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The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

There is no excuse for any man to ap- pear in society with grizzly beard since rho introduction of Buckingham's dye, which c0I0rs natural brown or black.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02
WESTP0RT

weaken the body. On the contrary, they have 8 strengthening and stimuiat- ing effect. They rouse the liver, pre- vent sickness and cure sick headache. Hoods pills are purely vegetable, per- fectly harmless and may be used safely by delicate women and children.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is an anti septic, soothing and healing application for burns, scalds, cuts, bruises, etc., and cures piles like magic. It instantly stops pain. E. F. Hawley, Newtown; s. c. Bull, Sandy Hook; 4. '. BIakeman, Botsford; B. Hawley & Co.,stepney.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

lat Thursday, were guests at 8 dinner given by Mrs c. Knapp, ill Danbury.
 Miss Mamie Cole was a guest at Leon Farm, last week.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

I. P. S. c. E. hold sociable at Academy Hall, this (Friday) evening.
 Charles Powell is soliciting orders for fine silverware, and has met with good success thus far.
 Mrs NJ. B. Bates is with Mrs Sherman Blakemau of Stratfield.
 IL i expected Rev J. H. Kimball will preach at the Congregation al church, next Sunday.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02
LESS THAN
 ONE-HALF

The regular plice we're selling BLUE and GRANITE WARE, and while the assort- ment lasts you can fit up your kitchen with full line, at pric- cs that will surprise you, 8 few of which we quote as follows:
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02
THE STORE!.

on this occasion will be inter- esting to man, woman and child.
 SalcspcopIe dcsirou@ of show ing you the "Iatcst'' in every department.
 Our Quick Mail Service costs you one cent for information, etc.
 Return Railroad Tickt ts given 10 pnrchas CTS ot e worth of goods within a radius ot 30 miles. Quick mail order service. Telephone l035.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02
EASTON.
SECRETARY HINE COMING

c. B. Hine, secretary of State board of education, will address the teachers meeting at Academy school, this (Fri day) afternoon, and will lecture at the Congregational church in the evening.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

''For several months 1 was troubled with a persistent humor on my head which gave me considerable annoyance, until it occurred to me to try Ayres hair vigor. Before using one bottle the humor was healed .''-CT. T Adams, General Merchant, Tubeville, Va.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02
Town Toplcs.
D0DGIEGToWN AND VICINITY

Mrs Robert Dodds and children, who have been spending the summer at Mrs j. k. Ferry's returned to her home in PlainfieId, Nil, Saturday.
 Andrew sherman has gone to Utah to spend few weeks with his son, Arthur sherman.
 M1a W. II. Ferry of Elmwood, who was thrown from wagon, Saturday. and seriously injured, is as comfortable as can be expected.
 Mrs Jorom" platt has been spending g few days with friends in New York.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

If your child is puny. fcetful, troubled with glaudular swcIIings, in0amed eyes, or sores on the head face or body, j course of Ayres' sarsaparilla is needed to cxpel the scrofulous humor from the blood. The sooner you begin to use the medicine the better.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

r., r, Pitcher has the contract for painting the Beers Fcsldoncp to be occu. pied by Edgar F. HawIry.
 In their nc'e 'ad" in this weeks issue. F. II, Dulon X Go, of Bridgeport have a timely word about autumn millinery. Extensive Improvements in B pcrmu- nrut way have been put in, this season. on the Shcpaug railroad, under the dircc- tion of the popular road master, b. C.. Garrison. About six miles of track. north from Rouford, has been graveIou over and the road bed put in splendid condition.
 Arthur x. uawIry and Arthur Day rod" to Lsha Waramaug on Sundav m a tandem hcyDr,
 Gctrgo w. ~t~~t h4s t.kn poses sjou @6. week, If ha@ new rc~fucpr.. in rhc ~1rat moving f7an thr house :.o'ch )t thr -c-lde.t,, ot N.r. UlwIey.
 lIo many friends of Marcus (. flaw. ley wt1. regret co learn that he has been quite srriou~ y jnt5Sposcd for some weeks MI h"lr for hi. sredy rc.rorat5on to his usual vigorous health.
 E5nest sherman and wife from Step ney Depot, with Ms LydM Fairchild. spent Sunday with friends at Botsford.
 George Bank2 and family have recent. .y vj-ited friends in Weston.
 l.. C. Gjlbcrt's house looks very neat in it's new coat of paint. W. c. Gnbert's home, ju't opposite, is at the present time being treated to a fresh coat of paint.
 Miss kjttie Becchcr of Philadelphia is the guest of lawyer and Mrs ", J. Bcechcr.
 Mr and Mrs Ambrose Blackman re- turned, Inst week, from thclr Western trip.
 Mra J Russell smith spent few days with her sister. Mrs Duane Stone in New Milford, last week.
 The Glcnwood social club of Danbury will give sociable and dance in the Town hall at Newtown, Wednesday, De- tober u.
 Fred B. Hubbell rode from Westport on his bicycle, Saturday afternoon, to spend Sunday with Mrs Hubbell, who is passing a few weeks with her parents, MT and Mrs l B. Goodsell
 W. c. Johnson and Lester Coleman were in Bridgeport and New H aven, last week, and heard Candidate Bryan speak.
 The bench show is to be one of the most attractive features of the Danbury fair again this year, A large and unusu ally fine exhibit of dogs will be made.
 ''For several months 1 was troubled with persistent humor on my head which gave me considerable annoyance,
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02
CAN LIVE FOR TRUTHS SAKE

W,cuuu"t Hll h" martyr>, And win doathIess name Ky some Djviue baptism. som" ministry ot fame. BDt wr cAu live tcr trulu's sake, tau do fer her and dare, There's always mithml witness For faithful lives to bear
 - Farm Journal.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

NHiato Gljlj}, who lives near the Tun nrl,wilI sell bis farm, household furniture and farming fools at auction, on Tues d4y next, at 10 a. III. MT Griffin, who ia advanccd in years and recently bcrcf of his wife, find. il necessary to break up. If stormy, the aurtton will be heId the first fair day.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

Tctter, eczema and all similar skin troubles are cured by the use of Dewitt g Witch Hazel Salve, It soothes at. t.once, and restores the tissues to their natural condition, and never fails to cure piles. E. F, Huw}ov, Newtown; ;, c. Bull, Sandy Hook; A. B. Blakeman, Bots ford; B. Hawley & Co.,, Stepncy,
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

The above are only a few of the items of the 2,784 pieces we bought at a special sale and we propose to give our custom CTS the benefit of the whole line.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

F.. r, Pitcher has the contract for painting the Beers rrsldoncp to be occu, pied by Edgar F. IIawlpy.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

Mrs George Durham of 437 Main
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

The bench show is to be one of the most attractive features of the Danbury fair again this year, A large and unusu ally fine exhibit of dogs will be made.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

In their new ''ud" in this weeks issue F.. II. Dllon X Go. of Bridgeport have { timely word Hbr ut autumn millinery.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

W. c. Johnson and Lester Coleman were in Bridgeport and New H aver, last week, and heard Candidate Bryan speak.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

Fred B. Hubbel rode from Westport on his bicycle, Saturday afternoon, to @pend Sunday with Mrs Hubbell, who is passing a few weeks with her parents, MT and Mrs 1 E, Goodsel.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

EX'on-jvo Improvements in pormu nrut way have been put in, this season on the ~hcpaug railroad, under the dirtc tion of the popular road master, b. ( Garrison. About six miles of track north from Rouford, has been Eravelo' over and the road bed put in splcpa!C condition.
The Newtown bee., 1896-10-02

The Glcnwood social club of Danbury will give a sociable and dance in the Town hall at Newtown, Wednesday, De- tOber u.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
AN ACCIDENTS CARD.

In an emergency an accident card
tackled inside the door of a medicine
cabinet or other handy place will often
prove invaluable.
Stings and Bites.-Apply diluted am
monia or moistened saleratus.
Convulsions.-Cold water to the head,
loosen clothing, place in hot bath for
ten minutes from 81 to 80 degrees.
Sprain.-Place member in very warm
water.
Cough.-A tablespoonful of glycerine,
or hot milk for violent paroxysms.
Burns.-Equal parts of lime water
aBd linseed or sweet oil.
Nose Bleed.-A piece of brown paper
in top of mouth, press tongue against
it.
Cramps.-From constipation, hot
drink; from chill, mustard poultice
over seat of pain.
Fainting-Place in a fiat position:
camphor or ammonia to nostrils; loos-
en- clothing.
Poisoning. tablespoonful of
mustard or salt in cup Of warm water
Place on your medicine cabinet or
shelf bandages, court plaster, hot water
bag, goose OIL a bottle of camphor.
ammonia, arnica, turpentine. bismuth.
magnesia, castor oil. epson salts, mus
Iard, etc.-AIrs. Luella Boyle, in Prac-
teal Farmer
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
PAYING POULTRY.

Farm and Ffreside: The old ques-
ton Will not down, Does poultry
pay? some people who raise or
keep poultry do so without profit, no
doubt. and I think they deserve ncne:
but when grain is so very plentiful and
cheap. and the prices of eggs and poul-
try remain almost at the old points,
mountaineering should pay now if it
ever did, and better than ever. I find
that I can raise eggs, chickens. ducks.
squads, capons, and perhaps turkeys
(aiahougn / have not tried them la-tely).
with a fair profit. If 1 have a fairly
good market for these products Eggs
were plentiful and cheap last season,
and yet they Paid me we'll, especially
as l was enabled to get AN outside fig
ure for my strictly fresh stock.
People are finding out more and more
that there is little dependence on store
eggs There is almost invariably a good
sprinkling Of rotten ones among them
but even those that are good usually
have the weil-known (and to most peo-
pie quite objectionable stale flavor. A
strictly fresh egg is a delicacy and
there are number of people ready TO
pay a few cents a dozen extra for war
ranted or even supposedly fresh eggs.
My buyer orders fresh eggs of me, and
then asks me how much he owes me
for them. He never inquiries the price
or makes a certain condition of pur-
chase. He is willing to pay my price,
and in return therefor he enjoys the
satisfaction of using good. eggs, ard
having no poor ones to throw away
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
farm and Garde1lI

ears. In other words, the machine
makes corn hay which, if made of
properly cured corn in the shock, is
fully as valuable as the best hay
Where so bushels of shelled corn are
raised to the acre. the yield is usually
about two tons. AS the shredded fod-
der has no sharp edges, it can be fed
as Safely as hay, and the hay crop
can all be sold when prices rule high,
and the shredded fodder retained for
use on the farm.
The present market value of shredded
fodder in. Philadelphia is $40 q, ton.
Corn hay" as it is now called, is now
being made and baled in the field where
grown. The crop, when shocked and
the stalks we'll cured, can be neatly
husked and the stalks shredded at a
single operation by a machine now
made for the purpose Usually a 10 or
u horse power portable engine supplies
the power, as well as that for the bal
ing-machine, which is now used in con-
nection with the shredder, SO that the
entire work is finished in the field.
AS an adjunct and a necessary
economic and saving accompaniment
of the improved corn harvesters now
coming into general use, the shredder
is almost indispensable. No method of
relief from existing hard times can
possibly surpass the plan of awaiting
ourselves of improved machinery to
lessen the cost Of production, and by
making the most profitable methods Of
marketing our crops our constant
study.-W. NJ. K. in Farm and Fire
side
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09

APPLES FOR STOCK.

It would be well, this season, when
apples are over-abundant with many,
to ship only large, fine fruit, and keep
the second grade till mellow. for feed
ing dairy cattle and other stock. For
best results, apples should be sweet
ripe, but not decayed and fermented.
Ensiloed apple pomace was not 50 SAL
isfactory. The sweetest apples should
be kept for the horses and may be sub
stituted for any part of the grain "a
ton when at light work with marked
advantage. Cotton-seed meal is al
ways better when fed with pasture, en-
silage or any laxative food, such as
apples, rather than with dry fodder.
For giving most body to milk, cotton
seed meal, corn meal and bran should
form a proper ration, with rather MOI q
corn meal fed with apples than with
ensilage.
Eleven years ago, says w. H Hart,
in Rural New Yorker, [ fed 800 barrels
of apples TO d dairy of 16 COWS, during
a period of over two months in the fall.
The resulting flow of milk and cream
was marked. Beginning slowly the
amount was increased to a large ration,
the COWS being on short pasture, and
the apples thrown from the wagon
twice dailV
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09

and sometimes an assistant of this
sort is terribly trying.
1t will not answer to depend on get
ting the stakes in the right position
before beginning to plant. These must
be taken up when the hole is dug, and
no matter how great the care at that
point, if there is not line to define the
position of the young tree in one direc-
ton and man to sight the tree from
the further outside row, inaccuracies
will creep in before one is aware of it,
and make trouble Even with all the
care that two persons can use, it
sometimes happens that tree will
get a little out of line before one is
aware of it, and spoil the work, more
or less. The plot to be planted is
usually a rectangle, and light but
strong cord must be used in one direc-
ton Casually the longest direction)
and this may be displaced little in
the work before it is discovered; or in
filing the hole and treading down the
soil the tree may be unintentionally
shifted; or an accidental cant may be
given the tree after it is thought to be
well planted. All these trials beset the
planter, and if not blessed with full
stock of patience and a straight eye,
besides practicing the utmost care with
the outer rows, his work will not make
him happy when done.
Two persons can accomplish plant
ing, or even one, though one alone Will
work at great disadvantage; but If
there are three or four when the
orchard tract is large, it will save a
great deal of travel back and forth.
It is work in which something like
eternal vigilance" is absolutely neces-
sary from first to last. An inaccuracy
tolerated in one place leads to another.
1t will not do to say that it makes nc
difference" even if a tree, after plant
ing, is only half an inch out of line.
That half-inch. if not discovered, be-
comes an inch for the next tree, then
two inches, then four, and so on. The
one invariable rule to follow is not to
leave any tree until you are literally
sure it is in the right place-not al
most there, but there and nowhere
else.
To make sure of having the outer
rows at exact right angles with each
other a common square will do, but a
wooden frame made by carpenter
and fastened together with screws so
that it cannot be easily displaced will
be better. Fastened with screws it can
readily be taken apart when not in
use and packed away without occupy
ing much space. The line should be
light and strong, and as long as the
row. A garden reel is a convenience
for paying out and taking up.
Nothing has been said about the
depth for planting, pruning and
spreading the roots, filing in, nor the
other details of planting, as it can al
most be taken for granted that the
man who is really bent on having
straight rows will find out and practice
the best rules for planting, which are
few and can be found in any good
work on fruit culture.-Philip Snyder
in n. Y Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
DAIRY NOTES.

Watering is as important as feeding.
Prepare now to winter the best, and
make meat of the rest.
The milk dairyman cannot feed ex-
actly as the butter maker.
A cows biography is expressed, not
in good deeds, but in quarts of milk.
Cows which give a large quantity of
yellow milk are not always the best
butter cows.
Winter da'ryn:g gives milk and but
ter at a season when they command
the highest prices.
We all know that milking properly is
very important. If the boys milk, take
the trouble to impress that fact upon
their minds.
Smoking an old pipe where there is
that the smoker ought not to be in the
dairy business.
Every time you swear at COW she
makes you pay for your i'll manners.
Every time you kick her you kick pen
MES out of your pocketbook.
Fine butter will always sell readily
at profitable price, while poor butter
fails to find a customer and loses in
quality daily, and in the end makes a
loss to every one who has anything to
do with it.
The stripping. should all be done at
once; do not milk and strip two teats,
and then the other two, but rather
milk all of them and then strip two or
three times round, so as to be sure of
all of the milk.
Nothing will spoil a COW, or COWS,
quicker than a man with a bad tenn
per-one that has the smell of brim-
stone on his breath. There is as much
room for improvement in farmers, as
in the cows they keep.
To have all things in the best condi-
ton for good butter making before be-
ginning the churning. prepare all
utensils as follows: 1. Rinse with cold
water. 2. Scald with boiling water. g.
with cold water.
The passage of the filled cheese bill
cannot fail to be of great advantage to
the dairy interests. Occasionally we
hear mutteriEgs to the effect that the
business will be continued for export;
but those best informed consider the
business dead.
Any dairyman who has a fourth or
third more cream in his milk than his
neighbor, does not like to divide it up
with him by taking a common share
from the factory returns. The Babcock
test prevents unjust robbery, and no
truly honest dairyman can find fault
with it.
The dairyman of the old fashioned
kind ploys little, pastures much, and
produces little. The milkman of to-
day reduces his pasturage area and
grows more soiling crops; he keeps
more COWS to the acre, improves his
land all the while. and is continually
making more money.
AS rule, the warmer the cream, the
sooner the butter will come, and the
purer will be the quality of the butter.
While, if the cream is too cold the but
ter will be long time coming, and
will be poor in quality while, if proper
care is taken in the temperature, the
butter will come readily and be of a
good flavor and texture.-Coleman'
RuraI World
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09

proceeding to the work of destruction.
1t is a matter of history that some
states have offered a bounty for the
destruction of hawks and owls But 1t
has proved a very stupid and short
sighted practice. OF recent years there
has been a disposition TO look into the
matter from the standpoint of economy.
An examination of more than 1900
stomachs of hawks and owls has been
made under direction of the chief of
division of ornithology, United States
department of agriculture, and It -
reported that out of the 20 species and
Sub-Species existing. in this country.
only six are actually injurious, and
that three of these species are so rare
as to be practically out of the consider
alton. In view of the every day use
fulness of the hawk and the owl in
the destruction of mice, squirrels, etc,
we should prefer the adoption of a
policy that would tend to keep them
away from the hen coops, and yet per-
nit them to live for the good deeds
they do
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
FEEDING GROUND FEED.

The practice of chatting straw for the
purpose of mixing it with meals for
feeding prevails very extensively in
Great Britain, and the late Professor
E. W. Stewart was a very earnest adj
vocate of cutting enough of the hay
fed to cattle to mix with the ground
grain of the ration in order to secure
it's more perfect digestion. The phil
osophy of this practice will be apparent
upon considering the digestive appar-
atus of cattle. The stomach of a steer
or COW is quite complex affair, con-
sisting of four different compartments.
The food is first chewed sufficiently to
soften and moisten with saliva and II
is then swallowed into the first stomach
or paunch. From there it passes to the
second stomach, where it receives fur
Their preparation for digestion and is
then brought up to the mouth again
and re-chewed, after which it passes
into the third stomach, which contains
many folds that press out the juices of
the food, which are than absorbed.
The remainder of the food passes
thence into the fourth stomach, where
the ordinary digestion of Single-Stom-
ached animals takes place. When
ground feed is fed alone it passes di-
rectIy into the third stomach and
misses the digestive processes of the
first and second stomachs, as well as
the reconsideration. Much of its sub
stance, therefore, passes off with the
manure and is wasted. If, however, a
sufficient quantity of hay is cut and
wet and the meal is sprinkled upon
and thoroughly mixed with it, it goes
Through all the s'-cmacl,s. and here IS
little or no waste, complete digestion
being secured. The feeding of ground
feed to milk COWS is a practice that
is on tie increase, and the question of
how toHeed it so as to subject it to all
the processes which the cows extensive
digestive system affords becomes i'm
portant.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
SHREDDED C1tV FODDER.

We are too apt to complain of hard
times and TO overlook some of the
leading causes which produce them. We
too often look for legislative aid at the
spigot, while the waste at the bung-
hole gives US no concern. We have
wasted annually, and continue to
waste, by the old methods of sowing
and harvesting our crops of Indian
corn, enough each season to nearly pay
the average amount of each farmers
state and county taxes.
The old way must give place to the
new one. The old way of only pluck
ing off the ears of the corn and ieav-
ing the stalks in the field, or of cutting
shocking and husking, and <len scat
tering the stalks broadcast. which.
after the leaves are eaten off, are trod-
den underfoot, is a reckless one in
stalks have an actual food value The
stalks and leaves are known as stover.
The dry weight of the blades. or leaves.
is about 55 per cent; the tops Cncludine
tasseis), 10 per cent; the middle stalks
carrying most of the shucks, or husks
20 per cent; and the naked butts, be-
low the ears, Is per cent. Now, in re-
spect to food value as determined
chemically, Two and one-half pounds
Of slower (field-cured) equal one pound
of corn or corn-meal" By the old
method about one-fifth of the whole
slower is lost, or approximately about
each half ton of butts is chemically
equivalent in food value to 400 pounds
of cornmeal.
1t has been fully demonstrated by
series of feeding experiments conducted
al various experiment stations. that
cornStallks, or butts, when properly pre-
pared, are digestible, and their food
value is of marked proportions when
the slower IS finely shredded, so that the
cattle will greedily eat the entire prod
duct. An excellent authority on this
subject confidently asserts that 81 per
cent of the total value of the corn crop
exists in the dry stalks, after the ears
have been taken off.
The question of the preparation of
the valuable food material which has
Heretofore gone TO waste is. therefore,
a most important one. This has been
definitely solved by the introduction of
Improved machinery for shredding ev-
cry part of the corn plant except the