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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
A Notable Polar fear.

The large polar bear which for
twenty-three years had lived in the
menagerie of the Geological Society,
London. died recently after q fort
nights illness. The bear wac pre-
sented to the society by B. l.. Smith.
who brought it ho'ue from An arctic
voyage in 1871. Frank auckland item
described it rs ''about tbs size Of q
Newfoundland dog, but mere short
and sturnpy. with splendid shaggy
coat of long, yellow Lai:." Ii SIS long
life at the garleGs. undsr :i.s same
careful management by which another
specimen of the same specios was kept
for thirty-six years in the menage-ie,
it grew to size rarely cqualed, oven
by tho lnrgest polar hears killed in the
Arctic regions, and its weight wss osti-
mated at three-quarterF ci 8 tea.
though during its illness il refused
food and became much e,naoiated.
Scientific American.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
The Wig.Mag Language OF Dogs.

It is no doubt startling conclusion,
but Dr. Louis Robinson, who has been
investigating the mysteries of canine
language, has practically set up the
theory that a dog speaks with his tail
tip.
In the case of oil hunting dogs which
pack together the tail is carried aloft
and is very free IN movement. There
is no doubt that fox hounds habitually
watch the tails of those in front of
them when drawing covert. If O
faint drag is detected, suggestive of
the presence of q fox, but not sufficient
TO be sworn to vocally, the tail of the
finder is set in motion, and the warmer
the scent the quicker does it wag.
Others seeing the signal instantly join
the first, and there is an assemblage
of waving tails before even the least
whisper is heard Should the drag
prove a doubtful one the hounds sepa
rate again and the waving ceases, but
if it grows stronger when followed up,
the wagging becomes more emphatic,
until one after another the hounds be-
gin to whine and give tongue and
stream off in Indian file along the line
of scent. When the pack is at full cry
upon a strong scent the tails cease to
wave, but are carried aloft in full
view.--London Dispatch.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
WARMTH IN THE HEN HOUSE.

In the very coolest weather we
think it pays to introduce artificial
heat into the hen house. A small coal
stove does not cost much, and a fire
in it made once day will keep the
temperature right and the fowls will
be as happy as in sprin3time. 1t is
cold weather quite as much as the diff
ference in feed that makes eggs scarce
in winter. Besides. in the coolest
weather there is always temptation to
feed corn for warmth. The stove in
the hen house, carefully guarded
against fire, is cheaper as well as better
for the fowls than giving them q corn
diet SO as to keep them warm.-Bos-
ton Cultiyator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
The Kraz,i,an Anaconda.

The late Mr.. Bates, in his eleven
wears spent in the Brazilian forests,
saw and heard more of the habits OF
the anaconda than most travellers,
though, like other great serpents, the
individuals of this species are so little
common that their appearance IN any
one district is too infrequent to make
a special study of their habits part OF
the DAYS work of busy naturalist.
Bates's first personal experience OF the
creature shows how impossible it Is to
avoid the python by the ordinary
means of isolation sufficient to keep
other dangerous creatures at dis
lance. He was at anchor, IN large
boat, in deep water, in the port OF
Antonio Malagueita-
An anaconda swan out to the boat,
lifted its head from the water, broke
in the side of fowlhouse on deck, and
carried off couple of fowls. 1t was
found that this snake had been steal
ing ducks and fowls from this part of
the river for months, SO hunt was
organized, miles of river bank were
searched, and the serpent at last found
summing itself in muddy creek and
killed. It was mot a large specimen,
bnly eighteen feet nine inches long.
But Mr. Bates measured skins OF ana
eondas which were twenty-one feet in
length and two feet in girth, and he
adds: "There can be no doubt that
this formidable serpent grows TO an
enormous bulk, and lives to a great
age, for I have heard of specimens
having been killed which measured
forty-two feet in length, or double the
size of the largest which | had the OPP
portunity of examining" We must
add a correction here. They were
double the length; but the size of
these great reptiles, like that of fish,
increases enormously with every add1-
ton in longitudinal growth.
A snake of twenty feet in length
would be probably four times the
weight of one ten feet long, and the
bulk of forty-foot anaconda would
approach that of the largest crocodile.
Since the publication of 'The Natura-
lists Voyage on the Amazons' an ana
conda of twenty feet has been brought
to the Natural History Museum at
South Kensington. A neighhor of
Bates, in Brazil, nearly lost his ten
year-old son by the attack of an ana
conda. He had left the boy in his
boat while he went to gather fruit, and
on his return found him encircled by
the snake, whose jaws the father seized,
and actually tore them asunder.-The
SpectatOr
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
JUDGING BUTTER.

1t seems to me that one method of
Judging butter would be improved if
we would follow the examples of
judges of live stock to a certain ex-
tent, says Professor Ell. G. Wallace.
When a judge is asked to pass upon
ring of twenty-five or thirty horses,
he first goes over them carefully and
selects q dozen of the best ones, send
ing the rest to the stable. Then he
goes over these critically and weeds
out the poorer half, continually mar
rowing the competition down until
he has but two or three to decide be-
tween. II, instead of doing this, he
started in with a handful of score
cards and attempted to select the
winner in that manner, he would very
soon regret the day he consented to
act in the capacity of Judge. And
yet he would have very easy task
compared to that of man who at
tempts lntelligently to score thirty
tubs of butter in succession. If our
butter Judges would go over the ex-
hiblt in this manner, they would have
little difficulty in selecting the best
half dozen or dozen tubs. -Farm and
Dairy,
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
A Strange as q Novel.

The identity of Ashford, who mur-
dered his wife and children at Van
couver, British Columbia, and then
attempted to take his own life, has
been partly discovered by his private
papers. These papers show that Ash
lords sister is a marchioness, her
maiden name being Elizabeth Flow
ers. Ashford's real name was George
Frederick Flowers.
The papers and letters disclosed the
fact that the Flowers family is pos
sessed of great wealth and that sis
ter of the murderer willed to Ethel
Flowers, Ashford's second daughter, a
large estate in England. She came
into her estate on her eighteenth
birthday.
This accounts for the remark of Ash
ford, "When l am gone all but Ethel
will have to beg on the streets, and
also for his attempt to shoot every one
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
COTTON MILLS MOVE SOUTE,
L. Jefferson Coolidge Says That the
Movement is Natural.

Regarding the removal of cotton mills to
the South, T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston,
Mass, Secretary of the Amoskeag Manufac-
turing Company, says:
This Southern movement is perfectly
natural Labor at the South is a great deal
lower than in the North, the mills are near
the cotton fields and there is great saving
in freight rates. Again, Southern roads
take cotton as fifth class, while Northern
roads take It as second and third class, max
ing big difference; then there is a great
difference in fuel. Labor ia the great saw
ing OF all, and 1t Is claimed a saving OF two
cents Per pound can be made. The product
of the South bern mills is son. mostly to Chi
cago and St. Louis
II think that Southern mills will increase
We are hampered here by trade unions,
strikes and legislation, making it more diff
cult for us to manufacture at a profit, and
unless the Legislature OF this State, instead
OF doing all IL can to injure manufacturers,
turns around and assists them, there will be
further loss OF business. Fine goods can
be made cheaper in the South as we'll az
coarse goods. 1t Is claimed that Southern
operatives are not as skilled as Northern
operatives, and that 1t takes too long to ed
ucate them, but this Is false. Southern op-
eratives are just good in every respect,
and 1t Is only asquestion of time when fine
goods will be male in the South
The New England mills that now antfci-
pate building in the South are the Massa-
chusetts, Bott, Dwight, Merrimac and
Whittier mills.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
Corn Used In Europe.

United States Consul Lathrop, at
Bristol, England, has furnished to
Secretary Morton some Interesting
tables, showing, first, the corn import
ing countries of Europe, from which
it appears that eight countries i'm
ported durinl, the fiscal year last past
over 1874, 900, 600 bushels of corn. OF
this amount the United Kingdom took
over 10, 200, 900 and Germany nearly
5000. 900 bushels; France took TO-
800, 900 and Holland and Austria-Hnn-
gary each took $500, 900; Belgium
took nearly 100000 and Denmark
and Switzerland 100000 bushels
each. Next were tables showing the
imports of the United Kingdom, Ger
many, France and Holland and from
what countries they supplied them
selves. The bulk of the corn import
ed into the United Kingdom comes
from Roumania and the United States,
but Russia, Canada and Turkey, in
the order named, are drawn upon to
make up about one-fourth of the sup
ply. Nearly half of that imported in
to Germany comes from the United
States, and this country with Rou-
mania supplies nearly four-fifths of
Germany's total imports. Russia and
Bulgaria also contribute a fair pro-
portion to the German supply. Amer
lea furnishes not more than fifth OF
the French supply. Almost the whole
of the four-ffths is made up from
Roumania. Russia and Turkey, in the
order named. In supplying Holland
America is slightly in the lead, with
Roumania close second. All these
statements are based upon the figure
for the last fiscal year, which in every
case shows a marked advance over the
year previous. One of the features
shown by these tables of special inter
est to our own farmers is that, while
Argentina has been an important fac
tor in the international wheat market,
her exports of corn to European coun-
tries have fallen off greatly. They ag-
gregated nearly II, 900, 900 bushels in
1893 and less than 1000, 900 in 1894.
It will occasion surprise to some Amer
leans that the little kingdom of Rou-
mania furnished the principal corn
importing countries of Europe more
corn than the United States. Rou'
mania supplied 48, 900, 600 bushels and
the United States AS, 900, 900 bushels
of that cereal for European consump
ton in the year 1894.-Chicago Her
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

sold through druggists, at the price of the
cheaper made pills.
Pheasant Pellets cure biliousness, sick
and bilious headache, dizziness, costive.
ness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of
appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dys.
pepsia, windy belchings. heart burn,
pain and distress after eating, and kindred
arrangements of the liver, stomach and
bowels. Put up i'll sealed glass walls, there
fore always fresh and reliable. Whether
as a laxative, or i'll larger doses, as gently
acting but searching cathartic, these little
pellets - are unequaled.
AS dinner pill, =" to promote digestion,
take one each day after dinner. To relieve
the distress arising from over-eating, moth
ing equals one of these little pellets"
They are tiny, sugar-coated, anti bilious
eranu1es Any child readily takes them.
Accept no substitute that may be recon-
mended to be Just as good" 1t may be
better for The dealer because of paying
him a better profit, but lie is not the one
who needs help.
A free sample a to 7 doses on trial, is
mailed to any address, post paid, on receipt
of name and address on postal card
Address WORLDS DISPENSARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION Buffalo. N Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
FARM AND GARDEN t-5TTS.

Milk is eighty seven per cent water.
Cheese is the most concentrated form
of milk.
SilaGe of corn and clover is believed
to be the fodder of the future.
Dairy salt is as sensitive as milk o.
cream to odors, and should be equally
guarded from them.
Like corn, wheat is better for slow.
hard work, than for speed. Oats and
hay a~e best for fastgoers.
Feed alone will never control the
value of Xix. The individuality of
the COW has much to do with il.
Wheat is more a growth than fat
producer, is good for young animals,
but should be coarsely ground before
feeding.
Grain alone is too highly concen-
trated food for horses. They must
have some "roughness' with it, such
as hay, straw or fodder.
The man who expects the biggest
success in dairying must have dairy
COWS. The ALTAR ound COW is not and
never will be shining success.
Cultivation may be stopped late in
the season, and a crop can then be
sown upon the land. This crop may
serve as cover or protection to the
soil, and as green manure.
Trotting stock, except for extreme
speed, is suffering from over-produc-
ton, but there is and probably always
will be profitable market for hand
some, useful, half-bred hackneys.
Never believe the man who says he
can remove a spavine of ring-bone and
leave no blemish Even if he calls
himself professor, do not question
his title-that is what he is and all
he is.
Two parts each of bran and ground
wheat and one Of chopped oats make
should be given about three pounds OF
it, three times a day, with hay CO
straw.
Feed that will make pound of beef
will make pound of butter or two
pounds of cheese. If butter and
cheese bring more than beef there is
money in dairying, rather than stock
raising.
Barn manures are generally more
economically used when applied to
farm crops than when applied to or.
chards; yet they can be used with
good results, particularly when rejuve.
mating old orchards.
Whole wheat should not be fed to
horses, they swallow it without chew.
ing, and it ferments IN their stomachs,
producing indigestion and collie, CT
passes through unchanged. It should
be either soaked to burst the grains,
or coarsely ground, for the same rur-
pose.
In general, the commercial com .ete
fertilizers are less practical for Or
chards than fertilizer made for the
occasion out Of materials evidently
needed by the trees; but the com.
plete fertilizers give much better re.
suits than the prevailing indifference
and neglect.
ANY COW chat will give less than
twelve pounds of solids il every 100
o. her milk, three pounds of which
should be butter fat, is not profitable,
and should be converted into beef.
There should be thirteen pounds OF
solids in every 100 of milk, with -four
pounds of actual butter fat.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
KEEPING APPLES N WINTER.

One method suggested for keeping
apples during the winter is to pack
them in perfectly dry oats, not per
hitting one apple to touch the other.
If wrapped in paper before packing in
the oats the apples will keep all the
better. They may be packed in boxes
or barrels, and if put up in an attrac-
tive manner will bring good prices.
Apples have been higher in price than
oranges for the past four or five years,
and are always salable after cold
weather sets in. New York Observer.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
Highest in Leavening Power-Latest u Govt Report
R3H!A!l! Rski2S
ABSOLUTELY pUEE


of his children but Ethel. Asbfo,,
upon being reprimsnded for reseDt,,
some prison discipline, said ia5;r
nantly: "You fellows will find ~.
who l am before this trial is over,
Ashford disgraced his family n,.
succession of wild sprees and sq7s,
dering his fortune. AS he wss MON.
nent Cambridge graduate, and on, a,
the leaders in aristocratic societv h.
actions created scandal, nrl AS n,
grace followed some of his cscap,.,
he concluded to sink his idcutiry
He dropped his title and frirnlssrr
became a common soldier, jululuytr.
army in India, took the name Of A.
ford and married the daughter off
farrier of :he regiment, who knew b.,
past and was willing to overlook EYER,
thing. Washington Star.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
ALL FRANCE ASTOUNDED
III. CASIMIR-PERIER RESIGNS
THE PRESIDENCY.

His Action Causes CONSERVATION In
Paris-He Says He is Unable to
Solve the New Problems Before
Him-Sketch of the Successor of
the Martyred Carnot.
Casimir-Perier, President Of the French
Republic, has resigned Office.
During the evening before this movement
he conferred at Paris with the President Of
the Senate, NJ. Challemel-Laeour, and then
summoned n. Guerin, Minister Of Justice !;
NJ Leyques, Minister of Public Instruction :;
II. Poincarre, Minister Of Finance. and the
Project of the Seine.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
DANGER OF FEEDING WHEAT TO HORs

DANGER OF FEEDING WHEAT TO HORSES.
This winter great many are adj
vocating or considering the advisable
lty of feeding wheat to horses on ac-
count of the cheapness of this feed.
and few have raised the alarm against
such practice. While this grain may
prove of advantage tc hogs and other
animals, it is certainly unsuited to
horses, except in the very smallest
quantities, and then more as medicine
than as food. It is much better for
an old horse than for young growing
animal, and while it may be fed with
impunity to horse twenty or thirty
years old, it will, in nine cases out of
ten, founder young one.
If some of the old horse breeders
and farmers can look back thirty or
forty years, they will remember when
wheat was fed quite literally to horses,
and the term '*grain founder" then
became very generally known through
hard experience. This is the worst
founder known to horses, and after a
great number of horses suffered in this
way, it was found that grain was the
cause of the trouble, and the chief
grain was wheat. A young horse that
has been literally fed with wheat when
growing, even for only one winter, is
pretty sure to be unsound, and many
purchasers would refuse to take such
horse at any price.
In feeding wheat to horses this
winter it should be remembered that
this danger is always present. 1t may
be fed in small quantities along with
oats, SO that no real harm may follow.
out as a rule it is the worst possible
food for horses used on the road. It
makes them lazy, slothful, fat and
overheated. If one wishes to make
fat instead of muscle, in the form of
good bran, wheat can be fed along
with hay or oats very successfully.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

With local applications, as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease Catarrh is a blood or
constitutional disease. and in order to cure
It you must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucous surface Halls
Catarrh Cure Is not quack medicine. 1t was
prescribed by one Of the best physicians in this
country for years, and Is regular prescription
It is composed of the best tonics known, com
btned with the best blood purifers, acting di-
rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination of the two ingredients Is what
produces such wonderful results in curing ca
tarrh. Send for testimonials free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
The Most Pleasant Way

Of preventing the grippe, colds, headaches and
fevers is to use the liquid laxative remedy,
Syrup of Figs, whenever the system needs a
gentle, yet effective cleansing. To be benefited
one must get the true remedy manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. For sale
by all druggists in Soc and 81 bottles.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
Excess of Exports During 1894 O.
$152, 294, S24.

Excess of Exports During 1894 OF
1852, 294, S24.
During the twelve months ended Decem-
Der, 1894, the excess OF exports over imports
was S152, 294, 1924, and the excess for the cor
responding period OF the preceding year was
s10s, 5s2, 002.
In December, 1894, the exports of gold ex-
oeeded the imports by s9,412, 427, and dur
ing the twelve months ended December,
1894, the excess Of exports over imports was
s81, 200, s5l. The excess of exports Of silver
over i'm ports during the twelve months end
ed December, 1894, was S36, $40, 1874.
The number of immigrants arrived in the
United States during the twelve months end.
ed December 81, 1894. was 24S, 1888, and dur.
ing the corresponding period OF the proceed
ing year, 489,776.
The British Government instructed Al-
miral Fremantle, commanding the British
fleet in Chinese waters, to prevent, by force
If necessary, the Japanese squadron from
ascending the Yang-Tse-Kians River
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
All the Same.

MANY days you have fingered about my
cabin door; hard times, hard times come
mas and Happy New Year passed as though
the land was flowing with milk and honey.
Some bought one thing and some bought an
other, but one of the best investments for a
small sum paid we'll. 1t was not for Christ
mas bush, but thousands got 1t and thou
sands who had suffered long and YEARLY
with rheumatism were made doubly happy
in being cured by st. Jacobs OIL. It leaves
nc trace behind, and all the same, the harder
times will come no more to them. The lux
ury of health Is worth fortune.
Eudoria is from the Greek, One Who
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

DR.. Kilmer's SWAMP Root cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

How MY THROAT HURTS! Why don't you
use Hale's Honey of HOrehOund and Tar?
Pixies TOOthache Drops Cure in one minute.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces infamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c. bottle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

The worlds birth rate is scy ,,~ rs.
minute.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

Cassandra is from the Greek and means a
Reformer of Men.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

Karl's Glover Root, the great blood purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures StipatiOn. p cts. so cts, Is.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

Eudoria is from the Greek, One Who
Prospers in Her Way.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices OF Country
Produce Quoted in New York.

8 II.
The platform surplus sold during the past
week at an average OF S1.65 per can of 40
quarts. The total daily supply has been 49,
499 cans Of milk. 178 cans of condensed
milk and 323 cans OF cream.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25
80 An Ounce

of prevention is worth a pound Of cure" Ri
pans Tabules do not weigh an ounce but they
contain many pounds of good. One tabule
gives relief. Try for yourself the next time
you havG n headache or bilious attack.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

Ifafflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-25

We think Ciso's Cure for Consumption is
the only medicine for COughs.-JENNIEP INCK-
ARD, Springfield, His, October |, 1894.