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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

part of April, or until small leaves and
sprouts have appeared. This shows that
the sap has risen which makes the bark
easily removable. Now the willows are
peeled by putting them through springy
wooden fork, shaped like clothes pin
but larger, with blunt edges inside, which
without injuring the willow presses the
bark and loosens the same in strands
which are easily removed.
willows are dried in the open air and
put up in bundles of fifty pounds for the
market.
About 1900 cuttings are necessary to
plant an acre. The willow reaches it's
greatest production in the third year, and
with proper care and good fertilizing, it
will continue to yield good results for
many years. Dry, peeled willows are
worth cents a pound, delivered in Mil
waukee.
The following illustrations may serve
to show the profit obtained from the pro-
duction of one acre of willows One acre
only moderately cared for with fertilizer
will yield at least four tons of green will
lows. This is the smallest amount, as
many acres yield seven tons. OF these
four tons two-thirds may be deducted for
bark and moisture leaving about:
1856 lbs. dry willow at &c lb. Sl5S 30
Wages would amount for cut
ting of four tons at $5........S2 $40 co
Feeling of 1865 lbs at 134c a
ID. for large and &c for small
willows ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS so 90 20 90
-
Net profit OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 0S 80
This leaves a profit of $3.50 per acre,
which is very favorable compared with
that of wheat, rye, barley and oats, and
it would be advisable for farmers to I'M
dertake at least the cultivation of one
half or one acre.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

curtails the appetite and impairs dges-
ton. 1t is useless to throw a lot of feed
into dirty trough for sheep. leaving a
part of it from day to day and wonder
why they do not gain. Every days al
lowance of hay. grain and water should
be fresh and clean. Keep salt constant
ly before them. Rid the flock of worms.
ticks and lice. Do not grind any grain
eXcept for NerY old sheen.n
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04
Horns on or ORs

There was a time, not many years ago,
when a mulley or polled animal, one
without horns, was something of a curl
osity. OF course, people did not go miles
to see them, but most of our readers will
remember how oddly and out of place the
mulley looked. More recently, by almost
common consent, the people have demand
ed that for reasons of profit and human
ity, both to man and among the animals
themselves, there should be more mulleys,
and the practice of dehorning sprung into
popular favor. This very excellent prac-
tlce has extended to such breadth that we
should not be at all surprised if eventu-
ally the animal with horns will be as
much curiosity as the mulley was for
merly From the very beginning there
have been those who bitterly opposed the
dehorning of cattle as being an unneces-
sary and cruel practice, but the tide of
public opinion has turned against them
and dehorning is the rule now, rather
than the exception. While the operation
in itself seems a little severe, it is GER
tainly no more so than the drawing of a
tooth, to which we all submit willingly
because 1t subserVes our best interests
The after consequences of dehorning are
really fraught with less danger than the
drawing OF toOtn ana potH opeTdlloitS
are of such short duration that the pain
and shock Is very light. The best way,
and, indeed, The only way to bring saw
age toereason is first to disarm him-take
from him all defensive weapons. As re-
suit he at once becomes tractiie in dispo-
sition and is ready to listen to reason. 1t
is so with orr horned animals; once re-
move their horns and they become quiet
of disposition and are much more easily
and economically handled for which re1-
son the profit from live stock is, greatly
enhanced
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

These eggs were sold at an average price
of q cents a dozen, which gave the sub
stantial income of $71543 for eggs alone,
and for ten months of the year only. AS
it cost him about So cents a day to feed
his 225 hens and 10 cockerels, we deduct
1855 from the above total and have $55O.43
net profit.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

Scrofula is a word you
don't quite understand, but if
you talk with your doctor,
he will tell you that it is
generally believed to be due
to the same cause which
gives rise to Consumption.
1t appears mostly in those
who are fat-starved and thin,
usually in early life. A
course Of treatment of SCOTS
Emulsion with the Hypo-
phoSites wherever Scrofula
manifests itself, will prevent
the development of the dis
ease. Let us send you a
book. Free.
SCOTT BOVINE. Chemists, New York al
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04
TO CURE NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA.
To Gain Flesh, to Sleep Wen, to
know what Appetite and Good
Digestion Mean, Make
Test of Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets.
Interesting Experience of an indiana
apolis Gentleman.

No trouble is more common or more mis-
understood than nervous dyspepsia. Peo-
pie having it think that their nerves are
to blame and are surprised that they are
not cured by nerve medicine and spring
remedies; the real seat of the mischief is
lost sight of; the stomach is the organ to
be looked after.
Nervous dyspeptics often do not have any
pain whatever in the stomach, nor perhaps
any of the usual symptoms of stomach
weakness. Nervous dyspepsia shows itself
not in the stomach so much as in nearly
every other organ; in some cases the heart
palpttates and is irregular; in others the
kidneys are affected; in others the bowels
are constipated with headache; still 9TH
ers are troubled with loss of flesh and APP
petite, with accumulation of gas, sour
rsings and heartburn. al
Mr.. a. w. Sharper of No. 81 Prospect
street, Indianapolis, Ind, writes as fol-
lows: "A motive of pure gratitude prompts
me to write these few lines regarding ~he
new and valuable medicine, Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets 1 have been a sufferer
from nervous dyspepsia for the last four
years; have used various patent medicines
and other remedies without any favorable
result. They sometimes gave temporary
relief until the effects of the medicine
wore off. l attributed this to my sedentary
habits, being a bookkeeper with little
physical exercise but am glad to state
that the tablets have overcome all these
obstacles, for have gained in flesh, sleep
better, and am better in every way. The
above is written not for notoriety, but is
based on actual fact"
RpSnectfullV VOurs
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

food i'm easy reach of the roots to give
it good start-on. Potash is not the only
food to be supplied, for phosphoric acid
is equally essential, and must be supplied
If deficient in the soil
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

Isstjons and communications relative
Ericultural and horticultural subjects,
'dressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N,
Iedceville, Ca, will receive immediate
.ntann
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81 Prosnect street. mar

81 Prospect street, indianapolis, Ind
1t is safe to say that Stuart's Dyspepsia
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or disease except cancer of stomach. They
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appetite. sleeplessness. palpitation heart
burn, constipation and headache.
Send for valuable little book on stomach
diseases by addressing Stuart Co, Mar
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loIicit articles for this department.
Ire of the writer should accom-
The letter or article, not necessarily
Ibljcation, but as an evidence of good
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|es' Fine.
TO have
them goI
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
So Says Pres. HaineS of Amer.
Soc. for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.
RABIES EXISTS, BUT is RARE.
Of 100000 Dogs Handled by Agents
in Four Years Not One
Was Rabid.

What do you know about mad
dogs?" I asked John P. Haines, Presi-
dent of the American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
II know that most mad dogs aren't
mad at ALL" replied Mr.. Haines. swing
ing easily upon his chair behind his big
desk. Il have raised hundreds of dogs
myself, 1 have loved and known dogs
for many years, and 1 have never yet
seen one running mad. The periodical
excitements on the subject are largely
due to newspaper publications and to
the operations of the Pasteur institute.
Dogs are shot or dubbed to death daily
for rabies. when they are simply ill, just
as a man might be, and not mad. A
dog may tumble down in a fit, but he
isn't mad. He may have trouble with
his stomach and sulk but he isn't mad.
He may have epilepsy and froth at the
mouth, and not be mad.
within the last four years our agents
have handled over 100000 dogs and over
100000 cats. They have been called up
on to shoot so-called mad dogs and in
stead of doing so have picked them up
in their arms and put them into the
ambulance. They have been scratched
and bitten again and again at our shell
or hand crushed by savage bite, and
have had to stay a week in hospital;
but no one of them ever had hydro
phobia, nor has any one of the animals
proved rabid.''
'Supt. Hankinson of your Society told
me some years ago that he had in TWEEN
ty years never seen a mad dog, and
that he was almost disinclined to be-
lieve in the existence of rabies. Is there
such disease?" l asked.
81 believe in the existence of rabies"
replied Mr.. Haines, but it is so rare
that not one physician in thousand
would be able to recognize a case if he
saw it. 1 have known a great many
physicians, but have never met one
who ever saw genuine case of hydro
phobia from a dog-bite. Popular ideas
about it are in many respects mistaken.
A mad dog does not dread water, but
will, on the contrary, drink freely and
rush into the water if he sees any with
in reach. But a man who has been bit
ten by a rabid animal and develops hy-
drophobia will refuse to drink The
disease seems to affect the nerves of the
human throat in such way as to re-
act upon the mind and produce the wa
ter-dread' which has given rise to the
name"
How would you treat dog which
had fit?"
I'D treat it by the rules of common
sense, according to what allied the dog
If he was suffering, as so often hap
pens, from a combination of too much
meat and too little exercise, I'd tie him
up safely give him plenty of water and
feed him very lightly until he recov-
cred.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
That Is, Unless You Are a Multi=MilliOn=
aire== startling Figures by
an Expert.

August Belmont paid Griffin S17,500, and
the year before Gideon and Daily paid
him $4,000 retainer. This year Fred
Taral receives from Marcus Daily a re-
tainer of $4,000. Tod Sloane, who is
riding for Pittsburg Phil, gets $40, 900.
Fred Littlefield's annual retainer from
the Morrses is about $4,000, and
Thorpe, who is plotting the Bromley
string, gets no less than $4,000. 1t is
hard to say what the Dryers pay their
jockeys, as they have always been most
reticent about it. In the old days, how
ever, the brothers always used to in
vite Mclaughlin and Frank McCabe,
their trainer to dine with them on New
Years Day, and when the guests lifted
their plates they invariably found a
check for $4,000 lying under each. The
other day Mike Dwyer declared that his
jockey cost him more money than Nc
Laughlin, so it is safe to presume that
Willie Sims gets more than $4,000 as
retainer.
"Your second trainer or foreman, is
the next item to consider in your ex-
pense account. A thousand dollars a
year, with his board and keep, will dis
pose of him, and he will be the only I'M
der-paid man in your establishment
Under practically the same head come
the exercise boys. For stable of twelve
horses you will need three boys at least.
and you will have to pay them $40 a
month and board.
THE STABLE CUISINE.
"This board, mind you, is not the sort
of stuff that boys of their class ord-
narly would have. Every good stable
has it's own kitchen, where the men eat.
Your chef-and you will have to have
one-will buy the best that the market
affords, and he will pay race-track
prices for it, which are ten per cent.
higher than any other prices. Your cook
will cost you $50 a month the year
round.
1.-THE shoeing of these race horses of
yours is another item which will make
cavity in your pocketbook. You will
have to buy different plates for them
for different kinds of weather, On a
fast. dry track one kind of a plate will
be needed, and for heavy going another
kind will be required. No owner is go
ing to run the chance of losing race
in order to economize in his shooting
bill; and although this expense necessa-
rily varies according to the number of
times your horses are started it is fair
to say that $500 a year will not more
than cover it.
1.-THE keep of your horses will amount
to about IS a day,-which does not in
clude stall rental of about 81 month
for each animal.
mo saddle can be bought now for less
than S35. and you will have to have
martingales and different sets of bits
for beasts with sore or hard mouths and
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
An Odd Pile of Rocks.

Rock City. Pa. has prototype near
Milan. Italy. in the form of curious,
cty-lile group of rocks, which stands
about $500 feet above the sea level and
is known as Montpeller-leVi eux An
irregular mass OF rocks some 200 feet
high resembles the towers of a citadel,
and this is surrounded by five or six
depressions, each three or four hundred
feet deep, of which one resembles an
amphitheatre, another a metropolis, a
third a parade ground, and another a
regularly laid out city quarter. with
public monuments, gates, and straight
streets, crossing at right angles, or
nearly so. The whole is strongly sug-
gestive of such places at Pompeii, Car
nae. and Persepolis. The entire city,
covering some 200 acres, is surrounded
by a very high natural rocky wall,
while the ravine beneath and the neigh
boring rock groups add to the fortified
appearance Of the place.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
Feeding an Isolated Crab.

Among the most interesting of all the
Tenants of the tanks in New York aqua
rum are the decorating crabs. A GER
tain one of these crabs is "tanlked' by
himself He is fed once a day, three
pieces of clam being his allowance.
Feeding time is an event. He stands
up on his hind legs, ready for the food
before it is put into the water over
head. He knows what is coming. 1t is
dropped down to him one piece after
another, and it is sought to place it in
front of him, so that he can't lose it.
Sometimes he stands without moving
until all three pieces have been dropped
in, as though he wanted to make sure
that there was no skimping of his al
lowance. Sometimes he grabs for the
first piece that comes down, gets it,
and carries it to his mouth, and then
grabs for the second one as it comes
along while he is still holding the first:
sometimes, in his eagerness, reaching
for piece. he falls over backward.
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special saddles to fit the backs of spe-
cial horses. And then there will be the
bill for the clothing-a winter suit for
outside work, which will cost $40; a
winter suit for the stable, which will
cost another $40; rubber suit for wet
weather, a $40; and the boots and band
ages will amount to about $40 for each
horse. Eight hundred dollars will not
more than pay your saddlery bill.
DOCTORS BILL.
1.-THE veterinary surgeon will come
higher than your family doctor. In
warm weather your horses will eat well,
work well, and yet go to pieces after
race. Then the surgeon will be called
in, and he will charge just as much as
your own doctor does At any moment
your horses are likely to go sore or con-
tract a splnt, and then firing must be
performed, and the veterinary sends in
his bill for that. The lotions-witch
hazel, skunk oil, arnica, and other lini-
ments-all cost money; and If you get
off with less than a thousand-doilar
doctor bill you may consider yourself
lucky.
Probably you have not considered it,
but starting your horses is going to
count up before the racing season is
over. The cost varies all the way from
$40 for an overnight event, to $500 for
the Realization or Futurity Every
time q horse starts and does not win the
lowest possible expense is $40; $40 for
entrance and $40 for the Jockeys fee
There is also a small fee for registering
your colors.
1.-THE colors themselves will cost you
$500 set; and with your proposed
stable you will need three sets. They
are of woven silk, and have to be manu-
featured to order.
Transportation, too, is costly, espe-
cially if you race your horses on tracks
far apart from one another. The ami
mails must all be sent by express as
there is too much risk of their taking
cold and going wrong when shipped by
freight.
"Why, I could sit here and pile up the
expense account all night; but the
items I have mentioned are the princi-
pal ones. OF course, the winnings of
certain stables more than offset this,
but those stables are few and far be-
tween"
JAMES H. TUCKERMAN
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wares in your stable?" asked the turf
man.
mo crackajacks, Navarres or Re
quitals."
WELL then, suppose that we begin
with a string of twelve horses,-fairly
good, honest racers, with a promise of
landing some stakes before the season
is over. Your original capital will be
$4,000; that is the lowest possible sum
for which twelve such horses as you
want can be bought You will see how
low this estimate is when | tell you
that in one year August Belmont paid
$92, 500 for four horses: Henry of Ma
varre cost him $4,000, Hastings cost
him 1850, keenan, $4,000, and Dorian
$4,000. In that same year w. p.
Thompson paid $4,000 for Requital.
Having bought your horses, your
next big item will be your trainer. AT
the least, you will have to pay him an
annual salary of $1,000 and provide
home and board for himself and family
the year round. A man who can COM
mand salary of $4,000 will want to
live on the best that the land affords,
and in figuring ST. 500 more for his liv-
ing expenses you are not overestimat-
ing it. Besides this you must pay your
trainer certain percentage of the net
earnings of your stable The four or
five really first-class trainers in the
country to-day receive a salary of.from
eight to twenty thousand dollars, and
get from five to ten per cent. of the
earnings of their stables. Take John
Hyland, for example: he received from
Gideon and DAILY, in 1895, $4,000 and
ten per cent of the winnings. In 1896
August Belmont engaged him, and the
inference is that he now receives a ma
terially larger sum.
JOCKEY WANTS A KINGS RAN
SOM.
"Your next important item will be
your jockey. No rider whose skill is
such that you dare intrust your horses
to him in stake event. can be had for
retainer one cent less than $500 for
the season, which, according to the
usual contract, lasts from March / I'M
til December /. In addition to this re-
tainer, you must pay your jockey a fee
of $25 for every winning mount he rides
for you and $40 for every losing mount.
Then there is your Jockeys board bill
to settle. Nine out of ten trainers in
sst that the rider shall live in the sta
ble's training quarters. But we will in
clude that under separate head later.
The giving of presents, too, is just about
as imperative now as tipping a porter
or a waiter.
SOME RECENT RETAINERS.
BY recalling some of the retainers
which jockeys have received in the last
few years you will see how cheaply you
are getting your boy for $500. In 1896
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25

In appearance. everything is done by
Egyptians. Lord Cromer, the British
Minister in Egypt, is plain blunt man
with a head full of horse sense. There
is no horde of British officials fattening
on Egypt. Excepting the army, there
are very few Englishmen in the coun-
try in any capacity. In the public serv-
ice there are many more Frenchmen
and Italians than Englishmen. though
holding generally less important posts;
and nearly as many Germans. In the
important Department of Finance, pre-
sided over by Sir Elwyn Martin. FL
nancia Adviser to the Khedive. are
six Englishmen and between 300 and
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-25
IF YOU LONG TO START A RACING STABLE===WELL DON'T.

If you feel a craving, as so many
men and women of all times and coun-
tries have, to own a racing STABLE
either to crafty your love for the sport
of kings, or because you hope to enter
society by way of the turf and the pad
dock, or because you have visions of
wonderful coups and fabulous returns
and look upon your prospective stable
as a legitimate investment,-it will be
wise for you to ponder, to do lot of
addition and a very little subtraction
before you choose your racing colors.
The adding will be of the expense items,
and will take you as long as you own
your stable; the subtraction will be
your earnings from your expenses, and
you may not have to do it more than
once or twice in your racing career.
1t will cost you more to educate one
horse for turf classic than it will to
educate your son in all the classics of
q university course; moreover, your
horse is much less likely to repay you
for his education.
Unless your boy acquires that collie
gate habit of changing his raiment
four times a day, his 'tailor's bill will
be less than your horses tailor BILL and
unless he is a sheer idiot his tutors bill
will be less by many dollars than the
bill of your horse trainers understudy.
ONLY GLORY IN 1T.
Unless you are a Belmont, Loril-
lard, or a Keene, and intend to race
your stable purely for the glory there is
in it, or unless you are as shrewd as a
Dwyer, Pittsburg Phil, or PA" Bill
DAILY, and are going to make your liv-
ing from the turf, racing stable is one
of the finest investments to leave alone
which can be found in the country.
Somebody not long ago asked Pitts
burg Phil, the keenest turfman of them
all, what he thought of racing as a
business venture, and he replied that 1t
was the worst that possibly could be
made Looking at it from a financial
point of view there is nothing to hope
for. You may make large winnings for
year, or five years, or ten, but you
never heard Of an out and out turfman
who depended upon the sport for his
income who died rich, or even moder-
ately we'll off.
Racing is the toughest game ever
devised by man. You must give every
moment of your time to it; you must
measure your brains against the cum
ningest and craftiest minds in the
country. You must follow every move
ment of your horses, nurse and pamper
them as you would baby, and then,
after you have studied it all out until
your brain reels and your hair turns
gray, the chances are so much against
you that not one man in a thousand
can win.
Now and then man with peculiar
aptitude and knowledge of the game
wins, but the geniuses of the turf are
fewer and further between than in any
other walk of life."
COUNTING THE COST.
few days ago the writer asked a
veteran turfman,-a man who has had
an intimate knowledge of all the ms
and outs of the game for years, and
who now owns a stable of his own,-to
give him in detail the expenses of main
tanning moderate racing string for a
year.
Don't want any crackajacks-no
Hastings or Requitals or Henry of Ma
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eleven of English soldiers played a
game with a native eleven from the
Agricultural College, which has only
fifty students. The natives bucked the
British centre; they went round the
ends; they showed team work and
pluck, and they won an unexpected vic
tory over superior weight and age by a
score of goals to 0. Then the native
boys held their heads in the air and re-
marked in choice Arabic: Huh! We
can fight better'n the Mahdists and
play football better'n the Tommies.
We're somebody, after all!'
COMMENDABLE VANITY.
While such vain glory may not be in
general commendable, a little Of 1t will.