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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-09-25

handled. After being started, such
stand of bees is taken from one
place to another during the day
more or less of the bees are out at
work, aud can not find the new loca-
tion at their home coming, and stray
away or perish.
Every bee keeper is interested in
the fight against adulterated honey.
The authorizations with which pure
honey is mixed are numberless, and
are upon the market in many forms.
Many a stand of honey which looks
pure and good is rank fraud.
Strange as it may seem, during
the past year the stock raisers Of
England weighed but 3 per cent. of
their stock before selling it, letting
it go at so much head; the farmers
of Scotland used the scales in 30 per
cent. of their sales. 1t is astonish-
ing that such customs should pre-
vail in so old country as Great
Britain.
No one animal can do everything
best. AS in the mechanical world,
there must be a division of labor.
We owe all the Improvement of the
present day in all classes of do
mestic live stock to special breeding
for a definite purpose. There is al
ways an element of error in the de-
mand' for a good, all round animal.
Let the breeder of the race horse
try to combine the strength of the
Clydesdale or Shire with the speed
of his thoroughbred, and the result
is an increase of strength, but de-
crease of speed. If a cow takes a
certain portion of food to make milk
so much less is available for making
flesh. We must take our choice.
We can not have two virtues in the
highest perfection in the same ami
NAL.
In our earlier recollections of the
live stock business, animals, and
especially hogs, were "guessed off,
to considerable extent at the first
sale from grower to buyer, though
always weighed at the slaughter
house. The country was new, and
scales not at hand. 1t is a matter
OF wonder TO US the extent to which
cattle on hoof are sold by the eye in
Great Britain to-day.
Many families are too poor to eat
meat who feed their dogs enough to
grow 800 pound pig. The dog
nuisance would be abated if females
were taxed pretty heavily, and the
males untaXed. Better dogs would
be bred. Those who desired to keep
them could afford to keep them.
While a dog is a useful animal now
and then, the most of them are howl
ing nuisances.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-09-25

A few days ago, near Mansfield,
Mo-, family of homeseekers named
Allen eamped under a tree just over
the Arkansas line. The father and
mother slept under their emigrant
wagon. In the early morning. =
panther leaped from tree into the
wagon, tore open the throat of the
baby and struck the other child q
fatal blow with its paw. A dozen
armed settlers were hunting for the
wild beast on Tuesday of last week
American Field.
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. -ss!1la. DObbinS & Ewing.

expense of each grown crop the past
year and what have your cows,
pigs, sheep and chickens paid you?
Which was the most profitable,, and
why?
While labor is spent without stint
upon many a farm, that manage
ment is lacking which is all essen
tial to success. There is no balanc-
ing of a ledger to know just how
much on the right or wrong side the
owner has come. Such lack of
management would soon wreck any
commercial enterprise, and it is not
surprising that often farming does
not pay"
The first sprouts Of potatoes are
much the strongest. 1t is never
wise to plant those which have al
ready sprouted. There is no better
way to keep them than to cover
them in the ground in long, conical
ridges, made when the potatoes and
the ground are both cold. Put on
plenty of earth, but have ventilators
at each end until the severest
weather comes.
After the earth which is thrown
over the potato ridge is frozen cover
it foot or two deep with horse ma
nure, that the earth may be kept
from thawing, and that there may
be no deeper freezing. If on top of
this course or two of bundles Of
corn fodder is thrown, the rains will
be effectually shielded off.
Potato soil should be made rich by
the heavy manuring of previous
crops, and nothing is better than
clover sod. Cut the crop of hay,
and then haul out the barnyard ma
nure, that the rains may wash its
virtues into the soil, where it will be
held available for the potatoes to
feed upon. This will not prevent
the saving Of the crop of clover seed.
There aer few seasons when good
crops could not be raised if the
natural rainfall could be retained by
subsoiling. 1t has advantages over
| irrigation. A few acres can be
treated each year until the whole
farm has been gone over, and no eX-
pensive apparatus is needed. Three
| heavy horses can run a subsoiler l6
inches deep in an open soil free OF
stone.
BY subsoiling twice, the second
time crosswise, the ground can be
stirred to a depth of 20 inches, and
will hold an immense amount OF
water, which, instead Of running of
into the streams, is stored for future
use. When the process must be re-
peated it can be done at half the
original cost. 1t necessitates nc
changes in the methods of farming
Good implements save time, dc
better work and make larger crop:
than poor ones but do not buy them
on time, pay 8 per cent. interest, and
then be so foolish as to leave then
out in all weathers, to go to pieces
before they are paid for. You car
not make crops good enough to war
rant this.
No matter how hard farmer
works, nor how good crops he pro
duces, there will not be much prof
for him unless he produces very
largely the things consumed a
home. This has been the matter
with the Southern farmer; he ha,
been making a cotton crop, anC
some one else has been making his
flour and meat. He sold his produc,
at wholesale prices, and bough
everything at retail.
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Dairy.
1t is indeed folly and loss to feed
dry cows through the winter that
they may make $25 or $50 during the
summer. We must not forget that
it costs more to sustain animal life
during the winter.
There is no profit in raising calves
unless they are cared for from the
start. Stall them like other cattle
when brought in from the pasture
in the fall. There must be no let up
in regularity of feeding.
Some fancy butter makers use
ensilage as the basis for their winter
dairying, and do not suffer from any
loss of customers nor decrease of
prices in consequence. If properly
managed, there is no tainting of the
milk.
Millions of cows are supported
which die indebted to their owners.
Before a person concludes to raise a
heifer calf for dairy purposes he
should have good assurances that,
judging from the performances of its
ancestors for generations back, the
heifer will make a profitable cow.
To grow heifer calves without
some assurance of their profitable
ness is but to invite disaster. As
soon as a heifer becomes a COW she
should be tested to learn whether or
not she will make a profitable one.
If not, she should be beefed at the
first good opportunity; and so with
all ones cows, whether old or young.
TO start right with a creamery, let
it be determined that it shall be an
all the year round one, with the
largest outputs in the winter months,
that the highest prices may be
maintained for butter, and that they
who own the COWS may see that hay
and grain in the winter may be
turned into dollars.
The true solution Of the problem is
to breed an animal with special
qualifications for the purpose for
which she is intended. If a COW is
wanted for q town dairy, deep
mixer with fair tendency to fatten
is best; but if the owner is to live
way up in the country, where dairy
ing is not profitable, then an animal
with the greatest tendency to fatten
is best.
If the heavy mixer is not turning
her food into milk, neither will she
turn it into flesh to such perfection
as will one bred for beef. Nothing
truer than that we must breed our
animals for distinct purposes, and
not aim at the impossible in trying
to make them best for everything.
Butter is more liable to injury
from too much working than from
too little. The old idea is no longer
in vogue that we must work butter
until every vestige of grain is de-
stroyed. Buttermilk should be
washed out while the butter is still
in the granular form, and very little
work is needed to get rid of the brine
1t is not wise to work the butter in
the churn, using the swing, box OF
barrel churn for the purpose. Moth
ing is better than the level worker
by the use of which a direct, but
gentle, pressure is obtained without
the grinding motion, which is at al
times to be avoided.
TO pack butter for the winter take
glazed earthen jars or clean white
oak or spruce tubs. The tubs should
be soaked well in brine, then scalded
and thoroughly washed, then rub
bed inside with fine salt. If, while
wet, good sweet butter is so firmly
pressed down into them as to leave
no vacancies, it will be sweet six
months later.
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Stock.

A successful Western honey pro-
ducer hives his second swarm and
places it on top the parent hive until
evening, when it is poured off in
front of the old hive, which it enters.
BY morning all the young queens
have been destroyed, and swarming
for that season has been dispensed
with.
If all the queen cells but one are
removed there will be no after
swarm issue. These queen cells are
sometimes built on the surface of
the comb, and are hard to find, or
they are built at the edge or in the
notch where the comb joins the
hive.
The best time of day to move bees
is in the evening; by so doing the
disturbance which naturally arises
is quieted down by morning. If a
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-09-25
Agriculture.

A map of the farm, with each field
numbered, and its size, quality of
soil, &C., specified, will be a great
aid in keeping track of the years
transactions; and how few know the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-09-25
Agricultural and Live Stock Department.
Conducted by JOHN P. McGAW, Jr.

contributions solicited
furnished
this Columbian
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-28
lieye me, sir, your most obdt,
servant, WALTER SCoTT.
"Abbot 3ford, Aug. g."

lieye me, sir, your most Obdt.
servant, WALTER SCoTT.
abbot ford, Aug. g."
There Lave been so many forg
ed autograph letters Of late that
The reader will at once suspect
that this may be one OF them, and
that General Wilson has been
misled. He anticipates this ob.
lection, however, and writes
IL in these days Of Burns and
Scott fabrications any sceptical
reader is disposed to doubt the
genuineness OF SCOTS letter, it
may perhaps be sufficient TO say
that i am AZ familiar with Sir
Walters handwriting as with my
own, that the full old fashioned
quarto sheet is post marked Mel
rose, with the proper date, which
certainly could not easily be
counterfeited, and that the letter
is among the literary treasures
(also the original Ms. Of "Ten
Thousand Year") OF DIR. Warren,
who received il from his gifted
father nearly n quarter Of n cen.
tury ago. The epistle was un-
known to Lockbart, as well NJ
SCOTS late biographers, and has
in measure been perdu for more
than an ordinary life. time.
General Wilson suggests that
SCOTS deninl WAS on the ground
that to be known AZ n professional
writer OF novels would affect his
social position among the class
with whom he preferred TO Rsso.
ciate. His financial fnilure com,
pGlled the disclosure,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-28
wAygJtLEY nOyELs.
Letter Of MIR walter scott Denying
Their Authorship.

General James Grant Wilson
contributes q remarkable article
to the New York Independent
containing al alleged letter from
Sir Walter Scott categorically
repeating over his own name his
famous denial Of the authorship
Of the Wayerley Novels. Samuel
Warren, sub jequently the famous
author OF "Tnn Thousand Year."
when medical student, wrote to
Scott on july 20, 1928, asking
SCOTS advice as to the best
method of publishing "The Diary
OF n Physician" upon which he
was engaged. The reply came a
week later. 1t is addressed to
Samuel War; ON, Esq, A, City.road,
London, and is at present in pos.
session Of lis son, the Rev. Il.
Walpole Warren, ID. d., rector Of
st. James's Church, Now York.
The letter itself, OF which the In
dependent gives fac simile, runs
as follows:
"Sir,-I ain favored with your
letter OF Goth, which some bust
ness prevented my sooner reply.
ing to. ] am not the author OF
those novels which tho world
chooses TO ascribe to me, and am
therefore unworthy Of the praises
due TO that individual, whoever
he may prove TO be. 1t is need.
loss, therefore, TO add that can.
not be useful to you IN the way
you propose; indeed, IL you will
take my advice, you will seek no
other persons judgment or coun
tenance, IN the project Of publish
ing which you entertain, than
that of an intelligent bookseller
who Ia In a good line IN the trade
Although no great readers, IN,
pretending 10 particular taste
those gentlemen whose profession
II IL 10 cater for Tho public acquire
much more accurate knowledge o.
what will give satisfaction 10 thl
general readers than cen BE- Oh
tanned by a nan Of letters IN bir
closet They have alHo road
access 10 good judges, and thel
own interest presgmptIyoly com
mapds tham ~ give ~ much on
e1uragomepi ~ possible 20 gopi
10, ~ anything approaching Il
EScpse those hints from ono VIII
has bad some experience, and bt
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-28
TWIa Polar Bears Born

BRIDGEPoRT, Conn, Dec, IL
The first polar bears ever born in
the United States made their mp,
pearance yesterday In the winter
quarters Of the Barnum and Bailey
circus, They are twins, Besides
being tho FIST white bears over
born hero, II IL believed they are
the first ever born IN captivity,
The cubs ara about the size Of
shepherd dogs, weighing about A
pounds eRGh, Polar bears arf
worth $1,000 each,
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-28

Water oolors and OH oolors IN
sets suitable Tor Xmas presants,
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j, perby, D,phu pepru
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stTaet, telephone 20, GA Once
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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
HERBERT WILL APPEAR.
VIII Tell the House Committee About
the Harvey Steel Patent.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 16.-Secre-
tary Herbert will appear before the SEN
ate committee on naval affairs on Satur-
day next in obedience to the summons of
the committee to give what information
he may have in his possession relative to
the contracts made by the navy depart
ment for the use of Harveyized steel in
armor for naval vessels. The proceed
ings will be conducted on the basis of
the Chandler resolution.
The motive for the investigation is fur
nished in statement which Senator
Chandler has made calling attention to
the charges affecting the conduct of
Commander William NJ. Folger in con-
nection with the Harvey patent while he
was chief of the ordnance bureau and
since he retired from that position. 1t
is alleged that while holding that Office
he induced the expediting of the Harvey
process in the manufacture of armor by
reason of an understanding that he
should be employed by the Harvey coma
pany and have an interest in it. 1t is
also set forth that after the first con-
tract had been made with the company
and after the second had been arranged
for Commander Folger resigned his Office
and, while continuing to be an officer in
the navy, accepted employment with the
Harvey company and went abroad to ne
gotiate with foreign governments. for the
use of the process.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
AN OSHKOSH BLAZE.
Flremen Had Difficulty in Fighting
the Fire Owing to In
tense Cold.

Oshkosh, Wis, Jan. 14.-[Speciall i
The large carriage factory of Andrew
Wilson was destroyed by fire at an early
hour this morning. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000 and the insurance at
about half that amount.
The blaze was discovered about
o'clock in one Of the workrooms, having
started from the falling down of an over
heated stove. The alarm was quickly
responded to, but the iremen found it
very difficult to fight the flames as the
mains were frozen in some cases and it
was some time before the streams were
being thrown on the flames as they
should have been. The iremen confined
their efforts to saving the adjoining build
ingS when it became evident that they
could not save the carriage factory. The
hremen worked until IL o'clock, when the
blaze was gotten under control. The
building, however, was a total loss. The
walls all caved in and the building will
have to be entirely rebuilt.
The factory was situated on Otter
street and took up the greater part OF a
half block. 1t was large brick build
ing and was two stories high. Mr.: Will
and buggies in the upper part of the
building and the loss on them will be al
most total.
Columbus, Wis, Jan. 14.-[SpeciaL1-
Fire originating in Mrs. Chestnut's mill
inery store on James street last evening
destroyed two buildings. Mrs. Chestnut
lived in rooms over her store. Only Il
portion of her goods were saved. The
second building was occupied by Lucy,
Blanchard q Co. as a meat market. All
their stock was saved. The plate-glass
front in Bottles jewelry store on the
opposite side Of the street was broken
by the heat. The buildings destroyed
were old wooden landmarks. One was
owned by John j. Jones and the other
by the III. M. Brown estate. The total
loss is about $4,000, with light insurance.
Owing to lack of water supply it was for
a time feared the high wind would carry
the fire through the larger portion OF the
business part of the city.
WoneWoc. Wis, Jan. 14.-[Special.I-
Later reports from the fire at Aillsboro
say that five buildings in the business
part of the town were destroyed. The
burned buildings were Worden Bros
meat market, Joseph Bulin's saloon, two
business buildings of David Brewer &C.
cupied as jewelry store and millinery
store and the dwelling house of Mr..
Brewer, who is a very old man and who
narrowly escaped with his life. The
total loss is $4,000, with small insur-
ance.
The Riverside hotel here narrowly es-
capped destruction by fire today. Prompt
work of citizens extinguished it before
any serious damage could be done.
Boscobel, Wis, Jan. 14.-[Special.l IA
fire occurred here at midnight last night
in the stone and brick store buildings
belonging to N. S. Walker and Harvey
Clark, occupied by Galloway, Walker &
Miller. The loss on the buildings will
amount to $4,000, with no insurance.
The loss on the stock is $4,000; insurance
$500.
Monticello, Wis, Jan. 14;-[special.l-
The blacksmith shop of Henry Goode-
now was destroyed by fire with all the
contents. The loss is a out $1,000.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
GOV. UPHAM'S CALL
1t Limits the Coming Special Ses-
sion to ReapportiOn-
ment Work.

Madison Wis, Jan. 14.-[SpecialE
The formal call by Gov Upham, con-
vening the Legislature in special session
on Tuesday, February IS, was issued
late this afternoon. The call simply sets
forth the necessities Of the case in just
demand for an enactment apportioning
the state so that it shall be equitable to
all people, and in compliance with the
desire of the people for reapportion-
ment the governor calls the Legislature
to convene upon the date stated for the
purpose set forth.
The text of call is as follows:
Madison, Wis, Jan. IA, 1894 proc
lamaton converting the Legislature in spe
cial session:
In pursuance Of the authority in me
vested by the constitution, I, William H
Upham, governor of the state of Wisconsin,
do hereby convene the Legislature of said
state in special session at Madison on Tues
day, the 18th of February, A. D. 1896, at II
O'Clock noon, to apportion the state into
senatorial and assembly districts on the
basis of the new state census recently COM
pleted as provided by law.
w Ell. TTPHAM.
Governor.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
CARFERRlES TO WITHDRAW.
Shoal Water at Frankfort Makes 1t
Impossible to Run the
Steam ars.
Steam ars.

kewaunee. Wis. Jan. 15.-ISpecialI
1t is learned here today that the Ann
Arbor carferry steamers will be laid up
for the remainder of the winter as soon
as the railroad yards here are cleared
of eastbound freight. There are now
only about fifty cars here waiting trans
portation across the lake. and as soon as
they are taken away the ferries will go
into ordinary at Frankfort. The reason
for this step is owing to the poor harbor
at Frankfort. which has given these
steamers no end of trouble for the pas
few months on account of the sandbal
forming at the entrance. Steamer No.
2 lost one of her wheels twice within
the past month by striking bottom at
that place, and is now at South Chica-
go for repairs. Steamer No. / arrived
here last evening after an absence of
several days, and was obliged to dredge
sand for twenty-four hours at Frank
fort before she could get out. The lay
ing up of these steamers at this time,
when they were crowded with freight,
is to be regretted, and will result in a
heavy loss to the railroads forming the
keWaunee Shore line.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20

I'm the superior court at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, Judge Burlingame held that
it was a gross violation of good faith
for photographer to loan or give away
the picture of 4 patron without consent.
and vigorously condemned an engraving
company for making use Of photograph
procured without consent for advertising
purposes.
q T. NcPhelim, the Chicago news
paper man, is resting more easily, and
she physicians at Bellevue hospital New
York, say he is in no immediate danger.
His insanity. however, does not abate,
and DIR. Russell, who is In charge of the
violent ward at Bellevue. declares that
thege is hardly a possibility of reason
returning to him. Prof. Peabody, the
consulting physician, does not. however
believe it to be a hopeless case.
A railroad is to be buiFt from Dem
yer to Cripple Greek, thence to the head
of the Gulf of California.
The man murdered in Lincoln coun-
ty, w. Va, while resisting arrest who
was supposed to be Hogan, the Illinois
train-wrecker, turns out to be Jesse ].
Montague, a wealthy and Influential resi-
dent of Boone county, who was in that
section prospecting for mineral lands.
The Grand Army colony recently
started at Abbeyille Ga, by Gen. Fitz-
SCTdIu anu oA-OOf. INOIIueIu Is CONSTANT
~ receiving accessions. One hundred
and twenty-five colonists, arrived at Fitz-
gerald the colony center, from the
Northwest, in one day.
Il Townsend Burden, whose home
in New York was robbed ON December
81 Of diamonds worth about $4,000
has received a letter from the thieves,
in which they offer to return the gems
intact. providing Mr.. Burden sticks to
his promise of immunity from arrest and
also gives them $4,000 reward.
Sherman circle, an organization of
Catholic women in Dubuque, la. at
their annual meeting passed resolutions
cago for his reply to the address of
Bishop Perry in which the bishop said
America owed nothing to the Latin races
or the Catholic church, but everything
to England
DIR. Hoenock, chief engineer of the
Trkutsch and Vladivostock railway, says:
"The Russian government is building
several merchantmen to ply between
Vladivostock and some port in Alaska.
We are now building three of them ut
Vladivostock and three more are to be
built at Cronstadt; they will all be fin
ished within year or So"
The grand jury at Chattanooga,
Tenn, returned two indictments against
D. l.. Snodgrass, chief justice of the
Supreme court of Tennessee. one for
carrying concealed weapons and the 9TH
err for felonious assault upon John r.
Beasley. Beasley, who was shot by
Snodgrass, is slowly improving. and will
be able to appear in court when the case
is called.