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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
Suggestions on Poultry RaIslng.

Eighteen years ago l experienced
the sensation of having my neighbors
all give me the laugh for trading a
|. yearling steer for six Brown Leghorn
pullets. writes Buff Jersey" in Col
mans Rural World. They made so
much fun OF me that when l bought a
rooster to place with the pullets, l
took him from the express office and
covered him up in the buggy so no one
could see him. So much was said Of
Buff jerseys" trade that l deter
mined to keep track of the years out
come from my start in pure bred poul-
try. We hatched and raised from this
pen 800 chickens; sold at produce
prices $50 worth Of chickens, also IS
roosters for $12, and a breeding pen
for SIS besides we used a large num-
Der of chickens and eggs in the fam
lily. We kept a pen of Is pullets and
a rooster that were successfully kept
for some years after. That year we
exhibited our chickens at our county
fair and carried away every premium
offered for that breed. Since that
time l have bred the Brown Leghorn
In preference to any other breed.
/ have found that poultry is a fine
side line to carry along with the hog
and the COW. Where 1 have been en-
gagged In dairying and our output of
butter was delivered to customers
from q wagon, It was no trouble to
take our egss along, and they were
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
The Dairy thermometer.

One of the most difficult things to
control in making butter on the farm
during the hot months is the tenn
perature, a y Colman's Rural World.
Few farmers have ice and many no
facilities for cooling the milk and
cream with water. The woman's in
genuity is taxed and so the solution,
too many times, Is to hang the cream
pail in the we'll, which, in the majority
of cases, is a tin one, and the expert
butter-makers never ripen cream in
a vessel made of tin. But a pail of
other material is too heavy to trust
the cream in when hanging in the well.
During the winter the farmers wife
can get the cream cold enough. and
she can easily warm the cream if she
knows just how much to increase the
temperature. The one article needed
for this is q dairy thermometer. Do
not churn again without one. The cost
is only a trile, but the saving of worry
is immense. Before we learned its use
and value we were under constant
strain, lest we would have the butter
come a mass Of white grease or wheth-
er we would be two hours churning.
Test with the thermometer the tenn
perature of the cream, If too cold, set
tne cream jar in a vessel of hot water
and stir the cream occasionally to have
that in the center of the jar of the
same temperature as that next to the
sides. If the room in which the churn-
ing is done Is very warm her the
cream ought not to be too warm. If
your hardware merchant does not keep
dairy thermometers, he can easily or
der n for YOU, When once their
real value is known, churning will
never be done without the use of one.
Don't call this,a new tangled" notion.
Get one. use it and then report as to
its value.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

NHAA NHS 1oh
The following appears in the Rural
New Yorker:
we would like to know. to what ex-
tent the laws regarding trespassing of
live stock apply to poultry. Is it nee
essary for a man to keep his poultry
fenced in order to protect his neigh
boris property? If his hens run over
the line and scratch in the neighbours
garden, has he the same redress he
would have in case a larger animal did
the mischief"
Any direct interference with the
person, land, i~nclose, or property of
another by a person, his stock, or his
poultry, is a trespass. A single tres
pass by poultry upon a neighbours gar
den or inclose would scarcely consti-
tue a trespass; yet everything in which
the law recognizes property may be
the subject of trespass, and the COM
mon and statutory law makes no ex-
ception of poultry. Therefore, what
ever provisions of the law apply to the
trespassing of live stock, will also ap-
ply to poultry. Wherever there is a
wrong there is a remedy. The action
generally called trespass (sometimes
regulated by statute) may be brought
for a great variety of injuries, either
to person or property. The measure
of damages is usually the actual value
of the property destroyed double and
triple damages are allowed in some
state by statute); such damages are
intended as a compensation to the
damaged party for the injury done. A
wrongdoer is responsible for the con-
sequences which flow Immediately
from his wrongful or negligent acts.
and the responsibility is not relieved
by the fact that the of
the injurious act could nave been pre-
vented by the care or skill of the in
jured party. A party is not bound to
fence his inclose in a manner to pro-
vide against foraging chickens belong
ing to another. But such injured per-
son cannot, because Il wrong has been
done to his property by trespassing
fowls, commit some other wrong for
the purpose Of repairing the injury or
preventing future injury, but must en-
deavor to obtain redress in a lawful
manner. r. d r
R. N. YIN other words, we cannot
lawfully kill the tramp hen that
scratches up our garden!
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
Some Sheen Dins.

coho SuctU bIp9'
The Colorado Experiment Station
publishes the following formula for the
making of sheep dips:
Australian Dip - Sulphur, $50
pounds; lime, 100 pounds, to 100 gal
Ions of water. The lime and sulphur
were mixed with a small amount of
water first and heated until all became
a bright red liquid and then diluted to
100 gallons.
Copperas Dip - Copperas, thirty
pounds; water, 100 gallons.
Flour Of Sulphur-The dry powder
used pure.
Flour of Sulphur in Water-Used in
the proportion of ten pounds of sui
phur to 100 gallons of water.
Curtice Dip-Tobacco leaves. fifty
pounds; sulphur, ten pounds, to 100
gallons of water. The tobacco was
first thoroughly STEPPED, after which
the leaves were removed and the sui
phur put in the decoctlon and boiled
for a half hour.
Milk of Lime-Lump lime, $50
pounds; water, 100 gallons. Lime slak-
ed in the water and used at once.
Tobacco Observation-Disclosures dust,
200 pounds; water, 100 gallons. The
tobacco was stepped in the water and
then the leaves squeezed and the
strong decoction used in full and one
half, one-fourth and one-eighth full
strength.
Arsenic of Soda Dip--White arsenic,
n ounce; carbonate of soda. one
ounce; water, one gallon. The arsenic
n carbonate of soda were first put in
a small amount of water together, and
boiled until tho arsenic became entire
ly dissolved, and then the remainder
Of the water was added. Also used in
weaker solutions.
Carbolic Acid and Corrosive Subli-
mate-Carbolic acid, eight parts; cor
rosive sublimate, one part; water, 1900
parts. Suggested and prepared by DR..
Hadden.)
Carbolic Acid-Pure carbolic acid in
water in proportions varying from one
part in 100 to one part in 1000.
Kerosene Emulsion - Soap. one
pound; water, n gallon; kerosene,
two gallons. After making the emul-
sion in these proportions in the, usual
manner the whole was diluted to six
teen gallons Also used in one-half
this strength. t..
Pure Kerosene-Used without dilu-
ton. "
Alcohol-Used O5 per cen pure. 49,
Whale-Oil S"ap-Used in the proper
ton Of n pound to two gallons of
water. - al
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
now Successful Farmers Operate This
Department. of the Farm "A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
snd Poultry.
Gas I'm Cheese.

The Manhattan cheese factory has
been having trouble from gas and foul
todor in its cheese curd, writes d. H. o.
in Kansas Farmer. The gas would not
only push the curd out of the press,
but would leave 1t full of holes. These
holes are caused by the presence of
gas, which in turn is produced by the
action of certain bacteria.
The Farm department of the Agri-
cultural College was asked to investi-
gate the trouble and IL possible dis
cover its source. A small sample OF
each patrons milk was placed in a
tumbler and subjected to the Wiscon-
sin euro test. This consists in heating
the milk up to SO degrees f., adding
about ten drops of rennet extract to
each sample, cutting up the curd with
a knife to leave the whey out, and
then allowing the curd to ferment from
six to twelve hours. Examination of
these small curds revealed the fact
that two patrons were delivering milk
that contained these gas producing
germs in very considerable quantity.
Another curd contained but little gas
OoH AoN q fCIy AOuA ONOl . III law was
filthy. When the milk Of these pat
rons was refused the gas ceased to be
produced in the cheese.
While testing the milk for gas, an
other test was made by heating a sam
pie of each patrons milk up to lis de-
grees F., to see the character of the
odor given off. Two samples had a
very rank smell, doubtless due to the
presence Of animal odor and from the
milk absorbing odors from filthy sur
roundings. One of these had a gassy
curd In the previous test. Two other
samples had a little peculiar odor that,
it was thought, might be due to the
cows eating some Objectionable plant,
as Usage orange or rag-weed. Both
of the above tests show very clearly
the need of more care in handling of
milk. Animal odor can be removed
by aerating the milk soon after milk
ing, while it is still warm, and filthy
surroundings should not be tolerated
under any circumstances.
Gas-producing germs are rather
common, and it is sometimes difficult
to say just how they obtain entrance
to the milk. Two of the most common
sources of infection are from the cows
drinking water from stagnant ponds
or creeks, and from fermenting matter
in the stable. The presence Of these
germs cannot be readily detected in
the milk. 1t often happens that they
are not noticed until the curd is ready
to go to press, or even after 1t is put to
press. Their presence is first observed
by the curd having an appearance as If
1t had been nely-punctured with a
pin. If the fermentation goes on it
may cause the cheese to smell or
huff" and this fermentation may be
so energetic as to cause the cheese to
| crack, due to the pressure of the en-
closed gas. On account of the difficulty
Of detection and of the injurious effects
Of these germs, 1t should be the duty
of every patron to inspect his premises
and remove every source of infection,
whether it be the water, the feed, or
the surroundings.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
Teaching the Calf to Drink.

1t is curious what a lot of. tommy
rot one reads upon the subject of
teaching calves to drink, says National
SUockman. The latest thing, l have
forgotten just where 1 read it., said
that the fingers should be wet with
milk and held out to the calf. and
when he got a smell of the milk he
would suck the fingers, and then he
was to be gradually led to the bucket
by means of the fingers and the fingers
then withdrawn and he would learn to
drink; but on no account must he be
held. I tried this plan on the last calf
we had to see just what the calf would
do. 1t smelt of my fingers wet with
milk and walked over to the other side
of the stall. And then in spite of all
the coaxing I could do he staid there
until l went back to the good old
fashioned way and got astride il and
damned its head into the pail of milk
with my fingers in it's mouth. It snort
ed a little, but soon came to terms and
finished the milk in short order. And
in n more lesson it had learned to
drink without aid or assistance from
me. There is one point to keep we'll
in mind. and that is not to lose your
temper. Don't get mad. 1t does not
do the least bit of good in the world
whether the object of your anger is
horse. COW, hired man or worst Of all
your boy.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
sunday In Billyllle.

No services to-day. A stone blew of
the church steeple and the minister
levied on the nghtning-rod for his sal
airy.
The Mormon missionaries are in our
midst. A mar who advocates a fellow
having three wives these hard times
ought to be either lynched or married
TO them.
All married men in Blllville have
gone to Atlanta and pitched their tents
for the Jubilee.
This world is a bright world; but 1t
Is not a consolation to think that the
next Il is blazing.-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Sale of Oleo in Pennsylvania.-Mr.
William D. Edison, a prominent butter
merchant Of Philadelphia, who, by the
way, is not a manufacturer of or dealer
in that twin-fraud of oleomargarine,
process butter" writes hat owing to
the protection accorded the oleo peo-
pie by the political ring of this state
the sales of oleomargarine has greatly
increased, and so encouraged have be-
come the fraud butter men that they
were even inspired to secretly ask, the
legislature to legalize their sales iby
passing a revenue bill, which has been
for the time being frustrated by
prompt discovery and opposition OF
the part of dairymen. Mr.. Edison says
that at a conservative estimate the en-
forcement of the law has been a saw.
ing to the farmers east of the Allie.
gheny mountains of at least So, 000, 00C
annually.-The Dairy World.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

In refusing to pardon q city treas
urer who violated his trust and was
sent to the p~enitentiary, the governor
of Washington lays down the propo-
sition that convicts should be pardon
ed only when they are proven to have
been innocent, when it is shown that
the sentence was excessive, or when,
while imprisoned, they are able to
render the state some signal service.
There may be other conditions that
would warrant exercise of the pardon
ing power; but, leaving that out of the
question, we are wholly in sympathy
with a governor who declines to abuse
1t by freeing a man whose position,
education and opportunities encour-
aged him to be everything but a thief.
The trusted official who sins against
light and knowledge" not because of
the spur of need, is, of all criminals,
the one to be punished. Clemency
toward such an n brings the laws in
TO contempt.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Soil Aeration.-By this term we
mean the entrance of air into the soil,
and its consequent effect. This is close
ly connected with the benefits accru-
ing from an increase OF depth. In
many of our subsoils there is a guam
tity of inert plant food which is of no
use unless it has been decomposed by
the action of the air. When the air
is admitted to the soil gradually from
the surface and also from the drains
direct, the oxygen of the air, in con-
nection with moisture and heat, cause
a chemical change to take place in all
vegetable matter not well decomposed
and fitted for plant food, and renders
the soil richer as well as deep.-C. G.
Elliott, Drainage Engineer.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Squads and Capons for Market.-If
squads are killed before they can av
the flesh is white. but after that If
darkens, reducing the value from one
to two dollars per dozen. Those rails
ing them for market should keen the
old ones we'll supplied with food so
that the young may become plump and
fat. Always dry pick them. and re-
move all of the down. Leave on the
heads, and leave the entrails in, Have
them thoroughly cooled before pack
ing, then ship by express. The rules
for picking and shipping squads apply
to broilers. Capons should ALWAYS he
dry picked. Leave on the heads and
leave entrails in. Also leave all the
feathers on the neck and the large ones
on the wings and tail. Slips are dress
ed the same way. They are readily
selected from capons by the. growth If
their combs and swelling of the spurs.
These usually sell for several cents per
pound less than capons.-Mirror and
Farmer. ,,-
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Clergymcn and others who are in
tercsted in the discussion of the ques-
uon of allowing the opening of saloons
on Sunday should remember that it is
q practical and not sentimental ques-
ton, and that it involves %considera-
lions of greater or less good and evil
to the community and not of absolute
good and evil, I. is not strictly a
~ttGuestien of temperance or Of Sabbath
'arlan observance. but of doing what
= can reasonably and beneficially be
" oone in behalf Of both and a better OBJ
aervsnee OF the law,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
A Rite.

The house surgeon of a London hos
pital was attending to the injuries of Oh
poor woman whose arm had been Sc
verely bitten. AS he was dressing the,
would he said: 81 cannot make out
what sort of a creature bit you. This
is too small for a horses bite and too
large for a dogs"
ooh, sir" replied the patient, sit
wasn't an animal; it was another
lady.'-Tit-Bits.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Grain of Butte".-Grain cannot be
put in butter, but it can be readily de-
stroyed either by overworking proven
churning. 1t can be retained in the
butter if skill is taken on the part Of
the buttermaker to free the butter
from the buttermilk and incorporate
the necessary amount of salt without
breaking the natural globules of fat
The advantage of washing out the but,
termilk and brine sailing and working
out the buttermilk and working in the
salt is that the grain In the butter is
so much easier retained.-Ex.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Winter Grown Pie Plant.-Growing
pie plant in winter has passed the ex-
perimental stage and become a profit
able industry. Thousands of dollars
are paid the gardeners each winter for
the product, which is bought at high
prices. both for home consumption and
for shipment. Any cellar or outbuild-
ing which can be made absolutely
frost proof and light proof will answer
the purpose. There is no objection to
the house cellar, as no manure and
very little water are required. so no
odor or dampness will arise. The labor
of growing is so little and the, profits
so large that sthe most greedy ought TO
be satisfied with the reSults.-Ex,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
1t is fortunate for the country tina

1t is fortunate for the country that
the founders of the republic left all its
ihonors open to the poor. Some of the
men who have attained very high
rank in craftsmanship had no capacity
to save money, and lived and died in
poverty. There has been more than
one great senator who never paid
taxes on an assessment of $4,000, and
who never owned a home. And there
have been very few great statesmen in
this country whose names graced the
lists of heavy taxpayers.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Watering Cows.4Cow need much
water. They should be watered twice
or three times each day if they be in.
duced to drink. The average; COW, while
in milk, requires about so pounds
nearly ten gallons-of water a day and
nearly 60 pounds when dry. OF this
she will get three gallons in her feed
and the remainder must be given her,
More than one-third the weight of feed
and water consumed by a COW is wa,
ter.-Ex.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

II do not object" said a f~orbearing
man to his daughter, Ito your trying
ito make yourself look like q man, but
1t dlsgusts me to see the kind of man
you succeed in making yourself resem-
bile"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

grows to the height of one to two
feet. The opposite leaves grow to-
gether IT. the base, varying in form
from oblong in the lower to ovate in
the upper. The flowers are pink and
are arranged in open cymes; that is,
one in each fork on the branches. The
way to get rid of the pest, after it has
put in an appearance, is to cultivate
thoroughly. If the land be devoted to
hoed crops, this will be easy, as the
cookie cannot stand cultivation. When
wheat or other grain is sown care
should be taken that 1t contains no
cookie seed. The cookie becomes a
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27
They Are slow,

II was down in New York last week.
n had a queer experience"
what was that?' {
81 couldn't find a burlesque of 'Cyra-
no de Bergerac' at any of the thea
ters."-Chicago Daily News.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

A man seldom drops the coin OF
fairness into the slot of ~self-esteem
for the purpose of ascertaining his
moral ~avoirdupois.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Better fish remain in the sea than
ever were caught. The bride never
weds the "best man"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

1t Is generally supposed that the
nuggets which are found in the river
gravels of Klondike and other aurif-
erous regions have been brought down
by the rivers direct from the reefs in
which the gold originally lay. Many
practical miners and scientific men,
however, have long been Of opinion
that this cannot be the case, for no
masses of gold of so large a size were
ever found in the reefs themselves.
They believe, on the other hand, that
the nuggets have grown where they
are now found, just as a crystal Of
salt will grow in a strong brine; but
with SO ipsoluble a substance al gold
ii was difficult to. understand how such
growth could take place. Experiments
carried out in Australia have shown
that decaying vegetable matter will
cause the deposition of gold from So
buttons of gold salts, but these salta
are not known to occur in reefs. The
mystery is now solved, A, Slavonic
chemist named Zzigmody has just
shown that gold itself can exist in
"a soluble form. BR7 acting on a slight
", alkaline solution of a gold salt
with formaldehyde and submitting the
product of dialysis he has succeeded
IN Obtaining gold in a colloidaE oondi-
tion, in which state it is soluble in
water and may be precipitated by the
addition of common salt.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

The medium should always be in
good spirits. =
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Wise is the baggage-smasher who
wears a chest protector.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

4. General Lord Kitchener persistently
' refuses to write a history of his. Sou
n dan campaign Let US have one gen
y -. seral who has not written a book" he
is reported to have said. An English
~ - writer says % him; ''Youi cannot ina
Eaiueinesth Nsirdar otherwise than as see
ing the right thing and doing 1t. His
precision Is %inhumanly unerring. He
'''''@" 'fs' nt5fez 9i4e< a machine than a man.
You feel that he ought to be patented
%,a@y"hand shown with. pride at the. Paris in
: ...ss' .eternatipnal exhibition: British En-
pire, exhibit No. /: Hors concours-
gi;., the Soudan machine ."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

! This is the glad season Of the year
when the plumber gets square with the
ice man.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

The man who has enough money to
enable him to live in idleness won't
and the poor man who would can't.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Social etiquette doesn't interest a
man who is wearing a porous plaster
on a hot day.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

The only way you can hurt some
men is by striking them on the pocket
took.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

; It's a pity women can't strike out
from the shoulder with her fist as well
US with her tongue.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

A sharp pencil is sure to make its
mark in the world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Uusually the louder a man talks
the less It amounts to.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

The polish on a mans coat doesn't
help him to get into society.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1899-04-27

Two or three-year-old turkeys are
better for breeding stock than young
birds. 1t is a mistake TO sell of all
the old stock every fall,