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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The hens laying thin shelled eggs is
often caused by lack of gravel.
When the hens are confined a mess of
cooked meat will promote laying.
To hatch out late chickens, the best
place to make the nests is upon the
ground. A more even heat and moisture
will be secured.
In nearly all cases chickens should be
separated from the old hens whenever
they are full-feathered. Separate them
and let the hens go to laying.
After the first two or three days 1t is
important that young poultry should be
provided with good variety of food in
order to maintain healthy growth.
Store away the sorghum seed, so me
millet and sunaower seed, good bunch
of clover hay, as we'll as corn, oats and
wheat, to feed@ the poultry during the
winter. =
One advantage in buying needed breed
ing fowls the latter part Of summer or
early fall is that better selection can be
had and the fowls be purchased at a
lower price.
If young chickens are well-fed so as
to make a rapid growth they ought to
be ready to market when they are six
weeks. and at latest when they are two
months old. :
It is said that heading back all the
leading shoots of tomato plants three to
six inches, from late July until late Au-
gust, will increase the yield with an i'm
portant gain in earliness.
Keep the March and early April pull
lets for laying. If given comfortable
quarters they will lay regularly the greater
part of the winter. Late Matched pullets
will rarely lay before spring.
This is a good time to Gull the apiary
and substitute poor queens with other.
The colonies that have done well, hav-
ing large number of bees, are the ones
to select. These are worth double the
price of others that have just made liv-
ing without replenishing the purse of
their keeper.
''Allow about two square inches of
drone comb In one of the outside frames
of each hive," is the advice of G.. N.
Doolittle in american Bee Keeper. Then
you will know just where to look for it,
and can shave off the drones' heads every
twenty days, and the bees will not try
so hard to build drone comb elsewhere"
Geese and ducks can be picked regu-
larly until cool weather in the fall, and
if properly managed the feathers will
pay nearly or quite as well as the eggs.
This and next month are the best fer
Matching all kinds of poultry and the
work should be pushed along as rapidly
as possible. Generally late hatchings are
less profitable.
The statement of a Western farmer
that he has been trying forty years to find
the most profitable methods of storing
and feeding coarse feed and grain, and is
not sure he has yet succeeded, is worthy
of note as showing the difficulties with
which the live stock owner is obliged to
contend. 1t might also furnish much
needed lesson in modesty to some would
be instructors whose years are few and
whose theoretical knowledge is consider
ably more extensive than their actual ex-
peIlsnce. -@---.==<z--S-7--- - ------|
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

ARRANGEMENTS seem to be about
completed to bring over to the Worlds
Fair whole tribe of African pigmies.
These queer folk are only about four
feet tall, and they will attract especial
interest on account of the descriptions
given of them by Herodotus, Stanley,
and others. Pinkapoo lib, whoever
he may be, has given his consent tc
their removal TO this country, and the
King of Belgium will doubtless con.
cur. as he is to be approached on the
subject by the State Department. All
that remains is to obtain the consent OF
the pigmies themselves, and that will
be taken for granted.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18
BOILED THEMSELVES.
Suicide Follows Suicide in the Most
Shocking Manner

detailed account of the horrors at the
Weston Insane Asylum, in West Virginia,
have been made public.
Suicide has followed suicide, it is charged,
for some time among the in.
mates, and they have all been
attended by the most horrible circum-
stances. Men have killed themselves bv
boiling to death and suspension by ropes from
the windows. All this has been done in
sight of the guards and no investigation has
been made. There seem to have been no in
quest held on the dead, and a general in
efficiency is manifested in the management.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-09-18

1t seems at this distance q little Sc
we're for English justice to doom q man
10 FIVE years imprisonment for merely
stealing bundle of canes, but it must
be taken into consideration that no real
Englishman is complete without his
walking-stick.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-07
Specimen Cases.

s. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis, was
troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism,
his stomach was disordered, his liver was
affected to an alarming degree, appetite
fell away, and he was terribly reduced in
flesh and three bottles of Electric Bitters
cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,, had
a running sore on his leg of eight years
standing. Used three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve, and his leg is sound and well.
John Speaker, Catawba, O., bad five large
fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was
incurable. One bottle Electric Bitters
and one box Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
him entirely. Sold by Dreiss, Thompson
az Co
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-07
A Safe Investment.

Is one which is guaranteed tolbring you
satisfactory results, or in case of failure
a return of purchase price. On this safe
plan you can buy from our advertised
Druggist bottle of DIR. Kings New Dis.
covery for Consumption. 1t is guaran-
teed TO bring relief in every case, when
used for any affection of Throat, Bron-
chitis, Asthma, Whooping Cough, Group,
etc., etc. 1t is pleasant and agreeable to
taste, perfectly safe, and can always be
depended upon. Trial bottles free at
Dreiss, Thompson & Co.'S Drug Store.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-07
. GREAT OPPORTUNITY!
1913, GOO Acres Of Fine Land al
Sl,25 nar Acre,

lbs, GOO acres of Land in Western Texas,
watered by two never failing rivers of pure
water, with living water in different places
on the tract. Railroad runs through the
land for 40 miles and has four stations
within its boundary. The land has an ele-
walton of from 2, 700 to $500 leet above sea
level and an average rain fall according to
the signal report for the last ten years of
24.2 inches per annum. The country is of
limestone formation and is broken up into
hill, valley and table lands; producing
mesquite and gramma grasses on which
stock thrive all the year round without
other food. Fifty miles of fence will en-
close the whole tract; the increase can be
easily counted fromi70 to 80 per cent. Stock
can be shipped direct from the rancho, thus
avoiding long drives. A like amount of
land can be leased from the state for 10
years at the rate of cents per acre per
annum, thereby making ranch of 296, 800
acres.
For further particulars call on or address
JOHN I. HAMBLETON & co
No. a E. Commerce ST.
-7-tf San Antonio. Texas.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
Smart Enough That Time.

The other day a man presented a
check foT $50 at a down town bank and
it was passed back to him with the re-
mark that 1t was mo good"
Hasn't the man got any funds here?"
inquired the indignant checlt-holder.
"Y-es, a small balance. He has been
drawing other checks of this kind of
late" said the teller.
WELL" thoughtfully remarked the
man with the check. "I'll see if we can't
stop it. What's his exact balance?"
1t was against the rules of the bank
but the teller gave it. Then the check
holder stepped over to the receiving tel
ler's window and pulling out a roll of
money said he desired to deposit S47.5o
to the credit of Mr.. Blank. Now"
said he to the paying teller, pay this
check" The latter did SO and then
closed Mr.. Blanks account. NOW, if
any more checks of this kind come here
Mr.. Blank can be jailed" saying which
the check-holder walked out.-N. Y.
World.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
WIDE AWAKE FOR JANUARY.

Taking up the January WIDE AWAKE
one is led TO lefiect that this magazine
has particularly happy and kindly
way of enlisting the interest and the
fancy Of it's readers by its Prize Compe-
titions. Its amusing Nonsense Ami
mails" were enjoyed by young and old
and showed tha { the drawing-lessons at
school had really ira ined young fingers
to express ideas with the pencil; the
"Isambkin, Prig or Hero competition
was not bad course" in Moral Phil
osophy. The prize Anagram" compe-
tition amused thousands of readers.
For 1891 Miss Runners Prize Art-series,
"The Draw ing of the Child Figure" bids
fair to be of great interest tc children,
while the Prize "Problems in Horol-
ogy," by e. Fl. TIawley of the Smithson-
ian institution, will call forth the eff
forts of the students in the Latin and
High Schools.
The stories and articles of the Jan
uary number are each excellent of their
kind and are by such authors as Susan
Coolidge, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Mar
garet Sidney, Elbridge S. Brooks, Ern'
est Ingersoll, Kirk Munroe, etc.
WIDE AWAKE is $40 year; 20 cents
a number; d. Lot hrop Company, Bos
ton, Mass.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
At Home in All situations.

A young newspaper man who found
himself 500 miles from his base of sup
plies and ''brol1e, hired out to farmer.
He was set to plowing with pair Of
horses, but both man and beasts being
new to the business, the burrows looked
as though they were the result of an
earthquake rather than of design, so
crooked and zigzag were they. At the
close of the day the farmer rather testify
criticised the job, The newspaper man
felt that his doom was sealed, but mus
tered courage to say: II know the rows
are rather crooked, but the sun was eX-
ceedingly hot to-day, and it warped
them The answer turned away the
farmers wrath, and instead of being
discharged the newcomer was given Il
much easier and pleasanter job, and is
now the farmers son-in-law--Chicago
Vribuna
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
WORTHLESS DOGS.
CANNES of All Varieties Are Degeneratins
Into Uselessness.

| CANNES of All Varieties Are Degeneratine
Into Uselessness.
When the dog was of real service to
man, for defense, sport or what not,
and was valued as such, and when,
moreover, he depended for his main
tenance solely on the consideration ol
his lord and master it was natural that
he should attach himself to this one be.
ing with perfect singleness of devotion.
The large majority of dogs are kept
nowadays not because of any service
they render, but for the sake of their
appearance. Like the link-holders still
to be seen above the doorway of certain
London houses, what was once utility
is now preserved merely as an orna-
ment. Theoretically, no doubt, even in
towr houses, people keep dog as a
means of defense, but in most cases
they really value him as a decorative
dppendage. This applies particularly to
the more handsome breeds-the st. Ber-
nard, the colly, the mastiff and the rest.
Indeed, such are the strange diversities
of human taste that even so unpromis-
ing specimen of canine beauty as the
bulldog will be sought after by the in
itiated for the sake of his good looks.
And it is only fair to suppose that the
discerning creatures recognize their new
position in the scheme of things. May
we not see, indeed, now and again in
their mournful and downcast expression
a conscious sense of degradation? Look,
for example, at the nobly formed St
Bernard that gloomily follows the pro
ceesion of fashionably dressed misses in
the park, Can not the dullest observer
perceive signs of an infinite boredom?
His pensive and melancholy eye suggests
that he has had full experience of the
tedium VITAE and is pessimist of the
darkest shade,
While the grander sort of dog has thus
been morally degraded by being turned
into useless laclley, the breeds that
have happened to suit the capricious
and errant fancies of animal PETERS
nave undergone still deeper deteriora-
ton. The sleek pug, for instance, on
whom is often lavished such q wealth of
feminine fondness has long since be-
come perfectly aware of his new func.
ton in the house. He knows he is the
first pet, and he is perfectly happy in
the fact. His mind seems untroubled
by any recollection of higher estate
He has lost the ancient desire of the
species to be mans loyal servant. He
may, perhaps, if you happen to call at
the house, and find him in exclusive pos
session of the drawing-room, make
pretence at resisting your intrusion.
But his sybaritic habits are too much
for him, and presently he sinks in volup-
tuous slumber on the softest of sofa
cushions These spoiled creatures learn
to take the fondlings bestowed on them
as matter of course. They are wholly
nndcmonstrative and perhaps the most
aattering thing that can be said of them
is that, unlike their rival the cat they
do not simulate tenderness of which
their heart is wholly destitute.-J. Sully,
IN Longman's Magazine.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
POINTS FOR FARMERS.
[From Farm, Field and Stockman.l

[From Farm, Field and StockmanI
CLOSE all unused gates
BE sure you dry the seed corn. Do it
now.
CULTIVATE large crop of small home
pleasures.
DON'T let the snow hide rubbish about
your farm.
READ, plan and calculate for next
seasons work.
InG farmer is bigger factor than
the farm in successful farming.
If you use manure to bank up the
house be sure it is through heating.
DON'T sell all the hogs at three cents
and buy back hams at fifteen and
twenty.
SHOVEL the snow from under the
clothes-line-or better, hang out the
clothes for your wife these wintry days.
WHAT cares vegetation how the ele-
ments of fertility originated so they are
given in soluble and available form?
BROAD wheels draw easier on grass
and on mud roads, and do not cut the
fields so badly or wear the roads SO rap
idly. Then why not have broad tires?
THERE are pastures in Kentucky
which have never been plowed since
the State was first settled, but the grass
is fed in the most LIBERAL manner and is
thus sustained.
THIS is the best time to paint the i'm
plements. Clean them well first, then
paint; if you can not afford to buy
white lead good coat of good linseed
oil will do well.
IT is reliably stated that in Ontario,
where they make business of sending
children to agricultural schools, more
than eighty-five per cent. of them go
back to the farm.
IN getting down hay or straw by Ian
tern light, be sure the lantern is hung
on a hook where there is no risk of
knocking it over or off. 1t will not take
sixty seconds to put up hook.
SECRETARY RUsK is convinced that
the present work of the Government in
matters relating to irrigation, is only a
beginning, and that the Government aid
for this purpose will be increased as
the work progresses.
In recent article of President Cham
berlain, in his chronicles of clay farm,
he shows that each dollars worth of
super phosphates returned him two dol
lars worth of wheat, with strong pros
pect of greatly increasing the clover
and timothy for the coming year.
A LARGE part of the nitrates which
would be lost were cereal crop grown
is assimilated and retained by root
crop; and when the roots are fed ON the
farm, we may return the nitrogen to
the soil in the manure of the animals
and thus enrich the land for cereal
crop
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
bacteria in Milk.

Some very interesting experiments on
the subject of bacteria in milk have
been carried out at the Storrs Expert
mental Station by Prof. Conn, from
which it appears that extremes of both
cold and heat are alike injurious to this
minute life. Cold hinders their develop
ment, while they are killed when the
boiling point is reached. They multiply
rapidly in milk and cream when ex
posed to the air, causing milk to sour
and curdle. When the vessels contain
ing milk are not washed properly, they
lurlk about and multiply in the sides
and joints of milk vessels in the min
ute proportions of the milk left there.
The facts brought opt show the i'm
portance of keeping milk so far as pos
sible free from them by the greatest
cleanliness in the dairy, and of cooling
the milk Immediately after coming
from the COW.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
The Craze for New Fruits.

The craze for new and untried fruits,
says ID. 5. Grimes, is running the market
value OF many orchards. The CONNER
cial value of fruits, like the commercial
credit and standing of business men,
has record open to all who may TAX 6
the pains to examine it. The value of
fruits in all local markets can be learned
Inn commission merchants who han
uesruits in large quantities, and know
S'arieties the public calls for the
inosU' Nhe hardness and adaptation of
tneso vaafties can be determined from
ene M experience Of intelligent
pian i4 o,,I+''rs W. have been successful in
I'M III ,,ot rois,ehe advice of such men
Ne ton on the subject.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
A Fact.
From On interview, N. Y. Worldly


In an interview with leading drug house
the N. Y. World, Nov 8, 1890, gives the fol-
lowing comment on the proprietors Of re-
liable patent medicines:
"He is a specialist, and should know more
of the disease he actually treats than the
ordinary physician; for while the latter
may come across say fifty cases in year
of the particular disease which this med
icine combats, its manufacturer investi-
gates thousands. Don't you suppose his
prescription, which you buy ready made up
for SO cents, is likely to do more good
than that of the ordinary physician, who
charges you anywhere from s. to $40 for
having it prepared
"The patent medicine man, too, usually
has the good sense to contine himself to or
dinary, every day diseases. He leaves to the
physician cases in which there is immediate
danger to life, such as violent fevers. He
does this because, in the treatment of such
cases, there are other elements of impor-
tance besides medicine, such as proper diet
ing, good nursing, a knowledge of the
patients strength and so on. Where there
is no absolute danger to life, where the dis
ease is one which the patient can diagnose
for himself or which some physician has
already determined, the patent medicine
maker says fearlessly: i have prepara-
tion which is better than any other known
and which will cure you In nine cases
out of ten his statement is true"
This is absolutely true as regards the
great remedy for pain, St. Jacobs Oil. 1t
can assert without fear of contradiction,
that it is Il prompt and permanent cure of
pain. 1t can show proofs of cures of chronic
cases of 20, 30 and 30 years. standing. In
truth it rarely ever fails if used according
to directions, and large proportion OF
cures is made by half the contents Of q sin
gle bottle. 1t is therefore the best.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
An Illustration

or the value of extensive and judicious ad-
vertising Of any article of undoubted merit
Is found in the remarkable success Of the
CALIFoRNIA FIG SYRUP Co, which has been
phenomenal, even in this age OF great enter
prises.
Organized few years ago to manufact-
ure laxative with original and attractive
features, prepared from delicious fruits and
health giving plants, one which would be
pleasant aud refreshing TO the taste, as well
as really beneficial TO the system. the man
agement very wisely concluded to select the
leading newspapers throughout the United
States to make known TO the public the
merits Of the new remedy, Syrup of Figs
AS happens with every valuable remedy,
cheap substitutes pre being offered, but it is
becoming more dificult each day TO impose
on the public Health is too important to be
trifled with, and reputable druggists will
not attempt TO deceive, as they all know
that Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. of San Francisco,
Nal, Louisville, KY, New York, N. Y.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
CHOICE ooM6-HoNEY.
Tho Beekeeper's Most Reliable Source Of
Income.

Income.
The production of comb-honey Is
probably one of the most important
questions in bee culture for the general
apiarist to study. How TO obtain the
best results both in quality and quanti-
ty, the size of sections, the kind of gu
pers, "side storing" and "tiering up"
are some of the most important uues-
tions concerning this subject, and re-
quire much study and experience in or
der to bring about the best results
The one-pound section is probably the
most popular section in the market at
present, and besides being more salable
than any other size, it has many other
good qualities. In using one-pound
sections, separators are not as essential,
in order to get straight combs, as in
larger sizes, and by not using separa-
tors, sections will be much better filed,
because the bees must have bee space
on both sides of the separator; whereas,
If no separator is used. one bee space is
all that is required, thereby giving more
room for the storing of honey. This
honey will be more salable, for the mar
ket demands well-flled section, and it
is generally thought that as much hon
ey will be stored in small sections as in
large ones.
But the quality of the honey is the
most important point. This the bee-
keeper has but little control over, fur
ther than taking it from the hive at in
tervals during the honey season. and
probably this does not have much to do
with the quality, but it has much to do
with the appearance. 1t is a settled
fact that the longer honey is left in the
hive the darker it will get. Therefore,
in order to gain the best results in this
line, the bee-keeper must take the
honey from the hive several times dur
ing the season. This is not as much of
task as might be expected, if good
italian bees are kept, and good conven-
lent supers are used. 1t is good plan,
when money is coming in freely, to lift
the sections from the super without re-
moving the super from the hive. Place
the uncapped sections in the center; and
fill up with empty sections. But u the
harvest is over, or the bees are cross
and inclined to rob, it is the best plan
to lift the super from the hive.--E- S.
Mead, in Ohio Farmer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
FARM AND GARDEN.
AN EXCELLENT BRooDER.
Sketch of one That Has Been Used to
Considerable Advantage.


Sketch of one That Has Been Used to
Considerable Advantage.
We give an excellent brooder by Mr.
d. M. Palmer, of New York, in this
issue, as used by him the past season.
1t is 4 feet long, % inches wide and IS
inches high on one side and "a inches
high on the other side. The box for
the lamp is 12x16 inches inside. The
brooder box has an open bottom, but
the cover fits tight. the top having two
or three inches air space over the tank,
should the top be level. The water-
tank Gig. % is made of galvan-
lied iron, inch deep and 12X54 inches.
The stand-pipc is inches long, made
large enough to insert the neck of a
quart bottle in the top. Any house
lamp can be used, the top of the
chimney being half an inch from the
underside of the tank. The tank is
covered with cloth or bagging, sewed
on close and tight. The mother is a
frame, made of pine, covered with
paper or tarrcd felt, with wooden, cut
in strips, tackled on the edge, and when
in position lies ON top of the tank. The
mother is little smaller than the in
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1891-01-31
LAMP BRooDER FOR CHICKENS.

side of the brooder-say five or six
inches. Use sliding platform for the
chicks and set it, at first, three inches
lower than the underside Of the tank,
and lower the platform half an inch
every ten days.
The Illustration shows double
brooder, with tight partitions in the
middle, and with openings for the
chicks on the opposite sides. The chicks
in each brooder have separate runs. To
set the brooder, have the end over the
lamp (three quarters of an inch the
lowest from the top of the lamp, but
half an inch is better), and the water
will freely circulate. Fill the tank to
the top of the stand-pipe, then fill
bottle with water and place the neck of
the bottle in the opening of the stand