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The Philipsburg mail., 1900-05-18
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS,
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Farm-A Few
Hints to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Feeding Dairy Calves.

There is discussion going on in
some of our esteemed contemporaries
regarding the feeding of young dairy
calves, and it is rather amusing to note
some of the eXtravagant statements
made by those who argue that calf
can be more successfully raised with
out milk than it can on the good old
plan provided by the Creator. If, for
instance, we are to helev. these en-
thuslasts, the feedlng of milk is liable
to teach the cali the bad habit of lay
ing on fat instead of flesh and muscle,
and the growing of bone. Milk. then,
we must conclude, is a fat-producing
food not fit for young growing calves,
a fallacy that requires no reiuting
argument.
Ihey proceed to prescribe a manner
or feeding which, according to these
saYants who can improve upon ma
lures methods is better than milk for
the calf, in that it does not produce fat,
causes pot t-belIies," which say they
are a great desideratum for modern
dairy calves and tends to the growth
OF great coats of hair in winter to take
the place Of fat which they so much
tear. Having thus provided what they
consider perfect ration, and it con-
sists OF flour, flax-seed jelly, hay tea,
etc., they do not tell us what is the OBJ
lection to sweet skim milk, nor figure
the cost of their ration to show wherein
1T is more economical than a ration OF
dry corn meal and skim milk, which
has been found perfectly satisfactory
ration and cheaper than one contain
ing Oil meal in any form, and it should
"jelly" is the most troublesome to pre-
pare.
The fact of the matter is that in the
West at least the proposed ratio
would cost about as much as milk at
the prices it has been bringing when
shipped to the factory or made into
butter or cheese. In the East, where
the price of milk is higher than in the
West, there may be reason for depriv
ing the young calves of it even during
the first few days Of their lives. We
would prefer, however, to feed the calf
sweet milk for ten days or so and then
utilize the sweet skim milk that can so
easily and cheaply build up, by the
addition of corn meal fed dry, to per-
fectly take the place Of the whole milk
which can be more prohtably sold.
The Farmers Review is heartily in
favor of feeding growing dairy calves
upon highly heterogeneous ration, but
it does not believe that milk is apt to
spoil a heifer as a prospective milker,
for mothers milk is the best-balanced
ration that can possibly be formed for
growing young animals, and it is abb
solute bosh to say that it lessons the
chances of a dairy-bred heifer becom-
ing a profitable milking COW. Keep
the calf growing naturally and it will
not be stunted by the laying on of fat,
nor is it necessary to produce pot
belly" which merely indicates an un-
healthy state of the digestive apparatus
and is far more likely to stunt and in
jure the calf than ration containing a
certain proportion of fat, without
which no ration for any known pur-
pose would be complete.
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ton into the legislature by Senator
W. q. Smithson Of bill for the pro-
lection of boarding schools and col
leges for females, and the principals
and students thereof. The first section
of the measure made it unlawful for
any person or persons to wilfully and
unnecessarily interfere with, disturb,
or in any way disquiet the pupils of
any school or college for females in
(Author of the Anti" MASKING" Law.)
this state or the teacher or principals
in charge, while on any public road or
street, or in any building or structure,
or on the school premises; nor shall
any communication be had, for such
purposes, with such pupils, or any one
of them, either orally or in writing, or
by signs or otherwise, and it shall
also be unlawful for any person to en-
ter such schools or colleges, except on
business, without first having obtained
permission of the principal in charge
of same; and any person guilty of
either of said offenses shall be deemed
viction thereof, shall pay fine of not
less than SIS nor more than $50 for each
offense, on the first conviction, and
upon the second and each subsequent
conviction of like offense shall pay a
fine Of not less than $40 nor more than
$50 and be imprisoned at the discretion
of the court, in the county Jail, not
less than ten nor more than thirty
days"
Section provided that it shall be
unlawful for any person, or persons, to
l0iter, wander, stand, or sit upon the
1ublic roads, or to frequent or unnec-
'ssarily pass along the same in such
1anner, with intent to annoy, veX, or
,isturb the owners, lessees, or occu-
PANTS of any premises in the state used
for the education of females, Or with
intent to disturb. annoy, or harass the
teachers, principals, or pupils, or any
one of them, as they pass along the
public highway, streets, or alleys of
any city in the state. ANY person or
persons violating this section of this
act shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
deneanor, and on conviction shall be
fined and punished in the same way,
and to the same extent, as if convicted
under the first section of the act"
At first reading the legislators made
light of the bill. and laughed at it's
author-Senator Smithson The news
papers poked fun at the measure, while
the "Johnnies" had little to say upon
the subject. A combine had been fixed
up in the house to defeat the passage
of the bill, because the leaders thought
the enactment of such a law would be
piece of foolishness. Finally several
female college presidents appeared and
urged the passage of the bill as in
troduced. When the members of the
legislature learned that they really
wanted the law, the bill secured the
hearty support of every member.
The law has been a great benefit to
the educational institutions, and now
the boys who often used to appear
about the campus and cast smiles at
the girls are not to be seen. There is
quite romance attached to the first
and only arrest t2ae hSgs been made
inder tk5 s'sohnne" law. Shortly
After its passage a young man residing
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at Knoxville was arrested for violariag
the law. 1t appears that the young
lady to whom he was paying attention
was his sweetheart and the arrest only
hastened wedding ceremony.
Educators say that the law is a sue
cess, but it is not very popular with
the young men of the state.
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Poultry Notes.


How old should hen be when she
is sold off or killed for family use!
The answer is, she should be killed
after her second year. But in spite
of this quite general answer, it is
known fact that some poultrymen keep
their Brown Leghorns till they are
about ten years old. One Brown Leg
horn hen was kept till that age, when
she had to her credit about 1000 eggs,
a good average, we must admit. Light
Brahmas are said to be good layers
till quite old. However, we lack data,
as the domestic fowl has been sadly
neglected in this. She Is such small
piece of property that we have never
thought it advisable to keep her for
ten years and count her eggs A sys-
tematic series of trials of this kind
might give US a good deal Of light on
a dark subject.
The man that wants to become a sue
cessful poultryman must not become
discouraged. This is the first requisite.
He is sure to have most discouraging
things happen to his flock, and, after
three or four years of such happenings,
he will feel that poultry raising is
delusion and that there is no success
possible in it, anyway. But that is
just the time when he should not
think of quitting. 1t would be just as
reasonable for a child, after having
had a full run of all child's diseases,
to think of giving up trying to live for
fear of a constant recurrence of meas
les, mumps, chicken pox, whooping
cough and the like. The poultryman,
in his early disasters, is getting his
child's diseases. Having once had
them he is not likely to have them
again. He has learned in the dear
school of experience and is now ready
to apply his lessons.
1t is not perhaps known generally
that the feathers of hens form a con-
siderable article of commerce. There
are in Chicago and New York firms
that make business of buying and
selling feathers of all kinds Of domes-
tic fowls including the hen. They
have agents that travel through the
country buying up all the feathers they
can get. The farms are not visited, but
the large shippers of poultry are, for
the reason that they have feathers in
sufficient quantity to make the visit OF
an agent an object. Most of the feath-
ers of the hen are used for filling
feather beds and pillows. The large
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He Knew Also.

Mendicant-"Oh, sir, you don't know
what it is to want bread" Mr.. Young
husband-I don't, hey? I'd have you
understand that my wife has been at
tending the cooking school, and I've
lived for six weeks on angels food,
prune whip, charlotte russo and Span-
ish cream. I not only want bread, but
want doughnuts and apple pie"
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Calves that Won't Drink Milk.


We once raised calf that never
learned to drink milk, writes con-
tributor to National Stockman and
Farmer. 1t was the only case of the
sort l ever heard of and we naturally
supposed that it would die, for by no
possible means could it be taught to
drink any milk, more than just to taste
of it. 1t grew very thin, even before
we gave it up, but as nobody wanted
the job of killing it we turned it into
the field and let it take its chances.
After that it lived somehow, on grass
and water, and it did not get any too
much of either, for we had the bad
habit of turning calves into a sort OF
clearing that had neither water nor
feed in much quantity, expecting the
calves to live mainly on milk. The
calf that would not drink milk seemed
to fairly dry and shrivel up till it was
sort of walking shadow, but it made
great fight for life and came out in
the fall quite an animal, so that it
wintered with the other stock and be-
gan the second year about even. 1t
was heifer and as a cow developed
the ordinary milking qualities of the
rest of the herd, none the worse, ap-
parently, for it's experience. Nobody
had any idea why it disliked milk. l
cannot remember whether it began by
sucking the mother or not, but sup
pose that it did, as it was common to
allow the calf to remain with the cow
till the milk was fit to use.
My experience is that all possible
effort to get calves to eating solid food
early is valuable. We take to late
summer or fall calves as we watch
them more. These can be taught to
eat grass early and as it does not
physic them as the over-succulent
spring growth does, they can eat as
much as they will without injury.
Prosperity Among Farmers.-I am
aware that the idea prevails that the
chances are much better for the ac-
emulation of wealth in cities than on
the farm. This is very great mis-
take. In the city small class has
great deal Of wealth and a large class
is Ill very uOueIdLG CIlCuulStduC6S OT
in the depths of poverty. The great
mass in the city are not as we'll off
as those on the farm. The average
wealth of SO per cent of the inhabitants
of nearly every city in Illinois is less
than that of the surrounding country.
John r. Campbell.
In a recent opinion rendered At
torney- General Akin of Illinois holds
that the acts of 1897 and 1899 provid-
ing for the Identification of owners
Of sheep killed by dogs are invalid,
and that the act of June 10, 1898, is
still in effect. This law provides that
owners must present proof of their
loss between ten and forty days after
the sheep are killed or injured.
"Carunculated" is term used when
the head and neck of turkey cock are
covered with small 1eshy protuber-
anceS.
The mothers heart is the child's
school room.-H. w. Beecher.
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Lahysmith Ranks Third,

Ladysmith is the third town of I'm
portance in Natal, is 189 miles north
of Durham, has thirteen streets, a town
hall and a public library.
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The mothers heart is the child's
school room.-H w. Beecher.
The Philipsburg mail., 1900-05-18

"Carunculated" is term used when
the head and neck of a turkey cock are
covered with small deshy protuber-
ances.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14
Chronic Coughs and Colds
Are Catarrhal
Diseases.
catarrh Is the Continual Scourge
of christendom.

Catarrh hovers ominously over every
city, and nestles trcacherously in every
hamlet. 1t flies with vampire wings
from country to country and casts a
black shadow Of despair over all lands.
Its stcalthy approach and it's lingering
stay makes it dread to the physician
aud a pest to the patient.
1t changes the merry laugh of child
hood to the whcezy breathing of Group.
and the song Of the biushing maiden to
the hollow cough of consumption. In
its whitening grasp the rounded form of
the fond wife and mother becomes gaunt
and spectral. and the healthy flush of
manhood turns to the sallow, haggard
visage OF the invalid.
Cough takes the place of conversation,
speech gives way to splitting, the re-
pulsive odOrs of chronic catarrh poison
the kiss Of the fondest lovers. and thick
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14
BIG STOCK EXHIBIT.
GREAT INTERNATIONAL SHOW
HELD IN CHICAGO.
Nothing in Thi. Country to Compare
with It7Many Exhibits Pertaining
to Erecders' Interests shown--Pro-
srcss Made in Last century,Dispiayed.

Thousands OF live stock owners and
fanciers, together with others Interested,
have attended the big international live
stock exhibition held at the stock yards
in Chicago. The exposition has cclipsed
fourfold anything of similar character
ever before held. There is no show held
in this country with which the intcrna-
tional live stock exposition can be COM
pared, but in Great Britain the royal
show ut York, which held its sixty-tirst
q prototype of this, except that it has
royalty for its officers.
At the New York show this year there
We're, including live stock, poultry and
farm products, $50 classes, while at the
international there are upward of 600
classes on cattle, sheep, hogs and horses.
to say nothing of the packing house and
other side exhibits. Dairy cattle We're
shown ut York, as were also all classes
of horses, while the Chicago show only
recognized beef cattle. the mutton breeds
of sheep. swine and draft horses.
The exposition included great breeders
prize exhibition of cattle. horses, sheep
and swine. Il comprehensive edible meai
show of a character never before at
tempted. display of dressed meats and
food products. showing the complete util
izatiom Of all parts of the animal uscl
for food. ami in addition those parts
which enter other fields of commerce.
Slaughter tests We're made to determine
the results of different methods of feed
ing used in preparing live stock for mar
kef.
There We're also feeding demonstrations
under the guidance of the Department of
Agriculture and the staffs of the agr-
cultural experiment stations, intcrcolc-
giate animal Judging contests. in order
that the knowledge of live stock raising
may he made more cei;;,in; Il display OF
draft horses in breeding classes and in
harness not in the nature of Il full-trrss
parade, but demonstrating what there is
! in properly bred general! utility horses.
Transportation appliances of all kinds,
both for live animals and meats.
1 In addition to this there were car loads
OF fat and range stock in the general
yard. comprising cattle. sheep and hogs
from nearly every State in the Union.
All of the breeding associations of the
United States and Canada and stock
mems associations representing tho in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14
RAccooN n,rEs.
fmmersion OF Infant coons and Their
Washing of Food.

fmmerslon OF Infant Coons and Their
Washing of Food.
You lave missed couple Of mighty
singular events IL you never saw a
soon christening or a coon food wash
Ing out at the Zoo. the Cincinnati En-
luirer says. The coon home at the zoo
consists simply of a plot Of ground
about as large as barn door of extra
generous size would cover. This is sur
rounded by a wire fence four feet high,
topped with a broad, up-curving tin
rail, which prevents the little clown
like creatures from escaping. In the
center of this yard is a tree twenty feet
high and having many and heavy
limbs. Near the base of the tree is a
several foot square pool of water. This
pool marks two very exclusive, very
notable characteristics that distinguish
the coon from any other animal. The
pool Is the coon's christening and food
cleansing place.
When a coon gives birth to young al
most the first thing she does is to take
her babies, one by one. i'll her mouth,
and, accompanied by the father coon,
proceed slowly and solemnly to the
pool. Arriving at its brink. and while
the dad coon stands tfoughtfully by,
the mother baptiZes the little one be-
meath the wave with all the decorum
and solicitude with which Il clergyman
ilnmerses candidate for church men,
bership. After lowering it gently down
beneath the surface and lifting it UP
again. Mrs. Coon and her husband
wend their way back again to their
family corner of the yard. This SER
vice, solemn and staid, is continued by
Mr.. aud Mrs. Coon nntil every moth
er's son of their just arrived offspring
has been duly christcned.
Viewed sobcrly, it is really one of
the most unique, impressive profess
sional performances imaginable But
the iildescribable drollness of the pic
ture of the wee husband and wife as
they go through with the performance
is inimitable, and smiles. if not laugh
ter, come to almost every one who wit
ncsscs the scrio-comic bit of drama.
Almost any hour any day in the year
you can find a group of people tossing
OP pito VI SOOulcS ~ Ilc COOliss
picking up one of these, Mr.. and Mrs.
Coon instantly, With the "soody" held
daintily i'll its teeth, trots over to the
pool and swashes the morscl back and
forth i'm the water three or four times.
Then, returning to its favoritc corner,
or up to its favorite crotch in the tree,
the little chap sets to devouring it in u
way so dainty and sedate as to put
food-gulpins humans to blush. But of
course you wouldn't blush ut Clown
Coon's etiquette. There is SO much orig
inal comedy in every move he makes
in his food-cleansing and eating pro-
cess that you laugh in spite of your
self. His very appearance, particular
~ in motion. his iudge-lke sedntcncss.
his display of extreme ncatness, and
his eNquisiteness in all things form n
subtle and sure ticker for anybody $
laugh spot. 1t beats the funniest man
the stage can show.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14

cned membranes bedim sight, impair
hearing and destroy taste.
Like the plague-strickcn Egyptians .
cry of distress has gone out from every
household, and the lniidcw of woe clings
10 every hcarthstone.
Catarrh i'll some form, catarrh IN some
stage turks as an enemy in the slightest
cough or cold and finishes it's tiendish
work in heart disease and consumption.
No tissue, function. or organ OF the
body escapes its ravages; muscles with
er, nerves shatter. and secretions dry
up under its biighting presence. So
stubborn and difficult Of cure is this Dis
case that to invent remedy to Gre
chronic catarrh has been the ambitiqI OF
the greatest minds in all ages.
Is it therefore any wonder that the
vast multitude of people who have been
cured of chronic catarrh by Peruna are
so lavish in their praise Of this remedyf
That the discovery of Pcrunn has made
the cure of catarrh practical certainty
is not only the testimony of the people.
but many medical men declare it to be
true.
As drug store III this age of the world
! is incomplete without peruna, it can be
obtained anywhere with directions for
use. \ complete guide for the preven-
,ion and cure of catarrh and all diseases
Of winter, sent free 10y The Perlna Mod.
| icne Co. Columbus. Ohio.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
j Few-Line Interviews.
&e&ewexseysesaex.ev.exey

Senator Money of Mississippi: IF an
attempt is made to reduce the congress
sional representation from the South, 1,
for one, will be willing to talk from the
;s,t day OF December To noon on the 4th
day of March. And it won't be wind,
either 1t will be Il speech worth listen
ing TO. l have been preparing for this
fight Tor some time"
-i-:.
Allcyne Ireland. in lecture at the
University of Chicago: 1.-The Chinaman
has an immense advantage over the white
man. as he can go to the tropics and
thrive there. lie has the same climatic
discipline as the English and German,
but he alone has the physiological power
TO adapt himself to the cold Of the nortl,
and the heat of the tropics. think the
tropical regions will ultimately be large
ly Chinese. China will not he divided up
piecemeal because England and the Unit
cd States object, and as the southern
provinces are sub-tropical, the Chinaman
has the white man at disadvantage"
-:-:-
$. 7. Thomas of Chicago: "Onc reason.
and a very good reason, too, why rubbers
do not last longer is that so many of them
.tlN AudNC7ONeI FuDUerS. &All lllC Junk
men ill the country are doing good bust
ness gathering UP old. discarded rubbers
from the streets and waste barrels and
shipping them to the Eastern factories.
wliew they are made over Into brand
| new" stock. OF course such stock does
not Wear Ekc the genuinely new article,
and so 1t happens that a good rubber will
be- mated with rcjuvcnatcd article, and
| when the latter gives out after w(kk
or ten days wear. why the unfortunate
purchaser gets after the innocent retail
er and he has I" put up IL new pair at a
! reduced price or make SOME sort Of u
compromise -:
The following is not a personal inter
view. 1t is what the London IDaiiy Iele-
| graph says "f the United States: what
the future has in store for the United
States only tho future can disclose. hut
illa; 1t is something great, something vast
and magnificent. far beyond anything
| hitherto witnessed in history liu one car
doubt. and there are few Eltgiishn.cn who
d" not welcome the prospect with hearty
qualification, owing to the community of
race. IDEAS and language which links
both the heart and brain OF the United
States with the heart ard brain Of the
British Empi1s."
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14
HER HEART WAS TOUCHED.
a seutl, Dakota Mother and Her Littl,
Girl Expresses Their Gratitude in
an Omen Letter.

olrl l.x presses Inelr Gratituue III
an Open Letter.
Folsom, Custer Co.. South Dakota,
Dec. 10.-lSpeclal.)--Mrs Fl. u. Hyde
has given for publication a letter ex-
pressing her unbounded gratitude to
Dodd's Kidney Pills for the double
cure of herself and little daughter.
Mrs. Hyde has been troubled with
pains in her heart for over three years,
and for Il long time her little girl suf-
ferNl from weak kidneys. The CRATE.
full lady does not seem able TO find
words strong enongh to express llei
gratitude. She has written the follow
ing:
cannot say too much in praise OF
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They are the
greatest kidney and heart medicine
ever used. had been troubled for ovel
three years with a severe pain in my
heart, which entirely disappeared after
I had taken Il few doses of Dodds Kid
lley Pills. l also gave them to my lit
tie girl, whose kidneys had been weak
and she commenced to improve from
the very first dose. Dodd's Kidney
Pills are certainly wonderfai Metli
cine. would be pleased to have this
my statement, published, as ! feel II
my duty to let others know just what
the Pills will do for them.
MRS. III. ID. HYDE.
Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure. SOC
q box. All dealers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-12-14

toms, and no woman should allow
herself to reach such perfection Of
misery when there is absolutely no
need of, it. The subject Of our por-
trait in this sketch. Mrs. Williams Of
Englishtown, Nj. has been entirely
cured of such illness and misery by
Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, and the guiding advice of Mrs.
Pinkham of Lynn, Mass.
for absolute cures. and no other medic
cine is "just as good" Women who
want . cure should insist upon getting
pound when they ask for 1t st . store. s!,
ham at lynn, Mass, and tell her all
your troubles. Her advice is free.