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People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
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CAPONS.
when Capon Is at Its Best-some of tn

when a CapOn Is at Its Best-Some of tn
Various Advantages of CapOnizing.
Those who Matched chickens in March
and April will soon have a lot Of cocker
els Of sufficient size to caponize, and IL
regard to these, George O. Dow, recog
nized authority, tells in the New York
World that the sooner they are per
formed upon after reaching the size o.
215 pounds the longer time they will
have to make their growth for the winter
and spring markets. Mr.. Dow also ex
presses himself as follows upon the sub
ject Of capons:
a capon to be at its best should really
be allowed to live for year or fourteen
months. The first eight months Of thei1
lives are devoted to building up large
frame or body, which they will finish of
and decorate in fine shape with delicious
meat if for the following four months
they are permitted to live. I disposed
of all my capons early the past season
Tin February simply because I needed
the room for one thing, and another was
that my customers demanded them, and
still another reason was, [ needed the
money which they brought. However.
I should not have done so had [ not been
offered very high price, which should
have been foolish to decline. Had [ nc
particular market for them it would
have been much better for me to have
kept them until April, for notice that
the market price for capons tended up
ward, and they were quoted at twenty.
four to twenty-six cents a pound in
April and. early May, while chickens
could be bought for fifteen cents and in
some cases less. Besides the profit there
is in it there are several other great adj
vantages. You will get rid of a lot of
cockerels that are running around both
ering the hens and other birds and fight.
ing with each other from morning till
night, causing them to lose their flesh
faster than you can put it on and eating
far more than any capOn.
After being caponized they become
very docile and quiet-1ose all thei1
fighting propensities, pay no attention
to the hens and pullets, lie around, take
life easy and seem to enjoy perfect con-
tentment. AS they do not care to run
all over creation and lose all desire fol
companionship of the other sex they be-
gin to grow very rapidly, and one will
notice this remarkable change in them
in a week after performing the opera
ton. Everything they eat and drink
goes to forming their frame and flesh.
These are not the ideas of an enthusiast
on the subject, but simply the expert
ence of one who has been at it for num-
Der of years and knows what he is writ
ing about-not theory, but plain North
American facts. Try it, my friends,
and see for yourselves, and if every
capon you raise doesn't bring you more
than double what you get for coclzerel
there must be something wrong about
you, certainly not with the capon.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
A Model Creamery.

The walls Of the building contain two
dead air spaces, with fues in the outer
space to conduct off the direct and re-
fected heat from the sun in summer,
but to be closed in winter.
The water tank is made Of metal and
is hung overhead in the refrigerator,
and the water remains cold and sweet
for washing the butter. The icebox is
at one end, with top and bottom circu
lation of air through it and the "cold
ROOM" There are two doors and two
weigh cans for receiving milk, and the
slzinlmilk is conducted above the wagon.
The heat and dust from the boiler and
engine room are cut off from the work
room with good, substantial doors and
partitions, and the steam pipes and ex-
haust pipes and fues, especially if steam
separators are used, are covered with a
good nonconductor of heat Or placed in
wooden boxes.
IF there is fullesupply of hands and
a proper division of labor the milk is al
lowed to gravitate from the wagon to
the weigh can, to the separator, to the
cream vat, to the churn, and to the
buttermilk tank, dispensing with pumps,
but the lay of the land and the climbing
capacity of the butter maker must be
taken into consideration. - Creamery
Journal
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
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THE CREAMERY DAIRYMEN.
How to Take Care of HTiIk for Butter
Making.

How to Take Care of rIilk for Butter
Making.
The cows should be properly fed the
best and most wholesome food on the
grim. They should not be allowed to
drink out of any slough or stagnant pool
of water, but should be given as pure
water as you use for domestic purposes.
Their surroundings should be sweet and
clean, and the mixers should be neat in
drawing the milk from the cows. The
milk utensils, such as pals, strainers,
cans, ETC., should be Of tin. They should
be washed out in hot water in which
some salsoda has been dissolved, then
scalded and set out Of doors to air. The
milk should be thoroughly cooled and
aerated as soon as drawn from the cow,
and mornings milk should never be
strained in with the nights milk until it
is perfectly cool.
The milk should be kept in the COM
mon setting cans, set in a tank of cold
water until just before the collector
calls for it; then empty the milk into the
delivery cans and place On a platform
convenient for the driver. This is for
your own INTEREST DIS W91l G5 OURS, AOE
the earlier the milk gets to the factory
the better shape it will be in, and the
skimmilk will be sent back to the farm
better than it would be otherwise. The
skimmilk should be emptied out of the
delivery cans as soon as returned from
the factory, and the cans and covers
washed and placed bottom side up on a
rack out of doors to air until the next
time. Do not send any sour, tainted,
frozen or impure milk of any kindto
the factory, or any milk from an I'M
healthy COW, but send us such milk as
you would use in tea or coffee, or off
which you would take cream for straw
berries or table use. No other will
make fine butter.-Iowa Agricultural
Exnerinant Station Bn1letin.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Tile Drnir1ara.

The laying Of draintile is now one
feature or foundation of success in farm
ing. The increase in the production of
the soil is great. A correspondent in
The New England Homestead reminds
farmers that there are good and bad tile,
as there is land of the best and inferior
qualities. The best tile run from ten,
twelve and fourteen dollars per 1000
and upward, according to the size. The
round tile are considered the best and
largely used, although the square bot
tom tile are sometimes laid. The
8-inch tile is the most used in the fat
lands Of Ohio, then the and 5-inch
sizes, and also larger. All tile should be
laid in angles across the land. The
larger size tile are more frequently used
at the end, the smaller sizes along the
sides of the field. The conditions of
each portion of the land must be under
stood to intelligently lay the tile.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Asparagus Growing.

Having special fondness for aspara-
gus, and having given the subject of its
growth in a small way considerable at
tention, a correspondent of the New York
World has reached the following among
other conclusions: One is that many as
paragus beds, especially in cold and
heavy soils, die out from rotting of the
fieshy roots. While to q certain extent
asparagus likes moisture, this is easily
overdone when the growth is at a stand
still. Asparagus in q state of nature
grows in a sandy, well drained alluvial
deposit. Now the point I wish to get at
is that heavy mulching on cold, heavy
soil, in my opinion, only renders the soil
more cold and sodden and the roots moro
liable to decay. Allowing the tops tore
main on throughout the winter is SLOW
emily method, and besides it prevents
the frost and air from having free access
to sweeten the surface soil I make a
practice of cutting the tops off close with
the scythe and clearing them away as
soon as thoroughly ripened. / have had
good success in top dressing with decom-
posed manure and decayed garden ref
use in equal parts.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
THE BEES.
How Best to Prepare Then, for Winter
ing Over.

Row Best TO Prepare Them for Winter
ing Over.
The bees need wedding out in the fall
Of the year as we'll as the poultry and
stock. For the highest profit in bee
keeping the smallest number of bees
should be w1ntered consistent with good
management. Bees that are wintered
properly require a great deal of care and
feeding. A weak colony will often die
for lack Of warmth, and it is better in
the fall to join two or three such small
colonies in one. They can be wintered
better in this condition, and they do bet
ter in the hive. Overcrowding must be
avoided, but then too few in the hive
must also be guarded against. The mis-
take or many is to carry more bees
through the winter than they can actu-
ally attend to, and instead of making
more profit from such number OF col
on1es they actually make less. Poorly
WlnGered, the bees die in numbers, and
another season the numbers will be dec
mated more than if less had been kept.
Improbable colonies should be done
away with. Facilities should be pro
vided for those that are to be kept.
Hives, sections, foundations and all
other needful things should be obtained
before cold weather comes, and an ex-
act estimate should be made of how
many can be wintered in the cellar or
outside. 1t does not pay to starve the
bees, and syrup of granulated sugar and
water should be provided in sufficient
time and quantity to keep the bees in
good health. The amount of sugar
needed for this purpose is often quite an
item in the beekeeper's expenses, and
every pound thus used should be made
of value.
The wlntering must be done gradually.
The hives should be protected more and
more as the season advances. The fall
flowers gradually grow less in number
and bees are unable to find sufficient to
eat. The comb honey will then often be
consumed if they are not watched. If
more bees than there is actually honey
to feed in the neighboring woods and
fields, starvation will stare the bees in
the face in the fall. More food will then
have to be doled out than will ever be
paid for by the honey. The number
@~~N%S" w ANNStSSNA GU OA4SO DC1O4O CSA1OUI4C4
honey season arrives.
Even if wintered in the bee cellar the
hives should be kept out of doors until
very late in the season. The bees do
better when they are not shut up in
some artificial place where the surround
ings are gloomy and close. Sufficient
protection can be given with straw until
the middle Of December. IF the hives
are situated in sunny place and pro-
tected somewhat by trees or the barn,
the little inmates do better than if win
tered in protected hives out of doors.
During warm midwinter days then they
will come out and take fly around to
air themselves and stretch their cramped
limbs. This is of great value to them,
for it prevents often foul brood and
filthiness in the hive. One cannot be
too careful in this respect, for it infu-
ences the bees all through the honey
season, often communicating the honey
itself. Wintering in cellars has tend
ency to breed disease and dirt unless
the owner is very careful. Whar-
burden in American Cultivator.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Giggling Is Not Laughing.

Women very generally neglect very
powerful weapon of offense and defense
placed at their command by nature. A
woman's laugh, if intelligently and skill
fully used, can wither man in his tracks
or elevate him to the seventh heaven of
happiness.
Several causes have contributed to the
decadence Of woman's laughter. The chief
one perhaps is the modern habit of dress
ing. Full, free laughter depends upon a
perfect development and exercise of the
respiratory muscles. Confined as these
age by steel and whalebone laughter be-
comes an impossibility.
With loss of the art of laughing comes
a loss of the sense of humor. When the
expression of any of the senses becomes
difficult the sense itself dwindles. Do not
mistake giggling for aughter.-Philadel-
phia Times.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Beautiful Hands.

Not only ladies should have pretty hands
a rough, untidy pair Of hands is just as
unnecessary for man to have as wom-
an--beautiful white hands very many can
have if nature has been kind enough to be-
stow upon them fair skins. All may have
neat looking, smooth hands. A lemon,
some oatmeal, palm oil soap and tepid
water and a few ounces of glycerin will be
all sufficient to.accomplish the desired re-
suit.
After the hands are washed clean in the
water, to which has been added table
spoonful of oatmeal and a teaspoonful of
glycerin, and the palm oil soap freely used,
rub over the wet hands the lemon juice;
apply it especially we'll about the nails, for
it hardens the skin and prevents the form
alton of hangnails.-St. Louis Republic.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23

The individual who has hillside with
spring upon the hill above it has just
the place which nature had in mind for
a first class creamery when she built
that spring there. If the spring is one
that does not dry out, the water can be
collected in a reservoir and used for q
dozen different purposes. If it is cold
enough the cans Of milk can be plunged
into it, or d cement mi1krOom can be
built under the hillside creamery and
the milk kept there. It can be utilized
as water power to run the cream sep
arator, the test machine, the churn and
butter worker, besides cutting feed and
saving wood if necessary.
It will be an excellent plan, where
you make butter to sell directly to
hotels, restaurants or fancy groceries, to
have print made with the particular
name Of the buyer upon it, A fine rep
utation for both butter maker and
dealer might be established in that way.
Suppose, for instance, hotel named the
Montrose House buys your fine butter.
The article might be turned out in pound
prints with some pretty design upon the
face and the word "Montrose" printed
handsomely beneath. Or if a grocer
named-let US say Smith-wanted to es-
tablish name for first class and re-
liable brand of butter, he could get the
article made from q producer whom he
could swear by and then ask the pro-
lucer to put it into pound rolls, each
bearing the trademark 'Smith" printed
upon its face. Here is an idea worth
trying.
The first thing to do in building up a
model dairy is to get rid Of your poor
COWS. Then get pure bred bull of a
milk or butter family, whichever you
wish to produce.
If you are young man or woman
and expect to make your living on
farm, go to your state dairy school this
winter and graduate.
Frost bitten grass is not calculated to
improve the digestion or the milk Of
COWS.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Experiments with Potatoes.

In an experiment at the Utah station,
in which whole tubers, halves, quarters
and one eye and two eye cuttings were
planted, the yield increased with the
amount of seed used, but it is reported
doubtful whether pieces larger than
three-quarters evil yield enough more
to pay for the extra amount of seed re-
CURED" Pieces cut from the stem end
of potatoes gave larger yields than those
cut from the seed end. Experiments
with large and small potatoes for seed
during two years have given inconclu-
sive results. Flat culture of potatoes
gave much better results than ridge cul-
ture. The newer varieties most promis-
ing are Hoffman, Governor Rusk and
Rural New Yorker No. 2.
AT the Maryland station varieties used
in an experiment, in which large and
small whole potatoes, two or three eye
pieces and one eye pieces were planted,
were Early Rose, New Queen, Dakota
Red and Early Harbinger. The results
of this and of two previous experiments
indicated that the yield increases with
the amount of seed, but that when large
whole potatoes are used for seed there
are very many small potatoes in the
crop. The most profitable results were
obtained when small whole potatoes were
planted.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Question and Answer.

Which is the best cow for butter-one that
gives twenty-five pounds of milk per day, per
cent. butter fat, or onethat gives fifty pounds
of milk, 8 per cent. butter fat2 Which is the
best COW for cheese?
More butter can be made from TWEEN
ty-fve pounds of milk containing per
cent. fat than from fifty pounds contain
ing only per cent, because the losses
in creaming and churning will be less.
Which is the better COW for butter will
depend very largely upon the way in
which they hold out in giving milk.
The probabilities are that the milk from
the fifty pound COW would make the
most cheese, but of quality not quite
up to what so called full cream cheese
ought to be.-Hoard's Dairyman.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Beef and siIage T..

I do not believe any stockman can
maintain q herd of beef cattle in fine
form for any continued period unless a
reasonable amount of succulent feed of
some kind is provided for his animals
during the long winter months. Where
dry feed only is available stock will
never show that thrifty, healthy appear
ance made possible by the addition of
some moist food. Oilmeal, to be sure,
will help very materially, but it is an
expensive food, very fattening in its ma
ture, and only little can be used sue
cessfully with breeding stock. Cooked
feed, too, will produce practically the
same results as succulent feed, but the
cost Of preparation makes it more ex-
pensive than silage or roots.
Practically, therefore, succulent feed
of some kind is a necessity with fine
breeding stock, and the choice narrows
down in most cases to roots and silage.
Cheap storage can be provided for roots,
and where money is scarce l would ad-
wise growing them until one is in condi-
ton to construct a silo without seriously
feeling it's expense. A limited use of
silage for breeding stock of the beef
breeds-Shorthorn and others will
prove extremely helpful in keeping the
animals in winter time in that grassy
condition SO satisfactory to the eye of
the stocklnan. Silage fed animals shed
their coats early and will be in fine sale
condition earlier in the springtime than
if fed on dry grandmother point
Of considerable advantage.-Professor
Henry in Breeders Gazette.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23

where to get good potatoes. To get
large, fine looking potatoes, that will
sell readily in the market for the high.
est prices, it is quite essential that the
seed should come from the very largest
tubers that we dig from our fields.
The value of selecting seed potatoes
for home use has been made apparent
on Long Island. Potatoes from that
part Of the country invariably sell fo1
more than those from any other state O.
locality. The market gardeners there
have selected their seed carefully fo1
many years. The result is that type
of potatoes has been formed which are
of especial value. They are larger,
fairer and more globular in shape than
potatoes from any other section. The
market gardeners there believe in the
theory that the potato must be adapted
to the particular soil in which it is
grown by number of years trial. In
the course of time, if the seed from the
crops is selected, a new type of potato
is raised, and seed from these tubers
planted on other soil would not do so
well.
To readers who have not already Sc
lected their seed potatoes it is advised
that as far as possible potatoes for seed
should be Of average size and shape. In
this way one soon gets about the same
sized potatoes from the field. They not
only average we'll in size, but also in
shape. This is quite an important point
in selling potatoes. They can all be put
into the first assortment, and their SINH
larity Of shape makes them attractive
Extremely large, crooked potatoes are
not SO desirable, as q rule, as the smaller
but fair, regular and thin skinned ones.
In selecting the seed this point should
be remembered. OF course it is an ad
vantage to select the largest, but they
should all be of about the same type and
shape.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Good Late Keeping Celery.

Many gardeners do not know that the
dwarf celery, that sells best in the fall,
Is one of the best keepers until late in
Che spring, says The American Cultiva-
toE, Cold and absolute darkness are the
requisites for late keeping. Comply
with these conditions, and the celery can
be kept until March in just as good con-
dition as it will be in December, if no
rot starts among it. If the rot gets i'll
TO any great extent, the sooner it is sold
the better for the grower. Nine times
out of ten the rot is the effect of too sud
den change from cold to warm
weather either out of doors or in the
celery house, and the other time, if the
celery is free from rot when put in, it is
the result of careless handling when put
In the pit or houses.
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Miss Dodge Disnkes Philanthrophy.

Miss Grace Dodge, who is SO we'll known
in connection with the various organiza-
tions of working girls in New York, is a
woman of wealth and culture. She lives
in beautiful home on Madison avenue
More than that, she keeps house in addi-
ton to all her outside work.
Miss Dodge says: II don't think woman
can be a true woman if she has no home
duties.
81 hate that word 'philanthrophy,' ".she
said in response to some remark about her
work. I'm the first place, my work in my
clubs is not philanthropic. It is simply
part of my social life. A woman was talk
ing to me the other day, and she said that
she was in thirty charities do not feel
that way I'm not in any charity
belong to several girls clubs, and l attend
them like any other member,"--New York
Recorder
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Wasted Effort

If one-half the time effort and money
that have been worse than wasted on
strikes during the past ten years had
been expended in the education and or
ganization of the workers of the coun-
try into an independent political party
such legislation would have been Sc
cured long ago as would have removed
all cause for strikes.
Organized laboring men, with half a
million votes of their own and the assist
ance of unorganized labor, can dictate
any policy they desire. but SO long as
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
Just So.

Some of the Democratic papers have
just walked up and are deeply regretful
of the indignities committed upon Gen
eral Weaver and the ladies who accom-
panied him in his political campaign in
the south" It reminds one OF the story
of the Irishman and the bull. Pat saw
the bull coming, but before he could get
out of the way the bull had hoisted him
high on his horns and tossed him over
the fence. Pat looked back and saw
the bull paving and bowling his head.
He remarked: "Oh, yes; you are very
perlite and sorry, ne doubt. But you
did it a-purpose, and you know it"
Democrats, like Pats bull, are in condi-
ton now "to be very sorry and polite
to General Weaver. But, all the same,
they threw eggs on purpose.-Chicago
Inter Ocean
People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23
A Use for Worn STOCKINGS.

Very pretty little jackets for babies can
be made from the legs of silk and wooden
stocking when the feet are worn out The
stitches that confine the legs are carefully
picked out aud the legs joined together
down the back of the jacket. The sleeves
are cut from the narrower parts and sewed
in. The jacket is then edged around with
a scalloped edge of worsted or knitting silk,
which is started by drawing a single GRO
chet through the edge of the material. A
cord and tassel made from the same is run
through the neck.--Household.