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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
RCUP

When the chilly winds of winter
begin to howl about the crack
bedecked hen houseand surge through
the broken glass, or with a doleful
moan find the knotholes, is a harvest
time for the deadly roup. Speaking
of this worst enemy OF the poultry .
man, P. H. Jacobs says:
"For the roup give a teaspoonful of
raw egg white and yolks slightly
beaten together), three times a day.
For swelled eyes, anoint once a day
with vaseline, and sprinkle a pinch OF
chlorate of potash down the throat.
Add a teNspoonful OF chlorate of pot
ash to every pint OF drinking water.
Keep the birds warm and feed meat,
raw or cooked, as part of the ration.
Mix pint of spirits of turpentine
with bushel of lime that has air
Stacked. Mix it intimately, and You
may use more turpentine if you
prefer. Scatter it everywhere, on
floors, yards, roosts, in nests and do
not miss a square inch of space. Clean
out the house and scatter lime daily.
Do not waste time and labor after you
find you can do nothing, but destroy
the birds. We never saw q fowl cured
of roup that was ever worth keeping
Disinfeet everything and get new
stock from healthy birds, and always
use the lime every week. Saturate
everything, yards especially, with the
disinfeetant. Here is a good disin.
fectant; One pound Of copperas, one
pound of bluestone (sulphate OF
copper, and SIX gallons of hot water.
Dissolve the minerals in the water and
add a pint of sulphuric acid. With
n watering pot you can apply it every,
where. Do this three times a week
before you get other fowls. Burn OF
bury the bodies of all roupy birds.
Scald the troughs, roosts, floors, etc.
with the disinfecting liquid by heating
it, Burn up all the old nests. n
fact, clean out all the germs, or rouT
will come back again. Fam, Field
and Firaside.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
"p1scoxNEcrEp NOTES.

Harvey johnson, OF Logan, Iowa,
in an address to the Nebraska Dairy
Association, gives the following as
disconnected notes upon what we
have learned from experience and what
we are using in our business:"
From the beginning we have had
plan, and are constantly working by it.
Everything is done at certain time
and on time.
We never forget to look after the
comfort of every COW aud are careful
that every storm finds her in her stall.
We prefer the swinging stanchion.
Oats and corn ground together, with
little oil meal added, some bright
cut fodder and clover hay, make q
model feed for the dairy.
Fodder cut soon after the corn is in
roasting ears is generally relished by
the COW, but the results are not as sat
isfactory as when it is cut later.
We have found that careless feeder
can use great deal of feed from which
we get no returns.
We allow no tobacco used in the
barn nor creamery.
The COWS are MIXED at the same
hour each day, in the same order and
by the same person.
A COW that wants more than thirty
or sixty days rest we do not want.
Separator milk, If fed while it retains
its natural warmth, has feeding value
of four cents per gallon.
We usually get two and one-half
pounds of butter from each gallon of
cream.
We have found that there is a great
difference in dairy salt.
We study the demands of the mar.
ket and the tastes of our customers.
We allow nothing whatever kept in
the creamery except the cream and
butter and the machinery tor hand
ling them.
We know of no business where the
careful attention to detail counts for
as much as IN the dairy business.
Running the churn just one minute
too long will often do for butter what
the most expert butter maker cannot
undo.
When out butter is finished it does
not usually contain more than twelve
per cent. of water.
We aim to have the butter entirely
free from buttermilk.
If we fail on batch Of butter our
regular customers never see it; it is
put in a tub and sent where it is un.
known.
We have found dairying a paying
business even in these dull times Of
depression.
We know of nothing upon the farm
that will give as steady an income as
the making and selling of good butter.
We would never employ a young
fellow who has a girl without we were
prepared to take a double dose of
milking on Sunday nights.
Lastly, we have found that, unless q
man likes to stay at home, and unless
he is on friendly terms with steady
work, we would hardly advise him to
engage in the dairy business.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
The Head Tree.

The difference in the strength of the
affinity existing between different sub.
stances may be easily illustrated by the
following experiment: Dissolve an
ounce of acetate of lead ("sugar OF
lead') IN quart of water and fill a
glass jar with the solution. II piece
of zinc Tor few spirals of the same
meta) be now suspended in the liquid,
it will, after a short time, become COW
cred with gray coating, from which
brilliant metallic spangles will shoot
forth somewhat in the shape of a tree.
These are pure lead, and the phenom-
enon is familiarly known as the "lead
tree. j" The effect thus produced is
due to the superior affinity of the zinc
for the acetic acid combined with the
lead, and which causes the two metals
to interchange places--the zinc COM
bining with the acid and entering into
solution and the lead being deposited
in the metallic state in place OF the
zinc. If the action be kept up long
enough, every particle of lead may in
this way be withdrawn from the
liquid. Scientific American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
PROTECT THE PUBLIC.

"Now, IL the manufacture and sale OF
Intoxicating liquors injure no one but the
manufacturer and seller, Government may
have no right to prevent them from doing
these things; but If, on the other hand, this
traffic is harmful to others; If it diminishes
both the freedom and the goods of others,
by creating criminal class TO prey upon
both, and n pauper class TO be supported at
the public expense, then, according to the
principle l have been discussing, Govern
ment not only has the right but is under
solemn obligation to prohibit this traffic.
Under such circumstances, 'the private
right of SALE II there ever was such right,
has become subordinate to the public right
Of protection
"rhe cry is frequently heard, Where will
the money come from to ran the Govern
ment II we abolish the liquor trafic?' At
lanta and other great cities have been known
to quake over this question. What will we
do to defray the municipal expenses IL we
lose the license tax on barrooms? A prob
lem similar to this was once propounded to
England's greatest Prime Minister. His
reply was give me q sober people, not
wasting their earnings, and 1 will know
where the revenue Is TO come FROM
'At the close OF the year 1887, when At
lanta had prohibition, tho city treasurer
turned over TO the new council for 1883
surplus OF 100000 In cash. 1t was never so
before. am not aware that il has ever been
so since. Rev. ]. W. Roberts, Atlanta, Ga.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

'in the last experiment where con-
ditions were more nearly equal, the
heiiefs made n slightly greater aver
age gain from correspondingly less
feed, and at less cost than the steers.
"ln the first experiment both lots
of heifeTs sold for S4.75 per cwt in
Chicago, and the steers S5.75 on tho
same market. In the second expert
ment both lots of heifers sold for
SA.2 90 and the steers for S4.50. All Of
these cattle topped their respective
classes on the market.
"rhe percentage of dressed beef
made in the first experiment was 62.S,
g. 4, and 63.2 by the spayed, and open
heifers and steers respectively; and in
the second experiment it was 81. AZ,
6S. SO, and 6I05 by the spayed, and
open heifers, and steers respectively.
In both experiments the heifers have
made about one per cent more weight
in the high priced cuts of meats than
the steers.
Carefully conducted slaughter and
block tests have not revealed any ma
terial difference IN the character, com.
position or quality of the meat from
the steers and heifers used in these
'But little if any benefit has been
derived from spaying.
"ln both cases the heifers have given
more profitable carcasses on the block,
even when granting the higher valua-
tion put on the leading cuts from the
steers"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
Hoods Pills ssEs aEs dasy aiyeE to Dei Dporafe sesE
New Musical Instrument.

The horns of COWS, goats and rams
are indeed the oldest of musical in.
strumeats. Even before the Psalmisi
sang, "Blow ye the horn in the new
moon," the Scholar" or rams horn,
had been heard for thousands of years
in the synagogues of the people OF
Israel. Hunters, shepherds and sol
diers alike used these natural instru
ments, while from the towers and bat
Elements of medieval castles the
sound Of the horn gave notice of the
coming of friend or foe. And it is not
very long since the spear armed watch.
man walked the streets of the cities tc
time his melancholy signal notes. The
animal horn, as a musical instrument,
has recently come again to honor
through the Berlin Court instrument
maker, who has fashioned from the
horn of an African antelope wind in
strument that. with its beautiful,
penetrating and far reaching tone, ex
cells all metal horns. This new
"Kriegshorn" is feet / inches long,
is skilfully bored through to the
point, and fitted with an ordinary
trumpet mouth-piece. It is pitched
in the key of G, and has, like the
Prussian oignal horn, the following
very useful natural tones, G, G. c, 4
and G.
This antelope horn was tried at the
late military maneuvers and attracted
general attention. Even Emperor
William expressed his admiration OF
it, and recommended the new instru
ment 10 the Minister of War for fur.
ther trial. -Illustrite Zeitung.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
now pnuNKARps AnE MApE.

In various ways. Here is one. nNow,
you watch those children. They'll drink
half that beer before they get home, and
their mother will scod me for not giving a
good pint. and I've given nearly quart,
said bartender OF n down town saloon the
other day, referring to two little girls OF six
and eight, thinly clad, who came for a pint
of beer. They had scarcely got outside the
saloon door when the one that carried the
lin pale lifted it to her lips and took Il
draUght. Then her companion enjoyed a
few swallows. A little farther On they en-
tered a tenement house hallway, and both
again took a sip.
II have lots Of such customers" " said the
bartender, when the reporter returned to the
saloon to light his cigar. "Grls and boys
and women form halt our trade. We call 1t
family trade. 1t pays our expenses. Our
profits come from the drinkers at the bar.
But tell you what-half the children who
come here drink. That's how drunkards are
made. Their parents send them for beer.
They see the ole folks tipple, and begin 10
taste the beer themselves. Few Of the chill
dren who come in here for beer or ale carry
full pint home. Sometimes two or three
come in together, and II you'll watch them
you'll hear one begging the one who carries
the pail for a sip. We must sell it, however.
when their parents send for it, We are
bound to do so. Business is business. We
don't keep temperance shop. New York
Herald.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

Spraying experiments that have
been conducted for two years by the
Missouri Station indicate that apple
scab can be prevented by the use of
Bordeaux mixture. Four applications
were found more eflicacious than
three. In orchards sprayed in 1894
there was less scab than in the un-
sprayed ones. Bitter rot, while more
destructive than usual, was less preva.
lent on trees sprayed with a six pound
solution of Bordeaux mixture. At
tacks of codling moth we're not pre-
vented by the use of arsenios, the in.
jury being due, the author thinks, to u
second brood of the mouth appearing
after the use OF arsenics had been dis
continued. Bordeaux mixture was
efficient in causing less loss from plum
rot where the trees were sprayed
weekly throughout the ripening
period. At this time ammoniacal
copper carbonate solution is recon-
mended, as it does not leave sedi-
ment that Injuries the appearance of
the fruit. Paris green was used with
success for repressing the curculio.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
srEER AND HEnER BEEF.

The following summarizes expert
ments at spaying aud feeding heifers
and IN feeding steers at the Iowa Ex.
pertinent Station:
"Ihe operation Of spaying temp
arlly retarded the growth OF heifers
eighteen months of age, but heiiers o
year younger we're not perceptibly in
terrupted.
"Ihe cost of feed per pound Of gain
in this experiment was 3. IS cents by
the spayed heiiers, BAT cents by the
open heifers, and $50 cents by the
steers. The former experiment GOV
cred periods of eleven mouths feed.
ing, and the latter fourteen months.
in the former experiment the average
daily gains tor the total period we're,
spaycd heiArs, 2.G7 pounds; open
heifers, l.D pounds; steer7, 2.4l
pounds. In the latter experiments the
gaiur we're, spay6d heli,rs, ]. 20 pounl Is ;
open heifers, 80 pounds steers, J. II
pounds. The lighter gains IN the lat
ter case were due TO the fact that
younger cattle were used, aud also 10
uniayoraJle pasture conditions.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
TEMPERANCE.

LIKE FATHER LIKE son.
The man looked into the cup ono day
Only one glance; thon turned away,
But the demon hid in the sparkling
wine
Thought, zone more glance, and the
man is minel"
And he laughed and danced In his
ruby lair
Till the wine grew foamy and spark.
ling fair.
Another glance did the man bestow,
Aud bis eyes shone bright with u strange
Wild glow.
"Only one dtopl one tastel" thought hei
"What harm can It do to one like me2'
Only one drop he tried at last,
And tho demon seized and held him
fast
"As father does" thinks the little son,
$50 may l." Ana the deed is done.
The demon laughs as the days go by,
Aud chuckles "Another soul have IT,
And the boy cries out, "It is we'll,
know,
Where father leads, l may surely
gow
So years roll on and the man grows old,
Rich in crime but poor in gold
Tho son has reeled to mans estate,
His heart on Ere with sin and hates
Aud the demon tightons his cruel
chain,
While he lures fresh victims to share
their pain.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
RIcn oNcr. A vAonANr Now.

4 man in tattered garments, who said he
was John ID. King. ilfty-six years old, and
homeless, asked Magistrate Wentworth, in
the YorSville Court this morning, to com.
init him to the workhouse as vagrant King
said that he was a decorator, and had once
been employed by the United States Govern.
ment. Whilo the Postoflce Building in this
city was beingerected, he wns employed to
decorate some of the rooms. In eight days.
he said, he.had earned $780, He had also
decorated the Casino Theatre and the Plaza
Hotel among many other Buildings.
Drink, he explained, had been his curse
and had forced his wife to separate from him
thirteen years ago. He had not seen her or
their three children for more than q year.
81 don't bother them, he added. "rbey
have enough to do to look out for them.
selves"
King said that he was frlendless, ana was
so wretched last night from exposure and
hunger, that he made up his mind to end all
his troubles by jumping in.o the East River.
He walked to one Of the docks, in the driving
storm, and stood on the stringpiece. The
sight OF the dark, angry water, however. un,
nervei him, and he shrank in terror from
the scene. All night long he roamcd about
the streets in the storm. the driving snow
cutting his face and benumbing his hands
and feet.
Magistrate Wentworth, in kindly tones
told the unfortunate man that, while he was
himself TO blame for his misfortunes, the
dictates of humanity demanded that he be
given food and shelter. He then committed
King to the workhouse. New York Mail and
Express.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
An Islnnd Of chnIk.

The English island Of Thanet (form.
ing part of the county Of Kent Is
almost wholly composed Of chalk. The
island is ten miles in length and about
FIVE in breadth, and has more chalk
exposed on It's surface than any other
spot of equal area on the globe.
British biologists say that there are
not less than 1000, 200, 600 tons Of
chalk Sin sight" on Thanet, and that
it would take 10000 men and 5000
horses and carts $1,000 years 30 move
it, providing it were dug up ready to
be carried away. st, Louis Republic.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
A Large Currant.

Although no American garden in the
northern half OF our continent is con-
sidered complete without some cur.
rant bushes, it is rare we hear tell of
them growing anywhere to the perfec.
tion that they do in England, although
it is quite possible that they may sue.
cessiully contend for the palm of su-
periority in Canada. The currant
does not ike long spells of warm, dry
weather; under these circumstances
the leaves become a prey to parasite
fungus, and we all know that injury
to leaves is the first step towards de.
terioration. At recent meeting ol
the Royal Horticultural Society in
England, the red currant called the
Comet was exhibited, in which the
punches were six inches long, and
some of the berries half an inch in
diameter. With these figures we may
be able to decide how near American
currant growers can come to this ex.
cellence of their English brethren. -
Meehan's Monthly.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

A little girl in this city took charge
of a friends canary while ago while
the friend was out of town. When
she returned her charge she reported: :
81 think it is all right, but there
was one thing that worried me little
She didn't take any bath yesterday,
although l filed the tub, as usual.
The owner OF the bird laughed.
SOB, that's nothing" " she said. "Yes
terday was Sunday. She never takes
a bath on Sunday. don't know why,
for she never negleets it on othel
days. But so it rs. She has this
ruie,aa she never breaks it. ."-Ghiea
60 Inter Ocean.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
TAKING OUT sruNfPs.

As dynamite is the most powerful
explosive and explodes so quickly as
to tear things to pieces far more effect
lively than black powder, it is deslr-
able TO use it on this account, as we'll
as tor the reason that it will exert its
force when placed loosely under the
body to be torn up. To get ont large
stumps proceed in this way; With an
inch and a quarter iron bar punch O
hole in the ground directly under the
middle of the stump, gently push the
cartridge, made of half stick of dy-
Mantle with the cap and fuse attached,
to the bottom of the hole, then pour
water In the hole to settle the earth
on the cartridge, and light the fuse.
Or some dry, running sand may be run
into the hole. The explosion will tear
a stump three feet in diameter into
shreds, and these are easily gathered
and burned. The holes are then filed
and the land is ready for plowing.
The cost is about twenty-five cents for
large stump, if the work is rightly
done. Rocks may be broken up in the
same way. Or hard.pan ground to be
dug may be broken up much more
cheaply for digging cellar or pit than
by picking it.-American Farmer.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

A lady passenger in Great Western
train was much disturbed in her at,
tempts at a nap by some one singing
in the next compartments 80 she asked
the guard to interfere. That official
did so, and got laughed at for his
pains, and the singing went on. At the
next station the lady sent for the sta.
tionmaster and requested him to sue.
ceed where the guard had failed. The
stationmaster went TO the next com
partment, and Immediately returned
to apologize. 81 am very sorry,
madam" he said, "but really cannot
ask your neighbor to stop singing.
She is Nine. Patti. Chicago Rec
ord
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
RATIONAL PIG FEEDING.

Careful experiments have shown
that the liberal feeding of food rich in
protein--which is the o.called flesh
forming matter of the food greatly
increases the growth Of pigs. The
reason for this is quite evident and
simple. II is that this food so en-
courages the development of Muscular
tissue, OF which the vital organs most
ly consist, that the digestion and as
similation of the food are made much
easier and effective; that the food is
eaten with better appetite, and is far
better digested, In fact, the machine
ry of the pig isso much improved by
this feeding that its work Is done
much more effectively, and conse-
quently so much more probably. -
New England Homestead.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

One of the best known stories in connec-
ton with the late Sir Benjamin Ward Rich
ardson's advocacy Of temperance tells how
he had been on visit to one OF the three or
four small towns in England which have no
public house. Although there were 1000
people there, the doctor was nearly starving.
One day young medical man came TO Sir
Benjamin for advice as to taking the prae-
tice, and Sir BENJAMIN, placing his hands on
the young doctors shoulders, said: Take
my advice ana don't. Those wretched tee
totalers not only shirk accidents. but, when
wounded, heal so fast that there is neither
pleasure nor proat after the first dressing. Z"
Westminster Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
rE1rpERANoE NEWS AND Norrs.

The licensed liquor seller Is a legalized dis
turber of the public peace.
Mother drunk, children begging" is the
cheerful heading in a city paper.
Ii is not decent 70 starve your family by
spending your money In liquor.
The corporation OF the city OF Glasgow has
not granted a new liquor license for eight
years.
The Yonng mau should shun drinking
social party with as much terror as he would
a low liquor den.
For every three shillings invested In the
absolute necessaries OF life, the English peo-
pie spend more than two shillipgs In intoxi-
cants.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
WORDS OF TRurH AND soDERvEss.

The liquor traGlc is feeder OF our iails,
penitentiaries, insane asylums, and poor
houses. II is devourer OF manhood and
womanhood, and, stripped OF all its licensed
legitimacy. il is public oneIny, a tax-eater.
a Moloch, ,devOureT Of body and soul. And the
present large movement against it points to
a time when it shall be put under public repro
baton, and drinking resorts will cease to
haunt their glaring lights at night and tri-
umphanty hang out their banners by day.
These figures show unmistakab.y thar the
youth Of our country can and must be res
cued from the pursuing hand OF this tre-
mendous eyll.-Minneapoli journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20
neceiiml Animals.

In military stables horses are known
TO have pretended to be lame in order
TO avoid going to military exercise.
A chimpanzee had been fed on cake
when sick; after his recovery he often
teigned coughing in or Ter TO procure
dainties. --Boston Bndrot.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

We offer Clnn nu4dftd nolIass Reward f,S
Halls Cataffn c1fe "
Nfs CurNrf e Co. Taiclh. a..
We, the undersigned. have knf,si, n. il t.l,.
pcy Tor tho IN4t 10 year, ard believe him nrr-
fvctlE honQrHhie "a 1h business tfahsacfidhe
and financially nhIo In cnfft out onV ,,li.,,,
ton made BY thtir hrin.
Wtss z q fhpAx, Wholesale nruseists, Toledo,
WAhpfNo, KlNNAF q aknvtx, Wholesale
DrugEIats. Toledo. Ohio.
Halls Cetaffh Cure 4 taken Informally. act
inH directly unQu fho blood and mucous sur.
frice, zoe, per bnttlf. Sold By an Druerissa.
hnlfs Faulty pllla ntc tho hest
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-01-20

Forming our conclusion upon 954 cases
in which the facts were ascertained, we find
lSi, or about SO in every 100, in which the
cred 10 have led TO the insanity OF the per-
son.-Ohief Wadlln, Of the Massachusetts
Bureau Statistics OF Labor.