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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
CANE OF rAnM STOCK.

Every farmer should carefully study
the tables sent out by our experimental
stations, giving food values of different
kinds of forage and grain, and the food
requirements of animals of all sizes and
under various conditions, Having done
this, he should study how his various
kinds should be mixed, and what should
be given of each one, or what should be
added to make it better adapted to their
wants, The COW that is giving milk
wants other food from the dry one, The
horse that works all day upon the team
should not feed in the same way as the
fast trotting horse, having only moderate
exercise two or three times week, and
the amount should vary with weight and
age to a certain extent. But with the
knowledge gained from these tables
should go something of experience and
good Judgment, and a constant watchful-
ness. To know just what any individual
animal can cat and digest, and to vary
food as they may require it, cannot be
learned anywhere but in the presence of
the animal, The truly successful feeder
must love his animals, and be in such
sympathy with them that he will know
when anything is wrong with them, as
quickly as the mother does with her in
FAINT that cannot talk.-American Cult
Gator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
excellent, and will helm to keen the fowl,

excellent, and will help to keep the fowl,
In good health, Do not feed too many
onions, however, or they will impart tc
eggs decidedly unpleasant flavor,
formerly fed my fowls three times o
day, but experience has taught me tina,
twice day is preferable, gave the
afternoon feed about p, NJ, and / find
mixture composed of various grains,
such as buckwheat, corn, oats, sunnower
seeds and wheat give the best results.
Csution is required in feeding corn and
sunhower seeds, as they have tendency
to produce fat, and an overfat hen will
not lay. My plan of feeding corn is to
give it to the fowls ON the cob and let
them pick it off, This gives them exer.
else, which is very essential when they
are confined in small pens.
In addition to the above feed, some
kind of green food is necessary. Suspend
a head of cabbage by string from the
ceiling, just high enough from the floor
so that the fowls will be obliged to jump
to get ut it, They will enjoy it greatly.
Probably the best green food that can be
given them is clover hay, chopped fine
and steamed Let them have access to
crushed oyster shells and broken bone at
all times, and feed of meat scraps once
a week is greatly relished. With the
above small extra care your fowls should,
and undoubtedly will, pay a handsome
proft. If they do not, perhaps the most
profitable plan will be to cut their heads
off
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30


A neighbor who doesn't keep cows had
been buying his supply of butter from
another neighbor. The buyer had con
WINGED himself that he possessed very
keen discernmen., and had formed a
prejudice against ensilage, believing not
only that it spoiled butter, but that he
detected a bad flavor at once in butter
manufactured from this food. On meet
ing the son of his butter making friend
one day, he gave orders to be informed
as soon as the silo was opened, and he
would procure his butter elsewhere The
boy reported the order to his father, who
quietly forbade any such proceeding.
After while the silo was opened and the
cows fed judiciously for four weeks.
Then one evening the dairyman called
upon mis- customer in friendly way, and
in the course of conversation the con-
sumner repeated the request to be informed
when the silo was to be opened. The
dairyman remarked: every well, sup
pose you have found the butter all right
so far" so, yes" was the immediate
response. $50 far it is all right" 'Ha,
hal" laughed the farmer, 81 have been
giving my COWS all the ensilage they
would eat for month. p" "There, said
the wife of the buyer, II told you that
our butter had been much improved dur
ing the last four weeks" The result was
complete conversion of the neighbor
who supposed he so disliked ensilage
products. The moral of this is, that if
cows ration be judiciously balanced,
the milk, cream or butter will be above
suspicion. 1t is natural for the COW to
give good product, but she must be fed
good food regularly and in sensible guam
titles and proportions. -HomesteSd.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
DETRIMENTAL DAMPNEsS,

Wet, mucky, black soil should be kept
for hay, and even this will be deficient
in nutriment as compared with hay from
rich, dry upland. The soft, succulent
heritage grown on damp soil is deficient
in bone-malling material, and the moist
ure of the land tends to make the feet of
pastured stock soft and unsound. The
hoofs of horses reared on dry mountain
land can go unshod without injury, while
a case of footrot in sheep is never heard
of; nor have sheep ever been seen feed
ing upon their knees because of excessive
wearing upon the stony soil. Dry pas
ture is productive of sound animals, with
good bone, sound, tough hoofs and
good, hardy constitutions; while weak,
tenderfooted and Emphatic animals all
come from soft, undrained fields where
the herbagr is rank and watery. Dsraip-
age of such fields is imperative for the
good condition of the stock; it is indis-
pensible for their health and sound lungs.
To breathe the vapors from wet ground is
injurious, and in investigating the causes
for disease which affects some herds and
focks more than others, the characters of
the soil should be the first clement con
sidered. The prevailing diseases of any
season are found where animals have
been kept Cd wet pasture Or in damp
stables, and the splenic fever, blackleg
and tuberculosis of cattle, and pinkeye
and influenza OF horses, may in nearly
every instance be traced back to this in
furious effect of undrained land or damp
buildings.-New York Tribune.
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Stories About Judges,

A good story is told on Judge French,
of South Dakota. Some years ago he be-
came Judge of the Supreme Court and
was known all over the State by the name
of sold Necessity and this title was
given him because it was said he 'tknew
no law" As an illustration of how apt
this appellation was the most remarkable
decision the Judge ever rendered is di-
rectly to the point. A case was before
him wherein the prosecution failed to
prove its changes. The attorney for the
defence refused on that ground to put in
any evidence. When asked by Judge
French if he intended doing so, the
lawyer said ''no," and then the Judge
drew himself up and said: "Well, in that
case l shall order the jury to convict; if
there is any one branch of the law fully
understand it is criminal law, and if a
man is innocent he has got to prove him
self So
Another good story from the same Sec
ton is on Judge Gideon c. Moody, re-
Gently elected United States Senator from
South Dakota. When he was some years
ago Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court, noted horse-thief known as
Light Fingered Harry was up before him
on charge of stealing horse. The
trial was a long one and Harry got long
term in prison. In sentencing the pris-
oner Judge Moody scored the thief in a
most unmerciful manner and closed by
asking the usual question if he had any
thing to say. Harry looked his denouncel
in the eye for a moment and then said in
an even, cold tone: "Judge, wouldn't
have that temper of yours for the best
horse in the Black Hills. Chicago
Herald
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must not grieve, that he was coming
back some day,

must not grieye, that he was coming
back some day.
~ felt very lonely after he'd gone,
aud am sure Aunt Belle did, too, though
she didn't say so. Old Aunt Linny said
she believed | wus gwine in sumption
sure, But she was much mistaken, l
heard from him twice, then no more let
tiers came. But in May following the
close of the war, while sitting one eve on
the steps, feeling sad and gloomy, some
Que whispered, Dearest, and there, safe
and sound, stood my soldier boy, come
back to claim his Southern bride.
"Aunt Belle, Aunt Linny and her 'old
man went up with usto see father and
the girls. There we all stayed for sew
eral weeks after my YANKEES boy and |
were married,
"They all said they couldn't help low
ing him, even if he was Yankee.
"Times We're very dry all over the
South and our wedding supper was rather
poor, but nevertheless we had feast Of
happiness
Just then there came heavy footsteps
at the door; then my Yankee uncle came
b,.stling in.
And when I saw Aunt Bess throw fresh
wood on the fire, get his dry slippers
ready aud the affectionate meeting be-
tween them, thought it was sweet
story and all the more so for being real.
-Philadelphia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
FEEDING FOR EGGS IN WINTER.

At this season of the year, when eggs
command high price, the main object
with all who keep poultry for profit is to
force the egg production up to the highest
possible point, says Emery s. Pugh in the
american Cultirat0r. 1t would be we'll,
however, to select few of the choicest
fowls from the flock to be used for breed
ing purposes, and place them in sepa-
rate apartment, and not stimulate them
to egg production until eggs are wanted
for Matching purposes. If this is done
you will have better chicks than you
otherwise would. Fowls forced to their
utmost now will not produce such strong,
vigorous offspring as those that are not.
The first requisite toward filling the
egg basket is a warm place for your
feathered friends. Without comfortable
quarters for them you cannot hope for
many eggs in winter. If you have such
a place give for their morning feed ii
mash composed of one part boiled and
mashed vegetables, one part corn meal
and one part shorts or midlings. Small
potatoes, carrots, parsnips or turnips,
any or all are good for this purpose. Mix
this feed up with hot water. Do not
make it sloppy, but as thick as you can
stir it. Add to this two or three times a
week, a dash of red pepper, and about
once week little sulphur. Feed it
while warm, not hot Onions chopped
fine and added to their morning feed arc
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
coon COOKING VS.. WHISKY.

Mrs. Sallie Joy White has contributed .
very interesting series of articles to Vide
Aiodke, on Cooking in the Public Schools"
the conclusion of which is given in recent
number. Referring to results realized from
the experiment in Boston, she says:
If you could see into some of the homes,
and know what amount of comfort has come
to them since the girls have learned how to
cook well, You would be soon convinced that
there is a moral as well as a practical side to
the matter. At least one man has been led
TO give up his practice OF going daily to
the saloon at eleven O'Clock, for the drink OF
whisky to ''set him up, by the nice cup of
chocolate and the corIi-cake which his little
daughter gives him for breakfast, in placs
of the sloppy tea and dry bakers bread which
he used TO have. tt is much easier to be
good when one is comfortably fed than when
one is put Off with insufficient and illy-cooked
iood
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
PROPER FEEDING.

The amount of food digested by any
animal is the basis of the product. To
increase the digestive ability of the ami
NAL is great step in the improvement
of dairy stock, and this should be made
a special point in the rearing of calves,
But as animals differ considerably in this
natural ability and as food that is not di-
gested is wasted or becomes a cause of
disease, every farmer should take pains
to measure the capacity of his animals in
this respect and make note of it for his
guidance. When food is left uncon.
sumed the ultimate point of digestive
ability is reached, add the quantity CON
sumed should be made the special ration
of that animal. In feeding calves the
ration should be made up of the most
nutritious food, but not such as contains
much fat. SKINNED milk, always given
warmed to eighty degrees, with ground
oats and bran in moderate proportions at
first, and gradually increased, is the best
for them. In feeding cows the product
of milk and butter should be made a
test for the quantity of food given. As
long as an increase of product is noted
the feeding may be gradually increased,
but special care is to be observed as to
the result of the feeding upon the ami.
mails health. The first outward result
will be noted in the condition of the
udder with decrease in the milk pro.
duct, and this is to be watched very
closely. -New York Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
Editor GradY'S ROYiShneSs.

Henry Grady was boy-nothing but
a boy-we all called him Henry. His
smooth and boyish face and laughing
eyes and merry laugh did hardly become
man. He had to be deeply impressed
with the deep concern or peril of any
thing to put off his boyish ways. Only
a few years ago l rode with him and two
friends in the country, and seeing a
squirrel across the road, he leaped from
the carriage and chased him far in the
woods. He came back laughing and
painting, and said: ~ would have
caught him if I--if had been a dog"
He loved the boys and their boyish
sports, and once remarked that he would
90 to school again if he was not ashamed.
Said he wanted to play marbles and sky
ball, and would try game of humble
peg with a newsboy if there was nobody
watching him. When baseball came on
the carpet he was delighted, for it gave
even man chance to be a boy again.
He Joined in the sport with eager en-
thusiasm, and kept'it alive, and became
for awhile its champion. / remember
being in the office one day when Henry
came sauntering in with happy smile
upon his face, and Evan Howell said:
"You needn't come here laughing, just
look at that bill for telegraphing your
baseball news from all over the country.
That's the bill for one week--just one
week-and if you don't stopit I'm going
to charge it up to you. We've got it to
pay, but am going to charge it up to
YOU" Henry glanced at the bill and
said: That's all right; charge it,
charge it, don't care; but I'm going to
nave the baseball news all the same.
What are you fellows talking about2"
When he left the room Howell said;
WAS there ever such boy in the worldl"
BIZ Arp.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
STATISTICS OF rHE TEMPERANCE UNION.

Tbs annual report of the National Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union for 1889,
just published, shows total membership for
1889 Of 142, 34s, gain of SS2l over the total
paid membership OF 1SSS. This does not in-
clude members who, for any reason, havo
failed 70 pay their dues on time. nor the large
number of unreported unions, honorary
members and Loyal Temperance I.egions
which, together with the IL, 34S paid mem
hers. make the total membership anG support
OF the Woman's Christian Temperance Onion
at least 200. 900 and doubtless nearer 250. 900.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
How Long should We Sleep !

Up to the fifteenth year most young
people require ten hours, and until the
twentieth year nine hours. After that
age every one finds out how much he or
she requires, though, as a general rule,
at least six to to eight hours is necessary.
Eight hours sleep will prevent more
nervous arrangements in women than
any medicine could cure. During growth
there must be ample sleep il the brain is
to develop 10 its full extent; and the
more nervous, excitablc or precocious a
child is, the longer sleep should It get, if
its intellectual progress is not to come to
premature standstiil, or its life cut
short at an carly age.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
Magnificent Rest.

Colonel w. C. Church, in his first ar.
ticle on the great inventor, John Err
lesson, in Scribner's, relates that, as the
last hour in the life of the great engineer
was drawing to its close, he called to his
bedside his faithful friend and secretary,
and, looking into his face with a smile,
said "Taylor, this rest is magnificent;
more beautiful than words can tell.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30
HOME AND HARrINsss.


How happy IL the home
Wherein cantentment dwells-
There lahor's restless lola,
The song OF conoorl swells;
There comfort lroul presi,les
Ger fortunes scanty storH
Aul gladuess cllmiy Slides
unceasmg through its door,
Happy is the sphere
Where love suprene,y reigns'
There faith foresta.leth fear
And joy precludeta pains;
There pleasures crown thu day
In sweet and swift increase,
And heaven spreads DER the way
The golden arch OF peace,
-Hocard n. Fuller, IN Frank LeSlie's,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30

Secretary Biaihe's daughters are excel
lent housekecpcrs, and perhaps tn most
skilled needlewomen in Washington.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30

The State of Nevada has only 5se
militia on it rolls.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-30

the street. Do you hear2'
81 started to the sitting room, but had
only taken few steps, when Aunt Belle
called me back to say:
" Dear, It's rather chilly to put sick
person out Feel his pulse, and if he
has very hot fever you might put him in
the little room on the left till tomorrow,
anyway. Then I'll see about him myself.
But before you go you may hand me an
/ ether blanket. This cover isn't enough.
81 then went into the room softly,
hoping if the young soldier was asleep
that he'd remain so till I'd felt his pulse
anyway, for, goodness knows, ! didn't
wish him to see me. After getting near,
and listening to his short, quick breath
ing, cautiously lifted his arm and laid
my fingers on his wrist But, dearie
me; before had time to count three he
opened his eyes and smiled at me. l
dropped his arm so quickly that | really
didn't know whether he had fever or not.
However, bed was prepared and Uncle
Tom Aunt Linnys husband) helped him
in it. For week he was right ill, and
grew accustomed to feeling his pulse
and dosing him up. But between us all
we got him well.
at was two weeks after he got up be-
fore he left us. During those three
weeks we had seen good deal of each
other, and some way the day of his de-
parture came sooner than | liked. Just
an hour previous to his leaving he asked
] L l.. L
bade adieu, perhaps forever, to the
Southern girl and home he had grown to
love. 1t was a hard task for me to
attempt. But went over to the piano,
he following, and began my song. Be-
fore I had half finished the words came
from my lips in jerky sobs, my head
toppled over on the piano and cried all
over the KEYS. He leaned over me,
fondled my hair and whispered that
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-11-22
VIM. Tower Burned Out.

VIM. Tower, who lives four miles south
of Coal Harbor, met with heavy loss by
fire last Monday. About noon of that day
just as Messrs. Peterson g. Wing were fin
ishing thrashing for Mr.. Tower, spark
from the engine caught in the straw pile,
which was near the stable, and in less than
five minutes the stables, granary, henhouse,
hay and all were enveloped in flames.
The proprietors of the thrasher barely
succeeded in saving the separator. There
were several horses in the stable when the
fire broke out, but they were all saved ex-
cept black mare owned by DR.. F. R.
Smyth. R. j. Mann, who is taking care of
DR.. Smyth's horses, went down to help
Tower thrash and rode the DOCTORS mare
from home, which accounts for her pres
ence in the doomed stable. A very strong
wind was blowing at the time, and it was
with great difficulty that Mr.. Towers resi-
dence was saved. The wheat, which had
been thrashed first, had been stored in a
vacant house near by, and thus escaped
the confagration. In this fire Mr.. Tower
lost all his hay, his straw, oats, stables and
chickens, which falls heavily upon him, as
it is the second loss by fire he has met with
inside of two years.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-11-22

The Tribune's news columns contain
considerable Indian gossip this morning
but in the editorial column the Tribune
wants to go on record as saying that while
Sitting Bull, Gall, John Grass, Running
Antelope, Rain-in-the-F Face and other Sioux
ex-warriors are quietly sleeping in their
teepees, the citizens of Mandan and Morton
county-across the river, are in fever of
exitement because of the circulation of
groundless rumors, and Capt. Gregg, Gov
efnor Miller's private secretary-on tele-
graphic instructions from the governor
himself was up nearly all night getting
guns and ammunition ready to go over on
the first train, as requested by Sheriff Bing-
inheimer. That the Indians are excited
regarding an alleged new Messiah is un-
doubtedly true, but that there is any dan
ger of an outbreak at this season of the
year is extremely doubtful That the In
dians are thoroughly equipped with gums
and ammunition for an outbreak is un-
doubtedly true, but the Sioux Indian has a
ssheap more sense" than to start out on the
war path just at time when winter and
severe snow storms are about to arrive.
There is no need of alarm at this time
Bismarck Tribune.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-11-22

The Indian scare in the vicinity of Man
dan has created a great excitement among
settlers in that section of country, and
many people from the sparsely settled dis
tricts have rushed into Bismarck for pro-
lection. Thus far the excitement has little
affected the people of Washburn or the
surrounding settlers, as they anticipate no
invasion from that quarter. That the
Sioux on the reservations south of us are
restless there is no doubt, but it seems as
though the government ought to have
power enough to check in it's incipiency
any outbreak attempted on the part of
the pampered and deluded Indian. Wheth-
or our neighbors have cause for the appre-
hension of danger is difficult to determine,
as the reports are so conflicting that one
is left in doubt as to their truthfulness.
Whatever the outcome may be, we will say
to our readers that the LEADER will not
suspend publication until the scalp has
been removed from our hufvud and our
pericardium pierced by some harder SUBJ
stance than the narrowing tales of an an
ticipated massacre.
p. S.-The $50 4ndians which have caus-
ed all the excitement concerning the In
dian scare, will arrive at Washburn to day.
They are friendly Indians belonging to
Berthold.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-11-22
Notice of Chattel Mortgage Sale.

Mortgagor: Peter Londquist of section
10, township 144, range 50, Mclean coun-
ty, D. T. Mortgage: Louis Peterson of
Bismarck, D. 7. Chattel mortgage is
owned by the estate of Louis Peterson de-
ceased; chattel mortgage is dated Febru-
ary %, 1889. The amount claimed to be
due at the date of this notice is five hun
dred and sixty eight dollars. Default has
been made in the payment of the moneys
secured by said chattel mortgage. Now,
therefore, notice is hereby given that the
sheriff of Mclean county, North Dakota,
OF his deputy, will sell at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash, at the front
door Of the court house, in the town of
Washburn in said Mclean county, at 2
O'Clock p. m. of the ED day of November,
1880, the following property contained in
said mortgage and described as follows,
Wig: One bay mare eleven years old,
weighing 1850 lbs; one bay mare with
white face, weighing l,1OO lbs; one bay
mare weighing $50 lbs, with small star in
forehead; one set light harness; one gold
watch No. 5l9O8, Waltham watch with sill
yer chain.
Dated November II, 1880. AS
LENA PETERSON, Administrative
of the Estate of Louis Peterson, deceased.
LOUIS His1rcu, Atty for Mortgagee.