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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-22
Local Matters.

S. O. Brown of Bath, was in Augusta,
Thursday.
A. f. Chase of Saco, was IN the Capital
city, Thxslay. S
Irving Smith of Somerville, visited Au.
gusta, Thursday.
Hon. +. NJ. Simpson of Carmel, was in
the city Thursday.
----
j. +. Estes of Lee, was in Augusta, on
business, Thursday.
w. A. Farr of Waterville, was here,
Thursday afternoon.
School examinations aud graduating ex.
ercises viii close today> 9 a.
Miss Betsy Cleary of Medford, Mass, is
visiting at L. S. Cony's.
p. G! Lowell of Lewiston, was visitor
to the capital, Thursday.
c. A. and Dwight Robinson of Auburn,
were in the city, Thursday.
- Mrs. Il. J. Frost and Mrs. Calvin Crocker
of Portland are at Col: Staples.
-. 70
Miss Rose Yeaton has returned froms
vacation to her home at Belgrade.
Mrs. l.. S. Cony has gone to Branch
Mills on a visit of a week or more.
Professor Trefethen of Kent's Hill col
lege, was here on business. Thursday.
Francis Babb, who has been visiting friends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-22

Miss Gertrude Stone has returned from
pleasant witt with relatives at New
Haven, Conn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-06-22

Formerly sold at $3.50,
$1,000, $l2.5O, $3.50 and
$l4. SO,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

Galen Wilson, in the Practical Farm
er, tells how to have pasture for hogs:
Divide your lot into two fields. Sow
one to oats alone at the rate of three
bushels to the acre, as soon Us the soil
will answer to work in the spring, and
about the 10th of May SOW the other to
sweet corn, two bushels to the acre.
About the last of June, change the AMI
mails from the oat field to this corn.
Then plow the oat field and SOW to
corn in the same way, and change the
hogs back when necessary. If the
number of hogs is rightly prUpUSt:ened
to area and fertility of soil there will
be green feed until winter. For this
purpose sweet corn is worth about
fifty per cent. more than common fie Id
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
We Have Too MANY Scruhs.

Too many scrubs are kept on Ameri-
can farms. In "a land that pro duces
such surplus of feedstuffs at such
small cost, and where pure bred sires
are now attainable at almost nominal
cost, such state of affairs is beyond
comprehension. 1t is a disgrace to
American agriculture that in this land
of plenty, as respects all kinds of fod-
der and fattening foods, there should
be such percentage of inferior farm
animals. Every farmer can replace all
ill-shaped, thriftess beasts by we'll
formed early-maturing stock, and thou
sands are contributing nothing but
scrubs to the low-priced, unstable
farm stock with which our country is
cursed and by which our markets are
flooded. Breeders Gazette.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
LIME FOR POULTRY.
IL Given at All, 1t Must Be Given In
Diluted Form.

Diluted Form.
The suggestion to give grain so liked
in lime water to poultry is well worthy
of quasi condemnation. Animals can
not live on mineral food, and lime in
this-its natural condition-is acrid
and injurious. There Is no need for it,
either, or for the trouble taken III pre-
pairing the grain. Some fresh ZONES
with the meat attached, as are thrown
aside by the butchers, especially the
softer and more cellular rib bones,
make the best form In which to give
the lime needed by hens. If it is too
much trouble to break these with
hammer on a block in the poultry yard,
which has been my practice for years,
the bones may be burned in the kitchen
stove and the ashes given to the fowls
in the yard or in some place to which
they have free access. The waste bones
of the household may be thus turned
to use in the most profitable way, and
flock of fifty hens will consume all
the waste of goodsized family. For
large tlocks a contract should be made
with the local butcher In this form
the lime is digestible and the phosphoric
acid in the bones will also be valuable.
IT is very certain that no indigestible
matter given to hen can help her in
any way to make shells for her eggs,
all the material of which must neces-
sarily pass through the blood before 1t
can reach the ovary.
1t Is a common experience among
poultrymen that rape and hemp seed
are useful to the laying hens, and in
crease the number of eggs Now both
these seeds are rich in lime, the ash OF
the former having 4per cent. Of it and
that of the latter 23 per cent. And in
this regard it might be mentioned that
the seed of the esparcet, which is eaten
by fowls with great avidity, has more
than third of its ash lime. Thus the
culture of this plant, one of the legumi.
uose, may be recommended as very
useful to poultry-keepers 1t is com
mon crop on the small French farms,
under its common name sainfoin, and
the fowls eat the whole plant, which
like all its family (the clover) has a
great quantity of lime in 1t. Glover
itself is thus use full to fowls as green
crop on this account. This is the only
way in which lime can be given tc
fowls BEAUTIFULLY. -Country Gentle,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


Potato Scenes, Boil and peel sir
sound potatoes, mash them until they
are perfectly free from Jumps; add a
little salt, then knead it out-adding a
little flour-until it is an inch thick. A
griddle is the best to bake on and the
scenes should be pricked lightly with
fork, This prevents them from Bills
tering Butter them while quite hot
and they are delicious. Prairie Farmer.
-Rhubarb Pudding, Cut a pint OF
rhubarb into thin pieces Make bat
ter of pint each of flour and milk,
two well-beaten eggs, two tablespoon
fuls sugar, pinch of salt and two tea
spoonfuls baking powder. Stir n.4oli
smooth, then mix with it the cut rhu.
barb and place it in mold or tin pail,
leaving room to swell. Plunge in boil
ing water and keep it boiling an hour
and half Eat with hot sauce -GE.
ange Judd Farmer.
Spanish Buns Mix together enc
pint of -four, one pint of sugar, enc
cupful of sweet milk, one cupfpl of
butter, four eggs beaten separately,
one teacupful of liquid yeast, one tea.
spoonful each of powdered cinnamon,
cloves, allspice and grated nutmeg.
Knead thoroughly, then roll out and
cut into large biscuit, and set them to
rise in warm place. When we'll risen,
bake them like rolls AS soon as they
are taken from the oven sprinkle whi&e
sugar over them. Christian Inquirer.
Columbus Eggs. Boil hard any
number of eggs you desire. Take out
the yellows carefully, and while hot,
and mash fine and mix with them, &c
your taste, fresh butter, salt, pepper,
mustard and a suspicion of finely chop
ped onion. Fill the empty whites with
this mixture take care not to break
them. Press the two halves togethe.
so that they will look like whole egg.
Cut small piece from one end SO that
each will stand alone, as Columbus
famous egg did, and serve them stand
ing in dish surrounded with parsley
-Woman's Work.
German Cabbage. Shred red cal
bage to fill quart measure, closely
packed Put in water. Heat il {
saucepan two level tablespoonfuls c:
butter, with little salt and pepper
Put the ca bbage in with only as much
water as will drip from the bowl, anc
simmer for twenty minutes, stirring &C
casionally. When done, add one table
spoonful of vinegar and let heat Eeal
on a platter, and squeeze mashed poGa
toes through a rose tube, around th'
edge of the platter. The roses of pota
toes around the cabbage give beauti
full decorative effect. This is an eE
cellent way to cook white cabbage also
Good Housekeeper.
Aunt Mary's Pudding Pour eve
pint of grated bread pint and a kal
of warm milk. Stir it well togette
and then add half pint of cream, tn,
grated peel of one lemon, three ounce
of sugar, piece of butter the size 0
an egg, and the yolls of five or 81.
eggs, we'll beaten. Mix all togethe
thoroughly, pour into dish and bak
carefully. Beat the whites of the egg
to a stiff froth, add three ounces o
powdered sugar, and the juice OF th
lemon and stir we'll When the pud
ding is baked, put layer of aprioo
preserves over the top, pile the whiske
whites over it and put in the oven |.
brown lightly.-Boston Budget
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

used as flap door, and two round
topped holes were cut in the front part
Of the box for doors between the back
and front of the pen. On the founda-
ton in front, floor of four-foot boards
was nailed, projecting little beyond
the framework. Strips like those used
for the foundation were nailed in the
same manner about the top of the box
and hoored over. On this frame work
five pairs of one by two-inch rafters,
cut for one fourth pitch, and project
ing four inches, were securely nailed.
Four strips of one and one half by one
inch stuff were bored at intervals OF
one and one-half inches with q one
fourth inch bit, and of these the front
cage was constructed by inserting one
fourth inch round iron rods cut to four
teen-inch pieces, the strips being Sc
curely nailed at top, bottom and
corners, The middle pair of rafters
supported partition in the roof with
hole between the compartments. An
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
FARM AND GARDEN.
PRETTY RABBIT PEN.
1t Ia Easily Made aud Presents an Attra

1t Ia Easily Made aud Presents an Attrac'
tive Appearances.
To encourage my boy in learning the
Use of tools, designed and helped him
make an ornamental rabbit pen Gig
y. A box of inch stuff two by four feet
and sixteen inches deep was procured,
the top taken off and and the open part
placed on the ground. -Four strips each
one by two inches and four feet long
were nailed to the box, cross strip of
the same size two feet long being
naled in across the center to complete
The framework of the foundation Gig.
y. A part of one side of the box was
removed and fitted with hinges to be
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

An exceptionally favorable opportunity
for visiting the richest and most productive
sectious of the west aud northwest viii be
afforded by the Home-Scekors' lOw-rato eX-
cursions which have been arranged by the
Northwestern Line Tickets for these ex-
cursions will be sold on May eth and goth, to
points in northwestern Iowa, western Min
nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Man
itnba, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
turn passage within thirty DAYS from date
of sale. Stop-overpriviltge viii be allowed
on going trip in territory to which the
tickets are sold For further information,
call ON or address Ticket Agents Of connect
ing lines. Circulars giving rates and de-
tailed information will be mailed, free, upon
application to w. A. Thrall, General Pas
senger and Ticket Agent Chicago u North
Western Railway, Chicago.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
DIAMONDS IN METEORlTES.


A Stellar Substance of Remarkable Hard.
ness, Lustre and Brlliancy.
In report made by George f, Kun2
to the United States geological sur
vey, an interesting account is given
of an experiment made at CHI
cago during the Worlds fair in
determining the character of what
appeared to be diamond carb1n
found in meteorite by Prof George L.
koenig, of the university of Pennsy!.
vania. Prof. A. E. Foote, of Pki.a.
delphia, obtained a piece of meteoyite
He sent it to Prof. Koenig for exar.ina,
ton. The piece weighed about sixteen
pounds. When an attempt was made
to cut it, it was found to be remarkably
hard. The edge of half-inch chisel
was repeatedly broken by it. One spot
in particular was so hard that the tools
produced black powder instead Of
chips. When the meteorite was being
cut, an attempt was made to polish the
sections in an emery wheel, The
!" was
had been noted previously in Russian
meteoric stones, and Prof Koeaig pro
nounced the black particles from this
Arizona meteorite to be diamond.
The particles of this substance Oh.
tanned were SO minute that the
ordinary chemical tests could not
be applied to them, but Mr..
Kunz suggested at the meeting of tie
Academy of Arts and Sciences that il
enough clear grains could be obtained
to polish diamond, the nature of the
substance would be definitely deter
mined. About two hundred pounds OF
the meteoric iron was examined, and
specimens which appeared to contain
diamonds were dissolved. The exhibit
of diamond cutting in the mining
building of the Worlds fair gave tbs
opportunity for trying the experiment,
and a New York jewelry company
made preparations for the test. A d.a.
mond polishing wheel was specially
planned down, and prepared with ra6i.
ating scratches SO as TO be easily
charged with diamond powder. The
wheel was run at two thousand five
hundred revolutions to the minute, and
diamond was tried on it for five min
utes without any polish resulting
The wheel was then charged with The
meteorite powder mixed with oil. Z;
soon as the diamond was placed on TIE
wheel a kissing noise showed thaG il
was being cut In three minutes out
face of the diamond was polished Al
ter series of experiments with TIL
powder, Mr. Kunz says he is satisfied
that it is diamond, ''or a substance
with the same hardness, color, lustes
Ind brilliancy.'
This experiment is interesting only
IS showing one of the queer freaks Of
1ature. Why a meteorite should bs
charged with diamond dust is no more
apparent than is the reason for the dis
covery of single diamond in a Ken
lucky field. There has been but one
diamond discovery in Kentucky, thcugI
certain sections OF the state have beer
studied infinitely with view TO pre- ,
able development of diamond mines
The diamond in the United States il
almost as great freak as the diamo1l
dust in the meteorite. Frank Leslss'i
Weekly.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
FIG. 2.-FHAMnwoRE OF RABBIT PEN.


other hole for ingress to the at tic was
left in the floor in the back room.
The roof was sheathed with three
fourths-inch boards, ard cornice
fitted on caves and gable. 1t was then
shingled, and neat cresting added to
the comb. The back gable was board
ed up with vertical pieces and fitted
with a small hinged door. The front
gable was finished by mailing on ver-
teal Stats with pointed bottom ends,
made of one-h half by threefourths-inch
pine. A pit was dug one and one-half
by three feet in size and two feet deep,
and lined with boards around the sides.
The back part of the pen was placed
directly over the pit Grown rabbits
could jump easily from the pit into the
front cage, and the little ones remained
in the cage until too large to get ont
through the wires Rabbits dig down
in the pit and construct their own
breeding places in burrows beneath the
pen. The pen proved to be warm in
winter, cool in summer and well adapt
ed for keeping rabbits. With a long
handled shovel all refuse could be easily
removed from the pit through the ira. ,
door, and the pen never became often
sive. With pair of white rabbits and
their young, the pen was pretty
sight at the back of the lawn, and
was always attractive to- visitors, 1t
was painted with dark red mineral
paint and trimmed with white, which
harmonized well with the bright green
lawn and the dark green foliage of the
shrubbery. American Agricuturist.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
NICE FOR The HENS.
Ingenious Continuance for Self-Openine
Poultry House.

Ingenious Continuance for Opening
Poultry House.
The illustration is to show contriv.
ance by which the hens let themselves
out of the poultry house in the morn.
ing, when they come off the roost. The
house can be shut up at night to pro.
tect against enemies, but the fowls
can come out at any time, so as to per-
NIT sleepy poultrymen to slumber
without being compelled to get up and
open the door The hens will be up
and out early without giving any per,
son annoyance. When the fowls wish
to go out they always resort to some
accustomed place near the door One
may step on the platform to which the
chain of The spring is attached and her
weight pulls the spring down, the sta.
pie is released from the catch and the
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
weight of the board causes it to fall,

weight of the board causes it to fall,
which opens the dodt.
The designer, Mr. Smith NJ Evans,
Alabama, says that it works well and
is very satisfactory, In the illustra-
ton, A is the opening for fowls to en-
ter; b is the hole through which the
staple in the door passes to catch on
the spring catch inside; c is the spring
catch with chain (D) attached to the
trap door (E), on which the fowls step,
the weight of their bodies drawing
down the catch, which liberates the
staple (ED, and the weight of the door
(G) causes it to fall, allowing the fowls
to come out at the opening (A); is tn,
spring latch of the catch and f f show
hinges, The arrangement is very sim.
pie, and can be applied to any poultry
house. Any person can make the con-
trivance, and it is given here for the
benefit of all who may be interested. -
Farm and Fireside.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

Instead of taking eggs 20 the nearest
grocery store, try the experiment of
selling them at some private residence.
You will have b difficulty in securing
more than tn jPular price if you can
satisfy the Customer that the eggs are
from your own hens. The reason is
that it is difficult to secure strictly
fresh eggs, and there is always more
or less suspicion existing toward those
offered in the regular market, buyers
preferrina to offer an advance in pref
erence to buy those that may con.
saiu sale egg among the lot
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

AN unusual scene was that in a court
room in Terre Haute, Ind James God
sey was on trial for forging his fathers
name to an order for two hats. He de-
clined counsel and spoke for himself
MY father raised me among thieves,
gamblers and blacklegs Before could
see over the top of pool-table he put
me on box and taught me how to
play. The only man who taught me
how to cheat at cards was my father.
Now that he goes back on me stand
here without friend on earth. You
may send me to the penitentiary, but
am not wholly responsible for what
I am"
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01
AMONG THE POULTRY.

DON'T be tempted to keep too many
hens in a limited space. A small flock
we'll kept will lay more eggs proper
tionately than will larger flock
crowded for room, and will not make
such large food bill either.
THE beautiful light Brahmas are
coming back into favor. What breed
has better table meat, more of it, and
lays more eggs, when they bring a
good price? The bodies of Light
Brahmas are so large and warm that
they lay more steadily in winter than
do lighter breeds.
PLYMOUTH Rocks are notable for de.
string frequently to sit A rotation of
yards, thus keeping their surround
ings somewhat strange, will overcome
the tendency to brood and insure
steady laying Another advantage of
having several yards into which the
foods are changed occasionally is that
they may be kept cleaner and more
healthy.
The value of CHATS, short hay and
cut straw is not half appreciated by
poultrymen in keeping their yards aud
houses clean as well as in busying- the
fowls, thus keeping them out of mis-
chief and giving them exercise. Prem
Uses that are strewn with straw are
also easily cleaned, as the filth is mat
ted in layers that are easily lifted with
fork.
SOME advise, and a few practice
throwing out the grain for the morn.
ing meal after the fowls take to their
perches at night that they may eat
early, aud the trouple of supplying
breakfast may be avoided 1t is bad
plan. Nothing so quickly attracts
mice and rats, that destroy not only
food intended Tor fowls, but prove q
detriment in other ways to the poultry
mans interests Rural World.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

THE fire department at Berlin has
fire engine, the carriage Of which is
constructed entirely out Of papier
mache. All the different parts, the
body, wheels, poles, etc, are finished
in the best possible manner. While
the durability and powers of resistance
possessed by the material are fully as
great as those of wood, the weight is,
of course, much less, The lightnoss of
fire engine is, of course, great adj
vantage and it seems not unlikely that
wooden carriages will in a short time
pass out of use altogether.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

To keep chickens from eating eggs
keep plenty of ground bone, oyster
shell! and fine gravel before the flock
all the aime, so they may eat at will
Construct the nest in dark place,
undtr some shelf, and feed little salt
and 'neat. l'y doing this you will sell
dom be annoyed by those egg eaters,
To those that have formed the habit
pare off the upper mandible quite
blunt and put china nest eggs in the
nests. They will work awhile at these
artificial eggs to break them, aud find.
ing they will not yield they very often
never try to eat another egg Farm
and Home
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

THERE are few members of the sem
ate who do not wear eyeglasses or
spectacles, either all the time or for
reading. PETER, singularly enough,
is the greatest luxury in his glasses
He wears habitually pair of gold
trimmed spectacles, and keeps besides
on the lapel of his coat pair of gold
eyeglasses fastened to gold clasp and
attached to gold chain that is heavy
enough to attract attention.
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-06-01

THE newest of western mining camps
the Cochiti camp, in New Mexico, lies
near the anciept Indian village of that
name on the west bank of the Rio
Grande, southwest from Santa Fe. The
mines lie in lodges which cross at right
angles the walls of three canyons, the
Cochiti, the Pine and the Peralto
Some of the ores already taken out here
are very rich, and, if the claims as to
their abundance are verified In the con-
tinued working, Cochiti will prove one
of the gold bearing districts of the
United States