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The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

We have kept poultry for the past
sixteen years. but did not make much
OF business OF it for the first four
years. We have tried the Brahmas.
Cochins and Barred Plymouth Rocks.
We like the Barred Plymouth Rocks
best, and for twelve years we have
kept no other breed. We keep nothing
but pure breeds and use them for stock
and for market. Our housing is not so
good as 1t should be, just a single
walled wooden house with the cracks
battoned. To my old fowls In the win
ter time I feed wheat, corn and oats,
equal parts. In the morning. At noon
| feed wheat and oats and give them
milk when l have It. To the little
chicks feed corn bread. We sell the
little ores as soon as we can get them
big enough for market. We are careful
not to keep many of them till late in
the fall, when the markets are glutted.
Our market Is Chicago. Our hens have
laid all Of the past winter and do every
winter except when 1t Is very cold. Then
we have to shut them up in their house
and that soon stops their laying. We
have lost great many from different
diseases. In Matching we have used
both hens and incubatOrs and have had
good success either way. As to doc
toring hens we always do that with the
greatest care and in many cases we
succeed In curing the fowls. As TO
value of breeds l win say that / have
never had hens that produced more
eggs than the Barred Plymouth Rocks
and for early maturity think they are
the best. My experience shows that a
hen house should be kept dry and clean
and that a ground floor is the best.
c. II. Stahl.
Lake County, Ind.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

If the stables are kept clean, as all
stables should be.
Q.-Why will some cows keep clean.
while other cows standing beside them
and under like conditions will get
dirty?
Mr.. Helm.-Nearly every COW stable
in this state is fixed not to keep the
cows clean. but to keep them dirty
at least, that is the natural inference
of the conditions under which they are
kept. The great difficulty is that the
managers are too low and the COW has
to back off to lie dOwn-that compels
her to lie down in the filth. | build
mine SO that the COW can put her head
under II when she lies down, and she
can thus lie down where she stands.
| nail 2x4 in front of her two fore
feet, and another 2x4 in front Of her
two hind feet, and fill the space between
the two joists with bedding. When
she lies down. she will lie on this bed
ding and keep clean. With calves. we
do not nail down the 2x4s, but merely
lay them down against cleats, which
can be removed to increase the length
of the bed as the calf grows.
Q.-Are not those 2x4s in the way
when you milk?
A.-The milk pail sits on them, SO
they rather help than hinder the milk.
ing.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
Natural starters.

In an address before the Ayrshire
Breeders association Prof. II. w. Gown
said: Natural starters. These are
easily made by any butter-maker. The
method Of preparing one Is simply to
procure a few quarts OF good sweet
cream from source which is the most
reliable for being clean and pure and
allow this cream to stand in a warm
place until 1t sours. The cream thus
soured will contain many bacteria and
commonly, or at least in many cases, II
the cream is from n reliable source the
species of bacteria which develop in
it will be the species that pro-
duce pleasant fiavors. Such soured
cream may then be poured into
the large vat of cream for starter
and the result will be that II the starter
does have the proper kind Of species the
cream SSill ripen more rapidly and pro-
duce better quality OF butter than
when 1t is allowed itself to ripen nat
urally. Thus the natural starter simply
allows to grow in the cream the species
wsich are already present, but IL the
cream is from a good source the results
are found in practice to be very favor.
able"
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
Tho whole Teaching of life.

The whole teaching OF his life. In.
deed. is to leave us free and to make
us reasonable, and the supreme lesson
of his life is voluntary brotherhood,
fraternity. II you will do something
for another. IL you will help him OF
serve him. you will at once begin to
3 love him. know there are some casu.
.sts who distinguish here. and say that
you may love such an one. and that, in
fact. you must love every one; but that
you are not expected to like every one.
This, however. seems TO be distinction
without n difference. If you do not
like a person You do not love him,
and II you do not love him you loaths
him. The curious thing in doing kind.
ness is that it makes you love people
even in this sublimated sense OF liking.
When you love another you have made
him your brother: and by the same
means you can be brother to all men
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
An Ever Ax.,,.h,. Reason.

Disease in cattle. sheep and swine 10
a pretext that is always at hand for
national stock inspectors to use when
It suits their interests or fancies. When
a nation wants to protect its homo pro-
ducers by keeping out foreign grown
animals. all 1t has to do is to 60 on
an exploring expedition after some
disease. They are sure to find II soon
er or later. and II they do not ind II
they can scare up something enough
like 1t to answer the purpose. AS there
Is no part OF the world where the do
mestic stock does not suffer some from
disease. therefore 1t becomes an easy
matter to exclude wherever exclusion
Is desired.
II the United States wanted to shut
out all foreign importations Of animals
II could easily do so. II would not make
any difference II the disease would not
reproduce itself in this country. the ex-
cuse ought to be sufficient in the eyes
Of our foreign friends. Take, for in
stance. the exclusion from a certain
foreign country Of our beeves under
plea that Texas fever exists in the
United States. Though II has been ex-
pleined to them that that fever could
not possibly live in that country, and
that the disease is carried only by the
ticks and not by contact Of animals, yet
the prohibition stands.
We do not suggest that the United
States resort to such underhand treat
ment Of the subjects Of foreign nations.
In all probability the animals brought
in are not more subject TO disease than
our own. On the other hand. our ami
mails that are exported to foreign coun-
tries are not more diseased than their
own. We realize that the above reason
Is used In closing the ports against
American stock for the reason that eS-
clusion without reason would expose
them to adverse legislation by the
American congress.-Farmers Review.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
Discussing the Cow.
b. w. Fellows.

CONDENSED from the Farmers Re-
view stenographic report OF the Michi-
gan dairymen's meeting)
Professor C. ID. Smith opened the dis
cussiOn on the COW. He spoke first on
the selection OF the COW. Where we
used to select a COW on the total amount
of milk she would give we now pay
more attention to the relative amount
of butter she will make. She Is good
COW II her percentage OF butter fat Is
large, provided she gives fair amount
of milk. The chief attention OF the
experiment station during the past two
years has been toward this point. Is
1t true that the cows that have the
typical dairy form make butter most
profitably? Is 1t true that the internal
capacity of cow Is made manifest
by exterior signs? | am ready to as
sert that such is the case. Our best
cows at the station conform most close
ly to the best dairy type. However, few
of us have time to become good judges
OF external signs of internal quality, so
that most of us must buy our cows
judging them by the weight OF milk
and by the test for butter fat.
Q.-Can we Judge by the young AMI
NAL what kind of a cow she will make
in the future?
A.--When ! picked out my wife, !
did not do ii when she was q little
girl, but when she had grown up. And
the same theory holds good in picking
out COW: you must wait till she is
mature before you can tell definitely
what kind of a cow she will be. We
cannot predict with any certainty what
a heifer will make. There are certain
signs, of course, signs that tell whether
she has the beef type or the dairy type,
but you can not depend on the details
that may develop.
The next point was the stabling and
feeding of the cow. A member said
1t seems to me that with land at $40
per acre we cannot afford TO pasture
cows ut the rate ofFone COW for every
four acres Of land. We had better feed
partly on the soiling plan.
Mr.. Gurler.-Now. live In the corn
belt in Illinois, and there we have had
much trouble with the corn root worm.
He lives on corn roots exclusively. II
therefore becomes necessary for us to
rotate corn, keeping II on of certain
fields for a few years that this worm
may be starved out. This having to
forego the use of corn fully and freely
would initiate against the soiling sys-
TEN with US. tNM
~ a. j.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16
Paralysis Follows Bloodlessness
and Nervous Prostration.
A PATIENT WOMAN AFFLlC1 ED
FOR YEARS.
She Tells How mt Last she Was rcrma-
ncntly Cured.
From the Press, New York City

From the Press, New York City.
For more than fifteen years, Mrs. A.
Mather, who lives at No. ~ East One hun
dred -and-twcfth Street. New York. was
sufferer from anemia which, in spite OF
the treatment of physicians. gradually de-
vcoped into nervous prostraton until
finally marked symptoms Of paralysis set
In. Mrs. Mather gladly gave tho reporter
her experience.
'For many years" Mrs. Mathcr said, ~
was u constant sufferer from nervousness.
IL was about fifteen years ago that my con-
dition began to grow worse. soon be-
came so affected that was Frustrated and
until about two years ago, was part OF
the time unable to leave my bed. en-
ployed several physicians from time to
time, my bills at the drug store for pre-
scrlptions, sometimes, amounting to rs
much as $50 a month, but all the doctors
did for me did not seem 10 help me at all
My blood became greatly impoverished and
after years OF suffering was threatened
with paralysis.
"When l walked could scarcely drag
my feet along and at times Ivy knees would
give away so that would aln'c I fall down.
Feeling that doctors could not help me
had little hope Of recovery, until one day
read In newspaper how n person, afflicted
almost tho same AS | was, had been cured
by DIR Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
plA purchased u box and began taking
the pills The effect OF this first box pleased
me so much that bought another. Before
] had taken all the pills in the first box
began TO experience relief and, after tho
third box had been used, was practically
cured. IL was really surprising what u
speedy and pronounced effect the medicine
had upon me.
~ always keep DR. Williams Pink Pills
In the house now and when | feel any
symptoms of nervousness find that they
give me certain relief"
Mrs. Mather's daughter, Miss Anna. cor
roborated her mothers account, and told
how she herself had been cured of chronic
indigestion by these pills; and how. too,
her cousin had been cured OF anGmia.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain. in .
condensed form, all the elements necessary
10 give new life and richness 10 the blood
and restore shattered nerves. They are
also specific for troubles peculiar To
females, such as suppressions, irrcgular-
ties and all forms OF weakness. They build
mp the blood, and restore the glow Of health
to pale and sallow checks. In men they
effect radical cure IN all cases arising
from mental worry, overwork or excesscs
Of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in
boxes (never in loose bulk at 5Oc. u box or
six boxes for &2.50, and may be had Of all
druggists. or direct by mail from DIR. vii.
hams' Med. Co, Schenectady, N. Y.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

from diseases. We keep our coOps
clean, with plenty Of lime around them.
We have found the Buff Leghorns very
good layers, and last year we had
cockerels that dressed two pounds at
eleven weeks old. Having seen the
experiences of many. in their success
and failures in crossing. we tried two
crosses last year. The first was a
Buff Leghorn cock on Golden Wyan-
dotte hens. The chicks matured
early, and the pullets are excellent lay
ers. The second was Buff Leghorn
cock and Light Brahma hens. The re-
suit was not so favorable as in the first
case. The chicks matured very slowly.
and, while the full bloods and the
chicks of the first cross had plump and
very meaty breasts, these latter were
all skin and bones. | am inclined to
think that it pays best to breed from
standard breeds Of some kind. and for
me, none are SO satisfactory as the Bun
Leghorn.
b. w. Fellows.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

A bulletin OF the Iowa. station Gays:
The application of liquid manure at
the rate OF 1000 pounds per acre in
creased the yield of grass 26.5 per cent,
equivalent to $50 pounds of hay per
acre. Observations will be taken on
the condition and production OF these
plats during the coming summer to
note the continuation Of the benefit re-
sulting from fertilizing grass lands.
At this rate so tons of liquid manure
applied TO a 40 acre pasture will in
crease its grass producing capacity
26.5 per cent. or cause II to grow ~
tons more hay the first year, and.
based upon these results. clover disced
into 40 acres Of thin soiled blue grass
pasture will increase its grass produc-
ing capacity Sc per cent. or cause It to
produce 30 tons more hay. The infer
ence seems warranted from the fore
going results that the grazing capacity
Of many pastures may be fully doubled
by liberal top dressing Or by the use
Of clover seed aud the DISC and har-
row.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

stables where one had to put on long
boots to go into them. Why do be-
lieve that girls should milk? Because
they are gentler. My experience of six
years taught me that to milk a COW
properly you have got to be on good
terms with the COW. | once had a white
heifer that was a beauty. but she was
wild. kept my temper for little over
two weeks and she was kicking all the
time. Then lost my temper and used
the stool. did not milk that COW any
more. I sent her back to my brother
who had q good many cows and did not
need TO milk them all. In fact, he only
MIXED ten cows to get enough milk for
family use.
But men may learn how to milk. II
when you go home you will induce the
young men to weigh the milk right
along. you will find that II will make
a great difference in the interest they
take in the milking. Buy good milk
ers, make friends with your cows and
test them.
Mr.. Morse.--I have an old German
woman in my employ who does this.
She has made friends with the cows
and they like her and yield a gUod sup
ply of milk v n IN she milks them. Re-
Gently she took a vacation. and i tried
doing the milking. treated them
right. but the amount of milk they gave
shrank at once and did not greatly In
crease. But when she came back they
at once yielded their accustomed
amount. of milk. | think that women
are better around COW stables than men,
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

1t is fourteen years since l began to
keep poultry. ! have handled good
many of the standard breeds. among
them being the Light and Dark Brah-
mas, Buff, Partridge, Black and White
Cochin, Langshan, Silver Wyandotte.
White and Black Minorcas, White and
Barred Plymouth Rocks, LeghOrns and
Hamburgs. I now keep the Barred
Plymouth Rocks for market fowls and
Single Comb Brown Leghorns for eggs.
Our house for winter Is built three feet
into the ground. with floor covered with
one foot of leaves for scratching pur-
poses The roof and sides are doubled
and It never freezes. We have no VEN
tilator. / have tried all ways of feed
ing and am now feeding wheat and
buckwheat ms soon as they get OF the
roost in the morning. BY Q a. N. l
give them boiled potatoes made thick
with II ground buckwheat, II corn.
81 oats, all ground and 81 bran. At
D. m. feed oats in the leaves. We
ship eggs to New York, but sell the
fowls aliyeat home. We get eggs in the
winter when we do not get the fowls
too fat. About the only losses have.
come from the depredations by hawks.
Leghorns are the best layers and ma
ture early. Our greatest obstacle has
been in feeding too often and getting
the birds too fat. During the last win
ter especially we fed some meat to
them and thought they would do bet
ter II they got 1t twice day. The re-
suit was too much fat.
c. A. Waldron. M. D.
Lenawee County, Mich.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Tristan d'Acunha, the most solitary
spot on the earth, has just been visited
by tte Governor of st. Helena, which
lies 1900 miles north of il. lie found
sixty -one persons on the island, cigh-
teen men and twenty-threc women
and twenty children. They have 600
cattle, 800 sheep, few pigs and dom
keys, some hens, and great many
geese. The inhabitants are all total
abstainers.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

An immense log boom, claimed TO bs
the largest single boom in the world.
was finished On the Menominee River,
Mich, a few days ago. II was ter
miles long and it stretched along the
main channel of the river To prevent
logs from going adrift into the fata
this spring, when the big annual drive,
which will this year comprise several
hundred million feet of logs, comes
down the river.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

County Judge N. l.. Bennett, of
Campbell county, KY, has achieved
unique distinction. When sitting in
the fiscal court recently he ordered
that his own salary be reduced from
ei,70o TO 81 400 year, saying that che
county could not in its present fnan-
cial condition afford TO pay him so
much for his work. lie explained that
he had given the magistrates compos-
ing the court an opportunity to act in
the matter, but they would not cut
his salary; so he cut it himself
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

More than 100 Chicago physicians
have obtained permits under an ordi-
6ance recently passed by the Council
giving them the right of way in tho
streets. The new departure seems to
be popular with the doctors, and every
man who called and obtained permit
and paid 80 cents for n little badge
with red cross upon it expressed him
self as pleased with the plan.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

An effort is being made to secure
khe removal Of the remains of Mollie
Pitcher from Carlisle, Pa. to Gettys-
burg, where = monument Is TO be
erected TO her memory. The Philadel-
phia branch of the Daughters of tho
American Revolution are trying to
persuade the Carlisle people TO consent
TO the removal. The probabilities
seem TO be against them.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Melbourne, Australia, has lost ~,
435 inhabitants in -four years, the cen.
sus of 1895 giving population of i47,-
i6l. The population of the seven
Australian colonies at the end of 1895
was ,23s, 900.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

An English trades union has refused
To work with men who ride to their
work on bicycles on the ground that
they have an unfair advantage in bc-
ing able TO work longer at the shop
and yet get home at the same time n
those who walk.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

LODI. in western Poland, which IA
now called the Polish Manchester, has
grown in the last ten years from
town of 10000 inhabitants To one OF
800, 1000. They are nca-ly all engaged
in cotton spinning. Tie growth of
the place is ascribed TO the prohibitivc
Russian duties which compelled for
cign traders to set up their mills with.
the Russian boundary.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

The wearing qualities of Partisan
drapery is tested with mud. Any new
tint that cannot stand the influence OF
mud being put upon it is Immediately
put aside as useless.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Thieves of Uniontown, Pa, broke
open Baltimore e Ohio box car and
stole goods to the value of 500.
Among the goods opened were lot of
bibles, but the thieves had no use for
them
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Birmingham's chief magistrate is to
be a Lord Mayor, too, that title hav-
ing been recently conferred on the
Mayors of Liverpool, Manchester and
Belfast
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

The women of Belmont, Allegheny
county, N. Y, claim the distinction of
founding the first free public library
and erecting the first free public lib
rary building, owned and managed ex-
clusively by women, IN the State.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

The Beers are descended from the
llugucuots who left France under the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes and
from the Hollandcrs, who emigratcd
at various times in search of civil and
religious liberty.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

The world has been nearly nineteen
hundred years working up toward the
golden rule, but according to the best
estimate we are able to obtain, 1t still
lacks about twelve thousand years of
reaching IL
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Miss Jane Elinor Chase, who died
recently. was n remarkable traveller.
She made no less than forty-two voy-
ages between England and Australia.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

:'inc thousand maple trees will be
cut up this summer on the upper Ken
nebcc River, Me-, to furnish material
for filling nn order for 100000 blocks
for shoe lasts.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Paris IL to have a Salon National de
ls Mode, where every style of dress
and everything pertaining to the dress,
both Of men and of women, will be
shown. The exhibition will be Of art
for arts sake.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Here's what a tramp said the other
day when the lady of the house showed
him the wood pile and told him to earn
his breakfast "You saw me see the
wood but you'll never see me saw it, )"
And she never
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

During the last eight months this
country exported over IA, 10000 pounds
of butter. against 3,177,0C0 pounds the
previous year, which is an encour-
aging showing.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

New England's maple sugar crop Is
reported to be short this year, but the
spruce gum crop is said to be all right,
i'm both quantity and quality.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Col James T.. Pepper, the we'll
known distillcr and race horse man of
Lex ington, KY, assigned on l4th inst
Assets between two and three hun
dred thousand dollars; liabilities un.
known.
The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1896-05-16

Prime minister Salisbury, of England
Is n direct, ponderous and ear nest
speaker lie never attempts orator
ical flights. He weighs nearly as
much as President Cleveland and
wears as large hat as Speaker Reed.