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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
FARM PARTNERSHIP.


An tdcn Whose General Adoption VTould
Solve Vcxed Problem.
Does the son OF the average farmer
expect TO become u partner of his ia
ther at some future time? We have
never vet heard an expression of that
kind come from the lips of q farmers
boy. The average farmer treats his
boy Che same as he would hired hand.
His opinions are never asked or his
wishes consulted on any matter per-
taiuing to the farm There are no in-
durements offered Co make him take
an interest in the farm or farm life.
When he has reached manhood he
starts out without any fixed pdrpose
in view: the only thing he has def
nitely settled in his mind is to leave the
farm.
farmer may have several boys. As
fast as they reach their majo,'ity they
leave home. Some go to town, others
become tenant farmers, while there is
plenty of land and work on the home
farm for them. When the last boy is
gone, as rule the farmer rents his
farm and moves to town to lead 're-
tired life, and instead of trying to
better and advance agriculture by his
experience, his counsel and influence,
he simply becomes HothtHg.
A S matter of course, as long as the
insane idea prevails that man must
run over mot farm from 50 to 100 acres
of lana TO make a living for one fam
lily, partnership business on the farm
will bc IN Impractical. But the"c is no
good reason why there should not be a
house at least on every forty acres OF
farm land, and l believe it would be
better to reduce it to twenty acres.
There would not necessarily need be a
complete set of buildings. The dwell
ing houses might be in group, and all
use the barn and other buildings in
common. A system of this kind would
| serve to settle the question of isolation
on the farm. and would make it possi-
BILE for John Smith to take his boys
and girls into partnership. Would it
not be a pleasant sight to see on every
farm Il group of buildings, their num-
Der in proportion to the number OF
children and the number of acres in
the farm? Under conditions of this
kind the head of the farm would not
have to move to town for society, but
! he would stay on the farm to encour-
age the boys with his presence and in
fucnce. The adoption of this system
would solve the question of how tc
keep the boys on the farm. The ques
tion why boys Leave the farm is moi
hard of solution. With me the ques
ton has always been why great
many more do not leave the farm.
Under our present policy there is real
ly no inducement to keep an intelli-
gent Industrious, ambitious boy on the
farm. and not until there is an entire
revolution in our system of farming
and farm management will it be posi-
bic to offer such inducements. M. e
! King, in Ohio Farmer
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES.
The High Percentage in tho ErealIage of
Champagne Bottles.

Iie INlph feTcentaSc IN tne ireaKage OF
Champagne Bottles.
The quality of the bottles for cham
pagne is an important matter Unless
Sheir strength is very considerable
there is sure to be terrible waste by
breaRage. Their price is sensible
item in the manufacturers budget, and,
curiously enough, it is found that cham
pagne bottles can not be used a second
time, as the pressure to which they are
subjected seems, in some unexplained
fashion, to strain the glass so as to
make it unsafe for future use. Indeed.
it is stated that thrifty manufactures
who once made the experiment of put
ting new wine in old bottles, to the
number of 5000, speedily found his cell
lars filed with broken glass and flooded
with wine, less than a scare of bottles
out of the whole remaining intact.
Sometimes a solution of cane-sugar is
added before the wine is bottled, out
this depends on the character of the
particular vintage. The grape juice 0t
1874, for example, was naturally, in
point of sweetness, about equivalent to
that of an average year plus per cent
deed, whenever the grapes are not
distinctly deficient in saccharine con-
stituents, and therefore in effer-
vescence, no sugar would be added
until later stage. After being bottled,
the wine is at once corked, the eorlSs
are secured with an ingenious contriv-
ance which dispenses with wires, and
the bottles are usually kept in the
warehouses above ground, at a tenn
perature warm enough to encourage
etfervescence, unless, indeed the wine
contains sufficient carbonic acid gas to
make it possible to dispense with this
stage. Then they are sent down to the
cellars, are stacked in Il horizonal posi-
tion, and are left to mature for period
varying from eight to ten months to
three or even four years. The loss from
breakage, though much less than it used
to be, is still very serious The average
proportion of burst bottles is about
seven per cent, but in particular years.
and in particular cellars, it is sometimes
as little as two or three per cent. while,
on the other hand there is occasionally.
FOR no obvious reason, regular epi-
NS'AiAS ~ phNHNbSNf iNShAbiuS III VIC
almost entire destruction of bin after
bin Of wine. When the champagne is
considered ripe for the market the bot
ties are placed III specially constructed
racks, with their necls inclining OBJ
liquely do%nward, so that the sediment
may attach itself to the cork. With the
object of disNodging the deposit from
the glass to rhch it has clung, each
bottle is at this stage turned daily with
slight shalse) so the extent of one
eighth of its circumference, and though
this work is done with extraordinary
quickness practice makes the manipu-
lation so accurate that every bottle
completes the circle in exactly eight
days; in other words it is just that time
before the top side of the bottle be.
comes uppermost again. This opera
tion continues for six or eight weeks, at
the end of which time all the sediment
has, as rule, descended into the neck
of the bottle, leaving the bulk of the
wine clear and bright -Cornhill Mage
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
TlU of trouble

TtU OF TO@0Ie
the ordinary pill. Trouble when
you take it, and trouble when you've
got it down. Plenty of unpleasant
ness, but mighty little good.
With DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets,
there's no trouble. They're made
to prevent it. They're the origi-
nal little Liver Pills, tiny, sugar
coated, anti-bilious granules, purely
vegetable, perfectly harmless, the
smallest, easiest and best to take.
They cleanse and regulate the whole
system, in natural and easy way
mildly and gently, but thoroughly
and effectively. One little Pellet
for laxative = three for a cathar-
tic. Sick Headache, Bilious Head.
ache, Constipation, Indigestion, Bill
Ious Attacks, and all arrangements
of the liver, stomach and bowels are
prevented, relieved and cured.
They're the cheapest pill you can
buy, for they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or your money is re-
turned.
You pay only for the value re-
ceived. Can you ask more?
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
Good ErercIse for Hons.

To give fowls sufficient exercise in
winter to keep IL EN- in good condition,
/ find no plan so good as l think mine
is. We all know that exercise is large
ly useful in proportion as it is inter
esting When 1 throw down basket
of unshelled corn, biddy is intensely
interested and goes to work with a will
to shell out her breakfast. AS now
and then a kernel flies to some dis
tance there is scramble as to who
shall have it. Meanwhile there is a
lively humming and buzzing and clucs-
ing, and certainly there is very inter
esting exercise. This is kept up off
and on through most of the day, as the
hardest corn is left on the cob, some-
times till the next morning. = Western
Rural.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

enough to move the hay dropped in the
harder to ventilate. Our hay doors are
in the end, are twelve feet wide by
fourteen feet high, and hung at the
bottom on heavy hinges, have staple
and ring near the top on the inside to
which a rope is attached to fasten to
the hay carrier to lower and raise the
door as needed.
Where stone and brick are scarce and
expensive, the barn can be all frame
except a foundation, which should be
as high as the manure is allowed to
accumulate.
Twentyfour foot posts can be used
and the first eight feet taken for the
sheep stable and the balance used for
the hay barn. If ensilage is wanted it
can be built longer, aNA s,s ln-2h at
one end used for silo as is necessary
to supply the flock with a succulent
ration each day.
1t is good plan to build ia the form
of an l., as this gives shelter from the
prevailing winds, yet there is one OBJ
lection to this-lack of yard room.
The thirty by fifty foot barn with
three wide doors can be divided into
three apartments, with long feed racks
or with movable panels of fence where
the round racks are used. Two or
three hay chutes should run up through
the center of the barn, these should be
boarded up with doors on sides that
should be kept shut when not feeding;
these act as ventilators and should
pass mp to the ventilators in the cupolas
on the roof of the barn.
To illustrate the ground plan of such
barn / give the accompanying dia-
gram.
A A A. Compartments of barn six
teen and two-thirds bv thirty feet.
b b b. Yards thirty by sixty feet
The middle one will be as much less
sixty feet long as is taken off for path
way to watering place not more than
ten feet
CCG Doors of barn ten feet wide
ID ID ID d. Gates to yards.
E L L f E &. Large windows.
IF. Chutes for hay and ventilator.
G. Well or watering trough for all
yards.
ii II. Better place for watering
troughs.
III. Round feeding racks il panels
of movable fence are used to form
the compartments.
In stormy and windy weather this
barn should be closed on the side or
sides from which the storm comes and
opened on the opposite sides giving
plenty of fresh air at all times.
Our thirty by forty foot barn mem
toned above with eight and half foot
stone basement and sixteen foot hay
barn above, sided with matched dressed
sheeting, cost us about four hundred
dollars, and one ten feet longer could
be built for five hundred dollars or
less.-Geo. McKerrow, in Farm, Field
and Stockman.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
AMONG The POULTRY.

In cold weather care should be taken
to gather the eggs regularly in order
to avoid loss.
ONE objection to keeping the eggs
too Long for Matching is that old eggs
are apt to hatch out weak chickens
No TIME should be lost in securing
whatever ducks are wanted for breed
ing. They will begin laying early in
the year
ALL domestic poultry swallow their
food without mastication. 1t passes
into the gizzard where it is prepared
for digestion.
In nearly all cases a if hen begins to
moult late, the sooner she is marketed
the better, as she will not lay until she
has finished moulting
DRY picking has an advantage in that
the fowls look plumper and neater than
when scalded, while the feathers are
easier to get ready to market
Louis Republic.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
FARM AND GARDEN.
BARN FoR sHsep.
Plans OF One That VIII Easily Honse One
Hundred Animals.

Plans OF One That VIII Easily House One
Hundred Animals.
In building a permanent sheep barn
there are several things to be cor.sid-
cred.
The location should be high and dry,
facing the south If possible, where
plenty of good, dry yard room may be
had
The building must be SO constructed
as to be free from dampness, drafts and
foul air.
A very good barn for one hundred
sheep of medium size may be built
thirty 10y fifty feet, either with stone
or brick basement all above ground,
not less than eight feet high in the clear
(and, better, nine or tenl, with many
large windows near the top, so
arranged as to open and close easily,
and with three doors ten feet wide on
the south side These will allow
teams and wagons to pass in and out
in hauling out the mannre, md should
be kept wide open. except in stormy
weather and when the wind blows in.
The barn above may be sixteen to
twenty feet high, and can easily be
filed with hay from an end door by
means of hay fork and track.
We have two such barns-one thirty
by forty that accommodates eighty
large breeding ewes, another thirty by
sixty -foul. We are often asked why we
did not build them wider. answer
that fifteen feet on each side is far
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

Many life has been lost
because of the taste OF cod
liver oil.
If SCOTS Emulsion did
nothing more than take that
taste away, it would save the
lives Of some at least of those
that put off too long the
means of recovery.
1t does more. 1t is half
digested already. 1t slips
through the stomach as if by
stealth. 1t goes to make
strength when cod-liver oil
would be a burden.
ScoTr BowNE, Chemists, I3a South sth Avenue,
Nsw York.
Your druggist keeps Scous Emulsion of cod.liver
oh-ail druggists everywhere do. s..
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
POTATO AND ONION STORAGE HOUSE.

POTATO AND ONION STORAGE HOUSE.
the foundation wall. AT each end is a
hood with pulley. OF course the win
dows-all double-can be raised or
lowered and doors kept open or shut,
according to the weather
Provision is made for stove inside
the house, to make sure against freez.
ing in very cold weather The tile ven.
tilators can be stopped up with rags
when necessary. The double walls, with
six-inch dead-air space between, should
secure the house pretty well against
frost. j have an idea, however, that it
would have been safer to make this
doubly sure by having two dead-air
spaces, even if either one were only
two inches wide.--Farm and Fireside.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
How to Produce Choice Mutton.

A pound of wool contains four or five
times as much nitrogen as pound of
lamb chops" Bakewell, the great
Leicester breeder, probably did not
know this fact, but his observations
taught him to select sheep that ma
tured early and grew rapidly rather
than those which produced great
fleece of wool. When we are raising
lambs to be killed for food at three or
four months old or chickens for broil-
ers, wool and feathers are costly prod
ucts They run away with good deal
of food, or with what is still more i'm
portant, "A good deal of digestion and
assimilating force. We want as little
offal as possible. The less offal the
greater will be the production of choice
meat.-American Agriculturist.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
Won MoLTKE's JUDGMENT.
His Quick and UnerrinG Comprehension oi
the Situation.


the Situation.
Any careful study of the way in
which Won Moltke, during a long and
anxious period, maintained firm grip
upon the French capital and maneu
vered subordinate armies over q great
part of France, serves to reveal his
sterling qualities as a director of war.
Throughout this period he retained a
complete hold of the entire situation
He knew exactly when to strike, how
much to demand of the troops, and how
far his enemies were to be respected
Never once thrown off his guard, never
tempted to underrate his opponents he
showed the perfect balance of judg-
ment which is unquestionably genius
1t is not pretended that this was strate-
gy in its higher aspects; but there were
sufficient chances of error, and mind
less great, nature less patiently care
full, would have been carried away by
the tremendous successes obtained
against the regular armies of France.
1t is the completeness of the genius of
the man which fifty years hence will
impress the military student
In the diary of the late Emperor
Frederick there are stray notes which
convey Il vivid impression of the
strength and decision of Won Moltkes
character. On August 90, after the
great battles round Metz we read OF
"MoltIe quite cool and clear as ever;
determined to march on Paris; Bis
marcl moderate and by no means san
guine." November 23 by which date
the activity of the French army of the
Loire was assuming great development,
$ referred to as "a moment of exciting
com mbinations Moltle explains the en-
tire situation with the utmost clearness
aud moderation; has always considered
and calculated everything and constant
ly hits the right nail on the head; but
Rooms shoulder shrugs and splitting,
and Podbelske's Olympian assurance
often influence the king" On January
Is, Won Werder having eXpresseda a wish
TO be allowed to raise the siege of Bel.
fort, "Moltlle read this ont, and added
with icy and imperturbable calm: Your
majesty will doubtless permit me to in
form Gen. Won Werder that he has sim
ply to remain where he is and beat the
enemy where he finds him. Is
Moltlte appears to me to be beyond all
praise. Within II second he had settled
the whole affair" Such glimpses show
the great chief of the staff in an unmis-
aallable light -Ednbu burgh Review.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

The doctors and citizens in the
town of Stuttgart, Ark, are at logger
heads A short time ago the leading
physicians of the place formed a protec-
tive league against those citizens who
fail to pay their doctors bills Every
doctor in the league is prohibited from
visiting patient whose name appears
on the black list. This action aroused
the inhabitants to high pitch of indig-
nation, and over three hundred of them
assembled in mass meeting and agreed
to boycott the offending doctors.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

The main reason why faster trips arc
made from Europe to New York THAI
from New York to Europe lies in The
fact that the steamers coming westward
can generally obtain and keep fuller
head of steam owing to the greater draft
of the furnaces, due to the prevalent
westerly winds If these are but mod.
crate they increase the draft to degrees
which more than balances whatever
hindrance the head winds might other
wise exert against the speed of the
steamer, Again, ms.nT engineers claim
we can not say with what truth -thai
Welsh coal gives a better result than
American coal Hartford Times.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
AN ENGLISH PREJUDICE.
A Contempt for Books that Should be
Deplored by Every Engllshnan.

A Contempt for hooks that Should be
Deplored by Every Engllshnan.
Almost the first thing which strikes a
foreigner in talking TO Englishmen,
even of the best class is the scarcely
veiled contempt with which they all
speak Of book learning. | was aston
ished once TO find that gentleman
who had been mentioned with un-
feigned respect as "a good man all
round" was not of n high order of in
telligcnce. A fine rider, sportsman,
and cricketcr, his accomplishments
were mainly physical. English school
boys, | am assured, think more of bod
lily strength and nimbleness than of
study, and their heroes are not schol-
ars. or thinkers, or artists, but athletes.
And their boyish and extravagant cult
of the body is universal in England.
Almost every Englishmau one meets
quotes with high approval the saying
which is ascribed to the duke of We'll
lington, that Waterloo was won on the
playing fields of Eton." Yet it is even
now scarcely doubtful that the Water
loos of the future, at least will
be won by the head rather than by the
arms and legs, useful as these are. And
what about the industrial battles of
our timer Some of the gravest short
comings of the English to-day can be
ascribcd TO the national contempt for
science, and learning, and art. And as
science in our time is coming more and
more to rule industry, their contempt for
it is already handicapping them in the
race of life. year or so ago Mr.
Goschen delivered a speech in which he
eXemplified, in many ways, the neces-
sity of education in our industrial civ
/ ilization. He drew attention to the fact
that German clerks were ousting Eng
lishmen from situations in the city sim
ply because they were better educated
The Germans knowledge of two or
three languages gave him the superior
ity. Mr.. Goschen showed, too, that
English trade with the continent and,
indeed, with all foreigners, is suffering
because English commercial travellers
are generally ignorant of the language
of their customers. He dwelt upon the
value of technical education and de-
plored the rarity of technical schools
in Great Britain. But in spite of the
fact that the chancellor of the exche-
| quer spoke wisely and with authority,
his words appear to have remained
without effect. --Fortnightly Review.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

For THE relief and cure OF the infiamma-
tion and congestion called "a cold in the
head there is more potency in Ely's Cream
Balm than in anything else it is POSSIBLE to
prescribe This preparation whicn is sold
by your druggist has for years past
been making IA brilliant success as Il
remedy for cold in the head, catarrh and
hay fever. Used in the initial stages OF
these complaints Cream Balm prevents any
serious development of the symptoms, while
almost numberless cases are on record of
radical cures of chronic catarrh and hay
fever after all other modes of treatment
have proved of no avail
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
FOR STORING VEGETABLES.
Potato and Onion storage House Built by
an OHIO Earmer.


an Ohio Farmer.
The building is thirtytwo feet wide
and siXtyfVe feet long, resting on n
stone wall. There is a driveway clear
through the entire length of the build
ing. The first floor is ground floor
The aim has been to make the sides
proof against the ingress of frost For
this reason the frame is put up of six
inch studding, sheeted solid, then COW
cred with patent waterproof paper,
then patent siding. Inside he put pat
ent paper on studding, then ceiled over
in the ordinary way. He also covered
the roof with patent paper and shingled
over it. Galvanized iron ventilators on
top provide for the needed ventilation
when doors and windows have to be
closed. Tile ventilators are put through
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that can not be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Il. j. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able TO carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
West ~ Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo,, o., Walding, Knnan q Marvin,
Halls Caturrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 15c. per bot
tie. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
one of tn. Needs.

Hedgeroe cooking at card)-.What'I
young Brown-Smith doing with by.
phen in his name?
Bordfence-0. lie needs II in his bust.
ness. He's gone into socie ty.- detroit
Free Press,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26
Gratifying 30 All.

The high position attained and the uni
versal acceptance and approval OF the pleas.
ant liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs as the
most excellent laxative known, illustrate
the value of the qualities on which its sue
cess is based and are nbundantly gratifying
TO the California Fig Syrup Company. -.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

-"The man wed must be handsome,
brave and noble; he must have no bad
habits, and must love me devotedly." ="
But, my dear, that is impossible, you
know; quite impossible" "Why?"
Because there is only one such man
in the world, and he is going to marry
me."-Chicago Mail.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

knew His Business. s.-Mr Laman-
Why do you always question patients
SO closely about what they eat? Does
the information you get help you to
diagnose their cases? Doctor Emdc-
o no! But by so doing am enabled to
guess what their station in life is, and
how much fees l can probably get ont
of them
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

THE principal difference between lob
ster and u lobbyist is that you can make u
lobster blush.-Boston Post
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-12-26

'You'RE a dead loss to yourself" is the
latest sarcastic way of telling a man he is
no good Philadelphia Record