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The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
True Cause of Feather Eating.

An Iowa poultry grower, Mrs. F:
NJ. Jarvis, sends IN account Of feather
eating in which the disorder is de-
scribed as contagious, and she ascribes
the trouble to the presence of a min
ute parasite which spreads from fowl
to fowl and which she thinks was
probably introduced through purchase
from an infected flock.
Concerning this mite, recently
published leafet of the board of agri-
culture of Great Britain gives the fol-
lowing description: Feather eating in
poultry is due to a minute parasitic
mite (Sarcoptes laevis) at the roots of
the feathers. tits generally supposed
to be due to vicious habit" nu-
merous absurd theories, such as idle
ness and thirst, having been put for.
ward to account for it. There are
two kinds of feather eating, viz, ''self.
feather eating" and the plucking of
other birds feathers. The former is
chiefly due to the mites living upon
and irritating the roots of the quiils.
The form on the fowl makes its ap-
pearauce about April and is most pre-
valent in spring AMI summer. The
mites can he easily found among the
white powdery matter at the base of
the quill. The minute young IRE
transmitted during population. The
fowls pluck ont the feathers to destroy
the irritation caused by the mites at
their base. Lice, also, are partly ac.
countable for feather-plackinS. The
birds in picking of the mites and lice
pull out the feathers.--Amsrican Ag-
riculturist
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
South American Mllkmen

The South American milkman is
cutie different man from the one that
calls at your door in New York city
and leaves a glass bottle filled with
what you suppose is the real article.
Not very much milk is used In hot
climates, probably because it will not
keep and there is no ice; but the little
that is consumed you know is pure.
Early in the day or late in the even
ing you may see COWS driven about
the streets of South American city,
and unless you are initiated you prob
ably wonder why so many of them al
ways appear at those hours. The
cows are the milk wagons, and if you
want quart the driver of the cow
will halt the animal and milk her be-
fore your eyes. Some milkmen drive
three or four COWS from house to house
until the supply is exhausted, but
generally the single animal is all that
is owned by one of these individuals,
and from it enough can be made to
support his family. Condensed milk
of late years has supplanted the real
article to great extent but there are
those who still prefer milk fresh from
the COW to the other that has to be
watered before use. New York Her
aid
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
Relieves Ia Horse Sense.

"Experience has convinced me that
there is such a thing as horse sense, y
said a veterinary surgeon, who has a
shop on the south side. "a friend OF
mine had q beautiful chestnut driving
mare that was subject to severe spells
Of collie. About q year ago she got
very sick, and Jones, the owner,
brought her over here for treatment
cared for her, and she seemed as
grateful as human being might, rub
bing her nose against my coat sleeve
and showing her affection in her dumb
way.
Zone day about six months ago she
came to the door Of the shop, moaning
and evidently suffering acutely.
treated her again and she got better.
I found out afterward. that there was
no one at her home stable that day,
and that she had worked the halter of
and had set out to find the DOCTOR"
Curious circumstance" said the
man had heard the story.
"But that's not all Of it." said the
doctor. "Three days ago came down
to my Office in the morning about 6
o'clock. There lay the chestnut mare
in front of the door-dead. She had
been taken sick, had made her way as
before to the shop in the night and
found nobody there to give her medi'
cines, and she had died. Now, If this
story isn't proof that a horse can rea'
son would like to hear something to
beat itr-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
The Origin of Bowing.

The probability is that the origin of
this custom could only be found by
going far back into the ages of an
tiquity, when prostration was the
attitude of the slave be ore his master.
In short, what we now call politeness
began in servility. There can hardly
be any doubt but that the practice
of bowing the head originated in
exposing the neck to the stroke of
the sword. From its earliest literal
meaning it took a tigurative one, mean
ing first submission, then Difference,
then mere politeness. AS Herbert
Spencer says, 1.-The nod or bow of
modern politeness is the last relic OF
the prostration of ancient servility. "
In the same way We shake hands with
the right instead Of the left because the
right was the sword hand, and the
giving of it into the hand OF an enemy
was sign Of peace and good faith.
Taking OF the hat, too, is a relic OF
doting the helmet, aud so leaving the
most vulnerable portion OF the body
undefended as mark Of confidence
on entering the dwelling d an ally OF
friend. -Pearson's Weekly.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
0nce Pyc,nics Inhabited Europe.

Excavations in southern Germany
have just established the fact that in
prehistoric times Europe was inhab-
tied by pygmies. Strangely enough
the discovery OF actual and convincing
testimony to that effect in southern
Germany has been announced almost
simultaneously with the news OF SINH
lar discoveries in Switzerland and in
the Pyrenees. So now there is proof
that Herodotus and Homer were not
"yellowing" when they told of dwarfs
that lived in wooded hills and caves
far north of Rome and Greece.
The skeletons which have been
found are so small that they can be
placed into al ordinary museum
drawer. None of them is longer than
55 inches, and many are smaller.
There is no doubt that they are the
skeletons of ZEAL dwarfs. The bones
prove that the bodies were those OF
adults. The finds have been mounted
and are now being exhibited in the
National Museum of Switzerland in
Base. Scientists think that the little
people lived in ueolithio times. 8.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
THE OLD ARM0R MAKER
Lout Before the Civil War He wSvt Coats si
Maii as i side Lie.

"tAbout two years ago." said d Poy,
dras street business man, there died
at the Charity Hospital an eccentric
old German, who once upon time fol-
lowed the queerest trade in the world.
He was a maker Of coats Of mail. Long
before the war he had little jewelry
shop on the north side Of Canal street,
and the coat-of-mail business was a
sort of private side line. The armor he
then made was composed Of small
links of very hard steel, woveD to-
gether so compactly that one cou'u not
thrust even a pin through the inter.
stices, and it was said that the costs
would turn either a knife or bullet.
They were fashioned something like a
sleeveless undershirt, and were intend
ed to be worn Immediately beneath the
outside garment. In those days the
use Of such devices was popularity at.
tributed to fellows who wanted to se-
cure all Unfair advantage III dueiling.
and the reputation of wearing one un-
der ahy circumstances was fatal to
reputation for courage. Consequently
the old Germati didn't 80 to any pains
to exploit his business, dnd his cts-
toners must have come to him through
many devious channels I knew the
old chap quite we'll when 1 was d boy.
and / have often seen him putting the
mail together in his little back room.
He got the links froIn Germany and
they came III long singie-strand chains,
which he fastened together with small
steel rings. thus building up fabSic
like knitting q stocking. The coats
were made over wooden form.
shaped like a mans torso, and were
astonishingly light.
After the war broke out good many
men bought them openly, as a legiti-
mate protection. and for a while the
old man had more business than he
could attend to. I went into the army
and lost Sight Of him until some years
after peace was declared. When I en-
countered him one day, working as a
journeyman matchmaker, I asked at
once whether he made any more chain
armor, and he laughed and said it had
gone out of fashion. I believe, how
ever, that he used to still make q coat
now and then for some crank up to
the time, of his death. OF late years
he quit active business and lived in
Quiet retirement out near st. Johns
bayou."-New Orleans Times Demo
crat.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
To Destroy Moles.

Some people claim to believe that
moles are greater benefit than an
injury, for the reason that they are
almost wholly insectivorous in their
diet. This I dispute. A mole will
destroy seed corn after it has been
anointed with tar from the southern
pitch pines, while every other known
animal and fowl, including crows, will
pass it by. I think the great majority
of farmers will favor their extermina-
tion. I therefore submit the follow
ing cheap and effective plan to destroy
mcles.
Mix proper quantity (no particular
rule} of arsenic with corn dough, make
q small hole into their roads here and
there and deposit lump of dough in
: each, about the size of marble.
Cover the holes with any convenient
substance, such as clods of dirt, to ex-
clude the light.
Some years ago I had 9 piece of land
badly infested with moles that I
wished to plant to sweet potatoes.
Success depended on first getting rid
of the moles. As matter of expert.
ment 1 concluded to try corn dough
and arsenic, as above Two applica-
tions resulted in virtual extermina-
tion. Some of the moles came out OF
the ground and soon after died.
Other poisons may answer as well, but
know that arsenic can be relied on.
The best time to apply is perhaps in
early spring, soon after the moles
leave their winter quarters Bryan
Tyson in Farm, Field and Fireside.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
Enlargine the Herds of Live Stock.

The average farmer who raises
grain, fruits or vegetables, or makes a
point of mixed farming, cannot do
better than to give more attention to
increasing the live stock on the farm.
No farm should be without fair
number of cattle, sheep, swine, horses,
poultry aud general live stock. It is
not necessary to enter into the busi-
ness of raising live stock for the mar
kets so that it will interfere with the
general farming, but on general prin-
ciples there is so much waste on a
farm which animals alone can con-
sumo proftably that it is essential for
the highest success that live stock OF
one kind or another should be kept.
Nature never intended that the farm
should be devoted to one particular
kind of farming to the utter seclusion
of all Others. The fruit orchardist
who fails to raise at least few hives
of bees misses one of 2e chances for
profit that has been put in his way.
Even if he only raised the honey for
home use, he would secure his re-
wards Likewise the grass and hay
farmer, with his miles of rich clover,
timothy and buckwheat, should have
hive of bees for every two or three
acres he puts under cultivation. Pigs
20 in clover and also in orchards.
Sheep supplement the work of the
farmer in packing the soil around the
grass roots, and in the orchard they
add fertilizers that are of the greatest
value. The waste fruit of the orchard
will 90 a long way toward feeding the
pigs. Then the grain and corn waste
feed the dairy cows, and the waste
milk and cream from the latter can be
put to no better use than for pig feed
ing. So one could go through the
whole list of farm animals and show
how one is intimately connected with
another, and the whole with the gen.
eral farm crops. After all has been
said for the farm specialist, We must
admit that the ideal farming is that
where variety of crops are raised to
suit variety of farm animals. In a
system economically and Intelligent
gently conceived there should be ab-
solutely no waste whatever, and there
need be none. It is simply because
we do not raise enough animals or a
sufficient variety to consume all the
by-products of the crops. it is true
that the number of these animals must
vary with the years. when corn is
high priced it will pay to sell more
aud to reduce the number of live stock
dependent upon it for their food. On
the other hand, when grain is plenti-
full and cheap, increase the grain-eat-
ing animals and poultry, and sell the
food in the form of meat and eggs, in.
stead of grain by the bushel. A little
study of the markets and of the best
way to reduce costs and increase prof
its will enable the plain, everyday
farmer to realize more on his assets
than he does today.-C. S. Walters in
American Cultivator.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
!? FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
Cleaning up the Sugar.

A man should own bis sugar orchard
if he wants to make best quality of
sugar. When he hires one he does
not know what condition things were
left in the year before, but if he hires
he should hire the same one year after
year. The first thing to do would be
to cut out all underbrush, especially
the evergreens. This wiz cause the
ground to freeze deeper and let the
sun in among the trees in the sugar
season. Cold makes sweet sap while
sunshine makes sap run. The less
brush in the way the faster the sap
can be gathered. Some roads are
good to have, as they will save time
and temper. In small sugar place
that is always gathered by hand a
footpath will do. A road once made
in sugar place will last lifetime if
not used for other purposes. The
sooner the sap is gathered, boiled
down and made into sugar the better
the quality of sugar.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
TooTHAcHE.
There Arc Several Kinds Due to Very
Different Causes.

There Arc Several Kinds Due to Worry
Different Causes.
There are several kinds of toothache,
due to very different causes, and as
not all sorts are capable of relief by
the same means, it is useful to be able
to distinguish among them.
One form of toothache is due to dis
ease of the tooth itself, another to
disease of the parts about the tooth,
and still another to neuralgia of the
nerves, the teeth themselves being
perhaps perfectly sound.
The most common toothache is
caused by congestion or Inflammation
of the pulp of tooth. The pulp is a
soft material filing the centre of the
tooth and serving as bed for the
nerve and the blood vessels. When
the blood vessels are charged, as they
are in case of congestion or in1amn,a-
ton. the pulp is compressed, since the
hard walls of the tooth prevent ex-
pansion, aud so the nerve is pressed
upon and becomes painful.
The ache 80 caused is fierce and
throbbing "a jumping toothache). II
Is worse when the sufferer stoops or
lies down, and is increased by contact
with cold or hot water or food, with
sugar or salt, or with the air. The
The only difference between the pain
of a congested tooth.pulp and that of
an inHamed pulp is that the latter is
worse.
If in case of toothache of this kind
there is cavity resulting from decay
of the tooth, the pain can usually be
relieved by the insertion of little
pledget of cotton soaked in oil Of
cloves.
Severe toothache may be caused by
Inflammation of the socket of the
tooth, which may 60 on to an abscess,
with swelling Of the face and great
distress. In this case the tooth is
sore when tapped or pressed upon.
The pain is severe and continuous
not intermittent, as in Inflammation
of the pulp-and is usually relieved a
little by cold, but aggravated by heat.
Sometimes relief is afforded by cold,
applications to the cheek; but of
course dentist should be consulted
as early as possible in order that the
inflammation may be controlled before
it results in the formation of an
abscess.
The worst form of toothache, or at
least the most obstinate, is usually a
neuralgia. In this case there is not
apt to be swelling, the teeth are sound
and the pain is not increased by sweets
or salt, or by moderately cool or warm
food. Companion.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
Too Nearly Free.

ssThese illustrated lectures have
been giving you for several successive
Sunday evenings" remarked the Rev.
DR.. Snow, after the orgsnist had play:
ed a selection and the soprano had
sung solo, '.are free, of course, but
it costs something to present them. ]
ought to apologize, perhaps, for their
somewhat rambling and disjointed ma.
ture, but when I recall the fact that
the collection taken up last Sunday
night amounted to about two and q half
cents for each person in the audience
I am impressed with the idea that you
are getting about all you are paying Tor:
While we sing hymn No. 199 we will
take up the usual collection.
The collection on this occasion was
a considerable improvement on that
of the Sunday previous.-Chicago
Trihune.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
Pests OF the Berry Patch.

A great amount of work and watch
full care are necessary to make the
berry patch profitable. First comes
the strawberry with its disease and in
sect pests. It is often subject to
blight, which is injurious to both
plant and fruit. It first shows itself
upon the leaves in reddish, purple
spots which soon turn lighter colored
and finally white. Upon these spots
a spore is formed which spreads the
disease through the summer, while in
the fall and winter form is produced
which infects the new leaves the fol-
lowing spring. Thus the fruit is de-
priyed of its nourishment, and in some
instances crops have been ruined.
But if one starts a field with good,
healthy plants, and sprays with Bor-
deaux mixture, there is generally but
little trouble.
The worst insect pest is that nuis-
ance of the farm, the cut worm. 1t is
often very destructive, as it works on
both roots and crown in feeding. The
roots are often attacked also by the
white grub and the strawberry root
borer. The latter bores into the
crown and down through the heart
into the roots, usually killing the
plant. The best remedy for this pest
is to change the bed often, notraislng
more than two crops on tie same
ground.
Pests of the raspberry and black
berry are anthracnose and rust When
infested canes are found We cut and
burn and so end the trouble. The
insect pests are many, among which
are the tree crickets, the red-necked
asrilus and the raspberry saw-iy.
The crickets weaken the canes by
making a row of longitudinal punct-
ures filled with eggs for several inches
down the canes. These eggs are long
aud often mistaken for grubs.
The sursst way to get rid OF them is
to cut and burn the canes containing
them. The saw.dy is a green, hairy
slug, which works on the unde: side
of the leaf, resembling it SO closely
that one has to look carefully to de.
tect them. They cut irregular holes
il the leaf, oftsn nearly perforatiue it.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
The Weekly Newspaper.

In commenting on the low subscrip.
tion price asked for the average weekly
newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution
remarks editorially:
That many weekly newspaper pub
fishers have committed a grave mis-
take in dropping their prices Of sub
scription, must now be as evident to
themselves as it is to others. No
doubt the idea was caught fl ON an i'm
preston that weekly issues from
large cities were sold at lower price,
and that there was rivalry to be met.
In the first place there was no rival
ry, since that was a physical impossi-
bifc7. The weekly newspaper is the
chronicle of the local community, just
as the city paper is that of the whole
country. It would be as preposterous
for the city paper to attempt to fill
the field of the local paper as it would
be for the latter to replace the former.
Their aims and missions are different,
and in no way can they displace each
other.
The weekly newspaper results from
the existence of local community
which has business ventures, political
ideas and social ventures of its own.
The more important these interests are
the more perfectly the newspaper be-
comes their exponent, the more indis-
peaesble it is to the people. There.
fore, a community which will not sup
port it's local newspaper furnishes but
mighty poor campaigning ground for
the city paper. The latter comes in
as an addenda to a good work which
is already going on, as an evidence OF
sharpened appetite for reading.
The first duty of every progressive
community is to have it's local newspa-
per, which should be literally sup
ported, and which should not be held
in competition with any city publica-
ton.
A poor representation would reflect
upon the town; q good appearance
gives the town character abroad.
What, then, does the community owe
the publisher? Certainly it owes him
that return which would have to be
given to the lawyer, the commercial
man or any other public servant.
The weekly newspaper publishers
should awake to their mission and in
sist upon the support which is their
due. The town which does not sup
port it's local paper has no claim to
consideration either at home or abroad.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
FOR MALARIA,
CHiIlS AND fever.
The Best Prescription Is Groves
Tasteless Chill Tonic.
The Formula Is Plainly Printed on Every Bottle,
So That the People May Know just
What They Are Taking.

Imitators do not. advertise their formula
knowing that you would not buy their medi-
cine if you knew what it contained. Groves
contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct
proportions and is in Tasteless form. The
Iron acts as tonic while the Quinine drives
the malaria out of the system. Any reliable
druggist will tell you that Groves is the.
Original and that all other so-called Taste
less chill tonics are limitations. An analysis
of other chill tonics shows that Groves IS.
superior to all others in every respect. You are
not experimenting when you take Grove esits
superiority and excellence having long been
established. Groves is the only Chill Cure sold
throughout the entire malarial sections Of the
United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, soc
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
He Guessed Wrong.

Brown-You seem to be hustler.
I saw that life insurance agent 60 into
your house this morning, and in less
than half an hour after him came the
doctor.
Smith-Well, what do you gather
from that?
Brown-Merely that you were in a
great hurry to undergo the physical
examination and have it over with.
Smith-You're wrong. The doctor
came to examine the insurance mans
wounds.-Philadelphia Record.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-05-24
Growing Grain Feeds.

It is sometimes problem whether
it would be cheaper to buy CONNER
cial fertilizers and grow more grain to
feed out, or to buy more grain and
make more and richer manure, and
therefore have less need to buy fer
tilizers. The solution OF the question
seems to depend primarily upon the
cheapness of land and labor. If q
nau in New England, especially near
a manufacturing town, had to hire
land and hire labor, we think he could
employ them to better advantage in
growing other crops for sale than to
grow any kind of grain for feeding
purposes But the man who has
plenty Of idle land yielding but little,
and help that he must keep the year
through, either members of his family
or that he must hire to do other work,
we think can grow corn cheaper than
he can buy it, if he so cares for his
fodder as to get full value for it for
dairy stock. Corn grows we'll upon
soil that is not we'll adapted to some
other crops and grows without the
heavy manuring that would be re-
quired for market garden crops, while
it is not exhausting to the soil, but
leaves it in better condition to grow
almost any crop than it was before the
corn was grown.
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