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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Poultry Pointers.

EOtuteTss
When the bird begins to wheeze, you
have case Of roup on hand.
Keep plenty of grit, old lime, etc.,
about the premises IL you want the
poultry TO do well.
When the nests are where the dog
can run before and around them, either
the dog, the nests or the laying hens
are out of place. Laying hens need to
be kept quiet
Keep the poultry out of the barn. It's
no place for hens. You can't give them
the care they need; you can't fight the
lice, and you don't want them littering
up the barn.
Are some OF your fowls looking pale
around the head, and not as lively as
they should be? Look to the grit sup
ply and put a few drops of tincture OF
iron In the drinking water.
1t is best not to feed cooked vegeta-
bles to fowls during warm weather.
They are too heating and fattening.
Besides. there is SO much desirable
green stuff on the farm that Is going to
waste.
Do not overcrowd the growing chicks
in their coops during hot nights. When
overcrowded they become too warm.
and then, being restless, the stronger
ones will trample the weaker ones to
daeth.
Give the small boy Of the family ten
cents day to give the fowls fresh wa
ter three times a day during the hot
spell, and you will get the money back
with compound interest. Remember.
good fresh water Is one OF the easentials
fol egs production. efgs
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Campaign Pointers.

The sensible vbter goes about declar.
ing that the thing most needed is the
free coinage of American muscle.
Prohibition may be a good thing, but
what the country needs now is the ''gold
cure"
A "Strayed Goldbug" writes to the
New York Sun of what he calls "the
eternal fitness of the title, the Boy Ora
tor of the Platte" He explains that the
Platte is 1000 miles long and only six
inches deep.
.. Beware xd the ,5 %an or who
test by prejudice.
Pitch In, boys. and we will show our
silverite opponents Ut the Republican
party is made of pure gold and will pan
out 100 cents on the dollar.
An oratorical failure for a man who
was nominated on his lung power is
rather serious thing.
Mr.. Bryan's speech had the effect OF
depressing American stocks in Europe
Its principal effect, however, was the
depressing of Bryan stock in America.
There is one good thing about the free
silver bubble, and that Is that when it's
biggest ii will burst.
Scratch free silver advocate and you
will find an infationist. He Is q man
who believes that wealth can be created
by act of Congress-, and hard times abol-
ished by law declaring poverty penal
Offense.
The more the people understand the
real meaning of free silver coinage the
less likely the country is to be afflicted
with that folly.
Maj. Mckinley will put his, record
against Willie Bryan's promises and
await the verdict of the people.
4 Farmers who think they would get n
dollar bushel for wheat under free
silver coinage should remember that 81
cents worth of silver and Al cents
worth of wind do not make q, dollar
Z 1t will take more than BryanS oratoty
to make the people believe that the
wrong il the right. ~
81 The inttiition of women tells them
that Mckinley ii the mnn to be- Presi-
dent, Ind woe be 10 the .Aisbnnd who
does not follow. their advice. ~alti
ItIis becoming eyidept that Mr.. Bryan
sl,eadsotoo many, tickets. 49,
III a silver basis Is a good thing for
A.. nation, why is Russia exerting her
best EFFORT to accumulate n. vast store of
gold in order to reach asfilh gold basis
As soon ms possible? Russia II now On
a silver basis, and desires no longer 10
be classed with China, japan, ;, ,Ai<xico,
Argentine Republic, Brazil, Epqusddr,
India, Afghanistan and every other m
consequential, poverty-stricken nation on
the earth. The nations which are the
more prosperous and more powerful
spurn q 53-cent dollar monetary basis.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
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The chief strength Of the 10 to asi-
tation lics In the belief that 1t would
benefit the agricultural classes. This Is o
serious error. The facts of all human
experience show conclusively that free
silver would cause Widespread and pro.
longed injury to the farmers of this
country t,,c. ,a@c ssv !; =,
The mere threat Of free coinage would
greatiyuinjure the farmers by causing
an immediate calling in of all loans
through the natural desire Of lenders to
get back money worth AZ much as they
lent. Hundreds Of thousands Of farmers
would be unable to pay their mort.
cages. and their farms would be sold at
sacrifice. No new loans would be
forthcoming, as the owners Of capital
would not invest 80 long as there was
any danger that by o change in the
money standard the value Of loans
would be cut in two. AS the chief COM
plant Of the farmers now Is that inter
est is too high and capital too scarce,
the effect offs policy which would make
capital scarcer and dearer can be figured
out by each farmer for himself.
A second way in which free coinage
would hurt agriculture would be by the
financial panic which would inevitably
follow the overthrow Of our present
sound financial system and the adoption
of the unstable cheap silver standard.
With the millions of bank depositors
demanding their savings the machinery
Of credits by which SO large part Of
the country's business is done, would be
suddenly stopped. Merchants would be
unable to buy goods for lack Of credit
manufacturing industries would be clos
cd down, as in 1898, and millions Of
workers would be idle. Men out of EN-.
ployment do not buy as much farm
products as when they are at work, and
the farmers who now complain Of the
lack Of markets for their produce would
find themselves with q large part Of
their crops unsold. Would not this be q
serious injury to agriculture?
Another evil which free coinage
would bring to American farmers would
be the unsettlement of their trade rela.
zion with the great gold standard COM
mercial nations, which purchase each
year 5000, 900, 900 worth of our surplus
farm products. The adoption Of the sill
yer standard, with its constantly fluctu-
ating scale Of prices, would prove the
same barrier to commerce between this
and other countries that it has to trade
between gold standard Europe and In
dia, China and Japan. Do the farmers
want to curtail and unsettle our foreign
trade?
These are some of the ways in which
free coinage at 16 to would hurt the
farmers? No advocate of SO cent dollars
has ever been able to show single way
in which it would help them.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Training tho Hcifer.

In training young heifers 1t is well to
remember that gentle handling 10 a
great factor In gaining their good will
and submission to be handled, All
dairy animals, whether young or old,
should be taught to regard their master
rs their best friend. If the young heifer
Is to be made useful and pleasant
animal for the dairy, 1t is important
that she should be handled and accus'
toned to all necessary manipulatiOns
while she is calf. If they are handled
Familiarity from the first, there will
usually be very little trouble with them.
When force Is used ut the start to COM
pei them to submit to being MIXED,
then the trouble begins. Many young
heifer has been ruined as n dairy COW
by bad usage. Get her started right,
and much future trouble will be avoid
ed; it will be. far better to exercise a
little patience than to have trouble as
long as she Is cow
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
"Hair BalIs.''

What looked like anew horse disease,
has turned out to be an accumulation
of the hairy calyxes and flower stalks
Of the crimson clover plant, In the
st0machs of the afflicted animals. The
trouble was first reported in Delaware.
and has since become prevalent in 9TH
er'loealities. The short barbed hairs"
of the plant accumulate, and form into
hard, compact balls, which close up
the intestines of the animal, and pro
duce peritonitis, gangrene and finally
death. AS many as thirty Of these balls
have been taken from one animal. 1t
is advisable in view of all this, to alb
stain from feeding this species Of clover
to stock after the plants have ceased
Towering, and especially never to, use
for fodder the straw raised and thresh-
ed asa seed crop. The dangerous hairs
do not become stiff until the plant has
passed the Towering stage, and has be-
gun to ripen. Use caution inthis direc-
lion.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10

under the keen lens Of Christian con
science, md looked q. squarely m.g
question Of Christian ethics. An, intel
ligent democracy, ruled by reason and
conscience, may be- the best of govern.
the pressure of 'hard times" and sub
ject to the gales OF popular delusion and
the appeals Of demagogues--mny send
our ship aground There are some
moral questions at stake this year just
as truly as there were In the campaigns
for Union and Emancipa tion.--Rev.
Theodore l.. .Cuyler in The Evangelist.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10

WITH W thtneT MIX nOuscs
A very convenient milk house for
warm climates, or for summer use in
colder sections, Is shown In the engrav-
ing herewith. 1t is six feet square and
six feet high at the caves. which Is
large enough for the milk of two or
three cows. The, house is bulk under
a large grape arbor, about twenty feet
from my kitchen pump. The milk
tank, which is twelve inches deep and
fourteen inches wide at the top, OK
tends along the north side. 1t has n
screen cover. which may be covered
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10

the largest ever grown, 1t means cheap
hogs and beef cattle for a year to come
Most OF our own crop is fed ut home.
and only brings money to the country
when exported as beef and pork.
though Europe, the last year, used
more of our corn than ever before. The
cheaHaess Of corn had much to do with
this. We can undoubtedly produce
corn, pork and beef cheaper than any
other country. n s88 itf~ !.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
A Trade Journals summary.
? To man who has no money there are
several ways to get it-namely:
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several ways to get it-namely:
(a) Beg it.
~ Steal it.
,(c) Borrow it.
(d) Secure it by gift.
(e) Trade something for it.
IF we arc to beg for it, we might just
as we'll do the best we can. Therefore a
dollar based ON gold standard is better
than 16 to silver dollar which today
is worth about 53 cents intrinsically.
If we are to steal it, we want the best.
A thief who would steal a silver dollar
in preference to gold dollar would be
acquitted on the ground that he was in
sane.
If we borrow it, we want that kind Of
money which will go farthest, for SO we
can get along with smaller loan.
Therefore gold dollar is better to Dor.
row than q 16 to silver dollar.
If we are to secure it by gift, certainly
we should not depreciate that which we
are about to receive.
This brings us to e. which is the
way most money is obtained. A peril
nent question for each of us to ask at
this time is, What have got to trade
for money which want? 1t may be
labor; it may be horse or COW; it may
be lumber or shingles; it may be saw
mill At the present time we can trade
any of the above and get gold dollar
for every dollar worth Of value, as may
be agreed upon between buyer and SELL
er. We can get dollar which is worth
a dollar anywhere and everywhere.
Now, your labor or horse or cow or
lumber or machinery will be worth just
as much. or nearly as much, next year
as it is this, but. if we have free coinage
at 16 to will the dollar which you get
in trade be worth as much as the dollar
you can get now? What will that be
worth? Can you tell? 1t may be worth
50 cents or more or less. One day this,
one day that, but can any one tella
These are all pertinent questions, and.
when carefully considered. must guide
MS in voting at the next election in No
vember. and do not lose sight Of the fact
that if all the silver in the world is
coined into money You cannot get cent
of it except by a, b. G, d or e, above re-
ferred to. Lumber Trade Journal.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Live Stock Notes,

Live STOCK NOtcfs
Stock keeping keeps up the fertility Of
the farm.
In feeding oats and wheat better re-
suits will be secured by feeding alter
nately; they can be fed dry or soaked.
If animals cannot understand Ian
guage. they at least realize that gen.
tie voice betokens kindness toward
them.
Keep the fences cattle proof. When
cattle are tempted to jump a low,
broken-down fence, dangerous habit
may be started.
A well-bred, well-fed yearhng steer
can be made to outweigh at twelve
months the scrub at twentyfour
months. This being true, why continue
to raise scrubs?
The meat Of an animal whose bone
and muscle have been fully developed is
better than the meat of an animal that
has been forced on the fat side from the
beginning.
Keep no Improbable stock, whether
it be horse, COW, hog, dog or poultry.
Make 1t a point that every month on
the farm must at least earn the food it
eats. Keeping dead stock" is making
many farmers poor.
The color of an animal affects its sale
as much as the other points o. the ami
NAL. Breed with the end in view to
get good conformation and color In the
steers that you want to send to market
and in the cows that you want to sell. .
! At recent sale of Shorthorns in Eng
land, 80 COWS and heifers averaged
$145.25, and 16 bulls 5000. At another
sale, 66 head sold at an average of
$133.50. Most of the bulls were sold
for expectation, good many going to
South America.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Why Trees Are Discouraged.

Some farmers, who seem sensible in
most things, handle their orchards as
If they did not know that any trees
were growing there. They plow and
grow crops which impoverish the soil,
or use the orchard for pasture, as If the
trees were no more to be considered
than fence posts. No wonder the trees
become discouraged.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Wages Move Slowly.

1t may be recognized as fact that
his wages will remain stationary at the
present figures until, by an increase Of
profits to employers, force Of combina-
ton or through the expensive medium
of strikes, they are raised up higher.
After the first panic Is over, which
would necessarily follow the radical
change in the coinage system, 1t Is prob
able that the business of the country
would adjust itself to the deprecated
currency, as 1t did during the war era.
There would probably be nominal adj
vance in prices of all commodities. That
Is, prices would remain substantially
as they are now, measured by a gold
standard, but would advance in terms
Of the deprecated currency. The work
man would End that his two or three
dollars of daily pay would only buy
from one-half to two-thirds as much
Of the necessities of life as 1t did under
the gold standard. While his wages
would remain unchanged, large share
of theirpurchasing power would be lost,
and he would have to bear the greatest
proportion of the burden of the depreci-
ated currency.-Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Looking Ahead.

With free coinage Of silver at the ratio
Of 16 to 1 every mine in the world would
be worked to its fullest capacity and
the entire output dumped at OUR mints.
Why? Because for every 1924 of sill
yer bullion our government would give
the owner $1S.60-a net profit Of $8.66
upon16 ounces. Who would blame the
millionaires who own silver mines for
making this money? Common people
will be forced to take from the rich
mine owner dollar at 100 cents whose
lintrinsic value Is about 50 cents and
whose purchasing value is never higher
than Its intrinsic value.-Richmondville
On. " Phoenix.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
The Greedy silver States.

Even at the present reduced value of
silver bullion, its pursuit is indisputa-
bly, more remunerative than that Of
agriculture or manufactures, and this
fact appears to be confirmed by dis
tinguished Senator from one of the sill
yer fertilized States, who, with par
donable exultation, has told us that
the wealth per capita Of his people Is
two dollars to one compared with that
of the more populOus Eastern States Of
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and
yet all the Senators from the States
now enriched or pregnant with silver
vigorously demand about 100 per cent.
additional profit on their silver bullion
through it's coinage by the govern
ment, although that profit must come
out of the more limited earnings Of
those whose wealth per capita, after
200 years Of hard labor by themselves
or their ancestors, is only one dollar to
two, compared with that in some Of
these young and more wealthy silver
States.-Senator Morrill, Of Vermont.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
A RothschiId on silver.

1t appears to me that there are real
advantages In maintaining silver in cir
culation and none in its suppression,
since 1t is now actually part Of the
circulation. / should regret the demon
citation of silver in its relations to our
internal circulation, our commercial
intercourse with other countries, and
the always uncertain eventualities OF
the future. But should regret 1t even
more If our example should be followed
by other nations, for that suppression
of silver would be followed by a de-
struction Of values without any COM
pensatlon.-Baron Alphonse de Roths-
child In 1869.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
De- the Craze Leseeninn?

Intelligence and good sense and bust
ness judgment are universally array
ed against this silver movemens, and
late developments seem to indicate
that the country will soon be convinc-
ed of how little actual voting strength
silver has, Notwithstanding all tho
noise, and work will soon get back to
it's accustomed lines. Crazes Of this
kind are naturally of but short dura.
Ion. The people can be deceived for
short time, but three months Is a
long time for such wave Of delusion
to last, and 1t cannot be but the major
part OF those who have been blinded
by 1t will recover their senses before
election and the silver mania disap-
pear, as did the greenback and other
fallacies of the past. The fact that the
sagacious men Of both parties are us
ing their influence strongly against
this matter viii have large influence
even with those who give little con-
siderattons to the merits Of ordinary
political matters, and help to crush
this movement, and with its destruc-
ton business cannot fail to resume its
! usual course. and Build
ing. ~
How the Value Of Gold IL Fixed.
Men do not work at gold mining for
mere pleasure. Men would not remain
miners, and capitalists would not oper-
ate mines, unless 1t was probable that
they would receive incomes as large as
they Swoiild receive in other lines Of
industry. Unless, too there Is an un-
usual influx OF labor and capital into
mining. 1t Ia evident that the gains to
be derf~eda from It are not unusually
mrge. II. then, gold mines are In OPP
Grafton and are NOT crowded, we have
sufficient indIcatI6K HAT gold and other
commodities exchange for each other
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Useful Garden Tool.

Our engraving shows very handy
homemade tool for leveling seed beds
in the garden or for grading walks
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Capital va. MONEY.

What we want is not more money, bus
more capital Money always comes
with capital. weghave money now.
more than we can use. lying idle, We
have just exported a lot OF 1t. Money
is the transferrer OF capital, as hay
rack and horse are a transferrer "
hay. More hayracks will never make
more hay. but more hay wiJl require
! more hayracks, and y sure t6 get them-
.-Thomas b Rcd teaa5,.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10
Evils of Close Pasturing.

Evils of Close Pasturing.
Close pasturing in autumn retards
the growth in the early spring. When
the covering Of roots is eaten right
down to the ground the frost penetrates
more deeply, hence the ground remains
cold longer in the spring. TIE cold
winds, also, which sweep over the sur
face of the earth tend to retard growth.
Take the very same held, compare the
growth in early spring on the portions
eaten bare with that made on the parts
where more or less of a mulch of I'M
eaten grass covered the roots all win
ter. and you will find that the grass
blades on the parts so protected will
have made several inches Of growth
before they commenced to grow on the
other portions of the field. The yield
pf meadows is greatly increased, as NJ
ready intimated, when they are not pas
aured closely. The advantage Of the
protection from the uneaten portion of
the grass Willie greater in dry than in
moist seasons, but with some grasses 1t
will be considerable in any season.
Shallow-rooted grasses are thus greatly
benefited. with timothy meadows the
benefit in the crop is so great that 1t Is
at least an open question as to whether
they should ever be Pastured so long
as they are to be retained as meadow.
1T Is different with deep-rooted plants;
they are less easily Injured by either
drouth or frost.
.Advantar yea of Diversifed Farming.
~ Diversified farming has two great ad-
vantages over that which Is coHfined TO
one or two specialties. If the different
: crops are properly chosen there will
be succession of marketing to be done
through the year. and also something
Z to. be, done on the farm to keep its labor
employed at all times. Where the spe-
'icialty only Is grown, though 1t may
! bring a good deal Of money when sold
most OF this has already been expend-
/, ed during the season while the crop
was being grown, This Is the difficulty
with the Southern planter who depends
! wholly on his cotton crop. After the
expense Of making 1t Is deducted the
plsnter his less ready money than II
he had more crops. so as to be able ia
cell something every month In the year
+ y. a Large Hog Crop Probable. <
Another large corn crop VIII be gath
Ard this year. As last years crop was
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10

and lawns. The board can be of con-
siderable length, sharp at one edge,
with n bit of fiat iron riveted to the
edge, the used-up blade Of an old wood
saw being excellent for this purpose
The handle is braced firmly by a half.
circle of iron which n blacksmith car
lit in place. in n few moments. With
such an implement the work Of level
ing and grading can be done quickly
and easily. 1t should have place il
any garden kit.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-10

~. 4 Largo Hog Crop Probable.
Another large corn crop viii be gath
cred this year. As last years crop was