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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
Poultry for Profit.

There are very few farmers who re-
alize how much money comes from
the poultry and eggs that are produc-
ed on the farm. If they study the
matter up they VIII find that the hens
in the ba1nyard pay more for the food
they consume than almost anything
else, in fact, except the Indispensable
horse, whose value is hard to COM
pute, being so much depended upon,
so says writer in Poultry Tribune.
The farmer can keep a hen for less
than so cents per'year This has been
proven time and again, and it is
poor sort of hen that will not produce
ten dozen eggs a year. THE average
price is about ten cents a dozen. AL
lowing the cost of keeping is so cents
and that eggs average but ten cents a
dozen the year through, lit will be
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11

seen the income is 100 per cent on the
investment of keep. If he keeps his
poultry as he should the average price
will be nearer 20 cents dozen than
ten cents, for he will get eggs in the
winter when prices are high. With
all the increase i'm the products of the
poultry yards of the country there has
never been a year when we did fUt
import eggs, and this importation has
not fallen off, except as the tariff af-
fected it, and the tariff of five cents
did not cut off importation entirely.
The United States is fast becoming a
nation of poultry and egg eaters be-
cause of the wholesomenIess of poultry
and the cheapness of eggs as compar-
ed with meats are becoming better
understood all the time and the result
is that the demand for poultry and
eggs grows nearly as fast as the sup
ply is increased and the average rises
slowly year by year No one need hes
itate about going into the business Of
raising poultry from any fear that
there Will be an oversupply. A low
price always meets an increased de-
mand, and this fosters an appetite for
eggs and poultry, which is satisfied
when eggs go up again, and the bust,
ness keeps ON growing. 1t will keep
on indefinitely, for poultry can and
will be kept with good profit when
the country is much more thickly pop
ulated than it is at present.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
Pure Breeds and Prices.

If you desire birds that will enable
you to compete with others do not ex-
pect to buy them at low price. If
you wish to breed frst-class exhibit
ton stock next seasons do not be
afraid Of the cost. 1T costs time,
money and skin to breed focks up to
a high average, and the prices usually
asked are not eXtOrtiona tie. If you are
not particular about exhibiting, and
desire some strong vigorous birds,
that have mo faults but a twist of
the comb, or some slight defect, for
crossing on common stock, let the
breeder know it when you write, and
he will try to accommodate you. No
breeder generally has two birds at the
same price. They are sold according
to quality; for that reason be particu-
lar to describe your wants, and do not
expect the breeder to know your de-
sires.-EX.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
Fattening and Quality.

Fowls cannot be made to fatten
when only partly matured, a few
breeds excepted, for they need most
of their food for growth, like all
young stock, which eat voraciously
and grow prodigiously while remain-
ing awkward and long. This is no rea>
son why chickens intended for the ia
bic should not be- generously fed, for
the more they eat, the greater the
quantity off their flesh. Of course the
quality is also much better. Adult
fowls can, be fattened upon grain of
various sorts, fed for a change But
as a variety not only stimulates appe-
title, but aids digestion, a very little
animal food of extra nice quality, as
beef's liver or other butchers meat,
should be- added daily, as well as veg
etables. But ON MO account give these
last in excess, for not only is grain
cheaper and productive of the best
quality of flesh, but meat and vegeta-
bles fed too freely keep the bowels ac
tive. and therefore may retard fatten-
ing. For laying hens meat is superior
to grain.-P. HI. Jacobs, i'm American
Gardening.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
A Wooden-Legged Rooster.

A rooster that struts about with a
wooden leg is the rather unusual
sight to be seen on farm a few miles
from Middletown, n. Y. The rooster
lost one of it's legs last summer as the
result of too intimate acquaintance
with a moving machine. 1t was only
a chick at the time, and Mr.. Mapes'
son found it soon after it had been in
iured and cared for it. The leg had
been cut off just below the knee joint,
and the boy, after the wound had
healed, cut a piece of stout twig to the
right length and tied it tightly to the
stump of the leg. The chicken seem
ed much surprised and was very awk-
ward at first, but it soon became ac-
customed to the use of the artificial
leg and learned to run about on it
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11

for the care of them. With 500 hens
on five acres, such results easily could
be exceeded with less painstaking
care than would be necessary with
small pens. With five acres it could
be arranged to produce most of the
summer feed and good share of the
winter feed on the place, besides rails
ing larger number of young chick
ems.
We have proven to our satisfaction
that hens can be kept confined and
pay as we'll or better than wnen they
are given large liberty. The figures
given above are based on experience
and can be duplicated by any one
who Will give proper attention to the
business.-Farme Voice.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
Cheap Lands and Poultry.

On all lands there is a growth of
something, and among the different
kinds of barn+yard fowls there are
some that will find a portion of their
food from the voluntary growth. The
turkey is an active forager, and indus
triously works over large area, con-
Stunning not only insects but a great
many grasses and seeds. Ducks and
geese prefer to seek the young and
tender heritage, not excepting weeds.
If a piece of land is idle, and is un
suitable for large stock, it will pay to
put it to use, and thus compel it to
return at least the interest on it's val
lie. When poultry houses are built
sufficiently far apart to- allow room
for flock of fifty hens, they will need
feed given depending on the vegeta-
BILE growth upon the land. If it is COW
cred with green food, even if of
weeds, the hens will not be slow in
finding al they desire. If the growth
is scanty, then a mess of meat and
bone at night will be all the help they
may need. Poultry should be used or
poor and unprofta bile land, especially
in sections where there are always
good markets and fair prices are OBJ
tanned the whole year, and it is bet
ter to keep geese, ducks, turkeys and
hens than to depend only on one kind.
If good land is used, then the circum-
stances governing other matters On
the farm must fbe considered; but the
object is to call attention to the util
ization of waste land, poultry Offering
better opportunities for affording
profit than even sheep, as the hens
give returns every day in the year. The
farmers must at some time realize the
fact that poultry should not be a side
business on the farm, but be taken
up as one of the most important and
when they begin to do so they win
learn how to manage better and how
to make land pay that has never paid
before.-Poultry Keeper.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11

almost as we'll as if the leg had been
its natural one.
The wooden leg has been renewed
several times. Last winter, when it
was icy, the rooster had hard time
keeping it's footing, and when it took
tumble it was by no means easy for
it to regain an upright position. 1t
it's way about through the snow, but
now it asks no odds of any of the
fowls on the place, and is ready at any
time to fight with any other rooster
that gives it cause for battle.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
Some New Practices.

opinions were sought i'm such matters
that poultry must have large range,
practically a II unlimited one, in order
to give them an opportunity to do
their best work, and that confinement
is always followed by lower rate Of
egg production and a higher death
rate among chicks. The writer has
never cOmbated this theory because he
had no tangible evidence that it was
not good one. We are now inclined
to think it among those things that
are accepted because they sound rea
sonable. If we look at the matter
from human point of view we are in
dlIned to think that anything less
than the largest liberty is hurtful 10
some extent. A hens point of view
may be quite different, and no doubt
would be if she could think. Not be-
ing abe to reason about her condition
she is not at all affected by her envi-
ron'ment 50 far ais her peace Of mind
is concerned. She does not get tired
of seeing the same things year in and
year out. She has no desire to travel
for the sake of travelling. If She IS
supplied with enough to eat and drink
She reiishes it just as we'll amid famil-
lar surroundings as she would in some
far-off and more picturesque land.
The hen works for only one reason
she is hungry, and if forced to do SO
will work for something to eat. Put
part of her feed in trough and scat
ter the remainder in a straw stack
and she Will eat that in the trough
first and wait until she gets hungry
before going through the straw stack.
The conclusions have been arrived at
from recent experience. For nine
months our hens have not been out of
a pen which is of such size that with
the same number of hens in each pen
700 hens would live on an acre. Dur
ing this nine months these hens have
produced more eggs than they did
during the same months of the year
before, when they had their liberty,
and are laying much better this win
ter than they were last year ait this
time One-haIf the flock are pullets,
the oldest just nine months old, and
they are laying now while the Old
p hens are not paying for their feed.
This flock has been made to- work
during all the time they have been
shut up. Their yard has been kept
clean and the house is warm and
clean. They get their feed now by
digging it out of the straw on the
floor of the house and do mot even
care to 90 out of doors. AS this is
written the day is quite pleasant and
the chicken house door is open, but
not hen is outside.
With the same care that has been
given these hens it would not make
any difference i'm health and produc-
tiveness if a hundred acres were COW
cred with similar pens. There is no
reason~at adj why 500 to 700 hens could
not be yarded and housed on single
acre and do as well as these have
done. If the hens were as good lay
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-01-11
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

Address all munications to Poultry De-
partment, Box 200, DeLand, Fla.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02

the extent of a decoration. which she sent
to him.
He used every effort to discredit the
msurrectionists by proclaiming that Jim
ini1 intended to sell out to the Yankees,
and when this was done and they fell into
the hands of the United States they would
be treated like slaves.
MIR. Jlmlnz desires the most friendly
relations with the United States and there
Is not the slightest fear that the insurrec-
titnists will interfere in any way with
The foreigners on the island. Mr.. Jimlni2
and General Gomez are warm personal
friends. In fact, both reside in the same
house in Havana.
LAS Heureux was an usurper, the vice
president is equally SO, but blood and in
surrection would cease Mt once II the lat
ter would announce that legal public
election would take place on August 49,
which is the independence day OF the
country.
''The entire country Is aroused to the
necessity of change to a government
whore life is secure and 1t recognizes that
the former vice president and the present
pretending president Is but one OF the &C
completes Of Heureux and as such has
no confidence In him"
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to arms, but after n long struggle were
defeated. Since that time very few reput-
able citizens have taken part In the cleo
lions. knowing them to be a farce.
'The constitution of Santo Domingo. in
common with most South and Central
American countries provides that no one
shall hold office for more than one term
in succession, but this the late president
overruled There is no such thing as a
free press in that country; no paper dares
publish anything unless favorable to the
existing regime. Even here In New York
the Dominicans who are residents dare
not give information regarding the poll
ties of their country. fearing that their
relatives and interests there will suffer
In the war between the United States and
Spain Heureux showed his sympathy for
Spain in many acts and put every diff
Guilty possible in the way of Americans
aud Cubans. His efforts on the side of
Spain were so marked and of such assist
ance to that country that they resulted in
the queen of Spain recognizing them to
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02
SUMMARY OF ToDAY's IMPORTANT NEWS,
FOREIGN.

The malietoan party of Samoa are in
favor of annexation. though to what ooun-
try they fail to state.
Vice President FlGuero has taken charge
OF the Dominican government AS president
and formed a cabinet. 1t is expected he
will proclaim general amnesty.
Tho Samoan commissioners have signed
an agreement abollshing the klngship and
agreeing to an administration with
council OF triparti nominees
The English discred,t the interview
printed In which Admiral Dewey Is
quoted as saying Our next war Will be
with Germany"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02
THE STRIKERS BOYCOTT
It Has Assumed a More Serious Aspect
Than the Strike Itself.
BUSINESS HAS BEEN GREATLY AFFECTED
Merchant. Refuse to Sell Goods to
Those who Pntronixc the
street Cars.

Cleveland, Ohio, August 1.-The strike
popular excitement over the boycott
Everybody is talking about 1t and the
newspapers publish many stories Illus
trailing the methods resorted to in the ef-
fort to prevent people from riding on the
cars on the Big Consolidated. People OF
all classes and in all occupations and walks
OF life are being affected more or less
and business is suffering greatly In conse-
quence.
The street railway company continues TO
operate Its cars on all lines but many OF
them are run over the road empty, while
on the other hand cars of the Little Con-
soidated and the Union BUSES are crowd
ed to their capacity. Apparently the Of
fcials of the company are not worrying
over the situation. but the strikers are
jubilant, declaring that they will yet win
the fight and fose the company to come
to terms.
A prominent physician tonight gave an
instance of the way in which the boycott
Is being enforced. He says he was called
TO see little girl who was dying. lie was
met by two men who told him he had bet
ter not attend the child, us her father was
a "scab." He replied that they ought to
serve notice OF the boycott OH the Almighty
and inform him that they would not go
to heaven, for the child would be there
in a short time.
A man was refused cledicine at two drug
stores, even though he was in a critical
condition, simply because ne mad ridden on
Big Consolidated cat.
Tonight General AXine declared that II
any more complaints OF discrimination
against soldiers came to him he would
appoint u judge advocate general to pro-
coed against the merchants and thus seek
to bring them to time.
There seems to be disposition to stir
up the trouble among the employees of the
Little Consolidated company More than
half of them have been initiated into the
union of the Big Consolidated's former
employees and dispatch has been sent to
Senator Mark Hanna, who is in France,
asking him If he as president of the Lit
tie Consolidated company Will recognize
the union. No answer has yet been re-
celved to the cablegram.
A deputatlon of strikers went to Akron
today to get the men on the lines OF the
Northern Ohio Traction company which
is controlled by Henry A. Everett of the
Big Consolidated, to go out on sympa-
thetiL strike. They got very little salts
faction.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02
CROP CONDITIONS.
The Weather Bureaus Weekly Ssn1
mary Report.

injury report.
Washington, August 1.--Following Is y
weather bureaus weekly summary .! CO,
conditions:
Drouth has been relieved In the SOU
Atlantic and East Gulf States aud bs't'
ciai rains have fallen in Ohio and lndaa
Rain is needed In Louisiana and Arkiisl
Local storms, accompanied by excss'V'l
heavy rains, have proved damaging
Alabama, Western Florida and Squiaa
New Jersey. Notwithstanding these ~
ditions the week may be summed " I
generally favorable. In the previous w
hot winds, with temperatures exeees,.1
100 degrees, have prevailed IN soa1a N
kota. causing injury to spring Wnel. N
premature ripening and shrinkass III
and the crop has been more or less WI
aged. Harvesting is well advan'ea
Southern Minnesota, where the isn ~
grain has fallen nicely and mas peeu
Ing good yield. ~
Complaints of shedding continue Va N
the central and eastern portlons
cotton belt and while rains nave ilp,,
the condition of the crop In the esv ~,
the excessively heavy rains IN Noi'a y
lima have proved injurious. ~
Good growth is generally reporNa III, M
ciaaly in the central and eastern ,a,. 49, ~
and as a rule the crop Is lruuns
Picking is well advanced 10 W, -. ~
Southern Texas. in which stale .Is
eral condition OF the crop Is pig ,ua,Sh
Tobacco is suffering from sish M
New York and has been injured y. M
lands in Tennessee by heavy iAn ala, a
where the weather has been ia'0'A"
the growth OF tobacco.
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STATE.

Assistant Attorney General has rendered
an opinion which sustains the overhead
insurance law passed by the Twenty fifth
legislature.
An application for pension in Burleson
county, printed in Tho Post. will be the
means OF reuniting two brothers. long
separated.
Land Commissioner Rogan has submit
ted question to the attorney general as
to his legal course in issuing certain
patents to land.
Edna merchants will aid the farmers to
kill the boil weovil.
The Southwest Texas Truck Growers
association is In session at Flatonia.
Weather bureau reports an improved
condition. OF the cotton crop: corn crop
said to be an excellent one.
little child was killed accidentally
at tho Methodist orphanage at Waco.
Two men. father and son. were killed
Just across the Louisiana line from Burke
vile.
agents for the state school lands have
been appointed by the land commits
sloner.
II Is said Southern Epworth leagues will
withdraw from the conventions where
negro delegates are allowed seats.
Christen Hoy OF Houston. a recruit,
came near being drowned at San Antonio.
General Manager Polk says everything
Is nourishing along the Santa Fe.
Mexican training ship is to visit Gal
weston.
Dallas has subscribed one thousand dol
lars TO the National democratic campaign
fund
Only four jurors have been secured In
the Jim Mite case.
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Especial to The post.)

Washington. August 1.-The prelimin-
airy report OF the commission OF interna-
tional revenue for the fiscal year just
closed contains a statement showing the
aggregate collections for Texas to have
been si,577, $3.50.
There Is no prospect that the war tax
win be taken off by the next congress
and the taxpayers may peruse the report
published below with good deal of
thought
The report. up to July 30, 1892 shows
that the receipts from all sources OF inter-
nal revenue for the year aggregated S273,-
4S4,5S2, an increase OF sl02,6i7.763 over
the receipts for the fiscal year ended June
30. 1885,
The expenses OF the bureau for the fiscal
year approximate s4.5s4.145 and the per
centege OF cost of collection preIicatcd
on these figures, less tax on money orders
VIII he LES. reduction OF 81 in the per
centage OF cost OF collection as compared
with the preceding fiscal year. when the
per centage Of cost was 2.29.
The receipts from the sources OF rev.
enuc and increase or decrease In each
for the year compared with the year 1893.
are given as follows:
I Spirits, see,2Ss,5i3; increase. s7s6,543
Tobacco, $52,i93, 207; increase 6,262, $50.
Formcnted liquors, $6S,64455S; increase,
S29. 12g,137.
oleomargarine, $1,956.61s increase.
500, s3S.
Filled cheese slS,o0s; increase, si57s.
Mixed flour. $3.50; Qaw not in effect
last year,.
Special taxes on war revenue act, not
elsewhere enumerated, s4,92l, 500. Lega-
cios and dlstributive shares Of personal
property, $l,235 1876. Schedules A and b.
(stamp taxi 3,S37.s1S. Miscellaneous.
Sl,0S5.S6S. Total $273, 4s4,5S2.
Among the war revenue receipts in
cluded in the above are the following:
Bankers, Capital not exceeding s25 0O0)
sf4S,7O2; bankers. capital exceeding $685.
klO) $302,13i billiard rooms. S367,07i
brokers, tstocks and bonds, etc. 1857, 0lO
commercial brokers. $lS1,919; pawn brol-
ers $5O,502: bowling alleys. S613d9: cir
e,ises, $lS,253; theatres, etc. $l26,56i
playing cards, $27l ,27S; penalties, sec 576.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
Washington, August 1.-The monthly
statement of the government receipts ana
expenditures shows that the total receipts
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02
HAS ASSUMED CONTROL.
The DomInicsn Government In the Hands
Of President Flsuero.
TIE PERSONNEL OF THE NEW CABINET
President FiEuero Has Issued n Man
ffesto-A General Amnesty VIII
Probably he Proclaimed.

Scnto Domingo. August 1.--vice Presi-
dent Wencesiao Fisuero, as a result OF
the assassination OF President Heureux,
July 20, has taken charge OF the govern
ment OF Santo Domingo as president and
has formed cabinet as follows
Minister of the interior, r. ID. Morales.
Minister OF war and marine, THO Palino.
Minister OF general affairs. e. Henri
quez
Minlster Of finance. d. Alvarez.
Minister of justice, Sebastian Velverde.
Minister OF agriculture, t. Gordero Bdo.
Minister Of posts and telegraphs, Jaime
r. Vidal.
Sub secretary Of the interior, Branilo
Alvarez,
Sub-secretary OF Justice, Pedro 7. Perez
The country Is quiet and no fears Of dis
turbances are entertained.
This place was visited during the after
noon Of July 81 by a severe tornado which
blew at the rate of forty miles an hour.
Three coasting vessels loaded with pro-
duce and anchored In the outer harbor
were wrecked and about fifteen men per-
shed The damage done ashore was not
OF much Importance.
Washington. August 1.-The state de-
partment will not delay in recognizing
the new government set up by Figuoro.
but as soon as United States Minister Pow
ell notifies the department that the vice
president has assumed the presidency and
is at the head of n de racto government
the minister will be Instructed to extend
the formal recognition of the United States
government.
The Machias is due at Santo Domingo
city today
Porto Plata, August 1.-The assassins
of President Heureux and their friends are
in the mountainous district about twelve
miles west of Moca. Senior Doncordora,
the late minister of the interior, has taken
the field against them with 400 men.
The acting president. Weucesla Figu-
ero, In view of the anxiety of the CONNER
cial classes over the deprecated paper cur
rency, has been commissioned to retire
much of the issue and asks that the bust
ness men be patient 1t is suspected that
Jiminiz is in the neighborhood OF Que
berias. News from Moca and Santiago in
dictate a calmer feeling today.
Santo Domingo, August President FL
guero has issued a manifesto outlining his
programme. 1t is expected that n general
amnesty viii be proclaimed.
The United States gunhoat Machias ar
rived here from Porto Rico yesterday. The
assassins OF President Heurcux have,~not
yet been found.