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The Penn's Grove record., 1899-12-29

There is probably no branch OF the
poultry business more profitable tnah
duck raising, yet but comparatively
few farmers will admit these big white
beauties to their premises. The wives
would like to keep them, for men
feathers are light and elastic, ana
every way as desirable as goose eath-
ers. and while the goose lays but few
eggs the duck lays a great many. me
great objection raised against ducks IS
that they foul the horse troughs, II
the majority of their eggs are lost, Tor
n ia no uso to give a Pekin nest or
nest eggs. She lays wherever 1t hap
pens. ,d
To keep ducks successfully and
without about watering
| troughs O small pen is a necessary.
trheir house need not be a fine ahair
nor the yard expensive. A fence Two
feet high will hold them, and twelve
feet square is ample for n dozen or
ffteen ducks. Inside the yard may
be placed q trough. An Inexpensive
trough may by made by taking two
nieces 2x10 scantling four feet long.
Round them up at each end IKE siea
runners. Take a piece of galvanized
iron two feet wide and nail it to the
running sides OF the scantlins. To
make Il stronger nail pieces of 2x4
across each end. This makes a very
convenient trough to clean, for it q
he rocked back and forth to clean H.
A pipe from the windmill supplies ours
with water. ;.
The best food for laying ducks Is
scalded bran and the table scraps
Ensilage will be eaten greedlly ny ,le
ducks. Raw carrots are goou loou I,
Very little grain will be consumed i
oreen food and table scraps are Turn
ished. Ducklings are very easy t'
manage, but a mistake sometime
, costs The loss of a large flock. The:
! are best raised in breeders, even !
{ hatched under hens. W s'ocl
: Journal,
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FARM and GARDEN.
r~wwww~r~NEE


The Neglected Orchard Row.
An Illinois orchardist took to spray
ing as a means of preventing the raw
ages of the codling moth. He had
heard that spraying would give him
good fruit, and hopefully invested in
the needed apparatus and labor. He
sprayed for several years, but got no
results. Others that sprayed reported
good results and had large crops of
smooth, white apples. He himself
came to the conclusion that for some
reason spraying was not q success in
his locality. His complaints to his
more fortunate brother orchardists led
to an investigation by n of them.
and the cause of his lack of success
was laid bare.
On the outskirts of the orchard was
found a neglected row of worthless
crab apples, and this row had been
the breeding ground from which year
after year his orchard had been over
run. He said he did not spray that
row because he regarded it as useless
work, since the fruit it bore had no
value to him. 1t had proved to be a
very expensive row OF trees.
, Doubtless much of the non-success
ia spraying may be traced to the same
cause.-the neglected orchard row. If
trees are not worth spraying and tax
Sng care of, let them be cut down, and
Nhe ground put into something that
will pay. What is true of rows of
Grab apples will apply to trees of varie-
hies that seem to bear n crop every
year whether sprayed or not. There are
Some trees SO persistent in their bear
ling habits that the owner thinks they
10 not need the same treatment the
Others receive. But it should be re-
~Enembered that these trees can harbor
Insect enemies hat may attack the
Ginesto Of its.-Farm, Field and Fire
sida
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cAoKED TO DEATH BY BLIND MAN.
Old Pensioner kills His wife After o
lar Struggle.

OA& - 49, NAc aIVHI y
Hard Struggle.
Baltimore. Nd. (speoiaD. Franklin B
Livingston. a blind man. aged ffty-siz
years. choked bis wife, Rosie. to death at
their home In ills city. The FIRST knowi
edge the police had OF the crime was when
Livingston walked Into the Southwestern
Police Station and told the following
story:
"My wife and I have been sleeping IN
separate rooms for several weeks. She cams
into my room and called me, We had some
words, and she attempted to smother me
With q feather bed. I pushed her away but
she returned and tho struggle continued. /
found her throat with my hands and choked
her. She fell to the door. I then went up
stairs and dragged the bodyto the bath
tub, where I left II after covering 1t with
= sheet. I had yelled Murder and 'Po-
lice,t but had attracted no attention by the
noise. | then went back to bed and slept
until $50 o'clock. 1 receive q pension OF
ga a month for the loss OF my eyes. I
served In Company A, 6ixty-sixth New
York Regiment"
= Livingston was locked up, andthe police
went to the house, where they found the
nude body Of the woman In the bath tub,
as Livingston had said. Both rooms gave
evidence OF a struggle.
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Coroner Kortsch OF Eau Claire, Wis,
drove thirteen miles into tho country a few
days ago to hold an inquest on Michael
Khilo. a Bohemian laborar. Khiio had
fallen In a At on his way 10 his house, and
remained in a field from midnight TIL I
o'clock the following morning. He was
supposed to have been frozen to death.
The Coroner found Khilo laid out stiff, but
Khito thawed out and sat up before the In
quest began. The Coroner worked over
him until be was restored.
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Report Favorable to cissrseston's onicers
The report OF the Charleston court Of In
quiry. just rendered at Manila, isfavorable
to the officers OF the stranded warshIp. 1t
shows that due Vigilance was exercised In
the embarkation oft crew into the boats,
which were we'll handled.
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Three colored children were burned to
death during o fire which destroyed the
homo OF their parents at Middlston, Conn.
Mrs. Dixon. the mother OF the children,
she went out to do some pyramids. II
her absence the building caught Ere. When
the flames were extlnguished the three
children were found In q corner OF the
room under a blanket. They we're dead.
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CAPTURE MEN AND CATTLE.


Three Hundred Insurgents Attack the
n.~r,.on :, snh,v. Rut A.. Baaten or
With . Loss-hebeis VINO Fisd from
panay Are surreuderine-severnI
american omcern are "~cnnueu.
MANILA (By Capie)s-ooione =. frank-
lin Bell Of the Thirty-sixth Infantry en-
counterad ma hundred and 6ftv Filfpinos
~N--r,s~fSs p-a,,na. !, zanrha,.s "a
near Aiaminos, rlovince u 1a"paies' anu
killed, wounded or captured twenty
eight OF them. Our troops also obtained
nosss.s,on ., a numb.r II rlsea and a
20 -s,.~- --
quantity OF ammunition. one american
was wounded.
A detachment OF tho Thtrty.fourth In
.-.-.... .hna., thann.mua.
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John Leedy. who has just returned to
Desdwood. s. D., from Cape Nome. states
thcre were 1900 cases OF typhoid fever there
when he left. He met q number OF men re-
turning from the Siberian gold fields, which
are only about forty miles from Cape Nome.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. {special).-wiiliam Scar
borough, Of this city, q private OF Company
D, Third United States Infantry, who was
tried by a military court In the Philippines
on q serious charge aud sentenced to
death, has bsen saved from execution by
President Mckinley. The President has
commuted his sentence to dishonorable
discharge and twenty years imprisonment.
Scarborough is little more than a boy.
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Amer.es's spsea a Psri
Professor Beniamin p.
sistsnt United States Conn
to the Paris Exposition pf
official possesslon OF the
the united States In thu 3
shinery aud Electricity
was no ceremony.
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SERMON.


:. ..Ef. 1-LR 49, 49, -
mostly mAae up, were nol woasa
NJ, sme y shc III y m ana y, y p.o pIn, Il, III nao-
psen maus ~ tue empelos IN. =, the peo,
| n those iends inclndad shonid I'd Ia some
| anroinfcd nlace and olive their names In.
he re- sistered and announca their LOYALTY to
| the Rom.. emp ror.
rhey adrwut,cd eighty miles over
ro,fgh rad ~ Give their names and take
| the oath OF allegiance. Would we walk
| eighty miles to nnnouuce our Allegiance to
| our kino. one Iesnss Caesar Iugus.us
| wanted 10 know by The record on which
that man and tsat woman wrote their
names 81 had then written. lust howmany
| case OF EFFICIENCY. How many men wouli
| unsheathe sword for the Roman eagle and
| hoty MANY woman could Ia d~enendel on to
take care Of the wounded on battleneIds2
| The trouble Ia thar in the Kingdom OF
| Christ va do not know how many car be
| depended on. There are SO many men md
women who never give ia their names
| They serve the Lord on the sly. They do
| not announce their aljeelgncs to the king
| who. iu tbe battles 10 come. viii want
| ali His troops. In Mi cur CHURCHES
there are So many half a half discl.
1 bey rather think the Bible L true. At any
| rate parts Of Il, and fdey hone Tint some-
| how CbrIsfianltv Will disenthrali the M.
fjoss. Tbev sfav away from church on
communion days and hope when they baye
lived ns long rs thew can IN ills world they
IN your name ii ia reclstered on the church
| record down here md in the Lambs Book
II Iife IN there. LET ali the world know
| where YOU stand. II Won have 10 70 a. fai
a. Joseph and Mary walked. il YOU have to
20 eighty miles before yon lnd just the
creed
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DAY DECEMBER 20. 1899.

most people always has been to escape
taxation. Besides that, these two humble
folk had nothing to tax. The mans fur-
IN TINT protected his head from the SUD
~rtl taxing; the woman.s sandals
feet A. rSm being cut by the
az. 81 which. Bethlehem is
we're NOT wot.u h taxing.
The Penn's Grove record., 1899-12-29

General Kitchener who
to Join General Roberts
RtaY, en bRrked on boar
Castle and the vessel In
for Cape Town.
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The main attacking p
the Forty-sixth Volun
troop Of cavalry, and
Lockett commanding In
OF the command opern
points Ia an ehdeavor to
Lockett's plan Of n
around the enemy, and
treat. The nature
country made It impra
this movement successful
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INsuaoENr FoKcE DEFEArED.


MANILA (By Cabie).--Colonei I.ocketk,
with a force OF $500, including artillery,
attacked a strong force Of i~nsurgeniss in-
treuched In the mountains near Mo ntal.
Mateo. The enemy were completely
routed, the Americans pursuing them
through the hills, amid which they 0 ed in
svery direction.
-Four Americans were woaude1. The
Filipino loss was large. resulting from a
heavy infantry and artillery nress. 4 three
hours into the trenches. They Numbered
probably 1000.
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> v cCu5lSteu VI
er Infantry, a
~-tiilery. Colonel
arson. The rest
Esd from remote
larry out Colonel
owing his lines
US cutting OFF re
be mountainou
fable to execute
II.
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from Egypl
bis Chief o.
he Dunottai
diately sailet
British Camp.
Delagoa Bay
Durham, and
~ieveley. Mr.
position north
ng, and adds
TRY. 1t Is be-
yinith is de-
pondent at
10 American
position at
. here
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HoF CRIME.

For CRIME.
~Idren How to
~ores.
nes Poorman
has been con
.eording to the
ID eight years,
The Seaman
~ructed lei and
In crowds In re-
|icies from the
I'M is evidenced
Q children was
~oliee searched
two trnnkfuli
oali articles o
Portugal
saw days ag'
Irwin, th
brtugul.
opposition.
edward. As
oner Genera
~ has take
% allotted t
p OF Mt
srls. Thei
k~sunerers.
"a ourson
London fro
o increase
yes suiferil
rs reiie''
xs.
worth Of cor
~andoned copp
in be OPP
hes'
6orn
&lbllee
'ernm
Ntlmat
ia NJ
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-03-15

but in the last few years many thou
sands have been set and the adapt
bility of this region for citriculture
thoroughly demonstrated.
There are still open to intending
purchasers and settlers plenty of low
priced lands in South Brevard at from
$40 to $40 per acre. This land lies
along the line of the Florida East
Coast Railway and the Indian river
in township 34-4O, and is about
equally divided between heavy low
hammock and higher lands with yell
low soil and hickory and other hard
wood growths. Should any Of your
readers desire fuller information on
any of these subjects the writer will
gladly find time to reply.
Very truly yours,
G.. II. MCCARTHY.
Ankona, Brevard Co., Fla.
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Making Butter Without Ice.

contributor to Farm and Ranch
thus describes her way of making but
ter in summer without ice. 1t is
worthy of trial:
| live in the &C. 4ntry, where ice is an
impOssibility. LAST summer [ had no
place to keep my milk and butter eX
cept on the north side of the room,
where the cook stove is kept. Every
evening l skinned the milk, twelve
hours old, at the same time straining
into the same jar some fresh strip
pings. The next morning [ skinned
the milk of the previous evening and
strained the fresh strippings into the
jar of cream already on hand; kept it
as cool as possible, and on extremely
hot days placed the jar into a tub of
cold water from the well. Before din
ner it was ready to churn. By such
management churning was an every
day occurrence; and l will say, too,
that when the cream was "ready to
churn," the churning was done imme-
diately, and the cream not allowed to
turn to whey, or mold form on the top.
Immediately on taking the butter
from the churn, it was thoroughly
washed with pure, cold water, sailed,
and the milk worked out as much as
possible.
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Yours truly,
H. S. WHITMAN.
At Lakeland.

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
AS to the cold here, our pineries
went through in fine shape, we used
cover over Stats and burned quantities
of oak wood and some pine, the Their
mOmeter registered under this cover
33 degrees at 4 a. M, the last cold
morning, outside %. Our orange
grove budded trees were not hurt
much if any, a quantity of our budded
POmelo trees were cut back to the
large limbs, some of them were not
hurt at all and are now putting on
some bloom. Our nurseries were all
banked by the plow, our largest trees
would not have been killed if not
banked, the smaller ones were cOnse-
quently saved a foot above the bud
and will make nice trees this summer
and fall. All our Tahiti lines, nurser
les and grove, were saved by banking,
otherwise they would have been killed
out. c.. M. MARSH.
Lakeland Fla.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH Is, 1899.
Cow Peas.

Among the publications in press
and soon to be issued by the .. S.
Department of Agriculture is Farm
ers' Bulletin No. 80, "COw Peas" by
Jared G. Smith,, assistant agrOstolO-
gist
Mr.. Smith in this bulletin calls at
tention to the fact that thousands of
tons of hay from the Northern and
Western States are each year mar
keted in the South and shows the
great necessity for the more extended
cultivation of grasses and forage
plants in that section. Many of the
farmers and planters of the South
still confine themselves to growing
cotton sugar cane or tobacco and buy
meat products and forage instead of
producing them. This is no longer
profitable, because of the low prices
to which the staple crops have fallen.
The bulletin says that the South
has as great an abundance of varieties
of grasses and leguminOus forage
plants as any other section. There is
perhaps greater need for the cultiva-
ton of leguminous crops than in the
North. The soils are more liable to
the rapid exhaustion of the available
plant foods, because the washing of
soluble salts goes on all the year.
Soils can be most profitably built up
by increasing the quantity of organic
matter in them and the quickest and
cheapest way of doing this is by grow
ing IeguminOus forage crops and feed
ing them on the farm, returning all
the manure to the land. The cow pea
is to the South what alfalfa is to the
West and red clover to the NOrth-a
forage plant we'll adapted to the
region. The COW pea has been cult
waited in the South for at least one
hundred and fifty years.
The bulletin also describes the vari-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-03-15
The Cold in Brevard.
Lakeland, Fla.

Editor Florida Agriculturist:
Since the recent cold wave the var1
Gus sections of the State are attempt
ing to ascertain which of their varied
industries give promise of most Sc,
curity for the future.
In South Brevard on the east coast,
we find our orange and grapefruit
groves absolutely untouched by the
late severe test, and that in the face
of the fact that oranges, grapefruit
and lemons were in full fruit, bloom
and in the most tender state of new
growth.
Our groves came through the big
freezes of December, '94, and Febru-
airy, '95, in the same fine style and
were entirely untouched in the terri
tory between the Sebastian and st.
Lucie rivers in the south part of Bre-
ward county.
When we first came to live in this
territory ten years ago few trees of
the citrus family had been planted,
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cites of the plant it's power of increas-
ing the fertility o. the soil upon
which it grows, and says there is no
forage plant better adapted to the
needs and conditions Of SoUthcrl "g".
culture than this rank growing little
annual.
The feeding value of the COW pea is
raised on it is fine.
The bulletin may be obtained from
the Z. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, d. c., or from members
of Congress. In making requests
always mention number and series;
as in this case-Farmers' Bulletin No.
80.
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requiring the owner of the dog killing
or manning a sheep, to make full re-
paration to the owner.
Low priced cotton, impoverished
land, frosts and drouths should lead
the southern farmer into industries
that are not overdone, or subject to
these drawbacks, and that will reclaim
their lands and also to elect men to
make laws that are not destructive to
their interests. The South is crushed
with laws discouraging productive en-
terprises. Southern Ruralist.
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Letters From Subscribers.

Deering, Me-, March 9, 1899.
Editor Florida Agriculturist:
l enclose check of 50 for renewal of
my subscription to your valuable pa
per.
| am much interested in the matter
of protecting the orange groves from
freezes. l am satisfied that upon the
successful working out of this prob
lem depends the future Of this indus
try. And | am heartily glad that you
are to bring the resources of your pa
per to bear toward the solving of this
problem.
I have two groves near Tampa that
were protected by open fires. The
temperature was raised from 20 de-
grees (the lowest there to about 80
degrees. | judge from reports l have
had that the trees were not seriously
injured.
Yours truly,
H. S. WHITMAN.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-03-15
Hog and Dog Production.

Tom Sawyer, otherwise eX-State
Treasurer Collins, gives his experience
in hog and dog production in his char
acteristic style to the Southern Rural
list. He says:
1t is useless to tell me that there is
no such thing as ''luck." [ won't be-
lieve you. Some men are born to bad
luck, some have the habit forced upon
them, while others just drift into it.
suppose 1 drifted. It is poor policy to
drift, for one almost invariably runs
upon a snag or gets into dead water.
At all events [ am "dOwn on my
luck" One year ago a friend sent me
a trio of Jersey-red hogs. They were
W II along in shotehoOd and l fully
calculated to declare my independence
of the Chicago packer by potato dig
ging time in 1898.
Now, here is where my luck comes
in. The potato crop is made and the
hogs now number only two. The larg-
est and finest looking SOW encounter
ed a rattlesnake, or a buzzard, and
died. She was fat; too fat for this
region, possibly. Then the gentleman
hog wantered off and got a crick in his
neck so that he is an animated picture
of ill luck. NV hopes were aroused
by the approaching motherhood of the
remaining member of the trio, and
visions of potted ham and devilled
pigs feet floated about me as walked
up and down the potato rows, pretend
ing to work There is a feminine
pointer dog at my house also, and she
has a pedigree that runs away back
into the misty past beyond my utmost
ken. She too, had decided leanings
toward maternity, and betting was
even among the neighboring sports
men as to the priority of pigs or pup
pies at my house. l bet on the pigs,
and as usual, of late years. I lost. If
any pigs came to my hog lot, not rib,
not a backbone, not grunt, nor
squeal, nor pigtail can I find, and [
must still bend the knee to Chicago.
But puppies! We had a big storm
here last evening, and I'll swear to you
it rained small dogs. I never saw any
thing like it. The story is incredible,
but 1 called in neighbors to verify the
count and it is now a matter of record.
The good-for-nothing dog has eighteen
puppies in the kennel with her. 1t is
the most astounding avalanche of small
dogs that l ever heard of and abund-
antly illustrates the possibilities of
dOg-raising in Florida. Now why was
not this thing reversed, and why is not
the kennel empty and the pasture
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Feeding Sheep in the South.

Feeding Sheep in the South.
Everywhere in the world, says the
National StOckman, it is the fact that
where nature does most for man, man
does the least for him self. Our south
ern climate is more mild than that
of England or northern Europe. 1t
will average in temperature very
nearly that Of Spain and Italy, and
this climate is not only sufficiently
mild for outdoor feeding every day In
the winter, but the warmth enables
the soil to yield perennial pasture,
which in reality costs the shepherd
nothing, while the early breeding of
the ewes brings lambs before Christ
mas without even the least Interior
ence of the shepherd to hasten the
breeding time of the ewes. The fleece
grows as quickly in the winter as in
the summer, and thus the yield Of
wool will average one-fourth over that
of the northern flock.
The south is enormously rich in ev-
cry kind of feed for sheep. Every kind
of grass grows luxuriantly in the
warm rich soil. Several species which
exceed in value any of the cultivated
kinds grow as weeds, covering the un-
cultivated land with the very best pas
ture. The common winter feeding
crops, as rape, turnips, crimson clover,
oats, rye, are grown with ease, thus
filling the artificial feeding season Of
the north with full rotation for out
door feeding and thus no hand-feed-
ing is required. And the ewes, forced
by the advanced natural season, bring
their lambs in time to be fully fed for
the north are still nursed by the ewes.
This advantage of season is an enOr-
nous premium to the southern Shep-
herds, who may rear lambs practically
without cost, and the fact with the
cost of feeding returned with an am
pie bonus in the improvement Of the
land by this culture. The mere fact
that outdoor feeding is possible on a
large variety of green crops which
not only cost nothing, but pay large
premium in the improved condition Of
the soil-Of itself tells the whole story,
and is sufficient for the practical man
to form an opinion as to the natural
advantages of the south for the rear
ing of sheep.
Four thousand years ago in similar
climates to the Gulf States, shepherd
ing was the chief industry. Jacobs
sons were shepherds. Shepherds were
keeping these focks by night in Pal
istine, "a similar climate to ours) when
there came glad message on
earth and good will to men,"
The South is beginning to awaken
to the fact of the adaptation of this
climate and soil to the sheep industry,
and would gladly change the produc-
ton Of cotton to mutton and wool, but
are favored O. with sheep killing leg
islators who prefer dogs to
sheep, and refuse to tax the worthless
ours that kill the sheep, one dollar a
head, and thus tax them out of exist
ence. The law MAKERS should do more
they should, out of a tax on dogs
remunerate the owner for every sheep
killed or MANNED by a dog, or, what
would be bettcr-pass the English law