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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Winter Care of Fowls.

When fowls are shut up in the
winter they often want for some things
which are essential to their we'll being
and which can be supplied with lit
tie labor and forethought. The dust
bath is necessary to keep them free
from vermin, and this should be pre-
pared now while the ground is dry.
Road dust is excellent for this pur-
pose, and sufficient amount can
easily be gathered up and put away in
barrels to last until the ground be-
comes dry in the spring. Keep an
open box tillea with it all the time in
the hen house. If you neglect to
secure the dust in time, wood ashes
may be used as substitute. A sup
ply Of lime is also necessary, and the
best way to provide this is to give
pounded oyster shells. Bones pounded
tine so as to have no long splinters
may also be used, or fine gravel which
contains limestone. Attention to
these little things is what makes
poultry pay in winter. Add to these
comfortable quarters, good food and
perfect cleanliness, and your winters
income from the fowls should be very
satisfactory. Live Stock Journal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
A Good Farmer.

A good farmer should never depend
upon his neighbOrs for what he can,
by care and good management. raise
on his own farm. He should not beg
fruit when he can plant or graft; he
should not borrow tools or vehicles
when he can make or buy them, for
among the many wastes on farm,
this waste of time is about the worst.
In the first place. he has to take time
in going to borrow them, and then
often take valuable time in taking
them back; then there IS a waste OF
the neighbours time and money by
keeping the tools in repair for some
one to wear out, and the only benefit
that the lender gets out Of it is being
called a good neighbor, for if he has
tools to lend he does not need to bor-
row. Now, we cannot all be indie
pendent, but a good farmer will, as
fast as he is able, provide himself
with suitable farming tools; and
again, a good farmer will never un-
dertake to till more land than he can
thoroughly cultivate 1t IS the aim
of many farmers to get as many acres
into crops as possible, giving no at
tention to the matter as to how thev
are put in; for instance, one man will
put in fifty or sixty acres of wheat,
while his neighbor will put in thirty
and get as many bushels, and per-
haps more. Now the farmer should
bear in mind that we'll titled land is
constantly improving, while half titled
land is growing poorer every day
d. H. Morris in Western Plowman.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Low Farm Fences.

A fence five and half feet high
may cause more breachiness in cattle
and horses than well-constructed
feet in height When few rails or
boards are off, or the top wire down,
from the high fence, the opening
looks large, and stock will crv wd or
Jump over. If the stock had always
been kept on farm where the fences
were low they would not make the
attempt to lump. A board or wire
fence four feet high, or a rail fence
four and half feet high, if kept in
good repair, will answer every pur-
pose of those one foot higher.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
The ISaby Had to Go. Too.

A man, woman, and a baby-the
man and woman on a tricycle. and
the baby sleeping in basket swung
from two arms in front Of the ma
chine-were going up the west drive in
Central Park yesterday morning, says
the New York World. Several pack
ages were strapped to the machine
and the man and woman were dressed
as if for an outing. It was quite
early, not yet 6 o'clock, as they came
up Eighth avenue and entered the
park at 59th street. The few people
who were on the street turned to
gaze at the queer outfit, and smiled
as they caught sight of the infant in
it's swinging basket. Above the
basket was canopy like that Of a
baby carriage. At the entrance to
the park the man stopped to tighten
the straps on package. He was a
sun-burnt, athletic-looking young fell
low with pleasant gray eyes and a
full dark beard. His wife, who sat
behind him, looked pale and thin and
was dressed in blue flannel. "Yes, ,"
he said, in answer to an inquiry, Il
had this machine made to order.
My wife's health has not been good
lately and we decided to take our va
cation in this way, and" turning to
his wife with smile, "of course we
couldn't leave the youngster behind.
Wife said he would have to 60 too, so
l had the basket rugged up for him.
No, we shall not camp out. We ex-
pect to travel morning and evenings
and rest in the middle Of the day
when it is hot, and at night we shall
put up at some farm house or country
hotel. We expect to be gone about
two weeks, and have no particular des-
tination, but shall travel about in a
leasurely sort of way and try to get
back my wife's health. Name? Oh,
no. never mind that; but don't you
think it is a good idea?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

Moorish Locusts Feed Man and Beast.
The British consul at Mogador, while
on an excursion inland, about a days
Journey from Mogador, met flights OF
locusts. He says it was an astonishing
and interesting though painful sight,
the air being in some parts so thick
with them that they formed dense liv-
ing brown fog, through which he could
hardly find his way, while they so COM
pletely covered the ground that the ut
most caution was necessary in walking,
as he could not tell whether be was
treading on soft sand, hard, slippery
rock, or what.
Many birds Toasted on the insects, in
Guiding large flights of gulls from the
sea, and beasts evidently enjoy their
share. for in the middle of the densest
swarm he saw fine red fox dancing
about in the most frantic manner, leap
ing and swapping up dozens of locusts
in the air, until, seeing the stranger, he
suddenly dropped on all tours and quick
ly vanished in the live fog. Not only did
the barbel get their share of the novel
food (the consul used the locusts sue
cessfully as bait for them) but some OF
the fish of the Atlantic were found
gorged with locusts which had been
blown off the land by easterly winds.
AS usual, they were extensively eaten
by the native population, both Moham-
medan and Jewish.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
CHAPTER XII.

SAVED.
Beatrice Mercer drew nearer to the
half-open door, as those ominous words
sounded forth:
unless those documents are sup
pressed or destroyed, I am a ruined
mani"
A strong man spoke them, but the
voice, while mournful, bore a token Of
pleading, despairing agony.
The listener knew that the speaker
wss the father of Raymond Marshall.
What she already knew of his business
complications had brought her to Hope
dale. It was through the father that
she relied upon reaching the son.
There was the rustli1ig of papers, and
then the lawyers voice reached her
ears:
Il am very sorry, Colonel Marshall,
but have my orders to act.
you can defer action.
II would violate my duty to my CHI
ents if I deferred it day longer"
Tomorrow go into court and SUBJ
nit these document They represent a
personal Indebtedness of $1,000. They
represent your Endorsement for 50, 200
more. The distressing feature of the
latter amount is that the alleged maker
of the note denies it's validity. In other
words, it is forgery"
A groan rang from the lips Of the un-
happy man.
You are right" he murmured in a
hollow, broken tone of deep despair.
MY personal Indebtedness does not wor-
ry me. I should never have been called
upon to bear it, for I never personally
contracted dollar of it. However, pen
ury, restitution myself and family might
honorably endure, but dishonor, never!
II that two-t housand-d dollar claim is
presented In court"
You will be accused of forgery"
(Which [ never committed" cried the
Colonel. You believe me?"
Il certainly do, but will jury? Those
documents go in as evidence, on their
face showing you are responsible for
them"
But I have explained to you! That
scoundrel Of a partner of mine drew out
of the firm few months since on the
pretense of ill-health He took nearly
all the ready cash, and not until after
he had got safe in foreign land did I
learn tuat the alleged valuable assets
he had left as my share Of the business
were only waste paper. Worse than
the burden OF debt, he LETT those forged
notes. I hypothecated them. Now I
am accused of uttering them!"
Can you not take them up?" insin-
uated the lawyer.
Impossible! I have vainly tried to
borrow. My son, a dependence usually,
has lost all interest in business and
wanders about half-crazed over the dis
appearance OF heartless jilt. No, ruin
cto y,,n in tho fann-wprSn fhn foriS-
on-dock, dishonor, DEATH"
Il am sorry for you.
That was all the lawyer could say.
TO BE CONTINUED
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

on opposite sides edgewise. Nail a
board from this piece to the top the
hopper. Now bore a two-inch hole
through this board and through the
hopper, to put your pins in to hang
your hopper by. Drive two good
forks in the ground to hang your hop.
per on. When you want to empty
ashes, just catch hold Of bottom and
turn hopper upside down and ashes
will slide out. When through using
take down and store away in dry till
needed. This hopper saves much
trouble and vexation. The I've just
runs through a small hole left in the
bottom, into the pot, without ANY,
waste of I've.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
CHAPTER Nj.
PLOTTERS IN COUNCIL,

The false Alice Ralston, the real
Beatrice Mercer, went straight to Hope
dale after leaving the home where she
had found a father and fortune.
She took no risks in her movements.
Ralston did not know Of her destination
had not known that she was at the
Hopedale Institution through the years
Rodney, the man who had died at the
bridge, his friend, his advisor. had the
sole charge Of placing the real Edna at
the seminary, for, as Beatrice knew,
when father and daughter had parted
years before the former was fugitive
from Justice.
She had told the anxious Ralston that
she would return speedily. She had
secured a large sum of money. She
made sure that no one followed her to
the train. To break any possible trail
she changed ears at large city midway
to Hopeda!e and made several mvterious
purchases at Il costumer's and at a hair
dresser's shop.
When the next morning Beatrice
Mercer alighted from sleeper on the
train at the nearest railroad town to
Hopedale, and took carriage to her
home, her best friend would not have
recognized her.
For she was completely disguised.
She had come to act part, and she had
come fully prepared. In dress and face
she had effected marvellous change,
and when she reached the Hopedale
hotel and ordered suit of rooms. no
one formerly familiar with the trim,
neat figure and rather attractive face Of
the half-pay school teacher of Hopedale
Seminary, about the village. would for
moment have suspected the true iden-
tlty of this new Beatrice Mercer
She had come hither with an object.
definite object. She had come to seel,
trace of the man she had loved, Raw
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Care of Milk In Cold Weather.

When the weather is cold enough
to keep the thermometer below fifty
degrees durins the day, there will be
no need for ire in the dairy room
or box to keep the milk in if deep
cans are used. Select a corner in a
clean room, use cans made eight
inches in diameter and eighteen
inches deep with close lifting covers.
Set them all in the corner of the
room, putting the fresh ones with
warm milk in them a little way from
the others when the weather is not
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

Always believe in farming so long
as it pays.
Always blanket the warm horse
standing in the wind.
Always milk the cows regularly,
kindly, and with dispatch.
Always have snowplow ready
when the heavy SHOWS come.
Always count your chickens after
the period Of incubation is passed.
Always think twice before the boy
is set to a task you would not do
yourself
Always keep cellars cool-as near
"a degree as possible-in which roots
are stored.
Always prepare for the spring work
during the comparative leisure Of
winter.
Always clean the mud from your
horses, when you get home, and rub
them dry.
Always so to the barns at night,
just before going to bed, to see that
the stock is all right.
Always keep the fences and gates
in order, and have a supply of posts
ready in the shop
Always select the most vigorous
ana we'll ripened shoots for cions, af-
ter which pack in bundles and store
in the cellar.
Always keep posted about the work
of the month, and read the papers,
not forgetting the advertisements
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Sheep and Swine.

THE income from the hog beg
with death.
KEEP the sheep out of fields VIII
burrs are growing.
REGULARITY in feeding is imp
tant in fattening hogs.
SHEEP will fatten faster If I'd
have a good supply of water
THE breeding ewes need to be Ill"
comfortab bic during the winter
Hoes and sheep can be bred al :
earlier age than cattle or horses
IF we'll fed, cross-bred lambs l'I
quickly and command good prices
A PIG must grow right along IN
the first without any interTupIlo'
A SMALL quantity of oil meal 'n n,i,1
with the slop is good for the sU'""
SOW.
AS A rule the litters improve
size and quality as the So"'S
older.
THE early killing Of brood So1 NJ
one reason why hogs are HUI
profitable.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Fertilizers for Orchards.

Unless a soil is very light or eI
hausted, probably there is no bette
fertilizers for orchards or fruits Gen
orally than unleached ashes. They
are supposed to contain all the eIe
ments taken from the soil by tree,
for the growth Of branches and thq
development of fruit. Ashes ARD
beneficial on light soil as they tendtd
solidify Or compact them. Ii a soil
is somewhat exhausted it is we'll q
apply dressing of decomposed stab
manure. Among farmers who haya
an accumulation of partially decayeI
chips or chip dirt at the wood pIEl
these scrapings may be applied as 4
top dressing to orchards with goo |
effect. In the absence of ashes
chemicals may be employed by TN
following formula recommended y
the Michigan Agricultural ESpet
ment Station: so to 100 pounds nit
rate of soda: 100 to 200 pounds MI
riate of potash; 200 to 400 pouD
ground bone. In some section
orchards are devoted TO swine paStNI
age and thereby secure a sutlicientN
gree of fertilization and secure II
destruction of many insects that
fest the fruit and cause its prematO
falling. But this treatment WOO
not be allowable in a young orcbaT
because of the injury that might
suit to the trees. In orchards of I'll
grown trees the treatment is GOOD.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
How Debt Hurts Farmers,

A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
relates a very significant experience
when he says that but for the fact
that he was heavily in debt he would
last fall have bought ten tons of bran
at SIS per ton. The bran was neces-
sary for him later on. and he had to
pay $40 per ton for it, or $50 for the
use Of $3.50 for a few months. This
story suggests it own moral No man
can afford to be without few hun
dred dollars of ready money. No
matter how much he owes, he must
have cash on hand to do business
with. OF course it needs good bust
ness Judgment to use this ready
money only for something that will
turn itself quickly, else it will vanish
like dew on sunshiny morning, and
the man having spent perhaps for
tribes what was necessary to his bust
ness will be in as bad a fix as ever.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

in Fig. /. Roof with shingles, boards
or clapboard-anything that is most
convenient to the builder that will
turn water from the top. This may
suit many farmer, especially in the
new sections of our country, but the
farmer who has passed this stage of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

For such is the building shown IN
Fig, 2. Set posts in stills and cross
brace with Singing lath Called lat
tice work.. This needs no other
bracing. Put in a cement floor to
keep rats from boring up the ground
underneath. Finish nicely and you
have a very cheap building, yet one
that you will not be ashamed of. 1t will
come IN play for storing farming i'm
plements when not in use for corn.
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corn to the fullest extent thats

can do so and yet MAINTAIN perfect. !
gestion and assimilation, but ~
working animals give the nltroua u'
Gus and less tarinaceous small grain
which are equally nourishing, butnot
so fattening and cloying. The samo
food is also needed for a growing ANY
NAL to which it is desired to imnart
a hardy constitution as young colt
that is being handled for the raco
course. II corn were substituted f.,
oats in the racing record, we vond
soon see decline in the racing ror.
ord. because it will not impart tbo
requisite elasticity and stayno
powers. Breeders Guide.
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we're in the nursery, attacking all va
rieties. In early summer. reddish or
somewhat paler spots made their ap-
pearance on the upper surface OF the
leaf. At first these spots are less
than one-siXteenth of an inch across.
but gradually increase to one-eighth
of an inch. In severe cases a number
of these spots become continent, form
ing one large patch. Badly diseased
leaves turn yellow and drop An ex-
animation of the lower surface Of the
leaf Immediately opposite the spot,
will show small elevated, yellowish
and somewhat glistening body, which
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What Good Cooks say

SOFT COOKIES. One cup u =
lasses, one cup of sugar, hall Il ''f n
butter, one cup Of bold wale, ,oo,
cups Of flour, two small Ve"'''
soda. Drop with a teaspoon d
GINGER BREAD. Mix tosetnS,'o I I
cup of molasses, one tablespo0nnfs.1
shor tening, one Tablespoonful d ID
two teaspoonfuls of ginger a .naoa1
cups of flour. add one 'e@ f Iholi|
of soda dissolved in one cup!L ratfl
water, Mix well and bake III ~
a quick oven. 81 nil
melt al ounce of butter anu iittIe a
it an ounce of flour and a lI' and j
whisk in the milk gradually an a.
mer until thick. Prepare lo %ot ID
slices of toast; put into nper
pour the milk between anu
''i Was sHu Ct, PIE. One es s,,g
cup of sugar, one-third, o oueet pi
butter, one-half cup Oh ." Of tar'
one teaspoonful OF cream Inda, Il q
one-half teaspoonful Oh sor rol1nd d
" When leuu done put Jelly or jam jan . osSs
and serve with corn-starcn i = I,a,
BROWN BREAD. = TINS llsscasioD
steamed, but on this 1 o'i %
baked. Three cups " cnp Of fu
one cup of molasses' %. o. If saleT'
water, one teaspoonf,,l4l u DissoFe
one teaspoonful OF san, r Bake
saleratus in the waoei' /
hours.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

riOus maladieS OF
the cherry is the
Leaf-Sp Dis
ease, sometimes
called Cherry
Leaf Blight or
r u S t. 1t is
caused by the
fungus Cylindros-
po1fama p a di,
Karst; (which also
affects plums,
peaches and april
cots. The dis
ease is most Sc
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Cheap Corn Sheds.

According to a correspondent in
Farm and Home, any farmer with
limited means can build a cheap shed
for storing corn on the ear. Set posts
in the ground and brace with poles
or scantling on the outside as shown
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
Wintering Stock.

1t is expensive work to keep and
feed stock through the winter. at the
best, but a systematic attention to
their needs the cost may be reduced
TO minimum. If the stock is once
accustomed to looking for It's food at
certain time the animals grow rest
less and uneasy whenever they have
to wait beyond that time. With
dairy cows this interferes with diges-
tlon and interrupts with steady and
continuous laying on of flesh. Horses
become bad tempered and wear out
themselves and their stable floors.
Consider that it is your business to do
certain things at certain times. and
let nothing interfere with it's per-
torrance. Remember that you YOUR
self sometimes get restless when din
der is not ready just on time There
are Two or three simple principles in
STOCK FEEDING that are easily under
stood and should not be lost sight of.
For instance, to fatten animals. feed
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contains the nu-
meIous spores. In
many cases the
bodies holding the
spores are broken,
and the aglutinat-
ed spores have{
spread for sonnet
distance, forming
a whitish pellicle.
The disease is et-
fectively treated
by spraying with
CO ppe co M
pounds.
Figure I repre-
Sents a leaf of the
common cultivated
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29

cherry, the under surface Of the leaf
showing a collection of spores in the
angles of the veins. In figure 2 is
seen Mahaleb cherry leaf, showing
spots on the upper surface.
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An Ash Hopper.

A correspondent of the Practical
Farmer says, to make an ash homer
take planks and nail them together
and saw them and nail together a,
shown in illustration. Nail a nipca
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to enter the Office and linger upper.
'ceived. Her heart beat. quicker as she
recognized the broken, pleading tones
of Colonel Marshall, Raymond's father,
and the words he uttered were:
"Ten thousand dollars! IMPOSSIBLE
I tell you that unless I have time, un'
less those documents are suppressed OF
destroyed, am ruined mani"
Just in time! I shall win: Every
things favors mel" fell in baleful,
triumphant murmur from the lips of the
confident Beatrice Mercer.
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Spot Disease of the Cherry.

L. III. Pammel, of the Iowa expert
ment station, says in the American
Agriculturist that one of the most Sc
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HOME AND THE FARM.
A DEPARTMENT MADE UP FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.

Good Farmers Do Not Depend Too Much
on Their Neighbors-Cheap Corn Sheds
Spot Disease of the Cherry-How to Keep
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-30
LARGE INCREASE IN THE srArEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT

IN
This table is taken from the official finance Of 1870 and 1871 and
makes comparison between the s and the registers statements for the
named The secretary table, which
time 1870 shows increase Of the public debt the statementof
the registers In 1870 by order the secretary the registers Office went
nearly forty changed the statement for from 1888 1870
largely the Of the public debt samen for the 1862 $
100000 in round numbe for the 1858 $2O0 for 1854 s7OOO while
for 1865 1866 1867 and 1868 there total decrease about 000
for 1869 Of S99OOO and for 1870 Of nearly $O0O in
the latter Notwithstanding these differences
statements Of the secretary register the official reports 1870 the finance
Of 1871 made found contain agreeing
and the register the register changing and increasing his
correspond with those OF the secretary and these changes and increases still
established that all official reports previous
1870 the secretary and register substantially millions
less than reported in the finance reports.
1870 1871.
Assistant Register Tcombs testimony contains the following testimony
Is and 19