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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
FARM AND STOCK.

Wheat has been badly injured by
severe weather,
Bourbon county sold $65O,OOO worth of
export cattle last year
@. A. Montgomery, OF Exon, was in
Louisville Thursday selling stock.
J. A. Carey, of Glendeane, was in Lou
isville Thursday with horses and mules
w. A. Basket, OF Custom, marketed
l02 hogs at Louisville, Thursday and got
SO 70.
Feed little corn to brood sows, and on
y at night to furnish warmth to the
body.
Richard Hardaway, Of IrviDgton, was
In Louisville, Thursday, with load OF
hogs and cattle.
Parrish & Mcdonald, Of Clirtonville,
sold to Thomas Henry Clay two hundred
barrels OF corn at $1,90 delivered.
JIM, Owen and John d. Reese have
bought about 1000 lambs at five cents
per Winchester Democrat.
w. H. Robb bought of r H. Ware the
past week 2S extra feeders, weight about
l,l50 lbs, at $440.-Winchester Demo-
crat.
Robinson Bros, OF (ilendeane, shipped
rs head of cattle to Louisville, Thursday
and received "a per hundred on the
bunch.
At Louisville, last week, $17.25 was
paid per hundred for one he gshead OF
tobacco and crop averages of $40 to $ll
were made on large lots.
1t is estimated by the ofli5ials of the
Department of Agriculture That the hay
crop of the United States produced in
1898 reached value OF about 100000
600.
j. w. Riley, president Of the Colorado
Cattle Co, has ust closed deal where
by he gets 2O000 cattle for $350,000
Most of them come from Texas and New
Mexico.
Corn is up to 50 barrel in the local
market Several small lots have been
sold at that price within the past week.
Some predict that it will go higher still.
Versailles Sun.
The Lancaster Record tells OF a
Garrard county woman who purchased
SOW for 81 so and from her sold six shoats
for $50 She still has the SOW and new
litter Of pigs worth $25.
A California man has patented an
automatic stock-feeding apparatus, in
which a clock releases a weight, lifting
the cover OF the feed box and dropping
hay down from rack overhead.
]. A. Dudderar's famous Durham COW
has just dropped twin calves again, says
the Danville Advocate, making three
pairs and single one in six years. Both
genders were represented in the last ar
rival.
Chicago will supply Europe with TO-
600 coach and bus horses. They are to
come from different parts of Illinois and
Iowa, and will be shipped at the rate of
200 week. The first consignment left
last week for London and Liverpool.
Messrs George and Carroll Hamilton,
OF Bath county, have sold their 1898 crop
OF tobacco, consisting of about 200 acres,
and aggregating considerably over ZOO.
600 pounds at cents per pound. Mr..
Knowlef, OF Mt. Sterling, was the pur-
chaser.
No-TO-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong. blood pure. Soc. 81. All druggists
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
KEEP GOOD BULLS.

@IHE farmers Breckenridge county should discontinue keeping
grade bulls their farms Keeping grade bulls is simply
gambling You cannot depend their scions inheting
good thoroughbred strain of blood that is in the grade
stock More likely they will out to be bad the
ge Get good bull Remember that bull is half the herd
individual cannot afford TO get good bulls follow the example
Danish farmers and form clubs for
buying good bulls be used for service cows Four
herds thirty forty use for
more bull Why keep scrub for eight or ten COWS
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
Buzzard's Spread Hog Cholera.

The turkey buzzd harmless fowl du does great
mischief in the spreading hog cholera This brought
my days with such force that longer any
doubt about it farmer whose farm there had been hog
attacked by the disease his herd and
couldn't understand how he it until it suggested him
this wise He had killed old dog and thrown in ditch
PASTURE where the hG using buzzds congegated there
They had doubtless left hog
loaded with cholera germs Thus they spnkd
and the herd with them OF the
this way Of spreading hog cholera there is no doubt
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
The Breeding Season.

small farm, 100 acres, ought big bunch
fat twice April pigs will bring good prices in Deem
the year The breeding should be
bring pigs in February and May OF course in February
weather pretty I'D and damp but the have comfortable
quarters be easily and cheapY constructed they
not likely to any the litter 1t takes attention then though
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
Our Best Customers.

Of the 93 worth Of American products exported last
year nearly 100000 went to Europe nearly $50 100000
the Dominion of Canadaa per capita basis for neigh
bo of SIS so for and child Our entire sales
South and Central America only 81 per capita We exported
10 the Philippines Sl27, 1871 worth of goods.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
A Sinful Waste.

The annual waste of manure farms amounts in dollars to
thousands Only few farmers have reached the point where
value of manure is appreciated Others falling in line the
and When the country thckly settled that
will have be worked for all there then
will be used should practice throw it into the
river haul it ditch and dump therein aud the first rain
washes and gives the value farmer hundreds Of miles
away.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
About Lepunnes.

Covers in fact all egume admirably to balance
fodder dairy feed The clover possesses the nitrogen
which the lacks The resulting
feed composed of nitrog plants much
valuable in keeping the fertility OF the SOIL Then oo the
heterogeneous plants 90 drain the soil the extent that plants
he air
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
A Preventative.

the best prevenatves OF all kinds diseases which
dumb prone pure water The stsgnant pond
pure by That slime laden with billions
disease germs every kind Pure water only pure
soucesprngs and deep wells Csern kept we'll cleaned
not 30 bad, but not good as springs
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
Top Dressing.

Top dressing of sod in fall winter for late spring blowing
the cheapest and satisfactory manurng most
farms Where the supply of is very large may good
practice pillow under application freshly made the ground
but it praccs for those whose supply Of small
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15
o FARM TOPICS. o

GOOD The resulta of experiments
coMBiNA- at the Utah Station show
TON FEED. that skim milk when fed in
combination with grain, makes very
valuable food for h gs at all periods of
their growth, put particularly during the
early stages.
EXCHANGE Every farming commune
VISITS. ty should be social Ugh
borhood that is, every farmer and his
family should be on good terms with his
neighbors, and frequently exchange Wis
its. This is matter of great importance,
but it is to frequently neglected
TO KEEP To keep shippers out Of
OUT meat. first din the meat in
SHIPPERS hot, boiling water and let it
stay long enough to count hve take it
out and rub it well with a mixture OF
black ground pepper and sited corn
meal. One cup OF black pepper 70 two
cups OF meal, rub well while wet and
hang up. 1t ought to be done the first
week OF March.
CELLULOSE The experiments Of the
PRODUCT. MARYLAND Experiment Sta.
ton show that the new corn product"
(this is the corn fodder with the pith re-
moved, is much more digestibe than
either shredded corn fodder, finely
ground corn fodder, or corn blades and
husks. 1t was also found more digestible
than timothy. The experiments state
that "The results prove the new corn
product to be a valuable cattle and horse
food and in no sense should it be con-
sidered waste product"
O
TO A common method OF
FORCE forcing asparagus is by trans
ASPARA- planting roots to some warm
GUS. place, when the shoots will |
grow from the vitality stored in tie
roots. This however ruins the roots and |
they must be discarded. A simple
method of overcoming this wasteiulness
is to place half barrels over clumps OF rs
paragus in the field and pile fermenting
manure about them, when the warmth
from the manure will force the shoots
into rapid growth.
SIX Six good brood sows are
SOWS enough for the average
ENOUGH. farmer tn keep, and they
should be kept as long as they will raise
six good pigs. Manage them so they
will raise two litters year, making in
all u hogs per year. One man can raise
that many hogs and enough corn to feed
them to a 300 pound weight These at
average prices, would bring 5000, or
about $50 a month the year round, on
hogs alone besides the revenue from
his poultry, cattle, horses and sheep,
which he ought to keep to use all the
rough ieed on tho farm
CASTORrA.
B.ar,sho Hlb' Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature :, EzkZZzZzx !
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-02-15

EXCHANGE Every farming commune
VISITS. ty should be a social Ugh
borhood; that is, every farmer and his
family should be on good terms with his
neighbors, and frequently exchange Wis
its. This is a matter Of great importance,
but it is to frequently neglected
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
RL0oD CURE SENT TREE.

By addressing Blood Balm Co.,, 222 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga.,. any ot our readers may obtain sample bottle of their famous B. B. B.-Botanic Blood Balm, the greatest, grandest. best and strongest blood remedy made, Cures when all else fails, pimples. ulcers, scrofula. eczema, boils, blood poison, eating sores, distressing skin poison, eating sores catarrh, rheuma- tlsm. Free medical advice included, when description of your trouble is given. This generous offer is worth while accepting. Sample bottle sent all charges prepaid. Large !2ottles, containing nearly a quart of medicine, for sale by all druggists at LOO per bottle. 3. B. B. is always ahead of all other blood remedies for curing blood humors. Try B. B. B. next time you buy blood purifier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
PIGEONS OF LONDON.

Of all the common sights of London none is more interesting than it's pi- geons, which bring a suggestion of oldwofld stateliness into the turmoil of the city There is a particular flock for most all the big buildings of Lon don, and they are to be found all over the city. A curious fact observed is that the birds on the east side of huge building have nothing to do with those on the west side, while the bird residents of the north and south sides keep quite as much to themselves.
 The birds live a glorious life, for everybody pets them. The judges of the law courts feed the pigeons, not scraps, but grain and such things as birds like. Dozens of clerks in the law yers' offices scatter food for the birds daily in Kings Bench walk, while the keeper of a coffee house religiousIy brings bits of broken bread for his feathered friends.
 One of the prettiest sights is to see the pigeons which live on the British museum. There are half a dozen read CTS who make practice of feeding the birds and the pigeons will abandon strangers who come with full hands for their old friends, even when they appear without food. The cabmen are great friends of the pigeons, which seem to realize these men are good friends to cultivate, for rarely is there one who will not scatter a handful of grain from the horses nosebaga
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
Av,.ms pseatoea

There is probably no crop largely grown that yields better profit than the potato crop. Yet the per acre yield throughout the country is small, due very largely to poor methods in han ding the soil. The potato accommo- dates itself to many varieties of soil and to all kinds of culture. Perhaps this fact is taken advantage of to too great an extent, and not enough care used in any part of the process of pro- ducing the crop. When we consider that more than 1000 bushels of pota- toes have been raised on an acre in diff ferent parts of the country, and that less than 100 bushels is the ordinary yield, we are forced to believe that we are not using all of our possible ad' vantages.
 The first requisite is well-prepared land, drained if it so requires. This good preparation means blowing deep enough to admit of the fullest growth of root. Whatever may be said against deep blowing yet it certainly has tendency to send the roots down be- yond the summer drouth, which IS often a thing of great importance. The writer remembers a little corner in potato patch in which coal ashes had been thrown. The ground thus in creased in depth gave moisture to the plants when in all other parts of the patch they were dying for lack of moisture. The probable reason was that in that part the soil was so porous that the roots had been able to strike deep and to reach into a stratum ot continuous moisture This is not to advocate the use of coal ashes as a fer tilizer for potatoes, but to illustrate the principle by which loose soil permits the penetration of roots.
 As to milling there is great diversity of opinion We know that it is be- coming quite popular to advocate the doing away of the old style of hill- ing, and to say that the idea of hill- ing was a barbarous one. originating among the bogs of Ireland. The whole settlement of the question must de- pend on circumstances. Some varieties have to be hilled anyway, unless we expect to have some of the potatoes on top of the ground. The question of moisture runs into that of milling. A certain man some years ago abandoned the milling process and planted all of his potatoes on the level. It happened to be an exceptionally wet summer and the entire crop was damaged by lying too much in the water Killing would have done some good in this case.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Rev. Theodore Cuyler, D. D., sig1ed the total abstinence pledge when 1Q years old, and has kept it ever since.
 On the west coast of Africa and far inland, bottles of gin and demijohns of rum are used as the common currency; and on the Congo, one-half of all that the natives produce is pa@ for with liquor.
 Two hundred women at Chattanooga, Tenn, went to the city council cham Der and defeated movement started by saloonkeepers to extend the closing hour at night from 10 o'clock to I2 o'clock.
 Hoopeston, H.. boasts of never hav- ing saloon within her border, and yet visitors declare she has more paved streets and good sidewalks than any city of her size in the state. She has electric lights, water works, Greer Col. lege. splendid hign schools, and the argest canning factory in the world.
 A movement to exclude liquor deal- CTS from church membership has been started in Louisville. Ky, by Rev. T. T. Eaton, D. D., pastor of one of the wealthiest churches in that city Res buttons were passed urging them to sive up their business and allowing one year in which to abandon it or leave he church.
 The famous Benedietine monks at Beatty, Pa, have discontinued brewing 5eer for the market For forty years hey have brewed this beer and ped He'd it among the saloons all over the Testern part of Pennsylvania. The rowing temperance sentiment among 'atholics is responsible. though It Is aid they will still brew beer for their private use.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
STATUS IN LOUISIANA
\ Curious Anomaly That Has Just

 \ Curious Anomaly That Has Just
 Come to Light.
 Ethel c. Avery calls attention to the present unique status of Louisiana women, says the Womans Tribune, as follows: "A curious anomaly has just come to light in Louisiana. The late constitutional convention gave tax pay a1e 93men the right to vote upon all qa 54s submitted to taxpayers. It added clause. unique in the suf- frage laws of the county. that any woman who did not wish to go to the polls herself might give proxy to some one else to cast her v2te for her. This was done out of chivalrous regard for the women, who, it was thought, might shrink from contact with the polls New Orleans is preparing to hold its first election under the new law, to decide upon a tax levy for sewerage and drainage. An examin- ation of the assessors books reveals that there are more than 10000 tax paying women in New Orleans, and the mayor, the city council, the pcesi- dent of the city board of health and other civic dignitaries have been elo- quently urging women to vote in fa- vor of better sanitation for their homes. Some of the women thought they would rather vote by proxy; and this has brought to light the anomaly in question. If 8 woman gives a cer- tiicate to a proxy to vote for her the certificate must be signed by two com potent witnesses. Many New Osleans women are now finding out for the first time that by Louisiana law, which is based on the old law of France, woman is not a competent witness to a legal document In Louisiana tax paying women may vote on the expen- allure of their taxes. and in this way are in advance of all the northern and eastern states. But while woman may be a voter in her own right or may cast 8 vote as proxy for another woman she is not legally competent to witness the signing of the certificate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
Cotton Belt Bulletin.
PINE BLUFF TO CHICAGO
Via Cotton Belt Route

Leave Pine Bluff 1l0 D. m., arrive Chlcaet 11i45 next day. Only one change; through aIeepers.
 Summer Tourist Rates to SearcY Springs and Ravendeu Springs, from May 18th to September 15th good until October 31, ls99- Rate Searcy, Ark, S4 25. Ravenden, Ark, S775.
 Fishing Season 1899. Spirit Lake, Ark. Rate; Pine Bluff S200 per capita for three or more on one ticket. Dates of sale: Daily un- cil further notice, Return limit; Two days from date of sale,
 Summer Assembly International Christian
 Workers Association and Bible School.
 Black Mountain, N. C August 15 to 24
 Bate-R0und trip at rate of one standard
 fare. Dates of sale-August 13 to 21, in
 elusive Return limit Augustus. Order of Hoo Hoo, Denver, Sept. to B.
 Rate, s3050 for round trip; Date of sale
 Sept. 3, and 7; Return limit, Sept 30, 9a Meeting southern Arkansas Teachers Assn.
 Fordyce August 2e to 31. Rate, 0pen,one
 and One-third fare. round trip, Dates of
 sale Aug. 2s and 29 Return limit, Sep
 tember 1, 99
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
cultivation of the Rosnan Camtagna.

5altiVstion of the Rosnan Campagna.
 Last spring disorders took place a [ castel GandoIfo, a village on the AL oan hills, provoked by peasants agi-
 ating for bread or for land on which 70 cultivate grain. Prince Barberini. proprietor of much land in the neigh borhood, portioned ont a part of it. which had for the last 100 years been ct f6r pasture. between 144 pea Ants. The terms offered to the peasants Were imple They were given a three years ease of the land on condition that
 hey should cultivate il with maize or wheat, and that one-third Of the crops
 hould belong to Prince Barberini and the other tWo-thirds to the peasants The first harvest of maize has now teen reaped, and the results are most ncouraging. The value of the crop is calculated at 6.300 lire, and third. iqual to about so pounds. goes into he pockets of Prince Barberini The Vheat has just been sown, and it ia 'xpected that it will produce 12.600 ire. of which 4,200 lire, or 160 pounds, vill belong to Prince Barberini. who Fill thus have 240 pounds year out of and which has yielded him less than 0 pounds year. In addition, he has @sured a good livelihood to IA stary- az families.---London Post
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
New Napoleon Letter.


 The historic chateau of Malmaison ls being restored by M. Osiris, a wealthy Napoleon worshiper. It Is his inten- tion, says the London Chronicle. to turn it into Napoleonic museum wand to present 1t to the state in time for 1t to form one of the attractions of he great exhibition in 1900. Tn re- pairing the library very interesting ind was made in the shape of a let ter from Napoleon to Josephine, dat ed from the Trianon, August 15, 1913. representing her with not saving mon- ey. He advises her to put her affairs in order, not to spend more than eeO.- 900 year and to save the other e60.- 900. Thus in ten years she would have accumulated a fortune for her grandchildren. Instead of doing this. however, I am told" he continues, "that you are in debt. If you wish to please me take care to fill a fat stock ing. What do you suppose would be my opinion of you if I knew you to he in debt with an income of 5000 ,Ooo francs year?"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
GREAT NATION
The Jews of the World Might Con-
 stitute.

The Jews of the World Might Con-
 stitute.
 Three million Jews live in Russia, where they are shut up in the western provinces and villainously treated. If he ventures to live outside the Jew ish pale in Russia a Hebrew has to carry on some humble trade, and the richest banker in Odessa, if any Rus sian has a grudge against him, may be compelled to work as a eobbler on pain of banishment Naturally the Jews retaliate, and delight in getting Rus sian officials and nob1es under their power with loans of money. One mil lion five hundred thousand Jews live in the Austrian empire, where they are persecuted. The present mayor and corporation Of Vienna were elected for the express purpose Of bullying the Jewish community. France has 80,- 900 Jews, Roumania has 100000 Jews, Germany 100000, Holland 80,000. and Italy 50000. Great Britain has 80,- coo, including many of our most no table and popular public men, Europe has 5000 GOO Jews, America 950,0OO, Africa 5oO,O0O. Asia 25O.00O, and Aus tralasia 10000 So altogether there are 7,120,O00 of this nation, which is pretty fair. considering that 5000 years ago they only numbered about 3,000,- GOO, and the whole civilized world has been massaering and bullying them ever since. They seem to be by far the most capable race on earth. There Is not single art. industry or science in which they have not excened.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
The Trekking Wagon.

The South African wagon is a long, heavy cart mounted on four wheels. as a rule, with sort of canvas tent over the back half. leaving the front clear to carry the miscellaneous furniture of its owner, drawn by sixteen, eighteen or twenty oxen, curiously ferce-look- ing with their immense spread of horn, sometimes as much as eight feet from tip to tip and rarely less than six. but In reality as patient and hard-workina beasts as one could wish to find. Their mode of progression is certainly slow but there Is strangsness and a fas- cination about 1t which may draw men to 1t almost as the Alps draw their deYotees. In front there marches the "voorlooper," generally a small bov leading the two foremost oxen bv a rein or rope passed through their nos trils. The driver walks alongside with the long and terrible whip he uses SO unsparingly, or else sits on the front of the wagon and gets off occasionally to lash up the whole team with unfaiI. ing impartiality. The travelling is all done at night, starting a little before sunset and marching until perhans II or 12 o'clock; then there is a halt t,lI little before the first signs of dawn when they go on again till the sun be- gins to get hot overhead, and then they lie for the day.-Gentleman's Maxa- zine.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
snnallest Tree In Britain.

The smallest tree that grows in Great Britain may be seen on the very top of Ben Lomond It is the dwarf willow, which at maturity reaches height of only two inches
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
The Whistlinc Tree.

The "whistling tree" is so called from the wind in it's branches making & sound like flute. It is the ''tsofar" of South Nubia, and yields the gum of Senaar. Dr. Schweinfurth has shown that the sound is caused by holes bored in the spines of the branches by an insect in order to suck the gum. The apines. in fact Ne me little as.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21
Origin of Their Tdeas.

She-"It seems to be the general be- lief among the Spaniards that Ameri- cans are merely a lot of savages."
 He-"Yes, guess they must have had dealings with some of the eastern summer hotelkeepers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-08-21

Ruff City Lumber Co. manufactur- CT and dealer in all kinds of lumber, also sashes, doors, blinds, and all kinds of interior and exterior finish Everything at reasone bic prices.