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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
COSTLY POULTRY HOUSE.

Built by Mrs. Robert Garrett at Her Coun-
try Place Near Baltimore.
A poultry esta blishment costing over
So, 900 has just been completed at Up
lands, the country place of Mr.. Robert
Garrett. The buildings were all con-
structed under the direct supervision
of Mrs. Robert Garrett, who, like
many ladies in this country and in Eng
land has become interested in poul-
try culture.
The poultry house is all under one
roof. and is over $50 feet long. It has
three turret towers, one at each end
and one in the center. One of the
towers will be used for choice fowls,
pigeon loft being in the second story.
The feed will be kept in the other end
tower. A reception room, well fur
nished and equipped with a library of
poultry literature, occupies the first
story of the center tower, the second
story being the bedroom of the poultry
keeper. On the right of the center
tower are accommodations for brood
ing 1000 "broilers" at one time.
Breeders" are devices for providing
warmth for artificially Matched chick
ems. arranged SO that the chickens
may run in and out at will. There are
also outside yards in which the chick
ems may exercise and obtain fresh air.
Compartments for brooding pens OF
thoroughbred poultry stock are on
the left of the center tower. The
house is constructed of wood and the
floors are all of cement.
A heavy brick ornamented structure
for the incubators is in the rear of the
poultry house. As soon as the young
chicks are we'll dried after emerging
from the eggs they are taken from the
incubator and in lots of 100 are put in
the brooder apartments.
A building especially arranged for
fattening, killing and dressing poul-
try is connected with the establish
ment. Ducks and turkeys have sep
arate house in the rear of the main
building baltimore Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
EGGS IN COLD WEATHER.
The Winter PFoductiveness of Hens Do
DendS on Feeding.

The Winter Productiveness of Hens Do
ponds on Feeding.
The art of feeding may well be APP
piled to poultry in winter, if eggs are
expected. We said the ''art" of feed
ing, for feeding is quite an art, and has
science to keep it company. What do
we feed to secure? Eggs, and in SO
doing we must look into the egg. We
see it we'll filed with rich, nutritious
substances. and a variety. Then we
must adapt the food to the egg. 1t
the hen is kept warm and comfortable,
the food required to provide her with
animal heat will be correspondent
1essened. Knowing that the food
should not contain an excess of the
carbonaceous or heat producing ele-
ments, we look to those substances
which furnish the albumen. All foods
contain these, but they vary in proper
tions.
When the farmer throws down corn
and feeds his hens literally he may
secure but few eggs, as he is then
feeding for the market and not for
eggs. A fat hen will not lay, and is as
improbable as fat sow for breeding.
What the hens mostly need is nitrog-
tenous matter, for they can, if fed
any grain at all, easily provide the
yolk, lime, phosphoric acid. ETC., but
the large amount of albumen in an
egg calls for more heterogeneous food
than is usually allowed. Some. i'm
properly, ascribe the failure to secure
eggs to lack of green food. While
come kind of bulky food (such as clover
hay chopped fine, and scalded, as we'll
as cooked potatoes and turnips) is ex-
cellent, yet the desideratum is animal
food, and if less grain he fed, and more
meat, either raw or cooked, there will
be more eggs.
NJ ilk and curds are also suitable, but
meat is better than anything else. As
a pound of meat daily will be suffi-
cient for a dozen hens, and almost any
kind of meat will do, the expense is a
small matter, compared to the high
prices obtained for eggs in winter. 1t
is not necessary to feed grain more
than once a day. A morning meal of
scalded, chopped hay. with some kind
of animal food and wheat at night
will give more eggs, if the henhouse
is kept warm, than any other method,
and it will be cheaper than feeding
three times day on grain. pan OF
warm water in the morning should al
ways be allowed.-Farm and Home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
LIVESTOCK NOTES.

WHENEVER an animal coughs, imme-
date attention should be given it.
Coughs are always in the direction OF
danger.
EVERY time horse slips the animal
is liable to permanently inJure itself.
See to it then that it is properly shod
if it is to be driven on icy roads
CUTTING coarse fodder makes it more
digestible, and hence it makes it more
nourishing, denial of the fact in some
quarters to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
The trotting horse and the mule are
about all there is left of the business
of breeding on that line. OF the two
we would rather breed the mule. The
income would be steadier.
THE Importance of examining the
teeth of animals now and then is
often mentioned. and yet it is a fact
that little attention is paid to the
matter. Bad teeth are often a cause
Of suffering and disease.-Farmers'
Voice,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

Misnaming of fruits is general and
is noted in the markets and at fruit
shows 1t is safe to say that some
value is added to a consignment of
fruit that is properly named. Then
why not give the matter attention?
There is scarcely a fruit grower or
farmer that has not some varieties of
which he does not know the name. AS
a rule, this is the usual condition Of
affairs. 1t could lie remedied by a
little effort. Send specimens to COM
petent authorities-get the right
names and always use them. The
worst sinners in this respect are the
city dealers Many of them have no
scruples in such matters, and invent
and apply new names and wrong
names with perfect Indifference. If
all fruit was rightly labeled they could
not so easily do their demoralizing
work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
To Tell the Age of Sheen.

Sheep have two teeth in the center
of the jaw at one year old, and add
two each year until five years old,
when they have a full mouth" After
that time the age cannot be told by
the teeth. The natural age of sheep
is about ten years, to which age they
breed and thrive well, though
there are instances of their breed
ing at the age of fifteen and of living
twenty years On the western plains
sheep do not last nearly SO long, from
the fact that their teeth soon wear out
while constantly nibbling the gritty
heritage OF the sandy prairie on which
they Craze Sheep under these coudi.
tions seldom last longer than six years
and cease to be profitable after five
years When the teeth give out the
sheep take on digestive ailments and
soon become emaciated for want
Of nutrition which they cannot get
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
Some Jacket Lore.

Although the correct length of the
walking coat is to the knee. there are
short jackets merely reaching well
over the hips for women of short stat
ure, on whom the half-long coat is one
of the most awkward garments imagin-
able, especially when fitted with the
severe simplicity of the modern tailor
gown of cloth. Pale, bridge mixtures
are used as the new tailor cloths. There
II a decided fancy for Il garment of
cloth, to match the skirt, and probably
the majority of ordinary walking
dresses will be finished with q coat or
wrap of the same material, following
the fashion of the outing gowns of the
summer. The bodice worn beneath the
coat will be of silk or some rich or gray
material in contrast, as it is the rule
now, not the exception. that the bodice
sball be of . different material from
the skirt. A touch of fur sometimes
trims the coats of walking suits, bat
much less fur will be used this winter
On plain cloth suitA.-N. 7. World
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

A very pretty jacket, called the En-
glish walking-jacket, is tight-ftting,
and is cut short on the hips, only a
little longer than the bodice of the
dress. A fur edging. and coat revers
and collar, give it the look of an outer
garment. Developed in black velvet,
this little wrap is very becoming to
youthful figure, and would be particu-
larly suita BILE for skating costume.
Slashed cloth bodices over velvet are
among the novel effects of this season,
and are very picturesque if well cut.
To illustrate the idea, imagine per-
fectly-cut, tight fitting velvet lining
basted with the face side toward the
cloth which forms the outside. After
fitting, the latter is cut first in "
shape from neck to waist, front and
back. Next another V is cut on either
side from the shoulder to just below
the bust in front and below the Shout
der-blades behind, the last and third
V being below the arms to the waist.
This will give the effect of two cloth
straps on the shoulder. uniting in a
solid line of cloth around the waist,
with the velvet showing under the
arms. The cloth sleeves are also cut SO
as to show the velvet from the shoulder
nearly to the elbow, the plaits being of
the cloth, which is slashed so as to
leave the velvet exposed on the straight
inner side of the sleeve.
The bib waist" is also a novelty,
and is exceedingly pretty, particularly
for young girls. In this pattern the
cloth is cut square, back and front,
and also on the shoulders around the
armholes, giving very much the effect
of a bib apron with straps-especially
as the front. which is slightly gath
cred, is without opening except under
the arms, the rest of the waist being
of velvet
One of the newest patterns in sleeves
has stitched-down box-blait from the
neck to the shoulder, where it devel-
ops into one of the folds of the sleeve,
which says very much toward the ell
bow. At last it appears that people
with sloping shoulders are to have
their innings, after many years ver-
dict in favor of the square-cut, tailor
made looking figures which have been
considered the fashionable type of
beauty for SO long. We are to have
curves, ringiets and all the old-time
graces back again, they say. It seems
rather curious that there should be
revival of the softer feminine charms
in this age of emancipation.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

In 1779 the combined French and
Spanish land and sea forces besieged
Gibraltar, closely investing the place
until September Is, 1882, when the
most memorable attack that history
records was made upon it. Forty-six
line-of-battle ships, three hundred gun
and mortar boats, together with
great feet of specially-constructed ar
mored floating batteries, incircled the
rock, and daily hurled thousands of
tons of iron against its scraggy sides.
This frightful assault was maintained
and successfully resisted for several
months, and it was not until 1888, when
peace was declared, that the siege was
raised. and the English left masters of
the place they had defended without
cessation for four weary years.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

VERTICAL VIEW.

four horses to a wagon without them,
have different rig for one-gang
pillow.
In the three-horse equalizer, the
short eveners are attached to the long
one by good swingle- tree centers and
clevises.
We need something to equalize ouI
horses in this country, where we use .
four-horse team SO universally-fon
horses to the drill e to II feet, to t!ie
harrow ZIG to 20 feet. to the binder
(6 to feet, to the grain tank 600 t.
$50 buShels), and to the pillow ga to sc
inches).-S. NJ. Ed wards. in Country
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
Two Neglected Crops.

Peas and beans are two neglected
crops, as they are not grown on many
farms where they could be made
profitable. 1t is possible to grow two
crops-early peas, and beans later-on
the same ground. beans are always
salable at good prices, and the straw
of both peas and beans may be util-
lied as bedding or for sheep to pick
over. The best early peas are grown
on land that is heavily MANFRED in the
fall or in winter, SO as to turn it
under during any warm spell when the
frost is out of the ground.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
Rabbits Barking Trees.

A subscriber asks if there is not a
wash that will prevent this. Yes.
Make an ordinary whitewash. with
one pound of flowers of sulphur to four
pounds Of lime. Then add two ounces
of fluid carboiic acid to the gallon OF
mixture. Keep it well stirred while
applying it with a brush, and the
rodents will not touch the trees. 1t
should be applied well up, say three
feet, for if a deep snow falls and a
crust forms the rabbits will reach up
pretty high. Should many mild rains
occur it may be necessary to repeat
the wash. if no rains occur it may
pay to wash the whitewash off in the
spring with soapsuds. The latter op-
GRAFTON will pay for itself in the
smooth bark and the destruction of any
plant lice that may escape the former
at the root of the tree. - Colman's
Rural w Orld
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
HANDY WITH THEIR GUNS.

Vsracious Yarn of Two Cowboys Who
Played Pool With Revolvers.
Yes, I've seen a good many games
OF pool" said the aged sport, reflective
ly, and some mighty queer ones, but
game that 1 saw ten years ago out in
Anaconda, Mont. beat them ALL
Tell us about it."
mat, OF course, was the invitation
winch the aged sport was fishing for.
SO ne began without further urging:
was little one-horse saloon. one
OF the toughest in that tough western
town. A half-doZen or so of ms had
been sitting around drinking and play.
ing, when in came a couple of cowbovs
and, after taking eight drinks aniecc
DIS iast as they could swallow, they de-
manoed the use of the pool table Ny
sell and three other fellows were play
ing at the time. but we gave it right
up without protest. for those cow
boys had their pistols in their hands
and they looked ugly. The attendant
placed the balls in a hurry and offered
each OF the cowboys a cue. They
TOOK the cues and hit him a couple of
raps over the head with the heavy ends
OF them, whereupon he got down be-
hind the bar and did not saw another
word. Then these cowboys threw the
cues out of the window and drew their
guns and began shooting the balls into
the pockets.
Well, Sir, you can better believe it
was the prettiest shooting a man ever
saw. They played a regular game,
each taking his turn and making his
run just as you would with cues. OF
course, when they hit a ball square the
bullet would shatter it to pieces, but
they Were clever enouRh not to break
more than one or two in the whole
game. They would shoot elancing
shots, just nipping the balls on the
edges and whirling them off into the
pockets almost every time. They made
double shots and single shots and bank
shots and all kinds of shots The pro-
prletor began to get nervous for his
table, for. of course, every shot went
through the edge of It, and he yelled
from behind the bar for some
body to stop them, but they sent one
ball in his direction which clipped off
the tip of his ear and he got down be-
hind the bar and stayed there The
rest of us, seeing we were not in dam
ger, stood around and watched the
game. Well, sir, those fellows cleared
the tables in about two rounds apiece
and then set the balls up again for
another game. / don't know how long
it would have lasted if it had not been
for an accident
What was the accident?"
why, one of them tried a little too
fine work. The balls had been scat
tered all around the edge of the table
He said he could shoot curve which
would send them all into the pockets
at once. He put his pistol down on
the table and fired. 1t was a beauti-
full shot, and it did what he said it
would. but he miscalculated on one
thing"
"Yes?"
You see the pistol ball, after max.
ing the complete circuit of the table
and driving all the balls into the
pockets, naturally came back where it
started from, ana that was the cow
boys own gun. 1t entered the barrel
and smashed the pistol. and so the
game had to stop."-Buffalo Express
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
II wa. Pure ARectssion.

Two Mexicans were standing in the
door of the, little railroad station, each
insisting, with infinite bows and flow
ing compliments, that tho other should
precede him ;.
s.Oh. how deliciously polite! twit-
tered the tourist lady. why can't our
America4 men learn such PoiitenessT :,
ut ainf 80 much politeness, mum,
explained the resident American gen
tleman, "s$ that no Greaser don't iike
to give no Ather Greaser . chance to
get close bel ind his bs0k."-1rdisnsp-
oils Journal
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Tobacco for Hen,s Meats.

Tobacco leaves or stems ground up
fine make a good bottom covering to
the nest. Lice cannot live where strong.
smelling tobacco is placed, aud by its
use hens will lay better because they
are not annoyed by the vermin found
among the flock. Make layer Of to.
bacco, then one Of straw, then another
of tobacco and then straw. The smell
of tobacco does not annoy the hens,
and plenty of it can &c used without
any fear on that score.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
A COURAGEOUS DUDE.
But His Valor Only Came After It's O
iect Had Vanished.

But His valor Only Came After It's OBJ.
ject Had Vanished.
He was a magnificent specimen of a
Drexel boulevard dudelet and was suf-
fering from the effect of too many
lemonades. With a companion of the
same species he boarded a Cottage
Grove car just as the theater crowd
filled it. A large, good-humored
mother, with an interesting daughter
and a small, dyspeptic son, entered
also. The ladies got a seat on one
side of the car and the male portion of
the family rested his personality in
grudging way on a few inches of seat
right opposite.
The dudelets aforementioned took up
a position opposite the matron and her
daughter, the hero of the lemonade
debauch hanging himself up to strap
as limp as a washrag and about as in
tellectual-looking. He swayed to and
fro as the car dragged it's slow way
along until at last he almost fell on
the lady. Then he straigh tened up
and began to exchange ''cracks" in
questionable taste with his comrade.
The little man, seeing his mother sur
rounded by profanity and in imminent
danger of being crushed by the dissi-
pated youth hanging perpendicularly
to the strap, grew red and redder. FL
nally the limp youth fell over on the
lady, and then the little mans wrath
dubbed over. Jumping up he grabbed
the offender around his waist, and
throwing him viciously in a heap into
the seat he had just vacated, blurted
out angrily:
..Sit there, you drunken brute"
The young man who had been thus
roughly handled fell in a heap where
he had been thrown and lapsed into, or
seemed to lapse into, a sudden slum.
her. A few blocks further on the mat
ron, the daughter and the heroic son
left the car. Hardly had they van
ished before the limp young man shook
himself together. glanced swiftly
around the car, and then shouted
fiercely.
Say, where's the gezer what threw
me down? ] can lick him. wouldn't
stand such treatment from any man.
What. has he gomez" Then, turning
to his chum, said: Say, Billy, honest,
did he throw me down or did fall?"
.'He threw yon," retorted Billy, con-
temptuously.
HAS he gone certain?' asked the
other.
Eyes. he's gone" replied Billy, with
curling lip.
well, perhaps it's better he has,
returned the other. refectively. Il
could have licked him easy, and 1 will
when catch him alone, but what could
a fellow do when he had his mother
and sister along. Three to one don't
90. but l can lick that gezer," and
then the conductor came along and
said: .sSay, young Teller, if yer don't
stop yer shouting I'll put yer off, )" and
the ill-starred youth said not another
word from that time on--Chicag'
Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

READY TO Go WITH MoTHER.-At Franks
house they had ounce jam for supper, but
frankie had been i'll, so his mother said to
him: Frank, you cannot have any jam; it
will make you sick, and then you might die"
Frank took this like q little man until he saw
his mother help herself to jam . second
time. Then he pushed his plate slowly to-
ward the forbidden dish and said, with de-
liberation: "Wen, il you are going to die, /
might as well die, too. Gimme some of it."
-Harper'S Bazaar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
One Advantage of the System.

"But how could the inside of your
store have been damaged by the fire
without injuring your stock of goods?"
asked the insurance adjuster.
MY stock was all out ON the side
walk in front, of course" replied tho
retail grocer, wondering at the mans
ignorance.-ChicagoT Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03
POULTRY FOR MARKET.

Where the Knife Should Enter the Mouth
When Killing a Fowl
1t is difficult to express in words how
to properly kill a fowl by sticking it
in the roof of the mouth (which is re-
qnired for dressed poultry, hence the
illustration is intended to show where
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

FATHER-sI do not require that the man
who marries my daughter shall be rich. AL
that ask is that he be able to keep out Of
debt" Suitor-"Would you consider a man
in debt who borrows money from his ia
ther-in- i''-Life.
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%. 90 to California

Is price of double berth in Tourist Sleeping
Car from Kansas City on the famous
phillips Rock Island Tourist Excursions.' -
Through cars on fast trains leave Kansas
Paso, and Fridays via Scenic Route. Write
for particulars to G. D. BACON, G.. A. p.
D., 1O6 N. 18th ST., st. Louis, Mo.
JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. p. A., Chicago.
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FoUR-HoRsE EQUALIZER.

OUR-HORSE EQUALIZER
end. With the other two holes I can
favor the leaders as l choose. The
driver can see whether his leaders are
doing their share of the work or not
by watching the short eveners. They
are SO satisfactory that do not worI
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

Don't Neglect aCough. Take Some Hale's
Honey Of Horehound and Tar instas'ter
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
1 Asthma medicine-W. Il. WILLIAMS, An
tioch, Ills, April II, 1894.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

'WAs there a party here to look at the
houses" Snapp-''Well, don't know what
you might think, but he seemed to me to be
regular picnic"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

MAN may dismiss compassion from his
heart, but God will never.-Cowper.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-03

IT IS the nudity of the live wire that
makes it shocking Post.
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THREE-HORsE EQUALIZER
of the tongue, and on pillow by put
ting clevis in place of the tongue
have three holes in the inside end of
the short eveners. The hole next to
the center is equal distance from the
center with the hole in the outside
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the point of the knife should enter.
In the illustration A is the artery that
must be cut. Open the bill, and by
observing closely, the artery can be
seen. 1t runs across the back of the
throat. a little under the ear. Insert
the point of a sharp knife in the
mouth. and make clean cut across
this artery, SO as to sever it at the
point indicated b. the K in the illus
tration. We are indebted to Mr.. Verne
Clisby, Ohio, for the illustration
Farm and Preside.