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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
AMONG THE POULTRY.

PUT lump of lime in the drinking
vessel.
BOILED peas or beans make good
poultry food during the winter,
WITH turkeys the best breeding stock
is two years old. When young fowls
are used the earliest Matched should be
selected.
THE only way to pick fowls dry and
clean without tearing them is to do the
work as soon as they are killed, while
the body is warm.
TURKEYS are so restless when con.
fined that in fattening the time should
be made as short as possible; ten days
or two weeks is ample.
LACK of variety in their food will
Sometimes cause the hens to lose appe-
tite, so that whenever they refuse their
food it will be found good time to
change the diet.
LINsEED meal brightens the plumage
of the fowls; it also regulates the
bowels and promotes digestion. Care
should be taken not to feed too much.
THERE is good market now for the
quilts of all kinds of fowls, especially
for the tail feathers of the turkeys
They should be gathered up, carefully
sorted and tied into bundles.
If any defects are in the bird they
will nearly always show when the new
feathers come out after moulting
Some breeds however, moult lighter
svory year, . nd - is not defect
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
NUMBER A.
DIFFERENCE IN FEEDING
Growth OF Stock to BE Considered ms Vol
an Labor. f

Growth OF Stock to Re Considered aA We'll
AZ Labor. W
One has only to take little pains to
observe the different plans of feeding
followed, to see that no general plan
at any season or with any class of stock
is carried out by any considerable num-
ber of farmers in the neighborhood
In fattening hogs one will confipe in
close pen and feed entirely upon corn
until ready to market; another will use
more or less slop or other materials in
feeding; others will consider it best to
give the run Of good pasture while
feeding. One will feed so as ~ oush
the growth from birth to maturity,
while another will let them take care
of themselves while making growth,
feeding only sufficient to keep alive.
Some haul up nearly or quite every
thing and feed the stock either in the
stables or sheds, or in convenient feed
ing lots, while others feed out good
portion of the rough feed in the fields,
hauling out and scattering as may be
considered necessary.
Some will feed but once day, 9th
ers twice, while others, especially with
fattening stock, will feed nearly or
quite every time that they go where
the stock is or manage to keep feed
before them nearly all the time.
While circumstances must, in meas
ure, determine which is the best, yet
there is such difference that in many
cases if some are feeding on what may
be considered the best plan others must
be wrong. If one is securing the best
profits, Others will be making more or
less of failure. 1t is certainly an
| item to make the most Of the feed to
feed the stock in way that will give
the best gain at the lowest cost, keep
ing in view the fact that it is necessary
to make, save and apply all of the ma
nure possible. And while u general
plan may not answer for all localities,
yet there is too much difference in
neighborhoods. 1t is always an item
to lessen the labor when it can be done
without loss, and whatever plan will
secure the best results with the lowest
cost IS the one to follow, even though
it may be necessary to make consid-
cradle change
The growth and thrift of the stock
must be considered as well as the labor.
1t is easy to save labor at the expense
of the feed or the growth and thrift OF
the stock, or it is possible to go TO the
other extreme and increase the cost
more than is best or profitable. Prairie,
| Farmer.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
VARIOUS REMEDIES.
How to Destroy the Cabbage Maggot, Pea
and Strawberry Weevils.

How to Destroy the Cabbage MaggOt, Pea
and Strawberry Weevils,
Entomologist James Fletcher, of the
Canadian experiment farms. in recent
bulletin gives new remedy for the
cabbage maggot which has been care
fully tried, and might answer on Il
small scale. 1t consists in watering
the cabbages with decoction of .
ounces of white hellebore in 8 gallons
of water, a half teacupful being
syringed forcibly around the roots of
each plant after the surface of the soil
has been removed by hand. The liquid
seems to act by contact Kerosene
emulsion is, after experiment with
number of substances, unhesitatingly
recommended for the cabbage plutclla.
1t is stated that Canadian seedsmen use
,bisulphide of carbon very extensively
to kill pea weevil in seed.
The statement is made that nearly
every large seed grower has building
for the purpose, made perfectly tight
with tin or cement. The building is
filed with bags, and pan 10 feet
across and inches deep is hung up
close to the ceiling 1t is then filed
with the bisulphide, the doors are
tightly closed, and the building left for
4s hours. The remedy is effectual
when tried in warm weather. Exactly
what Canadians understand by the ex-
preston ''warm weather" is then ex-
planned by the remark: 'it does not
work well when colder than 10 degrees
above zeror' Probably the centri-
grade thermometer or so degrees Fair.
Against the strawberry weevil (An-
MonomuS musculus) Mr.. Fletcher sug-
gests covering the beds, after the flow
erbuds are formed, with old news
papers, held down at the edges with y
few handfuls of earth, or strips OF
cheese cloth OF muslin, to be put on at
the first appearance of the beetles ami
kept on until the flower has expanded,
This would probably, however, be of
little advantage in wet weather. -
Orange Judd Farmer
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

1t is kingly spirit that can return
good deeds for reproaches.
Consistency is a jewel 1t is not
fashionable to wear much iewelry.-
Dallas News.
Beware of the praise of your
enemy. What pleases him cen do you
little good.
The flea has no wings because he
does not need them, Nature gets
there. e.-Galveston News.
If we find no faults in ourselves,
we should not take pleasure In observ-
ing those of others. RAMS Horn,
When genealogical tree has many
branches the descendants can keep
shady about it. IN. o. Picayune,
The oratory of some men may not
move mountains, yet it often succeeds
in making big bluff. .-Westfield stand
ard.
Before doing anything bad, it might
be wise to remember that maybe this is
the day when you will get caught at it.
---Atchison Globe.
Considering that the earth is three
fourths water it is a little surprising
that so many people want it-Bing
hamton Leader
Every man feels instinctively that
all the beautiful sentiments in the
world weigh less than a single lovely
action. Lowell.
-Dazzle-Why do they say truth
is stranger than fiction? Razzle-Be
cause some people see so little of it that
it seems strange Lowell Citizen,
Philosophers tell us that from
Adam down no man has ever yet un
derstood woman, but men are no
tired of trying yet by any means. =
Somerville Journal
Mr. Sealove lat his seaside cottage
My dear, please tell our daughter to
sing something less doleful. Mrs. Sea
love-That is not our daughter, my
love; that is the fog horn.
81 understand now," said CUES
at fashionable resort, ''why they cal
InlS Jllc ONcTLOOh uOuSS' OHlOSS yOt
are tipping the waiter all the time
your needs are completely overlooked
-Yonkers Gazette. =.
"A house built on sand is, in fai
weather, just as good as if builded on
rock. A cobweb is as good as III
mightiest chain cable when there is NJ
strain on it. 1t is trial that proves on
thing weak and another strong
Beecher
Life is full of trials, but there is on
comfort we enjoy as we pass through
of which no one can deprive us, viz
the comfort that springs from the cor
seriousness that we never act as foolish
ly as our neighbors do sometimes =
Cape Cod Item.
No incentive that can secure cor
tinual right-doing should be despised
for it is only as the life and characte
become exalted that exalted motive
become possible. On the other hand
we should ever regard lower motive
as the steps of ladder by which W
mount to some emincncc, each one {
which. useful aud ncssss ary N its turf
= g ud,- Lett tcr tie oos -sJve *.
nce Weak,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
WATERING STOCK.

A Simple Way of Supplying the Barn
with Cistern Water.
One of the first things that attracted
my attention was cstcrn to supply
his COW and horse stables with water.
1t was built entirely above ground
originally. This saved the expense of
digging. 1t is safe from frost, for it is
under the bank that leads to the upper
story of the barn. The cistern is 0
feet deep and Is feet in diameter and
holds $50 barrels. The barn stands on
slight side hill, so it is an easy mat
ter to lead the water from the extreme
bottom of the cistern right into the
stables into an appropriate watering
trough for each. There is large tub
with float in it, SO the water always
stands just so high. 1t is large enough
for several horses to drink from at
once, and just as fast as they drink the
water more comes in. This apparatus
has been in use seventeen years and
has worked perfectly without repairs,
except new hoops on the tank, and
without freezing. When we take into
consideration that every barn should
have eavespouts anyway, the arrange
ment is not so very expensive.
Only those who have had similar
watering arrangement so as to have
water at hand right in the stables can
realize the time and labor saved com.
pared with the way many farmers
manage to water their stock. Another
thing: believe it is pretty generally
conceded that rainwater is more whole.
some for stock than any other; and
friend Chamberlain declares that if all
the water is carefully saved that falls
on the roof that shelters the horses and
cattle, and their hay and grain, it will
give them all the water they will ever
need to drink; therefore, all that is
wanted is the necessary spouting ant
cistern to hold the water With this
arrangement, mind you, there is nc
pumping at all; neither are you obliged
to trouble yourself even so much as to
open valve. The horse is simply lee
up to the watering tub; and as it is 10
Gated right where he passes when h,
turns around to come out of his stall
when he is used every day. he waters
himself. Roots GleaninEs.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

the creek, and was using it with good
effect on the bear, when the movement
Of the struggle brought the contestants
to the edge of the waterfall at the
lower end of the pool, and they were
carried over it to the seething water
below, distance of twenty feet. The
water below the fall was very swift,
and bear and hunter, struggling in
each others grasp, were carried few
yards down and then over another cat
aract higher than the first. These two
great plunges cooled the ardor of both
combatants, and Joe made for shelv-
ing rock on one side of the pool into
which they had been tumbled.
1.-The rock was the only place about
the pool where foothold could be OBJ
tanned, and the bear swan for it also.
1t was only a jutting shelf, probably
six feet long and three wide, and Joe,
reaching the rock first, prepared tc
dispute the possession of it with the
bear, who swan up openmouthed and
whining. AS the bear came to the
rock and put its fore paws on it tc
climb up Joe delivered tremen Gus
kick directly in the bears face, The
rock was wet and slippery, and the
force of the kick threw Joe off his
feet and he slid off into the water
again and the bear renewed the fight
The pool in which they had beer
tumbled by the plunge over the second
| tn nnf sair low
high, precipitous walls, and there wa:
no way to get ont of it save by mar
row passage between the rocks, where
the streams shot swiftly and ther
! tumbled over another ledge twenty
feet Through that narrow passage
Joe and the bear were swept, and to
gether they plunged over the thirc
precipice. This plunge was fatal tC
the bear, for he fell on projecting
rock at the bottom and broke his neck
Joe landed on top of the bear and es
capped with jar that shook HIM up il
a way that he remembered for many {
day. Joe got the dead bear to tn,
shore and pulled the body out. There
were very few clothes left on Joe, anC
he was banged and bruised and bat
tered as if he had been dragged over ;
rocky field.
"'If that bar hadn't had that a
fish hook jabbin' inter his tongue an
the top o his mouth ev'ry time h,
tried to shet them jaws O his'n, say
Joe, it'd a ben all day with me, flu
he'd tore me clean open, with m,
nothin' to fight him with but ston,
an a kick,
Ever since that lively experience o
old Joe's in Crooked creek ravine h,
has never gone trout fishing without
gun. IN. Y. Sun.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

Proceeded to send it after the othera
He had chewed but short time on the
trout when his jaw suddenly fell, and
he lifted up his voice in most pitiful
howl. The hook had curved itself
somewhere In his mouth, and every
time he attempted to close his mouth
it would evidently push the hook
further in, and snap would come the
jaws open again, and the bears howls
of pain would again fill the air.
"0ld Joe, being bear hunter who
had tackled bears in almost every kind
of a situation, wasn't moment in see
ing the peculiar position this bear had
got himself in, and he resolved to take
advantage of it at once. Swimming
ashore, he climbed out on the bank,
picked up a stone, and advanced toward
the bear. The fish line hung out of
the bears open mouth, and the hook
was embedded in his tongue, the shat
standing straight up, and of course
jabbing into the roof of the bear'S
mouth every time he attempted to
close his jaws.
Now, eff I'd done wot | otter
done jist then, says Joe, in telling the
story, I'D jist took my fish pole an
played that ar b. ar like | wud trout,
an cud run him plumb inter my
cabin ez easy ez cud landed fish,
but never tho't of it till it war too
late, an the fight war in
al Al
bear started to meet Joe. The fish line
caught on bush and pulled taut
That brought the bear up all standing,
with q louder howl of pain than ever.
The fish hook had been pulled deeper
still into his tongue Old Joe blazed
away just then with his stone and
struck the bear on the nose. The blow
tumbled the bear fat, but the. fall
broke the fish line. The bear got to
his feet at once, and being held by the
line no longer, made rush for Joe,
who was hunting around for another
stone, The bear clinched Joe, and they
both tumbled into the creek together.
| Now, If the bear could have brought
his jaws into service he might have
had an even advantage with Joe, but
with the fish hook standing straight up
inside his mouth he had to carry his
mouth wide open. The bear and Joe
had tumbled into water where it was
not more than four feet deep, and this
gave Joe another advantage, for while
he could have foothold the bear had
to swim.
"But with the advantages against
him the bear was game and pluclly,
and acted on the offensive. Joe had
got another stone from the bottom of
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
HE DIDN'T SEE.
Another Case of Big Head and Little
Wit.


at beats the dickens" he said 70 his
seat-mate as the train stood in the sta
ton, chow thoughtless and short
sighted some folks are. Now this is q
scorching hot day and when the train
gets out from under this shed the sun is
going to shine right plumb into those
windows opposite, fit to broil steak.
But four out of every five people that
come in plump themselves down on that
side. Seats are full over there now and
plenty of 'em left on this side yet
Well, there's an awful lot of stupidity
in this world, but don't know that we
can help it. Now, see 'em!' He sat
back in the seat and laughed.
They were moving out, and the hot
sun shone full on the opposite passen-
gers.
But in two minutes the train began
to curve round at rate which prom
ised soon to put put the sun on the other
side. Then the thoughtful passenger
looked sidewise at his seatmate.
Great Scott' he exclaimed, in n tone
OF disgust ''we've get to swing clear
round and head the other way. I'm
dinged if | didn't clean forget that.
Amt seat left on the other side,
either!" he added, twisting round and
looking up and down the car.
We'll, this is going to be a deuce of q
nice ride, amt it? | don't sec"
But there wasn't any possible way to
saddle the responsibility on some one
else, so he stopped there, and no one
knows to this day what he didn't see. -
Detroit Free Press.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
VOLUME VIII.
THE DOMESTIC IDEAL,

Msk Emmelino Wtherbee Jones was n widow
with only one SON.
She adored him enough for TWENTY although
he was only one.
She kept his house for Adolphus, and she kept
itepon plan;
she wanted TO make an ideal home to match
her ideal man.
Spe said: He will marry some day poor dear,
when am dead and gone,
Ana want him 10 know exactly how every.
thing ought to go on
Know that the woman he marries won't love
hiHt the way do;
Aot ~ u going to teach him what housekeeping
is, and she'll have to learn it too"
So she had with her various servants what
women folks call ~ time;n
Iho slightest of imperfections she condemned
as heinoNs crime
AT look or word she discharged them, and
only paragon pearl
could boast she had stayed u fortnight as Mrs.
e, Jones' girl
They passed IN long procession through the
spotless rouse Of the Jones',
The plump and pleasing Milesian, and the
Swede ell skin and bones;
The French and the Finn and the German, and
tho long line never broke
TIL al last by some wondrous miracle, fit to
make your hair to curl,
Mrs Emmeline Jones procured for herself the
Ideal, the Perfect Girl.
She was comely and pleasant of person, neat
In her dress and ways
She could cook and do chamber work and she
never had nasty days;
She could wait like an English butler, She
could help to darn and sew
h0 ahnAI lao.
nothing she didn't know.
Her manners were simply perfect; she at
tended the proper church;
And when Mrs. Jones found that she read "Bcr
Hur," she knew twas the end OF hci
search.
And she said to her son Adolphus: 81 thinl
that this girl will stay"
u think she will" said Adolphus; II married
her yesterday"
Dec
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
Climatic influence. on Corn.

Last year experiments were under
taken at several experiment stations
both north and south, TO determine tho
effect of varying climatic influences
upon the same variety OF corn. Sew
eral varieties were selected and sent to
each of the stations conducting the eS-
pertinent These were planted, rec
ord kept of ther growth and advance
ment. and the product, both grain and
fodder, analysed. Comparing the re-
suits obtained at the different stations
it appears that the southern grown
corn is richer in albuminoids and fats,
with corresponding decrease in the
less important ingredients
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

water from his mouth and nose, and
wipingit from his eyes, he looked back
on the bank and saw one of the biggest
bears he had ever encountered during
his thirty years experience on Cheat
river. The bear stood there impudent-
ly making n meal on the trout Joe had
caught, and in evident enjoyment of
the fishcrman's situation.
Joe padded about and treaded
water while the bear deliberately en-
joyed his meal Tie fireman was at a
loss to make up his mind what to do at
first, but the bear presently got him
self in peculiar predicament which
decided Joe as to his policy in dealing
with the situation Bruin, after eating
several of the trout Joe had hastily
thrown IN the ground as he caught
them. came to the lest one the fisher
man had captured and which was
still CT ihc nopF he picked it up ana
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

c is the dust box, and d d the large
and small doors. E E are windows.
The material used was 300 feet of
%-inch board, so feet of 1-inch broad,
800 feet of ribs, 800 feet o. battens, five
bundles of shingles, 25 pounds of tarred
paper, glass, hinges, etc, and @2pounds
of nails. / use cut straw on the floor,
which keeps it clean"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

Showers bear story in print" said Il.
Il. Snodgrass, of Parkersburg, W. Va.
ut can't be because Joe doesn't like to
tell it, for I'll bet that no one who has
gone anywhere nenr his hanging-out
place on the Dry Fork of the Cheat
river ever got away without hearing
Joe's bear story. Not that he's only
many an adventure with bruin on the
old Rich mountain, but this particular
one he regards as the queerest and
most peculiar in his whole career, and
1t only happened two or three years
ago. 1t ought to be put on the lasting
record of bear stories. 1t isn't hunt
ing story, for Joe wasn't hunting, but
it is actually bear fish story.
"Crooked creek is one of the widest
Snd weirdest of all the wild and weird
mountain streams of the Cheat river
country. Like all the rest of the brooks
in that isolated region, it isa remarkably
prolific trout water. 1t flows through a
deep ravine, and in places plunges over
rocky precipices, some of them fifty
feet high. 1t Is, in truth, a wild stretch
of CLASSY pools and tumbling cataracts.
1t has fall in passing through the ra-
vine of five hundred feet in the dis
tance of mile.
zone day in the summer of 1889 Joe
Showers, who is a typical bacllwoods
mountaineer, went trout fishing in
Crooked creek, and chose for his sport
the glistening basin of the ravine.
The waters of Crooked creek are clear
us crystal, and in fishing it one has to
be extremely shy and wary, taking adj
vantage of every bush or obscuring
tree to hide himself or his shadow
from the sight of the willy fish. Old Joe
clambered to tavorlte pool of his in
the ravine, and, creeping up behind a
bush, was soon skimming his home
made flies on the surface with excel.
lent results. He had captured dozen
fine fellows, and had just landed an
other, which he was in the act of talk
ing off of his hook, when he received q
blow alongside the head that sent him
crashing through the bush behin6
which he was hiding, and plump into
the middle OF the pool, The water was
deeper than Joc's height, and as hC
came up spluttering and blowing the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
Learning by Experience.

Tramp-Please, mum, I'd like some
cold vittles for my dog.
Housekeeper-Dog! Why do you &c
tramping through the country with a
big brute like that at your heels?
Tramp-To protect my heels from
other dogs, mum.-Good News.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30

windicus- Politeness pays.

Politeness pays.
Breezicus-So they say, but if Lord
Chesterfield wanted to cross the Fulton
ferry he'd have to plank down his two
cents Just the same as il he had no
more pcliteness than a bridge police.
man. -Eroo,iyn Eagle.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
FIG. 1.

house. On the south side are two win
dows and also on the east side, above
the door. On the north side are the
nests The small shed roof, under
which are eight nests, are shown in
the ground plan at A. The perches (B)
ne level, and Is inches from the floor,
they having a hinge, so as to be raised
up and fastened to the roof for clean
ing. This leaves the floor all clean.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
CHEAP POULTRY HOUSE.

The Cost for the Necessary Material Is
But Seven Dollars.
Mr., L. A. Dunlap, of Better, Mich,
sends to Farm and Fireside plan OF
his poultry house, which he describes
as follows: "The house is small be-
ing SxlO feet, and feet high. The
cost is about ~ for material, not esti-
mating labor or hauling. ] keep about
forty fowls. Fig. is the external
and Fig. the ground plan view of the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
Not UnenvtabIe.

Mrs. Gadabout-That Mrs, Hardhead
next door doesn't seem to have many
friends
Hest l.,earlvl-N-o ! wonder
how sh, i. a1ages it.-N, Y. Weekly.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-10-30
VALUABLE PIG TROUGH.

Its Introduction Will Prevent Roofing
and Other Nulsances.
Here is the cut of a pig trough which
/ have used for the last year and find
of great value where a number of pigs
are kept together. 1t is parti-