the secret of the great ip popularity of Deering grain and grass cutting machinery. Theconfidence placedin \ , them by the farmers of the world is 1 . M nivwlaved: of i¢ world is never \ Deering Binders, Reapers, Mowers, Rakes and Gorn Harvesters return the favor of popularity by oats, reliable, sat le 7 work in the harvest. Deering made the first s Scial 4 application of ball and roller bearings to. h. 7 machinery, and the decided advantage in lights <... held by Deering machines today ‘over all other conclusively that there is one right way of doing there are several wrouy ways The Deering way is the common sense wav. 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