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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-03
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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-03


FOR RENT.
$10-5-room cottage, No 1918 9th avenue.
H0-5-room cottage, No. 1916 9th avenue
stores cheap-NoS. 113 and lis oath street.
stores cheap-Nos. pa and PIG END street.
Store suitable for a wholesale business, on
railroad, Nos. / and goth street.
FOR SALE.
s5OO0-Lot 10Ox203. walled in, cement Walk
Groom house, bath room on each floorj
nicely finished throughout; new barn!
dummy and electric cars, South High
lands.
$35O0-Lot 5Ox2OO, S-room residence, cost $4,000.
$6500-Lot 70x212. elegant residence. 18th
street, between 10th and 18th avenues,
slS5O-Lot 1Oox2iO story house. near dunn
Several good pieces city property. well
rented, or nice little farm to exchange for
merchandise.
MALONE & BELL. 2ol7 LIST avenue.
FOR SALE.
$950-Two good houses at Avondale; rents
for $12 per month 500 cash. balance easy.
$350-A good Groom house: fronts Avon
dale park. This is a snap
sN5-A 3-acre lot near Avondale.
s650-A good broom house, corner 18th
street and 18th avenue, north.
$10O0-Terms easy, 50x190, with store house
and residence combined, on Avenue f.
$850-S0x140 on north goth street. Call quick
$1000-50x140 in one block of auditorium, on
End avenue. This Is bargain.
s1V00-100x240 9th avenue, between 18th and
18th streets, north.
s15O0--5-room cottage, on 4th avenue. be-
tween 23rd and 9th streets.
$475-4h acres right near lG1yton.
S425-50x190 on Avenue +, between 18th and
9th streets.
s24Oo-A beautiful 18th avenue residence. A
Before investing call and see
HAGOOD Sc THOMAS,
2015 LIST Avenue.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
FARM AND GARDEN.
EXCELLENT PlGGERY.
Description of tho Pons At Mr.. Whlto'l
Noted ..Hillsido FArms."

Description OF tho Pens At Mr.. Whites
Noted "Hillside Fsrms." @
The house is "a by 40 feet. An alley
runs through the center 4 feet wide,
and ON each side 10 pens, 10 by 10 feet,
each pen having a small door opening
cRoss-sEcTIoN OF Mn. WHITES PIaGERY.
into the alley, through which to drive
hogs when ready to butcher, or Tor
changing from one pen to another
There is also a small swing door over
each trough to throw back, keeping
hogs out of trough until the same is
filled, when the door is released, swing
ing into place again. The front OF pens
next alley, also partition between
pens, are 3H feet high, leave all space
above open for free circulation OF air.
l'roughs are feet long, ~ inches wide
on bottom, with faring sides. ~
Each pen is designed for six small
or four large hogs, and find they are
none too large. The outside pens are
10 by 16 feet, with 6 inches OF broken
stone, covered with inches of concrete,
and this with 1 inch of Portland ce-
ment. This cement floor is sloped up
at the outer edges, thus forming de-
preston s inches deep which holds all
liquids, and by keeping the moisture,
helps decompose the material with
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In Case of Swine Plague.

The fundamental principle in dealing
with an outbreak of disease in the swine
herd is to separate the well hogs from
the sick hogs, not to take the sick hogs
away from the healthy swine, leaving
the latter confined on the ground which
the herd occupied when the disease de-
veloped. Leave the sick hogs where
they were when the illness appeared
and remove to other quarters those APP
parently not yet affected. If the pigs
arc permitted to occupy the pens and
yards in which some have sickened and
died it is altogether probable that the
infection will spread until it carries off
the herd or all but a few that are strong
enough to resist the encroachment Of
the plague or survive an attack of it.
The disease spreads by infection of the
ground. Hence healthy hogs should
not be allowed on ground or in pens
where swine have died from the plague.
Breeders Gazette. IT,
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Old Process Linseed Meal.

We have fed oil meal (old process)
to hogs of all ages and under almost all
conditions, and have always been
pleased with the results. This stock
food has most excellent effect upon
the digestive organs, and seems to rem
der the animals thrifty and to help
make better use of the other foods sup
piled. I think it is good substitute
for milk, the best of all whole foods
for animals. usually feed it with the
slops, letting it stand in soak ten to
IL hours. It makes more bulk to
your feed. For conditioning show ami
mails it cannot be excelled, making the
skin clean and pliable, the hair soft and
silky, and the eye bright and clear,
and in generalimparts an appearance o.
thrift and health. I heartily recon.
mend its use in proper quantities.-Cot:
Barnett, Secretary Indiana Swine
Breeders Association.
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! CAKES FOR CATTLE.
Good and Economicsl Scheme for Utli1-
Ing Waste Food Materials.

Good and Economical schemo for Utilis'
ing Waste Food Materials.
The department of agriculture has q
new idea. 1t is to utilize great quaint.
ties of food materials that now go ia
waste in this country by putting them
into the shape of biscuits and cakes
for sale as feed for horses and cattle
abroad, says the New York Post. The
material thus employed would be re-
duced by hydraulic pressure to the
least possible bulk. It is believed in
this way market can be found in Eu.
rope for certain products of the United
States which at present are thrown
away-such as the refuse of -four mills,
rice mills, oat mills, cottoh:seed oil
mills, and the glucose und starch fac
tories.
Farmers in Europe are accustomed to
feed their animals, on cakes which are
compounded on Gietetic principles, So
as to furnish the requisite elements for
producing fat and lean. TO serve as a
basis for the cakes referred to, they
obtained from the United States last
year $50 200, 900 pounds of refuse from
cottonseed oil and linseed oil mills,
representing n value of s., 2oo,o 900. They
mix this stuff. with various grains and
folders, so as to make suitable ration
for whatever purpose may be in view,
whether it be flesh, milk or the support
of beasts of work. 1t is estimated that
ten pounds of glucose are manufac-
tured annually, for every man. woman
and child in this country. For this
purpose the starchy contents of the
corn grains are separated from the
hu]ls and germs. The germs and hulls,
which are extremely rich in food elc-
1nents, are wasted to a great extent,
though portion of this material is
dried and utilized eventually as cattle
feed.
It is the same way with similar by
products of the mills which prepare
corn for distillers and brewers. At
present we sell abroad less than 400, 900
tons of oil cake and meal. 1t is believed
that we could readily dispose of 1,20o,-
900 tons of ready-made feed cakes,
worth $40 ton at our seaboard, or $24,-
OGO,000--a gain of more than $14 ,O00,-
O0C in foreign markets for our grain
producers, millcrs and oil mills. In Eu-
rope the cakes, which the farmers make
or buy, are solidified by mixing the
ingredients with tarry or other sticky
substance. It is suggested that for
this purpose in the United States mo-
lasses might be employed. Vast quanti-
ties of ,nolasses 60 to waste annually.
After the sugar has been separated the
surplus of black, molasses is thrown
away. 1t is rich and good, but it is
black, and so nobody will buy it.
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EPlTAPH ON A MATCHMAKER.
Curious Inscription Seen on . Tomhston
In an English Graveyard.

Curious Inscription Seen on . Tombstone
In an English Graveyard.
Tho following curious inscription to
the memory Of George Routleigh, -
matchmaker by trade, occurs in the
churchyard at Lydford, Devon: Here
lies, in horizontal position, the outside
case of George Rutleigh, whose abiding
in that line was an honor to his profess
sion. Integrity was his handspring, and
prudence the regulator of all the &C.
tons of his life. Humane. generous
and liberal, his hand never stopped till
he had relieved distress. Sincerely reg
ular were his motions. Flo never went
wrong except when set agoing by peo-
pie who did not know his key. Even
then he was easily set right again. He
had the art Of disposing of his time 90
we'll thot his hours glided in one contin-
ual round Of pleasure and delight till
an unlueky minute put an end to his
existence. He departed this life, No
vember, 1902, wound up in hope Of be-
ing taken in hand by his Maker and Of
being thoroughly cleaned, repaired and
Get agoing in the world to come"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
The Decay of Grass Roots.

Every time the ground freezes and
thaws many grass roots near the sur
face are snapped from the main stem,
we are told by a writer. It is doubtless
the decay of these which contributes to
the increase of fertility when fields are
kept in grass. Some Of the grasses,
aud especially the clovers, run out after
one or two years. The decay of their
roots in the soil helps to make the more
hardy and enduring varieties more
thrifty. We are apt to think that a sod.
SO far as its roots are concerned, Isl Q
constant quantity from year to year.
But if we could examine it every spring
we should probably find that many Of
it's roots have dropped of, and will have
to be replaced during the growing
season, IL
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and then rest. Here should work out
doors and come in, fatigued, to be urged
to other tasks. have grown trile
broader in my outlook at life since J
broke from your rule, and have de-
cided that just 20 long as a woman IT.
fuses to expect the consideration that
one sex should pay to the other, just SO
long, if she deals with some men, will
she be ignored. My work will bring
money somewhere, and there am 60
ing"
Henry pulled himself together to
snap out his reply: "Well, you're Of age,
and can do as you please; but a woman
who respects herself isn't going into
the fields to work with hired men,"
"A woman who respects herself" an.
swered Dora, may 60 anywhere; but
men are up river husking corn, and do
not come home at night, and he has
rheumatism, SO that he cannot even do
his chores; and as only Willie is at home
with them, and he is but ~, they must
have help. So Willie and shall dc
the milking, take care of the stock and
the chickens, all of which have done
for you, and when we are going to husk
that 20 acres of corn near the house,
and after the men have in the feed and
wood for the winter, he will have nc
help but me; and next spring'-Dora
was becoming enthusiastic-"hei is 80
ing to raise my wages; and can drive
h;s oov-v <or or1 4 20 rr,oxx,or q nj + q -,
vester, and hayrake, too, for I have done
all that; and raise the chickens, if !
have time; and can stay outdoors all
day, and grow strong and brown; and
I've always loved the dear old folks,
anyway"
And Dora broke off her speech, and
went along with her thoughts, clear
across the year ahead of her, while
Henry sat with his hands in his pocl-
cts, gazing modify at the floor, and
did not answer.
'There comes Willie Hayward now
for my trunk, and I will drive back
with him. I'm sorry for Marcia, but
she seems to prefer to let you do her
thinking, SO may as well save my
pity. And I'm sorry to disagree with
you, Henry. would have staid with
you if you had appreciated me enough
to give me wages and kind words. You
see, it's just the old question of the
financial dependence or Independence
of women, and choose the latter"
So Dora fed cattle and horses, and
MIXED, and drove machinery all the
year, growing each day stronger and
more full of spirits. And when, the
next year, the plump, rosy-cheekcd
young woman left her friends and took
her old place in town, you might have
examined her behavior with a micro
scope, and not found a shade of I'M
womanliness resulting from the mans
work. that she had done.
+ ''That's what comes of woman hay
ing charge of her own AFFAIRS" said
Henry to Marcia. Just give her a
chance, and she won't stop at any
thing. You ought to be thankful. Mar
cia, that you've got some one to keep
you from making fool of yourself"
And Marcia sighed.-Woman's Jour
nal. -.---.
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can help you with your fall cleaning,
and with the whitewashing and soap
making, SO you won't have to hire any
one. And you can send word to Abbie
Snow tomorrow that you won't need
her to sew for you SO there will be three
weeks wages saved, anyway"
4 "But, Henry" deprecated his wife, "do
you think it would be just right to treat
your only sister that way? She won't
get strong very fast if we keep her at
work indoors
a Marcia, I'm surprised at you," re-
torted her husband, with asperity.
.".You act as though I had nothing to
say about such matters. If Dora don t.
like the way treat her, she may better
herself, if she can, but happen to know
that she hasn't any money left, and so
she can't choose. And as for growing
strong you women never are anything
but bundles of aches and pains. and the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
House for Root Storage,

In building house for root storage
concrete is claimed by many to turn
frost better than stone. If stone or
concrete is used it would be well to
put upright studding on the inside Of
the most exposed wall or walls and
double board tho same, with tar paper
between. For frame building, double
board outside and inside, with tar paper
between the boards in each case, and fill
the intervening space with sawdust. If
the roots freeze next the most exposed
side, erect studding inside and double
board with tar paper again, thus form
ing two dead-air spaces.-Prof. G. +
Day, Ontario Experiment Farm.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
EARLY ERgs for Breeding.

It is always IN advantage to secure
the earliest eggs laid for breeding pur.
poses. They are higher in price, but il
care is taken that they are never chilled
they will hatch a larger proportion OF
chicks, and the chicks themselves will
be- stronger than those from eggs laid
later in the season. There is another
advantage also, as the early chicks get
through their moulting before cold
weather sets in next fall, and with good
feeding of egg-making material they
will lay most of the time next winter
A late-hatched chick has to be kept
through one winter before it begins to
lay, and then it produces eggs only
when the price 10 the lowest.
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most of you wouldn't be strong 1t yop
could. Now 60 to sleep, for there's lots
to be done in the morning, and I'm SO
ing to ride up to Iron Mound ranch after
another COW; for if Dora's going to be
here to help milk, we may as well make
more butter"
Dora followed the directions OF her
taskmaster quietly enough the next
morning, but when he had mounted
and gallopcd of toward the ranch In
the hills. she saddled another horse and
rode in the opposite direction. She was
home long before her brother. who rode
into the yard about noon, driving the
COW he had just purchased. No men"
ton was made of the addition to the
herd until after dinner was over, when
Henry turned his unsmiling face to-
ward Dora
"I'll milk that new COW tonight,
Dora, but after this I'll turn her over u
you, for my hands are full already"
I'm sorry to disappoint you, Henry"
answered she, demurely. though with
a spark in her eyes, "but don't think
of staying here longer than this after
noon"
Her brother stared, as much aghas:
at her independence Of manner as at
her astonishing communication.
"Good .heavensl What do you meant
Do you think of boarding at the poor
farm?" queried the exaeperated man.
mot exactly, Henry" eweetly re-
turned his sister. "But I've hired out
to Father Hayward as 'chore boy for
the winter. He will give me ten dollars
a month and board, and shall have
only four COWS to milk there, while
here I should have five, and get only my
board"
You must te crazy, girl! Do you
suppose a man worth as much as am
wants his sister to hire out as farm
]land?"
Then Dora did what certain tragic
novel heroines are said to have done
rose to her full height" and, though
even that was not great, she certainly
looked stately enough to curb her
brothers wrath. as she answered him:
Henry Carter, do you think that the
place of unpaid drudge with my own
people is much more respectable than
that of paid help on tic Hayward farm I?
There shall do certain work outdoors,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
HOMEMADE CLoD CRUsHER.

low. The Importance of securing a fine
seed-bed cannot be too strongly urged
upon farmers, and this machine so finc-
ly supplements the work of the cultiva-
tor as to make it worth any ones while
to spend the necessary time in making
it. The cylinder can be large or small
the larger it is up to a certain point
the easier will be the draft. Two disks
are cut from planks, and triangular.
shaped pieces firmly nailed to these,
square joists split at the mill serve
we'll for this purpose. Shafts are then
added.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
A SHINING EXAMPLE of what

A SHINING EXAMPLE of what
may. be accomplished by never vary
ing devotion TO single purpose is
seen in the history of the Mccormick
Harvesting Machine Co., Chicago.
For IS years they have simply been
building grain and grass-cutting ma
chinery; and while there are probably
forty manufacturers in this line, it is
safe to say that the Mccormick
Company builds one-third of all
the binders, reapers and mowers used
throughout the entire world.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-04-23
AaYsTeRlEs or tn LOUVRE.

Vague Stories or Imperial Crime Reach
. s. - the Outside World. 30. !. g.. ~,,,,..~
Everyone who has'"done' the Louvre
will remember the low-pitched and
somewhat gloomy halls in which orc
stored the treasures Of Egypt. Beneath
these lie yet moro darkly mysterious
vaults, inaccessible to the public,
though approached by wide and hand
some staircase, such as would lead one
to imagine TINT it communicated with
apartments Of some Importance. Yet
ono finds At tho bottom nothing bNt
broad passages disposed in the form
Of q cross, and without any sign what
ever Of door or window.
A recent examination, however, OF
tho solid walls gives experts reason to
believe that the masonry il more recent
than tho rest of the structure in this,
the Oldest portion of the fortress pal
ace. M. Vaugneux, q well-known critic.
believes that many Of the bodies Of
victims killed in the revolution of1s3o
were immured here, and that the gov
eminent was afraid to reveal the facts
when tho remains Of their comrades
were collected beneath the Colonne de
Juliet.
On the other hand. NJ. Blondel, the
architect of tho building, and NJ. Nor
mand, the secretary Of the Society for
Protecting Partisan Monuments, hold
tho opinion that these subterranean
passages le1 to tho oubliettes into
which Catherine de Medicis cast those
who were unfortunate enough to incur
her hate or fear. A judicious explora'
ton would clear up the matter, and
settle, too, several doubtful points a.
to tho foundations Of Lescot's original
citadel. Unfortunately, the annual
grant does not provide for any such
archaeological research, and it would be
necessary to appeal for funds to the
generosity Of the chamber.-London
Chronicle.
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which the pens are kept filled to the
depth Of 2 feet. We use leaves of the
woods, rakings from the lawns, and any
and everything that will make manure,
and estimate that each pen gives us at
least two large loads of the very best
of manure every year; thus making
40 loads from the 20 pens, which we
value at not less than three dollars a
load, each year paying the entire cost
of cementing, etc.
At one end of the building is the boil
er room, with kettle holding rs gallons,
in which we boil whatever we may have
in the way of small potatoes, beets, cab
bage, pumpkins. ETC., and in which we
heat water for feeding,' as in cold
weather we give no cold feed or drink, but
just take the chill off. Next the boiler
room is the feed-room, 10 by 1s feet,
with bins for holding five tons Of feed.
I should have added that in the boiler
room is a pump with plenty Of pure
water from a we'll outside. Beyond the
fced-room, and connected with the
boiler-room, is the butcher-shop, Is by
28 feet, with scalding tank, scrapinS
table, hooks for hanging IS hogs, at
one time, ropes and pulleys for hand
ling hogs in dressing, also table for cut
ting up hogs and beef, equipped with a
full set of butchering tools. Over alIis
the corn-chamber, 8 feet high in the
center, and sloping to 2 feet at the
sides.
From the inside pens to the outside
are doors hung at the top on a small
iron rod, through which the hogs pass
back and forth from inside to outside.
There are plenty of windows for light
and ventilation. In the inside pens,
a board inches high is placed to keep
their bed in place. The house is IS
inches higher than the outside pens,
and bridge feet wide runs from
the cement floor to the swing door of
each pen.
Our man heats water and feeds the
entire lot in one hour; and as we only
feed twice day, only about two hours
are consumed each day in feeding, and
not more than this time in cleaning
pens, renewing beds, each. have seen
many hog-pens, but none more con-
vcnient for handling work than these.
C. NJ. White. in Country Gentleman.
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HAD BEGUN TO PROSPER.

4 Psthetieally Humorous Story Told Of q
Cumberland Mountain Farmer.
A writer in the Detroit Free Press
tells a pathetically humorous story Of
a friend Of his, Jack Negly, Cumber'
land farmer. The writer had lent Jack
a few dollars, with which to buy pair
Of steers, and had received from him
many visits of apology; for Jack was
IN honest man. and did not enjoy being
in debt.
He was . renter. and at least every
other season he was occupying dif-
1srent farm. BY my advice, he had
moved the year before into an entirely
new field, dozen miles from his usual
baunts. and l had not seen him for
several months. When I did see him.
at last, it was by accident as business
called me into his neighborhood. An
l rode past his place he hailed me from
the corn-field and came out to the fence.
"Hello." l exclaimed. ''1s this your
farm?"
YES, and l fist come over to tell you,
colonel, that I'll be ready to pay part
Of that claim Nv your'n afore long"
'You must be doing well?'
II think I'm doing fust-rate. and I'm
powerful obleeged to you. colonel. fer
headin' mo this way"
I'm always glad to help, If ! cam"
II knowed that, colonel, and that's
why I come away over here so fer fr'lm
home. Hits kinder strange to me, but
ez long ez I'm dom ez well ez am I'm
a-goin' to stand hit"
Are you making any money!"
Jim's face Frightened perceptibly.
mo, l amt, colonel" he replied, hope
fully; ''but I'm losin' It slower'n ever
done in my life afore."
1t struck me as rather odd at first, but
upon reflection I concluded that Jim
might have reason for his hopefulness.