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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Hen manure is valuable, and should
be carefully saved.
Keep fewer horses, but give them
better care and feed.
Wood ashes are much better for
fruit trees than coal.
Never let horse that has been ex
ercising stand in draught.
A draught horse need not be i'm
ported to be desirable animal.
An effort is being made in the East
to repeal the oleomargarine laws.
In trimming fruit or forest trees do
not cut out too much at one time.
It is said that hogs in an orchard
are an excellent preventative against
blight.
Bran mashes and roots fed judic-
of constipation.
By sending the grains and grasses to
market in the form of butter, the
transportation bill is much smaller.
Rotation of crops not only aids in
maintaining OF increasing fertility,
but it helps to rid the ground of insect
pests.
Exercise great care in choosing ami
mails for breeding purposes if you de-
sire that your horses should command
first class prices.
Hens with plenty OF grass and in
sects lay the richest, dark yolhed eggs,
while those without green food and
meat lay eggs with pale yolks, which
are deficient in albumen.
The gooseberry crop is profitable if
it can be kept from mildew. Put on Il
good mulch to protect the soil in
winter It will also serve to hold
moisture for the next season.
An animal thoroughly heated by
rapid driving on a cold day should be
kept moving lively until he reaches the
stable. Neglect of this precaution has
resulted in many a fatal case of pneu
mOnla.
The horses tongue!is more liable to
accidents and injuries than that CT
other farm stock, owing to the con
tinual use which the owner makes of
the mouth. Fortunately it heals very
quickly.
1t is said that if team is inclined
to pull unevenly. the trouble may be
remedied by unhitching the inside
traces and crossing them, SO as to have
the same horse attached to the same
end of each singletree.
Some one recommends clubbing
farm poultry to avoid frozen combs.
The comb should be removed with one
cut from a pair of sharp shears. A lit
tie raw starch mixed with alum will
stop the bleeding or prepared chalk or
collodion will answer.
The rule for selecting mems for
! breeding grades is: Have them wide
between the shoulders, with broad,
prominent breasts and deep body; the
breast-bone long and straight and the
skin thin. Look for bulk of body
without coarseness The male bird
t-should be of the same character but,
while the hen may be herself grade,
the male should be thoroughbred.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
WINTER SHOEING.

Shoes in the winter season are re-
Quired to discharge a double duty-tO
afford foothold as we'll as to guard
against undue wear. William Dick
son. in the United States Government
report on the horse, says on the sub
ject: Various patterns of shoes have
from time to time been invented to
meet this dual requirement; but the
commonest of all, fashioned with toe
and heel calks or calking, is, faulty
though it be, probably, all things con-
sidered, the one which best suits the
requirement of the case. 1t should,
however, never be lost sight of that
the shorter, the sharper and the smaller
the calkins are, 50 long as they answer
the purpose which called them into
existence, SO much the better for the
foot that wears them.
High calkins, while they confer no
irmer foothold are potent means of
inficting injuring both on the foot it
self and the superintendent limb at
large. It is only from that portion of
the catch which enters the ground sur
face that the horse derives any benefit
in the shape of foothold, and it must
be apparent to the meanest capacity
that long calkins which do not pene-
trate the hard, uneven ground are so
many levers put into the animals pos
session to enable if not compel him to
wiring his feet, wreak his limbs and in
fiict untold fortunes on himself.
I have laid particular stress on this
subject, as / am of the opinion that
the presence of the navicular disease,
a dire malady from which horses used
for agricultural labor should enjoy a
practical immunity, is traceable largely
to the habitual use during our long
winter months of needlessly large cal
kins, only fractional parts of which
find Judgment in the earth or ice dur
ing procession.
I will explain what [ mean. When
a horse is shod with the exaggerated
calkins 30 which have alluded the toe
and heel calks are, or ought to be, the
same height to start with, at all events.
Very often, however, they are not, and
even when they are the toe calk wears
down on animals used for draught pur-
poses far more rapidly than its fellows
at the heel. The result is that the toe
is depressed while the heel is unnatur-
ally raised.
The relative position o. the bony
structures within the foot is altered,
and the navicuIar bone, which is not
one Of the weight bearing bones, IS
brought within the angle of incidence
of both weight and conclusion, in
fuences which it was never contem-
plated it should withstand, and which
it's structure precludes its sustaining
without injury. -Farmers Home Jour
nal
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
Highest OF all in Leavening Power-Iae u Govt Report
Re-! R RSxasz
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
A Busy Household.

Busy handed must have been tho
women-folk of a century and half
ago. 1t is recorded that one family IN
Newport, Il. l.. made, in the space OF
eighteen months, 4S7 yards of cloth
carding, spinning, dyeinG and weav'
ing every inch of material used, and
also accomplished the knitting of
thirty-six pairs OF stockings not the
thin, delicate, and often iIlmsy no
siery seen nova lays, but such as
would bear much heavy use, and even
he handed down to posterity.' II ~
added that another Newport family
distinguished TN mselves hy making,
in the space of four years, $50 yards
of wooden cloth, two CoveriCts, two
bedticks, and all the stockings needed
for the family -Dctroit Free Press.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

readily when brought near the surface
by deep blowing. Where the clover
has ever been on the land clover
plants will make their appearance
every time the land lies idle. Red
clover when fed alone to work stock
may be in many ways Objectionable,
but when fed in connection with tim
othy hay we cannot see that any OBJ
lection can be made to it. Much of
the prejudice against clover as food
for work stock comes from letting
stock have too much. But no particu-
larly bad results have been noticed from
giving work horses all they can eat of
timothy and clover equally mixed. 1t
should not be forgotten that meadows
with clover in them should be cut as
soon as the clover is ready for the
machine. If clover is allowed to get
dead ripe its nutritive qualities are in
a measure lost. Timothy loses moth
ing, save little i'll weight, from being
early harvested. Farmers Review.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
CLOVER THE RENOvATOR,

No field should lie idle without
clover. There is no telling how much
land lies idle every year bare of
clover, becaue the farmer had no time
to prepare it at the proper time for
clover seed. Bnt it is mistake to
suppose, as is too often done, that the
land must be broken and put in fine
condition for clover seed. Glover
seed sown at the right time will take
root on almost any kind of land. 1t
stands hard land some seasons the
best OF course, if the land is rough
and very uneven, as it generally is
after corn and other plowed crops,
the clover cannot be cut, but that is
no reason why the land should not be
in clover. It is better for the land if
the clover is allowed to remain on it.
It helps to put life in the soil and can
be pastured as we'll when the land is
in a rough condition as when smooth.
The cost of seed is mere trife. One
bushel will do for eight acres, and one
bushel to twelve acres will make big
show and be of great help to the land.
When the practice of sowing clover
seed becomes general clover seed will
be used without stint, as it should be
in order for US to see its full value.
Glover, like some of the weeds, is hard
to extermlnate if allowed to go to seed
If the seed are plowed under six or
eight inches they will remain in q
sound condition for years and grow
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
LEATHER SCRAPS FOR GRAPEvrNEs.

Any kind of tanned leather, whether
in the form of scrap or otherwise,
decays very slowly in the soil and the
best way to use it is as a mulch about
your grape vines. If spread over the
surface to the depth of two or three
inches it will keep the soil underneath
moist and cool, and at the same time
prevent the weeds from growing. AS
the Gather decays the fertilizing ma
terial in it will be carried down to the
roots by rain, and nothing will be lost
by using such coarse scraps as a top
dressing for plants. If spread over
your garden and plowed in the
leather will decay somewhat more
rapidly than when left on the surface,
but in hoeing and wedding of your
plants the large scraps are likely to
become somewhat troublesome New
York Sun.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

Not corporations alone make the best
trusts, for morally speaking we place reliance
in things most successful. and thereby estab-
lish "A most substantial trust, and this is the
way to do it. "My wife, says Mr.. ]. W.
Ames, Fairmont, Neb., suffered intensely
with sciatica, and was helpless. L tried many
things to no purpose. Although the doctors
said mo got a bottle of ST. Jacobs Oil and
tried it. 1t stopped the pain and in u short
time she had no use for crutchCs." Now
here is a trust founded on the surety Of euro
from the experience of being cured. Let any
doubling Thomas take the same course and
make trust for himself
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
FEEDING MILK TO COLTS.

IN England and Scotland it is an al
most universal practice to feed draught
Dts daily ration of new milk, gen
rally warm from the COW. Flaxseed
,,lIv and crushed oats are sometimes
.iled, but the mixture is carefully
himmed before feeding. AS might be
expected, colts fed on this with what
they pick from their barns rations
and the mother milk make an enor-
nous growth, often fully 1000 pounds
at eight months old.
For show purposes this is a good
feed, but the flesh laid on is not solid
and speedily falls away when actual
work begins. Bones and sinews share
the same condition, hence the preva-
Ience of unsound joints, especially
soft, puffy hooks, are sure to follow
Milk feeding forces a rapid growth in
consistent with the nature of the horse
aud the work he is called upon to per-
form. Nothing will build up an old
or run down horse for show as quickly
as milk. Nothing is SO good as milk
drink to remove an appearance of
gauntness during shows and sales.
When horse Is recovering from
~tomachic troubles milk may be fed in
small quantities to good advantage,
but as in cases of colts great care must
be used in regulating the quantity
given.
70 build up run down constitution
in colt nothing takes the place of
milk, but it should be well skinned
and fed in moderation. Two or three
quarts three times day is enough.
Taper off the feed gradually. Milk
feed cannot be dropped suddenly with
ont injury to the colt. It should
never be used to put fat on to an al
ready hearty youngster, and remem-
Der that nature would have supplied
the mare with a large udder if colts
needed much milk.-New ENGLAND
homestead.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

KEEPER Goss was horribly mangled by
the chimpanzees Chiko and Johanna, at the
Central Park Arsenal, New York City.
JUSTICE BARRETT. of the Supreme Court,
New York CiIy. sentenced Dennis j. Buck
ley, an election inspector, who was convict
cd Of permitting q repeater to vote at the
last general election on the name OF man
who lived in his house, to one year in the
Penitentiary and TO pay a fine of $500
CHARLES +. FLoHR's store in York County,
Pennsylvania, was blown up by dynamite
bomb.
PEOPLE in Plymouth, Penn, have given.up
all hope Of rescuing the thirteen miners en-
tombed in the Gaylord mine.
ALFRED HOsMER Under, the Harvard
junior, who was injured at Cambridge,
Mass, by heavy blow in sparring con-
test with his college friend, Arthur Foster,
died without recovering consciousness. For
five days he lay in a comotose condition.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
HARDNESS OF BUTTER.

The New Hampshire Experiment
station hes conducted some expert
ments as to the effects of different
foods upon the hardness of butter, and
though the work in this direction is
not as yet extensive enough to Justify
the drawing of conclusions, their ex-
periments thus far indicate: That
gluten meal tends to produce much
softer quality of butter than corn
meal and cottonseed meal, and other
things being equal tends to lessen the
churnability of the butter fat. That
with the same COWS the hardness de-
ponds much more upon the character
of the food then upon the nuiritive
ratio that ensilage produces a much
softer butter than does good hay but
it is also favorable to the flavor and
texture of the butter product that
skinned milk has very favorable eff
feet upon the churnabil1ty and quality
of the butter fat, and III a single trial
apparently reversed the general rule
that the volatile fatty acids decrease
as the period of lactation advances;
that cottonseed meal tends to produce
an unusually hard quality of butter,
and that cottonseed meal and gluten
meal might be used together with ex-
cellent results; that contrary to gen
eral belief the melting point of butter
fat is not q good index of the com
mercial hardness of butter; that while
in general soft butter melts at
lower temperature than hard butter
there is no definite relation between
melting point and actual hardness;
that no relation can be traced between
foods and volatile fatty acids except
hardness and volatile acids vary in
versely, hardness generally increasing
and volatile acids decreasing as the
period of lactation advances. Rocky
Mountain Husbandman.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
South and West

MAY BROOKYN, one of the leading ladies'
of the Palmer Stock Company, playing at the
Baldwin Theatre. San Francisco. Cal, com
mitted suicide by taking poison. She
played the part of Mistress Page in Gala
bama"
The remaining Worlds Fair buildings at
Chicago will be sold Immediately to the high
est bidder, on account of the many incen-
diary fires.
COUNTIES in Western Kansas ask for con-
tributlons of coal and free transportation for
fuel and seed.
killed Jesse Anderson, has been hanged at
Frederick, Nd. James E. Stone was executed
at Jacksonville. Ind. for the murder of the
Wratten family of six last September.
PhENDERGAsr. murderer of Mayor Harri-
son, sprang at Prosecuting Attorney Trude
in the court room in Chicago Ill. Armed
men guarded the presiding Judge. anony-
nous threats having been received.
Mrs. ANNIE RUcKER was assaulted and
killed by two colored men at Birmingham,
Ala. Both were lynched.
THE Kiowas and Comanche Indians about
Ell Reno, Oklahoma, have assumed a hostile
attitude.
THREE thousand miners have been thrown
out of work in Ohio until they accept the
terms of the operators.
A FATAL cyclone swept a path 200 feet
wide through Claiborne Parish, louisiana
Two persons were killed
A FIRE supposed to be of incendiary origin
took place in the east wing OF the Indiana
State Building in the Worlds Fair Grounds,
Chicago. The damage was slight.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

The largest grower of Grass and Glover Seed
IN the world is Salzer, La Crosse, Wis. Over
30 hardy varieties, with lowest prices!
Special low freight to New York, Pa. and the
East.
IL You WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND 1T with
lac postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, you will receive eleven packages
grass and clover sorts and his mammo In farm
seed catalogue; full of good things for the far
mer, the gardener ard the citizen. A
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
JOSEPH KEPPLER DEAD.
The Man Who Brought ssPuck" Int
Prominence Passes Away.

Joseph keppler, one OF the founders of
Puck, died suddenly at his home in New
York City From the very start of the
pioneer humorous photographic weekly Mr.
keppler's cartoons have been dominant in
its pages.
Some OF the most notable of the political
and social pictorial arguments and satires
In Puck have been his. He was a great ally
and admirer of Grover Cleveland. and a
portrait drawn by him soon after the Presi-
dent first inauguration was his masterpiece
in portraiture.
Death was caused by spinal trouble He
leaves widow and three children Mr.
1888. -
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces
Such articles Should never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh
Toledo, O.. cognt;saii 0,s~ceed1ng s. rckef
mucous surfaces OF the s s4s,vru. In buying
1t is taken internally, and is made in Toledo,
Ohio, by +. J. Cheney 65 Co. Testimonials tree.
EE- Sold by Druggists. price 75c. per bottle.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

THERE are few boys who will ut fed
sorry to hear of the death OF R. NJ. Ballan-
tyne. He wrote his first story for boys in
1o4S, when he was twenty-three years of
age, and after he had been for six wears a
resident OF the Hudson Bay Company's ter
ritories. Before he exhausted that field he
travelled extensively in other countries, SO
that his numerous stories cover a great part
Of the world
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
AnTmportant preference.

To make 1t apparent to thousands, who think
any disease, but that the system simply neel5
cleansing, is to bring comfort home to their
hearts. as a costive condition is easily cured by
using Syrup of Figs Manufactured by the
California Fig SyrupCo.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
The Mines of California.

The mines of California are the best
bank on which to commence a run in
these hard times. There should be no
real poverty in State where thou
sands of acres of surface diggings still
yield readily from seventy-tive cents
to s. per day to the worker. We now
produce about $13, 200, 900 gold per
annum. We must average more than
$33, 600 per day to aggregate $13, OOO,
600 gold per annum, or more than ST.,
600, 900 per month. Town
Talk.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

In 1892 there were in this country
1859 banks that received saving de
posts; the depositors numbered I,
ISL, sos and the deposits aggregated
the enormous sum of 81, I -, I69, O2G.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

FRANK MUssER, young man of Lancaster
Penn. W no year ago had an arm torn off
by broken cable of the lancaster Traction
company, has been awarded $2O,5QQ dam
ages by arbitrator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

No SAFER REMEDY can be had for Coughs
and Colds, or any trouble of the Throat, thar
"B,OlCn's Bronchial 1FOcheS." Price 25 cents
Sold OuEy in bOTeS.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

On being informed of her fathers
preferent, Miss Herbert Is credited
with saying: "Appointcd Secretary
of the Navy? Why, he cant even
swim |"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
w aShingtOn.

CLAIMS for sugar bounty thus far aggregate
So, $40, 600
SENATOR MCLAURIN, of Mississippi, has
been sworn in to succeed Mr.. Walthall.
THE annual report of the Director of the
Bureau of American Republics has been sent
to Congress.
THE first half of February showed a deficit
of So, 900 900 in Treasury receipts.
THE new River and Harbor bill carries an
appropriation of 81 300, 900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

Will be sent with every bottle of DR.. Horsje'S
EeTtGtH Group Cure. Ordered by mail, post
paid, 50 cts. Address Hoxsie. Buffalo, Ny
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

Beecham's Pills cure indigestion and Constt
patton. Beecham's-nO others. % cts. a box
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

Read the adv. of SCOTS Arabian Paste Co.
They make the best Veterinary remedy
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup costs no
more than others and benefits more.
If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp.
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at pc per bottle.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02
4 Safe, Sound Trust.

The way to restore confidence is to
be confident. Boston Traveller.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-02

Purely vegetable, miEd and reliable Cause Per
tect Digestion complete absorption and hea ,thfu
regularity. For the cure of all disorders Of the
Stomach, Liver Bowels, Kidneys Bladder. Nervous
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-02-11
The Gu che or Ge!sha.

Outside the temple there still are 4
thousand things to see. Every variety
Of amusement can be had IN this enceite,
which contains a circus, a theatre, SHOOT
ing galleries, and numerous lighthouses III
which the yOung eXquisites or the low"
organize charming little parties. Ihey
hire testers. musicians, and singers. or
If they are very refined, they send for a
Guecha. Ii 3 very difficult TO define what
q Guecha is, as there Is nothing at an
resembling her in our Western civillza-
ton. \ Guecha is a dancer, but her SLOW.
dignihed, graceful dance. like that ot
the japanese women, q the least OF nef
talents. or rather Of her merits. Chosen
from AMONGST the most beautiful women
brought up With the greatest care ~ an
old Guecha who has become Il PROBES
scr. these cancers, like the Roman Nes-
tails. are the very ideal OF purity, beauty
and grace. Absolutely chaste, or perfect
~ correct department, supremacy ',e-
giant, n Guecha Is the model, the eAhinp'''
the rare flower cultivated with loving
care. A princess may consult her on the
laws of breeding and etiduettei II a
poet compose n madrigal la her honor,
she Will reply TO him In the language or
the gods. with as much modesty as Splr-
it; and If she inspire passion IN o man
marriage IS the only pOSsihie n'.o"'"''f.
The amusement Of the young men or
the world at Toxic are then Oiten or a
very refined character. n the dancer
consents to come at their Invitation, u
IS that they may enjoy the charm OF her
exquisite conversation, the grace of her
toilet. her beauty. the song she sings 10
the accompaniment Of the chamisan. and
her plastic dancing, which viii carry her
spectators back to the world Of the gods
and heroes.
In former days, II a Guecha sinned
against chastity, the chief Shotgun him
self punished her by condemniag her 90
pass several years amongst the fallen
women of Noshiwara.
But the Guecha is beginning. like every
thing else. 20 degenerate. and before
long she will disappear Harper's Week
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