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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
Poultry Hint*.
The comb is a good indication of a
fowl’s health. If she is in good
healthy condition her comb will be a
bright red; if otherwise her comb will
be of a pale color. Give variety of food,
a warm breakfast, meat quite often,with
wheat screenings and the like; cayenne
pepper mixed with the soft food given
them is excellent. Do not feed too
much corn to laying fowls, as it is very
fattening.
Look over your flock of chicks and
pick out the culls, keep only the best
birds for breeding, select your finest
cockerels now and market the rest.
A little wheat should be spared daily
for the growing chicks. Nothing will
bring the pullets to early laying better
than wheat. Feed generously.
Do not forget to feed the chicks
plenty of ground bone, oyster shells and
an occasional feed of meat. Boil the
small potatoes or other vegetables mixed
with bran, adding a dash of red pepper
and salt every few days. Ginger and
sulphur may be fed in soft feed occa¬
sionally.
Milk in some form is a necessity for
little chicks. Keep the poultry house
and every place about it thoroughly
clean. Above all things be kind to your
fowls. Do not allow them to bo afraid
of you. Cultivate tlieir acquaintance.
If your chicks five and six months old
are drooping they and dying probably from no suffering appar¬
ent cause, are
fipni between distemper, the which and generally occurs
twentieth twenty-sixth
week of life in the different breeds. Put
bromide of potassium in the drinking
water in the proportion of two grains
per head, adjusting the quantity of
water so that all will be drunk in one
day. Do this every alternate three days
until twelve days have elapsed and you
will probably find the trouble has disap¬
peared .—Poultry Monthly.
Pickled and Smoked ItlcatN,
As a rule, we keep our meats too long
in the brine, and too long in the smoke¬
house. This is true especially of ham
and side-bacon for family use. When
meats are intended to keep all summer,
they must, of course, be penetrated by
salt, and "well smoked; but for winter
and early spring use, it is far better to
salt lightly jr. and smoke very little. Tho
English farmers have the art of doing
this a great deal better than we. In
many cases the bacon is only two days
in the pickle, then dried for several
days, and finally smoked twenty-tour to
thirty-six hours—enough to brown the
surface well. Such bacon is adapted to
frying, not to boiling. For boiling,
longer salting is necessary, and as a rule
dry salted hams are however, preferred. and They it are
easily over-salted, do re¬
quires an experienced hand to the
work well. The famous Irish bacon is
cured by rubbing in salt, or laying smoked it a
short time in pickle, and not
at all, but simply dried in
cool weather in a dry atmosphere.
Sometimes it is smoked for a few hours,
just to give it a fine color. When
cooked, it is sliced thin and fried, and
is crisp and delicious beyond anything
we commonly get. Great quantities of
choice hams are shipped from this coun¬
try to Great Britain, and as we learn, are
thus handled. They are shipped in just
as weak brine as experience has shown
will keep them from tainting on the voy¬
age. On arrival, the casks are opened,
and the hams thrown to soak in a great
vat. When the salt is sufficiently drawn
from the surface, they are taken out and
beaten up into their original form, then
the trimmers take off a shaving all
around on tho fleshside; they are exposed
a day in the smoke-house, just to give
them a goldeu russet tint, and then they
are exposed for sale. We will warrant
that slices of such hams, well broiled, or
even fried, will in every quality, beat
the native American home-cured article,
out and out .—American Agriculturist.
Sunlight in Barns.
Farmers, when building barns, do not
fight give enough attention to the matter of
\ horse a cow anv domestic ani
mal, needs light as much as men and
women do. If oue would know some
thing about the effect of light on vege
table life, let him undertake to grow
something in the dark. If it grow at all,
it will be thin and white. Remove it
into sunshine ui r>-i vp coverings and
let light fall upon 1 ami in . short time
the form and color will oL n^a. Light
and m." darkness »?■ nt u\ c uiuicn ^ditioHs,
s „i«:
an # d • vegetable v.k. «rs«ut
therewith. If an animal is kept con¬
tinuously in darkness, it loses health and
its sight soon becomes defective. The
same thing, dark on smaller scale, happens in
case of stables.
We have the report of an experiment
made with a calf some years ago as
follows:
We had two deep red calves of the
same nge (sixty days;, one weighing 180
pounds and the other 182 pounds. The
letter we placed in a dark room, with a
trough that could be filled by a spout
through a partition. The other was
confined in the same amount ol
space, but in full light, and
fed exactly alike for the next
three months. The object was to test
the effect of light upon such a growing
animal. At the end of the time, the one
in the light weighed 480 pounds, and the
one in the dark weighed oG0 pounds;
and its color had faded to a very pale,
dirty red. Its eyes were so much affected
when admitted to the light, that it kept
them closed most of the time, for the
first week or two. The two calves were
kept on together, but the one from the
dark room never fully recovered from
the three months of darkness. Jt never
recovered its bright red color, al¬
though the color improved. during Any this one
who noted these two calves,
experiment,-would never after doubt the
impolicy of a ought dark stable. lighted, not
Every barn to be
so as to produce a glare in the stalls, but
sufficient to obtain a natural and com¬
fortable condition of the animals as to
sight. Every stall ought to have one
small window, and that ought to be so
arranged shining as to directly prevent the the sun’s animal’s rays
from in
eyes. This can easily be done by pro¬
tecting shades or blinds. The feed rooms
and halls, all ought to be lighted. tonic Sun¬ and
light is healthy. It is a good
health restorer .—Kansas Farmer.
Household Hints*
To clean furniture that is not varnished
rub with a cloth wet with kerosene.
To brighten or clean silver or nickel
plated ware, rub with a woolen cloth
and flour.
If you wish to pour boiling hot liquid
into a glass jar or tumbler, it can be
safely accomplished by first placing a
spoon in the jar.
Carpets should be thoroughly beat on
the wrong side first, and then on the
right side, after which spots may be re¬
moved by the use of ox-gall or ammonia
and water.
It is surprising how much a little ten
cent bottle of glue helps to keep things
from growing shabby. A corner falls
out of your book-case or bureau—it is
lost or mislaid--and the piece of furni¬
ture looks poor indeed with that gleam
of pine against the black walnut. But
if you have one day in the week for
mending, all is kept tidy with little loss
of time and without expense.
Children Hired Out at Auction.
They do queer things in Switzerland,
considering that the Swiss eulogize their
country as “the land of liberty.” The
children of poor people are regularly
hired out by auction in most of the can
tons. There was a most painful scene
recently in the market place of Biel, a
town near Berne, where, in spite of the
heartronding entreaties of a widowed
mother, her four young children, rang
ing from two to ten, were “placed” out
for a year to the highest bidder by the
public crier; the family being thus
broken up and separated for fear Test tho
woman should be compelled to seek for
assistance from the town. I should
doubt whether there is any other coun
try in Europe where such an infamous
system exists at the present time.— Lon
don Truth.
Art of Opening Letters.
The art of opening letters addressed to
other people aud refastening them so
that no one will know is a profession dark in
Spain. In the postoffice they have a
chamber where experts inquire into
I things, aud these have long since given
j up the use of steam for opening gummed
communications. Even red-hot platinmS
wire for letters sealed with wax is out pf
date. The favorite means is sai o >e
with a kmfe sharper than a ra/.or, wh.eh
is run along the bottom of the envelope
The letter having been “V
replaced after the ouic.ais Oi , t ii^
j then
j pestottice have learned what is going on
i & fiae hue of Ucjuid cement slightest is ara^n
atoxig the opening, apVed the pressure
conceivable is aud lol the let
wr is w?.-de as ;
HUMOU OF THE DAY.
High-toned—a fife.
Jokes on the sealskin sacque are said
to be fur-fetched.
Love’s warning cry: “Don’t, Jack;
you hurt my vaccination.
“Camels sometimes live to the age of
100 years.” It makes ’em hump to do
it, though .—Newman Independent.
THE UNSUCCESSFUL MERCHANT.
He failed, and no one was surprised,
Because hi never advertised.
—Boston Courier.
A minister, having some of his old
sermons, was asked what he had in bi3
package. “Dried tongue,” was the
reply.
A magazine writer affirms that there
is no such thing as absolute silence. If
the man is married he is right about it.
— Chicago Ledger.
A celebrated manufacturer of mustard
said that he made his money, not out
of the mustard eaten, but out of the
mustard left on the plate.
No robins in the cedar pipe, ripe,
But every turkey’s getting jig.
And while the leaflets dance a
We dream about the crackling pig.
The opinions now held by physicians chil¬
that “raw cow’s milk is better for
dren than boiled” is very gratifying, milk than as
a raw cow gives much more a
boiled one.
It is said that if insanity is latent in a
persons,, it will almost always develop
itself at sea. Nearly everything in a
person usually develops Itself at sea.—
Norristown Herald.
“You must take this vessel for a love
affair,” said the captain to a spoony
couple who were monopolizing the only
chair on the quarter-deck. “This is no
court-ship .”—Carl Pretzel.
A queen bee lays from 2,000 to 3,000
eggs in ninety-four hours. It is not
necessary to ask “How doth the little
busy bee?” She doeth well, and should
be a shining example to the lazy hen that
can only be induced to lay one egg in
twenty-four hours, and then only when
eggs are cheap.— Picayune.
A Dakota farmer says that he has
raised seventeen bushels of wheat in
turee years from one grain of seed. This
information will be very valuable to t
those anticipating moving into $900 Dakota.
Instead of investing $800 or ii^ seed
,wheat. all a man needs is to buy, say, a
dozen grains and then wait three or four
years for them to multiply.. This makes
farming comparatively easy work .—New
York Graphic.
The Big Flowers or California.
One of the moat surprising things that
one sees in California, writes a corre¬
spondent of the Detrott Free Press , is
the extraordinary height to which many
of the roses grow, climbing into the
highest trees, covering the whole side of
a house, and exposing to view one vast
mass of rose buds and roses in full
bloom. The Marshal Niel rose is one of
the most beautiful flowers to be seen in
California, surpassing other kinds in
the luxuriance of its growth. do It is
claimed that the California roses not
possess so fine a perfume as those in the
East. This may be so, but for size and
beauty of color, and luxuriance of
growth, they probably compensate for
an} lack of fragrance, geraniums be found
Helitropes and can
in bushes almost as large as lilac trees,
and calla lilies can in some dooryards
be counted by the hundreds; but from
j their very numbers they seem to give us
an impression of coarseness. The vari
j ous cactus plants of California are worthy
of closest attention and examination,
In many localities hundreds of acres are
covered with them. Their peciffiarshapes others
and sizes, some tall and slender,
short and thick, with bright flowers give nes
tied among the jagged landscape. spines, a
striking appearance to the In
some places in Southern California, Ari¬
zona »nd New Mexico the cacti form an
almost impassible barrier.
j Maryland, ----—- My Maryland.
Maryland legislators, who are always
alive to the public interests, have en
dorsed the new because discovery, Red tetar
Cough Cure, it contains neither
morphia nor only opium, and always cures,
The price is 25 cents,
California . is bragging . of ... ratsing Bart
fett pears which weigh one and one half
pounds each, at an altitude of 4,500 feet
above the sea level,but these monstrous
pears have no more flavor thon a turnip,
; ~
Dr. B. W. ^ Richardson # finds ^ that the
i «t long resists_ as the dog suffocation on the average, three times and as m
one instance mue times as long,
Politics Too ittuch J?or Hiu
summoned A lady on a Fifth doctor: Avenue, New York,’ quickly J
“Oh, doctor, my husband is nearly dead
He attended a caucus last night He made
four speeches and promised to be with his
feliow citizens again to-day. But oh, doctor,
he looks nearly dead.”
“Has he been in politics long?”
“No, only last year. He worked hard for
-'James McCaulay’s election.”
“He will get well, madam! He has a
stomach for any disease, if he worked for
him!”
Political life, of short or long duration, is
very exhausting, as 13 evident from the great
mortality which prevails among public men.
Ex. L. b. Senator B. K. Bruce, who has been
long “The m public life, says:
other day, when stepping into a car
eyed at a crossing, I found Dr. -within, who
me up and down in a surprised way,
remarking: ‘Why,
“ “ ‘Well, I Senator, feel how well you look!’
The doctor uttered pretty well,’ I answered.”
when the Senator an incredulous reply
to an-inquiry, frankly told him, in an¬
swer that it was Warner’s safe
cure which accomplished for him what the
profession his friends had failed to do. Senator Bruce
says are very much astonished at
this revelation of power .—The Globe.
■^Overwhelmingly Defeated.
Cast iron, if heated. for several days to
a temperature of from 900 degrees to
1,000 softens, degrees Centigrade neither melts
nor but is converted into malle¬
able iron, and its surface is covered with
a grayish efflorescence, Its fracture
sometimes presents a uniform black, like
that of a lead pencil, and is sometimes
riddled with large black points which
are regularly distributed in the metallic
paste.
A Bonanza Mine
of health is to be found in Dr. R. V. Pierce’s
“Favorite Prescription,” to the merits of which
as a remedy for female weakness and kindred
affections thousands testify.
The crown prince of Germany has just cele¬
brated his fifty-fourth birthday in Potsdam.
Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffener is the only in¬
vention that will make old boots straight as
new.
A “Suicide” club is the latest oddity in sin¬
ful London.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson ’s Eye Water. Druggists s ell it. 25c.
Judic’s husband was a Hebrew, but the ac¬
tress herself belongs to the Catholic church.
Ron dyspepsia, indigestion, depression forms, oi
spirits, general debility in their various
ated Elixir of Calisaya,” made by Caswell,Haz¬ Druggists,
ard & Co., New York,and sold by all
is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from fever Ui- utlier nick Iieas it. h(W3 no equal.
The crop of northerners in Florida this win¬
ter is placed at 200,000 by the hot el keepers.
* * * * Decline of man or woman, prema¬
turely induced by excesses or bad practices,
speedily and radically Consultation cured. Book free. (illustrated) World’s
10 cents in stamps. Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Dispensary Medical
Never be discouraged by trifles. When your
credit runs out at one store, try another.
Don’t say there is no help for Catarrh, Hay
Fever and Cold in Head, since thousands tes¬
tify that Ely’s Cream Balm has entirely cured
them. It supercedes the dangerous use of
liquids and snuffs. It is easily apdlied with the
finger and gives relief at once. Price 50 cts. at
druggists. Owego, 00 cents N. by Y. mail. Send for circular.
Ely I Bros., had catarrh in head and nostrils for
have in
ten years so bad that there was great sores I
my nose, and one place was eaten through. the
got Ely’s Cream Balm. Two bottles did
work; but am still using it. My nose and head
is well. I feel like another man.—Chas. S.
McMillen, Sibley, Jackson Co., Mo.
Ely Bros., I have been afflicted with catarrh.
I purchased a bottle of your Cream Balm. It
has effected a complete cure.—H. C. Abbot,
97 Grant Ave., Allegheny City, Pa.
Mr. Cleveland at church always puts a $1
greenback in the contribution box.
A Lucky Man.
“A lucky man is rarer than a white crow,”
says Juvenal, and we thousands think he knew. How¬
ever, we have heard of their of lucky ones
and we propose to let secret out. They
were people liyer, broken down in health, suffering
with blood and skin diseases, Scrofula,
dropsy, and consumption, and were lucky
enough to hear of and wise enough to use Dr.
Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery;” the sov
ereign blood purifier, tonic and alterative c
the age.
No man is born into the world whose work is
not born with him.
Relief is immediate, and a cure sure. Piso’s
Remedy for Catarrh. 50 cents.
Question in the for daytime, debaters—” have Can a man. while
asleep the nightmare?” ,
Nothing Like it.
No medicine has ever been known so effectual in
the cure of all those diseases arising from an impure
condition of the blood as Scovill’s Sarsaparilla, or
Blood and Liver Syrup, for the cure of Scrofula,
White Swelh>its, Rheumatism, Pimples, Blotches,
Eruptions, venereal Sores aud Diseases, Consutnp
turn, Groitre, Boils, Cancers, and ail kindre i dis¬
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piexion can be obtained than by using sctWiLL’3
BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, which eleauseS the
blood and gives beauty to the skin.
Cheerfulness lias been called the bright and
sunny weather of the heart.
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