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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1889)
GRAT oo AT A R ) e [of Keeping a Horse, bf keeping a horse by most Wmere guess work> instead of I figures. Mr. J. H. Andre, witha v to enlightening the uninitiated,gave Pecently in Rural Home the following es timates: If one purchases a good horse four years of age for $l5O, it is a good bargain. A top buggy will cost $125, cutter $25, harness S2O, robe $lO, blank ets $3, comb and brush $2, whip $2, which amounts figure $337. Now if we take all into consideration, these will last, on an average, ten years. Perhaps the wagon might last longer, but it would need repairing in that time; on the whole, ten years is a long average, as a horse might be worthless in five years, If it costs $337 for ten years, it would be at the rate of $33.70 per year, and the interest on the whole outlay at 6 per cent. would be $20.22. Add to this at least four tons of hay, which has averaged in the past ten years sl2 per ton, S4B; one ton of straw for bedding, $7; 90 bushels of oats at 35 cents per bushel, $31.50; shoeing, ss,and it would be a cheap job to care for a horse, wash wagons, etc., for §1 per week, which would bring the price to $52 per year, or the sum total of $197.42 for the year at moderate figures. And yet we find thousands who keep a horse and have no real business for it, and do not keep a cow, when the cost of keeping a horse will keep two cows, and yet they do not see how they can keep a cow. ‘What Vegetables to Grow. Now is a good time to think over what vegetables to sow and plant the coming year; and having decided, to get from good, reliable seedsmen the seeds likely to be required. If thisis left to sowing time, the chances are the seeds will be obtained from some grocery store, the stock of which is put up for this partic ular trade, and all that is not sold re turned, and, in too many instances, re vamped year after year. Such crops as late potatoes, parsnips, carrots, turnips and beets can readily be grown as among the field crops, and be subject mainly to the same treatment—that is, everything about them ean be so managed as to be done with the horse-cultivator. Besides these crops, there should be a spot of garden ground to grow the sum mer vegetables, and such as will want g tgflemare care in the way of hand- - forgotten. arly GHU THC CADDRSCWIC a few dozen of cauliffower, are good changes in this line. Germans want to add kohl-rabi, or turnip-rooted cabbage, and when just right they are good eating for anybody. Tomatoes, egg-plants and peppers will require a hot-bed to bring forward. Only a few plants are, howcver; required, and, if not grown, can be purchased. For celery, a pinch of seed sown in April will give all the plants required. A piece of land should Dbe selected, rather sandy if possible, for the melon pateh; a few hills of cucumbers and half a-dozen of the squash family. These, with a spot still more sacred by itself for the pot-herbs to flavor the soups and other dishes, would make a tolerably good supply for an ordinary farm fam ily.—Prairie Farmer. : The Care of Fowls, . The raising of fowls is now so com men by persons who are without farm conveniences or buildings that the hen house is a necessity and its proper con- } strection and adaptability to the wants of the flock, and especially as an aid to egg production, are matters deserving of consideration.. For amateurs or persons keeping fowls in villages on small plots the best results will be obtained from limited numbers, say from a dozen .to 25 hens with one to two males. All the liberty should =be allowed that the premises will admit, The central point s the hen house as a roosting, laying and hatching _ place, with a small inclosed run attached which belongs exclusively to them and ‘where they can always go when not In T ST 8 RTIR HR L(R LRIV TR« BT il TS they should bo allawed toTun for. ahart let out for only an hour just before roost ing time, in the house yard or garden, it will always be a benefit to them, and a little watchfulness for a short time will prevent them from doing mischief. ~ The dimensions of Bxlo feet will fur ‘nish ample room for two dozen fowls if fitted up with properly arranged roosting poles (of which a part should be low for heavy fowls) and a sufficient supply of nest boxes. The building should be just high enough for getting around in comfortably, and should face the south and that front should be of glass down to within eighteen inches of the floor. Here the nest boxes should be placed, out of the direct sunlight, and should be as secluded as they can well be. In this way thé fowls will not only have ample light, but will get the warmth of the sun through the glass the good effects of which will appear in an increased num ber of eggs at a time of the year when they are the most valuable. An earthern floor is the best, but if it is necessary to keep out rats, make it of concrete. With a hen-house plastered on the inside and with thick walls, the temperature will be such as to induce laying earlier and more liberally than in a cold room subject to draughts through crevices from the outside. A dust bath is one of the hen’s necessities, and if the dust-box is in the house the effect on everything is disagreeable. For this reason it should be in a small covered annex to the house, or else should be under cover in a corner of the run, and should be kept well supplied with dry road dust or fine sifted ashes. If the house is kept clean they will keep themselves free from vermin, but if lice infest the house it can be quickly cleared of them by fumigating it with sulphur or burning the green leaves of pine, spruce or any of the evergreens, so as to fill the room with a dense smoke for an hour or so. Spraying it occasion ally with kerosene will have the same ef fect. Gravel, ground or broken shells and bones, and miscellaneous food with meat scraps, when insects cannot be had, should be furnished regularly, with a constant supply of pure water.—2 New York World. Farm and Garden Notes. " See that all colonies are in hives that are rain proof; leaky hives cause much f the loss in wintering bees. Churn and cream should be at a temper ture of fifty-six degress to fifty-eight de reesin summer, sixty dcgrees in winter. Four different kinds of food are es ential to promote health and strength. hese are flesh, grain, vegetables and ruit. No farmer’s family is too poor to keep pig, unless, indeed, it be so shiftless nd improvident as to keep instead one r more dogs. Tincture of assafeetida is said to keep abbits from attacking trees. It may e mixed up with clay and water and ap plied with a brush. An ingenious farmer and his boys can put together a variety of simple tools and conveniences for farm use in these comparatively leisure days. All fertilizers should be in as fine con dition as possible, for upon the degree of fineness depends to a great extent the solubility of the ingredients. The peach or plum tree, when planted the coming spring, should be put in the poultry yard. It will be partially pro tected from insects and will grow rapidly. Some foods, like wheat bran, cotton seed meal, etec., return a value in manure nearly equivalent to their cost and are often among the very best that can be selected for stock. Bees emit a glutinous fluid from their feet to enable them to adhere to a smooth surface; this is what causes the combs to become dark if allowed to re main on the hive long after being sealed. The dispositionjof swine is to pile up in cold weather, and the warmer we can keep it underneath them the less liable they are to do this, and unless they can be prevented from doing it to a great ex tent, disease is much more liable to break out among them. Salt is an acrid poison to pigs when given in excsss. It causes profuse diar rhea with blood; after death the bowels will be found inflamed and bloody and the stomach covered with red patches. Drinking brine poured out of old meat barrels will cause death in pigs in twen ty-four hours. . ; e i It is proposed to attempt the dissipas tion of fog by electrical discharges. - Low-class ores are being worked profitably by electrical appliances. The flow of natural gas at Columbus, Ohio, is estimated at 1,000,000 feet per day. : " It is ctated that the air temperature in its fluctuations from day to day follows the dew point. . In France gaseous fluoride of methyl has been lately obtained in a pure state and its density determined. The low pressures obtained with brown and cocoa pawders are due to their slow rates of combustion. If the water of the ocean were to sud denly cease being compressible its mean depth would be increased by 116 feet. The variation in the inclination of Neptune's satellite is said to be due to the fluttened condition of Neptune at its poles. It is estimated that 50 per cent. of gas used in the Pittsburg mills is lost through ineffective methods | and bad manage ment. ; Professor Bell says that deafness oc curring in childhood is capable of com plete removal by suitable instruction in special schools. Experiments carried on at Astrakhan show that the culture of the silk worm could be carried on as far north as the mouth of the Volga. The vegetable matter in the sea to the westward of the Azores has been found to contain a large amount of fish and other life-sustaining substances. A new method of discharging coal has gone into operation at New York. The principle is practically that of the grain elevator. A steamer can be coaled while coming up from Sandy Hook. The danger from gases only in con nection with house drainage are said to be comparatively easy to avoid, the main consideration being a continuous thorough ventilation of the pipes. To the changed condition of a vessel’s magnetism by induction during a lengthy voyage may be attributed the loss of moere vessels than is wusually thought'to be the case among maritime men. Dr. Rutgers of England, after an ex tensive series of dietetic experiments, de clares that a vegetable diet can easily be lived on, and that vegetable albumen is, weight for weight, equal to animal albu men, Professor Geddes calls attention to two tendencies in organic evolution—the vegetable and the reproductive—and as serts that evolution is theresult of the universal subordination of the former to the latter. One of the chief features of the use of paper fabric for building purposes is the ease with which it can be worked into sheets of any required width or thickness that will not be affected by changes of temperature or humidity. In the new process of metal plating the inventor does away with batteries and dynamos and depends upon a double electrical composition; in copper plating cast iron an alkaline bath is used in place of an acidulated one. In the new system of direct pneumatic propulsion the action i 3 not unlike the rush of the submarine recket torpedo. The object of this system is to obtain propulsion direct from the fuel and with out the intervention of moving ma chinery. ¢ ' Some remarkable tunnelling was done in London last year in the construction of the City of London and Southwark Subway. Three miles of tunnel were built in the heart of London without either temporary shafts or openings in the streets. At a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences the Prince of Monaco read a paper demonstrating the possibility of shipwrecked people, who have taken to the boats and are without provisions, be ing able to sustain life with what they could catch in a drag net trailing over board over night. - He Was Used to Solitude. There is said to be a man in the peni tentiary of a neighboring State upon whom solitary confinement makes not the slightest impression. It is believed that before getting in the clutches of the law he was.the proprietor of a store and did not advertise, thus acquiring the familiarity with solitude which now stands him to such good purpose. MakestheWeakStrong If you are run down, or have that tired feeling as & result of overwork or the effect of the chang ing season, you should take that best of all tonics and blood purifiers, Hood's Sarsaparilla. It purl fies and emriches the hlood, tones the stomach, rouses ‘the torpid liver and kidneys, creates an appetite and builds uwp the system, Thousands who have taken it with benefit, testify thas Hood's Sarsaparilla * makes the weak strong.” “Hood's Saraaparilla cured me of blood potson, gave me a noble appetite, overcame headachs and Adizziness, 80 that now I am able to work again.” Lurmen Nasow, 63 Church St., Lowell, Mass, Hood’s Sars P illa Sold by all druggists. $1; six for §5. Prepared only ' Sold by all druggists, $1; rix for 85. Prepared only by 0. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Ma lbyC. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar 100 Doses One Dollar . V e W} o 1 . N\ e | ‘?\ ; P GO ATS) | =\ | ' e 227274 — . b :;;:/5 N ] 22 ,{fsz"—, |4 - | =[A i i P r | AGT] Jq A * '/; 5'1""“ { iy '\ 177 1= A\ LT Y% VA4 P P AN Rl ‘ BL AV Lo ‘.‘a?’?{/ == /! l.wkgi - l“ S 5 - L Ll\ 2 YA et /.,v ’!l'lml.,,\.fl\\ I\ "J v ¢ 4 -t?a A R Pt T =lO N\ RS N 77 JAT AR NN P ——— ! \ 4 i Sy g 7@ A Y\ b = A LN , ;' ; %E( “‘ : : et A WA s =\ === = ) .‘l E ——l = ’-'_-: = il /[ .l lliA , ! e . o 2 : ' o \ ] - 5 ,_i ~; \ R V"Z‘ o » q ; o \\\ " ot B o _—— ‘... — “a - Bmith— “T know ’tis a sin to, But I'm bent on the notion, I’ll throw myself into The deep, briny ocean.” Brown—* Fie, fie, my good friend, don’t give way to your ailments so easily, and settle down into such gloom and despondency. There’s no excuse for such conduct, when it’s a well-known fact that all your bad feelings, terrible head aches, poor appetite, sense of fatigue, and lassitude, low-spirits, and hypochon= driacal condition are due to torpid Tiver and consequent indigestion, and debility, which will all give way and disappear, as the dew before the morning sun, if you but make use of that, world-famed anti-bilious, tonic medicine known as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It is guaranteed to benefit or cure in all diseases for which it is recommended, or money paid for it will be refunded. It cured me when I was in a much worse condition than you are, and if you will only try it, you will soon be singing— “ But my Spirit shall wander Through gay coral bowers, And frisk with the mermaids It shall, by the Powers!” Copyright, 1888, by WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Proprietors. CATARRH 22222 no matier of how long standing, is pere manently cured by DR. 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