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to be SO popular is thus given by the
Rural New Yorker: A few years ago
the family of. one of our American
millionaires went to Paris and ate a
dinner at which little birds were served
-one for each guest. They were
smaller than ordinary broilers. one
whole one provided about meat enough
for each person. This seemed like an
agreeable fad. and when they returned
to America this family demanded these
little birds in place of broilers. This
fashion has spread among the rich until
plump chicken five weeks cid will
often sell for as much as a large bloiler.
OF course, this means a gain to the
feeder of at least months feeding. 1t
just illustrates how changes In fashion
strike below the surface into the produc-
ton of food The rich and fastidious
demand delicacies-fruits, vegetables
and meats-out of their natural season,
this demand stimulates inventive
genius, and men are found who invent
the appliances needed to produce the
artificial conditions required. These
appliances are improved and extended
until what was once luxury becomes
cheapened to a necessity, and rich and
poor alike enjoy it. That is the history
of forced fruits and vegetables, broilers,
dollhouse lambs, etc.
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A Local Horticultural Society.

The people Of Winter Park have
banded themselves together and organ
lied local horticultural Society. The
object of the society as set forth in the
following circular Is commendable and
the example OF these enterprising and
public-spirited people should be emu
lated.
The circular issued by the organizers
is as follows:
Since It's first settlement Winter Park
has been noted for the beauty of it's To-.
cation, the salubrity of its climate and
the high character of it's people. Its
churches, it's college, it's public schools,
it's public library, it's reading room, its
hotels, it's lakes, its well kept streets
and sidewalks, its pleasant houses and
public parks easily gave it first posi-
ton among the new towns of Florida.
Up to the disastrous winter of 1894 5 It's
orange groves in and adjacent to the
town were among the best. That IN
dustry upon which so much else de-
pended, having been for time so seri
ously crippled. something else is urgent
ly needed to engage the interest of the
people, supply many with the necessa-
ries of life and contribute to the pros
perity of all.
With this end in view the Winter
Park Horticultural :Society has been or
gained.
Tt is believed that a local society
actively devoted to the diffusion of
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knowledge and the improvement of
methods in the work of the farm, the
grove and the garden, may be Of I'M
mense practical value to the commu-
nifty. 1t is evident that much of the
practice and many of the ideas control
Ing Northern farming and gardening
are not suited to this latitude. Let us
therefore come together at frequent in
tervals and learn Of the wisest. Sue
cesseS are often reached here equal to
the best anywhere. Let us all learn the
conditions of success and avoid the fail
ures.
We need more knowledge in three
particulars:
l. What to cultivate.
2. How to cultivate.
3. Where and how to sell.
This society will be Of great service
in each particular. 1t is proposed to
hold meetings twice a month, at which
some paper will be read or topic pre-
0CAUOu1 Will lOIlOWAASS ia
which all can join. At each meeting it
is desired that fruits, flowers, vegeta.
bles or other home productions may be
brought in for inspection and instruction.
The Winter Park company's Office has
been kindly placed at the disposal of
the society for it's meetings.
1t is also proposed to hold our annual
fair probably in February, for which
purpose the convenient and spacious
packing house Of Chase & Co. has been
offered.
Thus everything seems propitious for
the work of the society. Membership
is open to all who are interested in the
work. ladies as we'll as gentlemen. The
annual fee is but twenty-five cents.
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The Lettuce Output.

"Do you know that more lettuce is be.
ing shipped out Of Florida this year
than in any other year in the history of
Florida?" askedJ. NJ. Rice, OF the Amer
lean Refrigerator Transit Company at
the St. Johns House last night SIT is
really surprising the amount that is be.
ing shipped from Gainesville and the
gulf" continued the speaker. II Will
also venture to say that it is the most
profitable crop that has ever been shipped
from the State. know, for fact, that
a farmer near Gainesville has deposited
$4,000 in bank so far this year, and 1
know that he has not more than Eve
acres in his farm. He sold few days
ago $500 packages for 81 package. -
Florida Citizen.
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How to Destroy Lice.

Early in the spring is the time to de-
stroy lice, any work done then being
better than later on, as the pests are
sluggish and not so active. The best
method is to drive the hens out and
burn Ave pounds of sulphur in house
1Ox1O feet. Now that is large amount
of sulphur, but that is the point. Those
who use sulphur for the purpose do not
burn enough of it, and as it is cheap it
is safer to use too much than too little.
1t is important also that every crack be
closed and the house made tight. Have
an old pot or piece of sheet iron, made
redhot. and place it on a brick to avoid
setting fire to the house, pour the sui
phur on and close the door, leaving the
house closed two hours. A mixture of
kerosene and sulphur will also burn
well, but use plenty of it or the work
will be useless.
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Crossing of Ducks.

Every attempt made to produce choice
ducks for maket by crossing breeds has
resulted in dissatisfaction, compared
with the use of the pure.brsd Peklns.
The Cayunga and Pekin cross is an ex-
cellent one, but the black pin.feathers
of the Cayuga make picking more labor
ious. Crosses of Rouens and Pekins
have not given sny advantages, and the
same is true OF the Aylesbury and Pekin
cross. The cross of Muscovy drake and
Pekin duck gives fine market birds, but
the cross-bred birds are quite sterile,
their eggs not Matched. So far the
Pekin seems to hold Its ground as mar
ket duck against all competitort.- Mir
ror and Farmer.
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Feed for Hens.

If your pullets have been properly
cared for they will begin to lay when five
or six months old, and when the cold
weather comes they will keep right on
laying, providing they have warm
house, are properly feed and have whole
some water to drink. l am often asked
what l feed my hens to make them
lay. do not believe in making hens
lay" We should remember that the
eggs in the ovary must have period of
growth and development, and all that
we are required to do is to furnish such
food and otherwise make their surround
lngs such as will enable the hens to pro-
duce eggs. Watch laying hens in the
summer, when they are at liberty to for
age where they please, and you will no.
tice what variety OF food they consume.
Different kinds of grain, insects, weed
seeds, clover and green food, with now
and then a sharp gravel or gritty sub
stance as grinding material. AS SUBJ
stitute for insects, which they cannot
find in winter, we furnish animal food
in the form of crushed bone or animal
meal, not as quack medicine to make
them day." but as part of their regular
food co supply the nutriment they re-
Quire. Loose cabbage heads that have
no market value, chopped onions, also
clover hay cut fine and scalded or
steamed, will be relished by fowls in
want of green food. If we want chen
fruit" in winter we must supply sum-
mer conditions to some extent at least.
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Egg Sizer.

That some of the breeds lay eggs of
very large size is admitted, but it is not
always the hardest breeds which excel
in uthat respect. Among tie breeds
which have produced individuals which
laid eggs weighing six to the pound may
be mentioned the Minorcas and Black
Spanish, but it is not to be supposed
that such large eggs are the rule, though
there are great many dccks of Minor
cas- and Black Spanish which lay eggs
weighing eight to the pound. The
Brahmas and Cochins also lay large
eggs, but do not quite equal the breeds
mentioned above in that respect. The
large combs of the Minorcas and Black
Spanish are drawbacks to them in win
ter, as they are more liable to be frosted
than the Brahmas, and they are also
non. sitters; but from early spring to the
beginning of winter it is doubtful If
there are any breeds known which excel
them in laying, and under good condi-
tions for protection they have also made
excellent records in winter. For i'm
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Money Easy Made by Hustlers.

Dear Editor:-My experience may in
terest others who need money. Fifteen
years clerking, farming, hustling, try
ing to sell books, wringers and every
continuance made me discouraged and
mad when I met my cousin in Iowa
making S45 week. plating tableware
and jewelry. got complete outfit
from Gray & Co., Columbus, o. They
send materials, instructions, receipts,
trade-secrets and teach the agent,
have treated me elegant. I plate
gold, silver, nickel and white metal,
get all the knives, forks and @other
goods can plate; make from S45 to
$75 per week plating and sell some
platers besides. Anyone can get good
plating outfit by writing them.
J. RYAN.
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Five Weeks Old Chicks.

AT large stock farm in Maryland,
where specially is made of poultry, it
is stated that 10000 young chickens
have been marketed in the year past,
and that a single hotel in New York
would be glad to make contract for
the entire production. A "baby white"
Plymouth Rock broiler is said to be the
especial favorite, and one explanation
of the manner in which they have come
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Roup.

The following on Roup is taken from
Miller's Poultry Guide. There are hun
dreds of cases of Roup to where one of
chicken cholora is to be found.
Rope is considered by all poultrymen
the worst and most dreaded disease that
can aff1ict poultry. 1t is caused by neg
Letting other diseases and in cold
weather it usually follows a neglected
cold. There are many remedies for
roup, but we think the following as
given in "Success with Poultry" is one
of the very best:
Pen up every fowl in dry warm quar-
te:s and keep out all draughts OF cold
and damp air. Feed hot bran, mashed
potatoes and meat, and medicate the
throat, mouth and nostrils with chloride
of sodium or common salt, as follows:
Take bucket full of warm water, put
teacup Of salt to this amount Of water;
then catching the fowl examine the
throat and nostrils, re moving all mucous
matter out of the nostrils, and then
filling pint cup for each afflicted fowl,
hold it by the feet head down, choke it
until the mouth Is wide open and then
insert the head into the solution, comb
down, so that the medicated water may
enter the cleft in the palate and go out
at each nostril and into the throat.
Each should be separately treated.
Kerosene injected into the nostrils is
good; also camphorated sweet oil. Ten
drops of coal oil or kerosene added to
two quarts of water for flock of twenty
fowls will often effect cure, but when
this remedy is applied, do not attempt
to prepare one of the flock for table use
for three or four weeks thereafter, as
the entire carcass will be tainted with
coal oil.
In treating roup be careful to remove
any discharge from the nostrlls that
may collect on the feathers under the
wings or on the breast. Be sure and
protect the sick fowls from all draughts
and feed easily digested foods. When
the fowls look stupid and droopy, feath.
ers ruff1ed and on appetite, reduce their
food to even fasting.
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proving the common fiocks, II choice
pullets are desired, the use of males OF
the Minorca or Black Spanish breeds
will prove profitable, and the pullets so
produced will serve well for producing
broilers If mated with Wyandotte, Ply
mouth Rock, Cochin or Brahma males.
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POULTRY DEPARTMENT..

Address all communications to Poultry
Department, Box 200, DeLand, Fla.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Introduction of an Educational
Bill in the House of
Commons.
Voluntary Schools to Be Maintained
by Grants Extended by the
Authorities.

LONDON, ENG, March 81. In the
House of Commons to-day Sir John e.
Gorst, vice president of the Committee of
Council, introduced an educational bill
which applies to England and Wales. The
bill proposes TO establish an educational
department in every county and borough,
TO be controlled by the county councils,
these departments to administer the Par
liamentary grants.
Voluntary schools under this act will be
maintained by grants extended by the
educational authorities, who are empow-
cred to make grants to necessitous schools
and also to expend money on scholarships
and for the improvement of the: sanitary
condition OF the school building. Volun-
tary schools are exempted from the pay
ment of rates. The age up to which chill
dren are required to attend school is fixed
at II years. The bill contains conscience
clause which provides that il reasonable
mum ber Of parents require that separate
religious instruction be given to their
children, the managers of the school upon
which the demand is made shall allow
such instruction. Further assistance is
also given to schools under the direction of
the School Boar OF Managers.
A. II. D. Acland Uiberar pointed
out that the bill would involve an enor-
nous addition to the educational grants,
probably f5O0,OOO. The bill, he said, en-
bodied plan of decentralization largely
abrogating the influence and authority OF
the state. 1t was he declared. the final
extin ction Of the principle that local
grants should supplement state aid.
The bill was read for the first time.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01

months thereafter Peter Lorenson died ii
Healdsburg, and the divorced wife, sup
pressing the divorce, set herself up as the
dead mans widow. By this means she
obtained about $4,000 belonging by right
to Lorenson's daughter. 1t was to obtain
control of this money that Bachelor
renounced his legal wife and married
again.
After the marriage the couple went to
Petaluma and bought home. the deed
being in the wife's name. In 1867 they
sold out in Peraluma and taking the
money from this sale purchased the prop
erty of which the estate now consists, TAX
ing the deeds in the old gentleman's s
name. Although this property has not
greatly increased in value during the past
twenty years it afforded a living income to
its owners, and if the first wife succeeds in
obtaining possession Granny Batch will
be lett destitute.
The old couple were well known to every
man, woman and child in Guerneville,
and the news that Granny" was not the
old mans legal wife created profound
sensation in this quiet village in the
redWoods
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
CALL BAKER TO ACCOUNT 7
New York Bankers Make
Serious Charges Against
the Reformer.
Under False PretenseS Much Stock
Was Secured For a Tenth of
Its Value.

CHICAGO, ILL, March 81 Henry
Clews and Charles NJ. Foster, late co-part-
ners in the New York clearinghouse of
Henry Clews & Co., filed bill in the
Federal Court to-day against William T.
Baker, president of the Board of Trade
and the Civic Federation, making serious
allegations regarding the probity of Mr..
Baker.
The bankers accuse him of being re-
creant TO his obligations as a trusted
agent in 1884 when the charter of
the old First National Bank of this
city expired and new corporation
retained the old name, paying many OF
the old stockholders two shares in ex-
change for one share of old bank stoc k,
which it is declared in the bill as then
worth $400 a share.
1t is alleged that the New Yorkers, who
owned fifty shares of the old bank stock.
were induced by the false Representations
of their agent, Baker, to accept for their
stock 1924 II share, when it was worth
$4,000. The court is asked to order a
transfer OF stock for the payment of divi-
dendS.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
STRUCK WITH Il ROCK.
Injury Inflicted Upon Rsstheen, the Ea
Priest and Lecturer.

Injury Inflicted Upon Raatheen, the Er-
Priest and Lecturer.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 31.-Ex-P Priest
Ruthven, whose lectures in Scranton have
aroused considerable feeling between sec
tions of the Protestants and Catholics, was
again assaulted in Providence, suburb of
this city, last night. On the 23d inst. an
attempt was made to shoot him, and on
the same occasion one of his bodyguard
was seriously wounded, and now lies in
the hospital in precarious condition.
Ruthven lectured last night in the
Providence Christian Church, and as soon
as he was seated in the streetcar opposite
the church large piece of rock was hurled
through the window and struck him on
the back of the head, inf1icting q very
serious wound. He was conveyed to his
boarding house, where the wound was
stitched. The doctors report that he is
not in danger. Two or three shots were
fired, but none took effect. No arrests
have yet been made.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
WILL SOON BE ORGANTzED.
And Then Greer County May Gorer,
Itself.


WASHINGTON, D. c., March 31.-At-
torney-General Harmon says the dispatch
about the action of the Supreme Court of
Oklahoma in reference to Greer County is
inaccurate in many details and mislead-
ing. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
acting upon suggestions from Washing
ton, declined to recognize Greer County as
en- organized county from the fact that it
was not organized. 1t was necessary that
the county should be under some jurisdic-
ton. The act creating Oklahoma into a
Territory conferred upon the Supreme
Court the power to act as it has in attaching
Greer County for judicial purposes to
Oklahoma County, even if that county
was 800 miles away. 1t was the nearest
county to which it could be attached
Greer County will be organized, Mr.. Har-
mon says, as rapidly as possible and pro-
vided with county officers and courts, and
then it will be detached from it's present
alignment. To do this, however, will re-
quire some time. Attorney General Har-
mon further says the report that there are
twenty murderers awaiting trial in Greer
County does that county an injustice.
There are but three cases awaiting trial
and only one of them is for capital of.
tense.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
TRADE NEITHER
FREE NOR FAIR,
Bitter Complaint Against the
Germans for Exporting
Sugar.
ENCOURAGED BY BOUNTY
Competition That Causes a Big
Protest From American
Producers.
AID ASKED FROM CONGRESS.
Planters Entitled to Protection in One
Of the Greatest Industries
of the Nation.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 3l.-The
Ways and Means Committee to-day heard
| arguments regarding German sugar.
J. d. Hill of New Orleans said that since
the loss of the production from Cuba we
had been forced to go to Germany tor
sugar. Germany paid a heavy export
bounty on sugar, and the result was that
the Germans We're fast getting control Of
the American market, and if conditions
did not soon change and the Cubans be
| allowed to make sugar crop we would be
absolutely at the mercy of the Germans.
To avoid this he urged the passage of
bill placing an additional duty on German
sugar equal to the amount OF export paid.
ID. d. Colcock, secretary and superin-
tendent of the Louisiana Sugar and Spice
Exchange, referred to the bounties allowed
to German exporters, and said that bill
was now pending in the Reichstag to in
crease the amount of these bounties. Con-
gress should take immediate action. AS
to the damage we shall sustain there can
be no sort Of doubt. Our supply from
Cuba this year is and must continue to be
Insignificant. We must therefore turn to
Europe for our necessary sugar stock.
If we go there for 100000 tons per month
We will have to import thence 100000 be-
fore Congress meets In December. Now,
by virtue of the increased bounty on that
weight of sugar, our treasury will lose
IA. 100 cent per pound or $t,56S, 900. Our
producers will lose 49-100 cent per pound on
some 770,000,000 pounds, or say IS, 900.
loss to the country of $5, 341, 900.
I. R. Cutler of Lehi, Utah, representing
the beet-sugar producers, said that the
Germans were gaining an unfair advantage
by reason of bounties. 1t was neither
free nor fair" trade, and in his opinion
the industry and capital of our country
were entitled to protection against it as
m much as they were against the guns of a
foreign nation. Germany was taking ad-
vantage of the Cuban war to crush our
sugar industry and he appealed to the
committee to recommend an additional
duty on German sugar.
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
IVES DEFEars GARNER.

IVES DEFEATS GARNER.
Wonderful Work OF me Young Napoleon
of Billiards
NEW YORK, N. Y, March 31.-Frank
G. Ives, the young Napoleon of billiards,
easily defeated Albert GARNER of Paris, the
Belgian champion, in the second game Of
the New York series of the Ives GARNER
Schaefer 1S-inch balk-line tournament at
Madison-square Garden tonight.
Although GARNER showed better form
than in his game with Schaefer last night
he was completely outclassed. Ives
played in wonderful form and his manipu-
latlon of the ivory spheres aroused the
enthusiasm of the large audience. 1es'
highest run of 200 is the public record IN
the new game in which the 18-inch balk
line is used to vary the monotony OF the
long runs which were common in "balk
line nurslng.'' Schaefer exceeded this run
in practice by run of 900.
In the fifth Ives gave, an exhibition n, OF
his true form and wonderful skill. The
difficult widened rail nursing" and
wonderful juggling with the anchor shot"
which Ives displayed reused the house to
enthusiasm. Shot after shot was piled up
with marvellous rapidity and accuracy.
No matter how badly the worries broke
Ives cue brought them back to his COM
be missed difficult cushion shot. Gar
nier made a desperate struggle to regain
his stroke in the thirteenth.
He piled up 80 by open play all over the
table. Then he got them in position for a
nurse along the upper rail but broke
down, making 36 in all. In the last half
of this inning, with the score 527 to IT'S,
Ives chalked his cue, and with the globes
in good position, ratified off the game with
ease. Tomorrow night Schaefer and Ives
will play.
The score: Ives 600, GARNER 17s. Aver
ages-Ives 46 2-l3, GARNER 13 9-13. High
runs-Ives 200, GARNER &c. Referee-H.
w EoSter
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01

of alleged gross practices with reference J.
the skilled maehinists employed in the
various shops. Memorials from various
organized bodies have been pouring II,
upon Congress.
There was laid before the Senate Navi I,
Committee to-day strong lette from tt q
Com missioner Of Labor for Kansas. All
these memorials were referred to Senate
Mcmillan, and he will report to the mex
meeting what, in his opinion, should bs
done. The abuse com plained of and the
harsh treatment alleged is, on the evidence
before the com mittee, severely condemned.
and it is believed that full investigation
will be ordered
The San Francisco call., 1896-04-01
Resources of National Banks.

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 31.-The
enormous resources of the National banks
OF the United States are shown in the last
abstract of their condition, completed, as
on February %, and made public by Comp
troller Eckels. The 3699 National banks
had on February 2S: $1.951, ,344, ,781 in
loans and discounts; $192, ,036, 933 in stock
and securities; a lawful money reserve of
1897 ,259.922 of which $l56, 100000 was in
gold; capital to the extent of 1858, ,9e4 915;
surplus fund of $427. 17S, 1888; undivided
profits of $S7. 7.041, ,526; unpaid dividends of
81 ,233,5 5; individual deposits. 81 ,648, ,092,-
o6S, and bills payable of $40, 100, ,667.