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Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
THE ART OF FEEDING,

Feeding is an art that deserves
much thought and experiment, writes
N. Sumner Perkins. 1t is not much
to throw down little grain and hay to
whatever stock may be kept, using
any kind of grain and fodder that
comes most handy; but it is something
entirely different to have sufficient
knowledge of the character and COM
position as the various feedstuffs, to
be able to compound rations that
closely meet the needs of the classes of
farm animals, and at the same time
are most economical for the feeder.
1t is very obvious that each feeder
must first consider what articles of
feed are cheapest for him, what he
can produce or buy at least expense.
There are many most excellent feed
stuffs the high prices of which, in some
sections of the country, forbid their
being used proftably by farmers in
those localities. 1t is very plain that
the best possible ration for given
animal may be so expensive as to en-
tirely preclude It's use. In such cases
o really inferior ration must be fed
in order to give the feeder any profit.
Therefore the problem that confronts
each and every individual farmer is to
determine what articles of stock feed
he can obtain most readily and cheap
ly, and to strike combination of the
same that is well balanced, having due
proportions of heterogeneous and car
hnpooaora al 10
1t must be always borne in mind
what the age OF the animal is, and for
what purpose it is being fed. A young
animal requires great deal of such
foods as form lean meat (muscle) and
bone most rapidly. These are termed
heterogeneous, from the fact that they
contain considerable nitrogen. Among
the grains we find bran, oats, linseed,
cottonseed and gluten meals to be
highly heterogeneous in their compost
tion. Clovers of all species are also
exceedingly rich in protein or nitro
geneous matter. For carbonaceou'
food, corn is found the cheapest an6
best over the larger portions of thu
area of our entire country. Hence i
is that there is nothing like corn I,
finish of (fatten) cattle, sheep ant
SWINE.
There are few things for the feede
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
TILE MARKET FOR FRUITS.

Will the markets for fruits be over
stocked? There is no probability of
it. Hardly possibility. This an
cient habit of eating fruits, which has
grown with our race from tho first,
when it is alleged that our first
parents threw away their home and
happiness for On apple, increases with
civilization. Flesh eating is relic
of barbarism and savage life. Fruit
consumption is quite the reverse, and
is the outward sign of high state of
cultivation, which-no one can deny,
Notwithstanding the scandals and
general wickedness that are un-
covered by the untiring and omni-
present reporter-is far ahead of any
other period in the history of the
world, and, as improvements once be-
gun go on forever, SO this adjunct of
it, fruit eating, will increase rather
than go back.
The farm orchards even are neglect
ed for the business plantations which
are managed by the most skillful ex-
perts. Every device of good nature
is made mere matter of business,
and thus it is that the farmer will buy
his fruit moro cheaply than he can
grow it, while he may produce more
milk and butter, or potatoes, and sell
these to the fruit grower, who sup
plies him, in exchange for his needed
farm products. 1t is the same in
every industry. There are no more
the ,old-fashioned jacks of all trades.
Special industries and products are the
rule, and with these the quality and
the cheapness increase together, for
with constant experience and practice
come skill and excellence, and these
necessarily mean greater cheapness
of production. New York Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

Have any of you ever tried growing
rose cuttings in a pit? asks q CORE
spondent of the Detroit Free Press. ]
am making my first trial with one.
Some lady recommended this plan last
year, but lost the paper containing
her directions and am working by
guess mostly. 1 had u pit dug two feet
deep and just wide enough to be
covered with large sash. I had
about six inches of rich dirt spread in
the pit and packed down. The cut
tings were stuck in this soil in rows
four inches apart, and well watered.
Then the sash was put over them,
resting on the surface of the ground
and banked around with earth to keep
the water from running in. We have
had hard weather for Middle Alabama,
but up to date the young roses are
looking green and I hope have taken
root. They we're planted in Novem-
Der. don't know how it will turn
out, but so far am well pleased with
this new method of planting cuttings.
l presume it will be equally good fol
other plants.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
Care of the Ears.

A prominent physician says that
more than half of the ear troubles
from which people suffer during the
cold weather can be traced to the
habit of picking at the ears with the
tingernails or hairpins or some other
hard substance, which irritates the
delicate inside of the ear. Instead OF
this injurious "picking," the ears
should be washed out with warm
water and little good soap, and thor
oughly dried after the operation. If
the ears are sensitive little cotton
may be put in before going into the
open air, though this is apt to make
them even more sensitive. In ex-
tremely cold weather before venturipg
out good way to clean the ears IS to
wrap the corner of towel around
the finger, and with little cold cream
carefully wipe out the auricle. 1t
will remove every particle of dust and
will really protect the ears from the
cold, but it can scarcely be recon.
mended for regular use. New York
World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

When you buy horse, take off his
harness and let him walk by himself.
II he runs into anything you will
know he is blind.
If a horse is bad tempered, heis apt
to keep his ears thrown back. If ho is
o kicker, his legs will be SCARED. If
his skin is rough, his digestion is not
good.
The bicycle has cut down the bust
ness of city livery stables fully half.
This must be remembered in the
breeding of common little scrub
horses.
All animal fats are o mixture of
three substances-olein, stearIne and
palmatine. The fat of men and dogs
contains most palmatine; that of
horses and COWS most stearine; fish,
most olein.
A pig is pig till it is year old.
Then it becomes hog In classifica-
tion for fairs, however, when pre-
MUM is offered for SOW and pigs, it
is understood that the pigs are to be
under six months old.
When COW dies suddenly from un-
known causes open her stomach, and
you will sometimes find therein not
less than pound of nails, tacks md
bits of wire. She has swallowed them
along with the ground feed, bran,
grain, middlings, etc, that you have
been giving her for several years. Al
last the mess has killed her.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

to keep in mind. Other things being
equal, the stock receiving the largest
variety of foods will grow the best
and fatten the quickest. Another
item is to give reasonable bulk to each
meal of the stock. Substances taken
into the stomach must be light, SO
that the digestive fluids may act upon
them with thoroughness, ease and fa-
cility. Otherwise, indigestion and
arrangement of the alimentary canal,
together with failure to assimilate the
food, will occur. Regularity is an.
other important essential. How it
frets hungry man to wait for meal.
Therefore, how it must worry On ami
NAL also. This worry will always re-
suit in loss to the der.-Ohio
Farmer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

The San francisco Chronicle re-
marks: "Tho Actors Protective
Union, Of Boston, has under consider
alton plan for securing for tho
$1,000 cctors Of the country m
amendment to the National election
laws whereby they wall bo allowed to
vote in the place where their profess
sion may call them On Election Day.
At present they are unable to vote ex-
cept at their own homes. Tho ques-
tioh is plain and simple one. It in
wolves only an amendment or two to
the Constitution OF the United States,
two or three acts OF Congress, the
joint action Of the Legislature of more
than forty States, and a complete re-
versGl of the doctrine Of suffrage
which has obtained since the republic
began. With these trifing obstacles
removed there coall be nothing in
The way OF the desire o; the Actors
Protective Union, OF Boston"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

The space given in the annual mes-
sages OF the Governors OF various
States to the question Of good roads is
indicative to tho New York Tribune
OF tho growing popular interest in O.
question OF lnrgo importance in ell
parts of the country. It cannot bo
said that legislation has kept paco
with the demand for improved roads,
ind even whego laws have been en-.
acted they hGyo not always accom-
plished the end in view. In this State.
for example. through tho influence of
Governor Flower q law was passed two
C three years ago which it was be-
lieved would stimulate number of
counties to engage in road construc-
tion on approved principles. Dat this
result has not followed. MOI single
county, We believe, has taken advan.
tage Of the provisions of that law. It
is plain, therefore, that additional leg
islation is demanded if New York is to
do its duty in providing good roads.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
Remarkable Second Sigilt.

A remarkable incident Of "second
sight" occurred in the Scotland min.
ing district of Benhar on New Years
Day. A miner named Donald McFar
lane disappeared Sunday. leaving no
trace OF his whereabouts. After two
days search Robert Halbert, an old
man who had interpolation of possess
ing second sight and was "a brother in
law of McFarlane, fell asleep and
dreamed he saw the missing man in q
particular part OF Almond Water.
Mentioning this to neighbors, they
went to the place and saw tho foot
prints Of the missing man in the snow.
Eventually they found the man him.
self standing upright i'll the water
with the ice frozen around him. HI
was dead. Trenton IN. J.) American
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

Says the New York News: "There
is good deal OF activity, particularly
in the New England States, among
those who desire the ,urtber restric-
tions OF immigration, md it is not ut
all unlikely that Congress- will be
asked to amend tho present law. The
facts set forth in circular Just sent
out from Boston in justification OF
the movement are that last year, un-
der the present law, fourteen per
cent. OF tho Immigrants who came to
this country could not read their own
language, while nineteen per cent.
of them could not write,
and that while the foreign
born population is not quite fifteen
per cent. Of the total it furnishes one.
third of all the insane and nearly ono
half the paupcrs, 1t ia also urged
that the immigrants now coming are
from countries whose people are not
good material for the making of
American citizens, nearly one.third
of the males over twenty-one years
old already here not having been
naturalized, and about the same pro-
portion not speaking our language.
These are grnvo facts and we'll worth
considering. There is no doubt that
many OF those who land on these
shores ought to be kept out, but it is
extremely difficult to draw the line
between those that are desirable and
those that are not. Tt will not do to
require that an immigrant shall have
so much money before he is per-
mitted to come, for the poor but in
dustrious are far more valuable
acquisitions than the indolent who
may have few dollars. A racial dis.
tinction might be made between i'm
migrants from Europe, es we have al.
ready provided in the case of ths
Chinese, but it would be difficult, il
not quite impossible, to mete out
absolute justice in that way. While
the vast majority of the arrivals from
a certain country may be extremely
bad material, there is sure to be q
minority who should be made vel.
come"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
Russia Has Large Cavalry Forces.

A German paper states that the ere.
alton of the new Russian army corps
in Poland will lead to the concentra-
tion of such masses of cavalry as are
found in no other army in the world.
In the Government of Warsaw there
will be three divisions of cavalry,
three regiments of Cossacks, and cor.
responding batteries of horse artillery.
This great mass of cavalry will face
the German frontier and have its
centre at Warsaw, its right resting on
Plotz and its left on Lublin. 1t is re.
ported that some time ago secret
maneuvers were held in the Govern
ment of Wilma to test the possibility
OF handling such masses of cavalry,
with the result that the commander
in-chlef expressed an opinion that no
troops could stand before them. This
may be true, says the German critic,
but how can such numbers be marched
about any country and fed altogether
Handling them would be an easy mat.
ter compared with the commissariat
officers work to provide food.-Chi
cago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
Snails For the Market.

The edible snails, which appear on
the cards OF certain New York restau-
rants, are chiefly imported from
France, where they are propagated
for the market at price of about
eight cents pound. Extensive parks
are prepared for them, and during the
late summer months they are fattened
upon cabbage and clover. A wagon
load of cabbages, costing less than %,
will put 100, 600 snails in condition.
Along the Cote dor and in the lowe,
Alps, snail picking is as recognized an
industry as berry picking. and is car
ried on in something the same way.
In the early morning of March and
April when the dew is on the grass
and the Shiny trail of the edible little
mcrsels glistens on the leaves with the
first sun rays, the pickers set forth
with baskets and pals. They find the
snails in swampy places resting on the
limbs OF bushes and vines and slug
gisll with tine chill of the spring upon
them. They pluck them from leaf
and twig very much as the farmers
boy gathers the dewberries in August.
These snails are of natural growth.
The most desirable species of snail
is known as the escargot. 1t is pre-.
pared for the table by separate baths
of vinegar, and OF salt and fresh
water. Tho snail is ready for the
market when it is larded in a paste of
butter, garlic and other favored Gallic
condiments. When the housekeepe1
does her shopping in the markets OF
Paris she pays from one to two cents
for each snail. New York Mail AM
E,vnrnss
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
Extracting Teeth by Electricity.

Trials have been made at London
with new apparatus for the extrac-
ton of teeth by electricity. It cou-
sists OF an induction coil OF extremely
fine wire, having an interrupter THAI
can vibrate at the rate of 450 times
second. The patient sits in the ira
ditional armchair and takes the mega
tive electrode in his left hand and the
positive intho right. At this moment
the operator turns on % current whose
intensity is gradually increased till it
has attained the utmost limit the pa
tient can support. The extractor is
then put in circuit and fastened on
the tooth, which, under the action of
the vibration, is loosened at once.
The operation is performed very
quickly, and the patient feels no
other sensation than the pricking
produced in the hands and forearms
by the passage of the current. II
would be interesting to have de.
tailed description of the apparatus to
complete this somewhat brief descrip
ton. Nature.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA.

Chief Salmon, of the Bureau OF Ami
NAL Industry, in an officially published
article on hog cholera and swine
pleague, does not uphold the theory
that these diseases are caused solely
by germs in the food OF drink. He
says swine will contract hog cholera
in this way, but also by inhaling the
virus with the air, and less frequently
by its gaining entrance through tho
surface of fresh wound. On the
other hand, "the virus of swine plague
is generally if not always taken into
the lungs with the inhaled air." The
first effect OF cholera is believed to be
upon the intcstiDes, with secondary
invasion of the lungs, but the first
effect Of plague is believed to be upon
the lungs, and the invasion of the in
testines subsequent process.
One or both of these diseases gener-
ally are at work among hogs, espec-
ially the young ones. They are esti-
mated to cause the loss of $4,000, 900
to $25, 900, 900 worth OF hogs per year
in the United States. It is understood
that this fall the trouble is more prev
alent than ordinary, and this fact is
cited by some to explain the pheno-
menal activity with which hogs have
been marketed in the last two months.
with the accompanying decrease of
not far from ten per cent in the aver
age weight of the animal sent to
market. The hogs have not been kept
to fatten SO long as usual, but it is
only fair to say that this may be in
considerable part due to scarcity OF
feed on account of the paucity of the
corn crop in nearly all the Northern
States except Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. Nevertheless, tho suspected
prevalence Of one or both these mala-
dies renders it OF interest that the fol-
lowing remedy should be known by
every farmer who is hog grower,
since it is recommended by the depart
ment as the most efficacious formula
which has been tried: Wood charcoal,
sulphur, sodium sulphate and anti
mony sulphide, one pound of each,
and sodium chloride, sodium bicar-
Donate and sodium hyposulphate, two
pounds OF each. These are to be COM
pletely pulvcrized and well mixed.
The dose Is a large tablespoonful for
each 200 pounds weight of hog treated
and given only once per day, being
stirred into a soft feed made by mix
ing bran and middlings, or middlings
and cornmeal, or ground oats and
corn, or crushed wheat with hot
water.
A great recommendation for this re-
medy is the fact that hogs are fond OF
il, and when once they taste of food
with which it has been mixed they
will eat it, though nothing else would
tempt them. They should be drenohed
with it in hot water if too sick to eat,
and most OF those so treated will begin
to eat soon after. The report recon-
mends the medicine for use as a pre-
ventive Of those diseases, for which
purpose it ought to be put into the
feed of the whole herd, presumably in
much smaller quantity than above
stated for sick animals. 1t is said to
be an excellent appetizer and stimu-
liant for the processes of digestion and
assimilation 80 that it causes the amt
mails to take flesh rapidly and "assume
"a thrifty appearance. OF course
isolation should be attended TO in cases
where infection from other animals is
feared.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
Good Manners of the Elephant.

While visiting the "zoo" some time
ago I took my children to see the
elephant and to give them q ride. At
ter the ride wanted to give the ele-
phant bun, and, to make him say
"Please," said "Salaam kuro"-that
is, make q salaam. The animal looked
at me hard for some time with bun
in my hand; at last memory came to
his help, and up went his trunk and
he made most correct "salaam. ,"
The keeper seemed very much sur
prised and asked me what it meant. 1
told him it was point of good man.
ners for an elephant to raise his trunk
up to his forehead if any one was 60
ing to feed him, and that frequently
elephants will ask in this polite man
ner for something when they SEQ any
one pass by who is likely to feed
them.
The keeper assured me he had never
seen the elephant do this before, and,
if 1 remember rightly, he had been in
charge of the animal since it arrived
from India, and that it was one OF
those which took part in the grand
procession at Agra when His Royal
H1ghness, the Prince of Wales, visited
India, and where doubtless saw it,
For seventeen years this animal had
never heard these words and had al.
ways taken his food without this mark
of good manners, but now l dare say
the keeper makes him remember his
youthful good manners, and the little
children will see on their visits to the
"Zoo" this instance of "always say
please. "-London Times.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
ADVANTAGE OF WARM FEED.

Giving warm feeds to young animals
not disposed to be thrifty will very
often have happy effect. These an
imals may suffer from weak digestion,
which in turn produces a poor appe-
tite. The animal does not eat heartily,
and what it does eat is not well di-
gested. A hot mess some cold morn
ing sharpens the appetite and tones
mp the digestion. .-American Agricul-
turist.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

There is No New Woman-Etiquette
VS.. Cynicism-C. o. D.-The Dis.
tinction, Etc, Etc.
New woman? Oh, bless you, she isn't new,
Though she's called 50. ut any rate,
She shops just the same rs the old ones do,
And asks IL her hats on straight.
She's as curious rs other women are,
And big hat wears at play,
And she always steps OF n trolley car
With her face turned the other way.
New York Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
VERY UNFORTUNATE.

Whimsicus-"I always knew that
thirteen was an unlucky number Jol-
licus gave an awfully swell dinner at
Deps the other night, and there were
lust thirteen at table"
Flimsicus-"Well, what happened?"
Whimsicus - "What happenedi
Why, I wasn't invited !"-Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
THE MYSTERY.

First Depositor-'T suppose there's
no telling how the banks money
went?"
Second Depostor-"Oh, yesl That
has oil been cleared up. There's only
one thing that isn't clear, now"
First stDepositor-"What is that?"
Second Depositor-"How they came
to leave any assets. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
A PLAUSIBLE EXCLAMATION.

"What DO you Western people mean
by rounding up cattle?" asked the
Boston girl.
And the Chicago girl, who would
not admit that she didn't know it all,
replied: 'Oh, that is sort of slang
term for the fattening of them-of
course, that makes them round in out
line, you know. w."-Cincinnati Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
HER IGNORANCE.

A five-year-old, who went to school
for the first time, came home at noon,
and said to his mother, "Mammn, |
don't think that teacher knows much?"
"Why not, my dear?"
"Why, she kept asking questions
all the time She asked where the
Mississippi was. ."-Philadelphia Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
A FAMILIAR EXPERIENCE.

Plugwinch-"Tell you what, old
man, if I'd my life to live over again
I'd marry money, wouldn't you?
Enpeck (decisively) : "'No, sir!
Money talks l"-Philadelphia Life.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
SUPERSTITION.

Poet with MS.)-"What floor is
the editorial department"
Elevator -"Thirteenth."
Poet-"Good day. Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

According to Maior-General Tul-
loch, OF Victoria, New South Wales, de.
pends for its defense on ten obsolete
torpedo boats.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
A SUPERIOR ATTRACTION.

First Small Boy-"Come over and
play in this mud-puddle."
Second Small Boy-Nope; you como
over and play in this one"
First Small Boy-"I won't. Tho
waters dirtier i'll this puddle than it
is in yours Judge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
THE DISTINCTION.

Teacher what is the difference
between victuals and viands?"
Scholor = eve have victuals on
wash days and viands when We have
company. Detroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
OH, YES | CERTAINLY /!

'tNow, you will have to ask papa for
his CONSENT" said Miss Willing to her
accepted suitor.
ooh, yes! Certainly" replied Jack
Coy. ''Of course! Er-has he tel
ephone at his Office ?"-Puck.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28

Iron bedsteads are safe during
thunder storm, because, being good
conductors. they keep the electricity
from the body.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-02-28
@. O. d.

Willie-"Mariorie, you havo re-
turned my written proposal markell
@. o. d. Tell me, what. does it
mean?"
Marjorie (blushing)-"Why why,
G. o. d. means, Call on Dad
Truth.