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BREEDING HOGS.
Essentials to be Observed If You Would |
Save Profitable Bacon.

Essentials to be Observed If You Would
Save Profitable Bacon.
To make hog breeding successful
and profitab BILE the first subject for con-
sideration is that which is to produce
them. The male must be a thorough
bred two-year-old or over, well devel-
oped, of good health, weighing not
less than 500 pounds, strong and ac-
tive. The sow should be his equal in
age, size and breeding, and roomy.
All things being ready, mate them
One service is sufficient. Take the sow
away and place her in yard, and give
her the range of some oat patch, with
feed enough to keep her thriving
Avoid too much corn. Remember, now,
that the food for the SOW is food for the
pigs. One can not thrive without the
other. Feed bran, oats and a little oil
meal. Two weeks before narrowing
time place the sow in a small lot, hav-
ing shed in it. Make tenders on the
sides next to the wall by nail
ing strips four inches from wall
and seven or eight inches high.
This will give pigs a passwav
around their dam and avoid being
mashed against the wall. After far
rowing the sow seeds rest more than
anything else. Give little water to
drink, but very little food the first
three days, then increase slowly til
you may give her full feed The lit
tie fellows will want more milk every
day. Feed the sow good slops with
some milk, bran, scraps from the kitch-
en-anything now is relished, for the
pigs are drawing on her. Now you do
your part and give her all she will eat,
ard that of a variety. 1t will require
no science now, for a hog will pay ac-
cording to the way he is fed. When
the pigs are two or three weeks old,
feed them by themselves, anything
that they like, milk and bran slop
soaked corn and oats. Give them all
the green cane or anything of the
kind they will eat. With this
treatment your SOW will come through
in fine condition, and your pigs
will repay you for trouble, and feed
consumed. Wean them in eight or ten
weeks Don't let up now; you have to
give to the hog first before you get
anything from him. Keep them grow
ing and have them ready for the first
buyer who comes along and then sell
them.
1t don't pay to feed hog two years
for 800 pounds of pork. Make him
weigh that in eight or nine months.
You can do that ii you have good stock.
If you have selected gilt for brood
sow, feed literally; make her as big as
you can. Don't breed her till she is
thirteen or fourteen months old. Feed
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OMENS OF MARRIED LIFE.
Signs That Are Believed to Predict HappI-
ness Misery.

Signs That Are Believed to Predict Happi-
ness or Misery.
On the day of the marriage so MANY
superstitions enter into every detail
that it is very wise bride indeed who
remembers all those little acts that are
so sentient with meaning in regard to
the future. If by chance she should
happen to put on her left shoe first her
married life will prove unhappy; there
fore it behooves her to look carefully to
this portion of her toilet and be certain
to select the right foot as the first to be
attended to-
No bridal guest should wear cos
tune entirely black, as such a choice
will bring sorrow to the bride. If the
best man stumbles on his way to the
altar, it is regarded as a most ominous
proceeding, and at any rate is awkward
enough to merit rebuke.
The wedding ring should be circlet
of gold, unbroken by any jewel, as the
significance of the ring demands that
its form shall be typical of the endless
love that prompts its bestowal. To try
on the ring before marriage is certain
to bring dire misfortune, and many
there are who would regard taking it
off as an actual sin, holding fast to the
belief that it was placed on the finger
for all time and not merely as the SYM
Dol of an evanescent affection.
When the bride leaves the assembled
company to change her gown she
throws her bouquet among the group,
and the fortunate one who catches it
is promised husband within year,
provided always that he or she is sin
gle at the time. 1t is the du ty of every
bride who pretends at all to be versed
in these superstitions to throw away
every pin that was used in her bridal
attire. The bridemaids as a rule are
willing to go down on their hands and
knees on the carpet in order to secure
one of these lucky emblems, and each
one fortunate enough to possess her
self of even a bent and decrepit speci.
men feels blest in the thought that
good fortune will attend her hence.
forth. .-Philadelph Press
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LAWN CLIPPINGS.
Their Value in the Economy of the po,
try Yard.

Their Value in the Economy OF the po,,-
try Yard.
10 induce hens to lay in winter thar
must have something to take the place
OF the green food they secure in snm.
mer. When hens have their libertv
they eat large quantity of grass and
hens that get grass and exer-
else, with a light food ration. are
almost invariably good layers. When
the season comes that the fowls have
to be confined to the houses, and can
get nothing except what the attend.
ant gives them, all the details in the
food rations that the hens get in sum.
mer must be supplied, or a suitable
substitute. Years ago it was supposed
that hens in the winter must Be fed
nothing but grain, and that mostly
corn. Now, the wide-awake poultry
man feeds a large preparation of
hay to his laying stock, thereby lessen.
ing the cost of wintering greatly. and
securing great many more eggs than
were secured in former years. Clover
hay is generally considered richest in
lime and egg-forming material. We
have found lawn clippings to fill the
bill admirably. AS a general thing.
lawns contain more or less white clover
and the other varieties of grass used
are tender and juicy, where long
enough to be clipped with a lawn
mower. Lawn clippings have some ad-
vantage over clover hay: First, thev
are always cut and ready for feed; Sec
ond, all can be used, whereas clover
hay has large stems which the hens
can not eat, and which are of no par.
ticular value. Each week our lawn is
mown and the clippings are carefully
dried and packed away in sacks When
cold weather comes, and the hens can
not go out of the house, the clippings
are soaked in boiling water, and lit
tie bran is sprinkled over them, and
the hens relish them. They not only
serve as food, but form the best-known
material for packing eggs for Matching
in. They are light and elastic, there
by preventing them from breaking
when shipped. AS packing material
they can't be excelled.
There are hundreds of people in our
cities that keep a few fancy chickens
in the small back yards, where they
can get no food at all except what is
given them. These parties can easily
procure lawn clippings for small
sum, if their own lawn doesn't supply
enough, and no better green food can
be found for summer or winter.
As we have already stated, one great
advantage in lawn clippings is that
they are already cut and easy to stow
away. Be sure they are thoroughly
dry before you pack them in the sacks,
or they will heat and spoil. You will
be surprised to see how far they will
go when soaked. For the city fancier
they are much cheaper than the cut
clover which is put on the market; for
the farmer they are cheaper than put.
ting up clover hay.-Poultry Journal
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HERE AND THERE.

1t is bad economy to use raw cot
ton-seed meal as fertilizer. 1t should
be fed to stock first and then put upon
the ground.
The science of living we'll has not
been learned IN that family where the
product of the fruit garden is omitted
When man has stock to feed on
land that needs manuring, grain is not
finished product and should not be-
sold.
Sheep bite much closer than cattle,
and for this reason it is often not ad-
visa BILE to keep them on the clover or
meadows too late.
Feeding well is a positive economy.
and the most profitable course to pur-
sue in keeping up stock, and especially
SO during the fall and winter.
When gathering the corn, all smut
ty ears should be pulled off the stalk
and kept to themselves, until an OPP
portunity is afforded of burning them
A few years ago huge piles of rot
ten and rotting cottonaseed was to be
seen at every gin in the south. Now the
products of the seed passing through
the oil mills, consisting of oil, oil cake,
hulls and lint, bring more than S25,-
100000 annually.
EARLY spring pigs make the cheap
est pork, and for that purpose are to be
preferred. Fall pigs are just as good
for breeders, as these last for several
years, while those intended for slaugh-
ter should be turned off at eight or
nine months old.
The farmer who can sleep soundly
in a comfortable bed in snug room,
while his cattle shiver in the cold, will
have to face the same tribunal as the
rest of us at the final adjudication. II
he only knew it there is no comfort for
him in this reflection.
To produce good beef at the least
cost, the cattle should be fed all they
will eat, and have plenty of clean
water and good shelter. In other
words, they should be fattened as
rapidly as possible. TO prolong the
process adds materially to the cost.
Lima beans are very profitable
crop wherever they will grow, and
they will grow in the south. The bush
lima is becoming quite popular, as it
does away with the necessity of poles,
a great saving of labor. These beans
stand drought equal to sorghum and
bear until killed by frost.
"A farmer who feeds to good hogs
large part of his farm produce, acts
wisely. There are many crops which
are more profitable marketed on foot
than by wagon loads. A farmer who
not only does this, but cures and mar
kets his hog products in good shape
is little wiser than the other one.
The south draws very largely from
the north and west for its supply OF
hay, and while the coast sections have
heretofore received the greater portion
of this supply from the east, the amount
of western shipments going directly 10
the south by rail is constantly increas-
ing. The boot should be on the other
foot,
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Satan's Easy Times,

S. S. Teacher explaining the subtle
influence of Satan)-Why is that boy
will pass by the fruit in his own yard,
and then take the same sort of fruit,
not a bit better, from a neighbor's tree?
Boy-Cause if yeh take y'r own
fruit, y'r father will lick yeh, but if
yeh take the neighbor's fruit, the
neighbor dasent lick yeh, cause your
father will get mad and lick him
Good News,
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her such food that will produce flesh
and bone, not fat or lard. Neithe.
boar nor sow will get too large fo.
breeding. The idea that a man CO..
improve hogs by using either sow Or
boar that has been dwarfed, either bv
nature or the want of food.-Cor. Earn,
and Ranch.
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seem TO De the 1alllng tears that aIWay
fall, and the gloom of earth seems com
ing up in stalagmite, and the gloom o.
the eternal world seems descending il
stalactite, making pillars of indescrib-
able horror. The grave is no such
place as that to me, thank God.
Our divine Guide takes US down into
the great caverns, and we have the
lamp to our feet and the light to our
path, and all the echoes il the riffs of
the rock are anthems, and all the fall
ing waters are fountains of salvation,
and after awhile we look up and, be-
hold! the cavern of the tomb has be-
come kings star chamber And while
we are looking at the pomp of it an
everlasting morning begins to rise,
and all the tears of earth crystal
lie into stalagmite, rising up in
a pillar on the one side, and all
the glories of Heaven seem to be de-
scending in stalactite, making a pill
lar on the other side, and you push
against the gate that swings between
the two pillars and as the gate flashes
open you find it is one of the II gates
which are II pearls. Blessed be God
that through this gospel the mammoth
cave of the sepulcher has become the
illumined Star Chamber of the King!
l would God that if my sermon to-day
does not lead you to Christ, that before
morning, looking out of the window,
the astronomy of the night heavens
might lead you to the feet of Jesus.
Hark, Hark! To God the chorus breaks
From every host, from every gem:
But one alone the Saviour spesks-
Is tle Star of Bethlehem.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05
Daniel Cheney Rowell.

Daniel Cheney Rowell died at his
home in South Scion March Both, 1894.
after a brief illness, aged Is years. He
was the youngest of the family of nine
children, all of whom have gone before.
His father Zebedee Rowell Sr. was
one of the early settlers of the town of So
Ion. The greater part of Mr.. Rowell's
life was spent on the farm where he
was born, but about twenty years ago
he moved to the place which remained
his home the rest of his life. He was
never married, and for the past few
years has lived alone, but kind friends
have done much for his comfort. In his
early life he Wis. for several years in the
employ of the Silas lIamblet in the lam-
Der business.
Uncle Cheney" as he was familiar
lv called, had decided opinions of his
own, which were held with considerable
tenacity, but he was a good man, strict
ly honest in his intentions, and dealings,
above all arti1ice. He will be kindly
remembered by all with whom he has
been associated, The funeral took
place Sunday April LIST, at his late home,
and was largely attended by relatives
and friends. The services were conduct
ed by Rev. J. K. Remmick of Scion.
The remains were Inferred in South
Scion Cemrtry.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05
Rocklands New Paper.

The Rockland Daily Star has issued
its first number. The Star is four
page. eigFt-column paper 1t is pub
lshed by the Star Publishing Company
recently Incorporated with a capital
stock of $4,000, 5000 cash paid in
w. B. Nash is president; +. b. Nichols.
treasurer; W. b. Nash, 5. ID. Graves and
F. b. Nichols, directors. W. Il. Far
rington, the editor in-chief, has bad l0
years experience with New England
dailies. For city that has only had
weekly papers until within few weeks.
Rockland must now be well fixed. with
two bran new dailies, run by progressive
men. too.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05

'He is only a printer. Such was
the sneering remark of a leader in cir
Gle of aristocracy-the Goldfish quality
Who was the Earl of Stanhope? He
was only printer. What We're Prince
Edward William and Prince Napoleon?
Proud to call themselves printers. The
present car of Russia, the crown prince
of Prussia and the Duke of Battenburg
are printers, and the emperor of China
works in private printing office almost
every day
William CaXton, the father of Eng
fish literature, was a practical printer
What were G. p. Morris, n. p Willis,
james Gale, Charles Richardson, james
Parker Horace Greeley, Charles Dick
ems, James Buchanan, Simon Cameron
and Schuyler Colfax? Printers, all, and
practical oues
Marx Twain, Amos Cummings, Bret
Harte and Opie Reid are plain, practical
printers, as We're Artcmus Ward, Petro-
leum V Nasty and SUIT Lovingood.
Senator Plumb was printer, and so Is
James S. Hogg of Texas, and the leader
of science and philosophy i'll his day
made it his boast that he was IL printer
In fact, thousands of the most bril-
liant minds in this country are to be
found toiling in the publishing houses of
large cities and towns. 1t is not every
one that can be a printer-brains are
absolutely necessary. Century.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05

The death of Adolphe Sax, the famous
but unluclly instrument maker, recalls
an amusing anecdote of Xavier Mar
mier, a good natured old Academician,
who was constantly being victimized by
literary impostors. His housekeeper,
who did all she could to guard him from
these importunate visitants, informed
him one day that a stranger wanted to
see him, on which the following dia
loguc ensued:
"Who is it,"
well, he's neweomer-that I'm
sure of, for I've never seen him before
Shall | send him away?'
t'Did he give his name?"
Eyes. A Mr. Sax-something or
other -
"Well, Annette, | don't want any
trombones, but III tell him so myself
Show him in. -
Accordingly the good Annette reluc-
family ushered i'll the stranger, who
turned out to be no other than the reign
ing Duke of Sake Weimar London
Globe
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05
Court Affairs.

Hon. ). w. Carr, insurance commls-
sioner, has filed bill in equity in this
county for the purpose of winding up
the aflaiis of the Home Protective
League of Madison, a life and casualty
company that has been in existence only
about 10 months. The defendant in its
answer makes a statement of facts as
follows That its liabilities on Dee. 81,
1893, consisting principally OF losses un-
paid and borrowed money were S4S6l.-
a. while its assets were but 5000 S
that on Dee. 81 1891 there were PIC
policies in force and there were written
during the year 1893 309 policies, max.
ing 500 in all; that during the year 1893,
500 of these policies ceased to be in
force. leaving l03 in force Dee. 3lst,
1893; that there has been no improve
meut in the finances of the company
since that time; that the company is UNI
able to pay its liabilities in full and be-
lieves il would be better for all concern.
ed if its affairs We're closed up. At a
hearing before Judge VIM. =. White
house April Sd. an injunction was grant
ed restraining said company from fur
ther business proceedings. W. c. Phil
brook, Esq, of Waterville, was appoint
ed receiver, and {. o. Small, Esq, OF
Madison, was appointed master to hear
aud determine upon all claims presented
against said company.
In the bill in equity of Henry Merrill
executor, vs.. Matilda Hayden, ct ais, to
obtain construction of the will of Ma
thauiel p. Merrill. Judge l.. \. Emery
has filed Il final decree declaring as fol-
lows; The bill in equity is sustained
the Maine Free Baptist Association take.
nothing under the will of Nathaniel Z
Merrill; the legacy named in the sale
will as for the Maine Free Baptist Hon,
Missionary Society, lapses to the estat,
of Nathaniel p Merrill; Maria X. Mer
rill takes the whole of the estate for hel
life, the income and So much of the priu
cipal as she shall need to be spent by
her; the executor is not Il trustee under
the will, but will settle the estate rs eX
ecutor. and will pay over the balance Il
the said Maria X. Merrill, or to her lega
guardian; after the death of the sale
Maria X. Merrill, the remainder of th'
estate uneXpended at her decease. %il
descend to and vest in the lawful heirs
of the said Nathaniel =. Merrill.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05

One of the difficulties in the cultiva-
ton of plants i'll a sitting room is that
the dry air and dust tend to clog the
pores of the leaves Deprived of the
rain which would naturally cleanse
them and not often watcrcd with n rose
pot or syringe, the plants kept III a room
are apt gradually to lose their health
and look miserable, if they do not alto
gcther die. The best remedy for this is
the regular use Of small piece of soft
old sponge with slightly warm water,
and if little soft soap is added all the
better. Especially is this necessary in
the winter when dust is rife, and as
"blight' is then at its weakest point a
thorough cleansing during the cold
months will result in freedom from it
during the summer. Practice and deli
cate handling are needed for success.
Some plants are much easier to sponge
than others Among these may he mcu-
toned the india rubber plant and also
small specimens Of palms, both of which
need frequent washings when grown in
room. Orange trees and many other
plants cxude a kind of sticky essential
oil, which catches the dust They there
fore require special attention. Aspidis-
tras and many other plants need spoug-
ing often to keep them in health-in
fact, all plants with evergreen foliage
and others which Will bear it are
strengthened and improved by the free
use of the sponge. -Clcyeland Leader
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05
A SILK WORM THREAD.
The Wonderful Creation of still More
Wonderful Insect.


Silk! What wonderful product il j.,
and what a marvellous trade has sprung
out Of it On Of the astonishing fac
III the history II the human rae IA tho
way III winch great results are attained
for II out of little CAUSES II Is conccTa-
bic mat the food OF man might have
been derived from sene Of the largest
fruits or mus or roots which gra~ up1u
the Garth he bulk Of tho hreafaf man
kind-'th Tire stall 81 life is, however,
drawn, a. al know, hot from the heavy
bread irut ar mS tubers but from tie
comparatively minute grains Of wheat.
bafIey and rye, mlllet and rice IN Ike
manner til larger portion Of tho gar
melltS OF human being. Is obtained from
the short VOL ON the backs 81 sheep and
gpata or from ia" small pod ~ the cot
ton plant. which hides lis seeds III Il Tail
Of white fun from which we spin the
cotton Sllk = AN especially notable III
staiice OF the way ID winch our raee
makes mueh out 81 h1lIc Tor lis needs.
Here Is an insignificant worm whiea
feeds upon the glutlnous leaves Of the
mulberry and gradually fills itelt with
sticky compound which has for IT. dl-
rect purpose to compose tile cocoon
" non the time COMES Tor the worm -
undergo that strange motamorpho-ls
INTO the ehlNSalls, 1t eeases 10 eat and
slowly WeaNeS round itself casing
composed entirely Of one long thread
Its spinning finished the attenuated
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-05
A HOTEL ROMANCE.


There is many a sweet romance cher
islled by the visitor to New York that
is never dreamed Of by the prosaic, ev-
eryday people of business. Much Of this
romance is necessarily connected with
the hotels. In these old hotels every
room is interviewer with the history Of
hundreds Of persons, and every time one
of these persons is in the city the inter
est is revived i'll the past One day u
friend led me down Broadway on some
pretext or another, aud we finally paused
before the old New York hotel
81 stopped there ON my wedding
trip" he finally blurted out. My wife
wished it, Her mother had stopped there
in her time and on her wedding trip.
My wife was anxious to occupy the
same room that her mother had. We
had been married that day, and this was
our first hotel, just us it had been in
her mothers case, and my little one 5
mind was surcharged with the romance
of the thing. But like all young mar
ried folks, we had horror of being CON
spieuous and at the first didn't like to
Say anything about it to the clerks, AT
last, however, | mustered courage
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