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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
COWS, LOSING THEIR CUBS.

Cows do not close their cud" for the
simple reason that they do not have any
such thing, and the so-called chewing of
the cud is merely the mastication Of the
ordinary food. Every Illuminating animal
has more than one stomach and the COW
has four; the first is much larger than the
other three. The first stomach or paunch
lies on the left side, and receives the
coarse and bulky food as gathered and
swallowed by the COW. When this foo4
has become somewhat macerated it is
forced up into the mouth where it is thor
oughly masticated or rechewed, and this
operation is termed "chewing the cud. !"
Cattle usually chew the cud when at rest.
Hence the necessity of allowing oxen a
longer period of rest than horses when
engaged in steady heavy work. When
ever an OK or COW has fever or other all
ment they cease to ruminate or chew the
cud, and those who are not familiar with
the internal structure of these animals are
inclined to think they have swallowed or
lost something which should be restored,
hence the very common idea among farm
ers that an artificial cud should be made
and given to the COW. Sometimes a
piece of fat pork is forced down the
throat, Wad of grass, Jumps of bread,
and other useless things are given to en-
able the COW to regain what she has
never lost. In case of fever or indiges-
ton dose of Epson salts, half pound
to pound, dissolved to quart Of water
will usually prove beneficial and restore
the animal to health.-N6lo York Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
RECIPES.

Huckleberry Griddle Cakes-Mix in an
ordinary yellow bowl having a lip one
pint of -four, saltspoonful of salt, a
heaping teaspoonful of baking powder,
and one pint of cold boiled milk Mix
thoroughly and add one egg we'll beaten.
Pick over half a pint of berries, roll
ter. Bake on a hot, we'll creased grid
die. A soapstone griddle is decidedly
the best for cooking griddle cakes, as it
cooks evenly and requires no greasing.
PURGE of Green Peas-Boil quart of
fresh green peas in pint of boiling water,
slightly sailed. Rub the peas through
sieve and pour the water in which they
were boiled on the skins; add pint of
clear soup to the pulp and return to the
range. Gently melt an ounce of butter;
add it to teaspoonful of flour, pint of
warm milk, salt, pepper and square Of
sugar. Whisk this into the soup. When
quite hot serve with bits of toasted
bread.
Potatoes with Cream-The mistake
usually made in preparing this excellent
dish is that many economical housewives
preceding day. True economy would
have been in boiling just enough for each
meal; but for potatoes with cream, see to
it that they are boiled and afterward cut
up while warm and seasoned with salt
and pepper. Boil half pint of cream,
add to it walnut of butter, and add the
potatoes to it. If milk is used, it may
be thickened little with -four.
Minced Lamb, with Poached Egg
The cold lamb left from the preceding
dinner may be converted into a very ap-
petizing breakfast dish as follows: Cut
the meat into thin slices and cut these
very fine Melt an ounce of butter in
frying pan. Cut up a slice of onion and
fry it in the butter; then remove it; add
the meat, little salt and pepper, and
soup or water to moisten it; when thor
oughly warmed through put spoonfuls Of
it neatly on toast; on top Of the meat
place a poached egg.
Stuffed Okra-Select a dozen good
sized but tender okra pods, cut off the
pointed ends and remove the seeds. Beat
the yolks of two eggs, season with salt
and white pepper, add tablespoonful of
chopped boiled ham, and bread crumbs
enough to thicken the egg. Add the
seeds also. Fill the pods with this mix
ture, stand them upright in a pan; add
little water or gravy; cover the tops with
a layer of bread crumbs and add layer
of grated Parmesan cheese. Divide two
ounces of butter in little balls, place them
on top and bake to a delicate brown.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
THE GREAT CROP OF THE SEASON.

Weeds are the great crop of the season.
Every farmer should know all the weeds
on his farm, and their manner of growth,
whether they are annual or last more
than one year. He harvests his grain be-
fore it is ripe, knowing that the process
of maturity will go on, but he often does
not think that many weeds, if cut soon
after they have lowered, will ripcn their
seeds as we'll as if high on the ground,
and these weeds if thrown on the manure
heap or into the pig-sty, will afford an
abundant supply Of weeds to continue
the trouble. Keep sharp eye for any
new or strange weed that appears on the
farm. If need be, extra cXertiOns may be
made to prevent it from spreading. The
safest way to dispose of weeds is to
burn them. Make a small fire of any
wood, throw on the weeds a few at a
time. 1t is astonishing what an amount
of green stuff may be burned in this way
and quite a quantity of ashes will be left
which should be spread. They will bene-
fit any crop.-American AWicu2turist.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
PREPARATION OF CALCIMIEE.

Calcimine is prepared by mixing one
pound of pulverized glue dissolved in
hot water with twenty pounds of paris
white, using enough water to make the
liquid of the consistency of cream. For
colors use the following: Lilac, two
parts of Prussian blue and one part Of
vermilion brown, burnt umber; gray, raw
lumber and dash of Iampblack; rose,
three parts vermilion and one of red lead
in very small quantity; straw yellow,
chrome yellow and dash of Spanish
brown; buff, two parts Of Indian yellow
and one of burnt sienna; azure blue, very
first make small quantity strong and
then stir in the calcimine until the right
shade is made-Nc10 York Times
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
FOOD FOR YOUNG CHICKS.

In addressing a society not long ago,
Mr. Fetch, an expert poultry raiser, spoke
of the best food for the youngsters in this
style: The best food for young chicks
till two weeks old is to make q bread by
the use Of sour milk, salt, saIeratus and
molasscs, out Of a meal composed of
twenty pounds Of corn, fifteen pounds of
oats, ten pounds of barley, ten pounds Of
wheat bran, grind and mix, bake, and
crumble into scaIded milk, giving no
water Cthe milk is all the liquid nccded).
There is seldom a death in the brood if
so fed. When older than two weeks the
same can be scaldcd and fed for soft
food, giving at night cracked corn, mil
let, barley and wheat. When twelve
months old the chicks so raised will be
found to be nearly one pound heavier
than chicks raised in the old way.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
PLANTING CELERY.

When planting celery, have in mind
the fact that it is a plant that needs a
great deal of moisture. Consequently
choose a piece Of low land which is natu-
rally somewhat damp. If there is no
appliances for watering, such as tanks,
hose, etc, good location may be found
beside an open ditch, or small run from
which water may be easily taken by means
of pump. Very good ones, such as are
sold for spraying trees, may be had for a
few dollars, which, with a hundred feet
of inch hose, win do duty over a cons; = =
able extent Of ground.-Amerje9n 4igri-
cuLtnrist.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
TO KEEP EGGS.

Pour two gallons of hot water over one
pint of lime and half pint of salt.
When cold put your eggs in a jar and
pour it over them. Be sure there are no
cracked ones and that they are kept COW
cred. Another, and perhaps better way,
if you wish to keep them for a long time,
is to pack them, small ends down, in salt
in small boxes, and at least once a week
turn over the boxes. The reason for this
is that by turning the eggs over the yolk
is kept about the middle of the albumen :;
if still, the yolk will after a while find its
way through the white to the shell; then
the egg viii spoil Washington Sta.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

It is highly extravagant to use low
priced mower oil.
The Wyandotte fowls are highly
priced as winter layers.
Now weed your strawberry bed and ap-
ply dressing Of decompOsed manure.
Better feed the inferior fruit and vege-
tables to the hogs than send them to
market.
Cut the timothy and clover when the
timothy.
Use the cultivator as often and as long
as you can. Every time you do it you
kill weeds.
Provide a place of shelter for fowls
where they can be kept dry during hard
rain-storms.
The care that will raise good crop of
cabbages will raise a crop of delicious
cauIitlowers.
Many practical fruit growers favor
pruning in midsummer, as the wounds
then heal most rapidly.
Little pigs thrive wonderfully on oats
fed whole. Let them have separate run
where they can eat them.
With the present standard of popular
taste, the very highest price may be OBJ
tanned for ensilage butter.
The character of the milk is largely in
the pasture field. If the COW eats badly
favored weeds, she will give badly fla
vored milk.
The weeds can be kept down much
easier if crop is kept growing than if
the land is left unoccupied. Put in the
second crop.
EnsiEage in connection with grain feed
will make the cheapest butter, and butter
which may obtain more than the highest
market price.
Pigs can be reared so as to have seven
ty-fve per cent. of lean meat in them by
feeding bran and middlings. Skim milk
may also be fed.
None too much rain for weeds, because
if one kind find the condition unfavor-
able, a dozen other kinds have exactly
what they require.
Peter Henderson thinks every farmer
should have few acres of root crops on
his farm and he will find them invalu-
able for feeding stock during the win
ter.
Parsni ps are very nutritious, and in
the islands Of Jersey and Guernsey are
considered excellent roots for dairy
COWS and are extensively grown for that
purpose.
P. H. Jacobs affirms in Rural New
Ysrker, that poultry droppings applied to
the soil are not nearly so valuable as they
are estimated. He also disapproves of
the common advice to keep them dry,
and says they are rendered more avail
able as plant food by keeping them wet.
According to A W. Cheever the best
time for cutting grass with machine is
after o'clock in the afternoon. Any
single-team farmer can cut all the grass
after o'clock that he can handle the
next day before that hour, and all hay
should go into the barn by shat time
every afternoon.
A Florida nge-grower claims that
if the tap root of the tree is cut off and
a rock is laid Immediately under the
centre of the tree in planting, there will
be DO real tap root again, and that the
lime water which kills the tap root in
limestone hammock will not affect the
lateral roots nearly so severely.
Not half enough is attempted in the
way of ornamental gardening with fruit,
says a Country Gentleman correspondent.
With the strictest utilitarian management
few things in the country landscape are
prettier than the poisoning or fruiting
orchards, and little taste and skill in
arrangement will make the fruits de-
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02

These plants bear close relation to
others of which hay is made, or which
are used for feeding either by soiling or
by pasturing. The figures show very
clearly that upon rich soil pasturag. yields
the largest proportion of nutriment which
the crops afford, and when the pasture is
kept in good condition and is eaten close
ly so as to produce continuous succession
OF young and tender heritage, the most
nutrlment is procured from the crop.
But when hay is made it is necessary
to choose time when the largest gener-
al average of value can be secured-that
Is, when the most actual nutriment can
be obtained. AS the crops progress
towards maturity the quantity increases,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
MAKING HAY.

The value of hay depends to large ex-
tent upon the time when the grass or
clover is cut, as we'll as upon the manner
of the curing. The following table gives
the feeding value of hay cut and cured
at the different stages of the plants, and
it is we'll worth the careful study of all
concerned:
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02

The skeleton of the largest elephant
ever killed in India is to be exhumed and
sent to the museum at Madras. The
skeleton is exactly ten feet six inches in
height.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02

An Eastern comic paper, speaking of a
popular actresses fondness for animals,
says: Mary Anderson's fondest pet is the
American golden eagle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
What La Iciectricitv2

AS tho use of electricity becomes
more general there is increased curl
osity TO learn what it is, says The Elec-
trio Power. 1t is considered mys-
FERROUS force, beca,lsc in its normal
conGtion it cannot bo seen. The wire
which conveys tho current gives no
manifestation Of the energy which is
passing through it. Just rs the poet
said, "Wc take no note of time save
from its loss" So with electricity, it
must be measured as it flies. II is true,
however that its laws arc perfectly
understood Is it necessary that we
should know what il ISL Nothing is
moro familiar to us than tho action of
gravitation. We know that it is the
attraction Of the earth. 1t holds the
atoms of the earth together and en-
ables MS TO perform all of tho opera
tons which make up our daily life.
IL is, however, q mystery, but its laws
arc as we'll known. and if VIC violate
them by jumping off precipico
should we consider tho force of gravity
necessarily dangerous2 Steam is also
something Of u mystery. IL has been
familiar TO mankind since the dawn of
civilization, yet how many people
know that il is transparent and there
fore invisible until ii comes in contact
with the air?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
a Mean Trick.

There's only ono way to get even
with that rarc article, a growing
drummer on the road" said Detroit
or who travels much and meet all sorts
of people.
''How's that2"
'"They get the best scots in the cars,
the best rooms at the hotels, and the
best of everything everywhere" no
continued, land you may kick and
growl and they wont be disturbed over
it. l thought over it good while be-
fore l got the idea"
''But what is itT'
'Well, when l enter ear and find
drummer occupying two seats and
his nose in novel, Islip up TO him and
inquire:
care you from the house Of Blank
& Blank, Chicago?
No, sir, represent tho house of
Git, Up 81 Git, of ST. Louis.'
Nor
"'You bet dor
Sorry for you, old follow, but
suppose you've heard of il before
this9'
WHAT
"'Your house has failed--gonc to
pot-completc wreck.
"'Great Scotsp
"And then he gathers up his grips,
counts his money, asks for telegraph
blank and at the next station no drops
off, crushed and humbled man.
Some folks call it q mean trick. DE
troit Free Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
a Chinese Iottery.

Tho Chinese arc getting In their
work In fine style in the lottery bust
ness in Carson. They have two draw
ings day. The racket is run by tick
cts all covered with squares, and q
Chinaman makes tho rounds every
day to peddlc tickets. You pay ten
cents for ticket, and then you dot
the square with brush OF ink and
make seven marks. When tho tickets
arc all in they arc compared in China
town with another ticket, which has
been marked. If your marks should
correspond with two Of the other
marks you get 81; if with three 50,
and SO on. Ii tho spots arc all like the
one on the king card you win $40.
This is very fascinating game and
tue ladies all think it lovely. The
joke of it is that they mover SEQ the
king card ut all, but the Celestial who
sells the tickets Is trusted with the
money and brings back the prizes
won. He buys the tickets at whole
sale, and if ticket wins, say $50, he
gives the lady $1.50 and keeps the bal
ancc.
Belly good guess; you catchum
big money"
The Appeal has list Of the ladies
who patronizo this lottery and it
would cause many smile in print
Some of the ladies who buck ct the
Chinese swindlc think that n state
lottery would DC perfectly awful"
but they stick by tho Chinese lottery
through thick and thin. Carson
New Appeal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05

In Florida, where ice is so desirable
for cooling food and drink, il is not
naturally formed, and SO must be
made. i visited an ice factory.
They have twenty tons of ice form
ing here all the time. They lift tank
every thirty minutes, take out the ice,
refill tho tank with water and replace
il. Tho freezing takes forty-eight
hours. The tank they have just emp
tied will be filled soon, and Il new
block of ice will be taken from it on
''the day after tomorrow.
Now, IL seems that this freezing
takes place SO gently that "a spray of
roses may be put into n tank Of water
and frozen into tho mass Of ice with
out stirring II petal from its place.
There it lies imbedded, in all it's
beauty OF form and color--a marvel
ous thing, | think. The icemakers
like 10 perform this experiment, as it
shows the clearness Of their ice; and
pride is taken in freezing pieces of I'M
usual beauty and transparency.
A delicate spray of flowers, a cluster
are favorito subjects. Exhibitions of
SUCH lTccLiilSS ufc OCCASIONALLY niauC
at fairs, and particularly beautiful
or interesting piece makes q very at
tractivc gift for n birthday or for
Christmas.
What pretty way TO preserve OBJ
jects! | would like a collection of
Florida specimens SO preserved. No
dried out herbarium specimens; no
faded and distorted alcoholic prepara-
tons; no unnatural taxidelmist
mounts, but everything in its natural
color, its perfect outline. it's living
beauty. Here, clear little block
with l. chameleon; here, q larger one
with coiled rattle snake; there q
young alligator, a cluster of grape
fruit or oranges, spray of flowers or
or n series of forest leaves. But alas |
such % collection would not last sim
gle week. st. Nicholas.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
Some superstitious Statesmen.

Nothing can induce Senator Voor-
hees to ride III street car drawn by q
white horse.
Senator Joe Blackburn not only
takes the white horse, but also one
having Il white spot on it, or one white
foot.
Senator Edmunds regards it as un-
lucky if the first person lie meets on
emerging from his house is woman,
and will return for fresh start.
Senator Sherman will not extend his
left hand in greeting orreccivc one OK
tended to nina familiar habit with
politicians.
Senator Call viii bury or burn pair
Of socks one or both of which no has
put on wrong side out.
Representative Kennedy, Of Ohio,
wears a voudoo charm which he OBJ
tanned from an old ncgress in the
swamps of Louisiana.
When Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
is IN doubt as to a course of action, he
decides it by splitting at mark.
If Senator Vest, of Missouri, meets
8 beggar in the streets before he has
spent any money he invariably gives
to the mendicant
If the first person Representative
Breckenridge meets in the morning is
a colored man or woman nc crosses to
the other side of the street. He claims
if he continues on the same side he
will be hoodooed for the entire day.
Senator Evarts isa great admirer Of
the flaming beauties of the circus
posters and theatre announcements on
the billboards, which taste he has in
common with Hale, of Maine; Butler,
OF South Carolina, and Pascoc, of Flor
ida. Washington Letter in Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
NET AT a asvolvea's muzzle.
Recognition al oid Friends as They Enter
% Battle.

Battle.
was chatting the other night with
a we'll known officer ON the retired
list of the navy about the odd way in
which old friends viii turn up, and
ho related to the reporter what is a
unique experience in that line.
MY wife had been very much AL
noycd," he SAID, "by some boys who
insisted on ringing the door bell of
my house OH All Halloween. came
home rather late in the evening to
find the whole house topsy-turvy.
When / learned the cause of the
trouble, / was exceedingly angry, and
proceeded TO lay for those boys. 1
concealed myself in the shadow of the
house and waited for some time, but
the boys did not come. Then Istepped
out into the middle OF the street and
started toward the corner looking for
them. 1t was not long before / came
upon the crowd They were of all
ages, ranging from Is years down. I
grabbed the Oldest boy, and wanted to
know what he meant by ringing the
bell and annoying my wife. OF course
he said he hadn't touched nay bell.
You're liar, said ], and / am going
to teach you not to ring bells any
more, and with that l began to spank
him. He yelled murder, and his com
panions ran in every direction. The
warming process had been in opera
ton for some minutes, when u woman
came out of an adjoining house, and,
running over TO the spot where we
stood, told me to let the boy alone.
Have you any interest in the boy,
MADAME" said /.
g He is my son. she replied.
''"Then you ought TO have done this
to him long ago, said ], and whack,
whack went the palm of my right
hand.
YOU'RE brute said the woman.
and shall send my husband to you.
81 wish you would, madam, l re-
piled, as my right hand kept up the
rhythmetic measure. You send him
here to me or YOU send him to my
house hereafter and III give him a
good Lexington bringing boy up in
this way
1--WE had little audience by this
time, and one man who had come up
to see what the row was about said /:
Leave that boy alone Why don't
you hit man
Il brought down my hand once
more for luck and letting tho boy es-
cape, 1 reached for tho strangers col
lar, rs said: Perhaps you'd like TO
be the mang He drew away and put
his oand behind him. l did not know
whether he had revolver or not, but
l knew that | had one, and before he
could have drawn had it down on
him. Don't you dare, said
Are you Lieutenant - he said,
as he looked down the cold muzzlc OF
tho revolver.
. L am, replied, what OF T'
Why, I'm Johnson, said i.e.
'''That doesn't convey any impress
ION to my mind, said /.
g Il was in your class at the naval
academy said he.
Come up to my house, johnson,
and have drink, said l, and he
came up to my house and drank until
he was very full. Wo had not seen
each other for fifteen years. If
any ono can match that meeting /
want to hear from him.-Pittsburg
DISPATCH
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
CIonln.s NrusIcnl Ill,cs nnd DisllI,es.

He worshippcd Mozart, and was a
jealous student of Bach. One day,
Halle played to him Beethoven sonata
Zone from OPP. 3D. Chopin found tho
last movement vulgar. lbom this
Halle concluded that he SBuld not
have made deep study of tho
masters works. LEM, indeed, has
said: Chopin did not take d very
serious interest in Beethoven. He
knew only his principal compositions,
tho last works not at all" Chopin
cared little for Mcndelssohn, and-if
the statement of Schlessinger DO true
that he did not consider Schumann's
"Carnaval" to be music at all-still
less for composer who thoroughly
appreciated and admired his own gen
ius. He preferred Bellini to Berlioz.--
Nicok's Life of Chopin.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-04-05
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