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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Mad Dog Scare.

Ovid had quite little excitement
the other morning, and all on account
OF supposed mad dog. The cur was
not owned by anyone in particular, and
had been running at large, picking up
a precarious living wherever it could.
All at once. on the morning in ques-
tion, it commenced to run around and
snap at everything in sight, tearing
one little dog all to pieces and biting
a number OF others, which were put to
death. 1t was shot at two or three
times, but it seemed to bear a charmed
life, till one citizen offered dollar to
anyone that would kill it. That started
almost every boy in the village, and in
less than no time the brute was killed
and one boy made happy.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19

The little Newport boy, Ira Burpee,
or Spangleburger, is now helpless
cripple, both feet having been ampu-
tated about two inches above the an
kle. After the amputation the boy
began Immediately to improve. On
being asked IL 1t didn't hurt him when
Mrs. Burpee poured hot water into his
shoes and why he didn't cry, he re-
piled that it hurt him so much that he
was beyond crying. He now states
that before she poured the water into
the boots she made the threat, I'll fix
you so you won't run away any more. "
He could make no resistance because
his hands were tied behind him. Then
she pulled of the socks so carelessly
that the skin was pulled of in several
places. He slept under the straw stack
only one night and walked to the house
at breakfast time the next morning.
Mrs. Burpee has been charged with as
sault with intent to do great bodily
harm, less than the crime of murder,
and lodged in the county Jail.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
Does His own Chores Now.

A Clare County man made his wife
split all the wood, feed seven head Of
cattle and team OF horses and clean
the stables, to say nothing OF submit
ting to his ungovernable temper
WHEY naturally objected, so one day
she packed her sachel and left for
parts unknown. Hubby was much dis
tressed, as we'll as repentant. After. a
long search he found his spouse in
Grand Rapids. She told him she
guessed she'd forgive him, but asked
for ten minutes time to get her
laundry and other belongings No
wife came back, but instead a boy,
saving it would be useless for him to
wait any longer. Hubby lost track of
her again, and now he is splitting the
wood, feeding the cattle, cleaning the
stable and kicking himself for his
brutishness
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-04-19
WEST AFRICAN CUSTOMS.

Some Interesting Features of Native Life
Near Sierra Leone.
During recent years, owing partly
to independent explorers and partly
to the operations of European pow
ers in Africa, we have learned much
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
SUGGESTIONS On SDraylnc,

The benefit derived from orchard
spraying is no longer doubted by the
intelligent and progressive farmer, and
IS practiced by many who distrustcd its
efficacy so long. The time for spray
ing orchards comes in a very busy time
and where one is short of help" seems
almost impossible to spare time for the
operation, and where one is not posi-
tive in regard to results are apt to be
overruled by difficulties. Another draw
back is the weather at that par ticular
time is apt to be catchy and an un-
looked for shower will undo the whole
work and SO it must be repeated. We
must look this business squarely in the
face. 1t is either spray trees, vine,
shrubs and bushes or lose them and
the fruit also Where there is will
there is way" and as nation we
are great In overcoming difficulties
when we are sure we are on the right
track. have sprayed everything that
needed it on the farm for seven or
eight years past, and shrubs and plants
always. Being u florist took up the
orchard spraying as soon as Prof. Cook
recommended it, and it pays, and
l never think of neglecting it, and
if every one else would do the same
it would soon finish the business.
l have tried several remedies yeats ago
for black aphis on cherries, but found
none to do as we'll as the kerosene
emulsion. That required but one ap-
plicatiOn to be effectual. The black
knot on plums, if pruned away in sea-
son, is harmless. The spring is the
proper time, l think Our trees seemed
benefited by the trimming off, as the
knot is usually on the older limbs l
notice, and the trees never bore more
or finer fruit. have tree
pruner and it is a quick and easy way
to do the work. l mention my own
"deeds" as many read newspaper arti
clcs as if only from imagination;
farming on paper" and now after the
apple orchards are an unproductive
ruin, it is time to unite and set to
work in earnest this spring. Every
one who owns a tree or vine should
make sure that there are no bugs or
worms to accomplish more mischief -
Mrs NJ. A. Fuller in Farmers Re-
view
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
Ghe Dousehold.
Jane Jones.

Jane Jones.
Jane Jones keeps a-whispering to me all
the time,
An says: why don't you make it q
rule
To study your lessons an work hard an
learn,
An never be absent from school,
Remember the story Of Elihu Burritt,
How he clumb up to the top;
Got all the knowledge at he ever had
Down at the blacksmithing shop"
Jane Jones she honestly said it was so;
Mebbe he did dunno;
Course, what's a-keeping me way from
the top
Is not never having no blacksmithing shop.
She said at Ben Franklin was awfully
poor,
But full o. ambition an brains,
An studied philosophy all is hull life
An see what he got for his pains.
He brought electricity out of the sky
With kite an the lightnin' an key,
So we're OWN him more'n any one else
Fer all the bright lights at we see.
Jane Jones she actually said it was so;
Mcbbe he did dunno;
Course, what's alters been hinderin' me
Is not havin' any kite. lightnin' or key.
Jane Jones said Columbus was out at the
knees
When he first thought up his big scheme;
An all of the Spaniards an Italians, too,
They laughed and just said twas
dream;
But Queen Isabella she isten'd to him,
An pawned ali her jewels Of worth,
An bought i'm the Santa Mariar nd said.
Go hunt up the rest of the earth"
Jane Jones she honestly said it was SO;
Mebbe he did l dunno;
Course, that may all be, but you must
allow
They amt any land to discover just now
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
Poultry House Floors.

The question as to whether earth or
plank is preferable for poultry house
floor is quite often asked, writes 1. F.
Tillinghast, in American Farmer.
Having given the subject of poultry
house construction q great deal of
study preparatory to the erection Of
some extensive breeding houses, will
give the results of my investigations.
The roof being the most expensive
part of any ordinary poultry building,
it should be planned to cover rs much
space as possible have found most
economical plan is to just set chest
nut post for each corner of the build
ing. If on side hill, form basement
by excavating straight into the hill SO
as to form q level earth floor. Front
toward the sun or southern exposure,
and let the two front posts be ten feet
high after being set firmly in the
ground. The two back posts should
be about two feet shorter. Then about
three feet above the ground floor
place a plank floor on 2x4 scant-
ling, firmly nailed to the posts.
Ahho AOA u O3SCAACuG "AiCu
is to be thickly strewn with
chaff, short straw or buckwheat hulls,
and to be used for scratching pen and
runway for the fowls in storm weather.
1t should be tightly inclosed on all
sides except front, in which should be
a glass door that can be left open or
closed, according to the weather. Here
the fowls will be protected from wind
and storm, yet can get sunlight and
fresh air, as well as plenty of exercise
by being allowed to scratch the litter
over for grain, which is daily scattered
in it. But they should not be al
lowed to roost here. This apartment Is
connected with the roosting-room above
by an inclined plank, on which Stats
are nailed. thus forming q stairway
leading through hole in the floor: BY
this arrangement you really double the
capacity of your building under given
roof, for you have the whole size of
your building for q scratching pen,
and the same for a roOsting room. And
you have solved the floor question by
giving them both, the natural earth
being best adapted to their needs
in the scratching department., and q
tight plank floor under their roosts.
You are saved the expense of an un-
derpinning and skunks and rats
will have no chance to hide under the
floor.
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
Ghe farm.


lam always interested in articles pub
iishedin the Farmers Review and othel
papers concerning cleanliness il
stables where cows for milk are kept
Some articles are very suggestive and
valuable to a painstaking dairyman,
while others border on the ridiculous
as, one suggests as an objection to
washing the udders that the cream
would separate in the bag, reminding
me of an objection to dehorning pub.
lished during the past month in a
widely circulated agricultural paper:
Just think of it! Nothing applied to
the wound to keep the cold air from the
animals brain. There arc two primary
conditions necessary for cleanliness
in the milk pail. The first is in ref
erence to the mixer. The difference
in mixers is almost marvellous. Any
dairyman will be annoyed by the
foulness of milk drawn by some EN-.
ployes, while he, under same condi-
tions, will have a clean pail of milk.
If a COW has comfortable, fit quarters
for lying down after q few br lshes
by the hand over the flank, bag and
abdomen before the pail is introduced
there can be no dirt that will conta m
mate the milk. The fine epithelial dust
that falls from the udder may largely
DC kept out of the pail by an occasional
brush of the hand. The loathsome
practice of wetting the hands in the
milk will no. be tolerated by any
cleanly person. Second, as to structure
of stable. should have made scri-
Gus mistake in the arrangement of my
floor but for accidentally seeing some
published measurements. Perhaps this
will guide some inexperienced person
in building. No man can have clean
milking without a properly construct
ed stable. With such, milking is en-
joyable as pastiInc. Without it, it is
a repulsive, d rty, loathsome service.
| we'll remember in my boyhood days
sitting down by COW with tail, hind
quarters, sides and bag dripping with
semi fluid filth, feeling with disgust
my way to the teats and trying to get
clean milk, lodging In the meantime
a swipe of the tail across my face.
Even recently, speaking to q farmer of
the profits of dairying, the answer was,
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20

There is not q Paris viatner with q
spark of self-respect under his waist.
coat who has not at least one guardian
angcl" in his employment. The guard
ian angel" is q cheruh of placid temper,
in smock shirt, ears insensible to vitu-
peration, arms strong enough to parry
and support, honesty chat can see gold,
silver and copper without remembering
bocus-pocus. When, by oft wetting his
throat, a customer grows limp and SO
imaginative as to sec streets, houses and
Iamp-posts dancing a grand galop in
fernal expressly to prevent him from
walking home, the guardian angel then
makes his appearance, rifles his vet
countrymanis pockets, draws the weak
arm in his, walks the brainless fellow
home, gives his wife ali the contents of
the pockets, and carries away her bless
ing.-ScTibner'S MOnthlu.
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20


In all ATTITUDES south of New York
almost all danger of frost is past by
the last week in April It is then
time to make ready for the putting
out of plants of all sorts. says New
York Ledger. Garden beds should be
prepared with An abundance of fer
tilizer and tender ANNALS may be
sown. For this it is q good plan to
prepare litter of light straw or some
boards to cover the ground at night
and on cool days This makes 1t pos
sible to plant seeds at least week
earlier than would otherwise be safe,
and the plants get SO much farther ad-
vanced.
There is another advantage in this,
which is that the weeds can be kept
down much more easily if the work is
begun very early in the season. When
seeds are sown late the weeds have
chance to get well established before
the tender seedlings show above
ground; in pulling the weeds then. it is
almost certain that many of the plants
will be uprooted. With rare and val
liable varieties this is quite an import
even by the amateur.
In the training of vines it is impor-
tant to provide supports at once.
Many plants seem to forget how to
climb if they are not supported when
they first start to twine, therefore
some little twig should be put out
as soon as they shoot up from the
ground.
In putting out large vines such as
the cobea, passion vine and similar
climbers, a bit of poultry netting is the
very best possible support. Started
early in the season and protected until
fully established, two or three cobeas
will entirely shade q porch or window,
but it is absolutely necessary that they
get an early start. Plants of this
kind, that are late in beginning a Wig
orous growth, rarely make it up dur
ing the season, but continue sort of
half-hearted existence, throwing out
. few struggling shoots and seeming to
lack the vitality that is the charm of
the perfect climber.
Thrifty plants such as geraniums,
fuchsias, heliotrope, salvias and the
like may be cut for slips for mid-season
use. In warm, sunny corner, sink q
water-tight vessel of some sort, pan,
kettle or tub, fill it with sand, raise
the earth a few inches above it. all
around, put in the cuttings, make the
earth very wet and lay single hot
bed sash over the raised-up earth, COW
ering the top entirely. In three or
four weeks the cuttings will be perfect
ly rooted and may be transplanted to
the border. A single thrifty geranium
would furnish score or more of
healthy cuttings, and these judiciously
distributed in odd corners of the yard
would insure any quantity Of delicious
green until frost
Salvias are among the easiest of all
cuttings to root and will make the
garden brilliant with their long stalks
of scarlet flowers until the ground
freezes 1t takes but little work and
time to provide for these useful favor
lite flowers, and every householder who
has few square feet of ground at
command may revel in this most de-
lightful compan ionship during the en-
tire season.
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval Of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all dru y
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
That General Purpose Gov.

In the face of all the scientific dem
onstrations of the last twenty years,
we still find some people advocating the
so-called general purpose cow" Even
some newspapers, supposed to be edu-
Gators of the farmer, publish articles
like the following:
"a good many farmers are coming to
believe that there is general purpose farm
COW. In spite of ali that has been said to
meant, of course, one which is good for
butter and milk, and which Is suffi-
GENTLY well bred to impress all her
good characteristics on her progeny. She
may be of any one of the several
breeds, but it is great mistake to suppose
that she may be of no breed at all, for
then she would not possess this last and
most desirable quality. This ideal farm
COW should have a large frame, SO that her
male calves will be valuable beeves. She
should he well pedigreed, SO that the heifer
calves would have promise to become as
good mixers and butter makers as herself.
She should be handled for dairy purposes
from the time che drops her first calf, so as
to promote q tendency toward q long pc
riod of milking. There are many farms
on which such COW will prove of greater
value than one banded especially for milk
or butter NEBRASKA Farmer.
Now the only fault l have to find
with the above is contained in one
sentence, This ideal farm COW should
have large frame so that her male
calves will be valuable beeves." l
challenge any man that knows how to
figure to show where the profit lies in
the calf of the ..peneral purpOse cow"
The trouble is, the people that write
such things never stop to figure out
where the profit and loss comes in;
they just give their impressions. Be-
cause one man with general purpose
COW gets 81 more for q calf than his
neishbor with dairy COW can get for
his calf, he takes it for granted that
he is s. ahead. The fact is, it repre-
sents money out of pocket. The
difference in the value of the two
calves represents the difference of the
cost of keeping those two cows for
one year. Let us stop to figure
a little. We will suppose
that the specific dairy COW
weighs 1000 pounds, and the general
purpose cow 1,5OO. The larger COW
weighs 500 pounds more than the
other. The Germans have proved by
that it takes per cent
in weight of food of animals to keep
them alive, before they can gain any
weight or produce milk That extra
500 pounds of animal will require 10
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20

pounds of food per day to keep
alive. That is 1860 pounds per year.
That amount of extra food can not b.
| obtained for much less than 50. There
fore, where is the profit on that bull
calf? 1t is to be hoped that none of oul
farmers will follow such thoughtless
articles as that above quoted. Farm
ers should figure out the cost of what
they produce for market-Jay, ir
Farmers Ecview.
THE Russian government contem.
plates buying up the railways in the
southwest of Russia, amounting alto
gether to about 1900 miles, before the
end of the present year, according to the
London Iron and Coal Trades Review.
THE desire of the government is sup
posed to be due to military considera-
tions. The government railways OF
the western portion of Russia will be
divided into circuits-the Warsaw,
Wilma, kielf, Charkoff, Moscow and
Caucasian. The further question of
constructing q railway to the Polar
and White Sea is to be considered by a
special commission appointed By the
government and the st. Petersburg
town council. The scheme of con-
structing line across Finland from
Uleaborg to the Norman coast on
the Arctic ocean seems to have been
abandoned, both from commercial and
strategic reasons. 1t is proposed,
however. to construct a railway line
connecting St Petersburg with Kcmi,
on the extreme north of the Gulf of
Bothnia, via Ladeinoe Polje and Petro-
zavodsk-a distance of some 600 miles
This railway, it is thought, might be
afterward extended to one of the open
harbors on The Moorman coast, which
would furnish Russian warships with
a naval station. Another contem-
plated scheme is for q line from st.
Petersburg to Vologda. in order to
place the capital in more direct con-
nection with the Trans-Siberian rail-
way, and to develop the resources of
the northern governments, which are
greatly in need of railways and roads.
The question of extending the Vologda
line to the once flourishing seaport of
Archangel is also being seriously dis
cussed.'
in combating all fungus diseases it is
essential that something of the life
history of the disease be known.
thus enabling us to determine the
proper time to apply remedies for pre-
venting it, says an Arkansas bulletin.
From what is known of apple scab it is
believed that the trees are affected
oarly in the season The disease is re-
produced by means of spores which
are carried to the healthy plants bv
the wind and in other ways. The
spores live through the winter in the
rubbish, old leaves and fruit and under
the rough bark of the trees and are
ready to begin the attack as soon as
the leaves open in the spring. The
condition of the atmosphere here is
very favorable for the development of
the disease at an early date. The
spores germinate, grow and produce
new spores, which are blown to healthy
leaves and fruit. Thus the develop-
ment is kept up, if the weather is
favorable. throughout the growing
season. The scab thrives best in cool,
damp weather. A continued dry spell
checks the development of the disease.
The mixer should always keep the
COW serene and good ratured. Milk
quickly but never appear to be in a
hurry. A great deal depends upon
keeping the COW undisturbed in mind.
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20

IN1s7s this country exported 1 sos, 4dl
pounds of oleomargarine. In 1898 this
export trade had increased to 3,47o, 32a
pounds of the solid and 1l2 939, 363 gal
Ions of the oil. This oil was sent
abroad, chiefly to Holland and Ger
many, to be made into bogus butter, q
large part of which finds sale in Eng
land. Holland is the great exp porter of
oleomargarine. In 1891 that country
exported more than 14O, OOO, 900 pounds
of the stuff-principally to England.
1t is this immense flood of fraudulent
butter that has compelled the English
to pass stringent laws against adul-
teratcd goods; but even these laws are
evaded. 1t is hard to think that indi-
rectly at least this country is at the
bottom of the European cheat by pro-
viding the oil
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20
Do You Wish
the Finest Bread
and Cake?

1t is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is
the purest and strongest of all the baking powders.
The purest baking powder makes the finest sweet
est most delicious food. The strongest baking pow
der makes the lightest food.
That baking powder which is both purest and
strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome
food
Why should not every housekeeper avail herself
of the baking powder which will give her the best
food with the least trouble?
Avoid all baking powders sold with gift
or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal,
as they invariably contain alum, lime or sui
phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome
Certain protection from alum baking powders can
be had by declining to accept any substitute for the
Royal, which is absolutely pure.
The Columbus journal., 1894-06-20

FARMS N LOSDOS.-Those who re.
gard London as a densely populated
province covered with houses, will
be surprised to learn from recent pub
lished agricultural returns that 14,OO0
acres, or one fifth of the total acreage
embraced within the metropolitan
limits, are devoted to agricult-
ure and actually under crops.
This is made up of sl2 acres
of grain crops, 2,s4O acres of
green crops, s0l acres of clover and
rotation grasses lO,1s2 acres of pcrma-
nent grassland, 333 acres of small
fruits, and 800 acres Of bare fallow
Within this area are kept 1880 head
of farm live stOck-horscs, cattle,
sheep and swine.-Ex.