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Oops Farm Poultry I\ty?
This seems to be a vex and end dis
puted question, as much so as•• Docs
farrningpn)?” One man says it don’t,
while another asserts that it does.
Mr. Chester I£. Perkins, in the Bel
fast, Maine, Journal, argues that it
does pay well. This is his argument
in full, and it is worth a careful con
skleration by Jouaual reading farmers:
“Well! What next., I wonder?
The very last mail brought me a let
ter from a man who wants to know.
“What is the use of writing so much
al>oufc the great, profits to be made by
keeping hens, when the facts are, as
every farmer who ever gave- them a
fair trial knows that the bens on a
farm cost more in food, care and crops
destroyed than they ever bring in.”
Farther on in the letter he says: “If
hens could be made to lay in winter
when eggs are high perhaps they
could be made to pay; but bens won’t
lay enough in winter to pay for their
salt, and that is all there is of it.”
He closes by informing me that bo
“never knew a farmer who made any
money by keeping pOultr
And so, because you never made
any money keeping fowl', and never
knew any farmer who did, you take
it for grunted that no farmer ever
wakes poultry keokinp- pay. What
utter nonsense! Probably you never
knew any of (lie presidents of the
United States, but all the same wo
have had quite a number and have
one now. The United States is r.
pretty big country ami it is pm ble
that thero may be some farmers that
you don't know. 1 don’t know n
great number of fanners, but within
the circle of my acquaintance I ran
count up a good many farmers, and
farmers’ wives, and farmers’ sons and
daughters, who have made money by
keeping poultry. And 1 could toll
you of a farmers’s widow, who, in
four years after her husband’s heath
made money enough from her poul
try to pay off a mortgage that her hus
band nad wrestled with in vain for
teu long years. lam no great fanner,
but all the same I will mention the
fadt I h ave made money by keeping
poultry. 1 have .made $645 clear
cafch profit in four years by poultry
’lceeping on a farm, and 1 can do It
again, too; and the farmer who under
equally favorable circumstances can
not do us well as I can—well, he
needn’t apply for a situation in this
family.
But how do you know win flier or
your liens or your neighbor’s hens
ever paid or not? Did you ever keep
a poultry account?. Did you know
how much it costs you to keep your
flock of hens a year? Do you know
how mnny eggs and fowls you ate up
and sold? No; I thought not. I
know a good many men just like you.
They don’t know wliother it costs
them fifty cents or a dollar a year to
keep alien, or whether their hens lay
one or two dozen eggs apiece in a
year; but nevertheless they arc
always ready to decclare in serson
and out of season that “hgns don’t
pay, never have have paid and never
will.” I have seen some of these men
swallow three or four “eggs on toast”
for breakfast, eat half a good sized
chicken for dinner, devour a quarter
section of a three egg cusard pie at
supper time, and still they claim it is
a fact that their unprotected, despise*
ed, abuused hens do not pay. You
may, if you pleat,e, invest ?:>(), $lO or
$5O in a cow, while someone who
knows enough to manage poultry in
vests the same amount in poultry, and
at the end of the year the poultry
keeper will have more cash profit
from the investment than you will
be able to show from yours. What
was that you said? Something about
“fancy prices’* for eggs aud fowls?
No, sir I dun.t mean anything of
that kind at all. When I talk about
the profits of poultry keeping for
farmers I reckon the poultry products
at market prices. Go to, thou unbe
liever and before you again assert
that poultry won’t pay and keep an
account with your bens for a whole
solid year right straight through;
and keep an honest account, too—
that is, while charging the fowis for
all food consumed give them credit
for all products, no matter whether
you sell, cat or give away such pre
dicts. Then, if your hna havo not
paid, just turn the whole business
over to your wile, or to toe boys and
girls, and if you give them halt* a
fiance they w ill make teoiiey from
.'ic he.is ih.tl you declare won’t pay.
A button is a trifling thing, whether
! upon the old fashioned shirt or any
'fashion of other common garment.
! But small as it is, much depends.upon
\ ds essential absence or presence in h-s
■ usual and alioted place Many and
!many a time beyond -record, have
i such entries as may from extrr.o r di
I nary circumstances be put down in
i deep black upon the books of the
i Recording Angel, it has fufled the
calmness of the human mind and
wrecked the happiness of households.
Tho Independent says: “There is a
strong tendency in human nature to
indulge in uncomplimentary exple
tives about one who doesn’t agree
with us. The bet er way is to omit
these expletives altogether and re
collect that every man has the inalien
able right to do bis own thinking for
himself, and that no one is necessarily
wrong simply because he does not.
agree with us.” And it may be added
that this applies to the treatment of
the heathen quite as much as to
Christians. *
Sometimes a man says a good thing
without pre-arrangement, and with
out expectation of having what he
said appear in ptint. A man in search
of information called on one of the
best meaning raen in the city. lie
found him at his desk, auc the ques
tionjwas asked, “1 don’t know any
thing about it,” ho replied. “Go into
the next room and ask . He is
an encyclopedia of every thing that
.ought to be forgotten.”
Which is the happiest hour in a
woman’s life ? Frances Willard nays
the happiest hour m Her life was t. at
in which she was least conscious of
herself and most uplifted into holy
thoughts and purposes, which is a
beautiful answer. The happiest hour
in Jennie June’s life was the hour
when she paid off a SIO,OOO mortgage,
that it had taken ten years to liqui
date. 'I ho happiest hour of a wom
an’s life is when she is asleep.
Someone says: At ten years of
age a boy thinks bis father knows a
j great deal; at fifteen he knows as
much ns his father; at t wenty he
| knows twice us much; at thirty he i
willing to take his advice; at forty he
begin# to think his father knows
something, after all; at fifty he begins
to seek his advice; and at sixty—after
his fat her is dead—lie thinks he was
the smartest man that ever lived.
Lot there always he a hint in your
dress that you know the style, but
disregard its more extreme demands.
The best possible impression at all is
to make no separate impression at all.
People will only remember that you
look well and dress somehow becom
ingly.—Dr. Holland.
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Nothing makes met! angrier than
the truth when it comes to them a.s
evil doers. It is less trying to he lied
about than to have the truth that cuts
home to us.
The true strength of every- human
soul is to he dependent on a.s many
nobler as it can discern, and to he
depended upon by as many inferior
as it can reach.—Ruskin.
As you get on in the “forties” you
will understand that life is chit-fly
what life has been.—W. D. llowells.
Life is a noise between two silences.—
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the comfort of Christian hope for all
mankind. Love sees no hopeless
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cease to “labor and to wait.”—Rev.
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The difficulty with municipal gov
ernments oftentimes is this: There
arc too many heads with too little in
them, and too many pockets with too
much in them.—ll. W. Beecher.
Have you learned the lesson of yes
terday or the infinite meaning of to
day? It has duties of its own; they
cannot be left until tomorrow. To
morrow will bring its own work.
Dt'Hcloo# Peanut Candy.
Shea your peanuts and chop them fine:
measure them in a cup and take just the
same quantity of granulated sugar as
you have peanuts. Put the sugar in a
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moving the skill* i; around until the sugar
is dissolved; then pot in the peanuts and
pour into bettered tins. This is deli
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Xcf/itf Afoertixetent*.
Sheriff Sabi.
GE< )R(iIA : * Banks!Cot-trrr.—
Will be sold or the Firfet Tuesday.
in February next at the courthouse ;ii
said county, within the Dgal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder, for cash,
the following property to-wit: One
tract of land lying in said county and
bordered ns follows: On the west by
I>. L, Evans, on the north by James
VV. Dodd, on the east by Earl Moats
deceased, on the south by Thomas E.
Anderson arid Mrs. Rebecca Jjewal
lan, cvnfcainuig two hundred and
thirty five acres more or toss. Said
land levied on as the property of W.
\V. C. Kidd to satisfy an execution
issued from the Justice court of the
912th district G. M. of said county in
favor of Comer & Carr against the
said W. TV. C. Kidd. Levy made and
returned to ms by George TV . Lacy,
L, C. ($4.50)'
Also at the same time and place
will be so’d to the highest bidder for
cash, the following property to-wit:
Two mare nudes, age unknown; one
a bay and the other a black, good
medium size. Baid property levied
on as the property of 31. E. Haynes
to satisfy two mortgage Jjfas issued
from the Sujierior court of said coun
ty in favor of Alexander & Teaslev;
also one State and county tax fits
issued by the tax collector of said
county against the said 31. E. llayr.es
for the years 1889 and 1890; rti i tif'a
levied upon the said bay mule and
two bridles. Property pointed out
by plaintiff. This Dec. 29th, 1890.
TV. A. SeooGixs,
(8.94) Sheriff Bank-County.
GEORGIA: Banks County. To
all whom it may concern, W J littrgf-sft
guardian of A Sand Isaac A Vaughn,
lms applied to me for letters of dismis
sion from said guardianship, and 1 will
pass upon said application mi the first
mnnday in March, 1891, at my office in
Homo
Given under my hand and official
signature, December Ist . 1890.
22S T F 111 Lb, Ord’y.
GEORGIA Banks County.—To
all whom it may com era ft’, S. Mize
administrator, <ie bonis non of C. Mize
deceased, has indue form applied to
ihti undersigm and for loiters ot dismiss
simi from said estate, and said applica
tion will be heard on the First Monday
m January next. Given under my
hand and official signature.
Gel Glh, 1890. T. F. HILL,
1 7 Ordinary.
GEORGIA : B exits County.—No
tice is hereby given that, fifteen free
holders of the 912th district, G. M. of
said county have filed in my office a
petition for an election to be held in
said district for I'etice or Stock iav.-
as pin vi and by s b! 1 > of the
Code of Georgia and the arts nraend
r.tory thereto, and after twenty days’
notice, if no objection is filed an elec
tion will be ordered in terms of the
law. Dec. 12th, 1890.
12-31 T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
GEORGIA: Banks County.—To
all whom it may concern, John U.
Rylee having in due form applied to
the undersigned for the guardianship ni'
tho pesons and the property of Nancy
V, Kiddie T. ami William II York,
minor children of J. K. York, late of
said county deceased, notice is hereby
given that said application y ill be
heard m m.v office on tins i irst Monday
in January next.
Given under my band and official
signature, this December Ist, 1890.
12 31 T. F. HILL, OiiFy.
Carry Robinson’ vs J. M. Robinson
Libel for divorce in Banks Superior
Court, September term 1800.
Pursuant to an order from Bait!
court perfecting service by publics
tiou the defendant, j. M. Robinson is
hereby notified that a libel for divorce
in favor of his wife, Carry, is now
pending against him in said court, and
that lie is required to be and appear
at the next term of said court to be
held on tho third Monday in March
next to answer said cause.
Is. L. Hutchins,
($2.93) Judge S. C. \V. C.
Oscar Brown, Petitioner’s Att-v.
Lira a 11. D..vis vs M. Van Davis,
Libel for Divorce in Banks Supeiior
Court, September term 1390, Grounds
cruel treatment.
It appearing to the Court that the
Defendant M. V. Davis doea rot re
side in this State. It is ordered by
the Court that service be perfected
on the defendant by publication as
provided in statute twice a mouth for
two months betore the next term of
tins court, in the Banks County Ga
zkttk, a newspaper published iu said
county. It is further ordered that the
Clerk of said court direct to and ad
dress notice to said defendant if his
address is known requiring to be
and appear at the next term cf this
court to answer petitioner's libel for
total divorce. September 19th 1890.
Granted. N. L. Hutchins,
Judge.
G. \V. Brown and W. H. Simpkins,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
I hereby certify that the above
order is a true copy of the minutes of
Banks Superior Court, this Dec. 23d,
1890, ‘ L. N. Turk, C. S. C.
GEORGIA. Banks County.-—To
all whom U may concern, L X Turk,
Administrator of J E York, deceased,
lias in due form applied lo the under
signed for leave to sell the land be lous
ing to the estate of sai l deceased, aud
said Atipiicstion will be heard on the
First Monday lu January next.
12-31 T. F. UILli, Oid’y,
Legal Advertisements.
Georgia: Banks County.—To all
whom,:! may concert): C V Edwards
guardian Tor, Harriett M Edward# ap
plies to me for letters ef di-mission
from said'guardianship, and I wlii pass
upon said animation on the First Mon
day in January 1821 at my office in
Homer sax! county.
Given under my hand and official
signature, tin* October Cth, 1890.
i-7 ,T. F. HILL, Ord’y.
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