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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-23
An Oregon Farmers Ideas.
Portland Oregonians

1 Portland Oregonians
The report of the grange commission
on taxation, as given in the Oregcsaian.
is in keeping with the usual style OF
farmers when dealing with the tax
question The demand for an increase
OF inquisitoriar powers for assessors,
and that they use increased diligence in
the search for personal property, shows
how much the Oregon grange is behind
the times. A far moro able commission
than these three lights" decided as far
back as 1871, in the state of New York,
that all attempts to get an equal assess
ment OF personal property were futile,
and recommended that taxes be levied
on real estate alone. The result of
increased diligence" on the part Of
assessors, and the actual assessment Of
property at its ''full, true cash value
will be that the class that Judge Boise
and his colleagues claim to represent.
the already Overwhelmed farmer, will
have to bear an increased share of the
tax levy; for the unconcealable prop
erty OF the farmer will be an
easy prey to the ''diligent" assessor.
Do these law trainers imagine
that there lives man who could make
fair and equal assessment of the vast
amount of valuable personal property
to be found in the mansions of the rich
fine paintings, costly furniture, Jew
elry, bric-a- brac, etc.-or estimate cor
rectly the immense stocks of goods and
merchandise to be found in a city like
Portland? Yet if one dollar of these
escapes there is an injustice done. And
ii these are not assessed to the last dol
lar, on what grounds can we assess the
horses and cattle, sheep and swine,
wagons and implements of the working
farmer at their s'full, true, cash value?"
AS member both of the grange and
Farmers Alliance / wish to enter NV
protest against any such palpable alb
surdity as the new revenue bill that
you have reported as emanating from
the grange committee
The resolutions of the Portland cham.
Der OF commerce against mortgage tax
alton and deduction for Indebtedness
are step in the right direction, aud
any political party which will embody
them in its platform will deserve to that
extent the support of all level-headed
citizens of the state.
To keep up with that moral decay Of
the times that the Oregonian OCCASION
ally refers to. the powers of assessors,
instead of being increased, should be
reduced, and the section that authorizes
the assessor to demand itemized state
wents OF property and debts with the ad.
'1ress OF creditors, should be repealed.
Also, that which requires the taxpayer
to swear to his list, so that the consci-
entious who now dutifully put in" all
their property might be given a chance
to dodge their taxes along with the pro-
fessional tax-shirker, who doesn't hap
pen to own such an article as con.
Wallace Yates
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and to scold The thrifty housekeepcr

and to scold. The thrifty housekeepcr
Is constantly busting, sweeping clean.
ing, and as a result the house is the
pride of every member of the family.
The farmer delights to ask his friends
INTO the house; because such neatness,
order and cleanliness prevail.
Order In the house and order outside
on the farm sometimes go hand In
hand, but often they do not. If the
farmer likes and demands an orderly
house, why should not the farmers
Wife demand an orderly-kept farm
when she goes out to get the air after
her work is done? Now, the farmer
may take his ease. and read his paper
in an untidy room. but not so com.
fortably as in one where neatness gov.
ems, because the eye is offended and IL
worries him. The farmers wife is dis.
ttirbed when she walks abroad on the
farm for recreation by the litter that
meets and offends her eye. Many
things, from wheel-jack to moving
machine, are seen where last
used; wagons, parts of wagons,
rakes and rubbish block the
way at every turn. This is
not fair return of favor Neatness in
the house should be supplemented by
corresponding neatness on the farm.
What commotion there would be in
some households if the sitting-room of
the house was in such continual confu.
sion as the yard of the house.
1t pays to use the broom m, Tho faru,
and to use it often. Indeed, positive
damage results from neglecting it. Dirt
in the house breeds vermin, and rub
Dish on the farm may produce what is
equivalent. literally or fguratively.
Let the broom cut its swath from the
house and barn out into every nook and
corner of the farm, for the sake of APP
pearance, if for no other reason. A
well-swept farm builds the farmers
fame as well-kept house adds to the
reputation of the neutrality-suspicious..
trialist.
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remedy for those iLequities in our us.
sessmcnt of property for TAXATION.
But why those inequities In PROPERTY
assessment We allege that we have
too many ASSESSORS. In one county we
have an assessor for each of the seven
corporated towns and one for each of
the seventeen civil townships making
twenty-four assessors In the county. III
the number of assessors were largely
reduced the c remainder might be
brought nearer together in their judg.
ments. $500 -
Then abolish the prevailing customs
ct boardso of supervisors fixing maximum
and minimum values and sweep outsthe
still more foolish plan of assessing BY
per cent of values Let property be
assessed at its marketable value. Why
assess farm worth forty dollars per
acre at eight to ten dollars per acre for
taxation a stock of merchandise at less
than its real worth, and hundred dol,
lars in hand at forty dollars Why not
put all property at its cash value on the
tax list as we'll as the owners inventory.
There Is room for the exercise of states.
tnanship in the revision and improve
ments of our modes of assessing property
or taxation. ISL
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REARING THE COLT.


reed Makes the Animal ,and Training
| Makes the Bi,position.
/ To rear good colt, these two things
should be understood and acted upon:
Feed makes the animal and training
makes the disposition. The very best
food should be supplied the colt from
| the first, and even while it is with the
| mare it-should be fed, both through the
dam and by its mouth. beginning In a
small way the ability to digest food Is
cultivated and increased, and its first
growth is the foundation on which
aftergrowth is built. .Andas thatis the
better, SO this is. The stronger and
broader the, foundation, the SINE will
be the superstructufe And so long as
digestion Is perfect; the quantity Of
food given may be measured only by
that test Corn is not good food for
growing animals. Flesh is more
needed than fat. The English
farmers use beans and oats
ground together as the staple
horse feed, and the value of it Is per-
ceived when the composition of this
food is understood. The English horse
bean has 25k per cent of fiesh-forming
eiements-protein, as it is called-in it
and only IL per cent. of fat, and oats
have fs per cent. of the former and o
per cent of the latter. Thus two meas.
ures of oats and one of beans have 4915
per cent. of the protein and 1873 of fat,
q ratio of "a of the fiesh-forming ele-
ments and of the fat-forming. This
Affords materials for the abundant
growth of the muscle 80 necessary to
the future value of the young animal.
But it does more. All the great vital
organs are made up of muscular tissue,
and thus the lungs, liver, kidneys,
heart, and other fibrous tissues are more
highly developed, and it is upon this
development that the constitution, the
future strength of the animal, depends.
: With corn as the principle food, this
heathful structure is not possible
There is too much fat and starch and
not enough nitrogen. The muscles are
soft and weak, and the vital organs
upon which the work or product after
wards depend, are not strong enough
to stand the wear, and the constitution
gives way at an early age. This applies
as much to calves as to colts. While
the horse expends its force in motion.
the COW does this. in making milk.
Both these products require large ex-
penditure of nitrogen, and highly
heterogeneous food and the ability to
digest and assimilate 1t are needed; and
this disposal of food is only possible
when the vital organs are well devel-
oped. This development is only ef-
fected by the use of suitable food liber-
ally provided from the birth of the ani-
mal-American Dairymap.
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SKY stones.

A gem expert of this city is the own
er of probably the only gems that came
out of the sky. They are two in num-
Der and are olivines. They were ex-
tracted from meteor, and were cut by
one of Tiffany's lapidariess but they
are hardly larger, than pin heads and
will probably never adornithe brows Of
the Four Hundfed.1 "A section of the
same meteor shows that it is riddled
with cavities, which are filed with
Divine of pale bottle-green color,
Gold is alleged to have been found in
meteorites recently, and diamonds GER
tainly have been, but no element has
been discovered that is different from
what we have in our own rocks The
Brooklyn institute has bought part of
the diamond-yielding meteorite that
fell in Arizona.-N. Y. Sun.
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From Boston.

Hon. Jonathan A. Hane, president OF
the Boston Mercantile Association, in
the course of a vigorous and convincing
condemnation of the listing" or
blooming" system of requiring compul-
sorry returns OF personal property, .
method OF which he justly says no stu
dent of taxation or thoughtful man can
favor, says: 1T is coming to be more
and more accepted as a wise economic
truth not only that the state should
abandon attempts to tax any property
twice, but that the exemption of whole
classes or kinds of personal property
may be made with perfect fairness and
the good of all the classes and all the
interests of the state or community.
The exemption of real estate from dou-
Bile taxation in, this commonwealth has
proved to be u. benefit to all classes
primarily 10 the poorer md debtor
classes
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Inequity in Iowa.

There has been considerable talk re.
Gently in different parts of Iowa re-
specting revision of the present sys-
tenn OF taxation, and several bills have
been introduced in the last general as
sembly proposing schemes for such re-
vision. thl
Taxation like sickness and death is
inevitable. All governments must be
maintained. This can not be done with
out revenue. To raise revenue there
must be taxation, but taxation should
be equitable. Each property holder
should pay an equitable proportion of
tax on whatever real estate he may
own. There should be no exemptions
or diminutions, except on the line of
charity. Homesteads might be exempt.
But our tax is not levied equally. BY
our present system there is not an
equitable assessment, and can not be.
In late article in this paper we point
ed out in somewhat forcible manner
certain inequities in a few counties in
this vicinity. These inequities exist
throughout the state.
In Scott county the lands were re-
turned by the assessor at an average
value of 1857 per acre; in Muscatine
Mt s13.04; in Polk at s12.56; Linn at
$l2.43; Des Moines at $12.12.
The five lowest average values of
lands reported were Emmett, 50. IS; Clay.
1896; Kossuth, "a. IL; Dickinson, s4.a3,
worth s4.33. The land of nine counties
was reported at less than S. per acre
average value. OF twenty counties at
an average value in excess of $40.
In live stock we find the same in
equities, cattle ranging from s1O.14
average per head, in Des Moines county
down to s4.0i in Emmett. In fourteen
counties cattle were returned at
less than IS. 90 per head, average value.
In eight counties namely: Appanoose.
Decatur, Des Moines, johnson, Lucas.
Muscatine, Van Buren, and Washington
cattle are assessed at $500 per head.
Why should Humboldt county cattle be
taxed on only s4.74 per head, while in
Ida they are assessed $1.42. Take two
adjoining counties Taylor and Union.
in the former the average value is 90. 16. |
and in Union 1926, while in, Adams. a |
county adjoining, both their average
value is $7.5S In all lines of property
we find these lines of difference. Sheep |
are assessed at all prices from thirty
five cents to average in Linn county to |
ea.a5 In Van Buren,. Hogs from an
average OF ffty cents in Buena Vista
10 tkas In Van bursn, There ppsds q |
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-23
TIME TO BUY STOCK.
Now Is the Time to Introduce New Blood
In the Poultry Yard.


In the Poultry Yard.
Those of our readers who intend To
begin the raising of thoroughbred
poultry or wish to improve their com
mon flocks by the introduction of new
blood another year, will do well to
make purchases between now and JAN
nary. The sooner done the better,
for at this time of the year breeders
are anxious to dispose of surplus stock,
and will sell at much less price than
later on, when preparations have been
made to hold their stock on hand for
better prices.
Among the most practical and profit.
able of the well-know breeds are the
Plymouth Rocks, Wyandotfes. Leg
horns: Minorcas, Langshans and Brah-
mas. AS to which of them is best. we
will say that it is altogether a matter
OF taste. for as a rule the breed that
suits ones fancy best will very likely
be cared for and given better attention
than were they thought not so well of.
and in this way they of course prove
the most profitable. So we say select
any of the breeds named above that
suits your fancy best. and you will not
fail of being pleased, for they are all
handsome. practical. hardy and profita-
BILE varieties.
But without proper housing, feed
and management from now on. no
breed can prove very profitable or do
their best.
There is at the south hardly one farm
in ten that has hen-house that is suit
able for winter accommodation. A
house to give hest results need not be
costly or built ont of the beet material.
but it should be as roomy as possible.
well lighted with one or two windows
with glass, properly ventilated and
made comfortable by stopping out the
wind and draft by covering the walls
with old paper. cloth or, what is bet
ter, tarred sheathing, which can be had
OF any manufacturer of roofing at
cost of about 81 per 100 square feet.
Such an investment will prove quite
profitable.
Our winters south are generally SO
mild that most farmers think hem
houses unnecessary, but they are. We
have an occasional cold snap. and it is
these that stop our hens from LAYING,
and before the hens recuperate another
cold snap sets in, and in this way the
hens prove unproductive during winter
months. Now where one has a warm.
comfortable and well-lighted house to
keep hens in during cold, disagreeable
days, the effect of the cold will be very
little noticed, and the hens continue
laying, with the proper feed and man
agement 1t will pay any farmer who
has the right kind of fowls or suitable
winter quarters to provide them at once.
Poultry and eggs will prove more prof
table than ever during the coming
Worlds fair year. And more of our
farmers should take hand in their
production. Farm.
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SWEEPING THE FARM.

Cleanliness and Good Order as Essential
as In he Home.
When the farmer returns to the house
for meals or for few minutes rest, he
expects to find the house, every room of
1t and every piece of furniture, clean,
brushed and swept. He may introduce
visitors unexpectedly. and wishes every
thing in order at all times.
He would be surprised if he found the
sitting room. day after day. in disorder
and confusion. and probably his sur-
prise would lead him TO make ycmsrks
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HERE AND THERE.

Construct your poultry house good
and warm, SO as to avoid damp floors
and avoid food Of sunlight. Sun
shine is better than medicine.
Colts that are compelled to live or
hay and rough feed alone become un
shapely and undesirable. Concentra TED
food should form part of the ration
for young horses.
There is no way to determine the
sex OF the chicken that may be matched
from an egg. This idea that the shape
of eggs has any bearing upon their sex
is mere fancy.
Growing seed crops is usually con-
sidered exhausting to the land. Glover
seed is an exception to this, a. the
roots and haulm more than replace
what the seed takes away.
The greatest lice extermina sof
known to the poultry yard is the Prus.
sian insect powder. which is an infalli.
BILE remedy and indispensable to any
one engaged in the rearing of fancy
fowls.
Don't speak to your horse louder
than you would to your sweetheart;
and don't allow profanity used around
him. A horse with brains don't like to
be talked to as If he were prize
fighter.
Wherever alfalfa can be grown it
will. in time, take the place of corn for
feeding beeves. 1t is cheaper crop
than corn for accomplishing the same
end, and with irrigation is about as
certain as any crop can be made
Manufacturers make prosperous
towns. and prosperous towns benefit
the country about by affording good
markets. If the products of our farm
ers could be manufactured in our near
est towns it would increase the pros
perity of the whole community.
Alternating hoed crops with grass,
clover and cattle is a necessity for
farmers who seek for permanent sue
cess. The only exception to this is
where men cultivate so little land that
they can and will manure it all heavily
every year. Market gardening is about
the only use that land can be put to
and bear the expense of such method.
The best grain for sheep is oats.
One pint of oats daily to each sheep,
with hay and straw at the rack, will
not only bring the ewes out in good
condition next spring. but the lambs
will be stronger and more vigorous.
Many weak lambs are the result of
the ewes to subsist on straw
and other coarse foods during the win
ter The old maxim that "a sheep can
subsist on anything" should be dis
carded.
Neglect of the or chard often causes
. loss. An apple orchard in New Jer-
sey, which HAD not borne a crop for six
years, was trimmed last spring in order
to allow the horses to pillow the field for
,orn. The field was plowed and har-
rowed, but for some reason the corn
was not planted. The trees, however,
we're heavily laden with fruit of excel
cnt quality, which resulted from trim
ming them, and also from the cu)Nss-
les they received -
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"A Constant Pla. ss.

Indigestion H., in many instan SOS, con-
slant plague, giving the sufferer no peace
night or day. To Danish the tormentor,
don't deluge your stomach with pepsins and
sour or acidulous tonfcs. Use the gen uine
invigoiant and appetizer, Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters, approved and recommended by
physicians OF distinction. Use it, too, for
malaria, rheumatism, constipation, liver
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-23
In Olden Times

People overlooked the Importance of per.
manently beneficial effects and were salts
fled with transient action, but now that i,
Is generally known that Syrup o.. Figs will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
well-informed people will not buy other
!axatives, which act for time, but finally
tnjure the system. +af rcia ~
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OxE of the biggest foolsin the world i
the man who thinks be can make something
by only putting seven quarts in . peck =
Rams Horn t Sc
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DIR. r. ScHIFFMANN, St Paul, Mimi, will
mail trial package OF Schinmann's Asthma
Cure free to anysufferer. Gives instant re-
lief in worst cases, and cures where others
fail. Name this paper and send address.
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HALLS CArARRH CURE is a liquid and Is
taken internally, and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
Write for testimonials, free. Manufactured
by F. J.. CHENEY a. Co., Toledo, o.
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JAGsoN says it is great thing to be able
to keep the respect of the man who passes
the plate to you every Sunday.-Elmira Ga
Zette -tt'--,,-4 t
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IT was st. Johnsbury (vt) schoolboy
who, being asked what q stalactitc WIS, re
Piled: "a stalac,ite is where tho wa.c
leaks through and sticks on"
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FoR sick headache. dizziness or swim
ming in the head, pa n in the back, body,
or rheumatism, take Beechani's Pills
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AcToRs. Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
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YOU can never estimate the size of tn,
sore on boys finger by the amount of ra!
he ties around it 81 i-a9 ri'
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II THINK II lay low for awhile,n as the
hen remarked when she made her nest in
the sub cellar. 3ffsl III
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sTnE good die carly" This axiom can
not apply to many clcrgymen, who are not
only good, but accustomed to di-late. Dos
ton Transcript
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! 'sOu dear!' satd the tired little mamma
l"Baby's been crying for two hours, ant
Pm sure / don't know what he wants. ,
"Spanking, ! guess" SAIL sleepy little napa
.-Harper's Bazar
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SoMERBY says that lately he prayed all
night on his knees This Is ever 80 much
better than preying on his fellow men,
Philadelphia Times.
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THERE'S this to be said of fall fa1hions
that man never goes down with the SAINT
grace that woman does.-Philadelphts
Times
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THERE Is no discount on the baby thai
comes to pa-Yonkers Statesman.
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ExcusABLE.- -Chappie-"Excusc me il
have been thoughtless Maud-"Certair
ly; I'm not given to exacting impossible
ties. IN. Y Herald
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years ago / had Bronchitis,
which finally drifted into
Consumption, SO the doc
tors said, and they had
about given me up. I was
confined to my bed. One
day my husband went for
the doctor, but he was not
in his Office. The druggist
sent me a bottle Of PisO's
Cure for Consumption.
took two doses sof it,, and
was greatly relieved be-
fore the doctor came. He
told me to continue its use
as long as it helped me. 1
did so, and the result is, I
am now sound and well
entirely cured Of Con-
sulnptiOn.-Mrs. p E.
BAKER, Harrisburg, Illi-
nOis, February 20, 1891.
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CUPID is a sure shot, although he makes
many "Mrs."-N Y Journal rt
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A SrAB.-Doctor-"No man has to die
more than once.n Maud-"Aren't you
sorry r'-Life's Calendar.
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PAT MALoSEY remarked that ssthe first
and last letters in the alphabet are the A 2
ones" COZ 49,
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A sKrFF Of snow never finds fair sailing
inter Ocean.
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Mrs LUsuFoRrn-"And to think how
used to pray for you" MIR. Jaggs Lush
forih-"Wcll, ycu finally got me, dfhic-
Observation-Disclosures Journal.