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The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

icy. Il, hoWover, one has a caoice Ia
y wen developed pallets aad m,tad with
q vigorous two-year-old cock, do not fear
70 set the eggs from then, but do not
use the earliest filters, as they arc NOT
later ones.
Inc pest laying hens, all things on.
sldered, are those one year old-fawls
nat were Matched the previous season in
March or April--consequeatly the best
plan for all fowl breeders is to raise
cnickens every season to be the LAYERS of
the next year, and to kill the old stock
regularly every fall before mou!tipg or
as 0 as they cease to lay.
Among our foremost breeders the mat.
ing of vigorous twelve months old pul.
lets to a good cock in his full second
year has given as good chicks on the
average as the mating of two-year.old
hens to a young cock. One thing thai
may be depended on as a rule, the mos
reliable breeding birds that can be mated
together as to age are those of one sex
or the other that are a year the Oldest,
It is only through repeated experiments
that the breeder can be able to select the
bsst pointed and finest specimens for
mating, and when this is accomplished
the most satisfactory results will gen.
orally folIow.-Connecticut Farmer.
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VALUE OF APPLE poMAcs.

The value of apple pomace for feeding
cattle is such that it should not be wasted
as it has been. It is easily kept sweet
by packing it down solidly in barrels or
boxes, and it is eaten with avidity by
oil the animals of the farm. Cows es.
pecially desire it and it is good for them.
The horses like it, and sheep, pigs, and
poultry are glad to get it. It is an aid
to digestion, and, while it may not
contain any great amount of nutriment,
it is as agreeable to the live stock, al
though ''fattening food"
We do not eat apples for the nutri-
ment they contain, and we may not
justly object to the pomace that it is not
fattening to the animals. They like it,
and if it does no special good it does no
harm. But it does some good, if only
Indirectly, for when cows are fed a
peck of it, with meal ~sprinkled on it,
they will give more milk than If the
meal il given without il. II there are
apples to spare. they may be saved for
the cows with advantage, and a peck
given daily, sliced aud with a little
meal added, or alone, will return a
profit in the milk and butter. New
York Times.
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GID EDGE

The farmer who has good dairy cows
and the modern improved dairy ap-
pliances makes the gilt edge butter that
private customers like to pay fancy prices
Sor. The factory takes milk or cream
from large herds of COWS MIXED in
flshy stables, and it is impossible to
make gilt edge butter from such cream.
The improved appliances make home
dairying pleasant and profitable. The
power for churning is furnished by a
good big calf or steam. The milk is
cooled and the can may be separated
Is fast as MIXED and the sweet milk
better utilized. With all these adj
yantages where the cleanliness is known
to be satisfactory with ice or running
water in the dairy, the farm dairy with
new methods can make better butter of
finer flavor than the creamery. The
butter is put in neat, attractive packages,
wrapped in specially prepared paper, in.
stead of white rags that may have served
for other purposes, like the famous little
English cheese that was discovered to be
ripened in the warm feather bed, the de-
mand soon ceased.-Western Live Stock
journal.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF SHEEP.

Individuality in sheep is very distinctly
marked. There are good o1es and bad
ones, quiet ones, and nervous. fdgety
ones, some that are always at the front,
and Others that ara always at the hind
end of the flock tagging along. There
are family traits Of individual merit and
demerit. By keeping a flock register it
was found there we've ives that never
raised their lambs with any uniformity,
If not from one cause, then another was
sure to take them off. Another family
were apt to bring thin, weak lambs, but
they were always willing to live, and
some attention would bring to healthy,
vigorous sheephood. Still another fam.
lily would bring great big, lusty-looking
lambs that seemed born to die, and dis
appoint all reasonable expectations.
Twins are characteristic of some fam
lines. There is also family resemblances
by which an expert sheppard may readily
identify families and members Of fam
lilies. Colonel Mark Cockreli, Of Ten
nessee, one OF the ~mostcareful ~shephards,
could pick up an abandoned lamo n
identify its mother by the la;as
Some sheep are strong in their likes
and dislikes, and will often display a
good deal of cunning to carry a point.
Some are poracious eaters, ans others
just the opposite. The individual char
acteristic incidental with breeds aud va
rieties IS often very distinctly marked.
These characteristics are very interesting
to the student, and highly important to
cultivator of sheep.-American Farmer.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Clean up for winter.
A squealing pig gives no profit to its
owner.
Start the hog on milk, grow it on
gross md finish it on grain.
Get a supply of sand aud small gravel
before the pit freezes up-better get it
to-day.
Road dust makes a better dust bath
than ashes. Have you a supply housed
for wintera
Do not crowd the pigs so that when
they are fed the weak will be trodden
upon by the strong.
If you want plenty Of lard feel your
pigs on corn; it you desire meat and
growth feed other food.
IT is stated that in a well-bred hog a
gain of from ten to eleven pounds can be
made from a bushel Of corn.
Fowls roosting in trees had better b
brought down from their high position
and gwen a place with those that roost
under v
If eggs are your principal object, use
Leghorns TO improve your stock. But
for both eggs and for market fowls, we
think nothing can excel Plymouth
Rocks.
Eastwood honey is very desirable.
The trees, five or six feet high, may be
obtained reasonably from the nursery
men. and will begin to bloom in about
four years.
One of the first inducements for keep
Ing Bees is that honey is the most health.
full sweet which can be produced. The
farmer who does not keep bees loses
more than he thinks.
Bees are often charged with lnjuring
grapes by cutting the skins and sucking
out the juice. It is not probable that
this is done, but we are quite sure that
they are able to do 1t.
There may be no warmth in a coat OF
whitewash, but a hen house with q south
window and we'll whitened walls will be
more cheerfulA nd seem warmer than
dark and dingy one. Lights warmth.
Competition in the bee business need
not be feared. as pure honey ls always
salable at d rdAunorative price, and ever
the pleasure Of having it for the table
viii pay for the trouble and time needed
Do not forget the hens when you arr
harvesting the cabbage crop. Bury som'
Of the loose headed ones. shat you are
throwing one side, for th~eir.special bene
ft. They will take care Of them, stum]
and all, next winter.
If you have . goodly stock of fowls dt
not make q special effort to feed all thu
small potatoes to the hogs. Boiled
mashed and mixed with shorts or oat
meal, they make a most excellent break
fast for fowls in winter if fed warm.
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rHE oREAM aATHERER.

A most important man 10 a cream
collecting creamery IS the driver. says.
the American Creamery. He must be a
man of tact, intelligence and fidelity;
upon his judgment often depends the
success of the business. He must be q
neat man, not one of those animated
patches Of grease and filth, but a man
who takes pride in keeping his cans
bright and his wagon clean. He must
have d nose for good cream, be- able to
tell instantly the presence of faint, and
be backed with strict orders to refuse
everything aof favor Such q man is
worth good wages and can earn them.
Never trust q boy to gather cream. Il
we succeed in getting the cream prop
erly raised we want it well cared for II,
transit Ia the creamery and not bounced
ut breakneck speed over rough roads.
Cans are vastly preferable TO tanks for
transporting cream. Each can should
be gradually filed from the start, al
though many drivers ill one can at q
time, and in hot weather bring three or
four cans Of half chnrned cream to be
mixed up with the balance III the vat.
One creamery expert has recommended
putting q pound Of salt in the bottom Of
each can when starting out in the morn
ing. After commencing to I'LL the cans
stir the cream until the salt is dissolved
salt is q refrigerine, and cream will
keep in better shape il SO treated. a
blanket should be carried ia hot
weather aud Kept spread over the cans;
moisten It often and let the heat OF the
sun work upon that rather than upon the
exposed cans.
TWo-YEAR-oLD HESs FOR BREEDERS.
There ii no doubt but t~wo.year-old
hers ara preferable to yeaFling pnllets for
breeding purposes, as the eggs of the
hens Gre larger. The chicxs coming
from hens eggs are likely to be stronger
and more apt to live. Bat hens two OF
three years old will no. lay s great 9
number Of eggs Is will puliets in ths first
tw6lve montha alter they commence 70
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WIN oufcksaads swallow One.

The reason a person sinks in quick
sand il because the latter is composed
chiefly OF small PARTICLES of mica mixet
largely with water. The mica IS 8
smooth that the fragments slip upon eacl
5ther with the greatest facility, 80 ina
any heavy body which displaces then
viii sink and continue to sink until
so,,d bottom is reached. When particle
e sand are ragged and angular an
weight pressing On them will crowd then
together until they are compacted lnt'
J solid mass. A sand composed OF mic
or so~apstone, when mixed with suflcien
water. seems incapable Of such consolida
tion.-Chicago Herald.
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CORN AND M1LLEr COMPARED.

Experiments have been made at the
Massachusetts, Hatch Station for the pur-
pose of comparing corn and millet as
grain crops on the basis of the yield.
Further experiments are in progress to
compare meal from millet seed and from
corn as food for mich cows.
For the present it is simply desired to
call attention to the fact that the millet
has enormous cropping capacity. It
gave to the half acre 81 bushels Of seed
weighing ~ pounds to the bushel, while
the corn gave 30.8 bushels of shell grain.
The millet straw weighed 2.191 pounds;
the corr slower (by no means as dry,
2.100 pounds. The millet straw, chopped,
crushed, moistened and sprinkled with
meal is readily eaten by both horses and
cattle, but it does not appear to be equal
to the eorn slower IN feeding value.
The millet seed, as shown by the re-
suits of foreign analysis, appears to re-
semble oats very closely in composition.
So far as they have had experience in
feeding it at the station, the meal from
it appears to equal corn meal in feeding
value for milk production. The fertil.
izers were the same for the two crops,
but the labor cost considerably more for
the millet than for the corn. The crop,
however, was cultivated in drifts and
hand hoed and weeded, while in ordin-
ary farm practice it would be possible to
secure good crops by sowing broadcast
without cultivation and Tins hr,uo the
labor cost per acre as low as for corn.
It does not thrcsh easily by hand, but on
q large scale the work could doubtless be
done by machine at a much lower cost
The seed was sown in drills fourteen
inches apart, at the rate Of about two
quarts per acre. 1t wa planted May IA
cut and stacked September Is, and
threshed October 5 and New Yorl
World.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
BANKING Up E

n raising the level of ground By filing,
tha question often arises whether trees
Ih;ch are thus covered to a considerable
height around the trunk will be killed
~ not. The Country Gentleman says
hat trees which have green and tender
bark nav be killed by banking up the
sarth around them. if the soil is Of
sr,ch . character as to hold water for
come time wherever it is drenched by
,sips: but older trees, with stiff and dry
srd thick bark, and with the soil about
them sufficiently dry and porous to
allow the water to drain away soon, will
oot be injured. Trees which have a
coarse-furrowed bark will favor this
drainage better than those with smooth
bark.
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To yauus wives.

A disappointed bachelor has said that some
time after marriage a mans wife ceases to be
attractive to him.. Never was a
fsined can never lose their charm or yield their
original healthy perfection and e Sn1 lines E Is 4
faitbfoily carry out the directions given with
each bottle of Mothers Friend" will never
lose figure or complexion; II. The a dainty did bud aga viii Viii
snd her blessing the day she first used
nnMother's Friend Bradfeld Reg. Co., At
1anta, Ga. Sold by all druggists.
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The intelligent have a right over the
ignorant; namely, the right of instruet'
The Only One Ever Printed.

These is a 8 inch display advertisement In
this paper, this week, which has no two words
alike except one word. The same 10 true of
each new one appearing each week. ifora Tn
Harter Medicine Co. This house places q
Crescent" on everything they make and pub
lish. Look for It. send them the name of the
word and they will return you BOOK. BEAurt-
Full JTHoGRAPHS or AMPLE FREE.
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NOT ENTHusI AsTIc.

Jharlie-May / announce Y engage
ment at once?
clara-Eotyet. Perhaps both Of ss
may be able t D do better.
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THE WRONG PERSON BLAMED.

care you aware" said the man in the
rear feTcely, ''that your umbrella is polk
seing me1in the eye2'
lit isn't my umbrella" replied the
man in front, with equal %ferceness, ''it's
q borrowed one. sir. "-TExchange.
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Have Won sthma 2

DR.. r. schiffmann. s.. Paul, MINI; will mail
a trial package of schitImanns AsynIna Iuis
,rorst case, and cures where others fail.
Name this paper and send address.
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LADIES needing a tonic, or children Who
want building up, should take Q droh
Bitters. 1t is pleasant to take, cures Mafa TIA
Indigestion, Biliousness and Liver oom-
plants, makes the Blood rich and pure.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

FoR indigestion, constipation. sick head
Reecham's Pills. For sale by al. druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

The United States have more thar
800, 900 bearing banana plants, 2l0,eoi
bearing lemon trees, 100000 oranse
trees and 1000, 900 pineapple trees.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

MANY persons are broken down from oyer.
work or household cares. Browns Iron Bit
tiers rebui. DIS the system. aids digestion, re-
moves excess of bile. and cures malaria. A
spendid tonic for women and children.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

Tne more one endeavors to sound the
depths of his ignorance, the deeper the
chasm appears.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

,)rs OLD RELIABLE EYE-wATER cures weak or
iuBamed eyes, or graduated lids without pain.
Il cents. JOHN Il. D1cgEY Drug Co., Bristol, Va.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

A man will get fat quicker on paid-for
board.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

The letter that never came was not a
lun. Those always arrive on time
;omer7ille Journal.
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Albert Burch, West Toledo, OHIO, says:
Halls Catarrh Cure saved my life" Write
him for particulars. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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A photographer says that next to
babies young married couples are the
most troublesome, the bride especially
being hard to please.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

Life is a campaign, not a battle, and
has its defeats as we'll as it's victories.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

Every fifth boy in India is at school
but only every iftieth girl.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

No more old pills for me. Sinai Bile Beans
if Won please,
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One SmaH Bile Bean every night tor a weeh
arouse Torpid Liyers. &c. per bottle:
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Cupid does not care whether he pays
ho,,ce rant or not.
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ONH RA%JO1 ~
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
ind refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly Oh the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tern efectually, dispels colds, head
sches and fevers aud cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy Of its Kind ever pro-
daeed, pleasing to the taste and ac-
captable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
fleets, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in Doc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
giets. Any reliable druggist who
rfay not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
euhstitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. MI.
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It is almost as difficult to stay there as
kn get there.
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German
Syrup"

Two bottles Of German Syrup
cured me of Hemorrhage Of the
Lungs when other remedies failed.
I ain a married man and, thirty-six
years of age, and live with my wife
and two little girls at Durham, Mo.
I have stated this brief and plain so
that ali may understand. My case
was a bad one, and l shall be glad
to tell anyone about it who will
write me. PHILIP L. ScHENcK, P.
o. Box45, April IS, 1890. Nc man
could ask a more honorable, bust
ness-like statement. @
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A good deed is better than gold, but
not nearly so na90tiable.
The Opelousas courier., 1892-12-24

The street surface roads of New York
City carried 226, 65),613 passengers
during the year 1891, a daily average
of 629, 1877.
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WSsNAN - SEAaAs2H OIus 114 CUuIM IUt faIAs
Milton A.. Knnkel. Two years ago they be-
gan giving him Hoods SarsGD0sasfN and
In a Short time the sore healed up, he regained
perfect health, and he IL now, at u years, live"
~ and rugged. Mr.. Kunkei says: WI all cone
slider HIS cure ItseEc short GT q 77~si9.0ctesD
Hoods Pills cure habit lal constipation b.
restoring action of the alimentary canal.
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and make your Fowls earn dollars for you. Inc
noint is. that you must be able to detect trouble IN
HE Poultry Yard as soon % u appears, ana KNOW
how 10 remedy it. This book will teach YOU
II tells how to detect and cure disease; TO Ieea Ior
ora and also for fattening; which fowls 10 save Ior
bleeding purposes; and everytaing; inaee1; go"
should know on thia subject to make II pfon,aos1o
Book Publishing House,
f35 LEONARD ST. N, y. city.
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Wonderful

Jacob A. Kunkel, q 70.
liable farmer Of Mount
Royal. York Co, Pa.,says
that q running sore broke
out on the leg Of his
nephew, Milton A. Kun
KEEL, when he was 5 years
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The man who is hard up can't very
yell come down.
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Economical, easy to take. S,p1H Bile Beans.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02
MEMORIAL DAY.
1t Is Very Generally Observed Through
out the Country.

-
out the Country.
ROCHESTER, n. Y. May President
Harrison participated in the Memorial
day services IN this city yesterday and
delivered an address at the unwilling of
the new soldiers monument.
New YORK, May S1.-Memorial day
was marked by the usual suspension of
business yesterday, lavish display of
flags at half-mast AID the decoration of
statues in Union and Madison squares
with flowers. Gen. Grants tomb at
Riverside park was buried under floral
offerings, many of which came from
across the sea.
WASHINGTON, May S1.-Memorial day
was generally observed yesterday, per-
haps more closely than ever before. The
people turned out to the cemeteries and
assisted in the exercises over the graves
of the fallen heroes Of the late war.
At the soldiers home Mrs Gen. John
A. Logan was one of the most prom
inent, and after the speeches had been
delivered the tomb of Gen Logan was
the first one visited and decorated. At
Arlington, Sheridan's tomb was a per-
feet bower of roses worked in hand
some and appropriate designs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02
Four Children Drowned in the ohio.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 2s.-Intelli-
gence reached here late Friday night
of the drowning of four children at
Woodville, this county, Friday after
noon. 1t appears that six boys, rang
ing in age from . to 10 years, were fish
ing, when the bank caved in and they
were thrown into the Ohio river. Two
were rescued, but the others were car
risd down the river by the strong cur
rent and drowned
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02
LEAGuE
GEN. STREIGHT DEAD.
Famous as the Leader of the Escape from
Libby Prison.

INDIANAPOLIS, May 2s-Gen. Abel d.
Streight, famous as the leader in the
historic escape from Libby prison
by which los union officers gained their
liberty, died at his home here at
o'clock n. IN, of Bright's disease,
aged 63 years lie had been i'll for sew
eral months. The claim of Gen.
Streight to the conception and exc
cution of the tunnel plan at Libby
prison has been tercely disputed, but
up to his death he reiterated
that he alone was the
originator of the scheme Gen. Streight
was a lifelong republican and was
beaten for the nomination for governor
after bitter contest in 1850 by Albert
c. Porter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Work of the National Lawmakers
in Senate and House.
a Daily Summary of she Proceedings in
the Senate and House Bills
Passed and New Meas
ures Introduced.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON. May 26.-BiIls were re-
ported in the senate yesterday appro-
priating 500, 600 and SIS, 900 respective
ly for public buildings at Muscatine,
Ia, and Muncie, Ind. The bill to pro
vide for the punishment of violations
of the treaty rights of aliens was dis
cussed.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-In the senate
yesterday a bill was introduced by
Senator PETER to increase the cur
rency, to reduce the rates of interest
and to establish bureau of loans
Senator Stewards free coinage bill was
discussed.
WAsHfSGToN, MAY 2s.-The silver
bin was laid before the senate yester-
day but discussion was postponed A
bin was passed to reclasSify and pre-
scribe the salaries of railway postal
clerks. the rates ranging from $500 for
first class to 81 800 for seventh class.
Adjourned to Tuesday next.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, May 26.-The sundry
civil bill was taken up in the house
yesterday, the first item being the gov
eminent exhibits at the worlds fair,
and provisos were adopted that IN no
event shall the exhibits made by the
government Toe open to the public on
Sunday, and that no Intoxicating
liquors shall be sold on the grounds of
the exposition. An amendment was
adopted reducing the salary of the di-
rector general to IS, 600, and that of tue
secretary to 1000.
WAsHINGToN, May 27.-In the house
yesterday a bill was introduced to
amend the act to protect trade and
commerce against unlawful restraints
and monopolies. The sundry civil APP
preparation bill was further considered.
WASHINGTON May 2s-In the house
yesterday bill fixing the rate Of post
age of semi-weekly and tri-weelSly pub
locations mailed at certain free-d0livery
Offices was favorably reported. The
sundry civil appropriation bill was
passed and the post Office appropriation
bill was discussed The bin eliminating
from the pension rolls the names of per-
sons not residents of the United States
was reported adversely.
WASHINGTON, May 31.-The legisla
tive appropriation bill (s2t ,6ss, 1872 was
reported In the house on Saturday and
referred. The post Office appropriation
bill was discussed, after which the
house adjourned to the 3lst.