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The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Marketing Eggs.

From Farmers Review: In answer
to the question, What method OF pack
ing is best, when eggs are to be carried
to market in the farm wagon?" would
say, when only a few eggs are to be
marketed at a time, we have found
the small pasteboard box. holding two
dozen and fitted with sections, to be
tie most convenient. especially SO In
supplying private trade. Two dozen
eggs per week being the usual order
for a private family. A great many
grocers are using them for their retail
trade, and find them economical. for
breakage is reduced to a minimum.
Ask your grocer to order a half dozen
for you. They are not expensive and
few eggs saved this winter pay for
them. The farmer who has a nice
flock Of laying hens this winter will
be strictly in the swim. A prominent
neighbor Of ours remarked the other
day, that he would rather have 500
hens this winter than two carloads OF
feeding steers.-John Coolidge, Knox
County, III.
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To Test the oieo Law.

At Cincinnati the oleo people have
begun efforts to have the oleo Law
tested. They hope to have it declared
unconstitutional. A forty-pound pack.
age of oleomargarine, made contrary
to law, is the basis of the action, which
is by the general government u re-
cover fines under clause two Of the
act. Whichever way the federal court
decides, the case will go to the United
States Supreme Court. Both the oleo
makers and the internal revenue au-
thorities are anxious to have the mat
ter of constitutionality settled.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

unions had Z membership Of 1906. .61S.
while In the United States, with double
England's population, the estimated
membership Of labor unions on July
last was 100000. 1t is estimated At
the present time that there are nearly
16,OOO,0OO persons linen, women and
children) in the United States work
ing as wage-earners. The percentage
embraced In labor unions 10 not large.
therefore. being not more than eight
per cent Of the whole body. 1t must
be remembered, however, that in many
trades the members are organized up
to . large proportion-sometim 80
per cent-of the total number en-
gagged"
The American Federation OF Labor
probably represents $50 200 members,
and the Knights of Labor perhaps 200.-
900. The Order of Railway Conductors
OF America-whose head, e. E. Clark.
has been appointed ON the coal COM
mission-has nearly $4,000 members;
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, over $4,000; the Brotherhood
of Locomotive F1remen, nearly $4,000;
the Brotherhood, of Railway Trainmen,
about $4,000, and there are at least
four other influential railroad organi
cations.
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A Missouri farmer. whose hog had
been killed by . train and who imag
ined himself to be something Of poet,
wrote these lines to the company's
claim agent for q settlement:
My raxorback strolled down your track
A week ago to-day:
Your % came down the line
And snuffed his light away.
You can't blame me-the hog, you see,
Slipped through . cattle gate;
So kindly pen . check for ten,
The debt to liquidate.
He was rather surprised . few days
later to receive the following:
Old 70 came down the line
And killed your hog, we know; s.,
But razorbacks on railroad tracks
Quite often meet with woe.
Therefore, my friend. we cannot send
The check for which you pine.
Just plant the dead; place DER his
head:
Here lies foolish swine."
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Profit in Large Flocks.

From Farmers Review: If man
can make reasonable profit out OF
ten hens, and there can be no question
but what he can, there Is no reason
why he can not make one hundred
times as much out of thousand hens,
provided he gives them the same care
and attention. Few, however. are pre-
pared to do this, and 1t is for this
reason that so many failures occur
with greater number. With large
range, few hens will take care of
themselves and make up for a good
deal of neglect that would prove fatal
to success with large number. That
there is money in poultry no one can
doubt, but to get the most out Of it
one must have experience and learning
sufficient to enable him to use feed,
labor and all to advantage.-O. p.
Bennett.
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Organizing Girls.

The girl can workers at the Chicago
stock yards have been granted q char
ter from the American Federation OF
Labor, since the Amalgamated Sheet
Metal Workers Industrial union re-
fused to accept them as members.
The latter association will not admit
women to membership, and President
Samuel Gompers of the A. F. of L.
has recommended that it's constitu-
ton be amended on this point. The
girls in the Norton Bros. can factory
in haywood are being organized by
John Fitzpatrick, and expect to get .
charter soon
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Handling a Peach Crop.

r. Morrill,: l think nine-tenths of
the peaches in our state and a good
many from Illinois are picked either
too soon or too late and not at the
right time. A peach one-half or two
thirds grown is semi-colored and if
picked will go on and take out the col
or. but never natures, never gets flavor
and never has size. The last forty
eight hours in the development of the
peach Is what gives it the size, and it
is very important factor in selling. A
peach should be picked as the greater
portion Of it turns to yellow or cream
white. depending upon the variety. It
should be picked Immediately. 1t fire.
quently happens that you should go
over an orchard every day, every tree,
and take out every ripe peach. A great
many people gather their crop at two
or three pickings. and they find their
fruit coming into market in bad order
and the commission man perhaps max.
ing bad report on it. and they do not
like the commission. man, while the
fault is with them. and as our markets
are getting better and better supplied
each year by competent men, the men
who cannot understand this. who can
not understand what the customer
wants. must be the sufferer. He has
nobody to find fault with out himself.
l see q great lack everywhere l GO
Of proper preparation for handling
crops, even among large orchard grow
,ers. They are not we'll equipped as a
%o
when they get it, and then after work
ing for years and years to get crop
they lose large percentage of it from
their inability to care for it rightly
Farmers Review.
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Experiment a Success.

A contemporary tells q story of a
dinner given by philanthrop:st to
reformed criminals, to which he in
vited number of other persons. In
the middle of dinnar visitor COM
planned that he had missed his watch.
Immediately the host ordered all the
lights to be turned out. Then he an
nounced that unless the person who
had the watch which did not belong to
him placed it in the middle of the
room before he counted a hundred the
police would be called in. When the
lights were turned up there were thir-
ty-three watches in the middle Of the
room.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
John q. Lennon.

Treasurer of the A. F. Of L. and gen.
eral secretary of the Journeymen Tail
ors' Union OF America.l
B. Lennon, it's treasurer. and general
secretary of the Journeymen Tailors'
Union Of America. Mr.. Lennon has
for many years been engaged actively
In the trades union movement. The
journeymen tailors are we'll organized
Higher wages and shorter hours are
among the BENEFITS derived from or.
ganization, and they have been fortun-
ate in the selection Of their officers.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

vOs i 4
1oaeAoW atn't fond OF readtn'
0k no kiuo.
~ blue eyes does ali the feedins
Oe my mind.
RsaDle ~ got no learnin':
atn't wise.
Cast help that when I've no yearnin'
'Cepe tor eyes.
Whsn works done and ev'nin' fallin'
what 10 books?
II this life each to his callin'
0lvo me looks.
Her bls,o eyes 20 fOndly glancinG,
That's my food
mare . study most enhancing:
Ooeo me good.
Yesterday I heerd q story x.
Told for true.
OF Q man who has great glory
Yet he's blue:
Famous. but he feels 30 doleful
That he cries.
'otead Of books try somethin soulful.
ia advise
Trouble comes with all yer yearnin'-
Comes to all.
All for love must feel a yearnin'-
Great and small.
oh, what pleasure then In readin'
Her blue eyes.
With love shinin'. such a feedin'
Ratisfies.
New York Sun
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Scale Fixed in Germany.

The printing trades of Germany
have agreed on a uniform wage scale
and working hours to govern the
whole German empire. The working
hours are fixed at nine per day with
intervals" but the actual working
time must not exceed eight hours q
day. All disputes must be submitted
to an arbitration board composed
equally Of employers and employees.
Either side has the right to demand
arbitration.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Insurance Against Strikes.


The Insurance Register relates a
nove insurance experiment being
worked out in Austria. Under the
name of the Vienna Manufacturers
Strike Insurance Company. it is pro-
posed to secure to manufacturers the
means of distributing losses caused
by strikes. This Is to be done, as in
all other cases of indemnity insurance,
by issuing policies to the assured,
guaranteeing to pay him half the reg.
istered wages OF his employees during
the period Of the enforced idleness of
his plant by reason OF strike dur
ing any single period not exceeding
three months and not more than six
months in any one year. 1t Is pro-
posed to begin issuing policies when
applications have been received for
insurance of $50 establishments,
representing pay roll of not less
than $5,OO0,00O.
1t is claimed that something in the
way Of experience creating an actual
basis for the computation of rates
exists, in that, for number of years
Austria has had an annual average
of 10000 laborers ON strike, involving
annually 100000 days of idleness. Ap-
parently the concern is to be conduct
Cd upon a level premium basis (stock
or mutual is not stately, for the pre-
mium is fixed at .OO4 of the wage roll
of the assured.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
penie. color Lime story

Denies Color Line Story.
Frank Markham sends the following
clipping to this Office to prove that
labor unions draw the color line:
'The stationary engineers, recently
in session at Boston, have drawn the
color line. After an exciting discus
sion 1t was decided unanimously that
no colored man can be admitted to
membership in the organization, the
few opponents of such action not
voting. In our Judgment the engin-
eers have committed a serious blum
der and one calculated sooner or later
to react disastrously on themselves.
While men of color may not be ad-
mitted to the union, in certain locali-
ties some Of them will continue to
find employment as stationary engin-
GERS. and while thus engaged they
will be an ever present menace to
their prejudiced and short-sighted
white fellow craftsmen. There is no
place for caste in the ranks of organ
lied labor" The organization re-
ferred to above is not a labor union
in any sense of the term. The con-
vention referred to was that of the
National Association Of Stationary
Engineers, which is an employers
'union," and has nothing in common
with organized labor. Secretary Beer
of the local union of steam engineers
said the body referred to was CON-
posed of expelled members of the
international union.-Chicago Record
Herald.
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Red Polls.
An Education In Live Stock Affairs.

George Na. Pommel: The Red PolleL
ia one OF the youngest of the breeds
1t was not until the year 1886 that the
breeders gave the breed its name. and
from that time the real history Of the
breed may be said to date though fol
many years before this the two
branches had preserved their individ.
uality in their respective districts
From the start this breed has been
famous as one valuable alike for dairy.
ing and for beef production. On the
markets of England, the Norfolk cattle
take high rank. often selling for pricea
as good as the Scotch" beef. which IL
considereIN best the l--rket affords
They were first brought to America
in 1873, and since have grown steadily
in favor. Their beefmaking qualities
have been neglected some, but they
have figured strongly as valuable ami
mails for the small farmer. Neglect tt
tended to obscure their fesh-bearina
powers in time past, but recent ex
hibitions have been highly creditable
AS their name indicates, cattle of this
breed are without horns-no appear
ance of them being tolerated. In color
they are q rich. deep red. with white
allowed on the udder and underline
inside the flanks, and on the switch
Of the TAIL The head is quite char.
acteristic, OF medium size. c!ean-cut,
with sharp poll, which carries good
tuft of hair The neck is of medium
length; body of good size and shape;
legs of medium length. Red Polls are
very uniform. prepotent, and hardy
4ney have great many advocates,
being good mixers, as we'll as gooa
feeders.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Chinese Garment Workers.

The National Convention Of United
Garment Workers ordered the general
committee to pay special attention
during the coming year to the matter
Of Chinese labor in the west. It is
said that 5000 Chinese celestials are
employed as garment makers in that
section of the country, and that the
low wages fol- which they work has
destroyed the possibility Of q fyir
wage scale.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Insurance Of EMPLOYEES.

Arrangements have been made by
the United Railways and Electric
Company of Baltimore, Md. to insure
the lives of 5000 conductors and nc.
tormen in its employ. In case Of IA
tai accident $1,000 is to be paid to the
representatives of the victim. The
company is to pay the entire cost, but
the men must accept this proposition
as settlement Of any claim against
the company.
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england Leads in Trade Unions.

1A an article on labor unions Col.
Carroll d. Wright says:
, ct is difficult to ascertain the men,
lbofship Of unions. In Great Britain
ne law requiring registration enables
!tAo government to state with fair ac-
curacy the strength of unions in that
country. According to the. latest re-
moxts available the English trades
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

With the increasing price for land ii
will pay to tile much of the lan{Pthat
has hitherto lain waste on accodht of
being too wet to work.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

lndiscriminate crossing Of swine 70
q mistake. Many fine herd has bean
ruined in this way.
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Excessive Profits in Ego k;andl,ne.
AS yet, the handling of eggs for COM
mercial purposes has not been reduced
to science. The great storage houses
in the big cities have plants that ere
properly equipped for the landing Of
large quantities of eggs. but they are
few in comparison with the numerous
small plants scattered here and there
throughout the country. Now and
then We Lear Of small plants being
started in small places for the storing
Of eggs to the time of big prices, and
We are informed that the men behind
the enterprise expect to make Is per
cent profit on their operations. This
Of itself shows the chaotic state in
which the egg-handling industry is at
the present time. When the general
handling of eggs is reduced to a proper
system. it will not be possible for the
storers to make any such profits. Pro
fits like those come out of the pockets
Of the farmers or out OF the pockets
Of the consumers of eggs. 1t is a
yet been able to abolish. But the time
is coming when farmers and the con-
sumers of farm products will be wise
enough to make sure that the men that
play the part Of middlemen get only
a fair profit for their part Of the work.
We will then have storage plants In
which the capital invested will earn
but five or six per cent and the men
that take care Of those plants get only
fair and reasonable salaries. The
farmer will then get little more for
his eggs than he does now and the
consumer will pay a little less for
them.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Inspection Increases the Milk Yield.

Inspection Increases the Milk Yield.
Dairymen are often puzzled in try
ing to locate the cause Of sudden fall
ing of in milk yield of their herds
from one day to another. Frequently
the yield will drop five or more pounds
per COW. An Indianapolis milkman is
reported as having experienced q sud
den shortage of forty gallons on the
day, which came about under peculiar
circumstances. He. was delivering
ninety-two gallons, and one morning
met q man in the road who requested
sample of his milk; the next morn.
ing he had business at the city hall;
and the day following he delivered
only sixty-two gallons of milk. Dairy
authorities have ascribed the falling
of in milk yield to various causes, but
we think none of them have ever nc.
cused milk inspector of drying up
the cows.-Jersey Bulletin.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

When a man is just to his enemies,
his friends can rely on him.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

When to Do Pruning.
The first year of the life of q tree
is when the most beneficial pruning
lis done.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

Minnesota Fears . Butter Trust.
State Dairy Commissioner McCon'
nell declares that he fears the COOP
erative creamery business OF MIME
sofa will have to fight for Its existence
within the very near future. He sees
indications that great concerns are to-
be formed in many of the larger cities
for the purpose Of merging the dairy
producers of the state into q single
current supply for a centralized stor-
age plant. These concerns, he says.
will go about the business OF kiul0g
the cooperative creamery by the sane
means which the other combines and
monopolies employed. They will oRer
larger prices for cream than the
creameries can, until the creameries
are squelched, and then it will have
things in its own hands and will be
able to dictate prices to the farmers
A gentleman interested in one concern
of this kind told Mr.. Mcconnell the.
other day that within year all the
cream within a radius of $50 miles Of
the Twin Cities would be shipped to-
these cities for manufacture. Mr.. Nc
Connel says the dairy farmer has got
to face the problem, and that problem
is wholly in his own hands. If tenn
porary selfishness blinds him to his
own interests he will fall into the trap
to destroy the cooperative creamery,
and thereby deal q death blow to the
states great dairy reputation. Cream
cry associations are preparing to put
up an aggressive fight against this. by
the organization of creamery associa-
tons. and the state department is as
sisting them in this work.-St. Paul
Globe.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

70 Prevent Moed II outter pssDt1ooA

70 Prevont Mold In 00seof peee
The department OF asricultura q
Canada sends the following: Repoete
have been received that few lotn -
Canadian butter have been de1iveeoel
in the United Kingdom somsW1aeE
spotted with mold on the butter pa0W
and between the box and the buttef.
That has occurred on saltless butter. -
mold 10 tiny plant Or fungus. Il ~
important that butter makers and but-
ter dealers should know oy what
means they can entirely prevent tts
growth on butter packages. butter p
per or on the butter itself. Mold can
only come from pre-existing mold. or
from spores which serve the purpooe
of seed or fruit for its reproduction.
II the spores be destroyed mold cam
not begin to grow. The conditions fav-
orable for its growth are . certain de-
gree Of dampness and . moderately
low temperature-that is to say. TEN
perature below 60 degrees Some
forms of mold grow at temperatures as
low as 80 degrees F.. or the freezing
point Of water.
Formaline is an effective fungicide.
or, in other words, it Is . destroyer Of
fungi and Of the spores Of fungi. A
weak solution of formaline is effective
for the destruction OF spores Of mold.
A good course for the buttermaker to
follow is to prepare q strong brine Of
salt, adding one ounce Of formaltne to
one gallon OF the brine. The butter
paper should be soaked in this soIu-
tion. The inside of all butter pack
ages should also be rinsed with IT,
The butter paper. while still vet With
the brine containing fo7maline. should
be placed inside the butter box, and
the butter Immediately packed In IT,
The brine containing the formaline
will destroy all spores Of mold on the;
butter paper and on the inside OF the
box. A brine can be used for . long
period II it be boiled once . week.
AS the formaline evaporates during
the boiling process, 1t will be neces-
sary to add to every gallon Of brine.
after it has boiled and cooled. one
ounce of formaline.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30
Feeding Fowls.


Chas. s. Greene, in an address ct y
Minnesota Farmers Institute. said
When you have selected the breed you
want. and have them properly housed.
the next question is how to keep them
healthy and get the most proht with
the least expenditure for feed and
labor. a. few Of W can fnd pleasure
enough in the business to pay ito run.
ming expenses. There are probably
no two men who adopt precisely the
same methods Of feeding. and yet each
may have equally good success. 80
that there can be no set rules laid
stances and conditions. A person
must study the composition Of feeds.
know what their nutritive value Is.
and the effects they produce when fed
to stock under varying conditions.
Again, the large breeds require quite
different treatment from that given
the smaller ones, Feed that is right
for Leghorns would be liable to make
Plymouth Rocks too fat, If fed in the
same way.
The manner and time Of feeding is
Va ASd1Ay DIS muCU lAlpOElduCc dS tAS
feed itself. We always adopt a regu-
lar system Of feeding, and only change
with the seasons Of the year. or when
conditions absolutely require it. We
have known change of feed, and the
time Of feeding it. to make a differ
ence, with our own flock of Leghorns,
Of over four hundred eggs day in
side OF two weeks. Too much stress
cannot be laid on regularity in feed
ing. and the adherence to steady
system, only changing when there is a
good reason for SO doing. All soft
feed should be fed on wide boards or in
troughs which are kept clean, and the
fowls should never be allowed to hud-
die together any more than is neces.
sary. Exercise is of prime importance
when trying to produce eggs during
the winter months. BY keeping the
floor of the house Uttered with dry
straw, chaff or leaves, and scattering
the whole feed into it, the fowls get
all the exercise they need.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-30

It takes but little filth to foul a we'll
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-06-11
Volcano, or Forest Fire '?

Deputy United States Marshals Fred McKeehan and Fred Hornoff arrived last night from trip to Gal lup. They report the people in the neighbOrhOOd of Grants excited over the appearance of smoke issuing from one of the supposed extinct volcanic craters, located west of that place. The old volcano is about eighteen miles distant from Grants and as the train only stopped there few min utes. the gentlemen were unable 10 determine whether the smoke, which puffs forth in large volumes, was coming from the old crater or whether it was coming from some forest fire in that vicinity.
 Simon Bibo, the general merchant, has dispatched a man to the hills near the scene of the smoke to ascsr- tain as near as possible where the smoke Is coming from. and II from a crater. which one, as there are several in that locality. 1t Is said that for several years the ground around the largest crater has been gradually growing warmer until it has become so hot that the vegetation on its crest has ceased to grow. The lava beds formed by this volcano, when active, are the largest in the United States, extending down tee valley of Rio Puerco 125 miles.-Albuquerque Citi-