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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-19
DISEASE IN FOWLS.

When fowls become stupid and sleepy
with the feathers punched up and the
excrement is yellow and green in color,
the disease is anthrax, or, Is it is COM
monty called, cholera. 1t is disorder
of the liver and contagious. 1t usually
happens when fowls are kept in damp
and filthy houses and are ovcrfed, as
these faults quickly produce such an un-
healthy condition as to make the birds
susceptible to the contagion. 1t is
scarcely worth while to attempt a cure.
The sick fowls should be killed without
bleeding and buried away from the house
and the house thoroughly disirfected by
burning sulphur on hot Goals in it with
the doors closed. Il should be we'll
cleaned and kept cleaned. Feed the re-
naming fowls with scalded meal, dis
solving for each twelve fowls one dram
of hyposulphite of soda in the water
used. Continue this for a week and
feed no more than one ounce of meal tor
each fowl daily. After the week feed
wheat and buckwheat, chopped cabbage
and some broken bones. A little salt
and pepper should always be given in
the feed of hens two or three times a
week, and some vegetable food should be
supplied. Chopped cabbage is the best
food of this kind.-Neao York World.
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TO SAVE GRAIN IN BINS.

Every year a good deal of grain is
spoiled by molding or becoming musty
after being threshed. This year, unless
threshiEg is delayed until very late, the
losses from this cause are likely to be
unusually heavy, owing to the wet
weather of harvest time and the bad con-
dition in which much grain was got under
cover. We heard q few days ago prac-
tical farmer describe a methed by which
he put up grain, however wet and in any
amount, without injury. He kept lot
Of common brick under cover, 80 as to be
always dry, and when the grain was put
into the bin he interspcrscd brick through
the heap enough to absorb the super
iluous dampness. Almost every one
knows that kiln dried brick will absorb
great amount of water in proportion of
their size. The brick in heap of damp
or even wet grain will, if numerous
enough, dry it out, saving all danger of
heating. after serving their purpose the
brick should b. carefully put one side for
use another year. Our ipforRant's father
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Improyement in Artificial Limbs.

The latest improvement in artificial
limbs consists in forming the leg and
foot part of single piece of wood, hav-
ing the grain curved naturally in its
growth, such pieces being procured from
the parts of the trunk contagious to the
roots and branches of trees. Limbs made
in this way are stronger with the same
amount of wood remaining in them than
when made of parts and glued together,
and are made waterproof, which is a
valuable feature when the occupation Of
the wearer exposes it to constant damp
ness, or to water itself, as in fishing,
mining, dredging, etc. By making
limbs in this manner from natural curves
in the growth of the wood, it has become
practicable to make light and substantial
artificial feet, adapted to partial ampu-
tation of the foot. The advantage de-
rived from lightncss of artificial substi-
tutes will readily be apparent when the
resistance to motion from inertia is con-
sidered.
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THE USE OF FERTILIZERS.

A farmer few days ago made good
suggestion about the proper use of fer
tilizers, and as he is a successful planter
it is worth giving for the benefit of
others. "I find," said the farmer, "that
a great deal of money is wasted by too
lavish use of fertilizers when the crop is
planted. If you want to fatten pig you
do not give him all the food at once,
simply because it will be wasted and de-
stroyed before it can be eaten up by the
pig. So it is with food for the plant.
Put on part of your fertilizer when you
plant your crop, then every time you
work it add little more. If drouth
comes, and you find it will not be needed,
you save that much. It frequently hap
pens that crop is injured more than it
is benefited by the improper use of fer
tiizers. Then again by putting the fer
tilizer on later in the season you get more
benefits when the crop is maturing and
fruiting." Apparently there is good
sense in the suggestion.-Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
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cs4FTrNG THE CHESTNUT.

In some old works on horticultural
operations the grating of the chestnut
is referred to as rather difficult and un-
certain operation, and this may have de-
tered many otherwise good propagators
of trees from attempting it. But any
one who can successfully graft the apple
and pear need not hesitate to graft the
chestnut, thereby saving several years in
procuring crop of these excellent nuts.
The cions should, of course, be taken
from bearing trees if possible, and only
the young healthy shoots used, and these
taken from the terminal points of large,
vigorous branches. After the cion is set,
cover every part of the exposed wood on
both stock and cion with wax, using
plenty of it, inclosing all with waxed
paper Or thin cloth, to prevent admission
of air or water when the
stock begins to swell with growth
in spring. I much prefer spliee
grating upon small stocks on branches
of larger trees, to the ordinary cleft-grat-
ing, but have good results from both. It
is not at all rare to see the cion set in
spring blooming at the usual time the
first season, and bearing a few nuts the
second, and more the third. BY having
few Seeding chestnut trees growing in
the orchard and garden we can always
avail ourselves of the opportunity for OBJ,
tanning cions of choice varieties found in
the forest, or in the grounds of friends
and neighbors. The same is true in rel
gard to fruit and ornamental trees, and q
man handy with the budding-knife can
always obtain Of his friends choice and
rare varieties without cost, if he is known
as liberal man ever ready to return
such favors.-New York Tribune.
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"K WIFE Is A. TERROR!"

said mild-tempered man in our hearing.
"She snaps and snarls and spanks her
children, and finds fault continually. I
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Rest as 8 Cure for Lockjaw.

Professor Renzl, of Naples, has re-
ported cures of tetanus by securing ab-
solute rest for the patient-that is, rest
for the senses as we'll as for the body.
The patients ears are closed with wax,
his room is dark, and the floor is heavily
carpeted. His nurse attends him with a
shaded lantern; he is served food that
requires no mastication; and scdatives
are given to relieve pain. 1t is not pre-
tended that this treatment shortens the
period of the disease, but that it lessons
the force of the paroxysms, which event.
ually cease.
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APPLE MOOD FOE FUEL.

In most old orchards there are some
trees that have become stunted, and ex-
cept with extraordinary attention will
never pay their way. Tie better plan is
to dig them out root and branch and use
them for fuel The extra care concen-
trated on the remaining trees will bring
far larger returns. Most orchards are
planted much too closely for the best re-
suits. Where the tree was dug out fill in
with rich dirt from the roadside, and the
trees on all corners from the old one will
show in their increased products how
much they appreciate the wider range
given their roots. Apple tree wood
makes excellent summer fuel, and is es-
pecially rich in potash.
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ONION CULTURE.

Twelve years experience in raising
onions, and no trouble from maggots and
worms. have sown and raised on the
same piece for six years, and the crop
grew better every year. When the
time comes to SOW onion seed in the
spring, generally about the last OF April,
as early as the ground will work, I spread
on thickly rotten manure, plow it under,
and then rake the ground off and mark
it out in drills fifteen inches apart. I
next SOW unleached wood ashes in the
drills at the rate of forty bushels per
acre. then SOW the black seed on the
ashes and cover with earth. They will
come up black and keep so. I have no
trouble from worms and maggots. I'm
leached wood ashes and onions are great
friends. "Use them freely" is my mot
to, and I have never failed of raising a
good crop of onions.-American Guilt
Gator.
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FLOWER POTS.

1t may be we'll to remember that there
are other uses for old fruit-cans than
feeding them to goats or filling cutters;
they are just the things for home plants
of many sorts. They will retain moisture
much longer than an earthen pot of the
same diameter on top, they hold more
soil, consequently larger plant can be
grown in the same sized pot. We have
seen all manner of house plants, including
hyacinths, in the windows of ordinary
farm-houses, growing in tomato cans,
that would put to shame many of our
florists productions, and mainly because
the plants were in better quarters than in
porous earthen pots. Try tin cans, after
pounding holeshn the bottom for drain
age, painting them nicely, not rcd-but
some neutral tint that will not detract
from foliage or hower-and mark the re-
sult.-Neao York Observer.
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KEEP YOUNG STOCK GROWING.

If properly fed and kept warm in win
ter, young animals gain more from the
same feed than they will at any later
period of their existence. The necessity
for good feeding must therefore be appar-
ent. For the young stock, if not fed or
cared for as it should be, becomes
stunted, and under this condition there is
scarcely anything more vexatious and dis
heartening. The cause of stunted growth
is usually impaired digestion, though this
is followed by, and often confonnded
with, attacks of scurvy in pigs, lice in
calves or colts or ticks on lambs, all of
which are serious evils. They generally
proceed from the one source of INSULT
cicnt nutrition. We use this word nu-
triton rather than feeding advisedly.
There-may he enough or too much fed,
and there may even be enough eaten, but
it does not digest. 1t lis only the food that
digests which does an animal any good.
Where digestion is ruined easily the ami
NAL never RECEIVERS to what it might
have been. Starving and surfeiting are
equally injurious. 1t is just these ex-
tremes that the careful farmer avoids as
belonging to the wild state. No wild
animal produces as much gain in flesh as
one under intelligent and painstaking
human care. The wild animal gets its
food as best it may, and in latitudes
where cold winters prevail it is reason
ably sure to become pinched and stunted
the first winter. 1t is quite likely that
if the buffalo is domesticated and given
food and shelter winters, it will attain
larger size than the buffalo that formerly
ran wild over our western plains. s.-Ameri-
can Cultacator.
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CARE OF HOU:E PLANTS.

At this season of the year window
plants require considerable attention to
maintain healthy condition. Care has
to be taken in watering so that too much
be not given and a saturated condition
of the soil result. Do not allow water to
remain in the saucers in which the flower
pots are standing, as it causes the soil to
get too wet, and no plant will remain
long healthy in such a condition. Stil
the surface of the soil in the pots, and
occasionally wash the leaves by spraying
when they are smooth and large, and by
Swinging when they are small and
covered with hair. Also keep the pots
clean. 1t is just as necessary to keep the
breathing pores of the leaves in good
working condition as it is to keep the
skin of the human body free from dirt.
Pick off all decayed leaves and keep the
plants free from insects. Green fly, that
inveterate enemy of all window plants,
should have at all time close attention.
Swinging will keep them off when they
first make their appearances il
regularly attended to; but should
they get on in large numbers the
only method of destruction is tobacco
smoke, which can be applied by placing
the plants under barrel or box and fill.
ing with smoke; or, if the barrel or box
is perfectly tight, fill with smoke first,
then place the plants under by quickly
turning the plants on one side, as enough
smoke will remain to destroy the insects.
Bulbs of hyacinths, tulips, etc., which
have filled their pots we'll with roots can
be brought into light and heat, when
they will soon expand their flowers.
When watering newly expanded flowers
of any kind, do not allow any moisture
to remain long on the blooms, as it causes
premature decay. Those who were for
tunate enough to secure few bulbs OF
fuschies, and have them now coming into
bloom, will at once be convinced that
this is one of the sweetest of recently in,
troduced bulbs. They are so easily man
aged and bloom so finely that they have
already become general favorites among
all lovers of flowers wherever introduced.
During their Towering period give plenty
of water, but as soon as the foliage be-
gins to ripen gradually withhold water,
and finally allow them to dry off alto
gether until next August, when they can
again be started into growth.-Ohio
Farmer.
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Extensive Flowers.

The most costly roses which New York
florists had for sale during the past win
ter were the Anne Alexiff and the Ulich
Brunner. The first is of an exquisitely
delicate pink, and the second has the rich
dark beauty of the iacqueminot rose, but
is very much larger, usually measuring
about five inches across the top. They
came from Carlton Hill, N. j., and one
of them was practically bouquet in it..
self. They retail at $3.50 each, so that
the gift of one of them was no mean
present.
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had used the same pile of brick many
years, and however dry the grain, he
usually threw few brick in the BAN to
insure greater safety. 1t is possible that
this would prove good method in dry
ing out corn or to keep hay or grain in
stacks from being spoiled by heating
through.
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There is more Catarrh in this section Of the
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced 1t a local disease. and prescribed To-
cal remedies and BY constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it incurable
Science has proven catarrh to be q constitu-
tional disease, and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manu-
factured by F. j. Cheney d Co., Toledo, Ohio,
sthe only constitutional cIre on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
teaspoonful 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of thcsystem. The offer
one hundred dollars for any case II fails to cure
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
H Sold by Druggists, 75c.
In India the Government fixes railroad
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He was bright, handsome boy Of sixteen,
sunny-tempered, brilliant and engaging, the
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A Few Pointers.

The recent statistics Of the number Of deaths
show that the large majority die with con-
sumption. This disease may commence with
an apparently harmless cough which can be
cured instantly by Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lung, which Is guaranteed to cure
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
PAsTURING RYE IN WINTER.

Rye may proftably pastured by sheep
in some of the Southern States, but in
the North, where cold withers its leaves,
they are not worth enough to offset the
poaching of the ground that is sure to
occur in midday even in cold weather. If,
however, the rye is getting too large a
growth pasturing with sheep or calves is
necessary. If there is any danger of its
getting into joint it becomes tender, and
a slight amount of cold destroys the crop,
as it would of the most tender vegeta-
BILE.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
rEAcUP TOWELS AND D1sHcLoTHs.

TEAcUP TOWELS AND D1sHcLoTHs.
7 It is difficult to announce the amount
of evil that may be visited on a family
through means of unclean dishcloths.
Typhoid fever and kindred diseases have
been traced directly to the unwashed
rags which play the part of dishcloths in
the kitchens of some intelligent women
who do not visit their kitchens. If SER
wants are provided with neatly hemmed
dishcloths and teacup towels marked
with the housekeeper's name they will
be more likely to treat the kitchen towel
with the respect it deserves than if un-
hemmed rags are given them for this
purpose made of any old soft material.
It is very difficult to get servants to treat
anything respectfully that does not look
respectable. Every kitchen girl should
be given at least two dishcloths and
sufficient number of kitchen towels and
glass towels, and be told distinctly that
they must be washed out every day, and
dried, when possible, outdoors. At the
end of the week the first supply of towels
should be put in the family wash and
washed and ironed and sent to the linen
closet till the next week. By such
method as this, keeping two sets of
kitchen towels in use In rotation, the
housekeeper can see at glance whether
they are kept in order. It does not cost
over 1.5O year to keep the kitchen in
q small family supplied with hemmed
towels and dishcloths. The petty
amount saved by using cast-off flannels
and other old pieces for this purpose IS
more than counter balanced by time lost
in making up these pieces, which hardly
give weeks serviceable wear.
The very best material for dishcloth Is
linen stair crash. Four good dishcloths
of linen crash will just cost six cents
each, and will last year, if they are not
used to scour knives and to wash the
bottoms of iron pots. A large cork IS
the best thing to scour knives
with, and a dishcloth should hang
In every kitchen to wash the bot
toms of kettles that may be sooty from
being used next to the fire. Some ser
wants will insist on plunging these towels
into the dishwater and in using fine glass
towels for wiping coarse dishes, butsuch
careless ways will usually be abandoned
if little judicious oversight is kept of
the kitchen. Where the housekeeper does
her own work it is as necessary to have
neat, strong towels in plentiful supply in
the kitchen as where a servant is kept.
Large towels of heavy crash for handling
articles above the stove are very con-
,venient, end can be more easily washed
than holder. They are, moreover,
more convenient than holder in lifting
large baking pans and many other dishes,
and pots and pans.-Neo York Tribune.
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RECIPES.

Beef Loaf-To one pound of beef
from the round), chopped fine, add one
egg, one-third of a cup of fine bread
crumbs, salt and pepper. Make into a
loaf, with little flour on outside, and
roast with frequent basting. When
served garnish with parsley leaves.
Mint Sauce-To be eaten with roast
mutton or lamb. Take the youngest
leaves of the spearmint, cut away all the
stems, chop very fine, put teaspoonful
of sugar to two or three of the mint, and
use sufficient vinegar to be thoroughly
favored by the mint. Make at least an
hour before it is to be used.
I Pea Scup-Pick over one pint of split
peas, wash and soak over night. In the
morning turn off the water and put them
in the soup pot; add four quarts of cold
water, quarter pound of lean salt pork,
one small onion, celery, salt and a little
pepper. Boil gently four or five hours,
being careful that it does not burn.
Boiled Onions-Two dozen onions,
salI, pepper, outtei auu nnnn. Aee.,
wash and boil in salted water until
tender; ten minutes before the water is
drained off, add one-half teacup of milk,
which will give the onions clear, creamy
appearance. Drain; season with pepper,
salt, butter and one small cupful of cream
or milk.
Plain Rice Pudding-Scald two table
spoonfuls of rice to remove the earthly
taste. Add one quart of milk, a little
salt, half a teacupful of white sugar, one
teaspoonful vanilla, small piece Of
butter cut in bits and scattered on top.
Bake in slow oven two hours. Half an
hour before it is done pour over it half a
,teacupful of cold milk; this will make 1t
creamy
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The last census in New Zealand reveals
the fact of q profession of religion on the
part of no less than ninety-tiye per cent.
Of the whole population.