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The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-11

and when this is done, In order to keep
the lambs digestion in good order, add
to its food a t~easpoonful of faxseed Jelly
once daily. The jelly is made by boiling
f1axseed In eight times its bulk of water
Tor twenty minutes.
If the weather is very cold when the
lamb is brought in, we keep it for a few
days in a box in the back kitchen, where
q big wood fire burns day and night.
Here 1t lies and sleeps on the clean straw
covered with an old blanket, only awak-
enlng at its regular feeding times, when
it begins a piteous and plaintive bleat
that stops only when its hunger is ap7
peased. 1t is not long. though. before
the little fellow learns to jump out of his
box and then he goes frisking about,
poking his inquisitive little nose into
everything, searching for something to
eat. Then, lest he runs into the fire, I
have to Danish him to an clubhouse, or on
bright sunny days to the garden where
he soon learns to nibble the rose bushes
and tender shrubs in the dainty manner
| peculiar to sheep. This is one trouble
with pet lambs, they begin to eat en-
tirely too early, filling their stomachs
/ with food they cannot digest. To obviate
| this to some extent, we continue to feed
the lambs milk oftener and for a longer
| period than would otherwise be abso-
lutely necessary. They are greedy little
animals, and when allowed to come about
the yard and kitchen rapidly acquire a
taste for all sorts of things.
When l first began raising pet lambs,
I used to feed them from the bottle,
which was a great deal of trouble; now /
use the bottle and rubber only for a few
days at first, and then / teach the lamb
to drink by pouring the milk into a
shallow pan and letting the lamb take
ons finger in its mouth, slowly miners
ing my hand IN the milk until it is able
to draw a little iato its mouth. At first
the little fellow is sure that he gets the
milk from the end Of my finger, but he
soon learns better. and dispensing with
my finger altogether, he plunges his
eager mouth down into the pan Of milk,
and after lunging about awhile, feeling
for something to take hold of, and half
strangling himself, he settles down to
business, and the milk disappears in a
marvelously short space of time. | do
not know that there is any real profit in
raising lambs by hand. The milk they
consume, and the time required for car
ing for them are doubtless worth more
than the lambs themselves; still, rather
than see them die. we ALWAYS take them
for pets. They make the most gentle
and most interesting pets in the world,
aud we o become so attached to them
that the work of attending to them be-
comes a pleasure. They are grateful too,
and repay our care with such quick
interest, grow so fast and keep SO healthy,
that it seems but a little while that they
need feeding SO of n.-American Agri-
cult9rist. e
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CORN MEAL. FRITTERs.

Beat the yolks and whites of four eggs
separately, stir in with the yolks one
tablespoonful of sugar, n tablespoonful
of melted butter, one tablespoonful of
salt, three cupfuls of milk, two cupfuls
of the best Indian meal, one-haIf a cup
full of flour with one good half teaspoon
full of baking powder, then stir in the
beaten whites of the eggs and stir well.
drop the mixture by spoonfuls in boiling
tard. They will require a little longer
ime for frying than fritters made of
-four. When they are done lay OF a
draining tin on sheets of brown paper TO
absorb the grease. These are nice with
a sauce made of butter and sugar and
seasoned with ginger, or with lemon
sauce.-Prair5e Farmer.
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The Inhabitants of q Geese

a Swiss scholar has been taking q
census Of the inhabitants of a cheese.
The microscopic examination of n gram
Of fresh cheese, such as is sold under the
name of Gruyere, contained no fewer
than so, 900 so-salled microbes. This
prodigious encampment, after seventy
days, proved to have increased to a tribe
of 500, 900. Another sort of cheese CON
tanned within a single gram board aud
lodging for about 2,o0o, 900 microbes,
while in a gram cut from the rind Of the
same cheese he found about 5000, 600 OF
these inhabitants. A piece of cheese
upon our tables, ofa few pounds weight,
may consequently contain more mlcrobe
inhabitants than there are human IN
habitants in the whole world.
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rapR n nIsowNED LAMBs.

It frequently happens in the spring
that one or more lambs In the flock are
orphaned from some cause or other, n
rather than permit them to perish we
have them brought to the house and
raised By the hand. Sometimes a
eve refuses to own her lamb, another
viii appear to think all the world OF her
offspring but will be unable to furnish q
drop Of milk for its subsistence, while q
third perhaps dies, leaving her little one
beIpless and miserable. Il the lamb =
healthy when It is brought in It Is al
ways ravenously hungry, q before we
learned the danger Of oyerfeedlng we lost
one nr two irving to satisfy their appetite.
The first meal 81 cows milk given TO q
lamb should be not more than ~one-fourth
Of 4 gill, which quantity may be gradu,
| ally increased to half a pint given every
two hours when the lamb is n week
old. This is enough for a large healthy
lamb. q small delicate one should nave
even less.
When yerY young, lambs are liable g
Ia he troubled with scours, In which case
the milk should be boiled for one or twe
meals. If the opposite tendency i %
served. a little white sugar or moiasse'
nut il the milk viii generally prove !
corrective; when 1t does not, however, :
teaspoonful Of castor oil should be give
| in the milk as often as considered neces'
saS. The milk must be perfectly sweet
as fresh as possible, and slightly warrned
After two weeks The interval between
feeding should BE- gradually heightened
aud the quantity Of milk increased, az
robust lamb 1T the age OF two month
can take with impunity . and Q bal
hints three times i day, and when tire
months old this quantity twice Q day j
sufficient. When the lamb i 2 fe'
weeks old, if milk Is scarce, hall %
quantity advised may be given, miSe'
with the am amount Of well cooke'
cruel made Of fine corn meal or oas meal
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TO FEED FOR EGGS.

A correspondent Of the California
Gackler, n relation to feeding laying
fowls, communicates the following:
There has been a very great complaint
h some sections about the hens not lay
Ing as they should.
I think every case can be accounted
for. I was recently called in to see a
lady's flock of lightweight hens, that
were looking, to say the least, fine, yet
the said she wa not getting as many
eggs from them as | was from a pen of
eight that were always confined in a yard
Bx20, with a tight house, and hers had
free range. I purchased a dozen from
her, and after killing a couple | found
that her hens had not sufficient food to
proo~Sc eggs.
While this I believe to be generally the
cause of failure of eggs, yet it is not al
ways; some feed too high, and not that
food which will produce eggs. ] have
been for some time experimenting on
what kinds of food will produce best re-
suits, and have found the following by
far the best Bran or barley in the morn
In, scalded with milk; give all they will
eat up clean. In this we have that
which Is generally acknowledged to pro-
duce the greatest per cent. of the white
Of an egg and very little fat.
AT noon feed wheat or screenings. In
this we have the lime for shell and also a
good per cent. of the yolk. Give all they
want, and if you have an ash or manure
pile mix a little in for them to scratch
after.
At night give a liberal feed Of corr.
ard do not be afraid of making too fat,
do believe, contrary to the opinions O
some, that corn will produce eggs, ane
lots of them, especially in winter.
i Feed beef scraps every other Ga.
(cooked), aud plenty Of bone meal, witt
j liberal supply of green food every day
Hens fed in this manner must lay, I
any good at all; if not get rid Of them
An old saying, and a true one, j. that
hen properly fed must lay OF get fat. 9
course this will not apply through moult
ing time.
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German
Syrup

I'VE are six III IAN
Il Farmer at ilv. We live il g
place where we are
Edom, Texas, subject to violent
GAYS. Colds and Lung
80 Troubles. ! have
used German Syrup for six years
successfully for Sore Throat, Iougn,
Cold. Hoarseness, Pains ~ the
Chest and Lungs, and spitting-up
Of Blood. / have tried many dineI-
crt kinds Of cough Syrups - my
time, but let me say to anyone want
ING such iii dicine-GerInan syrup
IS the best. That has been my ex-
perience. Ii you use IT once, you
will 90 back to It whenever you
need II. It gives total relief ana Y
d quick crre. My advice 20 every
ono suffering with Lung Trouolesis
Try ii. YOU will soon be con
WINGED. iii all the families whefe
your German Syrup
IS used We have no JOIN
trouble with the franklin
Lungs at all. It's
the medicine for this gnnas.
country i !
1. 6. GREEN. SOLE Man'l Woodbury.. IN
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Eur Trnmnets AS Cupid's Arrows.

With the marriage at steelyille, NO.,
of William J.. D. Kelly to Miss Anna Nc
Donald, of Oakville, Canada, is con-
neeted quite a romance. The groom is q
well known young man, living on q farm
With his widowed mother, well-to-do,
though deaf and dumb. A year or two
ago he noticed in the papers q recon-
mendation of some kind of ear trumpet
by the above named young lady who is
| also a deaf mute. A correspondence en-
sued. the tender chords OF sympathy and
emotion we're aroused and an engagement
followed. The heroic young bride left
her far of Canadian home to meet heE
distant afianced. For six days and alone
| she travelled, but came safely through
| This was three weeks before the mar
] rage. and the intervening time was
| spent ii forming each Others acquain-
lance At the groom's home, with the re.
suit that the nuptials were celebrated
amidst the congratulations of q host @
friends.-St. Louis Republic.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
England has an electrical launch.

England mas an electrical launch.
Wool is made from wood tree fibre.
Vermont claims the first electric
motor.
Detroit undertakers must wear rub
ber coats when they handle diphtheria
porpses.
The manufacture of starch from ar
roW-root IS e and thriving industry
ii Florida
AIT least one person in three between
the ages of ten and forty years is subject
% partial deafness.
The most elaborate dental apparatus
known belongs to the sea-urchin, whose
laws are composed of forty pieces, moved
by forty separate muscles.
Certain ~peculiarities in the spectrum
81 the sun are thought to indicate that
much of its matter is still in ele-
uentary forms owing to its intense heat.
The steel works at Hoerde, Germany.
have introduced o new process for de-
sulphurizing pig iron, and it is said that
many of the large works are applying for
licenses to use the process.
a new mineral has been discovered to
which the name Sanguinite has been
given. It is bronze red in color by
reflected light, and upon analysis is
found to contain silver, arsenic and
sulphur.
It has been discovered that platinum
at a white heat will consume tobacco
smoke and keep the atmosphere of a
smoking-roon perfectly clear. Lamps
with a little ring of platinum over the
fame arc used for this purpose.
Some English manufacturers are
bleaching paper, without impairing its
strength, BY an electrical process. A
solution Of magnesium chloride is used,
which is decomposed by a powerful cur
rent, with the evolution of chlorine and
oxygen.
Inquiry into the subject Of explosions
In mines being caused by dry coal dust
has led to some very valuable expert
ments and plans for clearing the galleries
Of foul air. One of these consists in
moving open water butts Through the
affected localities. The coal smut col
lects in the water, and the air is thereby
cleared before the danger limit is
reached.
A new apparatus for water has APP
peared in the form of q still, which is de-
scribed as consisting of "a series of large
fat disks of metal, placed upright and
kept in position by pipes running hori-
z~ontally on the top and bottom. Water
is boiled in a vessel and the steam is con-
Quoted from the same to the dish through
b pipe. The steam radiating from the
water is condensed ID the disks by a cur
rent of air and the water is collected il
The bottom pipe" The size of still de
signed for family use has eight disks and
is said to distil a gallon of water in an
hour.
Professor r.. A. f. Penrose, Jr., of the
Texas Geological Survey, says the fines
of clays suitable for the manufacture oi
fire brick, ~earthenware, aud wen FIN
chiE.S ware, are to be found abundantl,s
in East Texas. Two companies are non
engaged making pottery At Athens il
Henderson County. The articles manu-
featured are fine brick, tiles, sewer pipes,
jugs, etc. The clay at this point is of q
light gray color, becoming almost whit.
when dry. Equally fine clays abound
near jefferson, in Marion County. and
near Rusk, in Cherokee County. It il
thought coed openings are offered oyel
there for manufacturing the finest O
wares.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES

Pussy hens generally make poor
mothers.
Keep the hen house clean and well
ventilated.
Cheese boxes are good for nests; they
are generally easy to get.
When you begin shipping poultry pick
out what you want to keep.
Put coal oil en- the roosts, and air
Stacked lime about the building.
Pullets that are Matched early and are
kept growing will begin laying early.
If a show pig is wanted study the III
dividual if a breeder, study the family.
Fowls that fatten readily should have
plenty of exercise or they will get too
The young poultry should havea good
range as soon as their growth will per
NIT.
Fowls that fatten easily should have
plenty of exercise, unless being fed for
market.
| So far as possible keep the young fowls
to themselves, at least until they can be
given free range.
Whenever a fowl shows signs of a
sickness separate il, from the rest OF the
lock as 1901 as possible.
Chicks do not require to be fed until
they are tw~enty-four hours old. Why
Nature provides a supply.
When you Rve thoroughly learned to
manage a few fowls it will be time
enough to manage a'Iarge number.
Using the straw stack for bedding
in the stables, will give more comfort to
the stock than using as an outside shelter.
No matter what ails the fowl, a sick
bird should at once be removed to
separate quarters from the we'll ones. 1t
b q precaution that always pays.
Be careful Of the eyes of animals.
they are just as delicate as the eyes @
human beings. People often % aroune
stock very carelessly with forks.
The swine breeder who feeds Of
meal occasionally will not regret it. /
is q tonic and a regulator of the bowels
Care should be taken not to feed tot
much.
On a farm good e%ilities, coed man
aeement and goods narkets are NOR
valuable than the breed of fowls. w
must cater to the wants and accommoda
tons of the business.
Too much stimulating food cause
over egg production. The result fror
such 4 course will be poor matches, weal
chicks, and inferior stock. Feed breed
ing fowls judiciously.
By having all ages and all sizes te
gether in one feeding place the proft /
Che hogs will be largely reduced. LIE;
/ feed will be required and better result
secured by dividing up into differer
! lots.
Hens should be graded according t
size and general qualities. Yard Les
horns and Brahmas in the same e~nclosuI
and the feed necessary to keep the Lei
horns Just right would over-fatten Il
Brahmas.
Keep a watch of the potatoes. &c
NAV find them %sproutingg, and Il they az,
Of course the temperature Of the cellar
? too high. Planting sproused potatoes
one reason that some people do not hay
: better luck in potato-groWing.
! Dr.. &. b. Smead, at the farmers I
: stitute replying to the question. I'm
D basement barn containing $500 squa
feet, how many sheep q be wintered
| said ssCalcuIate for merinoes fo
4 square feet for each sheep, for the coal
breeds allow at least six feet, and not
! many in a pen as Of fine Woolled yarieti'
: It IS better to have the stable divld
+ into small pens than to have q lar
e PEN
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H-ousEHoLD HINTS,

The oftener carpets are shaken the
longer they wear.
Indian meal mixed with lemon juice is
said to be very soothing to hands rough
ened by cold or labor.
Any one who has been scalded by
steam should be taken to a warm room
and the parts drenched by cold water.
Corks may be made air and water
tight by keeping them for five minutes
under melted parafine. They must be
kept down with a wire screen.
For simple hoarseness take a fresh egg,
beat it and thicken with pulverized
sugar. Eat freely of it and the hoarse-
ness will soon be greatly relieved.
In purchasing canned goods it is a
safe rule 10 observe whether the head of
the can is concave, a bullying appearance
being indicative of decomposition.
Galvanized iron pals for drinking
water should not be used. The zinc
coating is readily acted upon by the
water. forming a poisonous oxide OF
zinc.
When large flower pots are used there
will be more leaves than flowers. Often
plants do not bloom because, having SO
much space, their strength is expended
in forming roots and leaves.
Those who have the table to arrange
and clear off three times a day, may save
themselves many steps by using a basket
to carry things back and forth between
the table and the pantry or cellar.
When molasses is used in cooking it is
a great improvement to boil and skim il
before using. The raw, rather un'
pleasant taste of the poor qualities o
molasses Is much improved by this pro
cess.
II is best to soak all onions for al
hour or two in cold water. This re
moves their ~greenness, and If baket
afterward they are far more delicate
Boiling seems to concentrate the odor o
the onion.
When rhe ankle has been severel
sprained immerse it Immediately IN nc
water, keeping it there for fifteen
twenty minutes. After it has been take
out of the water keep it bandased wit
cloths wrung out Of hot water.
To keep flour from spelling, it shout
be thoroughly dried and stored in bag
not in barrels. 1t is said that the e.
! clusion Of air is apt to render flour SOM
what damp, aud does not yield as GOO
dough as when the -four remains pc
fectlY dry.
Soft water is better than hard for boi
6 ing vegetables, as the hard water toug
: cas- them. When cooking always ke'
: the kettle boiling, then il meat, veget
!. bles or anything you may be boiiil
!. needs more water youcan add it witho
stopping the boiling nrocess
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There is more catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many years doctors
pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed
local remedies, and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it in
durable. Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease, and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by f. j. Cheney e. Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in doses from
10drops to q t~easpoonful. 1t acts directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer 800 for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Address
T. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, U.
@TY- Sold nv nruppiatG THO
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PARsNIPS.

After carefully scraplng, cut them IN
pieces if for a stew, or IN slices if to fry,
then soak in clear, cold water at least
twelve hours; rinse again in clear, fresh
water. This will take out all that acrid
matter which give this vegetable a strong
taste. After that, cook in salted water
and the vegetable will be delicious. Do
not cook with meat, but season with
butter, salt and pepper Boston
C~ult9oot0r.
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New York is to have a new fifteen
story building.
Pretty strong

SON
reasons for trying DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. In the first
place, it cures your catarrh-
no matter how bad your case,
or of how long standing. 1t
doesn't simply palliate - 1t
cures. If you believe it, SO
much the better. There's
nothing more to be said.
You get it for so cents, from
all druggists.
But perhaps you won't be-
lieve it. Then there's another
reason for trying it. Show
that you can't be cured, and
you'll get $500. It's a plain
business offer. The makers
of DR.. Sage's Remedy will
paw YOU that amount if they
can't cure you. They know
that they can-you think
that they can't. If they're
wrong, you get the cash. If
you're wrong, you're rid OF
catarrh.
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The anickeI- apparatus
has been adopted BIZ the p~ostoffce de-
partment OF Great Britain the Postmaster
General having given permission for the
erection throughout London of pillar
boxes for the automatic supply Of stamps
to the public.
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our lunatics increased from So, 2o5 in
1881 10 d ,435 ii 1889. We have three
insane persons to every 1ooes Of pogpula-
tien,
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There are about $500 counties in the
Union with an average size Of 11ua
square miles, but this average, notes the
Chicago Herald, is enormously exceeded
in many instances, and has also frequent
" fallen below. Lowing out the great
unsettled counties of the West, the aver
sge county would be about 500 square
miles ID extent.
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For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach
disorders, use Browns Iron Bitters. The Best
Tonic, it rebuilds the system, cleans the Blood
and strengthens the muscles. A splendid tom
ic for weak and debilitated persons.
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It Is estimated that the wealth of the
United States now exceeds the wealth OF
the whole world at any period prior to
the middle Of the eighteenth century.
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EFFECT OF ovERFEEpINe ! W.

EFFECT OF ovERFEEDING A YOUNG CALF.
When a young calf is gorged with
milk indigestion follows and the stomach
is clogged with a mass of compact curd.
The consequence is that the ami NAL be-
comes dull, dribbles at the mouth, and
grinds its teeth. The treatment should
be to give a teaspoonful of carbonate of
0 d or saleratus in a pint of water,
which will desolve the curd and aid It's
passage through the intestines. In six
hours after give one tablespoonful of raw
ilnseed or castor Oil. Offer no food until
the bowels are cleared out, and then
give only one quart Of warm, fresh milk
at a meal every three hours. When a
calf is drinking milk it should be fed
slowly and with intervals of rest, and
cold milk should never be given, as this
chills the stomach and provokes indiges-
tion.-American DGiryman.
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A beet sugar plant is being erected at
Marshalltowu, Iowa, with a capacity of
400 tons.
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DEAR SlR-Having read Mr.. Sargents's ex-
p%erience in plating with gold, silver and nick.
to H. K. Delno & Co., of Columbus, O.. for a s.
platter. ] have bad more tableware and jew
elry than / could plate ever since. cleared
$H the first week and in three weeks S97. ANY
one can do plating and make money in any To-
cality the year round. You can get circulars
by addressing above firm. WIN. GRAY.
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For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala-
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and BiliousRess.
take Browns Iron Bitters-it gives strength,
making old persons feel ~youRg-and youns
persona strong: pleasant to Z
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THE FARM N r
WORMS IN uITR

Poultry Of all kinds are affected with
worms, not only in the intestines. Int
sometimes in the flesh. How the worms
originate, Of how they find Judgment in
1ne nesh, is not known, but they NAV
come from substances eaten or from con
tract with afflicted fowls, as the drop.
pings may be a source. The best remedy
IS a teaspoonful ofspirits of turpentine in
a quart of corn meal, made into dough
and led once a day to twenty fowls
Times Democrat.
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FITS stopped FREQ by DR. KL1NE's GREAT
NrRyR REsToRER. No Fits after first days
use, Marvellous cures. Treatise and ~ trial
bottle free, DIR. Kline, 0Gl Arch Et-s Phila.. Pa
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Bride the appetite with reason and gave
thu stomach.