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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm "A Few
Hints as to tbs Ssre of Live Stock
and Poultry.
The Egg Trade.


The New York Sun, in an article on
the general egg trade, says that the
trade in eggs, their expectation from
one country to another, has become
large item of international commerce,
as some recent figures show. The case
of Denmark is in point. Denmark's
trade in eggs with foreign countries,
chiefly with England and Scotland, has
grown enormously. Twenty years ago
the annual Danish export OF eggs was
100000; now it is reckoned at 10000
600. In the same period the importa-
ton of eggs into England has increased
tenfold, but only part of the whole
number come from Denmark, the two
other egg exporting countries from
which England draws its supplies be-
ing Holland and France. France ex-
ports to other countries 60O,000,000
eggs In year, and Italy exports $780,,
100000 eggs in year, chiefly to Aus
tria and Germany. The poultrymen of
the United States depend chiefly on the
enormous home market, and they have
rivals in the export of American eggs
In the Canadians, Canada ranking next
to France and Italy and ahead of Den
mark and Holland as an exporting
country. Canada exports to other
countries 300,000,000 eggs in a year.
For the fiscal year of 1895 the treasury
ngures give the total exports OF Amer
lean eggs to foreign countries at 151, 900
dozen, which Is equivalent to 1879, 900
eggs. In the fiscal year 1896, however,
the total expectation of American eggs
increased to $4,000 dozen, or 1886, 900
eggs, little more than twice as much.
The export figures for this year indi-
cate a still further increase, and a
market for American eggs is likely,
therefore, to be secured in what the
political campaign orators are accus-
toned TO call, somewhat vaguely, the
near future. 1t Is a somewhat curious
fact that the weight of eggs is mate
rally larger in northern than in south
ern climates. Canadian eggs, for in
stance, are heavier than those shipped
from the United States, and eggs in
the northern states of this country are
Old Irish Eggs.-And now Ireland
has another grievance against Eng
land, and all because of the eggs which
the former has been sending to the lat
ter country. The English dealers claim
that the eggs are more ancient than
honorable, and have held a meeting to
express their views. The fault is not
with the hens, but with the owners
who, loath to part with the eggs, keep
them SO long that they are fit only for
campaign purposes. The result is that
dealers are buying Canadian and con-
tinental eggs, and the Irish farmers
are to be instructed by circular that
they must mend their ways or keer
their eggs. Here's another opening fo1
the American business hen.-Rural
New Yorker.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15
crimson clover in the Nortb,

Crimson clover has been regarded,
and justly so, as a plant more suited
to the South than to the North. It will
live over winter in most of the south
ern states, but in the north can not be
depended on to stand the cold of an or
binary winter except in very favorable
circumstances. If it be sown at just
the right time, and if it makes a heavy
growth, and If it is not mown off, and
II the whole of the plant is left as a
protection to the roots, and If the win
ter is mild, the crimson clover may
stand the winter and come out all right
In the spring. But. as general thing,
the north is not locality where it can
be regarded as a perennial. To be sure
of having it serve its intended purpose
1t must be regarded as an annual. and
treated as such. In this way the best
returns will be obtained from It.
We believe that in the north crimson
clover should be generally sown with
some other crop, oats. peas, or vege-
tables that ripen In midsummer. These
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Many feeders would be saved both
d,sappointment and loss If before send
ing in cattle to market they would no
tify their commission house what and
Shen they are going to ship. Then. II
the commission merchant thinks the
stock would be benefited by longer
feeding, or that the prospect is UNI
favorable for the time the feeder ex-
pected to have his cattle in, he can so
advise his client, and thus save him
from sacrificing his stock or getting in
ut wrong time. Especially is this
important in November or the begin
ming of winter, when we are getting
habitat cattle that ought to have been
held hack 80 to 60 days longer at least.
No doubt many of these look all right
in the feed lot and appear to have good
finish, but not having matured or
ripened, they practically ''go to pieces"
on the cars, and in addition to loss
through heavy shrinkage, the owner
has to accept low price on the mar
ket. We wish every stockman would
follow out this plan of giving notice a
day or 80 ahead of the time he expects
to ship. 1t works both to the advan-
tage of the shipper and seller. The lat
ter, being on the market every day,
knows just what the market wants,
and can Judge pretty closely of near
prospects. He is thus able to give his
client the necessary advice and in
formation he should have before he
sends in his stock.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Now that warm weather has again
come, the COW stables may receive at
tention, and be prepared more effec-
lively for future occupancy. New sta
bles will be built by many farmers. and
in such cases care should be taken to
consider all things in the plans. The
old ideas of what a cow stable should
be are now being regarded with suspi-
cion. The old style cow stable was
neither light nor clearly. One Of the
popular methods was and is to have 1t
in the barn, running along one side OF
the barn. Above the stalls was piled
fifteen feet of solid hay, and opposite
was a NOW of hay reaching from the
ground upward for twenty-five or thir-
ty feet. This shut off all possibility Of
light on the two sides. Usually the
only light possible was at the end Of
the barn, over the great doors, and the
window consisted of single transom
a foot high and seven feet long, more
or less. In light days when the sun
was shining a twilight reigned in the
barn, but on dark days the cattle were
shut in In gloomy prison. When
work was to be done the doors had to
be opened to give sufficient light.
Such was the COW stable of the past,
and such is largely the COW stable of
today. 1t is built on the general pur-
pose principle. 1t was handy, there is
no doubt about that. Hay cow and
manure were all together in close prox-
unity and if the COW kicked the mixer
there was general mix-up. The cows
stable of the future will be very diff
ferent affair. In the first place there
will be light. The stable should not
be so built that all possibilities of light
must be set aside on account of vast
packs Of hay. 1t is better to so build
that the stable will have sunlight on
at least two sides. Many are now be-
ing so constructed that the COWS prac-
tically stand in a house of their own
connected at one end with the barn,
where are their food supplies. This
gives room for light in abundance, and
with light comes dryness to the floors
and standing places of the COWS.
1t is true that such building will not
be so warm naturally as box barn
packed with hay, but it can be made
warm enough at small expense, and it
Is much healthier Health and clean
illness are the principal things for which
we must look out, and many other con-
slderatlons can be sacrificed to these
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

1t is not to be wondered at the resig-
nation of Mr.. Gary, the postmaster
general, should be regarded as in some
way connected with the first overt act
OF war on the part of the president. 1t
has been no secret that Mr.. Gary was
In favor of peaceable solution of the
differences between this country and
spain II it were possible, but there is
little evidence that he was one of those
who are called "peace-at-any-price''
men.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Tho burning of the Aver building
and the terrible loss of life occasioned
by DIT have resulted In the passage Of
an ordinance by the Chicago city coun-
cil which provides for the equipment
of all buildings of four or more stories
with fire escapes, and limits the
height of buildings to 100 feet. The
ordinance also makes it mandatory
upon all contractors to secure licenses,
and directs that the city shall refuse
PERMITS for buildings above two sto-
rtes unless planned by licensed arch
itect or contractor.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15
Sheep in Kansas.

At Kansas agricultural convention
reported for The Farmers Review Fl.
M. Kirkpatrick talked on how and why
Kansas should raise sheep. In the
eastern part of Kansas blue grass has
obtained a firm foothold and gives a
good pasture to sheep and other ami
mails In the western part of the
state the grass is shorter and Is large
ly buffalo grass. Experience in raising
sheep is probably more valuable than
in most any other kind of stock rails
ing, for the experience obtained in the
raising Of other animals is not of much
value in teaching how to keep sheep.
/ have never known a man that made
a success of sheep raising abandon the
business. The most important thing
in sheep breeding is the location:
breeding even is a lesser considera-
ton. Sheep will not lie down in mud.
and if your barn is not clean and dry
they will not lie down in it, but will
sooner seek snow-covered knoll. Con-
fining them to enclosures is less diff
cult than many suppose. l never knew
one OF them to jump a barbed wire
fence A sheep that has not been taught
to creep will be easily stopped by a
fence of four stands of barbed wire.
If they have learned the trick they will
creep through the wires, as their fleece
is protection against the barbs. It
is true that sheep are great scavengers,
but they will not make a profit if they
are forced to live on weeds and briars.
Give them good grass and they will
also eat more weeds. 1t has been said
that sheep can be kept as cheaply as
hen, If the hen be kept as she should
be.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

In an interview between Gen. Grant
and Mr.. Hayes, the day the presidency
of the United States passed from one
to the other, the younger man asked
the elder which of the public questions
interested him most. "The Nicaragua
canal" came the prompt answer. 1T
Is one of the great necessities of the
future, and If you can help 1t along, do
So" A company OF Chicago engineers
has been making new surveys of the
field, and the building of the canal
seems nearer than ever before. 1t is
estimated that while preparations for
the work would amount to fifteen mil
lion dollars, and the canal itself more
than eight times that sum, yet econ
omy to the shipping interests of the
world warrants this vast expenditure.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15
Early Illinois Orchardinv.

The early settlers of central and
southern Illinois were neither a fruit
eating nor a fruit-producing people
They depended upon the forests for
their supply of fruit. The children
gathered the blackberries, grapes,
plums, persimmons and paw paws. A
few more enterprising had peaches.
They were seedlings as a rule. Peaches
were peaches to the pioneer. AS the
country developed, some of the farmers
began to plant apple sprouts and seed
lings. When the chief end of the apple
was cider or vinegar, it made little diff
ference what kind of an apple they
had. Some who had been used to bet
ter fruit, brought gratis with them.
On our farm are some apple trees
about sixty years old which still show
the point of union between the stock
and the scion. Many of the early va
rieties thus developed were unsuited to
our soil and climate. All of the orch
ards were small and only intended to
supply the family. This was the state
of orcharding in Illinois up to the
building of the Illinois Central Rail-
road.-Alvin c. Beal.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Nobody really understood what an
unpleasant country Spain is for resi-
dence until that cablegram came tell
ing about the embarking sailors who
swore that they would not return home
until they had conquered America.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Brood Sows.-Brood sows should
have large, roomy lots to exercise in
and good. warm houses to sleep in. and
not too many in house. Do not feed
them too much corn, but give them
more slop. Just before narrowing time
give them each separate house and
lot. cut OF the corn feed. feed bran
mash and little oil meal. Note the
results.-Ex.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

While crowd of Spaniards tried tn
mob his car Gen. Woodford slept
peacefully within" The generals
sleep evidently is fashioned after his
school of diplomacy.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Another question which seems to be
pressing itself upon the people LIS:
What shall we do with our American
ministers and consuls?
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

There are many things which will
be useful In this war, but none of them
is that Chadron cavalry troop of 'la-
dies"
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Grover Cleveland, who has been per-
fecting himself as marksman In the
last few years, now has the opportunity
OF his life.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

1t begins to look as if the sea-serpent
story on the Atlantic coast would have
hard time of 1t this summer.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS

Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
tivation OF the Soil and Yields
Observation-Disclosures viticulture and
Horticulture.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

When a woman is always in hurry
she generally has a husband who
doesn't hurry at all.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

No woman considers her husband
civilized until he ceases to call GRO
quotes "hash."
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

A woman's understanding has q
great deal to do with her ideas OF
dress reform.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Components of Casein.-Before the
Paris Academy of Medicine, M. Be-
camp gave some account of the expert
ments he had been making in regard
to discovering the casein in butter
milk and found that chemically it diff
fers from all other albuminoids with
which he has experimental. One of its
properties is, when burnt pure, to
make no ashes. He experimental on
burnt casein, not with the view of
coming to the conclusion he now enun-
ciates, but to an opposite one, namely,
that there is no phosphorus in casein.
In a number of experiments he found
that absolutely pure casein contains
1853 parts of organic phosphorus. He
has also demonstrated the presence in
casein of sulphur, and therefore decides
that thiu substance is made up of car
bon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus.
oxygen and sulphur.-Elgin Dairy Re-
port.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

When one boy sees another eating
something he always gets hungry.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

An indulgent wife creates tyrant
husband, and she then turns around
and blames him for being that way.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Beware of the man who practices hui
mility; he may be trying to humiliate
you.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

Spraying should be done on general
principles. and not only when the or.
chard is attacked by fungi or insects.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

A white horse that has not been
properly bedded is sorry sight. When
the mistress of the house is required
to ride behind him there is no wonder
that some women get tired of farm
ing.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

The bachelor leads single life, but
the married man is often led.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15


The first steamship constructed for
use in war was the Fulton, designed by
Robert Fulton for the United States
navy; and her destruction by the ex-
plosion of her magazine is brought to
mind by the Maine disaster. The de-
sign included an engine to throw hot
water over an enemy's deck and into
the portfolios. The scheme was never
brought into practical use. Accounts
OF the vessel crossed the ocean and
grew on the way. One description, pub
lished in Scotland, said that the Full
ton, "by mechanism, brandishes three
hundred cutlasses with the utmost reg
ularity over her gunwales; works also
an equal number of heavy iron spikes
of great length, darling them from her
sides with prodigious force, and with
drawing them every quarter of a min
ute." All that was pure invention, OF
course; but it was not more incredible
than would have been a truthful de-
scriptton of the devices for killing with
which modern war-ships are equipped.
The proposed plan of the Cornell
University, that school children of the
North open correspondence with pupils
of the South, has many points to
commend it. Not only would the young
people receive from such intercourse
fresh incentive in good spelling. pen
manship and the art of letter-writing
but they would vastly enlarge their
acquaintance with the geography. his
tory, climate and social conditions OF
the sections OF the country far removed
from their own. and cement the family
feeling soreiy strained by tales ap1
textbooks Of the Civil War.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

To Be Taken with Salt.-Here is
what one man says about curing black
leg.-I cannot tell how happened to
hit upon common salt, but l took a
peck of salt and put it on the kitchen
stove and burned it until all moisture
was gone and nearly red hot. Dissolv-
ing pint of this hot salt in sufficient
water, I drenched the next one with it.
and tapped the jugular vein, taking out
three or four quarts, as 1 judged, of
very black. thick blood. That salt
found a way through, and that steer
got well, as we'll as five or six more
steers, taken in the same way and
treated just the same, and none died
that were so treated. I never published
this treatment for black leg, and never
again had occasion to use it, but should
l need remedy for that disease would
use the same treatment and expect a.
cure. At all events the treatment is
harmless, not very expensive and is
not patented.-Correspondent of st.
Paul Dispatch.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

The violators of the oleomargarina
law claim that they are much interest.
ed in having the public sold a cheap
substitute for butter, but they do not
hesitate to take as high prices as they
can get for their butterine, selling it
often at the price of butter and undsf
the name Of butter.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

1t is unjust for the patrons Of q
cheese factory to demand that the
cheesemaker produce pound of cheese
for every ten pounds of delivered
70 him.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15

The earth Is the first revolver OF
which we have any record.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-07-15
Hatch Winter LAYERS.

Many of our farms are so poorly
equipped for poultry raising that most
of the eggs are produced in the spring
and summer months, the fall and win
ter eggs being very few in number.
The latter are always high in price,
which, of course, would not be the case
If all farmers went into poultry Gull
ture so successfully that winter eggs
were turned out in large numbers. But
that state of affairs is not likely to be
for generations, and meanwhile it is
possible for progressive readers OF
farm papers to secure better profit
by better methods. One poultry raiser
says that he raises all the early pull
lets he can, so as to get good lot Of
winter eggs, which he considers clear
profit. There is one great advantage
in having a good share of the eggs
come in the fall and winter, and that
is one avoids having to sell their pro-
duct on congested market. To get
winter eggs one must have spring pull
let's, and to get spring pullets the hens
should be started to work in April. If
one has an incubator this is good
month in which to have it in operation.
One advantage in using the incubator
at this time of year is that the chicks
will come during the first part of May,
and the question of brooder and. it's
running will not be such a momentous
one as early in the season, when the
weather is colder. A brooder will be
indeed needed, but the air will be so
warm that the chicks may be out of it
a great deal of time getting the sun
and exercise.
Old fowls are said to be sluggish as
winter layers. To what extent this
is a fact, more than an incidental
one, Is not easy to determine The
pullets lay in the early winter not be-
cause they are younger than the other
hens, but because they arrive at matur-
ity at the beginning of winter, and
one Of the laws of their maturity is
that they begin the production of eggs.
II they are therefore born at the right
month and are so fed that they will
arrive at maturity at the right time.
the eggs may be depended on. Another
reason why the pullets will lay better
is perhaps because they grow too fast
to permit them to put on fat and so are
in a condition to lay, for it has been
noticed that fat seems to stop egg pro-
duction entirely if it be present in
large quantities. The older the hen
the more likely she is to lay on fat.
The record-union., 1898-07-09
wATERsPouT In MISSOURI.
Town Of Stee1eville Almost Wiped
Out-Many People Perish.

ST. LOUIS (Mo), July S.--A special
to the Republic from Cuba, Mo, says:
A courier from Steeleville, the county
seat of Crawford County, brought the
terrible news. to-day that the town had
almost been wiped out by a waterspout
early this morning.
The known dead are: Mrs. Lou Tuck
er and babe St. Louis; daughter of
Charles Abrahams, st. Louis; Mrs. John
Woods and two children, Steeleville:
Mrs. James Taft and three children.
Steeleville; Mrs. William LeSough,
Steeleville; Luther Slough, Steeleville;
colored man. unknown, Midland
AS soon as the. news was received
relief party started for the stricken
town. The town was in ruins. Few
buildings were. left standing, and groans
of anguish were heard on all sides. as
searchers sought for loved ones among
the debris. The waterspout occurred
outside the town, but swelled Yadkin
Creek, which came down in a mighty
and destructive flood, sweeping all be-
fore it,.
Up to this evening thirteen bodies had
been recovered, but It IS thought more
have perished.
The record-union., 1898-07-09
THE AMERICAN NAVY.
Need Not Fear Comparison With
Any Country in the World.

LONDON, July 9.-Most of the week.
ly papers pay high tribute to the Amer
lean navy.
The Speaker" says: THE Santiago
fight proves, so far as the fleet is con-
cerned, that the United States need not
fear comparison with any country in the
world
The Spectator" declares, as a conclu-
sion from the battle, the. conviction
that the American fleet could face even
the French fleet without great risk OF
disaster, and it says: $50 far as the
German and American navies go. there
would be no comparison A struggle
between them would be very short and
very complete, and it would surprise
Emperor William, who thinks himself
invincible, but his self-confdence cam
not alter history"