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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Select the best fowls for marketing.
Dry lime will help purify the chicken
quarters.
Hair on the legs of the milk-stool is
bad sign.
The sooner that culls are marketed
the better.
Give young poultry all the range pos
sible when there is no wet.
Better results will be secured il the
seed is scattered SO poultry cannot eat
too fast.
Turpentine and sulphur in the feed is
good preventive for gapes in young
chickens.
Wheat is not fast wearing crop when
the straw is returned to the land via
good farm animals.
A quick maturing fowl is very de-
sirable for market as we'll as for home
use, especially in the spring.
Corn is heat producing food; there
fore substitute oats as much as possible
for the working stock during hot
weather.
Tuberous begonias with flowers so
striped as to recall the fake and bizarry
carnation have recently been obtained be
Ernst Benary.
Gloxinias and begouias from seed
bloom in about eight months from
the time of sewing and make the most
robust plants.
A tree that will provide both grateful
shade and toothsome nuts is worth three
times AS much as the one that furnishes
only the shade.
Corn fodder, put in shocks and left in
the field during good part OF the ia!i
and winter, loses from one-thlrd to oac'
calf of its feeding value.
The rich corners about the house, barn
end outbuildings would grow rhubar5,
early potatoes and cabbage, instead OF
imam weeds and burdocks.
A beekeeper recommends candy pals
IS the best and cheapest thing for ex,
tracted honey. When the honey granu-
lates they can be shipped anywhere.
A grapevine over an outbuiIding will
not injure the building, but it will add
to the attractiveness of the home an.'
furnish plenty Of the most Wholesome
fruit.
Spring is pronounced the best time by
many eminent aparists for moving bees
thoug Oh it may be done in the fall, on>
reason being that combs are less liable &c
break on account of weight.
Italian bees are said to be more encr
, getic in resisting the attacks of the De-
moth than are the common black bees
:, AS rule, moth invasion means WeaN
y queenless colony and neglect.
+ Some varieties of gladiolus are carrie
than others. Bulbs are easily kept, all
, by PLANTING two or three different time
# from the middle of April until June, tn
G season of bloom is prolonged severd
S months.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
TRANspLANTING ONIONS.

According to results obtained at the
experiment station of Ohio last year, IN
the matter of growing onions from seed
in the greenhouse and afterwards trans
planting the young plants in the open
ground, the results were decidedly in
favor of the transplanted ones. A month
was gained in the time of ripening OF the
crop, all the troublesome detail of keep
ing the young onions from being
smothered by weeds was overcome, while
the yield of those transplanted was in
most cases about double that of the 9TH
crs, The common market sorts showed
524 bushels to the acre Of the trans
planted against 39S bushels from seed of
the Yellow Danvers, while the Wealth
ersield showed 779 against go respec-
lively. Other kinds were even more IA
vorable. The transplanting of onions is
an old process among gardeners, In I'LL
ing in gaps and loss from seed by one
party, who obtained supply from those
more fortunate, even when the seed
| was sown in the ordinary way out OF
doors. The writer has known of some
growers who always transplanted from
seed beds, to avoid various troubles con-
scquent from the slow growth at first OF
| onions grown from seed. The extra
expense of transplanting is partly com
pensated for by less hand wedding being
required. as the hoe can be made to dc
nearly all the wedding in the trans
planted crops.-New York Witness.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
PEA FOWLS.

In reply to queries regarding pea
fowls, we cannot do better than to quote
Richardson, The cock docs not attain
the full splendor of his plumage until he
is three years old, and the hen does not
lay until the same age. She lays from
five to seven eggs, and sits twenty-nine
days. If the first batch of eggs be taken
away she will lay d second, so that by
having a hen turkey foster nurse you
may manage to have two broods in one
summer. The peahen generally chooses
very retired spot out of the way of the
peacock, who is often cruel, unnatural
father.
The Young must be Matched likc
Guinea fowls and young turkeys. I'm
less they are fed amply and regularly they
are apt to wander. When fat and hung
long enough they make a delicious and
splendid roast. They should be larded
with slices of fat bacon, the head and
neck, with the feathers on, carefully
wrapped in paper and tucked under the
wing away from the fire, and when ready
set up in purple glory to match the tail,
adorned with feathers neatly stuck in at
the last moment. If you wish peafowls
to agree with other poultry they must be
reared with them, otherwise they are not
unfrcouently murderous assassins Of
ohicks.-New York World.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
DETASSELING CROP.

The process of detassoling corn con-
sists in removing the upper portion of
the stalk to which the spray of male or
pollen bearing flowers is attached. Sew
cral experiments have shown that it in
crcases the crop to remove the tassel from
fully onc-half of the stalks before the
pollen is shed. The results of some ex-
tensive tests made by the Nebraska Elk
pertinent Station, show tho opposite
effect. There was a uniformly lcsscned
yield upon the plats when onc-half Of
tic stalks were detasseled. Similar re-
suits obtained when the vessels were re-
moved after the pollen had been matured
and scattered. In view of these results,
it does not seem wise to interfere with
nature for profits sake.--American As-
riculturist.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
SHOOTING COLTS,

Ibegan shoeing horses at seventeen,
writes George W. Bates, and followed
the business more than forty years; l
was strong, over six feet high, and
weighed 200 pounds, working weight;
could hold horses foot that any other
man could hold; but l soon found that
all my strength was nothing alongside
the strength of the horse. Horses are
abused more being shod than in any
other way. | have seen them shamefully
beaten and their lips twisted with a
witch until they would groan with pain.
| suppose l have shod as many horse and
mule colts as any man living, and nine
times out of ten they stand as well the
first time as ever they do; if spoiled the
first time they will never forget it, but
will show temper as soon as they smell
the shop. Handled carefully the first
time, and always handled carefully, there
is no need of any trouble. l always go
to the horses head aud make up with
him by patting and soothing him gently
rub his legs with one hand, lift the hoof,
keep rubbing the opposite leg with the
other hand and let 60 the noof when he
Is not pulling on it, but don't keep it up
too lclg at first. Let his hoof rest against
| your knee to steadyit, aud keep gentlineg
hun until he gives it up, and then dress
it and tap it slightly with the hammer;
| if it scarcs him let the hoof down anc
tap his hoofs on the floor, first one anc
then the other, until he gets used TO It,
and is not afraid of the noise. If he viii
fight put large cloth over his head tt
bIindfold him, and tighten the headstal
! of his bride so he can't kick or strike
and if he will move around | tie up on
foot and put on kneecap, and tie al
| eight foot strap CT cord to the other foo
below the fetlock, and when he move
pull up the foot and let him on his knees
which will scare him so that he will no
move for fear of falling; take oil t.
straps and keep soothing him by caresse
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
Bound to Be Forgiven.

Gustave Dore had many faults, but
none so large as not to deserve excuse
when one remembers his tenderness OF
heart. He absolutely would not and
could not keep up an enmity. Life
was short, according to his loving
theory, and only the foolish man
could afford to spend it in bitterness.
Blanchard Jerrold was exceedingly
angry with him at one time because,
after they had worked together on q
volume of drawings and descriptions
relating to London, Dore published a
French edition Of the book, in which
Jerrold's text did not appear.
For year the intimacy Of the two
men ceased, and then, on Dore's an
nual visit to London, he suddenly APP
peared In his former friends library,
held out his hand, and said, Il
couldn't leave without seeing you"
He owned that he had been in the
wrong, and did not attempt to justify
himself. The only thing he did in
sist upon was the fact that he could
not live at enmity with one of whom
he had once been fond, and after long
discussion the two parted, on their old
affectiOnate terms.
Yet Dore was an irritable man, and
one day actually quarreled with a
friend on the subject of art. 1t was
not long, however, before he rushed
into the gentleman's house, saying,
"Let US embrace each other! 1t Is toe
stupid to quarrel with friends. We
will talk no more about painting, but
only of drawings. Then, you were
perhaps in the right"
"We Rugged each other" says the
friend, in telling the story. "He hac
been the first to come back. He wa:
a better man than l."
Another friend, Albert Wolff, tho
critic, had written somewhat severely
of Dore as o painter, and the latter
who was never content to be admired
as a mere illustrator, felt the cut
most keenly. The two had beef
friends for fifteen years, bnt this I'M
fortunate criticism parted them tOI
five. Then, one summer evening
they met face to face, and 1t wa:
Dore who advanced with outstrctchee
! hand, saying, rs it all over?"
! "As you please, was the cold reply
J Dore hesitated. Then his bette
! nature prevailed over pride, and
passing his arm within that Of hi
friend, he said, Il must talk will
you"
He talked and the other listened
with the result of healing the breach
between them.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09

or less dimpled chins. In color they
may rival the rainbow; i'll length they
may range from the twelve-inch bonnet
string to the five foot ribbon roll which
gracefully trails upon the ground. They
may be wide or narrow, they may stand
straight out behind or they may be
festooned on the shoulder or the bosom;
they may be tied or pinned or Topped.
But in any case they resolve themselves
into 'steen yards of ribbon, for which
your milliner nodestly accepts your last
ive-dollar bill.
For the streamer fad is always an ex-
travagant one. Any mil liner will vouch
for the fact that these ribbons are often
worth more than the whole hat. At the
rate of 81. 50 per yard for delicate impor-
tations figure the price Of big bows for
the crown and streamers four feet long.
Women wear strcamers with different
degrees of grace. They are trlfle
coquettish, and become a dashing young
beauty best. They have to be managed
with dexterity, like the long train.
The blusterng business woman or
matron on shopping c4peulIioh l"liS
rather short of aesthetic grace as she
strides along, the sole object of ''gettlns
there" painfully imprinted on the very
ends of the struggling, tiuttering rib
bons. Then there is the woman who
clutches these ends Iervously in one
hand; the woman who continually looks
behind to see if they are still there; the
woman who gets her feet tangled in
them and becomes sight for gods and
men, and last but not least, the woman
who fastens them in a rosette in front
and uses the rosette for pincushlo1.
Some of the ribbons most in favor are
of changeable silk novelties; Others have
tie old Roman stripes which our grand
mothers wore in the days of sun-bonnets
and white stockings. Large figured pat
terms, embodying great full-blown roses
daisies or sunfowers, pass for artistic
streamers, but hardly come up to the
neat-but -not-gaudy standard. 49, Nc"
York World.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
WASHING SHEEP,

The old practice Of washing sheep to
clean ont tic accumulated dirt from their
wool is going out of fashion. 1t was
unhealthy alike for the workmen and tor
the sheep. The wool has always to be
secured after it goes from the farmers
hands, and the dirt taken out by washing
on the sleeps back is the easiest got rid
of in the securing process. When sheep
take cold by being washed the quality of
the wool is injured, AS what is called cold
is really fever, making the skin parched
and dry, and injuring whatever grows
from it.-Boston Cultivator.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
PROFITABLE PIG FEEDING.

How to pay five and one-haf cents
per pound for 150-pound pigs, teed fif-
teen bushel of forty cent corn, making
them weigh 800 pounds, and sell at
three and one-half cents to make any
money, is conundrum proposed by J;
G. Holt, Henry Co., Ind. A l5O-pound
pig at five and one. half cents, would
cost 1925; sold when weighing 300
pounds, at three and onc-half cents, it
would bring $1,000, leaving 1925 to
pay for the fifteen bushels OF corn, or
fifteen cents per bushel.
The only way to make money in feed
ing pigs is to comply with the laws OF
animal physiology. In feeding a l5o.
pound pig up to a weight of 300 pounds,
the average live weight is 225 pounds,
while the average live weight of $50
pound pig is only seventy-hve pounds.
Now the maintenance ration is in pro-
portion to the live weight, SO that the
food used-lost so far as making pork Is
concerned--is three times as great in the
larger as in the smaller. Suppose there
had been put up a small pig, and one
weighing $50 pounds for pork making,
keeping them in warm quarters and we'll
supplied with everything required for
comfort and growth, and feeding them
on the ideal pig food-wheat middlings
it will require four pounds of mid
dlings to each 100 pounds of live
weight for maintenance, and three
pounds more will make pound of
meat. Now to make an average pound
of gain on each, will require feed as
follows: With the smaller pig, three
pounds are required for maintenance, and
three more for gain. So six pounds
make pound of meat. For the larger
pig, nine pounds will be required for
maintenance and three for gain, taking
twelve pounds of middlings for each
pound of pork, or two to one In favor OF
smaller pigs. 1t is a sad, though COM
mon mistake, to feed large pigs. AS a
rule, it is better never to keep any be-
You'd 200 pounds.
Another mistake was in feeding "a
ton adapted to the pigs wants. While
corn is one of the grandest stock foods,
it is by far too carbonaceous to produce
the best results in pig feeding. Had Mr..
Holt used mixture of 200 pounds corn
meal, 200 pounds of wheat middlings
and 100 pounds of linseed meal, he
would have found igreater gain in the
pigs at a smaller cost, and the meat
would have been more lean and desirable
for human food. 1t also pays to have
some succulent food, beets, turnips, car
rots or silage. This not only gives lar
ger growth, but better quality of meat.
As rule, more money will be made out
of pork to have pigs come at different
times, feed abundantly, so as to keep
them growing right along from the tins
farrowed land sell at not over 2OO-pound
weight. Better sell at $50 than to keep
much beyond 200 pouuds.-Amerlcar
Agriculturist.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
PROGRESSIVE FRBScHwoMEN.

"on recent trip through France I
was forcibly struck by the manner In
which women are forging to the front in
that country" said T. E. Levan, of Bos-
ton, at the Southern. 'Statistics show
that France leads all the countries of
Europe in the employment of women.
Most of the accountants and bookkeep-
ers in French shops are females whose
salaries range from 80 to 10 week, &C
cording to proficiency and tue size of the
establishment in which they work. A
peculiar phase of the employment Of
these women is that most of them save
their earnings very carefully, in order to
buy an interest in the business. This in
clinaticn is always encouraged by the
proprietors, inasmuch as it is the general
opinion that part ownership induces
greater fidelity on the part of the clerks. y
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
SLEIGHINO BY STEAM.
Sierra SHOWS to Be Defled by q New and
Novel Propeller.

Mover IrOpellcF
The Fulton Iron Works, in New
York City, is completing the machin-
cry for a very curlons machine, the
like of which has never been known
before. It'll machine sleigh-like in
construction, and is intended to be
used in hauling passengers and tow
ing logs and other freight in the high
Sierras, and, in fact, wherever snow
exists.
Should it prove the success that it
promises, the problem of Arctic eX-
ploration will be solved, for even in
mountainous country it will be about
as fleet as Hudson River iccboat,
while On level stretches only birds
of enwearied wing can keep up
with it.
This strange machine is the invcn-
ton of Amos Lane, Of Truckee, who
some months ago discovered the buried
gold of the famous Bonner party.
He first built a model snOw-bOat,
which was run in the regions around
Sierraville by hand power. Now he
is making a sleigh twelve feet long,
which will carry six-hOrse power en-.
CINE and weigh. all complete, not
over 800 pounds.
Its mechanism is peculiar and Is
attracting much attention.
The novel craft will mainly be used
between Tahoe and Truckee to trans
port freight and passengers. Aside
from carrying ordinary freight and
passengers from point to point rapid
ly, Mr.. Lane intends to use it as a
STOW boat" In hauling loaded sleds
around the mining and wood camps
along the line of the Central Pacific
where show falls so heavily as to OBJ
struct other means Of traffic.
Mr.. Lane built his first motor
sleigh two years ago at Sicrravllle.
and was his own engine and engineer.
He worked it by hand crank and
was able to make ten miles an houl
over level, and climb considerable
| grades. He estimates that with the
vehicle now being made, basing his
calculations on comparative power
weight, resistance and paddle-push
ing surface, he can double this speed
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
THE CRY is "STREAMERs."

The monument of milliner's toll is not
complete until the all-popular streamers
lave been attached. On every side we
see them. The giddy thing of seventeen
wears them even as does the giddy
thing of thirty-seven. GRANDMOTHER
and grandchildren move on in pleasing
procession with the long ribbons waving
in the breeze behind them. Bridget
passes through the back door-with
streamers. Madam walks down the
front steps-with streamers. And botG
Madam and Bridget are happy in the
conviction that they are wearing some
thing entirely new. It will be a dis
tinct shock to both to be undeceived, but
truth must prevail.
Our great-grandfathers footed mil
liners bills which had the same i'm
portant item, ''streamers, and the old
term, simple and expressive, satisfies the
extravaganza tastes of to-day. 1t must
be confessed, however, that there is
more variety in the manner OF wearing
them now than when our grandmothers
tied the broad ribbons under their more
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
CURIOUS FACTS.

At Potsdam, Germany, there is we'll
that only lacks ten feet Of being mile
deep. aoo, 49,
in London, England, living in single
rooms. i,
Asia signifies Sin the middle from
the fact that ancient biographies place It
between Europe and Africa.
The figures of fire losses for 1871 COM
piled by insurance men, reach the enor-
nous total of $40, 900, 900.
Fruit that drops on your ground from
the branches of your neighbours trees
overhanging your land Is yours.
In 1885 tame elephant could be
bought in India for 1928; now theli
prices range from S75> to $1,000.
The juice of the pineapple contains
both protied digc5ting substance AMI
is also furnished with milk -curilln2
fermcpt
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
A NEW UNDERGARMENT.

French designers have sent over some
elegant garments made like low-necked
princesse dress, demi trained. This
garment is sort of compromise between
q petticoat and a silk corset cover, and,
being narrowly gored ard beautifully
shaped, makes an ideal garment to wear
beneath perfectly fitted tailor costume
or princesse evening toilet, as there
are neither band nor gathers about the
waist. The home dressmaker, by the
aid of fine fitting princesse dress pat
tern, can make this silk combination
garment at about one-ffth of the cost Of
an imported one. There is nothing in
tricate about either it's fashioning, fin
ishing or trimming.-St. Louis Repub-
lIc
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
SEWING MACHINES AND LOUD VOICES.

II am sorry to say that my married
daughter has voice like peacock's
cry.p said an elderly gentleman who was
once an auctioneer and wants to pass the
residue of his days in peace. "My wife,
however, speaks with very gentle tones
Her voice is soft and low, an excellent
thing in woman Both mother and
daughter are indefatigable seamstresses,
but, while my daughter uses a sewing
machine, my wife still adheres to the
slow, old fashioned needle. Women al
WAYS like to talk as they sew, but an
operator on sewing machine is obliged
to raise her voice or she cannot make it
heard above the voice of the instrument.
The habit of loud talking is quickly &C
ouired, and woman does not leave it
behind her in the sewing room. She
carries it with her wherever she goes. l
suppose that for an industrious young
American woman the sewing machine is
q necessity, but | would advise her not
to talk as she works, for if she does so
she will certainly acquire loud, harsh
voice. New York Herald.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
Prohibiting Marriage.

The provisional diet of Syria in Aus
tria has taken very curious step back
ward in the direction Of medieval leglsla-
ton by the passage Of law prohibiting
INDECENT people to marry without a
license to be issued by the authorities,
which means that no licenses shall be
granted to the poor. -Chicago Herald.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
HAT TRIMMINGS,

A favorite trimming for bonnets and
round hats is one or two giant flowers
standing high on long stems. If roses
are chosen the stems are thorny and as
natural as the flower itself. On round
hats with wide brims whole gardens of
flowers are arranged. On one hat nine
large roses, with stems and foliage, were
counted Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
S1G0 Reward. St8G.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has beer able to cure III all tts
stages, and that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure no" known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
stitutiuHal disease, requires q constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken In
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system, thereby de-
etroying the Foundation Of the dis""ae, AID
giving the Patient strength by building up no
Constitution and assisting nature in doing t:s
work. The proprietors have SO much fatth n
its curative powers that they offer One flUn-
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure,
Send for list OF testimonials. Address
F.J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo. O.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09
A MATRIMONIAL FORECAST.

Married in May, you will rue the day.
Married in brown, you will live out of
town.
Married in white, you have chosen all right.
Married in black, you will wish yourself
back.
Married in red, you will wish yourself dead.
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow.
Married in pearl you will live in whirl.
Married in blue, you will always be true.
Married in pink, your spirits will sink.
Married in gray, you will 60 far away.
Married in green, ashamed to be seen.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-07-09

MANY persons are broken down from over
work or household cares. Browns lr0'! bit
tiers rebui ds the system, aids digestion. ic-
moves excess Of bile and cures luaiarla- z
spendid tonic for women and children.