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IF ¥00 WILL PUT •: tfw rWnl of Mexican MustangLin-
v, , (■].'iijo p-owrip v ,. ...,. . !? I ‘“ 1!; to a glass half full of water and
g-igleiota tuioat olten it will quickly cure a Bore Throat.
Keep this
fact always fresh in your memory:—
For Cuts, Mashes and all Open Sores, you
need only to apply
ff|exican frustang ^jnimenl
a few times and the soreness and inflammation will
' be conquered and the wounded flesh healed.
To get the best results you should saturate a piece
of soft cloth with the liniment and bind it upon the
wound as you would a poultice.
25c., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
5/CEP ft M E V ST ft JJ your poultry and at the very first sign of
.ui.l£r Hi'S ESC 1« Roup, Sealy Legs, Bumblefoot or other
rdixascs among your fowls use Mexican. Mustang' Liniment.
HANDLING STRAW.
How to Make a Liglit Barrow For
Moving Small (iunittif ies.
When straw is stacked outside the
barn and some of it is wanted in the
stable for feeding or bedding pur
poses, the usual plan is to carry in a
little at a time on a fork or in a rope
or strap sling. This in the use of a
fork is anything but a speedy opera
tion, next to impossible on a windy
day and with a sling a very unpleas
ant job in cold weather, as an Ohio
Fanner contributor remarks. lie there
fore suggests and sketches au easily
and cheaply made contrivance to facil
itate moving the straw, which may
also be useful for transporting small
quantities of hay from pinup to place.
Procure first some light laths, say
three-fourths by two inches, and make
an almost square frame, using eleven
of the lath pieces as if making a box
prairie lands of tne central west, unu
if it should come into general use the
probabilities are that the bulk of the
potatoes could be grown on these
smooth lands on a large scale at a
figure which could not possibly be met
by the small grower in the east, who
must depend largely on hand labor.
STKAW AND HAY BAKBOW.
with one corner left out. On the in
side of this frame at the desired height
nail two heavier and longer pieces
for handles. A couple of 3 by 1 inch
boards, proper length and with one
end of each narrowed down to fit the
hands, will answer for the handle
pieces. On the bottom of the framd
nail lath or boards, letting the two
nearest to the center project about six
inches in front. These two should be
a little heavier than the others to pre
vent springing. Between the project
ing ends place a small wooden wheel
six or eight inches in diameter. This
wheel maj be a circular piece cut from
a one or one and one-half inch board
and have a light iron band fitted on to
keep it from splitting or be a wheel
from an old barrow or something simi
lar. A light wire spoke wheel from a
toy wagon is excellent for the purpose.
The axle on which the wheel revolves
is attached to the under side of the
projecting pieces of the frame by a sta
ple driven over it into each piece. The
two rear upright pieces of the frame
ox to ink down level with the lower rim
of the wheel to act as feet. I'ut braces
across the front (as indicated by dotted
lines) to strengthen the frame and hold
.in the straw. Other light strips may
be tacked on the sides of the frame to
so.ve the same purpose.
If the contrivance is made of the
right material, it will combine strength
with lightness and be very durable. If
made only 2)4 by 3 by 4 feet, it will
hold a considerable quantity of straw
and be found a. time and labor saver.
Hollyhock For the Hen*.
Somebody says bens are as fond of
hollyhock leaves as cats are of catnip.
In fact, it is found that cats like the
hollyhock and will eat it as the fowls
do. A writer in one of our exchanges
urges the planting of hollyhocks for
chicken food and gives directions for
their cultivation. For a hedge row
there are few if any flowots more at
tractive or more suitable, but when
used to feed the poultry the flowers, it
seems, must be saerfficed. We would
suggest that they be p anted in quanti
ties sufficient both fa- ornament and
for hen food.
“I have been using hollyhock for
poultry green fodder,” says a poul
try man, “for 20 years. I learned the
trick from a Hollander. I saw him
feeding armfuls of the leaves to his
f ms. Ever since that I have sowed
hollyhocks regularly. The trouble is
very little. The plant is a biennial—
that is to say, it requires two years to
come to blossom. In the first year it
merely develops the root and lots of
leaves of large size on soft stems from
one to three feet high. These leaves
are tender, and the hens relish them.”
-Farm, Field and Fireside.
Something to Brace Up On.
It was along about noon when a
well dressed man lined up against the
bar. He had the air and looked the
part of a high liver, hut there was ev
ery sign of a bad night. He stretched
himself, rubbed his head and said to
the bartender:
“I want something to brace up on.”
“All right, sir. “What’ll it be?”
“Get the large lemonade glass and
break five eggs in it.”
Chapman, the bartender, looked at
him suspiciously and hesitated.
“That’s what I want,” he ordered.
Chapman broke five raw eggs in the
glass and waited for further orders.
“Now a pint of champagne.” -
Chapman opened the bottle, and the
customer poured it on top of the eggs
and, taking a spoon, stirred the mix
ture thoroughly and then drank it.
Then he paid his bill and walked out.—
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
THRASHING THE POTATOES
A Harvester Bnilt on a Sew Princi
ple—Good on Smootii, Fine Lands.
For a lGiig time those who produce
large quantities of potatoes have felt
the need of a machine that would do
away with the hard and slow method
of hand digging and picking. An im
plement which Is used to some extent
AN ENGLISH POTATO HARVESTEB.
In England and is said to work satis
factorily is illustrated by The Rural
New Yorker, which says:
This machine digs, cleans, sorts and
delivers the potatoes into baskets. The
separator part works on the same prin
ciple as the ordinary grain thrasher, so
that those who use it may properly
speak of thrashing their potato crop.
There is apparently nothing to pre
vent small stones or hard lumps of dirt
from getting in with the tubers, and
the natural conclusion is that the ma
chine is intended only for use on soil
that is free from stones and not wet
or lumpy.
It ought to work to perfection on the
Prunes ns Medicine.
That the fruit possesses very consid
erable virtue in this respect is con
ceded by most eminent authorities,
for tins reason as well as on ac
count of their food value they are iu-
cluded among the foods suitable for in
valids, children and those whose di
gestive powers are rather inactive.
Their influence is mild, which fact
makes them desirable for the not over
robust.
A dish of well cooked rice and
prunes, made dainty and attractive for
serving, is a dish to serve for either a
breakfast, luncheon or a dessert, espe
cially for the child or invalid, and
should be added especially to our list
of hot weather dishes, frequently re
placing meat and potatoes and heavy,
unseasonable desserts.
A Man of Experience.
“You are quite sure. Uncle Bushrod,”
«be queried, “that Judy has no idea
there are only books In tbose two
boxes you took this morning oxer to
the courthouse in the cart?
“Miss Ma’y,” answered the old chap,
with dignity, “I done had three wives,
an’ Judy’s de las’, I reckon. An’ I
jes- tell you dis. honey, I don’ trus’ no
colored ’ooman’s tongue.”—Mrs. Burtcu
Harrison In Lippincotfs.
Bodily Proportions.
The proportions of the human, fig
ure. says an anatomist, are six times
the length of the right foot The face,
from the highest point of the forehead,
where the hair begins, to the end of the
chin, is one-tenth of the whole stature.
The hand, from the wrist to the end
of the middle finger, is also one-tenth
of the total height From the crown
to the nape of the neck is one-twelfth
of the stature.
The Original Pair.
Upon one point the disputants are
agreed: Man descended from a pair of
ancestors. Who they were is not so ape-
pareDt-Cfllcago Tribune.
WIDEAWAKE FARMING.
INFERTILITY OF EGGS.
MISS CARRIE SULLIVAN.
Keep the Plows Going Late—Work
the Corn Before It Is Up.
Since the severe drought of this year
in Texas and other localities I have
made it a point to ask practical farmers
how they manage their crops during
such trying seasons. At Marietta, 1. T.,
I met au enterprising farmer who once
lived in Texas. He said that he was
farming in Texas on an upland farm
and was there during a drought as
severe as the present. He had a field of
cotton which he kept on plowing and
plowing until his patience was almost
exhausted. He was plowing about the
middle of this field one day when a
neighbor came by and asked him why
he kept on at the work; that lie was
wasting his time. Being of the same
opinion, he took out his team and went
home. The drought continued, and he
says in about two weeks there was a
striking difference in his cotton. Up to
where ho had left off plowing the cot
ton was green and growing right along
and full of blooms and bolls. The other
Tboaglifs on a Subject That Bothers
Abont Every Poultryman.
The hatching season is a season
complaints. This year has been a bad
one, and so was last year, the year be
fore and years and years before that.
Expectation are not realized, disap
pointments occur, and this state of
facts will probably continue so long as
there are buyers and sellers of eggs.
Many buyers do not know whether
the eggs which fail to hatch are fertile
or not. They break the eggs, and if
there is not a chicken in some stage of
development in each egg they believe
the egg has never been fertilized. Ev
ery rotten egg is counted as an infertile
c-gg, whereas the fact that it is rotten
is pretty sure proof that the egg has
been fertilized and the germ has died.
Eggs subjected to the heat necessary
for incubation will, unless they have
been fertilized, at the end of the three
weeks he clear and sweet, though the
yolk may lose some of its consistency
and have a tendency to run. Rotten
- IiKALSi: IK-
o-'lyWiLUKESY, sjo FLOWERS,»1
half was blooming clear up to the top therefore are alwajs to be reekon-
and shedding, and the drought was ! as ^ ert ^ e e 53 s -
telling on it fast. This convinced him
that in dry years one should keep the
plows going until late in the season.
In Gainesville, Tex., 1 was speaking
of this to a farmer, and he agreed
with my Marietta friend exactly and
told me that his corn was thrifty and
green to the bottom blade, while many
fields of corn around Gainesville were
dry enough to burn. He said that early
in the fall he*thoroughIy broke his corn
ground and broke it deep. In the spring
lie went over the ground with a disk,
which left it in fine shape for planting.
He then laid off his rows, making a
deep furrow, and planted.
Just before the corn came up he went
over the ground with a harrow, which
destroyed any vegetation and left the
ground nearly level. It was virtually
working the corn before it came up.
The first time he plowed this corn he
plowed it deep, and each succeeding
time he would plow shallower, and
such years as this he plowed often and
until late, often giving the last plow
ing when the corn was in the roasting
ear stage. He also advises thinning out
corn to one stalk in a hill and be sure
there are uo missing hills and the rows
three and a half feet apart.
He says it is safe, to plan every year
as if we expected a drought. I find
many farmers in line with tiie two
mentioned. This is a year to make
farmers read and think.
SEED CORN.
Batts. Middles or Tips—A Pointer For
Corn Growers.
According to the Ohio experiments,
there is no'practical difference in the
yield from either butts, middles or tips
of ears of corn and no difference in the
number of barren stalks.
A contributor to Wallace’s Farmer
says: “Of course not. Why should
there be? But if they had mixed butts,
tips and middles together and planted
them they would have had a better
yield. Their experimeut shows nothing
more than that butts, tips and middles
when planted separately are each one
as good as the others. This I have al
ways claimed. However, to increase
the yield and have the ears fill out at
eac-li end the corn of the entire ear
should be planted. The grains from the
butt being a little later and tbose from
the tips a little earlier, the period of
pollenization is thereby prolonged, and
better results are thus obtained.”
This is valuable information to every
corn grower. The longer the period of
pollenization the more perfect are the
results. The 'tip kernels give the earlier
and the butt the later, and the why is
made manifest of a larger yield by
planting the kernels from the whole
ear mixed together. This fact seems
established, and once lodged in the
mind of the corn grower he will no
longer feed the tips and butts of his
seed corn.—Southern Ruralist.
Thinks Florida Is All Right.
The business par excellence for Flori
da today is stock raising, and in no oth
er portion of our broad country can it
be carried on so successfully or so
cheaply as here.
We can raise some forage crop twelve
months in the year, and our new velvet
bean and cassava fed together make a
balanced ration that, fed to the longest
horned, wild eyed, slabsided steer that
ever saw the range, will in seventy
days make as toothsome a sirloin as
Armour sends from Kansas City. This
is a fact, not a theory. The velvet bean
will grow and flourish on land that
won’t sprout a cowpea, and cassava
will yield from five to eight tons per
acre.
There is no state where so easy a liv
ing can be made or where the soil will
respond more cheerfully than this
when gently coaxed, concludes a corre
spondent in Home and Farm.
An Item Against the Boll Weevil.
It is well known, says Professor F.
Malley, that squares which do not
bloom within six weeks of frost very
seldom come to maturity. Such squares,
therefore, serve chiefly as food and
places for egg laying of the weevils.
By turning stock into cotton fields late
in the summer the young squares con
taining weevils will be grazed off. The
stalks and other portions which are
left by cattle may be cut down and
piled up so as to serve as attractive hi
bernating quarters for the weevils.
Such piles of refuse may be burned.
Brief Mention.
Louisiana is so far largely dependent
upon other states for her horse and
mule supply.
The days of scratching are well nigh
numbered. Plowing will be done in
the future, says the Georgia Cultivator.
Stock farming is the bi'anch of agri
culture that pays best in the grain and
grass producing belt of the southwest,
remarks Farm and Ranch.
Just Oue Bottle,
Scammon, Kans., Nov. 19,1900.—
Pepsin Syrup Co, Montieello, III
Sirs:—About three months ago I
had occasion to use something for
constipation. One bottle of Dr. Cald
well's Syrup Pepsin was all. I have
been doing business with your firm
over e year and find it like your
medicine, profitable and pleasant.
Phil. L. Keener,
Editor “Scammon Miner.”
Sold by H. b McMaster, Waynes
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Job Printing promptly executed
But I am profoundly of the opinion
that many of the clear eggs also have
been fertilized and that in some way
the vitality of the germ has been de
stroyed before the heat of incubation
has been applied. I have been led to
this opinion through many observa
tions extending over a series of years.
I have received reports repeatedly,
from buyers whose honesty I had no
reason to suspect, that the eggs shipped
to them were properly sat upon and
that at the end of three weeks some
and not infrequently many of them
were clear and sweet, and I have had
hens bring off full broods from eggs
gathered from the same yards at about
the same time as those which proved a
failure in the hands of customers.
True, as this is a single ease little im
portance could be attached to it, but
when it has occurred ten times or a
hundred times it is sufficient to prove
that after making due allowance for
imperfect sitting cf hens and possible
dishonesty of buyers there is a differ
ence in results not to be accounted for
on tbe theory of a difference in the fer
tility cf eggs or in the method of their
incubation, and one is compelled to
search for some reason for this vari
ance. And not only as a seller but also
as a buyer cf eggs have 1 found this
difference. The only theory which I
have been able to form which will rec
oncile the difference in results secured
by different persons from eggs laid at
about the same time by the same hens
is that many eggs supposed to bo abso
lutely infertile are really fertilized and
that in some manner the vitality of the
germ was destroyed before incubation
began.
This vitality might have been de
stroyed by the jarring incident to trans
portation or by climatic changes or in
some other way. The first supposition
seems to me the most reasonable, be
cause the difference is found more fre
quently with traveled eggs than with
others. But if transportation destroys
the germs in some transported eggs
why doesn’t it destroy the germs in ail
such? That is no more difficult to an
swer than would be the question, if one
child sick with the scarlet fever dies
why do not all children attacked by
this disease die? There are probably
great differences in the vitality of
germs, as great as there are in the vig
or of human constitutions. The child
who dies of scarlet fever might have
grown to manhood if he had not taken
the fever, but his constitution was not
strong enough to resist the particular
attack, and so the germ which perished
by the way might have developed into
a reasonably vigorous chicken if the
egg had never been shipped from the
premises of the poultry breeder. But
while the first supposition appears
more reasonable—and be it added the
one most commonly efficacious—it is
not to be understood that a single
cause only is capable of destroying the
vitality cf the germs in eggs. Probably
many causes are efficient for this re
sult.
Perhaps the many nonhatehable eggs
In the early spring are so because of
climatic changes. The uncertainty of
the weather, the slight chills to which
the eggs are subjected, may be suffi
cient in the *»se of weak germs to de
stroy their vitality. At any rate, hens
which are laying eggs out of the natu
ral breeding season do not seem to pro
duce many strong germs or ai least do
not produce many eggs which hatch.
Yet the male and female elements are
probably present for all of the eggs as
well as for the few which do hatch.
The act of coition is regularly perform
ed, the female is in n condition to re
ceive the male element, for the ovaries
are dropping the eggs regularly, and
yet for hatching many of the eggs are
valueless. If climatic changes could de
stroy the vitality of weak germs, we
might then have an explanation of the
unhatchability of these early eggs. Be
this as it may, 1 am firmly of the opin
ion that many eggs clear after incuba
tion have been fertilized, and the germ
has lost its vitality, so that it has never
started to grow.—H. S. Babcock in
Country Gentleman.
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Who Have Machinsry!
New Method of Preserving Cggs.
A system now adopted in Italy is to
get rid of the shell and pack the interi
or of the egg. white and yolk together,
in airtight vessels or drums containing
each 1,000 eggs. Great core is taken to
insure the eggs being fresh and to ex
clude the air, as one bad egg spoil:: all
the remainder and renders the consign
ment unsalable. The new system has
the advantage of removing the risk of
breakage and is also preferred by the
pastry cooks, for whose use they are
intended. At present these eggs are
sent in the first instance to egg mer
chants, who resell them, but attention
is now being directed to the advantages
of sending them direct to the buyer
and thus dispensing with the services
of the middleman.
I have located in Wayresboro, and will's
prompt attention to all repairs on any kind
of Machinery. Plcmbiuga specialty. Orders
lelt at my home, or at'S. Beil's store will be
given quick attention.
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