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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-16
HOUSTON PRICE CURRENT.

| These quotations are revised daily and
| ihclr correctness can oe relied upon. The
i'rices are those ruling In tho Houston
AXLF GREAsE-Dlamond a75 pet
gross. Frazier, ~ tn boxes, 500 per
| gross. Gclden,. NHsSc Pc dozen boxes.
AMMCSlTioN Powder, per key. - cog
I 10. ha4fing powder. s.. O per keg, agents
price. drop shot. per sack, sl.a5ri.io buck
BACON Short cIelr boxed. 5a5'.c; IN
sarks. ,c less: breakfast aisfiFc. dry salt,
7-suloi New Ycck salt bellies, &c, West
err fait hallles. 5u6i4c, nokci bellies, JlsC
RAGING AND TiEs-Carloai lots,
fob Houston or Galveston; Tagging,
81 ~ Dci,a si.55, In small lots from store,
5aeging ~ per yard higher, ties Be per
HAKjNG powpER-Apex. lib, 50
toye;. sSc il-lh 70r. I'm. ,5c; ISIS one
SPOON, In, per fozen, s. 70. is-lb. ,l.3i,
i.-lh sec X, C.. .1-oz cans. 81 N per dozen.
Prizes; lG-o2. $500 pr cozcn. Royal. IS
CANNED FRUIT Per dozen: strawher-
ri-s. r'cal2' TO-. pihra rplos standard, Sl21n
t,Hft5o, pears s'au'ari %cpsi %; CLIPPER
Bartlett Hi'4 --.h. 81 uNfi N'. i-lh. SlGr6
seconds. 9 Do. .~ io. s-lb seconds ii.0-fr
pracl F nie k.ecr.os 75ds5e s-ib
stnt2I, eprles f o.
'ANiil l'1Ir .HUiN I'hI6it wfaupei
Gi.Hs 3s fancy mixed in par-,7h00c.
CANNED VEGETABLES Nlirowfat
peas 81 "p 81 Lima beams sqroI 90
ring beans I"7Ile corn io,lfn ?. to-
l'.h ''5,lr rel Edqcy hsana 2-ln 75l"c
cAiirORNlA CANNED GOODS p
dozen flr -'s-io rams; Peaches 81 45oI fl
erg 7'ums 81 7'4i RI. apr cots g SCOT g.
h.c 'ru. q q srnpes q 1ei 49,
ohcrf 81 m12io black he.ries s; '5G
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APPLES Fancy sliced, In boxes, aus
&c, choice eyaporatcd. &c, fancy, 7lso. ~
ron. lac per ID. currents, in bbls. tv4,,c
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GRAIN AND Hay.

Car load lots. JOB cars. from mills; deal.
crs charge from stOie 5rl0c more per 100
lbs on bran; 2QSc per bushel on oats and
corn.
BRAN-50Q55c
CHOPPED CORN-70c per 100 lbs.
CORN Sacked, 3ifi3sc
oATS-25fi Pc; common, 2ld23c.
HAY--Alfalra 81 onTl3o 10 per ton; mil
let. sli 5NIl2 s0 timothy, sl1 .5Vfls.opi south
Texas prairie. ti.0065.0D.
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GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

CHICAGO.
The Leading futures ranged as follows;
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81. Ions August Is Flour dul and I'M
shahFci heat weaker SPOT st'ady 80,
red cash 81 elevator. Co, Htpta track;
No hard oit,ii34. August .. asked. De-
c'iuh+r co. Corn steady spot firm. so.
cAsn. &ls; August ~; September .l5s;
l'"''inner ~ blfs t,ru spn. frn "a.
rAsh Is hi; August 1870 September IS
va Nay 1872, hid. Harl.y nominal. Corn
W'll EL3o Bran hard winter In lNi-lh
sucks sold east truck at 50, sacked. IA a
Sue %fddS- l'L,N scrd t-Ilf. Timothy sc"d.
new eps 90 HAY nrly active prairie
n'nh. 80. II notify, u.d Nl1 sli d. 49, now
d. 'n' u" 70 ID, side Euttcr barely steady
aud UNCHANGED. Eggs firm .. Whisky
-@ cotton ;les and haEsng unchanged
IurE steady 9tt.ndhrd mess, iphn.ug q, .5ft
20 Lard firm. prime steam ana. choice
- 80, ON ioNcd shoulders and ribs
a l-' 'nugs S.Ni', shorts Z ~. Dry salt
nt-His shoulders and luu,,s o i,i.' RIBS $40;
Nhpris 80. toe ~ Nour 400 barrels.
Wheat ~ 90 bushels, co;- $4,000 bushels;
0als u p" bushels Shirmeujs Flour tnN
barrels wheat loo1 hs~h,ls. corn lN,uI
bushels. oats l0.Up1 Bushels.
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TRADE NOTES.

1he first green ounces seen on this
market for many years were received
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BFANS California small white at.d
N->c per lh Bayou 3 ..i2 i-so, pink @ ~
m1 l'lhc, hlack-eycl pes a.
N'TrEN Huc star lee dairy l5r;
uile l9ri fancy Eisin creamery iSRlsc
ii'sh Texas country NI9ec II IN GOOD con-
tflon
~. TrFHiNE~-soliis lie; prints l2c; FL
Fu ielrr bricks Use.
CANEAGE Missouri. s. cnga 20
.titESE-Nr York full cream l2i,c;
Nitnnalr full rroaW he, Young Amcri-sa
81 fancy hllcl cheese Auinc, Swiss e,T
g. lmit ,uan swis. HplN'; brick cheese
H.tltr liu| urErr i'c.
IGiS f"Nas. IN case, 5QCc. candled sg
" Kansas l2isrl3c.
GAME Prairie chickens s275G3 60 per
dozen. ytnison G9fGr per pound
NItAll Sew VIZ per hall barrel
OF IONS Ncw@ TtNas stock 5aNc per
PrER-Chlle ituiSc per ~.
POTATOES Arkansas 4 usn,, a bush.I
Nli.TRI Chickens. per dozen. old
rem. s. lfts 80 "priop $ 21J3 "a accor l.
INK 20 size. turkey hens 81 prra.oO. turkey
F''H..t tt"uS5o , ducks S-.1fa3 .o. goose
TOMATOES St Louis 81 % per hushel
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GALVESTON.
HNH' Us St''
Reported for The Post by A. =. Norma


Market supplied with cattle and over
stocked with calves and sheep
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COTTON SEED PRODUCTS.


HOUSTON MARKET.
Tho folowirE quotations were postei
today by the cotton seed product depart.
Invht o! the houston Cotton Exchange aHd
nosrd OF Trade;
Per Gallon.
Choice crude oil. for butter
'l .+ts -. ...-....-..,, NuMiuAl.
S'rttlY y'TWe crude oA..... Nominal
ltime crude o, ..........,... 13iao II
llimc hatier OIL, iu0sr...,.. Nom Hai
lrim, srmmrr yellow OIL. Is ~ iG'.
an ana nl"a- Lob. mill interior points,
according to location.
Short Ton.
Prime cotton SEED cake o,.sl " 81 Z %
Prime cotton Scti meal..... II 10 p rs 10
FGr local delivery custom mills quote
neal SIG 10 per ton; hulls, $3.tO.
Ntmmtk Market quiet.
New or.eans. August Is The market Tor
COTTON seed products is dun and nominal d.
primo cridr oil, "a bulk, l6ul6'a, prmo
summer yellow, IN barrels, q; meal SO ~
Wlim p.r short ton, cake, long ton Tor
~ ort, iM2jailNJ0.
New York. August l5.--Cottcn seed prod
urir "i il} pf me crude oil, In barrels ~
Ht'' irin. summer yellow, ~ barrels, =.
primo c7tcn s,ei meal NNe'HNoJ per
tom.
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COMPARATIVE P9.,aa,rs ~
The following are tne today a. y 4,
for cotton on the spo, ,,,ith cldss1
ing markets, togethe, ",oday's ~
ding yesterday, WIN
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Reported for The Post daily. except
Thursday ana SuuGAys, ~ Albert Mont
fomery Il Co. Umited). i've stock com
nIsshul merchants.
Good fat fed teoves.....,..... cHfr 81,
GOOD fat e. Observation-Disclosures. .iitp Pm
Common to fair ............... 1910 =.
Good fat grass boeVe- ....... 2@.1
common to rae beevea. .,..... @ ~
Good fat Ncar.inIs.. 10 90 t7ll 90
common 10 fair yearlnge.. E 10 " o ~
common 10 good fat calves. ~ 70 $ 30
Good Coufcd hocs............. 3lafp 81,
Common to lair nogs......... 8 40
Good fat sheep ............... 5 q 81.
Common 10 iai- sheep. hcad w a -
Recoipts Sales. on hand
Cattle. ....-. ..... 80 Is 97o
!hiFc- and yenrl!nEs. 81 .Oi Ga
lioss.,.,.- ..,...,..... ...- ... leo
shccn .............. 30
Reeves, COWS AND hefers flirly ac'tye
hui weak. calves and yoarluss weak and
tending downward n, cp quiet
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BUILDING MATERIAL.

CEMENT-portland cement. per bhi.
81 6oQ3 %. Rose1alo cement. per Dbl, 81 i5g
100. lime. 800: fire cls,. s5.25G3. co. plas.
tor paris, s. 20. fire brick. 81. Louis per
3 to Inches inclusive felt roohiug. per
square. 81 l5H2 80, Acme and Royal cement
riagtrr. per ton. sli.00. plastefing hal
goat per To-, &c laths, per NJ, $500
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NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
oo Spehea STEADY; closed steady; sales os.-
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BUSINESS TALKS.

A. s Cleveland ~ " ~ Cl,Nelani
& C0.-Our trade has been beyond 4
Irssh'ions nils week and something o. "a
rail- rush sonnisd io hs pre- yT,fiiug 70 Hpun-
" orders ior ,.w GAYS ~'1p." srp
SHOW 20 change of cJusf Quef.c. b. Nil
goods are q. lllns a. .tfreu'ly low prtea.
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goes over to the majority. Feed often
but little at Q time, every 2 hours say
five times a day, until the chicks are
five weeks old, and see that no food Is
left standing In the sun to sour after
they have eaten. Remove it all, moth
ing causes more bowel looseness, and
dysentery, than sour food. The best
food for the first five weeks is composed
of one-third oat meal, one third corn
meal and one-third wheat bran; add a
pinch of salt, moisten with sweet milk
or water, warm 1t in cold weather and
twice a week add some bone meal
Keep coarse sand by the coop at all
times, don't think the chick can find
this themselves, that is one of the
commonest mistakes in rearing chick
ems; after they are five weeks old you
can leave out the oat meal and feed
three or four times day. When ten
weeks old, at noon scatter wheat and
cracked corn in litter such as leaves
and cut straw, so they will have to
work for it, but not too much corn as 1t
makes them too fat. Green food must
be supplied. II the chicks are cooped
up on fresh grass this problem is solved
and they will help themselves to what
they need. If, however, they are con-
fined In small yard, finely cut grass,
lettuce, or onion tops will make good
substitute. Fresh cool water must be
kept accessible so a drink can be taken
when wanted. sal the cockerells
when they weigh two or two and half
pounds each, and don't forget to dust
the pullets we'll with insect powder, for
you do not want to raise chicken lice,
but If you are not careful you will.
Now with this food and proper care
they will begin to lay along in Septem-
Der and October. Then sell off your old
fowls, clean the houses and whiteWash
them and the pullets moved in, and
then on feed for eggs as follows: For
four days In the week feed early in the
morning warm mash composed of one
part shorts, one part bran, one part
corn meal, and add cooked potatoes or
turnips and apple parings. Feed on
boards or in troughs, only enough to
supply part Of their hunger; give water
all round, then scatter wheat or oats
in the litter and let the aim be to keep
the hens busy every moment from
morning until night scratching for
wheat and oats, which should be buried
in the litter. Let the noon ration be
green rye or a cabbage hung in the
pens just high enough tokcompel the
hens to jump to peck it. About 3 p. m.
feed the whole grain, full feed, oats or
wheat, and in the very coolest weather
little corn. Keep grit or granulated
bones so they can get at it all the win
ter, and charcoal, don't forget to give
them some. Clean pen, fresh water,
pure air and system of feeding such
as Is here outlined will bring money
to the farmer every month in the year,
try it.
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sIzo-nnh Beauty.

Says "Hark Comstock" in Rider and
Driver: II have not had as good chance
to study the results Of crossing the
hackney on trotting mares, but see nc
reason why they should not be success
full where the latter are large enough
for the hackney is not so likely as the
French coacher to contribute size to
the combination. Like our old-styie
Morgans and Black Hawks OF nlty
years ago, the handsomest specimens
are apt to be understood. Some OF the
attempts to breed up the size OF old
style Black Hawks were accompanied
by partial success, and their beauty and
action in a degree preserved, but gener-
ally as the size went up the proud
style and fairly sparkling beauty oil
the strain lost their finest gloss. A
most amazingly beautiful horse was
Vermont Black Hawk, the bantam
cock of the Green Mountains, and he
bred so true to his own likeness that
breeding became a certainty. TWO
thirds of his get were black, and any
two of them were mates, and such
mates! But the strain held to its small
size with great tenacity, or else lost
something of its beauty. This depar'
ture of beauty with increased size i'll
Dictated that the characteristic style Of
the strain was derived from some
source that was inherently small. l
do not know where the hackney breed
secured its strut and swell and great
est pomp, but it seems to me that in
too many cases the criticism that its
little uns are it's prettiest uns' points
to like conclusions. The hackney
strains back to thoroughbred founda-
tons, but along with many crosses I'M
accounted for"
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In, the opinion Of some Of the best
authorities on the numbers Of live
stock in the country the recently pub
lished official estimate of the number OF
sheep in the country is largely In ex-
cess of the actual number. and this
Notwithstanding the fact that the num-
Der is less than for a great number OF
years. The official figure is given at
So 100000. This is a fact pregnant
with meaning for every farmer NO
country has made permanent progress
in agricultural prosperity without
sleep. Even on the high priced lands
Ct England and France 1t is found
profitable to keep large focks, indeed
more profitable than the keeping OF
any other kind of live stock. Great
Britain has today over S0,OOOjOOO sheep
on her small area, whilst France has
over 100000. These two countries
with an area together of less than one
tenth of the United States have one
third more sheep and better ones. The
consumption of good mutton is increas-
ing rapidly all over the country, and
this increased consumption is here to
stay and grow. Wool also must In
crease in value. The clip in Australia
will be very largely decreased this year
as she has lost over 100000 sheep
from drouth, and this will undoubtedly
affect the markets. as Australia pro-
duces more wool than any other coun-
try. Buy few sheep and buy them
good ones, and put good buck with
them. The lambs alone will pay well
on the outlay if the sheep are prop
erly cared for. and the wool and NUT
ton will add to the proat.-southerR
| Planter.
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Too fast, Entirely.

In sketch that has recently been
printed of living literary man, we
are told that 'it is his custom to write
about 6, 900 words every day Theirs
is no man in all the world who can
write 6,00J words that arc worth
reading, or one-half that number.
For good solid days work of man
of thought and knowledge, 1000
words are sufficient; and if on any
one day he writes twice that number
he should take rest the next day.
We are not speaking of co?yist5 or
shorthand reporters, but of men who
think with all their soul as they write
with all their power. The fast-writing
author whose biography lies before
us is sometimes seized with the scrib-
bler's mania, and, while it lasts, he
surpasses, ON long stretch, his ordi-
nary daily record of SOD words. A
short while ago he knocked off in
twenty-five days a book containing
$50, 900 words; and, as he wrote on
the eight-hour system, Re must have
thought and written 7jJ words every
hour of his working day, right
straight along, or at the rate OF
about thirteen words minute. We
are disposed to guess that this
authors literary value, remarkable
as it is, might be enlarged If he had
some experience of the writer's
cramp.-NeN York Sun.
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Sheep Less Numerous.-The east
ern farmers seem to be going out of
the sheep business. They are, as a
rule, very small holders, and when
their small herds seem to be losing
proposition they do not hesitate long
before letting them 90. 1t is the sum
of these small holdings that make up
the great aggregate, and when the
farmers begin selling their small hocks
the number of sheep in the country
speedily decreases. There is no branch
of the live stock business that can be
so readily adapted to changed condi-
tions as the sheep business. Since
1898 the number of sheep In the United
States has been constantly decreasing
until now the total number is less than
at any time during the past twenty
years. Meanwhile the range Of prices
has been very low. 1t will not be long
before there will be change and sheep
will be in demand again at good prices.
Elk.
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particular, so far as Its composition
Is concerned. Instead Of the natural
fat of milk, or cream, which is extrac-
ted for butter making, there as neutral
lard. made from the leaf fat Of the hog.
This article, claimed to be exception
ally pure and good Of its kind. Is
used at the rate Of two or three pounds
70 every 100 pounds of skim milk. The
cheese resulting carries about 30 per
cent Of Qard) fat, which is rather less
than the average Of (butter) fat in good
whole milk cheese. The casein and
other components Of the two are prac-
tlcally the same in kind and proper
lions. From this statement OF COM
position one can judge for himself
Whether this filled or lard cheese Is a
legitimate article of food, whether 1t
Is wholesome, and whether he desires
to use 1t in the diet Of himself and
family. It is made Of comparatively
cheap materials, costing from one-half
to tWo-thirds as much as good, full
cream, factory cheese, and its market
price, wholesale or retail, should cor
respond. At its best, this is cheap, In
teriOr cheese; 1t is almost devoid OF
daVor, oily or greasy when warm, and
never attains the dry, crumbly consis-
tency Of we'll cured cheese. 1t Is sold
when only month or two from the
press In imitation of mild, immature
cheese. It is claimed that 1t does not
keep well, especially If subjected to
Temperature above so degrees. No one
acquainted with first class full cream
cheese would ever accept the filled pro-
duct as substitute, but 1t may be sue
cessfully passed as a genuine article
Of second grade. There is plenty OF
good cheese still made in the United
States, and it can be secured If buyers
will but make little effort to find 1t.
The states of New York and Wisconsin
together produce two-thirds of all the
cheese made in the country, and the
reputation of the factories of these
states for high quality, full cream
cheese has been long established. The
product of these factories Of the stand
ard or Cheddar form Of large cheese
stands second to none in the markets
Of Great Britain as well as in America,
The two states named, as well as 9th
ers, absolutely prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale Of filed cheese within
their borders and the marking of skim
nhooca IN fO,ifofa full oroaun uOOda
These laws are we'll enforced"
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ContInuous Income from Poultry.

F. A. Homann, of Efingham county,
Ill., read the following paper before a
farmers institute in that county:
Eggs are all the year round crop,
differing greatly in this respect from
hay, corn and vegetables, which are all
harvest time crops; and If not marketed
at once, expensive buildings have to be
prepared to store them inland not few
crops such as potatoes, cabbage and
fruit, shrink in value by decaying
while stored. Not so with our poultry
product, which has an all the year
ready market, and with eggs as the
basis Of poultry business a steady all
the year round income can be COM
handed. 1t is the winter eggs that pay
the greater profit and bring up the
average price for the year. If the
greater part of the eggs are received for
spring and summer, when prices are
brought down by large supply, the
average will be lower, but if fowls lay
In December, January and February
when eggs are 20 to 30 cents a dozen
the average price for the whole year
will be satisfactory The whole story Of
getting eggs in winter can be resolved
Into three simple rules. First, hatch
the chicken early; second, keep them
growing so the pullet will come to lay
Ing maturity in October or by Novem-
Der; third, keep them laying by good
food and care. When l say hatch the
chickens early do not mean too early,
because If Matched too early and go to
laying in August and September they
will usually moult in December just as
the weather is becoming very cold, and
good-by eggs from then till spring.
For the heavier varieties, such as
Brahma and Cochins, the middle Of
March is none too early. Plymouth
rock and Wyandottes we would hatch
the first half of April If possible. If not,
April will do. The Spanish, Minorcas,
Leghorns and Hamburgs should be
Matched in May for best results. Set
three or more hens at time and once
week dust them we'll with insect pow
der, and when the chicks hatch give
them to two or more mothers. 1 gave
as our Arst rule for getting a good profit
from poultry to hatch your chickens
early Equally important Is the sec
ond, keep them growing so they will
come to laying maturity by November
first. The food and care has much to
do with the chicken growing.
Now for the first "a hours do not feed
the chicks, for they need no food dur
Ing this time, nature has provided for
that by ABSORPTION Of egg-yolk into
their little abdomens, and it is neces-
Iary this absorbed egg-yolk be digested.
Much damage Is done and many chicks
lives are lost by disregarding this rule;
some people in their haste to get the
chicks growing hurry food into their
!rops before the system has toned up to
AXE care Of 1t, and the consequence is
che bowels are congested and the chick
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Southdown Wool.

The wool Of the English breeds Il
thus referred to by the Journal of the
Royal Agricultural Society Of England.
Lastly, there is the pure Down, a
wool which is still unequaled for
hosiery purposes, and which will al
ways find a market of its own, some
times quite independent of the general
course of prices. OF this wool should
like to say-keep to the old-fashioned
style; keep 1t as short and as fine as
possible; let no suspicion of a long
wool strain get into it; and if am not
mistaken, pure Down wool will take a
respectable place in the future as re-
CARDS comparative prices. With such
ends in view, breeders Of Southdowns
may we'll abstain from trying to imi-
tate in length of staple and
superfuous covering of the face with
coarse wool any other breeds of sheep,
and be content to let the Southdown re-
main what its best friends have always
tried to make it. e., a producer Of
quality before quantity.