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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
a Great Farmers Maxims.

The successful life of Mr.. Jacob
Straw, the prince of American farm
ers, is attributed TO the close observa-
ton of the following maxims, origi-
mated by himself:
Make your fences high and strong,
so they viii keep cattle and pigs out.
If you have brush make your lots
strong aud secure and keep the hogs
from the corn.
Be sure to get hands to bed by sew
en- o'clock; they will rise early by
stress of circumstances.
Pay hand, if he is poor hand, all
you promise; and if he is good one
pay him little more; it viii encour.
age him to do still better.
Always feed your hands as well a;
you feed yourselves, for the laborina
men are bone and sinew of the land
and ought to be well treated.
am satisfied that getting up early,
industry and regular habits are the
best medicine prescribed for health.
When rainy, bad weather comes, so
YOU can't work out of doors, cut, split
and pile your wood, and make your
racks, fix your fences or gates, and
patch the roof of your barn or house.
Study your own interest closely and
| do not spend your time in electing
Presidents, Governors and other
small officers, or talk of hard times
and spend your time in whiting
store boxes.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Pruning Fruit Trees.

Among the successful fruit growers
in Western New York, the heads OF
peach trees are kept so low that fully
one-half of the fruit can be picked by
one standing on the ground, and the
balance can be reached from four
foot step-ladder. They say it renders
it difficult to cultivate among the trees
but that the advantages compensate.
In regard to the trimming of fruit
trees, there is but one opinion, and
that was in favor of liberal trimming
1t is not the pulp and flesh of peach
or apple that draws on the soil, but
he stone and seeds. The way to OBJ
tain large and fair fruit is by rigid
trimming. Pruning apple trees should
not be- done in such manner as to
produce low, saucer-shapcd trees
They should be allowed to grow as
high as they will. In this way only
can they strike their roots deeply into
the soil. Superfuous roots may be
removed at any time, but bottle OF
shellac should ALWAYS be ready with
which to varnish the stump to protect
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Good Fowls for Laying.

A noted writer on fowls says: "For
laying hens, select large, strong,
healthy birds Of the Leghorn varieties
with large square bodies, without re-
gard to fine points, such as pure white
fat ear lobes, or very yellow legs, or
combs with just five points, or plum
age that is perfectly white in the
white variety, or without white
speck in the brown. 1t is not that
these points are any deriment to the
health or the vigor of the birds, but
constitution has been too often sacri-
feed to them, which often results in a
strain of enfeebled though handsome
fowls, The Leghorns are acclimated
American breeds, which originated
from birds brought from the Medite-
ranean, and they have been improved
in This country by circumstances that
have given them pre-eminent posi-
ton for the farmer, when birds such
as are above recommended are select
ed" In regard to fowls for market he
adds: "Other breeds or crosses from
them, are much better than the Leg
horns, or any of the smaller breeds.
Chickens that are the result Of Dor
kin cock and Brahma hens are large,
and mature much earlier. than the
other. Moreover they are hardy !,
fieshv, tender and fine-navored. Hon.
dams in place of Dorkings are also
good to cross on Brahmas, or to breed
with the aforementioned cross, as they
keep up size aud quality.
plymouth Rocks are also good ia
bly, fowls, and are good to cross with
the above"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Beet-7oot Sugar.

Experiments on somewhat extend
ed scale have been begun in Canada
for the production of beet-root sugar.
Silesian beet roots have been planted
and found to produce an average Of
from twenty to twenty-five tons OF
beets per acre. Some tons of the roots
shipped to Germany have been found
equal in sugar-produeing quality to the
beets grown in ahat country. The
Quebec Government has granted bo-
aus of $4,000 to aid the establishment
of beet-sugar factory in that prov
ince, and proposition is under con-
sideration for the establishment of a
similar factory in Ontario, with ca
pacity of $50 tons per day, and at a
cost of $350,000. Such an establish
ment would employ 600 workmen
The experiment is likely to be tried in
both provinces.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Mich Cows.

Too many cows, as proved by good
witnesses from the ranks of dairy
men, are kept that DO not pay the
cost of keeping. This is poor econo-
my. Every COW should be tested BY
carefully kept record Of her produce
in order TO determine whether she is
worth keeping for her milk produc
tien. More attention and care should
be paid to breeding. Breed only from
the best, and to bulls selected from
good milking families. No dairyman
should underrate the importance OF
good and abundant feed for cows:
good shelter should by all means be
provided. An Illinois dairyman says
a milk producer can afford to sell milk
for eight and half cents gallon. a
man with farm of 100 acres can keel
fifty cows that will average three gal
Ions day for nine months, that is to
say. ninety gallons month, or SIC
gallons for nine months; thus realiz
ing from each COW sos 50, and from
the City cows G3,442.50. Call th,
land worth $50per acre, aud the cow
worth $50 per head, and the aggregate
capital inveted would be $l0,500. All
ter a deduction of ten per cent. Oh
the capital for interest and flakes
there would be left So 1872 80 for labor
Thus we can figure up a living in
come to the farmer from the milk
product of fifty good COWS. The but
ter and cheese product would prob
ably be as large, under favorable cir
cumstances, as near a market.--Spirtt
of Kansas.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
The Grain Crop Of 1877.

The grain crop of France for 1877
falls short of the average of former
years some Eve per cent. That of
Great Britain is perhaps fifteen per
cent. short. In parts of Italy it was
fully thirty per cent. short, while in
other provinces the crops were excel
lent. The German Empire shows an
average decline of about eleven per
cent. Austria shows an immense ex-
cess over former years, while in Hun
gary The crops were extremely satisfac-
tory. In Russia, the great rival of the
United States, the returns vary ac-
cording TO localities. In Poland, on
the Yistula, the crops fall far short,
but throughout Central and Southern
Russia the wheat crop was full TWEEN
ty-fve per cent. in excess of the re-
turns of 1876.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Lamsness in Sheep.

The principal part of the body is
supported by the heel or back part of
the foot. The front point is, fIom its
pointed nature, well adapted to pre-
serve the foothold and prevent slip
ping, particularly in descending robky
declcvities; ard in such situations,
and particularly if the animal has to
travel, the wear of the horn at the toe
is equal to its growth. But in wet
pastures, or on soft soil, the growth
of the toe is much greater than the
wear, and consequently this part often
grows extremely long and irregular,
SO that it separates from the quick
aud dirt insinuates and lameness and
a troublesome wound are the conse-
quences, sometimes leading to foot
rot This might be prevented by cut
ting OF the superfluous horn with a
knife.
The foot Of the sheep often becomes
sore from travelling, particularly on
sandy roads. La this case it is the
heels. and the skin between them that
suffer; but timely rest will set the
matter right, and little oil of tar
may be applied to the wound.
Sometimes the biflex canal Gan in
Election of the skin between the digits
above the clefts OF the hoof) becomes
the seate of disease and the cause of
lameuess; sand may penetrate, or the |
parts may be chaied by much walking |
in the dirt, and inflammation and ulcer
alton are the consequences. This part |
may be cleansed and dressed with I
tincture myrrh and tincture of aloes. /
eqtal parJs mixed. II proud flesh
forms, it should be kept nown by
few applications with a feather) of
muriate of ammonia.
These various injuries often prove
very troublesome, from the circum-
stances of the sheep being exposed
particularly in the fall of the year. TO
dirt and moisture and the vicissi-
ludes of the weather, and sometimes
prove the forerunner of still more
troublesome malady-the foot-rot.-
Prairie Farmer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Money in Sweet Corn.

An Ohio farmer grows over 50(
acres of this crop annually. The dry
ing house employs fifty persons. The
fresh cars are steamed five minutes to
sset the milk !" the grain is then cut
off rapidly with cutters having con
clave faces; then spread on perforated
zinc tables, and heat applied four OF
FIVE hours from long furnaces, stirring
constantly; then packed in barrels
three bushels in each. for shipment
Great care is required to have the corr
of the right age, and to have it dried
enough to keep well. Four bushels
of corn on the cob make one bushe
dried, the wholesale price of which il
$40 and $22 per barrel.-Our American
Farmer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21

The surface of the Country about evenly divided between Bottom
Lands and unduang Uplands. The Climate is healthy and
especially adapted for the relief Of Pulmonary
and Bronchial Diseases.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
A Lessen in Cow Milking.

A market gardener had very fn'
COW that was MIXED week Bfter weel
by hired men. He observed that thu
amount of butter he carried to marke
weighed about pound more on eacl
alternate week. He watched the mel
and tried the COW after they had fin
ished milking, but always found thai
there was no milk left in the teats. IL,
finally asked the Scotch girl who tool
care of the milk if she could account
for the difference.
"Why, yes, she says. "When jim
miiks he says to the old cow, so my
pretty muley, SOP But when San
milks he hits her on the hip with the
edge of the pail and says, Hist you old
brute 2"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Cure for Sweeny.

Ihave used the following many times
in the last forty years, and never knew
it to fall,
Take twelve ounces of salt pork /;
fry the grease from it thoro ughy /;
dissolve three handfuls of salt in the
hot grease; take three hens eggs
bruise them fine, shells and all I; stir
thoroughly with the grease and sail
when warm enough to dissolve the
eggs, but not to cook. Apply to the
part affected every other day until you
see an improvement; then as often as
you think best. Warm it in well with
a red hot shovel after each application
l have never known this to fail. Usu-
ally two or three applications will
curp
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
Fattsning Poultry for Market.

About fatteniug turkeys for market
the Poultry World observes that we
ought not to shut up turkeys designed
to be brought to their greatest weight
and says:
"While ducks, geese, and chickens,
especially the latter, can really be fat
tened in confinement, and in fact, fat
ten more readily that way, turkeys sell
dom, If ever, do well when cooped up
for that purpose; and in many cases
they grow poorer daily, instead of
gaining in fat and &c h. We know of
a party who had an extra fine bronze
gobbler, weighing some forty-seven
pounds, and twenty-five dollars was
offered for him if he would draw fifty
pounds by Christmas then about three
weeks distant. lie was at once put
into . roomy inclosure-au old corn
crib-and fed literally on the best and
most wholesome food. But when he
was put on the scales, about four or
five days before Christmas, he pulled
but thirty-two pounds. Had he been
fed outside, aud had full liberty, we
believe he would have readily gained
full the extra three pounds, instead
of lowering his weight SO material
ly."
The best way TO fatten turkeys is TO
keep them growing rapidly from the
start by feeding them literally, often
and at regular intervals. Let them
have their liberty, so they can get their
accustomed feed of bugs, worms and
grass. and give them, morning and
night. liberal feeds of mush, made b.
boiling and scalding coarse corn meal.
Keep, also, a trough in some convent
ent place, in the shade, in which put
daily supplies of thick (claobered)
milk
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21

900 choice Farm Land 49, go 6O 200
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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21
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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-03-21

The English weather boot" consists
of waterproof kid. 1t reaches to the
garter and has an elastic strap on both
sides, and within the strap a delicate
band of kid, lined with waterproof
material also. The soles are q quar-
ter of an inch in thickness, being of
cork in the center and of leather above
and below the cork. Unless the heel
fits the weather-boot is an instrument
of torture.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28
CoURToF COMMON PLEAS

Lizzie Deloye vs. George Blanc, IT,, bastardy,
tried TO Jury ana verdict OF guilty,
Pltney Teeple VS.. HOratlo Geeting OF al, oogno'
w.t. judgment by confession for 1884, and costs,
On motion Of FreRse & Case an attachment was
Issued against Bernard McCue for contempt Gf
Court In not answering To a subpoena issued In
the case OF John Jacobs vs.. Michael Gonder.
Edwin X Pepper vs., VIM, Baxter, civil action
trial to jury and verdict for defendant,
Paul ]. Gaume vs, Henry C, Ellison, civil &C.
ton, defendant enjolned for selling lot Il in Tee.
ters, Lamborn g. Co.'S addition to Alliance until
further order Of court,
william Brlnktr Va. Alliance Loan and Build.
ing Association, civil action dismissed by plaintiff
at his own costs.
In the matter OF the A. L. K. & W. r. R. va. Enos
BrosIus the court refused to frant an injunction
against the sale Of the road.
strouse, Loeb & Co, VS., B, r. Meier & Co.. civil
action default judgment for plaintiffs for 5000
and costs.
Ohio vs, saunies, burglary and grand larceny
left of trial docket.
Ohio VS., Henry Smith, burglary and grand lar.
ceny left of trial docket
Ohio VS.. franklin Hostetter, OF al, burglary
and larceny; left of trial docket
Ohio vs., John saylOr jr., burglary defendant
arraigned and pleads not guilty, trial set for first
Monday in March.
The case Of Ohio vs.. James Boyle murder In
second degree, set for trial Wednesday, March O..
1878
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28
PERSONALS.

Chas. r, Lang Is one OF the choir at 81. AIMS
Cathedral, New York. ....r.
Up. Miller has received government appoint
ment as welgher Of mails on the p, Ft W. d c.
RR.
John staub, formerly OF Canton, has bought
land, and located at Wellington, Sumner county,
Kansas,
Jacob Kienze, formerly Of the Safe Works, now
Of Cincinnati has aled petition In voluntary
bankruptcy.
Young Howard Roper Ia back home, Bound I'm
mind and body, after years treatment at the
Newburgh Asylum,
The Cincinnati Commercial says that CassIus
Miller, Of this city has filed a petition asking a
discharge In bankruptcy.
Prof. Woods, Of Mount Unlon College, lectured
on Roman Catholicism at Millersburgh the other
night, Prof W, used TO be Catholic himself.
Three OF our merchants have branch stores
abroad, W, B. Deweese at Liverpool, R. A. DeFor-
est at Mansfield and r, A, Hayward at Wooster.
j. II, Bacon, the successful competitor for the
West Point Gadetshlp, seems to DO made Of the
right kind of stun. He was In his second year at
oberlin College. His mother is widow lady, and
young Bacon had earned his own way, mainly by
teaching.
Pletro Cuneo, rative ofItaly, and formerly an
employe In the Aultman Shops, now an editor in
Upper sandusky, lectured in Temperance Hall
Friday night In the photographer vein, oom-
prislng his experience In two hemlspheIes He
had an appreciatlve audience, containing many
OF his old shop comrades, who greatly enjoyed
the retrospect s painted by their old friend Peter
Jacob Miller and wife and Henry shGnGfelt and
wife started for Florida, Tuesday The partieR
seek the beneAto Of climate for health.
Cox, Webster, Hershey and Keeier have reoE.
ganized the quartette club.
Capt, James Or having gone 10 Youngstown,
Company + will have to elect new captain.
Major Frank Baird, Of Canton, Vice President
OF the State Christian Temperance Union, and q
moSt eloquent orator, delivered series Of tenn.
perance lectures at the Tabernacle on Friday, Sat-
urday, Sunday and Monday evening" TheBa
lectures were forcible, logical, thrilling and In
tensely eloquent. Major Baird possesses wonder
full evolutionary powers, and he was frequently
greeted with loud and continued applause. He
is great favorite of our people, and will always
meet warm welcome at their hands He has
been engaged by Mr. Dopn to speak at East
Ceveland,- Cleveland Plain Dealer, Feb 2Sd.
H, D. shafer, late P, NJ, left on Monday, Of last
week. for Hayes Oity, Kansas. During the week
fifteen others left the Canton depot for the same
destination
Frank Campbell has gone to Canon City Colo
RADIO, to assist in the Reynolds Bros Bank at that
place
Miss Emma Stover daughter OF Samuel Slower
ESQ., left for Washington City to day, probably to
make it her future home.
Billy human has gone to New York on bust
ness. He expects to return on Saturday, and will
start out on the road on Monday as travelling
salesman for frst.Class wholesale house. Sue
cess attend you, Billy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28

CANTON DAILIEs-All At once II has been dis.
covered that the intellectual cravings OF our city
have not been properly ministered 10, and the
'long felt want Is suddenly TO be remedied by
two daily papers, The Journal has been coming
out daily for a number Of weeks, and claimed
that II was growing lin strength and patronage
from day TO day TO such an extent that II presum
cd To set up sort OF priority OF claim 10 the dis
Coyery that Canton could support daily paper
It's sheet, however, was small, involving compare
lively little expense and there were those who
said that its continued existence could hardly be
regarded as conclusive illustration OF the fact
that there was forage enough hereabouts to fatten
a full ledged daily which was willing to pay for
latest telegraphic reports and the other expensive
appurtensnCes that characterize genuine daily
paper But now the Repository stimulated To some
extent perhaps by the apparent.success OF the
Journal comes to the front with sheet Of respect
able appearance, half the size of its weekly edl'
ton and proposes to show that a real daily can
live and thrive In Canton. Being published at
the same price as the JOurnGl the latter very ma
turaly seems Ill at ease with this invasion of Its
daily domain.
While we in common with others, shall take
some interest in watching the progress Of these
experiments, hoping always for the success Of
well applied efforts in the newspaper line, we do
not, at present, feel called upon to issue a daily
DEMOCRAT. We shall move along in the even
tenor OF our way no less than ever full OF the as
suranCe that reading and discriminating people
will not feel that 1t has satisfactory grasp upon
the weeks doinga until It shall have read the col
umns OF the old DEMOCRAT. Dallies are well
enough In their way, even In smaller towns and
cities, but no daily paper can ever take that place
In the family and at the ireside which is accredit
ed to the well digested weekly paper
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28
TO BUSINESS MEN.

IWish TO state to business men
that l am prepared to do ALL
KINDS OF JOB PRINTING In
STRICTLY FIRST -CLASSSTYLE
as LOW AS THE LOWEST. My
stock Of type issurpassed by none,
and l say to those Business men
who desire JOB PRINTING,
PLAIN OR IN COLORS, to GIVE
ME A CALL, and l assure them
they will go away satisfied, both
as to the prices charged and the
quality of the work.
VIM. MCGREGOR.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28

THE EARLIEs FIRE-In Canton, at least Of a
building Of value was probably the residence Of
Joseph Hartman, a frame where now stands the
Lutheran parsonage on West TuscsraWas street.
The fire occarred in July or August 1885, not 1925
as the Repository says. The old jail, corner OF
Third and Market streets, occupied at the time by
the late Thomas Cunningham as a cabinet or car
penter shop, was burned in July, 1895 not $780,
as says the Rep. The DEMOCRAT Office Wasburned
in 1885, probably in May or June The building
stood on the lot owned by Louis Koons, corner
Tuscarawas and Walnut, about where the old
frame dwelling with shed roof now stands The
DEMOCRAT when burned, was owned by William
Dunbar ESQ. now residing in Mt, Venom A lit
tie more care should be exercised by the RepOsi-
tory writer to get these details correct.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-02-28
F0OLLNG THE BRLLERS ON THE WEDDING
NIGHT,

Ayoung couple residing few miles south Of
Mt. Union, few weeks since found balm for their
wounded hearts at the altar OF Hymen. On the
wedding night they had reason to anticipate a
real old-fashloned charlvari, with hornP, COW
bells, and big horse fiddle, &C., to disturb their
quiet repose. And then, too the blnshing bride
must be led out 10 be seen and admired Of rough
men and boys who composed the band of serena.
dersl The thought was labhorent to the groom
and appalling 10 the brldel How avoid the try.
Ing ordeal2 But the bridegroom was not lacking
in expedientB. A happy thought struck him by
which he could outwit the "boys." He suggested
his plan, He would take the bride out to the
barn and lock her up in the granRry, safe from
the inquisiuve eyes Of the serenadeIs, while he
would go to bed aud pretend to sleep, until they
had departed. His plan was carried out The
bride was safely locked In the granary, and the
hewly.made benedict snugly tucked away In the
bridal couch, "pretsnding" to sleep and waiting
for the serenaders. sudden hubbub In
another part OF the house aroused him. He
opened his eyes to and the sun brightly shining
in his chamber window, and q very angry and
much soied bride to appease for having allowed
her to pass the entire night IN tho gr0nary among
the rats and mice, while he occupied the bridal
couch alone, and slept the sleep of innocence and
peace. 1t appears that some of the neighbOrs
passing by early In the morning had been at.
tracted by most alarming noise in the barn, and
on instituting inquiry had discovered ana released
the bride from her imprisonment. We didn't
learn the basis of the settlement, but presume
that It was satisfactory for we observed the happy
pair in town the other day as loving as two young
kittens.-ARidnce ReuieO