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this year, and they can be utilized as
poultry food Boil, mash and mix with
meal and bran feed while warm. Feed
moderately, and not every day. remenn-
bering that hens need a variety. Too
many potatoes will make light colored
yolks.
As a usual thing scalded chickens
cell best to the home trade, and dry
picked to the shippers. Dry picking is
more easily done while their bodies are
warm. Be careful not to break nor
tear the skin. The same directions
should be observed in dressing turkeys,
but always dry pick them.
AS a health measure, where large
numbers of fowls are compelled to
range on a limite d enclosure, air, Stacked
lime should be literally used. Let it
be scattered late in the evening, after
the chickens have gone to roost. 1t
will greatly c0unteract the decompos
ing matter which is so deleterious.
It must not be overlooked that the
largest proportion of the meat sold eff
the farm, in the shape of turkey s,
geese and ducks, costs the farmer little
or nothing; and if some knowledge
could be gained of the actual cost il
would be shown that the receipts are
nearly all profit, and this should en-
courage him to increase his stock
Hens pay better as producers Of eggs
and ducks are also excellent layers
but the largest profits from poultry are
procured from turkeys and geese, al
they can support themselves a large
part of the year unaided Western
| Plowman.
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POULTRY Y ARD
POULTRY POINTS.

Do not expect eggs unless the hens
are in a bright, healthy condition !;
neglect neither food, exercise, cleani
ness nor protection; and then have a
purpose in feeding, and feed for that
purpose. Do not feed merely to keep
the hens alive and to satisfy their
hunger.
Regularity in feeding procures rapid
growth in chicks. More food of the
same kind given at long, but irregular,
intervals will not give them the same
vigor or size. The man who follows
haph8z zard ways in anything these
times will get behind the procession.
If the hens stop laying at this season
of the year, as is not unusual, change
of feed for a few days will often start
them into business again. Always, and
with any variety of hens, variety in
feed brings the best results. Appetites
rerenewed and new elements supplied.
There is nothing like going to market
with attractive goods. Eggs should be
clean and in tidy packages; but do not
make a rule of washing them. for it
takes away the appearance of fresh
ness. If the soiled spots are wiped off
before they become stains, nothing else
is required.
There is a surplus of small potatoes
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FATENING POULTRY.

Correspondence of the Progree stve Farmer.
In 1867 l became interested in how
to make the farm pay, and occasion
ally lectured on the subject before
farmers clubs. In the studying chem
istry l learned a large proportion Of
the carbon fed was expended in keep
ing up internal heat and supplying
nerve force. Ia the summer time ten
pounds of fl So to the bushel of corn
could be secured, while in the winter
four pounds was near the average,
was satisfied that the maximum Of
flesh to the buehel should be twenty
pounds. I instituted experiments in
the winter of 1867-8 that would settle
this question to my satisfaction. I
chose chickens of the improved breeds
but not full blood, but all had access
to all the corn they could consume.
My theory was reduce combustion
Of carbon to the minimum and the re-
mainder would be deposited as fat
When the blood passes to the lungs it
comes in contact with the oxygen, it is
decarbonized or burned up and con
verted into heat a. d nerve force. To
reduce the combustion of carbon and
convert the remainder into fat, two
conditions were necessary. A warm
room would reduce the combustion of
cerbon, and convert it into heat. The
fowls must be kept quiet and free from
worry, reducing the expenditure of
never force to the minimum. These
two conditions secured there would be
an increase and rapid deposit of fat.
chose a cellar which gave me the
first condition. put $50 chickens in
a cellar 16x16 feet, and at the end of
the fifth day had secured the second
condition. The fowls ate and drank
when hungry and remained perfectly
quiet. fed them two weeks and
they were fatter than any fowls ever
saw on the market, and the increase of
flesh was twenty pounds to the bushel.
sent these to the Boston market
and received 26 cents pound, pre-
MUM of per cent. over the highest
market price. doubled the flesh for
the amount of corn fed and the flesh
was tender and nutritious. The oldest
fowls we're as tender as spring chick
en- well fattened. An old grey headed
rooster netted 18 pounds and was per
fectly tender. Six young turkeys
weighing gross 81 pounds each netted
seven pounds each. One of these rolled
Off of the table bursting open, and
showing fat one inch deep.
These experiments were continued
and I invariably received the same
results
Ny experiments demonstrated that
two-thirds of the carbon was wasted as
usually fed, and under proper con
ditions could be saved.
In fattening poultry we have the old
English system of stufing over hun
dred years old. OF all animals fattened
on the farm for the market, the tur,
key and the chicken is the hardest to
control.
If rooms are reasonably dry and the
weather uniform, there is no danger of
disease during fattening. Fowls have
good digestive powers and can eat and
digest a good deal more than is needed
for internal warmth, and under favor.
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an objectionable weed. AnOGner DlQ
offered rare and useful flower seed,
new mangel, turnip, and spinach. The
flower seed ran from $25 to 1928 per
pound, and the board decided that at
these prices they were not adapted to
general cultivation. The vegetable
seeds offered were decided to be neither
new, rare, nor unique.
The third bid offered several vege
tables and only three specimens OF
field seeds. The varieties were neither
new nor rare, the great majority hav,
ing been already distributed by this
department. Itwas further found that
the total amount of farm and field seeds
offered under this bid if purchased
would have averaged less than 10
pounds of seed for each Senator, Rep
resentative and delegate in Congress.
In the hope of finding something con
forming to the requirements of the
law, informal examination was made
of the bids set aside as defective in form
and of bids received after July 1st.
None offered anything conforming to
the requirements of the statute. Among
things claimed to be new were 100
pounds Of teosinte, sub tropical Amer
lean grass. Seed of this plant was dis
tributed by the department in 1886,
and has frequently been advertised for
sale by leading saedmen- In none of
the bids were offered trees, shrubs,
vines, plants and cuttings as defined in
the law.
UNSATISFACTORY NATURE OF REPORTS
RECEIVED
While one purpose of the law was to
secure reports as to results Of actual
experiment, the reports actually did
not amount to one hundredth of one
per cent. of the persons supplied. Nor
were those received sufficiently definite
to be of any benefit. A careful re
view Of the department reports, espe
cially those of the chiefs OF the Seed
Division during the past decade, in
which over 81, 100 600 was expended
| for free seed distribution, fails to reveal
a single instance of benefit to agricul
ture attributable to this distribution.
SOME COMMENTS ON THE SEED BUSINESS J.
OF hundreds of papers, mostly agri
cultural, received at the department,
not one is found to commend the dis
tribution, many Of them persistently
ridicule it, most of them condemn II,
while grange associations and other
agricultural bodies have adopted reso
lutions to the Same effect.
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Upon the form of the carcass depends
not only the power of endurance, but
the capability to produce the greatest
possible amount of wool to the least
weight of carcass. 1t is quite as pos
sible to put strong and healthy con-
stitution as it is to put heavy fleece
upon sheep with long, slender legs
ard neck, and thin, lathy, loose body.
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S xty per cent. of the worlds supply
of sugar is contributed by the sugar
beet, much as this fact may surprise
US. Most of US would declare that we
had never tasted beet sugar, for, of
course, we would know it if we had.
This does away with the fallacy of beet
sugar being yet but an experiment.
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RALEIGH, N. c., FEBRUARY 4, 1895.

perfectly, SO that they may be made
any desired distance apart-from ten
inches, thirteen inches, seventeen
inches, up to twenty siz inches.
The pieces are left in a straight row,
which cannot be done by hand plant
ing, and this enables the cultivator to
do the very best work. If the cultiva
tion is properly done at the first, so
that all weeds and grass that have
started to grow are fully destroyed,
and at each subsequent cultivation the
same is accomplished, there will not
only be larger yield of crop, but the
growth OF weeds and grass will not be
there to so seriously interfere with har
vesting the crop, as is 80 frequently
seen in the potato field. Clean ground
IS important if a good crop is to be
harvested
The planter will drop eny desired
depth, from three to five inches, just
as it is set to do, so that a regular depth
is always had; and this is very import
ant. Deep planting often means doub-
ling the yield OF crop; for in dry sea-
son, unless the roots start out below
the drying out line, they will perish,
and the plant cannot be sustained in
growth. If a wet season cOmes, then,
ny frequent cultivation, the excess of
moisture will be assisted in it's passage
away from The roots of the plants, both
in passing downwards and escaping
with the air by evaporation; so that
deep planting is, in all cases, to be
pre- c5iced.
The coverers of the planter leave the
rows freely ridged up 50 as to shed the
rains, leaving the soil open to admit
the warmth of the sun, 8 favoring
growth to the greatest extent.
The next important matter is har
vesting the crop. The elevator digger
will do this work both rapidly and
well, leaving the potatoes on the top of
the ground ready to be gathered up
withoutany uncovering with the hands,
and this is q very important item. as
one person can gather up the potatoes
when left on top of the ground as fast
as three persons can uucover after the
plow or any OF the old fashioned two
horse cheap diggers. In fact. one per
son will gather up and eack four times
. ), much as cen be done by the hand,
as is always the case when the common
plOw or digger is used, so that the econ
omy of the elevated digger, used gen
orally with four horses, is a settled and
fixed fact. With the planter, digger
and sprinkler, a crop of potatoes can
be grown and harvested much cheaper,
as far as labor and every thing el3e is
concerned, than a crop of corn can be
grown and harvested, for with the
planter SIX to eight acres can be planted
IN a day with Que man and team of two
horses, and the digger with one man
and four horses the same number of
acres can be dug in day. The sprink-
Ter used with one horse on two wheels
will effactually destroy the bugs, 80
that full crop may be had, and that
with little expense.-E s. Teagarden,
in Western PloWman.
@%@OoR
Upon the form of the carcass depends
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Market the pork sooner and raise an
other lot of pigs, EA. ly maturity
makes desirable hams and bacon. Many
farmers persist in feeding up their hogs
to mountains Of fat, although retailers
want leaner meat and smaller pieces
for their customers
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rzv NATIONAL. FARMERS ALI
ANCR AND INDUSTRIAL
UNION.

President-J. f. Willetts, Topeka,
vi; Vice-President-H. G. Snavely, Leb
anon, Pa.
Secretary -Treasurer-Col. u. Z. Dun
san, Columbia, s. ..
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
H. Loucks, Huron, s. D.. Mann
PAGE Brandon, Virginia; |. Z. Dean
Honeoye Falls, New York; d. =. Dem Dem
wing Secretary. Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
xapia; Marion Butler, Rale1gh' \. y.
JUDICIARY.
? A So,1thworth, Denver, Colo.
s. w. Beck, Alabama.
q. D. Davie, Kentucky.
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Each Of the abOUe-HGnaed paQers are
ssy,,eeted TO keep the last stG1Idt7lg on
5s6 Grst page and add Othera, prO0t.de?GG
seq are T1ilu elected. eng paper Jdtk-
tga.j 20 rdUocGlte the OcGLG platform tC5tt
s. drogDed from the list promptly. Oa1r
gs9g3.s can 710Jy see tCbGt papers Gre
1.s5F2ah2d ia their i7ltereat.
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soPrz CAROLINA FARMERS STATE ALIL
ANCE.

ANCE.
President - DR.. Cyrus Thompson,
Richlauds, T.. 4.
Vice President-Jno. Graham, ,Rldge
SSGre5ary- -Treasurer-W. 8. Barnes,
lecturer. T. B. hoover, Elm City,
N isteward-Dr. G3 V. N. seaweIl, Villa
Z VCb'apiain-Rev. P. H. Massey, Dur
nos Door keoper-Geo. T. Lane, Green's
Assistant Door -keeper-Jas. E. Lyon,
Durham, N. Q.
Sergeant at -Arms-A. d. (. wallace
Rutherfor ton, n. Q.
State Business Agent-T. lVey, Ill Is
boro, N. @. s w
Trnstae Business Agency Fund"
A. Graham, Machpelah, n. =.
zTvrT7TryE COMMITTEE OF THE NORTH
CIR0I.INA FARMERs STATE ALLIANCE
A.F. Hileman, }cncord, n. G.; n.
G. Englizh, Trinity, n. G; James M
hawthorne. KIns on, n. Z.
sTATe ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES
John B-ady. Gatesville, N. g.; DR.
J.F. Harrell, Whiteville, n. o.; L. j
Gambler, Acton, n. Q.
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..ertb Carolina Reform Press Association.
grscers-.J. L. RGnaaeg, FTessGe1at ;
lszrt0n Butler, Wee -Pres'Gef1ti w. d
EsuFSaes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
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Sent Him Some Literature.

The following correspondence is rich.
It needs no comment.
CONNER, Pa, Sept. "a, 1896.
Editor National Bimetallist, Chicago.
Enclosed find copy of a letter which
sent to Major Mckinley and copy of
his answer to the same. Make such
disposition of the letter and reply as
you deem best Very respectfully in
+. L. T. & V. L. P,
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Given Their Case Away.

A sample of Republican inability TO
grasp an argument is the B. w. Snow
circular being sent out from the Hanna
headxuarters in this city. II submits
n table to show that the decline in the
price of wheat is due, not to the fall in
the value of silver bullion, but to the
competition that has grown up since
1874 from Russia, India and Argentine.
The table shows that India and Argen-
tine have entered the field as competi-
ton with the United States since 1873,
and that Russia'a expectation since
that date have been increased about
100 per cent All that is lacking to
mako the circular good silver cam
paign matter is the addition of para
=sph calling attention to the fact
that but for the fall in the price of
silver bullion Russia never could have
iaegoaSOd heS exports, and India end
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Would He Bolt,

The idea of trying to make a thing
worth one dollar which is only worth
50 cents is absurd. 1t is trying to do
a thing which the Almighty cannot
do l say this with reverence. Rev.
DR.. Parkhurst
But suppose, for the sake of argu-
ment, that, Notwithstanding DIR. Park
hurst the Almighty should by utiliz-
ngthe mints of the United States.
create dema nd for silver that woul /
make what is now. worth SO cents
worth one dollar. Would DIR. Park
hurst bolt? We ask this with rever-
ence.-New York Journal.
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Wheat and Silver,

A local organ published daily in the
interest of Wall and Threadneedle
streets is still actively engaged in try
ing to prove that the average prices
for wheat and silver since 1873 have
not borne any relation to each other.
1t decries the idea that two commodi-
ties bear any relation as to market
price, and then seeks to prove it by
quoting market prices during the time
when one of the articles was not a
commodity. Beginning with 1920 it
quotes the average price of wheat and
cotton down to the year 1870, showing
great fluctuations from time to time.
Then 1T points to the fact that during
all those years silver remained at
practically the same price despite the
fluctuations in the price of wheat and
cotton.
The local organ of Wall and Thread
needle streets has at last allowed itself
to acknowledge the truth of one of the
great claims of bimetallists. It admits
that when silver was used as primary
money metal its price did not huctuate
materially, but always lowered close
to the mint price established by law.
During the years between 1890 and
1870 silver was not a commodity, and
OF course its price was not fixed in the
commodity markets. The local gold
organ admits this, thoug of course
umvittingly. The very fact that sill
yer held to regular price during all
the years when the mints were open to
it and then began to fiuctuate like
wheat and cotton when it become q
commodity is proof enough to convince
any reasonable man that its former
value was fixed by law. When silver
became commodity its price fell inst
as the price Of any other commodity
would fall If legislation destroyed one
half OF its market just because wheat
ana cotton went up and down and sill
yer remained stationary from 1920 to
1870 win not explain why wheat and
cotton and silver have msintainaa the
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The prosperity Of American indus
tries depends upon higher prices for
silver bullion because our competitors
in foreign markets are silver standard
countries. If the price of silver goes
up the prices of their products as
measured in gold, must go up too, and
our exports will be able to command
a higher price and still undersell them
in the markets of the world. But how
can we best elevate the price of silver
bullion? By kicking it out and dis
couraging its use as money as much a.
we can. or by admitting it to free COIN
age and helping along its restoration
as money metal in the commerc
the world? The gold bug says that
you can best raise its price by dis
couraging its use. Which is the gold
bug, a statesman, fool or lia<.-Labor
World
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Bankers logic.

Among the resolutions of the Bank
ers' Association at ST. Louis the fol-
lowing paradox appears:
We believe that before the m.nts
could begin to.coin silver every dollar
of gold would disappear from circula-
ton, thus violently contracting our
currency, and that the value of the re-
naming dollars would be the bullion
value OF the silver in them, measured
by the gold standard of the chief
money markets of the world.
The two propositions contained in
the foregoing are:
]. The passage of free-coinage bill
would, before the .mints could be
opened, drive all the gold out of the
country and contract the currency to
that extent
2. Such contraction would reduce
the value of the silver dollar to the
present bullion value, say fifty-three-
cent dollars.
The only reason given by Secretary
Carlisle and the gold standard frater.
nifty why the present silver dollar is on
par with gold is the limited quantity
of our silver coins. They said: eff the
present limitation were removed and
mints were opened, the quantity of
silver coined would so increase the
volume of money as to reduce the
value of the silver dollar forty-seven
cents and make it ffty-three cent
dollar" They now say this same re-
suit would be produced before there
could be a dollar of silver coined, be-
cause gold would leave the country
and violently contract the currency.
They affirm that such contraction
would diminish the purchasing power
OF the dollar to the same extent that
the initiation would after the mints had
coined all the silver brought to them
for such purpose. The two PROPOSE
tions contained in the resolution above
quoted are: That the coinage of silver
would increase the quantity of circula-
tion and by that means make dollars
cheaper; and that no coinage of silver,
but mere threat to do so, would pro.
puce violent contraction by driving all
the gold out of the country and by
that means make fifty-three cent dol
lars In other words, the bankers say
that expansion and contraction of
currency would have precisely the same
effect upon the value or purchasing
power of dollar
What more evidence do the Ameri-
can people want of dishonesty, duplic-
ity and cheek of the Bankers Associa-
tiou than the resolutions above quoted?
Making allowances for the ignorance
of American bankers, who allow Euro
pean bankers to DO their thinking, we
cannot believe that there is a banker
in the whole American Association
who does not know that the resolu-
tions above cited is absurd, contradic.
tory, illogical and false, and that it
was incorporated in the procee dings
of the convention on the supposition
that the American people are FOOLS
Silver Knight.
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Argentine never could have entered
the market at all. It is the especial
ton of the silver men that the
fall in wheat is due to that very com
petition, and that such competition,
has been built up together by the
premium on gold in the exchanges of
World.
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d. H. II HEChMAN,
Conner, Pa, Aug. "a. 1896.

Conner, Pa, Aug. "a, 1886.
Hon. William Mckinley, Canton, Ohio.
Dear Sir; l am nearly of the same
age as you are. Twice have 1 been
one of Uncle Sans boys in blue. 1
have watched your course in Congress
and read all of your speeches 1 was
particularly impressed by your speech
upon the silver question while you
were member of Congress, but L do
not envy the dual position that you
must now hold upon the financial ques-
tion. am satisfied that you know
well enough that to open the mints to
the free coinage of silver will also open
the mills and other industries that
have been prostrated by unwise legis-
lation, to the American laborer of
these United States
Very respectfully,
J. r. HICKMAN.
P. S.-I have always been Repubh-
can.
This is copy of reply to my letter
of Aug. "a:
CANTON, Ohio, Aug. %, 1896.
Mr.. ]. r. Hickman, Conner, Pa.
My Dear Sir: Your letter of the oath
inst. to Major Mckinley is received and
contents are duly noted.
am directed by Major Mckinley to
inform you that literature will be for
warded to you in q few days. Yours
very truly, JAS. BOYLE,
Private Secretarr
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strategy in the Family c,rc,.

BUAtegy IN tho FouiIy Circle
Mr.. Slimpurse-What? Want to get
q new maid for Fashion Beach? Why
don't you take the one you have?
Mrs. Slimpurse-She knows how we
live when we're at home.-New York
Weekly.
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satisfaction.

satisfaction.
She sat in church that Sabbath day
With a very satisfied air.
For well she knew, down = her hearA
Hss wheel was the swellest there,
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same average relative value ever since
the time they became a great trio of
commodities
Tombstone prospector., 1896-09-16

The steady growth of the mining in ius,ry in Mexico since the present mining law came into force in 1892 is shown by the number of titles iss, ed in each fiscal year since then as fol- lows: ls92-93, AT titles, covering 266O hectares; fiscal year 1893 94 96l titles, covering 5S30 hectares fiscal year 1S94-94, 1044 titles. cover ing 1860 hectares; fiscal year year 1895 5-96, 1924 titles, covering l5,45l hectares; total, 4346 titles, covering 3l IS03 hectares.