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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18
Table Fowls.

When The object is to have choice
table fowls for home use (not for
market) get Langshan hens and mate
them with Dorking or Indian Game
males. Do not keep any of the young
stock, either pullets or cockerels, as
the pullets will not prove as good lay
ers as their dams. The Langshan is
itself a fine table fowl, and the hens
are. prolific layers, but the Indian
Game or Dorking male improves the
quality of flesh in the chicks, and pro-
duces something excellent that cannot
be purchased in the market. The
Langshan is also a very hardy fowl,
but Dorking or Indian Game chicks
are not as easily raised as some others
until they are three months old, but
after that period they are like young
turkeys hardy and able to care for
themselves. For market the best
chick is the one that is harry and most
easily raised.-Ex.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18
Soft Food and Disease.

There is a partially for soft foodss,
because by their use many substances
in fine condition can be given; but it
is mistake to feed soft food oftener
than once day to three days in the
week. Too much soft food causes the
gizzard to be idle, and being deprived
of it's use the fowl becomes becomes
diseased. The gizzard is an organ
that performs a certain duty, just as
is required of the heart or liver, and
any system of feeding that takes
largely from the gizzard the duty
which devolves upon it will in the end
prove detrimental. 1t is not out of
place to allow soft foods, but the lar
ger proportion of the food should be
unground so AS to keep the gizzard
active; hence whole grains are essen
tial to success. When too much soft
food is allowed the crop frequently re-
mains full and food does not pass
through the gizzard.-Ex.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18

means secure an extraordinary result,
he would be careful about giving it
publicity, knowing that common GUS
tom had laid all such publications liza
bic to suspicion. 1t is as true now as
in the day of Barnum's woody horse,
that "the people love to be humbug-
ged," and those whose thoughts in
springtime lightly turn to poultry,
are NO exception.-Ex.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18
Counting the Eggs Before They are
Laid.
Laid.

This is as short-sighted as counting
unmatched chicks. Those given to this
mild but misleading vice would be
harmless but for their inveterate hab-
it of publishing the results of their
mental arithmetic. A few years ago,
foolishly mislead by the wonderful re-
port of success by a poultry writer,
in which he claimed that he had for
four years in succession averaged
nineteen dozen eggs per hens the
writer visited him and found his flock
to consist of half a dozen nOndescript
hens and three decrepit old roosters;
and later learned that he had been
buying eggs for his table from local
dealer. These breezy excursions In
the realms of fancy have led many
creduilous suckers to the fountain OF
knowledge 10y a most expensive route.
The fact is, published reports are as
rule utterly unworthy of confidence.
Honest poultry raisers, knowing how
this matter stands, prudently refrain
from publishing even the truth unless
the truth bears evidence of containing
nothing at all remarkable. If reput-
abie poultry breeder should by any
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18

| they give much better satisfaction tc
the consumer. [ have handled vast
number of breeds. L want something
that will always be plump, something
that will come quickly to the frying
age, some thing that does not need a
life insurance policy to keep it alive,
and among the breeds, / have hand
Led, | have chosen the Buff LeghOrn
as best suited to my work. L suppose
I'll have to buy sitters but I most al
ways have to do that anyway, so
guess that will make little difference.
Lest L should change my mind regard
ing the number of breeds | shall
keep [ have the yards all taken down.
In handling this breed [ shall aim
to make little speck out Of the fancy
on the pullets, as it will not pay to
kill them for the market while, with
the larger breeds everything had to
go. | never saw the time yet that [
couldn't sell Leghorn puEets for 5000
a dozen to the commission houses as
layers. 1 have sold August Matched
pu.lets in April at that price.
[ change my mind often? Well, yes,
I do, but claim that to he my priv
ilege, and if [ get in my very-day life
no small amount of amusement surely
no one could complain as long as L
can command a certain degree of fin
anc:al success My mode of proce-
dure appeals to my Idea of what is
enjoyable. l do not hold it up for a
pattern, | simply give it as my individ-
ual experience.
One thing, however, L know positive,
the only satisfactory way to handle
young chickens is to have brood coops
large enough to furnish protection in
stormy weather. I have had some
made that are large and rOOmy, and
they work like charm. They are
made out of odds and ends of lumber
boxes and every thing Of that sort, but
they answer the purpose as we'll as If
they we're made of matched flooring.
1 tore up all my old brood coops, and
used the lumber in them. They are
made high enough to stand up in the
back with a lean-to front s,oping "a
most to the ground. Inside of these
are put small boxes for the hens and
these houses are large enough to shell
ter six or eight broods till killing
time. but care must be talIen mot to
put baby chicks with larger ones in
such place.-E. j. Mellette, in
Poultry Journal.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18
Ducks in Winter.

Some of the information concerning
rural affairs that appears in our con-
temporaries is quite wonderful Some
time ago a ''syndicate'' in an eastern
city proposed to furnish the Farmers
Voice with a few columns of Informal
tion each week at very moderate
price. A sample of the proposed mat
ter accompanied the proposition
which led to a rejection of the offer ait
once. However, several journals of
the political kind with an "agricul-
tural' department accepted the mat
ter in all seriousness.
In recent installmcnt of this stuff
we find some advice about the care of
ducks in winter. 1t says they should
be fed on corn mostly, although
little meat ''wil1 not hurt" The corn
should be fed about one-half shelled
and the remainder on the cob, the
shelled corn to be thrown among
straw. The object of this is to give
the ducks needful exercise by scratch
ing for the grain or picking it off the
cob. Any one who has ever watched
a flock of ducks scratching or picking
corn off the cob will understand the
amount of exercise it would require
for them to get enough to eat. They
would no doubt find most of the loose
corn in the straw by feeling thorough
it with their bills, but when it comes
to picking corn off the cob a duck is
not well fitted for this purpose. To be
sure, they will worry over an ear of
corn and eventually get the corn off,
but it is doubtful if they would ever
get enough to keep them from being
hungry unless the corn should be very
dry and loose on the cob.
Corn, wheat Or oats soaked and
thrown into a trough of water where
the ducks can fish for it is the way
they like best. They are naturally
calculated to eat wet feed of any kind
and will fish for it with delight and
thrive on it. Many flocks of ducks
suffer for waiter in winter, and they
should be given access to it all the
time
From january 1st they should be
given some kind of meat feed, for no
flock of ducks will do it's best without
some form of meat. It is objected that
this kind of feed is not available for
the farmer. 1t is Within the reach of
any one who can write a letter and
the cost is not great. We buy dried
and ground beef scraps and oyster
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18
How Long to Keep a Hen.

The question is often asked, chow
long is it profitable to keep hen for
iaying?" To answer the question,
would PROFOUND ano ther query: In
the name of al that is good and true,
who would want to keep a hen so
long that she is only fit for fertilizer?
A ''last years chicken will sell, but
when they get older than that no one
wants them. If the last years crop
is all sold off as soon as the pul,ets
begin to lay, or as soon as eggs get
cheap in the spring, there will be just
that much more income each year,
while if they are kept ON indefinitely
and indiscriminately, amy number will
drop off the roost with apopleXy and
die of liver trouble and numberless
other complaints.
The best time to run off surplus
stock is not during the holidays, as
most people suppose, but in April, May
and June. 1t will be, noticed that dur
ing these months chicken meat is al
ways scarce and high.
1t is really surprising the amount
people are willing to pay for an extra
quality of chicken meat. 1t is my opinr
ION that if a person could induce
their butcher to have a little enter
prise, that without the trouble of get
ting up a private trade, quite an ad-
vance in price could be realized for
fresh dressed chickens.
Let a few corn-fed fresh dressed
chickens be displayed beside Lot of
shipped stuff, and any one would will
lingly pay a few cents extra on the
pound for the superior article. My
husband is often surprised at the
prices obtain, but [ always remark,
I'm not in the business for my
health"
Whenever [ study out a problem i'll
poultry culture, [ am like the sinner
that has found salvation in that I
want to tell it all abroad" This last
year | have solved the question Of
breeds to my intense satisfaction,
and it is a standing wonder to me
that [ never before discovered, that,
needlessly have made perfect slave
of myself. With five Or six different
breeds to look after, especially in a
cod climate, the Labor is nothing
small. Hereafter / will raise but one
breed. That will always be yellow
legged and yellow skinned because
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-18
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all COZ. munications to Poultry De-
partment, Box 200, DeLand, Fla.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18
california Frutts.

ID, q. Canaripos has received
per 3. 5. Australia a large con-
signment Of Cherries, Grapes,
Apricoss, Piums, and iother
fruits. Eastern Oysters 10 Tin
and Shell, Turkeys and Chickens,
Game and Fish.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18

benttIO Heers
This ever popular Rainier beer
is becoming a household word
and "will You have a glass Of
Seattle" is more often heard than
anything else. The Criterion
Saloon have the beer on tap or in
bottles.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18
THE WAVERLEY CLUB.

Organized 1897.
OWaverley Block entrance on Bethel
street. Files Of standard magazines and
periodicals; lending library; billiard,
pool and card tables for free use Of men,
bers. Arrangements for transient visit
ors. Entrance fee Sl.25; monthly dues,
in advance, 81. Rooms open from8a m.
70 IL p. m. every day.
A. v. GEAR, President.
JAMES T.COPELAND, Recording Sec ".
ALLEN B. SCRIMGEOUR, Fin. Sec'y.
1905
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18
LOCAL And GENERAL.

Cyclone Cameras are the besi
and cheapest.
Tomorrow evening change Of
program at the Orpheum.
Orpheum seats can be booked
by ringing up Telephone No. $40.
American Messenger Servir,
Masonic Temple. Telephone
IA. y
Prof. August Troibert, mecaci
40, will appear at the Otpheum
tomorrow.
Honolulu Messenger Service de
livers messages and packages.
Telephone 378.
The 1. X L. have just imported
one hundred tons of fine new fur
nitnre. See ad on page a.
The annual meeting Of w. g.
Irwin & Co. will be held on Fri
day, July 81. See New Today.
DR.. Posey, specialist for Eye,
Ear, Throat and Nose diseases
and Catarrh. Mesouic Temple.
w. w. Dimond & Co. have just
received a consignment OF glass
ware, plated ware, c,ockery. See
I'D on page 4.
There will be meeting of the
W. q. L. U. in the parlors Of Cen
trail Union Church at 2;30 o'clock
this afternoon.
A jolly crowd left the Hawaiian
hotel in a large wsgonette at mid
night last night. They took the
Quintette club along with them.
Purser Tuft who remained in
town a week to attend to private
business will resume his duties on
Friday, going out on the Mauns
Loa.
There is only one Jesse Moore
Whiskey in the world and that is
cold and pure. Lovejoy & Co.,
are distributors for the Hawaiian
Islands.
Mechanics Home, corner Hotel
and Nuusnu streets, lodging by
day, week or month. Terms: rs
and 30 cents per night. 81 and
Sl.25 per week.
There will be q meeting OF the
Executive Com mittee of the Aseo-
ciattd Charities OF Hawaii We'd
nesday, July 10, at 3 p. M, and
all who are interested are invited
to attend.
The band gives a moonlight
concert in Thomas Square this
evening at the usual hour. Ala
Hiki Mai, Ipo Lauae. Palama and
Pill Aoao are the Hawaiian selec
tons to be given.
History of Hawaiian Islands,
f,om their discovery to the pre-
sent time, by P,of. Alexander.
The only work published covering
this ground. For sale only by the
Golden Rule Bazaar. Price Sl.50.
The officers of the Brutus come |
from Samoa laden with curios of |
all kinds. Perhaps the most grue-
some of all is a long head knife
with q history. Paymaster Pen
rose is the possessor of this little
piece of Samoan art.
New England Bakery e. Candy
Co., Hotel street manufacture a
fine line Of bread, pastry, wed
ding cakes, ice creams, sherbets
and candies-fnest in the city
and prices very low. Telephone
"a. j. OSWALD LUTTED, Mana
ger.
Rev. j. NJ. Ezera of Waiawa
,hurch, Rev. +. s. Timoteo OF
Kaumakapili aud Rev. S. l.. De-
sha OF Hilo will make trip to the
States in the near future, this
through the kindness of Senator
Warehouse and Minister Damon.
The wedding CT Miss Cordelie
Clymer, instructor in music at the
< Northumberland for Girls, and
Professor j. w. Yarndley, will
AXE place at Kamehameba, July
30, at 10 a. m. The Rev. w. NJ.
Kincsid will ofiiciate. The newly
married couple will go to the
home IF DIR. and Mrs.
Noopar m Tontalpo
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18

II You want a nice rubber tire
hack with careful driver ring up
Club Stable Hack Stand Tel. $40,
and we guarantee you will be
satisfied.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18
Fifty :.
New
Desks

- Book Cases, Letter Files,
Document Files, Press Stands,
Chairs, Stools, &C., of all styles
and prices, just received ex the
bark "Mohican," and placed on
sale at our warerooms on Queen
street. We are prepared to outfit
your office complete. Our new
stock contains some of the very
latest and up-to-date time-saving
devices for business men. Call
and be convinced.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-07-18
OLYMPIA REBR

Is an exhilrating non.injurious beverage
Taken In moderation Its medicinal proper
ties tend TO regulate and keep the system
In good, working order. The brewery
Is situated at Olympia, Washington
State, In proximity to the far famed Tum
Falls, the water of which contains sever.
al important special qualities necessary to
the manufacture of wholesome beer.
Larry n. Dee Of the Hoffman Bar, cor.
ner Hotel and Nuuanu streets, has.the sole
retail agency for the OLYMPIA BEER
and would he glad to have the public call
and pass judgement.
The record-union., 1899-08-22
COSTLY BLAZE
AT FRESNO.
Two Large Packing Houses Wiped
Out by Fire.
The Losses Estimated at at Least Sixty
Thousand Dollars.
The Flames Believed to Have Been
Started From the Explosion of
a Lantern Which Had Been
Filled by Mistake With Gaso-
line Instead of Coal Oil.

FRESNO, Aug. 21.-The two large
packing houses recently completed on
the Valley Road reservation We're wiped
out by fire this evening, almost as
disastrous as the confiagration on the
Southern Pacific Reservation about a
year ago. The fire started in the CO.
operative plant, and running up an
eight-Story tower, spread across the
street to the Seropian's.
The fire department was unable to
do any service on account of made
quacy Of the water supply.
The fire is said to have started from
the explosion of a lantern, which had
been filled with gasoline by mistake for
coal oil.
Seropian estimates his loss at $4,000,
and he carried about 20 per cent. insur-
ance. The Co-operatives would not
state their loss, but it will be about
equal to Seropian's. The manager states
that the plant was fully insured.
The Valley Road roundhouse and San
Joaquin Ice Company's plant had d
close call.
The record-union., 1899-08-22
PASSENGER AGENTS.
Important Meeting Held by the
Western Association.

CHICAGO, Aug. 81. - An important
meeting of the Western Passenger As
sociation was held here to-day. 1t is
possible that the sessions will con-
tinue for the greater part of the week.
A strong effort will be made to get
outside lines into the association. These
include the Wisconsin Central, the Chi
cago, Great Western and the Mime
apolis and ST. Louis roads.
Other subjects which will come be-
fore the association are the present
unsatisfactory condition of California
rates and the condition of rates be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul. Chicago
brokerage officers are stocked with re-
turn stubs of Eastern excursion rates.
which are being sold for $3.50 below
the regular rates to st. Paul. and fears
are entertained that decentralization of
rates will result unless some means are
devised for stopping the practice.
A movement looking toward the es-
tablishment of a Bureau of Common
Advertising in connection with the as
sociation will be discussed.
interchangeable mileage and a prop
osition to stop the practice of carrying
baggage free on tickets costing less
than so cents will be among the sub
jects that will come before the meet
ing.
The record-union., 1899-08-22
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Are Favorable for a Very Much
Warmer Temperature.

SAN FRANCISCOs Aug 21.-4The fol-
lowing We're the maximum tempera-
lures to-day: Eureka 5S. Fresno 81,
Los Angeles rs. Red Bluff go San Luis
Obispo rs, San Diego 20, Sacramento
so, independence SO. Yuma 104.
San Francisco: Maximum tempera-
ture 6S, minimum 81. mean 90.
Cloudy weather prevails over Wash
ington. Elsewhere fair weather pre-
walls west of the Rocky Mountains.
Light rain has fallen over Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Nevada
The pressure has risen rapidly dur
ing the past twenty-four hours, and
conditions are now favorable for much
warmer weather.
The temperature has risen slightly
over Washington, Oregon and the
northern portion of California 1t has
fallen recently over the plateau and
Rocky Mountain regions. The fall over
Northern Utah is over 20 degrees.
The record-union., 1899-08-22
CASE oF POLICEMAN RICE.
Superior Judge RisIey Refuses to
Dismiss the Charges.

FRESNO, Aug. 21.-Judge Risley of
the Superior Court. to-day refused to
dismiss the case against Policeman
Rice, charged with the murder of Dan
iel Donnelly, which occurred several
months ago.
Rices attorneys claimed that the
case should be dismissed for two rea-
sons: First, that information filed
against Rice should "be set aside be-
cause the information charged him with
murder while he was held on the charge
of manslaughter. The second plea was
that the complaint on which Rice was
arrested was made by one who had
not personal knowledge of the facts as
shown by the subsequent affidavit filed
by himself.
Judge Risley refused both petitions.
because he could find no precedent
which would justify him in doing so,
and thought that the laws OF the State
explicitly covered both points.
The record-union., 1899-08-22
ASTORIA REGATTA.
The First Day Starts Under Rather
Bad Auspices.

ASTORIA (Or.), Aug. 21.-The first
day of the regatta started under bad
auspices. The day broke with the pros
pect of good weather. but before the
first event was announced lowering
clouds settled over the entire bay. The
coronation of the Queen was post
poned until this evening. A large crowd
was in attendance. but the dismal
weather has cast a damper on the en-
tire proceedings.
The junior outrigger skiff race be-
tween John Lewis of Alameda and j.
w. Stornberg of the Aerials of San
Francisco, one and a half miles. with
turn, was won by Lewis by several
boat lengths.
The Indian canoe race was won by
Doc Petite of ShoaIwater Bay
The first heat of the senior outrig-
ger skiff race between James Patton
of Portland, S. j. Pembroke of Ala
media and c. G. Dennis Of the South
Ends of San Francisco. one and half
The record-union., 1899-08-22
Young Mems Institute.

SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 21.-This morn
ing the Salinas. Monterey, Castroville
and Watsonville Council of the Young
Mems Institute arrived here by spe-
cial train, and were received at the
depot by Santa Cruz Council. They
were escorted to the Catholic Church,
where pontificial high mass was cele-
brated for the first time in the history
of the order. Bishop Montgomery of
Los Angeles acted as celebrant, and
was assisted by Father Hudson of Gill
roy, Father Hassett of Hollister, Father
Hestres of Monterey and Father Smith
of Santa Cruz. Father McNamee Of this
city preached the sermon. This after
noon the. Grand Council convened at
Native Sons Hall. Organization and
the reception of reports occupied the
time
The record-union., 1899-08-22
Alaska Boundary Question.

TACOMA (Wash.). Aug. 21.-Con-
gressman Cushman of the State OF
Washington returned from Alaska to-
day. He believes there is nothing to
arbitrate in the Alaskan boundary
question. He met a surveyor who was
member of the surveying party that
first staked out the line as claimed by
England thirty years ago. The line
then surveyed is the line now claimed
by the United States surveyors who
say the stakes of thirty years ago are
still standing; though the British have
since moved the line thirty miles down
the Stickeen River.
The record-union., 1899-08-22
Suit Against an Electric Company.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.-In the
United States Court this morning suit
was filed against the San Joaquin Elec-
tric Company, which has interests at
Fresno, by the Mercantile Trust Com
pany of New York In 1895 the cleo
trio company issued SS00000 worth of
bonds, $550,000 worth of which were
sold. The interest falling due in jan
uary, 1899, was $16,650. which still re-
mains unpaid, together with interest
due in July last. The Mercantile Com
pany asks that a receiver be appointed,
and a restraining order issued prevent
ing the company from disposing of any
of its property.