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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

The existence OF gold in California
was noted in a Spanish work published in
1899, anu again by Captain Shelvocke in
l12l.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

According to Mulhall, the annual con
sumption Of gold in the arts is 45 per cent
o: the production, OF silver ~ per cent.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

n. h. Browns Essence Jamaica Ginger
will cure ~dysentery. None better. Try
IL. p cents.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

The copper smelling works of Great
Britain are 50 complete that ores from all
parts of the world are sent thither for re-
duction.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

Gold has beer found, though not al
ways in paying quantities, in every state
in the union except Delaware.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

The worlds coal mines produced in
1889, 4s5, 00J,0J0 tons
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

Constipation cured by Small Bile Beans.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

Coal mines were bagnn in Pennsyl-
vania in l7s4.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

The worse your Catarrh, the more You
need DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its
prcprietors offer $500 cash for q case Of
catarrh In the Head which they cannot
cure.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

samols Package Mailed Free.
Address Small Bile Beans, New York
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

The worlds coal fields already known
and worked contain coal enough to last
for a thousand years.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

There are 10000 chris,ian converts
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

Ladies', use DIR. LaKues PERIODICAL" Pills. from
PSfis, France. Established IN Europe. 1893; United
states. 1881. Cures all suppresslons. irregularities
aud monthly arrangements. Safe, harmless. reliable
They positively must not be taken during pregnancy.
Many OF the His 20 which ladies ARE subject are the
direct results of irregular menstruatlon. Continued
monthly suppressions result IN blood poisoning and
quics consumption. o. q package or . for sa per mail
IN plain sealed envelope. on receipt OF price. The "a
Rue hemicei Co.. proprietors. The genuine pill so d
by sedxvtck q Grady, Sioux City, Ia Wholesale md
retail agents.
The oil deposits OF Pennsylvania were
discovered in lS45 by two men boring for
salt They struck al oil spring which
gave forty gallons a day.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29
CHAPTER XIV

Sigh no more. ladies, sigh no more;
Men were decciver. ever.
One foot on sea aud one ON shore,
To one thing constant never.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-07-29

Hoods Pills cure Constipation by restoring the
perig.altic action OF The alImentary canal.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

The Wilmington, Delaware, Star
speaking of the educational interests
of the country and the mission and
work of the public schools, says:
The work of the public schools of
the United States is really remarkable,
and many people will be surprised to
learn the enormous extent of their
operations. At the present time they
are educating about thirteen and a
quarter million children. This is
about onefifth of the whole popula-
ton. If we add to these the numbers
attending colleges and private schools
it will be understood how the people
value education. Those who have
charge of the public schools have a
great responsibility. Upon them
depends, to large extent, the future
of children vino attend the schools.
The aggregate sum paid by the people
for the support of schools is enormous,
and if it is not used to the best ad
vantage in supplying good schools a
great wrong is done to the tax payers.
But 10 the children themselves the
wrong is infinitely greater.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
Poultry Raising in the South.

iRichmond (Va.) Southern Planter.]
Within the past five years, since we
took up the subject of poultry raising
as a source of profit to our farmers,
the change which has come over the
position of the poultry industry in the
South has been something marvellous.
At that time, there was not in the
State place where any one, wishing
to improve the breed of his flock,
could purchase pure bred birds ex
cept as to two or three varieties, which
were in the hands of a few breeders,
nor had our people ever heard of, and
much less seen, the very large proper
ton of the finer breeds of fowls. By
articles and illustrations, we have
brought the leading breeds before our
readers, and have pointed out their
various points Of excellence. The
result has been a constant enquiry for
these different breeds, and the demand
has created the supply. Now it is
possible, without going outside the
State, for person to purchase almost
every known breed, and to keep at
home the money which formerly went
into the Northern and Western States.
The influence Of the introduction Of
pure bred stock is seen on thousands
of farms, and is noticeable in the
quality and size of the chickens
shipped into our markets. The people
have come to understand and realize
that the value of pure strains of blood
is as great in poultry as in the other
live stock of the farm, and that breeds
bred for special purposes are as horses,
COWS, sheep and hogs bred with a
special eye to some particular end.
The man wanting eggs now buys a
breed in the building up of which this
especial feature has been kept in view,
whilst the man who wants broilers
does not waste his money in raising
chickens which are not of a breed
specially adapted to that end. x
The matter of climate is great ad
vantage, possessed by all keeping
fowls here, and ought to encourage
oar people to persevere in extending
the business. We can put eggs and
broilers on the Northern markets long
before the Northern farmers and
breeders can do SO, except at the
great cost involved in the use Of heat
for houses and incubators for the
Matching of the chickens and artificial
methods of raising them. The margin
of profit in supplying eggs and
chickens during the winter and early
spring is much larger than in the late
spring and summer, and this profit
our people can have as we'll as the
other smaller one, if they will keep
the right breed of fowls and treat them
properly.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
It Pays to Take a Newspaper

Some papers are not of much ac-
count as to appearance, but [ never
took one that did not pay me in some
way, more than | paid for it. One
time an old friend started little paper
away down in southeast Georgia and
sent it to me, and | subscribed Just to
encourage him, and after awhile it
published a notice that an administra-
tor had an order to sell several lots at
public outcry. and one of the lots was
IN my county. So | inquired about the
lot and wrote to my friend to attend
the sale and run it up to fifty dollars.
He did so and bid me off the lot for
$50. and l sold it in month to a man
it joined for 800, and so l made sos
clear by taking that paper.
My father told me that when he was
young man he saw notice in a paper
that school teacher was wanted away
OF IN a distant county aud he went
there and got the situation. and little
girl was sent to him, and after awhile
she grew up mighty sweet and pretty,
and he fell in love with her and mar
rled her-now, if he hadn't taken that
paper. what do you reckon would have
become otm Wouldn't have been
some other fellow, or may be not at
all?-Lowell Courier.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
Two for One.

BY sp eclal arrangements with the pub
fishers we are able to offer Home and Farm
in combination with the GOLD LEAE for
the price of our paper alone. The annual
subscription price OF this paper is S1.5O
To every subscriber who renews now and
pays in advance we will send him Home
and Farm free, one year, Or two papers
for the price of one.
Home and Fmm is recognized as the
leader in enterprising agricultural Jour
naIsm. 1t has recently been enlarged to
sixteen pages, and is more attractive than
ever. Its list of contributors contains
the names OF practical farmers all over
the South. Its home department is un-
surpassed. Its department devoted to
children is a well spring Of pleasure in
every household. Renew your subscrip-
tiCn to the GOLD LEAF, and get this
great agricultural and home journal free
for one year.
For sample copies of Home and Farm,
write to the publishers, Louisville, Ky.
Send in your subscription at once to this
office.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
EyapOrated Sweet Potatoes.

Few people know how easily sweet
potatoes can be dried, even in the sun.
and how handy and useful the dried po-
tatOes are. At best sweet potatoes are
a troublesome crop to keep, but when
dried or cured in an cvaporatOr they
are really no trouble to keep and are
always at hand for use on the table at
short notice. They should be sliced and
then evapOrated Then to use them
they are soaked to restore the evapora-
ted moisture and then baked in pans as
the fresh ones often are. They are an
admirable article for puddings and pies.
For this purpose it would be better to
grind them into meal and put up in
packages with directions for making
puddings. Put up in this way it ought
not to be much trouble to create a mar
llet for the dried sweet potatoes. If an
evaporating plant would but under
take the putting up of the sweet potato
meal in packages the article would sell
well. GrOcerymen are slow to take
hold of such products in the crude eva
porated state, but in such packages.
with u few attractive hand-bills and a
lot of receipts for making the many de-
liciOus preparations that can be made
from sweet potatoes. market could
soon be made for a product that Eastern
North Carolina can supply in limitless
quantities. Who will start this en-
terprise? w. +. Massey n. C. Experi-
ment Station.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
Marketing stock for Reef.

Much of the stock carried to markets
for sale is poor or not moro than half
fat. In this condition it is unfit for the
butchers use and brings but a small
price. The same animal fed six or
twelve weeks will be much heavier and
at the same time will be worth more
per pound. 1t will also have left ferti-
lizer of great comparative value as a
result of the fattening.
Bulletin 81 of the Experiment Sta
ton, distributed some time ago. shows
some of the benefits of this kind of
feeding. More work in the same line
will soon be reported. There is a small
profit in this feeding which farmers
can not afford to lose. They must con-
slider the matter and put it into practice
or lose entirely the best markets. Most
of the good beef is now raised and fed
outside of the state and shipped here.
instead of as should be. shipments Of
good beeves going from this state.
Why can we not supply home markets
with sala bic products of good quality in
this line in sufficient quantity to supply
th@ .tv.-i -,:. ( .-.4 n,. tt..ue F.
well t." e.: il ,c sold and watch the
market for the best price and see to it
that the stock Is as fat as desirable.
Then ii will bring the most per pound
and weigh the heaviest-F +. Emery,
Agrlculturist. y. {. Experiment Station.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
The Breeds to Select.
Poultry Keeper.l


AS the spring is the time for buying
eggs of the pure breeds, it will not be
out of place to give a few words Of
advice to the new readers, and to
those who are not familiar with the
breeds. First, have some object in
view. If you prefer breed that lays
a great many eggs, do not expect to
get good table qualities in the breed
at the same time. If you desire a
good table fowl, do not expect great
LAYERS among such.
If you have no range, and are COM
PEELED to keep your birds in confine
ment, you should select breeds that
are contented in confinement, and
which cannot fly over fence, as the
Brahmas and Cochins. But do not
overfeed them, but make them search
and work in litter for all they receive.
The non sitting breeds lay eggs
that are pure white in color. They do
not sit unless made excessively fat by
high feeding. They can fly over a
fence, and thrive best on a range.
They are the Leghorns, Hamburgs,
Houdans, Black Spanish, Minorcas,
Polish, and few others. The Minor
cas- and Houdans are larger than the
others, and the latter is also a fine
table fowl, but the hens do not lay
heavily in winter.
The Dorkings, Indian Games, and
the Pit Games, are the best breeds
for the table, but the chicks are tender.
The hens are fair layers, but do not
equal some other breeds.
For hardness, market, and what
may be termed "general purposes, -
the Brahmas, Cochins, Wyandottes,
and Plymouth Rocks, are considered
equal to any. The two latter do we'll
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
Keeping Sweet Potatoes Through Winter.

Keeping sweet IOtatoes AnFouSh w hi'ol'
have seen several of the Press Bulletins,
and am very anxious to have them regularly
sent me. If you have ever published metnod
OF keeping sweet potatoes. through the winter,
] should like to have that issue also-Mrs- '"
H H. g.. Statesville, y. C.
answered by w. F. Massey, Hot1culturist N.
G. Experiment Statlon.)
The following method | have found to
keep sweet potatoes in perfect order
until June. Procure good supply OF
pine straw from the woods in dry
time and keep it under cover ready for
use. Dig the potatoes as soon as frost
cuts the vines. If not convenient to dig
at once, cut the frosted vines off at once,
or they will harbor fungus growth that
will damage the potatoes. Dig on
warm sunny day-lay the potatoes along
the row as dug and do not allow them
to be bruised by throwing into piles.
Handle at all times as gently as eggs.
Allow them to lie in the sun during the
day, and in the evening haul to con-
venient place. Place good layer a foot
thick of pine straw on the ground. and
on this pile the potatoes in steep heaps,
not over 25 bushels in pile. Cover the
piles thicl1ly all over with the dry pine
straw-now build a rough board shed
over the piles. and let them remain un-
til the weather grows colder, or until
they have gone through a sweat and
dried off. Then cover the heaps with
earth six or eight inches thick and beat
smooth. The important points are the
sweating under the previous cover OF
the pine straw before covering with
earth, very careful handling, and the
board cover overhead. Dry earth keeps
out more cold than wet earth. If for
family use, put in smaller piles and
take up an entire heap at once for use,
keeping them in a dry warm place while
llSinp
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

Order is the sanity Of the mind, the
health of the body, the peace Of the
city, the security of the State. AS the
beams to the house. as the mic .ocosm
OF man. SO is order to all things. Cor
der IS Heavens first law 1t should
be earth's law and mans prime duty.
He who disregards good order and dis
turbs peace is unworthy of the name
OF good citizen.-Painesville 4ston-
Usher.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

The 1pswick Independent says that
the habit OF strict and careful accuracy
IN speaking, Of saying neither more nor
less than is felt or thought or known.
OF recording facts. events, and scenes
as correctly as possible, will form the
best possible safeguard against the ut
terance OF conscious untruth. how
ever strong may be the motive which
may urge it.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
Indian Pipe or Fit Root.

Please send name of enclosed plant. which
grows in punches on my farm in places where
mushrooms are abundant. 1t has no leaves and
does not grow larger than specimen.-M. r. r.,
POwcllville, N. c.
answered by Gerald Mccarthy, Botanist, N
c. Experiment Sfation.)
The plant is monotropa unifora, com
monty called Indian pipe and Fit Root
1t lacks chlorophyl, the green coloring
mother of plants, ard is therefore un-
able to assimilate food from the air and
soil. 1t lives as a parasite on the leaves
of pine trees. This plant is highly es-
teemed by homeopathic physicians as a
has high commercial value where it
occurs in any quantity. Borricke &
Fofel pharmacists of Philadelphia deal
in it. Before collecting it for market it
will be well to communicate with this
firm.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

on the range (and in fact al! breeds
do best on the range, but they also
endure confinement. They are not
the best laying breeds, nor the best
fowls for the table, but they will
probably give as large profit as any
other breeds when poultry, eggs and
broilers are Produced
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

RatfonS for FatteninS Pigs.
answered by F. E. Emery, Agriculturist, n. {
Experiment Station.)

answered by F. E: Emery, Agriculturtst, ". c.
Experiment Station)
J. D. G., Lexington, n. c.: Your ra-
ton referred to below is a very good
one, and calculated to grow and fatten
ihe pigs well and fast, but as they get
aeavier, however, you should widen the
alton.
Do this by increasing corn and wheat
bran in proportion to pea meal, and
then increase corn alone. At 125 lbs
weight, the standard calls for ratio be-
tween protein and carbohydrates in
the food equal to l to 1-2. Your ration
is now about 1 to 3 Sd or too narrow
for the size Of pig, weighing probably
so lbs. More corn would suit better
now for a short time. Then increase
bran to 100, pea meal remaining so, and
corn to 200 lbs. The first change raises
the ratio to about to ) IA and the last
/ to IA. You can make one or two
intermediate ratios to advantage and
get the pigs on the widest ration with
the new lower cost corn. Changes may
be thus:
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

commission house, will handle it for
YOU as well as any one. I shipped
great deal to them years ago, and never
had the slightest ground for complaint
in their dealings. Reliable commission
men are not plenty, and those who are
should be known. Messrs. Wallace
Bros, Statesville, N. c., are very ex-
tensive dealers in roots and herbs, and
NAV handle your garden sage.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
QUESTIONS AND REPLIES,

The Station will be glad to receive
any questions on agricultural topics
any one may desire to send. Address
all questions to the IN. c. Agricultural
Experiment Station. Raleigh. n. c."
keplles will be written as early as pos
sible by the member of the Station
Sraf most competent to do SO. and
when of general interest, they will also
appear in these columns The Station
expects, in this way. to enlarge its
sphere of usefulness and render great
assistance to practical farmers
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
RFv JAMES sCHEsTER ROCKWELL.

Ethereal bard, of life's high minstrelsy,
Ere yet thyrythmic genius.o s.orbed in flame,
And fame, to crown thee with her laurel,
came,
Thou leavest US to read in spiendency
or starry syllables thy destiny
Fain would We follow, but to hear &C
claim
Of angels at thy coming, and thy name
Sweet lisped in Heavens court Of poesy.
Thou vert my friend, dear Rockwell, and
the thought
Of thy hushed Tyre doth grief to mem'ry
lend.
Awake, sweet singer. from the chords
seraphic wrought,
Suaye lyrics through the melting ether
send,
That may know, by notes in dream land
caught,
Thou still doth live, rememb'ring still
thy friend
JOS. Lee May in Charlotte O6sercer.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30


sucking herself:-F. f. r, Asheville, N. G.
answered by F. E. Emery, Agriculturist N G.
Experiment SfatiOn.J
We would not attempt a cure on an
animal of ordinary value. Side bars or
nose contrivances will prevent the suck
ing but an ordinary beast is not worth
the trouble entailed. 1t is probably
one chance in ten if your heifer freed
from the habit will yield enough to pay
cost of feed and risk and pay for her
self. Then add the trouble and expense
to overcome vicious and veXatious
habit it is too much. We advise you tc
beef her on one of the rations in Bul-
letin so p. IA, and put the beef money
into a young COW free from bad habits.
If the cow was full blOoded and regis
tered animal it would be a different
matter, but for inferior stock it is not
worth the trouble. If you desire tC
save the heifcr and keep on the side
bars continually for a long time, two
or three years, she may forget it but
the first act of licking an itching place
may recall it even then, and your
trouble be all for naught.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
4 Market For Harhs

Can you inform me where I can sell herbs
such as garden sage, at: Give me some good
houSe.-B. NJ. B.. Freeman 5 Mills n c.
tAnswered by ". F. Massey. Horticulturfst n
C. Experiment StationD
Sage usually sells better in Baltimore
than in any of the northern cities. a
good clean article, well cured in the
shade, will usually bring a remunera-
tive price. Messrs. j. Staum & Sons.
Light Street Wharf. an old and reliable
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
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, : : : p

Fair Warmer War Me-. f. W. Fair W.
Colder. Rain or Snow folIOacd by Cold wave
rain Or SLOW.
Steam whistle signals are oftentilnes
valuable for disseminating information,
code being used for the purpose, as
follows:
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

Raleigh: Barometer reading 20 "A inches
Thermometer reading 36 degrees; direction OF
wind y. f., state Of weather clear, no rainfall
past tWenty-fOur hours: current wind velocity
four miles per hour: minimum temperature
pas: II hours, b degrees; y. NJ. observation,
relative humidity, 50 per cent Mean tempera-
ture for October, co degrees; total precipitation
for JctoDcr, $50 inches
ample opportunity is nearly always
given through the means of these frost
warnings to allow cutting of tobacco or
to properly protect crops Of small fruits
or vegetables by covering with straw or
ether material. In the ease of larger
orchard fruits, the burning of pitchy or
rcsinons material in various parts of the
orchard to furnish a dense smoke is sug-
gested, and is very etficacious.
The State owes much to the assist
ance and cooperation of the U. S. Wca-
ther Bureau in this important and very
useful work. For without this cordial
assistance at all times given, the State
Weather Service would never be able to
render the timely and very material
aid it now furnishes TO the agriculture
lists and horticulturists of North Caro-
lima
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30
No. /, No. >. Nos, No. 4, No ).
rs 100 12o5 l.5-15O $50 200 go 80

No. I, No. ,, Nos, No Z, No. ),
rs 100 125 Is 10 $50 200 2OO go
WHIT !gfi wit ig5i wght IN wgat i?S WHIT IN
Wheat bran 20 20 100 10 100
Pea meal 50 20 20 80 20
Corn meal 30 10 100 $50 200
Ratio l of
Protein to
Carhohyd'ts Fl 81 51s G ca
There have been experiments carefully
made which show evidence for and
against the practice of cooking food I
believe the strongest evidence is against
it. Some careful tests We're in favor
of feeding the food dry and allowing
the animals free access to pure water.
The gold leaf., 1893-11-30

Pullets and hens to make up large
laying stock may sometimes be pur-
chased at this time of the year more
cheaply than they can be reared. But
stock so bought should be quarantined
for week or more in separate house
and yard to make sure that they are
free from lice and disease.