Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-22

The Baptist home mission society opens
the year entirely out OF debt.
Spruce gum gathering supports man
I'm Bennington, Vt. During the winter he
gathered 600 pounds, and sold 1t at III a
pound
Cattlemen in western Texas have or
ganiZed an association for the sinking OF
an extensive system OF wells for the water
ing of stock.
The authorities at Nelige, Neb.. have i'm
posed a special tax on every business man
in the town in order to pay for public i'm
provements.
The Corean government has issued an
educational law which requires all
children between and ID years of age to
attend school.
There is a woman in Union Point, Ga.
with a beautiful beard nearly foot long.
She is well-to-do, and thus escapes the
dime museum
II matters not whether the seed corn
comes from the butt, tip or middle kernels
of the ear. Any notion to the contrary is
but a delusion.
The accumulation of books in the public
library at Boston has increased so much
that the city has appropriated $3.50, 700 for
a new building.
Wages In the mines in the Black Hills
range from 81 80 to IS day, and are regu-
lated by the amount and character of the
work performed.
1t is the easiest thing in the world to
train up child in the way he should go; ,
all you have to do is to go that way your
self-Dr. Lyman Abbott
Measles have closed all the schools at
marlborough, VT, where about half the
pupils and some of the teachers have been
down with the complaint.
OF 1000 persons inoculated for yellow
fever by Rio Janeiro physician only
seven died of the disease, although the
epidemic was of unusual intensity.
The rowdy west is not so bad after all
Tombstone, A. IT,, congratulates herself on
the fact that for two weeks or more there
has not been case before the police court.
Official figures, that cannot lie, show
that the eggs laid last year by the hens OF
the United States, were worth as much as
all the silver produced in the same period.
If we practice goodness, not for the sake
of its own intrinsic excellence, but for the
sake of gaining some advantage by it, we
may he cunning, but we are not good
Cicero
Don't observe the superstitious habit of
giving a newly-hatched chicken pepper
corn. 1t would be just as reasonable to
give a newly-born babe tablespoonful of
mustard.
The whitish scurf on the shanks of fowls
| is skin affection known to poultrymen
as scaly legs. 1t depends on extremely
multiply.
The orchard is good place in which to
SOW field peas. The pigs should be allow
| ed to harvest the crop. The peas and fall
en- apples will make excellent pork before
cold weather.
The greatest kindness you can do a
young chicken is TO simply leave it alone
for the first twenty-four hours of its ex-
istence. There will be little difficulty ex-
perienced in getting it to eat afterward.
Sitting hens should not be fed on the
nest. The eggs require about the amount
of airing they receive while the hen is off
for food, and the hen needs the exercise
she will obtain while taking her rations.
Experiments are now in progress to
make an artificial crossing between wheat
and rye, so as to obtain new and stan
| dard cereal for breadstuffs. So says the
New York Herald
When there is a full crop of fruit the in
sects are not perceived but the following
| year, when there Is light crop, the in
| sects in ure no more fruit, but it is more
apparent, and all the fruit will be attacked.
Just as in everything else, the man who
loves the business and furnishes good,
| comfortable quarters, and sees that the
| yards are kept clean, and exercises Judge
ment in his sales, can make poultry profit
! able.
Manure is as necessary TO successful
as an tHBltt W u VI u
| fuel TO a locomotive; and the amount OF
| discussion on the saving and use OF man
ure shows that their Importance is well
understood by intelligent cultivators.
Some eggs invariably hatch little soon
! er than others. Remove the young chicks
! at once and keep them from the hen until
all are Matched. II you do not, the hen
| will he likely to quit the nest with the first
Corners, leaving the unmatched chicks to
chill and die
1t is wasteful policy, that of exhaust
cost of cultivation. The feeding of stock.
carting the manure on the land, and the
proper rotation will keep the soil intact.
Hence il is more profitable everywhere To
! feed all the coarse grain on the farm than
| to sell. Once the exhaustive process Is
begun, il becomes every year more difficult
to make a change for the better.
Why some people fail to make profit out
| of keeping poultry is well stated in the
| Prairie Farmer: Useless expense in put
ting up fancy poultry houses; lack OF
economy in purchasing stock fowls, feed
and other supplies; lack of cleanliness
about the house and yards; lack of mark
citing facilities; failure to market the
| poultry products at the right time; lack
| of knowledge concerning the different
breeds, which causes them TO select a
breed not adapted to the special purpose
| for which they keep fowls: waste Of food
| and neglecting to look closely after minute
| details of the business.
| Rattan racp1ts ara Iar;xaI fror, ua11is