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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
PROP: i,4 Hcms East.

A Connecticut farmer, giving his exper-
fence in caring for poultry, writes the
Rural Nem YORKER as follows:
{ keep 100 hens. find that thorough
bred hens will lay more eggs than cross
breds, though they will not grow any
faster. Most poultry ailments are due to
filth in their food and drink. Soft food
will always get more or less dirt in it, as
the fowls are sure to track through it. The
same food fed dry will never get in such a
condition. always feed my grain dry. In
January fed 100 pounds of wheat, $l.75:
eight bushels Of corn, $5.12; two bushels
of potatoes, go cents; and fifty pounds of
waste bones, 25 cents. These pounded
up with rs cents worth of shells. Total
cost of feed, 1897. got thirty and one
half dozen eggs, which sold at 3i cents
per dozen, or $l0.98 in all. call the
manure good pay for my time, SO that there
was clear profit of $500 for that month.
In February ! fed 200 pounds of wheat,
$3.50; four bushels of corn, $3.50; bones,
80 cents; shells, 40 cents; two bushels of
potatoes, 80 cents; and one bushel of
buckwheat, 80 cents. Yield, seventy-two
dozen eggs at 2S cents per dozen-$2O. 1G,
month. The March feed was one bushel
Of oats, As cents; 100 pounds cracked corn,
S1.15; 200 pounds of wheat, $3.50; one
bushel Of buckwheat, 50 cents; two bush
els of corn, SIPS; sixty pounds of bones,
30 cents; shells, 40 cents. Yield, eighty
six and one-half dozen eggs at 25 cents
per doZen--$l9.O3, leaving q net profit OF
Sl1.l5. Thus in the first three months of
the year during which many focks fare
eating their heads Off, my 100 hens made
o net profit Of s26.l6.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
UiIlterissy Bees.

So much difficulty is experienced in
wintering bees in cellars or underground
caves, that the majority who have not bees
enough for special attention, prefer to let
them take their chances out of doors. We
have heretofore expressed the opinion.
AMI again state it, that where but few
swarms are kept, outside wintering with
proper shelter and protection is the best.
But where cellar wintering is practiced, the
following by an expert bee keeper of New
England. as stated i'll the Somerset Re
porter, will be found to contain practical
information tersely expressed, wherein it
is stated:
Onr bees safely in winter quarters, we
should look after them to see that they are
in proper condition and have the re-
CURED ventilation. Bees that are wintered
in the cellar should be kept at as equal q
temperature as possible, say 6 degrees or
s degrees above freezing. 1t is best to
have them in dark cellar SO they won't
fly out from the hive and have the entrance
of the hive wide open and unobstructed.
For wintering in cellar do not be afraid
to give them good, big entrance. At
least, the entrance should be about eight
inches long and three Fights wide. Some
winter very successfully by raising the
hive from the bottom board an inch and u
half all around.
If your bees when in the cellar get noisy
or uneasy it is pretty sure that they lack
ventilation. When bees get noisy there is
something wrong with them, and they will
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
THE APIARY.
Il Melli1ivte1.t Trust.

The latest thing in trusts reported is a
combination of honey producers, in ses-
sion at Utica, N. Y. The producers pres
ent claim an annual output of over 5000.
900 pounds of comb honey and 100000
pounds of the extracted product. The
large producers propose to establish uni
formity of shape, size, and style of the
packages for the coming year, the price to
be charged to the Wholesale dealers, and a
plan for uniformity of action to pre-
vent the cheapening competition which
has marked the honey sale during the past.
A trust to be composed of all the large
producers in the State is proposed, NOM
inally to regulate the size of combs, SO as
to unity the marketable packages, but act
ually to buy up all the surplus honey
when there is glut of production, so as to
keep up the price and shut out compete
tors who might be willing to sell at sac
ritice.
1t is hardly probable that this mellifu-
GUS syndicate will unity all, or even ma
iority of the bee men of the United States,
in scheme to corner the honey market at
least SO long rs honey remains as high
priced luxury in the principal markets of
the country.-E'arm, Field and St0ckman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

charge of General Anderson, had up to
this time bravely maintained ITS ground.
General Reynolds saw the danger and
threw himself among the men.
Boys" he shouted, "are You the
soldiers that fought with me at Cheat
Mountain? You never turned your
backs upon traitors in Virginia. Will
you do it here?"
"No! moi" they screamed exc;tedly.
"Lead us back! lead MS back!"
From every quarter came the scat
tered fragments Of the regiment. With
magic swiftness they formed ranks and
with General Reynolds at their head
they charged upon the enemy. After
short fight every Confederate not
killed cleft his tracks behind him. :"
The example of the Sixth was taken up
by flying parts of other regiments and
it is fact that will long be remem-
bered in the history Of the battle, that
the rallying men were principally from
Palmer's division. They formed ranks
of their own accord and drove back the
enemy who had been VIGOROUSLY
pressing on. WILSON w. SEYMOUR.
OLEAN, Cattaraugus Co., n Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
COLthllls.
ONE Ton.
ONE Ton Carbohv.
rs drates and fut.
AAo'' Lbs
Bran roller PROV 25s $40
Oil meal. old pro 80 81

In this relation the Farm, Field, and
Stochmon would say that when protein is
mentioned by chemists, it means nitrogen
Gus elements that go to make muscle,
bone, and sinew, and when carbohydrates
are spoken OF it means the elements that
are expended in the formation of what
keeps up the animal heat, and the accu-
mutation of fat, etc. Prof. Henry con-
tinues:
In the bran We get 1892 pounds of di-
gestible matter for $50, SO that each 100
pounds costs with bran Sl.26. In oil meal
we get 1854 pounds digestible matter for
$50. making 100 pounds digestible matter
cost Sl.Sl. We see from this that q pound
of digestible food in bran is much the
cheaper at the prices named. This differ
ence is not SO great as it appears from these
figures, however. The oil meal has twice
rs much protein in it as the bran and it is
protein the former lacks as a rule.
II we have coarse feed poor i'll protein,
like corn fodder or wild hay, then the oil
meal may yet be the cheaper
good fodder. corn, and mixed
or clover hay then the bran is the cheapest
to &C with coarse foods. 1t may be we'll
to buy some of both, getting about twice as
much bran as oil meal. Farmers should
lay in bran in the fall, at which time it is
almost always low in price. Oil meal does
not tiuctuate like bran in price, because
its price is regulated by foreign demand
and freight rates. In general bran is
cheaper than oil meal for farmers living
within five hundred miles Of the great mil
ling center OF the West, Minneapolis.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

opened, an it showed its upper teeth,
like as it it was goin' to bite me, an
tare me limb from limb. saw me life
was in danger, for thin that knows
says there's nothin' more worse an
poisonous than the bite of a sheep.
So l up wild me gun an fired in self
Defense"
"And killed the sheep?"
"Shure that's what I foired for.o
And what are you doing now?"
"Well, SOFT, as the craythur's dead,
1 can't see why we should lave it to
spoil. If you could shut your eyes an
go back to yer quarters for while, I'd
sind you round the saddle: an afthel
you've clapped Yer teeth on it, if you
don't say I did my jooty, why put me
in the guard house, an the Lord have
marcy on yer sowl.
The General rode away, taking care
not to laugh till he was out of hearing
And when he got back to his own tent
he found saddle of mutton and sun.
dry luscious chops awaiting him and his
staff.
well, boys" he said at breakfast,
81 believe I'd rather bite sheep than
have sheep bite me-" And the staff
agreed with this self-evitlent truth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
THE POULTRY HOUSE.
Plymouth Roch Fotc's.

Mr.. L. D., Kilkenny, Minn., cores
pendent, states that fowls were bought
claimed to have been nearly pure bred,
and also from another source, which were
claimed to have been full blood. They
do not look alike in color, but all seem in
good form. Our correspondent asks for
description of Plymouth Rocks, and of
Muscovy ducks as compared with the COM
mon gray mallard:
The Plymouth Rock was first shown in
Boston in 1910. They came of mixed
Lineage. and hence it was long found diff
cult to make them come true in plumage.
From the fact that the fowls are parti-
colored, it is difficult even now to get birds
accurately marked. So far as use for eggs
and flesh this does not matter essentially.
In relation to the Muscovy duck, we
should prefer the Mallard, the true name
of which is Rouen, and the Pekin duck to
either. If you intend to breed fowls for
exhibition We advise that you get some
carefully written work on poultry. Farm.
Field dnd Stochman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
Killing ChiMch- Buns.

Mr.. John T. Ames. of Mortified, Mimi,
says the st. Paul Farmer. though q very
busy man, found time to fight the chinch-
bugs, and he beat them. The pests by the
million were working on q neighbours
wheat adjoining Mr.. Ames' eighteen acre
field of corn. The neighbor informed MIR.
Ames that he proposed cutting the wheat
the following day. It was evident that the
bugs would break for the corn.
Mr.. Ames hurriedly hauled load
Of six-inch common boards to the
scene of action and had them placed edge
wise, end to end, upon the ground the en-
tire distance along the border OF the corn
field. He then procured barrel Of gas
tar, and with old broon,s painted the
boards, and repeated the painting three
times day for few days. Only once,
when the painting was neglected, did the
bugs scale the barricade. Then Mr.. Ames
began experimenting to see what would
kill the bugs. They approached the boards
in vast numbers along in the afternoon,
and being checked, piled up in a windrow.
Pits we're dug at intervals into which they
would fall to the depth of several inches.
In the morning when they were dormant,
he poured barrels of boiling water upon
them, destroying them by millions. Cold
water poisoned with paris green seemed to
do little good. Creosote killed them
handsomely. Refined keorsene seemingly
had it's effect. But the boards, gas-tar,
and boiling water saved the eighteen acres
of corn, while that of his neighbours was
nearly ruined. Labor, material, etc., for
his experiments cost him about $50. but
his corn crop was little less than one hun
dred bushels per acre.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06


The roll was called, and we believe
that in the history Of our war that COM
pany was exceptional, in at least two
respects. We have had competition
for the honor OF being the oldest, the
youngest, the first, the tallest, the
shortest, and the longest-in-service
soldier. We have read disputes about
company and regimental organizations,
but the honor we claim for this COM
pany is that there were seventeen men
OF one name, Baker, all of one family,
all young country lads, and that every
one of these Bakers could play the
fiddle. They had marched from their
home county, through some rather I'M
friendly neighborhoods, and towns no.
toriously disloyal, with no side arms
but violins. Within an hour after their
arrival these violins were ali at work,
and during our stay in that camp, and
until the louder and shriller music of
the rifle and cannon were substituted,
there was not an hour of the day, be-
tween reveille and tattoo, that these
fddles were not going in the hands of
one OF the Baker family. We enter
Company T, Thirteenth Missouri In
fantry, for competition. Who can beat
their record. in number Of one name
and one profession? 1t was fun to hear
that Orderly call the roll, from Baker
One to Baker Seventeen. Next
Doc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
IlLilil. a. lHl.S
Loss Of Speed in Planets and Comets.

Is the motion OF planetary bodies per-,
petual? At first, everything seems to
show that it is. The earth, which; with
it mass OF 1900 trillion tons, turns with
a speed which enables student to 20
bare-headed a good many miles without
catching cold in the act of saluting a
professor, for long time detied ali at
tempts to detect in it loss OF speed but
with the friction of the tides continually
at work such loss must take place, and
now it is pretty certain from the calcu-
lations OF Adams, the astronomer. that
the earth loses about nm hour in 49,
600 years, and is coming to rest, though
it must be admitted, rather leisurely.
So, also, the hurrying up of the comets
as they go round the sun is possibly ac-
counted for by retarding action in
space which makes it necessary for
them to try to make up, as it were,
for lost time; and in fact the general
arguments in the present day .re in
favor of what Sir Isaac Newton be-
lieyed-that the motions of all bodies
in space are suffering retardation, and
that their velocity is becoming less and
will ultimately cease.-Nature.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

at GallaSin, Tenn, twanty.eight miles
the other side of Nashville. After
catching all the Union men in the place
and combining them in the guard house.
Captain Morgan, dressed as q Federal
soldier, went down to the telegraph
Offices which was also the railroad sta
ton, on the edge of the town, where the
following conversation took place be-
tween the rebel partisan and the blus-
tering Yankee:
Captain Morgan-'Good-day, sir.
What news have you?'
Operator sir; except it
is reported that that BANKED traitor,
John Morgan, is this side of the Cum
bertrand with some OF his cavalry. /
wish | could get sight Of the rascal. 1
would make hole through him larger
than he would find pleasant
while thus speaking the operator
drew large navy revolver and flour
ished it as if to show his visitor how
desperately he would use the instru-
ment in case he should meet with the
noted Morgan.
""'Do you know who I amp asked
Morgan.
CT have not that pleasure was the
reply.
"'Well look at me all over am
John Morganv
at these words the operators
cheeks blanched, and he literally
'wilted.'
After the operator had sufficiently
recovered from his shock, Captain Nor
gan made him telegraph some mess ges
to Louisville, among others one to
Prentice, of the Journal, offering to
act as his escort on his proposed visit
to Nashville. Then taking the operator
with him as prisoner, Morgan calmly
awaited the arrival of train from
Bowling Green, laden with supplies
for Buel's army.
I'm due time the train came thun-
dering i'll, and the officers and guards
on board were captured, and all the
cars destroyed.
Following this train there came an
other laden with troops, but John Nor
gan was too sly to stand and fight where
all the odds were against him. He left
his kind regards for the Yankee officer
in command, and started south as quick
as his horses could travel"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
THE DAIRY.
N,.s,,ag" for Doiry stock.

Ensi'ag" for Dairy stack
Prof. W. A. Henry, of the Wisconsin
Experiment Station, i'll answer to guess
lions as to the value of ensilage for the
dairy, and tho relative value of oil meal Mt
$50 per ton, and bran at SIS per ton.
says:
In regard to ensilage, it's value for the
dairy is no longer question with hum
dreds in this State, who are feeding it with
satisfaction and profit. Though the writer
believes that the extravagant claims for
the silo in the past have damaged the
cause, yet ensilage has come to stay, and
its warmest friends will always be found
among the dairy1nen. We are feeding en-
silage at the Station with satisfactory re-
suits to dairy cows.
In regard to bran and oil meal it may
be best to state what one can put in act
ual food elements for his money in this
case.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

MS picket posts, ne WAS startlsd 70 hoor
q shot away of toward the caus, Of tho
enemy. e~~@p vi the
Followed by his staff, he sslloned IN
me direction of the sound, snd he soo ~,
came cam, to a place where, by the he first first
dawn OF day. two men of the Sixty.ninth
were skinning fine, fat sheen.
Halo, you rascals. What ara Won
eral. '''e iiaee uen-
"Skinnin Sheep" was the COO, 20.
ply OF one of the men, as he kent on
Whose sheep is it," asked ATeapber
sorra wan O. me knows who & did
oelang to- said the man. "But &C.
cordln' to all the rules of wa. I'm
thnkln' it's moline now.o
What do mean, sir?.
Il name this. Ginral. that orr or
oilers is to resist at all times. an ia
shoot when our own lives is hin danger !"
"Irue; but where was the danger
here?" ' '''o """eei
We'll, sorr, I'll tell you. I was walk
IN on me posht whin out of the thick
cts, right forninst me, there lept this
sheep. The cravthur's mouth was wide
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

Pet and, they, one on each side, soon
led their canteens. from which they
ok good long pull, when. just at this
oment up comes the owner of the COW
{th:
Boys, how does it taste?"
On, first rate; it's big treat"
WALL" said the owner, L didn't
low how 'twould go; I never drank
at Just this time. You see the old
wS times ont to drop q calf to-day,
u, l thought I'd look after her."
ne boys looked at each other in dis
y, but it couldn't be helped. They
Fea fresh milk, but not quite as fresh
mat, and the contents of both can
Fhs and stomachs were left right
te' MILL p. WINsLow.
|AHoEE, Maine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

and fight as we'll as the younger men.
1t was not at all unusual to see men
fifty or sixty in regiments with boys of
eighteen, but one whole regiment COM
posed almost exclusively OF men who
had passed what is generally supposed
to be life's meridian is something out
of the ordinary, and L wonder that the
following fact is not better known
among people interested in "War Mem
cries.
There was no more gallant or relia-
BILE body of men sent into the war from
either side than the Thirty seventh
Iowa Volunteers.
The striking popularity of this mag
niticent body Of men was that nine
tenths OF the officers and men had gray
hairs and gray boards.
Indeed, they were given the name
"The Gray-head Regiment" and as
such they were distinguished upon some
of the bloodiest battle-tields of the
Mississippi Valley.
Only one man in fourteen in that
regiment was bachelor; and out OF
nine hundred men of the rank and file,
two hundred and twenty seven had
sons fighting in other regiments, and
one old man had two sons fighting in
the Confederate army.
From this regiment there never was
case of desertion; during their serv-
ice only one man was arrested, and that
was for 6run enness, and they brought
back their tuttered colors, alter rescu-
ing them twice from the grasp of the
enemy.
All honor! say we, to the gallant
"Gray-heads" Of Iowa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
Tactics.

A majority of the officers and men on
both sides were very green about mill
tary tactics at the beginning of the
war.
\ Michigan captain, it is said, who
had been accustomed to driving an OK
team in lumber camp, when he first
undertook to march his men. instead
of saving "tile left" or 4tile right" or
march, used to call out:
whoa; gee, there!" "Haw round
ahead" "G'lang in front, an hurry
up the ind!"
An Arkansas Colonel Of cavalry is
credited with the following:
First Order-Prepar' fer ter git on
to yer creeters!
Second Order-Git.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06

calf; and j. L., of the Seventy
ina indiana, has a sheep.
= doubt all are right, for the boys
hered after fresh meat. But boil
t uo%n all these stories. we incline
l IN that of "the sheep" is the best.
e ;:, Mcclellan issued an order
llpltlng his men from taking any
( rom the enemy without paying
~ which certainly had in it the
splflt. Thomas Francis Meagher
! Inls order to his brigade, and in
H. like the chivalric gentleman
e ue was' o, on having it carried out to
om The Irish Brigade, which
r.; Ht,.'lnanded so gallantly. was famed
u.s. courage in battle, its love for
aau'es' and its strong antipathy to
I,; with corresponding liking for
p ne brigade was in the PIE :ence of
d nnt and the pickets " re or
10y met to fire unless convinced that
59in nl were advancing, for
t, n"ge of a single musket
Jesuit In calling out the whole
ls sally morning. when the vigilant
010ef Was making the rounds of
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-04-06
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
a Budget Of Useful Information Upon
Household and Agricultural
Topics.
Matters Of Interest Relating to Farm.
Orchard, Stable, Parlor, and
Kitchen.
TIE FARM.
Brittle yyoofs.

Brittle U0Ofa.
Horses are frequently troubled with
Drittle hoofs caused by deficiency of water
IN the bone. This is caused in various
ways-fever of the feet, or the common
founder, Inflammation of the interior of
1 IDOL exposure to fermenting manure or
hlthy stables, by which the horn is satu-
rated with moisture containing ammonia,
leaving the foot covered with mud; or even
continued hot or dry weather or an un-
healthy condition of the system will pro-
duce this trouble in the feet. The horn
becomes dry and granulated, and separates
very easily, crumbling or splintering away
until there is scarcely crust enough left to
tasten shoe upon. The remedy is, of
course, to remove the cause aud restore the
moisture. Frequent washing of feet with
cold water, with attention to the health
and to give the horse clean bedding and an
earth floor TO stand upon, Or else deep
Ded of sawdust, will prevent it or cure it in
parts are an excellent dressing for the
hoofs. An occasional soft feed, as bran
mashed with q little linseed; is also useful.
because it keeps the horse in good health
and cool. Tar is sometimes used as n
hoof- dressing with advantage, but il needs
caution in its application.
.'dMifer0t;oM or Lard.
1t may interest farmers, as we'll as the
buyers Of lard, to know that it is largely
adulterated. A Chicago packer has lately
been giving away some of the tricks of his
trade. Crude lard is now, he says, con-
siderable dearer than the refined product,
by which we may infer that it has not yet
been learned how to make hogs lard with
ont having some of the hogs product COM
bined with it. Cotton seed oil, and in
some cases beef tallow, are used to adulter-
ate lard, from which it may he inferre d
that the tax on oleomargarine has had its
effect in diverting beef suet into other
branches of manufacture. The New York
Produce Exchange has sent a memorial to
Congress, complaining of lard adulteration,
and asking that every manufacturer of
lara stamp his product with the name of
the firm making it, and guarantee of its
genuineness. The adulteration is I'M
doubtedly an injury to honest manufact-
ure and sale of lard, and it is the interest
of producers, not less than of consumers,
that this fraudulent business be stopped.
The oil in the lard is pressed out of it and
sold for machine oil, while the cheaper
cotton seed oil takes its place.