Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-07
coNFLIc ING ADVICE.


berdette Reads Up on farming and
Chicken Raising and Gets All Mixed Up.
Talk about dissensions in religion, about
warning creeds AID battling churches, IL you
want TO got knee deep In a swamp Of conflict
Ing views and opinions, wade through q file
OF agricultural papers Now, there's nothing
vague, Intangible, invisible and abstract IN
agriculture. The ground is real and the
crops are sometimes real in the case Of an
amateur gardener who moves out Of town
oecause he can save a years rent on June
peas, grant you there Is a degree Of abstrac-
ton that makes the science Of aerated meta
physics solid as a football match. But in
the soft and thawing weeks Of spring loan
farm In clay country is about ms real rs
they make EN-
But now, read In my favorite agricultural
paper the other day that man who had
patch clay over rock basted u heavily with
coal ashe-. " and my Talk about richne~sl
Aud CROPS! Such nelonSl And peasl And
such corni Don't talk. | went straight
away TO the kitchen and gave orders that
every handful ct coal ashes was TO be placed
IN fruit jars and kept la the refrigerator
until such time ~ ] could have IL applied 70
tho garden. No matter what price the
neighbOrs might naer for It, not an ounce of
Il was TO bo sold
Then | went hack TO the desk and turned
over 70 the next page Of the paper, and a
farmer and market gardener in Heunessy
county said that mixture OF pounded glass,
rock salt, nlknli and birthstone, poured on red
hot, was far preferable, ~ "A fertilizer, to coal
ashes. He said he had killel every tree in
healthy orchard and made the fairest kitchen
garden In the Pomona valley bowling waste
by light applications 81 cual ashes Ny blood
ran cold rs fastened rut once more TO mott
" the seneschal that " found one fake Of
coal ashes about the castle within fifteen
minutes from the ukase too-kaz) would hang
few traitors more or less, from the fourth
story hook in the MARITIME tower
Then | vent back and read tina, any man
who kept hens and wanted eggs must be pre-
pared to spend most Of his income on corn
but IL would be the best investment he ever
made. Nothing like corn, not cracked, but fed
IN whole grains, for making hens lay. IL made
hem lay seven times week when nothing
Else would, and In fact Il was the only thing
hat would make hens lay all the year round
Straightway ordered IA carload Of corn 20
% purchased for the cackling denizens Of
Crocus Hall, but before the messenger had set
'orth 20 corner the corn market read from
mother expert that Rough on Rats" was
much better for hens than corn. inaSmuch as
killed them at once. thereby saving great
Expense % keeping and was quite as produc-
ave when viewed IA an egg plant. He closed
- narrative Of his experience with corn by
piously hoping that the man who first sug-
gtsted the destruction OF all the poultry In
America 10y ths use VI corn as a food might
never, in this world or the next be permitted
80. l.N
nog, or anything else in which the hen or her
product entered as a component part. He
said you must feed little else but than pound
ed bone
While | was wondering whose bones l
would ike 20 pound my eye fell upon the ties.
tlmonial OF one OF the leading pOulterers in
New York state, who said that he had lost
about ninsty-eight OF the finest hens that
ever acted the fool in their sanest moments
by the ignorance or malice OF hired man,
who had mixed g spoonful Of pounded bone
IN their feed one Sunday morning, while be
the owner, was at church. He said that when
he came home and found what had been done
no chased the soulless imbecils clear across
the township with a neck yoke, and II he'd
caught him bed a kicked him 20 death with
a hay tedder
50 | let up on the corner aud the market
broke all 10 pieces. am now feeding my
hens on anything they like, same a. have
been doing all summer. They wander around
the place and make their own selection, and
II there is anything that particularly don't
want them 20 have, they use It for dessert.
However, there are just two things in az and
poultri culture would like 10 know; What
Is good TO put on land, and what is the best
kind Of feed TO scatter about your estate 20
make your hens lay and poison your neigh.
bor's-Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.