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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
A Belled BuZZard Shot.

For probably twenty years, at in
tervals, the press of the State has con-
tanned notices of "belled buzzard. !"
Sometimes he would be seen in north
Mississippi, sometimes in south Missis-
sippi. Unless there were more than
one "belled buzzard," however, this
much-wondered-a curiosity is no
longer in evidence. While l.. j. Dear,
of Rankin County, was out hunting his
attention was attracted by the tinkl:ng
of small bell, the sound of which
seemed to come from nowhere in par
ticuler. For some time he searched
for the source of the ringing, and was
finally rewarded by discovering a
bnzzard flying over him with a bell
suspended from its neck. Heshot the
bird, and found the bell fastened on
with small leather strap, upon which
was cut the name "Parks." presume
bly, the surname OF individual who
fastened it on the bird. It is to be
regretted that Mr.. "Parks" did not
also engrave his postoface address on
the collar. It would be interesting to
know how long the bell has been worn
and how many miles his buzzardship
has travelled since donnlng his badge
of civilization.-Terry Miss Head
light,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Cumbersome Names.

The Director of the Mint at Wash
ington is having terrible time TRYING
to reduce the names of foreign eXhlh.
itors at the Exposition to the dimru-
slons of the medals granted by the
Bureau of Awards. There Is little
tablet on the medals which will con
tain at the utmost only thirty-two let
tiers, and some of the foreign uumo~
contain 100 or 200 letters, which he
does not know how to abbrevlatc
There is Russian exhibitor, for cx-
ample, whose four names contained
more than 100 letters and only one Of
them can be placed upon the medal
1t is very embarrassing and tlckl!sh
duty to make selection, particularly
when one is not familiar with the Rus
sian language. The Germans, the
Austrians, the Hungarians and the
Bohemians are quite rs bad, and It's
the list reads now less than half the
foreign names can be properly in
! scribed. The Director of the Mint
has, therefore, decided to ask the AS
sstance of the members of the diplo-
matte corps in Washington, and See
rotary Carlisle will address letter t.
the Secretary of State requesting him
to invite the Ambassa Tors and Minis
tiers from the European countries to
call at the Mint Bureau and edit the
names of their constituents. -ChiCa"o
Record.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
FEEDING POTATOES TO SHEEP.

There is 10 doubt of the value of
the potato for feeding to sheep, but
as this animal has but weak diges-
ton, it will be advisable to cook
the potatoes for them, and add bran
to the food. The starch of the potato
is very indigestible when raw, and, as,
by cooking, the cells in which the
starch is contained are broken, and
the starch granules are swollen and
burst by the expansion caused by the
heat, the food thus prepared is fully
and easily digested. There is more
to be learned by experience in the
management of sheep than from
science, for this animal is peculiar and
always will be, and thus the results of
feeding other animals upon certain
foods do not apply to sheep. So that
it is wise, when one has got q good
feeding ration for a flock, to avoid
changing it, unless by the most care
full preliminary experiments, But ex-
perience has shown that potatoes,
boiled until they are mealy, in conse-
quence of the rupture of the starch,
cells, and fed with the usual ration of
bran--a pound for each full grown
sheep-with quart of potatoes not
broken up, have been both digestiole
and nutrltious-New York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Treatment for Sprained Ankles.

In these days of bicycling, skating,
tobogganing and other out-of-door
amusements incident to the seasons,
accidents of various kinds are daily
occurring, not usually serious, but Of
ten painful when seemingly slight.
From time to time one hears OF
different means of caring for spralned
ankles, turned ankles, twisted wrists,
ETC., but the way now in vogue seems
to give better results than any in the
past.
It is generally an hour after the ac-
cident that you are called IN to see
the case. The patient is suffering
very severely, and wanting very much
to know if "anything is broke" At
ter examining for fractures, the
Southern Medical Journal recon-
mends the parts to be bathed in ex-
tremely hot water, every hour or two,
for q period of fifteen minutes at a
time. Have the water just rs hot as
the patient can bear it, and apply
with sponge or cloth, rather than al
low the ankle to lie in the water.
Then dry and let the part rest quietly,
wrapped in fannels, when an applica
ton of hamamelis, or veratrum and
hamamelis, may be made.
Before retiring, apply a flannel
bandage tightly around the swollen
part, only being careful that the cir
culation is not shu e Off
1t is surprising how the hot applica-
lions relieve the pain and produce alb
sorption, and how the bandage, by
pressure, prevents swelling and in
fiammation. Scientific American.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
THE OXALIS.

Plants continually in blossom and
requiring the least care give the most
satisfaction, especially when they
bloom during the dreary months of
winter, says Mrs. G. F. Underwood.
The oxalis is the most useful, all round
window plant in cultivation, being so
hardy it requires but short rest and
its bright green clover-like foliage is
seldom injured by sudden changes of
temperature. If partially frozen, a
dash of cold water will restore it's
beauty. The mammoth oxalis has
snowy foliage but not the hardy quail
tiles of the smaller variety and has
less profusion of bloom. The beauti-
full, delicate, star-shaped flowers
surprise one daily. They delight in
sunshine and turn toward it and for
this reason are frequently used as
window hanging plant. It's dropping
stems are graceful on small stand as
a sitting room ornament. The pink
blossom is more common, the pure
white and yellow being rare. For
soil, chip dirt fertilized with common
liquid manure, or rich garden soil, is
adaptable, the tubers being planted
an inch below the surface. Give fire.
quent showerings. The common wood
sorrel is a similar plant, easily potted
and made to thrive, and hard to dis
tinguish from the cultivated variety.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT.

The use of wheat for stock food
complicates the difficulty of determin
ing the consumption of this grain. 1t
is calculated that in the West forty
per cent. of the hogs are being sup
piled this grain and that it is being also
fed in large quantities to all other
classes of stock. The practice is
spreading in the East in many sec
tions, SO that it would appear that the
farmers have themselves solved the
question what to with their surplus
wheat
Wheat certainly is superior to corn
for growing animals, as it contains
about thirty per cent. more protein,
or tissue-building matter, than corn.
On the other hand, corn produces fat
and is the better food for finishing off
animals. The two grains are not
really rivals. The one serves as a
complement of the other. Farmers
will do well to study the feeding ques
ton and learn how wheat can be most
protitably converted into animal pro
ducts.-New York World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Resistance of the Body to Cold.

At the meeting of the French
Academy of Sciences NJ. Pictet de-
scribed his experiments on the radia-
ton of heat from the human body at
low temper allure, says La Nature
After covering himself with furs he
placed himself in huge tube whose
temperature could be reduced as low
af 100 degrees G. His head alone re-
manned outside, as the respiration of
air as cold as this would be seriously
injurious. AS low as fifty degrees the
furs arrested radiation, which fact ex-
plains the resistance to cold exhibited
by polar animals. Beyond seventy
degrees the heat traversed the furs,
but the skin felt no sensation of cold.
AS means of defense nature excites
internal phenomena of combustion
and digestion. In fact, in four
minutes the sensation of hunger be-
gan to be felt. Mr.. Pictet asserts
that by this means he WAS cured of
dyspepsia, from which he had suffered
for several years, eight sittines in a
tube cooled down to 10 degrees
sutf;cing for the purpose
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Insects In g communities.

In paper recently read before an
English scientific association, an In
teresting account was given of the
management of communities of bees
and ants. The functions and duties
of individuals, the guardianship OF
community welfare, the facilities for
increase and reconstruction, and the
methods of government were COM
mented on. In colonies of white ants,
it was stated that the governing forces
had the power to produce at Will
various kinds of individuals. Certain
communities have what appeared to
be assistant queens and kings, evident
" provided in case of accident to OF
the death of the existing queen.
There were colonies in which soldier
ants abounded; others where there
were none at all, but where they were
produced on short notice IN times
when there was likely to be need OF
them. Some sorts of ants feed upon
their dead relations, and muitltudes
have been destroyed by those who went
outside to get food. They returned
to their homes, died, and were de-
voured by their fellows, they in turn
diving in large numbers. Entire tribes
were swept off in this way. The study
of bees is even more interesting.
There are sometimes hundreds of thou
sands of worker bees with one queen
1t is quite the rule that only the
workers and the queen survive the
winter. The drone is the male bee,
and when his services are not required
ne is killed and thrown from the hive.
The queen lays her eggs in cells built
for her by the workers, who are sex
less bees. In large cells the eggs
hatch into drones; in the small ones
into workers. The queen is fed, the
young bees cared tor AID the house
work of the establishment is done by
bees too young for flight or SO old
that their wings will not bear them
on their honey gathering flights. The
queen rarely allows rival. and II
new queen is Matched, a swarm almost
Immediately goes out from the parent
hive, or else the original queen or the
new one must perish. There have been
instances where two queens dwelt
peacefully in one hive, but arrange
ments are SO rare that they may be
looked upon as phenomenal.-New
York Ledger.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Hints for Health.

Rapid eating is slow suicide.
Never begin a journey until break
fast has been eaten.
A quart of wheat contains more
nutriment than a bushel of cucumb-
ers.
Sleep is the rest of tired, nervous
system and the time of its recupera-
ton.
There is nothing more soothing in
case of nervous restlessness than hot
salt bath just before retiring.
In sleeping in cold room establish
a habit of breathing through the nose
and never with the mouth wide open.
To preserve health is a moral and
religious duty, for health is the basis
of all social virtues. We can no
longer be useful when not we'll.
The bicycle is a useful, pleasant,
healtful and very practical way to get
regular exercise, which helps to make
an active brain and able body.
Digestion is accelerated by cheer
fulness, it is true, but this does not
occur till the close of the meal, nor
till the finds are absorbed, or solidl.
fed, as in the case of milk.
Cold water is the salvation of the
complexion. 1t strengthens the skin
by stimulating circulation, and rend
ers it almost proof against chaps and
eruptions. When the skin needs
cleaning warm water is almost abso
lutely necessary.
Nervous people should eat fat food.
Every irritable and exhausted nerve
should, if possible, be coated with fat.
With the fat sho1ld be combined grain
foods and vegetables for strength and
fruits to keep up Esalthful consist
ency of the blood. New York Adver.
tiSer
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Metal Railroad Ties.

A protest against the denudation of
forests in order to secure material for
railroad ties is made in report issued
by the Agricultural Department on
the use of metal railroad ties and pre-
servative processes and metal tie plates
of wooden ties. It shows that about
twenty per cent. of the railroad mile
age of the world, outside the United
States and Canada, is laid on metal.
Although progress in this direction in
our country has been slow, the report
says by the waning of forest supplies,
and as the railroad companies begin
more and more to assume a perma-
nent and less speculative character, it
can be question OF only short time
when this saving of forest supplies
will be forced upon them, insuring
greater efficiency and final economy.
Washington Star.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
CARE OF HORSES,

Keep your harness soft and clean,
particularly the inside of the collar
and saddle, as the perspiration, if al
lowed to dry in, will cause irritation
and produce gals.
The collar should fit closely, with
sufficient space at the bottom to admit
your hand collar too small obstructs
the breathing. while one too large
will cramp and draw the shoulders into
an unnatural position, thus obstruct-
ing the circulation.
Never allow your horse to stand on
hot, fermenting manure, as this will
soften the hoofs and bring on diseases
of the feet, nor permit the old litter
to lie under the manser, as the gases
will faint his food and irritate his
lungs as we'll as his eyes.
Do not keep the hay over the stable.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22

by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
even after the disease has progressed so
far as to induce repeated bleedings from
the lungs, severe lingering cough with
copious expectoration (including tubercu-
lar matter, great loss of flesh and extreme
emaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by Golden Med
ical Discovery" were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease? You need not take
our word for it. They have, in nearly every
instance, been SO pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis-
representing them, and who were often
strongly prejudiced and advised against
a trial of Golden Medical Discovery"
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, in curative power over this
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy ''emulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed to bene-
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the hypophos-
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain.
The photographs of large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred naladies, have been
skillfully reproduced in a book of 100
pages which will be mailed to you, on re-
ceipt of address and six cents in stamps.
You can then write those cured and learn
their experience. AddressWoRLD'S DISPEN-
SARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
GROOMING FOR THE COWS.

Horses have much more often been
made pets than COWS have been. So
far as grooming goes the average COW
gets very little OF it except what she
can do herself by rubbing her shoul-
ders and neck against the sides of the
stable in which she IS confined. Try
a curry comb and brush on the cow
as well as on the horse. Unless the
COW is very thin the curry comb Will
be liked even better than the brush.
The dirt in a cows hair is always liable
TO get into the milk pail, as it is
brushed out when the mixer ruhs
against the animal in getting out of
the narrow stall Boston Cultivator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22

The names are necessarily mounted some
what irregularly, but they average four col
umns abreast. making. in reality a Quadr,I-
pie petition, with about one hundred names
to the yard in each column. Mrs. Shunan
has now mounted 1923 yards, or over enc
mile of canvas-making five miles of names
written solidly, one under the other-771 200
In all. This is exclusive of about $50 600
names that came from Great Britain already
mounted, making the total of l, 121 200 actual
names on the document submitted to Presi-
dent Cleveland. Besides these there are
hundreds of thousands of names vet waiting
to be added to the long roll. Nor will Miss
Willard ever rest until she has 1000 900 az
tual names, besides the present 5000 900 ad-
ditional signers by attestation.
The plan at present is to carry the pet
ton, and the commission intrusted with if
around the world, starting in 1896 on two
special steamers one furnished by Lady
Henry Somerset and the other by Miss viii
lard's society. At each capital visited hall
will be hired and the petition festooned about
its walls in imposing fashion. In these
halls, says Miss Willard. I'VE will hold mass
meetings, tell the story of the petition, and
SHOW the work of American women against
lntemperance. At such meetings we will
have present as many of the powerful men
OF the Government as possible, and will seek
to get them to base upon this petition a bill
to be presented to the Legislature of the
country. The petition is the protest of the
worlds wife and motherhood, its sister and
daughterhood-a protest in sorrow, not in
anger"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

The Poultry Monthly tells of man
who paid 1926 for one pair of pigeons
recently.
day in the coolest weather helps solve
the egg problem.
There is hardly breed of fowls to-
day that does not lave its counterpart
in the bantam class.
An old horse dealer says: elf yoa
want to buy horse, don't believe
your own brother.
Don't wait until you build the big
barn before sheltering the COWS. Build
the shelter for them and they will
help you build the barn.
Breed well, and when you have a
heifer calf as the result of such breed
ing feed well and tain properl y, and
you will have a good COW.
Don't regard Mulch cutie solely as
machines, but remember that they
have some flesh and blood about them
that merits appropriate treatment.
There is no better crop for the win
ter feeding of sheep than oats and
peas mixed. It is very nutritious,
and is eaten with avidity by the
sheep.
Feed milk to the SWINE warm, and in
troughs that are free from ice or filth.
Add something to make up the loss Of
butter fat, such as little corn or
barley meal.
Give carrots, turnips and other
juicy root feeds to horses plentifully
in winter. They will vary the monot
ony of equine hard tack and they are
excellent for the digestion.
Give the fowls some litter to scratch
in. They will amuse themselves if you
only give them the necessary play
things, and a busy hen generally
means healthy and laying one.
A pig is pig till it is year old.
Then it becomes hog. In classified
ton of fairs, however, when premium
is offered for a SOW and pigs, it is I'M
derstood that the pigs are to be under
six months old.
The exact temperature for loosening
the hair from the skin of a pig at
butchering is 190 degrees. The pig
should remain full minute in the
water at this temperature to give
time for the hair to be loosened.
The swine will respond in a profit
able way just as promptly to good
treatment as do the COWS to good care.
If, at the same time, the pigs have
dry, warm, healthful quarters, they
will grow as fast as in summer on
clover.
PORK represents money, just the
same as butter does, and if there is a
chance to make it out of the casein of
milk, it should surely be done. With
this in view, don't let your skinned
milk freeze, nor let it sour or ferment
in filthy tub or barrel.
In the East, at least, the pig pen is
natural concomitant of the dairy.
Through the utter neglect given to
these animals on many farms, pigs
cannot be successfully bed, and
every spring they must be purchased
of more painstaking breeders.
The bearing of few berries out of
the season does not entitle fruit to
the name of bearing, yet most
ever bearers seldom do more than
this. They are delusion and dis
appointment the ever bearing rasp-
berry and strawberry for instance.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
PROTECTION FOR SMALL ANIMALS.

If large and small cattle or hogs are
fed and housed together the smaller
animals will hardly thrive. They will
be whipped away from the trough and
get less than their share of the food;
and they will be driven around or
from the shelter, and the large ami
mails will scarcely profit from the mis-
fortunes of their smaller fellows, as
driving the others from feed and
shelter will work off a good part of
the flesh from the extra feeo. Some
times the smaller animals are seriously
injured and in the larger animals is
developed quarrelsome disposition
that is not desirable, to say the least.
Yet other considerations make it a
bad plan to confne small and large
animals in the same enclosure. Much
better results will be secured by put
ting only few animals in the same
enclosure, and those of the same size.
New England Homestead.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Introduced to His Audience.

Eli Perkins las been lecturing in
the western part of Kentucky, and
that reminds "The Hopkinsville
Kentuckian" of an incident occurring
when the humorist last visited the
capital of Christian, several years ago.
ellis audience" says "Fhe kentuck-
ian," twas so very small-not over
half dozen people-that Colonel AL.
Clark, who was to introduce the
lecturer, led him to the footlights and
presented him to his auditors one at a
time. Introducing each of them by
name Perkins was completely non
plussed. He was covered with con-
fusion, declining to lecture, and
acknowledged that the joke was on
him and ended by inviting all hands
to go with him to see man. Most OF
them went, and Eli has never been
here since. memphis Commercial
Appeal.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-22
Do You Wish
the Finest Bread
and Cake?

It IS conceded that the Royal Baking Powder Is
the purest and strongest of all the baking powders
The purest baking powder makes the finest sweet
est most delicious food. The strongest baking pow
der makes the lightest food
That baking powder which is both Purest and
strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome
food.
Why should every housekeeper avail herself
of the baking powder which will give her the best
food with the least trouble!
Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift
or prize or at a lower price than the Royal,
as they invariably contain alum, lime or sui
phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome
Certain protection from alum baking powders can
be had by declining accept any substitute tor the
Roval which is absolutely pure