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The Dickinson press., 1896-10-03
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There Is much discussion going on In
the papers just now on the subject of
cross breeding. that is, coupling ami
mails of the different thoroughbred
breeds together. This is an idea that
takes hold Of every tyro who makes
a start in the breeding business. He
finds that II breed has q specially
for making beef, another for Il large
production of milk, while a third Is
famous for the large quantity of but
ter it produces. Why not then cross
all these together, and thereby concen-
trate all these virtues in one animal:
He is simply asking too much of COW
nature. BY these crosses he may, and
sometimes does. produce a few excep-
tiOnal animals that secm to constitute
the type he is looking for, but as to
their being thorough-breds and capa-
bic of reproducing themselves as the
original breeds could, that is quite an
other question.
BY mixing the breeds up these pre-
potent powers that have taken years
and years to fix i'll the breeds have be-
come scattered and antagonizcd until
these crOss-breeds are no better than
native scrubs. so far as %prep0tency is
concerned. We find that in order to
nix a popularity in a breed we must
breed, feed, select and train the off
spring for a long number of years with
a sole purpose to that one end before
we car fix a prepotency to reproduce
that characteristic and this same line
Of action must combine If we wish 70
keep it. Every out cross we introduce,
either with another thorcugh-br or
q scrub, is very liable to break up the
"whole shooting match and reduce
our new breed to veritable scrubs.
This rule rlns through every branch
of nature, and is just as marked in
producing vegetables and fruits, where
crossing can be done, as with animals.
TO be sure, some breeders of long ex-
perience, finding some peculiar weak
ness in their stock, have with great
judgment introduced an out-cross with
animals strongly imbued with opposite
qualities and then bred strictly back to
their W breed, and thereby improved
the original breed, but do not flatter
yourself that you can do this without
long and expensive experience. Bet
ter leave good enough alone until ex-
perience proves the truth of it.-Home
and Farm.
The Dickinson press., 1896-10-03
Nh Sacinl sca]

No Social Scale.
II don't notice them at all. 1 don't
care what they do"
"No:.
mo, they are beneath me-"
"Yes?"
Eyes. If their fiat was above me, Of
course it would be different"
There was cas- in things, not even
excluding an apartment house.-De-
troit Tribune.
The Dickinson press., 1896-10-03
Gorts the following experiment in feed.
ing calves.

ing calves:
"Reginning May 9. an experiment
Vas conducted to find the relative val.
Tic 1T skim milk and whole milk for
calves. Two grade calves. as nearly
alike in weight and age as we could
get. We're selected. No. /, fed ON skim
milk only, was dropped May 3. and
weighed only sixty pounds OH May Is.
At the end Of six weeks 1t weighed
l4l pounds, a gain Of eighty pounds,
or nearly two pounds per day. During
this time the calf drank ia pounds OF
skim milk. Calf No. 9, fed OIL whole
milk, dropped April 10. weighed "a
pounds at the beginning, and POI
pounds at the end Of six weeks. a gain
OF i36 pounds, or three pounds per
dav.
1.-The calves were both sold to q local
butcher, who pronounced the calf fed
with whole milk worth one cent per
pound more than the other. The calf
fed OH skim milk sold for $3.50, and
the IL fed on whole milk for $3.50.
Allowing $1.lO as the value Of Calf No.
l, and 81 as the value of No. 2 Mt the
beginning Of the experiment., we have
y as the value Of STA pounds Of
skim milk. or 2S cents per 100 pounds,
and $3.50 as the value of ia pouns of
whole milk, or Il cents per 100 pounds.
To produce one pound of gain required
SO pounds of skim milk. The whole
milk gave n pound of gain for sc
pounds fed"
A Cattle Fly Trap.
A far;ler Of Madison county. Ken
tucky, claims to have completely cir,
cullvelted the horn fly and all other
flies that torment cattle.
In a convenient place in his pasture,
near the watering place, he erected a
small tower, inclosed in the wire
gauze usually used for window and
door screens. An ordinary chute leads
to the tower, and beyond it is a dark
ROOM. in which large brushes are H.
ranged to sweep all flies from the ami
mails as they PASS through it. On be-
Ing swept from the animal the flies
make a Decline for the daylight Of the
tower, and are thus entrapped and
gradually beat themselves to death
against the wire screen Of the dome,
while tile animal walks out OF the 9TH
CT doorway. The door admitting the
animal to the base Of the tower opens
inward and Immediately springs shut
when the animal passes through it.
1t is a screen door, protected by an out.
side lining Of stiff wire netting, and
the cattle readily push it open.
The Inventor claims that after beinu
driven through a few times the cattle
learn to run to this trap, and run
through by themselves when torment
ed by flies, as readily as they learn to
go into q thicket of brush to scrape of
the flies, or as readily as horses learn
to run to q barn to escape tiies.-Rural
World.
The Dickinson press., 1896-10-03
Expensive, But Durable.

She-How do you like my new hat?
He-First rate; makes you look
twenty years younger.
The Dickinson press., 1896-10-03
Some Fact. About Food..

An Iowa station bulletin gives some
interesting facts about different foods,
as brought out by a series of expert.
ments in feeding the station cows,
which include Holsteins, Jerseys and
Shorthorns. They are mainly in nc.
cord with results obtained by similar
experiments ct other stations, but one,
Mt least where beets caused Jerseys to
lay on fat, is exceptional.
1t was found that turnips injure the
flavor of both milk and butter. This
injury is due to volatile acids which
a be driven off by heating the milk
to 100 degrees for a short time.
Bcets increased the milk and butter
product and caused all the cows, even
Jerseys, to lay on fat quite rapidly.
When the roots were discontinued but.
ter fat decreased and the cows ceased
to gain weight, and it took more
pounds of feed calculated to dry mat.
teri to produce a pound of butter.
When turned On pasture there was
an immediate increase of milk, butter
and live weight. Feeding bran during
part of the grazing period produced
sufficient gain to yield q small profit.
Stock Notes.
Too much feed is as bad, If not
worse than too little, especially when
the horses have but little to do.
The most profitable pig is the one
that is kept in a growing and thrifty
condition from first to last.
Finely-brcd, Intelligent horses arc
usually very nervous. They are quick
to notice, quick to take alarm and
quick to do.
Corn is an excellent fattening food
but fat is not wanted for the ewes al
this time. 1t is an obstacle to q good
breeding condition, which calls for the
very best ability of the vital organs
and the most robust health.
Any which disturbs or excites
a fattening steer has a pernicious in.
fiuence; do not even keep near him q
man who shouts or is rough, and @
blow from a stick may stop a days
profit.
A few horses, like people, are bad.
tempered and vicious by nature; but
they are more rare than human beings
of that class. The majority of bad
horses are made so by unkind Or un.
wise treatment, and most of the evil
is done while they are yet colts in the
process Of breaking. A horseman can,
not be too gentle.
The Dickinson press., 1896-10-03

SKIM MIX Calves.
The Ontario Agricultural college re
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
DERFEcT and permanent are the

nv by HOODS SarsapariIIa, be-
s,..se 1t makes pure, rich, healthy,
life and hcalth-giving BLOOD.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
Stopping a Train.

Some important discoveries have
Just been made in Europe.
How to stop train when nu ac-
cident is impending has loug been II
problem. Many plans have be'n
suggested, but almost all have been
considered faulty for the reason
that they call for quick stopptgc.
In such a case the shock woull be
so great that the carriages between
the engine and the renr Of the traiu
would be smashed to- atom4 anl
their occupants crushed to death.
Evidently, therefore. gradual
stoppage is imperative.
An admirable plan, which enables
a train to slow doSu gradually, has
recently been tested ut the railroad
station at Dresden. 1t is extremely
simple, and has been found to work
well. No intricate machinery is re-
quired. aud the cost must be small.
A track is laid, the rails of which
sink or slope gradually into bed
of sand. As the train passes over
this sand its wheels meet with au
ever increasing resistance, which
soon becomes so great that they ARE
obliged to stop. The stoppage, how
ever, is so gradual that there is nc
rough shock. The greater the
swiftness of the train and the heav
ier the load, the more immediate il
the stoppage. No damage then is
possible, either as regards the train
or the passengers. An experiment
which was recently tried with n
freight train showed clearly tia US q
fulness of this very practical aud
simple plan.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
PAXTONVILLE.

Charles Boyer was to Philadel.
phia last week to purchase new
supply of goods. .... Mrs. ID. r.
Harncr has been sick for some time
She is recovering very slowly again
......Jno. Boardman has been re-
pairing his house inside by plaster
ing, painting, etc. Mrs. S. Bow
ersox visited at Middleburg Il few
days last week .... Miss Daisy Gift
attended the Christian Endeavor
Convention at Selinsgrove last week
......The flood just came at the right
time for those who had to sail up
Salt river. 1t was easy sailing over
the RIFLES. quite n number. of
our boys came home To east their
vote for Mckinley last week.
We expect to put a new roof on the
United Evangelical church this
week.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
now TO PREVENT GROUP.

soME READING THAT WILL PRovK IN
TERESrING TO YOUNG MOTHERS.
HOW TO GUARD AGAINST THE DIsEAsE
Group l. terror To young mothers
aud To post them concerning the
cause, first symptoms aud treatment
the Object Of this item. The origin
Of Group is II common cold. Children
who are subject To IL take cold very
easily aud Group Is almost sure to
follow. The first symptom H. hoarse-
ness this is soon followed oy II pes
culiar rough cough. which IL easily
recognized and will never be forgot
ten by one who hos heard it. The
time 10 act l. when the child first be.
comes hoarse. IL Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy is freely given allten-
dency TO Group will soon disappear.
Even after the croupy cough has de-
veloped il will prevent the attack.
There is no danger in giving this
remedy for 1t contains nothing in
furious. For sale by all druggists.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
A Letter From Iowa.

MAY Cry, Iowa, Nov. 7, '96.
Editor Of the POST.
Dear Sir
Inclose you will find check for
sl.5O for my subscription for your
paper.
We have cold weather just now
also a little snow. The farmers are
busy picking corn, which we have a
bountifnl crop this year. Our har-
vest was excellent except the wheat.
Prices are low but since the people
see how the election is going the
people again see what Republican
ism does. The little town of Hart
ley shipped 10000 bushels OF grain
in five days. That is pretty good
for a little town. Yours Resp'y,
JOSEPH SrAUFFER.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12

The wife OF MIR. Deonard Wells, OF
East Brimfield, Mass, had been suf-
fering from neuralgia for two days,
not being able to sleep or hardly keep
still, when Mr., Holden. the merchant
there, sent her bottle OF Chamber.
lain's Pain Balm. and asked that she
give 1t a thorough trial. On meeting
Mr.. Wells the next day he was told
that she was all right, the pain had
left her within two hours and that
the bottle OF Pain Balm was worth
SO 90 II II could not be had for less
For sale at 80 cents per bottle by all
druggists.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12

Trains leave Selinsgrove Junction
959 am, week days arriving Mt PHI ,delphia
soopm New York 53p IN Baltimore 10 p IN
Washington 10 pm
Sal p IN daily arriving at Philadelphia
II l5 p IN New York so q IN, Baltimore 10 20 IN
sSIp pm; week days arriving at philadelphia
80 IN IN New York 81 IN
Trains also leave Sudbury;
50a IN daily arriving at Phlladeidhia 8 SO a m
Baltimore 20 n IN Washington 40 a m New
York y IS a m Weekdays. 10 35 a IN Sundays, I 80
am daily arriving ut Philadelphia 10 20 n N
New York 10 p IN Baltimore s 55 u IN. Washing
ton 10 l6am
l5j pm, week days arriving nj Philadelph hla
623 pm, New York 23 y IN, Baltimore Q 90 p m
Washington bpm
and 25 p IL, for Harrisburg. Philadelphia and
Baltimore
For -ltes maps Sc, call on Tlckst Agent or
address Thos. Watt, =. a. w. ID. $3.50 Fifth Ave
Pittsburg, Pa.
J.R. woOD.Gen1 Pass Agent
S.M. PREyOSr. Genl Man ager.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
SRLINsaRovE ACCoMMoDATIoy.
Philadelphia & Erie R R Division
AND
NORTHERN uPNTRaI wAv

NORTHERN CENTRAL HALLWAY
Trains leave Sunbury daily except Sunday:
rs u IN for WllliBmspOrt aud Canaudaigua
10 a IN for Belleionte Erie and Canandaigua
95o m Tor Look Haven
20 y m for Belle%onte Kane & CanaBdaigua
5 cap m for Remove and Elmira
. 25 m Tor Lcck Haven and Tyrone
Sunday i3 u IN for Erie and Canandaigua
g5da for Lock Haven and 925 y IN for VII
Transport
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
Electric BItters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suit.
ed for any season, but perhaps more
generally needed when the languid,
exhausted feeling prevails, when the
liver is torpid and sluggish and the
need of q tonic and alternative is
felt. A prompt use OF this medicine
has often averted long and perhaps
fatal bilious fevers. No medicine
will act more surely in counteract-
ing and freeing the system from the
malarial poison. Headache, Indi.
gestion. Constipation, Dizziness
yield to Electric Bitters. SOC. and
81. 90 per bottle at Graybill. Garman
4 Co.'s Store, Richfeld, Pa. and al
druggist.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
Discovery Of a New Metal.

Emanuel Wilvert of Sunbury, has
lately discovered new and rare
metal, known as cadmium. In in
vestigating vein of zinc ore near
that city he made the discovery and
sent it to an expert mineralogi st,
who pronounced it cadmium of good
percentage and zinc silver and lead
Mr.. Wilvert has long contended that
strange minerals existed in our
mountains and has discovered OBJ
sidiane and cadmium, the first time
it was ever known to exist here. He
says there is an abundance OF cadmi-
um lands leased by him. connected
with zinc ores. Cadmium is a tin
white metal, malleable and ductict
and its salts are used in some lines
Of medicine. and is very rare.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
Conundrum ct"

The X. L. of @. e. of Paxtonville
will hold Conundrum set" on Sat.
urday evening, Nov. 2s, 1896. We
kindly invite all to come and enjoy q
good feast.
Suppers will be served to all fam.
lilies or individuals who desire it al
8 5o'clock p. M. or later. as you de-
sire. The prices will be exceeding,
ly reasonable.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
Municipal Woman Suffrage
in Kansas.
Laura NJ. Johns. Of Kansas.

The investment OF Kansas women
with municipal suffrage has brought
to woman herself all gain aud no loss.
1t is hare demonstrated that we wo.
men who vote remain in present
possession not only of all our IAN.
cient privileges but we have rights"
added thereto Indeed extra privi.
lege and consideration and special
attention are ours in consequence OF
our enfrauchisenent, particularly
when election day is at hand.
The home has not suffered any
loss by reason Of our women taking
part ia the election Of city officials.
I The laundering prejudice which
stool out against woman's enfranch
iseinou ON the score of grief to come
TO home aud children thereby, has
beeu ,hsarmed by the demonstration
that voting iS no more incompatible
with washing little faces. sewing on
buttohS nni sweeping floors than it
is with merchandising, blacksmith
Jug or farming. Woman suffrage
in actial operation demonstrates
thai the exercise of the suffrage by
women does not lessen mother love,
demini1h wifrly devotion nor weaken
won tn's loyalty to home and its
dearest interests
Tn )ugh women here are eligible to
city officers on equal terms with men,
only 10 of the nearly 300 mayors
chairs have been occupied by women
in the 10 years of their enfranchise
ment. Ii women had hell city Of
fees in equal proportions with men
about 1900 women would have acted
as mayors in Kansas during the last
decade but our women have not
much desired office and have been
elected generally for some specific
purpose.
When some violation of law has
been endured far past the point of
toleration, then, in at least n dozen
cities, women have been put forward
to perform service from which
men shrink as likely to "hurt their
business" or as being an uugrateful
task. AS the business of women
is mainly safeguarding their chill
dren they do not find the conduct
dng of "a city administration accord.
ing to the laws of decency, sobriety
and morality hurtful to their dearest
interests. 1t is therefore that city
governments are put into their
hands, and they are known to have
undertaken the duties of public
trust with proper sense of the re.
sponsibility and to have performed |
their work in excellent fashion.
Whether women poll their whole |
vote or not AT every election, the |
fact that "they are there to do it,,
prevents the nomination of any ex-
.cept the most upright men who can
he persuaded to accept the burden
of municipal office.
OF course we have made mistakes
in our choice of men Mt times, and
the results in such cases were dis
tinctly disappointing but we have
learned that high morality must
needs be joined with executive abil-
1y and business eXperience.to make
AN efficient city official. We have
come in contact with those difficult
ties which put representative form
OF government to the test, and out
.of this widening of our knowledge
and experience comes intenser 10y
atty aud strengthening of that pa
trIotism of peace" which is to make
for the salvation of our nation.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
CHRISTIAN ENOEAVOR.
Tho Convention This week Promise.
CO be Ltrsc.

Tho Convention This week Promise.
60 be L,rgc.
The seventh annual convention of
the Observation-Disclosures Unicn
OF the Y. p. s. g. Il. to be held in
the Lutheran church, Sunbury,
Thursday aud Friday, November
1918, promises to be the largest ever
held. a large number of delegates
have already sent their names for
entertainment. The program will
be good one and the local commit.
tee is sparing no pans to make it a
grand success. All societies that
have not reported or received call
should report to +. L. Welch, Sum
bury, at once.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12
WEST BEAVER.

The late rain was a great help to
the heavy loaded boats in going up
Salt river after the returns of Snv-
der county were made public Tor
Mckinley and Hobart. 80. The auc-
tion at Mcclure on last Saturday
was well attended and things brought
n fair price. The farmers are
busy plowing, some for corn ground
and some for oats. IT. +. Swine
ford and W. II. Knepp spent Il few
days last week neir Siglcrville in
search OF bears, deer and cotton
tails their reward was one poor
orphan cotton tail. Hen, the Sig
lerville blacksmith, shot its father
and mother before they got over.
......Strangers should be very care
ful into what company they get if
they wish to keep their reputation at
par. Tommy Marks, W.HowelPs
jolly teamster, is always in good
spirits going through our town, no
matter rain or shine, late or carly.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12

Good advice: Never leave home on
q journey without q bottle OF CHAINS
berlain's Colo, Cholera and Dlarrho oea
Remedy. For sale by all drusgists.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1896-11-12

10 n m for Catawissa and Hazelton
5 2J IN, 10 90 IN and 5 asp m for Wiikesbarre
lOsm' 10 Dam, 200 p IN, 5 Is IN for Shame
kin and Mount Carmel
Sunday 10 90 IN for Wilkesbarre
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-27
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.

n Aptllree days Institute for the bene-
Int Of the teachers OF Forest and Villas
counties will be held in the High
School Building, at Eagle River, on
Sept LIST, 2nd and Bird, 1896. Prof. f..
w Walker, of the West Superior Nor
NAL. will have. charge OF the work.
Every person contemplating teach
ing in these counties this year ar in
the future should be on hand pronlpt-
IL at o'clock OH the first day.
Good work done at the institute will
receive recognition by relieving the
teachers from REORGANIZATION, provid
ing their regular school work is salts
factory.
A very cordial invitation is extend
ed to members of School Boards, and
friends Of Education.
The following is an outline of the
work to be carried out at the lnsti-
tute.
Arithmetic, Factors and Fractions.
Special Drill in Mental Work.
Geography, What to do at First.
The Tracing and Sketching Meth
Cd
Fhe Relation OF Geography to His
tory,
History, Rise, Fall and Growth OF
Political Parties.
History Stories.
Relation of History to- Civics.
Grammar,-FirstS Steps.
Case and Case Form.
Theory and NATURALIZATION Of the
Teachers.
The Recitation.
It's Purposes.
Its Mechanism.
Its Methods
Reading Songs of Hiawatha.
Reading material will be furnished
attendants.
Hoping that the work will he both
pleasant and profitable, we remain,
Sincerely Yours,
A. J. MOE, County Snpt's.
ALEX. HIGGINS, of Schools.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-27
Woodruff Echoes. =

Woodruff and TomahawlS Lake
b;tll clubs played quite an exciting
game in TomAhawk Lake, Sunday,
Aug. %. The skill of our pitcher was
one OF the pleasing features OF the
game.
--Hazelhurst and Minocqua played
base ball Sunday in Minocqua Game
closed to % in favor OF Minocqua.
Mr.. Swift of Woodruff, has closed
his meat market and is now III the
employ Of the Ross Lumber Co., of
Arbor Vitae, in their meat market
MI. and Mrs John Gillen are the
happy parents of a baby boy.
IL. Long, the proprietor of the
North Western Hot Ell, has purchased
an Indian pony and is taking quite an
interest in learning hlm tricks, such
as stepping up or chairs, drinking
beer, chewing tobacco ana going into
the barber shop to get shaved.
DR.. Jurden and family Of Eau
Claire, have been stopping at the
Woodruff EItAlse, for the past week.
Mr.. Lemma's COW was found tied
up in the woods to q tree, having been
in that state for three days without
food or water. When found she was
SO week that she could hardly walk.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-27
July 18th, 1896.

Executive Board OF School directors
met pursuan. to adjournment. Members
present n A. Colman, John Radcliffe and
j Os Nemacheck.
IN motion John Radcliffe was elected
school librarian for the ensuing Year.
On motion Miss Gertie Morrison was
engaged as teacher for the ensuing year.
On motion Grant Cooks application
was accepted for teacher liz the Croker
district and the salary placed at $500
per month.
On motion Miss Marion Garrison was
engaged as assistant kindergarten teach
err at a salary of $50 90 per month.
On motion Miss Eugene Dickinson
was engaged to teach what ever school
will be found necessary in the Forester
district a t a salary of $500 per month.
On motion John Radcliffe was appoint
ed committee of one to look after put
ting the school house in proper repair
for the opening of school. On motion
board adjourned to call Of the secretary.
JOS NEMACHECK, Sec'y.