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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-12
Feeding Young Chicks.


chicks will get away with IN day, says
the California Cultivator and Poultry
Keeper. They need little at a time,
but they require that little often if thew
are to go ahead and grow. 1t pays to
feed them we'll, for sJunted chickens
will eat more food than the Others in
the same broods of the same age, and
they will never do as we'll as they did
before they were neglected.
The first feed that the young chicks
are given should be placed on board,
over which clean sand has been scat
tered. Many chickens are lost from
not having grit to properly grind their
food with. Boiled lean meat chopped
fine is a good ration once a day. Do
not feed them as much Of the meat as of
other food at one time. Boiled wheat
may be gived as soon as they will eat it.
Whole wheat, cracked corn, rolled oats,
and all grains be fed as soon as they can
be induced to partake Of them. If the
mother hen is confined in coop feed
the chicks out in front Of the coop, Do
not leave any food around after they
have had all they require. Green food
should be given to chicks where the hen
is COPIED at least once a day. In the
spring, after the grass has started and
the hens are allowed to run out each day
with their broods, they will find all the
''greens" they will need. Sloppy food,
such as cornmeal mixed up with cold
water, is apt to produce scours. The
chicks that are given all they will eat
of the cold water mixed meal, especially
in the morning, will eat so much that
the meal commences to swell it will
often sour in the craw, and scOurs are
the natural result. Never give any
damaged grain or impure food of any
kind to the chicks as in the end it will
prove very expensive venture. Many
poultry ailments can be traced to dam
aged food The food should always be
clean and wholesome. Slipshod or in
different methods of feeding will invar-
iably bring very unsatisfactory results.
Rest assured neglect in feeding regu
larly and plenty of suitable food will
give a great chance to complain about
"poor luck" If you are not successful
raising young chickens interview your
self for the reason and do not lay the
blame to ''luck" or the chickens.
Raising poultry has attained that
degree of Importance that it is no more
sneered at as trifiing occupation.
The feeding of poultry has now become
almost a science. The main idea was
that anything was good enough to feed
to the poultry. Now the poultry are
fed in a very rational and intelligent
manner. They are given rations that
are known will stimulate egg production
without causing them to become too
fat. When the object is to fatten
the poultry quite a different kind of
food is given. The fact has also become
established that different breeds require
dissimilar diet to produce the same
effects. The large breeds do not forage
to any great extent and would become
too fat if on certain food that can be
allowed the active breeds without any
danger of jmpairing their laying quail
tiac or m alxinp them too fat The low
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-12
POULTRY DEPARTMENT..

Address all communca tions to Poultry
Department, Box 200, DeLand, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-12

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Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
LYNCH Law
In Danger of a Powerful Blow From
the State of Georgia.

ATLANTA, GA, November 3.-The
Legislature of Georgia Will in all prob
ability put the Atkinson plan for pre-
venting lynching into effect at once.
A bill carrying out the Governors
suggestions will be introduced to-
morrow, and the sentiment of the
legislators seems to be strongly in its
support. The burning of a negro at
Tyler, Texas, has had the effect of
emphasizing the necessity for prompt
action toward eliminating the posi-
bility of mob law in Georgia. Cover
nor Atkinson's plan is regarded as the
most practical yet suggested. 1t is,
first, to give the Governor the power
to remove at once any Sheriff or SINH
lar officer who fails to protect a pris-
oner in his charge, and, second, to
make the county wherein a lynching
occurs responsible for the life and re-
sponsible in money damages to those
next of kin. There is no doubt that
many lynchings have occurred through
the direct collision of the Sheriff and
others whose duty it is to prevent
them. Efforts that have been made
to prosecute the offenders in their
home counties have met with uniform
failure. Governor Atkinson believes
that if they know their official heads
are in danger of prompt decapitation
they will be more inclined to do their
duty, and if the taxpayers of a county
see the probability Of a big damage
suit staring them in the face they will
be more active on the side of law and
order.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Celebrated Mixed Paints,
La Crosse Lumber Co.
SHE SPOKE
Quietly But Firmly-After Fifteen
Years She Asked for q Chew Of
Tobacco.

DANvILLE, KY, November Sgd
ney Green, a negress confined in the
county A1mshouse, and who
had not spoken a word for 15 years,
those around her Friday by
quietly and very naturally asking for
a chew of tobacco. She spoke as
plainly and as distinctly as she did on
the day she lost her speech, and the
folks at the institution are now won
dering over her sudden and miracu-
lous recovery of speech. While she
now converses quite nationally about
things and people about her, her past
for Is years back is a blank to her, and
she can recall nothing at all that has
taken place since she was placed in the
insane asylum at Lexington Is years
ago. At the asylum she became help
less and harmless, and was sent back
to this county and placed in the poor
house. She used tobacco before being
stricken with the paralysis, and prob
ably had not taken a chew since, and
when her speech suddenly came back
to her it was not altogether remark
able that she should consider 1t about
time to take another chew.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14

ORLANDO HrTT, who has JUST re-
turned from Trinidad, Colo, to locate
in Mexico permanently for the prac-
tice of law, came to Mexico first in
April, 1877, after graduating at the law
school in Lexington, KY. He prac-
ticed law in Mexico until 1887, when
he went to Trinidad, Colo. In 1891
Mr.. Hit was elected District Attorney
of a large district composed OF five
counties in Colorado, which before
that time had had a Republican ma
jority. He was elected for a term of
three years and filed the office with
conspicuous ability and his admins
tration was cordially endorsed by the
law-abiding citizens of the district,
Mr.. Hit, like a large majority of bus
mess men professional men and farm
ers who leave. Audrain county, found
no place that he likes 30 well and has
come back to his old home to stay
The more You travel over the United
States the better you are pleased witt
Audrain's people, climate, business
soil, and in fact everything which goeI
to make a permanent home what 1
ahould he.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
STOCK NOTES.

Fodder should be put under shelter.
The sheep sheds should be in readi-
ness.
Heavy horses are becoming scarce
throughout the country.
Wheat is most profitable as q food
when ground or soaked and mixed
with other grains.
Kerosene and lard rubbed just back
of the ear and front legs of hogs will
keep lice away.
Under favorable circumstances
fifteen pounds of pork may be made
from a bushel of corn.
Well bred pigs that are kept grow
ing are ready for the market all the
time. Scrub hogs do not begin to get
fat until they have age on them.
An Illinois swine breeder is of the
opinion that the breeding and feeding
of swine pays better, surer and quick
er returns than any other kinds Of
stock.
Pigs are not likely to be perfectly
healthy If fed exclusively OF corn.
Try clover and other green foods.
Matured hogs can stand an exclusive
corr diet.
A sheep grower says q sweep mill 10
the cheapest and easiest ean Of
preparing corn for the iocks. 1t
renders the cob somewhat available
as food also.
A Missouri experiment station bull
letion concludes after q feeding test
that for all around excellence the
Angus stands at the head OF the beef
breeds tested.
Prof. Plumb, Of the Indiana expert
ment station, has issued q bulletin In
which he advises farmers to feed
more oats, rather than sell them ut q
low price and buy bran at sixty
cents per 100 pounds.
1t does not pay to give stock slim
uiabing Ioou, says y Wrltor. doou
wholesome grain and hay or grass
for cattle, horses and sheep and grass
and good grain for hogs, are all that
is necessary to make them grow to
perfection.
]. ii. Pickrell, secretary Of the
American Shorthorn Breeders As
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meeting Of the association will be held
at the Great Northern Hotel, In Chi
cage, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1895, at
1880 p. m, for the purpose Of slecting
three directors to serve three years,
one Ito fill the vacancy caused by the
decease of the late Col. T. s. Moberly)
to serve one year, and to attend to
such other business rs may be brought
before the meeting.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14

ONE day last week the Republican
leaders were holding a love feast in
st. Louis, arranging to divide the
spoils of office, and a movement was
unanimously agreed upon to make
Col. Russell, of Steelville, No., Ser
geant- at Arms in the next House of
Representatives at Washington City.
In another portion of the city of st.
Louis on the same day Democratic
''leaders" were being interviewed OBJ
jecting to concessions and harmony
in the Democratic party. While the
Democrats r fussing and fighting
and abusing each other and the adj
ministration the Republicans are feed
ing their faces pie with both hands.
1t does seem to the LEDGER some
times as though Democrats very often
try to act in such a way as to verify
the statement that Grant made when
he said: "You can count on the Demo-
Gratis making darned fools of them
selves at the right time.n
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14

Stephens, who had been in Columbia
for the past few days waiting for him.
McNama was Immediately taken be-
fore Justice Wlnscott where he gave
bond in the sum of 81 1000 to appear in
the same court OH Tuesday, November
10. J. G. Forbis, a well-to-do farmer,
whose home is near Ashland, Boone
County, went security for him and he
was released. He went back to Column
bja, where he will continue to serve
as witness in the cases which have
grown out of some of his transactions.
Constable Price johnson returned
from Hunlansville, No., on Friday
morning with S. B. Elliott, the man
who for a while was in partnership
with McNama. Elliott was also taken
before Justice Winscott and his bond
was placeda at 81 900 to appear on Mon
day, November II. McNama has
lived in Pleasant Hill, Mo-, for the
pasts six months and Elliott's home is
Humansville, Mo.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
LEN BARNES.
He Don't Propose to Lose His Money
Without a Fight.

PERRY, Ok, November 5.-Len
Barnes, formerly of Audrain County,
Mo-, who lost $500 in the First State
Bank of Perry crash two months ago,
swore out a warrant to-day for the
arrest of T. M. Richardson, Jr., now
of Oklahoma City, but who was a cit
izen of Perry from the opening of the
country until four months ago. The
charge is receiving money on deposit
in the bank when it was in a failing
condition. Mr.. Richardson was cashier
of the First State Bank since the
opening of the strip, and four months
ago he sold out the Bank of Perry.
T. M. Richardson is n of the wealth
lest men In the West and is very well
known. The Richardson's have con-
siderable wealth in Oklahoma City,
Guthrie and Perry.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
CATTLE STEALING IN RAILS.
Charge Against -Four Prominent Mon
roe County Farmers.

HANNIBAL, Mo-, November 6.-In
the early part. Of last month Judge
David Fl. SmitkG missed about twenty
head of yearling heifers from his pas
ture in the western part OF Rails coun-
ty. Near s~toutsville, Monroe county,
ten head OF the cattle were found on
the farm of Job H. johnson, q promi5
nent and well-to-do farmer. He and
Joseph Dowell were arrested. Latet
three more of the cattle were found
in the same neighborhood and John
T. Doweil and John Liners were also
arrested. One Of the cattle had been
slaughtered and divided among the
parties mentioned, it Is said. The
four men, all OF whom r prominent
farmers, r now in the New London
iafl
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Champ Clark Calls It Murder.

LOUISVILLE, KY, November g.
Champ Clark, ex-member of Congress
from Missouri, was in the city to-day.
Mr.. Clark declined to be interviewed
regarding the landslide in Kentucky.
He said:
81 have turned my attention to the
law and lecturing. / am on my way
to Richmond now, where I am dated
to lecture tomorrow evening, and /
do not desire to talk about my neigh
bors' affairs, political n otherwise.
Privately, I don't mind saying that it
is murder-murde err in the first de-
gree-this election of a Republican
Governor of Kentucky
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
The Mule Trade.

From the 4 uiton Gazette.
The mule trade was quite lively last
Monday. The stock of mules on hand
in Galloway county have been culled
until we are somewhat short on good
Ones.
Joe Coons bought two aged mules at
$50 and sos.
Jack Muir bought eight mules from
Ike Taylor and four or five from other
parties, paying from $50 to $50 per
head.
Bob Buckner bought four mules at
from $40 to $40.
Wood Maddox was on the market
Monday and bought several mules at
the ruling prices.
A couple of gentlemen from Wash
ington, Mo-, were here and bought
several horses to stock a livery stable
at that place.
A. B. Kidwell, of Montgomery,
bought of Robert Lamar a pair of draft
horses. He is buying a a load of
them.
Sisera Threlkeld bought one mule.
John Gingrich bought six mules and
one horse.
The Washington parties bought a
pair of horses for SIPS and a mare for
s45.
The above is not by any means
all of the purchases, but simply a few
that our reporter caught on the fly.
ABOUT the time of the outbreak of
the war between China and Japan it
was given out in all the Republican
organs that our State Department had
committed a great blunder, and had
gratiously made an enemy of Japan.
Some months later when ex-Secre-
tary of State John w. Foster returned
home, and said that our State Depart
ment had handled the matter with
conspicuous ability and increased our
prestige is the East, the Republican
GROWERS were a good deal disguised.
To this testimony is now added that
of the Mikado himself, who IN an Off
cial letter to the President expresses
his appreciation of f'those facts on the
part of your Excellency as well as on
the part of your Exceilency's officers,
acting under your Excellency's wise
directions, which not only tended to
mitigate the seventies and ~hardships
of war, and finally to promote the
successful issue of the negotiations for
peace, but served to draw still closer
the bonds of friendship and good
neighborhoed which happily unite our
two countries" Thus perishes an
other SANDER upon Democratic for
| eign policy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Lime, Plaster, Hair. etc.
La Crosse Lumber Co.

It's Just as easy to try One Minute
Cough Cure Is anything else. It's
easier TO cure q severe cough or cold
with it. Let your next purchase for
q cough be One Minue Cough Cure.
Better medicine; better results; bet
ter try It. Woodbridge & Purdy.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
La Crosse Lumber Co.
Have the Best Grades.
MISSOURI Ex-CoNrEDERATEs.
A New Camp Organized at Jefferson
City.

JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, Nov. T.
Major Henry A. Newman, adjutant
general of the Missouri Division of
Confederate Veterans, lectured here
tonight, his subject being sThe Bat
tie of Chickamauga," and he gave q
vivid and interesting description Of it.
After his lecture . local camp was or
ganized, Judge James B. CAN'T Of the
supreme Court being elected com.
mander and General James Harding
secretary. The camp starts with A
members and is named for General
Monroe M. Parsons Of Jefferson City
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
La Crosse Lumber Co.
Carry Largest Stock.

Our people r growing more and
more in the habit of looking to G.. A.
Buckner, for the latest and best of
everything IN the drug line. They
sell ChamberIain's Cough Remedy,
famous for its cures Of bad colds, Group
and whooping cough. When in need
Of such q medicine give this remedy a
trial and you win be more than pleas
ed with the result.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Cement,
La Crosse Lumber ca


3uAClku kNotOo Vi IbSoA A0k0kOots
Only fair haired lei entered Tan
anarivo with Gen. Duchesne; the dark
all succombed to the climate.
Henri Rochefort has gone back to
the Figaro, the newspaper in which
he won his first literary success. He
will write the art criticisms.
1t is told in London that new part.
nerships are formed with the condi-
ton that the partners shall not play
golf; it is too engrossing.
An English Coroner's jury has ut
last had the courage to return a yer-
dict of "suicide through want" in
stead of the usual "while Of unsound
mind.n
Mr.. H. B. Cotton, bow Q Of the
Oxford crew in the last four races
with Cambridge and q son of Lord
Justice Cotton, died recently Of CON
sumption at Davos Platz.
His Highness the Rajah- Rajgan
Jagatjit Singh, Of Kapurtnala, who
visited the Worlds Fair at Chicago,
has just pubIished in English the story
of his travels in Europe and America.
Copenhagen has not lost trade 30
far by the opening of the Baltic North
Sea Canal, the number OF vessels cali
ing during the last three months being
1,035, against LOGS In 1894.
Paris women who wear boomers or
knickerbockers when riding bicycles
win bA disqualfiied fr0m rsceiytnG tie
sacraments OF the Church, according
to the instructions issued to the clergy
by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Prayed and It Rained.

SLATER, Mo-, Nov. cat a special
meeting held at the Baptist church in
this city last week prayer was offered
Tor rain, there having been no rain of
any consequence in this locality since
July. A bountiful rain fell here last
night and to-day. Tomorrow all the
business houses will be closed and q
Thanksgiving service win be held at
the Baptist church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Ahont Eurene l,isld.

There are a great many anecdotes
related concerning the early life of
the late Eugene Field, and we clip
the following from an exchange.
They are characteristic of the ttchild-
ren's poet.n
Last summer he was at Oconomo-
voc, the Wisconsin summer resort.
On an island out in the lake is built the
summer home of III. III. Kohlsaat, the
owner of the Chicago Times Herald.
One afternoon Mr.. Kohlsaat, Eugene
Field and a Chicago newspaper man
named Hardin rode over to the island
on a little launch, taking with them
the 2 year old daughter of Walter L.
Peck, of Chicago. When they reached
the island the baby began to cry for
her mother, and the poet took it upon
himself to calm the infant. He sat
her down on the grass, got down on
all fours and gamboled around her
Like adog. The baby stopped crying
and gazed at him in round eyed be-
wilderment, with pearly tear drops
still hanging to her eyelashes. Then
the big good-hearted man ate grass,
danced a Highland fling and played
pony, riding the baby on his broad
back. The baby crowed with delight,
and Mr.. Kohlsaat and Mr.. Hardin
howled in glee. When Mrs. Peck ar
rived the baby and the poet were the
best of friends; in fact, she had hard
work separating them.
"When Eugene Field had money, it
was everybody's money in the old
days before he had toned down and
became the homebody he had been
for 10 years previous to his death. He
was a most artistic borrower and
never paid anything back. Nor did he
ever expect anybody else to pay him
back. He would forget a loan, wheth-
er he was receiver or giver, 10 min
utes after the transaction. Up in Kan
a City the newspaper men used to
resort to a cafe and restaurant kept
by a Frenchman named CASTOR, to
whom Gene, as everybody called him
TO the day of his death, owed the sum
of $50. One night, after the paper was
up, all the boys were at Gaston's and
the F~renchman, feeling generous and
c~aptivated by a flow of Fields wit,
made out a bill for the $50, receipted
it and handed it to Field. Gene looked
at it a moment, while the crowd
laughed. The Frenchman had the
laugh on Gene, but the poet turned
it.
"sCome on, boys, and have some
thing he remarked in his deepest
bass tones. Have some something on
the house. It's always customary for
the house to set 'em up when a gentle
man pays his bill"
And CASTOR, in atrauce of amaze
ment, "set 'em up"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
To Buy Corn.

Thos. w. Carter, formerly of Mex
leo, now of st. Louis, was here Satur-
day perfecting arrangements to pur-
chase corn at this place during the fall
and winter. We learn that he has leas-
ed the ground between the railroads
and viii build pens and buy al the
corn that. ID offered. II. C. Threlkeld
ID to be Mr. Carter's agent In that gen.
tleman's absence. The price that will
be offered has nos been determined
yet, but win probably be u per barrel.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14

J. Fl. Proctor, son of ex-State Sena-
tor ]. M. Proctor, and a rising young
business man of Sturgeon, Mo-, was
married in the parlors of the Southern
Hotel last night to Miss Edna Daniel,
a prominent young society girl of the
same town. Rev. J. w. Ramsey, OF
Salisbury, No., performed the cere-
mony, which was witnessed by G.. f.
Bruton, Miss Ella Kemper, Miss
Mayme Richie, Miss Mary Long and
the Misses Anna and Sue Batterton,o of
Sturgeon, and Messrs. VIII Stewart,
Benton Gentry and George Hutton. OF
st. Louis.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14

FROM certain quarters there comes
a call for the State Committee to meet
at ono and proceed to organize the
Democrats in Missouri. The LEDGER
believes in organization, but along
somewhat different lines from what
we have had IN Missouri for the past
few years. A great deal of the dis
satisfaction in the party throughout
the State grows out of the frequent
meetings and vaporings of the State
Committee. Unless the members OF
the State Committee can get together
and harmonic themselves. the later it
meets the better.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
BIG BURNED.
Another Destructive Fire at Vandalia
Early This Morning-Hisey,
Coontz & Co. the Owners.

Special Dispatch TO the Ledger.
VANDALIA, Mo-, November AT
1890 O'Clock last night the big grain
elevator of Hisey, Coontz & Co., just
south of the railroad track, was dis
covered TO be on fire and before the
alarm aroused the people the building
was reduced to ashes. The loss is es-
at $4,000; insured for $4,000,
which included 500 on machinery,
and boiler and $500 on grain.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-11-14
Crops Burned.

From the Rush Hin Sentinel.
Fire from the railroad Sunday burn
ed considerable corn and fences on
the farms of John Downs, JEFF Harri-
son, Joe Hardeshell and Gus DECK
man. The strip burned over a mile
long and it was with difficulty that
HardesheH's house and outbuildings
were saved from the flames. 1t is
claimed that the damage to fences
will equal that to corn.