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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Threading Damp Grain.

It is quite likely that much grain will
be threshed while damp this year, as
wet weather in harvest time caused 1t
to be got in before fully dry. In most
cases the grain will take less harm in
the bundle than out Of 1t. So long as
grain was threshed by hand there was
no danger of the work being done
while either straw or grain were damp.
It made the work too hard, and the
threshing was always reserved for cold
weather, after frost had thoroughly
dried ou. both straw and grain. When
horsepower threshing machines came
into use there was nearly as much care
in having the grain in good condition
for threshing. We have seen the
thresher stalled when the grain came
too fast or too damp. In the large
steam threshers the bundles go through
all right, but if damp more or less of
the grain goes into the stack. The evil
of threshing damp grain is not confined
to the loss by waste. What is put in
the granary is much more likely to
heat and become musty than it is If the
grain has been thoroughly dried in the
straw.-American Cultivator.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Children DeraiI q Train.

Canton, O., Aug. 24.-A thorough
investigation was made this afternoon
into the derailing of engine 40. which
was hauling work train last night,
near Carrollton, the locomotive rolling
down an embankment and killing En-
gineer Joseph Kirk and Fireman John
Hardesty, of this city. The investiga.
tion shows the accident to have been
caused by children having placed three
spikes oD the outside rail of the curve,
where the derailment occurred. TWEEN.
ty men in the caboose escaped death
because the cabooso caught in the
branches Of big tree.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
aRAosTREgT.s REPORT.
The General Trade Is Confined 60
Staple Lines.


Staple Lines.
New York, Aug. a4.-Bradstreet'
weekly trade review says:
General trade throughout the United
States is practically confined to staple
lines. The volume of business is no
larger. Where orders have increased
in number, they are smaller in size. In
most instances they are based on near.
by requirements. The feature of the
week is the increased difficulty in max
ing collections and the higher rates for
mercantile discounts. Credits are be-
ing scanned more closely than hereto
fore, and are granted less freely. Bus
mess in South Carolina is retarded
by drouth, and in Northern Louisiana,
Texas, Southern Arkansas and Missis-
sippi prolonged drought has SO inter.
fered with business in some sections
that it amounts to a calamity. Some
Northwestern lumber mills shut down
owing to low prices and difficulty in
obtaining money, while the demand for
woolens for spring delivery is not yet
sufficient to start machinery going.
Wheat exports continue well, total
shipments from both coasts OF the
United States and from Montreal this
week (four included as wheat) amount
ing to 1891, ,693 bushels, against g.
635, 900 bushels last week, and as COM
pared with 2,SS9,00 bushels in the
week year ago, and with 3,182, 900
two years ago. ...... ...
The total business failures in the
United States is 244 this week, six
more than last week, seventy-two more
than in the week a year ago, and thir-
teen more than the third week Of Au-
gust, 1894, the period of extreme de-
preston after the panic of 1898.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

From that record the following facts
are given:
For the first nine years the cost per
head ranged from $14 to $32.39, but in
1893 he began feeding beets and corn,
which had been cut and cured in the
shock and then run through a shred
ding machine, ear, stalk, and blade, all
of which is by the machine reduced to
the condition Of coarse hay. The cost
of harvesting, shocking, shredding and
feeding Is three cents per bushel of
grain and $1.S7 per ton of fodder.
The 1000 acres averaged 4O1a bussels
Of corn and a ton and half Of fodder
per acre. The beets (sugar beets) yield
ed 30 to so tons per acre, counting tops
and all, and were fed whole. Both cat
tie and hogs are fond of them, and it
was found that after cutting them the
first few days cattle learn to bite them
off as boy bites an apple. Since adopt
ing this ration the cost of fattening cat
tie has never exceeded $40 per head
No cholera has ever occurred among
hogs following the cattle while feeding
beets. 1t Is estimated that beet-tops
from beets used In sugar-making are
worth on an average $3 per acre for
cattle food.-Wisconsin Agriculturist.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
AGRICULTURAL NEWS
THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
FARM AND HOME.
A Good Dairy Cow Will Yield Nearly
5000 Pounds of Milk Annually
Threshing Damp Grain-Have a
Room for Harness-Farm Notes.
Average MIX Yield.


An Agricultural Department bulletin
says: A very good annual average yield
of milk is 5000 pounds instead Of 5000.
and 200 to 225 pounds of butter per
cow instead of 125 pounds. Many
herds kept in n plain, practical farm
fashion attain still better results.
There are manifestly many cows In
the country, probably some millions.
that do not produce the value of their
ennual cost, however cheap and waste
fully poor their keeping may be. 1t Is
apparent that If but two cows were
kept, Of the suggested standard OF pro-
duction, in place of every three of the
existing average quality, the aggregate
products of the dairy industry of the
country would be increased more than
10 per cent, while the aggregate cost
to their owners ought to be less and
probably would be.
Every possible influence should be ex-
erted to induce dairy farmers to weed
out their herds and keep fewer cows
and better ones. At least the average
quality Of cows kept for dairy pur-
poses should be brought up to a re-
spectacle and profitable standard. For
the present the cow owner may reason
ably require something over two gal
Ions of milk per day for four months.
then two gallons a day for the next
four, and at least two months more iu
milk during the year with constantly
decreasing yield. This provides for an
annual Weld of 5000 pounds of milk,
or about 575 gallons, which Is fair
ideal standard for the dairy cow in the
United States.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Canada rh;.t,e. wit,ou, Seed

1t is often the fact that thistles
which grow very rank on rich ground
are destitute of seed. Nature finds SO
little obstacle to the spread of the weed
by its underground roots that she ne
elects to provide the female flowers
which furnish the seed. These are
known by their white color, while the
blossoms that will bear seed are light
red The infertile plants also grow
much more luxuriantly than those
which bear seed. On the rich prarie
soil Of the West, the Canada thistle is
often destitute of seed, and some West
ern writer's have therefore said that
the plant never bears seed.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
A Special Room for Harness.


A great many farmers continue the
practice of hanging up the harness on
the pegs behind the horses, where it is
exposed to the odors which come from
their excrement, and 1t Is quite often
knocked down and trampled in it. This
wears out good harness much faster
than will use. 1t will pay good inter-
est on the cost to have separate room
in which to keep the harness. Nothing
destroys leather more quickly than dirt
and the ammonia which is always
found In stables. The harness should
be frequently spunged to remove the
dirt, and then be oiled, allowing the
oil to soak in, and then lightly rubbed
with a dry cloth. Kept thus. instead of
becoming rotten after one or two years,
a harness may be kept in good condi-
ton for from ten to twenty years. We
know farmers who have kept harness
for this longer time, while other farm
ers, who did no more work with their
horses, had to buy a new harness every
two or three years.-Ontario Family
Herald.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
The Hands of MiIkmen.

1t requires goo( muscles in the hands
to milk eight or ten or more cows in
succession. AS result a milkman will
endure a good deal Of handshaking
without having the muscles of his
hands made sore by the operation, as
are the hands of the lawyers and pro-
fessional men who secure Presidential
nominations. We had friend once
who said he could select the milkmen
in any crowd of men by the firmness
of their grip. 1t is as distinct, he said.
as that of any secret society, though
of course in a very different way.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Concerted Action Not Justified.

New York, Aug. 24.-A conference
of bankers. headed by ]. Edward Sim
mons and Frederick D. Tappen, to fa-
cilitate gold importations, was con-
cluded today. The statement was
made that the financial situation did
not justify concerted action by the
banks at present.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Bnrning Potato Wines.

Wherever rot or blight has prevailed
in potatoes no time should be lost after
the potatoes are dug in burning the
tops. This will prevent the spread of
the fungus, with which the tops will
always be found filed where disease
prevails. 1t is good plan to burn the
potato tops any way. About all the
manurial value they contain is their
potash, and this is all saved in their
ash. The old-time plan of using the
vines to plow under as manure, or,
worse still, taking them to the barn
yard and composing with manure, is
known now to be often means of
keeping the germs alive. In the manure
heap especially the potato rot finds a
good field for propagating. For this
reason the feeding of diseased potatoes
to stock in winter should never be
practiced. The worst parts Of the po-
tato will be rejected, and these will go
into the manure pile to make trouble
next yeac
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
why They Are Fightine.

Madrid, Aug. 24.-Senor Sagasta.
ex-prime minister Of Spain, in an in
terview, said it was proposed to send a
dispatch containing memorandum
upon the Cuban war to the United
States governments. Senior Sagasta
said it was necessary to continue the
war in Cuba in order to prove that
Spain is not afraid of threats Of con-
flict with a greater nation.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

Olympia, Wash, Aug. 20.-Jimmy
Sam, well-known Indian about
town, some time during last night
stabbed another Indian, named Jack
son, from Lewis county, five times in
different parts of the body. Jimmy
was lodged in Jail and jackson is still
alive
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Manitoba School Question Settled.

Ottawa. Aug. 2l.-It has been as
certained on good authority that the
Manitoba school question is as good as
settled, and there will not be any me-
cessity for remedial legislation. This
decision has been arrived at after mum.
erous interviews between members of
the provincial government of Manitoba
and the Dominion government.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Small Versus Large Celery.

It is quality in celery rather than
quantity that counts. There was for a
time desire to get the largest varie-
ties, but it was soon found that these
were generally coarse and lacking the
fine nutty flavor of the medium sized
sorts. Much depends on how the celery.
is grown. A quick growth means bet
ter quality than where the growth is
made slowly. Hence the necessity for
heavy manuring with finely rotted ma
nure. This, however, is very drying
to the soil, and many market garden
ers rely largely on commercial nitrates
to make the rapid growth of vegetables
that they desire.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Guinea Hens.

The reason so many people fail in
rearing guinea fowls is because they
insist on keeping the hen under coop.
Guinea chickens are peculiarly depend
ent on natural food, and they cannot get
enough Of this unless the old bird runs
with them. The first week they should
not be let out longer than an hour at a
time, and then shut them up in shed
for IN hour and a half; then out again,
and so on. Feed every two hours in
addition; and as they get older increase
the time they are out until they need
only to be put in If any Of them look
at all tired. Give little meat chopped
verya fine and mixed with meal or
mashed potatoes twice day, and oar-
meal made into a dry paste for the
other meals until they can pick. But
they are very difficult to rear If the hen
is not left free, for plenty Of insects Is
the great thing.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
1t is estimated that one crow will
destroy 700, 900 insects every year.

There is more catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable For a great many We ars doctors pro-
nOunced 1t q local disease, and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced 1t incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be q constitation-
al disease, and therefore requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by =. J. Caensy & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, Is the only
constitutional cure on the market 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon
full. 1t acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case 1t fails to cure. Send for
circulars and testimonials Address,
-. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Halls Family Pills are the best
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
The Gem.

Visitor to Museum don't see any
thing curious about that. What is it?
Manager (enthusiastically)-That, my
dear sir, is the gem of our collection!
1t is an apple core given away by the
presidential candidate when he was o
boy.-Buffalo Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
IF pEsrERED DAY AND NIGHT

With nervousness, take Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, which iuvigorates and franquillizes the
nervous system. The basis Of recovery is q re-
form in errors of digestion. The epigastric
nerve and brain are united in the closest bond
OF sympathy, SO that dyspeptic symEtopns Ia
the gastric region are always accompanied by
hurtful reflex nervous action. Both are rem
edied by the Bitters which also cures malaria,
biliousness, rheumatism and kidney trouble.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

Madrid, Aug. 20.-The first en-
barkation of $4,000 troops for Cuba
will commence at Santander on August
23, terminating on August 26. The
second will take place from August 80
till September 6, after which date the
cavalry will embark. By September
II the whole expedition of 40, 600 will
have left the peninsula.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Women Live Longer.

The statistics of life insurance show
.verage woman's life has increased
from nearly 42 to nearly 46, or more
than per cent, while mans average
life has Increased from nearly 42 to a,
when is d per cent
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Feeding Corn and Peets.

An extensive cattle-feeder of Ne
braska, who feeds 1900 acres Of corn
Of his own raising and 100 tons Of
heets year, has kept careful accounts
Of his operations for the last ten years.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
An Eve tor Ru.ine...

Laundryman-You want your shirt
laundered both back and front?
Hustling Sam-Yes, sah..
Laundryman-What' that for?
Hustling Sam-Gwine ter sell adver-
tising space on de back.-Washingto
Times.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

The Atlas-moth, gigantic furooated
night.fying insect of Central Brazil,
is said to be one Of the very largest
winged "bug" in the world. he
measures II inches from tip to tip.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

When a man who makes $40 a
month quits spending $50 the financial
question will solve itself.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

Franklin was widely known as a
writer on economy and political SUBJ
jects before he had reached 25.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
NAH In EpcE To any address. our
MAILEU FnGE .....Special Price List ,oi
HOUSEHOLD GOODS, ETC.

This circular Is issued for the benefit Of our
country customers who cannot avail themselves
of our Daily Special Sales, Send MS your ad-
dress You win find both goods and prices right
WILL & FINCK CO.,
81S820 Market street San Francisco, Cal.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

believe my prompt use of Piso's cure
prevented quick consumption.-Mrs.L Lucy
Wallace, Marquette, Kan, Dec. II. 's5.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27
Troops for Cuba,

The grandfather of the Rothschilds
is said to have been poor man in 1900.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

In some Of the farming districts Of
China pigs are harnessed to small
wagons and made to. draw them.. .--r
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-27

FITs.-All Ats stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restofer. No fits sitter the arst
days use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and -$2 %
trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline,
9H Arch st., Philadelphia, Pa
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-08
A Picture Of How Bryanisn Would Plunge the
Country Into Utter
Ruin.

into our country last year in those seven
hundred millions OF imports was the
skilled labor OF men at Al cents day and
of women at 10 cents, both com peting
with the silk weavers of Paterson. New
York, Philadelphia and Cheney.
"Glasgow. in Scotland, is the largest
steamship factory of the world, and its
bIast-furnace owners and iron-rollers howl
for free trade day and night. OF the
families in that manufacturing Sodom
Al, 900 out of 100000 live in one room, and
half OF the men and women in the CITY are
out of work. That one room for family
of father, mother, daughters and sons tells
what wages are in Scotland and how they
drag humanity down into bestiality and
misery.
brothers, the Mills bill to reduce the
tariff is the first step to that one room for
an American family. Fight it without de-
lay and fight 1t 10 its death, and then
make your tariff so protective as to shut
out cheap foreign labor in the form of
manufactured goods.
''It is undisputed that the wages of the
American workmen are from so per cent
to 800 per cent greater than those of his
English fellows. The question then arises,
Is the purchasing power of dollar in the
hands of an American workman the same
or is it more or less than the purchasing
power of the equivalent of dollar in the
hands of an English workman?
THE answer is, 81 will buy more in the
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-08

That Is the picture of the ruin thus far
wrought, yet it is mild, indeed, compared
with what the plans of Bryan would do,
were he allowed to open the free-trade
throttle to the extent he desires.
Another picture OF the ruin that pre-
walls in free-trade countries is that made
by the eminent Jonn Bright, who por-
trayed the condition of Glasgow; but, hor-
rible as the condition there was, it is that
which free trade would speedily bring
here. He said:
I'm the city of Glasgow alone 1900 out
of every 100, 900 live in homes having only
one room, and, further, nearly one third
Of the whole people dwell in homes of only
one room, and more than two-thirds OF the
people of Scotland dwell in homes of not
more than two rooms.
1--WE find poverty and misery. What
does it mean, when all these families are
living in homes of one room, to US who
have several rooms and all the comforts
of life? 1t means more than I can de-
scribe and more than l will attempt to
enter into; and as need begets need, so
poverty and misery beget poverty and
misery. And so N all our great towns,
and not little in our small towns, there
is misery and helplessness, much as
have described. In fact, locking at the
past, to me it is a melancholy thing to
look at; there is much of it which excites
in me not astonishment only, but horror.
The fact is, there passes before my eyes a
vision of millions of families-not indi-
viduals, but families-fathers, mothers,
children = passing, CHASTITY, sorrow
stricken, in never-ending procession from
their cradles to their graves"
The workingmen of America have had a
slight foretaste of what John Bright
meant, for they know that the country is
now on the way to desolahon under the
free-trade policy of which the Wilson bill
is mild forerunner. They begin to see
that there was wisdom in the policy of
Clay and Blaine. protective plan to pre-
serve American industries and American
liberties.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-08

United States ten thousand feet under the
sea before the hideous spectacle shall be-
come an incident of our civilization
IN early 500, 1000, 900 worth of the starva-
tion labor of Europe In the form of manu-
Iactured goods imported into this country
last year! That which came from Bel.
glum in bales and boxes represented the
wages of % cents day for women and 43
cents for men; and the highest priced
labor in loose oargoes of Belgian steel and
iron represented wages less than so cents a
day.
Italian labor in Italian merchandise
was imported into this country last year,
in petition with American labor, at
prices that should fill sensitive souls with
horror and alarm the thoughtful for the
future of the human race. The pay In the
cotton factories of Naples is so cents a
day; of the Neapolitan marble and granite
cutters, from 40 to 80 cents day, accord
ing to skill; of coachman, 30 cents; of
women in lace factories, 10 cents, and
girls, cents; of soldiers in the army, 81 a
month. OF all the workmen in the glass
works of Italy only the skilled blowers re-
ceive as high as a dollar day. and la
borers on farms, hoeing or making hay,
from Is to Is cents a day, working from
sun to sun. God save America from such
wages!'
Continuing the picture the Sun gave the
following interesting figures:
''In the Swiss silk goods which came
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-08

United States of such things as the work.
ingman uses than As 11Id viii in England
Joseph D. Weeks, in a letter published in
Triumphant Democracy, says: 1t ($D
will buy considerably more -four, more
meat provisions, bacon, ham, vegetables
eggs, butter, cheese, farm products of ali
kinds, tea, coffee, more oil, little less
sugar, and in many parts of the country
more fuel. AS 10 dry goods and clothing
it will buy more sheeting, shirting, prints
and things of this kind than can be bought
for the same money there"
The more carefully workingmen investi-
gate the problem here in California, as
elsewhere, the more thoroughly are they
convinced that their inability to get en-
ployment is due to the brief reign of free
trade that has already afflicted them
1t was recently shown in THE CALL, in a
series of interviews with typical working
men, Just how they realize that free trade
hurts them. In simple, manly way the
sons of toll told why they favor protection
as the forerunner of prosperity.
statistics gathered from every State in
the Union within the past eighteen
months" said George l.. Nolan, a promi-
nent Eastern manufacturer agent, few
days ago, "show that one cut of wages
has followed another with great regular
ity under the Wilson bill, and most of the
factories that are now running are en-
abled to do so by reason of reduced forces
and lower wages.