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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
The Hen Yard in Summer.

1t is quite easy to make the hen
yard in summer profitable feeding
ground for the fowls. Enough poultry
wire to divide the yard will cost lit
tie. After the division is made. one
side should be sown to seeds that will
produce forage. One of the best things
10 SOW we have found to be lettuce
Inc fowls eat this greedily. 1t should
not re used for paslurage till it is we'll
rooted and established. Another thing
that should be sown is rape. A pound
OF seed will go a long way. 1t is not
TOO late TO sow it even in midsummer.
IL grows rapidly and soon reaches a
height OF foot or more ' hen the
fowls may lie turned onto it. They
VIII strip it of its tenderest portions,
put Will leave the stems and the mid
veins. As soon as the fowls are taken
on this pasturage, thu midveins will
at once begin to send out new leaves
and soon the plant is again in full
tollage. The writer noticed that at
the North Carolina experiment station
the yards were sown with oats. This
makes a most excellent pasturage. and
the fowls eat it readily. Some feed
chopped grass in summer time, but we
nave observed that hens do not take
much interest in eating anything that
mas been thus prepared. They prefer
to have their green forage fastened
down so they can pull it to pieces
themselves. 1t is. therefore, better to
give them green pasture in the form
OF growing crops than to give them
green stuff cut up.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Prepare for Cold Weather.

In the summer Is the time to pre-
pare the COW stables for cold weather.
Comfort is money when applied to the
cow. The COW stable should be warm,
or at least should be warmable. Tests
have been made at some of our expert
ment stations to determine how much
comfort counts in the saving of feed.
1t has been proven that a COW exposed
to cold and wet requires 25 per cent
more food to produce the same amount
Of milk than is required IL she is prop
erly kept in a warm stable. The dairy
COW will not stand the cold that beef
steer will stand. With the dairy cow
the fat is deposited on the intestines
or worked up into cream. 1t is evident
that IL what little fat she has is on the
intestines it does not serve to keep
her warm except in SO far as it is
burned up in the lungs. On the other
hand the beef steer has his fat under
the hide or infltrated through the
meat The fat in that form helps to
keep out the cold. The result is that
the steer will lie down in a snowbank
in the full sweep of the wind, chew his
cud and look happy. The dairy cow
on the same day will hump in the
shelter of anything she can find and
will look very unhappy. She demands
and should have comfortable quarters.
where the temperature can be kept at
about 20 degrees or little over.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Mites on Cattle and Sheen

The mite which causes cattle itch.
or mango. is closely related to the
mite which causes sheep scab-both
belonging to the same genus and
species, but are different varieties. The
sheep-scab mite will not attack cat
tie, nor will the cattle mite attack
sheep or other animals. The itch mites
are found to be very numerous upon
affected cattle, and very small guam
tity of debris from an actively infest-
ed area Of the skin will often reveal
a surprisingly large number Of the
parasites. These mites may be re-
moved from an animal and retain their
vitality for long time. Specimens
have been collected and kept in small
glass bottles in the laboratory at the
ordinary temperature of the room dur
ing the winter months, varying from
As degrees F. during the night to 80
degrees +. during the day, which
would live and remain active from
eight to eleven days. Exposure to
bright sunlight, however, would kill
most OF the mites in few hours
Farmers Bulletin 152.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Temrerature of Milk.

Milk, when drawn from the udder Of
the COW, has a temperature Of SO de-
grees. II this temperature is permit
ted to remain at that point the few
bacteria in the milk when drawn will
increase with great rapidity to an in
Vulnerable host. Therefore the milk
should be cooled down as quickly as
possible to so degrees and below. This,
to a considerable extent, stops the in
crease of bacteria. Where the separa-
tor is used the milk need not be cooled
before separating. 1t should be sepa-
rated at once and then run over a
milk cooler of some approved make
, In few minutes it will thus be re-
duced to the desired temperature.
Carelessness as regards temperature Is
the cause of much of the poor farm
made butter on the market. The milk
during the time when the cream is
rising is permitted to remain at almost
any temperature. This facilitates the
increase of the more badly favored
bacteria. and the cream Is thus spoiled
before the butter is made. A low tenn
perature from the first would have
given milk and cream of better flavor
and OF greater value.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Prices for Poultry Products.

From Farmers Review: In a re.
cent issue the Farmers Review asked
its readers to report on the prices they
are receiving for poultry and poultry
products In reply will say. we are
receiving as follows: Eggs. 10 cents;
hens, 8 cents per pound; broilers, ac-
cording to size, 12h to 16 cents per
pound. In other words, we receive
within one and one-half cent per pound
OF the price quoted in the st. Louis
daily report of the market. Our coun-
ty is traversed in every nook and cor
ner by huckster wagons, and the prod.
ucts are paid for at the farmers door
1t does not therefore, pay the farmer
to take them to market.--A. L. Ham
erton, Clark County, Illinois.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Deformed Chicks.

While the faults of incubation are
responsible for many of the deformi-
ties found in the chickens, and I'M
doubtedly weaken others in ways
which are not so apparent to us, one
cannot state that the chickens which
come from the egg in developed con-
dition and can eat ever die on account
OF weakness due to the incubation,
says report of the Rhode Island ex-
pertinent station. In my experience
SO FAR the weak chickens. when prop
erly handled, seem to have developed
and grown as rapidly as the stronger.
However, those which were Matched
incompletely developed or with Grip
pied members. as the legs or beak,
have not been able to survive in all
cases. Under the even temperature
system, however, the weaklings. when
separated into hovers by themselves,
grow Unexpectedly we'll, and may at
tain some weight. As practical mat
ter, however, all such weaklings and
cripples should be destroyed as soon
as Matched. To the poultryman who
can devote but little attention to them
they would prove an annoyance.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Speaking italics.

A piece OF parliamentary repartee
quite as good as the famous retorts in
the house of commons and our Con-
gress comes from a New England uni
versity. Two students, ranged against
each other in debate, grew very warm
and took to commenting on each 9TH
er's oratorical manner One of them
spoke with much emphasis. letting the
stress Of his voice fall explosively on
certain passages.
His opponent opened his speech by
saying; MY friend on the negative
thinks to win this debate by speaking
exclamation marks and italics"
The other could do nothing at the
moment to turn the laugh which this
speech raised. but when his turn came
he got back" at his opponent with
this retort:
my friend on the affirmative says I
speak italics. | should say that he
uses italics in the way they are used
in the English Bible, not to emphasize;
but to mark what is not original and
inspired. Youths Companion.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
How Lightning Affects Watches.

An electrical storm seems to have
peculiar effect on some timepieces,"
remarked the junior partner of a
big downtown jewelry firm. Every
time lightning and thunder get active
in this vicinity one of the results is
that our watch-repairing department
is overworked for several days there
after. The damage wrought chiefly
consists of broken mainsprings.
when business gets dull with u.s."
added the jeweler jokingly, I'VE re
quire all our employees to pray for a
thunder storm. Failure to comply
with this order is considered sufficient
cause for the discharge. am unable
to make clear the why's and where
fores. but 1t is an established fact that
after the lightning has frolicked
awhile in come the mainsprings
wrecked. Washington Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Irish Looking for African Market.

Reports from Ireland indicate that
the Irish are reaching out for the
South African market. In some parts
OF South Africa butter is reported as
selling at SIS cents per pound and to bt,
of inferior quality even at that price.
The Irish creamerymen and dairymen
think they have as good chance to
take this market as any others. They
claim that state aid to foreign dairy
men is preventing large sales of Irish
butter in England. They would there
fore look elsewhere. The queer thing
to a distant observer is that among the
competitors that are driving the Irish
butter out of the English market are
enumerated the Australians. Now If
the Australians can send butter all the
way to London and successfully COM
pete with Irish butter, what will pre-
vent the Australians doing the same
thing in South Africa? To us 1t does
not look possible for the Irish to wage
a successful warfare of this kind in a
field thousands Of miles from Ireland.
when they cannot meet the same COM
petition at their own doors.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

II is related of an Atchison man
that he gave his first grandchild a sill
yer mug valued at $50. He bought o
tin cup for ten cents yesterday. re
marking that it was for the fifth.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

II the Creator ever made failure
1t was probably due to an attempt to
make a man who could please his
neighbors.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

1t is never too late to learn that
We are sometimes too late
Close inbreeding should be avoided.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

Some women love like a balky
horse. No telling what kind of a
stunt 1t will indulge in.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
Poultry Points Picked Up.

IL Ian wants to show birds he
must raise only good stock and that
In abundance. The man that raises
only a dozen birds year stands less
chance Of having winning birds than
does the man that can raise hundreds.
In that case he finds it easy to get
together few exceptional birds. In
this connection we must remark that
in case the breeder is looking to con-
tests In the show room he will need
to make a study Of the points of birds
himself that he may when he goes to
the show take only his very best in
stead Of inferior stock.
Gull rigidly. Always be on the look
out for the poorest specimens of birds
and get rid of them as soon as found
and as fast as found. To permit the
culls to go right on producing more
culls or what should be culls is a mis-
take. The best thing to do with culls
is to send them to the butcher, and II
there is danger of his selling them for
breeders send them to him dressed.
Hens should be made to lay when
eggs are high in price. This can be
done, but it requires attention to
something more than feeding. The
breeding must be looked after. The
hens must be raised from early spring
chicks and must be forced forward
from birth to maturity.
One should not attempt to winter
more fowls than can be comfortably
housed. Too many birds in a house
makes 1t extremely difficult to keep
the air pure or the floors clean. Lice
and disease are encouraged The at
tempt to do this usually results In dis
aster of some kind.
Eggs should be solI to private Gus
toners, IL possible, as in that way the
farmer takes to himself the middle
mans profits. Besides. private Gus
toners are usually well-to-do people
and are willing to pay a little more
than the usual customers OF grocery
stores.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

The human heart is like a we'll
strung harp-a succession of sweet
tones and of discords.
The life of grass widow Is not
always green, nor does It run to hay.
seed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

A mans greatness is often exhib
tied in his selfimposed restrictions.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24
A WARRIOR BOLD.

BY ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE,
lstAor OF little Miss Millions" "7as Spiders
Wso,""Dr. Jocks Widow," "Niss Capries, }" etc
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-07-24

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-06
Had to Conquer Or Die.

II was just about gone" writes Mrs
Rosa Richardson Of Laurel Springs \.
G. II had Consumption so bad that the
best doctors said | could not live more
than month. but ! began to use DR.
King 5 New Discovery and was wholly
cured by seven bottles and am now stout
and well' It's an unriValed life-saver
in Consumption, Pneumonia, La Grppa
and Bronchitis; infallible for Coughs,
colds, Asthma, Hay Fever Group or
Whooping Cough. Guaranteed bottles So
and 800 Trial bottles free at O'Sullivan
N Noungs drug store.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-06
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Annual Meeting of Congregational
W oman,s ForeiRn Missionary SOcietY.

1uQOIlEuOIIT TUE CThTE
''''"o"''oo' '''I O'"'-
., ,,.. I.,.,
AHhuei eo'Ihe VI Oohsi es ".iOA'
woman Foreieh HisslohalS 0o0l1'S
The annual meeting OF the Wonans
Foreign Missionary society, an auxiliary
of the Vermont branch of the Woman
Board of Missions. was held at the Rut-
land Congregational church parlors at 3
o'clock Friday afternoon. Thirty-iiVe wo-
men were present. The first hour was
spent in a social way and Russian tea,
,nsi1c. ,,o,tir' ,,,,ici, f'iin,o, NO , rn-
port of the secretary, Miss Helen Il.
smith, was read by Miss Susan H. Math-
II. Miss Smith not being present The
treasurer. Mrs. Adds Del. Ross, also be
ing absent her report was read by Mrs.
i. f.. HOLSTER. The report showed sll3 to
he the total receipts of the year The so
ciety now has membership of G. and the
S9d anniversary of its founding was cole
bratcd Friday. Tho following offic rs
were then elected; President. Mrs. John
w. Ross: vice president Mrs Willis NJ.
Ross; secretary, Miss Helen r. Smith:
treasurer, Mrs. James Colburn Dunn: au-
ditor Mrs. a. j Francisco; collector for
Life and Light" Mrs. George II. Webb;
executive committee. Miss Sophia H.
Aiken, Miss Mary Bradford, Miss Helen 4.
Smith, Mrs. j.. d. Burditt. Mrs. G. d.
Read and the president eX-offici4. At the
close of the business meeting articles ana
letters on missionary work were read bv
ditt. Mrs. James Colburn Dunn and Mrs.
George w. Phillips
lost ,rtos m, TWO u,TNC.r-ps
1t IS an old and woll-Fnown maxim that
experience tfachoS dcar Fchool' ana
Soi letimes II requires second dose OF
that as n small boy from East johnson
1ound one dAy recently. nc was IN ".
w. Nyc store ana investigating the work
lrgs OF cigar cutter. whom, pushing his
ONT and clinord me I'm rf his fnr.rr "er
IT rather frightened the boy IT first but
some OF the men washed ana did IT I'm for
nm anu ne iet quite c"miortcd sons
cthcr men comlt IN the ACCIDENT was re-
ltod TO them ana the details not being
. exactly as the hoy understood II. he stop
ped forward and, using another finger, UNI
"6rtook TO Illustrate the way 1t was done
Nhcn-preSto-ihe spring snapped aud the
tir Of the other firgcr was off. After that
was washed and bandared tie boy stepped
IN front Of the machine and with his hands
,,Nnli 7 boz sbor't ,,,onto,, ,,,;,, ,,'at
thing any more"
APPEAL. TO S1-pD1,NfF CO1-r2T
Twelve Cinnamon brought to the house
Of correction from Newfane Jan, p were
ntinn no rIo,t"6 c1otn T' r ,,vl''t-
Tin,d D,,,.,, CL,riee T., W-,'tt4,, ' -
Two assistants, There are still nine Cecs-
tials at the house of correction and u big
latch Is in Windham county jail at New
order for donort,fir, vac VOC, oo.-r., Gu
by Judge foyt n. Wheeler in the Circuit
Court the prisoners have appealed their
cases to the United states Supreme court
This is an unusual proc, cding and never
rcc'rs urlcs5 "a Chnaman las considerable
money 10 fight his case.
ro>-c pAupoAr crn,,,or
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-06

so that il will resemble butter is not a
legitimate business. ard this decision Of
the Supreme Court fully sustains this an
swer.
THE CONFERENCE.-THE.
(Trom the Brattleboro Phoenix)
The gubernatorial contest promises to
develop temperature under the coat col
lar nearly as high as those recorded in
the Page Woodbury. and out-Stickncy
campaigns. To our friends and others
who are likely to be volatile in emotions
and exuberant in expressions during the
campaign. our advice is. keep cool. The
contest has apparently narrowed down To
two men. Either would fill the Office
creditably. Either would he an improve
ment on a large majority of the Vermont
governors of the past - years There is
an objection to both men. Both are N W
York millionaires. who maintain mansions
in the metropolis where they live tn
greater portion of the year. But the CON
test has narrowed down to these two, and
II is a question of take your choice. q n.
Mccullough has been a voting resident of
this state a much longer term of years
than his opponent. and has been more
closely identified with Vermont and Ner
monters. He would give the State not
only a good business administration, but
he would be we'll fitted to represent Yer
mont on all those public and semi-puhlic
occasions at which a chief executive is
expected to appear and frequently to re-
spond for his State. The activity OF Gen.
Grout and his cohorts. to which other
newspapers make reference. is suggestive
of trades and coalitions. which are to be
viewed always with suspicion. This is a
good time to keep cool II * also good
time not TO be caught off guard and 20 be
led into making promises which may be
embarrassing later.
N it.srn TO knn lod an 1ai-
promises. For the present let the politi-
clans up the State and on tho other side
of the mountain do the scheming and the
lighting.
O'rom the BrattlebCro Reformer)
The new extensions and projects of the
Rutland road certainly mean vigorous
competition with the Central; fights of
this kind, when once they reach into poll
tics, always grow upon themselves, and
II they should begin this year over the
Governorship, might well lead to tn
halcyon days of the Concord Boston and
Maine warfare in New Hampshire. with
this difference only. that where over Their
both parties had to BE- bought and large
sums be put up for use at the polls, her..
for the present at least. only one party
will have to be dealt with. everything be-
ing decided at caucuses and conventions.
which, though far more dcmoraliznS
than where there is open responsibility to
the people, will be all the more protitabl
to the workers" who can manage most
skifulv to keep things away from thu
people 81 .. in the party's' hands.
THE LIEUTENANT-G OVERNORSHIP
(From the Barre Teceram)
1t looks AS though they were in earnest
up in the northeast corner about +. W.
Baldwin for acknowledgements
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-06

until he finally accepts "A much smaller
sum than he is by right entitled to-
valued policy law. fathered by one %
IN" best representatives who ever sat IN q
vermont Legislature, T.. H. Porter of
wilmington. passed the House at the last
session but was Killed i'm the weak end Of
inc legislative body the Senatc--killed not
as result Of debate on its merits or any
weakness of the measure but slaughtered
IN cold blood through the efforts Of n pow
orlul lobby maintained at the state House
oy several insurance companies doing bus
mess in the State
ELEVENTH HOUR CONFESSION.
tFrom the Enosburgh Standard)
Tho st. Adams Messenger says:
Manufactures in the United states IN
the period between 1890 and 1900 Increased
IN volume 1913 per cent in Vermont tho
Increase for the same period was approx-
imately - per cent. And yet thdr, be-
those who stubbornlv insist that Vermont
~ not leaving her old anchorage as q dis
tinctlY rural State and swinging into the
line of greater Industrial progress"
After wondering just how many columns
OF space the Messenger would have de-
voted to the subject had the revelation o.
the census figures in connection with
manufacturing been unfayorabe rather
imam faNorah!- TO Vermont. ono sees
clearly how the Messenger takes delight
ia b'illS lI.'' llflHlillI. u VIII to al
most any length to maintain It's reputa-
ton for Inconsistency. this being stirling
lN Illustrated by noting its grandloulcut
rofcrcnc" TO vermont swinging into tn,
line OF greater Industrial progress" and
men recalling its repeated illusions to the
state s dcsadcnt condition.
While most papers pride themselves or
making reputation for accuracy, the
Mcssengoi attitude toward facts is cold
and distant whenever it wishes to create
certain Impressions in favor of some pet
measure.
For instance, the Messenger started out
to depict Vermont as the only decadent
state In regard to loss Of inhabitants I'm
its agricultural communities, while the
STANDARD made clear by statistics. taking.
from the census, that the condition was
not peculiar to Vermont alone. in fact
that the per cont of loss was less I'm Yer
mont than most States. Again. the Mes
s"ngor in discussing the matter Of town
indebtedness came to the conclusion that
a normal condition" of affairs existed in
Vermont, while the Standards figures.
based on the town reports and other 70.
liable statistics. showed that an excep-
tonally healthy condition of affairs pre-
vailed.
Again, when the Messenger would con-
voy the idea that Vermont was not pro-
crossing like her sister States, the stand
ard showed giving towns and figures.
that Vermont in the manufacturing cen-
tres had increased as much as similar
centres in any State in the Union. And
now the census shows the increase of man
uIacturcs in the United States from 1890
to 1900 to have been 3N.73 per cent. while
the increase I'm Vermont was anproxi-
matcly 10 per cent.
While the Messenger hlsiu season and
out Of season. tried to create the impress
sion that Vermont was dccadent land in
inns respect was am oNc"pton), while it
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-06
GOOD ROADS IN VERMONT.
(From the Londonderry sifter)

consideration Of our Vermont contempt
raries. good roads enthusiast argues
that good roads would greatly increase
the advertising patronage OF country week
lies. by making it easier for the farmers
10 get 10 town they would rake ii more
profitable for the merchant to advertise.
Suggestive in this way; DR.. w, Seward
Webb a candidate for the Vermont gov
ernoiship favois, it t. said. the macad-
ami7ing of Vermont roads AT a cost Of SO.
900 900, bonding the state for that amount.
MhCw! What an impetus this would give
TO advertising in state papers Let us
have good roads, Never mind the taxes.
The fairness would gladly ICy them.