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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
Principles Of Modern Dairy Farming.

Modern dairy farming, says the Hon.
Hiram Smith, of Wisconsin, starts out
with keeping one cow on four acres,
and this should be the password to
every dairy lodge-"one COW to four
acres;" and this should he rapidly re-
duced until the undoubted possibility is
reached of keeping one to every acre.
One of the principals of modern dairy
farming is to have our cows give most
milk when dairy goods are at the high
est price, which is invariably in the win
ter. 1t has been repeatedly demon
strated that a good herd of cows coming
into milk in September, October and No
vember will, in the average, give from
1850 to 5000 pounds of milk annually.
This milk is worth, to sell at factory,
or to manufacture into butter or cheese,
$1.30 per hundred pounds, or $3.50
as the average for each cow. In other
words, dairy farming with one COW to
eight acres on 160 acres produces ST.
160; modern dairy farming with one
cow to four acres, produces $1,000, an
increase of 81 800 by an outlay for feed
and help-a net profit of S64O, a sum
sufficient to raise the price of land from
$50 per acre to 800 per acre.
A fundamental condition of success
full farming is large crops of corn, not
less than two acres of fodder and four
acres of field corn for every ten COWS,
or total of twenty-four acres for forty
COWS. All the manure of the farm
should be evenly placed on these twen-
ty-four acres during the winter, and the
and plowed previous to the 10th of May
and thoroughly narrowed the corn
planted Immediately thereafter with a
horse drill, the rows three and one-half
feet apart, and the kernels from seven
% nine inches apart, and cultivated
well before the corn comes up with
4 fine-tooth harrow. Frequently there
after cultivate until the 10th of
July, at which time if the work
nas been honestly done, it will be free
from weeds with never a hoe in the
field, and is almost certain to produce
fifty bushels per acre of shelled corn
and thirty tons of fodder. 1t takes less
abor to raise twenty-four acres of corn
as described above, than to raise half
hat amount planted in hills and the
cultivation deferred until you can see
The rows,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
TopnOOdy.

Mr.. Topnoody came home early
Wednesday evening, and as his wife had
not begun ersupper arrangements, he
sat down near her and said:
'sMy dear had a minute for refleo-
ton in my Office to-day, and thought
I'd write some poetry on home"
Drinking again, 1 suppose" she
answered significantly.
You should not talk that way, 10y
dear, for home is word that touches
the hardesthearts and brings back mens-
ories as sweet as heavenly music. But
listen, my dear:
''Cling to thy homel If there the meanest shea,
Yield thee hearth and shelter for thy head
And some poor plot with vegetables storc6.-"
Topnoody,' interrupted his wife,
ssdid YOU see that man about spadipg
up the garden?''
"No, dear, but hear the rest Of
this:
BE all that heaven allots the for thy board.
Unsavory bread and herbs that scattered grow
Wild on the river bank or mountain brow"
did you nail that paling on told
you to this morning?" again inter-
rupted Mrs. T.
mo, my dear, but let me finish:
"Yet cen this cherries mansion shall provi.ie
More heart repose than all the world beside
..Is that ALP she asked.
Eyes, my dear
'.Well, I'm glad of it. And nov 20
back down town and see that ms q
about the garden, and get some meat
for supper, and hurry back and nail Sn
that paling, and get me a bucket Of
water, and carry in the coal and kirt-
limo. and grind the coffee, and not sit
around and see your poor wife wear
herself out trying to make home some-
thing like. think when man has
nothing else to do but write poetry, he
had better hire out to maui rails and
let somebody take his place as the head
of the family who knows what his
duties are, and will attend to them in
stead of wasting his time trying to be a
poet. don't believe you wrote that,
anyhow, and L" but Topnoody was
gone, and the poor woman went out in
to the kitchen to make home ''some-
thing like. THE Drummer.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

LOSSES by fire on the Goth were the Ham
ilton Rail Mill, Fond du Lac, Wis, $14, 600;
Dutton's -four mill, Vermillion, Ind, $12,-
900, glass-works in Wallingford, Conn.,,
$25 900; railway depot, Fort Wayne, Ind,
s., 1000.
KATE KANE, the Milwaukee lawyer, has
completed her thirty days sentence for
throwing a glass of water in Judge NAL
loy's face. Her friends took her away
from the Jail in a carriage and presented
her with purse.
Two hundred Chicago sports went-over
into Indiana to witness prize fight on the
Goth. The principals were Thomas Lynch
and James Walsh. Fhirty-nine rounds
were fought. Lynch was victorious. The
principals, their seconds and several of the
spectators were arrested upon their return
to the city.
MRS. JOHANNA LONG attempted to drown
herself in Philadelphia few days ago.
She was rescued, and ST 800 in gold and
bank notes, and bank book with $2,522 to
her credit were found on her.
| Ex-TREAsURER SoUTHwoRTH, of Phila-
delphia, is charged with misappropriating
$16,S0O.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that the limitation of eighty-five per cent,
! in Schedule ''F" of the new Tariff act, re-
lating to the duty on leaf tobacco, refers to
each package, and not to the whole number
of packages covered by the invoice.
Roscoe CoNKLING says he spoke without
premeditation at the Saturday night club
dinner in New York, and had no idea that
he was being reported. Howard Carroll, of
the Times, was present, but as a guest
! fN,-,, ,1o,,, l,a4-
construction was put upon his allusion to
President Arthur, and he is grieved that
his conversational remarks should have
been construed as having political pur-
pose.
A BERLIN dispatch says the official bull
letins regarding Bismarck's health should
; be received with caution. He is much af-
| fected by political disappointments, and
suffers great pain, but he objects to the
issuing of alarming bulletins.
In Memphis, Tenn, few days ago,
young Patrick Haley was chastised. by his
father upon complaint of the colored sex
ton of'Avery Chapel, who was seventy-five
years old. A short time afterward the
youth attacked the old sexton and cut off
his head with butcher-knife.
LATEST accounts of the cyclone, which
swept over Wisconsin and Illinois, are ap-
Ipalling. There are fifty-four reported in
Illinois thus far as killed, and several hun
dred as injured. 1t is not likely that the
fatalities have all become known, owing to
the delay which the storm has caused in
communication. The amount of property
destroyed can not be estimated. There is
the most complete destruction among the
storms entire track.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
What Thirteen Women Had to Say Over
Fallen Horse.

Thirteen women and one man oc-
cupied seats in street-car coming
down town on Saturday. The Old Con.
ductor was just telling how half-a-
dozen of the boys had retired with for
tunes after an experience of only two
years on the line, when the driver
wound up his brake and brought the
car up with a jerk. The Old Con-
ductor showed up his sleeves, forced
his hat down hard on the back of his
head, cleared the back platform with a
. bound, and ran up forward to see what
was up. All the women inside the cal
jumped to their feet, and then the en-
tertainment began.
"Why, it's a poor horse" exclaimed
one woman, looking around at the
others.
$50 it is," said another, "and he's
fallen down hole.'
"Poor thing! and the cart has run
over him, too"
eyes, and if he's fallen down hole
they'll have hard time to get him up. y
'No, he hasn't fallen down hola
He's fallen down. that's ALL
80, the poor horse. Iwonder if he's
hurt
81 do believe he's dead.'
mo, he isn't dead. just see him wae
his tall
'Why don't the men back the cart of
of himP''
"They can't; don't you see he's fal.
len on the shaft?''
I" never did see such lazy set Of
men. Why don't they do something
| just wish was man."
"Why don't they cut the harness.
Did you eUer?"
8" don't believe a single one of then
has got knife! o, just hear that con
ductor swearr'
Then there was peace in the car fol
a moment. The harness was unbucklet
and the old conductor and half-a-dozer
men seized the cart and rolled it off thu
track. The woman watched all this il
silence and the solitary man in th'
corner went to sleep. Then they brok'
out again:
Well, they hare done it at last"
go, Just see that man kick that poor
poor horse. Isn't it just too brutal fo
anythingP"
II do believe he is dead. They cam
make him stir one bit. H1lf
"They will kick his ribs in just a
sure" ~ Fssa.
"See that aaDful man with the whip
just wish the poor horse would bit
him."
8. There, now he is getting up. Well
did you ecer see such a looking thingp
do believe he was too weak to stand.
"Why, you can almost see through
him."
"They oughn't to let such looking
horse as that out. He's senough to scar
people"
Well, if I'd known he was such
shadow as that I wouldn't have beel
wasting my sympathy"
Just then the old conductor rang tn
bell and the car started off down tn
street with rush. The man in tn
corner woke up and the women settles
back in their seats and watched tn
horse until he had been left behind ou
of sight.-Philadelphia Times.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
THE DAIRY.

Though sudden changes in milk,
cream or butter are not conducive to
.he highest quality or longest keeping,
yet rapid refrigeration as rule brings
The best practical results, because it
makes a more perfect separation of
cream than slow cooling, and saves
lime and expense in working, and thus
reduces cost.-Prof. Araold.
The Elgin creamery buys the milk
Of 800 to 1000 cows from large dairies
lear the city. The best mode in such
case is to set the milk in large vats
and cool vigorously with iced water to
hurry the separation of the cream and
10 il with the least expense, but in new
and sparsely settled localities it is bet
;er to cream the milk It the farm in
small vessels, with only such refrigera-
ion as the farm affords, and to send
only the cream to the factory.
The very finest butter is made by
setting shallow in a pure and only
moderately cool air, yet this method is
1ot best for general use, because it
calls for too much room, too much
hbor, and too much time and expense,
% be acceptable or profitable for those
=" LIZ nave HHuCH U11lh W uduulc.
Though the butter light be very choice,
t.would be too expensive to compete
wish butter nearly as good, but made
with one-quarter of the labor and ex:
2ense and in half the ime.-Erchange.
White specks in butter, says g
dairyman, are caused by a too rapid
souring of the milk, or by keeping the
cream in too warm place. The cream
should be stirred every day as fresh
cream is added to it. When fresh cream
containing more or less milk, is mixec
with that which has been skinned pre-
viously and has become somewhat sour
the milk is at once curdled, and the
small flakes of curd become enclosed
rnlmasses of cream which is quite i'm
possible to separate from the butter
after churning. Careful management
Of the cream is the best preventive.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
puNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

When a man is led around by the
nose, there is no difficulty in pointing
2ut his leading feature.-Bostoaa Trans
,ript.
The difference between male 'f1irt
and a lamp cleaner lies in the fact that
one is up to women tricks, and the
other to trimInin' wicks.
mo wonder" said the doctor,
'sthe child is sick all the time. 1t has
both its grandmothers and grandfathers
and candy store all in the same
block. boston Post.
1t is said that Thackeray. never
oreakfasted until nine o'clock, although
he arose four hours earlier. He must
have lost his collar button. with reckless
.egularity.-M 2. Advertiser.
The old proverb has it: "a man
ioes not look behind door unless he
has stood there himself" But does the
same logic hold good when we say that
every man looks under his bed before
he goes to sleepP-M r Herald.
Pathological research develops the
fact that the word "dude' is pronounced.
'dewdee" Poets who have been rhym-
ing it with crude, ~ ''crude, ''snood,"
ETC., can now change their termination
to ''booby," woody" '.goody," OF
anything else that's applicable.-M r
Advertiser. e ss
Visiting Briton-" Ya-as, Miss Wosa-
lind, but your politicians aware lot
Of blawsted cads, y'knaw. You are
aw-wuled by set of wiotous wascals
whom you wouldn't dweam of-aw-
inviting to your house." Rosalind-
True; but in England you are governed
by persons who wouldn't dream of in
viting you to theirs. Life.
1T is really quite amusing" re-
marked New York dude after landing
in Philadelphia, 81 am used to being
admired by the women, You know, but
to-day as came down the steps of the
Broad Street Station dozen men began
exclaiming: Hanson! hanson! ham
som!' in such loud tone of voice that ]
could not help ovcrhearing. "-Phila-
1elphia NeaDs. ss
Herr Bretzel (who has Just had
telephone put up, calls for the repairei
next day)-'.Look-a-here. my vrent,
didn't you dole me dot dellervone
shbeak. .Cherman unit converse in Cher.
manp" Repairer-"Yes,s sir. Herr B.
Veil, py chiminetty, / dalk Cherman
to dot dellervone yesterday, mid bolide-
ness, unit py unit py it say: Hello,
Phawt the divil air ye jabberfnp Come
off, ye ould Dutchy.' I tond't allow no
dellervone to sass me dot way. Donner.
himmel! Dake i'd avay.-Ltfe."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
business cards # i've lines or less. g per annum.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

u
There was, says DIR. John Culinary
Shea, a colony of Dominican Monks in
Virginia one hundred and fifty years
before Plymouth Kock was discovered
The First Baptist Church OF CHI
sago will be fifty years old next Octo-
ger and there will be an appropriate
celebration and jubilee. Chicago Trio
me.
There is good authority for the
statement that Japan and Greece each
spend more money for common schools
n proportion to their wealth tnan 1ne
United States.-Chscdgo Times.
The will of the late j. N. Hunger
ford, of Corning, N. =, bequeaths
$4,000 to Hamilton College, In addl-
ion to $15. 900 given by him to that In
stitution year or more ago. 81 ~
1T, is estimated that there are
,welye hundred towns west of the Mis-
,issippi River without churches or regu-
lar preaching of any kind, Yet young
men say there is no room Tor Them
N. Y. Examiner. soS " si29 -
e The Hartford public high school Is
to have a new equatorial telescope with
an object glass of nine and one-third
inches aperture. This is the most
powerful glass in any high school in
the country and few colleges have any
more powerful.-New Hauen Register.
The philadelphia Record goes in, for
sending the pauper children in the poor
houses to the public schools It holds
that if the State can educate the chill
1ren of those who are able to pay for it,
it is hundred times the duty of the
State to educate the unfortunate chill
iren who have no one to pay for their
tuition. ff8aET.I{ Is
The State authorities of Vermont
have come into possession of a beouest
If S2OO. .O00 made for fhe benefit OF the
oor,non sohools hu tho late Arnaban
Huntington, of Brantford, Canada. Mr..
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
Dairying in the Northwest.

1t is not worth while to dwell upon
the statistics of the growth of dairying,
which have been repeatedly made pub
Tic. This is no longer an ''infant in
1ustry,,,' which needs to assure the
world of its yearly growth by period
ical use of the measuring tape. Its
concern is now with practical matters
Of detail.
1t has been pointed out that no Other
employment can be SO advantageously
combined with the cultivation of the
soil as dairying. To the limited extent
of satisfying household consumption,
every farm is made a dairy farm, and
there are few which do not furnish to
the market limited amount of dairy
produce, to aid in supplying the farmer
with those necessaries which his soil
will not produce. But the greatest ad.
vantages attend a judicious extension
Of this practice, until what is known as
mixed farming is the result. The de.
mand for one sort of produce is as per-
manent as for the other. The field OF
supply must always be largely local.
the nature of the product making its
transportation to any distance without
deterioration of quality a matter oi
difficulty. The work of the dairy inter
feres but little with that of the farm,
while its returns may diminish, but
never cease with all the changes
Of the seasons. Stock raising be-
comes anincidental part of the business,
and contributes materially to swell its
profits. And finally, the return is boun-
teous comprising the value of the dairy
products proper, the constant increase
Of stock and the addition to the soil OF
fertilizer of nature S own manufacture
The rapid increase of centers of con.
sumption gives every year new stimu.
tus to the business, and the growth OF
the past is likely to be insignificant ir
comparison with that of the future. II
addition to the local products, cream
cries for the production of butter and
cheese are springing up everywhere, in
which the best appliances are to be
found, and from which the most salts.
factory results are attained. The day
when the unhappy resident of the city
was obliged to content himself with
watered milk, and to swallow with the
best grace he could muster butter that
was the original product of a none toe
cleanly housewife and had spent weeks
in transit from rural remoteness to the
metropolitan table, are numbered with
the past. Increased profit on the one
hand meets increased demand, and the
quality of the product steadily i'm.
proves. There is no change in the in.
1ustry of this section to be hailed
with more satisfaction for its effect upon
production, consumption, profits and
the stable prosperity of agricultural
interests in general, than that particu.
lar diversity which comes from the ex.
tension of the dairying business.-S
Paul Pioneer-PresS.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

"A number of sportsmen have had
constructed at Albany floating cottage
for use on Saratoga Lake the coming
season. The building is of wood, one
story high and rests upon float. The
walls are made in sections and united
with hinges. There are two rooms, and
beneath the floor a tank in which to
keep captured fish. - Troy (M ~
Times
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

An old Indian fighter says there is
a peculiar condition of Arizona at
mosphere, which makes an Indian be-
hind a rock, with Winchester rifle,
look like seven Indians-a double-bar-
relied, repeating Indian, as it we're
Chicago Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

"A child six years of age, who had
no home, father or mother, and who
did not know her name, was charged
with drunkenness in the Buffalo Police
Court the other day.-Bufalo (M "
ETpreSs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

-Gypsies really do steal children out
side of fiction. A Boston small boy
was taken off by strolling band, and
kept ten days before his parents found
him.-Bost0aa Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24
AgnOSticiSm.

Agnoticism is sort of supernatI,i. Isl
knownothingism. 1t is true that tvs
word is not defined in either Webster's s
or Worcester's unabridged dictionaries,
except in the supplements to the latest
editions, and does not appear in tie
popular encyclopedias. 1t is derived
from a Greek word that signifies "to
know not" Agnosticisms, then, AZ
used by Herbert Spencer and his disoi"
pies, is the doctrine that, protesting IL
norance of the supernatural, neither as
serts nor denies the existence of per-
sonal Deity, and claims that such doc.
trine can be neither proved nor disap-
proved, because of the insufficiency OF
the evidence furnished by rational ami
material nature to warrant a. positive
conclusion; or, as others say, because OF
the necessary limits of the human mind,
Agnosticism is opposed both to the posi-
tive assertion of the skeptic, who denies
the existence of personal God, and the
opposite declaration of the Christian
church, or dogmatic theism, affirming
such existence Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-24

Rev. DIR. ]. M. Scudder, of Vellore,
India, wishes that every missionary in
the land were medical man, and urges
the home societies not to send out any
workers who have not at least slight
knowledge of medicine. He visited
two towns for several years in success
sion without gaining the least hold,
apparently, upon the people, when
slight surgical service on his part
opened both their hearts and homes.
This reminds one of the medicine
men" among the aborigines of this
country, who were physicians for both
body and soul.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1883-07-04
sCISSORINGs.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR smokes all over
the White House after visiting hours.
AN aged Indian, who several years
ago renowned his allegiance to the Nez
Perez tribe and became acitizen OF the
United States, died a few days ago at
his home near Lewiston, Nez Perez
county, Idaho, worth about $4,000.
THE publication of a newspaper
article in Philadelphia ON heraldry,
making it appear that many American
families are fairly entitled to use ances-
trail crests, has excited so much interest
that bureau. of information is to be
opened.
AN old clam digger has just died in
New Bedford, Mass, leaving several
thousand dollars in bank, and large
amount of. money hidden away in
tomato cans and under the flooring of
his miserable hovcl, $500 of which was
so badly mutilated as to be worthless.
THE Weldon, n. c., Ne,os says:
"Some time since we published long
unusual Christian name which belongs
to colored man living near here. We
have since heard another, this time a
woman's. 1t is Clarissa Sophronia
Teddy Whitehouse De Appletree Bur
ton"
ALL heirs of wealthy men are not
selfish A few days ago IT was an
nounced that the heirs of Peter Cooper
would double his endowment of Coop
er Institute, and now the heirs of
Amasa Stone, the wealthy citizen of
Cleveland, who made number of
public requests, came forward to per
form an act equally graceful and un-
selfish. It has been discovered that
by the laws of Ohio all the Stone be-
quests are invalid, and that, if they so
wished, the heirs could take the whole
property. But the executors announce
that the requests will be paid without
regard to the amount realized in the
settlement of the estate.
WE take great pleasure in not
ing that murder is not approvedin Los
Angeles. Referring to the brutal at.
tempt of the Chief of Police to assassi-
nate an editor, the Herald of that city
SAYS: The only wonder is that the
Chief should have been so rash and
inconsiderate as to enter a private
office, pistol in hand, as he was seen
to do by girf, eof4positor IN the
adjoining room, and deliberately aim
at the head of citizen "Rash and
inconsiderate is good. "Such an
act" the Herald continues, is unjusti-
fable in an officer of the law or any
body else" That is TO say, murder is
"unjustiiiable." Such preposterous
holiness in condemning crime proves
that the editor of the Herald must be
Drawer than sheep. In conclusion
he says: 1.-THE affair has created Il
profound sensation throughout the
city, where 10th parties Lave been
known for quarter of century, and
all parties express surprise and regret
at its occurrence" "Regret" is a
very strong word.--SsF Alta.