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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
COrean Use for Human Hair.

Human hair is in great demand in
some of the countries of Europe, and
the supply is said to be inadequate.
Our consul in Corea points out that
there is plenty and to spare in the
hermit kingdom. "The Coreans," he
adds, "have remarkably fine heads of
hair, and they put their combing to a
use that have never seen elsewhere
A very large number of the saddle
clothes placed under the packs of their
ponies are made of hair woven into
coarse mats or bags, and the halters
and head ropes of their animals are
largely composed of the same material.
/ believe that human hair is largely
exported from China to Europe, and
Corea could furnish large and cheap
supply did the people know there was
a demand for it. Westminster Ga
Zette.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
WHAT CONSTITUTES A BUsHE1?

By an act of the Legislature of Ken
lucky the following weights constitute
a bushel of each article named:
Wheat, sixty pounds.
Shelled corn, fifty-six pounds.
Corn on the ear, sixty eight pounds.
Rye, fifty-six pounds.
Oats, shelled, thirty-two pounds.
Barley, forty seven pounds.
Irish potatoes, sixty pounds.
Sweet Potatoes, fifty-fve pounds.
White beans, sixty pounds.
Castor beans, tifty-five pounds.
Glover seed, sixty pounds.
Timothy seed, fortyfive pounds.
Flax seed, fifty-six pounds.
Millet seed, fifty pounds.
Peas, sixty pounds.
Blue grass seed, fourteen pounds.
Buckwheat, fifty-six pounds.
Dried apples, twentyfour pounds.
Dried peaches, thirty-nine pounds.
Onions, fifty-seven pounds.
Bottom onion sets, thirtYsix pounds.
Salt, fifty pounds.
Stone coal, seventy-six pounds.
The term coal includes anthracite,
rannel, bituminous and other mined
coal.
Beans, twenty pounds.
Plastering hair, eighty pounds.
Turnips, sixty pounds.
Unslacked lime, thirty pounds.
Corn meal, fifty pounds.
Fine salt, tifty-five pounds.
Hungarian grass seed, fifty pounds.
Ground peas, twenty-four pounds.
Orchard grass seed, fourteen pounds.
English blue grass seed, fourteen
pounds. Home and Farm.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
KILLING HARMFUL INSECTS.

Recent researches in economic en-
tomology prove that the immediate
destruction of certain predaceous in
sects is not always the most certain
way of meeting the evil caused by
them. 1t has been pointed out by the
United States Entomologist, Professor
G. V. Riley, in his last address before
the Association of Economic Ento-
mologists, that immediate destruction
too frequently destroys at the same
time the parasitic insects, with which
many injurious insects are accom-
panied, and that plan that will allow
these to develop within their hosts is
much more certain to further interests
of agriculturists. This is we'll illus
trated in the case of the common bag
worm, species much subject to para
sites. If their cases or bags are gath
cred in the winter, as is the usual
custom, both bag worms and their
enemies will have been destroyed
alike. But if they be gathered to-
gether in some vessel and kept until
the following summer in some locality
far removed from any tress or shrubs
upon which they can feed, the young
worms when they emerge will be able
to crawl but for short distance be-
fore they perish for want of food.
And their parasites, which emerge in
the winged state, will be able to fly
away in search of other armies to con-
quer. In this way the farmer can
protect an almost microscopic friend
who in day will do more toward the
determination of their common enemy
than will he in month. This is but
one typical case of very many; and it
serves also to call attention to the I'M
fortunate fact that we have compar-
atively few farmers in this country
who avail themselves of the services of
an chronological Bureau that is the
envy of all enlightened European
sgriculturists. New York Witness.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
THE Use OF OATS,

In feeding oats, especially the whole
grain, much depends upon the nature
of the hull or chaf It is not always
the heaviest grain which gives the
best results. That which is much
above the standard weight has most
often a rough, gritty chaff which SO
acts on the stomach as to expel much
of the grain in an undigested state.
The hull, however soft its texture,
is always laxative, and a moderate de-
gree of laxativeness is beneficial,
especially to breeding animals, but
there is no gain in passing through
the heaviest grain in nearly whole
state. Better use light grain, which
will be more thoroughly digested. 1t
is commonly supposed that the oat
which sells for the highest price is the
best feed, but it is not always the case.
New York World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

The first and best of these is leaves
from the wood lot or the forest. II
has been found profitable to keep up a
plantation of timber for this sole use,
if for no other. One acre of leaves will
supply large stable, and should be
gathered into heaps and covered from
the rain. They are soft and warm and
make the best of manure. For the
horse stables they make it possible to
keep the manure in the stalls, espe-
cially if they are loose box stalls, the
whole winter, or least half of it, and
thus save much unnecessary labor in
removing the manure daily, as is often
the custom. The litter is trodden
hard, and does not decompose, and
thus, when kept renewed every few
DAYS, the stable is cleaner and less
offensive than one that is cleaned
daily.
Sawdust is the best litter for COW
stables, but it should be of hard wood
and not pine. It is very absobent, and
little of it sprinkled over floor re-
Gently cleaned freshens and purifes
the stable. But it will be better in
every Case 10 uuSb UnS HOOI Will Ky p
sum as soon as 1t is cleaned and before
the litter is spread. Dry swamp
muck is next to sawdust fol it's clean
illness and better for its use as manure,
for its antiseptic quality sweetens the
air of the stable, and it is the greed
lest of oil absorbents, taking up twice
it's weight of liquid matter. If straw
is used it will be trebled in value by
cutting it small in a fodder cutter. It
then lies better on the floor, covers
the manure better and is more absorb
ent than long straw. Owing to the
feeding value of straw the dairyman
had better use sand or dry earth in
the place of it, and feed the straw to
the dry COWS and the calves. 1t is
also excellent rough food for the
horses. A horse may be kept in ex-
cellent condition with any kind of
straw cut and wetted and mixed with
the regular ration of meal, and this
food is far cheaper than feeding whole
grain and hay. The saving will be
fully one third, and the animals will
be kept in better condition. German
town Telegraph,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

GERMANY has 1000 tramps.
SPAIN Is to have q Worlds Fair.
GERMANY leads in zine production.
MICHIGAN is first In copper production.
TEE United States contains lis medical
colleges.
CANADA will enforce strict quarantine foc
smallpox against this country.
THE volcano CaIbuco, In Chile, after being
at rest for 202 years, has become active
again.
THE United States took IS. "a per cent. OF
the sugar crop OF Cuba for the first quarter
OF 1894.
GERMANY has given out that under no cir
cumstances Will German rights in Samoa be
given up.
IT is estimated that !, 200, 900 Odd Fellows
celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary OF
the order.
In the Los Angeles section Of the Cali
fornia Midwinter Fair there Is an arch built
of Is, 900 oranges.
GERMAN army officers have been forbidden
to keep horses unless possessed OF certain
amount Of wealth.
WHILE playing draw poker In Philadelphia
Arthur s. Poultner picked up four aces and
at once dropped dead.
A PERMANENT commercial museum, where
manufacturers can show goods suitable for
export, will shortly be opened in New York
City.
REIGN of terror Is reported in Honduras.
Political executions are The order of the day,
and another and bloody revolution is pre-
dicted.
AUTHORITIES expect the Australian wheat
yield will be the heaviest in the history of
this colony. They anticipate there will be a
surplus available for export OF II, 735, 900
bushels.
THE seal poachers are all right. They say
that If they are captured they will get free
tow home, and be released as soon as they
get there.
MANY Armenians have recently been mi
grating to Russia on account of their dis
satisfaction with the administration of affairs
in Armenia.
RENTS are coming down in Chicago, ow-
ing, 1t Is said, to Overbuilding. Fully one
third of the flats and houses held for income
are unrented.
THE Ferris wheel, at Chicago, will be re-
moved to New York in $50 cars, and 1t will
cost $3.50, 900 to take it down, transport it
and put it up again.
SECRETARY MORTON thinks that Tuberculosis
is spreading to serious degree among the
cattle Of the West, and wants an appropria-
ton of 800, 900 to use in fighting it.
AN aptery, a wingless bird of New Zealand,
ono of two specimens in Europe, escaped
from the Jardin des Plantes in Paris flvo
months ago and was found recently budding
in the cellar of a building, having survived
cold and starvation.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
Preparing, I'm Time of Peace,

''The British Government is forever
experimenting with its fighting ap-
purtenances in order to ascertain Just
what it can do in case of trouble with
some other country" said Joseph
Markell, of Boston, at the Ebbitt.
''For some time past it has been try
ing to find out just how long it would
take to get its men and supplies across
the American continent in case of q
difficulty with Russia. A short time
ago a special train, carrying arma-
ment and supplies, was dispatched
from Halifax to Esquimault, British
Columbia, with instructions to stop
only to take water and change engines,
and the trip was made in less than five
days. Mrs. Guelph pretty nearly
knows to a certainty just what every
department of her empire can do in
any kind of an emergency. Wash
ingtOn Star.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

From away up in British North America
comes the following greeting to Dr.. r V.
Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, a:
Hartney, Selkirk Co., Ma toba, WHOSE
portrait, with that Of her little boy,
heads this article, writes cs follows:
81 take great pleasure in recommending DIR:
Pierce's Favorite Prescription for falling of
the womb / was troubled with bearing
down pains and pains III my back whenever
would he on my feet any length Of time.
was recommended to try DIR. PioTCes Favorite
Prescription, which did with happy results.
feel ike new person after taking three
bottles of it."
AS we have just heard from the frigid
North, we will now Introduce letter
received from the Sunny South. The follow
ing is from Mrs. J. Z. Smith, Of Oakfuskee,
Cleburne Co, Ala. She writes: ~ was
afflicted and suffered untold pains and
years. / was confined to bed most of the
time. l expected the old hand of death
every day. ! was afflicted with leucorrhea-
with excessive fowiug-EaIlng OF the womb
bearing down sensation-pain IN the small
of my back-my bowels c0st.ve-smarting,
itching and burning in the vagina, also pal
pitation OF the heart. When began taking
your medicine l could not sit up, only q few
minutes at time, I was so weak. ! took
Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription three
times per day, I also took his Golden Medical
Discovery three times per day and one of
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets every nl5 hit. /
have taken seven bottles of the Discovery
seven bottles of the Prescr. ptior ; and five
bottles of the Pellets.' took these medi-
cines seven months, regularly, never missed
a day. These medicines cured ME. / feel as
well as l ever did in n2y life -Four OF the
best doctors in the land treated my case four
years. They all gave me up IS hopeless
they said could not be cured, and could not
live. Through the will of God, and your
medicines | have been restored to tie best
OF health YoYrs truly,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
Power of Music to SOoth.

Once more the power of music to
sooth suffering is borne witness to By
the effect it had upon a number of pa
tients in an English infirmary. In
one case a woman who was suffering
from melancholia was SO affected by a
lullaby that she spoke for the first
time in two weeks. The experiment
of distracting the mind by means of
soft music was tried in a hospital
ward where there were fourteen pa
tients, and the doctor who watched it's
effect says: "Four patients were put
to sleep. Some liked it Too well to
sleep, and others felt sad, but de
lighted" Here is hint of beautiful
use that the young woman with must
cal gifts can make of her power. New
York Post,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
New Competitor of the SilkwOrm.

A new competitor of the silkworm
has been found on the Dalmatian
coast, according to q report of a
French Consulate in Trieste This is
the bombyx lasiocampa otus. The
moth of this is similar to that of the
silkworm, but the cocoon is much
larger, and the silk finer and snow
white. the worm feeds on the leaves
of the evergreen quercus lick. Elk
periments are being made with the in
tent of raising this newly discovered
worm for commercial purposes.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
sTOCKBRIDGE'S SUCCESSOR,
John Patten, .Ir., Appointed United
States Senator From Michigan.

Governor Rich, Of Michigan, appointed
John Patten, Jr., as United States Senator to
succeed Senator Stockbridge, deceased, I'M
til successor is elected by the Legislature
next January.
Mr.. Patton is considered one of the BRAIN
lest lawyers and orators in Grand Rapids.
He is a college-bred man, and is personally
popular. He is :. native of Pennsylvania,
iony-four years OF age, and a lawyer He is
an eloquent and forcible speaker, and in all
State and National campaigns is in much de-
'aand as campaign orator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

Gold while in circulation is handled
less than any other medium. 1t is
usually kept in the vaults of banks for
demands rarely made, and for this
reason the loss by abrasion is about
one-half of one per cent, in any
twenty years. In u $40 gold piece,
the standard weight of which is SIC
grains, the Government allowance for
loss by abrasion is 2.5S grains, but,
except in cases where the coins have
been tempered with by Sweaters" "
the loss rarely exceeds this limit
New York Journal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

The smallest book in the world is
said to lie New Testament II WAS
printed with type of very small size.
which could ho used but once, ss 1t
was found to be impossible to detrlh-
ute them after the impression had
been printed. The page Is an inch
long 10y thrcc-uuartvrs of nu inch
wide, and the volume, including covers.
is exactly a quarter of AN men thIcA.
Chicago Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
RECORD OF THE LuAe1E CLUBS.
COST OF COXEYISM.
A Prospective Deficiency of $50, 900
for Marshals' Expenses.

The Coxey movement in the Northwest
put the Government to heavy expense. The
United States Treasury Department sub
mitted to the House of Representatives an
estimate of a prospective deficiency of $50
900 for fees and expenses of United States
Marshals.
In asking the Treasury to submit the de-
ficiency appropriation to Congress, Attorney
General Olney says:
lat present an extraordinary kind of ex-
pense arises from bands of restless men in
various sections Of the country seizing upon
property in the custody Of the United States
courts. Authorized expenses are already
going on in Washington (State) at the ratio
of $1,000 per day. an indefinite amount of
expense has been incurred and is growing in
Montana, and other expenses may be ex-
pected for which provision should be made"
The Treasury Department also submitted
to tho House additional estimates for de-
flciencies for the United States for the cur
rent year, viz. Fees of witnesses, $3.50, 900 :;
fees of jurors, $4,000 fees and expenses OF
marshals, $4,000; legal services to the
Uaited States, $4,000.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
STABLE LITTER.

The matter of litter for the stables
is one deserving attention at this time
Formerly, when economy was not con-
sidered as it is now, the straw WAS
looked upon as worthy of no better
use than to be trodden under foot and
go into the manure heap. But now
the straw is made a valuable food, and
by cutting it and adding some grain
food richer in nutritive elements, it is
easily made as valuable as hay, so that
it cannot be used as litter any more.
There are several other substances
that may take its place that have no
food value, and these should be col
lected for use as soon as possible.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
RIOTERS KILLED.
Gendarmes Forced to Fire OH a Mob
in Austrian SiIesia.

The striking miners made desperate at
tack at Troppau, Austrian Silesia, upon q
detachment Of gendarmes who were guard
ing colliery in P dish Ostrau, with the on
iect of making raid upon the mines and
buildings in order to drive away the men
who were at work.
The rioters were warned to dispense, but
instead of doing 80 began pelting the police
rush upon the police, expecting to drive
them away by force of numbers. The gend-
armes, after n last warning, opened fro
upon the rioters. killing nine of them and
woundinS twenty others. The mob then
fled in all directions
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
CHApPED rEATs m A cow.

This trouble is hardly to be avoided
when the mixer vets the teats during
milking. The wetting and subsequent
drying will certainly cause cracks in
the skin, and once these happen it is
difficult to heal the wounds while the
COW is giving milk, as at every milk
ing the cracks are broken open and
thus the trouble is made wo1se. The
best remedy is to apply pure vaseline
to the teats and soften the skin and
the wounds. New York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
RULES FOR SEALERS.
PRONUNCIATION ofthe Boring Sea Naval
Regulations.

The United States Navy Department has
issued the regulations for the government of
vessels employed in fur seal fishing in tho
North Pacific Ocean and Boring Sea. There
are nine articles. The first requires tho
masters OF sealers to employ only COM
petent hunters. The other articles provide
in brief against the use of firearms In seal
ing for placing under the customs seal fire.
arms and sealing equipment when vessels de-
sire to pass through the closed zones home
ward bound ; for the issue of special licenses
to hunt seal in Boring Sea by United
States customs consular officers :;
for the exemption from seizure of
vessels now at sea without Ii
censes or distinctive flag if they have not
violated the law in reference to sealing for
q distinctive flag for sealers of black and
yellow, diagonally joined, and for the ex-
ercise by British officers of tho authority
granted to our own naval, customs and con
sular officers. Tho regulations apply only
to the season OF 1894.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
ITALIAN IMMIGRATION.
Uncle Sans Benevolent Intentions
Applauded at Rome.

italy has drawn the curtain upon the New
Orleans malta incident" and commended
the Southern States to her emigrants.
Inthe Chamber of Deputies at Rome Baron
Blanc, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced
the intention of the immigration authorities
of the United States to assist italian immi-
grants to join the colonizing centres with a
view OF protecting them against the tyranny
ofspeculators and padrones. The announce
ment was received with applause.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
BOARD OF VISITORS.
Appointees of the President, the Vice
President and the Speaker.

The President has appointed the following
Board of Visitors to the Military Academy al
West Point: The Rev. Alex. Nackay Smith
D. D., of the District of Columbia George
Fl. Craig. of Alabama DR.. William w. Kean,
OF Pennsylvania John D. Crlmmins of New
York Thomas F. Edmands, of Massachu'
sets John J. Davis, of Clarksburg, w. Va,
and the Hon. Edward G. Wall, of Milwaukee.
vice-President Stevenson appointed these
members of the Board Senators William
NJ. Bate, of Tennessee, and Rsdf1eld Proctor,
OF Vermont.
Speaker Crisp's appointees are: Repre-.
sentatives John G. Black, of Illinois Will
lam H. Hatch, of Missouri, and Newton NJ
Curtis, of New York.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

At Eddy, IN the Pecos Valley, New
Mexico, the farmers are cultivating
canaigre, and are getting SO per ton
in its green state for all they can
raise.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

A boy OF fifteen was arrested at
Richmond, Va, for having in his pos
session $50, 900 worth of Confederate
money. He declared he had no in
tention of putting it into circulation
and was released.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

ITALY is holding National Agricultural
Congress composed of associations and
commercial institutions, the object being to
nave higher customs duties put on grain
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

Mrs. w o. Gunelzel, OF No. 1881 South
Seventh Street, Terre Hsute, Indiana, writes:
" | had been suffering from womb trouble for
skillful physicians, but finding only tempo
rary relief from medicines prescribed 10y
them l was advised by friend to take
DR.. PierCes Favorite Prescription, which
did, and found, in taking six bottles OF tho
Prescription and two of the Golden
Medical Discovery that il has effected -
positive cure, for which words cannot OK
press my gratitude for the relief from the
great suffering that | 50 long endured"
Top,.c frtrIv
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

The United States Army is said to
have over 200 cases of scurvy every
year.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

IN 1880 "BTOU1I's Bronchial IrOcheS" were in
trOduced, and their success as a cure for Colds,
Coughs, Asthma and Bronchitis has been un-
paralleled,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

For Cough or Sore Throat the best medi-
cine il Hale'S Honey of HOrehOund and Tar.
Pixies Tooth ache DrODS Cmre in minute.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

F. J. Cheney IL Co, Toledo, o., Props OF
Halls Catarrh Cure, offer 500 reward for any
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials,
free. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP Root cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory RinphamtOn. n. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

A NIGHTINGALEs song can be heard at a
distance of q mile.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
ShiIOh's Cure

Is sold on n guarantee. 1t cures Incipient Con-
SUMPTION it is the Best Cough Cure; pc. Soc, 81
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18

A Beautiful Souvenir spoon
Will be sent with every bottle of DR.. ROTste'3
Certain CrOup C1tre Ordered by mail, post
paid, 50 cts. Address, HOxSie, Buffalo, n. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-18
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices of Country
Produce Quoted in New York.

<RIUUCNI INV
10 MILK AND CREAM
Increased supplies caused q generally slow
market duringthe past week Surplus milk
sold throughout, or since May 1, at $1.17
per can of 40 quarts, when the exchang"
price was reduced to DC. per quart.
d.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-16

ct ca, FIXTURES and good will of one
~ Of the hest-located restaurants in heart
of business center, for sale at very low price:
every hing good quality, nearly new. Ad'
dress n %, Globe