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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
FARM AND GARDEN.
FEED TROUGH.


An Excellent Device for Feeding Chicks.
1t pays to have good, dry, comforts
able house for young chickens, whether
shey are kept in brooders or under hens
No brooder that stands outside In all
sorts of weather will keep little chicks
steadily warm and comfortable, though
a good one will do 1t, when placed in a
weathcr-proof building. Small chicks,
under the care of hens, do we'll enough
in common coops, set outside during
dry, warm weather; but week of cold,
stormy weather invariably Injuries and
stunts them to u greater or less extent.
They con not sit on wet ground or on a
wet floor, even under warm hen, night
after night, and remain healthy. Cheap,
make-shift coops can, by being placed
in building or under good shed, be
made to answer the purpose of protect
ing hen and her brood from cold, but
they are far inferior to well-made,
floored, vermin-proof coops. A really
good outdoor coop should have tight
floor, sides and roof so that rain or snow
can not beat into it; be well-lighted,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
FIREs,pE FRAGMENTS.

Smoked ham should boil fifteen
minutes for each pound.
Canned String Beans: String fresh
butter-beans, break in two, and cook in
slightly salted water till tender, pack
boiling hot and cover we'll with the
salted water, and seal. For use, drain
them from the water heat, and season
to taste.-Farm and Homo.
Orange Syrup: Use ripe, fine fruit,
squeeze out the juice, and to every pint
add pound of sugar, boil slowly ten
minutes, skim, and when cold, bottle.
Two or three spoonfuls of this are sufii-
cient for glass of water This Is also
an excellent flavor for sauces.-The
Household.
Some housekeepers keep bottle OF
alcohol with which to rub their looking
glasses. This, applied with soft cloth,
and the mirrors afterward polished with
a chamois skin, does make them look
beautiful, but the wetted paper does
about as we'll and is much less expen-
sive.- Christian at Work
Cherry Nectar: Select nice cher
ries, pound we'll with the stones in
them, press through sieve, add little
water, and boil up, filter through jelly
bag, one made of flannel is best. Mix a
little sugar, water, and lemon juice,
then add cherry juice to suit the taste,
but do not make too sweet. THE House,
keeper.
An attractive way to serve cold
mashed potatoes Is to heat them over
the fire with little milk and stir until
smooth, then add two well-beaten eggs
Butter an agate or earthen pie-plate;
arrange the potatoes in mound; rub
over with the white of an egg, and bake
in hot oven to delicate brown.
Cold beef cut thin can be warmed in
various ways so as to have an entirely
different flavor: Melt heaping table,
spoonful of butter and add to it two
tablespoonfuls of any sour fruit jelly,
and teaspoonful of mixed French
mustard, and salt and pepper. When all
are thoroughly warmed together, dip
the slices of meat in one by one, and
when all are warmed place on warmed
platter and turn the remainder of the
sauce over them.-Rural New Yorker.
Minced Mutton with Poached Eggs:
Chop cold boiled or roast mutton quite
fine. Put two cupfuls of this into the
frying pan with half an onion minced,
and a half-cupful of good gravy. IT you
have none, use instead little hot water
end lump of butter the size of an egg
Just before taking the mince from the
fire, stir into it tablespoonful Of
Worcestershire sauce or two table.
spoonfuls of tomato catsup. Heap the
mince on small squares of buttered toast
laid an hot platter, and place poached
egg on top of each mound. Serve very
hot.-Harper's Bazaar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
POULTRY HOUSE.
Il IL . Good Ono and Can BE Built for
Sixty Dollars.

lC ~ oOOU Ono ana Cnn Be rOf
Sixty Dollars.
The ground plan is 2Ox20 feet. A par
tition runs lengthwise four feet from
the back or north side of the house, cut
ting the building into two sections--4x
90 feet and 16x20 feet. The larger room
is then cut into two apartments, each 10
x16 feet The partition should be tight
for or 8 feet from the ground, to pre-
vent the cocks fighting, and the same
in the yards The house should have
gable roof. Each roof should have a
pitch of 3 feet If covered with tarred
paper, and four feet If shingled. The
posts are to 10 feet long, 9 feet being
set in the ground. Four such posts lax
~, one at each corner, are enough. The
sills, 2x6, are foot from the ground,
up to which fill in with cobbles at the
bottom, then gravel and then sand.
This will let the water run off and keep
the floor dry. On these set the 2x4
studs four feet apart On top of the
studs put the plate (2x4). The rafters
are boarded with cheap, square-edged
pine boards. If you wish to shingle and
clapboard, put tarred paper under both.
as it will stop all drafts should there be
any cracks, and make the house enough
warmer to pay. There is no danger of
making poultry house in this climate
too warm without artificial heat.
The house should face to the south
and have two windows in front and one
in the east end. The bottom OF the
windows should rest on the sill. One
sash may be hung on hinges, making
door opening into the yard, or two
sashes may work with weights. Each
apartment contains 160 square feet and
accommodates 20 fowls. There should
be small opening cut for the en-
trance of the fowls, with slide door.
The nests consist of two boxes, each =
feet long, IA inches wide and 1s inches
deep, divided into eight parts. These
are placed along the partition inside
the sitting-room. To the edges of the
partitions which separate the nests tack
a cleat projecting over half an inch, and
the Same distance from this toward the
middle of the partition tack another
narrow cleat Put two like these on
the other edge, doing the same to each
partition. Then cut slides 11x12 inches
to slide down between the cleats. A
board six inches wide Is nailed to each
side of the boxes on which the slides
rest, leaving an opening 11x12 inches
on each side of every nest, one opening
into the laying-room, the other into the
sitting-room. One of these is always
closed by means of slide. When the
hens are all laying the nests are kept
open toward the laying-room, but when
a hen becomes broody the door of the
nest she occupies is changed to the
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
A THINKER SPEAKS.
He Gives His Reasons why So Many Boys
Leave the Farm.

He Gives His Reasons Why So Many Boys
Leave the Farm.
One of the greatest reasons why
bright boys have left the farm is be-
cause they were not given half the
chance to use their brains and believed
there was nothing on the farm except
hard work and poor pay. My dvice to
the boys is to spend part of their time
in visiting, not for fun, but for busi-
ness. Every one of US has a liking for
some special line of farm work and be-
lieves that in that line he could make a
success. But before success comes, and
come it will if you intelligently persist,
there will be some failures and many
discouragements that will cost time and
money. Much of this can be avoided
by spending less time and money in Wis
iting farmers who have for years been
working in the line you wish to follow.
Go to the homes of these men with
eyes and ears open, ask all the ques-
tions you can think of and don't forget
the memorandum book and pencil. Fol
low it up. Weed out the wheat from
the chaff, work, think and plan, but
never for any length OF time work so
hard that you can not plan and plan
we'll. My experience teaches me that
it's not the hardest worker that makes
the greatest success of farming.
"Judicious laziness" is what most
farmers want little more of. Not
time for loafng and idle talk, but rest
from hard work, that their brains may
be rested and clear to think and plan
better. j suppose some of the old peo-
pie will think that i am preaching
bad doctrine to our boys, but know
from personal experience that 1t is true.
Not many years ago, and with mort
gage on the farm, l borrowed money to
pay my expenses to horticultural meet
ings and ah lose of our State Board of
Agriculture. and even to go off and visit
other farmers. used the opportunities
got for my money, l remembered
what saw and heard and the farm has
improved, the mortgage is paid, and
j am able to live comfortably and we'll.
Tomorrow intend to visit an intelli-
gent fruit-grower, of whom i think |
can learn something more. still prac-
tice Whist Ipreach: 'judicious laziness."
j. ii. Hale, in Farm and Home.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
A FRUIT ROOM.
1t May Be Built in the Residence, for
Convenience.

It May BE Built in the Residence, for
Convenience.
For the use of private family fruit
room may be built in the residence; by
preference, in position as little ex-
posed to direct sunlight as practicable.
1t should have double walls, ceiling
and floor, with 'dead-air," or some
good dnon-conducting substance between,
and with double doors for ingress and
egress. Arrangements should also be
provided for the admission of cool air
from without when the outer tempera-
ture is sufficiently low for the purpose;
also for the displacement of warm or
impure air above, when ventilation be-
comes desirable.
This arrangement will suffice, says a
writer in the Rural New Yorker, only
for a slight or brief preservation of per-
ishable summer or autumn fruits. For
longer and more perfect preservation,
resort may be had to the use of ice, by
means of which, in room constructed
as above, temperature but few de-
grees above the freezing point may be
readily maintained, and even the most
perishable fruits (if in sound condition
anu HoU diISduy oNcf-ripoJ Cah no hoiu
nearly unchanged for an indefinite
period.
Experience has, however, shown that
there is an apparently unavoidable loss
of flavor and aroma, when perishable
fruits are thus retarded even while
maintained in an otherwise unchanged
condition.
Since the warmer air always rises
from expansion; when ice is used as the
refrigerating material, it should always
be placed in the highest part of the
room, and means should be provided
for carrying the drip from it, as well as
all condensed moisture, from whatever
source, out of the room, passing it
through trap in the waste pipe, to
prevent the admission of warm air from
without.
My own arrangement for such pur-
pose has been nothing more than an
ordinary cupboard, built within an ice
house, with an entrance from without
through double doors.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
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FEEp.rnouaH FOR CHICKS.


well-ventilated, and easily cleaned out.
1t should rest on low runners, so that it
can easily be moved about. A pane Of
glass, six by eight inches, set in each
side, will admit light enough; an OPEN
ing three inches square, at each end,
close under the roof, and covered with
wire-screen, will supply ven tilation.
Such a coop, eighteen inches square,
with run of the same size attached, will
enable hen to keep fifteen chicks COM
Portable as long as they need a coop. If
they are we'll made, painted with min
eral paint and piled up under cover
when not in use, they will last life
time. 1t is not difficult matter to
make such coops, and single brood of
chicks raised in one of them will pay
for half dozen.
Another thing that pays is a trough
to feed the young chickens in. Whether
they are kept in brooders or with hens,
feed -troughs, like the one illustrated
herewith, are almost indispensable as a
means of preventing diseases of the
mouth and throat. The base and CEN
ter-piece are nchboard; the troughs on
each side are tin. Over the troughs are
wires, which pass through the center
piece, are bent downward and extend
over the troughs far enough to prevent
the chicks from getting into them. The
engraving shows the form of the
troughs SO plainly that almost any one
can make them. After feeding, the
trough should be rinsed out and kept
perfectly clean, which is an easy mat
ter If attended to daily.-American Ag-
~
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
Three Most Excellent Wishes.

A gentleman, while at the dinner
table with his family, had these words
said to him by his son, a lad of eleven
years: "Father, have been thinking
If could have one single wish of mine
what would choose" "To give you q
better chance" said the father, sup
pose the allowance be increased to
three wishes, what would they be? BE
careful, Charley!" He made his choice
thoughtfully: first of good character;
second. of good health; and third, of a
good education. His father suggested
to him that fame, power, riches and
various other things are held in high
esteem among men. ~ have thought
of all that" said he, "but If have a
good character, and good health and
good education, shall be able to earn
all the money that will be of any use to
me, and every thing will come along in
its right place." A wise decision, in
deed, for lad OF that age Christian
Standard
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
PLAN OF POULTRY HOUSE.

other side, thus separating her from the
others without disturbing her. Eggs
are gathered from the sitting-room by
raising board which is laid on top OF
the nests.
For feed-troughs, tack a cleat three
inches wide to the edge of the sill, on
which put the feed. Build a platform
feet wide and IS inches from the
ground $50 that the hens can walk
under it to the nests), s inches
above which put the roosts. The one
next the sitting-room should be 9
inches from the partition and the other
% inches from the first. Tack laths
around the edge of the platform, leav-
ing space to draw the droppings from
the platform. This platform helps to
darken the nests. Such house costs
$50 here. No artificial heat is used, but
can be If desired. Farm and Home.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
THE ARIsTOlOCH,A.
A Brilliant and Gigantic African Tlowe
FertilIxed by Insects,

Fertiiized by Insectss
The Aristolochia, now in flower at
Kew, is one of the handsomest and fin
est in the large family, and the oppor-
tunity of seeing it in perfection is one
that should not be missed. Aristolochia
is best known as South American
genus. but the species in question
Aristolochia Goldiena-is a native of
Africa, and comes from the neighbor-
hood of Old Calabar. The bell of the
flower, measuring twelve inches across,
is of yellow ground color, with livid
purple markings, and the curious strong
ly ribbed tube is of light yellow green.
The greatest length of the flower is
twenty-seven and one-half inches. 1t is
curious that the leaves in the present
instance are but poorly developed,
though, as q rule, they are large in pro-
portion to the size OF the flowers One
of the most curious characteristics OF
this and other plants in the same genus,
apart from the peculiar arrangement of
the stamens and stigmas, is the way in
which the flowers are fertiliZed. The
small insects which effect this, urged
by curiosity or more material motives,
enter the colored bells as they hang
for the aristolochia is climbing plant
and crawl through the narrow circular
opening into the dilated base. Here
they are caught like Holsters in lobster
pots, for the opening is lined with hairs
pointing inwards, which admit easy in
grcss but effectually prevent any exit;
and until the flowers. or rather the
stamens, are matured, all the flies and
insects that enter are Gagged in the large
expanded tube. Ultimately the hairs
drop off, the insects escape, and, not
wiser for their brief Imprisonment, fly
away to another flower, carrying with
them the pollen with which they have
become busted during their efforts to es-
cape.-St. James Gazette.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
NEW rRANs-CoNTINENTAL ROUTE
Via the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
R'y and the Northern Pacific IL. II.


R'y and the Northern Pacific X. II.
Commencing Sunday, June Is, 1890, there
was established a through line of Jirst-class
vestibuled Pullman sleeping cars runnin g
daily between Chicago, Milwaukee, St
Paul, Helena, Mont, Spokane Falls, Ia
Ore, making the fastest time to and from
all points on Puget Sound and the North
Pacific Coast and affording an excellent
through route for passengers destined to
California points.
West bound trains leave Union Passenger
Station, corner Adams and Canal streets,
Chicago, daily at 5 80 p. m, arriving st.
Paul 700 a. m, Fargo 4 4:55 p. m, Helena
/ :15 a. m, Spokane Falls 100 p. m, Tacoma
1850 a. m, Seattle IL AS a. m, Portland
$3.50 p. m. These trains carry all classes of
passengers and also provide the finest din
ing-car service between Chicago and the
Pacific Coast. Trains of all lines from
the East arrive in Chicago in ample time to
make connection with the $3.50 p. m. train
from Chicago
In addition to the foregoing, special Pull
man sleeping cars for the famous Yellow
stone Park will be attached to these trains,
thus affording during the summer months a
direct through car line to the World S
Wonderland" and the Lake Park region Of
the Northwest. Time As hours to Mammoth
Hot Springs Hotel.
The advantages to be secured by purchas-
ing through tickets via route composed of
such favorably known and well established
lines as the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
and Northern Pacific Railways must be ap-
parent to all first-class travellers.
For sleeping-car reservations, through
tickets, time tables and further information
apply at City Office Of Chicago, Milwaukee
Il st. Paul Railway at 207 Clark street, or
Union Passenger Station, Chicago, or ad-
dress +. A. Miller, Asst g. z. A, c. NJ. &
St Z. R'y, Chicago, Ill.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
Teachers' National Association at St
PauI. Half Faro Excursion Rates.

The rate to the Annual Meeting to be held
at St. Paul July to July IL, 1890, inclusive,
from all points on the CHICAGO, ROCK
ISLAND IL PACIFIC R'Y (both east and west
of the Missouri river), and ALBERT LEA
ROUTE, will be ONE LOWEST FIRsT-CLAss
FARE THE ROUND TRIP, plus 50 for member
ship fee-good for return passage with
stop-over prvileges) after July IL TO Sept
30, 1890 Special vestbuled trains of ele,,
CANT Chair Cars, Pullman Sleepers and
Dining Cars. Low excursion rates beyond
st. Paul to all points of interest to tourists
and pleasure seekers. Teachers and others
who travel via the Rock ISLAND and ALBERT
LIZA routes, will enjoy splendid trip at the
least possible cost. For tickets or further
information, apply to any Rock Island rep
resentative, or address John Sebastian,
Gen. Tkt and Pass. Agent, at Chicago, Ill.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice of California figs, combined with the
medicinal virtues Of plants known to be most
beneficial to the human system, acts gen.
tly on the kidneys, liver and bowels, effect
ually cleansing the system, dispelling colds
and headaches, and curing habitual cons
tiDation.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
The Demon of the Marsh.

The evil spirit that hoyers about stag
nant pools and inundated lowlands, is no
materialized bogey, no phantasm of dis
ordered Imagination, but n power of evil
far more malignant than any familiar ana
thematized by Cotton Mather. 1t is Malaria,
which has for its destructive progeny fever
and ague, bilious remittent and dumb ague,
with Hostetters Stomach Bit
ters, as are dyspepsia, constipation, liver
etc.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
judging by Appearances.

Peddler-Can l sell you some patent
cement, sir?
Mr.. Scedie-Cement? What do want
with cement?
P.--,Well, you look as II you were
byoke.-Boston Courier.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

THE Drovers' Journal says: In West
Virginia farmers are quitting cattle and
raising colts instead. There are five
mares bred now to one five years ago,
says correspondent of the Journal II
is this tendency that makes the outlook
for cattle better.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

IT will not be very long before our
fruit growers will be sending their prod
ucts to the markets. Don't cover the
tops with beautiful fruit and fill in be-
low with inferior fruit. IT never pays.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

Sir Nopels Free, will be sent by Cragin Il
CO., Philada., Pa, to any one in the U. s: or
Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of ~
Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers, See list
of novels ON circulars around each bar.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

ALL disorders caused by bilious state o.
the system can be cured by using Carter:
Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis
comfort attending their use. Try them
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

WE will give 500 reward for any case of
catarrh that can not be cured with Halls
Catarrh Cure. Taken internally
+. j. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

THOSE who wish to practice economy
should buy Cartcrs Little Liver Pills.
Forty pills in vial; only one pill dose
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

RHEUMATIC Pains are greatly relieved by
Glenn's sulphur Soap.
Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

WATER Is good in case of fever, but wa
tered stock makes the market feverish.-
Texas Siftings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

SOME lawyers are always poor, while
others in tho profession meet with fee-nom'
inal success.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

SANp-pAGGINo may be classed among the
too base hits.--Texas Siftings.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

THE best illustration of mingled hope and
fear is u lazy man looking for work.-Ash-
land Prose
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

REsrAURANT-keepers are always ready to
steak man when he has money.-N. o.
Picayune.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

THE photograph needs no eulogy. 1t
speaks for itsclf.-Binghampto Journal
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small
doses of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

THE expenses of an electric company
may be summed up as current expenses
Lawrence American.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28

You can easily fill the public eye II YOU
only have the dust.-Tcrrc Hautc Express.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-06-28
Quantity and Quality in Mink.

Quantity and quality are not neces-
sarily irreconcilable in milk, says the
Western Rural. Many Jersey COWS with
large butter records are also noted as
large milkers-not large as compared
with Holsteins, but large for COWS that
put butter in their milk; but as rule
very rich butter COWS are not great
milch cows Nor is it desirable that
they should be, where the object aimed
at is butter. In this case the smaller
the number of pounds of milk necessary
to make pound of butter the better for
the butter maker. By careful selection
and persistent breeding for that pur-
pose it is easily within the power of any
first-class breeder to establish two dis
tinct strains of Jerseys, one producing
a moderate or small quantity of milk
very rich in butter; the other giving
copious flow (forty to sixty pounds at
fush) of milk containing good per
cent. of butter. There are condi-
tions in which the larger mixers
would be more desirable, because more
profitable. But Jersey breeders in gen.
eral will find their interest lies in breed
ing to increase the quantity of butter
without increasing the flow of milk.
EVEN with good pasture stock need
more or less attention in order to secure
tho best results. Letting them look out
for themselves may lessen the cost. but
at the same time 1T will lessen the pos
sible profits. A steady growth and a
quick maturity can only be secured by
giving good attention, all the timo from
birth until marketed.
In breeding horses on the farm the
best profit can only be realized by
breeding the best, says the Live Stock
Indicator. Horses that the purchaser
will come to you to buy are the kind to
raise. There is but little difference in
the cost, but considerable In the profits.