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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1894-09-07

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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
Shall We Paint Beehives?

This ever recurring question was
agitated at a convention of beekeepers
Here is the discussion as reported in
The American Beekeepers' Journal:
Mr.. Hines-I believe that they should
not be painted. Implanted hives throw
off the moisture through the pores of
the wood.
Mr.. Kimble-Hives should be painted
to keep the joints close and covers from
warping.
Mr.. Hines-Won't the wax attend to
that all right?
Mr.. Kimble-Open joints increase
chances of moth and robber bees. All
hives should be painted white-a non
heat condensing color. If a hive is tc
be porous to carry off moisture, raise
the cover or raise the hive up from the
bottom board.
Mr. Hines-That is different kind
of ventilation.
Frank Coverdale-Bees winter best
in hives that are not painted.
Mr. Merritt agree with the ma
jority, that for wintering the hives
should not be painted. However, l like
to see nice hives.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26

ern states. Illinois perhaps ranks next
to Canada in the number and quality of
her draft horses. Our home breeders Of
Percherons and Clydesdales are now
bringing their stock to such perfection
that there is comparatively little impor-
tation of these breeds. We can grow
such good horses at home that we NO
longer need to send often to France o,
Scotland for them.
Our first illustration shows one of the
handsomest Percheron stations exhibit
ed at the Worlds fair.
This is an imported horse, owned in
Illinois. He is beautiful animal, 6
years old, Of the favorite Percheron dark
dapple gray color. He is 6 hands high
and weighs ton when in good flesh.
From his breast through to his powerful
shoulders he measures 2 feet II inches
His girth is Z feet inches.
The second illustration is portrait
of the champion prize winning Clydes-
dale stallion Of any age at the World S
fair. The Clydesdale breeding industry
has suffered less than many others dur
ing the depression of the past year.
There is bound to be something Of a
reaction in favor Of heavy draft horse
breeding, since farmers are finding that
they cannot raise fast trotters. For one
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
THE POULTRY YARDS.
Purify the Runs and Keep tho Birds
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Publication.

Purify the Runs and Keep tn, Birds
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Publication.
Many poultry men who keep their
fowls confined to small yards clean the
poultry houses, but never seem to think
it necessary to purify the yards, If
sickness visits their fowls, it is mys-
FERROUS dispensation of Providence, for
have they not kept the houses clean?
They do not think of the yards, whose
soil has become impregnated with the
'roppings of the fowls and upon which
{. green thing is never permitted to
grow. Following are methods of puri-
Ecation recommended by The American
Agriculturist:
First-Where it is possible to do so
seed the yard down to grass or clover
and let 1T bear crop one year or raise
upon it crop OF vegetables. OF course
this necessitates two yards for the fowls,
plan that cannot always be pursued.
Or one can, with movable fence, cut
off the fowls from the larger part of the
yard and sow that to some quick grow
| ing crop, like oats, and when it has
grown five or six inches high let the
fowls in upon it. Or one can spade the
yard in sections, sowing oats at each
spading, and thus secure little growth
from them and succession of growths
of green food for the fowls. A growing
crop for one season puts the soil in ex.
cellent condition for the fowls, the crop
removing just the elements that were
injurious to the fowls.
Second-Spading up the yards every
few weeks, either in sections or all al
once, turning up the soil to the action
of the sun and air. Air is the best dis
infectant we have, and plenty of it will
help to rob the soil of the elements poi
sonous to the fowls. Spading will dc
for few years, but after time it will
not be sufficient
Third-The removal and casting
away of several inches of the soil ant
replacing it with fresh earth. 1t woult
pay gardener to do this, as the sol
removed is rich in fertilizing matter
but few have been fortunate enough tt
find the gardener to do this. But ever
if one has to go to the expense of the re
moval it pays better to do it than t.
have lot Of sick and therefore unprof
liable fowls.
Fourth-Temporary relief can be hat
by sowing the yards with land plaster
This will hold the injurious emanation
and keep the air in healthful condi
ton.
Fifth-The soil can be disinfected b,
a thorough drenching with sulphate o
copper diluted in water, about on
pound Of the former to a hundred gal
Ions Of the latter. The soil should b.
thoroughly drenched. Of all these meth
DDS the simplest is the best-raising
crop upon the yard.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
Shipping Cattle.

Mr.. J. Ward Wilson tells how to ship
cattle SO that they will not shrink in
weight as follows:
In trying to find out better way
than the usual custom of shutting off
the grain feed "a hours before shipping
we shut off water the evening before
and gave them all the corn they could
eat the morning they were to go. Hav-
ing access to plenty of good hay all of
the time, they were not disposed to eat
much. Now, if you ever noticed, a
change of food after constant diet OF
one thing is relished by others than
steers We had fed a loaf of sheaf oats
once week, and noticing that they left
everything else and stuck to the oats
until consumed we concluded to fill the
car racks with them. Having done so,
we loaded 20 1900 pound steers in
each car and shipped them 800 miles
with only ID pounds shrinkage per head.
At the end of their destination there
was not straw left, and we believe
they would have eaten more if they had
had it. 1t will be noticed that stomach
full of corn and oats caused them to
drink better at the stockyards than if
they had been sailed at home. We
never salt because it acts as cathartic.
This is a great item of economy. Try it.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
HOGS, CORN AND CASH.
The Swine. IS n Factor In American AgRi-
cultural Prosperity.

cultural Prosperity.
Never has the value of the hcg crop
TO American farmers been more strik-
lngly demonstrated than during the past
10 months. Throughout those long and
anxious weeks of 1898, when bursting
banks and financial wrecks were sweep
ing away millions every day, and dur
ing all the depression of the first half
of 1894 good hogs were being grown,
shipped to market and turned into cash
in such astonishing numbers as to keep
veritable Niagara of hard cash-ready
money-fowing out from the purses of
packers and shippers into the pockets of
western farmers, and this enormous
quantity of pork has been produced at
such comparatively small Qost that al
most every pound of it has been sold
oven through the very worst of the
financial cyclone-at an actual profit to
the producer. Can this be said of any
other variety of live stock or of any
crop of grain that has been on sale dur
ing this same value destroying period?
The simple fact is that the farmers
of the west who live in sections where
the corn crop never fails and rarely falls
below an average yield have in this
field of pork production business which
in their hands is surrounded by so many
outstanding advantages that they can
safely challenge the competition of the
world. Myriad acres of land elsewhere
can contribute toward swelling the vol
ume of cattle, sheep and horses. India,
Russia and Argentine can grow wheat
so cheaply and in such quantities as to
fairly ruin the American farmer who
attempts to compete, but the sun does
not shine on any land that produces the
hogs own feed-Indian corn-in such
lavish abundance, that has such perfect
transportation and market facilities,
such admirable packing plants, as these
central western states. The hog is the
one reliable money maker, the "rent pay.
er," the breadwinner, the mortgage
litter" par excellence of the corn states.
He may make more money for his own
er some years than others. He may be
overtaken at times by disease, but in
the long run he always pays hand,
some profit in any corn growing district.
Other countries may grow ''pigs" in
comparatively small numbers, but no
where outside of the United States Car
hogs making such astonishing weights
at such an early age be produced in sucE
enormous numbers at such slight cost
Only two weeks ago there were ove1
800, 900 head bought and paid for al
four primary receiving points in sly
days, and even that great run was
absorbed without "break. - There il
no overestimating the Importance of the
hog crop as a leading factor in Ameri
can agricultural prosperity. We have
virtually a monopoly Of the worlds
markets SO far as cheap pork Of fine
quality is concerned and should make
the most of it-Breeder' Gazette
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
Live Stock Points.


Experiments made at the Minnesota
station in the fattening of lambs and
wethers indicate that the lambs got a
half more of value per ton out of their
food than the wethers did.
Although the Minnesota stations ex-
periments seem to show that it is cheap
er to fatten lambs than wethers, yet it
would be a pity if all mutton breeders
should go into the lamb business. Lamb
flesh, tender as it is, is not so nourish-
ing and strengthening as that of a
sound, fully ripe wether.
Corn, with one-tenth its weight OF
cottonseed fneal added, was found at the
Minnesota station to be the most profit
able ration on which to fatten lambs at
present prices: Screenings were nearly
equal to the corn as a sheep food.
At the London geological garden there
was few years ago pony that was
only 26 inches high. She was evidently
direct descendant from the prehistoric
horse, which scientists tell us was not
much larger than cat
The trade in mutton sheep for Eng
land has begun. If our breeders know
which side their bread is buttered, they
will work up this trade for all there is
in it. A howl went up from British
farmers when American beef first began
to be shipped across. They said it wa:
tough, blue and skinny; that nobody
could eat it; that it could not hold for {
week with the British article. There
was in truth almost as much prejudict
against it as exists in the American minC
today against horse or mule beef. Ye
American beef made its way victorious
" in Great Britain. 1t was good enough
for the common people, vastly bette
than no beef at all, for the British mea
was SO high they could not afford t.
buy it. Just so American mutton vii
make its way in Europe if breeders rails
only choice lots. Every means shoul'
be taken to improve the grade of on
mutton sheep.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
Limo on the Farm.

Lime is one Of the most useful agents
of the farmer when properly used 1t
acts directly as plant food in soils of
low fertility. It's chief value, however,
lies in it's indirect effect upon soils nat
urally rich i'll vegetable and mineral
compounds. It hastens the decay OF
organic matter and causes the nitrogen
Of humus to become more quickly avail
able. It assists in the process of nitrifi-
cation. 1t liberates potash from insolu-
BILE compounds, thus increasing the store
of active plant food, and it promotes the
formation Of compounds with alumina,
which have the power Of retaining am
monia, potash, etc. Any materials like
wood ashes, which contain large amounts
of lime, would act in practically the
same way as lime. Muriate of potash
is less valuable than lime as an indirect
manure, its effect upon other mineral
soil ingredients is not so marked, while
it does not materially hasten the decay
of organic matter. The addition of ma
nure to the soil does increase the activ-
tiles therein by promoting fermentation,
which, in turn, renders soil constituents
more active, says Professor VOORHEES, i'll
a letter to Rural New Yorker.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
Agricultural News and Notes.

The United States ornithologist is
anxious for the termination of the Eng
lish sparrow. He proceeds to extremes
in his instruction for the accomplish
ment of this feat and says the most eff
fectual method of getting rid of them
is to douse the ivy grown walls, where
the nests and the partly grown birds are,
with hose pipe.
The Association of American Agri-
cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta
tions will hold its convention of 1894
at Washington Nov. 49,
In tallow melting establishments a
large amount of refuse, so called tank
water" is thrown away. It contains a
valuable element, gelatin. A patent
has lately been granted for a method
of utilizing the above waste product.
The American Society Of Irrigation
Engineers will meet in annual session
in this city during the national irriga
ton congress in September and will dis.
cuss international irrigation laws.
In this age of incubation the latest
proposition is to inoculate plants like
corn with bacteria from clover or othel
plants that have the power of taking
nitrogen from the air. These nitro
gen absorbing" bacteria are to so stimu
late corn that it will gather rather thar
spend nitrogen.
The retirement of DIR. G. V. Riley
from the position of entomologist fol
the department of agriculture took place
June l. Mr.. L. o. Howard of New
York succeeds him.
A winter wheat crop of 300, 600, OO(
bushels has been prophesied for thu
United States.
/ To select seed from the best speci
mems and to do this year after year
planting only seeds from perfect plants
is to insure the best varieties and IL
largest returns.
A bill is before the United States sen
ate providing for the establishment o
an experiment station at which electric
ity is to be tested as a motive powe
and in all the branches of cultivation o
the soil in which horsepower is used.
Millions of II year locusts overrul
many farms and gardens of the eastern
states.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
CHAMPION CLYDEsDALE STALLION.

successful trotter or thoroughbred there
are 20 that are failures. We hear of the
successes. A Pennsylvania breeder Of
drafts says he has made money steadily
with we'll broken and matched heavy
teams. Minnesota begins to show up as
a raiser of fine drafts too. Breeders
should always bear in mind that they
can raise just as fine heavy horses in
the United States as can be produced in
Canada, and they should work accord
ingly.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
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FINE DRAFT HORSES.

Specimens of the Two Breeds That Are
Most Popular In America.
In spite of the tendency to trotting
stock and snowy carriage horses among
breeders, those who have stuck to the
heavy draft in spite of all temptation to
turn out 2:05 flier have done well.
Heavy draft breeding is mostly confined
10 the Pennsylvania and the northwest
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26

Congress has appropriated 500, 900
to investigate tuberculosis and methods
of stamping il out" 1t is proposed
to begin work in the city of Washing
ton and the herds that supply the milk
for its citizens.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-07-26
Bob Veal.

What is your opinion of the man who
would send to market for sale as food
for human beings calf weighing but
10 pounds? So far as the manhood of
such creature is concerned, isn't he
about as small a specimen as the calf?
Yet such calf came to this market the
other day-shipped from the country,
too, although we hope not by farmer.
1t didn't get much farther than the mar
ket, for it was seized by the board Of
health and consigned to the dump. This
is the smallest calf Of which we remem-
Der having heard, although quantities
of them are received weighing not over
25 or 80 pounds. A commission mer-
chant informs us that he knows of a
number which have been taken from
the wagons Of the transportation COM
panies within the past few days. An
other commission merchant informs us
that he knows of firm that is snug
CLING quantities of these bob calves into
the back part of their store to be sold
on the sly as customers can be secured.
Numbers of calves are to be seen hang
ing openly in the market, exposed for
sale, which are altogether too small to
be fit for consumption. What must
those be, then, which it is necessary to
smuggle in? This is an infamous bust
ness because it endangers the health
and lives of hundreds and thousands OF
innocent victims. Rural New Yorker.
Foot Rot.
Every one who has handled Sleeps
foot must have noticed just above the
hoof and between the tops of the claws
a small orifice covered by fine hairs and
evidently the end of duct. A viscid
fluid escapes from this duct when the
sheep is in health, says writer in az
Australian paper. In every sheep that
I have seen affected with foot rot thi:
little duct is closed or sealed. The es
Gaping fluid has become hard. What i:
the name of this duct? Is it connected
with secreting gland for lubricatine
the sleeps foot? Finally is the closing
of the duct an effect of foot rot, or is i
cause? 1t is very important that thi'
should be followed up and worked out.
I once asked an accredited veterinary
surgeon what this duct was for, and die
it extend far into the foot? The repl,
was that it was only superficial and O
no use. cannot help thinking that thu
duct is connected with gland, which
gland supplies fluid for lubricatini
the tendons of the foot.-Exchange
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

This Lie Ia but the Vest;buIe of "a Grand
Temple What General Naaman Was
Willing to Do 10 BE Cured The Truc
Eeniesly.
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

General Naaman wakes up from a
restless sleep in the chariot. and he says
10 the charioteer, How long before We
shall reach the Prophet Elisha:" The
charioteer says to awaysider, How far
is it TO Elisha's house:" He says, Two
miles. = Two miles" Then they whip
up the lathere,l and tagged ont horses.
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

w. \. McGuire. "a we'll known citizen
nl Mckay. Ohio. i of the opinion that
there is nnthin. ns good for children troubled
with colds or croup as Chamhcrloin- Cough
Remedy lie ha, used il in his family iar
several wears with the best results an,i
ALWAYS keeps hottie OF it in the house.
After having la grippe hc was himself tr"u-
hlel with severe con.h He used other
remedies without benefit and then concluded
to try the chiIdrenS medicine and t. hi. de
l::.hi il soon ciferied permanent cure. ~
and 81 cent bottles for sale l., Dr. =. l..
Benson. Snow Hill and DR. = X. Marshall
Berlin, Mi
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24
"Therc is Danger i'm Delay

Since 1861 have hcen great sufferer
from catarrh. tried Ely's Cream BALM
and To all appearances am cm"d. Terrible
headaches from which hal long suffered
ARE gone-W. J. Hitchcock. Late Major
l.. $. Vol. and \. a. Cen. Buffalo. y. y.
Ely's Cream BALM has completely cured
me oi catarrh when everything else tailed.
Many acqnantices have used it with excel
lent results Alfred ". stephens. Caldwell,
Ohio.
Price Of Cream BALM is fifty cents.
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

For II pain in the side or chest there is
nothing so good as piece of tlar el damper-
ed with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and hound
ON over the sent of pair. 1t affords prompt
and permanent relief and il used in time
will often prevent cold from resulting in
pneumonia. This same treatment is II sure
cure for lame hack For sale hv Dr. :. L.
Benson. Snow Hill. and Dr. $. X. Marshall
Berlin. Md
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24
II the Baby Is Cutting Teeth

lie sure and use that old wcll-tried remedy.
MRs. wINsI ow's SooTuISG SYRrP for child
rem tcething IL soothcs the child. softens
the gums. allays all pain, cures wind coic and
s the best remedy for diarrhTa. Twenty-Five
cents n hottie.
II ts Beat ON nlt.
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

The reputation of the ''MalI;,y
House." Baltimore. for tirsi-class accom-
modaiions aud low rates is fully sustain
ell under the present management. This
fact with its central location should rec
ommrnd II To al travellers.
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24
Notice 10 GunnerS.

I hereby forwarn, under penalty oi
the law, all persons from ;respassing
with dog or gun on my lands.
CHAS. r. T. MOORE, Spence, Nd
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

Subscribe for the MESSENGER Onl
81 90 wear in advance
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

iirnrN Wilson. thu postmaster at Welsh
t"u Flori.ia SAYS he cured 4 casc of diarrh"a
nf lon. standing in siN hours. with one
s,mall bottle III Chamlerlain's Collie. Chol rs
and Diarrhna Remedy What pleas, Mt
surprise that must have been Ia the sufferer.
Such cures ARE not unusual with this RENE
dy. ln many instances only onc or tw"
i">e> are required to give permanent relief.
u can always he depended np"m. When re-
dnced with water i; i pleasant To- take.
For sale by Dr. =. l.. Benson. Snow Hill
and nr. =. H. Marshall. Berlin. Mi
Democratic messenger., 1894-11-24

When are you going to buy your
fall suit aud overcoat? Why, | have
already bought them Of B. L. Truitt.
lie ha> such an elegant stock, and his
prizes are - low. would suggest that
YOU all examine his stock before buying
clsewhcrc
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-15

to DO insulting to certain GLASSES of white
people 1t is, however, but the exuber-
ance of an unframed race, in whom q
century or more of slavery and u quar-
ter Of century Of freedom have still
left the tropical nature pretty strong.
The Dude.
In the dark quarters of tho city the
colored of this GLASS seem content with
battered and smoky looking old cabin,
where the family pig is as much at
home as the baby, where the alleged
window is composite Of old hats, pa
per and dirty looking glass, and where
the fat and greasy looking nanny
spends all her spare time in tho open
air i'll front and the black little ones
roll in the dust contented, degraded and
happy. Yet out Of these cabins OH Sun
days.and holidays come the completost
dudes and dudines in the city. Every
colored lad OH reaching the ago of II or
thereabouts makes it the labor of his
life to secure good Sunday suit, and
the first savings Of every colored girl as
soon as she gets old enough to work on
are devoted to the same purpose 1t is q
praiseworthy ambition 80 far as it goes
and probably the harbinger of some
thing better. To see congregation of
these people, and still more to see the
colored dude and dudine on their Sun
day afternoon promenades, the stranger
would scarcely dream that they come
from such homes as these
j. h BEADLE
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-15

where else-singularly like grownup
children. They are, in fact, soft chill
dren of the tropics--a race suddenly
transplantcd from the lowest civiliza-
ton and placed under tho rigid require
ments of the very highest, with only a
century or two of training to fit them
for it. The result is much the same as
it would be if gang of the long horned
wild cattle Of the mountains and plains
were corrallcd, brought east, scattered
among the finest blooded Jerseys and
Gucrnseys and subjected to all the re-
quirements of we'll managed stock
farm. AS observe them OH the streets
l can but note their amusing rcsem-
blancc to boys of 10 or II years One
such boy alone in n group of men is
timld and silent, constra A. / and awl,-
ward, three or four togeio.-r are noisy
and crankish, but get large crowd, each
exciting devilmcnt i'll the others, and
only the scvcrest discipline will keep
them III any kind of order. 1t is even SO
with the negroes. On occasions like the
late march of Coxey's army they are III
their glory. They crowd the sidewalks,
perch on the fences and the bases of the
monuments, swagger and shove, and il
There is policeman III sight arc liable