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The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
HERE AND THERE.

"A hen that will not produce double
her weight in eggs every year is not
worth keeping. Have her for dinner
at an early day.
w. Il. Warren, of Carroll county,
Tenn, has brood SOW which has
dropped him three litters of pigs with.
in the last ten months, the total mum.
ber being thirty-five.
Tar paper is a good thing to line
fowlhouse with; it has an odor that is
unpleasant to vermin and supposed to
fortify the lungs and throat against
diseases that enter the system by that
route.
1T is estimated by competent au.
thority that more than 600, 900, 900 acres
of arid lands in this country can be ir-
rigated and made to far exceed the
best unirrigated lands in productive
capacity.
1t requires more food to keep up
egg production than is necessary to
support flock of hens in unproductive
idleness. The best hens in the world
can not make eggs out of wind.
1t is estimated that every in.
dividual in the land eats fifty pounds
of pork annually; in any event that
much is raised. This, at least, shows
the Importance of swine industry.
CARROTS are a cheap and excel
lent food for horses, and for sick or
convalescent horses they are highly
recommended. 1t is said horse rar l.
ly gets SO sick as to refuse this root,
until the actual articulo mortis.
-One-fourth of the labor that men
do would be sufficient to supply every
human being with all the necessaries
of life and every reasona BILE luxury, if
they would live as they ought to and
observe the Golden Rule.
Every farm should keep flock of
sheep, for every farm has place for
sheep, which nothing else can fill. The
flock may be a small one. That de-
pends on conditions, but the flock
should be amply sufficient to supply the
family with mutton.
On the farm it is best to keep but
one breed of chickens for they can
then be allowed full personal liberty
to range at will, and the breed can be
kept unmixed. Plymouth Rocks,
Wyandottes, or any of the Leghorns
are suitable for this purpose, with the
exception that the latter, If pure
blood, will not sit worth cent.
Whatever may be said of the pres
ent prospects for sheep as commercial
venture, there is one aspect of sheep
husbandry in relation to which no
farmer can ever make q mistake, saws
the Homestead, and that is the keep
ing of sufficient number of the right
kind of sheep to provide an abundance
OF good, wholesome meat for the use of
his own family
In no domestic animal has there been
greater improvement than in the hog.
Where is the man with gray hairs in
his head who does not remember the
fleet-footed windsplitter of yore, whose
legs, as well as snout, were made for
business? Compare him with the ro-
tund modern porker, whose snout and
legs have almost disappeared in the
we'll rounded carcass, and wonder at
the ingenuity of the breeder man.
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
TO CURE MEAT.
Most Farmers Think They Know How, But
Here's n Good Method.

Most Farmers Think They Know How, But
Here's Good Method.
Take to one hundred ponnds of meat
seven pounds of salt, two ounces of
saltpetre, we'll mixed. Hams and sides
are rubbed well on both sides, then
placed in a box after the bottom has
been covered with the above mixture
one inch deep. Now pack the meat as
close as possible, and fill all vacant
places with salt until the whole box
forms one entire mass of meat and
salt. Be careful and don't place bone
against bone. The salt will soon melt,
and with the dampness of the meat
will form juice that will soak into
the meat. Small hogs remain four.
teen days. heavy ones four weeks in
this state, after which time you can
smoke the meat. Before you take the
meat to the smokehouse to smoke, you
have to dry the meat thoroughly.
Now in regard to smokehouse, as a
good smokehouse is rarity. A good
smokehouse must be dry. but airy, and
when closed free from frost. Such a
house is cool in summer. If you cover
the air-holes with wire mesh to keep
out insects, the meat can remain in
this house the whole summer, but YOU
have to give the meata smoke now and
then. The smokehouse must be ar.
ranged SO that the smoke reaches the
meat dry and cold. A real good smoke
house ought to be two stories. In the
lower story you make the smoke,
which, through an opening in the pper
floor. passes to the upper story, where
the meat hangs; in the roof You have
several small openings, through which
the smoke escapes. Meat ought to be
smoked, not blackencd. You don't
want a thick, impenetrating, suffoeat-
ing smoke, mixed with plenty of fresh
air, to give your meat nice, yellow
brown appearance. Every two or
three days, when the air is cool and
dry, open the door to let in the air SO
it will dry the meat.
The fire in the smokehouse must be
built so that no blaze will start from
the material that the smoke is to be
made from. In one corner of the
smokehouse build furnace out of
brick, eight inches deep. ten inches
wide and about fourteen inches high.
On the bottom lay two rows of corn
cobs, then layer of maple or oak
sawdust, then thin layer of slabs of
either wood, then sawdust, ETC., until
the whole furnace is filed; now Law
live Goals to the corncobs: Such pile
will smoke the whole night. The saw
dust prevents the whole mass from
blazing. Hickory also is good, but
never pine, as this kind of smoke will
give your meat disagreeable taste.
If you will keep this up night and day
for the small hams and sides for ten
days. the heavy pieces fifteen days,
your meat will have nice, yellow
brown color.
To keep the meat the whole summer
so it does not get strong and tainty,
there are several remedies. The meat
will keep the best if packed between
chopped charcoal. Pack just as if you
were going to salt it down: don't have
any vacant places. Also sifted ashes.
particularly those Of beech wood, is
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
Recipe for Pickling Meat.

To one hundred pounds Of meat, seven
pounds of salt, five pounds of sugar.
one and half ounces of saltpeter, four
gallons of water. Mix, boil in tin
vessel and skim until the least dirt has
disappeared, let mixture get cold, puck
meat into barrels that have previously
been scalded; now pour the mixture
over the meat SO it is entirely covered.
If, after weeks time, you find mold
on top, you will have to take the meat
out of the barrels again, dry off nicely
and boil the mixture again as before.
1t is good idea to rcpack the picked
meat after four or five days il you
want to keep your meat sweet the
whole year.-Everett. in Dixie Farmer.
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
Nearly NJ Bad n n Poker Chin.

At q recent Sunday service in q Lon.
don church, young man who took up
the collection, before STARTING put his
hand in his pocket and placed, as he
supposed, n shilling on the plate and
then passed 1t round among the con-
gregation, which included many young
and pretty girls. The girls, as they
looked on the plate. all seemed aston
ished and amused, and the young
man. taking glance at the
plate, found that he had put,
instead of q shilling, a converse
tion lozenge on it, with the words.
"Will you marry me?" in red letters,
staring rybody in the face. while
one of the congregation had capped it
by second lozenge. on which was
printed: "Name the day" N. Y.
Tri bune.
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snow cut your face like going through
a hodge. 1t was dark and the lanterns
didn't show plain through the snow.
and everything seemed to 20 wrong.
Several times VIC thought we were
stalled in the drifts, but we'd uu-
couple and send the engine and two
or three cars through the drift, and
then back up and take the rest of the
train through. We wanted to get
through to Albany, for the next day
was lay OF.
Johnny and fought like beavers
against the cold, and, tell you, it
was ticklish work. felt more anxious
about Johnny than l did about my.
self, for was old ut the business and
he was new, and know how easy it
was for sudden jerk to send a man
flying down between the wheels But
Johnny wouldn't listen. He said he
wasn'tafraid. and just then the whistle
sounded down brakes We were sit
ting in the caboose, shivering around
dirty little fire. had frozen three
of my fingers, and thought my ears
were frosted, too. You sec the storm
came so sudden we didn't have time to
get on any mufiiers, and the mittens
were pretty thin.
well, we climbed out. and Johnny
ran on ahead. saying that he was all
right and he'd take the front The
cars on top were as slippery as glass,
and we had almost to creep along
from one ear to another to keep from
falling off, for she was run ming at a
good pace. and the snow on the tracks
made the cars lurch and swing. l
looked up, and through the snow and
the dark l recoe nized the landmark
and knew we were nearing the water
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
With One Mule.

With one mule Mr.. " A. Hoffman,
near Holly Springs, made the follow
ing crops this year: Three hundred and
thirty bushels of sweet potatoes, sixty
five bushels of Irish potatoes, spring
crop, and forty bushels of fall crop,
three bales of cotton, one hundred
bushels Of cotton seed, two thousand
bundles Of fodder, twenty bushels Of
peas, five bushels of peanuts, three tons
of hay, four hundred and forty-five
bushels of corn. Four cent cotton
doesn't bother Mr.. Hoffman.-Jackson
Miss Clarion Ledger.
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
Molssses as Stock Feed:

4
Now that the extraordinary cheap
ness of sugar and molasses is aStraos
;ng considerable attention IN snis
county for cattle feeding, the follow.
inc account of the use of certain cheaP
materials in Germany for similar put.
pose will prove interesting. FROM
description given in the Deutsche 1uc.
ker Industrie, it appears from recen.
experiments that very large use Is
likely to be made Of what ID known as
the lupine food. 1t is made from :
plant which is extensively cultivated
in some parts Of the continents ana
resembles the vegetable known IN
this country as pulse; the seeds
of which have a leguminous taste;
The lupine seed in its naturai
state has very bitter flavor,
which, however is capable OF extrac-
ton, and the residue is then OF consld-
erable value as the foundation OF
cheap food, to which is added certain
quantity of molasses. The exact pro.
portions recommended are one part OF
molasses, two parts OF dried lupine,
from which the bitterness has been re-
moved. The advantages of such q food
as compared with other descriptions OF
food to which molasses is usually add
ed, are as follows: Firstly, the mix
ture is richer in protein Tor gelatinous
substance obtained from vegetable
casein or legumin) than the goods
hitherto produced; secondly. lupines
are cheaper than palm-kernel cakes,
sunfiower cakes, etc Although
none Of these are manufac-
tured In England, both lu'
plies and supfowers are ex.
tensircly grown on the continent,
and the oil which is expressed from
their seeds is largely made use OF, the
pulp being afterward pressedand mixed
with molasses, forming hard cake.
The average value of lupines for the
last five years has been 4.50 marks per
cwt., equivalent in English money to
Is. Cd. per cwt., while beet molasses
can be bought on the continent for lao
marks per cwt.. or, in our money, at
rather under is. Sd. per cwt To these
figures, however, must be added the
cost of extracting the bitterness or the
oil of the lupine, and the subsequent
drying OF the residue, both Of which
operations would entail some loss OF
weight. Texas Farm and Ranch.
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02

The Indian wheat, which has late.
ly come into prominence in European
markets. is said not to make good
flour unless mixed with percentage
Of the hard American variety.
The Van Buren press., 1895-02-02
oAnIssiMs rAuaoRuM.


o Ceuain John ncross tho pond,
OF ample waist and rinslets blond.
Our youth Of thee have grown 30 fond
They scoru the land that borc en-
Behold them, In adoring rows.
With Games reversed and basRy clothes.
While lisping adulation hows:
sCarissime tauroruml"
They love the fads thy cockneys make;
They love thy cold pump-handle shake,
They lovo the strides thy daughters take
With forty miles before 'em;
The eye-giass, wrinkling brow and check
9he soft nat way thy lordings speak
All! these are charms they vsinly seek,
Carissime taurorum'
when forth we venture on the street,
Some would-be Britisher we meet,
whose forbears raised their rye and wheat
Away down cast In GorhAm
He has the Eaglish drswl, y know,
And crooks his pipc-stem eibows-sN
And struts like some stifi.leegcd crow,
Carissime tauroruml
Our scribblcrs ape your poets. too,
Their .'prfmrcses reeks with English dew;
They dote on .larixs. that scale the blue
And 'carol unscen" DER en-.
they turn . pretty thing" like Gossc.
Or filch thread from Dobsons floss.
Like you, - never write. but-toss,
Carin41{n8 tauroruml
Our very architecture shows
How huge our taurus-worship grows.
why. even thinss like fats. Lord knows.
We call Nhe Kent or 'sShoreham!"
xhey must have steps like Lunnon town,
And ''lifts" TO hoist us up and down.
Their backs are red. their fronts are brown.
Carissime taurorumi
And when your namby-pamby jukcs
Come over here In shoals like fukes.
How Enc our uppcr-tendom looks.
Bowed down to cockalorumi
Our pretty girls use every vile
10 win some gray-beard's hshy smile,
Then, II he pops--hurrah for style,
Carissime taurorum,
o Uncle Saml upon your knee
Abase such children speedily.
And some Of that old Boston tea,
Consigncd 10 Neptune, pour emil
Whist! shall the eagle Of tho west
Sneak back to beg British crests
Not while there's fur left In her nest,
Carfssfme tauroruml
James Buckham, In Youths Companion
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,ocd. the last layer Of ashes one ana
sne.half inches thick. Oats salt, c..',
l. E good, but give the charcoal 'ne
,,tafereuck:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10
DRAKE IN TIE LEAD FOR GOTERNOR
IOWA REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD THEIR STATE
CONVENTION TO-DAY.

IOWA REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD THEIR STATE
CONVENTION TO-DAY.
Des Moines Iowa. July 9.-The Repuoncan s'a
Convention will be called to order at 10 O'CLOCK TO-
morrow morning In Calvary Tabernacle s'ru0'.i
IRE which will hold 800 people. but Will not ho'd
all who will seek admission. PractcaIiy 'he Jun
number OF delegates. l.2A. will be present Inc
number required to nominate is 625. The only con-
ties, will he the nomination FOR Governor io'
which there ten candidates. at least SEVEN
OF whom are processing tonight 10 expect mo
honor and the other three will not admit that
they are without hope. The platform VIII DO
adopted without a contest OF any sort II is now
generally expected that II will be short and IN no
way radical. State issues VIII be dwelt on prieny'
but the liquor question will not be touched on
Two years ago the party adopted the policy OF conf
s,derng this question OF politics. and will con-
tinue IT, The Minneapolis platform OF lss2 VIII Do
reafYirmed as TO National issues
This course will be taken best adapted TO
further the Presidential candidacy Of Senator ALL
son. who is here. but taking no part
General F. NJ Drake, of Centreville and ex-
United States Senator James +. Harlan. OF Mount
Pleasant are the two leading candidates for Gov
ernor and The hopes OF the others rest on the as
sumption that the lines will be so strongly drawn
General Drake has the most votes for the first bal
lo and his forces are the best 0rgaTizea senator
him a general second choice Between these two 1t
The eu personai fsht on General Drake has been
abandoned. what is considered full vnfication
having been published and all the other candidates
having dsavowed the attacks The claims OF the
candidates for Governor tonight as to their votes
the hrst ballot are as follows; Drake 100; Har lar,
Ian 800: Matt Parrot. 20c; W. VI. Mcfarland. 2n;
j. H. Harsh. $50: T.. :. Ormsby. $50: j. L. kamrar
50. +. c. Let's and A. -, Conway. each their
home county. and W. :. Russell. none, as he 49,
not even ndorsed at home. although he keeps open<
Headquarters and insists on being classed as full
neiged candidate In OF protracted struggled
the men with Few votes at the beginning count
themselves in good shape to win as those with
many.
II Is thought that the denomination OF Leu
tenant Governor DUNCAN. State Superintendent sa-
bin Railroad Commissioner Perkins and supreme
Judge Given will be easy. although Messrs. Saoin
and Given will have opposition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10
I BOY,S SHOCKING DEATH.

HE CLIMBED on FREIGHT TRAIN AMI fHN'
BETWEEN CARS-BOTH or HIS LEGS |hO SfiTD'
Coivile Stafford. fourteen years old son OF jon"
Stafford a piano maker. Of No. sl4 East ohe-"un-
dred-and forty-nfth-st went yesterday to HUNTS
Point where he met some schoolboy acquaintah'es.
When they were about to start for home irelshe
train on the New-York. New-Haven ana fartloro
Railroad came along and stopped to uncoupie car
Young Stafford climbed up between two cars ana
as the train neared the Wiis-aVe' s'auo'' az.
,o,,n,ed ~ iumn off He slipped as he jumped. and
,.u across the track between the cars. The wheels
Of four cars passed over his legs cutting the rsns
On. IN ahove the knce and crushing the left 50
badly thai IL was amputated at the Harlem Hos"
ni,ai He lived only a short time His mother ar"
rived In time 70 kiss him goodby
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10
READINGS ACCOUNTS FOR MAY.

Philadelphia, July esp, ,ial.-The special mas
ter, Mr. Crawford. to-day filed In the United States
Circuit Court his audit OF the accounts for
May Of the receivers OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company. The account for
the railroad company shows balance
carried forward May l. of tJiO72 rs. To this are
added the receipts from travel. freight and toll on
coal. merchandise. etc. ,l7Oi. a32 80. and sundry
other receipts. making to.al altogether OF &,ZS.-
32s S. From this 1904 0S II deducted for wages
and salaries N,lss 6j " for materials and expense
bills paid. and fundry other out.ays balance OF
S7l.597 80 was carried at the end Of the month
The account for the coal and iron company shows
a balance brought forward on May !. OF fsO.2i A.
TO this added the receipts from coal sales
81 6G. 324 &c. and the other receipts making total
OF 81 Az, 1Ss 81. From this deducted for wages
mining department. SOL 700; for materials pur-
chased, si39oi9 ~ the amount paid TO the receivers
OF the railroad company for ficght ana tolls. Sl3
IA a. and other disbursements a balance was ear
RED forward 10 June / OF A79.552 II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10
THE READING FORECLOSURE.
ARGUMENT UroN THE DEMtHRERs HEARD ~
PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia. July OSpeciaD.-Argument was
heard by Judge Acheson. N the United States cir
cult Court. this morning. upon the demurrers in the
equity proceedings Instituted by the Pennsylvania
Trust Company. trustee. for the foreclosure 81 the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company gen
era mortgage. Eminent counsel for both sides took
part in the argument. at he close Of which Judge
Acheson reserved his decision.
Thomas Hart. jr. and Samuel Dickson appeared
for the Reading receivers and we're reinforced by
ex Supreme Court Chief Justice Paxson who Is one
OF the receivers John q. Johnson represented the
trustee OF the general mortgage, and some Of the
bondhoders who interviewed parties defendant
were represented by ex-Supreme Court Judge Jcn-
kins and George Tucker Bispham. Mr. Hart opened
the argument. and contended that the foreclosure
could not take place under the bill
Mr. johnson replied 10 Mr.. Hart at considerable
length and contended that the bill was In proper
form. Messrs. Bispham and Jenkins also Joined in
the argument In behalf OF bOndho,ders. George !,
Rives Of New York who Is II counsel for the bill
was also present but dill not address the Court
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10
,rtfr NNANY PRIMARIES.

The Tammany Hall Executive Committee has
loo, called by James J. Martin. the chairman, TO
meet in the Wigwam tomorrow. 10 cohs'der "hat
ola, shol be pursued for holding the primaries and
c,,,, . ,corganization under the apportion-
men, II immediate action Is decided upon, the
committee on Organization and General Commit
tees Will be summoned In a few days to perfect
the call.
There Il. considerable opposition TO a summer re-
organization This IL based on the absenc" "i many
nro,n,nent members. including Richard croker ana
- U.vor Grant from the city. when the cy-
Mayor returns from Europe the proposed commit
lee OF one Hundred. to be made up OF Democrats
~, ali strlpes conditions and antecedents u 10 De
named This committee IL expected 70 nave a
"harmonizine effect" and the Grant, roker exc
ncnt want e. delay the primaries on TINS account.
TN. section led by County Clerk Henry y. iuir0y
arc against waiting for any European arrivals The
rival factions may have hot discussloh toniorIo"
before the question Is settled
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-10

they do not fully realize what is the matter with
,lem. They know that they have ;. female weak.
ness but they do not really appreciate what that
means. a.. - .,,,h,. 4.
traccable almost all of their bodily ills. They
consider it disease by itself, and II they nave
also neuralgia, nervous headaches, biliousness
Lidrev troubles and other things, they see no
Connection between them and the arrangements
of strictly feminine nature Busy ana over
worked physicians often treat these Things as
senarate ailments, when the whole trouble mas
the one source. The reproductive organs are 80
imnortaut a part of the body that when they
are out of order, the whole system is deianged;;
Whatever illness a woman has, she will do well
~ look there for the cause.
A GREAT many women knowingly neglect them
selves because they dread the telling of their
troubles to a physician and the subsequent exani,:
nation and 'local treatment" All this IS need
less for DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription mas
been found to perfectly and permanently restore
lost strength and promote regularity OF iunc'oha'
Ten cents sent to Worlds Dispensary. Medical
Association, Buffalo, n. ", will bring large 10Y
maze book. called Woman and Her Diseases"
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