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The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
Six Good Rules.

An experienced breeder gave the fol-
lowing hints as TO the management of
sheep for profit, at a recent farmers
meeting:
If you expect sheep to thrive well, give
them I. Dry. warm shelter. ;. Regular
attention g. Salt in their reach at all
times, 4. Plenty of pure water through
out the year. 5. Plenty of good clover
hay 8. DO not stuff the ewes with grain
unless you are fattening them for market,
but give them a small allowance of market
of corn and, equal parts. twice a day
while they are carrying their lambs. After
they drop their lambs increase the feed
and with the proper care and attention
your sheep will do well.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
HONEY FO9 SALE.
A successfuI Ohio Aplarist Advises Assort-
ing II Into Three Grades.

ing 1t Into Three Grades.
The products of the apiary will all
be realized during August. But few To-
sahties yield any honey during Septem-
Der and October. Whore late patches of
buckwheat are grown strong colonies
do sometimes fill their supers with a
dark grade of honey that some people
are fond Of While it does not command
the highest price III the market, 1T can
be readily disposed Of to the lovers of
buckwhcat honey, who prefer 1t to the
more fancy grades.
In asserting honey for sale II is better
to make three grades. The first should
be fancy. every section white and uni
formly thick, with every cell filled ex-
cept those ON the outer edge. Such honey
will always command the highest price.
The second grade should also be white,
the honey just as good as fancy but not
80 uniform in size of section, some being
bulged and the section more than full
This will also command u fair price,
but Will be cent or two lower than
the first grade. The third will consist
of dark colored honey gathered from
buckwheat and fall flowers. This class
of honey will always find purchasers
when the price is low. Being sold by
itself, it Will not injure the sale Of the
finer grades and will suit the purse of
many who cannot afford the fancy
kinds
In manipulating colonies, taking off
full supers and putting on empty ones,
there will be no trouble from bees rob-
bling during the honey flow But when
ever this ceases the apiarist should be
careful to avoid dropping honey or combs
that would give them taste and put
them ON the warpath. No hives should
be left open, and needless exposure
should be guarded against. In taking
off supers full of honey, bee escapes can
be used at this season with advantage,
with little exposure of full combs to
pirate bees. They can be had from all
dealers in bee fixtures.
Thus writes Mr.. Ballantine, an Ohio
beekeeper, in The Farm journal. From
long experience in an apiary he has
come to the conclusion that clipping the
queen s wings is decided advantage.
No swarms will then escape to the
woods The owner can go from home or
attend church without having his mind
disturbed with thoughts of losing
swarms in his absence. 1t is better to
do this than run the risk Of losing excel
lent queens and swarms. The bees will
never leave for good if the queen does
not accompany them. This, of course,
has reference to first swarms, as second
swarms may issue at any time, with
young queen fully fiedged, like Minerva
from the head of Jove, ready for flight
and legitimate business These latter
can also be prevented by opening the
hives after they have cast swarms, ex-
amining carefully the combs and cut
ting out all queen cells but one in each
hive. If this is done, no second swarm
will issue
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
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HEAVY HORSES.
A Michigan Farmer Recommends Them
Highly For Farm Work.

Michigan Farmer Recommends The m
Highly For Farm Work.
A Michigan correspondent of Country
Gentleman, and formerly an advocate
fer medium weight horses, writes as
follows:
About five years ago | bought team
of heavy horses. weight about 800
pounds each. more because | could not
find what | wanted III lighter weights
than from aay good judgment of my
own. | had not had the team a week
before their superiority over the other
teams on the farm was proved. They
moved off with pillow with much less
fatigue They drew heavy loads with
far greater ease--in fact, they We're
masters of the situation wherever put at
work. | found that it took no more to
keep them than the lighter horses, un-
less it may be that they consume little
more hay, for they receive the same
grain ration as the Others. And as for
road work, we do not need to put the
farm horses before IA carriage, and when
it comes to taking loads to town they
walk faster than the others, besides
hauling considerably more at load.
So great was the change in my opin-
ion ON the subject of heavy horses for
farm work that | have since bought an
other team Of the same kind These two
teams do the hardest, heaviest work on
the farm at all times, all the heavy
blowing, which it would require three
lighter horses to manage
For certain kinds of work the smaller
horses are all right. For cultivating,
moving, light dragging and certain
other things on any farm they answer
every purpose. or to the small farmer
who has not work enough at any time
of the year to hurry him. He can take
his time ana not rush things as they
have to be rushed on "a large farm, but
when 1t comes to a big days work on
disk harrow or pillow, or where great
strength is required, give me the heavy
horses every time. A heavy horse is not
necessarily slow one, nor need he be an
awkward one. A horse of heavy weight
should not be SO fat as to be "a burden to
himself either, but i'll good, fair condi-
ton, with no protruding bones More
grain and less hay should be the rule on
most farms. Where the farming is ex-
tensive enough to warrant keeping two
teams let one of them be heavy. They
will take all the heavier work off the
smaller team, and these may be used
for light road work when required.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
New In American Agriculture.

A new departure is the summer class
now being conducted ON the farm of
George T. Powell III Columbia county,
n. Y. The students are young men
from the cities who have capital, and
who desire to invest that capital il
farming or fruit growing. They spend
three summer months on the farm in
orchard and field. doing such work as
spraying, pruning, shipping fruit and
cultiyating, learning all they can of the
necessary work ON well ordered fruit
farm. In the fall they will go to Cor
nell and take scientific course, in the
meantime selecting farms of their own
and planning to lay them out while
studVibp
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

Rural New Yorker reports that some
farmers have tried the experiment of
cutting timothy with grain binder i'll
stead of moving it in the usual way.
The grass seems to cure we'll III bundles
and is much more easily handled. 1t
takes up less room i'll the barn by one
third and is easily fed out. 1t is IA good
way to cut the hay. 1t is good thing
to cut some of the oats that way about
week before you would cut them for
grain That makes oat hay, or grain
and fodder ON the same stalk.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

1t is given out as new discovery
that steam, allowed to fall to a temper
at1re of 1870 degrees, will destroy in
sects. This is only repeating what was
made public by the editor OF Meehan s
Monthly 40 years ago, that water heat
ed to 100 degrees was destructive of in
sect life, without being injurious 10
vegetation. The application, however,
has been found rather troublesome, ex-
cept where only a few plants are to be
dipped in the water People prefer in
secticides that may be applied by pow
ders or by spraying.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

The demand for evaporated fruit is
constantly increasing. One reason for
this is that when dried by the latest
methods it is vastly superior to that
stove.
Until quite recently the evaporating
process was effected by fire heat in
suitable hues. Steam coils beneath the
trays have been found to answer better
purpose.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
Whole spices, Patterns drug store.
STATE OF MAINE.
TREAsURER'S OFFICE,

AUEusta, Aug, 70, Is.b.
Pursuant To chap. &, see -. of the Revised
Statutes | will at the State TTeasurer's office at
Augusta, on the twenty-third day of September
next at IL O'Clock a m sell and convey by deed
to the highest bidder al the interest of the
state in the tracts of land hereinafter described,
lying in unineorporated townships, said tracts
having been forfeited to the state for State tax
es and county taxes certified to the Treasurer
of state for the year 1874 The sale and convey
ance of each tract will he made subject to right
III the owner or part owner whose rights have
been forfeited to redeem the same at any time
within one year after the sale, by paying or ten
derng to the purchaser his proportion of what
the purchaser paid therefor at the sale, with in
terest at the rate of twenty per cent per annum
from the time of sale. and one dollar for release.
or such owner may redeem hislnterest 10y paving
as aforesaid to the Treasurer of State, as provid-
ed in chap. d, sec. 10, of the Revised Statutes.
No tract, however, will be sold at a price less
than the fun amount due thereon for such IN
paid state and county taxes, interest and cost.
described in the following schedule
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
New Remedy For Chicken Lice.

At the Arkansas station they are us
ing new mixture for the extermina-
ton of lice on fowls and animals 1t has
been named kerosene extract of pyr
ethrum. One and a half gallons kerosene
are soaked through 2l2 pounds pyr-
ethrum (persian insect POWDER, form
ing yellow, oily extract Dissolve a
pound of soap in gallon of the extract
and chun till thoroughly emulsified.
When using, mix a pint of this emul-
sion with pints of water This mix
ture combines the properties of kerosene
and pyrcthrum and is cheaper and more
convenient than either
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
Mortgage Indebtedness.

The last census report makes it appear
that the number of families owning
farms free from encumbrance is consid-
erably larger in the south and west than
in the east. The percentage of debt in
Illinois is "a; Indiana, 30; Kansas, 30;
Michigan, 80; Minnesota, 81; Iowa, 80;
Nebraska, -. In the eastern states it
is: New Y,rk, 43; New Jersey, 40. GA ;
Pennsylvania, 40. %; Delaware, A; Con-
necticut, 40. ia; Rhode Island, AZ. 90.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
Messengers Notice.
STATE OF MAINE.

SOMERSET S. CoURT OF INSOLVENCY
In the case of Chas. II. Richmond OF Fair
field, lnsolvent Debtor.
This is to give notice that on the 26th dav o.
August a. ID. 1896, a warrant in insolvency was
issued out of the Court of Insolvency for said
County of Somerset against the estate Of the
said Chas. II. Richmond of Fairfield. adjudg-
ed to be an insolvent debtor, on petition OF
said debtor, which petition was filed ON the
26th day of Aug A, d. 1895, to which date inter
est on claims is to be computed. That the pay.
ment of any debts to or by said debtor, anc
the transfer and delivery of any property by
him are forbidden by law. That a meetin 2
of the creditors OF said debtor to prove their
debts and choose one or more assignees OF his
estate will be held at a Court of Insolvency
to be holden at the Probate Court Room in
said Skowhegan, on Tuesday, the I'D day OF
Oct. A. ID. 1895, at one O'Clock in the afternoon
Given under my hand the date first above
written. 2wt6
VIM. F. MUTT, Deputy Sheriff
as Messenger of said Court of Insolvency.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
A Oueeuly Head

can never rest on q body frail from disease any
more than the lovely lily can grow in the
sterile soil. When Consumption iastens its
hold upon a victim, the whole physical struct-
ure commences its decay. At such period,
before the disease is too far advanced, DR..
Pierce's Golden edical Discovery will arrest
and cure 1t. Send cents in stamps for Book
$50 pages on Consumption aud te cure.
Address Worlds dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

Mrs. WIEsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over fifty years by millions OF moth
ers for their children while teething, with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child, softens
The gums allays all pain, cures wind collie.
and la the best remedy for Diarrhoea. IL will
relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Sold by Druggists in every part of the world.
Twenty five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask
for MRS. Winslow's Soothing syrup" and
take no other kind. lv38
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
TIMBER LAND At AUCTION.


Eastern Trust and Banking Co.
Bangor, Ne.
The assignees of E. W. Shaw's estate in ill.,
solveney, will sell at public auction at the
Office of the Eastern Trust and Banking Co.
Bangor, Me, Oct. IL. 1876 at 2 ocl ok p. NJ the
following timber lands IN Mare. VIZ: ON.
fourth nndiyio ed Iownship6, h. = Somerset
county; one sixth undivided OF the west par'
of Township II, r. Il, Aroostook county. one
fourth undivided of lots 30 and H. Garfield
Plantation, Aroostook county: oue-f1urth un
divided Of y. +. part Of Section 26, Garfield
Plantation, Aroostook county: lot No. A.
Chapman Plantation, Aroosto' County.
JOHN CASSIDY HSS ny "ets W
WILLIAM 7. HA1NES. In t,so Ia,
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The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
From Boston, Portland. Lewiston, Augusta
Wstervilie skowheEan and Bangor.

AS-"flag stations; at which trains will STOP
on signal or notice to Conductor.
Mixed between Bingham and No. Arson
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mercer, (snd Electric
Cars to and from Skowhegan.) At Arson. for
Sawyers Mills, (Starks);
No. Arson, for North and West New Portland
Dead River Flagstaff and Eustis. At Bingham
for Forks, Moose River, Mayfed, Kingsbury
and Abbott.
W.M. AVER SUPT.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
PILES! PILES! PILES!

Dr. Williams l. bian Pie Ointment VII cure Bliad
B.edug, liberated and Itching Piles. 1t absoibs the
tum0r1, aays the Itching az On3e. acts pouice.
gives instant relief Dir. Williams Indian PIE Ont.
prepared ouly for Piles and Itching of the pri.
parts and nothing else. Each box guarsnteed.
sou bv druggists, sent by mai! ste 81 90 per box.
WILLIAMS MFG CO., Props, Cleveland o.,
t9e L. SAMPSON Skp%heEan Agent
why, Bridget, where have you been in this
rain.
"shure. mum, Dive bin hanein' out the
clothes to dry
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
UNTOLD MISERY
FROM
RHEUMATIS vi
C. H. King, Water Valley, Miss, cured by
Ayers Sarsaparilla

.. FaI FIVE years ,anercd untold misery
from muscular rheumatism. ! Tried every
known remedy consulted the hest phSsl-
clans. visited Hot springs, Ark, three Times,
spending $1,000 there. besides doctors bills
but could obtain only temporary relief. My
flesh MAS wasted away So that weighed
only uinety-ihree pounds my left arm and
leg were drawn ont OF shape, the muscles
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

Once used DR.. Pierce's Pellets are always in
favor. Specific for constipation, piles, bilious.
ness ano headache.
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

THE ONLY True Blood Purifier
u prominently in the public eye to-
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10

Modern Croesus: Money to burn?' Dear no.
said one who knew OF whom they spoke. Far
beyond that. He has money to buy ice."-In-
The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
ONLY HOODS

IL think you must have "a some kind of
a a fever; but our class has only gone as far as
commissions. I'll come in again in week,
when we get to fevers.-Tid Bits.
why Is 1t,
if catarrh is blood disease, as some claim, that
phyics ms frequently advise change OF air and
climate to those suffering? Catarrh is a climatic
affection, and nothing but local remedy or a
change OF climate will cure it. Ely's Cream
Balm is so efficient to do away with the
necessity OF leaving home and friends, causing
inst nant relief and is a real cure of catarrh.
DO you have many friends in school
Tommy Nom" "Why, that is very odd,
isn't it?" Nom You see, the boys lick hates
me, and the boys that lick me | hate."-Chi-
caRo Record.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-06
PATENT CLOCK DIAL.

gram shows five minutes of six o'clock
p. m.
Another improvement connected
with the day and night clock dial is
an invention to simplify the reading
of timetables by incasing the figures
that indicate the arrival and departure
of the night trains in heavy black.
Everybody who has had occasion to
travel has suffered the fortunes of
the timetable. Most women are alb
solutely unable to fathom the myster-
les of a train schedule. The trouble
is mainly because of the little ga. ms
and ''p. ms" that are constantly
springing up in the most unexpected
places and in the most distressing man
ner. The new arrangement does away
with the difficulty at one blow. If all
railroads should adopt the new system
it would almost be pleasure to read
timetables. There is absolutely no
chance for error, and then not only
would the reading of the schedule be
an easy matter, but the traveller "of the
long voyage" could see at a glance just
how much time his trip would occupy
and what part of it would be performed
at night and what part in the day
time.
The most curious thing about this in
vention is that it has never been
thought of before. But in that respect
it resembles great many other impor-
tant discoveries.--New Ideas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Philadelphia in area is one of the
largest cities in the world, having
129 1-3 square miles.
The butcher has 97S patents which
may be employed or not, as he chooses,
In his business. Most of them are de
vices used in the large pork packing
establishments.
The common house fly is said to b.
provided with 10000 eyes; that is to say,
his two compound eyes have each 5000
facets. By this singular arrangement
he is enabled to see in every direction
and to eIude with great skill and sue
cess the many dangers that threaten
his daily existence.
Peter Dorsey, a negro. who said he
was 40 years old, died at Tallahassee Il
few days ago. He looked as if he mighr
I've as old as he said, but most likely he
was not. He was undoubtedly a YER;
old man, however, and his neighbors
figured that he was, at any rate, far
past the century mark.
-Maine's labor commissioner has
been gathering statistics on the cost o.
living in that state. He figures that the
average daily cost of living is 81 cents
a day for each individual in the average
family. The cost of living to single
men, boarding, is 46 cents. These fig
ures cover rent, fuel and light.
Curly hair indicates eXuberent Vi
tality, the curl being caused by the heat
or electricity which pervades the sys
tenn. Straight hair mostly denotes
more evenness of character. Coarse
hair mostly accompanies large muscles
and would thus suggest physical
strength, while fine hair denotes re
finement, sensitiveness and effeminate
tastes and feelings. Very sensitive PEG
pie have excessively fine hair, and their
eyelashes always correspond.
Perhaps the oldest pet man ever
had is a shark, seven feet long and
weighing probably $50 pounds, which
is owned, in sense, by g. w. Fife, OF
Tacoma, Wash. The shark was har
pooned in the bay off Tacoma by Mr.
Fife and lowed to his boat house. Tt
was not badly injured, SO Mr.. Fife
passed a chain cable round its tail and
tied it up to the pier. 1t was still alive
up to last accounts, was feeding hearth
ly, and was apparently becoming a..
customed, if not reconciled, to cap
tivity.
Some idea of the extent of the
coyote nuisance in the west may be got
from the experience of one sheepman
CT Fossil, Ore. Since last fall, when
the sheep were brought down from the
mountains, the coyotes have killed
about 100 of them. One night recently
a herder left about 30 sheep out over
night, and when he went to hunt for
them in the morning he found % dead
their Threats torn by the coyotes, and
coyotes were chasing the remaining
seven. In Crook county this sheepman
has lost $500 in three months by the
coyote raids on his fiocks.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-06
IMPROVED CLOCK DIAL.
Re markable That II Has Not Been
Thought OF Before.
che Hour Hand Traverses the Face ir the
Same Time That the. Sun on the
Average Traverses the Path
Around the Earth.

The new dial represented herewith
is such a simple and obvious improve
ment on the old patterns that it is to
be wondered that it was not adopted
long since. The inventor, who has had
the dial patented, started out with the
idea of making the hour hand traverse
the dial in the same time that the sun
on the average traverses, or seems to
traverse, the path around the earth.
1t will be seen that the dial represents
the rising of the sun. it's progress to
the zenith at noontide, and to its final
disappearance below the horizon at
nightful. But the disc, instead of being
divided into IL spaces, is divided into "a,
marked from one to twelve in two
series. The upper half of the dial rep
resents day, and the lower half night,
and the two are distinguished by the
very natural expedient of making
ebay" white and night black, with
the additional precaution If printing
''day" and might" in conspicuous let
tiers on the respective hemispheres.
On the outer rim will be observed the
scale for the minute hand. This scale
is divided into 60 parts, every fifth part
being marked with it's appropriate fig
ure. This, again, does away with
source of ambiguity in the present sys-
TEN. People are accustomed to say "a
quarter of and "a quarter after" or
'25 minutes Of" and so forth, all of
which expressions have a greater or
less tendency to cause mistakes. BY
the new dial there can be no errors.
Take, for instance, the position of the
hands as represented in the diagram.
They mean a certain time. and no
other time. The small, or hour hand,
is between five and six, and as this
hour hand represents the sun. we see
that it is sinking toward the horizon.
In other words, it is between five and
six o'clock in the evening. The precise
time is known when we look at the
long, or minute hand. This is pointing
directly at SIS. The time is, therefore.
five hours and IS minutes in the even
ing, or 5:55, as railroad men say. Ac-
cording to the common method of tell
ing time you would say that the dia