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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15
twelve fow1s, saascsooo5ip NAV be .tnrg9 reet-

twelve fowls, a coop may be three feet
long, eighteen inches high and eighteen
inches deep, made entirely Of bars; No
part solid-nether top, sides nor bot
tom. Discretion must be used accord
ing to the size of the chickens put up.
They do not want any room; indeed,
the closer they are the better, provided
they can all stand up at the same
time. Care must be taken to put up
such as have been ACCUSTOMED to be to-
gether, or they will fight. If one is
quarrelsome, it is better to remove it
at once, as. like other bad examples, it
soon finds imitators. Diseased chickens
should never be put up.
The food should be ground oats, and
may either be put up in a trough or on
a flat board running along the front of
the coop. 1t may be mixed with water
and milk, the latter is better 1t
should be well soaked, forming pulp
as loose as can be. provided it does
not run off the board. They must be
well fed three or four times a day, the
first time as soon after daybreak as
may be possible or convenient, and
then at intervals of four hours. Each
meal should be as much as they can
eat up clean, and no more; when they
have done feeding, the board should be
wiped and some gravel spread. 1t
causes them to feed and thrive.
After fortnight of this treatment
you will have good, fat fowls. If,
however, there are but five or six to be
fatted, they must not have as much
room as though there were a dozen.
Nothing is easier than to allow them
the proper space, as it is only neces-
sary to have two or three pieces of
wood to pass between the bars and
form partition. This may also serve
when fowls are up at different degrees
Of fairness. This requires attention,
or fowls wAl not keep fat and healthy.
AS soon as the fowl is sufficiently
fatted it must be killed; otherwise it
will not get fatter, but will lose flesh.
If fowls are intended for the market,
OF course they are, or may be, fatted
at once; but if for home consumption,
it is better to put them up at such in
tervalS as will suit the time when they
will he required for the table.
When the time arrives for killing,
whether they are meant for market or
otherwise, they should be tasted with
out food or water for twelve or fifteen
hours. This enables them to keep for
some time after being killed, even in
hot weather.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15
aAUKNCErURAL AND DOMESTIC.

|. To make Centennial sponge cake,
take twocups sugar, two cups flour,
four teaspoonfuls baking powder, four
eggs, one cup boiling Water. Mix the
eggs, sugar, flour and baking powder
thoroughly together; add the boiling
water; stir quickly; put into pans
and bake Immediately. If desired to
be very moist, bake in "quick
oven.' .
Whipped cream is thus made ::
Take half pint of cream or one quart
Of milk boiled down to pint. Add
one-quarter pound powdered loaf sugar
and half a tea.spoonful powdered gum
arabic dissolved in orange-hower
water. Beat the liquid till converted
into froth, and send to table immedi-
ately. The cream may be favored
with vanilla, or anything preferred,
previous to being beaten to a froth.
Ne plus ultra taffy is favorite
English confection. To make it, take
three pounds Of best brown sugar, and
boil with one and one-half pints of
water, until the candy hardens in cold
water. Then add one-half pound of
sweet Favored fresh butter, which will
soften the candy. Boil "a few minutes
until it again hadens and pour into
trays. Flavor with lemon if desired.
Be careful not to burn after the butter
is in. You will never have any desire
for molasses candy after trying this.
Don't give up if you happen to miss it
a little the first time; the second time
you will hit it, Ust
TO make white molasses candy,
take two pounds refined sugar, one
pint of pure sugar-house strip, and
one pint of best Porto Rico or New
Orleans molasses. Boil together I'M
til it hardens, when dropped in
cold water; add one teaspoonful,
of carbonate soda, and work in
the usual manner. This style of
molasses candy is that made .by the
large confectioners, and is, in fact, a
sugar candy favored little with mo-
lasses. 1t is essential that the strip
obtained from the draining Of loaf
sugar in the refining process be used.
Much of the so-called sugar-house
strip is in reality nothing but sirup
of glucose, and is manufactured from
starch. 1t may be known by its dark
color and viscid consistence, resem-
bling thick mucilage. 1t is also less
sweet to the taste than the pure sugar
Strap.
To prevent Hyacinths having
short stems, get some stout brown
paper and cut it into squares of suit
able size, and then roll them up into
tunnels, similar in form to the pointed
bags in which grocers put moist sugar.
They should be from six to nine inches
long, and as soon as rolled into shape
pasted up the edge to keep them firm;
if for plants in pots, the base of the
funnel should be large enough to go
over the bulb and portion of the soil;
if for glasses, it should fit the outside
of the upper rim of the glass. The
pointed end should be cut off, so that
when placed over the plants, the light
VIII come in at the top only; the
tlower-stem will rise up rapidly to
reach it. and us soon as it is as long as
you desire, take off the funnel and al
low it to bloom. After a little pa
thence with this method, you Will be
able to grow them all of a height,
which very much enhances their
beauty where a Number Of them are
arranged in window G0rdener'S
Uaqdzine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15
Flowing in the Fall.

After all that has been written on
the subject of fab blowing, it would
seem almost supertluous to add any
thing more, and it is not for the pur-
pose of saying anything new at this
time, but merely to keep in view few
of the chief benefits in it's favor.
There are those who do not appear to
sufficiently appreciate the importance
of this matter, often procrastinating
the work until the Severity of the
weather prevents plowing until spring.
Some of the prominent advantages of
fall blowing have been, stated as fol-
lows:
October and November are deemed
an excellent time to break up sod and
land for planting the following spring.
The weather then is cool and brac-
ing, and the team strong and hearty
for the work; while the weather in
spring is more relaxing and the team
less able; and springs work being al
ways hurrying, it saves time to dis
patch as much of the blowing us pos
sible during the previous autumn.
Sod land broken up late in autumn
will be quite free from grass the fol-
lowing spring, the roots of the late
overturned sward being so generally
killed by the Immediately succeeding
winter that not much grass will start
in the spring.
The frosts Of winter disintegrate the
plowed land, 50 that it readily crumbles
into fine particles in spring, and Il
deep. mellow seed-bed is easily made.
The chemical changes and moditica-
tons resulting from atmospheric ae-
ton during the winter, develop latent
fertility in the upturned burrows,
which, together with the mellowing
influences, materially increases the
crop.
Most kinds of insects are either
wholly destroyed, or the depredations
materially checked by late fall plow
ing. especially the common white grub
and the cut-Worm.
Corn-stubble land may be plowed
late in fall, and thus be ready for very
early sowing in spring, thereby going
far to insure a good crop of grass, the
roots of the new seeding getting hold
well, or being well established before
! the dr0ughtS of summer come.
Where the soil is fne-grained and
unctious, and close, or where there is
a hard-pan of good quality, deep plow-
| ing may be at once resorted to, with
| decided advantage. Where the sub
soil is poorer, the blowing may still be
advantageously deepened by degrees,
say an inch at each new breaking up.
! But in by far the majority Of cases,
deep blowing may be practiced at once
indeed, it may be the rule with safe
/ ty. while shallow blowing may be the
! erceptioE. The subsoil turned up will
/ grow several shades darker by spring.
| The f1osts and atmospheric influences
of winter will mellow the soil, the in
| organic elements and all latent fertili-
| ty viii be made more active for bene-
/ fitting the crop. In spring, spread the
manure and plOw it in, or otherwise
work it in or mingle it with the soil,
to the depth. say Of four inches, lit
| tie more or less, and you have the very
/ best attainabe condition for realizing
good crops. Deeper plowing may thus
+ be practiced than would at all times be
safe or eypedient, it the blowing be
delayed till spring. - Western Rur0l.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15

n SUBTERRANEAN forest has been
discovered in London, consisting of
peat, with trunks of trees, most of
them standing. All are of species
still found in Britain, the oak, alder
and willow being abundant. In the
peat are found bones of the great fos-
sill OK.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15

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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15

PREMATURE loss Of hair, which is so com.
mon nova days, may be entirely prevented
by the use Of BURNETT's COCAINE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-15

PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar Works, es
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Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
About Fowls.

Always use china eggs for nest eggs,
and never put eggs under a, hen till she
has set one night on china egg and
is found upon her nest the next night,
then at evening put the eggs under her,
eleven to a large hen and nine to q
small one. Let the nest boxes be of
ample size, fifteen to eighteen inches
square, and first put layer of dry
earth at the bottom, then make the
nests of fine hay or straw, and sprinkle
little flour Of sulphur among it to
drive away lice. Keep your henhouse
we'll whitewashed, perches and all, and
remove the manure often. Put it into
a barrel and when filed or partly filled
take it into your garden and mix it with
about four times its bulk of soil. Make
a heap broad enough to contain the en-
tire droppings of the season, and here
compost your manure from time to
time, always leaving the top of the
heap flat so as to retain rains, and COW
er with litter of any kind, SO that none
of the heap will be exposed to the rays
of the sun. These compost heaps
should be shoveled over two or three
times during the season, to mix their
contents thoroughly; and the next sea-
son apply from a half pint to a pint of
this mixture to hills Of garden vegeta-
bles, or to field crops OF corn, and you
will find every pound of the compost
equal IN value TO a shovelful of barn
yard manure.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15

. 4 Z u . y Il
from seed that must have remained
dormant in the soil during the time the
land was under cultivation. When
ca)careous materials, such as lime
shell mari, or shell sand, are spread
upon ground covered with heath, the
heath disappears, and in its place will
be q thick growth Of white clover,
fescues and other grasses. This occurs
without any further treatment beyond
the application of the lime, ETC., which
acts upon the peaty soil, changing its
nature and rendering it unfit to pro-
duce heath, but suitable for the growth
of other plants, the seeds of which
have been present in the soil from
some indefinite period under circum.:
stances which did not allow them to
vegetate.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
Consumption Cured.

An old Physician, retired from active
practice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India Missionary the formula of a
simple Vegetable Remedy, for the speedy
and permanent Cure Of Consumption, Bon
chitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and
Lung Affections, also Positive and Radical
Cure of Nervous Debility and all Nervous
Complaints, after having thoroughly tests d
itS wonderful curative powers in thousands
of cases, feels it his duty to make it known
to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this
motive, aud conscientious desire to relieve
human suffering, he will send free Of
charge) to all who desire it, this recipe, with
full directions for preparing and success
fully using. Sent by return mail by address.
ing with stamp, naming this paper DR.. W.
G. Stevens, 1875 Powers Block, Rochester,
New York
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
Pitching $40 Gold Pieces.

From the Virginia City Chronicle.
While the dispute WAS i'll progress,
Jim Orndorf and Joe Stewart set up
couple of pegs in the ground, and began
to pitch half dollars. A crowd gathered
about the pegs, and the pitching was
so abomlnably bad that half a dozen
more took hand in by the kind per-
mission of James and Joseph, who i'm
mediately began to develop some ex-
cellent pitching, and raked the pots
ALTERNATELY, 70 TIC SURPRISE Vi 5IU0ut Il
dozen men WHO entered the game I'M
der the impression that they had some
thing soft. All interest in the race was
now lost, and each pitch was hailed
with a shout of .derision, or a burst of
applause. The way the two original
pitchers. began to gather in a harvest of
silver was caution. Finally it was
suggested that they pitch twenty-dol-
lar pieces, and the change of pro-
gramme had thinning effect on the
pitchers. A number of solid men now
came to the front, and gradually a
pretty stiff game developed, beginning
ut fifty cents q pitch, and gradually
crawling up to twenty dollars. Only
one pot Of this kind, however was
PLAYED. Half dozen twenties had
been landed within a radius of six
inches of the peg, when Joe Stewart,
who had retired on his laurel, was
asked if he wanted any of it. After
taking careful survey of the chances,
which were desperate, he drew a twenty
from hispocket, and, with a calculating
eye, pitched it square up against the
peg. There was wild hurrah, and
of course Joe, with his proverbial gen.
crosby, treated the crowd.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
Heifers Smelling the fir Calves.


The agricultural editor of the Con.
necticut Couramt, having been criticised
for recommending that heifers should
always be allowed to suckle calves, gives
the following reasons for this recon-
mendation:
Our position in regard to sucking
calves upon young beifers-their first
one or two calves SAYS that this
natural actions encourages the mothers
in giving milk. The idea may seem
novel to some, and then there is a diff
ference in heifers. Some are more
"foolish" and sentimental! concerning
their offspring than others. In break.
ing heifer to milk I am apt to mix
in with her calf good deal, endeavor-
ing to associate myself in the minds CT
both as familiar object, 80 that my
little stripping passes as matter Of
course among the new and bewilderipg
circumstances. Barring the opinions
that may entertain among the selfish
and short-sighted against the policy Of
developing the tactical secretions in this
natural manner-by allowing a heifer
to "fuss around with young calf -
the plan must look quite reasonable.
tits certainly time-honored practice
among careful farmers, and good deal
of observation and some experience
will warrant me in asserting that earl y
indulgence in the cares of maternity Is
not detriment to the future product
iyeness Of the grown-up COW. After
thee or four years age, when the milk
ing habit is formed, calves may be
deaconed with less feeling on the
part of the mother. She is used to the
hand of man, and becomes by habit re-
conciled to her lot.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
ONLY A WEEK AGO.
ny NORA PERRY.


Only week ago the warmth and glsw
OF sweetest summer time,
Osy q week ago the bud and blow
OF some fair tropic cline. Il
Only week ago, and now the glow
OF fervid heat has turned
To wintry snow, and sharp winds blow
Where tropic splendors burned.
Only week sgo-ah, very low
Nv cherished buds are lying;
60 low, SO low, do not know
If they are dead or dying.
90 low, SO low, drenched all with mire and
snow, ,..
Their beauty smirched with earth;
90 low, so low-only Gods breath can blow
Them back to fresher birth.
s .@. -Galdgv.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
Deaths from Fright.
From the Watertown IN. " Post.

From the WatertoWn IN. " Post.
The first King Of Prussia, Frederick
], was sleeping one day in an arm
chair, when his wife Louisa, Of Neck
lenburg, who had fallen into state of
hopeless insanity, having escaped from
her keepers, succeeded in making her
way to the private apartments, and
after wounding herself in her efforts to
break through glass door cast herself
upon her husband'in state of furious
delirium. The King, from whom her
malady had been carefully concealed,
was so Mortified at the aspect of this
woman covered with blood, and clad
only in some linen garments, that he
imagined he saw before him the
"White Lady," whose apparition an
nounced the death of a Prince of the
house of Bradenburgh. He was at that
instant seized with violent fever, of
which he died six weeks afterward,
aged fifty-six.
The death of the Dutch painter, Pen
teman, in the seventeenth century, was
occasionally an extraordinary circum-
stance. Being engaged upon a picture
in which were represented several
deaths heads, skeletons, and other OBJ
jects fitted to inspire in the heart Of
the beholder contempt for the amuse-
ments and vanities of the age, he, in
order to have the benefit of studying
these objects from nature, was accus-
toned to repair to an anatomical cabi-
net, which served him for a studio.
One sultry day, while engaged in draw
ing from the melancholy relics of NOR.
tality by which he was surrounded, he
was overcome with drowsiness, and af-
ter several fruitless efforts to continue
his work, at last succumbed to the
power of sleep. He had slept but
short time when he was suddenly
awoke by an extraordinary noise.
What was his horror on looking up
when he beheld the skulls and bones
around him agitated by an extraordi-
nary and apparently supernatural
movement, and the skeletons suspend
ed from the ceiling clashing violently
together. Seized with sudden panic,
Penteman rushed in terrier from the
room, cast himself headlong from the
staircase window, and fell to the street
half dead. On recovering, he learned
that the spectacle which had so terri
fled him arose from natural causes,
having been occasioned by an earth.
quake. But the shock received by his
nervous system was 30 great that he
never rallied, and he died few days
after.
The French Marshal de Montreva],
"whose whole soul,' according to St.
Simon twas but ambition and lucre,
without ever having been able to dis
tinguish his right hand from his left,
but concealing his universal ignorance
with an audacity which favor, fashion
and birth protected, was SO superstitious
that one day at public dinner, salt
cellar having been accidentally upset in
his lap, ne was seized with such terror
at the untoward occurrence that herose
from his seat, declaring that he was a
dead man. In fact, no sooner had he
got home when he was attacked by
fever and died few days afterwards, in
the year 17l6.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
UNDER the ROSE.
!. \.

'EE w hN .spsges Oh - Ne EleU4I
am cold and am light
As the fleecy, floating SHOWS?
II thorn ran through my heart
You would only see the rose.
Tickle, shallow, thoughtless, gay?
And you truly think me sol
You may view the oceans foam
But its deeps lie far below.
Come and stand by me awhile
Where no other friend has been
will open wide my heart,
Twill show you all within.
What lyon start and turn away,
And the tears begin to fall?-
An my heart you thought 1t gay +?
1t is broken-that is all.
" -Scrib,,er for November.
Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-15
seeds of Weeds in tho Soil.

1t frequently happens that when q
field of old grass land has been plowed
up the oats sown have come up along
with thick growth of charlock or wild
mustard. It may, of course, be alleged
that the charlock seeds were sown
along with the oats; that in cases Of
this lind mich bare eezse under es.=
own observation, this objection would
not hold good, the seed oats having
been dressed perfectly clean before be-
ing sown. Some years ago we plowed
grass field which had been in perma-
nent pasture for a period of between
forty and fifty years. In order to
square the field an old fence running
along one side was taken down and
about FIVE acres added, which were
sown with oats at the same time as the
old grass portion Of the field, and with
seed out Of the same bags. The crop
on the most part of the land which had
been in the old pasture was almost
choked with charlock, while that grown
on the part which had been added to
the field was entirely free. We after
ward learned from an old man who
had lived all his life beside the farm,
and worked upon it, that the portion
which had been in grass had been laid
down and left for pasture, in conse-
quence of the manner in which it was
infested with the seeds Of the charlock,
which sprung up and choked the crop
whenever the ground was titled. We
DO not cite this case "a present.