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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

Never before in tho history of the
trade has there been so wide margin
between halffat and prime, ripe beeves
as exists at present. The situation
offers every inducement for feeders to
make their cattle fat, and on the other
hand the wide range in value plainly
points to the penalty that must he
paid by those who disregard the law
of supply and demand aud persist in
crowding half-ripe cattle OF q market
already over supplied with that class.
Many of the unfinished cattle marketed
during the past few weeks would with
sixty to ninety days longer feed have
brought seventy-fiyo cents to 81 more
per hundred pounds, which would be
almost all clear profit, as the increase
In weight would nearly Offset tho corn
and labor. While we do not antici-
pate any further advance, except for q
few fancy holiday cattle, we do look
for good steady demand and salts
factory prices for well-fattened cattle
for an indefinite period. Where
man is feeding a considerable number
of cattle it is an excellent plan to keep
topping ont the bunch and sending in
load or two of the fattest as fast as
they are ready. This not only divides
the risk and gives the cattle left be-
hind better chance to mature but
also avoids the dead loss OF holding
ripe cattle, as there is no profit in
feeding a steer after he is ready for
market. 1t is poor policy TO hold a
big drove of cattle simply because
there is light end of one or two loads
that is not finished. The feeder who
carefully watches his drove and ships
the fattest steers as fast as ripe and
then pushes the others along to the
same condition is, other things being
equal, the successful one.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
Fnrm and GARDEN Notes.

Skim milk and Indian meal are the
very best food for pigs.
Flat stones where abundant are the
cheapest and best material for floor
ing pigpens.
Probably the best lice exterminator
for poultry is good dust box filed
with common road dust.
Potash is the chief fertilizer to bo
applied to fruit trees, particularly af-
ter they come into bearing.
A pound of meat scraps to twenty
five hens is about the right proper
ton. Feed every other day.
Often when pullets are not laying, a
ration OF meat twice a week at this
time of year will start them at work.
In most cases, it is crowding that
makes hens get into the feed trough.
Make the trough long and give them
plenty of room.
Roots and straw are very deficient
in albuminous material, consequently
whore little oil cake or pea meal is
added to dict of this kind excellent
results are reported.
In arranging pigpen, give special
attention to the construction, so that
it can be easily cleaned and supplied
with fresh bedding. A pigpen should
be cleaned out every day.
There is every reason to believe
that in order to have good layers it is
necessary to have good laying stock.
This is the rule applied to COWS,
horses, sheep and hogs, SO why should
it not apply to the poultry as we'll.
Draft horses should rarely be driven
faster than walk in taking exercise.
They require much less than road
sters or running horses. No draft
horses should have less than five or
six miles day and roadsters can cas-
lily go to six to ten miles.
The moulting period is one that all
poultry have to go through, and at
this time they should receive littlN
more attention than is generally given.
Keep them out of draughts and feed
oily food. such as sundow wer seeds and
linseed oilmeal, and you will find it a
great help to the birds.
BOOSTERS in the majority of cases
are of no use to the farmer, aud
should he have any around that are
OF no value as breeders, the best thing
he can do is to turn them into money.
The hens will lay just as well, if not
better, without them, though the eggs
are useless for Matching purposes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
Pigs For the Dairy FARMER.

The best and most profitable way OF
disposing of skim milk and buttermilk
is to feed them to pigs. Where but
ter is made extensively, or even on a
small scale, there is opportunity for
keeping pigs at very slight cost. II
the required number are not raised
upon the farm, they may be purchased
at six weeks old, or at weaning time.
For few weeks at least after weaving
they will thrive best on sweet skim
milk. Buttermilk is also good, but
should not be fed undiluted, or scours
may result. With plenty of warmed
milk combined with bran, shorts or
other ground feed-of which corn
should form but small portion, if
any-pasture if convenient, and pure
water at all times, pigs which have re.
celved good care through the mother
previous to weaving them will grow to
thrifty maturity.
The practice of keeping over pigs OF
shotes until year old or more is al
most if not quite out of date. Quick
returns make the profit in raising hogs
for market. 1t must be an exceptional
case which would warrant keeping
them longer than six to eight months.
AS fast as the pigs of one lot are
fattened and sold, others should be
ready to take the places OF those dis
posed of. 1t is far better, in the
writer's estimation, which is based
upon considerable experience, to fe ed
milk to pigs rather than to calves, ex-
cept in the case of heifers or an OK
ceptionally fine male, which it might
be desirable to raise. A pig at six
months will bring nearly as much as
steer at three times that age. At pres
ent prices of fat cattle, no farmer can
afford to raise them for beef, while in
six months the pig will be in prime
condition for sale and return good
profit.
The hog is one of the most profita.
BILE animals the farmer has. Consuming
as it does the refuse of which
no other disposal could we'll be
made upon the farm, looked upon
as the lowest of domestic an
imals, doomed too often to exist i'll
filthy quarters and receive only the
slightest attention as to material COM
forts, yet the pig repays his owner
tenfold profit for his keeping. While
pigs undoubtedly thrive better when
given liberal supply of sweet skim
milk for time after weaving, they
will do fairly we'll without it, ii fed
upon bran and middlings made into q
slop with water. Whey from cheese
factories while sweet is better than
water for this purpose, but is not
available in many localities.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

everything employed in their making.
That flowers are to prevail in hat
trimming seems assured. Some Paris
models arc made wholly of the smaller
blossoms. A Spanish turban, for iu-
stance, is all Of yiolets, with the
stems drawn over the edges to form a
facing. The crown is of violet leaves
with drapery OF lace around it. The
brim is wide in front and narrow at
the back.
Ostrich plumes are to be ,used in
combination with flowers of the, larger
varieties. A toque OF white tulle,
with crown of creamy Irish lace, has
lace of the same design twined iu the
brim, which is caught back at the left
front by knot of dahlia purple panne
velvet, held by rhinestone orna'
ment. From under this knot n single
white ostrich plume sweeps over the
left side OF the crown to the back,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

Many heads appear dressed for
evening with no other ornament than
a single long osprey in the dominant
color of the costume, set at one side
AN curving over the middle coil OF
hair most gracefully. The osprey
starts from tiny rosette in bebe rib
bon the same color as the osprey, or
sometimes ieweled clasp or buckle
holds the plume in place. This is
one of the most effective because most
simple modes OF adorning coiifnre.
TO give that breadth to the coiliure
that the latest dictatos decree, the
osprey is set at one side of the coil
and extends out instead of up. With
the hair parted in front this way ol
dressing the head is decided change
from the long dominant pompadour
and its aigrette that towers straight
aioft.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
Growing TurnlDs,

We have never seen crop OF 1000
bushels of turnips grown on an acre,
though we saw one field that came
very near ii, exceeding 900 bushels,
if We remember rightly, but at II farm
ers' institute in New Brunswick one
speaker told how he succeeded in
growing 1000 buahels per acre. He
took poor piece of ground in the
fall, and after he had plowed it he put
on thirty tons Of manure to the acre
and narrowed it in. He wants no
manure plowed in unless il is to be
plowed up again in the spring, harrow
lightly and furrowed two feet apart
about two inches deep. In the tur-
rows he strewed $50 pounds of super.
phosphate to the acre. He uses two
pounds of specially selected turnip
seed to the acre. When they are two
inches high he thins them to eighteen
inches apart. After this lie keeps
the horse cultivator running two or
three times n week between the rows
AS he grows them principally as a
succulent winter food for his stock, he
sows early, that they may have time
to grow. When we used to grow them
we gave greater distance between the
rows aud did not SOW them until July,
and most OF them grew as large as
dealers cared to have them for table
use, while the small and the very
large were saved for the stock. When
we could sell the best at fifty cents n
bushel or more we thought it was
more than they were worth for stock
feeding.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

coming, but change is what fashion
is ever after, even il it be a change
for the worse. The outstanding sprigs
of maidenhair aud ivy in green velvet,
10 novel but few weeks ago, now
find themselves displaced by the regu-
iation classic chsplet of ivy, such as
bound the head of the victor in tue
0lympisn games or the winner OF the
prize in poem-contest. Rose and
geranium leaves also appear in this
same chaplet fashion, aud one merit
of the wreaths is that they may be
worn with the hair dressed either in
Grecian or up.to-date Partisan mode.
The first figure in the cut shows the
effect of this broad head dress. Upon
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

time before the organs that develop
the eggs have begun work. Evidently
the latter require periods of rest be-
tween every clutch of eggs.
But very fat hen when killed shows
not the slightest trace OF these en-
bryouic eggs. The function to even
produce the germs seems to have de-
parted. The writer has killed hens
that he did not think too fat to lay
and has found them in this condition.
and that, too, at o season whom other
hens were laying vigorously. At just
what stage of fatness the hen is
rendered impotent to produce eggs
science has not yet determined, or
whether this stage varies in the hens
of different ages. 1t is without doubt
true that many hens are kept for years
at a total loss as 80 cost of keeping,
for certainly many do not lay an egg
from one years end to another.
There may be other elements euter-
ing into the question that we do not
yet understand, and il may be that
other things beside excessive fat pre-.
vent egg formation and development.
But with the limited light we now
have on the subject it is probable that
the best way to keep flock culled
down to the actual layers is to keep
the fat hens killed off. This leads to
the remark that some hens get fat
under any system of feeding. The
writer has been surprised when feet.
ing a ration balanced against fat TO
find here and there hen laying on
fat and ceasing to lay eggs. Evidently
fowls show the same characteristics
as breeds of larger live stock-the
ability with some to develop size and
fat at the expense of every other func-
tion.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
10 had Eyes Like a oat,..

Alonzo Baum, fifty years OF age,
who died on Friday near Huntington,
w. Va. was known all over that section
as the "cat-eyed" man. He could see
clearly in the darkest night. During
the day, however, the light oppressed
him and he could see scarcely any
thing. The pupils of Baum's eyes
were elliptical, and had all the other
physical characteristics of the eyes OF
the cat He did everything possible
to conceal from strangers the curious
condition OF his eyes, and hated the
notorety it brought him.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

Mitten sleeves have undergone sew
eral interesting variations since last
season. For instance, one of the new.
est mitten sleeves reaches from the
thumbs to elbows, and is fastened to
the shoulder by lattice work of vel
vet ribbons. Another sleeve, that
only the girls with perfect arms should
attempt, reaches midway TO the elbow.
A second sleeve half covers the hand
and forearm. Upper aud lower sleeves
are connected with lattice work of
velvet ribbon. On perfect arm this
sleeve is beautiful. but unless the ell
bow i'm dimpled aud the upper and
lower arm in perfect proportion, it is
very ugly. Another pretty sleeve that
is being used on many of the newest
dinner gowns is lace on the under
side, the edges strapped together with
narrow bands of velvet ribbon, pulled
through jewelcd buckles.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

the very tall girls that seem to tower
above tue rest of us in such numbers
nowadays it is especially becoming. A
chic, if less novel head-dress has a
circlet of plated ribbon in any color
to suit the costume, white preferred.
The circlet is finished with small
bow and ends and a single jeweled os-
trich tip in white. This ornament
may be worn so that the plume rises
directly in the front or at the side. II
requires high hair, however.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

Photographing tomN
industry which has PEI
a colored man in this
one time boy-of-all-Wul
graph gallery. lie
branched out for himS
ready established a reu
ness, which promises
wider field in the futulS|
various cemeteries VIII
and when the day is ~
lures of many Of the
ments. After he ha'
plates he takes prooN
the relatives of the ds'|
ally mas a ready saN
OF course, he has to Y"
he works entirely Y
trusting to sentimep'
Still, he says it is yeF'
doesn't get an order
habit of haunting lp'l
where tombstones aI'
striking while the irop n
q picture before even n
atives have seen the
phia Record.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
# AGRICULTURAL. s.
RslAoIa0 0NNNNa NaHANA0IA00KS0NIceE,
ReoIai,ninG Abandoned Farms,


A farmer in Paxton, Worcester
County, Mass, who settled upon an
abandoned farm about two years ago,
is reported to have raised on eight
acres this year 1900 bushels of pota-
toes, $4,000 cucumbers-the latter
from q single acre-S00 barrels OF
cabbages, 700 bushels OF tomatoes,
$50 barrels of carrots, GOO bushels OF
parsnips, HOO bushels of turnips, 400
bushels of beets and 100 heads OF
cauliaower, besides squashes and some
other truck ad libitum, and all the
vegetables used by the family. OIL
course it is presumed that these pro.
ducts were marketed at n profit, and,
that being the case, it is easy to sec
why many of New Eugland's aban.
doned farms are being reclaimed. -
Boston Cultivator.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
Homemado wooden Teeth. .

Albion, Ind, has an economical
genius in the person OF james Hyde.
He makes his own teeth out of hick-
ory wood and holds them in place with
wooden handle. He is able to ca;
the toughest meats.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

trical insulation. According to those
who are interested in it, it will answer
as a substitute for rubber in many
forms, besides having uses peculiarly
its own. No information has been
given as to it's COST Now York Sun.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
Exhausted Soils.


Professor Il. Fl. Bailey, of Cornell
University Experiment Station, says
that impoverished soils are usually
those that have been neglected. Not
having been titled they have become
cloddy, hard and foul. They may
lack in humus, which can be RENE
died by stable manure or plowing
under green crops, or they may lack
some one of the three important fer.
tili2ing elements. An average Of
thirty analyses OF soil shows
that an acre of land may contain in
eight inches OF the surface soil 3217
pounds OF nitrogen, 1896 pounds Of
phosphoric acid and II, 597 pounds of
potash, beside what may be in stones
and gravel which will not pass through
messes one-ffth of an inch square.
This would be enough to grow about
200 ordinary crops if it was all avail
able. 1t becomes so by action OF
what he calls "6lm water" thai is the
water adhering to the smaller PARTICLES
OF soil, il this water mingles with the
humus to develop humic acid. But
through the surface soil to the water
bed below, that the air may penetrate
the soil. III il does not, it absorbs
heat, evaporates and leaves the land
cold. When the water drains off and
the surface is well titled it becomes
warm, and the water is drawn up by
capillary attraction, thus preventing
loss by drought as well as brings back
the dissolved fertilizing elements ia
the surface or near it, where the plant
roots can find them. On many soils
these two items of drainage aud till.
age are more needed than fertilizers
though most effectual when the sol
is made light or porous and warm by
the addition of humus or vegetable
matter.
In some way excessive fat destroys
the breeding power of animals, as il
well known by the men that put then
in what is called show condition. Fat
in the hen seems to destroy not onl,
the power of celebrating eggs, but als'
the power OF the organs to eveI
produce the embryo Of the eggs. XII
hen that is not lat aud, though she
may not be laying eggs at the time
large numbers OF embryonic eggs vii
be found. Sometimes these embryonic
eggs remain undeyeloped for yer,
long time, showing that the organs
tlas produce them are busy Ion,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Designs For Costumes That Have Be-
come Popular in the Metropolis.


NEw YoRK CIrY (SpeciaD. The
newest head-dresses add not height
but breadth to the wearer. In conse-
auence, they are not so generally be.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
For Spring Millinery.

A basic fact of Importance in the
millinery line is the probability, al
most amounting to certainty, that the
new hats will be higher in price than
ever, owing to the increased cost OF
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01
Feather Fans Again.

Large feather fans are once again be-
ing worn, though the smaller ones
predominant.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-03-01

ing. The first is in cream PONCE silk,
with insertion and ace, and is worn
over colored silk; the other is in
white silk trimmed with lace and rib.
bon.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-28
Where P,thian Order Was Bora.

The Knights of Pythias of Calumet,
 Mich, are figuring on the purchase and removal to Calumet of a building
 which probably has 8 greater interest
 to Pythlans as such than any other structure in existence, says the Chi cago Record. This is nothing more or Justin II. RathbOne, the founder Of the order, wrote the ritual of what
 was destined to become one of the
 most popular secret orders in the United States.
 The school house still stands in a little village of Eagle Harbor, some fifteen miles north of Calumet and nearly at the tip of the Keweenaw peninsula. In the early days when the activity of its copper mines in the immediate vicinity made Eagle liar Dor something more than the hamlet it is now, the father of the Py thians was a school teacher and while not engaged in an attempt to inject wis dom into the minds Of Ihe pupils con ceived the idea of a society the friend ship of whose members should be like unto the friendship which existed be- tween Damon and Pythias. lie Car rled out hIS conception and in his lei sure wrote the ritual of the order. Having no better place to perform the work he did it at his desk in the little school house.
 Today there is another school house where the children of Eagle Harbor pursue their studies and the one made famous by its associations with Rath- bone is in dilapidated condition. Title to it is held by a man named kuntZ, a resident of the liarbor, who offers to sell it for S2O0. It is prob- able that the negotiations now under way will lead to it's falling into the hands of those who will fully appre- ciate it on account of its associations. Moved to Calumet and restored to something like it's former conditions 1t will become more valuable historically as tune goes on and an object of great interest to all members of the order who may Visit the place.
 Fifteen miles off the railroad and in- accessible as it is now it is still visited by hundreds of Pythians every year. The owner takes pleasure in showing hA at which the ritual was written. Incl. dentally MT. kuntz was T, ,sident Of Eagle Harbor in the days when Rath- bone was It's schoolmaster and has clear personal recollection of the man who afterward came to be revered as the founder of the great order.
Arizona silver belt., 1900-06-28
4 Plain Bit O Talk.

My bov," said Uncle Hiram as ht gave to me advice. "The saw that doesn't wObble is the
 one that cuts the ice, That keeps sinking deeper where its
 first draw scratched the face, Instead of moving sideways to find a
 thinner place. I've noticed cattle feeding in our pas
 ture lot and seen A COW that allers hunted for q bright
 CT spot O green And juicy grass a-growin,' feelin' con
 fident, dog-gOne! That there was better pickin' just a
 little farther on. And I've seen that COW keep huntin'
 thro' the summer, thrO' the spring, A-feelin' sure that just ahead was bet
 ter feed, iing A-lOokin' thiS.and- that-way and a-rOll- ing of her eyes, So busy watching for It she d forget to
 fight the flies: And while the ones grew sleek an fat that took what come for sure, After grass grown taller traipSin' kept this COW thin and poor. Why; she d leave a field of clover two feet high or blue grass lawn  Thinking there was better pickin' just litlle farther on. And, my boy, so mighty bgoty you needn't put on now, You ain t so smart but something you can learn from that old COW, Contented with your portion, satisfied just where you Ire at, Will make not only cattle but pock- ct book grow fat, Keep on workin' humbly as a thank ful creature should, Don't spend your time in hunting the superlatiye of good, For there ain't no use your traipSin' till you're weary, weak and wan For to find the better pIckin' just little farther oD.'
 Roy Farrell Green in Detroit Free Press.