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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
WEAVING THE DAIRY CALF.

One of the reasons why dairying is
calf is desired for beef making, and to
give him a good start it is allowed to
suck from three weeks to three months,
says the Rural Life, This will spoil a
COW for the dairy, as a rule, and at any
rate it takes the time out of her period
of butter-making, which will reduce
the butter yield for the year below
profit. If the calf sucks three months
and is then weaned the cow may be
expected to go dry in few weeks, or
half dry at least, and she will not pay
for the feed and the trouble.
To get a paying mess of milk it is
absolutely necessary to milk the COW
from the first The first" means to
some dairymen when the calf Is first
seen. 1t is removed Immediately and
not allowed to suck even once, but the
milk is drawn and fed to the calf. By
this practice the cow knows no other
way to have the milk drawn and does
not worry for the calf, so everything
goes smoothly.
Other dairymen think the first time
the COW should be MIXED is when the
milk is first good for use. The first Sc
erection is not true milk, but colostrum,
and is designed to physic the calf, All
agree that the calf must have this first
milk, but some let him help himself
and others do not.
Many of the most advanced dairy
men strongly advocate never letting
the calf suck Others, and the greater
number, prefer to let the calf suck I'M
til the milk is good and this is what
the writer recommends. After the
milk is good for use the COW at once
increases it in quantity and good butter
fat is too precious for calf food. There
is no difficulty in taking off the calf
then without any objections from the
mother, if you use common sense and
good tact. If she is inclined to worry,
tie the calf by her side when you milk
for the first time or two, and she Will
he reconciled, but on no account per-
NIT il to suck after the milk becomes
good for use.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Do not expose the fowls to wet or
cold weather, as SUCH conditions will
be apt to bring on canker, catarrh or
roup.
If your space is limited keep only a
few fowls, and let the few be very fine
ones, as it costs no more to feed a
prize-winner than it does a scrub.
Cabbage is one of tie very best vege-
tables to feed to poultry, as it keeps
green a long time and the chickens en-
Joy picking at it, Hang it up where
they can eat it readily, without scat
tering it about or soiling it, A sup
ply is usually abundant.
If your young chicks stand around
and sleep, it is then quite evident that
you are trying to raise poultry and lice
on the same amount of food. Look at
the little fellows at once and see If you
do not find lice on their heads, under
wings, under and over vent.
The best is the best. By the intro
duction of improved blood an increas-
ed weight of one or two pounds for
every chick raised and an increase OF
one or two dozen eggs from every
cross-bred pullet can be procured.
Anything is not good enough.
Formerly, when chickens were
Matched, corn meal dough was mixed
up with cold water and scattered on a
board for the little things to run over
and soil. Such work is exceedingly
useless and Improbable. Neither is
it wise to keep a hopper of the fatten-
ing cereals before the hens at all times.
Watch closely the condition Of your
fowls and nip in the bud the first
symptoms of disease. A sneeze,
cough, a swelled head, scaly legs, stiff
ness of the joints, dark or pale combs,
looseness of bowels, are all warnings
of danger, and the proper remedies
must be applied.
The turkey is the most industrious
forager of all the poultry family. They
pick up the greater portion of their
food when given the range of the farm
Careful observers state the benefit
the flock of turkeys do by destroying
the grasshoppers and other insects in
furious to the farm crops more than
offsets the amount of grain they eat
The color of the shell is not an index
of the quality of the egg, but, never
theless. a large white-shelled egg sells
in almost all markets for more than
does a brown shell; but with the
former greater care must be taken, for
n soiled spot will show much more
readily upon a white surface. Do not
wash eggs. unless badly soiled, but
wipe them with a damp WOODEN cloth
when taken to the house.-American
Farmer
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

gestibillty both increase very rapidly.
The total yield of the digestible food
by the matured crop was two or three
times that Of the same crop In the silk,
and 80 per cent. greater than when the
ears began to glaze. The Minnesota
station found that 100 pounds Of en-
sllage from the northern and southern
and sweet corn all contained about
the same feeding value.
SllRge is distinctly cattle feed, but
the Kansas station finds it not good
for feeding bulls, It may be fed in
moderation to horses, pigs, poultry
and sheep, but sour silage is danger
Gus to sheep.
There has been some complaint that
silage gives milk an unpleasant flavor.
This Is probably due to sour and decay
ing silage. The Kansas station found
that If the silage be fed just after
milking, instead Of before, this dis
agreeable flavor disappears.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

A simple experiment in producing
rain may be made by the use of cyl
inder of glass, about four inche in
diameter and eight inches high. This
Is to be half filled with ninety-two per
cent. alcohol. A china saucer is placed
over the cylinder, which is then put
into hot water bath and heated quite
hot, but not the boiling point for al
cohol. Then the cylinder, still COW
cred, is carefully and quickly placed
upon a table in cool portion of the
room. Very soon vapor will be dis
covered on the under side of the saul
GER, clouds will form and from them
little drops fall down upon the alco-
hol. This miniature shower may last
for an hour or more. The top part of
the cylinder clears directly SO that the
condensation is seen midway between
the alcohol and the saucer. 1t is a
curious and interesting sight, the
water below the clouds and the clear
atmosphere above. Ii Immediately
after removing the cylinder from the
hot water BATH cold saucer replaces
the hot one, storm currents are dis
cernible. Often the currents will as
semble upon one side of the cylinder
and descend upon the other. Conduct
ed upon a somewhat larger scale, this
experiment would be of great interest
to classes of students. 1t is net an ex-
pensive one, ard is very easily man
aged even by amateurs.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
AMATEUR AGRICuLTuRE.

In England every gentleman who
can afford it, and who aims at any So
cial position, owns a farm, and devotes
portion Of his time to the study and
practice of agriculture. To some ex-
tent this is becoming true in our east
ern states also. A very considerable
number of the wealthy men of New
York, Boston and other eastern cities
own farms which they occupy as sum
mer residences, and to the cultivation
of which they devote some time and
considerable money. The membership
of the New York Farmers Club, or the
New York Farmers, as they call them
selves, affords an illustration. This
organization containing some sixty
members, consists, | think, says ]. Nc
Lain Smith in Farmers Home Weekly,
exclusively of business men, and most
ly very wealthy men, with whom
farming is a recreation, not business.
OF course such people do not buy
farms, or engage in agriculture, with
a view to make money. They get their
profit in other ways and ways, it seems
to me, which are just as legitimate
and proper, and just as rational for
those who can afford it, as making
money. Money is only desirable, and
only valuable to its possessors, as it
procures him satisfaction. If he gets
the satisfaction without the money, it
is just as rational a proceeding as to
get the money in business and spend it
for the satisfaction. Or, even if the
farming proves a losing venture, the
money spent in that way is likely to
do far more good and bring more real,
lasting satisfaction, than If used in
sumptuous living and expensive enter
tainments.
Every rich amateur farmer, if he is
a man of intelligence and high charac-
ter, no matter how little he may know
Of agriculture, is decided benefit to
the surrounding community. He gives
employment to much labor in improy-
ing his farm; he often brings in good
stock, from which the community de-
rives much benefit; and, even in his
improbable operations, he is conduct
ing at his own cost a series of expert
ments from which shrewd observers
gain much knowledge.
From every point of view it seems
to me, amateur farming, on the part of
wealthy business men, should be en-
couraged.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
VIctorla's Gold Plate.

The gold plate at Windsor castle con-
sists of about 10000 pieces. 1t IS kept
in the gold pantry, which IS al iron
room situated on the ground door un-
der the royal apartments. The clerk
Of the pantry gives It out in iron boxes
and receives a receipt for 1t. 1t is car
ried by special train, under escort OF q
guard of soldiers, and delivered TO the
butler at Buckingham palace. He gives
q receipt for it and is responsible for
it while it remains at the palace. The
same formalities are observed in tax
ing it back, and all persons concerned
are glad when it is once more restored
to the safekeeping of the gold pantry,
The total value Of the plate in this de-
partment is nearly f2,OO0,OO0. A great
deal of It dates from the reign of
George ", but among the antiquities
are some pieces which were taken from
the Armada
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
REMARKABLE RECOVERY


rum hNhfHhlNs
From the Courier, Buf4i9, NJ y
Miss Lulu Stevens, daughter Of George
Stevens, tho wel-known blacksmith, OF Gas
port, Niagara, County, New York has sur
prlsod her neighbors considerably by not
dying I've months ago, when the physicians
said she could not live.
This was quito remarkable case. Tho
young woman, who is very well known, on
account Of her musical ability, had boon "a
very healthy girl, until about one year ago,
when she began 20 fail, and grew 60 palo
and apparently blOOdless and so weak that
after a few months she was given up 20 die.
Last winter physician VINO was visitor
at GaspOrt met Miss stevens, and seeing her
emactHted condition, and hearing from The
local doctors that the disease was anacmia,
prevailed on the girls mother TO make her
try DR.. williams Pink Pills. Directly she
commenced the treatment she began 10
mend, and now since February, when she
decided TO take them she has become well
and strong and the picture Of good health.
The mother Of the girl Mrs. Stevens, SAYS
every one In GGspou knows that PINK
Pills cured Lulu, aud / feel very thankful
that we heard of them in time 90 save my
chill's lie"
DR.. williams Pink Pills contain, in q con
densed form, MI the elements necessary 10
give new life and richness 10 the blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are also
specific for troubles peculiar TO females,
such as suppressOns, Irregularities aud all
forms Of weakness. They build up the blood,
and restore the glow Of heaIth 10 pale and
salow cheeks. In men they infect a radical
cure in all cases arising from mental worry,
oyerWork or excuses OF whatever nature.
Pink Pills are sold in boxes never in loose
bulk) nj 80 cents box or six boxes for
81 80, and may be had Of all druggists, or
direct by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine
Company. Schenectady. N, Y.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
HUH0R OF TIE DAY.

"That contortionist seems very con
coited." ayes; he is completely
wrapped up in himself, Yale Record.
"Who was Ananias, papa?" 81 be-
lieve he was the leader of the opposi-
ton to George Washington. Truth.
Farmer Whiilletree -"Did you say
you was lookin' for work?" Weary
Wilkens-"Yes, boss-wId dc accent
on de was. Judge.
"How would you define an opti-
mi3t?" Gas man who expects to pay
last weeks board by drawing his next
weeks salary. - Truth.
Mrs. Easton-'I understand that
your husband can't meet his credit.
ors." Mrs. Weston-'I don't believe
he wants to, especially.
There's that Mr.. Tlyp across
the street. He says he knows all the
pretty girls in our club" He-"Knows
you also, doesn't he?"-Puck
Jorkins-"When young people
marry they get into a pickle" Newed
q suppose that is why all their
friends send them pickle dishes. -
Truth.
"Sort of Damon and Pythias com.
bination. But isn't it funny they don't
see through each other?' CHATS of.
ten the way when people get SO thick,
Puck
Wild-Eyed Customer-"Have you
any goods made of sole leather or boiler
iron" Clothing ono.
sir; we don't keep boys clothing. -
New York Weekly.
Papa-"And did you think for one
moment that that clerk of mine was in
position to propose to you?" Daugh-
ter-"Why, certainly, pap; he was on
his knees. "-Yonkers Statesman.
"Why did Simpson send his boy to
the prize ring?" "Well, he always
displayed love for argument, and
the old man considers the field of law
overcrowded. "-Princeton Tiger.
Emma-"And. Charlie, dear, would
you have really shot yourself if had
refused your" Charlie-"Indeed, I
would. I had already sent to four
houses for price-lists OF revolvers. -
Fliegende Blaetter.
Journalist Ito editor -"Excuse me,
sir, but am literally starving. Will
you buy this article, sir?' Editor
"What is it about?" Journalist
cts on The Bad Effects of Over
Indulgence in Eating sir. Fun.
Mrs. Kittywink--''Tommy Tommy
Come here this minute What do you
mean by using such languAge?" Tom
my-"Well, ma, you told US to play
some play where we didn't have to
fight, and we's playing General Wey-
Ter; and we had to do something. y
Washington Capital.
Joker offered to bet SIG to 81 that
he would ask sixteen persons one and
the same question to which he would
receive the same answer. The bet was
accepted, and the joker asked each
one of the sixteen this question; "Did
you hear that Smith is bankrupt"
and (Which Smith," was the stereo.
typed reply.
500 my vocal lessons disturb you?"
asked the young woman with musical
ambition. "Not that l know of, " re-
piled the truthful young man. "Why,
should think you'd know if they
did," "No. Since the dentist took
the front room on the first floor, L
can't tell whether you're practising
music or he's practising on his
patients. Dublin World.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
THE PLEDGE OF We.
/ pledged nv soul to dwell with Lovo

Ipledged my soul to dwell with Lovo
In the joy Of sweet content,
In n snow.white cot with the blooms above
By singing robin and signing dove,
Oh, | pledged my soul to dwell With love
But the tithe-men came for rent!
And Love had neither purse nor scrip
The tithe-men heard him Sigh;
But what cared they for his rosy lips,
For the thrilling touch Of nnger-tip-
Or tho honey-blooms that the brown bco.
sip,
Or tho light Of loving eye?
"Pack and travel" They cried, and far
Over valleys and plains we wenij
But We saw tho light ofa reckoning star,
And the land where the fairy dwellings arc:
Love tossed his curls at the tithc-men far,
And kissed his hands TO the remit
r. L. Stanton, IN Atlanta Constitution.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
FARM And GARDEN NOTES.
ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE
FARMER.
"amedy for scaly Legs Raise Draft
Horses-Weauing the Dairy caIf-sl-
ago sEperenoe-Amateur Agriculture
REMEDY FOR SONY Lees

NEMEDf FOR SCALY LEGS.
a writer in Farm Poultry gives a
remedy for scaly legs. She says: 81
take a quart can full Of lard, coal oil
ana crude carbolic acid and set the can
in an old bucket, piling hot ashes and
some Goals around It. Then with a
SWAP, made by wrapping rags to the
end OF stick, ! proceed to the hen
house, and, holding each perch over
the bucket, sliding it along as grease
completely fill every crack and crew
Ice with the mixture. The lard cools
rapidly, leaving the perch very greasy,
and the legs Of the fowls roostinp in
such perches look bright and clean. It
serves two-fold purpose-rldding the
perches of lice and preventing scaly
legs. have never had case of 1t
among my fowls, This work can be
done in cold weather. as the grease
will keep hot, and 1t is less trouble
some than treating even one fowl after
it gets the disease"
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
nYinegar REIe."

The "Vinegar Bible" was thus
named from a ludicrous typographical
blunder-"1he Parable OF the Vine
yard" in the twentieth chapter of
Luke, being made to read ''rhe Para.
BILE of the Vinegar" This edition of
the Bible was published in 17l7, and
most of the copies we're destroyed by
the publishers. though several got into
circulation before the blunder was dis
covered. 1t is asserted that no more
than dozen copies of this book are
now in existence.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

pretty little village in the central por-
ton Of the State surrounded by rich
farming lands and valuable ore and
sand mines. Joseph Strobe IS in his
eighty-second year and It Is believed he
win hold his job until he IS too old 10
fill 1t. He Is the pride and the joy Of
the Postofiice Department in Washing
ton, which placed his picture in the
Government display at the Worlds
Fair The oldest postmaster is Re
publican and has never missed voting
since he was allowed to vote. He has
never been i'll and is possessed Of all
his faculties. He was appointed dur
ing the administration Of Presiden'
Do1Iy
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
MADE A GREAT suooEss-
An Editor Who Knew Nothing Ahor
the Business, but Mndo

a
the business, but Made Monsv
wns talking with printer tho ohio
Jay who worked for number of voar
at harrington, Mimi, for man Nv TN
uame OF Squires. At one time hc no,
partner by the name Of Farmer IN,
urn name being Farmer q sm,res
one day when the press was boln,
loaded the go dropped ont Ieovin'
pam Farmer Squlres, ana the edition
was run off before It was noticed. Mar
nler sold out the next day but If WA
FARMER Squlres' paper from that ON
re nlaue Il big success Of the paper, nj
though he didn't know a four.plco len
from a tworeyolutlon Hoe, and h
ana not do n thing toward running fin.
paper except making contracts for for
elgn adyertislng-that was his stron,
point; he got hay knives, flaming mills
sewing machines, pile drivers, wasbln,
machines for advertising; he accentet
all propositions including patent medI
cine and scholarships. The printer bat
TO do the rest; he built the fires, set th,
type, got the news, attended TO tint
political and moral end OF the paper
smoked the wedding cigars; CHASED
over the county on a bay horse aftel
subscribers, took the blame and looked
happy-and the proprietor edited thu
trading end. lie traded farm machin
cry for cows, hogs, hens, grain, wood
anything to sell, eat or burn. Once ht
had an angry COW tied to the front dool
of the printing office that he had traded
n hay rake for The cow tore the
clothes almost Off the mayor Of the
town, who rushed into the Office so mad
that he forgot to stop the paper, but ht
scared the devil SO bad that he STONED
his growth. Sometimes there would
be an auction at the Office, and Squires
would stand on the bed of the Fair
haven press and sell n lot of truck 81
there would be room in the office to gel
out the paper, but he never got stucB
on anything and finally sold out fol
n big figure on the strength of his
profits, which quit with hlm.-Graftor
Record
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
his Rnoster Is a Patron Of Music.

Farmer Judson, of Tuscarora, Penn,
has a rooster with marked musical tai
ent. The sound of the piano will at
tract the bird to the mouse, and, when
permitted, it will jump upon the keys
of the instrument. hopping back and
forward. making discordant sounds.
Occasionally it will perch upon chair
and listen sttentively to the music.
When a particularly lively air is play
cd it will flap its wings and crow loud
iy,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
Lutner's Wedding Ring.

Luther's wedding ring was a most
elaborate affair, containing representa-,
tons of all the articles used at the
crucifxlon; the ladder, the cross, the
rope, the nails, the hammer, the spear,
the thorns, We're all shown in the cir
conference Of this peculiar piece Of
jewelry.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
Great Place for Shining.

Over 1000 ships of ali kinds and
sizes pass up and down the English
Channel every twonty-four hours, and
there are scarcely ever less than 200
near Lands End, leaving or bearing
up for the Channel,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

continuous service,
for Mr.. Strobe has
held his position Of
master Of the mails
at Strode's Mills
since 1916, despite
changes Of admins
tratlons, political
upheayals, war and
rumors Of W a r,
Strode's Mills Is q
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

30 piing them about and are always more
complete and lasting when they proceed with
steady regularity TO a contamination Few OF
me observant among us can have failed TO no
tice that permanently honlthful changes in the
human system are not wrought by abrupt and
Nolont means, and that those are the most sal
uiary medicines which are progressive. Hos
letters stomach Bittors is the chief Of these
Dyspepsia, disease Of obstinate character, is
Opltteratnd by H.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

The average life Of a theatcr is TWEEN
ty-three years, From 1861 to 1867 IN
elusive, 1S7 theaters were burnt down
and twelve every year since has been
nhont the aYernge.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

Over 400, 600 cured. Why not let No-To-B ao
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed 80 cents and 51.00, at all
druggists.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

Lydia Compound painful
situation and acach The pain in back dreadful and the
during menstruation nearly wild
thanks Pinkham
V. WILLIAMS Mills, N.
of testimony cneuv Lydia Pnhams
Vegetable Compound remedy OF
rregulary suppressed, painful monthly periods
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

IT takes backbone to take any kind of q
stand that will leave man standing alone
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

Love is dead when the husband begins to
grudge the money it takes TO support his
wife
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

More Of that kind of religion is needed
that will make man do right every day il
the week.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
? THE OLDEST POSTMASTER.

He Is Joseph Strobe aud Was APP
pointed by President Polk.
T.. Joseph Strobe, Of Mldiin County Pa,
is the oldest postmaster in the United
States. That is to say, the oldest IN
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

what remarkable man Monocle Is
so far-sighted you know" Yes; apt
yet he's so near-sighted that he can
see two feet without his glassesr-
Philadelphia North American
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17
STATE OF OHIO, CRY OF TOLEDO, 60. Y

When acknowledgements gets up in tbs
night to pray nobody can sleep.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-04-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething softens the gums, reduces lnuanm%
ton, ayspain, cures wind cole. zoe. pottIe'