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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
Chicken Cholera.
spirit Of the Farm.

spirit of the Farm.
This is one of the most formidable
and fatal of all fowl diseases, and af-
fects alike all species of fowls, from
pigeons to pea fowls, and all inter-
mediate kinds. 1t often destroys
every fowl on farm, for it is both
contagious and epidemic. 1t is pro-
duced by an accumulation of filth
usually, but once started, it sweeps
through chickens, turkeys, ducks,
and all, regardless of habits and loca-
rion.
1t is peculiar to summer, rarely APP
pearing in winter seasons.
A want of good, pure water isprob-
ably most generally the exciting
cause. This, added to poor and filthy
food, and accumulation of droppings,
fostering, and pouring out effluvia,
will start it generally.
First remove the exciting cause,
clean thoroughly the house, sprinkle
with lime and carbolic acid, white
wash the houses, provide pure and
clean water, with copperas and sui
phuric acid in it, as directed in an
other place, and give the following
mixture:
Spirits turpentine ......."."....".. ounces
Tincture rhubarb .................."...1 ounce
Fluid extract logwood .................1 ounce
| Fluid extract mandrake ...........,...1 ounce
Tincture of opium or laudanum....l ounce
Jannln ......."...".......""..l drachm
Mix.
The dose of this is two teaspoonsful
every two hours, poured down the
throat.
There aremany diseases called chol
era, which are not that fearful dis
ease. 1t may be known by the pale
ness of the comb and gills, and the
dropping of the fowl-a disposition tc
squat about, and a diarrhea. The
diarrNea is first greenish discharges
afterwards watery or soap-suddy
Focal matter showsitself dried around
the fundiment. AS a rule, young
chickens or turkeys first contract thu
disease, and it then spreads to thu
older fowls, Burn all dead ones, o.
bury them foot deep. If the dea(
are allowed to lay around, it vii
spread far more rapidly.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
THE NASHVILLE UNION.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1885.
The Daily Union.

THE UNION, though less than year old 4,
has met with degree of success and gained
friends far in excess of its expectation when
the venture was inaugurated. Those who
have been thus kind in their patronage are
entitled to THE UNIONS profound graft
tude, which it is unnecessary to assure them
is fully accorded. Feeling that the time has
arrived when the public demands require
the issuance of a larger paper, the UNION
has decided to increase TO eight pages, the
first issue making its appearance Jan. |, 1886.
1t has been induced to take this step on &C.
count of the limited space left by generous
advertising public for the publication of the
news. Its news.gathering facilities have
been enlarged and extended, and in quality
and quantity its original articles will be i'm
proved. No portion of the every-widening
field of news will be neglected. The politi-
cal intelligence from Washington as well as
the social gossip at the capital will be full
and complete. A thorough system of state
correspondence has been organized, reaching
out into every nook and corner for the latest
and freshest current events.
The local force has been enlarged, and in
this department it will be the aim of THE
UNION to chronicle all the events OF the
day in Nashville in an entertaining man.
ner. Indeed, the effort will be to make il
the best local paper ever published in the
city.
The financial and commercial columns OF
THE UNION will be kept up to the high
standard that bankers and merchants
throughout its territory have conceded tC
them. Unbiased reports will be given in
this important department of the paper at al
times.
Politically, THE UNION win undergo nc
change in its views. 1t will continue to SUP
port Mr.. Cleveland's administration so lone
as it continues to administer the government
on true Democratic principles. It's utter
ances at all times will be, as heretofore, in
dependent of cliques and rings.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
Vermin on Fowls.
Spirit of the Farm.

Spirit of the Farm.
Four-fifths of all diseases from
which fowls perish are induced and
perpetuated by vermin. No onelook-
ing at hen or cock, droopinga around
with pale gills and feathers reversed,
can tell whether it is cholera or YER
min. The fowl looks as if it had
cholera, and under that impression
we will put medicines in the water
and food. The fowls take it, but the
sickness and deaths continue. If it
be caught, however, and examined,
the cause will quickly be disclosed,
as the bird will be covered with those
minute animalcul@, called mites.
They breed with wonderful rapidly,
and it takes but short time for the
fowl to be absolutely covered. Every
feather on them will haveits colonies
of mites, and the body, legs and
wings, will be flooded with countless
myriads. With so many parasites
sucking their blood, it is not strange
they soon lose all vitality and die.
OF course there are diseases of various
kinds besides these vermin, all in
PRODUCED with the Asiatic fowls. But
these disorders are mangeable-all
durable, and quickly-but the lice
and mites can only be destroyed by
resorting to specific remedies. 1t
will take the closest application and
care for several years to destroy the
breeds of vermin, if it can be done al
all but, without that care and atten-
ton, no one can make a success OF
raising fowls. Even when no houses
are provided, these mites will tasten
on the trees they roost in, on turfs o.
grass in the yard-on everything that
will furnish them a hole or crack tC
hide rld breed in. We had occasion
to Gtice tree in yard-not chick
en-yard, but house-yard-and it ha(
millions Of mites on it. They were
in all the countless hiding-places af
forded by the bark, and it is impossi
BILE to get them out.
There are variousremedies for thes,
pests, but the difficulty of extermina
ting them, and facility of reproduc
ton, renders the job a most trouble
some one. 1t can be done by persist
ence only. Cleanliness is the frs
rule. Keep the house free from thu
deposits made by the fowls, sprinkle
the floor with ashes after each sweep
ing, wash the roosts with lime ant
carbolic acid, or make the whitewasl
of pepper tea; make the rOOsts Xix
trestles, not allowing them to toucl
: the walls, changethenests frequently
or burn them out do not let the nest
touch the walls, but use boxes hall
, filled with earth or sand, dust tn
fowls with insect-powder, or was
them with pOt-liquor, or grease then
, with cOal-oil-these and other meth
2 DDS, persisted in for years, may final
ly eradicate them. Unless they ar
kept down, better kill or sell tn
] fowls, and quit the business.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
Lumber for Posts.
Spirit of the Farm.

Spirit of the Farm.
But few people pay any regard to
the time of year when timber should
be cut for various purposes. That
there is difference is proved by ex-
pertinent after experiment, and it is
very important the timber should be
cut at the proper time for its preser-
walton. For instance, a post intend
ed to be set in the ground should be
cut while free from sap. If cut full,
the sap ferments and starts decompo-
sitiOn. In fact, it will rot under the
surface before it seasons aboveit. The
best time is just after the fall of the
leaf. At this time it is as free from
sap as it everis. Somecut in August,
merely cutting down the tree and
leaving it untrimmed until the leaves
shrivel. Before they do that they
evaporate all the sap from the trunk
and getting no further moisture from
the roots it is said to be more COM
pletely freed from the sap than if cut
after the fall of the leaf. Atall events,
the sap should be out in some way
before setting in theground. Another
precaution should be used. The posts
should be put in with the root end
up. If set as it grew, more or less
moisture will rise by capillary attrac-
ton to the top of the post. But re-
versed, the valves which aid in the
circulation of the sap will prevent the
water from going up. Another good
way is to paint thepart in heground
with coal-tar boiled until it becomes
pitch, put on hot. If put merely on
the surface it soon rots off, but if the
end of the post is set in the kettle and
allowed to remain awhile it will, by
these sap channels arise to insufficient
distance to preserve it for long
time.
A very little labor and precautior
observed thus will prevent the neces
sity of renewing posts fer a Ions
time, while if we fail to do so they
will have to berenewed very often
There are quite variety of woods
which would answerfcr posts if treat
ed in this way. The mulberry is ONT
of the best woods we have for thepur
pose. Oak Of several kinds max,
good ones, such as the white, chin
quapin, commonly called pin oak
post oak and over-cup. The osag
orange is another fine wood for posts
Locust and cedar arc, of course. stan
dardS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
Sorghum for Fodder.

N. J. Shepherd in Journal of Agriculture
Sorghum makes an excellent fod-
der either when fed green or cut and
cured like common corn and then fed
out as wanted.
TO secure the best results a quick
growth is necessary and this of course
can only be secured by having a rich
soil thoroughly prepared. If the soil
is not naturally rich good dressing
of well rotted stable manure applied
after blowing and then thoroughly
worked into the soil will be found
profitable. The ground should be
thoroughly plowed and narrowed
until it is in good filth. prefer to
roll after narrowing thoroughly, so
as to make level and pack evenly. A
seed drill sowing bushel of.seed to
the acre is better than broad casting,
as the work can be done SO much
more evenly. If you have no seed
drill SOW broad cast and then harrow
in. Sorghum seed does not need to
be covered deep, yet requires to be
covered in order to terminate as it
should.
The seed should be reasonably
clean. The first of June is about the
best time to SOW the seed for fodder.
No cultivation is necessary. Invari.
ably in selecting the plot for the crop
secure one that is free from weed OF
grass seed as possible; thecane makes
slow growth at first and in order tc
be sure of the crops not being injured
by growth of weeds and grass rea'
sonably clean land should be select
ed.
Unless the land is thin or the SEA-
son very unfavorable a sufficient
growth will be secured by the middle
of August so that you can commence
cutting off if needed for feeding.
A new crop will start up in short
time which, if allowed to grow, vii
make good fodder before hard fros
can injure it. 1t can be cut at any
time during the fall, but to receive
the most and best feed it is better Il
wait until the seed is fully formed
and then cut and cure and shock up
prefer to let cure at least half day
before shocking up, as if shocked VI
in too large shock it is apt to mil
dew and spoil. Stock of all kind
will eat and relish it. No differen
care is needed than that given com
mon fodder. A much larger quaint
ty can be secured in this way thar
when sown with the intention Q
making into molasses, the stalks G
course will be smaller rand not so higl
but the larger number will more thai
make up for this. AS range feed
is the very best we'have.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
rANDARD- McMINNvILLE TENNESSEE FEB 90 1881

man, proprietor, ofthe Southern Muir
sery, says from his observation, the
peach crop will be a total failure in
Middle and West Tennessee, except
a few favored spots, you will very
rarely see peach bloom this season.
The young wood is badly damaged
and a good many trees will soon show
the effects of the cold spell. Other
fruit trees are possibly uninjured.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
BuckIen'S Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all skin erup>
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunds
ed. Price % cents a hox. For sale
by j. B. Ritchey. (39y1
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
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covered by missionary in South America.
Send a self.addressed envelope to REV.
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Ciu
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
AYERS
Cherry PeCtOral

Is not a new claimant for popular conf
dcnce, but medicine which is to-day
saving the lives of the third generation
who have come into being since 1t was
first offered to the public.
There is not household in which this
invaluable remedy has once been in
troduced where its use has ever been
abandoned, and there is not II person
who has ever given it . proper trial
for any throat or lung disease suscep-
tible of cure, who has not been made
well by 1t.
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL has,
in numberless instances, cured obstinate
cases of chronic Bronchitis, Laryngitis,
and even acute Pneumonia, and has
saved many patients in the earlier stages
of Pulmonary Consumption. 1t is a
medicine that only requires to be taken in
small doses, is pleasant to the taste, and is
needed in every house where there are
children, as there Is nothing SO good as
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL for treat
ment of Group and Whooping Cough.
These are all plain facts, which can be
verified by anybody, and should be re-
membered by everybody.
Ayers Cherry PeCtOraI,
PREPARED BY
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Sold by all Druggists.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-02-20
Safeguard.

The fatal rapidity with which slight
Colds and Coughs frequently develop
into the gravest maladies Of the throat
and lungs, Is consideration which should
impel every prudent person to keep at
hand, as u household remedy, bottle of
AYERS CHERRY PICTORIAL.
Nothing else giYss such immediate relief
and works so sure cure In all affections
Of this class. That eminent physician,
Prof. T, Sweetzer, of the Maine Medical
School, Brunswick, Me-, says:-
"Medical science has produced no other ano-
dyne expectorant so good as AYERS CHERRY
PICTORIAL. Ii is invaluable for diseases Of the
throat and lungs"
The same opinion is expressed by the
well-Lnown DR.. l.. j. Addison, of Chicago,
ILL.,, who SAYS
~ have never found, in thirty five years of
continuous study and practice Of medicine, any
preparation of 80 great value as AYERS CHERRY
PECToRAL, for treatment of diseases of the
throat and lungs. 1t not only breaks up colds
and cures severe coughs, but is more effective
than anything else in relieving even the most
serious bronchial and pulmonary affections"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
THE RED FLAG MUST GO.

The flag has been waved once to
often in Chicago. The foreign dew
lis who incite murder and despise law
have produced the legitimate fruits
of their propaganda. This murder
of policeman by means of dynamite
bombs, cannot be allowed to pass,
without calling to account the men
who have been urging such crimes.
One of these villains was in the act
of addressing the mob when the rep
resentatives of the law were passing
by in the exercise of their duty and the
bombs were thrown from hands close
beside him. Spier, the orator, should
be made an example of, and without
delay. 1t is no time for half meas
ures. The desperate act was what
might have been expected.
The red flag appears in the labor
troubles, as matter of course.
Among the drunken crowd of strikers
before the Mccormick reaper works
in Chicago there were enough anarch
lists to incite violence later in the
day the same set of men tried to hans
policeman, dragging him out of I
house where he had gone to carr,
home a wounded st-ikel, hundred
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10

on prohibition, although there was
neither tariff nor a temperance
measure before them. The tariff de-
bate was sprung in connection with
steamship subsidies. Senator Beck
wanted free ships if they carried the
mail faster than American vessels.
He contended that there was no pat
riotism in trade. Said he eff Gen
eral Lee were living and kept a store
in Richmond, with General Butler
next door to him, although Butler
was never favorite with the women
of the South, if he would sell cali
Goes one half Il cent yard cheaper
than General Lee, he would ruin
General Lees business in less than
six months.
The senator from New Hampshire,
Mr.. Blair, who talked temperance to
the senate,is best known through the
great educational bill, which he fol-
mulated and introduced. In speak
ing on his proposed constitutional
amendment, prohibiting the manu-
facture or sale of alcoholic liquors as
beverages, he said, whenever the gen
eral welfare was impaired or threat
ened by an existing Oh impending evil,
it was the duty of society through the
agency of the government, to enact
and enforce laws to restrict or de-
troy that evil.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
RIOT AT CHICAGO.

A meeting of Socialists was held
in Chicago Tuesday evening, and fin
ally resulted in a mob in the streets.
The speeches were full of the most
infammatory character and would be
compared favorably with the worst
elements IN the worst part ofEurope.
The police concluded to put an end
to the disturbance and advancing Or
derd the crowd to dispense. AT first
the socialists fell back slowly, one of
the speakers still urging them to
stand firm. Suddenly bombs were
thrown. The police replied instant
ly with volleys from their revolvers.
The rioters answered with theirs
The mob appeared crazed with ia.
natical desire for blood, and holding
it's ground poured volley after volley
into the midst of the officers. The
latter fought calamity, and at last
dispersed the mob and cleared the
market place.
During this fight the policemen fired
volleys from their revolvers into the
mob. Many were seen to fall and
were carried into streets and alleys
by their friends. 1t Is thought so OF
them were killed and wounded. This
may and indeed is likely to prove an
exaggeration. AT II o'clock 20 po-
licemen lay on the floor of Desplaines
street station, all disabled and prob
ably half that number seriously so
Others were reported to be still lying
in the open square either dead Of
badly wounded.
At II 80 firing was heard near the
scene of the first conflict but was Of
no account. Ten socialists were il
one place having their wounds dressed
and names of p policemen killed o
wounded have been obtained.
The speeches of the Socialists
called upon the men to arm them
selves. A policeman twice called
upon the mob to dispense and wa
met by speaker, who SAID to arms
and suddenly the mob began to fir
onthe officers.
On the table in the station hous
where the wounded policemen are
one poor fellow lies stretched with
terrible bullet wound in his breast
A few feet distant man who wit
tattered clothes and mortal wound
in his side is lying insenslble on cot
One of the Socialists speakers wa
Spier, editor of a Socialist papcl
who the day before melted the mo
to attack McCormics reaper works
his paper.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
The large vote by which the nation

The large vote by which the nation
al House of Representatives set apart
the 18th day of May for the consider
alton of the Oleomargarine bill, at
STAGE of the session when it is diff
cult to procure special assignment,
encourages the friends of the dairy
interests who have been actively press
ING that measure to hope for favor
able action upon it. The bill i'm
poses special tax upon all manu-
facturers and wholesale and retail
dealers in oleomargerine, specifies
the manner in which the product shall
be packed, imposes a tax of ten
cents a pound, and creates the ounce
of analytical chemist and microsco-
pist, who is to determine whether
the imitation buffers manufactured
are deleterious. This is exceptional
legislation, but the representatives
of the dairy interests consider that
they have established the existence
of an exceptional state of things
which calls for unusual methods of
treatment. The volume of oleomar-
garine and other imitation buffers
manufactured has increased very rap
idly during the last few years, and
there has been at the same time a
elimination in the demand for dairy
products and in their value. Thh dairy
interest is one of the most important
and the aggregate value of its pro-
ducts Is not far from five hundred
million dollars. The committee on
Agriculture, which presents this bill
to the House by unanimous vote,
estimates that the shrinkage in the
value of mich cattle alone since the
sale of oleomargarine began has
amounted TO one hundred and fifty
million dollars. Besides the loss
from this source there has been a
very considerable shrinkage in the
price of butter, and not only has the
domestic trade been demoralized, but
foreign trade also, by reason of the
shinments of imitation butter. These
are some of the statements which
are sustained by statistics to the re-
port of the committee, and are
brought forward to support the claim
that measures of protection are alb
solutely essential to the important
Interests which are menaced.-Bos-
tom Post.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-05-10
THE UNDERLYING FOLLY.

The country was treated to a
strange spectacle last week. In two
states it saw the people rise en- maasse
to do honor to the man who was the
head and front of the conspiracy
to destroy the Union and found
confederacy whose cornerstone
should be human slavery. Just
where, twenty-five years before, the
rebellion sprang into organization
and Davis was crowned its king, the
scene is re-enacted. The same blind
enthusiasm, the same dedication of a
politician, and the same burst of APP
prevail of secession doctrines are re-
newed. In fact the same old flag of
the stars and bars are brought out
and Haunted at the head of the pro-
cession and displayed from almost
every window. Lee is deified as
standing ''side by side with Washing
ton,'' and the rebellion is lauded as
"sthe most glorious dream of idealizet
liberty" To crown all, the confed
crate chief addresses his worshipers
and utters the self-same old secession
sentiments that he uttered on th
same spot quarter of century be
fore. s43
This fresh exhibition of the wol