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AMONG THE POULTRY.
GSt. Louis Republic.

[St. Louis Republic.
KEEP all your pullets. ....
SEE that each fowl gets it's share of
feed. ..
WHENEVER you find hen that don't
lay kill her.
IT rarely pays to keep hen after she
is three years old. ." .... .
PLACE clean pure water daily where
the fowls can help themselves.
BARLEY fed alternately with wheat
makes good feed for laying hens.
WELL-FATTENED and well-dressed
poultry always sell at the best prices.
WHEN the yards will admit keep hens
of the same size and disposition to-
gether. ...... ..r,.
MEAT scraps OF all kinds makes a
good ration for the poultry during the
winter.
PREPARE to breed as many chickens
as possible, as early as possible; they
will pay the best. pa.
THE rakings from the barn loft and
the managers are good material for the
hens to scratch over.
the hens learning to eat eggs is leaving
broken eggs in the nest.
A VARIETY of feed is necessary to Sc
euro eggs. No one ration will furnish
all the needed elements.
BRAN with small quantity of oil
boiled, made into stiff dough with
milk, is good feed for hens.
IN raising poultry for market breed
the flesh-formers, and feed so as to get
the best weight at the lowest cost.
OATMEAL is one of the very best ma
terials that can be supplied to young
chickens to keep them growing.
BATHING in sweet oil is one of the
very best remedies to use on the combs
in case they should get frosted.
UNDER what may be considered over
age conditions fifty hens are as many
as should be kept in one house together.
feed more corn than when the weather
is milder. Corn is a good heating food.
WARNING the water and keeping it
fresh will aid materially in preventing
bowel diseases during the winter; sup
ply it at least two or three times day.
If rightly managed it is less work to
keep down lice in the winter than in
summer, yet they need looking after
fully as much at one season as another.
NEVER suddenly scare nor frighten
your fowls nor allow strangers to go
among them more than you can help.
Kindness is essential to success in keep
ing fowls. 1t is a small matter and
costs you nothing. You must gain their
confidence and keepit. Nothing on the
farm gives better returns than a fine
flock of fowls.
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tread on such wall of stones. Fewer
wires are needed, three being sufficient
where five or six are required on level
ground. If the wall is rather small, or
if the barrier is to be rendered stronger
and more visible, two or three burrows
may be turned from the foot of the
wall. As no animals will wish to
crowd or lean against such wall, less
strength is required in the posts; and
the stones partly supporting them, the
post holes need not be dug so deep, nor
are very long posts required. 1t is
hardly necessary to add that the posts
are to be set before the line of stones is
placed in position. Fig. l represents
such fence.
In the absence of st ones small open
ditch on each side of the fence answers
equally well The line of posts is first
set, and then several burrows are plowed
on each side as near to it as practicable,
and the loosened earth thrown up into
a ridge or bank. A second blowing and
a second shoveling will complete the
bitches and bank. The wires are then
placed on the posts and the fence is
completed. No horse or colt will wish
to tread down into the ditch in order
that he may climb the bank and push
against the wires. The barrier will be
sufficiently visible. If the ground on
each side is heavy turf, the bank prop
erly covered with it may be more mar
row and steep than one made wholly of
loose earth, which. however, will in
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SHEEP WITH SCAB.
How an Ohio Farmer Effected a CompIet

How an Ohio Farmer Effected a Complete
Cure. .
/ had one hundred head of scabby
sheep and | treated them as the Live
Stock Commission in bulletin No. 4 di-
reefs, but it didn't do the work for
them. This was in December, 1887.
Then let them run till in the latter
part of April, 1855, when L sheared
them and dipped them. made box
twelve feet long, four feet deep, two
and a half feet wide at top, one foot at
the bottom. The sketch shows how
made it. Il is the dipping box; p the
training pen; q the gate to let the
sheep out; T the trough to catch the
DRAWINGS. The draining pen 1 made
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lief in Spain is that he will never reach
manhood. All sorts of stories are told
about him. Among them is one that
when mildly rebuked by his attendants
for eating with his fingers and told that
Kings did not do so, the little fellow
pertly remarked: This King does"
The republican sentiment has been
steadily growing in Spain during recent
years, and it would not surprise those
who know that country best if Alfonso
XIII. should turn out to be the last
King.
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four by twelve SO as to hold twenty
head of sheep. l let them stand in the
dip three minutes. You can put in
from three to four sheep at time. Rub
well; take a eorn-cob and currycomb
and the last thing you do souse the head
under. Then put them in the draining
pen. Fill the box full enough so that
the sleeps back will be covered and it
can swim in it. Take chloro naptho-
leum one gallon to forty gallons of
water; cold or warm water will do the
same. Repeat in eight or ten days.
For every fifty head of sheep add one
gallon dip.-A. E. Putnam, in Ohio
Farmer
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Fte.2,

thirty rods long, more or less, in a day,
while the reduced amount of wire re-
quired and the shorter posts which may
be used, will render this fence as cheap
in construction as the one with five or
six wires on level ground. The posts
may be at least one rod apart, if inter
mediate vertical cross pieces with the
lower ends nearly reaching the ground
are used, to which the wires are stapled
to keep them in position.
Fig. . represents the appearance of
such a fence, and Fig. is a cross sec
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will produce heavy snow-drifts, the
winds passing through them sufficient
ly freely to prevent the accumulation.
To sum up the advantages which
such fences will present. 1. They are
durable; 2. They prevent heavy snow
drifts; 3. They need fewer and shorter
posts; 4. They require less labor in dig
ging deep holes; s. They need fewer
wires; 6. The wind does not disturb
them, and animals do not throw them
down. ... ........ .......
Old board fences. which have become
weak by age, or stronger board fences
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THE WINE VANISHED.
Champagne Bottles Emptied without
Removing the Corks.

Champagne Bottles Emptied without
Removing the Corks.
A new manager, on taking charge o1
a cafe some time since, says the New
York Herald, was astonished to see how
large part of the profit and loss &C.
count chargeable to the wine cellar wa:
attributed to the mysterious disappear
ance of whole quarts, no trace of which
bottle and all, was ever found, Or 20 the
even more mysterious number of bot
ties found with foil, wire and cork alb
solutely intact in the case, but destitute
of drop of the once sparkling contents
Could it be possible such bottles had
been corked and wired empty? Or, on
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families of Eu-
rope the Span
j S h Bourbons
are a IF e C t ed
with scrofula,
and the baby
who now wears
the crown has
been p IL e d
through many
severe es
only by great
medical skill.
The Ueueral he-
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The Average Death-Rate.

In England, the average number Of
deaths each year is out of each 4S in
habitants; in France, out of each 81,
and in the United States, out of each
81. In this country, the rate in the
Northwestern States is IN each 100;
IN the Middle States, in each ss; in
the Southern States, in 40; in the Gulf
States, l in each SO.
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age to get rid of
some of them in
constructing a
small loose rip
rap wall on tie
line of the fence
and under the
barb wires, they
become a visible
barrier, and no
horse desires to
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AA JoENs AND WIFE.

the young men of Lapland would bite
the snow. -r .r.....
Her dress is trifle longer than her
mothers, but when she gets to be a
mother the dress will be shortened. Its
present length is a tribute to her maid
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armed their hostility and made her pop
ular She was the second wife of Al
fonso XII, the late King, and was mar
ried in November, 1879. Alfonso was
never strong, and he died while still
very young man in December, 1885.
The Queen has two, young children,
both of frail health. The elder of the
two, the Infanta Donna Maria de las
Mercedes, Princess of Asturias. to whom
the crown would revert in the event OF
her brothers death without issue, was
born in 1880, and the present King, Al.
fonso MIL, in 1856, five months after
his fathers death. J.T
The little King has had hard strug-
gle for life. Like most of the royal
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Fis.4

partial barb-wire aid of single one
stretched on the top, as shown in Fig. 4.
Such animals have no disposition to rub
against fence of this kind or to press
it, and it remains safe and untouched.
American Cultiyator.
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MAKE it point during the next three
months to keep the poultry house dry.
Dampness, especially at this season, is
very liable to induce roup. 1t is easier
to prevent than to cure.
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FATAL LONDON FOGS.
The Damp Blanket Has More Than Once
Been the City's Winding Sheet.

The Damp Blanket Has More Than Once
Been the City's Winding Sheet.
Early in February, 1880, dense fog
hung over London. The long-continued
and intense gloom, accompanied by
cold, largely increased the mortality,
and whereas the death rate for the
week ended January "a was 27.1 in
1000, that for the week ended Febru-
ary had risen to the enormous figure
of 4S1 in 1000. The total deaths in
London for the latter week were, in
fact, 1876, which was 1,657 above the
average for the time of year, while of
these 1857 were due to diseases of the
respiratory organs, which number was
again l, lis above the average.
While, doubtless, some portion of the
deaths was due to the increased cold, it
is pretty clear that the number to be at
tributed to this cause was only small,
from the fact that, while the death rate
in this foggy week in London rose to
4S.1, the death rate for the week in
nineteen provincial towns, where an
equal cold prevailed, but no fog, was
only 26.3. Again, in the foggy week of
December, 1878, the deaths in London
were more than 700 above the average;
and though some of these, no doubt,
were due to the causes arising indirect
ly ont of the state of the atmosphere,
such as accidents, the great majority
must be ascribed to the actual vitiation
of the air.
On December 10, during a great part
of the day, it was not possible to see
across a narrow street, and in the even
ing a choking sensation was felt in
breathing. OF three young men who
were out together in the evening of the
worst fog, two Immediately fell i'll from
its effects and died, and the third had a
sharp attack of illness. Thousands of
people we've thrown so much out of
health that they did not recover for
some weeks. And, to complete the
tragedy, many of the fat cattle exhibit
ed at the great show at Islington actu-
ally died then and there of suffocation.
N. Y. Journal.
-"Why do girls like to look at the
moon when single?" he asked. 'Idon't
know, but 1 suppose there is so much
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t i m become
we'll sodded.
Two men, with
a tw oh ors e
team, will plow
the burrows and
make the bank
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ton, the hori-
zontal dotted
line being the
surface of the
ground. Neither
of these fences
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LET the poultry out and give them
free range on every pleasant day; but
when it is cold and stormy keep them
closely confined in their quarters.
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Charles of Aus
tria, and is now
in her thirty
t h ird y e a r.
Spaniards re
prove bially
averse to being
ruled by a for
eigner, but the
tact and iudg-
ment shown by
the wido W e d
mother of their
present b a b y
King have dis
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PardonabIe Resentment

Customer Tin hardware store)-Have
you any small vises?
Salesman (angrily)-I Cont think
that is any of your business.-Life.
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WHICH 4 re III
danger of being
brok k en- down
by u n r u l y
horses, may be
rendered i IN
DaSSable by the
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among this tribe is Aa Joens, who owns
over 5000 reindeer, the value of which
is estimated at 100, 900 crowns (S125, ,OOO).
Some years ago he came with his wife
from the Kjoelen mountains, where he
usually sojourns, to the little city of
Ostersund, in order to purchase a bridal
outfit for his only daughter, Maja, who
was to be married to one of the tribe.
Upon that occasion they were photo
graphed, and one of the sketches repre-
sents the young bride in her luxurious
bridal garments. Like all Laplandcrs,
every member of the family is small in
stature, and not at all good looking.
The funniest thing about Million
aire,,' Joens is his hat, which, it will be
observed. makes desperate attempt to
shape itself into the style of the plug
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LApEAND's JAY GOULD.
His Name Is Aa Joens and He's o
Real Good Fellow.
Leaders of the -Four Hundred Where Reir-
deer Count for Gold-A Northern
Bride i'm Her Luxurious Gar
ments and Trappings.

HE island group
which lies to
the northward
of Norway is
called the SOTO
ten," and here
there is still
fou d a fair
sprin king of
Laplanders, the
nomad tribe of
Norway, W h o
live in tents
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why do girls like to look at the
moon when single?" he asked. 'Idon't
know, but 1 suppose there is so much
change about it. The poor things as
rule see so little change when married"
-Philadelphia Times.
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AGRICULTURAL HINTS.
THE FENCE QUESTION.
II You Want to Save Time and Money
Read This Article.

In localities where there are many
small stones scattered over the fields,
and where it would be positive advant-
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with but one opening,
the entrance, through
which the smoke is also
forced to make its es-
cane The richRst
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hat Of civilization. 1t will be seen from
the sketches that there is little differ
ence between the dress of the men and
women in Lapland's -four hundred y
Both sexes wear short, shin-showing
dresses and heavy, coarse shoes, made
largely of reindeer fur and hide.
The men wear their hair long, quite
as much so as the women, who conceal
their locks beneath bonnets of night
cap shape and simplicity. However, the
women are not altogether homely,
though they have n heavy fat-food look
and air. .....
Maja, the heiress of Mr.. Joens, does
not look very imposing in her bridal
robes. This is because she is simply
loaded with trinkets, etc, without any
as to fitness or harmony.
She looks more like a display dummy in
4 retail store than the girl for whom All
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-03
WY AnIMALs ARE puMs.
An Indian Legend That sounds Like the
Biblical story of the Flood.

An Indian Legend That sounds Like the
Biblical story of the Flood.
The American Indians, especially
those of the lake regions of southern
Canada. relate a curious tradition 70
account for the fact that all lower
animals are dumb. In very. very early
times. they say, the father Of all tribes
lived in "A beautiful country over against
the rising sun. His-form was perfect
and his face was handsome in the ex-
IRENE, his descendants being all superb
specimens of humanity. Knowing of
their accomplishments and being much
given TO fiattering one another, they
became very naughty and arrogant.
As a punishment for their bigotry the
Great Father warned the father Of the
tribes in a dream that "A deluge would
be sent to drown them off the face Of
the earth. In the dream which fore
warned the father or the tribes of the
great calamity impending, there wa
presented 4 his visionary view the
form and outlines of a raft, which vas
10 be used in saving a remnant Of thiy
bigoted people. In those days all ami
mails talked as men do; and, when the
father Of the tribes informed the beasts
of the field of his dream. and Of his in
teutions concerning the building of the
great raft, they protested, declaring
their uuwilliuguess 20 accompany him
ON any such expedition.
But the mans superior intelligence
prevailed. lie built the raft, and 10!
had hardly finished when the great
flood came The man, family and
pairs of every beast took passage and
tloarcd for many month, ou the sur
face Of the delu-y The cloud, cleared
away ou the second day after the en-
barkatiou. and for seventeen successive
moons the man used thc, "a as a guide.
continually steering toward his place
of setting. But the animals. every oue
of them who. it will Dee remembered.
had the power of >peechl. protested
against sailing 70 the west. declaring IN
one voice that they preferred steering
toward the suns rising place.
These murmurs had been going on
for some days when. 20 the infinite Joy
Of the man who had been holding q e
fort against this horde of creatures who
had the vote. ~ men and the reason
Of beasts. - uf dry land began
10 appear .uI, rudely con
structnI .r and the man
and Dis . Tee beast, We're
again l... fuc face of the
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-03
Justiae. the name.

An instructor in natural history who
believes that il is better to deliver little
lectures 70 his pupils than 10 let them
get their knowledge out of books
talked 10 them thus one day on the
subject Of the hog:
The hog, my young friends, is, from
the point Of view of food. the most i'm
portant Of animals 10 the human race
There is no part of his structure which
has not some alimentary or industrial
use; ven his bristles are used in the
manufactures.
But from the point Of view Of char
acter and mode of life, it must be con
fessed that he possesses certain habits
and dispositions which fully justify his
name
This reminds N Of the opening lines
Of a composition once submitted by a
boy in a New England school:
THE COOS.
The COOS g. so called because it ac- kinder
silly and don't EuO ans berr.
Youths Companion
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II you are 70 sleep in a strange bed
and there is a suspicion of damp about
the sheets, lay your watch between
them and either smoke a cigar OF read
a while. Then take out the watch, and
if there 3, any film or mist on the glass
don't go TO bed, OF, if you do, sleep be
tween the blankets. which are never
damp. Hundreds Of drumuers. and
especially men past youth or middle
age, take this ]precaution and profit
considerably thereby.-St Louis Globe
Des-Jcsar.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-03
TACTICS OF TARIFF "REFoRMERs"

TACTICS OF TARIFF "REFoRMERS'
No little interest will center about
Washington when the new CnngTes
gets into working order. With an
overwhelming majority Of shouter-
for tariff reform in the popular branch
and the knowledge that their attitude
with reference to tariff legislation will
be watched by those 20 whom as much
has been r missed AS offered iT m
the temples pinnacle il Olden times,
they will Of courre maneuver for a
of American voters. With so much at
stake, and so little opportunity ( r
lodging the issue they have forced,
opportunity may be had for determiu-
ing bon for leaders in the reform
movement hsve wandered from Limits
defined by the vaunted Mills bill or
1855, which,w vas so ef~f-Ctuslly showed
under in the elections Of thar year.
There Are son e god reasons for be-
lieving thai but little effort will be-
made TO further commit the party to
the Golden policy; but that with wis
don gained through experience, ener-
z Is will be- devoted TO guerrilla attacks
upon certein features of the existing
tariff, In which assistance caE be
hoped fer from members in tlueuc-d by
selfish OIL j, cal considerations. R-cag-
nHanH.~ HL- Hn.nNHH# 81 IT. Hh.
policy Of protection with The avowed
object of -upplart ~ il with free trade
in competing pr ducts, The advice of
their patron saiTl : not likely To- be
ignored. A fe OF what may be-
deemed the We ke~t among protected
Industries will e singled out b. sacri-
fees to.the FIRE trade Moloch, with the
hope that vot, : thus stricken can b.
induced to a.. ia pulling other inter-
ests TO the le'4I OF their own.
It il agsi - this ~i1sidious warfare
that proteorionist- should keep well
guarded. The demand for free raw
materials, 10 which il j. hoped To com
NIT some manufacturers, Will no
sooner be successful than laborers and
capitalists thereby d-isadvautaged vii
be urged to join in n crusade against
all protected MANUFACTURES. Already
work along this line has been started
in New England, where the promise
OF free wool, tree coal, free ores and
Other materials are expected to dazzle
the eyes and turn the heads Of certain
manufacturers; ana cOncurrently far
mers and wool growers, ~ith owner
snd workers Of mines, are urged "a
make ready to strike back with the
demand for free trade throughout the
list Of imported competing products.
aud the shTewd advocates Of reform"
can safely be relied OF to vote with
both sides WHEEL once the fight begin,
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-03
Patch aud All.

An old sea dog. Sawyer by name,
was a privil ged character on a certain
mSn-of-war Decause of his age and the
length Of time he had been in the serv-
ice. He eked out his pay by making
and selling uniforms for the other G
and as he had the market entirely 10
himself il was natural that he should
become a little autucratic IN his deal
ings. On one occasion "A young sailor
wished 20 buy "a pair of white ducb
working trousers.
Old Sawyer, holding a pair Of second.
hand trOuSers az arms length. dcscaut
ed upon their various eXcellencies until
he was compelled 10 pause for breath
At that point the young fellow ~ventGfec
20 ask meesly
"And what might the price be, Mr..
Sawyer
The old man hemmed and hawed
and began thus:
WAL, young Teller, ] reckon you
know what white duck costs from the
paymaster. don't youi Fifty cents a
yard amt itf Af-i so many yards Is
two dollars altogether. Then there's
the thread. ten cents, we'll call il. two
dollars and ten cents and the making
will bring it up 10 three fifty. ! calker-
late " won't quarrel with that; and
then there's this blue patch, " he con
tinued, strokingit lovingly, Il put that
IN myself last summer, an it's a good
niece of work I'm 'fraid shall have
30 charge you twenty cents extry for
that patch, say three dollars and sew
enty cents altogether.
The money was paid and received
without a word, neither party seeming
To think it surprising that patched
trousers should cost more than whole
ones-Youth's Companion.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-12-03

Among the strangest Of phenOmens
are the explosive noises that have been
heard for years over half Of the large
area of the Ganges delta and that have
not yet been assigned TO any satisfac
tory cause. The noises, for the lack OF
a better name, have Tong been known
as the BariSal guns, SO called from
Barisal, the chief town Of the district
10 which they are mostly confined
The startling sounds were the subject
of a long discussion at "A meeting Of the
Asiatic Society of Bengal, but the
learned members are no nearer a solu
ton of the mystery now than when il
was first discussed and written about
nineteen years ago.
The sounds resemble the explosion
of bombs OF the thunder of heavy guns
They occur at quite regular intervals,
but most frequently in the rainy sea
son. and their usual accompaniment i'
"a southerly wind They are heard
along 100 miles of the coast and up the
many branches of the delta from ..
10 100 mites inland, and due north 90
far as the CAIRO hills. about $50 miIr'
from the coast. The low lying -wampy
coast region for fifty mile, inland d.
thiuiy inhabited. and. orange az 10
may appear. up % ESQ seems 10 DE
az or near t'e place where the uoi- =
originate. The meeting Of the A~.ar0
society was prolific of the0rie, az p.