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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-07-14
MANAGEMENT OF PIGS.
The best Way to Secure Good Growth NJ
Minimum Cost.

The Best Way to Secure Good Growth n
Minimum Cost.
In the spring after grass and clover
starts is one of the very best seasons
for securing a good growth at low
cost. This holds good with all classes
of stock, and pigs are no exception One
of the principal advantages that pigs
narrowed in the spring have over those
is that with plenty of grass and clover
the sows are able to supply the pigs
with more and better milk, while
soon as the pigs learn to eat they will
make chea per and better growth than
at any other season.
It is usually best to keep the sows in
reasonably close quarters until the pigs
have made a sufficient growth to run
about we'll, which will usually be by
the time they are ten days old Then
they can be turned out and given the
range of a good pasture.
The feeding of the SOW must be lib
eral and the material must be of an exc
cellent nature in order to ena bic her to
supply her pigs with plenty of milk.
Grain is also needed with good clover.
With both the sucking sows and grow
ing pigs clover is better feed than
Se secured with grain or clover alone,
in nearly all cases a sufficiently better
grain can be secured by feeding grain
in addition to make it profitable. But
the grain must be of a character we'll
adapted to the securing of a good de-
velopment of bone and muscle rather
than fat. No one material is COM
plete ration: that is, it will not supply
all of the materials needed to maintain
a good growth at the lowest cost. and
for this reason a combination of mate
rails will in nearly all cases give the
best results.
But a different ration is needed for
growing animals from what should be
given when fattening for market. So
| that bran and oil meal, ground oats Or
| ship stuff will make a better feed, both
| for the SOW that is sucking litter OF
pigs and growing pigs. Whenever the
pigs begin to show IL disposition to eat
a place should be provided where they
| can eat to themselves, and they should
| be fed regularly, increasing the rations
as their growth and condition demand.
But in the spring is not only good
| time to secure good growth with
| young pigs, but it is also one of the
| best seasons to fatten. and especially
| when the pigs have been kept in a good.
| thrifty condition during the winter. If
thrifty with good pasturaGe, a month
| or six weeks of liberal feeding of fat
| tening ration will be all that is needed
| to make ready for market, and this ca n
| be done at a less cost than if the grain
alone is depended upon--America n
| Farmer. -;
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and the fire reached its crimson arms
toward Heaven, as though it had been
the fire from a consecratcd altar ln-
stead of an accursed hell.
lit was long time that we stood
there, while the people grew still as
death, for they had given up hope. And
then, when we thought it was all over,
the priest came out burned. chclSed,
scarrcd-but still alive. And he had
found and comforted the dying soul
with the last sacred rites OF his faith. "
The Old Beau paused. and l pushed
the bottle toward him. But he waved
it aside, and took a deep drauRht of
pure water.
.'This to his honor" he said: II care
not what his church or there
was man.
Then he told me the rest of the
story.
Letting no one know his name. or
where he belonged, tho priest hurried
away. They would have carried him
in their arms. They would have thrown
themselves down and let him walk
upon their prostrate bodies. But he
waved the people aside and went on
his way alone, though sorcly in need
of aid But l followed, and learned
who he was. And the next night I
came here and told this story to the
club. And without the Formally of a
ballot, we made him member. The
club knows neither church nor creed,
but it knows a man. Come, let me in
troduce you. 1t is an honor to touch
his hand"
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-07-14
RENOvAT!NG WORN LANDS.

Extract From, the Report Of tho mississippi
Experiment. Station.
The sixth report of the Mississippi
experiment station says
No soil can nc made to produce good
CROP; without the presence OF a fair
supply of humus or dccayed vegetable
matter. Frcshly-clearcd lands and
lands which have not been plowed for
: many years usually contain an abun-
dance of hu1nus. but when lands have
long been cultivated in hoed crops like
corn and cotton the humuS becomes ex-
hausted and must be replaced before
they can be made profitable. just how
this humus shall DC supplied must de-
pend the circumstances of each
; plantation. When it can be had in Suf-
cicnt quantity there is no better mate
| rial for this purpose than is stable
! manure. but this can seldom
| DC secured in sufficient amounts
! recourse must nc had to other
! ma tcri;.ls. Cotton seed for clay soils,
| a nd cotton seed meal for sandy soils,
| answer the purpose perfectly. but both
| are expensive. and on nearly all pla nta-
| tionS the most economical method for
securing a sufficient supply of humus is
| by the growing and blowing under of
como green lcguminous crop like lespe-
| deza. COW peas. or red clover. On lands
| where either of these crops has been
| grown. there is little trouble in making
| Satisfa Glory crops of corn or cotton by
/ the use or lnCtiCrdJc amounts ol CoH-
| mcrcia1 fertilizers. LesPedeza will
| grow on {; soil which is too exhausted,
| dry and hard for either of the others,
and is undoubtedly the best plant for
| use where the soil is in a very poor
| condit ION. It responds quickly to an
applica ton of two hundred pounds of
| cot tonseetl meal per acre, and by
| making such an application fair
| crop OF I.eSpedcza can be grown on
almost any soil. If the soil is sufficient
| ly fertile to make fair crop of LeSpe-
c,eza without the use of fertilizer, COW
,,cas Will be the better crop to grow, as
they make r.;rch heavier growth than
does the I-espcc;eza. their roots are
| larger and extend more deeply into the
ground. and will build up the soil
| more pidly-
When the soil is rich in lime, as in
.i,c entire northeastern prairie region
nc!;lotns is the best fertilizing croI
| which can be grown. Its roots are
larger and extend deeper into the
| ground than do those Of any Other
| re-: t"rative plant which we can grow
M PLANTS die and the roots decay Al
the end OF the second season, and 81
the plant adds moro to the valu
! able pant food in the soil than doe:
| any other Of the many which we
! have tested. 1t will grow well on any
. OF the black prairie soils. even on thos'
waiv!. arc too exhausted on in too poo
Il condition for making good crops o
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Lac X CT Co uytssy.

''Did the man seem to exhibit a lack
of courtesy?" inquired an Austin bust
ness man of a book agent who had
failed to negotiate with a neighboring
tradesmau.
courtesy enough and presume he keeps
plenty of it in stock. He threw a chair
at rue the minute entered his Office,
and Just as successfully lodged the
chair he caught me on the nose with a
tin cuspidor, and that was followed by
a paper-weight. two tacl<-hammers and
a loose door-knob. He seemed to be
shooting all the furniture out of a
Calling gun, though he may have been
throwing them, and it is my impression
he was loaded for book-agents. But
he didn't seem to lack anything, an
presume If hadn't withdrawn just as
I did, the next thing would have been
a shower of canned courtesy.'-Texas
Fittings.
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HERE AND THEIRS.

Good cows will pay for good care,
even though milk and butter arc down
in price: they rarely go below the cost
of production.
If the cows are bred to ealve next
fall they ought to give milk enough
this spring and summer to pay n profit
over cost of feed and la Dor; and they
will. if they are the right kind of cows.
Nothing at the present time pays
better than swine husbandry when the
hogs are properly cared for. Few do
nestle animals require the attention
necessary to keep them in a healthy
condition than swine do. but it pays.
There is money in poultry in the
south, if a person will give it the prop
err attention.: but whoever tries it will
find it no lazy mans business. as it re-
quires a great deal Of hard work. A
person must pay attention'to details.
1t is vigilance-eternal vigilance is the
watch-word of success.
The kitchen garden should be a
model of ncatness. 1t should be laid
off in beds and borders, the paths
should he kept scrupulously clean of
weeds and in good order. There should
be strict adherence to the idea Of
utility both in laying it out, in plant
ing and conducting it.
Tagging the grapes as soon as the
bloom has fallen will prevent rot The
fruit is much more beautiful when
grow in bags. One pound manila bags
are used. The bag is opened. drawn
carefully over the bunch and pinned
above the cane from which the bunch is
growing.
A cheap source Of phosphoric acid
is Carolina phosphate rock. Do not
| however, use the crudely-ground rock
| or ''hoats.'' but use the acid pf,osphat:
| made by treating the rock Will
| sulpl,uric acid. The availa bic ~phcs
| phoric acid in this acid phosphate costs
| about six cents a pound.
| The eleventh census returns show
| that in 1880 there were in the United
! States 4,OOS, oO7 farms. valued at Owe
$40, OO, 900, 900; in 1890 there were I .:'t;I
Gal farms, valued at over Sl3. o0a. oGG, osi0
| The increase in number wa. Early !
! per cent, and in value over 20 per cent
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At SEA-


I watch the white sails they spread
Their wings. like birds set free;
And some DER distant waves will glide
Some in the wished for haven bide..
And some-be lost at sea
And thus. upon Lies changeful main,
While Hope sang merrily,
Full many bark from Of tho strand
We launched with eager heart and hand,
Nor dreamt Of loss at sea.
But were there treacherous rocks and shoals
All, all unknown to theef
1t matters not-the heart doth know
That cruel storm hath sunkcn low
The venture out at sea.
Mayhap it was no costly freight
Though rich to you or me:
And Memory, as thedays go by,
Still counteth DER with tcarful eye a
Her treasures lost at sen.
All. WELL there is a haven sweet
Where shfpwreciss cannot be;
Sad hearts, who sit in patient pain.
There shall ye gather back again
Much that was lost at sea.
Lucy r Fleming. in Harper's Bassr:
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on the clubs race course. was
anxious to get this story out of him
next. for l fancied it might be rather
dramatic But when suggested that
he tell me more about it, he drew away
from the subject.
Look here, young man." he said.
severely. mo human institution is per-
feet. The liability to err occurs with all
men. The club has been no exception
to this universal rule, but we do not
care to dwell on our mistakes. That
which is done, is done. We acknowl-
edge that tho race course and the Bob
ty Nichols episodes were our mistakes.
But let them rest
Now, I do not think that man
should give you the hint of story un-
less he intends to tell you tho whole of
it, especially when there seems to be
the spice Of a scandal about it. How
ever, 1 know shall get it out of him
some time-and it is just as we'll to
have a good thing or two in reserve.
So l will wait patiently.
We were sitting n the card-roon, and
had been playing cribbage. But the
points had run steadily in my favor
that my antagonist finally yawned and
pushed the board i,npatiently away.
Then, evidently feeling that he had
been a trifle rude. and to n guest-a
matter Of which the Old Beau could
rarely be accused. for he was the most
punctilious of men-and desiring to
make imme diate and ample amend, he
asked me If l would join him in the
supper-room over a bird and a bottle.
1t was not these things that tempted
me, but guessed he would be in the
mood to talk, and that I should hear
something worth the hearing.
AS we passed through the billiard
room I saw a man CARRIED in the cas-
sock Of priest, bending over one of
the tables and deeply engaged upon his
play. 1t was not the frocls alone
strange, though, that in such a
place-that riveted my attention. But
the face and physique OF the man were
strong. This is but a brief desert ?:ion.
But l will let it stand l have written
it, because if this simple statement
does not convey the meaning l intend,
no words of mine can make you under
stand.
My companion paused for a moment,
waiting until the player had finished
his shot and looked up from the table.
Then my attention YVES divided be-
tween two livingstone, the awful scar
that disfgured the whole left side of
the mans face and neck. How one
could have received such a mark, and
lived, was the instant question in my
mind. But there was another thing
which took my mind from this. When
their eyes met, the Old Beau bowed
with more cordial ceremony than
had ever seen him use toward any other
man-and smile OF exquisite sympathy
passed between the two.
''There," said the Old Beau, when we
We're fairly seated, NEE ting and an
swering the question that my eye.
asked, "there-is man. And thi:
thing of which l am about to tell you
was deed.'
He paused, as if to find words fit fo1
the telling Of it. And when he hat
chosen them he went on slowly, speak
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-07-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

-ReDublicans are so elated over
the fact that hard times came during
the democratic a dninistration.-Loui
Vile Courier-Journal.
President Harrison declares that
he is not n candidate for the prcsi-
dency. If he were nominated we are
inclined to think that he would con-
tinue to be of that opinion after the
votes were counted.-Bufealo CONNER
cial (Rep.).
ing itself on the fact that the United
States supreme court has reversed six
of Mr. Gresham's judicial decisions.
But perhaps the fact is harder on the
supreme court than on Greshanl.-St-
Louis Republic.
III ex-President Harrison is 80
violently opposed to gerryEaanders he
should give little attention and adj
vice to the republican members of tho
Ohio legisla ture. These statesmen arc
now considering bill to gerrymander
the judicial districts Of Ohio SO that it
will take thirty-one thousand seven
hundred democratic votes to elect a
democratic Judge, while sixty five hun
dred votes will elevate n republican to
the bench.-N. Y. World.
III trusts and combines are able
to hang out one hundred Thousand dol
lars for a senatorial vote they can gen
orally get a few takers. Here appears
the moral side Of a tariff for protec-
ton. A nation cannot afford to sub
ject its public men to such telnpta tions.
There should be in public life no OPP
portunities for amassiug fortunes in
exchange for votes. Clean out the
| tariff robbery by making revenue the
rule of oil tax laws.-St. Louis Republic.
| - Tariff reform will come forward
! again and will keep on coming forward
until the people force their senators
| and representatives to obey their will
| and dissociete this government for
| ever from the idea that it is part of a
| governments functions to "protect'
| one set of Americans at the expense OF
| another set of Americans. Our govern.
| ment is founded upon the idea that all
mon are equal before the laws, and
that the laws shall bear equally upon
| all. To legislate so that one set OF
Americans must pay another set OF
Americans two prices for all that they
buy in order that the latter set g,
| Americans may make fortunes is Z
total negation of this idea, and i:
tyranny pure and simple. We repeal
that the corrupt senators may bea
tariff reform in this congress. but i
will come back and will never cease it,
cry until that cry is heeded.-Rich
peond Tinea
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The Ex-Czar Grows Calm.

Another pull of the protectionists
all together and Tom Reeds alarm ut
the "omnivorous west will be Gained.
The trusts will be able to command
the home market and hurl their power
against tho building of new manufac-
tories nearer the markets and sources
of supply. Shut out iron ores and Du-
luth's hopes of becoming a manufacture
ing center are chilled. Shut out WOODEN
goods and New England can by under
selling cut down investments Of manu-
featuring capital in one section of the
west and make up its profits in an
other section. Every time the Wilson
bill is McKinleyized the omnivorous-
soup and corn bread.-St. LOUIS Re
public.
If the American laborer has ap-
proximaSely received his share of the
product OF his labor through the oper-
alton of the tariff, why have we these
exhibitions of organized vagabondage
under Coxey, Kelly and others. while
the country rs a whole has grown
presence 4 this country of thousands
of Hung!}rians, Italians, Poles and
other foreign laborers of the cheapest
class? Why this constant succession OF
strikes and labor riots, caused by re
auctions of wages, or efforts to sub
stitutc foreign contract labor fol
American labor; disturbances that have
bee most frequent and most trouble
some while the party of protection
was in the full flush of power? Why
have wages been SO steadily reduced in
Industries most highly protected2-
y.otlAville Courier-Jourpal
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A MEMBER OF THE CLUB.
ny JAMES KNAPP REEvsc.
Copyright, 1894. by the Author. |


Der that when
tho Old Beau
was telling me
that E h a 8 t J +
story of T h e
NJ a n w h o
Started a Grave
yard, he hap
pened to men,
ton something
about Il O b b y
Nichols having
gone w r O n e
through plunR-
ing too heavily
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ing in a low monotone, and reveren thy,
as if in the presence of the deed itself:
cit was one night in August. The
day had been internally hot, and the
night came on worse than the day had
been. Finding comfort nowhere, had
strolled down in to the lower portion of
The city. where the poor are huddled
together like -rats-perhaps because
like to see human misery, and wretch
elness, and squa1or 4 had heard an
alarm of FIRE and saw the engines rush
ing past me. but until l had turned
into b street I did not know the
eonfiagration was SO nea-. 1t was Q
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-07-14

The most formida BILE check to the
increase, in tropical regions. Of serpents
and venomous insects is the abun6.
ance of tho ants, which. attacking in
thousands. will kill and devour animals
often of considerable size.
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Little Efie (who has stro&<ed the
kitten until she has begun to pnrr}--
''Mn udie. do you hear that?" Sister
Maud-"Hear what. Effie?" Edie-
I''Why, do believe hitty's boilinRl"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-10-10
Pledged to Suicide.

"There are five men in Deadwood
who once belonged to the same suicide
club" said T. r. Wortham. "They
constituted the entire membership and
don't often speak Of it. A solemn COM
pact was made that they should hold
monthly meetings, at each one Of which
the members drew balls, one being
black and its holder being obligated by
oath to kill himself before the next
meeting, the last one to hold a solitary
dinner and destroy himself. The meet
ings, with the exception Of the last one,
were held, and in each case the victim
disappeared, first settling up all Of his
affairs and leaving farewell letter to
his associates. No bodies were found,
however. One day, on the principal
street Of Deadwood, a crowd collected,
and in it were all five Of the supposed
suicides. They had all gone west and
drifted to Deadwood. The story got out
some way, and their lives were made
miserable by it for time, but they
have succeeded in quieting it down, and
are all doing we'll. "-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-10-10
Goldenrod,a PecuIiarity.

Probably a great many people who
travel have failed to notice that tho Pc
riod Of blooming Of the goldenrod does
not begin first in the south and move
northward, but apparently in the other
direction-from north to south. In some
places in northern Vermont and New
Hampshire goldenrod of the common
field and railroad track variety is in
profuse bloom as early as the 10th of
July. On the Kennebec river the other
day traveller noted that the goldenrod
was much more golden and less tinged
with green than it is in Maiden or Cam
bridge, Mass. And the place where the
plant is latest Of all in yellowing ap-
parently is Cape Cod, where the dwarf
seaside variety, most common there,
hardly begins to do itself Justice before
September. 1t is possible that the north
ern goldenrod ripens before that farther
south for the same reason that Indian
corn ripens earlier in Vermont than it
does in Virginia-it has got to ripen
earlier il it is going to ripen at all.
Lewiston Journal
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-10-10
Fire Easily Obtained.

The average civilized man would be
hard put to it if he were compelled to
start q fire without matches, tinder box
or burning glass. But Lieutenant Won
Hohnel describes an African chief as
not only accomplishing this feat, but
doing it with quickness and ease. The
traveller had asked him to show his skill.
1t was really wonderful, in view Of
the moisture laden atmosphere. with
what rapidity he did as had requested.
The materials employed were such as
we saw wherever we went-two simple
bits Of wood, one fat about six inches
long and not quite an inch wide, with
q row Of grooves on one side, the other
about 12 inches long and Of the thick.
ness and shape Of lead pencil.
The longer piece, fixed in one of the
grooves Of the shorter piece, was held
tightly between the palms of the hand
and whirled rapidly round and round.
In few seconds the wood dust which
was produced by the friction. and which
fell through the grooves, began to smoke.
This dust was carefully nursed into q
blaze, which was fed with fine grass
and bits Of cotton stuff.
The whole thing is done 30 quickly
that our men, even the lazy Wasungu.
always employed this method ON short
halts for lighting their pipes. s.-Youth's
COMPANION,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-10-10
Our Future Population.

The territorial area Of Japan is about
one-twenty. fourth that of the United
States, not counting Canada, which is
likely some time TO come in, and 1t sup
ports 40, 600, 900 people. At this rate IL
il computed that the North American
continent would sustain population of
1000, 900, 900. How soon that limit is
TO be reached may DO remitted TO the
prophets and the statisticians, but il
will come some time without doubt, re-
quiring an increasingly wise type of
statesman and politician on the way II
we arc to hold together and carry out
tho destinies which seem appointed TO
us.-New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-10-10
THE POWER OF POETRY.
SCOTS Description of the Chase and What
the Ordinary Man Would Have Said.

SCOTS Description of the Chase and What
the Ordinary Man Would Have Said.
Take, as q single instance Of the pow
or of poetry. Walter Scott's opening
lines in the Lady Of the Lake." where
he describes the chase Of tho stag. The
stag escapes and evades his pursuers,
but what picture the great poet has
put into wordsi
Reduced to prose the ordinary observ-
er and writer would have said, "They
chased the stag several miles, but lost
him in the Trosachs. He could not
possibly have said in prose:
The antlered monarch Of the waste
Sprung from his heathery couch in haste,
But ere his fleet career he took
The dewdrops from his flanks he shook;
Like crested leader, proud and high.
Tossd his beamed frontlet to the sky;
A moment gazed adown the dale,
A moment snuffed the tainted gale,
A moment listened TO the cry
That thicken'd as the chase drew nigh.
Then as the headmost foes appear'd,
With one brave bound the copse he ciear'd,
And stretching forward free and far
Sought the wild heaths Of Uam.var.
The poet began his picture with an
incident that only poet would have
thought worthy of words, but what q
picture the few words makel
The stag at eve had drunk his fill
Where danced the moon on Monan's rill
And deep his midnight lair had made
In lone Glenartney's hazel shade.
Forest and Stream.