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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
POULTRY RAISING.
Marketing Poultry.

If you are near a market for dressed
poultry, it will pay you to know how to
prepare it, in order to obtain the best
price. To know this, study your mar
| ket, find out what manner of dressing is
demanded and dress yours in that way.
There are some general directions that
will always come to play.
First, in fattening poultry give, them
all they VIII eat--corn is preferable, as
poultry fattened on it is more yellow
and better than that fattened on any
other grain; and remember that you will
not only get pay for every pound your
poultry gains in fattening, but by i'm
proving the quality you gain one-fourth
to one half in price on the whole.
Second, food in the crop Injuries the
appearance, is liable to sour, and pur-
chasers object to this worse than use
less weight; therefore keep the fowls
from food twenty four hours before
killing. All poultry, but more especially
turkeys, should be killed by bleeding in
the neck, and picked while the body is
warm.
For the Boston market an old shipper
followed this plan. Never scald poul-
try. AS soon as picked, take off the
head at the throat, strip the blood out
of the neck, peel back the skin q little,
just before packing in warm weather,
draw the skin tightly over the end and
tie and trim neatly. Draw the intestines,
making the incisions as small us possi-
BILE. and leave the gizzard, heart, ETC.,
in. Pull out the wing and tail feathers
clean.
Third, poultry should be entirely cold.
but not frozen, before being packed. II
packed with the animal heat in, it will
be almost sure to spoil. Sort yourpoul-
try carefully, and have the No. l stock
of uniform quality. Pack the No. 2
stock in separate packages. If you have
any old Tom" turkeys, put them in a
separate package or with the No. 2stock.
Line the boxes with clean paper, but
never use straw in PACKING, and never
paper wrap poultry. Pack as closely as
possible, back upwards. legs out straight,
and see that the boxes are so full that
when the covers are nailed on there can
be no possibility of the contents shift
ing about. Boxes are tho best packages,
and should contain from 100 to 200
pounds. Larger boxes are inconvenient,
and more liable to get injured.
Fourth, mark the kind on the cover,
the gross weight and correct tare. Never
practice any deception in tares of pack
ages, OF IN packing the poultry, for tho
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
FRYING Leeclles.

A physician in one of the trio cities
adjoining Boston, recently prescribed
leeches to be applied to one Of his pa
tients, son of the Emerald Isle. The
Irishman's wife, installing the word
applied" for fried, in the hurried man.
ner in which the direction was given,
fried small mess OF blood-suckers and
gave them to her husband to eat. At
the next visit the physician, finding the
patient no better, inquired if she had
applied the leeches as he had ordered.
"Och, sure and I did," replied the
woman. II fried them in little nice
butter, but Pathrick, poor man, said
he'd rather be afther atein' dish of fried
grubs.
The doctor looked amazed.
"You don't mean to say you fried the
leeches?" he calculated.
by me hopes of all the saints bliss
ms, I did," she replied; "and it would
ha' done yer soul good to see how beau
tifully I cooked the little squirming
things"
you didn't give them to your husband
to eat?" exclaimed the physician with
increased astonishment.
."Sure and L did; livery bllssed one Of
'em."
Didn't I tell you to put them on his
stomach?" said the doctor, interroga-
lively.
"Faix, and I did," she replied, "and
if poor Pathrick didn't swaller 'em doom
the wrong way, they are on his stomach
now!'
The physician said no more, but adj
ministered a powerful emetic to the
patient. In few days afterwards the
woman met the doctor, when she COM
plimented him on the wonderful effects
of the fried leeches! and declared that
her dear Pathrick "was as we'll as liver. :"
Yankee Blade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
Old.Fashioned Prohibition.

In 1854, says the Youths Compa7a-
ION, the General Court Of Connecticut
ordered the confiscation of call Barba-
does liquor commonly called Ruin
Kill Devill'" which should be landed
within the jurisdiction of the common
wealth. The order was directed ag ainst
the growing practice Of selling liquor
to the Indians.
But six years before the court had
found it necessary to check the indul-
gence of white men in wine and strong
drink. 1t had, therefore, ordered:
THAT no inhabitant in any town should
continue in tavern or victualling-
house in the town in which he lived
more than half an hour at time, drink
ing wine, beer, Or hot water"
The abuses arising from the use Of
tobocco also attracted the attention of
the court. The lawmakers ordered
that no person under the age of twenty
years, nor any one unaccustomed to its
use, should take the weed until he had
obtained "a certificate under the hand
of some who are approved for knowl-
edge and skill in phisicke, that it is
useful for him, and that he has received
license from the court for the same"
An order was also passed "for the
regulating of those who had already
made it necessary for their use," which
ordained "that no man in the colony
shall take any tobacco, publiquely in
the street, nor in the field or woods, I'M
less when travelling at least ten miles,
or at the ordinary time of repast, COM
monty called dinner; or if it be not
then taken, yet not above once in the
day at most, and then not in company
with any other"
The constables were directed to pre-
sent the names Of such as transgressed
the act to the court.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31

= Increase. I Decrease.
DAIRYING.
Packing Butter.

Butter will not keep we'll under any
condition unless it is we'll made, sound
and sweet when packed. If made IN
warm weather without proper facilities
for cooling the milk and cream, the
butter is likely to be oily and without
the grain" SO Characteristic of high
grade article. Good butter that has a
perfect grain will not stick to the knife
that cuts it. There are several preserv-
ing processes that have been adopted in
different countries, and all no doubt
answer the purpose, provided the butter
is sound and sweet when packed away.
The Orange County, N. Y, dairymen
are said to practice the following
method of preserving butter; to- ten
ounces fine salt add two ounces OF the
best brown sugar. The sugar and salt
are evenly mingled and one ounce OF
the mixture used for every pound OF
butter and we'll worked in. The butter
is then closely packed and set away in
cool, well-ventilated room or cellar:
Other dairmen use one ounce each OF
white sugar and saltpetre andtwo ounces
pure salt, and these d iferent ingredl-
ents are mixed and one o"nce o! the
mixture added to each pound OF the
butter. Some of our farmers who make
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
The Value Of Poultry culture,

In the American Poultry journal I.
X. +. says poultry industry is so evenly
distributed and the products thereof SO
largely consumed at home that " have
failed to consider it as o n4tans of
wealth.
The individual earnings o. fowls are
small and for this reason f. sappreeiate
the value, the tie age. gate is im-
mense.
Have you computed the number of
fowls necessary to give Uncle SANS
twelve millions of families two dozen
eggs per week and a chicken and fowl
once a month for year?
1t involves the keeping of stock in the
nations poultry yards of one hundred
and thirty ight millions laying fowls,
with their attendant males. In round
numbers one hundred and fifty millions.
This is no means the limit. In 1870 the
encyclopedia gave the hotel consumption
at 62,OOO,000 worth. Now, eighteen
years after, with vastly increased con-
sumption per capita. our increase in
population, the restaurant, the chemi-
cal, the medical consumpton-all this
must be provided for. There is still
another item of vast importance, to wit:
The game laws of cur land protect all
through the season of 1.-The vast demand,
aI our summer reSOfCS, III game, duck,
geese, brant, etc, (are you aware that
that four ffths of all birds served as
game are of domestic production)? All
green geese, ducks, turkeys. ana pigeons
come in here and swell our number,
until careful calculation places it at two
hundred and sixteen millions which are
each year produced and consumed with
all their product of eggs. These at the
prices paid by the consumer reaches the
rwhelming sum of $540,OO0,O00 for
family use, and largely over 5000, OOO,-
600 for all purposes. This is Uncle
SANS poultry and egg trade for year.
Surely it is one of the grandest factors
in the wealth of our nation.
During the season of 1885. from June
Is to September Is, one hotel in Sara
toga paid to one marketman in one bill
for supplies $125.000. The bill included
$4,000 chickens, 1000 ESQ called) game,
900 squads, $4,000 dozen eggs.
We introduce this list that the farmer
and poulterer may see what large pro-
portion is produced in the poultry yards
and lofts, which is fully one hundred
and twenty-seven thousand pounds. Is
not this substantial backing for our
estimate of the magnitude of Americas
poultry trade?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
BEE CULTURE.
Eastwood Honey.

believe Eastwood to be the greatest
honey producer in the world, says G.
NJ. Doolittle in the American Bee Jour
nal. In fact no report has ever been
given Gf l am correct) of an average
yield of twenty pounds per cay from
single colony for thirty days in success
sion, except from Eastwood. Mr.. Gallup
had \ colony do this. had one which
stored that for about ten days, the best
yield being sixty-six pounds in three
days.
BY going back over my account with
my bees for the past sixteen years, lind
that from Eastwood alone, my yield of
honey has not been far from sixty
pounds, on an average, from each col
ony, each year; the lightest yield being
lest 100 pounds. This is the average
yield of the yard, not the yield of an in
dividual colony.
The fruit-buds and leaflets of all trees
with which am familiar are formed in
June and July of the preceding year, SO
that the results of the next seasons
honey yield, as far as buds and flowers
are concerned, are already formed in
embryo, on the apparently bare and life
less branches of the Eastwood trees.
They wait only for the warmth of
spring, to bring this dormant life into
growth.
never knew season when the bass
wood did not furnish some honey. The
shortest yield which / ever knew gave q
three days yield, in which honey was SO
plentiful that the bees could not pre-
pare room fast enough to store it, with a
| gradual tapering off of two days more,
making five days in all. The longest
gave yield of twenty-five days, with
three of them SO cold that the bees could
only work little in the middle of the
day.
to do with the secretion of honey in the
Eastwood flowers. The most unfavor-
able weather is cold, rainy, cloud,
spell, with the wind in the northwest
If Eastwood bloomed at o time of yea
when we were liable to have much Q
such weather, there might be such
thing rs an entire failure of honey frol
it. But as rule, we have very littl
such weather at this time of year.
The condition most favorable to
large yield is, when the weather is yer,
warm, and the air filled with electricity
This nectar is honey and not sweetenet
water, which makes Eastwood doubl,
valuable over most of the other honey
secreting plants and trees.
One bee load Of nectar from the bass
wood, in dry, warm time, is equal tt
three from the white clover, or five from
some other of our flowers. In rainy
time there is not so marked difference
At times when Eastwood was yielding
its best, have seen more than q bee
load of honey in asingle flower. I have
taken one stem of blossoms, when the
yield was great, and Jared it over my
hand, when l would have several drops
of nice honey in it. At such times rs
this, 1000 colonies of bees could fine
all the honey which they could carry, il
all were left in one place; ut all Other
times, think from 100 to 200 colonies
would be ample for any locality.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
Dairy Dots.

The profits of dairying are made up
OF the small daily savings, of the differ
ences between the cost of production
and value of the milk or butter. A saw
ing of 10 cents per day in herd of fifty
COWS amounts to SIS; in n month to $3.50.
The dairyman needs to be taught to
test each COW separately, both for
quantity and quality, and to have the
nerve to dispose of the non-paying
ones, while building on those which
turn him q profit.
The weighing of the milk, testing of
the COWS, and knowing to a dollar what
one is doing, is great help to the dairy
farmer. It enables him to get rid Of
poor mixers and replace them with good
ones, and. the latter cost no more to keep
and handle than the former.
PROF. E. w. STEWART, who is noted for
his experiments in stockfeeding, states
that one ounce, or less, of oil'meal to a
gallon Of warm, sweet whey will make
it nearly equal in feeding value to whole
milk for raising calf to three weeks
old, and after that another quarter Of an
ounce may be safely added. The oil
meals hould be dissolved in hot whey
before mixing with that of the right
temperature to feed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
LIVE STOCK.
Stock Statistics.

1t is well to frequently refer to the
increase or decrease of the numbers and
value of the live stock on the farm of the
United States. Sometimes we imagine
we are ruined by depressed prices, when
probably the real facts would prevent
a real case of the blues. The Agricul-
tural Department at Washington, has
exercised great care in obtaining and
compiling the stock statistics of the
whole country. A recent report of the
department gives the following interest.
ing facts as to the number and value of
farm animals:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31

buyer will find it out and your commits
sion man will have to make it right, and
the reputation of your mark is injured
and it will be.avoided when known as
not reliable. The address of the firm to
which the package is shipped should
also be marked on the cover, and the
initial OF shipping mark of the party
shipping. Send full advice and invoice
by mail Immediately after the goods are
Skinned
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31

A RESPECTABLE negro has been re-
fused ad,nittance to a skating rink and
is kicking. Some people never know
when they are we'll of.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
THE HOUSEHOLD.
How to Clean Carpets.


For carpet of about twenty yards or
soap and scrape fine, add quarter OF a
pound of washing soda, and as much
spirits of turpentine as will bring it to
the consistency Of dough; make it into
a ball. When it is time to clean the
carpet take pail of clear, hot water
and large flannel cloth; wet the carpet
with the flannel, then rub over with the
ball of soap, and wipe OFF the soap with
the flannel wrung as dry as possible. If
the carpet is very much soiled scrub
brush may be used after the soap is ap-
piled. Clean about three quarters of a
yard at time, and let it become thor
oughly dry before it is used. Brussels
and velvet carpets may be washed while
on the floor, but great care should be
taken not TO let the water soak through.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31

bat q moderate quantity of butter pre-
serve it by packing in stone jars and
keep it covered with pure brine, as this
will exclude the air and offensive odors.
Practical Farmer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
RURAL TOPICS.
INFORMATION FOR THE HUSBAND.
MAN AND HOUSEWIFE.

Some Practical surrestions for the Faru,.,.
esssk-Breeder, Poultsrer, Nsrseryman.
asa Housskeeper.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31

tnc Father Gave Achsah a De-
'' -. Land to Live in, So God Has
Pe''"S ala, This World, u Goodly Homo
,,,,,;ch TO Dwell.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
NUMBER IN UNITED STATE!
Increase
Increase. Decrease.
VALUE OF FARM ANIMALS.
or
l~-~11,1
Total. So 400 o4s AS S. 5o7 o5o o5s 1898 oce, Gao
. increase. Decrease.

*Increase. Decrease.
In connection with the foregoing
the average value per head of each class
at the same date, is presented:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
Hints to Housekeepers.

Hints to Housekeepers.
The incest fire to broil with is made
of charcoal.
If butter is kept covered tight when
put IN the ice-chest it will not absorb
the odor of any food lying near. There
is nothing so sensitive as butter.
If your child has the earache, turn q
drop of water as hot as can be borne
into the ear, and cover it quickly with {.
bit Of cotton batting. This simple rem
edy has relieved many obstinate cases of
earache.
For coffee stains try putting thick
glycerine on the wrong side, and wash
ing it out with luke-warm water. For
raspberry stains, weak ammonia and
water is the best.
BOILING new milk will take out most
fruit stains. Dip the articles in several
times. Another way is to dip in sour
buttermilk and dry in the sun. Wash in
cold water and dry two Or three times
daily.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
ProtectIon from Cluthes Moths.

During the latter part of May or early
in June vigorous campaign should be
entered upon. All carpets, Clothes
cloth-covered furniture. furs, and rugs
should be thoroughly shaken and aired,
and, if possible, exposed to the sun
light as long as practicable. If the
house is badly infested or if any partic-
ular article is supposed to be badly in,
tested, free use of benzine, in the
manner mentioned in my last article,
will be advisable. All floor cracks and
dark closets should be sprayed with this:
substance, Too much pains cannot be-
taken to destroy every moth and every
egg and every newly Matched larya, for
immunity for the rest of the year de-
ponds largely-almost entircly--npon
the thoroughness with which the work
of determination is carried on at this
time. The benZine spray will kill the
insect in every stage, and it is one of
the few substances which will destroy
the egg. I would, however, repeat the
caution as it is inhammability. No light
should be brought into room in which
it has been used until after thorough
airing and until the odor is almost dis
sipated.
The proper packing away of furs and
winter clothing through the Summer is
o serious 1uatCef. great zeal OF I'M
necessary expenditure in the way of
cedar chests and cedar wardrobes and
various compounds in the way of pow
ders has been urged by writer's OH these
pests. But experience fully proves that
after thorough treatment in May or
June, garments may be safely put away
for the. rest of the season with no other
protection than wrapping them closely
in stiff paper.
An excellent plan is to buy for a
small sum from tailor a number of
paste board boxes in which they deliver
suits, and carefGily fold and pack away
all clothes, cumming a strip Of wrap
ping paper around the edge of the cover
SO as to leave no crack. These boxes
will last for q lifetime with careful use.
Others use for the same purpose ordi-
nary paper -four sacks or linen pillow
cases, which answer we'll. The success
of these means depends entirely on the
thoroughness of the preliminary work
Cnmphor, tobacco, naphthaiine and
other strong odorants are only partial
repellants and without the precautions
urged are of little ayall,-G0od House
Keeping.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-06
NOTES OF THE STAGE.

6 Ade,ine stanhope ana wilton Lackaye, Of Miss
ccxhian's company, have been engaged for the pro
s,ettop OF Festherbrains at the Madison Square
f1estre on May 9.
w. W. Kelly, the business manager of Miss Grace
hawthorne lessee of the Prncesss Theatre, Lonaon'
4 sndeavorsng TO arrange for her to play for four
Der IL next
K n. Cooueiin and all the members Of his company
xill sal to-day on La Bourgogne.
Contracts for the production of Robert Elsmere'
Al tee ,rson Square Theatre on April 20 were signed
ycs,cr ay. The theatre has been secured for six
wetsss eta@-s -s-a-exs-S T., s4-H
Henry z. Abbey returned to this city yesterday.
! hundred men are slresdy at work on his new Bos-
Ion theatre Although possession Of the ground was
bfsied only on wednesday. the contractors arc bound
a have the building rooted IN by July 1.
2. a. Gilmore has been I'll for several days with a
cssbuncie on his neck.
Mr.. Daiy's season In New-York win close on April
II.
The spaiding baseball tourists arc to see The
Nav oucens AZ Palmers tonight on the invitation Of
q lonel AoCaull.
The third and last weeks engagement this season
d NswYork of ~ The Wife" win begin at the Peoples
/ rbeatse on Monday night The season Of Belaseo
pd De Miles popular comedy has been most
prosperous one The present cast win include FRANK
Bsrrcws, John Flood, Charles S: Dickson, a. W.
r.susry Mrs Berlam Gibbs Miss Stella Tenton
Nke Adelaide Thornton, Miss Eta Hawnns, MISS
Ella Logan and Miss Olive Dunon- ~ me sSSn0 n
Dsy VII DO used, forming one OF tho most eonpie'e
5re56{ft&tt0ns travelling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-06
SELECTIONS FRoM THE MAIL.
is TUE SUPPLY OF NATURAL cAs.L1nTED'

Is TUE SUPPLY OF NATURAL GASSLdMITEDf
RENE Ed;tor OF rae TribHne.
Sir In the last paragraph Of article concerning
the Curiosities Of Natural Cas- in "sThe Popular
Science Monthly" for April It is stated that tnOre is
little doubt that the supply tof natural EAs 10 the
various gas wells now IN IN several paets OF the
United statos is stored force, and whel once OK
hausted. It must rapidly be, there VIII be no new
supply.1 I doubt whether the said supply IS "
stored forces liable to rapid exhaustion Watnout TO
newal, even when carefully used Why may not he
causes that produced the present supply De sun
operating and be continually generating new sup
plies7 But httle II anything, is positively Known IN
regard TO the manner In which the phenomena Of
petroleum, mineral waters, natural gas, etc.. are pro
duced by causes operating beneath the surface OF the
earth Tho mineral waters Of Saratoga Springs have
been known for moro than 100 years. and have oeen
extensively used and there has been ooninual now
from the outlets of the springs during that time Ano
before; yet the supply Is not exhausted, ana the
analysis OF the waters does not vary at the present
time TO any considerable amount trom the hrst an
alysis made Of them.
Natural gas Is supposed to be produced in chemical
phrase by the destructive dstilston' Of vegetable
matter beneath the surface Of the earth that Is, by
the distillaton of substances at very high tempers
lures so that the ultimate elements are separated or
evolved in new combinatons.F Why may not this
distllston be still going on m many m1sS dncDo
new suppliesi The presence OF the gas mat ne IN
schroon LaAe has been known for more than n Sa,
years and bow long previously u eIis1e1 "a ug I
Gaping into the atmosphere IN larse Quantities eSer
since its presence has been known, and presumably
for long time previously and sy ss ses NsuPpa E not
Schroon Lake N. Y, April 2, 1880.