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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

The pheasant of the Mongolian kind
will in few short years succeed the
juail as the popular American game
5ird. The pheasant has not only its
oothsome qualities to recommend it,
,ut its beauty, in waving plumage OF
'avishing hues, and therefore Will
prove a prize that every sportsman
will endeavor to secure when the sea-
,on is once open for it's slaughter. 1t
las unduly attracted the attention OF
.ur sporting gentlemen for many years
n consequence of its successful in
reduction on the Pacific Slope, and
low many Eastern States are introduce
ng the Mongolian bird into their
domains. In Ohio alone over 200
birds were liberated this year, and in
several Southern and Eastern States
he bird has been introduced for
breeding purposes.
The male bird has the cheeks naked
md the bightest scarlet, minutely
,pecked with black; the crown of the
lead bronze green on each side OF
he occiput tuft of dark golden green
Gathers capable of being erected at
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Nut-bearing Trees.

The chestnut, black walnut, butter
nut, shellbark, hickory and Japan
walnut may all be grown in your vi
cinity. There are no varieties offered
of the butternut and black walnut and
Japan walnut, and yet some improve
ment on the ordinary form can be had
by planting only nuts from trees
bearing choice fruits. OF the chest
nuts there are many varieties, some of
which had originated from our native
chestnuts, and others from the Euro
pean and Japanese forms. Seedlings
from our best native sorts have gem
orally proven most profitable in culti-
vation, though the nuts may not be as
large as the grated kinds. Among
the best of the foreign kinds, and per-
haps of all named sorts, is the Par
agon chestnut. There are several va
rieties of the shellbark hickory, but
they are propagated with SO much un-
certainty that they are very difficult
to obtain. Among the best is Hale's
paper she'll hickory, which has been
propagated in a small way. The
chestnut undoubtedly promises better
returns in cultivation than any other
of our cultivated nuts.-Farm News.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

'forsaking all others cleaves unto her.
Hence, to breed these birds success
fully it is essential that cock be pro-
vided for each hen.
"The Mongolian pheasant is a
prairie bird and is seldom found in or
about the timber. He likes the tall
grass, ferns, wheat stubbles and low
bushes, such as the wild rose and the
buckbrush. After the young birds
reach full growth they do not congre-
gate in large foc1s, as do the prairie
chickens, but are found alone, in
pairs, or in small focks of five or six.
They feed on grain, insects and green
vegetables, such as red clover, cab
bage, etc. These birds are great
favorites with sportsmen. The mag
nifcent plumage of the cock almost
rivals that of the peafowl in beauty.
His prevailing colors are gold and
bronze, with touches of black. He
also has a clear white ring about the
neck. The head and upper half OF
the neck have blush green of change
able shade, similar to that of the NAL
lard duck.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

made of milk and eggs, and should be
given fresh at least five times a day.
Care should be taken not to feed too
much at time, so as to keep the coop
clean, for if the place becomes foul it
will tend to breed disease, and the
young birds may die from diarrhea.
The food for the young birds for
the second week should consist of
custard and milk curd. The custard
should be given three times day,
and milk curd, which should be mixed
with equal parts of ground hemp and
canary seed, should be given twice o
day. A common coffee mill will an
swer the purpose for grinding the
seeds.
Some young lettuce and young onion
tops, chopped fine, should be added
to both the custard and milk curd.
The young birds should be given
plenty of green food by placing lettuce
or young clover in the coops.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

done to test her staying qualities.
The eggs should then be placed under
the hen at night time. after removing
the hens eggs.
Food and water should be placed in
the runway SO the hen can subsist
during incubation.
The eggs should be examined every
day, and for this purpose the lid or
roof of the box should be lifted while
the hen is out in the runway, SO that
none become broken or soiled. Should
any of the eggs become soiled from
broken eggs or otherwise, they should
be cleansed by taking rag wet with
tepid water and wiping them, but do
not place the eggs in water.
It takes from twenty-five to twenty
four days for the eggs to hatch.
After the eggs have been under the
hen twenty days, they should be
sprinkled with lukewarm water twice
a day. This is necessary in order to
aid the young birds to leave the shell.
The runway and box should fit close
to the gsound to prevent the young
birds from leaving, as they will surely
leave the hen as soon as they are out
of the shell, unless this precaution is
needed. The hen and Young birds
should be kept closely in the box for
twenty-four hours after they are
hatched, and should not be allowed to
have either food or drink. At the end
of twenty-four hours both hen and
young birds may be let out into the
runway. Give the hen all the corn
she will eat. This will keep her from
eating the food of her young.
The food for the young birds for
the first week should be Of custard,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
BOX ts0 RUNWAY FOR AA1cAIhe PHEASANT.

''The pheasant gives out stronger
scent than the blue grouse or the
prairie chicken, and lies better to the
dog. During the open season, Sep
tember 1st to December 1st, IN hours
drive in any direction from Eugene will
bring one into the shooting grounds.
The law limits shooter to twenty birds
each day, but this number is often
killed in a few hours.
with suitable inclosure and rea-
sonable amount of patience these birds
can be successfully propagated any
where if the climate be not too severe.
They cannot be tanned or domestica-
ted. After months of captivity they
are as wild as when first taken. They
are game first, last and all the time.
"The flesh of the Mongolian pheas-
ant is almost as white as that of the
domestic chicken and has pronounced
'gamey' flavor, much appreciated by
all lovers of wild meat"
Following are instructions, given by
writer in the ST. Louis Star, for
propagating pheasants:
A box should first be constructed.
The runway, which is covered with
wire netting, is detachable from the
box at the end, wherein the hen is set,
and where the hen and young birds
are protected from storm and cold.
Both the runway and the box are
placed on the ground.
To construct nest take a square
piece of sod about the size of the box
and in the centre cut out round
space about the size of common hens
nest.
Very little cry leaves or cEaff should
De placed ia the bottom OF the nest.
Disinfeot the hen with insect pow
aer before placing her upon the nest.
Ihe aen should be placed upon the
nest with some common eggs for at
least two days before placing the
pheasant eggs under her. This is
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Largest Mule In the World.

The largest mule in the world C.
rived in Chicago on Saturday, and is
staying at the stockyards for short
time. The animal is not destined to
be slaughtered, for it is bound for
London, where it is to become the star
attraction in a menagerie, and it will
doubtless be placarded as San average
American mule. The mule is nine
teen hands % inches high, and weighs
1880 pounds. It is nine years old.
The discoverer of the animal is T.
P. Brown, a stockyards dealer, who
found it on its native heath in South.
western Missouri. He believed that
his find was not in its proper environ
ment, and succeeded in disposing of
it to an English animal tamer.-Chi,
cago Dispatch.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
A Popularity of Blind Fishes.

The great majority of fishes can
change their colors to adapt them
selves to their surroundings. Some
fishes can make extraordinary changes; !;
there are many that can make them
selves so like the rocks near which
they may be, or the bottom in which
they lie partly imbedded, that they
are practically indistinguishable. 1t
is striking peculiarity of the blind
fish that it does not change its colors
with its surroundings, but remains al
ways the same, and the uniform color
which it thus preserves is always
darker than the normal color Of the
other fishes of the same kind in the
same waters. New York Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
cided on will in all probability be
adopted at the present sitting of Con.

cided on will in all probability be
adopted at the present sitting of Con.
gress.
The cavalry will be put in hussar
uniforms of black fur busby, tight
tunic braided across the breast, riding
trousers and Hessians boots. They
will excel even the smartest of the
English, French, German or Austrian
cavalry, and will make that branch of
the United States Army one of the
prettiest dressed in the world. The
helmet will be entirely discarded.
For the artillery and infantry will
be adopted busby similar to those
worn by our cavalryin the Revolution,
and by the city troops to-day. The
change in the artillery and infantry
uniforms will be slight
The picture on the left shows how
Uncle Sans cavalry now looks. The
one on the right portrays how he will
look in his new clothes.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Poultry Notes.

Put the growth on the chicks before
freezing weather comes, for then il
will take more feed and the chicks will
stop growing.
The duck is what we call ''water
fowl" and yet Mr.. Rankin, the noted
poultryman of the east, raised ducks
with only enough water for drinking
purposes.
Do not feed heavy one day and
light the next, but give the poultry
Just as much as they need and no
more; and give it to them as regular
times each day.
Keep as many fowls on the farm as
you can properly care for. There is
no danger of the market becoming
overstocked and having to sell poultry
and eggs below the cost of raising.
To keep fowls free from vermin and
disease needs constant attention and a
good deal of dirty and disagreeable
work. But you cannot expect 10 sue
ceed unless you give them this atten-
tion.
Floorless houses, we'll sanded, per-
mits the hen to "kill time" and tc
secure exercise by scratching, and il
the foundations are we'll built with
stone no refuge is afforded for rats and
insects.
Warm, substantial henhouses that
do not have to be artificially heated
mean saving in feed and an increase
in eggs. Houses that are neither
wind nor weather proof are a source
of continual loss. Fowls lose their
natural hardness and vigor when win
tered in artificially heated houses.
Build them as warm as boards, lath,
plaster aud paper can make them, and
il possible located in sheltered spot.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

'leasure, and very conspicuous in the
'airing season; upper part of the neck
lark green, CLOSED with purple and
violet blue; lower part of the neck,
'reast and flanks deep reddish orange,
howing in some positions beautiful
elections of light purple; each feath-
bordered and terminated with pansy
urple; center of the belly and thighs
lackish brown; center of the back
nd scapular feathers black or brownish
lack, surrounded with yellowish
'hite band and bordered with deep
eddish orange; lower part of the back
nd upper tail covert green, inter-
hinged with brownish orange and
urplish red; tail feathers brown
rossed by bands of black and fringed
18th reddish brown; bill pale yellow;
'gs and toes grayish black. The
amale has cheeks covered with small
iosely set feathers, and the whole of
he plumage yellowish brown, mingled
it'll different shades Of gray, brown
nd black.
In a recent article in Recreation. a
Portlhg magazine, ". M. Miller. of
.ugene, Oregon, tells of the Mongolian
heasant which was introduced into
nat State about twenty years ago
.om China and which has attracted
ae attention of hunters throughout
ne Unitcd States. Mr.. Miller says
this interesting bird:
cit was introduced into Oregon by
udge o. N. Deming and has multi
lied until, in the prairie sections of
Western Oregon, it outnumbers any
ther game bird. The reason of the
reat increase probably lies in the fact
hat it matches two broods, of sixteen
twenty, each season. When the
hicks are about three weeks old the
en- turns the family over to the care
the cock, she laying again. The
ock is not a Mormon, in any sense of
lie word. He selects one hen, and
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Potatoes Rotting in Cellar.

There is great deal of rotting
among potatoes, and yours rot prob
ably all the worse because kept in a
cellar where the temperature is sure
to be too warm, says the Boston Cul-
tivator to correspondent in Pawlet,
VT. The bulk of the crop where many
potatoes are grown should be stored
in pits, and some lime sprinkled over
them as they are put in. The lime
dries the moisture and prevents the
spread of rot should it begin. We
think that rot IL potatoes is due to a
deficiency OF carbon in the tuber ow
ing either to disease OF the vine and
leaves or their destruction by the po-
tato beetle. The sap goes from root
to leaf, where, if the leaf be whole and
healthy, it is filled with carbon from
the carbonic acid gas which the leaf
has absorbed from the air, and this is
what makes the starch of the tuber.
If the sap is not charged with carbon
by the leaves, it makes the potato
watery and waxy. 1t is then easily
the victim of the spores which in any
potato crop are nowadays produced in
abundance and which cause rot. There
is no year when some potatoes will
not rot. But lime spread over them
corrects the deficiencies of the potato
SO far as it can reach its juices. 1t is
possibly this as much as it's drying eff
fects which checks the spread of rot.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Outdoor Rearing of Swine.

There are great advantages IL rails
ing swine in open lots or fields over
that of in pens OF other close contine.
ment. Pure air and the exercise that
can here be taken, help to make pure
blood, which in the course of nature
builds up healthy bodies. However,
pigs thus reared with free run and
plenty of exercise would not be sc
likely to show SO we'll at the fairs, and
would likely be passed over by both
judges and people, simply because it
has become the prevailing idea that
only the great, gross, helpless pig is
the model Of improvement. OF course
such pigs are we'll adapted to fill lard
cans, but not so likely the larder with
good, helthy pork or bacon.
Pigs which are reared in open pas.
lures are most likely to be well de-
veioped, any way, much more so than
those reared in close confinement; they
have good appetites, promoted by
fresh air, and exercise, hence they will
eat great variety of food, and better
digest it than when confined in pens.
Also great saving is made by it, for
they will consume all the refused
fruits, roots, and all kinds of vege
tables, and these serve to stimulate
their appetites and make them grow.
By extending the root patch, and
planting the fodder-corn thinner, sc
that some corn will form on it, and by
having little clover lot from which
to cut soiling feed, the number of pigs
may be proportionally increased. And
a very great advantage where it can
be had, is clover field for the pigs to
run on, both as a matter of health and
economy, as they will keep in good
condition, and grow rapidly thereon,
with but little other food.
Where they can be had, there should
be three pastures or ranges for hogs,
one for the dry sows and store hogs,
one fer the sows which are sucking
pigs, and one for the young pigs when
weaned. With such arrangements the
most economic management nay be
had. Dry sows and shoats or store
pigs need but little, if any other food
than the pasture atfords-especially if
of clover-while the sow's sucking
pigs require pasture anu SOME leeuluS,
and the pigs when three or four weeks
old also need extra food. There should
also be had pen into which the pigs
could slip, that they may be fed to
themselves. The extra or third pas
ture mentioned, if connected with the
one in which the sucking sows run, is
the place to feed the sucking pigs,
and if older pigs run i'll here, pen
should be built to feed them in; then
when weaving time comes they will
be accustomed to the place, and it will
be an easy matter to shut them into
this pasture for extra feeding.
Altogether for the improvement in
the condition and health of swine, the
production of better and more whole
some pork, it is certainly of the first
Importance to keep them as much as
possible out on the broad, airy pas
lures. 1t does not take many genera
tions of confinement and lack of sue
culent food, with excessive fatness as
is produced from corn feeding, to
break down and destroy the vital en-
ergy of any animal, and especially so
of swine, as is attested where confine-
ment and high feeding has been the
rule. j. I. Baird.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Poor Food Makes Poor Manure.

There are few points of prime i'm
portance in the production of man
ures, and the experience of scientific
Investigators is free to all who care to
learn. We might expect that the
quality of the manure will depend
upon the character of the feed. Poor
food makes poor manure and vice
versa. There is no magic i'll nature,
she is very strict accountant, and
just to give for value received. BUTT
often will happen that the feed given
to stock does not cost either in pro-
portion to its feeding value nor in pro-
portion to the value of manure pro-
duced. A relatively poor feed in
these respects may be high in price,
while that feed which is rich may be
bought low. Few would believe that
ton of good clover hay is more val
liable feed for some stock and produces
more valuable manure than ton of
corn. And yet the experimenters so
teach.
The elements of prime importance
in manure are nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and potash, and if the feed con
tains these constituents in good meas
ure the excrements will contain them
to almost the same extent. For it is
quite we'll settled that from 65 to 80
per cent. of these constituents are re-
covered in the excrements. Hence.
if we feed stuff that is rich in these
elements the manures resulting will
also be rich. Readers of the Epito-
mist doubtless know that the follow
ing common foods contain these ele-
ments in large measure and in the
order mentioned: Cotton cake, lin
seed meal, peas, beans, bran, oats,
clover hay, and these feeds will give
the richest manures. 1t is not claimed
that these feed stuffs are better than
corn for fattening purposes, but first
that they yield the richest manures
and second that they supply the ele-
ments especially necessary for all
growing stock. Hence, it is good
policy sometimes to sell corn and buy
bran. There are seasons of the year
when bran is very low in car lots. as
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
Sand in the Food.

Sand is no substitute for gravel, and
the mixing of sand in the poultry food
is useless. When coarse grit is swal-
lowed by the fowl it is voided before
it becomes as fine as sand. Grit pro-
vides the mechanical appliances for
grinding the food in the gizzard. 1t
really cuts the food, hence the sharper
the edges the more it is preferred by
poultry. When grit becomes worn
until round and smooth it is passed
on as useless. In using grit, there
fore, endeavor to secure that which is
hard and sharp. Sand is of no value
whatever as grit.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
The Most Interesting Monkey in Existence.

The Most Interesting Monkey in Existence.
You see here young lady protege
of Professor James Harvard's, psyche
logist and authority on thought trans
ference. The young lady's name is
Sally and she is the side partner of
Joe, who is not less accomplished than
Sally as an educated chimpanzee and
all around cultured Bostonian. Sally
is about the most human monkey in
the world. She has very pronounced
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
~, Ancient Toll Abolished.

Windsor bridge across the Thames
has just been freed from its two-penny
toll through the greed Of the corpora.
tion. This had an undoubted right to
collect tolls from prescription as they
had been taken since the reign OF
Henry vi. 1t asked Parliament in
1874, and again in 1919, for power to
charge additional tolls, and obtained
it for a limited number Of years. The
privilege expired about ten years ago,
but the corporation continued to col.
lect the money till litigious Briton
refused to pay, thus bringing the mat.
ter to the attention of the courts.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

An express driver in Chicago, who
was locked up over night for driving
his horse and delivery wagon in q
funeral procession against the protes-
tations of the mourners, pleaded i'll
the morning that his horse once be-
longed to an undertaken, and he could
not overcome in the brute the infu
ence of old associations. He was dis
charged without fine.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

In Mexico City ''first-class Ameri.
can butter, made by an expert" is ad.
vertised at fifty and fifty-six cents a
pound, at wholesale and retail, re.
s-ectively.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

likes and dislikes. She abhores to-
bacco, but has soft spot in her heart
for perfumes, iewelry and other things
dear to femininity. She sleeps in
real bed with real bed clothing and
likes to be tucked in snug, and che
dresses herself unaided with all the
care of debutante.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27

low as timothy hay, while the bran is
almost twice as valuable for feed and
manure as the hay. Sometimes one
can sell timothy hay and clover hay
to advantage. A little clear knowle lge
and thought are as important to the
farmer as to the banker. OF securities
whose safety is undoubted it needs
but little in the life and income OF
the paper to determine which ths
banker will buy. And why should not
farmer buy and sell with as much
intelligence as banker?-The Epi'
tomist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-27
NEW UNIFORMS FOR THE ARMY.

Uncle Sans Men to BE Clad in the Pret-
test Uniforms In the World.
The United States Army is to change
it's style of dress uniform. General
Miles and his staff have been consider
ing the matter for some time, and the
suggestions which the General has de-
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-05-05
MONEY FOR THE NAVY.
Secretary Long Gives Figures Showing
Where S15.OoO.OOO Can BE Used in
Addition to Ayers Request.

WASHINGTON, May S.-The secretary
of the navy has sent to the secretary
of the treasury for transmission to con-
gress, to be included in the urgent de-
ficiency bill, estimates of appropria.
lions required by the navy department
to complete the service of the current
fiscal year and the next fiscal wear.
ending June so, 1899, amounting to
slS,4so, 600. This is in addition to the
Ssh ol9'99s asked for last week by the
secretary OF war. The items specified
are as follows:
Coast signal system. etc, as, 900; eopi,r,,e-.
OF vessels. including coal etc 81 600 900. sf,aTn
machinery, labor and material for repairing
SsSseis, etc. IL $500; construction anu repairs
ofyesselS etc, 81 500, 900; ordnance and o7fnancs
stores etc, 10000; for purchase OF Contingent
stores transportation of supplies etc. fsos
Sooooi same for 1899 saoo. 600. provisions
iaoor pay offices etc, 1895, 81 600 900; same for
1884, SS0o0,00 sS'4--e A0F